The thoughts of the strange women had nothing to do with Jiang Chen.
After he took a taxi, he went straight back to the Seven Days Hotel.
Ayesha was working hard on learning Han. When she saw Jiang Chen come back, a shy smile appeared on her cold face.
She looked like a newlywed wife.
However, this smile was something that he couldn't bear, because the guilt he felt was bursting at the seams!
Although Jiang Chen didn't marry her yet, he always felt like a husband who cheated on his wife, but when he came home, he was faced with a gentle and caring wife.
[Maybe I should restrain myself in the future?] There seemed to be too much food on the plate.
With a panicked smile, he dragged Ayesha to a nearby restaurant to eat a sumptuous dinner without pork. He had a good impression of the girl who had no one to rely on. No matter what, he did have the crooked idea of taking care of his body after he recovered.
Yes, he did.
But it was not a good idea to indulge in the beauty of a woman. He hadn't been back to the apocalypse for a while, and he was worried.
It was a quiet night.
The next morning, Jiang Chen watched Ayesha carry her bag to the language class. She left a few red tickets and a note on the table. [If I don't come back, don't wait for me to eat.] Then she left the hotel and found a corner without people or cameras to travel back to the apocalypse.
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"You're finally back. Which girl did you sleep with last night?" Sun Jiao crossed her arms in front of her chest with a half-smile.
Jiang Chen smiled awkwardly and changed the topic. He began to ask about the construction of the base.
Although Sun Jiao was mischievous, she still knew what was important. She took a deep breath and threw the irrelevant questions and complaints to the back of her head. She began to tell Jiang Chen about the current situation of the base.
First, it was the construction of the infrastructure.
The wall of the base was successfully pushed 200 meters in the direction of the sewer entrance, creating an open space the size of two football fields (20 acres). The half-destroyed wooden villas in the middle had been flattened by the survivors, but the foundations underneath could be used. The appliances and furniture in the mansions were moved to the open space. If they could be repaired well, they would use them. If they couldn't, they would dismantle them into spare parts.
Lu Huasheng, the chief architect of the base, commanded several construction teams to rebuild four more suitable dormitories on the ready-made foundation. Each of these simple three-storey dormitories could accommodate 30 residents. As to why four buildings were built, it was naturally under Jiang Chen's instruction to prepare for future recruitment.
One of them had been completed, and the other three were still under construction.
In addition, three-storey concrete towers were also built on the four corners of the base. There were two in the backyard of the villa and two in the front of the newly developed land. Light machine guns were set up on the watchtowers, and a simple camouflage net was placed on the outside. Inside each watchtower, a person was assigned to stand guard.
Because of the remote location, the danger level of zombies was not high. Only after walking ten kilometers toward the Sixth Street and entering the city would there be difficult mutants. Therefore, the Fishbone survival base only needed to be wary of other survivors with ulterior motives. However, most of the survivors would take a detour when they saw walls and machine guns.
Two months later, the sentinel machine guns should be ready. Jiang Chen already placed an order with Zhao Chenwu's military factory for four sentinel machine guns. Each machine cost 3000 crystals. It could be guided by laser and could automatically identify heat signals. These types of purely handmade high-tech gadgets were usually more expensive, and the production rate was low since some parts could only be recycled or modified.
Other than the defensive equipment, Lu Huasheng also followed Jiang Chen's instructions and built a simple community center in the middle of the newly developed area.
Currently, the community center's main function was to serve as a cafeteria and meeting room. Currently, only one floor was built, and the plan was to build three floors high.
Thankfully, Wanghai City's fully automated water treatment plant meant the base didn't have to worry about drinking water. The polyethylene pipe could easily be connected to the city's water supply system. As long as there wasn't a large overflow of water, the water supply line wouldn't be shut down by the water treatment plant's smart program.
As for electricity, the electrician among the survivors not only improved the solar panel installed by Sun Jiao, but also doubled the number of panels on top of the building. Now, the base's electricity output reached 30KWh.
If used sparingly, the 30KWh was enough to meet the base's daily electricity demand. The extra electricity was stored in the K1 type energy battery to be used at night by the warehouse's refrigeration equipment.
On the other hand, because of the large amount of supplies Jiang Chen brought, Sun Jiao ordered Lu Huasheng to build two larger granaries in the mansion's backyard.
The granaries were built with a composite structure. The upper part stored food that wouldn't go bad, and a storage space was dug out with insulation boards around it to store food with a relatively low shelf life. Inside the granary was a refrigeration device acquired from the Zhao Corporation in August. Now, when people went to the underground granary to retrieve food, they had to wear a thick jacket. The entire basement was as cold as a giant freezer. The two granaries were also the base's biggest electricity consumer. Most of the electricity was allocated to maintaining the refrigeration device.
