Chapter 361: Base Livelihood
"The weapons in his space are enough to kill half of the people in the base. Antonio, think about it yourself. If he can't survive in this situation, how will he survive if he encounters a situation alone in the future?"
"In the past, you were on the road every day, together day and night, and never separated. Your protection is understandable, but what about in the future? You did nothing? I didn't want to interfere with your way of getting along before, but obviously those gangsters at the beginning of the apocalypse didn't make you think seriously about how you could survive better with him."
After Lu Weiyi finished speaking to Antonio seriously, he looked at Dean and said, "Think carefully about the lifestyle you want. It doesn't mean that you have to go to the hospital, but when he is busy, you don't have to just bask in the sun."
Dean today is different from his previous life. In his previous life, Dean was hurt and had some problems both physically and mentally. He was nervous all day long and would get nervous when there were many men around. He preferred quiet places, so he and Lu Weiyi, who liked quietness, could stay in the trading hall and play with peace of mind.
In this life, he was lively and active and liked everything new, but Antonio's worries formed an invisible shackle that locked him on the island he thought was safe.
Waving his hand to let the two leave, Lu Weiyi estimated the time and asked Xi Shi, "Brother Xi, Li Zhuang said that they will be back in a few days?"
"No, Li Zhuang said he would arrange it according to the situation," Xi replied.
Lu Weiyi calculated the date and considering the time when winter arrived last year, there might not be much time left.
He was just thinking about going to the North Island planting area to check on the growth of crops when he received news that Xu Chu was looking for him.
The head of the police station appointed by Zhuang Mingxu was said to be a former criminal police officer, so Lu Weiyi naturally knew something about him.
After knowing the situation, he did not refuse. After listening to Xu Chu's plan, he directly handed him a walkie-talkie and said, "You send someone to carry out the task. I will pay attention to the situation over there and remind you at any time."
Xu Chu didn't know about Lu Weiyi's special abilities, and seeing him being so direct, he was confused for a moment, "Captain Lu, I'm sending out the elite of our police station, nothing can happen to them."
"Don't worry, nothing will happen."
With Lu Weiyi's guarantee, Xu Chu went back and made a detailed plan.
The next day, we learned that the entire King's Landing team had gone out to collect supplies.
When Lu Weiyi received this news, he felt that he was unlucky, but he felt relaxed and at ease.
As the wheat was harvested, the sound of threshers working could be heard from the North Island a few days after it was dried in the sun. Perhaps because the manual era had lasted too long, the sound actually attracted people to rush to watch, as if they were reminiscing about the peaceful days not long ago.
Xi Shi also went to join in the fun, and came back sighing for a long time, but then he was immediately excited about the large amount of wheat that would soon be stored in the warehouse.
Nowadays, there are no pesticides or chemical fertilizers. We rely solely on manpower to apply fertilizers and weed, water-based psychics to irrigate, and wood-based psychics to help stabilize the entire area when necessary. The yield of one acre of land does not exceed four hundred kilograms.
Even if thousands of acres were harvested, only a few hundred thousand kilograms would be produced. It would take a long time for the entire base to have a full meal.
Thinking about it carefully, it is still worrying. That day, Lu Weiyi mentioned to Zhuang Mingxu that they should suspend the plan of sheltering the population for the time being, and implement it after the grain production has been developed and there is confidence.
After listening to his detailed calculations, Zhuang Mingxu smiled and said, "Xiaoyi has considered all these things. He is indeed making progress towards becoming a qualified base commander."
Lu Weiyi was unhappy when he heard his joke and stood up to leave, but Zhuang Mingxu pulled him to sit on his lap and said, "The population intake cannot be stopped. We are already lagging behind other bases, and our population does not have an advantage. What the base needs to do now is to improve the physical fitness of the entire population and increase the population base. I have asked the Communications Department to issue recruitment notices to all bases that can be contacted. We are recruiting talents from all walks of life with favorable conditions."
"As for food, I have asked Wu Yue to organize people to catch seafood and make it into dried goods. Now there are quite a lot of them. Someone in the base has opened up the sales channels of the Pingjin base. I plan to send someone over to deliver a batch of seafood in exchange for some food."
"Exchange for food?" Lu Weiyi thought he would exchange for crystal cores.
"Yes, in fact, the major forces are not short of food now. If there are wood-type mutants in the team, they can stimulate reproduction. It is always the ordinary people who are short of food. We will try our best to purchase food and seeds of various crops in a short time."
"In the future, when people gradually realize that the seeds produced by artificial growth cannot be planted, grain seeds will be in large-scale shortage. At that time, various bases will likely ban exports. That will be the time for us to earn crystal cores."
Zhuang Mingxu had already consciously planned for the team when he first learned the news in Qingyuan City. Now that he has a bigger stage for development, he has planned every aspect of the base to the extreme.
