Chapter 39 Doing Business Requires Connections
"You need to observe more, think more, and use your brain more."
"Didn't a group of worms come from the west in May? Weren't those worms quite ferocious?" Yu Shuang moved her legs, which were almost numb.
Su Qingran patted Qi An's back and asked, "Little Qi, are you alright?"
The spy drone is controlled by neural pathways; its camera is like Qi An's eyes, and its pressure sensor is like Qi An's skin.
The fawn was a dead fawn, and Qi An seemed to be wrapped in a pool of blood.
She closed her eyes tightly for a moment, disconnecting normal perception from the influence of neural pathways.
"It's alright," she said.
"It has to be you! If it were Old Zhao, he would have thrown up!" Yu Shuang turned around and gave Qi An a thumbs up.
Qi An had mastered this skill of multi-threaded information processing in the brain, and even suppressing neural feedback.
Let alone Zhao Bohan, there might only be one other purifier who can achieve this level of skill: Qi An.
Once Yu Shuang confirmed that the red dot on the locator was displaying correctly, she turned off the tablet.
They came all this way in the deep mountains and forests, no one else was there. Did they really carry a solar panel with them?
The only thing we can do is find ways to save electricity!
"Follow Xiao Qi within his sensing range first, then use the locator if there are higher-level Wisps," Yu Shuang said.
She got up first, smeared a stinky smear of mud on her face as camouflage paint, and headed in the direction where the three fallen insects had disappeared.
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Although his skills as a purifier are still lacking and he needs more practice, Zhao Bohan has been the busiest person in the days since Yu Shuang and the others left.
The day after the two reconnaissance teams left, Zhao Bohan called Gao Chenglin, and they drove downstream along the river for nearly 200 kilometers.
Zhao Bohan flew the drone the entire time, occasionally stopping to charge or record, while Gao Chenglin drove him around the whole time.
Two days later, Zhao Bohan returned. Under Chen Yuezhou's "pressure," the survey of the river on the south side of the base had already covered 20 kilometers.
By this time, Qi An's group had already crossed the river and were struggling to make their way across the wilderness amidst alternating attacks from sandstorms, torrential rain, and wolf packs.
Zhao Bohan was both keeping an eye on the team's situation and summarizing all the exploration information to write the hydrogeological exploration report.
After the report was completely finished, he organized it, and the text, images, and videos totaled a full two gigabytes!
This cannot be sent through Starlink's unofficial channels at all!
Fortunately, he is now a staff officer of the brigade, a dignified colonel. Wherever his subordinates are, there is a military channel!
The report was also submitted to Commander-in-Chief Yeh Hsuan-ming and the base construction planning department.
"This report is actually quite professional! Commander Chen has some talented people under his command." At a small meeting of the planning department, the minister, whose head was bald and shiny, flipped through the electronic documents on his tablet with considerable admiration.
Zhao Bohan's lips curled up almost imperceptibly, and Chen Yuezhou smiled and said, "You flatter me."
Now that we've completed the preliminary survey work, could you allocate one or two engineers and one or two construction teams for the subsequent construction?
The minister put down the tablet, his smile unchanged, and his words unchanged:
"Does the commander know that there are still a hundred dangerous buildings in the base that need to be demolished? Does he also know that the walls on the west and north sides haven't been repaired yet?"
The team leader's report is well written, but can you conjure up manpower and tools from the report?
I only have two cranes that I can use right now. One of them was dug out of the ruins of Lian City and was modified by mechanical engineers. It's so broken that it can only be used as half a crane.
How am I supposed to build your bridge?
If Commander Chen is really free and has plenty of men under him, then he can fix it himself.
If you can fix it, our entire architectural planning department will be utterly impressed!
The last two sentences are clearly sarcastic, accusing Chen Yuezhou of neglecting his duties.
Chen Yuezhou's smile faded. "Ensuring the safety and efficiency of long-distance freight transport is the responsibility of the Third Battle Group."
The attack power of the Fallen Insects on the base has now been greatly reduced.
