#709 - Chapter 709: Stable, seeing the light of day again?

In the following days.

The news about Old Xu's child being born caused quite a stir in the Green Source Base.

Especially the series of policies related to childbirth announced by the base later on gave many people hope for the future.

At least here, humanity can continue to reproduce.

Long story short.

Old Xu's child was personally named Xu Xin by the leader, and their family happily celebrated the arrival of this new life.

Qin Jin even gave Old Xu a three-day vacation, euphemistically called paternity leave.

His wife could also rest for two months before returning to simple labor.

It was a disguised form of maternity leave.

Later, the child would also be placed in the base's future nursery to be cared for by some elderly women.

Zhao Ling, the head of the logistics unit, would handle the specific matters, so Qin Jin didn't need to worry about it.

He once again focused his energy on the development of the base and his own evolution.

Li Bowen and the others had not returned from their trip to Gannan Province, and they had been gone for almost a week, causing Qin Jin to feel a certain degree of worry.

"I hope they're okay. Running so far at once is a bit rash. We should have equipped them with more preparations before they left."

Despite his worries, he did not send any new team members to look for them.

It was unnecessary.

If they encountered something that even Team Leader Li couldn't handle, sending more people would be useless.

He would continue to wait.

Returning to his own evolution.

After eliminating the New Hope Base, he used three more D-serums, and his body broke through the previous shackles and began a new evolution.

Even now, he was still slowly getting stronger every day.

The equipment in the base could hardly accurately test Qin Jin's current strength level.

He was too lazy to know. As long as he could skillfully control this power, the stronger the better.

It is worth mentioning the laboratory.

Old Zhou extracted a lot of new D-protein from Miss Lin's body again, which would be used for more new experiments, striving to find more amazing discoveries, and also to find a way to solve the side effect of attracting zombies when she was in a coma.

The various trading points outside had also stabilized. Many survivors in Guangnan Province had heard of the name Green Source, knowing that there was a force here that could trade supplies.

Various resources needed by Green Source were constantly being traded back.

Qin Jin had already opened up multiple transportation routes, with the Green Source headquarters as the center, and most of the surrounding trading branches were within a day's drive.

Basically, they could transport the traded materials back every two days and transport the food and other things needed by the survivors there.

As for the trading points that were more than a day's drive away, they also had aircraft such as helicopters or airships for transportation.

Did anyone dare to intercept these ground transportation convoys?

They could try.

If they were not afraid of being relentlessly pursued by Green Source.

There were already rumors outside that it was better to rob scattered survivors who had obtained traded grain than to target Green Source's transportation convoys.

Because they were a bunch of lunatics!

They really dared to relentlessly pursue those who took action!

Green Source's combat troops had been slowly increasing.

The number of foreign-affiliated combat team members living in the branch bases had reached 500, and the number of new foreign-affiliated team members living in the large residential areas had also reached 300!

Coupled with some core team members from the main base, Green Source's military force was about to break through a thousand!

Qin Jin believed that not many forces in China could afford to support this number of military personnel.

Because these people were different from other ordinary people. They basically did not engage in production. Their only job was to carry out internal and external military suppression!

Every day, just feeding, training, sending out on missions for these nearly a thousand people, as well as equipping them with various weapons and training consumption, was a huge number.

Only the current Green Source had this strength.

The number of ordinary people in the base had also exceeded three thousand.

Many of the new people were female survivors absorbed during the drought, and there were also talents from all walks of life who were slowly absorbed through review later on.

Most of these new people lived in the 20 small residential areas on the periphery, and only a few more important ones were allowed to enter the large residential areas.

Only those who had passed multiple reviews and possessed important skills would obtain level 3 personnel status and be able to enter the Green Source Base headquarters that others dreamed of.

Now, the number of residents in each small residential area was basically more than a hundred, and the number of residents in the large residential area was about three hundred.

Layer by layer grading, the talents who stood out could jump to be closer to the Green Source headquarters.

Supplying more nutrients to this ark of the apocalypse.

Overall, the base continued to develop steadily.

Guanglin Province.

Wucheng, the ruins of the Mountain Base.

A new Green Source trading branch had long been re-established here.

Some of the survivors who once relied on New Hope to survive had left, and the rest had long accepted the arrival of the new forces.

It didn't have much impact on them. It was all for survival with any force, especially this newly arrived Green Source Base, which was even more free to a certain extent.

They would not restrict themselves. As long as there were no fights, brawls, robberies, or murders in the areas they had demarcated, they would basically not ask too much.

Moreover, the list of traded items provided was very rich. Guanglin Province was relatively mountainous, and there were some edible plants that grew there, but there were not many medicines or cold weapons here.

It was also possible to trade these with Green Source.

Today.

This trading branch was still bustling with people. Many survivors who found the supplies needed by Green Source came to trade and left happily after receiving what they wanted.

"This is really a good place. There are not too many buildings around, and it is easy to defend at night if there are not many people."

In the sentry post that was built at the trading branch at some point, Green sighed and said to Xiao Ming beside him.

They had been here for a while to carry out the security work of this branch.

"Indeed, it's good here, but if there are too many people, it will attract a lot of zombies. We don't have the kind of mountain base that New Hope used to be able to retreat into. With just this simple branch now, we can't stop the impact of more than 100,000 zombies!"

Xiao Ming leaned on the submachine gun and replied to his partner in a relaxed mood.

This was the advantage of the former New Hope Mountain Base. They could hide in the mountains and ignore the impact of a huge number of zombies.

As he spoke, the two looked at the ruins of the New Hope Base that had been destroyed in the distance.

So much time had passed, and there were no signs of life there at all. It seemed that they had really died in the bombing attack led by the leader that time.

At this time, many hired survivors were digging inside.

According to the headquarters, they wanted to see if they could find anything useful inside and confirm whether there were any remnants of New Hope inside.

"It's impossible for anyone to still be alive inside, right? It's been so long, and it was bombed so thoroughly."

Xiao Ming did not respond to Green's words, but just continued to stare there silently.

He didn't know.

Anyway, it was good to continue doing this.

Time would tell everyone the answer.

What they didn't know when they were chatting was that under the New Hope ruins over there, a group of people were digging downwards on the ground, and a group of people were breaking upwards inside.

Somewhere in the mountain.

A group of people sat in a room poured with cement and steel bars. The room was lit with many incandescent lamps, and these people were discussing the meeting with serious faces.

One of the New Hope Base cadres in charge of the underground space construction said:

"Leader! According to our current excavation speed, we will be able to see the light of day in less than three months!"

(End of this chapter)