Chapter 498 Base Expansion! The Population Increases!

Some people are dead but still alive. Some people are alive but dead.

Since ancient times, we have paid attention to passing on the family line from generation to generation, paying attention to benevolence, justice, etiquette, wisdom and trust.

Everyone desires to be immortal and leave some evidence of their existence in this world.

Before the end of the world, those who have left traces in the long river of time and space are all giants in various industries, or people who have created brilliance.

In addition to these people, ordinary people will also want to leave traces of their past existence, hoping that future generations can turn over and worship their ancestors.

However, in this apocalyptic world, human civilization is buried in the wave of zombies, and we don’t know when the incomplete things will be unearthed.

For Li Yu, after being reborn five years after the end of the world, he only had one dream, to live in the present.

Live well with your family and friends.

As for those higher expectations, more responsibilities, greater dreams, and a reputation that will last forever, he doesn't want it.

After you die, you still don’t know where you will go. When you are alive, it is meaningless to think about what you will do after you die.

Therefore, with this kind of thinking, Li Yu is much more understanding of people and things.

Nothingness, everything is nothingness.

In this case, his thoughts and actions will not be restricted by human nature, morality, and ideas.

Everyone who came back from the northern prison was a little exhausted physically and mentally. Now they just wanted to get back to the base and sleep as soon as possible.

After coming out of the villa, the third uncle and others no longer took detours, but went straight back to the base. There were no twists and turns on the way back.

Everyone in the car took turns driving and kept driving at a relatively fast speed.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, they were less than five kilometers away from the base and were about to arrive at the base.

Suddenly at this time, there was a buzzing sound from the intercom.

"This is the northern duty room on National Highway 319 at Da Zhangshu Base. Please answer when you receive it. Please answer when you receive it."

When the third uncle heard the voice in the earphones, he immediately remembered that there were people deployed at the base, and some people were arranged on the national highway outside the base.

Most of these people were under He Chao, so they took out their walkie-talkies and answered: "Roger, I'm Li Hongqian, where are you?"

"We are diagonally across from you, the tallest building." A voice came from the intercom.

The third uncle stuck his head out and looked at the roof of the Nanfeng Hotel.

I saw two people on the roof of the building, standing on the edge of the roof waving to them.

It seems that these people saw their own cars. The Unimog in the base has been modified and can be easily distinguished at a glance.

The third uncle knew these two people. He had been following He Chao in the city outside the base.

After the vehicle drove slowly to the bottom of the building, the two people on the roof also got down and briefly communicated with Uncle San and others.

The third uncle looked at these two people and asked: "How is the base now?"

One of the two men on duty replied: "Everything is normal."

The third uncle looked at their excited expressions and felt warm in his heart. He said with concern: "A few days ago, the zombie wave came. How did you escape?"

"Ah, well, we have a set of rules for a long time. After it rains, we have to return to the base. Our main responsibility here is to monitor whether there are any strange vehicles, and then when it doesn't rain, will there be any There will be zombie movements." One of the younger people said.

After finishing speaking, this person seemed to know what Uncle San and the others were doing, so he asked: "Captain Li, how are you? Is everything going well?"

The third uncle hesitated for a moment and said: "It's not bad, it's going well, but there are a lot of zombies in the northern provincial capital, so we had to drag it there for a long time."

Everyone communicated for a few more minutes. The third uncle nodded to the two of them and said, "We are going back to the base first. See you at the base later."

The two nodded quickly and waved goodbye.

After the third uncle finished speaking, he got into the car with everyone and set off on the way back to the base.

Five kilometers, considering the speed they were driving the vehicle, only took a few minutes.

What they didn't know was that from the opposite direction, on the same national highway, there was also a team of dozens of people heading towards the base.

5:30 p.m.

The third uncle and others appeared outside the gate of the base. The second uncle on the wall had communicated with them through the walkie-talkie before.

Seeing the vehicle of the third uncle and others, the second uncle quickly opened the door.

From the wall, Li Yu also came down to greet them.

The vehicle slowly drove to the Wengcheng of the base, and everyone in the vehicle came down to greet them.

With a smile on his face, Li Yu walked slowly to the Unimog's car.