90% of the population in the base are military personnel, so it is an inevitable trend for military personnel to be involved in production.
Didn't this point just get emphasized at the headquarters meeting?
The planning minister's smile froze.
Chen Yuezhou didn't say anything more, got up and left.
Zhao Bohan caught up with him in a few steps, and the two remained silent all the way back to the office of the 3rd Regiment Commander.
On the way, he ran into Liu Mingzhe, who knew what the two had gone to do. He could tell the outcome just by looking at their expressions. He followed them into the office and couldn't help but sigh and complain in his heart.
However, just a few minutes after Chen Yuezhou started complaining, his military communication software received a reply from the General Headquarters:
Regarding the question of whether the command can mobilize the Southwest and Central China bases to transport supplies to the Western Regions No. 1 base after the opening of the 400-kilometer straight road from the Western Regions No. 1 base to the Southwest No. 1 base, the answer is yes.
The proposal to build a waterway transportation line from the Western Regions Base No. 1 to the Central Plains Base No. 1, and then to the North 5, North 4, and North 2 Bases has already received feedback from the two bases along the route.
Both the North 2 Base and the Central Plains 1 Base have a positive attitude towards this initiative, and the project can be approved.
Zhao Bohan also received a message from Qin Tianshuo on his phone:
Didn't Uncle Liang say that this matter had great potential after reading the report the day before yesterday? Today, he finally agreed to come to the new base!
We should be able to set off tomorrow or the day after.
Hehe, he dared to travel such a long way because I persuaded him! Shouldn't I get credit for that?
Uncle Liang, Xu Liangcai, is the chief engineer of the Water Conservancy Engineering Division of the Logistics Engineering Department of the North 2 Base.
The North 2 Base is located at the mouth of the Feng River. For the safety of the base, it is impossible for them not to have a water conservancy engineering department.
The Water Conservancy Engineering Department is responsible for river dredging, waterway maintenance, and the construction and repair of river dams and bridges!
Qin Tianshuo and his group did not come to the new base with the main force because they wanted to go back to the original base before coming, pack their luggage, and say goodbye to their relatives and friends there.
After the attack on the Central Plains Base No. 3, there was a month-long period of recovery and reconstruction. During the long period from being appointed to taking office, everyone spent their spare time doing preparatory work.
Chen Yuezhou had reviewed all the hydrological and geographical data and climate characteristics of the new base, as well as the defensive combat data and material supply situation of the new base over the past two months.
Zhao Bohan turned the soil even more thoroughly.
"If the bridge is built, the distance between the new base and the Central Plains No. 3 base will be like the hypotenuse and two legs of a triangle, compared to the original route along the river."
"You have to make a big turn if you go along the river!" Yu Shuang shouted, pointing at the map.
Qi An recalled their battle at the Mother Nest. When they returned to the base, the bridge over the river at the Central Plains Base No. 1 was destroyed, which almost cut off their supply lines.
Their team, exhausted and frustrated, went out to kill insects and collect supplies in the middle of the night, but it was raining heavily at the time, and the dark river roared in the night, almost swallowing everything!
Qi An was deeply impressed.
She then asked, "Why can't we transport them directly from the river?"
This river seems to have a large volume of water? And it flows eastward, connecting several large bases.
Wouldn't water transport have a larger carrying capacity? Will all the heavy weapon parts and ammunition produced at the new base be transported to all bases by truck?
Upon hearing this, Chen Yuezhou immediately smiled and looked at Qi An.
If that's the case, the workload for the three escort teams will be enormous!
Qin Tianshuo was very proud of himself, boasting that he knew a great expert in water transport engineering!
He was just about to return to Base North 2 when Qi An and the others came to the new base.
After the new team arrives at the new base, they can conduct an on-site survey, and then show the data to that expert.
If the experts think it's feasible, then it can be done!
Asking the base construction planning department for personnel and supplies was merely a last resort.
The 3rd Regiment does have manpower; they just lack actual engineers.
With a leading engineering team, this project will be a great success once completed, paving the way for the base's 5- or 10-year road construction project. Why can't we do it?
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