blogombal Chapter 24 Northern Factory
Chapter 24 Northern Factory
"What other plans could there be? Help restore the machinery and equipment and get the production line back up as soon as possible!" Leng Yue looked a little strange, as if she didn't understand Wu Ou's meaning.
"What I mean is, do you plan to devote yourself entirely to the northern base, or do you want to take care of the team here as well?" Wu Ou pointed to the wall, next door was where the rest of their team lived.
Providing them with four evolved individuals and a decent living room is already considered a relatively good offer from the Northern Base.
The rest of the people, even those who came with Wu Ou and his team, were assigned to a relatively large room and slept on a large communal bed.
They actually benefited from this.
Otherwise, more people would have to squeeze into underground living areas with strangers.
There weren't any proper beds there; they were all makeshift makeshift beds on the floor.
It was built according to the temporary conditions of an air-raid shelter.
Otherwise, it would be impossible to arrange housing for more than 300,000 people according to their normal needs.
Of course, if you choose to join a hunting team, or if you have some technical skills to join a factory, you can be assigned to a place with relatively better conditions.
Leng Yue paused for a moment. She was unwilling to give up her teammates.
Having spent so much time together and fighting side by side, they had developed a deep bond.
She also didn't want people to say that she had forgotten her friends after becoming an "official".
"What are your plans?" she asked Wu Ou in return.
In her view, since Wu Ou took the initiative to raise this question, he must already have his own plans and intentions.
She had realized this during her previous operations.
Since I don't have a good idea for the time being, I might as well listen to Wu Ou's suggestion.
Even if we cannot fully agree, we can still discuss it.
"The Northern Base is in a hurry to restore basic production capacity, actually in order to arm more combat forces to hunt down the surrounding mutant beasts for food."
Another point is that what they want to do now is to expand the area for food cultivation; otherwise, it would be a pipe dream to feed so many people just by hunting mutated beasts!
Once industrial equipment becomes readily available, energy issues will inevitably arise.
In order to maintain people's livelihoods, opening up hunting grounds to civilian groups will be an inevitable choice.
Before his rebirth, Wu Ou had already gone through such a development process once.
He knew that after the Northern Base successfully joined the university district and recruited talents from various wandering camps, the Northern Base had established three equipment manufacturing plants, three vegetable cultivation plants, and even restored a number of heavy weapons in less than a month, allowing the Northern Base's city guards to display their might and prowess in front of the public.
Unfortunately, this seemingly powerful army suffered heavy losses when faced with the beast horde led by the Beast King.
During the battle to defend the city, some of the people who came with the wandering camp, along with the cold weapon squads composed of those physical evolutionists, actually demonstrated outstanding combat effectiveness.
This made the commanders at the northern base realize that times had changed, or rather, that their previously proud firearms combat system was beginning to fall behind.
After discussion, the system of civilian hunting teams was opened up, which bought time for the later counter-offensive against the invaders.
What Wu Ou wants to seize is this opportunity to build a team that centers around him and trusts him.
Following Wu Ou's words, Leng Yue was naturally led in this direction.
She nodded in agreement, confirming that what Wu Ou said made a lot of sense.
"So, you want my help? Are you planning to build your own production line or firearms?" She frowned, because she knew what that meant.
"Of course not, at most they'll use cold weapons, but we need to improve their strength."
Only in this way can we minimize casualties when we go hunting outside the base.” Wu Ou naturally wouldn’t admit that he ultimately wanted to build weapons.
But he wasn't lying. Wouldn't it be better to wait until we obtain new energy weapon technology from the ruins and then directly manufacture those instead of building traditional thermal weapons?
"I agree!" Seeing Wu Ou's sincere expression, Leng Yue nodded in agreement.
"Then, we're teammates again, and we'll be fighting side by side from now on!" Wu Ou smiled and extended his right hand.
Leng Yue said, "So, you were planning to separate from us from the beginning?!" She also extended her right hand and shook hands with Wu Ou.
"I have my own goals. Just because we fought side by side before doesn't mean I can drag you all down with me without telling you!" Wu Ou smiled.
The next morning, someone delivered special food to them: a dumpling soup made with meat and flour.
As for washing up, we can only use melted snow water that has been boiled, as the tap water system has not yet been fully restored.
The four people split into two groups, and Wu Ou and the other two were naturally taken by a special car to the original train station.
Someone led them into the underground building.
"Gentlemen, this is where we are now restoring the industrial equipment of the entire northern base."
The leading soldier gestured to the two guards to open the gate.
A wave of warmth washed over me, and the soft carpets, electric heaters, kettles, and other amenities made the environment here even better than my accommodation.
They even saw some fruit!
I haven't seen this thing in ages since the disaster struck and people rushed to buy supplies.
At least, none of the ones I've seen before are this new.
Clearly, the conditions here are specifically designed to provide for exceptional talents during extraordinary times.
There were only a few people among them.
Some of them were reading books, and then occasionally they would draw circles on the drawings on the table.
Some were devouring the meat, even chunks of it still bloody, shoveling them into their mouths one bite at a time, and finally gulping down a mouthful of hot water to finish it off.
Then pick up the fitness equipment on the side and start a quick workout to accelerate the absorption of the energy from the meat and restore energy.
Others would place their hands on a piece of metal and carefully activate their abilities to shape it into a suitable form.
"Alright, this structure is complete. Come and take the measurements!" As she withdrew her hand, she breathed a sigh of relief and sat down in the chair. Immediately, guards who were ready came forward on both sides. One took out tools to take measurements, while the other took out a towel and water.
It was like a boxing coach serving his athletes, wiping their sweat and feeding them water.
As soon as someone was brought in, the person who was reading suddenly looked up.
His gaze swept over Hu Ming and Wu Ou, and when he saw Leng Yue, his eyes lit up.
He put down the book in his hand, quickly walked to Leng Yue, and extended his right hand with a polite smile.
"Hello, ma'am, my name is Yu Lei. I am the person in charge here and the lead developer of the main project technology."