The careful thinking between that group of strange women naturally had nothing to do with Jiang Chen.

After catching a taxi, he went straight back to the Seven Days Hotel.

Aisha was studying Chinese hard at this time. After seeing Jiang Chen come back, the originally indifferent face couldn't help but show a slightly shy smile.

It's like a newlywed wife.

However, this smile really made him a little unbearable, because the guilt was really bursting!

Although Jiang Chen hadn't married her or anything, he always felt like a cheating husband, and when he came home to face a gentle and considerate wife

Why don't you restrain a little bit in the future?

He smiled a little flusteredly, and then he took Aisha with him to a nearby restaurant for a hearty dinner without pork. He still has a very good impression of this helpless girl. He also has crooked thoughts such as taking it after raising his body, no matter how he says.

Yes, there is.

But it's not a thing to indulge in Gentle Township all day long, and he hasn't been back to the end of the world for a while to see it, and he's worried about it.

Nothing was said all night.

The next morning, Jiang Chen watched Aisha go to the language class with her bag, left a few red tickets and a note on the table [If I don't come back, don't wait for me to eat], and then left the hotel, found a corner where no one and the camera traveled back to the end of the world.

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"You're finally back, which chick did you sleep with last night?" Sun Jiao clasped her hands to her chest with a smile and looked at Jiang Chen.

Jiang Chen smiled embarrassedly, quietly diverted the topic, and began to ask about the construction of the base.

Although Sun Jiao is very delicate and naughty, she can still distinguish between priorities and priorities. Taking a deep breath and leaving irrelevant questions and complaints behind, Sun Jiao began to tell Jiang Chen about the recent situation of the base.

First of all, there is the construction of infrastructure.

The site's fence has been successfully advanced 200 meters in the direction of the sewer entrance, opening up about two vacant lots the size of a football field (about 20 acres). The half-ruined wooden cottages in the middle have been bulldozed by the survivors, but the foundations underneath can be used directly. As for the appliances and furniture in those small villas, they were moved to the open space. If it is repaired, it will be used, and if it is not repaired, it will be disassembled into parts.

Lu Huasheng, the chief architect of the base, commanded several construction teams to rebuild four more proposed dormitory buildings on the existing foundation. These three-storey simple dormitories can accommodate up to 30 rooms each. As for why 4 buildings were built, it was naturally under Jiang Chen's instructions to prepare for recruiting people in the future.

One of them has been almost completed and occupied, and the remaining three are under construction.

In addition, three-storey hardened cement towers were built on the four corners of the site. That is, there are two in the backyard of the villa and two in front of the newly developed land. Light machine guns were erected on the watchtowers, and a camouflage net was simply covered on the outside, and a man was assigned to stand guard in each tower.

Due to the remote location here, the danger of zombies is not high, and it will be more difficult to deal with xenos when you walk more than ten kilometers in the direction of the sixth block, and only when you enter the city will there be more difficult xenomorphs to deal with, so the object that the fish bone survivor base needs to guard against at present is only other survivors with ulterior motives. However, most of the survivors would have walked around the fence when they saw the wall and machine guns.

After two months, it should be ready for a Sentinel Machine Gun. Jiang Chen has already placed an order with Zhao Chenwu's military factory, 4 sentry machine guns, each with a unit price of 3,000 subcrystals, which can be laser-guided shooting and can automatically identify heat source signals. These hand-made high-tech gadgets are generally more expensive and produce very little in large quantities, as some parts can only be recycled or modified from other parts.

In addition to these defensive equipment, Lu Huasheng also built a simple community center in the middle of this newly expanded area according to Jiang Chen's instructions.

At present, the main function of the community center is only to serve as a canteen and meeting room. At present, only one floor has been built, and the plan is to build three stories high.

Thankfully, Wanghai's fully automated water treatment plant allows the base to not have to worry about drinking water. Water pipes made of polyethylene can be easily connected to the city's water supply system, and as long as there is no accident with a large amount of water, this section of the water supply line will not be shut down by the water treatment plant's intelligent program.

As for electricity, the electrician among the survivors not only improved the simple solar panels installed by Sun Jiao, but also doubled the power generation panels on the roof of the building, and now the power generation capacity in the base has reached 30KWh.

If you save a little money, this 30KWh is enough to meet the electricity demand of the base for a day. The excess power is stored in a barrel-sized K1 shaped battery for the warehouse's refrigeration equipment to use at night.

On the other hand, due to the huge amount of supplies that Jiang Chen brought last time, Sun Jiao instructed Lu Huasheng to rebuild two larger granaries in the backyard of the villa.

The granaries are built according to a composite structure. The upper part stores non-perishable food, and a storage space has been dug into the ground and a thermal insulation board is attached around it to store food with a relatively low shelf life. Among them, there is a refrigeration device obtained from the trade with the Zhao Group in early August, and now when you go into the underground granary to get grain, you have to wear a thick cotton jacket to go in, and the whole basement is as cold as a big freezer. These two granaries are also the base's largest consumers of electricity, and basically half of the power resources are allocated to maintain the operation of the refrigeration plant.

