#479 - Chapter 479 Going Out for a Walk
After seeing Li Bowen out of the office, Qin Jin didn't go back to rest.
It was already dawn outside, so he treated it as an early start to the day.
He went to the nearby gym for his daily workout, then after washing up, continued to work on developing the new base.
"The airship is back. Once the Red Cloud Base issue is resolved, we need to 'invite' Yan Hong to the base immediately! And get the specific location of the Xiang Province granary!"
"If I remember correctly, in less than half a month, the outside temperature will reach an unbearable level! And it will last for quite a while. All outdoor work and missions will need to be stopped. We don't have much time left!"
Qin Jin felt the increasingly uncomfortable temperature outside as the sun rose, and his brow furrowed.
It was only early July, and although it was hot, it was far from being a true drought.
It was predicted that in another half a month, the temperature in the entire Hua country would rise to a shocking sixty degrees Celsius in a short period of time!
Humans would not be able to survive outdoors for long at this temperature!
Even hiding indoors, they would need to be well-prepared to get through it.
Needless to say, a large number of survivors would die in this disaster.
Green Origin had to make some preparations before the real drought arrived.
The grain that Yan Hong mentioned had to be obtained before this disaster struck.
Other things were not so urgent.
"In that case, should we send the airship to Shen City and Yang City to check the situation today?"
"Speaking of which, it's been a long time since I've been out."
Just thinking about it made Qin Jin feel a little restless.
The last time he went out was when he led a team to Shen City to destroy the Tian Hong Group, and it had been quite a while since then.
In fact, since the beginning of this year, he had rarely stepped out of the base, and had been holed up in his lair doing development planning and monitoring Lin Runwei's research.
He had completely become a seasoned homebody.
Moreover, Old Zhou's research on Lin Runwei had not made much progress recently, and the Green Origin Base, after being reorganized by him, was several levels safer than before.
Now, ordinary people couldn't even get close to the main base, let alone enter the Green Origin zone!
Whether they took the main road or a small path, they would be filmed by the densely arranged cameras as soon as they stepped into the Green Origin zone, and the team members on duty in the monitoring room would immediately notify the nearby patrol team to intercept and inspect them!
Like the people from Red Cloud Base who came a few days ago, they were intercepted in this way.
Unless outsiders took some unconventional wilderness routes, it was impossible to approach the current Green Origin main base via normal roads.
Even if they took unconventional routes, there was still a good chance they would be filmed by the ubiquitous hidden cameras.
Green Origin used a lot of smart cameras with automatic detection. When a humanoid object appeared in the lens area, it would trigger an alarm, and the team members who received the message would rush over to deal with it.
This wasn't some high-tech stuff. Many offline cameras with AI algorithms could do it.
It could be said that.
The current Green Origin Base had become an existence comparable to an iron bucket!
Outsiders would never imagine how terrifying it was here now!
"Damn it! If I want to go, I'll go!"
"It's only a few hundred kilometers to Shen City and Yang City. I can be back before tonight!"
Qin Jin quickly made a decision.
Go out for a ride!
Liu Wenhao had already returned to the base from Shan City yesterday afternoon, and with Li Bowen also there, the safety of the base was no problem.
He no longer stayed in the office and went out enthusiastically to find someone to prepare for the trip.
He was about to ride in an airship for the first time!
******
Shan City.
Coal Mine Shelter.
The people here started their coal mining work for the day under the leadership of Li Hongwen after getting up in the morning.
Recently, the weather had been hot, and everyone was more willing to dig more coal quickly before the sun rose to its highest and hottest point, so that they could have some rest time in the afternoon.
Since Green Origin accepted their coal in exchange for more food some time ago, Li Hongwen had been working hard to expand production with the newly joined personnel.
"Everyone, work harder! Our goal today is to dig two to three hundred tons! Let's go!"
In the mine, Li Hongwen no longer had his former refined appearance.
At this time, he was wearing a dark vest, swinging his arms and working hard, and occasionally encouraging his companions who were working with him.
As the leader, being able to take the lead like this, no one would say anything.
Although he wouldn't be helping here all day, he still needed to go back to the shelter to work on some other things occasionally.
On the other side.
Not far away, in the residential area of the coal mine shelter built with various things, there was another scene.
Some women and children were frowning in the vegetable garden under the shed.
"Oh, a few more crops have died! What a pity! We can only dig them up and eat the leaves and roots."
A young girl said to her companions with regret.
In her hands, a few withered plants showed no sign of life, and the withered yellow leaves and branches declared its death.
This was the nth batch of crops that had died recently.
"It's okay, let's think of another way! Maybe we didn't use the fertilizer correctly and it was too nutritious. Maybe we can grow something if we improve it!?"
Li Cai smiled regretfully and encouraged her companions.
Some time ago, the people who stayed in the shelter to grow crops found it very difficult to grow them, suspected that these vegetables were not nutritious enough, so they improved some planting methods.
As a result.
The crops continued to die one after another these days.
At this rate, the harvest may be less than half of normal?
Why is this happening?
Li Cai was puzzled, but did not express it.
At this time, she should think of ways to solve the problem, instead of passing on negative energy to others.
"Let's just use these unviable crops as food! Later, our search team will go out to find more crops to bring back, we will definitely grow our own food!"
What she said was correct. Except for potato seedlings containing solanine and being inedible, other pumpkin seedlings, cucumber seedlings, and papaya seedlings could still be eaten.
Although the taste was not very good.
But they were also rare things that could fill part of the stomach.
Li Cai was the captain of the search team of the coal mine shelter, specializing in leading several companions to search for materials and edible plants everywhere outside.
Outdoors, some vegetables and melons that had not yet borne fruit were their target.
After transplanting them back to the shelter, if they were successfully planted, they would also be rare food!
Plants were difficult to survive outside, but with a little care, they could still occasionally find some stubbornly sprouting crops.
It's just.
They could hardly grow fruits.
They were still exploring the reasons.
It was heard that many places outside had begun to experience water shortages. Fortunately, there was a large river near them, so the coal mine shelter had not been short of water recently.
But.
That river.
Was getting smaller every day.
(End of chapter)
