#210 - Chapter 210: Preparation for the Base

February 11th.

Nearly half a month has passed since the Lunar New Year.

The outside temperature has been slowly rising since the beginning of February.

Today, the temperature has risen to -20℃!

This temperature is much better than before!

At least humans can spend more time outdoors.

Since the outdoors are still covered in snow, ordinary means of transportation cannot be used. Most survivors can only walk out of their hiding places to find food elsewhere.

They have been hungry for too long.

During this winter, countless survivors fell to the cold and hunger. Perhaps companions who were chatting and talking together the night before turned into frozen corpses the next morning.

Some were even used as food!

When the temperature drops below -20℃, corpses cannot even zombify!

The vast majority of survivors who are still alive naturally know that humans turn into zombies after death, so these dead people are dealt with early.

However, there are also some loners who remain in their original state after death.

For example, today.

Many zombies who have been dormant in the dark and in hiding places for many days are moving again!

Although their movements are still extremely stiff, they are really starting to move again!

As the temperature continues to rise, they will inevitably be able to reclaim their era!

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Green Source Base.

Recently, after the temperature rose, personnel have slowly begun to increase the frequency of outdoor activities. For example, recently, arrangements have been made for personnel to come out to clear the snow that exists everywhere in the base.

"Finally done! There's too much snow, it took us two days to shovel it all!"

Chen Junchi held a shovel, leaned on the railing of the rooftop to rest, and chatted with his teammates next to him.

"Who says it isn't! We haven't seen the roof of the base for a long time, we miss it so much."

Recently, the cadres saw that the temperature had risen and that people could come out to do activities. In order to reduce the pressure of future cleaning, they arranged for people to come out to work.

"The ground is easy to clean, just push it with a snowplow, but the snow on these buildings is not easy to handle."

More than 20 combat team members were removing snow from the roofs of various buildings in the base.

Some time ago, except for some solar panels that needed to be cleaned by personnel on time, the snow on other buildings had not been dealt with much. Now the accumulated height of the snow is more than one meter thick.

"Hurry up and finish the roof, later we will have to start dealing with the ground and the snow outside the base!"

In the past two days, Qin Jin and the cadres instructed everyone to start walking out of the room and start clearing the snow inside and outside the base, so as to avoid water accumulation everywhere when the temperature rises above zero and the snow melts later.

The weapon warehouse on the first floor of the base.

Several people were sitting around a table, seemingly discussing something.

Inside were Qin Jin, Qin's father, uncle, cousin and other base cadres.

"Dad, how many people in our base are good at construction engineering?"

Qin Jin directly asked his father. Previously, the construction of the base wall and the decoration of some buildings were handled by his father.

"We now have 3 people in our base who know something about architectural design, and about 40 people who know about construction. Most of them are technicians who trained when building the wall last year."

Hearing this, Qin Jin calculated in his heart.

As the temperature slowly rises, in his memory, around the end of February, that is, in about ten days, it should return to above zero.

At that time, the snow will melt and everything will recover. It is time to start redeveloping the base.

However, the internal space of the base is no longer sufficient, and expanding the base is an inevitable option.

"The number of people is not enough. Dad, Uncle, I plan to arrange for these people to stay in the base to continue raising the walls, and then re-select a group of survivors from the outside residential area to help us build a branch base!"

Qin's father and Qin Guoqiang and others were slightly surprised, but they quickly accepted this matter. When Qin Jin arranged to send out leaflets, they knew that he would have other operations.

However, they still had some doubts.

"Branch base? Isn't our Green Source Base big enough now? Where are you planning to build it? And what are the standards for building a branch base?"

Qin's father asked a little puzzled.

In his opinion, the Green Source Base is already quite large, and now it has almost everything.

Qin Jin did not answer him immediately, but took out a stack of documents from a bag that he had placed on the table when he came over, and placed it on the table for others to view.

"The branch base is right next to our Green Source main base, so we can save one wall."

"There is information here about the specific style. You can take a look first. The area is larger than our main base, about 50,000 square meters!"

"However, I don't plan to do too much greening here. It's mainly factories and warehouses. I plan to transfer some less important materials and work, such as cement, sand, building materials, vehicles, etc., which take up a lot of space, to the branch base in the future."

"Also, in the future, I will put some less important light and heavy industries in the branch base to do."

"Of course, the branch base will also be divided into about 20 acres of farmland to build greenhouses for planting food crops."

"The branch base will be responsible for handling some less important functions of our current main base, and at the same time, some dormitories, canteens, warehouses, training grounds, etc. will be built."

"In the future, we will build Green Source into an arching trend with the main base as the core, the branch base as the auxiliary, and multiple residential outposts around it!"

Qin Jin slowly explained the future development plan of the base to several people.

Only then did the others truly understand how grand his plan was.

"A'Jin, the development plan you mentioned is indeed a bit amazing, but there is one problem. Can we manage so many places?"

Qin Guoqiang also raised a question. He calculated in his heart that there are only a little over a hundred people in Green Source now. If some people are assigned to the branch base, wouldn't that make it even sparser?

Of course, Qin Jin had already prepared for this. He confidently continued to say:

"The branch base is next to us. Before the wall is formed in the early stage, people will not be allowed to live in it. When it reaches a certain scale, we will select and observe some survivors with good performance to enter the branch base first."

"When Wang Yang registered those survivors, he had already obtained their age, original occupation, expertise and other information. After the snow melts, there should be more survivors coming! We will do another round of selection!"

"Of course, there will not be many people who can enter the branch base in the future. If there are too many, the corpse fog will attract zombies. I currently estimate that the number of people in the branch base will be only two to three hundred in the future."

"We will select another group of managers from these people, or directly led by us, to manage all the personnel of the branch base."

"Of course, there are many details, such as the exchange ratio of grain for survivors to trade in the future, which needs to be polished again, so I first looked for you, and then I will find other cadres to hold a meeting to finalize it when it is almost time."

Qin Jin did not convene all the cadres for a meeting at the beginning because of this consideration.

The plan was basically formulated by himself alone, and there must be many omissions that he did not think of, and his father and uncle have been in the base managing various affairs since the end of the world, so they may have some different views.

He hopes to absorb and integrate everyone's ideas to make the development of the base more perfect. It is not advisable to rely on him alone all the time.

Now Green Source is no longer his own base, it is related to the interests of every member.

(End of this chapter)