As they looked at the newly completed house, no one spoke for a long time.
The strange building wasn’t so obvious on paper, but when they turned to look at the home they were about to move into, many people had strange expressions.
Lu Jianye cleared his throat, acknowledging that reality and the blueprint were different. On paper, the courtyard effect could be drawn from various angles, but now standing in front of the house’s main entrance, the grayish-blue walls, metallic door, and glass roof made the finished house feel a bit out of place.
Han Ya clapped his hands to get everyone’s attention.
“Don’t worry about the appearance. Survival comes first! Moreover, this building is one-of-a-kind before the end of the world. Everyone, let’s tidy up and move in. Although the heating system isn’t built yet, we’ve felt the warmth inside these past few days, which is enough for us to live normally.”
After Han Ya finished speaking, many people quietly turned back to their respective tents to pack up. No matter what the upcoming house looked like, it was built brick by brick by their own hands. They had to appreciate their own labor achievements.
After everyone left, Wen Le and Xiao Wen were the first to open the door. As soon as they entered, the bright light was no less than the outside. Upon entering, there was a large courtyard. Without the small quadrangle in the center of the courtyard, the courtyard was almost the size of a regular square. The entire large quadrangle was divided into twenty-eight rooms, each equipped with an imperfect bathroom. Each room had two beds that could be freely combined, allowing friends or family to live together. A large kitchen was also built in the large quadrangle, and Huang Yao was responsible for cooking. Mo Gang and Lin Yan’s parents helped out as well.
The small quadrangle in the courtyard was the core of their small base. A huge conference room occupied almost half of the small quadrangle. The other half was divided into five residences, each with a bedroom, a small living room, a kitchen, and a bathroom. Those who lived in the small quadrangle almost had a certain amount of personal space like a normal family. Xiao Wen and Wen Le shared a room, Han Ya and Yin Chengyang shared a room, Mo Yan originally wanted to live with his father Mo Gang, but was rejected by him. Mo Gang and Li Yunsheng lived in the room next to the kitchen in the large quadrangle. So Zhou Quan lived with Mo Yan. There were two rooms left, and Lin Yan was directly named by Xiao Wen and Han Ya to live in one.
Lin Yan originally thought he could lean on the big tree of Xiao Wen and enjoy the scenery, but Han Ya would not let him go. Such an expert in psychology couldn’t be wasted!
As soon as Han Yaya finished speaking, many people quietly turned and went back to their tents to pack up. Regardless of what the upcoming accommodation looked like, it was all built brick by brick by their own hands. Their own labor achievements had to be felt and appreciated.
After everyone left, Wen Le and Xiao Wen were the first to open the door. As they entered, the bright light was no different from the outside world. After entering, there was a large courtyard. If it weren’t for the small quadrangle courtyard in the center of the courtyard, this courtyard would almost be the size of a normal square. The entire quadrangle courtyard was divided into twenty-eight rooms, each equipped with a not very perfect bathroom. There were two beds in each room that could be freely combined, allowing friends or family to live together. A large kitchen was also built in the quadrangle courtyard, with cooking duties handled by Huang Yao and assisted by Mo Gang and Lin Yan’s parents.
The small quadrangle courtyard in the center of the courtyard was the core of their small base. A huge conference room almost occupied half of the small quadrangle courtyard. The other half was divided into five residential units, each with a bedroom, a small living room, and a kitchen and bathroom. Those who lived in the small quadrangle courtyard almost had a certain amount of private space like a normal family. Xiao Wen and Wen Le shared one unit, Han Ya and Yin Chengyang shared another, Mo Yan originally wanted to live with his father Mo Gang, but was rejected by Mo Gang. Mo Gang and Li Yunsheng lived in the room next to the large quadrangle courtyard kitchen. So Zhou Quan moved in with Mo Yan. There were still two rooms left, which were directly named by Xiao Wen and Han Ya for Lin Yan to live in.
Lin Yan originally thought he could relax and enjoy the scenery by leaning on Xiao Wen’s big tree, but Han Ya would never let him off. Such an expert in psychology shouldn’t be wasted!
The remaining room was left empty because as leaders, both Xiao Wen and Han Ya had other people who refused to live as their neighbors.
Now that the living arrangements had been sorted out, Xiao Wen and Han Ya breathed a sigh of relief. The other construction works were not urgent, so the construction work was no longer focused on everyone working together, but rather half the people were assigned to start on the construction of the wall.
