The Reborn Otaku's Code of Practice for the Apocalypse

Chapter 66 -70

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Yan Fei's captain, who was sitting in a military jeep, loudly called to the people who were climbing the wall to reach their spots. "Just received notice, the earth users have completed two periods of outer wall construction. The higher ups gave them a few days to prepare for the third stage, thickening the wall. Our speed needs to be increased as soon as possible, otherwise the two sides cannot progress together smoothly."
Today's wall was only six metres high with a thickness of about one metre. The outer metal wall only had a thickness of 10 cm and there was still at least half the metal wall to be built.
"Captain, does the metal fence need to be thicker?" A metal user asked while absorbing a crystal nucleus to rest.
"Yes, but not now. The future metal wall must be repaired to a thickness of at least a metre but the base does not have enough metal. Need to wait until more are brought over." The captain sighed and looked towards the inner city. "Not only does the perimeter wall need to expand, the inner wall also needs to be strengthened and thickened."
A fence was a safeguard, although the wall was blocking the zombies with humans stuck inside, only with the protection of a thick wall would people feel at ease.
A soldier laughed. "The next time we fix this wall it will soon become a European castle."
Another soldier smiled and pointed at a surveillance tower. "It's already not too far from that. Yesterday I saw a guardhouse set up a stone bridge and heard that more will be built.
In order to avoid what happened before, the guards completely isolated and surrounded by zombies, the base found a way to erect a brick channel attached to each guardhouse. The thin channels were connected to the wall, each could only let one person walk at a time and looked like an ancient castle guard tower.
From below, the channel resembled a half curved bridge structure, which was the result of collaboration between earth users and experienced base architects. Then metal users were called in to help build them.
More guardhouses would need to be built later and the base had the idea of constructing some channels to facilitate information transmission increase the mobility of support personnel. Luo Xun suspected that the bridges could be used to recover lost ground if the situation came to it.
Plus Luo Xun had a clear memory of his past life, in the near future, the base would build a true castle. The castle was now located at the barracks, near military buildings with tall walls. Unfortunately in his last life Luo Xun had no chance to see what was inside, but in this life...he and Yan Fei would be involved in the work. Well, he would not directly participate but he would certainly help Yan Fei with the task.
After the captain relayed the news, Yan Fei and the others had absorbed most of the crystal nuclei energy, the mornings work was over.
Like before, the two men were ferried back to the barracks, went to the canteen for takeout then drove their car back to their neighborhood.
After the spring festival, less people obviously idled at home, the vast majority went looking for work in order to find ways to exchange for rations. Timid people would find a job on base while the more daring would form a team to collect supplies in the area.
A lot of people had been trying to gather resources and form a real team. The number of stalls on the streets had decreased with the number of tables with recruiting banners increased proportionately.
As the two drove by, some men standing in the middle of the road held leaflets to their windows. Luo Xun asked Yan Fei. "What was written on there?"
He was too lazy to leave the base and prefered to farm at home, work the wall for a living but could not withstand the desire for gossip in his heart. There was no entertainment on base so seeing how various teams were wooing people, if there were any rising stars at this time seemed a very good past time.
Yan Fei looked at the bunch of leaflets, his mouth twitched twice.
"What's up?" Luo Xun was carefully driving since the base streets were often filled with passerbys. The car was not very fast, there were always people who suddenly rushed out or ran past. Carelessly bumping into someone or something while driving was normal.
"Handwritten on plain white paper." Yan Fei carefully looked and found that under the pen appeared to be something printed before the apocalypse.
"Oh, there's a paper shortage." Luo Xun thought this was normal, who could find paper to use, wait another year and see? Everyone would have to use the legendary papyrus.
"...and typos." Yan Fei stared at the written words.
"...Very normal. Everyone uses mobile phone and computers to type, writing errors are normal." Luo Xun forcibly nodded as he silently recalled – it had been a long time since he had written anything...he only used a pen on rare occasions.
After his rebirth, although he sometimes wrote sometime, whenever he could not remember how to write a word he would check his phone...so his writing skills were not bad?
Yan Fei sighed. "I think they must have used old chinese medicine leaflets, it's hard to find the meaning of a lot of these words."
His literary level was quite high, as a child under the supervision of his grandfather, he had copied a lot of books. He could identify orthodox and running script but not these simplified versions. He could only rely on other recognized words to figure out some meaning.
"...What about the rest?" Luo Xun refrained from laughing.
Yan Fei picked out a few to read while Luo Xun listened. "Not very reliable, not so much hiring as teaming up to find supplies."
"Reliable?" Yan Fei smiled as he folded the papers and put them away in the car – it was paper, may be useful in the future and they could not waste anything useful.
"All those flyers? Mid power fire user preferred, but they do not have the ability to draw these people. Just empty words, no stirring of the heart at all."
"Yes, I think they are putting in effort but should go directly to the city gate to find those who want to go out. They might find some suitable people to cooperate with." The two people casually spoke as they entered their neighborhood, there were many people flocking to the car.
Suddenly a person shouted. "Yan...Yan..." It was a woman's voice.
Luo Xun froze and looked out Yan Fei's window to see a plain looking 20 year old woman staring at Yan Fei in horror. This woman looked a little familiar but...who was she? And Yan Fei was still wearing a mask, since he was still recognized...an acquaintance?
Unhappily glancing at Yan Fei, Luo Xun quickly entered the community gate.
Yan Fei only glanced once at the woman before putting the folded pile of leaflets away.
The two people parked the car, with bags and things to set off. Luo Xun saw the woman had secretly followed from the door intersection. She jumped and turned to the gate when seen.
"Who is she?" So she was not an acquaintance? The discomfort in Luo Xun's heart was reduced by a lot.
"Should be part of the first group of people I met after the apocalypse started." Yan Fei's expression was unchanged, seeing Luo Xun was unclear he smiled and explained. "The group of people who broke my ribs, this woman seemed to be among them."
He had profound memories of those guys, there had also been that conspicuous mature woman and a more innocent looking college student – who let those two women stick to his side every day? If he was not mistaken, that girl should have a good relationship with the college student. He did not even remember the names of those two outstanding women, let alone one so inconspicuous?
"Oh! Them!" Luo Xun also remembered, although he had met the group but his attention had been on the boss, the others only left a faint impression. Thinking of that, he looked at the doorway with a trace of murderous intent. "Should we check where they live?"
Yan Fei lightly smiled. "Not urgent right now."
He would not forget this, his heart was very small. In fact, Luo Xun may have not noticed before but they had seen the group several times in the morning for work. But they were far away and also had not talked about this matter so Luo Xun did not know. However Yan Fei could guess their building number.
But recently he had not seen the mature women or the female college students among them. Did they stay at home for housekeeping? Or had they gone their separate ways.
Luo Xun nodded his head while carrying a backpack and other things to their floor. These people could not stay, not just because they had seriously injured Yan Fei. Luo Xun did not believe that those people would not go after Yan Fei with sinister intentions once they knew he was alive.
If this kind of thing was not resolved as soon as possible, they could get involved in an unexpected situation. Luo Xun refused to let such people with likely hidden intentions stay near.
The idea was not complicated, there would be no problem as long as there was an opportunity to get rid of those people. However his crossbow and Zhang Yi's wind power were relatively conspicuous, ordinary people might not notice, but the soldiers who had cooperated with them were very aware of this matter.
A hand hand suddenly feel on his head, Luo Xun looked up to see Yan Fei smiling. "Don't worry, I will solve it." Would not leave anything behind, not too late.
Forget about the others, the leader of the group and a few men were now living together, Yan Fei had not found a chance to deal with them at the moment.