Chapter 125: A Good Reward
Before the second snow arrived, the Y City Base airlifted a sack full of aquatic animals to the gate of the L Base.
There was a very clean and wide cement road outside the gate of L Base. Connie dumped all the aquatic animals that were motionless in the low temperature, as if they were frozen, onto the ground.
Lin Xiaoyue was wearing goggles and gloves, counting the seafood and river fish lying on the ground.
"One, two, three. This is repeated, so it doesn't count."
"Ah!?" Connie almost jumped up and down, "This sea worm is gray! It's a different color from other sea worms!"
“It just faded.”
"Hey! Lin Xiaoyue! Don't forget which base you came from! Who took you in at the beginning of the apocalypse!"
Connie wanted to rush up and bite Lin Xiaoyue, but Lin Xiaoyue remained unmoved. She continued to carefully screen the things in the sack. After a while, she had thrown out two stones from the sack.
Connie, whose hands and feet were already freezing, was so anxious that sweat began to appear on his forehead.
It's not like he didn't know what kind of person Lin Xiaoyue was before, but he didn't expect that Lin Xiaoyue would not care about their old relationship at all.
"Okay, Xiaoyue, don't be so strict..." He carefully glanced at Zhao Yunduo who was not far away, and whispered in Lin Xiaoyue's ear, "For those small fish and shrimps, you are one of them."
Lin Xiaoyue took a step to the side, distanced herself from Connie, and gave Connie a warning look with a businesslike look.
Connie gritted his teeth secretly, if he had known earlier he would not have let her go!
Seeing that Lin Xiaoyue was not willing to give in, Connie moved forward again and moved next to Zhao Yunduo.
Zhao Yunduo and Wu An were counting the supplies for Connie. When Connie saw the piles of cotton coats, his eyes widened. "Yunduo, you are more omnipotent than God."
At this moment, Connie felt that his hands, which were full of frostbite, had healed without any medicine. The hard work of the past few days without sleep was totally worth it!
"If you want to complete Mr. K's mission in the future, Miss Yun Duo, I am willing to go through fire and water for you!"
Zhao Yunduo glanced at him and said indifferently, "You wish."
There are many people who are willing to go through fire and water for Zhao Yunduo. Not only does Connie have to queue up, but whether he can get in is another matter.
Lin Xiaoyue counted for more than half an hour. Connie jumped up and down at first, but in the end he couldn't stand the cold anymore, so he curled up into a ball and hid in his plane to avoid the cold winter wind.
He looked at Lin Xiaoyue's action without any hesitation, and then looked at Zhao Yunduo standing at the door, calm and composed from beginning to end. The question mark in his heart could fill his entire forehead.
"No, aren't the people at L base afraid of the cold?"
Although they were afraid, both Zhao Yunduo and Lin Xiaoyue put a hand warmer under the soles of their snow boots, two on their backs and one on their lower abdomen, making their whole bodies warm.
Zhao Yunduo was still wearing a thick duvet, and Wu An was standing in the direction of the wind to block it for her. To be honest, Zhao Yunduo felt that she was wearing too much and was a little hot.
After counting for nearly an hour, the Y City Base sent a total of 29 aquatic animals and 13 aquatic plants, a total of 42 species.
Connie rubbed his hands, ran off the plane, and begged Zhao Yunduo, "Ms. Yunduo, please be kind and give us an even number, forty-five, okay? I beg you."
Connie's hands were already red from the cold. She looked at Zhao Yunduo and saw that she was no longer as rebellious as when she first saw him. Zhao Yunduo thought for a moment and said, "You did a great job on your mission this time. I will give you a total of 42 cotton coats, 10 heating lamps, and 4 bottles of water purifiers."
Knowing that the extra heating lamp was sent by Zhao Yunduo, Connie's eyes were almost filled with gratitude, "Ms. Yunduo, please give me your instructions in the future."
After he finished speaking, he turned his gaze towards Chen Ken, who was standing at the side of the base gate, watching silently.
Connie walked over quickly and asked Chen Ken in a friendly manner, "Are you guys used to living here?"
Chen Ken nodded. "I'm used to it."
Chen Ken gave Connie a polite smile, and just as he finished speaking, he actually moved his feet and leaned towards Zhao Yunduo, as if he wanted to draw a clear line between himself and Connie.
Connie: ?
"Just get through this winter, Connie. You'll be needed in the spring."
