The news about being able to take leave and return ho to visit family spread through the base quickly, affecting everyone’s emotions.
Although everyone had co to Lucia with full awareness, and despite the heavy workload and harsh environnt over the past six months, it wasn’t too unbearable overall. Persevering for a few months is indeed not too much to ask.
But everything becos difficult once it starts. After knowing that the higher-ups were discussing the possibility of allowing people to return ho for visits, everyone was inevitably stirred emotionally.
They are currently in Lucia, far away from their holand, with at least several thousand kiloters of distance separating them from their country. The physical distance has severed their contact with ho.
While communication hasn’t been cut off, the channels available for maintaining contact with ho are all official channels, which are not suitable or feasible for ordinary staff to use for calling ho to contact family.
This doesn’t an ordinary staff cannot use these communication devices to call ho, but the official channels mainly connect with various dostic departnts and not with shelters or individuals.
So even if communication devices were made available to the staff, at most they could call dostic departnts, unable to reach their families.
Writing letters is also a thod, though. The express delivery services that people used before the disaster have completely ceased, but the national postal service is still operational.
However, all previous postal codes and regional addresses have beco a ss due to the apocalyptic disaster. With many grassroots postal facilities damaged and the collapse of the postal system, many addresses are abandoned, and there are no postal workers to deliver letters.
Even if a letter can be sent back ho, finding the corresponding address and delivering the letter to the recipient is no easy task.
Not to ntion receiving a reply from ho.
In such circumstances, everyone hasn’t been in contact with their families for a long ti, not knowing how their families are doing and whether everything is alright.
Previously, they could use work to distract themselves, convincing themselves not to dwell on these issues, but once the higher-ups ntioned the possibility of going ho for visits, no one could remain calm.
So directly approached their superiors, inquiring about the possibility of returning ho for visits. Even those who were more reserved sought information quietly, estimating their chances of going ho for a visit.
This sentint undoubtedly affected everyone’s work.
Although everyone continued working diligently and did not let their hosickness hinder their work, these thoughts still influenced morale and slightly reduced work efficiency.
Initially, the purpose of allowing people to go ho for visits was to alleviate emotional tensions and improve work efficiency, but it resulted in a situation that Chen Xin and others were reluctant to see.
At the sa ti, they realized the seriousness of everyone’s emotional state.
After all, this was not like before the disaster; several months of accumulated hosickness had beco sufficient to impact everyone’s work performance.
With this in mind, Chen Xin convened a eting with others to formally discuss and establish a temporary policy.
According to the policy, staff who had worked in Lucia for more than four months could apply to a temporarily established coordination group. They would be assessed based on a temporary evaluation standard, and return ho in batches according to their scores in a rotational order.
The announcent of the policy imdiately sparked a strong reaction.
The evaluation standard naturally beca the main topic of discussion. Everyone was concerned because it determined who could be among the first batch to return ho.
Fortunately, the evaluation standard was formulated after rigorous discussion, not just arbitrarily decided. Overall, there was no significant opposition, and everyone’s concern was only about their score and the batch in which they could return ho.
Since it was a rotational system, only after one batch returned from their visit could the next batch go ho. Those assigned to later batches would undoubtedly stay in Lucia longer than others.
However, after the policy was announced, emotions finally stabilized significantly. So even increased their work efficiency, and a few voluntarily worked overti during their breaks, trying to earn more points to return ho as soon as possible.
Faced with such a situation, Chen Xin and others sighed with relief. They feared the policy would cause resentnt, which would have been a severe problem.
Now, with everyone accepting and adhering to the policy, the result was undoubtedly ideal.
This also made Chen Xin and others more determined to arrange for everyone to go ho as soon as possible; after all, even a donkey can’t be led on forever with a carrot it never gets to eat.
Therefore, Chen Xin contacted the holand and, after the arrival of a new batch of supplies, arranged for the first batch to board the returning flight to go ho.
This wasn’t difficult since these flights were mostly empty when returning ho, so taking so people along was an efficient use of resources.
The only coordination needed was for the holand to arrange their transportation ho once they arrived, which received a positive response from the holand.
With peace of mind, Chen Xin handed the tasks over to those specifically responsible for handling these matters.
After sending off the first batch, Chen Xin’s deputy raised a question: "Academician, you’ve been away from ho for a long ti, haven’t you? Since the Southwest earthquake, you’ve only briefly returned twice. Haven’t you missed ho after being away for so long? Why don’t you go ho for a visit?"
This was a question that puzzled the deputy. Although Chen Xin, as the project leader, couldn’t be in the first batch to set an example, his na could have been on the list for later batches.
Given Chen Xin’s status, reputation, and contributions, no one would have gossiped—it would be seen as well-deserved.
However, from the start, Chen Xin had removed his na from the list of those going ho for visits.
"Of course, I do miss ho! But compared to others, at least I know there’s nothing wrong at ho, and I can contact my family when needed, so returning ho isn’t that urgent for ," Chen Xin said indifferently. "Moreover, with my position, going ho only requires a word. There’s no need to take soone else’s spot."
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