#20 - Chapter 20 Dissatisfaction
As the combat team continued to head towards their next target.
Green Source Base.
Everyone inside the walls had already woken up.
There was no chance for anyone to sleep in; the base had made it clear that everyone had to contribute unless they were genuinely unwell.
The elderly could do lighter work, while the young would do more, and in return, they would receive more food.
The managers had worked through the night before last, creating a detailed division of labor and work schedule for the construction of the base walls, which was submitted to Director Qin for approval before implementation.
In just a few short days since the apocalypse, Green Source Base had adopted a completely new system.
Breakfast was simple rice porridge with some side dishes. After breakfast, most people went to build the walls.
The current work schedule was roughly from 8:00 AM to 11:30 AM.
With a 5-10 minute break every hour, a two-hour lunch break, and then from 1:30 PM to 5:30 PM in the afternoon.
The working hours were not much different from the previous corporate life, only the content of the work had changed.
For those who were used to sitting in offices, a day of carrying bricks and mixing cement yesterday had exhausted most of them.
Many young men and women were still aching all over today.
In contrast, some of the family members brought by the combat team, some who used to farm in the countryside, or who were originally construction workers, adapted very well.
Or, those who were wealthy and cherished their lives rarely joined the combat team to risk their lives directly.
There would definitely be some, but the proportion would be smaller.
Nearly twenty people were guarding the base's safety, managed by Director Qin's relatives and friends, led by his father, after Qin Jin left.
Simple watchtowers had been quickly erected at the four corners of the base using scaffolding. They directly used the frames Qin Jin had prepared before the apocalypse, filled them with cement after setting them up, and building two stories high in a day was not a problem.
This served to defend against external dangers and observe the situation within the base.
While the electricity and water supply were still connected, many devices could still be used, and the base was also accelerating construction.
Two ponds had been completely filled with clean water two days ago, and all the water tanks in the warehouse were also filled, ensuring the base had no water worries in the short term.
Qin Jin had also told everyone that the food supply would last for several months if they were frugal.
He would also lead the team out to find supplies later, so the food situation was not too tight overall, and they could basically guarantee everyone had enough to eat.
He hadn't told anyone the exact numbers yet.
He planned to entrust the management of the warehouse supplies to someone he trusted after the base stabilized a bit.
He didn't trust anyone else.
Even letting his parents know now would only increase their pressure or cause unnecessary trouble.
If someone accidentally leaked it, it might lead to disaster in the future.
He had seen too many examples of this before.
Humans who are hungry to the limit won't care so much and will try every means to get what they want.
That's why he was constantly strengthening his own power.
Those who had finished breakfast started working early.
Many scaffolds were set up at the bottom of the wall, some mixing cement, some carrying bricks, and those with good skills climbing up to build the wall.
They strived to raise the height of the wall to ten meters as soon as possible.
At this time, among these people, several younger ones couldn't help but complain.
A young man with a fashionable hairstyle complained to the person next to him:
"I'm so done with this, always shouting about moving bricks. Now we're really moving bricks. Ugh, my arms are killing me. I worked all day yesterday, and I could barely hold my chopsticks this morning. Why am I so unlucky?"
The person next to him echoed:
"Tell me about it. I thought coming to your company's opening ceremony would save my life, but I just left the tiger's den and fell into the wolf's lair. I don't know when this will end. I miss the days when I could play games after eating my fill! Now even the games are shut down, there's not a single ghost around, ugh."
The young man who complained first pointed his mouth at the managers maintaining order and supervising the construction in the distance, and the combat personnel with crossbows in the watchtower, and said discontentedly:
"Look at those leaders, they're so comfortable, they get the work done by just lifting a finger. When it's finished later, they'll definitely say it's their credit. Ugh, why can they be managers? I can do it too."
Several people around him listened and echoed him in a low voice, saying that if they were managers, they would make things easier for everyone and not make them work so hard.
Heavens, the walls were already five meters high, how could zombies jump so high and run in!?
Now they just purely want to exploit those of them who have no connections!?
Most of them didn't quite believe that the original high walls weren't safe enough, and that zombies were scary.
Although they knew that a zombie virus had broken out outside, most of the information online was just textual complaints, and only a few had hastily shot pictures and videos.
But the clarity was so poor that it was difficult for the remaining survivors who could still hold their phones to have a direct understanding of the horror of zombies.
Those survivors who could shoot good zombie effects up close were basically all dead.
Many survivors still thought that zombies were just walking corpses in a strolling mode.
In fact, after becoming a mutated zombie, the human body's functions stop, and it is controlled by the virus, completely unlocking the original human body's limiter.
The normal human brain controls the power threshold so that it cannot exceed certain limits, otherwise, there will be problems such as strains.
But after mutating into a zombie, it's different. The limiter is opened, and theoretically, all the power of a human body can be exerted!
