#213 - Chapter 213: Great development with the arrival of thousands of people!
February 21st.
Starting yesterday, the temperature rose above freezing, and today it has jumped to 6-7℃ above zero!
Yesterday, a small portion of the accumulated snow melted, and today the process is accelerating. If nothing unexpected happens, tomorrow we'll see the land and roads outside, which have been covered in snow for over two months, once again!
Outside the Green Source Base.
After dawn this morning, personnel were driving to the residential areas to pick up survivors for work.
Yesterday, they got a taste of the benefits.
The two meals provided by the Green Source Base were incredibly delicious!
Even though it was just a bowl of rice with some vegetables, it was an absolute delicacy for those who hadn't had a hot meal in months! (No one was willing to cook rice; they all made porridge)
This food standard was, of course, decided after discussions between the base's officers and Qin Jin.
At this standard, they only needed to expend a small amount of grain to have over two hundred laborers.
Some of them were even selected to join the combat and security departments.
The Green Source Base will provide these survivors with short-term training, including the use of cold weapons and some protective gear, as well as knowledge and skills for dealing with zombies.
It is worth noting that they do not intend to let these survivors directly handle firearms.
Instead, they need to undergo a series of tests and observations, and only after confirming their abilities and reliability will they consider absorbing them into their branch base.
In addition, defensive facilities have begun to be set up in several residential areas, and they will also receive a certain number of cold weapons distributed by the Green Source Base to deal with possible zombie harassment.
At the same time, the Green Source main base will continue to monitor, and in case of danger, they can arrive to support within minutes due to the short distance of a few kilometers.
At this time, outside the Green Source Base, the foundation work for the walls is underway.
For the entire branch base, the walls are undoubtedly one of the most important parts.
The solidity of the foundation will directly affect the future stability and height of the walls. The walls may need to withstand the invasion of zombie towers piled up by thousands of zombies in the future.
Therefore, the foundation work must be rigorous and meticulous to ensure the stability and safety of the walls.
According to the plans of Qin Jin and other officers, once the walls are built to a certain height, they can reduce the defensive pressure caused by construction.
In the short term, combat team members will also temporarily refrain from going out far, focusing on the safety around the base and managing the increasing number of arriving survivors.
Yes!
With the melting of ice and snow, new survivors began to arrive successively today, the 21st!
They may have been in Fenghuo County before, or even near Mentang Town, but were ultimately trapped on the way.
Now that conditions allow, they, who have been trapped for a long time, are naturally eager to rush to their original destination!
Seeing the bustling construction site at the Green Source Base, many new survivors were dumbfounded.
Is this really the apocalypse?
Everywhere is rumbling, and there are several tower cranes.
How does it look like a construction site for a residential complex?
If it weren't for the surprisingly tall Green Source main base next to it, they would have suspected they went to the wrong set.
As a result.
On this day, the 21st, alone, more than three hundred survivors arrived!
Hungry, exhausted, and filled with urgent hope, they came to the Green Source Base in Mentang Town.
The base personnel, who were well-prepared, naturally didn't drop the ball. Wang Yang and others had already made reception arrangements.
If the three residential areas are full, they will be assigned to some nearby civilian buildings. After each place is occupied by survivors, it will be marked on the map, and this location will no longer be allowed for others to occupy.
Within a 20-kilometer radius of Mentang Town, there are as many as thousands of square kilometers. Even after removing some remote wilderness areas, it can still easily accommodate one or two thousand people!
Starting from the 21st, the ice and snow continued to melt, the roads were restored, and the land covered outside finally saw the light of day again.
By the 22nd, external traffic was completely restored!
At this time, the total number of new survivors arriving at the Green Source Base, plus the people in the three residential areas, has exceeded one thousand!
Keep in mind that this is only a few days after the ice and snow melted, and it is very likely that new survivors will continue to arrive!
In response, the Green Source Base will naturally not recruit all of them to build the branch base.
The original two hundred or so people in the three residential areas will remain unchanged for the time being.
For the rest of the new arrivals, those with professional skills useful to the base will be selected during the registration of information. These people will be assigned to the construction of the branch base first.
At the same time, it is also a kind of protection for them.
Other survivors will continue to cooperate through material exchange. Now is the time for large-scale development, and there is a huge demand for various cement, building materials, sand, gravel, steel, etc.
These things will become materials that the newly arrived survivors can go out to collect and trade with Green Source.
The Green Source Base controls the pricing power. As long as the grain exchange ratio is controlled within a reasonable range, without harming the base's foundation, then any materials are welcome!
Previously, only combat and a small number of security team members went out to find materials, but now hundreds or thousands of people are dispatched, and the things collected every day are many times more than before!
Fortunately, the main base still has some remaining warehouse space, which can still meet the storage of these newly collected materials in the short term.
But it won't last too long.
The construction of the branch base, after a few days of familiarization and proficiency, the foundation has been initially completed, and now it is starting to be raised and thickened. (Four or five hundred people are focusing their efforts on building the foundation)
It is expected that after being built to a height of 3-4 meters or more, some people can be arranged inside to build temporary warehouses and other facilities for material storage.
Of course, the professions and specialties of the survivors who continued to arrive were also recorded.
Electronic engineers, construction engineers, communication engineers, water and electricity workers, repairmen, doctors, scholars, and other talents useful for development were all registered and can be called upon and employed at any time.
At the same time, 23 more veterans and 11 people with certain plasticity were recruited.
Together with the survivors originally selected in the residential area, a team of fifty or sixty people was formed under the direct leadership of the combat department.
As external traffic resumed, Green Source's combat department was not idle either.
Leading these people, they began to set up new monitoring and outposts around the base.
Within a 10-kilometer radius of the Green Source Base, some highway intersections, transportation hubs, and places where later survivors live will all have cameras installed.
This is a long-term task.
Even if some places already have cameras, they only need to be rewired, but the scope is too wide, and it is not easy to complete this large-scale task of deploying around the base.
Anyway, there's no rush.
Everything will gradually get back on track.
What the Green Source Base needs now is time for development.
Of course.
With the arrival of more and more personnel and the expansion of the entire development plan, Qin Jin also felt great pressure.
The first is food.
Not to mention the main base's own consumption, the branch base now provides free meals. With 200+ people eating two meals a day, consuming 1 jin of rice per meal, the daily consumption of rice is also hundreds of jin.
Combat team members also provide free meals to external collaborators performing special tasks.
Then there are other survivor teams who go out to find materials for trade.
Now, due to the large construction demand, various electronic devices, various products, special metals, and living materials can still be found in many places, and the grain that survivors exchange every day is also several hundred, nearly a thousand jin!
That is, the Green Source Base consumes nearly a ton of grain every day!
(End of this chapter)
