Apocalyptic Reincarnation: Start with a 30-million Bonus-Chapter 282 - 274: Base Population Breaks Through 90!

Seeing everyone's confusion, Lai Xiyue explained, "This electronic product can be charged in your rooms, and we have a library and entertainment center where everyone can download some movies, books, and stuff like that..."

Under Lai Xiyue's narration, everyone was a bit dazzled. There were thousands of TBs worth of all kinds of movies, books, documentaries... even thousands of classic offline games from before the apocalypse.

Millions of various videos already encompassed most of the videos ordinary people could watch, except for short-form videos.

Holding the iPads in their hands, everyone felt a lump in their throat. Before the apocalypse, they had grown used to the convenience brought by electronic products, often enjoying brief moments of happiness through them.

But after the apocalypse, life had become much more boring, many times left to starve while staring at the ceiling.

You see, when you're starving, you don't feel like doing anything.

Now, the supplies being distributed included some of these items, making the things to be handed out later even more anticipated.

Among the distributed items, many were specifically chosen to improve everyone's comfort. Quite a few were from international big brands, with particular attention paid to detail.

For example, one of the items given out were the home clothes and pajamas – Fenton home clothes! It's the first home clothes brand listed on the stock market in the country and also one of the top five quality home clothes brands. They'd heard of this renowned brand even before the apocalypse, and now, touching them, the quality felt excellent.

They couldn't even start to imagine how comfortable it would be to change into the Fenton home clothes later.

After all, just as they used to say, if they're not working, they're wearing Fenton.

Now, without having to hack away at zombies and returning to such a safe base, to wear home clothes, lie on the couch, and binge-watch series – it couldn't be any more awesome.

Thinking of this scene, everyone started to dream of the future.

Because the distributed items were of such high quality,

Everyone was faintly looking forward to the dinner they would be attending together later.

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After distributing the supplies, Lai Xiyue recorded everyone's names, ages, professions, skills...

Then she led them to their rooms, arranging a slightly larger two-bedroom apartment for a couple, and also reserving two-bedroom apartments for Old Xie and Captain Lv. The rest of the people, who were mostly by themselves, were each allocated a one-bedroom apartment.

When they turned on the water heater, they almost cried – the hot water from the showerhead cascading down their bodies sent shivers through their souls.

A hot shower is such a luxury in a post-apocalyptic world!

To take a hot shower, you first need a safe environment, then enough hot water, which is often unavailable.

Shang Xue'er, as the only girl in the team, had cut her hair short, but that didn't mean she didn't care about her appearance at all.

Under the hot water, she washed away all the dirt and fatigue from her body.

Everyone dared not shower for too long, unsure of how much hot water there was, in case using too much meant there would be none left for the people afterward.

In the base, they had already considered the recycling of various resources during construction, such as the water from the hot showers could be directly used for watering plants or crops.

After showering, everyone stepped out of their rooms looking completely refreshed.

They exchanged smiles.

Especially when Shang Xue'er came out, she was a sight for sore eyes. Although she always had short hair and looked very stern, there was a gentle aura about her after the bath, and actually, her facial features were quite nice.

At six-thirty in the evening.

From between the rows of bungalows, from the villas, and from other places, many people emerged, neatly lining up in formation.

When Lao Xie and his group entered today, although they saw some people, they didn't get a comprehensive view. Now seeing everyone, they suddenly realized that the base actually had quite a lot of people.

Today's dinner had relatively good dishes:

Potato beef stew—A cow from the herd raised in the past few days had fallen and broken its leg, so it was simply slaughtered.

Tomatoes scrambled with eggs

Spicy sour radishes.

A large bowl of rice was available, or one could choose corn on the cob.

Lao Xie and others, upon seeing the meal spread, almost popped their eyes out in amazement; it was incredibly abundant.

There was enough rice, with meat and vegetables, and the steaming hot dishes made them drool. fɾēewebnσveℓ.com

At mealtime, no one wasted time talking.

Inside the base, from the initially reserved four acres of land, to the nearly eight acres later cleared in the mountains, and the two acres more cleared on the plains, there was a total of more than ten acres.

After building Weng City initially, Third Uncle, along with Ding Jiu and others, had scoured all the rebar and cement factories around the county.

They also greatly increased the height of the walls, reaching the height of three or four stories, around ten meters high, making them look even more imposing.

Later, thinking of expanding the base, they built a wall on the side near the cliff, increasing the area of the base by five acres.

The base that spanned dozens of acres looked quite impressive, but a kilometer-long wall required more people to stand watch. Currently, there are five fixed watchers on the wall. Two are at the direction of the main gate, and the other three are distributed at other directions.

Additionally, there are two others on rotating watch, patrolling the wall at all times.

So, there are seven people in a wall watch team. Compared to the initial count of over 70 people, this isn't many.

Adding the 15 people who now joined the base, the total population has just surpassed the 90 mark.

Among these 90 people, there are over 70 who are capable fighters, aged 16 and above.

It can be said that with Captain Lv and his group's addition, without necessarily mentioning how much combat power has increased, the defensive strength of the base has certainly been enhanced a lot.

After receiving the exquisite living supplies and being allocated a good individual space, with hot showers and delicious food, Lao Xie and the others lay in bed feeling somewhat dazed, as if all that they had experienced was just a dream, as if these scenes were something they had dreamt about countless times.

This was also a method Li Yu and his people used to win over these individuals, firstly letting them experience a different life outside the wall—being able to fill their stomachs, take hot baths, watch movies or read books when bored...

After experiencing a hellish life outside, the life in the base seemed like heaven.

Moreover, Li Yu did not directly tell them to join and become a part of the base. In doing so, before Captain Lv even spoke, they had already been won over in their hearts.

But relying on these supplies alone was not enough; material supplies were only the foundation, and to maintain and boost their loyalty requires more than just the material aspect.

However, matters of the spirit needed a certain material foundation before they could be addressed.

Otherwise, what dreams could one talk about on an empty stomach!

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That night, many people did not sleep.