However, due to limb defects and human body mass, the power exerted by most zombies, although not as strong as an adult man, is also very terrifying!
Imagine a zombie that can push open a heavy object of nearly a hundred pounds.
The joints have become stiff, but they also have the speed of an adult jogging.
And with that keen sense of smell and hearing, it is difficult for ordinary untrained people without weapons to defeat a zombie alone!
The corpse mist day is even more terrifying.
Zombies are strengthened in all aspects, and they can only rely on terrain to defend, and they are basically impossible to fight head-on.
When they saw the boss solve the zombies like cutting melons and vegetables twice, they thought that zombies were nothing more than that.
They didn't know that it was because Qin Jin had many years of experience in dealing with zombies, plus power evolution, and the zombies had just mutated and their power had not reached its peak, that's why he had that effect.
This small circle of young people worked perfunctorily while complaining about some of the operations of the base that they couldn't stand, and they all felt that they had found an organization, and they became more and more enthusiastic as they spoke.
At this time, Li Yan, the woman whose ex-boyfriend had mutated, also joined the discussion.
She needed a circle to complain to so much!
She had seen a lot of miserable situations outside on the Internet these days, and the little sadness of being uneasy and losing contact with her relatives had long been washed away to some corner.
She found that others were living even worse than her.
She was happy.
The more miserable situations she saw, the happier and more complacent she felt.
Last night, she couldn't help but post some of the situations inside the base on some media and on her Moments.
She wanted to make others envy her!
She also secretly took some photos and put them up, specially taking pictures of the mutated night's feast and the tall and solid walls and posting them!
She wanted to let others know that she was in such a safe environment!
She could live well and eat well even in the apocalypse!
She was such an unattainable goddess!
There was even a best friend she originally didn't like (that's how women are, even if they don't like each other, they can still be called best friends and engage in various comparisons), who was richer than her family, prettier than her, and had a better figure than her.
Often the simps who originally belonged to Li Yan, after knowing about this woman, switched to her simps camp, which made her privately angry many times.
Now this woman, although still alive, seemed to be living not so well, and was still asking her to take someone over to save her, and she was willing to pay any price.
Forget it, bitch, that's impossible.
Although she lied on the Internet that she knew the leader of this base and could command some people to do things, those were all lies she said out of vanity.
She had to pretend to say that she would try her best to blow the leader's pillow talk and let him take someone to save this best friend as soon as possible.
She also got the flattery and favor from this opponent that she had never gotten before.
She felt extremely comfortable.
She completely forgot the blisters she had worked up during the day.
Seeing the envy and help requests from other media, she felt as if her heart was filled with excitement.
She loved it here.
Unfortunately, when it came to daytime, the feeling of being in love with this place yesterday quickly dissipated by more than half.
The food was not good, and she had to do hard work. Although she spent most of her time fishing yesterday, where had she suffered this kind of hardship?
Blisters had formed on her heels and hands.
She had to continue today, and she had spent a lot of money to maintain her hands!
The sun came out today too.
Wasn't the face she had spent a lot of money on surgery to adjust and maintain going to be晒 for a day??
How could she bear it!?
How could she fish after she got tanned!?
She had to find a way.
It happened that she saw that young group complaining, and she instantly felt that she had found an organization!
Relying on her somewhat attractive appearance and her usual self-acquaintance eloquence, she was familiar with all kinds of simps appeasement skills.
She quickly became acquainted with several young men and began to criticize the unfairness of Green Source Base together!
A small group of people whispered, attracting the attention of Wang Yang and Tang Jinming, who were on the scene today to supervise the work and understand the construction progress.
But they didn't think too much about it. The world had just changed, and employees and others had suddenly changed from white-collar workers to migrant workers, which could be understood.
Normally, after a period of time, when they got used to it and knew the changes in the world, they would accept it sooner or later, so they didn't push them too hard.
Tang Jinming walked over and reminded them to talk less and work more, and then ignored them. This group of people was even more dissatisfied. Why could they not work and be responsible for supervising them?
And their managers and bosses should have a small kitchen, right!? They must be secretly hiding a better meal from these people.
If they were in their shoes, they would do the same.
Now the base seems to have few people, and every survivor is very precious. The boss will definitely not do anything to them!
Don't they still need them to defend against zombies and do various constructions in the future!?
If they don't resist, won't the worst they can get be like this now!?
Continue to move bricks and eat those unpalatable meals, and have they not heard of the so-called law does not punish the many, if so many of them make trouble together, even if it is not successful, they will not be blamed, right.
This group of people spent the whole morning working while whispering and plotting.
They knew that the boss had taken those so-called combat personnel out to find supplies today!
Someone saw them lined up and driving out in the morning.
Although they didn't know where they were going, it didn't look like they would be back so soon, wasn't this a good opportunity?
Soon a plan was formed in their whispers.
They didn't know what kind of reward this plan would bring them.
(End of this chapter)
