The male supporting character was actually myself.

Jiang Chen distributed clothes to them, and also gave everyone some food and water so that they could eat and drink their fill and recover.

"Young man, were you sent by the authorities to rescue us?" an elderly man in his sixties asked expectantly.

If he were an official, my spouse and I would have someone to rely on!

“No.” Jiang Chen shook his head and denied it. Seeing the light in the other person’s eyes gradually dim, he said in a deep voice, “But I can take you away from here to live in a relatively safe place.”

Chapter Twenty-Five: Full of Energy

These survivors were all gathered by One-Eyed Dragon and his gang from the residential area behind the building.

At first, some people didn't understand the situation and tried to act tough by relying on their age, attempting moral blackmail, and complaining that the authorities didn't care about people's lives. As a result, Da Huangya and others directly shot down a few of the most troublesome ones.

Only then did they realize that they had just escaped from the catastrophe only to fall into the jaws of death.

Young, attractive women were singled out and imprisoned;

The remaining one-eyed men originally planned to send them all out to search for supplies, but several clever and strong ones they released quickly rebelled and escaped. Then, someone came to their relatives and friends, who managed to exchange them for a considerable amount of supplies. The one-eyed men then discovered a business opportunity.

They stuffed these people into rooms, giving them only a tiny bit of food and water each day, waiting for someone to come and redeem them.

Those who couldn't endure it and committed suicide or died of illness were quickly cleared out, leaving fewer and fewer survivors.

For the past two days, the one-eyed man had refused to give them even small amounts of food. Just when the group was on the verge of starvation, Jiang Chen happened to pass by and saved them completely.

After eating and drinking their fill and resting for a while, the deathly pallor on everyone's faces gradually faded.

The baby nestled in its mother's arms, drank half a carton of milk, and fell peacefully asleep.

"Those who want to come with me, come and gather here." Jiang Chen said loudly from the gate: "Those who want to act on their own can get some food and water from me. Be careful of zombies after you go out."

Many zombies have now evolved to higher levels, and there are even zombie kings.

If you want to seek official asylum, you can try your luck in a big city.

As far as I know, there's a secure base in Beijing; there's a T-26 base in the south, and there are definitely others in other cities, but I haven't been there and don't know the situation there.

After a brief commotion, a dozen or so young people watched Jiang Chen warily, but ultimately left with the supplies without even saying thank you.

He selected two people who could drive trucks from among those who decided to follow him. He took out a truck with iron railings from his spatial storage, filled it with two people, and led the way to Xiaogang Village.

"Boss's back!" The chubby boy, carrying the baby, saw Jiang Chen driving from afar and waved excitedly. "That's strange, what did Boss buy? Why didn't he put it in his spatial storage?"

Since getting glasses and awakening his superpowers, he has shed his previous timidity and reached his peak.

Tang Xueli was helping to move firewood when she casually replied, "Those are definitely things that can't be put in the spatial dimension."

"What can't be put in the spatial dimension?" The chubby boy asked, his face full of questions.

Gong Feibai tossed his hair. "Most likely a survivor!"

Xiaogang Village has never been so lively.

The village chief looked at the huge crowd and didn't know where to put them.

Jiang Chen quickly directed everyone to set up rows of tents in the village square. Except for the elderly, frail, and young children who stayed in the homes of the villagers, everyone else temporarily lived in the tents.

Since it was the height of summer, the group of people washed up, ate their fill, and followed instructions to check in.

After nearly a month of inhumane living conditions during their imprisonment, they are extremely grateful for the current conditions where they have food, drink, and a peaceful night's sleep.

Hu Dali, who was in charge of registering basic information, was the most active. He would often try to read people's faces and analyze their birth charts.

If it weren't for his sly look as he kept twirling his catfish-like whiskers and spouting those technical terms, he would have been quite intimidating.

"I'm still a student, a junior at S City Jiaotong University," a fair-skinned, tall and thin young man introduced himself to Hu Dali.

Before Hu Dali could finish filling out the information, Brother Niu shook his head while fanning himself, "You college student are no good. It's the apocalypse, who needs traffic police anymore? Why don't you switch careers and come work for me!"

Jiaotong University student: ???

Do you have some misunderstanding about our school?

Hu Dali poked Brother Niu with his pen, "Don't talk nonsense if you don't understand. Who said graduating from Jiaotong University means you have to be a traffic policeman?"

The student was about to nod in agreement when he stroked his beard and said, "There's a high probability he'll never become a traffic cop. It's not a job anyone can just decide to do!"

Jiaotong University students: ...

"I studied road and bridge engineering technology," he quickly added.

Brother Niu slapped his thigh and said, "Then we won't build bridges and roads, we'll build a base now."

"Don't just spout nonsense, it might come in handy." Hu Dali took notes carefully, waiting to hand over the detailed information to Jiang Chen.

The diesel generator was humming and sputtering, and many people were helping to debug it in preparation for bringing electricity to the village.

Liang Suogui sat under the candlelight with paper and pen, writing and drawing diligently.

"Young man, what are you drawing?" an old man asked curiously.

He held the pen with a simple smile, pointing to the circles and crosses on the paper and explaining, "This is the village well. The young man said that the well needs to be enclosed when building the base."

I'm thinking about how to build that outer wall.

