Chapter 269： The first day of returning to the main base

"Thanks for your hard work these days."

An Kai has nothing else to say, so he can only express his apologies.

It's true that Mary is his partner, but after all, she is just a little girl who has just grown up. She is less than twenty years old, but she has to manage such a large base.

Can the base only be managed by Mary? It’s not like that. It’s okay to change to someone else, but An Kai is unwilling to do this. He is a layman in plain terms, and he must be a relative. Since Mary is his partner, she must have a higher position. Leave it to her, even if she can't do anything.

Fortunately, Mary didn't just know about eating wastes waiting to die. She worked very hard, studying and absorbing all kinds of knowledge desperately, trying to make herself worthy of the work of the base supervisor.

In the previous words, there was actually Bernard's assistant. In general, Mary's workload was not large. But with the completion of the construction of the Herto base, Bernard moved to Herto base as the supervisor, and Mary could only let her carry the work by herself. As a result, she can only sleep three hours a day.

The system is not a fully automatic omnipotent system. The system can make all kinds of objects, can make all kinds of machine tools, and can even produce small beasts to grow up in one month, and adult livestock are out of slaughter in one month. This method allows people to subconsciously ignore everything that does not fit the actual situation or think that it is normal.

The system can do a lot, but only the various work arrangements in the base, the system does not have this function.

So it must be done by people.

What does a base need?

It's very simple. First is people. If you expand with people as the center, then there is air and water.

Next, food, clothing, entertainment, rest, energy, etc. are simple to say, but actually covers all aspects and is a very complex system.

How to arrange the work of the people below, how to work in shifts, how to repair some simple equipment when they are broken, how to deal with when the energy is insufficient, the control of power consumption... There are too many things, even if you are a person who is proficient in management, It also depends on the size of the base to decide whether you need an assistant. As for Mary, she doesn't have much management experience. At present, these experiences are still learned from Bernard. During the time period, she didn't learn much.

Secondly, she doesn't have an assistant to use. She has to do everything by herself, and she has to deal with any emergencies.

Fortunately, the scale of the main base is relatively small, and the simplification of the industrial structure now reduces her workload to a large extent.

But even so, she will still be tired, and most importantly, An Kai is not by her side.

The little girl manages such a large shelter by herself, she will be busy during the day, and even tired. At night, she will inevitably feel lonely and lonely. At this time, she often needs someone to accompany her, but it is a pity that if Ankai wants to develop a shelter, she must establish the Herto base.

That was a big base. It is no exaggeration to say that the amount of cement used alone was four times or nearly five times that of the main base.

The various layouts, wiring, construction, manufacturing...all are done by Ankai. It can be said that he has been working there day and night since the subway was opened. It was not until the survivors of 700 people entered the shelter a few days ago that his construction work was initially completed. Under the circumstances of working overtime like this, he naturally didn't have time to travel back and forth between the two places. In any case, there is a distance of 100 kilometers between the two bases, and his current subway train is only 55 kilometers per hour.

The ability to pull goods is sufficient, and it is safe enough to move, but the speed is a little slow, one time and one time, plus some wasted time, it is just four hours at random.

Unless he leaves his sleep time in the car, how can he let his work be done regardless of running back and forth.

Because of this, he did not meet with Mary for nearly a month. At most, when they were about to go to bed, the two of them made a phone call, or contacted them via the Internet, chatting or something.

Although the parting time was not long, An Kai still missed Mary very much, so when he saw her, he couldn't help holding her in his arms.

"No, I don't work hard."

Mary whispered, she also hugged An Kai, and her arms were getting harder and harder, as if she wished to integrate herself into An Kai's body.

No matter how he didn't admit it, the action in his hand had already betrayed her.

An Kai smiled, loosened her arms, pushed Mary away a little, then bent down abruptly, and hugged her up like a princess.

"Ah!"

Mary exclaimed, and subconsciously put her arms around An Kai's neck.

An Kai stopped talking nonsense, and walked into the bedroom with Mary in his arms.

"You take a shower first..."

"Can't wait, I'll talk later."

Then……

There's no after that.

As time passed, it was already "morning" the next day.

Today, there is basically no such thing as day and night in the outside world.

The thick clouds completely block the sun, and most of the outside world is pitch black most of the time. It is not an exaggeration to describe it with invisible fingers.

In the shelter, Ankai artificially divides morning and evening according to the time in the system.

After all, the biological clock is also necessary.

Moreover, in order to give all members of the shelter a clear concept of time, in addition to the electronic calendar that can be seen everywhere, an intelligent configuration is also used in terms of lighting.

Unless the lights in some public areas are controlled by humans, the lights will gradually become dim at night until they are completely turned off, leaving only some green safety emergency lights. When it's "early morning" every day, these lights will gradually turn on again, eventually illuminating the entire shelter like daylight.

The division of "day" and "night" is the same as the division of day and night before the end of the day. Including time, it is also calculated through the system to restore it as much as possible.

Except for the fact that the light cannot completely replace the sunlight, the daily life of the shelter, in terms of work and rest time, is actually the same as the era before the end.

As for human control, this is also easy to understand. For example, in the era before the end, if someone had to work overtime, then they would definitely have to turn on the lights.

After a night's rest, An Kai was refreshed and Mary's complexion was ruddy and shiny.

When the two came out of the bedroom, they saw Joanna for the first time. This little girl and Mary were classmates, and they were both of the same age.

