Surprise was just beginning. With the guidance and introduction of Han Ya, the five young Tibetan men looked almost worshipful as they left, looking at Xiao Wen and his companions.
Based on Central Plains architecture and with guidance from Wen Le’s past experiences, this small base completely overturned traditional thinking among the Tibetan people.
Personally seeing the five off from the base, Han Ya turned around with a smiling face and looked at Xiao Wen and Wen Le.
“Fox!” Lin Yan couldn’t help but mutter under his breath.
Han Ya pretended not to hear.
“Are you planning to gather these nomadic tribes?” Wen Le paused and asked.
Han Ya shrugged, “They came to us willingly, didn’t they?”
Wen Le’s clear eyes were full of laughter.
Most of these people in their group had never been to the Tibetan area before. Even when he traveled across the country before, Xiao Wen had only briefly stopped here and did not have a deep understanding of the situation in the Tibetan area. The number and degree of dispersion of nomadic tribes here were even greater than he had imagined. It could be imagined what the end of the world would be like for these nomadic tribes without a fixed residence or income. Initially, they did not focus on the Tibetan people due to concerns about racial differences and rejection. However, it now seemed that the Tibetan people were very accepting of Han Chinese, and coupled with the simple local customs and practices, they were indeed a good target for development.
“Did you start planning this since you met Gu Sha Duo Jie?” Lin Yan suddenly asked, recalling Han Ya’s unusual enthusiasm when they met Gu Sha Duo Jie’s tribe.
Han Ya just smiled and did not answer.
However, everyone knew in their hearts that if they hadn’t thought of it beforehand, Han Ya’s words would not have been deliberately or unintentionally laced with the intention of drawing people in.
After returning to their residence, Xiao Wen and Han Ya gathered in the meeting room again to discuss matters, while Wen Le did not participate and returned to his room to sit quietly on the bed.
Han Ya’s thinking was not wrong. In this apocalypse, on the surface, it was a life-and-death battle between humans and zombies, but it was actually a war within the human race itself.
Wen Le had no intention of getting involved in the chaotic situation, but that did not mean he could really avoid it. If he wanted a safe living environment and wanted to protect his group of brothers in life and death, he needed sufficient strength to support their survival in the apocalypse. Competition was the most obvious path in the apocalypse.
Competing with zombies for survival, competing with nature for survival environment, and even competing with other survivors.
Make oneself strong, not be swallowed up, not be dominated.
And under such circumstances, strength, food, technology, and so on are all the foundations of competition. However, to stand on an unbeatable position, the most important thing is still the number of survivors that one can gather.
Thinking back on the hard work of the past two months, they have a total of forty-something people, but they have built a small base with a radius of one kilometer. If it were not forty-something people, but four hundred people? Four thousand people? Even forty thousand people?
Even if they have ideas and abilities, without the foundation of numbers, they can’t do anything.
In the apocalypse, from another perspective, the survivors who are looking for reliance are the wealth that ambitious people can easily get!
With the departure of the five young Tibetans, the small base returned to normal life again, with everyone busy cultivating the land and happily envisioning their future life.
Three days later, the time had just entered May, and the weather seemed to follow the calendar. On the morning of May 1st, the sun had just risen for a while, and the temperature was close to 30 degrees.
It seems that the abnormal weather is becoming more and more apparent.
Han Ya and Xiao Wen exchanged a worried look and sighed silently.
It is said that people who sleep less are smarter, but Wen Le completely put himself in the group of people with low intelligence. He feels like he doesn’t have the energy to do anything if he doesn’t get twelve hours of sleep every day.
He woke up dazedly, looked at his watch, and realized it was almost 10 o’clock, missing breakfast. Wen Le had to grab a box of milk from the space to fill his stomach.
“Are you up?” Xiao Wen happened to come in to get something and saw Wen Le wake up. He walked over and pinched Wen Le’s red and puffy cheeks.
Wen Le leaned into Xiao Wen’s arms.
After exchanging a glance, Han Ya and Xiao Wen saw the concern in each other’s eyes and sighed silently.
“Are you not busy today?” Wen Le had just asked when he heard Xiao Wen sigh. Wen Le turned to him and asked, “What’s wrong?”
They had been following a routine these past few days, so there shouldn’t be anything wrong!
“The weather has changed again,” Xiao Wen explained.
Wen Le stopped sucking on his straw and put down the milk.
“Is it getting hotter again?”
“Before I came back just now, it had already reached 35 degrees, and it’s only ten o’clock. I don’t know what will happen when it’s at its hottest.” Xiao Wen was filled with helplessness. It was only May, what will happen in July and August? Can people still survive?”
The temperature change was similar to what Wen Le had speculated earlier, so he didn’t pay too much attention to it. His dark eyes rolled as he thought about the follow-up effects of the temperature change.
“Han Ya must be happy,” Wen Le said, grinning as he rubbed his forehead against Xiao Wen’s cheek.
Xiao Wen raised an eyebrow, gesturing for him to continue.
“With weather like this, it’ll be hard for the nomadic tribes who wander the grasslands. In a few days, some people will definitely come to join us. But this kind of weather isn’t ideal for expanding our base,” Wen Le explained. Just thinking about carrying bricks and building walls in the scorching sun in forty-degree weather made Wen Le shudder. It wasn’t realistic, even for people with supernatural abilities.
Hearing Wen Le’s explanation, Xiao Wen rested his chin on Wen Le’s shoulder.
“Han Ya and I were just talking about this. If there aren’t too many people, we can set up tents in the courtyard first. The roof is designed well, and the temperature in the yard is relatively comfortable. For expansion, we’ll have to do it at night. Even superpowers cannot work outside for a long time during the day in this weather.”
