Chapter 45: The Old Man Gossips
After greeting for a while, Qin Qin said the purpose of this visit. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info "Xiaoya, we came here this time, in fact, we want to inquire about tomorrow's big operation?" What does the sign on the door of your office that says "Assignment Distribution" mean? Could it be that the base will often send us tasks to do in the future? Is it mandatory? ”
Li Ya said with a sudden look: "I said why did you run upstairs, it turned out to be for this." In fact, the base has not officially released any tasks, which will not start until the points policy is introduced, and I am now here to sort out some registration information. But don't worry, the tasks to be released by the base in the future are not mandatory, but will be rewarded with points to attract everyone to take the initiative to claim them. The points system is the monetary policy that the base will soon launch, in the base, points can be exchanged for food, water, daily necessities or rent. In the same way, you can also exchange points for handing in your supplies. After the points system is officially activated, the base will no longer directly collect materials as rent, you have to exchange the materials for points first, and then use the points to pay the rent. ”
Qin Qin nodded thoughtfully, although there was one more step in the procedure, but in fact, it was good to do this, at least the management of the base would be much more formal, and the division of labor among various departments would be clear, and the efficiency of work would also be improved. "And what about tomorrow's action?" Qin Qin asked again.
Li Ya said with some confusion: "Captain Zhang Hao, hasn't he informed you yet?" ”
"No, we haven't seen him in the past two days." Qin Qin shook his head.
Li Ya thought for a while and said, "That's probably because you guys leave early every day, right?" I got up early today before eight o'clock to tell Captain Zhang the news, and he was very interested after hearing it, and said that he would also inform you. Maybe you went out early, and he didn't run into it. ”
Qin Qin said, "Oh, that's it. We did leave early, and we went out at eight o'clock, and we just missed it with you and Zhang Hao. ”
Li Ya smiled and said, "It's okay, anyway, you guys are here, I'll gossip with you again." You know that our base was established by Head Chen, right? The soldiers he brought with him were divided into two brigades, the base guard team and the material gathering team. ”
"Well, I've heard people talk about these two names, and you can probably guess what they do." Qin Qin replied.
"Have you just heard of it? Let me tell you more about it. The base guard team is responsible for guarding the security of our base, and if there is a civil dispute or criminal case in the base, the guard team will also intervene to solve it, and you can basically understand the guard team as security guards plus police. There are more than 60 people in the base guard, and they work in three shifts a day, which means that there are people on duty all day. At the same time, each squad has a team responsible for guarding the gate and patrolling the base, of course, if there are zombies on the periphery of the community, the guards are also responsible for cleaning them up. ”
"The material collection team is better understood, they are divided into several teams, and they are only responsible for going outside to find supplies every day, and the guards in the base and us civilians all rely on them to support them. I don't know how many people there are, but they should be about the same as the guards. The reason why the base wants to launch a point system seems to be because they have just found a manufacturer that makes magnetic stripe cards and saved some employees, so they plan to issue an identity card to everyone in the base to facilitate future management. I've also heard that the collection team has also found a few generators, which are expected to be able to supply the management office soon. ”
Qin Qin listened carefully to Li Ya's explanation, and responded from time to time. She has always felt that her recent gains have been great, but compared with the base, her own harvest is a little insufficient. This is the third day after the end of the world, and the base is about to have to make an identity card. When the power is turned on again, even if you can only enjoy the artificial light for a while every day in the management office, it is still a very rare opportunity. It seems that although the southern suburbs base occupies a limited area, the living conditions are estimated to be no worse than those of the large bases. Captain Chen, who established the base, is really a very powerful person, and he must pay his respects when he has the opportunity.
Li Ya's voice continued to sound: "Tomorrow's big operation is actually the material collection team's plan to capture the largest comprehensive shopping center in the south of our city, Jinhua Shopping Mall. I'm sure you've all been there, but the basement floor of Kam Wah Mall is a supermarket, and from the first to the fifth floor are cosmetics and jewelry, clothing, shoes and hats, home groceries, household appliances and a food center. With the exception of the food court on the fifth floor and the household appliances on the fourth floor, everything else is the supplies we currently need. ”
Several people in Qin Qin's team know this Jinhua shopping mall, which is the closest shopping center to their university, because the things in the supermarket are cheap, and the clothing, shoes and hats upstairs are fashionable and have many brands, so they are very popular with these college students. Although Qin Qin doesn't like to go shopping, she has to take Yang Lan to go around a few times every semester. It's just that I don't know why the material collection team of the base has to gather people to go together, although there must be hundreds of zombies in the mall, and if you don't do it, it will even break a thousand. But there are also a lot of people in the material collection team, and they are all military personnel with tacit understanding, whether it is through blocking the door or other methods, it is not a problem to slowly empty the zombies layer by layer. Thinking of this, Qin Qin asked the doubts in his heart.