The third uncle got off the car with a smile on his lips. This trip was not easy.

Li Yu looked at the third uncle and said: "Third uncle, you have worked hard, are you going well?"

The third uncle stopped his smile and said with a heavy face: "Overall, it went smoothly. There were no problems in dealing with those people in the past. It was just a heavy rain later and a zombie wave broke out. Moreover, the prison was near the provincial capital city. So there are a lot of zombies, estimated to reach 300,000!"

Three hundred thousand!

When Li Yu, Second Uncle and others heard the figure of 300,000, their pupils shrank slightly.

In the past, when zombie trends broke out, they would roughly estimate the number of zombies. Under normal circumstances, if there was no heavy rain, there would only be a few dozen sporadic zombies at night outside the base.

If it's light rain, there will only be a few hundred or a thousand zombies at most.

It rained continuously for days, just like the situation a few days ago, and there were only tens of thousands of zombies at most.

Three hundred thousand zombies, this number is extremely terrifying. In addition, if the sensitivity of these zombies is improved under the continuous heavy rain, they will have difficulty resisting even if they can hide inside the wall.

Li Yu asked with some doubts: "How did you survive the zombie tide under this scale?"

The third uncle said: "There is a water tower in the prison, which is more than thirty meters high. We hid on top of the water tower for more than ten days. Only then did we escape this disaster. A man from Lao Qin's group, a young man named Fang Yuan, Before evacuating, in order to cover everyone, he died at the corpse's mouth"

As soon as these words came out, everyone felt a little depressed.

Li Yu looked at Lao Qin and others and nodded.

The third uncle also thought for a long time on the road, and at this time he happened to propose some recent ideas with Li Yu:

"Xiaoyu, I've been thinking about it for a long time. I think the walls of our base need to be heightened and reinforced. The number of zombies we encountered in the base before did not exceed 100,000, but if we estimate, if the number of zombies besieging the base exceeds this After the numbers, I think the current base’s protection is still not enough.”

Li Yu pondered for a while, he had also thought about this question.

But in the more than a year since the end of the world, occasional heavy rains, droughts, strong winds, and extreme coldness have interrupted their reinforcement plans countless times. As long as they have time, they will reinforce the base.

So he said to the third uncle: "I think your opinion makes sense. We were short of manpower before, but now the number has increased. It's time to strengthen it again."

As soon as the language turned, Li Yu said again: "Now is also the time to expand the base. I think it's time to build another outer city."

As soon as these words came out, Lao Qin and others' eyes lit up.

Li Yu said to Lao Qin: "Uncle Qin, you contributed the lathe last time, and this time you also made a huge contribution when you went north. After counting the contribution value, you have reached the qualifications to enter the outer city. Congratulations!"

Smiles appeared on the faces of Lao Qin, Lao Zhou, Ah Hong and others, finally!

Li Yu went on to say: "You can enter Outer City No. 1 first, we will call it No. 1 Outer City for now, and we will build Outer City No. 2 together later, and then you can move there."

Lao Qin said: "Okay, I have no objection."

Li Yu has never dared to expand the base too much. It's not that it can't be built, and it's not that no one joins, but the most fundamental food problem.

If there is not enough food, as the number of people increases, the consumption of food will increase. The more people there are, the faster the consumption of food will be, and the final result will be chaos and collapse.

Food, no matter at any time, is the most fundamental guarantee for the stability of a group and a country.

If it hadn't been before the end of the world, two hundred tons of grain had been purchased in advance.

Even if the wall is built and there is such a mountain pond with a depth of more than ten meters to store water, Li Yu and the others cannot resist this extreme natural disaster.

Just during that drought, which lasted for several months, the crops that had been planted dried up.

Needless to say, how these crops can survive at tens of degrees below zero is also dependent on the underground planting room built at the beginning, combined with solar photovoltaic heating.

In the apocalypse, no one expected that the problem for human survival would be not only zombies, but also natural disasters!

After getting the military base and thousands of tons of grain reserves last time, it gave Li Yu some confidence to expand the population slightly.

After communicating with Lao Qin again, he asked Lao Qin to take people back to the place where he lived not far from the base, pack up all the things, and then move them to the building next to He Chao and the others.

