flstandardbreds Chapter 337
Chapter 337
Their people even exchanged fresh fish with each other and took them back to taste, and they found them delicious.
At least, it is better than having only fresh fish, salted fish and pickled fish to eat for three meals a day.
If people only eat one kind of food for a long time, their nutrition will become monotonous.
So, Zhao Chong decided to give it a try.
"Okay, you guys discuss it." Zhao Chongchong and the others smiled. "This is just a suggestion. It would be best if everyone agrees it's beneficial."
Seawater purification technology is urgently needed for Zhou Shuwan and his colleagues.
However, the new base is far away from the sea, and it would be very expensive to transport seawater from east to west by truck.
Therefore, Zhang Jia and others were unable to make a decision and could only go back to ask the leaders of the base to discuss and decide.
When Zhang Jia and the others left, Zhao Chong looked at Zhou Shuwan and said, "Zhou Gu Nian, do you mind talking to me alone for a while?"
Qi Mingyu narrowed his eyes slightly.
Zhou Shuwan looked at him and said, "Brother Xiaoyu, let's go together."
Qi Mingyu's expression looked better.
Zhao Chong's eyes moved between the two of them, revealing a bit of innocent curiosity, but he was tactful enough not to ask about their relationship.
They came to a room inside and closed the door tightly.
Zhao Chong asked politely, "Would you like some tea?"
This situation is somewhat similar to when I went to Xiao Xiao's place.
Could it be that when one rises from a commoner to a new class, one changes their hobbies and starts to like drinking tea?
Zhou Shuwan smiled inwardly and shook his head: "No need to bother. Base Captain Zhao, I didn't expect to meet you here!"
Although they are all in the south.
But City S is across provinces from this region.
She didn't expect that Zhao Chong, who was doing very well in S City in his previous life, would come here to be the base commander.
Zhao Chong hadn't expected this either, and sighed softly, "We were helpless, actually. A tsunami nearly destroyed the entire city, leaving us survivors with no choice but to flee north by boat! Then, more and more people gathered along the way, and we were all completely lost, not knowing what to do. There were many robberies and murders along the way, and the dangers were rife. It was impossible to travel north with just a few people. So, I made up my mind and gathered everyone in the city together. We helped each other and made it here safely!"
Because they were so numerous and powerful, robbers who came to rob supplies saw them from afar and avoided them.
So, their journey north was relatively smooth.
Zhao Chong was also quite smart. There was no one in charge in the huge crowd, but he did not refuse and directly took the power of allocating manpower, weapons and food in his own hands.
He is a decent man and used to work as a part-time thug because he was forced to do so by life.
After he came into power, he took good care of the old and the young. The men were given weapons and walked in front and behind, while the women, children and the elderly walked in the middle with their bags on their backs.
When distributing supplies, men who worked hard were given an extra one-third of the food, and women, children, the elderly and the weak were not deducted.
Therefore, Zhao Chong was very popular. After arriving here, he saw that it was close to the sea, had abundant seawater resources, and there were ready-made empty villages, so he decided to take root there.
Several more groups of surviving locals and outsiders who had fled here were gathered, and the scale of the Red Star Base became larger and larger.
He had another idea. He took his men to dive to the bottom of the sea, risking their lives, to find a batch of weapons. Then the safety of the Red Star Base would be more and more guaranteed.
When the high temperature disaster came, he led the people at the base to expand and deepen the existing cellars in the village, and then several families squeezed together to live.
Their life in the cellar was certainly not as good as in the underground base in J City, so everyone had skin diseases.
But fortunately, I gradually adapted to underground life.
Food and supplies are still obtained from the sea.
Because of the high temperature, many fish in the sea died and floated on the sea with their white bellies turned up.
Fortunately, when Zhao Chong ordered people to dig the cellar, he also had people catch fish day and night, dry them in the air, and pickle them. After all the fish in the sea were drowned, they would eat the stored sweet dried fish and pickled fish.
But there was food but no water, and people suffered from serious illnesses due to lack of water.
It was at this time that seawater purification technology was improved by a young college student. He knew the principle of purifying seawater into fresh water, and based on this, he improved it into a simpler and less expensive method.
With this method, people are finally out of danger temporarily.
When the high temperature period ends, the sea's self-purification ability is very strong, and the waves will carry away all the fish killed by the high temperature, greatly reducing the toxicity of the seawater.
People's lives gradually returned to normal.
Zhou Shuwan and Qi Mingyu were both a little surprised when they heard what Zhao Chong said: "It must have been a difficult journey for you."
Zhao Chong smiled bitterly. "That's the difference between being a regular army and not. I'd like to take the entire base and go look for the government and the army, but we don't have a car or gas. The farthest government base is over a hundred kilometers away, which is too far. We don't know what accidents might happen along the way, so I've been hesitant and haven't taken action."
Zhou Shuwan sincerely suggested, "Actually, I suggest you continue north. The south is low-lying, and if there's an earthquake or something like that in the future, the danger will be too high. The north isn't safe either, but there's no place in the world that's 100% safe right now. We can only choose the lesser of two evils!"
A base with a population of a thousand or so is too small to withstand a large-scale enemy invasion.
In the later stages of the apocalypse, as supplies become increasingly scarce, governments at all levels will move into newly built bases, and entire cities will be abandoned. Then, they will become the domain of the underworld.
By then, small bases like Red Star will only become bases for bad guys.
Therefore, Zhou Shuwan suggested that Zhao Chong move in advance.
She didn't explain it clearly, just a few vague reminders. Zhao Chong's expression immediately became serious: "Okay, since it's your suggestion, I will definitely take it seriously."
In his heart, he had long felt that Zhou Shuwan knew some inside information.
As he spoke, he laughed again: "Actually, I thought you would ask me how that matter went as soon as we met. I didn't expect you to be so patient!"
He was talking about the time when Zhou Shuwan asked him to break Lin Youyang's leg.
Zhou Shuwan smiled and said, "Actually, when I heard you say that S City was destroyed by the tsunami, I guessed that his ending would not be very good."
Zhao Chong said, "You left behind a pile of supplies and a few ominous words before disappearing. I hid the supplies first, then investigated that man named Lin Youyang and found out what he had done. Since he was a shameless person, I thought it was just a matter of breaking a leg, something I've done many times, so I didn't think it was a big deal."