In terms of personality, Mary is relatively indifferent and withdrawn, while Joanna is an introverted and non-talkative type. At first glance, the two are similar, but in fact there is still a difference.

But after all, it’s a classmate relationship, and Joanna and An Kai are also very familiar. After seeing the two, not only did she not feel ashamed, but instead used her eyes to tease Mary constantly, which made Mary shy and gave a light spit. So he chased and frolicked with Joanna.

Seeing them laughing and laughing, An Kai's mood has also improved a lot.

This is also normal, what Mary said is just a little girl in her early twenties, who would be lifeless all day, but that would be a problem.

Now showing a lively side, An Kai is suddenly very fulfilled. After all, only a harmonious and healthy living environment can create a lively character. He never asked in depth about Mary's past. He only knew that her previous experience was not so good, and it was related to her native family, so she gradually became a cold personality. Now that it can be reversed slightly, doesn't this mean that Ankai is doing very well? That's enough, he really didn't want his partner to be a stone girl with a cold face forever.

Breakfast was eaten in the cafeteria. When An Kai entered the cafeteria, he was applauded and welcomed by everyone.

He doesn't come back for a month, and it's not only Mary who thinks about him, in fact, none of the people on the main base don't want him. The main reason is that An Kai has been with everyone since everyone joined the asylum, and because of the small number of people in the early days, An Kai did not put himself in a relatively high and mysterious position. On the contrary, he was very close to the people at that stage. , The relationship with everyone is good, so they are not so much the relationship between the upper and lower levels, but the relationship with the members, but the relationship between friends, or the relationship between the patriarch and family members.

Of course, this family is actually a bit older, and many of its members are older than Ankai.

But in fact, the relationship between them is really similar. Because they are very close, they are more like a big family.

Many people are very unaccustomed to An Kai for a month, but except for a few people such as Mary, there is no way for others to contact An Kai directly, and they have no choice but to wait silently.

As a result, An Kai suddenly appeared during breakfast today, and many people began to applaud happily, and some even whistled directly. Well, the main reason for blowing the whistle is that Mary's blushing face is a hundred times more energetic, which makes everyone immediately associate.

"Don't laugh, don't laugh, what laugh, what about you, Anton, how come you are still fooling around."

An Kai was also a little embarrassed by everyone's laugh, so he could only pick an honest man Anton to ease the embarrassment.

"Haha, you don't want to do anything, and I can't get up!"

Although Anton is an honest person, honest people can also make jokes.

Not to mention this kind of innocuous joke.

Speaking of this, we must talk about the current marriage system of the shelter.

In theory, An Kai agrees to the free love of the people below. After all, nowadays there are more boys than girls, and if they are assigned forcibly, it is troublesome to assign to whom and not to assign to whom. If everyone lacks a wife, it must be lacking. . Before An Kai was reborn, a large group of young people in his country began to fear marriage and love, and even refused to marry and inherit the family. In today's world, this situation is even more serious than in the Western world in the past.

Countries in the world have maintained negative population growth for many years, and even some countries have begun to adopt methods such as employment and conception to increase their populations. This kind of thing is a great challenge to normal ethics, but for the country's sustainable development, it has reached the point where it has to be done. It can be seen how serious the population problem has become before the end of the world.

In this case, the doomsday came and all the previous order was broken.

The various objective factors that allow young people to escape marriage and childbirth have basically disappeared.

Then the desire of human beings to reproduce in the depths of genes quietly raised their heads before they knew it, and everyone suddenly felt that they should have a wife. However, the reality is that when they don’t need a wife, the government even helps them find someone, and when they feel they need a wife, the number of females has dropped sharply.

In this case, An Kai naturally wants a bowl of water to be balanced, and forced distribution is seriously unreasonable, and he can't do that.

However, there are various problems in completely free love, so I won't go into details one by one here.

In short, An Kai has considered this issue, but there is no good way.

Compulsory distribution is not advisable, and it is not good to relax and love freely. Shelters have to intervene in some way, and at least we can’t really engage in free love. , If you completely let your freedom go, it is likely to cause contradictions and conflicts between members. Nowadays, the difficulty of maintaining a harmonious atmosphere has gradually increased. The scale of hundreds of people is totally different from the scale of dozens of people.

Therefore, when it comes to finding a target, you have to take it slowly, and you can't be impatient or blind.

The content of the breakfast is very simple, fried dough sticks, buns, bread with seasoning sauce and side dishes, and the drinks are soy milk and tofu soup. The variety is not rich, but the quantity is large, and they are not easy to get tired of.

After breakfast, An Kai called to An Dong and walked downstairs.

When he came back yesterday, he also went to briefly look at the planting area, but he just took a casual look at that time and didn't check it carefully. He didn't even know what was wrong with it and whether there were any difficulties in the planting process. So today he came, ready to have a chat with Anton to see if there are any problems that need to be resolved in agricultural production.

For the shelter, the food issue is the top priority. Others can be absent, but food is absolutely indispensable.

In fact, all other shelters have no future, because most of them do not have the ability to produce food, at most they can focus on mushrooms and vegetables that do not require sunlight, but this kind of thing is not enough. Many trace elements and carbohydrates needed are provided by food. However, other shelters do not have such conditions, so it is foreseeable that it will not be long before the shelters outside will fall into a food shortage in large quantities, and finally the survivors will starve to death one by one.

An Kai is very lucky to have systematic help, and there is no need to consider the issue of food shortages, but food production is too important, and there is nothing wrong with him asking more.