Big Camphor Tree Base. Weng City.
Flurries of snow fluttered down, landing on everyone.
Everyone's clothes were covered with snowflakes. Li Yu walked from the car to the rest area that had been converted into a Research Room.
As soon as he entered the Research Room, a wave of heat hit him. Since they had decided to make this place into a temporary research room, they had simply reinforced the room.
Then they pulled in so electrical wires, and now the room was relatively warm.
Upon entering, he saw Bai Jie dressed in a white doctor's coat. The loose-fitting doctor's coat, now donned by Bai Jie, could not conceal her figure.
Her curvaceous body was especially noticeable now as Bai Jie was slightly bent over, her eyes close to the microscope, seemingly looking at sothing.
Hearing the door open, Bai Jie turned her head and saw Li Yu.
Li Yu sat down on the stool and asked, "Any findings?"
Bai Jie frowned and said:
"We're still researching. From what we can see now, the virus spreads very fast and it's continuously mutating and updating, showing great vitality.
I need more samples, and we're currently short of so dical equipnt. I have made a list; could you please bring so back if you co across them while you're out?"
Li Yu took the list passed to him by Bai Jie and glanced over it, noticing so items that he didn't recognize. So he said:
"There are so items on this list that I've never seen before. How will I find them?"
Bai Jie said: "Look at the remarks on the back, there are descriptions of what these items look like, and usually, the equipnt will be labeled with their nas."
Li Yu nodded and said: "Alright, when we go out, we will look for these items."
Bai Jie smiled, sat down, then glanced at the door. Seeing the door was closed, she leaned closer to Li Yu and asked, "Was everything smooth on your trip? Did you find the inverter?"
While talking, she unintentionally moved her delicate body closer to Li Yu.
Li Yu, looking at the beauty spot at the corner of Bai Jie's mouth, nodded and said:
"There's a snowstorm outside. Yang Tianlong got hurt, he's now in the dical room, but fortunately, we found the inverter...
Ouch—what are you doing?"
Bai Jie, having taken off her gloves, reached out with one hand and grabbed little Li Yu, who was at the rcy of her clutch.
Growing visibly with the naked eye.
"Where's Brother Yu?"
"He's inside the Research Room."
Suddenly, Yutong's voice was heard, and Li Yu raised his eyebrows slightly, staring at Bai Jie.
Bai Jie smiled, withdrew her hand, then twisted her graceful body, putting on her gloves, and said, "Director Li, next ti you can bring a male Zombie back, I could make a comparison..."
Knock, knock, knock—
A knock at the door sounded, and Li Yu tucked little Li Yu away and stood up to open the door.
He opened the door.
Yutong was wearing a hat covered in snowflakes, and she said: "Brother Yu, I was looking for you just now. Did you get hurt? I saw Yang Tianlong looked like he was injured..."
Li Yu said with a smile: "It's fine waiting inside the base; I'm not injured. Let's go back."
Then he brushed off the snow on Yutong's hat with his hand.
As soon as he stepped out of the door, as if he rembered sothing, he turned his head and said to Bai Jie, "The equipnt you ntioned earlier, I will help look for it when I'm out."
"Thank you, Director Li," said Bai Jie, politely and graciously.
Except for Yang Tianlong who had returned to the base earlier due to his injuries, everyone else stayed in Weng City for about fifteen minutes more.
And then they drove towards the residential area.
On the vehicle, Li Yu said to Li Hang:
"Xiao Hang, once we get there, directly replace the inverter, and also think of a way to protect it from the elents like wind, rain, and snowstorms.
For the photovoltaic side, check if there are any other issues, and perform a comprehensive inspection.
Moreover, all the electronic products we brought back from the electronics wholesale market, let's store them in the underground warehouse we used previously, that place has been secured, it's waterproof and moisture-proof."
Li Hang nodded and replied, "Got it, Brother Yu. I'll go and do it as soon as we get off."
Li Yu continued, "Dapao, help Xiao Hang later."
Dapao, driving the car, responded, "All right."
Before long, everyone arrived inside the base.
As people disembarked from the vehicle, Second Uncle and others were already waiting for them there.
Li Yu said to Second Uncle, "Second Uncle, let's move the stuff to the warehouse first, in addition to the inverters, we also got so other electronic products."
Second Uncle nodded and said, "Mhm, okay, you guys go rest, we'll handle the moving."
Then he called over so workers and others to help with the moving, and with everyone's collective effort, the items were quickly relocated to the warehouse.
Holding a notebook, Second Uncle checked the list with Li Yu: "Xiao Yu, I just made a count, there are 35 inverters, a total of 135 photovoltaic panels, 35 chip capacitors, 13 high-capacity capacitors, 14 high-precision adjustable potentioters...
In addition to these, there are also so watches, totaling 240, digital caras 6 units, video ga devices 10 units, we even got these things.
Also, there are 5 speakers, 5 microwaves, 23 radios...."
As he listened on, once Second Uncle finished listing everything, Li Yu suddenly said, "Second Uncle, today Shang Xue'er said to , if we encounter an even more powerful force, what should we do?"
Second Uncle was taken aback at the question, frowned, and said, "What do you think?"
Li Yu didn't speak, his gaze flashing with thoughtfulness as he replied, "Second Uncle, I want to hear what you think."
After thinking for a while, Second Uncle stayed silent for two minutes before finally speaking:
"I've always had this concern. Actually, both Third Uncle and I were worried about your state before. During that ti, we killed a lot of zombies, and quite a few people as well.
But later on, I realized that a lot of what you did was prescient. If we had let those thousands of refugees in, we might've ended up like Jiefang City, destroyed.
When I was in business, I knew one thing: interest drives human nature, especially in a post-apocalyptic world.
Right now, our base is relatively stable because we have provided them with enough benefits to survive.
However, if there cos a day when no one can fill their bellies, then everything will fall apart.
We need to beco stronger and have more people, but we must also have enough benefits to offer them; in other words, we need to be able to feed them.
Currently, with droughts followed by heavy rains and then blizzards, we don't have enough food to support everyone.
I think our current approach is correct, to develop steadily amidst stability."
Li Yu let out a long sigh of relief. He had been struggling with this issue too. Although he didn't encounter any particularly powerful forces before his rebirth, that doesn't an they weren't out there.
In the post-apocalyptic world before his rebirth, many people had a very limited range of activity. In the dangerous post-apocalyptic world, people would minimize movent as long as they could find a safe place, unless they had no choice but to move to survive.
Li Yu said, "My thoughts are similar to yours. Second Uncle, I'm going to go rest now."
Second Uncle nodded and said, "Xiao Yu, you've worked hard, go and get so rest."
Li Yu got up and walked upstairs, his mind having been on edge these past few days, he finally had a chance to properly rest for a while.
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