Chapter 163 Have you seen Ji Yanmo?
Lu Xingtang really couldn't leave, so he looked at Ji Yanmo deeply and mouthed: Be careful and come back soon.
He knew that Ji Yanmo, as the head of the logistics department, couldn't possibly be waiting at the base; he would definitely be out looking for supplies. She was touched that he'd taken the time to visit her despite his busy schedule, but she couldn't spare the time. She could only use her eyes and mouth to tell him to take good care of himself.
Ji Yanmo and his team drove out of the base, left Hangzhou, and went to other cities to look for supplies. Ji Yanmo told everyone that no matter what the supplies were, as long as they thought they could be used, they should bring them all back to the base. Even if they could not use them, they would use them in the future, and they would never waste them, not even a piece of wood.
Su Cheng felt very heavy-hearted as he watched Ji Yanmo and the team in search of supplies leave. He was worried that the food and water they brought would not be enough for the round trip, that some people would secretly drive away, and that they would be robbed or lose their lives in a natural disaster. In short, he was worried about all kinds of things.
Fortunately, most of the security personnel followed, so their safety was guaranteed.
As soon as Ji Yanmo and the others left, Su Cheng and the entire base began to mobilize.
The women guarded the supplies and cooked for everyone. The elderly and children were assigned tasks, too: patrol the base and blow a whistle if they noticed anything amiss. He gave a whistle to each group of elderly and children, worried they wouldn't hear it, so he told the other groups to listen. If they heard it, they were to blow the whistle as well, alerting them and sending someone over to investigate.
The doctors and nurses temporarily looked after the patients, and Su Cheng also dispatched a doctor and five nurses with medicine boxes to the ruins to prepare. The people who remained in the base were divided by Su Cheng into construction workers, other workers, and those who sorted out the supplies in the ruins.
The work of those who sort out supplies from the ruins is very hard and also very dangerous. If they are not careful, accidents may happen or they may be crushed by walls. Their existence is to provide support for those who are looking for supplies in the ruins.
If something really happens and they are too busy, they can go to the hospital for help.
The construction workers have already started drawing blueprints to prepare for building houses. According to the meeting, due to the lack of building materials, they will not build a high building for the time being, but adobe houses. The layout of the adobe houses has also been studied, and the main feature is practicality. According to the population planning, the houses will be one bedroom and one living room, two bedrooms and one living room, and three bedrooms and one living room. There will be no kitchen and bathroom, and there is currently no extra materials to build a bathroom.
But they will build several public restrooms, separate for men and women, and the restrooms will be separated by area so they won't be crowded.
Adobe houses are easy to build, much easier than tile houses or buildings. After deciding on the adobe house, everyone starts to lay the foundation according to the drawings. It doesn't matter if you can't lay a reinforced concrete foundation. You can lay a natural rock foundation, rammed earth foundation, broken bricks, clay foundation, raft foundation and pile foundation, etc. There are many ways to do this, and the base will never be unstable.
When Su Cheng learned that the construction workers could build the house, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief and told them to write down all the materials they needed that could not be found in the base. Maybe the logistics director and his team could find the supplies they wanted.
If he can't wait, he will ask people to look for it in other places in Hangzhou, maybe they can find the supplies they need.
Besides the importance of housing, water was also crucial. Su Cheng had already found 30 well-drilling technicians at the base, whose production lines hadn't been damaged by the thick fog. He had also designed drilling equipment based on their requirements. While not necessarily precise, it would at least be able to produce water.
This rain lasted for five days and has already penetrated into the soil. To determine whether the water quality is good or not and whether it can be used, the water must be pumped out and the research team can make a decision after testing.
If it cannot be used, you can only go to other places to find water and bring it back for use.
Plantations, livestock farms, herb farms, and other factories survived the fog, but the vegetables were ruined. The pigs, cattle, and sheep on the farms, especially the pigs, had already perished, with more than half dead. The cattle and sheep were fine; grass had been placed in the sheep and cattle pens before the fog was confirmed, and they were fine. The pigs, however, were left without food, so they rooted in the ground, ate grass, or tried to leave the pens, but were unable to break through the tempered glass and eventually starved to death inside.
When the pig carcasses were seen, there was no meat left, only skeletons. After testing by a team of scientific research experts, it was found that some of the pigs had been dead for too long, and the meat had spoiled and was inedible.
The pigs that had died in the past two days had been tested and confirmed to be edible. They slaughtered the remaining edible pigs, simply pickled them, and air-dried them. When the people who had gone out to look for a house returned, they all ate them together.
Although a person may not be able to eat a piece of meat, the broth is enough to fill you up, even if the taste of the broth is not very strong.
Seeing that the reconstruction of the base was back on track and no one was causing trouble, those who had caused trouble in the dungeon before were ruthlessly driven out of the base, and their pleas were ignored. If he had known this would happen, he would not have caused trouble and would have been obedient and followed the arrangements. He, Su Cheng, and the base had not given up on the survivors!
Three days passed in a flash, and the people who were looking for supplies came back one after another. The first supplies to come back were construction materials, such as stones, wood, steel, lime, etc. The supplies that came back later were also... Because the supplies were large and heavy, and everyone was not full, it was very difficult to work and they easily ran out of energy.
When the construction workers saw how much construction materials they had brought back, their eyes were filled with tears: "Thank you for your hard work."
"Luckily, we really didn't have any supplies left in Hangzhou. After leaving Hangzhou, we went to Huang County next door and found a lot of construction materials. It would have been easy for us to make a round trip a day, but Huang County was hit by an earthquake not long ago. The earthquake wasn't big, but the road was damaged, and trucks were moving very slowly. Not only did we have to find supplies, but we also had to move the rocks blocking the road and clear the road! Otherwise, we would have returned long ago."
"We're going to Huang County again tomorrow. This time we've cleared the road, so it'll be easier to travel and much faster."
"During the three days we were out looking for supplies, you guys weren't idle either. You've already built quite a few adobe houses, but they just haven't been roofed yet! Now that we've brought back the wood, you guys better keep working on it!"
Su Cheng asked the people who were working hard to find supplies to eat and rest, and the injured people to go to the hospital base to see doctors for treatment.
The supplies on the truck were handed over to the survivors at the base to unload. The survivors who were searching for supplies in the ruins immediately put down their work and went to the truck to unload all the supplies.
Lu Xingtang was very happy to see the people who went out to look for supplies had returned. He looked around the hospital again and again, but didn't see Ji Yanmo. He came to the people who were bandaging the wounds and asked, "Have you seen Ji Yanmo?"
(End of this chapter)
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