Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse - Chapter 439 - 439 439 The Current Situation of Each Base
Chapter 439: Chapter 439: The Current Situation of Each Base Chapter 439: Chapter 439: The Current Situation of Each Base The animals in the Wood Spirit Space led particularly comfortable lives every day because Nie Qing had set up a Confinement Formation there. They could only move around in the designated poultry and livestock area without wandering everywhere. Even so, the Confinement Formation for that area had been expanded many times by Nie Qing and Lu Hao.
Now, the poultry and livestock area had a wide expanse of grass and a pond that Huang Yunxiang and Lin Tianzhen regularly filled with water. Lu Guanhai had even planted some plants and flowers inside.
From the outside, it looked like a prosperous ranch, except the poultry and livestock inside bred too quickly, adding more and more young animals each day—to the point that their numbers were uncountable.
Before Guo Yang returned, he had learned that their team had qualified for super rank and was excited to celebrate with everyone.
Everyone at the base knew he was a member of the Heart Talk Team, and from the afternoon onward, customers continuously congratulated him as they came to shop.
“I heard that some people wanted to bet on the outcome of the match, but because of our team, they couldn’t even place their bets,” Guo Yang said as he gnawed on the lemon chicken claws Su Jin had brought out.
“Why couldn’t they place bets?”
Shi Jin asked, puzzled.
“Because everyone was betting on the Heart Talk Team to win, haha!”
Guo Yang found this quite amusing; he somewhat regretted not closing the shop to go and cheer for the match.
“Brother Guo, look at this,” Yin Chengtian suddenly remembered. Today, Lin Xiuyuan gave him a mobile phone to record the match of the Heart Talk Team.
“Xiao Tian, aren’t you being a bit too thoughtful?”
Guo Yang quickly pulled out a tissue to wipe his hands and started watching intently.
Yin Chengtian wanted to say it wasn’t his idea, but seeing Guo Yang engrossed and constantly gasping in awe, he held back his words…
“When can we get our Crystal Core?”
Lin Xiuyuan asked.
“It should be after the assessment ends, since there are still three teams left to compete,” Su Jin replied.
“What do you think about the other three teams? Can they help our base secure an S rank?”
Lin Cheng also leaned in to ask.
“It’s going to be difficult. Han Jin’s team has five Level Five Ability Users, and the officials pick the opponents, which inherently puts them at a disadvantage,” Lu Hao analyzed.
Su Jin nodded. Teams like Jian Zongzheng’s were inherently smaller in number, and challenging five Level Five Ability Users would indeed be challenging.
“Don’t worry, this assessment isn’t the only one,”
Su Jin remembered that in her past life, later on, each base established a Mercenary Corps assessment office where any team that applied for assessment could be brought together at a fixed time for evaluation.
Since everyone was present right now, she didn’t elaborate further.
Local Tyrant Gold was no longer scared of Lian Jiyue, who seemed to have lost interest in it after their first aggressive encounter. This allowed it to bravely jump around on the recliner behind everyone.
It had been a long time since the family had relaxed and enjoyed themselves like this. Being a monkey accustomed to lively crowds, Local Tyrant Gold liked to make its presence felt when everyone was around, especially enjoying landing on someone’s shoulder and making them invisible momentarily, which always elicited hearty laughter from all.
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One night at the base, the family had spent four days in the Space, harvesting and processing all of the crops. Su Jin then sowed a new batch of grains in the Spirit Field.
But because the supply of grains exceeded demand, everyone discovered that they had no bags to store the newly threshed grains.
“Grain bags aren’t considered supplies, so maybe there are still some leftover outside. We’ll have to pay more attention when we go out on missions from now on,” Su Jin suggested. As for the newly threshed grains, even if stored elsewhere temporarily, they wouldn’t spoil, and right now, they still had plenty of grains to sell.
Compared to the base in S city where people could line up to buy small amounts of grain, most other places had started to experience famine.
Furthermore, the weather seemed to be getting colder, although it wasn’t winter yet. People’s breath formed a white mist as they spoke, and quilts gradually became a necessity.
Especially in the northern regions, the weather had wholly entered deep winter.
Xing Taining wrapped himself tighter in his army coat, which hadn’t been washed in who knows how many days, and couldn’t help but curse.
His superiors had ordered him to go out looking for supplies again, despite him having already searched every corner of D city. Deputy Zhang had even directly given a deadly order on behalf of Colonel Yuan.
If he failed to find supplies this time, they wouldn’t need to come back.
Xing Taining looked at some men and women walking along the road, most of them with dull eyes and wearing ragged, dusty clothes—hair unwashed as if for ages.
Among them were many Special Ability Users, yet now, even the Ability Users in the base no longer had the desire to go out and kill Zombies.
Because no matter how many Crystal Cores they had, they could only buy a scant amount of supplies. If they didn’t have the right “connections,” they couldn’t even buy supplies with Crystal Cores.
The garbage cans in D city’s base had become the “treasure chests” for these Survivors, with Ability Users guarding each one.
Xing Taining knew they were just searching for little more than scraps discarded by “connected families.”
The base was severely polarized because the limited supplies were monopolized almost entirely by the powerful management layer. Initially, unsupported Survivors could still go out to kill Zombies to earn Crystal Cores to exchange for some supplies. But later, as the prices of supplies kept skyrocketing—doubling, ten times, a hundred times—many Ability Users could no longer afford them even with sufficient Crystal Cores.
“Captain Xing, this is too unfair. We’ve collected most of the supplies for the base, and now those guys have hoarded them,” Wang Zhi said angrily, although they were provided with food and shelter in the base, the meals were becoming abysmally poor, sometimes just two bowls of watery noodle soup a day.
“Yes, no wonder those people from B city looked down on us. In the end, only a few middle-rank teams were selected. I really hope someone comes to manage this place!” Zhou Chengren also complained as they walked. They were humans, not dogs. They had once risked their lives searching for supplies for the base, only to receive such a fatal order now.
“What does ‘don’t bother coming back if you can’t find supplies’ mean?”
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