Watching Lao Qin and others get into the car, the second uncle walked to Li Yu and said:

"Xiaoyu, He Bing and the others' contribution value has also reached. From the previous assistance in Luo Tianyan, to the collection of materials later, and then led people to search for the lathe, and later to find the gunpowder raw materials for making bullets, they have contributed. I think It’s time to bring their team in.”

He Bing?

The boy with a somewhat immature face and a high talent for handicrafts flashed in Li Yu's mind.

He and his college classmates have performed well in recent months.

So he said to his second uncle, "Where are He Bing and the others now?"

The second uncle said: "Today I just brought some found gasoline and exchanged it for some food. Now they are in the house near the national highway. They are neighbors with Lao Qin."

Hearing this, Li Yu saw Lao Qin getting into the car, ran a few steps quickly, and said to Lao Qin, "Uncle Qin, wait a moment, Xiaohang, Da Pao, you and Uncle Qin, let He Bing and the others go over there too." Pack up your things and tell them that you can enter the outer city."

Lao Qin paused for a moment, and Li Hang and Li Tie got into the car together.

Everyone likes freedom. If you live in an outer city, you will definitely not have the freedom to live alone outside.

But if you compare safety with being a little less free, safety is definitely more important.

In this apocalyptic world, being able to sleep peacefully is a luxury for many people.

Having experienced constant fear, zombies appearing at any time, and nerves kept tense all the time, most people cannot fall asleep, and the pain of insomnia is extremely exhausting.

After Lao Qin and others left, the third uncle asked Yang Tianlong, Lao Lu and others to move the zombie body out.

The third uncle said: "We encountered a rather strange thing yesterday. In a small villa, we saw this corpse, and there was a zombie baby next to it. I didn't know it was a corpse. It was pregnant before the zombie turned , or as a result of pregnancy and birth by zombies, if zombies can give birth to baby zombies, the future will be even more difficult!"

Zombies give birth to baby zombies!

Hearing this, Li Yu frowned. He remembered that he had never encountered such a thing before being reborn. If all zombies could give birth to small zombies, the number of zombies would be even more terrifying!

impossible!

But facing this corpse, Li Yu still used the walkie-talkie to call Bai Jie and Xiaolan over, and told Bai Jie what his third uncle had just said.

After Bai Jie arrived, she looked serious. When she saw the corpse of the zombie, she put on gloves and inspected it carefully.

After looking at it, he said to Li Yu:

"This corpse is very valuable. From a preliminary point of view, it should be pregnant and then turned into a zombie. It would be great if the zombie baby was also there, so we can be 100% sure.

But I didn’t bring the equipment here, how about this, I’ll take the corpse back for a detailed inspection, look at some of the corpse’s dark matter content, and compare it with some other zombies.”

Li Yu nodded and said, "Okay, I'm sorry, you guys should take precautions. Lao Lu, thank you for your help in carrying the body over."

Bai Jie looked around and found that no one was looking at her, so she looked at Li Yu.

Li Yu pretended not to see it.

After Bai Jie and others left, Li Yu saw that his time in Wengcheng was almost over, so he asked his third uncle and others to return to the base to rest.

Uncle San and the others have been stuck in a small space these days, and there is no new clothes to change. In addition, it has been raining, and their clothes have always been soaked.

Although it was placed in the small platform room to dry for several days, the moisture was too great. Now the third uncle and others all have a strange smell, which is very bad.

The third uncle and others dragged their exhausted bodies and handed over their firearms first, and then dispersed.

When Li Tie returned to the room, he soaked in the bathtub. The hot water made him so comfortable that he almost screamed.

So comfortable!

In the past ten days, I haven't had much rest. I've been soaked in the cold rain every day, and I have to fight zombies with a spear. My muscles all over my body are sore.

The physical and mental fatigue seemed to dissipate a lot in the bath.

After soaking in hot water for half an hour, Li Tie felt dizzy when he got up. Oops, he had soaked for too long.

After sitting on the ground for ten minutes, Li Tie stood up.

Hungry.

When he came down, he happened to have dinner, and Lao Lu and others came down with him.

It had been half a month since Li Tie had eaten a hot meal, and Li Tie's inner happiness almost overflowed.

It's nice to be home.