The apocalypse began the year before last, and it has been more than a year since then.
Li Yu and his group went through the initial zombie chaos, then dry weather, heavy rain, blizzards, attacks by refugees, and several waves of zombie attacks.
They all persevered.
Under Li Yu's leadership, Da Zhangshu Base, instead of declining like Liberation City, became even stronger.
Time came to the end of January 2027.
The Spring Festival had already passed more than a week ago.
Inside the conference hall.
Li Yu called everyone for an internal summary meeting.
It was about the annual summary for the past year and the plans for the new year.
The members participating in the meeting were the core members of the base, including Li Father, Li Yu's grandfather, second uncle, third uncle, fourth uncle, Li Hang, Li Yuan, maternal uncle, Ding Jiu, Song Min, Lao Lü, Lao Xie, Da Pao, Yang Tianlong, Yu Tong, Lai Dongsheng, Bai Jie, Teacher Liu, and An Ya.
Li Yu looked at the people in front of him with some emotion.
He gestured to Li Yuan, signaling her to begin the report.
Li Yuan stood up, looked at everyone, and then said:
"As of now, the base's population has reached 113 people, with 96 adults among them.
In the base, a 'everyone is a soldier' strategy is adopted; basically, everyone knows how to shoot, and everyone has killed a zombie.
Although the base's supplies have been consumed, through our own planting and harvesting, and external foraging, current supplies, specifically main food, are on par with before, neither increasing nor decreasing.
Rice reserves are still 80 tons, flour 30 tons, salt 26 tons, and peanut oil 2 tons.
Currently, in the underground planting base, rice is still being cultivated using a three-dimensional planting method and a stacked method, which has a higher space utilization rate, with a planting area of 5 mu, and potato planting area reaching 4 mu.
Other fruits and vegetables, nearly 1,000 catties were just harvested a month ago.
In addition, because some land is currently covered by snow, it is temporarily not being utilized, including the terraced fields in the mountains.
The total cultivated area is 28 mu.
Regarding the base's walls, they have continuously increased and been reinforced from the initial 6 meters to 12 meters, and the watchtowers have reached 18 meters; just standing on the watchtower, one can see things on the National Highway with a telescope.
In terms of weapons, the base now has nearly 1,000 firearms, including submachine guns, pistols, machine guns, and rocket launchers;
Ammunition has been somewhat consumed recently but still amounts to nearly a million rounds.
Additionally, we have collected 89 crossbows from the county and city, including twenty modern high-strength compound crossbows that we custom-ordered for tens of thousands of yuan each.
Before finding the Military Base, we also made some arrows, and the effect was quite good.
These arrows were made from trees felled outside the base, combined with some steel arrowheads, and there are 10,900 of them.
In terms of vehicles, there are a total of 25 vehicles, most of which are parked inside the base's inner walls, and three or four vehicles are parked in Weng City.
Among the 25 vehicles, there is a fuel tanker loaded with 10 tons of diesel, a Unimog, a riot control vehicle, five off-road vehicles, a large bus, and five new energy vehicles.
Many of these vehicles were picked up from outside the base; some vehicles were discarded after being used a few times.
Outside the base, especially in the county and city, cars can be found everywhere.
"Everyone below listened to the numbers Li Yuan reported, feeling a steady sense of security in their hearts.
The current food reserves were their greatest guarantee.
After hearing about these food reserves, Li Yu also pondered something: the current 28 mu of land, before Captain Lü and Bai Jie joined, was enough to support seventy or eighty people, with even a slight surplus.
Because they are located in Lingnan, aside from various disaster reasons, they can have three harvests a year, and one mu of land can support three people.
Like their planting time in the south,
1. Early rice:
Generally sown from late March to early April, harvested in mid to late July.
It is usually cultivated earlier and matures earlier, with a growth period of about 90-120 days.
2. Mid-season rice:
Generally sown from early April to late May, harvested in mid to late September.
Mid-season rice is suitable for planting in most areas, and its development varies greatly due to different regions and climates, with a growth period of about 120-150 days.
