#478 - Chapter 478 Return at Night
Night.
Green Source Base.
Those who had finished their day's work had long returned home to rest.
Level 1 personnel constructing the Life Belt took the shuttle, and Level 2 personnel also took corresponding shuttles from the sub-base back to the three large residential areas.
The entire base was now taking shape, with almost everyone having something to do. Even if they weren't scheduled for work, they could go out and find wild vegetables, tree roots, small animals, and other things to supplement their meals.
They weren't eating their fill, but they weren't starving to death either.
Recently, the temperature had been rising higher and higher. Today, the highest temperature reached a shocking 45 degrees Celsius!
Keep in mind that this was the ambient temperature measured by the temperature measuring equipment. Asphalt roads and other surfaces that absorbed more heat would reach over 50°C!
In peacetime, this temperature would be enough to take the lives of some humans with weaker constitutions.
Fortunately, the survivors who had managed to live to this day were mostly of a stronger constitution. Otherwise, there might have been large-scale deaths from heatstroke and heat exhaustion under this temperature.
Zombies rarely came out during the day, hiding in buildings instead.
Survivors outside wore sunscreen equipment and could search for anything edible and supplies outdoors.
As long as the survivors didn't enter buildings to search for supplies.
Everyone was relatively at peace, which gave the survivors room to breathe.
Of course, without mentioning how miserable the survivors outside were, at least the people in Green Source had been able to survive recently.
The base provided them with many cooling and heat-reducing measures, and large sunshades and other equipment had been added to the work areas, which generally allowed them to continue working.
The construction of the Life Belt was still in its initial stages, and it would take a long time to complete it completely.
Sub-base.
The time was now two in the morning.
At this time, the vast majority of personnel had returned to their respective dormitories to rest and sleep.
Only a small number of security guards on night duty needed to patrol and defend the walls and the base.
"It's been much quieter at night recently! There are even fewer zombies outside the walls. It would be great if this kind of day could continue forever."
In a sentry post on the wall of the sub-base, two night-watch personnel were chatting to pass the time and stave off sleepiness.
At night, the temperature dropped a lot, only about thirty degrees Celsius. Turning on the fan in the sentry post was enough to provide a good level of comfort.
They were all Level 3 personnel of the sub-base, and they only had the right to use a fan in their dormitories.
"Who says not! Our base is indeed getting stronger and stronger! Now someone is clearing zombies outside during the day, and the Life Belt is being built. Unless a zombie tide comes, those monsters can't get here at all! Haha!"
Another Level 3 personnel cheerfully responded to his teammate's words.
Indeed, living in the sub-base, they felt a strong sense of security.
Now the walls on the main base side had been increased to a terrifying height of forty meters, and the sub-base side was also thirty-two meters high, so zombies couldn't get in under normal circumstances.
Absolute safety.
"Huh?"
Suddenly.
One of the team members felt a sound on the sentry post desk.
It was the walkie-talkie vibrating.
After connecting, a voice came from inside:
"I'm Li Bowen! We are about to arrive at the base, please be prepared!"
!!??
Li Bowen!?
Isn't that the name of Captain Li of the combat unit?
They're back!
Instantly, the two of them were wide awake, and they quickly began to notify all the team members responsible for the defense and reported it to the cadres on the main base side.
Captain Li is back!!
A dozen minutes later.
A huge airship slowly landed on the roof of one of the buildings in the sub-base.
During this period, Green Source cleared a newly built building specifically for parking this kind of aerial behemoth, so as not to occupy too much ground space.
Beneath the parked airship, Qin Jin appeared here!
As the leader of the base who sent Captain Li and the others out on this special mission, he had specifically told them that they must notify him immediately when they returned, no matter what!
Because the mission that Captain Li and the others went out to perform this time was a major matter related to the long-term development of the entire base.
Li Bowen took the lead in walking out of the cabin and onto the ground on the roof. Seeing Qin Jin and the cadres who were already waiting, a rare smile actually appeared on his eternally unchanged, cold face.
!!
Seeing this smile, Qin Jin felt a slight relief in his heart.
Indeed.
Captain Li approached him and took the initiative to say:
"I have fulfilled my mission! The task is complete!"
Then, Li Bowen briefly introduced the situation of this trip to Haidao Province to the boss.
!!
Qin Jin was overjoyed when he heard this!
He asked people to arrange for these returning team members to rest and unload the recovered supplies.
It was not yet time to discuss rewards. What was more important now was to quickly analyze the retrieved information!
At this time, it was still three o'clock in the morning, and Yuan Mu, who had come along, was no longer sleepy. He planned to immediately call all the personnel from the Planting Department to get up and start reading and reviewing the information and transplanting the plants on the airship!
If they waited any longer, those plants would be at risk of dying, so it was better to protect them as soon as possible!
Early in the morning, many people in the sub-base were awakened by the noise. When everyone saw that the airship had returned and that the base leader and cadres were busy with something, they had no choice but to silently crawl back into bed.
They couldn't afford to offend them.
Tonight was destined to be a night of insufficient sleep.
Core team members and many relevant personnel from the sub-base were called up overnight to help process the newly retrieved plants.
It wasn't until after five in the morning, when the sun was about to rise, that everything on the airship was moved down and stored in the greenhouse and the Planting Department.
In the leader's office.
Li Bowen washed up and didn't go back to sleep. Instead, he came here to continue to introduce the situation outside these days to Qin Jin.
"That's pretty much it. Our trip to Haidao Province went smoothly. We retrieved a lot of information and plants from the experimental base. An Xiaoran and Wu Qinu are not bad, and their professional skills are okay. Yesterday during the day, we searched all the things we could find in the experimental area and then took the airship back."
Captain Li slowly explained the specific situation of these days, such as the giant wolf and the process of finding plants.
Yesterday evening, they saw that the target had been scoured clean, so they directly asked the team members to operate the airship to return to the base headquarters.
Taking advantage of the tailwind, they didn't even need eight hours to return here.
That's why they arrived in the middle of the night.
While listening, Qin Jin walked to the refrigerator next to the office and threw a can of "Niu Zi" and cola to Captain Li.
The latter naturally didn't stand on ceremony, reached out to catch it, and drank it on the spot.
"Glug glug! Ha!"
Relying on the stronger physique of an evolver, he could completely withstand this bit of coldness.
Everything was understood without words.
(End of this chapter)
