#413 - Chapter 413: Green Source in the Summer Night

That night,

The Zhao family of three, newly arrived in Residential Area 1, experienced a long-awaited sense of superiority.

They felt the safety here.

With food and drink.

With towering walls, internal defense towers, and multiple monitoring systems connected to Green Source Base.

The lights in the personnel dormitories could be turned on until nine o'clock every night.

Public areas within the residential area, such as toilets, were left on all night to facilitate night patrols by the residents.

There were many conveniences here that could only be enjoyed in the old civilized society.

Looking back at the broken house they had before, it was undoubtedly a pile of shit.

"This rice is so damn fragrant! There's even stir-fried vegetables! How long has it been since I had anything oily?! Damn!"

Zhao Xin happily devoured his food while complaining.

Zhao's father and mother were no different.

They hadn't eaten rice directly like this in a long time.

The food they exchanged for wasn't always rice.

Sometimes it was coarse grains.

But they could only bear to cook porridge, and it was so thin that you couldn't see much grain.

It was impossible to cook it directly into rice, let alone have side dishes.

"Life in the residential area is already so good! It's hard to imagine what life is like in Green Source's sub-bases and main base!"

"I really want to go in and see! Damn!"

Hearing his son muttering beside him, Zhao Zhigang and his wife didn't say anything.

Because what Zhao Xin was complaining about was indeed the truth.

Those who haven't been inside can't imagine the beauty of it just by hearing about it.

Only those who have experienced it firsthand can truly understand the feeling.

At this moment.

Zhao Xin was even more envious and longed for the Green Source Base.

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Night.

Main Base.

Lights shone from the dormitories, indicating that the occupants were not yet resting.

Unlike the outside.

The main base now had a 24-hour electricity supply!

Except for some unnecessary public places, all personnel in the main base had access to almost unlimited electricity!

Each dormitory was allowed to turn on an air conditioner, as well as relatively low-power electronic devices such as computers, mobile phones, and tablets.

This was the current Green Source.

As the entire base grew, the electricity that originally had to be used sparingly according to life points was now so abundant that everyone could use air conditioning!

As for the water supply, it had not yet been liberalized, because the base's water was not unlimited, and Qin Jin knew that a long drought was coming, so he had always restricted the base's water use.

Water for washing and other daily use still needed to be exchanged for life points.

But using it normally was not a problem.

The main base's electricity consumption accounted for a significant portion of the entire power generation system.

There was no other way.

From beginning to end, the main base was the core of Green Source. If things weren't good here, what was the point of Qin Jin building Green Source?

Only when the quality of life in the main base improved could other places be qualified to discuss improvements.

The personnel in the main base were the true core of the entire Green Source!

May in the main base.

At night, the sound of air conditioner outdoor units running could be heard outside each dormitory.

The core personnel stayed in their respective dormitories, comfortably enjoying the coolness and comfort.

It was as if the heat outside had nothing to do with them.

But in one of the cadre dormitories, the occupant was not in the mood to enjoy this comfort at all.

Zhao Ling had been in the dormitory for almost a day.

Since seeing her father's family escape back in the morning, she had locked herself at home.

She didn't know how to deal with it.

Should she turn a blind eye or pretend to admit her mistake?

She felt she couldn't do it.

Later, her colleague Wang Yang arranged for her father's family.

Wang Yang told her that after asking President Qin for instructions, he had arranged for her father's family to live in Residential Area 1, and that he would arrange for them to work at the sub-base tomorrow.

Not very superior conditions.

But since Zhao Ling didn't take the initiative to propose it, it seemed more reasonable.

In the end, Zhao Ling also acquiesced to the base's arrangement.

"I used to hate him so much, and his new family, that night no matter how much my mother begged him, he refused to stay and insisted on leaving, he abandoned my mother and me!"

"But why can't I turn a blind eye when we meet again?"

"Am I really that weak?"

Zhao Ling was lost for a day and couldn't find the answer.

"What should I do?"

No one could give her the answer.

Perhaps, she needed to find the answer herself.

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Sub-base.

Here, most of the buildings entered the lights-off mode after nightfall.

Only some public areas and personnel dormitories had sporadic lights on.

The treatment here was naturally much worse than in the main base, but much better than in the residential area.

Most of them were large dormitories for four or eight people, and there were also some two-person rooms and independent suites for higher-level personnel such as level 4 and level 5 personnel.

According to the different levels of personnel, there were detailed regulations for accommodation and living standards.

Like Li Shenglin and the others, ordinary level 3 personnel, the large dormitories they lived in were equipped with large fans, which could be turned on all night.

A little higher, like the olfactory evolutionists Sun Youbin and his son, they obtained the good benefit of a double room with their level 4 personnel status, and they could apply for the use of an air-cooling fan.

In addition, with the fixed quota of food and water allocation for level 4 personnel every week, they were already a group of people who had escaped the survival class in the eyes of others.

A little higher, level 5 personnel.

Those were "big shots" who could apply for the right to use air conditioning!

Each level 5 personnel not only completely got rid of the restrictions of survival, but also began to enjoy the "quality" of life!

They could invite a non-base person to live with them after approval!

Their status was equivalent to that of ordinary level 3 personnel!

There were currently no level 5 personnel, which was also the result of Qin Jin's deliberate control.

This would appear among some level 4 personnel who had made outstanding contributions, but it had not yet been born.

At this time.

In one of the ordinary large dormitories in the sub-base.

The sound of chatting could be faintly heard.

"Brother Li, Brother Liang, are you really planning to join the team of external cooperation personnel?! Can you take me with you?"

Xiao Cong lay on his upper bunk bed, looking forward to Li Shenglin and Brother Liang.

A fan on the ceiling of the room was working hard to rotate and swing, dissipating heat for the humans below.

The temperature was more than 40 degrees Celsius during the day, and it was still around 30 degrees Celsius at night, which was very uncomfortable.

Li Shenglin and several other men were not polite in the dormitory, and each of them took off their clothes, leaving only a pair of pants, which was quite cool under the blowing of the fan.

"Yes, joining the external cooperation force is more dangerous, but the contribution points you can get are also higher, so we can upgrade to level 4 personnel faster!"

Li Shenglin lay on the bamboo mat bed on the lower bunk, resting his head on his hands and staring at the ceiling, casually replying.

He had been eyeing the external cooperation team for a long time.

As a former soldier, he had wanted to go for a long time!

Recently, they had been working on excavating and building the basement in the sub-base, which was still quite stable.

It was more than ten or twenty times better than working outdoors under the sun.

"Xiao Cong, you continue to stay in the sub-base to train, Lao Liang and I have been soldiers before and have experience, when we get familiar with it, and your abilities improve, then consider fighting together!"

Li Shenglin rejected Xiao Cong's request to apply to join the external cooperation force together, because he knew that the external cooperation force was not that safe.

There would be casualties from time to time.

Some sub-base friends who went to Shenzhen some time ago had an accident.

But he was not afraid, compared to staying in the base and slowly accumulating points, it was better to take a gamble!

This is a man's romance!

(End of this chapter)