#508 - Chapter 508: Choosing to take in women and children
Outside the Green Zone.
A temporary office point is specifically set up to receive survivors from the outside for exchanging supplies.
In the past, survivors from the outside who wanted to trade materials for food with Green Source were no longer allowed to directly enter the sub-base walls.
They would be intercepted at the Green Zone, and after counting and confirming the tradable materials, the food trade would take place.
The Green Source headquarters, which has developed to its current stage, is not something ordinary survivors can approach.
There are several such trading office points around the Green Zone to facilitate survivors from all directions to come and trade.
The personnel stationed inside bring no more than a hundred pounds of grain each day, which is enough for the outside survivors to trade for a long time, and even if they run out, they can always go back to the headquarters to reapply.
Today.
Many headquarters personnel came to these office points.
In the curious eyes of the outside survivors who had been waiting for a long time to trade, these personnel who drove over from the headquarters got out of the car and began to paste some papers on the designated announcement area.
"What is this?"
After the personnel had pasted the papers and moved away, some survivors curiously leaned in to watch.
As they read, their eyes widened and their mouths could almost fit an egg!
Good news!!!
"Damn it! I have to quickly tell our team this good news! We are saved from this drought!!!"
Someone jumped three feet high with joy, gesticulating and wanting to run to where his companions lived to spread the word!
What did those people wearing Green Source badges post on the bulletin board that made them so happy?
That was the hope of survival!
As more and more survivors who came to trade saw the newly posted information, they almost forgot their original intention of bringing supplies to trade and hurried back to notify their relatives and friends!
Especially teams with children and women!
Great news!
One of the young men just arrived at the office point, looking at the running survivors with confusion. He had not yet gone to see the newly posted announcement information.
He was the younger brother who had complained to his brother outside the Green Zone that it was difficult to find water sources nearby!
There are still 8 people in their team, four adults, three women, and one child.
"What's going on? Why are they so happy?"
Today, he also followed his brother to bring the small amount of supplies their team had recently found to the trading office point in exchange for a small amount of grain to take back.
Beside him was his scruffy-looking brother.
Unable to resist the curiosity in their hearts, they did not choose to trade first, but squeezed under the form to read.
After only a few seconds, their eyes widened, and intense excitement was about to overflow from their faces.
"Great! Xiao An can go inside!!!"
The brother, named Pan Wei, actually saw the great news released by Green Source for them, the outer survivors, on the announcement!
The two brothers looked at each other, hugged excitedly, and like the other survivors who had seen the information and had family and friends in their teams, they didn't even bother with the material trade and wanted to immediately go back and share the good news with their companions!
What did they see!?
The information on the newly posted paper was not much, but a few more items were added to the previous transaction list:
1. All outer survivors who have previously traded with Green Source can send children aged 12 and under to the small residential area for settlement to survive this sudden drought!
2. All women who have traded materials with Green Source, as long as they have no record of wrongdoing, can enter the small residential area for settlement!
3. Transaction points obtained from trading with Green Source, regardless of gender, can be used to exchange for clean water sources.
There is not much information, mainly focusing on the survivors who have traded with Green Source!
But that's enough!
The biggest weakness of those teams with children and women is these!
As long as the children and women can be settled, the male family members have ways to increase their chances of survival.
Moreover, Green Source did not abandon these men.
All survivors who have previously traded materials for food with the base, or have cooperated, have their own points, and now these points can be exchanged for clean water!
The importance of clean water sources now is not much less than that of food!
Seeing a drought that is expected to last for an unknown period of time, Green Source's arrangement has given so much help to these outside survivors!
Pan Wei, and his younger brother Pan Hao, hurriedly traded and settled the materials they brought today with the personnel at the office point, and hurried home to inform the other members of the good news!
Not only this trading office point, but the news was also spread simultaneously in several other locations.
The survivors who came to trade in the scorching heat today quickly brought back the explosive news and told people they knew.
The more people who have water resources, the safer they will be, at least there will be no situation where their own resources are robbed because they have too much!
Today is destined to be a happy day for these survivors outside the Green Zone!
The benefits have finally come to their side!
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Sub-base.
After instructing the people below to deal with the trivial matters outside the Green Zone in the morning, Qin Jin did not pay too much attention. He could learn about the situation when he had time.
These peripheral survivors can't cause any trouble.
Saving women and children this time is naturally not entirely because of Zhao Ling's request yesterday.
He also originally needed to add more manpower to Green Source.
The current Green Source has thousands of level 1-2 personnel, which seems like a lot, but when the drought ends, the Red Cloud Base in Shenzhen and the Yangcheng branch will need to send people to garrison there.
Not to mention the Zhushi oil refining base, which also needs to send more manpower again.
As time goes by, other forces outside are also growing and developing. The hundred or so people at the oil base still seem a bit dwarfed.
And Shantou, including Yuncheng bordering Guangyuan City, and Dongguan City and other cities, he wants to bring them under control in the future!
His appetite has become extremely large!
As long as it goes smoothly, perhaps the resources of the entire Guangnan Province will be used by him in the future!
So now these survivors outside the Green Zone can be screened slightly.
Those with family members are generally more stable and malleable.
Not to mention children, the next generation of human beings still needs their brilliance. As long as they are cultivated from an early age, he believes that these children will definitely have a strong sense of belonging to Green Source.
As for women, needless to say, the unbalanced male-to-female ratio in the base should also be addressed at this time.
Otherwise, letting most of them be old bachelors for a long time will cause problems sooner or later.
Of course, coercion is absolutely not allowed, and everything is based on the principle of voluntariness.
Having said that.
Back to another thing that Qin Jin came to the sub-base for.
He came here to check the production of the base's newly built military industrial equipment!
(End of this chapter)
