Although everyone was enthusiastic about starting the measurements, the two-kilometer range was still too large, and the accuracy of the angles needed to be ensured. After a whole day of work, until the sun set and the sky became completely dark, they had only measured an area of about one kilometer. However, within the measured area, every hundred meters had been measured repeatedly, with no deviation in accuracy. If viewed from above, with the tent where Wen Le and his team were stationed as the center, the entire measured area looked like a dense network of lines, like a spider web.
After finishing dinner, the busy people didn’t rush to rest, but gathered excitedly outside Xiao Wen’s tent, eager to know what they had planned for the day. After all, it was going to be their future base, their long-awaited home.
Han Ya helplessly looked at the people poking their heads and brains outside the tent. He stood up and took the final plan, which had been marked very clearly by Lu Jianye when he drew it, making it easy for those without construction experience to understand. He taped it to the outside of the tent and covered it with plastic wrap.
There was no need for Han Ya to explain anything. Lu Jianye had already marked all the facilities very clearly when he drew the plan, making it easy for those without construction experience to understand.
“Everyone go back and rest. Breakfast will be served at 7:30 am and we will start work at 8:00 am. During breakfast, Ren Cheng will assign everyone’s tasks. Get some rest early and be ready to work hard tomorrow!” Half an hour later, seeing that people were still discussing quietly outside the tent, Xiao Wen went out to send everyone away.
Although most of the time it was Han Ya who gave orders to everyone, Xiao Wen’s authority did not diminish in the slightest. Perhaps it was precisely because Xiao Wen rarely communicated with everyone up close that he had a somewhat mysterious and aloof demeanor.
Feeling the people outside the tent obediently leaving because of Xiao Wen’s words, Wen Le pursed his lips and smiled. Xiao Wen’s leadership was quite intimidating!
Han Ya leaned against the table, watching Wen Le smiling alone, and the corners of his mouth twitched silently.
Wen Le could be said to be the most intimidating among them. Han Ya couldn’t understand why everyone subconsciously didn’t want to provoke Wen Le. Although Wen Le smiled very rarely after the Red Moon, even if his face was expressionless, his handsome and delicate face didn’t belong to a vicious person!
Of course, Han Ya wouldn’t bother studying this for no reason. Seeing Xiao Wen coming back, Han Ya stood up, straightened his clothes, said goodbye, and went back to the car.
Only after the house and heating facilities were built, could those of them without abilities get rid of the cramped carriages, right?!
Xiao Wen took off his shoes and half-hugged Wen Le in his arms, falling onto the bed.
“What are you smiling at?” Xiao Wen kissed Wen Le’s cheek.
Wen Le shook his head and didn’t say anything.
Xiao Wen lowered his head and looked at Wen Le, who lay quietly in his arms with his eyes down, still obedient. Xiao Wen could sense the changes in Wen Le since the Red Moon, although it wasn’t as big a contrast as the sudden change two months before the apocalypse. Back then, Wen Le’s depression and low spirits were restless, as if he had been greatly stimulated and forced to change himself. But this time, he was calm and collected from the inside out, obviously having settled down the restlessness from the past few months and undergone a thorough transformation of character.
Only now could he feel that Wen Le had matured. The previous changes were just her realizing his own inadequacies and forcing himself to change. But now, there was no more compulsion or concealment. Now, he had finally grown into a man that people could rely on from the inside out after going through all the turmoil.
For a long time, there was no movement from Xiao Wen, and Wen Le looked up curiously, meeting Xiao Wen’s gaze that seemed to want to pull him in.
“Do I have something on my face?” Wen Le raised an eyebrow.
Xiao Wen curled his lips, tightened his arms, and pressed Wen Le tightly against his chest.
“There’s nothing on your face, I just haven’t looked at you like this in a long time.”
Wen Le blushed slightly, feeling shy about Xiao Wen’s occasional romantic gestures.
All in all, they had only been lovers for less than half a year. They had been busy collecting supplies before and then busy with their journey in the apocalypse. Although they were together every day, they had little opportunity to put everything aside and enjoy a quiet date and the sweetness of love.
Apart from occasional intimate actions when no one was paying attention or hiding in their space, they behaved almost like ordinary friends.
Wen Le was also a man, so naturally he understood the frustration of having his lover by his side but unable to taste him.
But during their escape, where was there time for intimate love?
At first, Wen Le and Xiao Wen hugged and kissed each other without any desire, but gradually, each time they got closer and their skin rubbed against each other, Wen Le felt an indescribable itchiness in his heart.
After all, he was also a man!
“Go to sleep early. If you’re uncomfortable here, go into the space to rest. We’ll wake up at seven in the morning.” Xiao Wen released his tight embrace and whispered to Wen Le.
Wen Le shook his head. He wasn’t as delicate as he used to be. Besides, he couldn’t bear to enjoy the beautiful environment in the space alone while leaving Xiao Wen outside.
He really loved him. Even if it was a luxurious pleasure, it could not compare to experiencing hardships together with his lover.
Xiao Wen propped up his arm and turned off the charging light bulb hanging in the tent. In an instant, he couldn’t see his hand in front of his face.
The next morning, Wen Le was awakened by the noise outside. He picked up his watch and saw that it was almost half past seven, so he had to get up.
“Are you up?” Han Ya lifted the tent and walked in. Seeing Wen Le was up, he delivered the message. “Boss and Lu Jianye are outside cross-checking the map to determine the actual location.”
Wen Le nodded, put on their outerwear, and went out with Han Ya. Compared to the beautiful weather they had before, the sky was now cloudy and the gloomy weather made Wen Le furrow their brows.
