Ancient Gene [End Times]

"It's not without benefits, at least it's quite comfortable." Qin An said with a smile, "Except for going to dangerous places when on missions, most people in Beijing are quite leisurely and have a very regular life."

Liao Zewen enviously said: "It's better than me who spends day and night like me."

The school checked it, and two hours had passed.The observation group went to a nearby cafeteria together.The base is basically still under public ownership, and there is also a place for meals.I looked at the bulletin board at the entrance of the cafeteria, which clearly stated the treatment.

There is a free meal here, which is probably a staple food, a fried meat and a pickle.The staple food can be a bowl of rice, or two steamed buns with mixed noodles, or two baked potatoes.Stir-fried meat is definitely worthless in this world, and the pickles look like leafy vegetables, which can also provide some vitamins.

These are obviously prepared for ordinary people. Such free meals are provided twice a day. For ordinary people, such a meal here is enough. If there are more, you can order meals at your own expense.

Different from the current points system in China, this base still issues coins. Of course, the coins are all the kind of steel coins. If you have to say what they look like, it can be said to be like the modern ocean in the past period of the Republic of China.

Because there are more people and more steel coins, the currency will gradually inflate.Before Qin An and others left, one steel coin was enough for an ordinary person to live for two or three days, but now a person needs two steel coins a day.But there are more opportunities to earn steel coins.

After entering the restaurant, the observation group's seats had been prepared long ago, and they were seated one after another. The kitchen here was originally a buffet, but this time they took the initiative to set up the dishes.

The plates here are only the ones that are commonly used in restaurants, so three or four dishes are placed on each plate, the table is full of plates, and each person has a bowl of rice.

Qin An fiddled with the rice with chopsticks. The grains of the rice were very irregular, as if they had been cut.Smell the rice again, this is definitely not rice produced before the end of the world.

In the past few months, people in Qin An's team ate in Lin Nuan's upstairs restaurant.Therefore, we don't know much about the staple food situation after the end of the world.

Seeing the doubt in Qin An's eyes, He Siming probed and explained: "This is the newly planted rice, but the grain is too big. After husking, it is cut into smaller pieces than the old rice, so it is easy to eat."

He Siming would help Lin Nuan do experiments when he had spare time, so he knew a little more than Qin An.

Qin An nodded and took a sip. It was a bit sweet, indicating that the starch content was relatively high.

There are more dishes than meat on the table, and there are some seafood that are relatively rare nowadays.These seafood are still small in the past, apparently frozen in the past, and now they are taken out.

This is even more luxurious.

After eating, I continued to observe other places.Qin An took the time to walk up to Tian Gui: "Heavenly Gui, when do you think the transport plane can be used to transport some daily necessities. For example, transport those sea monster meat from the sea to other places where they can't eat it."

Tiangui thinks about it: "At least another half a year, let's wait until the new energy problem is solved. Now the oil production has not resumed, and the kerosene used by the aircraft is still consuming the previous survival. Either the oil extraction will be resumed, or the new fuel will be successfully developed. .Otherwise the existing fuels are all focused on important things.”

Qin An's team is probably the one that takes the most planes in the country now.The places where the most planes are used are also such domestic important matters, or some international exchanges.

Now aviation fuel is a scarce material, and every flight needs the approval of the top leaders, so how can it be wasted on the appetite of the people.

The cost of ground transportation is too high, not to mention the issue of insurance on the road, the danger alone is not something most organizations can afford.For stuttering, it's not worth taking such a big risk.

"Then I won't be able to see it in the short term." Qin An felt a little regretful.

Tian Gui raised his eyebrows and smiled: "What? Are you greedy for this too?"

Qin An waved his hand: "Oh, I want to use seafood to do business with this place. I think the things produced here are good, especially canned food. There are not many canning farms restored by the government. When the time comes, seafood and They exchange. Seafood is easy for us, but it is a rare thing here, and canned food is very important to the army, isn’t it mutually beneficial?”

The fruit trees observed at this time are officially planted here. In addition to selling the fruit trees here to the base, the rest will be sold as canned fruit.As for fresh fruit, it will never be sold.

There are also fruit samples prepared here. Qin An ate two sliced ​​grapes, and the taste was similar to that before the end of the world, very sweet.That is, each grape is the size of a fist. If you don't cut into small pieces and eat them, the juice will drip when you hold them.