"How is the trade with the Zhao Corporation going?" After listening to Sun Jiao's report, Jiang Chen thought for a moment before he asked the question he was most concerned about.
"The trade reached one hundred thousand crystals at the beginning of August, which was the same as the last trade. The supplies exchanged were all items that the base lacked, such as the refrigeration device, energy battery, and other equipment, as well as firearms, special cement raw materials, steel, and other construction materials. The trade surplus was 2310 crystals. "Sun Jiao took out a tablet and opened the account book with her fingers as she reported to Jiang Chen in a professional manner.
He didn't expect this girl to be quite suitable to be a housekeeper. Jiang Chen was slightly surprised, but he couldn't help but smile. He thought the savage girl only knew how to fight and kill. He didn't expect her to have such a meticulous side.
That's right. What he needed were capable people, and capable people.
"That's right. We don't need to be frugal with the construction of the base. Only by spending as many crystals as possible can we maximize its value. At the current stage, our base doesn't need high-end energy like crystals. We are still in the construction phase. What we need more is the production equipment, construction materials, and life-saving weapons! "Jiang Chen nodded and praised.
At least in terms of "setting," as the representative of Fishbone Food Company, his priority was to build a "supply station." If he didn't buy more things in the beginning, it would be suspicious if he bought materials from Zhao Chenwu later on.
Since he was trading with a survival base outside the province, some things couldn't be transported from the headquarters, so he needed to buy them locally. Anyone could understand that. But if he only bought some steel and cement raw materials, then it wouldn't make sense for him to build a house here.
If there was a company headquarter outside the province, he would have to send some profits back, right? If he didn't find another excuse, it would be hard to get away with it. The trade surplus had to be increased to create the illusion that he was "sending crystals to the headquarter." The "agreement" between him and Zhao Chenwu was built on a foundation of lies, so it was crucial to keep the lie going.
After Sun Jiao heard Jiang Chen's praise, she was in a better mood. She smiled and continued, "On the other hand, the nearby survivor groups noticed us and tried to contact us."
"Survivor groups?" Jiang Chen raised his eyebrows.
"Yes. It's different from the Sixth Street's large-scale survival base. Because the danger level of the rural area is relatively low, the buildings are more intact after the war. Therefore, it only takes a small number of survivors to create a living space. There are 57 known community-level survivor groups around our base. The small ones only have two families, and the big ones have twenty to thirty families. Of course, this is only a rough estimate. "
"That many?" Jiang Chen looked at the screen in Sun Jiao's hand. The red dots on the screen made him frown even more.
Survivor groups …
If possible, he didn't want to contact them at this stage. At least before the base had a certain level of combat power, it would be dangerous to contact them.
There was no other reason other than the fact that the resources in Jiang Chen's hands were too large. He had to be wary of the eyes of strangers. At the end of the world, there was no law to speak of. A piece of bread could attract the pursuit of evil people, not to mention the dozens of tons of food in the base.
Although the Zhao Corporation wouldn't target Jiang Chen, it was because he thought this was only an outpost. The real food producer was the Fishbone Food Company thousands of miles away. If Zhao Chenwu knew that all the food was "made" by Jiang Chen, it would be hard to say what would happen.
However, those ordinary survivors naturally wouldn't understand the logic of killing a chicken and not taking the eggs. If they knew that there was enough food stored here for them to eat for several years, they would have immediately rushed over. Don't just look at how some survivor groups are usually kind, and occasionally they will exchange information with neighbors who have a good relationship. But when it comes to the survival issue of food, all pretenses will be removed. Without enough power, they can only face robbery.
Fortunately, the combat power of these survivor groups was similar to Jiang Chen's. Everyone used normal kinetic energy weapons. There were no high-end weapons such as power armors, tanks, or cannons. Therefore, the people who wandered over the past few days only tried to make contact and didn't show any hostility.
After all, the survivors weren't sure why this group of people had built such a huge fortification here.
They were also wary of the "strange neighbors" that suddenly appeared in front of their door.
Sun Jiao, of course, took some countermeasures.
For example, people in the base were strictly prohibited from eating in places other than the cafeteria. It was strictly prohibited to start a fire outside of the cafeteria. When eating in the cafeteria, the windows must be closed to prevent possible spies from discovering any clues that there was a large amount of food in the base. At the same time, Sun Jiao clearly rejected other survivors who requested to enter the base.
How should she approach those people? Everything would have to wait until Jiang Chen returned to make a decision.
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