jdhmnovel Chapter 148 Brother, are we in cahoots?
Chapter 148 Brother, are we in cahoots?
DAY127
Jiang Xing was an absolute man of action. The next morning, he asked Pei Simin to confirm the location of the practice area, and then immediately called Lu Yuan to set up the equipment. By the time Lu Yuan had helped set up all the gaming equipment, or rather, the practice equipment, it was past dinner time.
"Thank you for your hard work today." Pei Simin was actually quite embarrassed. Although he had been thinking all night about why Lu Yuan would put so many game consoles in his space, since wouldn't it be more important to store survival supplies? However, he was still quite gratified that Lu Yuan had these things and provided a lot of help to the base.
"No, no, it was all Hao-ge's idea. When we left school, he told us to bring all his gaming devices." Lu Yuan certainly couldn't say that these were brought from his space, and he didn't know why there were so many. He could only use Pei Sihao as a shield, since he was his younger brother and Pei Simin probably wouldn't care too much.
"I knew that kid, he never forgets to play." Since it was past dinner time, the cafeteria no longer had hot food, only some instant noodles and the like.
"Let's go eat at my place." Although the South China Base has a public canteen, the base follows the principle of distribution according to work. So, people like Pei Simin and his rank receive a separate allowance of food each month in addition to canteen meal tickets. Pei Simin didn't want Lu Yuan to end up eating instant food after helping the base so much, so he planned to take him back to his dormitory to eat.
Pei Simin's dormitory was different from Lu Yuan's. Although Lu Yuan was assigned the best double room in the public dormitory because of his great contributions, it was only one less room than a four-person or six-person room, with one more private bathroom. But Pei Simin and his group were basically all single rooms, each with its own private bathroom and a convenient kitchenette, somewhat like a small suite in an apartment hotel.
"It's quite close from here." Leaving the practice field, it wasn't far to Pei Simin's dormitory building, even closer than Lu Yuan's dormitory was to the research institute. It's practically freeing up all that time for work.
"When I'm busy, I usually just lie down on the sofa in the office." This was Pei Simin's first time back to the dormitory in the past few days.
"Hopefully, a vaccine can be developed soon." Lu Yuan followed Pei Simin upstairs step by step.
The South China base is located on an archipelago near the equator. There were no buildings there originally; they were all constructed after the base was established. Therefore, the buildings are not very tall, and the supporting facilities are much worse than those of the three major bases in the inland areas.
"Our country's vaccine research hasn't made a breakthrough yet, and we don't know what the situation is in other countries. We only have the vegetables my mom brought yesterday, so we'll just have to make do with this." Pei Simin opened the door, let Lu Yuan into the house, and then took out the food that his mother had brought a few days ago from his small refrigerator. It was all prepared and only needed to be heated up.
Actually, a lot of the food in the Pei family was taken back from Lu Yuan by Pei Sihao. Pei Simin was not usually at home, so he was not very aware of it. He thought that at least Lu Yuan could have a good meal if he came back with him.
"Don't your parents live here?" Lu Yuan had assumed that military officers like Pei's father were also assigned single rooms here.
"No, the base has regulations. People their age, unless they hold a military position like Commander Jiang, are assigned accommodation based on their current job responsibilities. However, it's better than your situation; the organization department tries to arrange for families to live on the same floor. My parents, grandparents, and their family live on the same floor as Uncle Gu's family." Hearing Pei Simin say this, Lu Yuan realized that the South China Base was quite principled. He thought back to the post-apocalyptic novels he had read before, where most of them depicted people with greater power enjoying more benefits.
"So what are your dad and the others doing at the base now?" Pei Simin was heating up the dishes, and Lu Yuan asked questions like a curious child. After all, he was really curious. Now that there are more and more people at the base, many positions are full. In his opinion, the older people could just stop working.
“There are more people at the base now, including more children. Commander Xu is setting up a school these days, and my parents and Uncle Gu have gone over to help. My grandparents also have something to do.” Pei Sihao answered as he brought over the heated food.
Lu Yuan thought that having highly educated people like Pei's parents and Gu's parents teach the children at the base would have been a huge waste of their talents in the past. But in the present, it was certainly a valuable contribution.
After having dinner at Pei Simin's dormitory, Lu Yuan returned to his own dormitory. He shared a dormitory with Lin Yun. When he returned, Lin Yun was not there. There was a note on the table saying that she had gone out to carry out a search and rescue mission again.
Lin Yun no longer tells Lu Yuan in advance about missions. Instead, he leaves Lu Yuan a note before he leaves. Lu Yuan always keeps the note safe and puts it in his personal space.
After putting the note on the desk back into his spatial storage, Lu Yuan took out a bottle of cola and downed most of it in one gulp. Only then did he feel alive again. Today had truly been a hectic day.
"Lu Xiaoyuan, are you back yet?" Lu Yuan was just about to go to sleep when he heard Yang Xiao's voice outside the door. He opened the door and saw Yang Xiao standing there with his messy hair. He had no idea what Yang Xiao had done to his head.
"What's wrong with you?" Lu Yuan ushered Yang Xiao into the house. Yang Xiao saw Lu Yuan's half-empty bottle of Coke on the table and, without hesitation, opened it and took a big gulp.
"Brother, are we on the same side?" Yang Xiao put down his cola and turned to look at Lu Yuan with a serious expression.
"Of course, we escaped from the same dormitory." Lu Yuan was shocked when he first saw Yang Xiao kill zombies. Especially after they confessed to each other that he had a mysterious space and Yang Xiao was a "reborn" person, the two of them appreciated each other even more.
Hearing Lu Yuan's words, Yang Xiao took a deep breath and said, "I've thought about it all night, and I feel that this is something I can only talk to you about."
“Brother Yang, you were acting strange yesterday. Is something happening these past few days that overlaps with your timeline from your previous life?” Lu Yuan and the others all knew that since the second viral rain in Yang Xiao’s rebirth timeline stopped causing zombie attacks on humans, the current timeline has diverged from Yang Xiao’s previous life.
However, Yang Xiao's behavior was suddenly very strange when they were in the commander-in-chief's office yesterday. Actually, Lu Yuan had wanted to ask him about it yesterday, but Yang Xiao left first, and after returning to the dormitory, Lu Yuan was too embarrassed to go find him. He didn't expect that Yang Xiao would come to find him so late today.