343, April 5th, 8:00 AM.
The surface of G City's underground city was bustling with activity.
All sixteen entrance elevators had reappeared on the ground level.
Three days prior, Tang Li had completely resolved the Z-country branch of the Holy Light Organization, and G City's underground city had been reopened.
Today was Qingming Festival, the day the Extreme Cold Season ended.
It was also the day Tang Li returned.
However, Tang Li did not return to G City's underground city in her own form.
While her main body had been out in the world for over a month, she had left a clone in her original appearance within the underground city.
Aside from Tang Guo, no one knew she hadn't been in the underground city for the past month.
People only knew that it was "Omnipotent Merchant Boss Li" who had dealt with the Z-country branch of the Holy Light Organization.
Tang Li's return this time was also in the guise of a middle-aged strong man.
At the same time, she brought back hundreds of trucks filled with supplies.
Hearing the words of President Yang before his death, Tang Li realized that she had never input supplies into the underground city, yet she could constantly produce them. If this were discovered, her spatial ability might be exposed.
Although no one paid attention during the Extreme Cold Season, and the entire underground city was sealed when President Yang was paying attention, no one had noticed the origin of the supplies in the underground city.
But this was not a sustainable solution.
From now on, when replicating more supplies from her space, she would need to have vehicles entering and exiting to mislead people.
Furthermore, she could no longer replicate finished goods from before the apocalypse.
It was now the third year of the apocalypse.
If she replicated something that had already expired, and someone detected it and found it to be fresh, it would be impossible to explain.
Therefore, Tang Li returned this time with hundreds of trucks of goods.
She also publicly announced that these were the last of the finished pre-apocalypse supplies.
Henceforth, even if she replicated more items from her space, Tang Li would only replicate raw materials. It would serve the same purpose for the underground city's industrial bays to process the raw materials replicated by Tang Li into finished products.
As for the finished goods in her space, Tang Li would enjoy them alone.
There was no need to remove the original packaging and repackage them.
This way, it would also deter those who were eyeing her supplies.
The return of "Boss Li" was met with cheers from everyone on the surface.
People welcomed their "Boss Li" home as if he were a hero.
After all, single-handedly eliminating the pseudo-Haicheng Governor's Mansion, reclaiming the southern regions of Z-country, and resolving the Z-country branch of the Holy Light Organization was indeed legendary.
However, "Boss Li" remained unfazed, with a calm expression (in reality, a blank one).
He merely nodded to the welcoming crowd.
Then, he directly entered the underground city, without lingering on the surface.
In reality, Tang Li had not annihilated the entire Z-country branch of the Holy Light Organization.
The current Z-country branch of the Holy Light Organization was deeply hidden.
Even the R-country branch of the Holy Light Organization, with its seeds infiltrated into the Z-country branch, did not know that President Yang had left such a contingency. This showed how well the current Z-country branch could conceal itself.
However, after President Yang's death, the current Z-country branch should be in disarray.
Moreover, they lived in the shadows and could not stand the sunlight.
Tang Li would only be staying in G City's underground city from now on and would no longer have any dealings with them.
Upon returning to the underground city, Tang Li found everything to be in order, and everyone had adapted to life underground.
Tang Li did not inspect the residential modules of others.
However, it was said that although the design was somewhat cramped, the population of G City's underground city was not yet saturated, and everyone had ample living space.
In the exchange of the Number Four Simulation Bay, Tang Li felt as if she had returned to before the apocalypse.
The underground city was temperate and comfortable, and everyone was wearing bright and clean clothes.
Unlike on the surface, where they were either sweating profusely from the heat or had to wrap themselves tightly with everything they had to ward off the cold.
After a month of recovery, people's bodies had also regained their health.
There was no longer a shortage of water in the underground city.
This was partly due to Tang Li replicating water from her space, and partly because it was easier to extract groundwater underground.
But the most important factor was the underground city's own water recycling system.
During Tang Li's absence, the sewage in the underground city could not have all accumulated in the storage modules on the fourth floor for Tang Li to deal with upon her return.
Through the underground city's water recycling system, fertilizer could be extracted from the sewage and used to fertilize the planting modules, and the sewage could be purified into clean water.
Therefore, when Tang Li returned to the fourth floor of the underground city, the sewage storage module only contained industrial wastewater that could not be recycled, waiting for her to take it back to her space.
Tang Li took a look around the underground city and then returned to her own fourth floor.