The soldiers were leaning against the wall and chatting. They were carrying guns, but there was no panic in their eyes. The workers were dismantling the barbed wire - they were going to move the fence outside to expand the space for the residents of the base to move around.
Everyone was sweating profusely, but no one complained. When it was time to take a break, someone would hold a loudspeaker to notify them to stop, and they might even have to be yelled at to stop.
"Eat first!" The young man put his hands on his waist and shouted angrily, "Who will work if you faint from exhaustion?!"
The workers just looked at each other angrily, then smiled and went to get their bowls for food.
"There is meat." A worker who just turned sixteen held a bowl and watched the person serving the rice scoop a large spoonful of stewed potatoes and meat on top of his rice. He quickly said, "Less, less, too much!"
The person serving the food didn't understand: "You don't like meat?"
The worker next to him said with a smile: "We taught him to give him a small amount for the first bowl. After he finishes it in a few bites, he can get the second portion right away."
"I couldn't eat this kind of barbecue before. I could only sleep with my butt uncovered to see if I could dream about it."
The workers laughed and started lining up, and just as they said, everyone wanted very little for their first meal.
They took their bowls and squatted aside to eat. They finished the little food in a few bites, then lined up again. This time they all got a full bowl.
"Come and take it!" The soldier who came over pushing the cart took off his hat and wiped the sweat from his forehead.
A worker not far away asked, "What did you bring?!"
The soldier shouted vigorously: "Good stuff! But there is no place for you!"
The workers ran over with their rice bowls, being very careful not to spill the meat on the rice. Some of them ate while running, and when they arrived, there were only a few grains of rice left in the bowls.
"The supermarket owner gave it to me for free," the soldier said with a smile, "lemonade."
The soldier swallowed and said, "There's a lot of rock sugar in it."
Lemonade in the supermarket is not cheap, a bottle costs three to five yuan, and big brands even cost seven or eight yuan. But Ye Zhou buys lemons and rock sugar in the system supermarket himself, which is cheaper and healthier.
Except for the fact that it’s not cold, it’s better than the big brands in every way.
The workers received water cups and lined up to get lemonade. Some of them brought their own large cups, which were bigger than bowls, to drink in the afternoon.
Although supplies are abundant now, few people are willing to buy fruits, let alone buy lemons to make tea.
When I buy fruit occasionally, I usually buy the cheapest ones.
"It's a little hot." The man who couldn't help but drink a sip of lemonade quickly moved the cup away because of the heat, but he couldn't help but take a sip. He exhaled comfortably, "It's so sweet."
“I heard that we are also going to build a sugar factory.”
"But we don't have sugarcane here."
"You can use sugar beets, right? I heard that many sugar factories use sugar beets, which have a large output."
"They say the output is high, but other bases also had sugar and salt factories before, so why are they always short of sugar and salt?"
"Are you stupid? What does that have to do with production? Isn't it because the factory is short of manpower and transportation is inconvenient?"
“Then there are transport companies.”
"How much can a transport company transport? At most, 200 to 300 kilograms at a time. If 200 to 300 kilograms is shared among a base, how much can each person get?"
The workers called out to the soldiers: "You guys drink too."
The soldier waved his hand and said, "We just drank. We'll wait here for a while. We'll leave after the last group of people come back."
The workers sighed and said, “It’s really not easy for you.”
Being a soldier is a hard job. The salary is low, the benefits are not good, and you have to be the first to take the lead when something happens.
The soldier just smiled.
Although the zombie tide has been eliminated, there are still sporadic zombies popping up in the surrounding areas.
For the safety of the base, the soldiers still have to go out for patrols and eliminate these scattered zombies before they gather together.
After Yang Guoqin's experiment, it was found that anyone who was enveloped by the white light when the photon cannon was activated would no longer be affected by the zombie virus or the eggs of some parasite. Unfortunately, many residents at that time were not exposed to the white light.
Therefore, it will take at least a month before residents can enter and leave the base freely. Before that, they still have to stay in the base honestly, and soldiers entering and leaving the base still need to be disinfected.
But this discovery has given everyone in the base a shot in the arm.
For people, what is scary is never the zombies themselves. Zombies are just bodies. Although children and the elderly may not be able to defeat them, adults in their prime will have no problem facing zombies one-on-one as long as they have weapons in their hands.
What is scary are viruses, the eggs of unknown creatures, which seem to be omnipresent and can penetrate any hole.
What is invisible to the naked eye is the most terrifying.
After lunch, Ye Zhou took a nap in the lounge. Almost a week had passed since the zombie tide arrived.
During this period, he was very busy, busy purchasing supplies from the system and busy settling bills with Yang Guoqin.
Yang Guoqin gave him the only remaining unused guns and tortillas in the base in exchange for the supplies needed to renovate the base, but even so, Yang Guoqin did not show any distress.
