Rebirth in the end times: The whole family keeps a low profile

Li Mei lowered her head and smelled the sour smell on her body, then looked at the snot marks on the two children's faces left by the cold, and glanced with disdain at Meng Zhe who was sorting bricks next to her.

The base began preparing for post-disaster reconstruction work today. After it was no longer possible to save more buried people, the first step began to clear the rubble on a large scale. All usable bricks were cleared out and will be sold to the base again. It is required that more than half of the bricks be retained and no excess cement be attached.

Xinxu Village hired more than one hundred people this time, but only more than sixty are alive now. Some of them had their entire families buried in the rubble. Tan Chuang has been leading people to rescue them these days, but only managed to rescue two children from the families of village officials.

Meng Zhe was becoming more and more like Qin Guo and the others. He was becoming less talkative and would go to the base's task bar every day to check the latest tasks and points exchange ratio. Today, he began to sort out the discarded bricks, and after processing them, he stacked them neatly next to their temporary residence. Fearing that others would steal them, he specially called Meng's mother to take care of the child and watch over him, while he took Meng's father to transport the bricks back like ants moving, and they would deal with them together after they were brought back.

Li Mei would not help. All she thought about every day was quarreling, or going to Brother Quan's house to complain to Yang Lian. Occasionally, she would bring back some rice and noodles from somewhere. The two elderly people in the family thought that their daughter-in-law was really capable and could get rice and noodles, so they were especially polite to her and even pretended not to see her frequent quarrels with Meng Zhe.

Mengzhe knew that Li Mei and Yang Lian had been inseparable since they entered the base. They seemed to have joined some mysterious organization. And since when, Li Mei's phone seemed to have never run out of power. Mengzhe was reluctant to charge it. The points he earned from working were just enough to pay the rent and not starve to death. He couldn't even buy extra pots and pans.

Now he doesn't have to pay rent, but he has no house and can only sleep outdoors. He is most thankful that the weather is good and it doesn't rain, and the temperature is just right, otherwise he wouldn't have the courage to live. Fortunately, the base responded quickly, giving him a bowl of porridge every day, and he can also earn points by completing tasks, and the points he saved before still count, which is his greatest hope.

When they had piled up 100 bricks, they would exchange them and never hoard them. There were too many unstable factors in the base, and petty thefts were all too common, and open robberies even happened frequently. He was thinking that after the base was rebuilt, his points should be enough to buy a house that could shelter him from the wind and rain.

The situation on Brother Tan's side was not good. Originally, he should be happy that his family had escaped, but he was very troubled by the two children rescued from the ruins. The family was already in a very difficult situation, and now there were two more people to feed. Mother Tan was furious and insisted on sending the children away and would not allow them to stay at home and waste food. No one else agreed either.

Finally, Tan Chuang had no choice but to go and ask the two brothers Qin Guo and Qin Song if they were willing to take care of the two boys, who were seven or eight years old. Qin Guo and Qin Song ignored him at first, but in the end, they somehow came to their senses and actually said they were willing to let the two kids follow them.

The two hot potatoes thus fell into the hands of the Qin Guo brothers.

Brother Quan narrowed his eyes and looked at the two kids Qin Guo brought back, waved his hand, turned to Yang Lian and said: "Have you contacted them? Now is the best time. There are not many people in the base who can be checked."

Yang Lian checked his phone eight hundred times a day, and his phone was almost out of battery: Brother Kuan hasn’t replied to my message yet, I don’t know the situation over there, could he have been buried?

Brother Quan: Not really. If he's gone, there will be others. We are on the list. If something happens to Brother Kuan, someone will come looking for us. By the way, Qin Guo, these two bastards will follow you first, and you can send them away when there is work over there.

Qin Guo responded: Okay, Brother Quan.

He didn't say anything else. He knew that the two boys he brought back were in danger.

The Su family has been recovering from injuries these days. After Wang Jie led the team to support Liang Cancan in rescuing people, he began to concentrate on cleaning up the destroyed buildings. These houses that were only half collapsed were evaluated and believed to be still usable, so Wang Jie led the team to clean them out. Liang Cancan praised Wang Jie and his team. They were efficient, did not complain or slack off, and there was no need to worry about the progress. Wang Jie, Su Zhangming and six other people, together with two soldiers from the base, formed an efficient rescue team.

The base has issued several points-scoring tasks based on actual conditions. For example, Mengzhe's team is a free scavenging team. They form and manage their own team, with no limit on the number of people. The job content is simple, which is to collect all usable building materials throughout the base and even outside the base.