The mini-wall was far from the sturdy wall they had planned. As the innermost line of defense for the base, Wen Le directly requested it be built to a height of three meters and a thickness of two meters.
The other half of the people began to work on building a greenhouse.
Due to the high-altitude climate, crops could not grow naturally and required temperature regulation to meet growing conditions.
After almost two months of hard work, when the greenhouse, indoor pasture, power plant, and boiler room were completely finished, it was already close to May.
Wen Le stood outside the wall, holding a thermometer in his hand.
28 degrees.
Wen Le sighed. It seemed that the abnormal weather had gradually become apparent. In late April, the temperature had already reached 28 degrees at noon, and then dropped sharply to minus 10 degrees at night. He didn’t know what kind of climate this place would have when summer truly arrived.
Turning around, Wen Le looked at the huge wall, feeling somewhat comforted.
The entire small base had been fully constructed. It had taken two months, and the entire base had sprung up from the ground. Although they had the large tools that Wen Le had collected, such a short amount of time was already a miracle.
“Wen Shao!” When a few young people returned to the base and saw Wen Le standing thoughtfully at the gate, they came over and greeted him.
Wen Le turned his head to look at the speaker and noticed the tools in their hands.
“Have you finished measuring?”
After the base was completely built, Han Ya had sent people to continue measuring the areas that hadn’t been measured before.
The young people nodded. “Lu and Ren are finishing up the final details. They’ll be back soon.”
Wen Le nodded in understanding.
Several young men entered the base with their tools.
Suddenly, Wen Le felt that Lu Jianye was running back at a fast pace. He couldn’t help but direct his mental power towards the direction of Lu Jianye.
“Wait,” Wen Le stopped the young man who had just entered the base, “let Xiao Wen and Han Ya come out, and the others be on guard. Someone is coming.”
Upon hearing Wen Le’s words, the several people who were chatting and laughing just now were stunned and hurriedly ran inside without responding.
“Wen Shao, someone is coming.”
After instructing someone to inform Xiao Wen, Wen Le walked towards the direction where Lu Jianye was running, and met him halfway.
“Who are they?” Wen Le asked.
“They said they are from the local nomadic tribe and want to find our leader,” Lu Jianye explained.
Wen Le frowned, “How did they know Xiao Wen?”
Lu Jianye quickly shook his head and explained, “No, they didn’t mention Xiao Wen, they just said they want to find our leader. I’ll inform Xiao Wen right away.”
Wen Le stopped Lu Jianye who was about to leave, “I’ve already sent someone to inform him. Why hasn’t Ren Cheng come back yet?”
“We were worried that they might get lost, so Ren Cheng stayed behind.”
“Let’s go and take a look.” Wen Le pulled Lu Jianye and walked quickly towards Ren Cheng’s direction.
Wen Le’s mental power was enough to sense Ren Cheng’s location, and naturally he could also sense that the five people who were talking to Ren Cheng were all ability users.
Ren Cheng and Lu Jianye were both ability users, but coincidentally, both of them had the weakest attack power among the ability users. Compared to the five ability users outside who had stronger attack power than them, Wen Le was worried that Ren Cheng was being attacked alone.
“Wen Shao!” Ren Cheng was talking to the five people when he saw Lu Jianye approaching with Wen Le. He quickly went to greet them.
Wen Le nodded to Ren Cheng and turned to the five strangers.
“Hello,” Wen Le walked up to them and pulled the corners of his mouth.
“Hello, are you the leader here?” asked the tall and strong man in awkward Chinese, standing in the middle of the five people.
Wen Le raised an eyebrow but didn’t confirm or deny.
“And who are you all…”
Noticing that the handsome boy in front of them wasn’t very enthusiastic and spoke with caution, the five people looked at each other.
The man who spoke earlier chuckled innocently, “Sorry for not introducing myself earlier. My name is Nian Gongga. We five are from the Aqi tribe. Our Aqi tribe is a nomadic tribe that passed through here before. The other day, one of our companions said that there was a magical building here, so our leader sent us to greet you.”
Wen Le nodded. It was normal for nomadic tribes to pass by this area, and it was only natural for them to be curious when they saw the sudden appearance of a base when passing by again.
“Wen Shao!”
Wen Le turned around and saw Xiao Wen rushing over with Han Ya and Lin Yan.
He briefly translated Nian Gongga’s words and stepped back to stand next to Xiao Wen.
