#665 - Chapter 665: Going underground

The punishment arranged by Green Source this time didn't last long.

With over a thousand people taking turns, and only thirty-plus targets, many didn't even get a chance to lash out at every single defector.

On average, each defector probably received around seventy or eighty lashes and two to three hundred cuts.

They were just cutting their bodies, not carving flesh off, and the cuts avoided vital areas, so none of the defectors died.

But they were close to it.

After Green Source personnel came to finish the job, they didn't even have the strength to scream, all of them hanging there half-dead.

The punishment was nearing its end.

Qin Guoqiang had already arranged for the Green Source personnel to return to their respective posts.

These defectors would continue to hang there until they died!

Let them fully enjoy the pain everyone had inflicted upon them.

Everyone avoided their major blood vessels and vital areas, mainly targeting places that would be very painful but not fatal.

It was only after the interrogation department's team personally demonstrated and explained it that they achieved such great results.

Having completed their revenge, everyone had vented the anger from almost being tricked before.

At the same time, it served as another deterrent to those who might be present or might become disloyal and harm the base in the future.

Whenever these people were indecisive, thinking about today's punishment might help them reach a conclusion.

"......"

Among the thirty-plus defectors hanging there.

Zhao Xin's eyes were blurred, silently watching the bright red ground in front of him.

Those were the bloodstains he had left behind.

Words like broken skin and rotten flesh, blood and gore, and appalling couldn't adequately describe his current misery.

As the pain continued, he seemed to have adapted to it.

Or perhaps it shouldn't be called adaptation, but rather a temporary numbness caused by prolonged agony.

Without any vital injuries, he would have to endure this pain for an unknown amount of time.

The ancient punishment of dismemberment involved directly carving flesh from the body, and the person being punished would basically die at the end.

But today, these defectors would not.

The personnel who had completed the punishment left to get busy, and those hanging would continue to enjoy the pain on their bodies.

The Green Source turmoil had come to a temporary end.

The base's development was back on the fast track.

The trading branches and dispatched personnel, interrupted by New Hope, were once again transported to their respective locations by various means of transportation to trade goods and gather intelligence.

Construction on the life zone on the Green Source side also resumed, and the level 1 and 2 personnel living in the Green Source zone returned to their usual daily work.

Or rather, they hadn't been affected much in the first place, only stopping slightly on the day of the battle.

As for the headquarters' combat troops and external collaborators, they were much busier.

These armed personnel were dispatched to various places to find needed supplies.

Especially the raw materials for explosives, and the technological marvel of drones in this new era, which could completely dominate the direction of a war!

If it hadn't been for the multi-faceted coordination of drones this time, Green Source would never have been able to take down the New Hope base so easily!

"Send some personnel to continue searching in Shenzhen and Guangzhou and other cities for the materials and equipment needed to manufacture drones! The more of these things, the better!"

"Also, increase the demand for these aspects in external transaction lists. We must find all the easily accessible equipment before other forces fully react!"

Qin Jin sat in the leader's office, assigning new tasks to the captains of the combat troops.

Focus on collecting drone-related equipment and raw materials for explosives!

The combination of these two things would unleash geometric power.

If we don't want to be targeted like this again in the future, one aspect is to find all these weapons outside to reduce the possibility of enemies possessing them.

The other aspect is to strengthen our base's radar monitoring system.

Turning the entire Green Source zone into a no-fly zone.

Except for our base's aircraft, which can fly freely after obtaining permission, other unauthorized aircraft will be shot down at any time.

Currently, Green Source's air defense radar and anti-aircraft guns are still a bit weak, they can handle a small number of helicopters, but they would be dwarfed when facing an encirclement of dozens of helicopters.

Although this possibility is extremely low, we still need to guard against it.

There is also the defense against long-range missiles. Although in my previous life's memories, no force seemed to have this kind of ultra-long-range strike capability, it still needs to be put on the defense agenda.

If one day a force really does possess ultra-long-range intercontinental missiles and happens to target Green Source, then the base I have painstakingly built will be reduced to nothing!

Hearing about New Hope's defensive buildings No. 1 and No. 2, Qin Jin's idea of developing underground became even stronger!

Previously, Green Source had only built one underground floor and two underground floors, as well as his small private shelter.

These might be able to withstand the close-range explosion of a small-yield nuclear bomb, but if a nuclear bomb just happened to hit our heads, it's really hard to say if we could withstand it.

Therefore.

Qin Jin decided that in the future, he would also allocate some personnel to continue developing the underground of Green Source headquarters!

The underground of the headquarters had been simply surveyed by people during peacetime.

The ground below is not a hard rock layer, as long as we have the corresponding excavation tools and equipment, and send people to work day and night, we will eventually be able to build a hundred-meter-deep underground living space!

Since there is less and less ground space at Green Source headquarters, and developing into the sky is not very safe, then developing underground according to the original idea becomes a natural thing to do.

"Wang Yang! You recently help screen out some personnel within the Green Source zone who have construction experience! We need to establish a dedicated construction team! Led by highly educated experts, to continue to build the base better in the future!"

Wang Yang, the base's chief steward, was also in the leader's office. He was familiar with the entire base's personnel structure, and naturally knew the various professions and skills of the personnel within the Green Source zone.

Creating a construction team of about two hundred people is very simple for Green Source at this time.

As Green Source's reputation grows, many survivors are willing to come here to receive "work."

In the future, these survivors will no longer be easily assigned level 1 personnel status, and it will be more convenient to use direct employment.

Green Source Zone will also establish special shuttle bus routes to pick up these survivors living in specific locations on the periphery to come to the life zone for construction.

And those original 1-2 level personnel in the life zone can completely enter more core places to work.

Not only the headquarters.

In the future, even the large and small residential areas will gradually build underground spaces.

Although the lives of these peripheral personnel are not so precious, it is still necessary to increase protection when conditions permit.

Since then.

Green Source's future development focus quietly shifted towards developing underground space after this New Hope incident.

(End of chapter)