#212 - Chapter 212 Recruiting people to start work
February 20th.
This was a special day.
On this day, after the morning sun rose, the temperature measured at the base rose to 2-3 degrees Celsius above zero!
The cold came quickly, and it left quickly as well.
Starting in the morning, the white snow covering the entire earth began to melt.
"The snow is finally melting!"
Not only were the people of Green Source Base paying attention to this, but countless survivors throughout the south were waiting for this moment. As long as the snow outside disappeared, it meant that humans could once again carry out long-distance activities!
And at Green Source Base, they would naturally accelerate this process.
On this morning, the base's rumbling snowplows and bulldozers began to work. They had already been clearing snow for the past few days, and the interior of the base had long been cleared. Today, they would be dealing with the outside of the base.
Since they were about to start constructing a branch base, it was naturally better to start early.
Large machinery quickly cleared a large piece of land outside the base, on the left side, which would be used to build the branch base.
Then, they waited for the construction workers to move other materials and tools into the site.
A few days earlier, the senior executives of Green Source Base had held a meeting to discuss the construction of the new base.
Naturally, no one would object to this kind of thing.
Qin Jin also released more complete design drawings and related materials, allowing the relevant departments to begin customizing specific construction plans.
Only a small number of personnel would be drawn from the original base. The other construction personnel would be selected from the outer residential areas and the soon-to-arrive survivors.
This kind of construction work, even with zero experience, could be quickly mastered as long as one was willing to learn and put in effort.
In the past two days, Wang Yang had gone to three residential areas to announce that Green Source Base was preparing to recruit people.
Wang Yang's original words were:
"Green Source Base is officially recruiting workers for construction. Those who are willing to come will be provided with two free meals, with a standard of 5 'liang' of rice + 1 dish per meal!"
"Those who work for two full weeks will also receive an additional 1 'shi jin' of grain as a subsidy! Those who are willing to join the construction team can come and sign up."
When he finished speaking, the survivors in the residential area boiled over!
Almost all the survivors rushed to sign up, fearing that they would be one step too slow and lose the opportunity!
"That's great! We are saved!"
Many survivors burst into tears on the spot.
At that time, the snow outside had not yet melted. Even if they could go out for outdoor activities recently, they still couldn't go far. The areas around them covered by heavy snow were also basically unable to find anything edible.
Many people had once again fallen into despair, because the grain they had borrowed from Green Source Base was almost finished.
As a result, new hope had now arrived.
There was also a rice supply!
Not porridge, but real rice cooked into rice!
Many survivors had not tasted that flavor for months!
"Brother Li, let's all join the Green Source Base construction team!"
Xiao Cong also shouted excitedly to Li Shenglin.
Compared to wandering around like headless flies every day, risking their lives to find supplies, it was very good to be able to do some physical work under the protection of Green Source Base.
His words were actually what all the team members were thinking.
Unless there were special circumstances, no one would refuse such a good thing.
Wang Yang collected the registration forms and checked them. Good heavens, all the survivors in all three residential areas had signed up!
Even the two wounded from the previous robbery incident couldn't help but sign up. A man with a child miraculously survived. Relying on meager grain, he had recovered a lot in the past month, which made the neighbors in Residential Area 1 marvel.
There was actually another operation here.
At that time, these foreign survivors had all registered their identities and occupations. Green Source had long grasped the information about the occupations and specialties these people had engaged in before.
Among them, there were more than thirty doctors, nurses, scholars, engineers, plumbers, and other professionals needed by the base.
In addition, 13 people had served in the military, and 9 people had worked as fitness instructors, physical education teachers, Sanda martial arts, and other professions.
For these armed personnel, Green Source would assign them to the combat department and have the combat team lead them in training and various special missions.
The number of combat departments was still too small. When the snow completely melted and more survivors poured into Mentang Town, they would continue to select suitable survivors to form extra-organizational external cooperation members!
In addition to the original nearly 30 combat team members, they would have to expand to at least more than 100 people!
The original combat team members were still the core of Green Source, because they were all firm supporters with their families here.
In the future, these external cooperation personnel who passed the assessment would live in the branch base, and together with those useful professionals, they would be the first batch of people to move into the branch base.
Qin Jin would also personally check this. Even if it was a branch base, he would not let anyone join easily.
They must be useful to the base and must not harm Green Source.
As the snow melted on this day, the construction of the branch base officially started.
The roads connecting the several residential areas were quickly cleared by special vehicles. Heavy trucks carrying hopeful survivors came to the outside of Green Source Base and began to join this construction that would take a long time.
The main base's wall was also being restored and construction began simultaneously.
The original idle base personnel also picked up their tools again and added bricks and tiles to the base where they lived.
If the original 2-meter thickness of the wall was not enough to support a higher wall, then it would be thickened to 3 meters or even 4 meters!
If the foundation was not enough, then use materials to make up for it!
All good materials did not need to be stingy, and they were used on it as much as possible!
The original Green Source Base still had some building materials left, which was completely enough to support the continued heightening of the wall and the construction of the branch base in a short time.
After the snow melted, Green Source personnel could go out again to pull back the materials from various construction material merchants.
There were many things in China, and there were especially many building materials.
These materials, which were commonly seen after the apocalypse but were not used by many survivors, became the cornerstone of Green Source Base's development.
The large-scale development began today with the melting of the snow!
On the wall of Green Source Base.
Zhang Dong was standing guard in the sentry post with a gun. These security team members not only had to protect the internal security of the base, but also had to start killing zombies that might appear at any time recently.
As the temperature rose and the snow disappeared, the noise caused by construction would inevitably attract zombies.
He looked at the lively scene outside and couldn't help but sigh.
"Our Green Source is getting stronger and stronger!"
When he said this, anyone could hear his confidence.
At this time, outside the base, there were still some other construction vehicles around. That was Li Xu leading some personnel to rearrange the new blocking belt.
Last time, the corpse fog day was broken by too many berserk zombies. This time, he would use the optimized new blocking belt.
Not only was the material of higher strength replaced, but the height and the number of ropes were also increased. This time, when facing the zombie impact again, it would be able to withstand several times the previous number!
(End of this chapter)
