#410 - Chapter 410 Can I live in the main base?
Main base.
Cadre dormitory building.
In one of the suites, decorated in a somewhat bourgeois style, fully furnished and completely out of sync with the post-apocalyptic world, a woman sat hugging her knees in the corner of the room.
It was Zhao Ling.
This was her home in the Green Source Base.
She had always lived here alone.
She had no relatives in the Green Source Base.
Some personnel or cadres had asked her why she hadn't invited relatives or friends over after the mutation, and why she hadn't tried to find her relatives during the previous family search plan.
Her answer was: I have no relatives.
In her heart, it was indeed as she said, she had no relatives.
Zhao Ling's mother passed away when she was just over ten years old.
Later, her grandmother took her in, and after many years together, her grandmother also passed away just as she was entering the workforce.
She became a lonely otaku with no relatives and few friends.
Her only companions were work and the online world.
It was precisely because of this focus that her work ability was particularly outstanding, and she had risen to the management level of her previous company within a few years of graduation.
It was only later that she resigned for some reason and returned to Fenghe County, where she had grown up.
As a result, by chance, she came to Green Source Food Factory, which Qin Jin was building, to work in personnel management.
She never thought that the apocalypse would descend so suddenly.
That night.
Like most people, she was panicked and sleepless all night.
At the same time, the figure of a certain man was officially imprinted in her heart.
That was a man who exuded amazing charm with his decisiveness, calmness, and courage.
Later, she was attracted to this man all the way until she was caught and confessed to.
Although she had not yet received a positive response, she was very satisfied with the current state of being with him almost day and night.
Just some time ago, a girl seeking help appeared outside the wall one night, and this girl's experience awakened her past memories!
As the incident ended, she thought these memories would be sealed away again.
But.
Today, God seemed to be playing a joke on her!
She actually saw her biological father in the construction team outside the Green Source Base!
The man she would never forget, even if he turned to ashes!
It was him!
He abandoned her mother and herself, and chose to remarry with a third party!
Although he later provided alimony and money for Zhao Ling's schooling.
But on the night her father left, her mother begged bitterly to no avail, and the mother and daughter cried in each other's arms as they watched the ruthless man shatter their originally happy family without looking back.
Her mother suffered from depression from then on, and died of illness in less than a year.
Zhao Ling will never forget that night.
Even though this so-called father had sent a certain amount of alimony every year since then, he had never come to see her in person.
Whether he didn't want to come, or didn't dare to come.
After Zhao Ling turned eighteen, the two sides completely lost contact.
She originally thought that she would never see him again in this life, and after the apocalypse, she sometimes wondered in her heart if this former biological father had already left this world.
But today she had an answer!
He was still alive!
And he was participating in the construction of the Life Belt with his suspected wife and son!
The moment the other party sought to recognize her.
She ran away.
Hiding back in her small home, her heart was in turmoil.
The person she once believed she would never see again suddenly reappeared in front of her, and the shock and disbelief tore apart all the psychological anesthesia she had done before.
In particular, the haggard and old appearance of the other party, who had suffered the hardships of the apocalypse and the erosion of time, lingered in her mind.
Should I pretend not to know them and let them live and die on their own?
Zhao Ling was lost.
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Leaving aside Zhao Ling's escape, let's talk about this construction site on the Life Belt.
Judging from Captain Zhao's behavior and words just now, this family of three seems to really be her family...
All the personnel who had been criticizing before silently lowered their heads and pretended that nothing had happened...
Zhao Xin looked at these people with a sneer, and the moment he confirmed that the cadre of the Green Source Base was his father's daughter, he perked up!
The huge happiness washed away the haze that had been accumulating recently.
"Mr. Zhao... Zhao, um... why don't you go to the side to drink water and take a rest first, I'll find someone to ask about the situation in Green Source, you wait a moment..."
The Fang surnamed personnel, who had been serious and intolerant of any sand just now, stuttered a little at this time.
He quickly led the somewhat distraught Zhao Zhigang to sit down and rest in the nearby shed, and his tone and actions were completely different from just now.
Along with this, Zhao Xin and Zhu Fen also temporarily did not need to work.
The situation is a bit complicated now, a relative recognition of a base cadre is suspected to have occurred at this construction site, and someone has already gone to find other cadres to deal with this matter...
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A little after ten in the morning.
Branch base.
In a room specially used for receptions, two ceiling fans were whirring, and the wind they stirred up was flowing in the room.
Several people were sitting on the chairs placed inside.
"Mr. Zhao, that's roughly it, as Miss Zhao's father, you naturally don't need to stay on the Green Source Belt, and you can move to a better place to live."
"But due to some reasons, plus our base also has regulations, so we can only arrange for you to live in Residential Area 1 for the time being."
"And we still need to discuss your future work content, you can wait for notification here, and the food standard will also be based on the standard of Level 2 on-duty personnel."
Wang Yang said to the three people in front of him with a slightly polite tone.
That's right.
Those personnel reported what happened in the morning to him.
Wang Yang, as the boss of the base's personnel department, secretly known as the Green Source Chief Steward, would naturally intervene in various matters.
He learned from the people below not long ago that relatives who were suspected to be direct relatives of Captain Zhao Ling had suddenly appeared outside, and he immediately put down other non-urgent matters at hand and ran to check.
As a result, he asked many people before he learned that Zhao Ling had run back to her dormitory.
Through the door, he learned that Zhao Ling's attitude towards this so-called relative was very complicated.
She didn't want to recognize them, but she didn't seem to want to completely ignore them.
Even Wang Yang began to feel a headache.
In the end, he asked Qin Jin for instructions, and after a little discussion, he said to arrange these people to the residential area first, and then see how Zhao Ling would handle it.
"Captain Wang! Thank you! Thank you!"
Zhao Zhigang and Zhu Fen thanked Wang Yang with great joy.
This was the well-known Chief Steward of the Green Source Base, and most of them had seen him when they came to register.
They also knew deeply that his status was not low, and they did not dare to do anything in front of him.
Moreover, being able to move into the residential area at once was a great thing they had never thought of before!
But.
An untimely voice came from the side.
"Um, Captain Wang, shouldn't we be living in the Green Source main base?"
Zhao Xin said with a flattering face and anticipation.
(End of this chapter)
