#404 - Chapter 404 Sister? (Chapters 402-403 are in Volume 1)
Green Source Base.
On the wall.
Zhang Dong was on the day shift today, walking along the walkway on the wall with his gun.
It was morning, and he was patrolling the wall on a regular schedule as a security guard.
He was wearing a military green vest, holding a machine gun in both hands, carefully checking the situation inside and outside the base.
Everything was normal.
It would be strange if there were any problems.
More and more surveillance cameras have been set up in the Green Source Zone, and patrol teams are wandering around, occasionally attracting some zombies to kill. Life has been very stable recently.
“Phew~~ This damn weather is getting harder and harder to bear~~ It's already over 35 degrees in the early morning, and it will be over 40 degrees at noon. This is unbearable~~~!”
Zhang Dong was wearing a hat, but it still couldn't block the heat from the sun and the temperature of the environment.
His hands felt a little slippery, caused by sweat flowing into his palms.
Since entering May, the temperature has become increasingly unbearable.
Yesterday at noon, the thermometer in the base measured the highest temperature in the region in decades: 44 degrees!
This is an astonishing number.
Such high temperatures are extremely rare in the entire Guangnan Province.
Zhang Dong walked quickly, intending to finish his patrol work on the wall as soon as possible and return to the guard post to rest in the air conditioning.
As part of the base's defense department, the security personnel have air conditioning in their workplaces, which is a very good perk.
“The brothers outside are also working hard~~~! It's really tough for them.”
As he walked, he looked outside the base, where some survivors were busy with something about two hundred meters away.
“Life Zone! Once it's built, the safety of our base will be upgraded to another level. It's great to think about~~”
He walked and sighed.
Recently, the entire base has heard that the base is arranging for some people to build a huge ditch several kilometers long on the periphery to prevent the impact of zombies!
Those who heard it were a little incredulous.
Just imagining the scene gives a sense of grandeur.
If it is really dug well, there is no need to worry about small groups of zombies at all, and even small and medium-sized zombie hordes do not need to be worried about!
Only large and above super-large zombie hordes have a chance to fill the ditch and approach the base, right?!
And it can also defend against other possible enemies.
“These leaders are so smart! They can always come up with unexpected tricks.”
Zhang Dong couldn't help but sigh as he finished patrolling the wall, walked back to the guard post, put down his gun, and picked up a towel to wipe his sweat.
He was deeply proud of his decision to join Green Source at the time.
Otherwise, he and his family might no longer be in this world, right?
How could they be staying in the main base peacefully and happily as a family now?
“Following President Qin is reassuring!”
Zhang Dong's eyes were full of light. He saw hope and the future.
Many people in the main base and branch bases have this kind of light in their eyes.
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Outside the wall.
About two hundred meters west of the main gate, about twenty or thirty people were working on digging.
They were one of the teams of Green Source Zone survivors carrying out the construction of the first Life Zone.
Since there are nearly two thousand survivors in the entire Green Source Zone, it is of course impossible for them all to squeeze into one place for construction, and there cannot be so many excavators, bulldozers, and other machinery in the base.
The entire construction process is a systematic task, and different people must be assigned different tasks.
Some people are arranged to dig the soil first, some transport the soil, some reinforce the ditch surface, some go outside to find materials, some carry out zombie alert and defense in the surrounding area, and so on.
It is not possible to complete the task by having one or two thousand people squeeze together and dig randomly.
At the main gate and back gate of Green Source, 8-lane and 12-lane wide bridges will need to be built respectively in the future to facilitate travel and defense.
When the bridge deck is raised, unless there are flying enemies outside, or a section of the Life Zone is filled, don't even think about approaching the real Green Source Base.
At this time.
The twenty or so survivors at this construction site were people recruited from the Green Source Zone to work.
“Zhao Xin! Do you want to work or not?! Are you slacking off again? If you don't want to work, go back to me! There are plenty of people outside the Green Source Zone who want to come in here to work!”
A level 4 staff member from the branch base who was responsible for supervising the work shouted unceremoniously at a young man next to him who looked not very old, only about twenty-one or two years old!
Each construction site will have a staff member from the main base or branch base to be responsible for assigning work and "supervising" along the way.
After all, if no one is in charge, it will be difficult to know whether the work can be done well, let alone whether everyone is working seriously.
The supervisor here is surnamed Fang, and was once an experienced civil engineer.
He obtained level 3 staff qualification early on.
Later, he repeatedly made contributions in the construction of the branch base, and was successfully promoted to level 4 staff some time ago.
He got the "golden rice bowl" that most survivors envied.
At this time, this staff member surnamed Fang found a construction worker who had been pretending to be working and slacking off.
The young man looked like he was working, but in fact, the pile of soil in front of him had not changed much after shoveling for a long time.
And it's not the first time!
“Leader Fang! Please give my son another chance! He is just dizzy from the heat and feels uncomfortable, not intentionally!”
“Yes! Manager Fang, please give our son another chance!”
At this time, a middle-aged couple walked out next to the young man who was scolded by the supervisor surnamed Fang, begging for mercy for the young man.
The staff member surnamed Fang knew that the middle-aged couple were the young man's parents. They were a relatively rare survivor group of three complete families in the apocalypse.
“Boss Fang! Please give me another chance, I won't dare again!”
The scolded young man also pleaded with a flattering face, and his expression changed to regret and weakness.
The staff member surnamed Fang glanced at the family of three, then looked at the hot sun above his head, and finally sighed and said:
“If you can't stand it, then apply for a rest, don't hold on!”
“It's better to take a little less food than to be kicked out of the work team! It's not easy for the Green Source Base to give everyone a chance, I hope everyone cherishes it!”
After speaking, he let the young man go.
After all, everyone is not easy as survivors in the Green Source Zone.
In this apocalypse, it's better to give some care if you can help each other.
Otherwise, according to the normal rules of the base.
He already has the power to fire the young man named Zhao Xin and let him leave the Life Zone construction team.
He understands that some people have applied for more tiring positions in order to get 150 grams of food.
But you have to really work hard to do it!
It's impossible to take the food and not do anything, right?
As a member of the Green Source Base, he cannot accept this.
After speaking, he no longer held on to the young man, hoping that he would work hard or simply change to an easier position with less food.
Just.
As he walked to another place, the middle-aged couple walked to their son's side, and the woman comforted him softly with heartache:
“Xin Xin, if you can't stand it, then change to our soil transportation position. It's not so tiring, this damn weather is too hard!”
The middle-aged father also leaned over and said to his child:
“Yes, son, the one surnamed Fang is not easy to talk to. If this continues, losing your job will be even more of a loss. Why don't you come back to our side.”
Seeing that only his parents were around, the young man stopped pretending.
He secretly glanced at the management staff surnamed Fang who was not looking this way with resentment, and said fiercely:
“Don't let me get rich one day, I'll make you all look good! tui!”
Zhao Xin spat, then turned around and communicated with his parents:
“Dad, Mom, I can't stand it anymore. I really saw that person who looked like my sister just now! And even the name is the same! Why don't we give it a try!?”
“If it's really my sister, that is, Dad's daughter! Then can't we live in the Green Source Base?! Why do we need to suffer this damn anger here?!”
Speaking of this, Zhao Xin's face changed to an excited expression.
When they came to work in the morning, they saw a group of cadres from the Green Source Base directing work on the wall from a distance.
If he didn't see it wrong in the morning.
He saw a slightly familiar figure in those crowds!
Born to his father's ex-wife, his half-sister whom he had met once many years ago!
Zhao Ling!
(End of this chapter)
