Chapter 086 Chapter 86 In dire straits

A few hours later, former leader Song Minguo successfully survived the crisis and was now sent to a sterile ward.

After An Qing and the leader's attending physician carefully inquired about the situation, they realized how serious Song Minguo's condition was.

The people in this world generally do not have a long lifespan. Even though medical technology has far surpassed that of An Qing's era, the people in this world still have shorter lifespans.

In this world, living to the age of forty or fifty is considered a long life. Song Minguo is already in his fifties this year. Long before the former deputy leader Chengyue took action against him, his organs had already begun to fail.

The heavy blow dealt to him by Chengyue only accelerated the process a little.

Now, Song Minguo's physical condition has made him unsuitable for living in the world outside the sterile ward. Even if he wants to teach An Qing and give her instructions, he can only do so through the communicator, or An Qing can put on sterile clothes and go into the ward to ask him.

In fact, even if Song Minguo lived in a sterile ward, his body was too weak and he probably wouldn't be able to hold on for long.

An Qing felt a little heavy-hearted. She looked through the glass of the sterile ward at Song Minguo who was sleeping inside, then went back.

After sitting on the sofa at home for a long time, An Qing asked, "001, is there anything in the system that can save my former leader?"

001 appeared on An Qing's lap. It looked at An Qing, sensing her distress, and nudged her with its furry head. "Don't be sad. Humans always experience life and death. You gave him food to improve his physique before, but his condition remained unchanged. If improving his physique can't save him, then there's nothing else in the system that can."

An Qing sighed, her eyes a little sore as she hugged 001.

Before she could feel uncomfortable for long, there was a knock on the door.

Tang Ming went to open the door, and it was Wei Xunyi who walked in holding a thick stack of documents.

The papers were piled high, from waist level to his chin.

"Boss, these are the documents that need to be processed during this period. I picked out the more urgent ones and sent them here first." Wei Xunyi walked over and placed the documents on the coffee table in front of An Qing.

An Qing: "..."

She stared in amazement at the thick stack of documents in front of her. She was sitting on the sofa, and the documents on the coffee table were almost taller than her, which made her scalp tingle.

"Wait, I have to deal with all of this? And they're just the more urgent documents?" Every cell in An Qing's body started screaming.

Tang Ming nodded and took out the top stack of documents: "Boss, please read it yourself first, and ask me if you don't understand anything."

As she said that, she handed it to An Qing.

An Qing had a wooden face as she looked down at the document Tang Ming handed to her.

This was a document from the base's finance department. She read it carefully and could see the general gist: the research institute was burning through a lot of coins for research. The field teams, special teams, hospitals, planting bases, and breeding bases were all burning through coins. The finance department was in a critical financial situation...

In the final analysis, it's just crying poor.

An Qing closed the file and looked at Wei Xunyi beside her: "Is the base's financial situation really that tight?"

Wei Xunyi was well prepared and took out this year's financial statements for An Qing to see.

An Qing felt dizzy looking at the dense numbers in the financial statements. She had never been a good student in her previous life. When she was in elementary school, she could not even get a perfect score in math. She only passed the exam a pitifully few times.

Although she has no problem settling accounts now, it would be very difficult for her to look at the accounts of the entire base.

An Qing closed the report and said, "Just tell me about the situation in the Finance Department."

Wei Xunyi glanced at An Qing twice, then opened the financial statement, pointed to the numbers on it, and told her in detail about the financial situation of the base.

Seeing An Qing seemed to be listening to a foreign language, he felt a little helpless: "Boss, you are now in this position. You can completely hand over the financial situation to others. You don't have to check it yourself. But you need to be able to read the financial statements and understand the actual situation through the statements. You also need to check it yourself occasionally."

An Qing touched her nose in frustration, nodded, and said, "Okay, I understand. You... hire me a teacher in this field when the time comes. I think I need to learn this stuff thoroughly..."

God knows, she just couldn't continue her studies before, so she didn't go to school and went home to help her parents run the supermarket. Unexpectedly, after traveling through time, she created trouble for herself and now has to study again.

An Qing sighed deeply. After Wei Xunyi's detailed explanation, she also realized how urgent the current situation in the Finance Department was.

Speaking of which, the current financial emergency at the base was caused by An Qing.

The base's point coins have a fixed quota, not unlimited. Therefore, a large number of point coins poured into An Qing's account. However, the point coins in her account were not spent at all. The income was huge and the expenditure was very small, which caused a crisis in the base's treasury.

An Qing realized later that she hadn't checked her point currency account in a long time. How many points did she have to obtain from the base to cause the base's financial crisis?

She couldn't help but ask Wei Xunyi, "Speaking of which, isn't there any tax revenue in the base?"

She recalled the original owner's memory, but she really didn't find any mention of paying taxes.

Wei Xunyi was silent for a while before he spoke: "Everything in the base, whether it's the hospital or the nutrient solution production plant, belongs to the base. So every month's income is turned over to the base and recorded by the Finance Department. Everyone's salary is also paid by the Finance Department, including the additional allowances for the outbound teams and special teams..."

An Qing really didn't expect that after becoming the leader of the base, she would live in such dire straits.

It’s really too difficult.