There is also a fixed team model. This kind of team has a stable number of members and a certain cohesion. The base randomly assigns two people to work. These two people are called instructors. They play the role of supervising and issuing specific tasks. They are given certain points every day according to the completion of the team. This model is charged on a daily basis. Basically, each group gets 40-60 points a day. For the same work content, if the performance is good today, you get 60 points, and if the performance is not good today, you get 40 points. This is entirely up to the instructor's will. The work content is also more flexible and convenient. For example, sometimes you follow the instructor to dig the old wells at the base, and follow the instructor to pull sunshades for the victims. All kinds of work are randomly assigned.

After the earthquake, all major bases re-examined the relationship between the bases and the victims. The heads of all major bases agreed in the base group chat that the victims should not exist as a group and as family units, because too many people were displaced, their wives and children were separated, and the home was no longer a home. The superiors encouraged everyone to rebuild the connection between people, so the group coexistence model was created, allowing the victims to find teammates who can support each other in the disaster so that they can better build a new life together.

When this suggestion appeared in the information columns of major bases, everyone seemed to have regained the motivation to survive.

The base was full of people asking for information about team formation, and many strong young people quickly formed their own teams to take on the base's group missions. After forming a formal team, they needed to be restrained by the base when doing tasks and could not leave at will, so Mengzhe decided to work alone. The two children at home needed someone to take care of them every day, and the two elderly people could not control them or catch up with them, so they were easily lost, and Li Mei could not be relied on.

Brother Tan, Tan Hai and Tan Jiang really wanted to ask Su Yun if he was short of people, but they were intercepted by Brother Quan and finally stayed in the team formed in Xinxu Village.

With more teams, they naturally need to be distinguished, and various team names come into being. Wang Jie's team is still named according to Su Yun's idea, called "Flying Dragon Team", which is only one word different from the previous Flying Squirrel Team, but the momentum is much higher.

Su Zhangming was very satisfied with this name. He was fed up with the online name Li Ergou, which really damaged his reputation.

Su Zhangming muttered proudly: Flying Dragon in the Sky, what a domineering name, I feel like I will be invincible in the next second.

Today is the eighth day after the earthquake. The instructor led the Flying Dragon Team to the rescue base's hospital. The hospital is very old and two of its four floors collapsed due to the earthquake. They need to clear away the scattered rubble around it and clear out the remaining two floors for Director Li to work on.

Director Li was walking down the street after get off work when the earthquake happened. He was so frightened by the sudden shaking that he hugged a dead tree nearby. After the earthquake, he was taken to the base military compound to treat the soldiers' injuries first, so Su Yun couldn't find him that night.

The hospital not only has beds and equipment, but also a generator. Today, the Flying Dragon Team is cleaning up the scene and rescuing all usable materials. The rocks at the scene are too large, and Wang Jie got two professional wall-breaking hammers, one large and one small, from somewhere. Those cement slabs connected to steel bars were smashed directly on the spot if they could not be moved.

Before the natural disaster, there was a saying that one hammer could get 80 points, but now the hammers are free. The instructors were pleasantly surprised to find that the Flying Dragon Team was incredible. They often had tools they could not imagine, and they could get twice the result with half the effort. They both felt that 60 points every day was not enough, so they reported it to the deputy commander Liang Cancan and asked for it to be increased to 80 points so that everyone could get more points for their work.

All the steel bars in the hospital were severely deformed, and the instructors also tacitly regarded these as additional income for each team. Because the base was also recycling steel bars, but they had to recycle straight bars, which were not so deformed.

Each group had to straighten the steel bars collected every day and send them for exchange.

The children were also picking up nails, steel bars and other things everywhere. The base seemed to be in unprecedented unity, and everyone was willing to do their part to rebuild their homes.

Su Zhibang pointed at the iron bed that was smashed and deformed and asked: Is this the hospital property? Should the team outside deal with it freely?

The two instructors also saw that many of the hospital beds were deformed. Keep the ones that can be used, and deal with the ones that can't be used. Just don't go too far.

Everyone in the Flying Dragon Team was very happy. Originally, the instructor's words this morning that their team's points had increased were enough to make them dance with joy, and now they had harvested so much scrap metal, so they could make a lot of money again.

Compare it with other teams. Some were assigned to the western cliff to burn corpses. Carrying rotten corpses back and forth every day was really uncomfortable.

Su Zhangming took two cigarettes and handed them to the instructor, who took them with a smile. He knew that cigarettes had become particularly precious at this time, almost a luxury. He patted Su Zhangming on the shoulder and said: Do a good job.

The other men of the Flying Dragon Team looked at the two cigarettes and swallowed. They had cigarettes at home, having gotten a lot during the extreme cold. However, after such a long period of consumption, they were almost gone. The earthquake directly buried all their belongings.

I heard that the people who went to Bala Lingyun Community last time were almost buried by the other half of Building 10. When they dug halfway, the other half was shaky and collapsed soon after.

All the supplies inside were looted. When Su Xiaoye rushed over, she saw that her beloved coat had also been picked up. She felt so miserable that she could not even cry.