“You can’t do it like that.” The old man took a pen and crossed out the circles and crosses he had drawn. “Construction has to take the geological conditions into account. The walls for the base need to be at least ten meters high, right? The thickness has to be sufficient. You’ll need to have patrols…”

Listening to the other man's eloquent explanation, Liang Suogui hurriedly invited the old man to sit down. "I used to work on a construction team building houses in the village, so I don't really know much about it. The young man entrusted me with this task, and I figured I had to do it well."

"Do you have experience?"

"I'm a senior engineer!" the old man said with a smile. "When I was young, I worked on a construction team just like you."

A laborer, specializing in mixing mud and moving bricks.

Later, I realized that physical labor was not a long-term solution, so I studied on my own while working and eventually passed the exam for this major. The new stadium in the city that was completed last year was built under my supervision.

My wife is an architect; she designed it!

"Great!" Liang Suogui finally found someone to take over, and immediately his headache and backache disappeared. He loudly called the chubby boy to call Jiang Chen over.

The old man worked his way up from the bottom and knew every aspect of the construction site like the back of his hand.

Jiang Chen talked with the elderly couple for a long time, discussing in detail the parts that urgently needed to be built and how to build them in the future. In the end, they decided that the elderly couple would design and direct the construction of a safe and reasonably distributed medium-sized security base.

"When did you awaken your superpowers? I didn't even know..." Tang Xueli whispered in his ear with a mixture of resentment and envy as she entered the room after washing up, her soft body nestled in his arms.

Jiang Chen hugged her back, "I suddenly awakened this ability while fighting zombies in the city today. My ability has a wide range of uses, for example... I can go mid lane, since crowd control is my specialty!"

Tang Xueli's ears immediately turned red, and she said coquettishly, "Awakening your superpower is such an important thing, and you're still joking..."

"I can't teach you how to awaken superpowers, but I've figured out some techniques today that will definitely be useful if you learn them."

For example: "Viewed from the side, it's a mountain range; viewed from the front, it's a peak!"

For example: A drop of water in need is repaid with a spring of water...

The little white cat stretched on the roof, shaking its fluffy white fur and exclaiming, "Host, you really have a lot of energy!"

Chapter Twenty-Six T26

For the next month and a half, Jiang Chen continued to explore the nearby cities, killing zombies, zombie kings, and rescuing other survivors.

When they went to the plywood factory again, the group of refugee-like survivors saw the group that had gone with Jiang Chen earlier, who were now full of energy, clean, and had all gained weight. They were filled with regret and followed them to Xiaogang Village without saying a word.

With professional engineers designing and overseeing the overall situation, and with the increasing population, the base has also attracted talent from all walks of life.

Every time Jiang Chen brings back survivors, numerous work groups hold an on-site recruitment event.

Those with technical skills were assigned to various technical teams;

Those with high combat skills can join Brother Niu's security escort team;

Those with strength should join the construction team;

The women also had their own roles.

Either follow Tang Xueli to manage the inventory and move supplies;

Either learn nursing from Dr. Zhao;

Either follow Du Rui and join the production brigade;

Under Guo Quanyi's leadership, the older staff became the logistics department, gradually forming a dedicated assembly line for tasks such as picking vegetables, cooking, delivering meals, washing dishes, and disinfecting.

Others don't need to worry about food and drink; they just need to do their jobs well.

With more people and sufficient supplies, construction began on the site, with lights on day and night, without stopping for any period of time.

During this time, Tang Xueli successfully awakened her ice-type superpowers and finally got what she wanted.

Later survivors also included those with superpowers, so a superpowered team was established, with members assigned according to their abilities to ensure that there was always a superpowered person accompanying the security guard on patrol.

To protect the safety of the base under construction to the greatest extent possible.

When Jiang Chen and Gong Feibai were preparing to set off, the base's perimeter wall was nearing completion, and everyone had moved into the safe zone. The residential buildings specially designed by the designers for the base were also under construction in full swing.

I imagine they'll see the brand-new living area when they return from Base T26.

"Although you are both very powerful superhumans, there are only the two of you, so please be careful!" After much consideration, Tang Xueli decided to stay at the base for the sake of the bigger picture.

With the population growing, and without a powerful ability user to oversee things after Jiang Chen and Gong Feibai left, she worried that this safe rear area would completely spiral out of control.

Jiang Chen reluctantly hugged her and whispered in her ear, "Refine all the crystal cores I left you as soon as possible to improve your combat power. In case of any emergencies, pull Little Fatty and Liang Suogui to your side immediately."

It's not a particularly urgent issue; I'll deal with it when I get back.

Be careful in everything!

The chubby boy reluctantly told Gong Feibai that he must bring his family back when he saw them again.

The honest and kind-hearted Liang Suogui kept assuring everyone that he would take good care of the base and Tang Xueli and the others.

Hu Dali, holding the catfish, made a promise, saying that he had calculated that the two of them would have a smooth journey, and would be able to defeat any obstacle in their way; he also mentioned that the feng shui here was excellent, and it would definitely be the best safe base; and that if they observed the stars at night, they would see dragons and tigers fighting, and that a major star would surely fall, and so on.

"Host, what that catfish spirit said actually sounds quite plausible." The little white cat perched on his shoulder, looking nervous. "I feel like his mystical theories are almost as good as the script itself?"

The aloof Gong Feibai remained expressionless, but kept staring at the construction site getting further and further away in the rearview mirror.

Even as he was about to disappear from sight around the bend, he slightly rose and leaned out to take one last look.

"I want to come back after I pick up my parents on T26," he said earnestly to Jiang Chen as he turned around.

Jiang Chen nodded, "Of course, but I have some things to take care of, so I'll probably be back a little later."