Chapter 380 Welcoming Lu Xiao
Next to the passage is a window that looks like a highway toll booth. Someone inside is typing on a computer to register entry and exit. Four or five hundred meters further in, there is a place that looks like an office. There are people wearing white coats all over the place, checking people entering.
Further in, where it meets the island, the dark, heavy gate is closed, leaving only a small door one person wide for people to enter and exit. It is impossible to drive past without permission.
If you force your way in...
Lu Xiao looked at the undisguised gun barrel above the island. He felt that it was definitely not just for decoration, especially since the sentry above was carrying a gun and keeping an eye on the guards here.
It would be impossible to arm the entire base to such an extent in a short period of time without strong material reserves.
At this moment, Lu Xiao believed that they were living a really good life.
He gave a thumbs up to Lu Weiyi who was walking over and said, "Great."
"Young Master Lu, Captain of the farm," the golden eagle who came with Lu Xiao greeted the two of them.
"haven't seen you for a long time"
Zhao Qiang, who got out of the car behind him, walked over a few steps. Next to him was Meng Guang, whom he had met once before. He greeted Lu Weiyi and Zhuang Mingxu. He did not hide his envy, "It's completely impossible for zombies to enter your base."
"The mutated sea creatures are also quite a headache," Zhuang Mingxu greeted and waved someone over. "Ordinary people in the team need to have a physical examination and stay behind for five hours before they can enter."
"After the superpowers are registered and issued temporary identity information, they can freely pass through. Uncle, Chief Zhao, shall I have someone register you first?"
"Sure." Lu Xiao was very cooperative. He took the tablet and stylus handed over by the registrar and quickly filled in the information on the page. "On the truck behind is the list of family members sent by your base and some specific professionals that Mingxu asked me to help recruit. I brought everything I can. The rest are supplies. You can ask someone to receive them."
"Okay, uncle and Chief Zhao, remind your men not to fill in information randomly. If it doesn't match the test results, they will not be allowed to enter the base," Zhuang Mingxu reminded.
Lu Xiao responded readily and asked the golden eagle following him to pass on the message.
Although Zhao Qiang didn't know why their test results were inconsistent, he didn't say much since he had something to ask for help.
"Wu Yue, take some people to receive the personnel and supplies. After registration, have people prepare food first." Zhuang Mingxu arranged for the people to come, and Lu Xiao's information was also filled in.
"Don't worry," Wu Yue said. After introducing himself to Golden Eagle and Meng Guang, the three of them walked towards the main group. "We knew you would arrive today, so the commander of our base sent the fishing team out to sea to catch a lot of seafood. We will have enough mutant animals later, so don't be polite."
"Don't worry, Angkor. We just had a quick meal in the morning to make room for seafood."
"Haha, I guarantee you'll enjoy your meal."
The three of them chatted and laughed and entertained the large group.
After Lu Xiao clicked on the information, he followed Lu Weiyi and walked inside. Inside a door, there was a man in a white coat holding something that looked like an electronic thermometer and pressed it towards the crystal core between his eyebrows. With a dripping sound, he pressed something on the tablet in his hand.
Then he was handed a rubber information bracelet from behind. His personal information was written on the yellow bracelet, and there was a specific QR code-shaped square next to it.
The one handed to Zhao Qiang next to him was brown.
"Are they all different?" Lu Xiao adjusted it and put it on his hand.
"It's different. Ordinary people are all black, and the rest of the psychics are distinguished by colors. Yellow is for fire-type psychics, and brown is for earth-type psychics," Lu Weiyi introduced, and led them to the back to walk towards the car that was going to pick them up, while waving his hand above the entrance to the island.
Then the heavy door descended and retracted directly into the ground, revealing the entrance to the mountain.
"It's obvious that the defense you guys have was set up by professionals." Lu Xiao didn't care about his image at all and went to take a look at the connection between the bridge and the ship. "You can directly use the boat to connect a road like this..."
"Very impressive," Zhao Qiang praised without any concealment.
It is not easy to find so many ships, let alone to bring them back and connect them into a channel. It is truly admirable.
"There's nothing else we can do." Lu Weiyi didn't use anyone else's help. He drove an electric sightseeing car parked nearby and took the two of them directly into North Island.
Not long after passing through the heavily guarded entrance, you can see the residential area with three or four-story buildings. It's obvious that the buildings were built by earth-type mutants using their supernatural powers. They are gray and inconspicuous, but the entire area is very neatly planned, and even the streets are standard, horizontal, vertical, spacious and uniform.
Taking the entrance to the island as the central landmark, one side has been developed, with the residential area in the center and fields a little further away, where you can vaguely see busy figures working there. The other side is overgrown with weeds, and at a glance you can see traces of strata compression after the earthquake, as if it were split into two worlds.
"Is this an undeveloped area?" Zhao Qiang asked.
"Yes, the base doesn't have a large population, so this side is enough for living. It will be left abandoned for the time being and developed when needed," Zhuang Mingxu introduced to the two people, "They haven't finished work yet, and most people are in the fields."
