It has been four days since Wen Le and Xiao Wen discussed the base clauses last time. This morning, Han Ya gathered everyone in the courtyard to announce the finalized standards and base laws that have been determined in these few days. There was no riot that Wen Le and others were worried about, and everyone calmly accepted the highest power system of Xiao Wen in the final clause of the law, as well as the labor-for-material system that will soon be implemented.
At the same time, Han Ya also confirmed the initial members of the decision-making team.
Han Ya, Lin Yan, and Wen Le are the original members of the decision-making team. Any decision in the future will be voted on by the three of them and Xiao Wen himself.
There were no objections from either the people brought out by Lin Yan or those who had been following Xiao Wen all along.
At the beginning of the establishment of the base, various aspects were in a state of disrepair. Unlike agriculture, animal husbandry, and other separate categories, this meeting also established responsible persons for several industries they will soon face.
Wen Le is the overall person in charge of logistics, including material reserves. After all, now and in the future, this new rising base needs Wen Le’s space as the strongest support.
The base security system is temporarily managed by Yin Chengyang and Mo Yan together.
In the logistics category, several branches are divided. The construction of the base is entrusted to the chief engineer of the base, Lu Jianye. Self-sufficient agriculture and animal husbandry are entrusted to Zhao Lei, who was originally responsible for the greenhouse. Material expenditures are recorded and distributed by Bai Yun, while labor-for-points is handed over to Xiao Tao.
Other areas will have responsible persons established as the base gradually expands.
The entire meeting lasted for two hours. Except for Wen Le, Yin Chengyang, and Mo Yan, who were the first to be determined, other responsible persons were elected by everyone.
After the meeting, seemingly scattered regulations established an invisible order throughout the base. The established responsible persons directly took over their respective areas of responsibility, and any problems in each aspect could be directly addressed to the corresponding responsible person, without having to bother Han Ya with everything, big or small, official or unofficial, as before.
After the meeting, Han Ya and Lin Yan sat in Wen Le’s room, drinking tea and sighing exaggeratedly, “Finally, the work has been distributed. If I continue to be so busy, I feel like I’m going to die from exhaustion.”
Wen Le sympathetically nodded. He didn’t participate much in Xiao Wen’s discussions before. Compared to Wen Le’s relaxed life of sleeping until he woke up naturally, Han Ya only slept an average of less than five hours a day. It wasn’t that there were really so many things to do, but many things were not finally determined. Han Ya was a person who couldn’t relax when there were things on his mind, so naturally he couldn’t sleep well.
Wen Le could only sigh in his heart that Han Ya was always busy.
“Boss!” Yin Chengyang suddenly pushed the door and came in.
Han Ya’s body, which had just slumped on the table, reflexively sat up, and his first reaction was that there was something else to do! But then he realized that the work had already been assigned, and he no longer had to personally take care of everything.
Wen Le chuckled as he watched Han Ya spring up like a spring, and then collapse back onto the table like a pillar had been pulled out.
As soon as he entered the room, Yin Chengyang walked up to Han Ya casually, picked up the cup in front of him, took a few sips of water, caught his breath, and then spoke again.
“Boss, that year’s tribute from the Gongga has arrived.”
Upon hearing this, Han Ya sat up straight again, his eyes lighting up.
“Just him?” Xiao Wen asked.
Yin Chengyang shook his head. “He brought quite a few people with him. Mo Yan has already gone out to meet them. I’m going to go straight to the other side of the wall to guard. The guard responsible for this area said that about two kilometers away in the direction of Nian Gongga, there is a Tibetan camp with nearly three hundred people, not counting the ten or so people brought by Nian Gongga.”
“Let’s go outside and take a look,” Han Ya got up and walked out.
“Han Ya, the three of you should wait in the meeting room for Nian Gongga and his people. The chief of their tribe should also be here. Yin Chengyang and I will go out and take a look,” Wen Le stopped him.
After Wen Le finished speaking, Han Ya nodded.
“Be careful,” Xiao Wen reminded. Although Wen Le’s spiritual power was suitable for exploration, he didn’t have much attack power besides using a gun.
Wen Le and Yin Chengyang headed towards the direction of the gate. As soon as they stepped out of the house, the scorching weather made even Wen Le, who was insensitive to temperature, feel uncomfortable. The bright sun shone directly on the ground, and the air near the ground was already so hot that it was distorting.
“Can the people on patrol adapt to this weather?” Wen Le asked Yin Chengyang as they walked.