Some people may think that after the end of the world, the plants will mutate, and the fruits should be easier to obtain, and the fruits will become bigger. For the only people left, it should be easy to satisfy.

In fact, on the contrary, these fruit trees are more difficult to maintain than farming.Due to the severe mutation, it is easy to provide all the nutrients to the branches and leaves, but the fruit may be small and sour.And even if it turns out, there is a certain probability that it will not taste good.

Therefore, these plants have to be built more than three times a day. In addition to ensuring the sun exposure during the day, they also need to use high-wattage fill lights for more than six hours of fill light at night, so as to ensure that the fruits that grow too fast have the most Light time, so that it can be sweet enough.

It can be seen that Liao Zewen is very attentive in this regard.There are nearly [-] acres of orchards here, and many people in the base work in three shifts here to take care of these fruit trees and plants.

Compared with the messy or towering trees outside, everything here is no different from before the end of the world, except for some accidents, and you can even smell a strong fruity fragrance.

This is obviously what Liao Zewen is proud of. When he introduced it to everyone, there was a smile on his face.

At the back, Liao Zewen took everyone to pick the freshly ripened fruits in the yard. Of course, if you pick the fruits yourself, you can ask the staff here to insure and pack them, and you can take them away when you leave.

Because the inspection lasted for three days, Liao Zewen still suggested that they choose some fruits that can last for a long time.After all, bacteria and so on are now evolving, even if the fruit is safe, there is a certain risk of accelerated spoilage.

The safest thing is to eat it in time.

Qin An whispered to He Siming, "You said it would be good if we planted two trees in front of our house."

He Siming nodded, and then regretfully said: "It's a pity that these are mutants. I don't know if putting them in the house will cause other effects."

The mutated animal is too big, and putting it in will affect the biological balance, so it is definitely not acceptable.These fruits probably won't work either.The ghost knows whether putting mutated plants into the space will affect the normal plants inside and mutate accordingly.

"That's a pity."

After waiting for a while, Qin An thought about buying more fruits, which could be put in the space of the ghost and eaten slowly later.But after thinking about it, there is a rule in this base that no fresh fruit is sold outside, and Qin An will not be able to break this rule.Moreover, it is not difficult to sell fruit in Beijing, so why make it difficult for Liao Zewen.

To put it bluntly, there are some normal fruits in the Tiangui space before the end of the world, and Tiangui will give him a lot when he is free.

I visited a lot of places this day. Some places here are better developed than outside, and some places are not as satisfactory.But no matter what, it took more than a year to operate a base to such a scale and level, which is quite capable.

And the management experience here has also benefited a lot from the observation team, which can be brought back to Beijing to make certain changes in Beijing.At the same time, the inspection team will also put forward some suggestions to make the base more perfect.

That night, several people lived in the hotel that was still in operation.The photos in the hotel are more adequate than those prepared in the past, but there are no drinks in the past.But having said that, even if the drinks in the past are kept until now, they will expire.Even if some people don't care, it's not suitable to put it here to entertain guests.

However, there is still sparkling water in it. It is orange juice that has been filtered, added with water, sugar, and then aerated. It tastes much worse than the sparkling drinks before the end of the world, but it is quite rare to be able to drink this now.

On the second day, there is nothing to investigate today, but everyone will be given a common card with 300 yuan in it, that is, [-] steel coins.The members of the observation group can use their own operations.Now the base has developed to the point where you can simply swipe your card to buy things.Of course, it is also possible to buy steel coins.

In fact, Qin An has also collected the steel coins with hairstyles here a few times before, and also has the cards here, and there are still some steel coins in it that have not been spent.

Although it is not as valuable as it used to be now, I feel a little panicked.

Qin An said hello to other teammates, and took He Siming out for shopping, to see how the situation here was different from that in Beijing.

Not long after going out, I ran into Liao Zewen, and the two looked at each other and smiled: "What a coincidence."

Liao Zewen said directly: "I'm just waiting for you."

"Waiting for us?" Qin An raised his eyebrows.

"At any rate, we are old friends." Liao Zewen took a closer look at He Siming, and said with some doubts, "This is..."

"His boyfriend." He Siming only said four words.

Liao Zewen guessed it, the two had been whispering to each other yesterday, and those with two eyes knew that there was something tricky between them.However, He Siming's oath is quite surprising.