"How's the trade with the Zhao Group going?" After listening to Sun Jiao's report, after pondering for a while, Jiang Chen asked the question he was most concerned about.

"At the beginning of August, the trade volume reached 100,000 subcrystalline points, which is basically the same as the last trade volume. The materials in exchange are basically in short supply for base construction, such as refrigeration devices, energy gathering batteries and other application equipment, as well as munitions materials and special cement raw materials, steel and other building materials and other things, with a trade surplus of 2310 subcrystals. Sun Jiao took out a tablet, called up the account book with her fingers, and said to Jiang Chen very professionally.

Unexpectedly, this chick is quite suitable for being a housekeeper's wife, Jiang Chen was slightly surprised, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but hook up a smile. He originally thought that this barbarian woman would only fight and kill, but he didn't expect that there would be such a careful side.

Yes, what he needs is capable people, and capable people.

"Yes, there is no need to save on the construction of the base, and Yajing can only give full play to its maximum value by spending as much as possible. At this stage, our base does not need high-end energy such as subcrystal, and what we need more in the foundation stage of construction is those production equipment, construction materials, and life-saving weapons!" Jiang Chen nodded and said approvingly.

At least as far as the "setting" is concerned, he, the agent of the fish bone food products company, is still the first priority to establish a "supply station". I didn't buy much of these things in the early stage, and it was a bit suspicious to ask Zhao Chenwu to buy building materials in the later stage.

You said that since you are trading with survivor bases outside the province, some things are inconvenient to transport from the headquarters, and you need to buy them on the spot, which everyone can understand. But just buy some raw materials such as steel and cement, and keep building houses and walls here, right?

If there really is a company headquartered in another province, you have to send some benefits back, right? If you don't find any other excuse, I'm afraid this problem is really not easy to fool. The proportion of the trade surplus had to be gradually increased in order to create the illusion of "sending the trade income of subcrystals to the company's headquarters". The "covenant" between him and Zhao Chenwu was originally based on a lie, so how to continue to round this lie is very crucial.

After hearing Jiang Chen's praise, Sun Jiao was obviously in a good mood, and then smiled, and continued: "On the other hand, the nearby survivor groups noticed us and tentatively made contact with us. ”

"Survivor group?" Jiang Chen frowned.

"Yes. Unlike the Sixth Block, which is a large survivor base within the city limits. Because the suburbs have a relatively low degree of environmental danger and a high degree of post-war architectural integrity, it only takes a small number of survivors to unite to carve out a certain amount of living space. There are currently 57 known community-level survivor groups around our base, ranging from two families to twenty or thirty families. Of course, this is only a rough statistic. ”

"So many?" Jiang Chen looked at the screen of the tablet in Sun Jiao's hand, and the red dots marked on it made his brows furrow even deeper.

Survivor groups

He is reluctant to engage with them at this stage, if possible. At least until the base has a certain level of combat effectiveness, it is dangerous to come into contact with those people.

For no other reason, the resources in Jiang Chen's hands were too huge, and he had to beware of the prying eyes of those strangers. In the last days, there is no law at all, and a piece of bread can attract the pursuit of the most vicious people, not to mention the dozen tons of grain in the base.

Although the Zhao Group would not pay attention to Jiang Chen, it was because he thought that this was just an outpost, and the real producer of food was a fish bone grain product company thousands of miles away. If Zhao Chenwu really knew that all the food was "conjured" by Jiang Chen, then it would be a little difficult to say.

However, those ordinary survivors naturally don't know what to do about killing chickens and not taking eggs, if they know that there is enough food for them to eat for several years, they are afraid that they will immediately pick up the guy and kill it. Don't look at some survivor groups, they are usually quite kind, and occasionally communicate with neighbors who have a good relationship. But if it comes to the existential aspect of food, all camouflage will be removed, and there will be no enough strength to face plunder.

Fortunately, the combat effectiveness of these survivor groups is only half a pound or two as Jiang Chen and them, everyone uses ordinary kinetic energy weapons, and there are no high-end gadgets such as power armor and tank artillery, so the people who have wandered over these days are only making tentative contacts, and have not shown any hostility.

After all, the survivors were also unsure, what the hell was the purpose of this group of people building such a large fortification here?

They are also wary of the "strange neighbors" who suddenly appear on their doorstep.

In this regard, Sun Jiao naturally took some countermeasures.

For example, it is strictly forbidden for people in the base to eat outside the canteen, it is strictly forbidden to light a fire outside the canteen, and the windows must be closed when eating in the canteen, so that peeps who may exist outside can not find any clues that there is a large amount of food in the base. At the same time, Sun Jiao also clearly refused the other survivors who requested to enter the base.

What kind of attitude should be used to contact those people? Everything will have to wait until Jiang Chen comes back to make a decision.

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