Yin Chengyang nodded. “I selected the people who have abilities, so there shouldn’t be any problems in this environment. They rotate every two hours.”
Wen Le nodded. It was good that they had rotating shifts so they could rest a bit.
Yin Chengyang continued, “Lu Jianye has already prepared to build some houses on the wall specifically for the guards on patrol to rest. They’ll be built like the roofs of the houses we live in. After they’re built, both the guards and patrol can be much more comfortable.”
Before Wen Le could say anything else, he saw Mo Yan leading a dozen people coming towards them from a distance.
“Wen Shao” Mo Yan greeted him from not far away.
Wen Le scanned the people behind him and saw that apart from Nian Gongga, everyone else was new faces. However, not all of them were special ability holders. There were a total of twelve people, including Nian Gongga, with four of them being special ability holders and the remaining eight being ordinary people. Moreover, the four special ability holders were not very strong, and even if they suddenly attacked, they wouldn’t cause too much harm to Xiao Wen and his group.
“Wen Shao” Nian Gongga also addressed Wen Le in the same way as Mo Yan.
Wen Le smiled at him. “It’s nice to see you again. I won’t keep you guys waiting.” He then turned to Mo Yan and said, “Xiao Wen and the others are in the conference room. You can take them there directly.”
After that, Wen Le smiled at the others and left with Yin Chengyang.
As they walked away, Yin Chengyang turned back and asked Wen Le, “Wen Shao, what are their abilities?”
“That Nian Gongga is an earth element ability user, and his ability is quite strong, similar to Huang Yao. There’s also a wind element ability user and two water element ability users, but their abilities are average.” Up to now, out of the over forty people in their group, there were nearly thirty ability users, but in terms of ability strength, other than Wen Le himself who had an abnormally strong second-level ability due to his unusual growth, Huang Yao and Lin Yan were the strongest. Their abilities were much stronger than the average person’s from the moment they awakened, almost close to the critical point of reaching a first-level ability. In fact, at this level, it was easiest to have a second awakening, but none of them had awakened during the days of the Red Moon.
It would be a lie to say that Wen Le wasn’t disappointed. Even though he knew the chances of having a second awakening were very slim, he had seen second-level ability users before in his previous life. However, this time luck didn’t smile on their group.
Walking to the gate of the base, Wen Le followed the stairs up the wall and took out the telescope to search for the distant camp.
Nearly a hundred tents were gathered together from a distance, and through the telescope, he could see many people gathering in the direction closer to the base, probably also worried about the safety of the twelve who came in.
Because the distance was too far, Wen Le’s spiritual power couldn’t extend over there, and it wasn’t easy to rush to the other camp to investigate before Xiao Wen and others finished their discussion, so he could only wait quietly.
Seeing Wen Le sitting on the wall with a frown, Yin Chengyang walked over.
“Wen Shao, why don’t you go back first? I’ll keep an eye on things here. If there’s anything, I’ll notify you through the walkie-talkie.”
Wen Le hesitated for a moment. Although he was guarding here, if the other party suddenly rushed over, he would have little effect other than using a gun to resist. He followed Yin Chengyang here because he didn’t have any assurance without seeing it with his own eyes. Now that he had finished watching, and he couldn’t approach and detect the situation over there, there was not much need for him to stay.
“Then I’ll go back first, and leave it to you here. Are the weapons and everything enough?” Wen Le stood up. After handing over the guard duties to Yin Chengyang in the morning, Yin Chengyang directly picked ten people as patrol guards and asked for a lot of weapons.
Yin Chengyang laughed, “The weapons I got this morning are enough to slaughter those people outside several times back and forth!”
Wen Le walked down the wall with peace of mind.
When he returned to his residence, Wen Le couldn’t help but laugh. Like when Nian Gongga came last time, except for the people assigned to work, the others gathered in the outer courtyard once again, glaring at the small courtyard.
“Wen Shao.” Someone greeted Wen Le as soon as he entered, and everyone looked at Wen Le with a somewhat teasing expression. Many people scratched their heads embarrassedly.
“Well… we’re a little worried, hehe.” Xiao Tao, who was originally in charge of distributing and recording labor, also stood guard in the outer courtyard, smiling dryly at Wen Le.
Wen Le shook his head, “There’s no problem inside. If you’re worried, go to Yin Chengyang. A Tibetan tribe is stationed outside the base. They are probably with those inside. If you have abilities, go over there. If not, stay here.”
