#412 - Chapter 412: Aftermath of Power
Similar to this survivor gathering point.
The entire Guangnan Province.
Or rather, the entire Hua Nation.
Has begun to enter a strange state never seen before.
Since the end of the heavy rain a month ago, there hasn't been a decent rainfall for almost a month.
Only a few places had a brief drizzle or light rain.
Originally, at the beginning of the year, the accumulated water, small ponds, and streams that were everywhere after the ice and snow melted, some shallow depressions have begun to show signs of drying and cracking.
The parasites that had been rampant for several months have also begun to disappear under the increasingly high temperatures, even these microorganisms can't stand the temperatures of forty or fifty degrees Celsius.
Of course.
At this time, most survivors will not feel too much water shortage, as long as they run farther, to those large ponds or rivers, they can still find water to store back.
Water is not a problem that is bothering them for the time being.
Food and safety issues are still the number one enemy of survival at present.
However, most people would not have thought.
This is just the beginning.
In the next few months, countless survivors will regret not storing more water when conditions allowed.
Only some forward-looking base shelters, some insightful people saw the crisis in advance.
Shen City.
Red Cloud Base.
Xiong Sen, who had communicated with Lvyuan next to Tianhong Building, is directing the base personnel to store water resources.
"The weather has been a bit abnormal recently, try to prepare more, our base has two water towers, and there are many utensils that can be used for water storage, everyone should try to bring back water to fill them when going out!"
Red Cloud Base is not small, located in the western suburbs of Shen City, relying on a former school to establish.
They have walls more than ten meters high, piled up with building materials, abandoned vehicles, container boxes and other debris.
Plus, they have some firearms and weapons, which can be regarded as a relatively well-known force in Shen City.
According to the leader's instructions, Xiong Sen also carried out water storage while searching for food and supplies.
"This damn weather, sweating every day and feeling sticky all over, I really want to take a cold shower, but the water usage is a bit reluctant."
He sat in the car, wiped the sweat from his head and face with his hand, and squinted his eyes and sighed.
He is taking the team back to his base.
Today was lucky, after clearing a few zombies in a nearby building, they found some packaged food and some useful supplies inside, and they also encountered a small river on the way and filled several large buckets of river water.
It would be great if there was such a harvest every day.
Of course, this is a dream, the food and supplies left outside are slowly decreasing.
Not only are the survivors looking for and consuming them, but time is also eroding the traces left by humans.
"Prepare more, I don't know what will happen to humans in the future, alas."
Xiong Sen sat in the pickup truck with the windows open, feeling the hot air of the afternoon outside, and the scene of everything being distorted by the sun, he couldn't help but sigh.
No one knows what the future of mankind will be like.
Let's take care of ourselves first.
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Evening.
No. 1 Residential Area.
The staff who had finished a day's work had just returned to their residence by bus, ready to go home to rest and enjoy dinner.
Zhao Xin's family of three naturally followed the car back here smoothly, as arranged before.
Under the guidance of the personnel arranged by Wang Yang, they finally came to the "new home" they had dreamed of, and carefully looked around.
"This is the legendary No. 1 residential area!"
"Not bad! The outer wall is so high! And it's quite spacious inside, it's more than enough for the three of us to live in!"
Zhu Fen happily walked around and touched here and there in the assigned room.
Especially when she saw the energy-saving LED light on the top of her head, she sighed that she finally saw this kind of technological light that was once common in human civilization again.
Compared to the dark and broken house they lived in outside before, this place can be called luxurious.
They didn't have any valuables originally, and they can go back and get the broken clothes from there when they have time in the future, so they moved in here directly tonight.
"Mom, what are you making a fuss about?! The Green Source sub-base was more impressive before! How can this place compare to that?"
"I'm telling you, let Zhao Ling talk to the Green Source executives and let us live in the main base is the king! I heard that all the relatives of their executives live in the main base!"
"That place is definitely better than this broken residential area and sub-base!"
"If it doesn't work, let us go to the sub-base, it's better than here, right?"
"She is Dad's own daughter, she can't even help with this little favor, right? Right? Dad?"
Zhao Xin lay on a wooden bed in the room, pillowed his head and said to his parents with a relaxed expression.
Especially the last sentence, he was basically encouraging his father Zhao Zhigang.
After he entered the Green Source sub-base today, he completely set his sights on the extremely safe environment there!
And the better and newer building accommodation conditions inside!
He took the opportunity to ask the guide who came back on the road just now, the sub-base is not only safe, but also has many hidden benefits.
Like occasionally distributing some daily necessities, or adding meals, and the people there will have better job choices.
It is not comparable to the people in the residential area and the survivors brought by Green Source.
"......"
Hearing his son's words, Zhao Zhigang ignored him.
He knew that Zhao Ling didn't really recognize him today.
Perhaps in her heart, she didn't intend to fully admit that he was her father, otherwise why didn't she come over all afternoon?
Being able to enter the residential area, and it seems that he can also change to a better job tomorrow, he is very satisfied in his opinion.
Moreover, he is also a little afraid of seeing Zhao Ling in his heart.
After all, he did hurt the other party's mother and daughter many years ago.
He sighed in his heart and ignored his good son who was still dreaming and his good wife who was preparing to go out to gossip.
It seems good to settle down in the residential area like this.
This night.
The family of three ate the work meals distributed by Green Source, and felt the sense of security that they had never experienced outside, and lived in with their own thoughts.
The people around them were also surprised that there was such a new neighbor.
When they learned that these were the relatives of a certain cadre in the base, they greeted them with smiling faces and congratulated them on joining the base as soon as possible.
The sense of superiority that had been suppressed in the depths of the three people's hearts and had not been shown for a long time began to grow again.
Especially one of them was the person who had ridiculed them coldly and warmly in the morning, and secretly came over in the evening to send food and apologize.
It makes their hearts extremely satisfied!
This is just the slight aftermath of power, which makes them so happy.
If it is replaced by greater power itself?
That must be even more addictive.
Humans are like this.
Once you get something, you will want to get more.
This is called desire.
(End of this chapter)