After hearing this, Li Ya explained with a smile: "I also asked my uncle this question, and he said that the base means that although they can fight slowly and slowly, it is more dangerous and takes too much time. Kam Wah Shopping Mall is located on Kam Wah Road, which is a busy commercial street on weekdays, and most of the shops on the street are thriving. If the base wants to be monopolized, it may take a whole day just to enter the mall, let alone clean up the mall. The most optimistic estimate is that it will take three days to clean up the zombies alone, and it is possible to move slowly for a week, and the base really doesn't want to take this risk. ”
"And the most important thing is not the safety issue, but the movement of materials. According to my uncle, the day they escaped from the barracks, they only drove two military trucks. After two days of searching, three trucks and two buses have been added, and the supermarket itself will not have more than ten trucks. It sounds like a lot, but compared to the amount of supplies in a shopping mall, it's too inconspicuous. It is also very troublesome to want to go back and forth one by one, and the base has limited manpower, and it takes several hours to load and unload materials. ”
"Once the news leaks out, if other bases, gangs or individuals take the opportunity to grab supplies, our base can't do anything with them. Therefore, Commander Chen felt that it was better to not flow the fertilizer and water into the fields of outsiders, and organized all the squads with cars in the base to try to move the materials back at one time. Or at least bring back all the important supplies, and leave the rest that is not very necessary for future generations. ”
After listening to Li Ya's explanation, Qin Qin admired Captain Chen's open-mindedness even more. To be honest, Jinhua Shopping Mall is a big piece of fat, but any organization that has the opportunity to eat it is probably reluctant to give a large piece of cake to others. But the leadership of the base in the southern suburbs thought clearly, it was very difficult for them to monopolize it anyway, and it was better to call the rest of the base to act together than to take a big risk and the possibility of being left behind. In that way, no matter how much you eat, at least it will be under the name of the southern suburbs base.
Li Ya continued: "The specific details of the operation will not be announced until you agree to join, and if you are interested, you will meet at the fountain square at the entrance of the community at six o'clock tomorrow morning." At that time, Deputy Regiment Commander Wang, who was in charge of this operation, will explain in detail, including the requirements for joining and the distribution of materials afterwards. If you'd like to join, you'll need to register your individual number and squad name, and you'll be ready to go together after the base is arranged. Personally, I think you can go and listen to it, Captain Zhang Hao really wants to go anyway. If you find something inappropriate, you can choose not to participate. ”
After some answers, Qin Qin thanked the enthusiastic Li Ya and took her friends home. No one spoke along the way, and everyone seemed to be silently thinking about the upcoming action, gauging whether their team should participate. As soon as he entered the house, the little fat man Lu Letian couldn't help but express his opinion, and he raised a very critical issue. "By the way, what's the name of our team?"
Qin Qin is stuck. She originally thought that Lu Letian was going to put forward a reason to go or not to go, but she was just about to listen to it, but she was confused by this inexplicable question. "What?"
"Name." Lu Letian asked very seriously. "What's the name of our team, didn't Li Ya say that she would register her name when the time comes?"
"But we haven't decided whether to go or not, have we?" Qin Qin asked hesitantly.
"Hey, where can you think about it then, I don't want my team to be called the Sunshine Squad Dream Team, it's too vulgar." Lu Letian said very seriously.
"Well, I can't think of it just yet. Sister Lan, go cook first, I need to eat something good to replenish my brain, do you agree? Qin Qin patted his head and quickly changed the topic.
"Completely agree, Sister Lan, Buddha, you go slowly, and the little one will wash the vegetables for you." Hearing the delicious food, Lu Letian immediately stopped worrying about the name, but warmly beckoned Yang Lan into the kitchen.
Yang Lan glanced at Lu Letian and pulled Qin Qin to the kitchen to put water to cook.
An hour later, the potato roast beef, cold onion salad, cabbage stewed vermicelli and tomato scrambled eggs made by private chef Yang Lan were served one after another, and the main dishes were white rice porridge boiled in a large pot and a few hard breads secretly taken out by Qin Qin. Although she was eager to make a new recipe for freshly baked bread, she couldn't explain the taste of freshly baked bread, so she had to settle for the next best thing, and hard bread was not unpleasant anyway. Due to the limitations of ingredients, although Yang Lan does not cook many dishes and the taste is only at the level of home-cooked dishes, the people who have not eaten stir-fried vegetables for a few days still snatched up the four dishes like crazy, and Lu Letian even wiped the vegetable soup at the bottom of the plate with bread, and basically did not need to wash the dishes.
Yang Lan watched everyone enthusiastically grab vegetables to eat, and the hidden guilt in her heart finally dissipated, she looked at everyone with a smile and said, "It seems that you all like the dishes I make, since this is the case, I think we should sign up tomorrow to follow the people from the base." Although it may be dangerous, there are more fruits and vegetables in the supermarket, and those that are durable are estimated to be not bad until now, and because of the cold weather, frozen meat may also survive. If we don't go over, I'm afraid we won't have a chance in the future. ”
Qin Qin hurriedly nodded and said, "I think so too, the ingredients in the small restaurant are limited, and it is quite troublesome to collect them one by one." It's better to take a risk and follow the base to take down the mall. I also have a spatial ability, and although it certainly can't compare to the gains of the base, it's definitely a lot more than the ordinary people I go with me. ”
Zhou Beichen thought for a while and said, "I also agree to participate." Do you remember? Li Ya said that the third floor of the mall sells home furnishing department stores, and we still lack a few quilts to spend the winter. It took me a day to visit those hotels today, and I didn't see any home goods stores on the road. I figured instead of wandering around, we might as well follow along, at least we could be sure there must be a quilt there. ”
Dou Le and Zhao Qi also nodded in agreement, Lu Letian touched his chin and thought about it, and asked his question again: "Then what is the name of our team?" ”
The crowd was silent.