The post-apocalyptic world has a space full of supplies.

Chapter 32 Reinforcing the Security Base

Around noon, Lu Yuan and his comrades saw from their dormitory windows that the three supply teams, 0922, 0843, and 0419, had all returned fully loaded. Qin Yuan, seeing his comrades return safely, was as excited as a dog among the crowd.

During lunch, Lu Yuan and the others learned that not long after 0922 arrived at the factory warehouse, the highly intelligent zombie returned with its zombie army.

This time, the number was even greater than before, with nearly three or four hundred zombies blocking the supply team inside the factory. Moreover, the zombies brought back signal jamming equipment, making it impossible for their walkie-talkies to contact the base, which was something 0922 and the others had never expected.

The 20-man supply team was facing a horde of about a hundred zombies who had no concept of life or death. A direct confrontation would basically mean certain death. They could only rely on their agility compared to the zombies, using the stacked shelves in the warehouse to jump around and wear them down, hoping that the base would notice something was wrong and send reinforcements.

When 0843 arrived, 0922 had been surrounded in the warehouse for more than six hours, and their ammunition and stamina were almost exhausted. The two teams were separated by the remaining two hundred or so zombies in front of the warehouse door. Inside the warehouse, 0922 was barely holding on, while outside, 0843's heavy firepower was drawing attention, trying to give 0922's team a chance to break through the zombie horde's encirclement.

However, under the command of that highly intelligent zombie, the two supply teams were completely unable to gain the upper hand in this battle. It wasn't until after 8 o'clock, when they could no longer contact the two teams, that the base sent Team 0419. With nearly 60 members from the three teams, they finally turned the tide and wiped out the entire zombie horde, and even captured the tall and strong highly intelligent zombie.

After the three teams talked face-to-face, they learned that the zombies had brought back a signal jammer. Fortunately, there were no casualties, but it gave them a deeper understanding of the zombies.

When the supply team returned, everyone in the base was visibly happy. After all, the four supply trucks of 0922 and 0843 were fully loaded, and 0419 and his team had gone there in two rescue vehicles. The vehicles were a bit small, but they were also packed full. At least for a while, the base wouldn't have to worry about food.

By dinner time, Lu Yuan and his team's identity cards had been updated, and they were now able to receive the same food as the supply team members. Currently, they would have an extra serving of eggs and milk for breakfast, and more meat for dinner and lunch. However, they would temporarily have negative points deducted from their scores, which would be cleared after they completed the mission and earned points.

Several men who had also come to eat nearby saw Lu Yuan and his group's meals and argued with the canteen manager, an older woman, with some dissatisfaction. But even in the apocalypse, the manager was still the manager, and she silenced the men with a single sentence: "You're all tall and strong, do you dare to go out with the army to find supplies like those college students?"

A little while later, Gu Nanfeng also got his food and sat down next to Pei Sihao. He had spent the day familiarizing himself with all the current research projects at the base with Professor Wang. Normally, someone would deliver meals to the lab, and it seemed that he would be spending a long time in the lab before the virus rain arrived, unable to return to his dormitory. So, he took advantage of dinner time to come and find Lu Yuan and the others.

Even after learning that Lu Yuan and the others had successfully become unofficial members of Qin Yuan's 0788 supply team, he still couldn't help but remind them one by one to be careful when going out on missions, since the zombie virus was highly contagious and there was currently no cure.

Especially after recalling Pei Simin's various instructions to him over the phone, he emphasized the dangers of going out to Pei Sihao again. Finally, Pei Sihao impatiently replied with "long-winded" and ended the conversation.

Although he had given instructions to everyone, and even told Yang Xiao, who had some experience, to keep a close eye on them, he was still a little worried because Gu Nanfeng had to stay at the base for the time being and couldn't be with them.

After dinner, he went to see Qin Yuan and asked him to take good care of them, especially Lu Yuan and Pei Sihao, when Qin Yuan went on missions. He also told Qin Yuan about Pei Sihao's family situation.

Qin Yuan was startled to learn that Pei Sihao's father was the Minister of the Military Department in Beijing, and that his elder brother was the Commander-in-Chief of Beijing's First Security Base. He immediately assured Gu Nanfeng that he could rest assured, as he had already instructed his team members to pay special attention to the safety of several individuals, given that they were all inexperienced students, and now they needed to be even more careful.

DAY59

Because after the three teams from 0922 returned the day before, the base command quickly dispatched several smaller teams and ten supply trucks to the prefabricated vegetable factory, completely emptying its warehouse in one go, thus ensuring the base's food supply.

Therefore, before the second wave of viral outbreaks arrived, the base command suspended all field missions of the troop supply teams.

After Lu Yuan and his team became unofficial members of 0788, their first task was still the base defense wall construction task that they saw on the canteen task panel.

After the municipal government command designated the central hospital as a municipal-level safety base, in order to ensure that it could accommodate more survivors, the municipal government added a third layer of protective electric fences, extending nearly 100 meters outward from the original hospital area. Since the central hospital already occupied a very large area, the amount of work involved in constructing the defensive wall between the protective electric fence and the hospital's outer wall was considerable.

Gu Nanfeng reported to Pei Simin of Beijing that the forecast time for the second viral rain was August 30th. In order to avoid any discrepancies with the forecast in Yang Xiao's dream, the task of reinforcing the security base is indeed urgent.

The top leader of the G Province and Municipal Government Command, along with all the command staff, called on all capable laborers, regardless of age, to participate in the construction of the defensive wall at the base.

So in the days leading up to the second wave of viral outbreaks, everyone in the base who could lift and move things, from teenagers to the elderly in their sixties and seventies, worked tirelessly with the few remaining engineering robots and other functional robots in the base to carry out infrastructure construction. The defensive wall was also erected with lightning speed, and the entire project progressed much faster.

This made Gu Nanfeng, who was in the laboratory, breathe a sigh of relief. Knowing that Pei Sihao and Lu Yuan would not have to go out on missions for the time being, his heart, which had been hanging in suspense, finally slowly settled down. In the next few days, he could devote himself to the defense research work. After the virus rain, he should be able to apply to Professor Wang and then go back to be an unofficial member of 0788 with Lu Yuan and the others.