While Chen Yu was setting up the "Imperial Guard" for Li Yi, undercurrents were also surging within the Fire Seed Base.

Thanks to Li Yixin's introduction of various welfare mechanisms for management, the base's management team has recently been enjoying unprecedented privileges and treatment.

Those middle and senior managers already had a surplus of supplies every day, and now the supply has increased by 50% on top of that. They can't finish it all!

They began to squander their wealth, hosting lavish banquets and celebrating their status and fortune with precious ingredients and fine wines.

Senior management has the authority to appoint "personal secretaries." As the saying goes, when people are well-fed and clothed, they think of lustful desires. As the top management of the base, they were already extremely well-off materially. Now that their treatment has been improved, they can easily support a dozen or twenty "personal secretaries" with their extra quotas.

Previously, only the base leader, Li Yi, was qualified to have a "life secretary." Now, the leader, showing consideration for his subordinates, has taken the initiative to lift the restriction on having a "life secretary" for them. Who wouldn't be happy and excited?

Thus, the senior managers of the Spark Base launched a large-scale selection campaign for "life secretaries".

Inside the base, both male and female senior managers were eager to recruit people.

If you take in 3 "life secretaries," then I'll take in 5; if you take in 7, then I'll take in 9. With this competitive spirit, the atmosphere within the Fire Seed Base has become increasingly extravagant.

These so-called "life secretaries" are not only required to be good-looking and slim (or robust), but also to have a certain level of cultural literacy and social skills.

They are not only responsible for the daily lives of the managers, but also accompany them to various social occasions, and even play a more complex role in some private occasions.

At the same time, the "Senior Management Personnel Sanatorium" approved by Li Yi for the Spark Base also began construction in full swing.

This health resort is a high-end hot spring resort that integrates leisure, health preservation, and entertainment, with the original Wenshui Village hot spring as its core.

Once completed, the sanatorium project will greatly enrich the leisure life of the senior management personnel of the Spark Base, providing them with an excellent place to relax and rejuvenate.

Therefore, the senior management at the base are very much looking forward to the construction of the sanatorium.

This has become a popular topic of conversation among them, with many saying that once the sanatorium is completed, they will bring their group of "life assistants" there to relax as soon as possible.

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The management of the Fire Seed Base was happy, but the ordinary investors were suffering terribly.

The increasingly heavy workload had already exhausted them both physically and mentally, and the ever-decreasing food supply only made things worse.

They had originally hoped that their "wise and mighty" leader would see their suffering in time, lighten their burden, and restore their basic diet of two bowls of porridge per person while fulfilling their daily work tasks.

After all, the last time the base management was fighting amongst themselves and forcing them to work day and night, it was the leader who stepped in immediately to stop that endless labor storm.

However, this time they waited and waited, gritting their teeth and persevering for so long, but the leader still did not make a move.

The hopes of ordinary investors gradually turned into disappointment, and then into deep despair.

What's most infuriating is that while the lives of these grassroots base residents are becoming increasingly difficult, the treatment of the base managers who do the easiest work and sit in warm offices all day is actually improving.

Those managers live extravagant lives every day, while ordinary people at the bottom of the social security system can't even afford to eat and drink.

Moreover, the senior managers at the base started a trend of recruiting "personal secretaries."

Is that recruitment? It's clearly poaching people!

If a girl or boy in the base is chosen, it's as if they've been selected by fate. Whether they like it or not, they'll be forcibly taken away to become a high-ranking executive's "personal secretary."

Of course, some people think that being noticed might not be a bad thing.

After all, being a "personal secretary" for a senior manager means not only avoiding the daily life-threatening high-intensity physical work, but also living in a heated room and having no worries about food and clothing.

But this is only the opinion of a minority; most people feel angry and helpless about this kind of oppression by power.

They knew that once they became the "life secretary" of senior managers, although their material conditions would improve, their dignity and freedom would be trampled on.

Finally, let's talk about the hot spring complex in Wenshui Village. It was seized a month ago when "Fire Seed Hero Li Liguo" tipped them off, and "Fire Seed Hero Company" leader Qian Peng led the team to "annihilate" the "rioters" in Wenshui Village.

After exploration, it was discovered that its scale was far greater than the part exposed on the surface, and it was a large hot spring cluster.

As a result, everyone at the Spark Base was excited.

After all, this is an extremely cold apocalyptic world, and the significance of geothermal energy such as hot springs is self-evident.

If this hot spring complex is used properly, it can not only provide a continuous source of warmth for the fire-starting base, but also use the residual heat of the hot springs to build greenhouses and grow some cold-resistant, high-yield, and short-cycle crops, such as potatoes and sweet potatoes, thereby alleviating the food shortage problem inside the base to a certain extent.

At that time, the people of the Fire Seed Base had already begun to enjoy the benefits of the Wenshui Village hot springs. After the hot springs were put to good use, their food supply increased, and even their dormitory rooms had some heating.

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