Chapter 51 Chapter 51 Delivering Supplies to the S City Base
The long-lost rays of sunlight appeared in the sky. When Su Qing opened the door early in the morning, she was dazzled by the snow on the roof and could hardly open her eyes. She raised her head and closed her eyes to feel the warmth of the sunlight. She didn't know if it was her illusion, but Su Qing felt that the sunlight was no longer as warm as before and had a hint of coldness.
After a simple breakfast, she left home with Fuguier.
Su Qing first placed the helicopter on the temporary helipad in front of the base gate, then went to the base warehouse to put the purchased wood and charcoal into his backpack, and then returned to the base gate to meet Qin Yu.
The roar of helicopters could be heard from afar, and some people were standing in front of the base gate, huddled together and looking out.
"Hey! Miss Su! I see Captain Qin and the others are on the helicopter. You guys need to leave."
"Miss Su, you got this helicopter, didn't you? It's really impressive! What are you going to do in this icy and snowy place?"
"Let's go to other bases to sell supplies. It's so cold outside, everyone should go back quickly." Su Qing smiled at everyone, said a few simple words, and quickly walked out of the base.
Everyone watched as Su Qing and Fuguier ran over and got into the helicopter. After a while, the helicopter left the ground and flew away.
"I really admire our base leader! He can get anything."
"That's right. We're probably the only place in the country that has heating at a time like this."
"Oh, I heard Manager Wang and Manager Li talking about how our leader is connected to the higher-ups and has a lot of connections. This helicopter looks like it's military."
"No, I heard from Manager Li that the leader is a foreigner, extremely wealthy before the apocalypse, and came to our country to collaborate on developing high-tech equipment. Look, our base is full of high-tech equipment, so that makes sense."
"How does Miss Su look like a foreigner? Besides, her Mandarin shouldn't be too standard. She's obviously a Chinese."
Li Xing and Wang Tianqi, who had just approached the crowd, looked at each other in bewilderment. They had clearly said that Sister Su Qing was an alien and a deity from heaven, so how did this rumor get out, and how could it be so outrageous?
Su Qing got on the helicopter and saw Zhao Jiajun, who had not left the laboratory for a long time, sitting in the cabin. Fuguier rushed over first, sniffed him, and then wagged his tail to find a good seat for himself.
Zhao Jiajun waved at Su Qing and shouted, "Miss Su."
Su chuckled and nodded at him. The roaring in her ears continued. She quickly put on her headphones and fastened her seat belt. "Captain Qin, we can go now."
"Okay." Qin Yu heard the voice in the headset and quickly operated the helicopter to take off and fly towards the destination.
Su Qing looked at Zhao Jiajun, "What's the matter with you coming out?"
Zhao Jiajun was a little nervous on his first helicopter ride. He clutched his seatbelt with both hands and looked around. It took him a while to react to Su Qing's words in his headset before he spoke: "The recent extreme cold weather has affected the zombies' movements. The teacher asked me to come out and observe if there are any abnormalities among them, and find a way to bring back some samples for research."
Su Qing knew that zombies had almost disappeared since the blizzard began. He didn't know whether they were buried under the snow and frozen or hiding somewhere else. It would be difficult to find them.
The two chatted for a while about the progress of the laboratory. Not long after, a deep voice came from the headset, telling them to get ready because the helicopter was about to land.
Before setting off, Su Qing had already informed Lu Chen that the S City base had already prepared a piece of open space at the edge of the base for them to park the helicopter.
The helicopter landed slowly and the blades slowly stopped.
Several people unbuckled their seat belts, opened the cabin door and walked out.
Lu Chen, Li Yi and others stood outside, watched the people get off the helicopter and then went to greet them.
Su Qing looked at them. Although they were wearing several layers of heavy clothes, they looked empty. Several of them were wearing thick hats, and the scarves around their faces were covered with frost.
"Oh, I miss you so much, Sister Su." Li Yi's eyes lit up when he saw Su Qingbian.
"You..." Looking at their sunken eye sockets and the fatigue in their eyes that could not be concealed, Su Qing's eyes turned red.
During the time they had known each other, they had always been high-spirited and energetic. They had never been in such a state of decline. There were not many people Su Qing was willing to associate with here, and these few people accounted for half of them. Seeing them like this, he felt a little sad.
"Let's go inside first. It's cold outside." Lu Chen came down from Su Qing and looked at her calmly. Seeing that her face was as rosy as before, he quickly looked away and said to everyone in a hoarse voice.
The group walked quickly into the base.
The S City base was filled with smoke, and smoke was wafting out of most of the windows of the houses where residents lived. Coughing sounds could be heard from time to time, and Su Qing felt a little uncomfortable being choked by the air here.
Walking along the winding path that had been dug, I saw many houses collapsed by the snow. Occasionally, I met a few people, who were also wrapped tightly in clothes, shivering and running quickly.
