Chapter 1428: Chapter 834: Damage Assessment and Reconstruction! (Part 2)

Dapao nodded and said, "Yes, Third Uncle said the soggy, sticky mud is hard to clean, and if there are zombies inside, it’s dangerous. Just dry it with fire, and tomorrow — oh no, today — we’ll bring the excavators in to dig, see if we can unearth any zombies."

Li Yu, hearing Dapao’s words, felt that Third Uncle’s approach was very correct.

He just watched the flames burning at the bottom of the ditch, then looked at the surrounding sticky mud.

A thought suddenly flashed through his mind; now that the bottom of the ditch was already cleaned up.

Why not turn this mountain pond into a real reservoir?

Referencing the small reservoir at the bottom of the hill, pave the ditch walls with cement, which would prevent the water in the mountain pond from seeping into the soil and wasting the water supply.

It would also make future situations like this less troublesome.

So after thinking for a while, he said, "I have an idea, let’s simply turn the mountain pond into cement flooring and walls, anyway, there’s no water now."

Dapao was stunned upon hearing this.

He clapped his hands and laughed, saying, "Brilliant, what a great idea. Brother Yu, you’re right, how come I didn’t think of that?"

Li Yu, seeing Dapao also approve of this idea, smiled and said nothing.

The two stood by the mountain pond watching the sun come out.

After that zombie emerged from the mud last night, no other zombie has been seen.

But it can’t be absolutely confirmed that there are no zombies beneath the mud.

After all, it is a decades-old mountain pond, with decades of mud accumulation, very deep, there might still be zombies trapped down there.

Time slowly passed.

The wood in the bottom of the ditch had burned out completely, leaving only some embers.

The entire mountain pond’s soil was baked hard by the fire, and people could walk directly on it, unlike before when a layer of wood was needed.

Li Yu stayed here for half an hour, and when he saw Song Min coming, he left.

Dapao also followed and left.

Eight in the morning.

Inside Big Camphor Tree Base Inner City.

Li Yu contacted Second Uncle and others, and convened a meeting in the large conference room inside the base.

It wasn’t the time for the routine weekly meeting, but there was something important to address, so Li Yu convened it.

The typhoon had passed, leaving behind a mess.

Yesterday spent half a day cleaning, and progress was relatively slow; waking up this morning, the roads were littered with debris, some from within the base, some blown in from outside.

Soon, He Chao hurried over from the Outer City.

In the Inner City, Third Uncle, Second Uncle, Uncle, An Ya, Father Li, Bai Jie, Li Tie, Li Gang, Old Lv, Li Yuan, Ding Jiu, and others were gathered in the meeting room.

Looking at the meeting room full of people, Li Yu glanced at Li Yuan.

Li Yuan nodded, indicating everyone was present.

Li Yu didn’t like dilly-dallying during meetings, he went straight to the point and said, "The reason for this meeting is to primarily discuss the repair of Big Camphor Tree Base."

"Li Yuan, you first tell everyone about the damage sorted out yesterday."

"Alright." Li Yuan nodded, then raised his head to glance at everyone.

He opened the notebook in his hand, and began to speak:

"This typhoon had a tremendous impact on the base, exceeding any previous natural disasters we’ve faced.

In the forest, over fifty percent of wind-facing trees were destroyed.

Regarding food, the underground growing rooms are fine, but the greenhouse, including the Inner and Outer City, suffered a total damage area of twenty-five mu, with nine greenhouses destroyed, amounting to eighty-five percent of our total planting area.

In terms of buildings.

The walls have two duty rooms with broken doors, some slight cracks in the duty room walls.

Atop the mountain, the Observation Tower was half-destroyed.

The processing plant’s workshop, the right processing workshop’s wall collapsed, but the equipment inside wasn’t affected as it was moved beforehand.

In the gymnasium, the wall is seeping water with cracks.

.....

Next is the loss of materials.

Since some vehicles couldn’t fit in the underground parking lot, they were parked in the ground parking lot. Due to the roof being blown off, vehicle damage reached twenty-three. Mainly off-road vehicles; oil trucks and helicopters were not damaged.

......"

Li Yuan reported item by item, the faces of everyone in the meeting room looked grim.

This loss wasn’t devastating for Big Camphor Tree Base, but it’s the first time in doomsday such severe impact was experienced.

Even the most crucial thing, food planting, was affected.

However, they didn’t know.

In the present doomsday, it’s already quite remarkable to still have eighty-five percent of crops after a typhoon.

"The approximate damage status of the base is these, over in Oil City they are still within the typhoon, damage status is temporarily unclear; likewise, our external stations are unknown.

Lastly, yesterday drone surveillance of some areas around Big Camphor Tree Base also didn’t look optimistic."

Li Yuan slowly finished speaking, and then sat down.

Silence.

The meeting room filled with smoke, no one spoke.

Li Yu scanned everyone, quietly saying:

"This typhoon exceeded our expectations, next is about the restoration.

But before restoration, I want everyone to learn from this lesson, summarize experiences, and during the repair process, think about whether the restoration can withstand if such disaster reoccurs."