Zhao Yunduo spoke to Connie in a rare serious tone.
Connie asked his men to carry bags of cotton clothes onto the plane. He took off his hat in front of the plane door and bowed to Zhao Yunduo. "Thank you for your good wishes, Miss Yunduo. See you in the spring."
After he left on the plane, Wu An and others were also moving aquatic animals and plants. Lin Xiaoyue changed the gloves she had just used for inspection into new ones, and checked that there was no fishy smell on her body before she approached Zhao Yunduo.
"Lord, more than twenty species of aquatic animals are far beyond our expectations. With these, it will be much easier to find the source of seafood pollution."
Zhao Yunduo smiled and said, "I think there will be more in a while."
Unexpectedly, about a week later, Lin Xiaoyue really returned to the gate of the base and continued to count the number of aquatic animals and plants.
Wu was old and his legs and feet were shivering from the cold. Wu An couldn't help but ran back to the base to get his military coat and wrapped it around Wu. He also took out his heating lamp and warmed Wu's feet.
Seeing his grandson come back time and again to bring precious cold-weather supplies to an old man like him, and seeing that Zhao Yunduo, the base commander, had no objection, Old Master Wu patted Wu An's hand with satisfaction and said, "Wu An, Miss Zhao is someone worth following."
Wu An looked back at Zhao Yunduo and nodded, "Grandpa, I know."
Zhao Yunduo over there was also looking at Mr. Wu and Liu Jing.
As expected, they were the two leaders in this operation. They only led twelve people. All of their faces were cracked by the cold wind, and the frostbite on their hands was deeper than Connie's.
They must have suffered a lot for these aquatic animals and plants, but looking at those twelve people, including Liu Jing, they all stood straight, looking at Zhao Yunduo with uncertainty but also hope in their eyes.
Zhao Yunduo guessed based on the intelligence he had, that they should take this action with a desperate mentality. If they succeeded, they would get twice the result with half the effort, but if they failed, they would lose everything.
"After counting, there are a total of 23 species of aquatic animals and 11 species of aquatic plants. There are eight species of each species that are repeated in Y City."
When they heard the word "repeat", the people in the B city base became anxious. "We are not slower than the people in the Y city base. We just don't have airplanes. We came here by bicycle..."
The man who was speaking was afraid that Zhao Yunduo would reduce the amount of supplies they were given due to duplication of supplies, which would make their already difficult winter even more difficult.
But before he finished speaking, he saw Old Master Wu raise his right hand, signaling the man to shut up. The man immediately stopped talking.
"Ms. Zhao, this is the quantity. Please give as much as you like."
Wu An lowered his head, said nothing and did nothing.
"The reward we give to the Y City base is that for every aquatic animal or plant caught, we will give a cotton coat. For every five species caught, we will give an additional heating lamp, and for every ten species caught, we will give a water purifier as a reward."
Zhao Yunduo said in a cold voice, "Due to the special situation in City B, there are two compensation plans for you to choose from."
The scene was silent, and everyone listened to Zhao Yunduo's voice very carefully, fearing that they would miss out on any rewards if they were distracted.
"The first option is the same as the Y City base. The second option is that I will give you 500 kilograms of rice, 100 kilograms of meat and vegetables, 50 cotton coats, and five heating lamps."
Except for Mr. Wu and Liu Jing, everyone cheered for the second option.
They just stared at each other, knowing that the second option was the result of excluding the water purifier. The Y City base was developing well, and it was said that they could grow their own food, so they really needed the water purifier.
For the B City Base, food is what they lack most.
Although it is a pity for the water purifier, for the current situation of City B Base, "fish" is indeed more important than "fishing".
"Let's choose the second option, Ms. Shen."
Mr. Wu said.
Zhao Yunduo had anticipated this and had his men move the prepared supplies out of the base and put them on their own plane.
Bags of rice and skewers of pork were loaded into the plane one after another. The last box was a wooden box, and Zhao Yunduo asked someone to open it and show it to them.
"What is this...?" Liu Jing looked at Zhao Yunduo in disbelief.
"I'll have someone take you back. I'll also lend you ten guns and a hundred rounds of ammunition. Don't let me down, Colonel Wu, Major Liu. I'll wait for you to bring me good news in the spring."
In the plane, Liang Yuanyuan was already sitting in the cockpit, chewing gum leisurely and comfortably, ready to set off at any time.