Halfway through the journey, a tragic cry suddenly came from a small building nearby.
"Dad! Why did you just leave us?"
"Hurry up, there's something to eat!"
"You stinky bitch! Open the door and hand over the body."
When Lu Chen and the others heard this, their brows furrowed. Li Yi looked coldly in the direction of the sound, took out his pistol and quickly ran into the building.
Then chaotic sounds were heard, including Li Yi's angry shouts and the man's sophistry. After a while, everything calmed down.
"They..." Su Qing was a little frightened. Was it what she thought?
"This has been going on for a while. There are very few supplies left in the base, and many people have starved to death or frozen to death. Some people have come up with plans. It's okay if we see it, but there are many more that we don't see. What is the moral bottom line between life and death?" Gu Yan looked at the small building with indifference.
"But fortunately, they only dare to kill people now."
Su Qing knew that such things were common in history whenever there was a disaster, but it was still hard to accept when it actually happened before his eyes.
But she was not qualified to comment on these things. Who would do such a thing in a peaceful and prosperous time?
They stood there watching Li Yi come out and found someone to help carry the body away. The body was thin and pale, naked except for a pair of underwear.
A woman with a child stood at the door of the corridor, crying heart-wrenchingly as she watched them carry away the body. The woman was wearing a worn cotton coat with the cotton wool showing through, while the child was wearing a large cotton coat and a pair of rather large, worn cotton shoes. I guess these belonged to the man.
The child was held in his mother's arms, his sunken eyes looking around numbly.
He was too young to understand what was happening. Since the extreme cold began, he had been locked up at home by his parents and could not go out. Due to the lack of suitable thick clothes, he had been wrapped in the only thick quilt in the house. During the day, it was his warm clothing, and at night it turned into a quilt for the three of them.
He was somewhat happy that his mother finally took him out, but he was also confused as to why his mother had taken off all of his father's clothes and given them to him, why his father was carried away naked, and why his mother was crying...
When the woman saw that several leaders of the base were there, she rushed over crying.
"Chief! Please save my child! We haven't had anything to eat in days, and he's only five years old! My husband hanged himself to death just to keep us alive, and he made us eat his flesh and blood!"
The woman's expression was filled with despair when she said this. In such a doomsday, with no man in the family, how could she, a woman, and her child survive?
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Lu Chen sent people to resettle the mother and son and gave them some relief supplies. Things like this were common in the base, and they could only help solve the current problem. No one knew what the future would hold for these two people.
After resolving this issue, Su Qing followed them to their residence.
It was not the small building that Su Qing had been to before. Lu Chen and his friends had now moved to a small room in a residential building with two bedrooms and a living room.
There were several braziers burning in the room, but they didn't seem to have much effect. The room was still cold and we had to wrap ourselves in coats.
Zeng Li was waiting for them to come back at home. As soon as he saw Su Qing and others coming in, he walked up quickly.
"What took you so long? It's so cold outside. Su Qing, take this hot water bottle and warm it up. I've also boiled some hot water. You can drink some to warm yourself up."
"Thank you." Su Qing was still a little shocked and his movements were a little slow.
Zeng Li was a little surprised. These people all looked unhappy. "What happened?"
"Oh, we met someone who wanted to steal the body, so we helped deal with it." Li Yi sighed.
Zeng Li was silent. This kind of thing was very common in the base. There were too many people who froze to death or starved to death, and many people were worried about them, so the base set up a special team to help deal with the bodies. Some families in the base who had died would contact them to deal with the bodies, while there were also those who wanted to deal with the bodies but were rejected by the families of the deceased.
As for why she refused, she didn't want to think too much about it.
Su Qing sat on the sofa and drank hot water sip by sip. Seeing her like this, Lu Chen did not go forward to disturb her. He turned around and started chatting with Qin Yu.
Su Qing came to this world and had never experienced any hardship because of the system. His life was too smooth. He had been in his base for a long time and was used to seeing people living in a stable and wealthy life. His thinking was a little lax. When he came to Lu Chen's base today, he suddenly woke up. In the face of such natural disasters and man-made disasters, it was very difficult for ordinary people to survive.
This is the case for large bases, let alone those scattered small bases.
She is capable, but somewhat lazy in doing anything. If she could pay more attention, work harder and move faster in everything, she thought that if she had come earlier, the person would not have died.
It took her a long time to come back to her senses, and then she stood up suddenly.
Lu Chen and others were talking with Qin Yu and others. Su Qing's movements were quite big, and everyone looked at her in confusion.
Su Qing looked at Lu Chen anxiously and said, "I've brought all the supplies. Where should I put them?"
Seeing that Su Qing looked unhappy, Lu Chen could roughly guess why Su Qing was anxious, so he stood up and said, "I'll take you there."
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