The redemption center at the base can not only redeem points, but also directly exchange points for food and clothes. Food and medicine airdropped by superiors can also be exchanged. Many people exchange points when they earn them, which can help them avoid starving to death.

Although the base had lost power, Li Yimin got a few generators and restored the network. Fortunately, everyone can redeem points by scanning their faces, which is not very troublesome.

The ruins of the hospital and the broken bricks and tiles gradually turned into a pleasing appearance through the division of labor and cooperation of the members of the Flying Dragon Team.

The instructor couldn't help but remind them as he watched them swinging hammers vigorously to break the rubble into smaller pieces.

"Be careful, don't hurt yourself!"

As time passed, the members of the Flying Dragon Team continued to smash the rubble and clear the ruins. Their movements were orderly and coordinated, like a tacitly coordinated combat team.

Finally, after everyone's concerted efforts, the last two floors of ruins were cleared out, but there was too much scrap metal accumulated and it couldn't be moved away at once. Su Zhibang suggested standing guard at night and pulling it back to the RV at daybreak.

Wang Jie shook his head and said: It's not realistic. These steel bars will take up space wherever they are pulled, and we can't protect them. Let's find a middleman to sell them at a low price tonight.

After thinking about it, everyone agreed that straightening steel bars is not an easy job and it cannot be done without some tools and skills.

The middleman turned out to be Brother Dao. He had no news since his fiancée and family were kidnapped. He was depressed for a long time. His former friends who went up the mountain with him couldn't stand it anymore and scolded him. Later, he changed his career and stopped selling mountain products. He wanted to contact more people and find the traffickers. He started to be a dealer, dealing in everything he could in the base. He sold garbage bags from the North District to the East District, and sandals from the East District to the West District. After the natural disaster, he started dealing in steel and scrap iron.

Wang Jie had followed Su Yun and followed this person's social circle before, so he still had an impression of Brother Dao. With so many steel bars, Brother Dao hesitated for a moment, and spit out all the wool he had fleeced on the mountain, purchasing the goods with points. However, if everything went well, he could also make a small profit.

That night, the Feilong team conducted their first transaction with Brother Dao in the hospital. Brother Dao added Wang Jie as a social friend to facilitate subsequent transactions.

Brother Dao's team is still the same group of people. They did not cooperate with the instructors at the base. Instead, they rushed around the base every day to do business. They were dark, thin and flexible, and were good at their jobs. They actually emptied the hospital's scrap metal overnight.

The Flying Dragons were really happy tonight. They sold the scraps for 500 points, and each of them could get more than 60 points. The men's dormitory next door was having a dinner party to celebrate, and Su Yun couldn't bring out some too unbelievable food, so he just cooked a pot of wild vegetable porridge and put a plate of compressed biscuits, and that was considered a celebration.

Su Zhangming said bitterly: Sister, are you really that stingy? If you are so stingy, just give me some more peanuts.

Su Yun said angrily: Do you think I don't want to? Living with everyone, I am almost suffocated. I can't eat any of the delicacies in the space. Every day, I can't help but put more wild vegetables in the porridge and noodles. Even this Xiao Jing asked me where I got so many wild vegetables and noodles. I can't even lie. I just said that I lost the wild vegetables in exchange for the base. If this goes on, I will be malnourished. After a while, when you have a house, even if you have survived, you should be content. Don't even think about the fact that there is enough wild vegetable porridge and compressed biscuits outside. Please bear with your stomach for a while, and I will treat you to cold beer and barbecue in the future.

Su Zhangming muttered reluctantly: Then give me some benefits, I'm really tired of eating wild vegetable porridge.

Su Yun: Here you go, these are the Drunkard Peanuts I stockpiled. Just say you exchanged them for points, don’t let it slip.

Su Zhangming took the one-pound bag of Drunkard Peanuts: Okay, sister is so nice.

After a while, there were bursts of exclamations from the dormitory, and then the voices were lowered to celebrate.

After leaving the car, the children all fell asleep. Xiaojing, Lanlan and the grandpa's family went back to the light truck in the female dormitory to rest.

Only the children and the women of the Su family were left in the RV.

Zhang Lili: Sister, have you got a minibus? There are more than 30 of us, so it would be nice to have a minibus.

Su's mother: Oh my, you don't want privacy anymore. I feel uncomfortable with these three cars. I have to think about everything I do all day long, right? Is it okay? That day I almost asked your sister to bring out the braised beef for us, but luckily I thought quickly.

Zhang Lili: Mom, you should eat more supplements. It takes a hundred days to heal a broken bone. Drinking more bone soup will do you good.

Su Yun: Yes, Mom, you must finish the things I secretly give you every day. When your injury is healed, I think the house in the base will be tidied up a little.