The farm was ready to operate. The soldiers drove trucks to take away the chickens and ducks provided by Ye Zhou, and even took away a dozen pregnant sows. The feed was also transported away by tons.
Yang Guoqin didn't even blink when he paid.
In addition, Yang Guoqin is also contacting several surrounding front-line bases and doing his best to sell photon cannons to them.
But the response was not very good.
When Yang Guoqin came to see Ye Zhou in the afternoon, he couldn't help but sigh: "No one believes it. They think I'm crazy."
Cao'er's mother brought in the brewed tea. Seeing Yang Guoqin no longer shrinking his neck, she put the teacup down and said, "Then just talk to them nicely."
Yang Guoqin is now very familiar with the employees in the supermarket. He sighed and said, "It doesn't make sense. From the moment I started talking about the supermarket, they thought I was crazy."
Ye Zhou: “…”
If in his dimension, a friend suddenly told him that a supermarket fell from the sky near his house, which had everything. It was obviously a supermarket, but it sold photon cannons.
He would definitely touch his friend's forehead and sincerely say to him: "Brother, go to the hospital and don't delay your illness."
Ye Zhou picked up the teacup and took a sip, then said awkwardly, "In that case, when the photon cannon is fully charged, let's ask them to come over and have a look. Seeing it with their own eyes is better than hearing about it from others."
Yang Guoqin: “That’s right.”
Ye Zhou put down his teacup: "Once they buy the photon cannon, I should leave too."
Yang Guoqin was stunned. He was a little unresponsive: "Let's go?"
Ye Zhou: "It's not that I won't come back, but I have somewhere to go. I can come and take a look in the future. Maybe by then this place will no longer be the Luoyang Base, but a modern metropolis."
Yang Guoqin was silent for a few seconds. He looked into Ye Zhou's eyes and saw the helplessness in his eyes.
He understood what Ye Zhou meant and stopped forcing him. He smiled and said, "Will you say hello to me before you leave?"
Ye Zhou shook his head: "No."
"This is too inhumane." Yang Guoqin smiled, took out a cigarette, and held it in his hand without lighting it.
He knew Ye Zhou's concerns.
When faced with a powerful enemy, even though he knew that Ye Zhou did not belong to this world and might be a threat to humans, Yang Guoqin still decided to cooperate with him, because compared to Ye Zhou, a man whose background he did not know, the zombies outside the base were more terrifying.
But when others find that zombies are no longer a threat, will they point their guns at Ye Zhou?
Yang Guoqin didn't dare to make any guarantees.
If Ye Zhou had not appeared at the right time, and if he had not had selfish motives, perhaps at this moment, he and Ye Zhou would not be able to sit here and drink tea. They should be enemies.
"Since I have done so much for the base, I hope you won't tell anyone about my existence before I sell the photon cannon." Ye Zhou said to the middle-aged man who looked tired. "After I leave, you can tell anyone about me."
Yang Guoqin smiled and said, "I really don't know what you are here for."
Did he make money? He had enough supplies to trade for a base - if someone was willing to trade.
He was more generous than the elves in fairy tales. Yang Guoqin only saw him giving but did not notice that he asked for anything in return.
After all, what he got and what he paid were not equal in Yang Guoqin's opinion.
Ye Zhou: "Do you think I'm from the future? I came all the way here to help you."
Ye Zhou was amused by his own "shamelessness" after he finished speaking. He said softly: "Whether this place can become better depends not on me but on you. There is actually very little I can do."
He is just a businessman. It is everyone living here who is truly protecting this place, defending its dignity and rebuilding their hometown with their own hands.
Farmers, workers, soldiers, medical staff, scientists, they use their flesh and blood to protect their homes.
Yang Guoqin was still a little dazed when he left. He walked out of the supermarket door, and after walking for a while, he stopped involuntarily and turned around to take a look.
The supermarket still looked the same as when it first appeared. It was square, with a somewhat tacky sign. It looked new, but not high-end. It was no different from any ordinary large supermarket before the end of the world.
It seems like it has always been there, neither appearing suddenly nor disappearing suddenly.
Seeing that Yang Guoqin had not left, the orderly asked curiously, "General, why don't you leave? We have a meeting later."
Yang Guoqin suddenly asked: "Do you believe that there are gods in the world?"
The orderly was speechless: "General, we are all educated, even if we haven't read many books. Who would believe in God?"
Yang Guoqin said, "I suddenly believe it a little bit."
The orderly was stunned: "Huh?"
Yang Guoqin did not continue speaking. He was very confused and did not know how to start talking.
He got in the car and looked at the plain in the distance, feeling very peaceful.
It is not a concrete person or an illusory god or Buddha.
Rather, it is a symbol that can give people hope and encouragement in times of great crisis.
Can on a battlefield littered with corpses——
Fall from the sky.
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