#505 - Chapter 505 Summer Night
"Do your jobs properly! Stop just chatting."
Just as two Red Cloud team members were shooting the breeze, a familiar voice suddenly came from behind them.
It was Xiong Sen!
"Sorry, Deputy Leader! We'll go patrol the walls right away!"
The two of them jolted, greeted Xiong Sen, and then wisely separated and ran to patrol the base's walls.
They'd been caught slacking off on the job, so they hurried away!
Xiong Sen shook his head helplessly but didn't hold them back or pursue the matter.
It wasn't that he didn't want to, but it was too difficult to do that.
Without prior established authority, without enough deterrence, even as the Deputy Leader, it wasn't easy to command all his subordinates.
Not feeding people enough, not giving them powerful weapons, and not grasping their weaknesses?
And then expecting them to wholeheartedly risk their lives for you?
Impossible.
Everyone has a tendency to be lazy.
Like some so-called wolf-culture companies during peacetime, only the top few can afford to pay their employees enough to willingly rush forward. Most of those small businesses that make their employees eat grass will gradually disappear.
Asking someone to run without giving them meat might work for a short time, but resistance is inevitable in the long run.
The situation at Red Cloud Base was basically like this.
After Xiong Sen told the team members to go to work, he took his son, Xiong Lin, up to the base's wall.
He stared at the thick darkness outside after nightfall, and a sense of confusion couldn't help but emerge.
"Xiong Lin, remember, this is our home. You have to grow up well and learn to protect us all in the future."
He rubbed the little guy's head, but the words he spoke were the opposite of what he felt in his heart.
It was like he was educating his child.
Or like he was drawing the nourishment to survive from him.
Just relying on each other.
The little boy Xiong Lin didn't blame his dad for messing up his hair, he also stared at the darkness outside, which hid man-eating monsters.
Faced with the possible zombies, he had long begun to feel fear.
Since last year, he had witnessed countless times those monsters attacking their base. Xiong Sen, this tiger father, was also merciless, directly letting his young son face this cruelty.
"Dad! Don't worry, when I grow up, I will definitely protect everyone and make sure you have enough to eat!"
Xiong Lin nodded heavily, his mouth speaking words that didn't quite match his age.
Looking back at his son with relief, Xiong Sen felt the pressure on his shoulders lessen slightly.
Recently, the leader of the base, Sister Hong, had been "invited" to Green Source Base, and Red Cloud could only rely on him, the Deputy Leader, to hold the fort.
Dealing with the reassurance of the personnel, the assistance from the Yangcheng branch, as well as his own base's search for supplies to survive, and the abnormal sunlight situation that appeared today.
All these situations needed to be resolved.
Before, with Sister Hong, this female powerhouse leader, holding things up, he could focus on finding supplies and defense more easily.
These past few days were different, he felt immense pressure coming at him.
Especially today's anomaly, which made everyone in the base realize that a disaster that would last for an unknown amount of time had arrived.
Now, water sources outside were difficult to obtain.
Almost all the places around them where they used to get water were gone.
The remaining few pools and ponds were also occupied by countless zombies soaking in them, making them unusable.
Now, there really wasn't even a slightly larger fish pond to be found around, or even the well water from before had dried up.
Not to mention the increasingly high temperatures and harmful sunlight.
Red Cloud Base naturally stored a lot of water. Today, he gathered the other leaders in the base and ordered all personnel to prohibit wasting water and switch to drinking as the primary use.
A drought is not terrible.
What's terrible is not knowing how long this disaster will last.
If it lasts for a week or two, that's no problem, their stored supplies and water are enough to support them.
But what if it lasts for a month?
That would be a big problem. They have two or three hundred people here, and the resources consumed every day are definitely not small. If they can't even leave the base, they will run out of water and food after a month!
"Ah, I hope this drought doesn't last too long. It's almost August and entering autumn, hopefully it will rain soon to give humanity a breather, otherwise, I don't know how many more people will die."
He thought worriedly.
During this time, Red Cloud Base had not considered trying to drill wells to get water.
However, the result was disappointing. They tried using drilling equipment inside the base and in many places outside, and even drilling to a depth of more than 50 meters couldn't find groundwater!
It was also said that some forces had tried drilling over a hundred meters without seeing a drop of water!
This was extremely abnormal!
They didn't know that this was because the Earth's magnetic field and multiple continental plates had experienced anomalies, and large-scale flows of deep groundwater had occurred.
The situation in peacetime, where you could just randomly find a place and drill to get water, was gone forever.
To get water by drilling wells, it requires professional personnel to re-study and calculate to have a chance.
Xiong Sen looked at the night sky above him. The weather had been excessively good recently, with few clouds, and the night sky was extremely bright with stars, allowing the survivors to enjoy this beauty that they couldn't see before at night.
But he came up to the wall not to look at the stars, but to cool off and defend the base...
It was too hot inside the base...
Having walls was indeed safer, but it also blocked the flowing wind.
It was unusually hot and stuffy day and night.
So he took his son up to catch the breeze and breathe.
"Roar!"
A familiar roar sounded outside the base.
Their old friends had arrived again.
"Xiong Lin, watch how I stab those zombies to death later. When you grow up, you have to learn to kill zombies yourself and be a man!"
Xiong Sen didn't panic too much when he heard the zombies' voices, but first told his son, and then picked up a sharpened steel rod tied with a rope and aimed at one of the zombies under the wall.
He threw it with all his might!
Whoosh!
Pfft!
The steel rod, with great force and gravitational potential energy, hit the face of an unlucky male zombie, piercing straight through it, killing it instantly.
Pulling back the steel spear, Xiong Sen calmly continued to kill the uninvited guests who came at night.
This was their daily life.
Zombies could never be killed completely.
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Xiang Province.
The suburbs of a small border city.
Inside a seemingly abandoned driving school, there were twenty or thirty cars parked tonight!
It was the Green Source's combat unit sent to Xiang Province to transport grain!
They had traveled hundreds of kilometers during the day and finally arrived at a pre-reserved temporary overnight spot in the evening.
After cleaning up, arranging defenses, and confirming the safety of the place, they rested and settled down for the night.
This driving school was not big, with only a three-story building, barely enough for the combat team members to use as a temporary overnight spot tonight.
On the roof, several team members squatted by the edge, keeping watch with night vision goggles.
On the second floor, two large pots had been set up and were cooking tonight's dinner.
The food was relatively simple, a pot of boiled noodles and a pot of braised ingredients.
The braised ingredients pot contained chunks of meat, potatoes, carrots, and other frozen vegetables, boiling in a fragrant broth. After cooking, the fragrant broth and ingredients were poured over the noodles, making a bowl of mouth-watering covered noodles!
"It smells so good~~~"
Lin Jiafu held a bowl of hot food in her hands and couldn't help but let out a moan-like exclamation!
This girl!
She unexpectedly appeared in the Green Source's external cooperation combat unit!
(End of this chapter)
