Chapter 123 Preparing for the Battle of Xinchuan
October 9, 2025.
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the temperature dropped sharply, and the ground temperature suddenly reached 12 degrees Celsius.
However, the temperature in the underground base remained at 20 degrees Celsius, and almost everyone was wearing long-sleeved T-shirts provided by the base.
The entire base is shrouded in darkness, but during the day, lights simulate sunlight. People perform their respective duties here, working to maintain the base's operation and earning the currency circulating within it.
Almost everyone was assigned a job.
The base provides safe shelter and survival supplies, but obtaining these supplies requires a special currency circulating within the base:
Base points.
Floors "-4" to "-10" are the living areas for ordinary residents.
Each floor has a large canteen, where most residents choose to swipe their cards to eat a meal consisting of one dish and one staple food. Few residents with high points can buy their own groceries and cook at home.
The refugees who are rescued can receive normal meals and daily water and electricity allowances for the first month. After a month, they can generally receive their own wage points to support themselves.
Unemployed people who are unwilling to work do not have points and can only receive the base's minimum living allowance, which consists of a bowl of porridge or a potato each day.
You can only receive it for two months.
With the apocalyptic survival crisis looming, the base cannot afford to keep idle people. The base will do its best to arrange work for anyone who is capable of working.
There is a supermarket on each floor, where items need to be redeemed with points.
In the initial stage of the base, the supermarket had a limited selection of items, mainly daily necessities.
The residents mostly live in 8-person dormitories, except for special staff with high salaries who have extra points that can be exchanged for the right to live in a 4-person or 2-person room.
These people are generally those who can provide constructive work for the base, such as engineers, doctors, and researchers.
In the base, points have become the main circulating currency. The original coins cannot be exchanged for points, but gold can.
However, Lin Xi, who possesses gold reserves, does not need to exchange them, and she also has more points than she can use.
The two floors below the residential floor were the living quarters for personnel on standby for war.
Their four-person team was quickly incorporated into the combat readiness personnel after entering the base and moved to the "-11" floor.
On floor -11, Lin Xi, Xiang Xin, and two other female comrades lived in a four-person room. As their team accumulated more points while clearing out zombies, the two of them moved into a two-person room this month.
Lu Wei and Liang Hui were in the same district.
The double rooms no longer have bunk beds, but rather a 1-meter single bed for each person, with a private bathroom and kitchenette, and more storage cabinets.
Lin Xi applied to retrieve half of the supplies she had originally deposited.
Inside were several boxes of food and water, as well as some changes of clothes and personal belongings.
These are items that cannot be purchased in the points supermarket. Although they are optional, having them is better than not having them.
"You've prepared a lot of things." Xiang Xin fiddled with several packets of vegetable seeds: "Should we grow vegetables indoors to improve our meals? I'll use my points to buy a UV lamp instead of a light source."
Lin Xi simply shook her head slightly.
The canteen provides the personnel on standby with two dishes and one staple food. Although it is not very palatable or plentiful, it can meet their basic energy needs.
Lin Xi is no longer someone who just wants to stay at home and manage her own life; she has more important things to do.
Training is already very busy, and going out on missions means being away for long periods of time, so all these things that improve the quality of life and food have to be put aside.
In a spacious training room, several people are practicing shooting at a moving bullseye.
Lin Xi stood among them, her black trousers tucked into slightly bulky combat boots, wearing only a tank top.
She had just come out of the physical training room, and beads of sweat still clung to the taut muscles of her upper arms.
Outside the base, dealing with zombies requires constant escape and combat, so all personnel on standby need to hone their skills to stay focused and aim at the enemy after strenuous exercise.
The moment the trigger was pulled, the spent cartridge case ejected with a crisp sound.
Lin Xili landed, pulled the bolt, and swiftly aimed while supporting himself with his right hand with his left.
A determined look appeared beneath his neat short hair.
Zhang Sirui's average score: 9.6 rings.
Lin Xi breathed a sigh of relief, released his right hand which was supporting his left hand, and fired a second shot.
Zhang Sirui's average score: 8.4 rings.
Lin Xi sighed again.
"Li Fuwo's average score: 9.2 rings."
Xiang Xin put away his gun, pushed his goggles up to his forehead, and patted Lin Xi on the shoulder to comfort him, saying, "Your left-hand performance is already excellent! The coach doesn't even dare to let me shoot with my left hand, for fear of wasting bullets."
Her gaze fell on an oval scar in the middle of Lin Xi's left forearm.
Lin Xi had trained his left hand after injuring his right hand. Although his muscle memory was not as strong as in his previous life, he had already mastered his left hand after being shot. However, even after recovering and undergoing professional rehabilitation at the base, he could not return to his peak condition. He could not control the force of his left hand when holding a gun and his aim would tremble slightly.
Lin Xi quickly came to terms with it.
For a normal person, scoring 9 rings with their right hand is already considered good; using their left hand simply increases their strength.
They moved into the next training room like an assembly line, where a simulated zombie scene was projected and they fired laser guns.
After this training, they will undergo an assessment, and those who pass all the tests will receive their own sidearms.
Lin Xi and his team had previously participated in several base-wide operations to rescue refugees and clear zombies, and had also found sidearms on the battlefield, but according to base regulations, they had to hand them over.
Obtaining a firearm requires passing a special test.
Lin Xi and Xiang Xin are both fine.
Lin Xi never imagined that she would one day be armed, but all her tools and skills were for the purpose of better eliminating zombies and ending the apocalypse.
In this life, Lin Xi's mindset and concentration are extremely stable, making learning easy for her.
Xiang Xin had long aspired to be one of the heroes who saved the world from the apocalypse, and was extremely excited about learning to shoot.
They are among the few women in the combat readiness force who are willing to go to the front lines.
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"You have passed the test. Please collect your service weapon."
Lin Xi solemnly accepted it with both hands.
After receiving the gun, Xiang Xin was very excited. At one moment, he wanted to hold the gun with his right hand to show off, and at another moment, he was so excited that he wanted to give a heart salute.
Their next trip will most likely be to Xiang Xin's hometown, Xinchuan.
Investigations revealed that there were still a large number of survivors there, and their mission was to rescue people and bring them back to the base, clear out the zombies, and search for supplies needed by the base.
Upon learning that there were many survivors, Xiang Xin's confidence suddenly soared.
Xiang Xin felt that her parents might still be alive.
Xiang Xin had a big fight with her parents during their last meeting and they parted on bad terms. In the three months since the zombie outbreak, everyone had witnessed too many life-and-death separations and survival crises. The past conflicts had long since vanished, leaving only concern and worry.
During the three months of being out of contact, Xiang Xin did experience negative emotions, but she still held onto a glimmer of hope until she received definite news.
This time, when Xiang Xin went to Xinchuan to provide support, she even thought:
If she meets her parents now, they will surely realize that she is not someone who only lives in her own world, and that what she is doing is meaningful.
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