She felt like her hands were going to break from dealing with all the documents that needed her signature every day, not to mention that it wasn't just a matter of signing, she also had to read the contents carefully and then give instructions.

Wei Xunyi was really teaching her seriously. He never told her what to do, but helped her analyze things and waited for her to decide what to do. Her brain cells were being consumed rapidly every day.

There are still some things in the base that Wei Xunyi needs to deal with, especially now that there are still many special teams fighting outside. After killing a batch of mutant animals, another batch will appear soon and gradually approach the base. The special teams can only take turns fighting on the front line and resting in turn, and the consumption is also huge.

Fortunately, we now have dried meat to help. The mutated animals that were difficult to deal with before and are even more difficult to deal with after the second mutation are now much easier to kill with the lure of dried meat.

An Qing had no choice but to contact Song Minguo through the communicator from time to time, but because Song Minguo's voice was weak, she could not hear clearly through the communicator. She could only go to the hospital. After a series of disinfection and sterilization procedures, she put on sterile clothes and went in to find Song Minguo with the sterilized documents.

Looking at Song Minguo, whose face was so pale that there was no trace of blood and who had become so thin that his bones were just skin and bones in such a short time, An Qing felt extremely guilty.

After all, even though she is in this situation, she still comes to ask others questions.

Song Minguo knew what An Qing was thinking when he saw her eyes. He smiled slightly and said in a hoarse voice, "Don't let your imagination run wild. I'm hanging on to this life because I wanted to teach you more. Otherwise..."

At this point, he took a hard breath and continued, "Given my current physical condition, I would rather leave early."

The voice no longer had its original timbre, and the volume was so low that one had to listen very quietly and carefully to hear what he was saying.

The ward was very quiet at this moment, but An Qing still heard it, and felt even more guilty.

She sat carefully in front of the hospital bed, looking at Song Min-guk in front of her. He looked completely different from the previous time she met Song Min-guk. If the current and previous photos were put together, no one would recognize that this was the same person.

"Leader..." An Qing didn't call her former leader, being a little cautious.

Song Minguo smiled and said, "Call me Uncle Song."

After saying that, he seemed to feel that he had taken advantage of others, and smiled helplessly: "Just call me grandpa."

An Qing blinked. "Uncle Song, I received a document from the base construction department today. They feel that the materials are sufficient this time, but there is no longer enough space at the original site for construction. They have applied to find another place to rebuild the base..."

The current base is indeed too cramped for so many people living in it, and too little living space can make people feel depressed. If the base could be expanded, regardless of how much living space there would be, at least each person would have a living space of about ten square meters plus a bathroom, wouldn't that be good?

However, An Qing felt that although the dried meat was attractive to the mutant beasts, the mutant beasts heading towards the base could be dealt with one by one, and they were about to be under control.

But it is still too dangerous to look for another place to build a base now.

However, the canyon where the base is located does not have much space for expansion, which makes An Qing a little conflicted.

Wei Xunyi was very busy today, so she had no chance to ask him, so she could only come to find Song Minguo.

Song Minguo thought for a moment and asked gently, "What do you think?"

An Qing held the documents in her hand and said in a tangled voice, "I think it's too dangerous. We shouldn't be too radical when we haven't fully understood the situation of the mutated plants and animals after the second mutation."

She looked at Song Minguo: "Also, although we now have dried meat as an aid, the mutant animals seem to pose no threat to us, but so far, the mutant plants have not taken any action..."

"I think that after this mutation, the mutated plants actually have a high IQ. No one knows which direction they will mutate in after the second mutation." Speaking of which, An Qing always felt that mutated plants were smarter than mutated animals.

After all, animals are actually thoughtful little creatures before the end of the world, and those who keep pets have also proved that many animals have very high IQs.

Therefore, after the mutation, the IQ of the mutated animals does not seem to have improved, but the mutated plants appear to be somewhat outstanding.

Especially this time, the mutant animals mutated a second time, and the mutant plants must have also undergone a second mutation. After all, they did it at the same time the first time.

But the mutated animals are making so much noise, and yet we haven’t seen any movement from the mutated plants.

Song Minguo nodded gently: "You are right. It is better to be still than to move. We do have enough materials now, but we can expand the base step by step. We can't make a big move."

An Qing breathed a sigh of relief and smiled, but soon frowned again: "But I see that the opinions of the Ministry of Construction are very strong. I am afraid I will not be willing to reject them."

Song Minguo nodded. "The Ministry of Construction has been tinkering with the base for years, and they've been wanting to expand for a while. This large amount of material has really made them feel overwhelmed. Ask the Minister of Construction to come over and have a talk. If they're not satisfied, we can hold a meeting to discuss this. Discuss this privately with Jiang Fusheng and the others ahead of time. The outcome of the meeting should be pretty much a non-issue."

An Qing: "..."

She looked at Song Minguo. Although he was very weak and his voice was very low, he still spoke fluently without stuttering.

So, every time we have a meeting to discuss democracy on the surface, the outcome has actually already been decided?

When An Qing left the sterile ward in a daze, her mind was full of - I learned something.

Of course, Song Min-guk was able to do this entirely because he had the ability to control the situation and had people around him who agreed with him and could stand on his side and support him.

So, it’s time for her to train her own people.

But how to cultivate it? This is the problem.