Chapter 280: Extremely Hot. Looking for a Gun
As the weather got hotter, the water in the city receded faster and faster, and after a week it all receded, revealing the surface mud.
The heavy rain that had been depositing water for more than a year had completely disappeared, and the ground dried up, revealing black and yellow soil blocks that gradually cracked, and the asphalt road buried underneath could be vaguely seen.
The government sent out a large number of scavenger teams to conduct the first round of searches in every corner of the neighborhood. Each scavenger team member could earn 5 points per day. Half of the supplies found would be distributed by themselves, and the other half would be handed over to the government.
If you encounter special items and dangerous items, you must notify the base for processing. The scavenging team will receive additional points as a reward, which will be determined based on the value of the items, up to a maximum of 50 points.
In order to avoid fighting, the government divided the entire city of C into more than 100 districts and uniformly allocated search areas. Each scavenging team was equipped with a joint defense team member. After completing the search within the specified area and having the joint defense team member stamp and confirm, they could come back to claim the reward points.
Liu Lao Hu’s scavenging team was also among them, and Zhuona would send her some messages and pictures from time to time.
Most of the pictures are of places they have visited in the past, including residences, schools, parks, libraries, shopping malls, etc.
The buildings that were soaked by the flood were full of cracks and looked mottled, as if they would collapse at any time.
The scene inside the building was even more tragic. The remaining furniture, electrical appliances, tables, chairs, clothing and other items were covered with mud and sand. Windows and door frames were scattered everywhere, with no signs of life, and it was extremely desolate.
She had experienced the same thing in her previous life, and even had to dig through the mud and tiles with her bare hands, looking for hope of survival bit by bit.
Watching these scenes, no matter how many times, would bring her incomparable shock and a strong sense of crisis.
Zhuona sent her another picture. It showed a seven-story stand-alone building with a sign of a shooting club hanging outside, but it was half-fallen off.
"Xiao An, Gu Ye brought us here before, do you remember?"
Chu An certainly remembered that in addition to Gu Ye bringing them here, she also found a large number of small-caliber rifles here in her previous life, but she didn't take any of them out. At that time, she was followed and all the guns were taken away. She still remembers the face of the person who followed her.
She asked Zhuona to go in and take a look, and reminded her that there were no guns in the ammunition depot outside the 5th floor, and the guns were all in the secret room in the manager's office.
The door to the secret room was on the wall opposite the desk. When she went there, all the calligraphy and paintings on the wall were damaged. If she hadn't been hiding from the crowd and waiting to leave at night, she wouldn't have noticed anything.
"That wall is made of special square bricks. Use the horizon and the center line as coordinates. Tap (-5, 5), (0, 2), and (6, 6) in sequence. The secret room will open."
She wasted a lot of brain cells trying to find the coordinates. Finally, she explained, "Gu Ye told me everything."
Zhuona gave them an OK gesture, and then said that the shooting club was their sixth mission, and the leader had brought them here in advance to familiarize them with the terrain and mark it to prevent others from getting there first. They had to search in order.
Chu An told her to be careful, then put down his phone, closed his eyes and lay on his back on the bed to rest.
Gu Ye came back from exercising downstairs and saw that she looked very tired. "What's wrong?"
"It's okay." Chu An sat up and asked, "What temperature does the thermometer show today?"
"It's still 47 degrees."
Plenty of sunshine also has an advantage. Solar charging panels can save time and improve efficiency. The government has developed a large number of products and sold them to base owners. When the government's power supply is insufficient, many people will buy one and put it at home.
The last time I went to Zhuona's house, I saw a refrigerator and air conditioner in the house. They were exactly the same as the ones she used before. They must have been brought there when she moved.
No one knows what will happen in the future, so we will not throw away usable household appliances.
She had given Zhuona a solar charging panel before, so the mother and daughter shouldn't suffer too much.
At this time, the goodness of the base was demonstrated. Those who had previously had no confidence in the government and who were frightened by the prisoners in the base and dared not move in, now applied to move into the base.
However, since they neither participated in the construction of the base nor could they afford to buy it, they were all rejected in the end.
Since it was hot everywhere, the rejected people simply built wooden houses and pitched tents around the base. In less than half a month, a refugee camp like the perimeter of a shelter was formed outside.
Two weeks later, Gu Ye had almost recovered.
Chu An took out the ice cream machine in the space and followed the video to learn. The ingredients were correct, the steps were all right, so why didn’t the taste come out right?
Gu Ye tried it again. It tasted better than hers, but...it was far from a certain signature ice cream.
Just as the two were pondering the gap, their cell phones beeped at the same time, and they knew without even looking that it was a group message.
Yin Tianlin announced a new standard for recruiting people to the base: 1. Recommended by a person who is a street chief or above in the base. 2. Pay 200 kilograms of food or other materials of equal value at one time. 3. Obtain a base medal of level 3 or above. It only needs to meet two of the above conditions at the same time.
There is also a line of small words below, explaining how to obtain base medals. They include contributing materials, completing bounty tasks in the mission hall, providing valuable information for base construction, or engaging in certain special industries and making certain contributions to the base, and then being judged by the base merit committee.
She understood the purpose of Yin Tianlin's posting of the information. Like Zhuona, he hoped that she could move in, but was too embarrassed to say it out loud.
After a while, Chu An received a separate message from Tang Xiao. He and Li Rong had just entered the base not long ago, and their identities were still being reviewed, which would take about 2 months. During this period, they could not sign up for any government recruitment, otherwise Li Rong planned to join the joint defense team.
During the review period, the two joined a scavenging team and happened to meet Zhuona, so they sent a message to her.
"Your classmates are so amazing."
Followed by a bunch of thumbs up guys.
Chu An called directly and after listening to Tang Xiao's description, he understood the whole story.
This time, he and Li Rong's scavenging team were cooperating with Liu Lao Hu's scavenging team to search the North District Commercial Street. During the search, they discovered a single-family dangerous building with a total of seven floors. According to the map, floors 3 to 6 were a privately-run shooting club.
The joint defense team member who accompanied the team and was also the supervisor was afraid that there might be dangerous shooting weapons inside, but they did not meet the standards for reporting dangerous items, so he could only let the scavenging team go in and search on their own, but no one dared to do so.
The members of the joint defense team thought that the scavenging team was lazy, and the scavenging team accused the joint defense team of not caring about their lives, and the two sides were in a stalemate for the whole morning.
After searching other places, the conflict finally focused on this dangerous building.
According to Tang Xiao's description, this joint defense team member used to be a surveyor in the Ministry of Construction and was quite familiar with the condition of the building. He allowed them in only after he was sure that the risk factor was low, but no one believed him.
Later, Zhuona was the first to enter, followed by him and Li Rong. After everyone finished searching, Zhuona found the secret room and got a lot of guns. Their group all benefited from it, and it is estimated that each of them can get 10 more points.
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