"You don't have to worry about the crystal core. I've been urging Zhuang Mobai to complete his experiment. Once he sees results, along with the publicity from Major General Lu and Chief Inspector Zhao, it will be convenient for us to release the purified crystal core. At that time, we will have the final say on the exchange ratio."
Lu Weiyi's eyes lit up when he heard this. He felt like he was one step closer to retirement. The anxiety that had been aroused in recent days was instantly extinguished, and he felt like he could still lie down for a few more days.
Zhuang Mingxu recalled everything he hadn't missed, and his brain finally relaxed for a moment. He started talking about personal matters. "Are you bored these days? I heard from Brother Xi that you picked vegetables with him?"
Accustomed to running around, Lu Weiyi couldn't help feeling uncomfortable as his teammates were all out and he had to go to work again.
"It's okay," Lu Weiyi thought seriously about his mood over the past few days and commented, "I just feel a little uneasy."
The title of base commander made him feel as if he had more responsibilities. Whenever he had some free time, he couldn't help but think about the future life and resettlement of these people.
Before, I was so busy that I couldn’t take care of the things in front of me, so naturally I had no time to care about others. Now that I have recovered, I naturally can’t escape.
"There are so many people in the base, and you won't have to rely on them alone. I have contacted Major General Lu, and they will bring some food when they come, and will also bring us some more advanced equipment from the Kyoto base. If the contact is good this time, we will develop some economic exchanges with Kyoto in the future, and the base will grow slowly." Zhuang Mingxu told him his plan that he had never announced to comfort his now worrying boyfriend.
"Economic exchanges? Seafood?" Lu Weiyi didn't think that apart from this accident, they had anything else to offer.
"There's something more important," Zhuang Mingxu touched his nose, "Salt."
"That's right, the inland is short of salt, but we are not. We can find a way to sell the salt to the inland base." Lu Weiyi was immediately excited, but when he thought of the zombies and mutated plants and animals along the way, he gave up the idea.
Zhuang Mingxu knew that he had thought it through, so he didn't remind him again. "For the time being, let's get a batch of supplies from the two nearby bases. I have plans for what to do next. You don't have to think so much. If you don't want to stay at home, you can come with me to the office area."
As soon as he said this, Zhuang Mingxu suddenly remembered the ridiculous things he had done in the office, and he immediately became restless and uncontrollably eager to act.
"I..." Lu Weiyi didn't finish his words, he sensitively noticed something and looked at Zhuang Mingxu suspiciously.
I saw a person talking seriously about going to work together tomorrow, but his hand was already reaching out to something dishonest.
After "working" with Zhuang Mingxu in the office for two days, Lu Weiyi felt that if he continued like this, his authority as the base commander might disappear completely.
Just at this time Dean decided to go to the hospital, and Lu Weiyi did not hesitate to shake off Zhuang Mingxu and act as Dean's bodyguard.
There is only one hospital in the base, and with the current shortage of medicines, the most we can do is make a diagnosis, and we need to find a way to get the medicine ourselves.
Even though Lu Weiyi had taken over countless pharmacies, he did not dare to invest in them indefinitely here. The few doctors available were mostly surgeons, who would help perform minor operations when someone was injured.
On their first day at work, Lu Weiyi and Dean witnessed with their own eyes a person who was stabbed by wood and the wound was cleaned without any anesthesia.
The wailing and screaming echoed throughout the small hospital, and the family members waiting outside could hear it clearly. Dean and Lu Weiyi stood in the corridor and heard them whispering that as long as they were not infected, they would definitely survive.
"Can I go and help?" Dean asked Lu Weiyi.
"Go if you want to go." Antonio's final compromise was that Dean came over two afternoons a week. This could be considered some preferential treatment given by the base to ordinary people.
Watching Dean walk into the operating room, Lu Weiyi leaned against the wall and looked outside the base. This location was well built and he could see everything around at a glance.
An earthquake directly pushed the entire country back several decades, completely returning to the original era of manual farming. If all industries want to redevelop in a short period of time, it requires not only time, but also the talents buried in the earthquakes and zombies.
I don’t know which research institute in which base will focus on drug research and pick up what has been lost.
Just as I was thinking about it, I saw in the distance a huge cargo ship carrying something huge, wrapped in a black curtain, sailing towards the South Island, and the place it was heading to was a place where the mutant creeper was prohibited from passing.
He quickly pressed the intercom connected to Zhuang Mingxu to ask.
"That's the laboratory I asked someone to bring back. It will be placed directly in South Island." Zhuang Mingxu's answer stunned Lu Weiyi and he didn't react for a long time.
He was about to ask one more question when he heard another message from him: "Everything has been arranged over there, don't worry about it. I'll tell you in detail when I get back."
Lu Weiyi didn't say anything else, staring into the distance for a long time. Half an hour later, the freighter left Xi Island and returned to the dock. The things on it had disappeared.
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