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At 5:30 in the morning, Lin Yue was already standing in front of the gate of the northern suburbs cold chain logistics park.

It's not bright yet.A very light fish belly white has just appeared on the eastern skyline, and most of the sky is still dark iron gray. A few remaining stars hang high, as cold as nails just fished out of icy water.Mornings in the industrial area are much quieter than in the city. There is no sound of traffic or crowds, only the low hum of a transformer in the distance and the occasional sound of trucks passing by on the national highway further away.

Lin Yue arrived half an hour earlier than the agreed time.This is a habit he developed in his previous life - any new location must be scouted alone before everyone arrives.He distrusted any second-hand information.

The gate of the logistics park is a rusty electric retractable door, and the door track is filled with dead leaves and plastic bags.Half of the glass in the guard room was broken, and it was empty. The date on the duty list hanging on the wall stopped at a certain day five years ago.Lin Yue squeezed in sideways through the gap between the retractable door and the wall, the soles of his boots making a tiny clicking sound on the broken glass.

The campus is bigger than he imagined.It looked like a regular rectangle on the satellite image, but when we came to the site, we found that it was at least three hundred meters deep.The three cold storage buildings are distributed in a Z-shaped layout. The main structure is reinforced concrete prefabricated panels with gray corrugated steel panels on the outside.Lin Yue approached the nearest building and knocked on the wall with his hand - it was solid.Fifty centimeters thick, basically consistent with what Xiao He estimated on the satellite image last night.A concrete wall of this thickness cannot be broken by ordinary zombies, not to mention cracking it.Not even the licker's tongue can penetrate it.Unless it's a giant zombie.But the number of giant zombies is very small, and——

He wiped the dust on the wall with his finger.Good quality.It has not been maintained for five years, and there are no obvious cracks or signs of water damage.The quality of this building was better than any base he had stayed in in his previous life.

The northeast corner of the park is where the water well is located.Lin Yue walked over and found that it was a machine-made well. The wellhead was covered with a thick cast iron manhole cover. Next to it was a power distribution room and a rusted water tower.He opened the manhole cover and used his mobile phone's flashlight to shine down - the water surface was about eight meters deep and the quality of the water could not be clearly seen, but at least it was not dry.If you have water, you are alive.

The door lock of the power distribution room was rusty, so Lin Yue kicked it open.Inside is an old diesel generator set and distribution cabinet, covered with dust, but it doesn't look damaged.Wang Hao hasn't arrived yet, but Lin Yue has seen enough generator sets in his previous life. As long as this set of equipment can rotate, Fatty can make it come alive again.

He stood in the center of the park, turned around in a circle, and completed the first draft of the overall layout in his mind.

The cold storage building at the main entrance serves as the main defense, with the first floor being transformed into a command center and material warehouse, and an observation post being set up on the second floor.The two buildings at the back - one will be converted into a residential area, and the other will be converted into a medical area and laboratory.The open space next to the water tower is Zhao Dezhu's farmland.The open space along the east wall is Lu Hanshuang's training ground.There is a sentry tower in the southeast corner and northwest corner.Fifty meters outside the main entrance, there is the first line of barbed wire defense.Between barbed wire and walls, pits and trip wires.

He reviewed the entire park's defense system from beginning to end within five minutes, then took out his cell phone.

"On September 13, at 05:42, the cold chain logistics park was inspected and confirmed. Three cold storage buildings, with concrete prefabricated panel structures. The wall thickness is about 50 centimeters and the structure is intact. There is a well with a water depth of about eight meters. The power distribution room contains an old diesel generator set, and its status is pending.Assessment.The fence is a brick-concrete structure with a height of about 2.5 meters. There is no wire mesh at the top and it needs to be installed.The electric telescopic door of the main entrance cannot be used and needs to be manually closed.The area of the park is about 15,000 square meters and it can accommodate more than 100 people.The base location rating: S level.

He put away his phone and walked to the door.Zhao Ming's car should be arriving soon.

At six o'clock sharp, two black vans appeared at the entrance of the logistics park on time.The car door opened and five people filed out.The first thing Zhao Ming did when he got out of the car was not to say hello, but to glance at the surrounding environment - Lin Yue noticed that his eyes stopped on the wall of the first cold storage building for a second, and then nodded slightly.Lao Zheng was more direct. He walked around to the side to see the height of the fence and the terrain on the back, and left without saying a word.

"Is this right here?" Da Liu looked up at the cold storage building and raised his chin slightly, "It looks solid enough."

"A fifty centimeter concrete wall." Lin Yue said, "You can't break through it even if you hit it with a sledgehammer for a day."

Xiao He didn't say anything and had already started walking around the park, holding a small drone remote control in his hand.Ah Qing followed behind, carrying a first aid kit and looking around with an expression as if he was entering a haunted house for the first time.

