“Uncle Sun, what are you saying? How can we just sit around and wait to die?” Xu Lin said.
"I just wanted everyone to have a general idea, so there's no need to feel too much pressure. But we need to divide these things up..."
“Uncle Sun, let’s keep these as our shared supplies. After everything we’ve been through, we’re practically family now,” Zhou Pin said.
This was something Xu Lin and Zhou Pin had discussed beforehand. No one can remain unaffected, and now, looking back, the Sun Wei family's character has stood the test of time.
Xu Lin and her friends got along quite well with this family; it was nice to have a fellow countryman to go through a difficult time with.
Most importantly, we have plenty of supplies. We can't fill our own storage space with supplies while our compatriots suffer!
It's impossible to guarantee other people's character, but so far their family hasn't had any problems.
Even if they had inappropriate thoughts, Xu Lin and Zhou Pin could handle it.
It's the end of the world, the most important thing is to be happy while you're alive. You never know when a catastrophe might strike and you'll be gone.
"Alright, since you put it that way, I won't stand on ceremony with you." Minister Sun didn't stand on ceremony with Xu Lin and the others.
"Xie Yao's father just told me that the base is going to be relocated." Xu Lin recalled Xie Yao's father's words and wanted to discuss it with everyone.
"The experts at the base are quite capable. Since they are going to relocate, there must be a major disaster going to happen. We will definitely have to go with them, but we don't know where we are going," said Grandma Wu.
"The base has been searching for a suitable place to live, and even after moving to the Northwest, it didn't stop. Experts predicted long ago that the disaster would continue," Minister Sun said.
“Actually, Zhou Pin and I planned to leave before because we didn’t know which direction to go. Now that the base has found its direction, let’s go together,” Xu Lin said.
They all agreed with Xu Lin's suggestion and decided to set off with the base in two weeks.
For the past two weeks, the group has stayed indoors and exercised behind closed doors.
The group also needed to make a pallet to attach to the back of the vehicle to load supplies. If they really wanted to leave, with their two vehicles, they couldn't take all the supplies they had received from the private base chief. So, the next two weeks were still very tight.
That evening, the group took out ham, luncheon meat, dehydrated vegetables, noodles, and other snacks from their spoils and had a good meal as a celebration.
Xu Lin also took out a bag of dried fruit as dessert. Li Jingjing exclaimed that this was the most comfortable meal she had eaten in the past three years. Xiao Youyou also waved her little hands to express her happiness because she had eaten her first complementary food.
For the next few days, none of them went out. After exercising in the morning, Xu Lin and Li Jingjing would stock up on food, while Zhou Pin, Sun Wei, and Minister Sun would find suitable materials from the supplies to make carriages. Old Mrs. Wu would take care of Xiao Youyou.
After a week of hard work, they finally made a carriage that was 8 meters long, 5 meters wide, and 2 meters high, modeled after Minister Sun's carriage.
Logically speaking, three experienced men should be able to finish a train car quickly, but the reason it took a week was because there was something special inside that train car.
Considering that they had a lot of supplies and people to ride in the car, adding another carriage would definitely make the car lack power. Therefore, Zhou Pin thought of installing an engine on the newly made carriage so that there would be no need to worry about the car breaking down.
In fact, they should have had more supplies, but Xu Lin thought that they had limited manpower. On the one hand, carrying so many supplies would easily attract envy, and on the other hand, there was no place to put so many supplies. So they replaced some food with non-renewable resources such as gasoline, diesel, and engines.
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