Chapter 430 Dilapidated House

After getting a general understanding of the Phoenix Base, Pei Yi asked her what it meant to have her employee ID badge ranked first.

"This is the employee ranking system, which is divided into ten levels, with the first level being the lowest-ranking employee in the base."

Pei Yi nodded: "I see. How many people are still at Phoenix Base? I heard before that there were more than 30,000 people at the base?"

"There are only about 30,000 left now."

Chen Sihui sighed: "When the earthquake struck Chu Province, Jiangling wasn't particularly badly affected, but it was still impacted. The people with superpowers were okay, but over a thousand people died in the shantytowns. Nearly half of them died because they didn't receive proper medical treatment for their injuries."

"There are quite a lot of people now."

"Yes, a lot of people have come from Shaanxi Province, but the base basically doesn't accept them anymore, unless they are superhumans or brought by superhumans."

As she spoke, Chen Sihui pointed to the rows of bungalows next to her and said, "These are six buildings; the four buildings are better than these."

Although it's called a bungalow, the house is actually very simple. It's probably just a framework built by an earth-type ability user. There's definitely no foundation, and then they put in a few windows. The exterior walls are all made of mud.

She said it was better, but it wasn't much better than Building Six.

However, the exterior walls and interior floors were plastered with cement, and the interior walls were also plastered with a layer of white paint, making it look like the developer had run away with the money. The whole house looked somewhat dilapidated.

"This is your residence, sirs. If there's nothing else, I'll head back now."

Shen Nianshen took out a bag of candy and handed it to her: "Thank you for your hard work."

Chen Sihui hadn't expected such good fortune. Her eyes lit up immediately, and she bowed respectfully to accept the gift, saying, "Thank you, thank you, sir!"

"Um."

"If you have any questions, sir, you can come to me anytime. I'm usually at the base entrance."

After Chen Sihui left, Ling Ran looked around the house and said, "This house is really simple, not much better than a bare-bones house."

Pei Yi looked at the house. Because there were many of them, the house they were allocated was quite large, with a total of seven rooms.

"Stop talking, everyone, let's clean up. Ling Ran, do you want to go out? It seems like no one has lived here before, and it's quite dusty."

There were no beds in the room, just planks of wood used as beds. The living room outside only had a few wooden stools and a wooden table, nothing else.

Ling Ran glanced at Pei Yi, then said, "God said this place is clean and dust-free."

The next second, the entire house was instantly clean.

Gu Zijing, who was obsessed with cleanliness, exclaimed, "You're amazing, sir!"

Shen Nianshen then took out the sofa and other furniture: "Then let's arrange all the furniture."

Phoenix Base has electricity, but the amount of electricity used each day is limited by time. According to Chen Sihui, the electricity for Building 4 is from 8:00 to 9:00 in the morning, from 12:00 to 2:00 in the afternoon, and from 5:00 to 7:00 in the evening.

It was exactly five o'clock. Ling Ran took out a massage chair from her spatial storage and plugged it into one of the few available sockets.

She'd wanted to use this thing for a long time, but hadn't.

When Pei Xiu and the others saw the massage chair, they all wanted to sit on it: "Sis, I want to get a massage later too."

"Um."

"I'm exhausted from sleeping in tents these past few days." He then called to the others, "Hurry up and pack up, we'll get a massage after you're done."

Ling Ran sat in the massage chair, enjoying the massage. To be honest, it was alright, but it was still far inferior to a human massage.

It's better than nothing, I suppose.

Ling Ran closed her eyes and pretended to sleep.

Traveling for so long has been quite tiring.

After waking up around 6:00, Pei Yi and the others finished tidying up the house, and then Uncle Chen and the others went to the kitchen to cook.

Ling Ran took out several massage chairs from her spatial storage, and the others took turns using them. There were still massage chairs in the space, but there was no room left in the house.

"Ah, that feels so good!" Pei Xiu shamelessly snatched a massage chair. "It's really great. My back has been aching from sleeping on it these past few days."

Pei Yixun said to him, "You're so young, and you can't even sleep in a tent for a few days? You're so delicate."

"Is this a matter of being delicate? It's just that your body has been enjoying the wonderful bed all this time, so it's normal not to be used to the sleeping bag. If you're so capable, try not pressing it for a while."

"Pei Xiu, you're getting bolder and bolder?"

"Ahem." Pei Xiu recalled his elder brother's imposing presence and immediately thought, "I'll just train harder from now on."

The aroma of food wafted out, and Su Yimo leaned back in another massage chair: "Life is so comfortable."

As they were talking, a head peeked out from the doorway.

Pei Yi immediately walked over: "Who are you?"

The newcomer was a girl in her early twenties, with somewhat dark skin and short, choppy hair that looked like it had been hastily cut with scissors. Apart from her, everyone else from the other houses in that row of four buildings came out and looked in their direction, but none of them came over.

The girl asked shyly, "Are you cooking?"

"Can't?"

"No," the girl waved her hand, "I wanted to ask if we could exchange supplies? I have some here..."

She said the last three words silently: chocolate.

Seeing that Pei Yi understood, she continued, "Can I exchange some of your prepared food?"

After saying that, the girl swallowed hard.

Pei Yi coldly refused: "No trade."

"Oh, really not going to exchange it? Mine... is a high-end brand."

"No change."

"All right."

The girl glanced at Pei Yi, then walked towards the house across the street. Before she even returned to her own place, she heard the sound of a door closing behind her.

The other superhumans watched this scene with unreadable expressions.

It smells so good, and it's a very strong meaty aroma!

Although the superpowered individuals were tempted, they didn't consider stealing it. After all, resources often represent strength, and if they tried to steal it, they might run into a brick wall and lose their lives.

The power went out before we finished eating.

Pei Yi and his group had no choice but to take out a generator and continue using electricity.

Apart from the central area which has lights, there are basically no lights in other places. The streetlights at the base are also spaced far apart.

After finishing dinner and washing up, it was almost nine o'clock. After a long day, everyone went back to their rooms to sleep.

Ling Ran's room had been cleaned up, wallpaper had been put up on the walls, and the sheets and duvet covers had been laid out. A faint fragrance wafted through the room.

However, the room is very small; once a bed is placed in it, there's basically no room left.

Nothing was said that night.

The next morning.

Uncle Chen made a lot of snacks today: "Please try some, sir."

"Hmm, where are the others?"

"The young master and the others went out, saying they were going to check on the situation at the base."

Just then, Pei Yi and the others returned from the doorway.

Ling Ran picked up a piece of water chestnut cake and looked at the group: "Did you find out anything?"

Pei Yi sat down at the large round table, took a sip of water, and said, "Nothing special, it's similar to other bases. The difference is that there are more people at this base, and the rules and regulations are more detailed."