ushernet Chapter 30 Check-in at the Base
Chapter 30 Check-in at the Base
Although the dormitories at the base are not as big as those at the school, they are fortunate to have no shortage of water and electricity. The source of the electricity is predictable, but it is unclear whether the water source is safe to use due to the availability of water from other sources or whether the base has installed water purification equipment.
After the five of them washed up and got ready, Zhong Qiang slipped to the dormitory entrance, opened the door, looked around to make sure no one was nearby, locked the door, blocked the observation window of the ward with something, and called to Lu Yuan to hurry up and get something good to eat. All day, apart from the breakfast he had before leaving this morning, he had been eating nothing but compressed biscuits; he had almost lost his sense of taste.
The group quietly ate a hot meal in the dormitory and chug several cups of milk tea. After their "full meal," they each took a bed and lay down to rest. After all, they had successfully entered the base, and everyone was quite excited, so they couldn't fall asleep for a while.
While lying down, Lu Yuan suddenly slapped his forehead and sat up. "Oh dear, we forgot to tell Captain Qin about the virus rain."
This was the main reason they decided to come to the base. At first, they were nervous, then excited, and as a result, they forgot to report the important matter to the base.
"Let's wait until Captain Qin comes back. We don't know if they'll believe us." Gu Nanfeng recalled the office building today. It had all sorts of departments, so there should be a meteorological department too. If the meteorological department said it wouldn't rain, they didn't know how to convince the base leaders.
Lu Yuan thought of Director Li at the registration office. If the person in charge of the base was also like that, then things would be really tough.
"I already informed my brother last night, and the message should be relayed to Beijing by now." Pei Sihao didn't close his eyes to rest; instead, he lay on the bed playing various single-player games on his phone.
"Anyway, I've said everything I know. Whether you believe me or not, it's up to me~" Yang Xiao said indifferently with his eyes closed. Zhong Qiang next to him had already started snoring, "This five-person room is really disruptive to rest."
Zhong Qiang snored loudly, and the group was somewhat nostalgic for the days at Gu Nanfeng's villa, where each person had their own room at night—nothing could be better.
Around ten o'clock, there was a knock on their dormitory door. Gu Nanfeng thought it must be Qin Yuan returning after reporting his work. When he opened the door, he saw that in addition to Qin Yuan, there was also his professor from the new materials research group at the school.
"Professor Wang." Gu Nanfeng ushered the professor and Qin Yuan inside. The dormitory was quite simple. There were only five beds and a small, slightly nicer single sofa. Gu Nanfeng invited Professor Wang to sit on the sofa.
Knowing that Qin Yuan was quite tired that day, Lu Yuan let him sit on the edge of his bed. Anyway, he seemed to have gone back to the dormitory to take a shower, so there was nothing to mind.
"I heard them say in the cafeteria that Xiao Qin brought you here, so I quickly asked him to take me to find you." Professor Wang is a key national scientific and technological talent. As soon as the virus broke out, the military sent people to the school to pick him up. Then he followed the municipal government command center to be transferred several times, and finally followed them to the city's central hospital to start building a safe base.
In fact, Gu Nanfeng was also a key scientific and technological talent. If he had been in the lab at the time, he would have been with Professor Wang. However, due to unforeseen circumstances, he didn't go to the lab that day. Later, when the military organized a special team to pick up people from key projects in the university town, they still couldn't find Gu Nanfeng.
"I heard from Xiao Qin that you made a protective suit for the robot friend you brought with you." Mentioning the robot, Professor Wang looked around the room; all five seemed to be ordinary students, and he didn't see the robot.
“Wei Guo has returned to the team and is now with the public security department.” Gu Nanfeng knew that the professor wanted to know about the protective suit, so he didn’t keep him in suspense and said directly, “It’s made of plastic. When we were taking refuge in the supermarket, I tested that plastic can effectively block zombies from monitoring the equipment. The protective suit that Wei Guo is wearing now can basically be moved at a distance of three meters without being detected by zombies.”
“Hey, this virus is so strange. At noon, Beijing also sent instructions saying that there will be widespread rainfall across the country on August 30th, the same kind of virus rain as last time. Get ready, you’re coming to the lab with me tomorrow. Our safe base is still quite rudimentary!” When Professor Wang mentioned the virus rain, everyone except Zhong Qiang, who was asleep, exchanged glances. It seemed that Pei Simin’s side took the information they provided very seriously.
"Okay, Professor, it's getting late. You should get some rest. I'll be on duty tomorrow." Gu Nanfeng is an important member of Professor Wang's new materials research team. He knows that the new materials they are researching can actually resist zombies, but the experiment is not yet mature, and the amount of materials is not enough to arm this safe base for the time being. Therefore, they should make other defensive preparations.
Professor Wang knew that the young people had other things to discuss, so after discussing it with Gu Nanfeng, he left first.
Although Qin Yuan had been in the army for a long time, he used to be a poor student and was afraid of all teachers. When Professor Wang was around, he didn't even dare to relax his posture. As soon as Professor Wang left, he relaxed completely and collapsed onto Lu Yuan's bed.
"Ugh, I was thinking of winning big today and even treating you guys to a nice meal tonight," Qin Yuan said angrily, lying down. "Who knew those bastards would take all my goods!"
In the past, if their supply team brought back a lot of food, some would be given to the team as a reward, and they could have a good meal after returning from a mission. Unexpectedly, this time all the food they brought back was taken away by the food department. When Qin Yuan returned to their team dormitory after reporting his work, he was furious when he heard the news.
But what can be done? More and more survivors are coming to the base, and they all need to eat. In addition, the base has to support a bunch of useless people from various municipal departments. The nearby supermarkets have been ransacked by them.
"Why is there not a single patient in the hospital?" Lu Yuan had wanted to ask this for a long time. The city's central hospital is a critical care hospital in G province, and it usually serves seriously ill patients. Moreover, he remembered that when he came to visit his father, the hospital was full.
"Sigh, as soon as the government took over the hospital, all the critically ill patients were frozen due to special force majeure reasons." On the day Qin Yuan's unit and the municipal government command center were transferred here, an official document was issued, which of course followed the documents issued by higher authorities.
"Holy crap!" Lu Yuan immediately felt ripped off; he'd spent 300,000 yuan freezing his father!
"With so many citizens in the base now, aren't they doing anything?" Pei Sihao asked, turning off his mobile game.
"How can we let them sit idle? The survivors are doing the basic maintenance and construction in the base, and the canteen. They're accumulating work points by doing these things." Mentioning work points, Qin Yuan immediately sat up. "I almost forgot about the important matter."