Qin An was also quite helpless, and explained: "We have been together for a year, He Siming. You met when you were here."

Liao Zewen still has a deeper impression of Qin An, but doesn't remember the others very clearly.

"Then where are we going?" Qin An asked.Since Liao Zewen was looking for him, he must have something to say.

"No, I just want to have a meal. If you want to go again, I can be a tour guide for free. There is no way, it is not easy to meet again in this world."

Qin An did not refuse Liao Zewen's proposal. Qin An is now more concerned about eating, so Liao Zewen directly brought them to the food street.

It's hard to imagine that there is actually a food street here, and every shop has a signboard, and it has a certain scale.

It can be seen that Liao Zewen is also very attentive to the management here.

"The signs here are all green." He Siming said, "Do you have any explanation?"

"The green signboard shows that this is a safe area." Liao Zewen said, "Actually, to be honest, my original intention was to keep every piece of land here clean. It's just that it's still difficult for now. There are so many people As it develops, it is inevitable that there will be some gray areas, and even some black areas that cannot be controlled for a while."

Both Qin He and Qin understand this very well. You must know that in this world, even Beijing cannot guarantee that everything is clean.

Because of this world, there are Tian Duo's desperadoes. If they don't give them some living space, they will go crazy and cause great losses.

"There is no other way." Qin An said.

"There is an old saying that where there are people, there are rivers and lakes. This saying will never be out of date." Liao Zewen said, "I almost forgot to tell you. Here, the green and blue places are safe places. The green ones are personal places." The stores we operate, blue is our official store.

These are absolutely protected by law.Not only can security be guaranteed, even if there are any service problems, rights can also be well defended. To put it bluntly, this place is even better than before the end of the world. "

"What about the unsafe place?"

"That is divided into purple, gray and pink. The purple place is almost a black market. We don't care about the funds in it. As long as the transactions are not too excessive, we will turn a blind eye. The gray part It’s some organizations. These organizations can be gangs, or they can be teams that specialize in certain jobs. The wages here are a little more than the official income of our base, but there are certain risks.”

"What about pink?" Qin An asked.

Liao Zewen paused for a while, and there was a cold light in his eyes: "That's almost the red light district."

Obviously, Liao Zewen personally disliked these things.But this world can't stop it.For those people, the more severe the suppression, the more brutal they are.It's better to give them a place, set up certain rules, and let them act within the rules.At least it can prevent some good ordinary people from being suddenly captured and tortured by them.

Here Qin An doesn't ask too much, because she knows what it means.

"Not only is the sex industry, but sometimes there is human trafficking in it. I can only set up some rules for them, so that they can restrain themselves. There is still a limit to what they can do. At this time, people who do not have absolute strength, and people who have not grown up For older children, there is no way to control them if they want to.

I'm trying to find a way to ban human trafficking laws.But can you think of it?It was the kids who were the loudest voices, and they made more sense than we said.Even if I expressly forbid, they will do business in private. "

"Then what about local capital to buy it?" Qin An suggested.

Liao Zewen glanced at Qin An, but still shook his head, his eyes full of helplessness.

He Siming said: "First of all, the cost is too high. If they insist on buying children, they must use the children in exchange for a certain period of food and clothing. Ten or eight are fine. If there are hundreds or thousands of children, how can the official Allocate so much budget?

Even if the higher authorities agree, how could the original guardians of the children raised in the orphanage in this base be willing?It is estimated that those who have parents or relatives will come to ask for money.After all, those people-based places can buy it with money, so why should their children not pay for it. "

Qin An also wanted to understand this point, and said again: "Then you are not afraid that they will not send the children they cannot afford to the orphanage, but sell them to traffickers?"

"No. In fact, most of the children sent to the orphanage are abandoned babies whose parents have died and no one can raise them. The rest of them have relatives, but they don't want to raise them, and they feel sorry for them. It's not easy to sell. Of course, there are also some parents who send the extra children to the orphanage. Maintaining this is already maintaining the balance."

"I'm afraid that those children will be sold to do that kind of unscrupulous business." Qin An thought of the underage boy who was buried in the red light district by his family. In this world, people's hearts have really reached the limit of evil.

"You can rest assured about this. There are regulations that prohibit it. If someone finds out that they are underage engaged in this industry, I will directly uproot him." Liao Zewen affirmed.