The sightseeing bus was not going very fast. Along the way, one could see the residents who came to seek refuge looking around cautiously. Compared to their cautiousness, the pedestrians coming and going on the street were in a different mental state.
They are full of energy and fearless; this base gives them the confidence.
"Are those fields over there developed? Are the land here suitable for planting?" Zhao Qiang felt a little unbelievable as he looked at the thousands of miles of people working in the distance.
"Yes, now the entire base has developed 100,000 acres of farmland. At the beginning, soil-related psychics participated in the reclamation and land reclamation, and adjusted the soil layer suitable for planting."
"One hundred thousand acres?" Zhao Qiang calculated the amount of seeds needed and gained a new understanding of the material reserves of the entire base, but at the same time he also felt that they were a bit wasteful.
One hundred thousand acres of land, the seeds alone are a huge number.
"Yes, but we don't just grow common crops. We grow almost all the plants that can get seeds, including sweet potatoes, potatoes, soybeans, sorghum, corn, and even some cotton. We basically plant whatever seeds we can get," Zhuang Mingxu said helplessly.
"The number of ordinary people in our base is several times that of people with psychics. If we only rely on wood-type psychics to produce food, even daily food and clothing will be a problem. Although we are close to the sea, there are many mutated animals, so we can't eat them. Most of them are used to exchange for supplies from surrounding bases."
"No wonder you asked me to help get some food over here." Lu Xiao didn't know whether he should feel that the people in their base were lucky or unlucky, but he had to admit that it was indeed a bit of a waste of such delicious seafood.
He looked at the fishing boats sailing on the sea in the distance, thinking that they had a big catch but he couldn't eat it, while the psychics in his own team were drooling for a few bites of meat. There is really no harm without comparison.
“There’s nothing we can do. We don’t have enough psychics, so we can only let them be self-sufficient. Even though we’ve reclaimed so much land, we can’t guarantee the output will last until next year.” Zhuang Mingxu didn’t want people to think that they were consciously planting reserve seeds in advance, so he deliberately acted as if they had no choice.
"Is it so low?" There are many wood-type mutants in various bases now, and food is not the most scarce thing now. Zhao Qiang was still a little surprised.
"It's very low. The corn was just harvested recently, and the yield per acre is only three or four hundred kilograms. Can you imagine?" Zhuang Mingxu sighed self-deprecatingly, "The food we are using now is from before the apocalypse. Some of it is not suitable for use as seeds, and cannot adapt to the current climate changes."
"It's not easy for ordinary people to live safely and not starve to death nowadays." The forces under Zhao Qiang's control are almost close to the number of people in the Yuebanwan base, but most of them are people with special abilities, and even if there are ordinary people, they are logistical staff or family members with outstanding abilities.
If he were asked to survive by himself with so many ordinary people, he felt that he was not that great, but he had to say that along the way, the pedestrians were truly grateful to the two base commanders.
A few people were chatting and were invited into the Peace Hotel.
As soon as you enter the door, the aroma of barbecue wafts out. There is a row of barbecue grills in the spacious hall. Two chefs are adjusting the charcoal temperature. The smell of cumin and chili fills the air.
"You guys are living such a comfortable life." He didn't feel it outside, but when Zhao Qiang was hit by the smell, he immediately felt hungry, "At least we don't have to worry about meat."
"It's okay for people with special abilities, but it's still a bit difficult for ordinary people."
"Captain Lu, shall we start baking now?" the chef asked Lu Weiyi.
"Start, start," Lu Xiao said first, with urging evident in his tone.
The barbecue was paired with wine, and after a few skewers, the posture of holding the food disappeared immediately. When the wine was half drunk, the hearty laughter of several people could be heard from far away from time to time.
They all come from military and police backgrounds and have integrity in their bones. Even though the end of the world has reduced their sense of justice a lot, it is undeniable that the education they received since childhood has kept their bottom line in their hearts.
After dinner, Lu Weiyi sent Zhao Qiang to the resettlement site to rest, and took Lu Xiao back to Zhongdao.
Sitting on the sofa in the spacious villa with a child sitting on his lap, Lu Xiao looked at the exquisite pre-apocalyptic decoration style around him and the fresh fruits on the table. He heard that it was Lu Weiyi's private island in the past, and it was not destroyed after the apocalypse and just happened to accommodate them. He began to envy his nephew's good luck.
"Have someone get some more seafood and I'll take it with me when I leave," Lu Xiao said without any politeness. "Do you have any salt here? The salt reserves in the Kyoto base are almost gone. Recently, some small forces have been trying to contact the base on the seaside to do business in this area. If you have any, I will let my subordinates do it."
"Yes, Zhuang Mingxu asked us to collect a complete set of machines. If they are put into use, the output should be very high. However, our base does not have too many power generation resources, so we are reluctant to use them. Now we rely on manpower to do it, and the output is not high."
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