Although the temperature at night would drop to below zero, and based on the current temperature, it was highly likely that the temperature tonight would drop to between minus 10 and minus 20 degrees. However, because the workload was significant, it was easier to work in a cold environment than in a hot one.
“Oh, by the way, how’s the greenhouse doing?” Wen Le suddenly remembered.
“Don’t worry, we’ve already started planting. The two containers of black soil you brought out earlier have been mixed with the local soil in the greenhouse. If you don’t look closely, you can hardly tell,” Xiao Wen said.
Wen Le was worried that the soil in the Tibetan area was not suitable for farming, so he brought out two whole containers of black soil from his space to see if mixing it with the local soil would allow crops to survive. This was only an experiment. If it was not successful, they would have to find another way to be self-sufficient. Wen Le could not directly move the black soil from his space for everyone to plant. Even these two containers of black soil were said by Wen Le to have been collected earlier, to everyone’s surprise.
“This time, we mainly plant fruits and vegetables. I guess it’s because they’re worried we don’t have enough inventory?!” Xiao Wen recalled what Zhao Lei, who was assigned as the head of the greenhouse, told him about the result of the vote everyone took, and found it a bit funny.
Wen Le also laughed along with him, his eyes curved with amusement. “Probably because they see that we have plenty of grains and meat for every meal, so they worry about the lack of vegetables and fruits.”
When they were still at the rescue station in X city, Wen Le used to bring out fruits to share with everyone during their meals. But after merging with Lin Yan’s group and leaving the station, Wen Le would think twice before offering anything, not because he didn’t trust Lin Yan and the others, but because people talk and rumors spread easily in large groups.
So Wen Le understood their concerns well. Anyone who faced a table full of protein every day would miss their vitamins.
“What about the ranch?” Thinking about the greenhouse naturally led to thinking about the city ranch built next to it. Although before his reincarnation, Wen Le had only experienced one Blood Moon, there was no guarantee that there wouldn’t be a second or third one. So when they designed it, Wen Le and Han Ya both agreed to build the ranch indoors. The size stayed the same, they just needed to manually control the temperature and humidity regulation system.
Moreover, the ranch was adjacent to the wall. When they were laying the foundation for the wall, they deliberately left a small door as a place for these captive animals to go out when the weather was normal.
“The ranch is almost ready, and although it hasn’t been long, the grass growing in the ranch is obviously much better than the wilted ones outside. Now Zhao Xiaogang and Qi Rui are waiting for us to get the animals in.”
Zhao Xiaogang and Qi Rui were two people who spontaneously requested to manage the ranch in front of Li Yunsheng. They almost made Li Yunsheng vomit blood. Originally, Li Yunsheng had only a few students with him. These two were not working hard and went to communicate with the animals!
However, they readily agreed to the self-recommendation of the two of them. These two kids had too much energy, and even during the time they were building the base, they didn’t spare anyone at night. If there were any problems, being able to keep them occupied would be a godsend. It’s just that he didn’t know how long they could persist, but these days Xiao Wen went to see them a few times, and despite Zhao Xiaogang and Qi Rui’s young age and carefree personality, they managed to make the ranch look perfect, without any flaws.
Upon hearing Xiao Wen’s words, Wen Le thought for a while and said, “Then let’s take some time off? When we bring the animals back, we can say that we caught them on the grassland.”
Not to mention that they now had three space ability users. Even if it was just Wen Le himself, he couldn’t say that the space produced by the ability could hold living things; it was too easy to be found out. But now that the ranch was all set up, they couldn’t just leave it empty, right?!
Xiao Wen shook his head, “No need. I estimate that some Tibetan people will join us in a few days. Although most of the animals have mutated, they still have a lot of cattle and sheep in their hands. We’ll put the cattle and sheep they bring into the ranch. When there are more cattle and sheep, a few more won’t be conspicuous. As for pigs and chickens, we’ll have to wait until we go back to the Central Plains and take the opportunity to bring them out.”
Wen Le nodded. He forgot that he had just said that some nomadic tribes would join them, and compared to the cattle and sheep brought by those tribes, the base could offer them much more. To put it bluntly, who wouldn’t exchange cattle and sheep for a suitable living environment?! Moreover, they also provide food and accommodation here! But they couldn’t provide food unconditionally…
Thinking of this, Wen Le suddenly sat up.
The forty-odd people who had come all the way had all experienced life and death, and everyone had tried their best to keep up with Xiao Wen and Han Ya’s training. Regardless of whether their starting point was for themselves or not, they had made their team strong. Moreover, during the previous construction, no one thought of being lazy or playing tricks. Everyone fought for the most tiring and heaviest work.
After experiencing so much, Wen Le did not differentiate between the distribution of food and other daily necessities based on personal relationships. But if other tribes were to join, they could not continue to treat everyone equally.
It had nothing to do with ethnicity, they were all descendants of the Chinese nation, and in Wen Le’s heart, there was no division of ethnicity. However, the addition of other people was equivalent to dependence, and he could not treat those who depended on him and those who could truly trust each other in the midst of zombies equally. This would inevitably make his teammates who had left the rescue station and gone through hardships to come here feel a sense of loss.
Even the most generous person would have their own balance scale when it came to giving and receiving.
“What’s wrong?” Xiao Wen asked when he saw Wen Le suddenly sit up and fall into deep thought without saying a word.
Wen Le looked at Xiao Wen and voiced his thoughts, “What about our benefits and treatment when other tribes join us?”
Xiao Wen couldn’t help but chuckle. “Benefits and treatment? I don’t know how you came up with that term!”
Thanks for the chapter!