He left the task of communicating with outsiders to Han Ya and Lin Yan. Xiao Wen nodded to the five strangers.
“Hello, I’m Han Ya, and this is our…tribe leader.” Han Ya smiled at the five of them and introduced them to Xiao Wen.
“Our leader sent us to express greetings. May I ask what the name of your tribe is?” Nian Gongga bowed slightly to Xiao Wen.
Hearing Nian Gongga’s words, Lin Yan glanced at Han Ya with a smile in his eyes. Han Ya gave him a sideways glance. Just now, he had said that Xiao Wen was the tribe leader, but that was just to blend in with the locals.
“Sorry, we are not the original Tibetan people.” Han Ya smiled and explained.
Nian Gongga nodded. When they came, they had already noticed that the two men who were marking the grassland were Han people. Seeing the leader here was also a Han person, they naturally knew that this new base did not belong to the Tibetans.
“We call this place a base rather than a tribe.”
“Base?” The five Tibetans were puzzled.
Han Ya nodded, “A base refers to a place where survivors of the apocalypse gather.”
“Apocalypse…” Nian Gongga repeated in surprise. So, the disaster that happened before was called the apocalypse.
“Let’s go inside and talk.” Xiao Wen patted Han Ya’s shoulder and said.
Han Ya gestured for the five Tibetan people to follow them, and they once again bowed to the group before walking towards the “miraculous building” in their eyes with Xiao Wen and Lin Yan.
Upon entering the base, Wen Le noticed that all the young people seemed to be busy gathering around the wall. When they brought in the five clearly Tibetan people, everyone stood up and saluted them.
The five Tibetan people kept making hand gestures to indicate friendliness as their gazes met with others.
Even as the group walked into the conference room of the small courtyard, Wen Le could still feel everyone who had been guarding the wall gathering outside.
Xiao Wen raised an eyebrow at Wen Le’s sudden smile, silently asking for an explanation.
Wen Le shook his head, feeling that everyone was being too cautious. How could just five people cause trouble right under their noses?!
Through their conversation with Nian Gongga, they learned that the area where they built the base happened to be within the grazing area of the Aqi tribe, to which Nian Gongga and the other four belonged.
Although nomadic tribes always migrate across the grasslands, each tribe has its own general grazing area, and all tribes abide by the unwritten rules passed down from generation to generation, not encroaching on other people’s grazing land.
Han Ya apologized for not understanding the rules here and invading the territory of the Aqi tribe.
Nian Gongga waved his hand, saying that the previous mutation of animals had greatly reduced the number of their tribe’s cattle and sheep, and they no longer needed so many grazing lands. The construction of the base by Xiao Wen and his people here did not harm the interests of the Aqi tribe, so there was no need to express apologies.
Faced with the frank Tibetans, Wen Le couldn’t help but feel emotional in his heart. The customs here were so different from those in the Central Plains. If it were in the Central Plains, who would care about whether it affected their own interests, and they would try to dig out benefits from the other party as much as possible.
As they chatted, the four people sitting next to Nian Gongga occasionally looked towards the outside of the conference room.
Following their gaze, it was easy to notice that the endpoint of their sight was the reflective panel under the toughened glass on the shed roof.
One of the Tibetans pulled Nian Gongga’s clothes and pointed outside to the roof of the shed.
“That is… “Nian Gongga was also curious.
Han Ya didn’t hide anything and explained directly, “It’s a reflective panel. The climate here is not very suitable for us. The temperature can reach nearly 30 degrees Celsius before May, and it may be even hotter in July and August. The reflective panel can reduce the absorption of sunlight and lower the temperature inside, so that we can live normally.”
Nian Gongga widened his eyes in surprise and explained in Tibetan to those around him. Then he looked at Han Ya and said, “Although it will be cool during the day, if there is not enough warmth, it will be very cold at night.”
Han Ya shook his head. “This layer of reflective panel can be opened. At three or four in the afternoon, the reflective panel will be opened to allow the glass roof to absorb as much sunlight heat as possible. This way, the indoor temperature can still be above zero at night.”
Nian Gongga was amazed and opened his mouth wide. He only translated Han Ya’s words to his companions when urged by those around him. Like Nian Gongga’s reaction, the other four Tibetan youths looked in astonishment at the roof outside, then at the several Han youth on the opposite side, and couldn’t help but give them a thumbs up.
I can’t help but laugh as I imagine their expressions😂
Thanks for the update!! 🤗 🤗