After washing up, Xiang Qing tugged at Xu Lin's sleeve.
"Sister Lin, are you going to abandon me?"
"Don't cry, Qingqing. We're not abandoning you. We said we'd help you find your family."
"Yes, Dr. Dai also needs to find his family."
"The base should have a list of survivors. We'll try to find out if any of your family members are on it."
“Let her stay with me for now. We’ve gotten to know each other better these past few days. You and Zhou Pin are both young and don’t know how to take care of a child,” Dr. Dai said.
"Then I'll trouble you, Dr. Dai. By the way, this is your third day here, right? What are your plans for the future?"
“There are schools and hospitals here at the base. Although the infrastructure isn’t great, it has everything you need. I rented a one-bedroom apartment and found a job at the hospital. I sent Qingqing to school. I’m staying here an extra day to see when you’re coming and to let you know what’s going on.”
"Thank you. Is there any other work available here? Could you tell us about the situation here?"
"There are quite a few job openings. You can go to the service hall and take a look. It's just on the other side of the main entrance. You can find services for renting or buying a house, as well as purchasing daily necessities, all in the service hall. There's also a map of the entire base at the entrance of the hall."
"Then let's go to the service hall in a bit."
"Well, I have to go now. You guys can look around on your own," Dr. Dai said, glancing at the clock on the wall.
Because there is no electricity, most people have no concept of time, except for a few people with mechanical watches. Therefore, the base has placed clocks in crowded places, which is quite humane.
Xu Lin and Zhou Pin returned, packed their things, said goodbye to Zheng Ming, and headed towards the service hall.
The lobby was quite crowded. Xu Lin and Zhou Pin stood at the entrance looking at the base's planning map. On one side of the entrance was their service center, and on the other side was the temporary dormitory where they had stayed the previous night.
Directly opposite the main gate is the staff office area, behind which is the residential area, and finally, the area where most of the base's staff work, including planting areas, breeding areas, and factories.
"It has quite a comprehensive set of functions," Xu Lin said, looking at...
"There are fewer people now, let's go in."
The two decided to rent a house first, and that they weren't in a hurry to find work.
Upon entering the hall, there were far fewer people inside. The hall was divided into areas for renting and selling houses, job seeking, and transactions.
Xu Lin and Zhou Pin first went to check out the trading area. The trading area was divided into three parts: one was the official purchase window, where goods could be exchanged for points that could be stored in an identity card; another was a shopping mall-style sales window, where the staff were all "connected"; and the third part was the free trading market, where the trading methods included, but were not limited to, points or barter.
Looking at the items for sale, most of the furniture and appliances are second-hand, ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand points. New ones are much more expensive, costing five figures or more, with no upper limit. I just don't know how much the labor value of the base is.
In terms of food, they mainly sell sweet potatoes and other filling foods. There are very few green vegetables, and even if there are, they are wilted and ridiculously expensive. The staple food is rice and coarse grains that have been soaked and dried. Most people buy these. Unsoaked rice is also available, but it is also ridiculously expensive.
Since she didn't know the price of labor, Xu Lin deduced it by comparison. One pound of soaked rice costs 2 points, rotten vegetable leaves cost 5-10 points, wilted but not rotten greens cost 20-40 points, and unsoaked rice costs 20-50 points. This is also based on the quality of the rice.
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