Chapter 142 Just You?
After Yan Chu and the construction team finalized the laboratory's construction drawings, the sky gradually darkened.
As night fell, when Yan Chu walked upstairs to his office, he saw from afar Wu Yingzhou pacing back and forth in the corridor with an anxious look on his face.
As soon as Wu Yingzhou saw Yan Chu, he quickly walked over and said, "Hundreds of survivors have suddenly gathered outside the base. Should we accept them?"
If there were only one or two people, Wu Yingzhou could still make the decision on his own, but there were hundreds of survivors outside the base.
You have to know that although the Jiangcheng base is large, there are only more than a hundred people actually living there.
He didn't dare to take responsibility if something went wrong by accepting so many survivors at once, so he had to ask Yan Chu for his opinion.
"Hundreds?" Yan Chu frowned. "Where did they come from?"
"They said they escaped from the Tomorrow Base after it was captured," Wu Yingzhou frowned. "I asked around, and several people in that team were slightly injured."
Yan Chu raised an eyebrow. Tomorrow's base? This is not a coincidence.
She thought for a moment and said, "It seems our base is quite short of manpower right now. We need people to maintain the energy equipment, distribute supplies, and manage the base. Even Lu Yuanze's planting area is short of manpower."
Wu Yingzhou was stunned and nodded: "That's indeed the case."
He receives applications almost every day from various places requesting additional staff.
"Then why are you hesitating? Take it." Yan Chu pushed open the office door, his tone as calm as if he was discussing tonight's dinner. "Carry out the inspection according to the procedures. Those who show any abnormalities will be isolated separately."
Wu Yingzhou breathed a sigh of relief: "Got it, I'll arrange it right away."
There are limited medical staff in the base, and it is not easy to examine more than a hundred people.
Outside the medical room, there is a long queue of people waiting for examination, and the patience of the crowd is wearing out as time goes by.
Some people in the queue had been waiting for hours, and when it wasn't their turn yet, they couldn't help but complain loudly: "We're so tired after running all the way here. Can't we just rest up and get checked again tomorrow?"
As soon as these words were spoken, several people immediately echoed them.
"That's right! We're not zombies, is there any need to be so cautious? It's been so long and they've only just checked a few people. They're not deliberately trying to mess with us, are they?"
"They have to check, and they're so slow. What kind of efficiency is this?"
"I told you this is a rubbish base, not even close to the Tomorrow Base. Otherwise, why are there so few people here?"
Several people were cursing loudly, and for a moment, the other people in the queue looked at each other with wavering eyes.
The base looked clearly huge from the outside, and they thought the god of luck had descended.
After they came in, they found that there were very few people inside.
Not only were there almost no patrol or guard teams, but there were only two medical staff members, and they were completely busy examining such a small group of people.
In the end times, everyone subconsciously seeks shelter in large-scale bases. It is almost a consensus that the larger the population of a base, the stronger its overall strength.
Before its fall, the Tomorrow Base had a population of nearly 100,000, but it was wiped out overnight.
In a base with such a sparse population, there probably aren't even a few people with special abilities. Does it really have the ability to survive in the apocalypse?
They finally escaped from the hell that was Tomorrow Base, and it took them who knows how long to find this new base.
If this base also falls, won’t they have to continue to flee?
The team, which had been extremely quiet just now, suddenly became restless, and many people began to whisper to each other.
Wu Yingzhou, who was maintaining order on the side, just stood there silently without saying a word.
After a while, a bearded man suddenly kicked over the empty bucket next to him, his face full of impatience:
"It's been three hours, what's going on?"
The sound of the metal barrel rolling was like a fuse, instantly igniting the oppressive atmosphere.
"It's just ridiculous. Is this shabby base here to make people laugh?"
"If I had known earlier, I would have tried my luck at another base!"
Wu Yingzhou immediately frowned and stepped forward to stop the bearded man: "Stop running around, go back and line up."
"Get out of here! I won't serve you anymore!"
The bearded man pushed Wu Yingzhou aside and ripped open his collar to reveal the B-class psychic badge. "Follow me if you dare! This shabby place that can't even get a patrol team together is doomed sooner or later!"
At once, several people stood up.
"I'll go with you!"
"I'm going with you too!"
Now the queue became even looser, and everyone began to look around, watching hesitantly.
Wu Yingzhou had to raise his loudspeaker to warn them: "Be quiet! Line up!"
However, no one listened to him. Just when the scene was in chaos, a pleasant female voice suddenly sounded from above:
"What a great show it is."
Everyone subconsciously looked up.
Under the cold moonlight, a very beautiful girl was sitting on the edge of the roof, looking down at them.
The moonlight outlined the girl's slender figure, and her skirt swayed gently in the wind.
"Who are you?" The bearded man frowned.
Yan Chu raised his eyebrows: "I am the commander of Jiangcheng Base, Yan Chu."
The bearded man was stunned. Commander?
He couldn't help but burst into a shrill laugh: "Just you?"
The commander of this base is actually this little girl?
What a rubbish base this is. Can’t you find a capable person here?
He snorted mockingly, turned around and waved at the crowd: "Brothers, hanging out with this little girl who plays house is worse than feeding zombies! Let's go!"
Five or six people walked towards the base gate without looking back.
The survivors watched these five or six people leave together. After a while, more than twenty wavering people made up their minds to leave the team and hurriedly followed them.
"Anyone else want to leave?" Yan Chu asked calmly. "Let me reiterate, my base doesn't support idlers or useless people. If you want to stay, you must work. If you don't want to stay, you can leave now."
As soon as he finished speaking, more than ten people left the team.
The rest had either completed the examination or were unwilling to go out again, and basically had no intention of leaving.
Seeing that most of the troublemakers had left, Yan Chu jumped down from the roof lightly and said to Wu Yingzhou.
"Okay, let's continue checking."
At this moment, a woman in the queue frowned and asked, "Wait, what level of psychic are you? A-level?"
The others also turned their eyes to Yan Chu.
Indeed, if the commander of this base is not even an A-level psychic, then there is really no need for them to stay here.
Yan Chu turned around and looked at them, the corners of his lips curled up, and his tone was frivolous:
"I don't know, I haven't tested it."
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