Ding Yao didn't dwell further on the matter, only asking about the results. Han Yanyan hesitated, "I feel there's been some improvement, but the attack power..." The damage was weak, not enough.
"Do you want to become stronger?" Ding Yao asked.
"I do," Han Yanyan replied, staring into his eyes.
Ding Yao lit a cigarette, looked at her, and said, "Next time we go out, you come along."
Their squad regularly set out to search for resources, sometimes taking on missions assigned by the Management Committee. Like the machine tools from the first time, which were specifically requested by the Committee. The squad traded these for large quantities of supplies with the Committee. Ding Yao, as the leader of the strongest squad in Nanling City and being one of the three major powers, maintained a good relationship with the Committee, although tensions ran high with the other force.
That other power was the military.
Though it was called the military, it was far from what it used to be. The Committee was actually the former government, and the military was the stationed troops from before. In the aftermath of the apocalypse, the government maintained its operation of the city through its legitimacy and influence, with army support initially.