After dealing with the foreign teacher, Ye Fan led the people into the swimming pool.
As he pushed the door open and appeared at the entrance, Ye Luo felt as if she was seeing a deity.
Her brother stood there in a military uniform, bathed in light, making it almost unbelievable for her eyes.
Ye Fan looked at the dumbfounded sister and laughed, "What’s wrong, Xiaoluo, don’t recognize anymore?"
Ye Luo stood up and ca to Ye Fan, first pinching his face hard.
"A bit rough to the touch, seems real."
Ye Fan: "....."
Ye Luo then took off Ye Fan’s hat and saw his buzz cut.
Ye Fan thought other hairstyles were troubleso to manage, so he always kept a buzz cut.
"Sure enough, it’s really my brother, my buzz-cut brother!"
The fear of the past few days seed to find an outlet, as Ye Luo hugged Ye Fan’s neck, tears streaming down, "Brother, you’re really alive, I knew my prayers worked."
Ye Fan patted Ye Luo’s little head, "What did you pray for?"
"I prayed... what about mom and dad?"
"Mom and dad are both fine."
"That’s great, it must have been the prayer working. I prayed for our whole family to survive safely, and if it succeeded, during our looks test, I’d even give you 40 points so we both could be just passing."
Ye Fan’s face turned black, looking around at the Red Alert soldiers, "Why are you all just standing there? Quickly, see if there’s anything of value here?"
"Xiao Jing, what are you laughing at? The looks test is just a prank app, not valid."
"Understood! In my heart, the officer is a man full of mature masculine charm, just like my father!"
Ye Fan, with a headache, gestured for Xiao Jing to leave, thinking, do all the Red Alert soldiers praise people like this?
The Red Alert soldiers spread out and began searching the swimming pool.
By now, Ye Luo had cald down, pulling Ye Fan aside, asking why he beca an officer.
Ye Fan could only use the old excuse again, saying the military is confidential, specifics cannot be disclosed, and he was urgently promoted to search for comrades scattered everywhere.
This reason pacified his sister, and Ye Fan then looked at the room full of students.
One can say Smith managed this place with heart, scavenging the supermarket outside the school gate and gathering quite a lot of food supplies.
However, the students’ situation was not good; there weren’t many blankets for them to use, many had to share a thin blanket and could only huddle together for warmth at night.
So students got sick, but there was a severe lack of dicines, although Smith collected so food, he didn’t get any dicine, and when Ye Fan arrived, he saw more than twenty sick students.
Many students’ uniforms were torn, with no spare clothes to change into, all looking listless, unkempt, and in poor spirits.
So of the students even knew Ye Fan, and now they looked at him with eyes full of hope.
This made Ye Fan, who initially just wanted to take his sister away, pause.
Since he could care for those in Chengguan Town, wouldn’t it make sense to do the sa for these regarded-as-younger students?
From the zoo to the school, a relatively safe route was cleared, taking them back shouldn’t be too difficult.
As Ye Fan pondered how to settle these students, Xu Haoran reported from the second floor.
"Officer, there are so items in Smith’s room."
"Alright, I’ll go up and take a look."
Ye Fan told Ye Luo to chat with classmates, assuring them not to worry, while he went to the second floor.
Upon arriving, Ye Fan saw a set of broadcast equipnt.
He sat in Smith’s chair, turned on the broadcast.
The broadcast still worked, with a gentle twist of the knob, so voices ca through.
"This is the Daqing Mountain Prison Base. We have a 300-strong ard team led by Leader Xing Hai, with solid defense structures to ensure the safety of survivors. We are now admitting survivors from the Coal City surrounding areas. As long as you work and follow managent here, safety is guaranteed. Additionally, Daqing Mountain Leader Xing Hai offers a reward for finding a group of survivors in military uniforms, who are impostor soldiers active in the Coal City Region. Whoever provides accurate intelligence will receive generous rewards."
"We are the Hot Spring Resort Base. Our base currently has over 4,000 people. The base environnt is good, located in the suburbs with few zombies, and the year-round spring brings us endless water supply. Commander Dai Yu is a warm-hearted person, and his well-equipped troop can fully ensure everyone’s safety... "
"Are there any living people? Can anyone hear ? I’m Chen Hao from Dawangzhuang Village. We’re short of many supplies here, winter clothes, coal, also lacking seasonings and 23-pistol bullets. Can anyone trade with us? I currently have enough food to spare so white flour for trade."
"First, let introduce myself. I am Liu Long, from the Hardware Mansion in the outskirts of Coal City. I’m willing to trade, but that white flour won’t do, it can only be exchanged for other food, not bullets. Who has mutant beast at? If you have, I’ll trade anything for it."
"You’ve said so much, can’t soone organize this? I see there are a number of survivors around the Coal City area. Arrange a ti and place, let’s et up. Not many people are left in this world, better to get acquainted rather than fight when we et."
"I agree, let’s count how many of us big brothers have been talking around this ti? Seek to organize, I’m currently short on gasoline."
"Is anyone able to rescue? Are there any troops left? Seven of us are trapped in Fengyun District, Baihua County..."
"I’m telling you, there’s no hope. I’m in Coal City, and I saw a massive armored zombie; can’t even be killed with bullets. Several of us collecting supplies died to that zombie, hahaha! It’s all over!"
Ye Fan listened for a while; the broadcast often had people speaking, so had established bases, and so were survivors calling for help.
The total population of i City is sixty to seventy million. Based on mutation probability, at least several million or even ten million should survive.
But with more survivors dying over ti, surely not that many remain; a couple hundred thousand to a million would be remarkable.
Moreover, after listening to the broadcast for so long, Ye Fan found no bases organized by governnt personnel or military.
He heard about the army’s situation from Jiang Shilong, but governnt presence was missing, making him wonder what exactly was happening.
Now several bases have been established around Coal City, with Hot Spring Base and Daqing Mountain Base being among the larger ones.
The villa district incident had caused Ye Fan’s team to have a falling out with Daqing Mountain’s Xing Hai, who was still looking for Ye Fan’s group through the broadcast.
Ye Fan wasn’t afraid, but listening to other information gave him a new idea.
Trading goods is a good strategy; though Ye Fan doesn’t have much in hand now, it’s not difficult to gather with his soldiers.
Not to ntion other places, just collecting all supplies from Chengguan Town would be enough for Ye Fan’s use for a while.
Besides, Ye Fan heard soone was buying mutant beast at, sothing he has quite a lot of, and feels should be very valuable.
As the apocalypse progresses, surely so have discovered the benefits of mutant beast at.
The special nature of Ye Fan’s collected resources, however, is that he requires gold and silver.
People say in tis of peace it’s antiques, in tis of chaos it’s gold, but this chaos is not the sa as the past chaos.
This is not chaos, but an apocalypse where to survivors, gold is still worthless, doesn’t quench thirst, not tradable, no stock exchanges and no gold reserve involvent, not much use.
Providing survivors gold is less practical than offering them so rice.
So, wouldn’t trading goods for gold be a good thod?
Ye Fan tried to use the broadcast to communicate, but after fiddling for a while, he couldn’t quite figure it out.
"Forget it, try again after returning, didn’t Gao Dongliang say he was good at broadcasting? Will study with him."
At this mont, Ye Fan realized the importance of a base.
Without a base, one is like duckweed without roots, with no survivors coming in willingly, and even in trade, likely looked down upon.
But where to establish his base? How to na it? Moreover, what identity should he assu? These are matters worth discussing.
Signaling people to carry the broadcast away, Ye Fan got up and left Smith’s room, preparing to return.
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