#309 - Chapter 309: Dry Bowl
Evening.
Residential Area 1.
Li Cai followed Lin Sheng and the others on the Green Origin Base shuttle back here.
"Sister Cai, look, this is where we live now~ It's pretty good, too~"
A Zhen and Xiao Cong pointed at the residential area's walls and the buildings inside, happily introducing them to Li Cai.
Like showing off treasures, they recounted the things within the residential area and the rules and regulations here.
Li Cai kept a smile on her face, listening to her former companions speak, feeling an unprecedented sense of ease.
This is what friends and partners are.
"Alright, there's nothing to see here, it's far worse than the Green Origin Base. Let's work harder, and maybe we can live in the sub-base."
Li Sheng also said to everyone with a smile.
Entering the sub-base together had always been their short-term goal, and they had been working hard for it.
Walking and chatting, they slowly arrived at the room they currently lived in.
Inside the hall, they turned on the electric light and began to take out the food distributed by Green Origin after work today, preparing to eat together.
"Surprised? Our residential area has electricity now! Although it's limited, each team can only have one electric light, but it's still very good! And, we can take water baths in our residential area!"
Xiao Cong continued to introduce things like he was showing off treasures.
Yes.
Starting some time ago.
Green Origin obtained a relatively stable supply of fuel and coal, and with summer approaching, the solar power generated was enough to supply electricity to the residential area.
These people had been enjoying things that were extremely common during peacetime for some time now.
And water, each residential area now had 15 liters of daily water per person every three days.
For a residential area with less than a hundred people, that was only a few tons (cubic meters), completely affordable!
Now that the weather was getting hot, people were basically drenched in sweat when they went to work. If they didn't wash for a long time, they would basically be covered in grime.
That smell.
Regardless of men or women.
It was better not to mention it.
As humans who had experienced civilized society, no one would refuse such a good thing if they had the opportunity.
Green Origin also allocated some resources to them because the energy supply had stabilized recently, and they were worried that these key personnel would be infected by the polluted water outside and suffer losses.
Having water and electricity was naturally a great joy for the people in these residential areas.
Although not much, this little water was only enough to simply wipe the body, but it was still extremely precious to these people who had experienced the despair of the apocalypse.
Xiao Cong and the others continued to introduce everything here to Li Cai.
Hearing this, Li Cai smiled even more happily.
She was really happy for her companions.
Last year, didn't they want to find such a paradise?
Now they had really achieved it!
"Alright, let's eat. Green Origin Base gave us a great dish today! Cai, you're in luck~"
Li Sheng Lin also said in a good mood.
As he spoke, he handed a portion of dinner that had just been divided from everyone's portions to Li Cai.
This was food for this former companion.
Everyone was willing.
"No need, I brought my own food. My parents and I also traded grain with Green Origin Base in Shanshi. I have food, everyone should take it back."
Li Cai did not accept the food given by Brother Li, but instead declined.
In this apocalypse, the preciousness of food was beyond doubt, and she was already very touched that everyone could do this.
"Take it, we have other grains, we won't go hungry! We're all family, why are you saying this? If you don't eat, we won't be happy."
Li Sheng Lin did not stop after hearing Li Cai's words, but instead stuffed the bowl of cucumber and pork slices into Li Cai's hands.
Holding the warm bowl in her hands, it wasn't much, but it was more than half a bowl.
On top of the grains of white rice, there were also some thinly sliced cucumber and minced meat.
An irresistible fragrance directly hit Li Cai's olfactory cells.
She hadn't eaten such simple vegetables and pork for more than half a year!
She looked up at the former companions around her, and what she could see in their eyes was anticipation.
"Okay."
A word with a nasal tone, but full of emotion, echoed in the hall.
Everyone smiled.
Li Cai was the first to pick up her chopsticks.
When the fragrant rice mixed with vegetables entered her mouth, that ordinary, familiar, but extremely moving taste awakened her previous memories.
This was the taste of a peaceful and prosperous age!
Seeing Li Cai start eating, the others immediately stopped being polite and slowly and deliberately put their portions of food into their stomachs with reverent movements.
This was the happiest moment of every day for everyone.
Today, this happiness was even greater than usual, because a former companion had also come back to see them.
"Come on! To us still being alive, to seeing Ah Cai today, and to continuing to work hard to live better! Cheers!"
Li Sheng Lin took two bites and couldn't help but suggest, standing up and raising his rice bowl, waiting for his other companions.
"Come on, come on! For us, for Ah Cai, for Green Origin Base! We'll finish this bowl!"
Xiao Cong and A Zhen cheered and stood up one after another, clinking their bowls with Brother Li's!
The others quickly followed suit.
Li Cai smiled as she watched this scene, and she also moved quickly, standing up and clinking her bowl with everyone's.
"Cheers to our tomorrow!!"
Happiness floated in every corner of this room.
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Night.
Green Origin Main Base.
After hearing the news in the evening, Qin Jin immediately ordered the cadres to continue observing the movements of the zombies outside. At the same time, the base also took action to prepare for a zombie attack at any time.
Development Department of the base.
Qin Jin recalled the memories in his office. After confirming that there was really no information related to this time, he stopped dwelling on it.
Then let's fight!
Anyway, the current Green Origin Base has made qualitative progress compared to when it resisted the zombie tide a month ago!
Not only has it obtained a large amount of weapons and ammunition newly retrieved from Yucheng.
The walls of the main and sub-bases have also been raised to a more gratifying height.
There are also the combat power and coordination of the personnel.
Not to mention that the strength of the original main base team members has improved to a certain extent, there are also the newly absorbed sub-base external liaison personnel and other level 3 personnel, who can be pulled up at any time to resist and defend.
After all, moving bricks every day is not for nothing.
Everyone's bodies are not bad.
Another siege of 100,000 zombies?
Qin Jin believed that this time he could cope more easily!
At this time, he came to the Development Department, naturally to see if there was any progress in the equipment developed and manufactured by Li Xu and the others before.
He had not forgotten that there were always some things here that he was looking forward to completing!
(End of this chapter)