There are some things that Liao Zewen can do limitedly, but that doesn't mean he doesn't do anything.Moreover, he is also working hard for the ideal direction in his heart.

Maybe this process will be a little difficult, but I believe it is not impossible.

Liao Zewen is enjoying constantly breaking through himself and completing those impossible processes, that's why he chooses the most dangerous path in this world.

"Let's go, let's go eat. What do you want to eat? I'll treat you." Liao Zewen said.

"There seems to be strings ahead." Qin An probed and saw the signboard.The aroma of food is floating on this street, which is very attractive.

"Then let's go get some skewers." Liao Zewen smiled, "It just so happens that I haven't eaten for a few days."

"Does the meat now come from outside?" Qin An said.

Liao Zewen nodded and said, "Except for chickens, ducks and geese, there is no other breeding. One is that there is not enough manpower, and the other is that there is not much profit. We are not like the government, which species we want to keep. We still have to look at the cost performance first."

What Liao Zewen said was very true. If Qin An was to choose, it would probably be the same.

"Then I want to see what's in the shabu-shabu now." Qin An grabbed He Siming's arm, and the three of them walked over together.

I just didn't have breakfast, so I sat down and looked at the menu first.

The recipes are all on the wall, and there will be words engraved on a wooden board.This early in the morning, there were not many people in the store. Two waiters were sitting inside chatting. When they saw someone coming in, they first shouted welcome, and then saw that it was Liao Zewen.

"It's the mayor!"

Liao Zewen is the top leader of this person's base, so it's normal for him to be famous like this.

"It's okay, I'm here to treat you." Liao Zewen told Qin and An to choose a seat and waited for them to order food.

A waiter was holding a white board, and wrote on it with an erasable pen what several people had ordered.

Qin An looked at the menu. There were meat and vegetarian dishes, as well as some meatballs and staple food.There must have been a lot less Abby in the tricks in the past.But in this world, it is not easy to do this.

The pot here is charcoal hot pot.There is a larger recess in the middle of the table.The waiter brought over the charcoal stove first, and then the shabu-shabu.

Then while waiting for the kitchen to prepare things, the two waitress girls were still whispering to each other, looking at Liao Zewen from time to time.

It can be seen that Liao Zewen is still very popular in the base.

Looking at at least two little girls, their condition is similar to that before the end of the world.Obviously, working in the service industry here is a little bit harder, but it makes their lives very good.

All the dishes ordered were served, and the pot boiled, and the smell dissipated, enough to make people drool.

This smell is already a little strange.Even a person like He Siming, who hardly eats shabu-shabu, couldn't help swallowing.

Qin An eats it a lot, and now he is even more greedy. He puts down his belly first, and then chooses what he likes to eat.

"What do you like to eat?" Qin An asked He Siming.

"I'll eat with you." He Siming said.

Only then did Qin An remember that He Siming only ate shabu kebabs twice, and Qin An brought them with him.

There is no way, He Siming is usually a nerd, even if he goes out occasionally to improve the food, he is more inclined to barbecue.And there is very little even barbecue.

Qin An is different. He runs around all year round, eats a lot, and sees a lot.

After half an hour of eating, the heads of the three people were covered with sweat. Liao Zewen asked the two if they would not drink, so he asked for a bottle of wine.

There is no way to do this, the beer has expired long ago, and the alcohol content is too high.Only the wine's shelf life is not high.This is the best substitute when you don't have beer.As long as the price is not too high, it is also good as a drink.

"Actually, after you left, I still think of you from time to time." Liao Zewen said, "When the world was just in chaos and even the government and the military didn't react, at this time a team was almost going across China to the northeast. It’s not comparable now. But I really think we’ll meet again one day.”

"It's the same for you." Qin An gritted his stomach and said with a smile, "At that time, I felt that this base would have great development in the future. Now you see, it is exactly what I said at the beginning."

"If possible, I would like to go to Beijing with you to see." Liao Zewen said, "No matter how good the development here is, there is no way to know the affairs of this world in the first place. I know that the news revealed to me by the official milk change , many of them were born a month or two ago, or after castration."

When this topic was suddenly changed, both Qin An were taken aback.He Siming said, "We don't know much."

Liao Zewen smiled and shook his head: "You misunderstood, I didn't mean to let you be the middleman."