Han Ya patted Wen Le’s shoulder. “Don’t worry. I asked Li Lao earlier, and he said there is little chance of snow.”
The “Li Lao” mentioned by Han Ya naturally refers to Li Yunsheng. After the team settled here, Li Yunsheng arranged for Chen Ye and several other students to set up meteorological instruments. They found a higher location and fixed them. Since there was no electricity, electronic equipment was not installed, but Li Yunsheng arranged for the students to record data at regular intervals using other equipment. Based on the data, Li Yunsheng, who had dealt with meteorology for most of his life, could easily roughly determine the weather conditions.
Since it wouldn’t snow, it wouldn’t affect their planned construction for today. While everyone was eating, Wen Le walked to the open space behind the tent area and piled up the tools and materials requested by Ren Cheng yesterday.
Today’s plan was to lay the foundation for the wall of the small base they were about to build.
Merely stacking the wall on the ground was far less sturdy than building a foundation. Although there were few zombies in the Tibetan area now, it did not mean that they would always bypass the Tibetan area. This wall was the key to their survival.
After putting down the tools, Wen Le walked back to where Huang Yao was cooking and took the breakfast she handed him. Leaning against the car door, he began to eat.
As Wen Le was eating, Ren Cheng had already assigned everyone their tasks. After finishing his breakfast, Wen Le put his empty bowl to the side and followed the group to where he had just put down the tools.
As they were leaving, Xiao Wen and Lu Jianye happened to walk back and stopped Wen Le.
“What’s going on?” Wen Le asked, pointing in the direction of the rest of the group. He couldn’t just stand there and watch them work.
Lu Jianye subconsciously looked at Wen Le’s thin arms and legs, then met his half-closed eyes and chuckled.
Xiao Wen turned Wen Le around and took him to Huang Yao’s area to get breakfast. When Xiao Wen and Lu Jianye were out checking the blueprints, breakfast wasn’t ready yet. By the time they returned, everyone had finished eating and they needed to refuel.
“Afterwards, let’s go and take a look at the site again. The foundation for building houses is not as shallow as the foundation for walls. The geology and road construction in Tibetan areas are not familiar, so we need you to use your spiritual power to explore it.”
After hearing Xiao Wen’s words, Wen Le nodded and picked up a steamed bun to eat.
Wen Le knows nothing about civil engineering, nor can he distinguish geology. He can only describe what he senses in words.
Listening to Wen Le’s non-professional language and ambiguous descriptions made Lu Jianye very troubled. Geology is an important part of construction, and if it is wrong, it will have a big impact in the future. So Lu Jianye had to ask carefully, trying to confirm the geology. Wen Le was annoyed by his questions and wanted to flip the ground open to let him see it himself.
Finally, just before lunch, Lu Jianye finally understood the underground material from Wen Le’s description. He nodded to Xiao Wen.
“This place can fully support our construction, and we are not building high-rise buildings, so the requirements for geology can be relatively relaxed.”
Afterwards, with sweat dripping down his face, Wen Le stood on the side. He hadn’t spoken as much in the past month since the Red Moon as he had this morning.
It was too overwhelming.
Once the construction plans were finalized, Wen Le and Xiao Wen pulled Han Ya, who was hiding in the car to keep warm, and went to the work site to help dig the earth.
When Zhou Quan saw Han Ya being pulled over, he smiled and handed him a military shovel.
Han Ya raised an eyebrow, and Zhou Quan half-raised his trembling arms. Han Ya silently held back what he was about to say, rolled up his sleeves, and started working.
The radius of the entire small base was one kilometer, so one could imagine the length of the wall. For this phase of the project, they only built the foundation, which was a mini-wall with a height and thickness of one meter. It took them ten days to dig the foundation and build a circle of mini-walls.
When the mini wall was completed, everyone who participated in the labor was too exhausted to hold chopsticks.
Looking at the tired faces of everyone, without hesitation, Xiao Wen gave them three days off.
The reason why the construction of the wall was pushed to the forefront was that it was the most laborious work among all the expected projects. Taking advantage of everyone’s high enthusiasm, it was resolved first, and the other tasks would be relatively easier.
In the following two weeks, everyone began building houses. The first building completed was the house they would live in.
The house design was directly borrowed from the structure of a courtyard house. A small courtyard house was first built in the center of the base, and then a large courtyard house was built around it, like a big circle enclosing a small one. The only difference from a traditional courtyard house was that the yard was not exposed to the sky. More precisely, the space above the courtyard was covered with a cone-shaped tempered glass.
Nowadays, the weather is cold, but after being exposed to the sun for a day, the interior of the newly built houses is surprisingly warm. The heavily reinforced walls have excellent insulation properties, and even if the skylights made of tempered glass are opened for ventilation, the entire glass-covered space remains warm.
When summer arrives, the reserved connection interface on the inner layer of the tempered glass can be directly installed with reflective panels to avoid absorbing sunlight as much as possible.
This was a design that Lu Jianye came up with when everyone was busy building the wall, based on Wen Le’s reminder.
Wen Le was very satisfied with his design. While others might not know, he was well aware that the survivors in the Tibetan area would suffer a lot during the winter and summer seasons unless they were superpowered and insensitive to temperature. It was precisely because of this anomaly that the area had not been widely occupied by zombies.
There were gains and losses, and Wen Le believed that as long as they were prepared, they could survive even abnormal weather. Moreover, faced with the choice between weather and zombies, no one would choose to face zombies!
Thanks for the chapter! A lot of hard work, but it seems fun to create a new home in this apocalypse.