"Brother Lin." Zhao Ming walked to Lin Yue and lowered his voice, "How do you get the property rights of this place? Although it is abandoned, there is an owner."

"I checked." Lin Yue said, "The property rights belong to a cold chain company that went bankrupt and liquidated. The asset package has been frozen for five years and no one has taken it. In theory, it is under the management of the North City Industrial Park Management Committee. But in fact, no one has taken care of it for five years, which shows that they don't care."

"Then we take it directly?"

"Follow the formal process." Lin Yue glanced at him, "Rent. Not buying, not occupying. Sign a formal contract. Once the contract is in hand, this place is legally our legal space. The law may be useless after the apocalypse, but before the apocalypse, I need this piece of paper. With it, we will not be regarded as suspicious when we buy barbed wire, cement, and generator accessories. With it, we will not be accused of illegal occupation when we bring people in. With it, the government will have to negotiate compensation with us even if it is temporarily expropriated."

Zhao Ming was stunned for a moment, then nodded slowly.He obviously didn't expect this level.In his previous life, Zhao Ming was a charging warrior, not a strategic commander.But in this life, Lin Yue needed him to grow faster.

"Today is Saturday." Lin Yue glanced at his watch. "The Industrial Park Management Committee is not working today. But on Monday morning, I will wait for them to open the door at the office door. Before that -"

Lao Zheng is back.His expression was darker than before.

"There is a small river on the back. The river bank is about fifteen meters wide. The depth of the water cannot be seen. The river flows in the southeast direction, and the lower reaches may lead to the main river in the city. This is a good thing and a bad thing."

"The good thing is that there is a backup water source," Lin Yue said, "What's the bad thing?"

"The bad thing is that the river bank is too low, and there is an abandoned building materials yard on the other side. The view is wide and there is no cover. If there are people or zombies coming from that direction, we can see them and they can see us. There is a gap in the wall at the back door, about one meter wide, which needs to be filled."

Lin Yue nodded and mentally prioritized the gap in the back wall.

"Xiao He," he raised his voice, "have you finished the aerial photography?"

Xiao He ran over from a short distance away, and the remote control screen in his hand showed a small four-axis drone hovering in mid-air.He turned the screen to Lin Yue, which showed an aerial view of the logistics park with high definition.

"The park is 320 meters long and 210 meters wide. There are three main buildings, a power distribution room, a water tower, and an abandoned loading and unloading platform. The fence runs along the entire plot, with a total length of about 1,060 meters. Within the surrounding 500 meters -—To the east is another abandoned industrial area with two empty factory buildings and no residents.To the west are a few car repair shops, and to the south is farmland with a row of bungalows that are still inhabited by farmers."

"Farmer?" Lin Yue frowned.

"A family. There are clothes hanging in the yard. They should have been dried yesterday."

Lin Yue recorded this information in his mind.The nearby residents are variables. When the apocalypse breaks out, they may become survivors or threats.But at least before it breaks out, no unnecessary attention can be drawn.

"The task this morning is to win the contract." Lin Yue gathered everyone together. "The management committee will not work on weekends, so we will find someone who can make the decision. There is no need to wait until Monday for this kind of thing. Xiao He, I want you to find out the contact information of a person this morning - the person in charge of asset management of the industrial park management committee, name, phone number, address, the sooner the better."

Xiao He nodded and started typing on his phone.

"Others, stay in the logistics park. Da Liu and Lao Zheng have figured out the internal structure of the three cold storage buildings. Each floor has several rooms, several doors, window sizes, stair positions, and ventilation duct directions. They have drawn them into sketches. I will take a look when I come back."

Da Liu and Lao Zheng nodded at the same time.

"Zhao Ming, take Ah Qing to check the water well. Bring a bucket of water up to see if the water is clean and can you drink it directly. Then check the power distribution room, take a photo of the generator model and send it to me."

"Understood." Zhao Ming said.

Lin Yue turned around and was about to leave, then stopped and looked back at the five of them.

"From now on, this logistics park will be our base of operations. Don't say any details about the base outside. No matter who asks, just say that we rented a warehouse and are going to do some small business. It exists."

The five people looked at him quietly.No one spoke, but everyone's eyes were different.Yesterday in the lounge, when they heard the word "the end of the world", they still had confusion, doubt, and forcibly suppressed disbelief in their eyes.But now - standing in this real cold chain logistics park, touching the thick concrete walls and seeing the bottomless machine shafts, those doubts are being worn away bit by bit.Because Lin Yue was not talking, he was doing.Every step is real.Every decision has clear reasons and direction.

Lin Yue got into the car and started the engine.The next stop is Su Muqing.

At 06:45, he arrived downstairs at Su Muqing's apartment.More than two hours earlier than the agreed nine o'clock.

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