3. Late rice:
Generally sown from mid to late June, harvested in early to mid-October. Its growth period is longer, and its maturity period is later, with a growth period of about 150-170 days.
For example, in southern North China, winter wheat yields 800 catties per mu per season, which can only support one person, similar to the Northeast and Northwest, where it can only support one person per year.
Throughout last year, three seasons were planted; if it weren't for the large amount of water stored in the reservoir, only two seasons could have been planted last year.
After Li Yuan finished reporting all the recently compiled information, Li Yu nodded and said:
"Okay, maternal uncle, please talk about the base's guard and defense situation."
Liu Jianwen nodded, stood up, and said, "Currently, for the base's defense, there are 5 guard rooms, 1 monitoring room, and a total of 300 cameras.
Currently, there are 96 adult personnel in total.
Everyone has to be on duty, and personnel rotate positions flexibly.
Currently, there are 6 fixed personnel on the wall, 4 wall patrol personnel, and 2 personnel inside the guard room.
"Then, Li Yu looked at everyone and said, "Our base is growing in personnel, and there may be more people in the future.
However, I believe everyone is also very clear about one thing, especially Lao Lü who came from Liberation City, you might feel it even more strongly: without food, no matter how many people there are, it's useless.
If there's not enough unity, the more people there are, the faster they die.
Regarding the base's plan, it must certainly be made bigger, but it needs to be stable.
Build high walls, accumulate vast provisions, and increase strength.
Given the uncertainty of natural disasters now, everyone needs to have a stronger sense of crisis.
Now that there are more people, I will also clarify everyone's responsibilities here:
Li Hongda (second uncle) and Liu Jianwen (maternal uncle) are responsible for the overall management of the base's interior, jointly holding leadership when I am not present.
Li Hongda is mainly responsible for internal basic order and handling various emergency situations.
Liu Jianwen is responsible for managing the personnel on duty on the walls.
There are three standing combat teams:
One is led by me, including Da Pao, Yang Tianlong, Li Tie, Li Gang, Li Hang, Song Min, and others.
The third uncle leads Lao Xie, Lai Dongsheng, Shang Xue'er, and some former armed police members.
The maternal uncle leads, with Lao Lü as deputy captain, leading Wang Cheng, Xie Weishan, and others.
Li Yuan is responsible for the base's logistics, including the entry and exit of supplies.
Li Hongyuan (father) and Ding Jiu are mainly responsible for the construction within the base.
An Ya and Li Yushi (grandfather) are responsible for planting and breeding within the base.
Meng Yu and Li Yuan are responsible for the medical room.
Teacher Liu and Lai Xiyue, you are responsible for the children's education.
Bai Jie is responsible for the research lab.
"Among the three combat teams, these groups of people who entered the base were divided and assigned to various teams based on their strength.
This included Song Min's group of sisters who came in first, some of Li Yu's adult cousins, Lao Lü and some of his armed police members, and some workers who joined initially, led by Ding Jiu.
One must be wary of others; if the internal situation is chaotic, then there's no need to mention the external situation.
Living in the apocalypse, surviving for a year, no one who manages to live is a simple character.
After hearing Li Yu's arrangements, everyone had no objections, nor did they dare to have any; every person who could enter the entire base had been screened.
One must know that in this apocalypse, a single mistake can easily lead to catastrophe.
Seeing that everyone had no objections, Li Yu continued, "Alright, then let's talk about the new plans for this year.
I plan to push the walls outward this year, expanding the area by 5 mu. This would be pushing them out about 20 meters.
Additionally, although we frequently went out to search for supplies last year, many of our items are now consumed and difficult to produce, such as ammunition.
This is very difficult, but we can try to do it.
Regarding personnel training—"
Li Yu spoke at length, and everyone listened attentively. Although things had always been done this way before, many matters had not been clearly explained, leaving everyone somewhat vague.
Now that it was clear, everyone had a clearer goal.
They knew which direction to go and what the ultimate goal was.