As soon as Wen Le finished speaking, all the ability users guarding the outer courtyard ran out of the courtyard door and towards the wall. The people left behind continued to guard the outer courtyard.
Wen Le smiled and walked into the inner courtyard.
Perhaps because they had built this base with their own hands, every person had an extremely strong sense of belonging and was vigilant in guarding the base at all times.
Similarly, this situation was especially true for the group of people who had followed them from the beginning. Those who joined later could never match the sense of ownership that the original members had for the base.
No matter how large the base became in the future, these forty or so people would be the most trustworthy and capable of earning their trust.
Knock, knock, knock.
Politely, Wen Le knocked on the door.
“Come in.” Mo Yan’s voice came from behind the iron door.
Wen Le pushed the door open and walked in. Han Ya was talking to the person inside, but when he saw that it was Wen Le, he instinctively nodded at him and called out, “Wen Shao.”
Wen Le motioned for him to continue.
Han Ya sat on Xiao Wen’s left side, while Mo Yan walked on Han Ya’s left side. Lin Yan, who was sitting on Xiao Wen’s right side, stood up and moved to the chair on the right-hand side, giving his seat to Wen Le.
“This is…” The middle-aged man who was originally talking to Han Ya looked at Wen Le and asked Han Ya.
“This is Wen Le, our leader’s lover, and also the general person in charge of logistics and supplies in our base.” Han Ya introduced Wen Le’s identity directly without any hesitation.
As Han Ya finished speaking, he drew many astonished looks. With the help of Nian Gongga, who translated for those who did not understand Chinese, the twelve Tibetans opposite looked at Wen Le in shock, and then at Xiao Wen.
Wen Le sat down next to Xiao Wen, his expression unchanged.
With his exquisite face and the habitual expressionlessness he had adopted in recent times, Wen Le’s unemotional gaze swept over the people opposite.
The people who were able to come with Nian Gongga were those who could take charge in the Aqi tribe. These people were naturally not fools. When they received Wen Le’s gaze, they all withdrew their astonished gaze. Not to mention whether the leader of this base liked men or women, which had nothing to do with them, just judging from Han Ya and Lin Yan’s attitude towards Wen Le after he came in, Wen Le’s status in the base was very high, even higher than Han Ya and Lin Yan. Under such circumstances, if they wanted to join the base, they absolutely could not have any bad attitude towards Wen Le.
“I’m sorry, we were rude just now.” The middle-aged man who spoke earlier apologized to Wen Le solemnly.
Wen Le pursed his lips and smiled. “It’s okay, please continue.”
With Wen Le’s forgiveness, the middle-aged man resumed his discussion with Han Ya on the previous topic. As the main communicators, Han Ya had been the one mostly talking with the other side, while Lin Yan occasionally joined in. Mo Yan was just a background figure, and Xiao Wen would only speak a few concluding remarks at each discussion point. After Wen Le came in, he and Mo Yan stayed quiet and listened to their conversation as if they were background decorations.
Wen Le quickly understood the other side’s purpose from their conversation. As they had expected, due to the mutated weather in the Tibetan area, even the locals were having difficulty adapting to these changes, not to mention the survivors whose supplies had become their biggest problem for survival after the apocalypse.
Unlike the central plains, there are very few zombies and attacks from mutated animals are only sporadic[mfn]Sporadic refers to something that occurs irregularly or infrequently, without a consistent pattern or frequency. It can also refer to something that is isolated or scattered, rather than being concentrated in one place or time[/mfn] here. This external danger doesn’t directly cut off their survival, but at the same time, because of the sparse population and undeveloped agriculture, aside from slaughtering non-mutated animals within their tribe for food, the nomadic tribes here have no other sources of sustenance. Before the apocalypse, their supplies came from nearby cities, but now those areas are overrun with zombies and are not something small tribes like theirs can confront.
In theory, these conditions are enough to make them feel hopeless, but the newly built base here brings them hope.
Last time, when Nian Gongga and his people came to visit, they roughly understood the situation here. Initially, they wanted to get some supplies here, but with the rapid change in temperature in May, they had the idea of joining this base.
Instead of continuing to roam outside, relying on food that could be gone at any moment and enduring the mutated weather, it was better to join this base that seemed safer and more stable than the nomadic tribes.
Especially after entering this strange building, the noticeably comfortable temperature further strengthened their idea.
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