Chapter 1397 As the number of people increases, hidden dangers arise
The sun is scorching.
Xincheng, National Highway 319.
Wow!
A cooperator shoveled a shovelful of gravel from a pickup truck and poured it into the sunken pothole.
Fill in.
There are more than a dozen electric pickup trucks on the entire National Highway 319, loaded with gravel.
At the same time, hundreds of people were doing similar things on the national highway, filling the depressions with gravel.
The national highways built before the end of the world were mainly composed of cement roads and asphalt roads, with different methods used in different sections.
Cement road refers to a road paved with cement concrete. It has the advantages of strong bearing capacity, good durability and low maintenance cost.
Asphalt roads are roads paved with asphalt materials, which have the characteristics of good anti-skid performance, low noise, and fast construction speed.
Part of National Highway 319 is an asphalt road and part is a cement road.
The road surface in this section of Xincheng is mainly asphalt.
However, under the previous high temperature weather, these asphalt roads melted and became uneven.
Various weeds and wildflowers grew out of the cracked cracks.
It has not been maintained for a long time, and a thick layer of dust has accumulated on the road. Vehicles drive by, filling the sky with smoke.
The thunderstorm receded, and after more than ten days of exposure, the water on this road gradually evaporated.
Now that Da Zhangshu Base has started major infrastructure construction, it requires a large amount of various building materials, and these building materials have to be transported back to the base from outside.
Moreover, traveling back and forth between the five satellite cities requires passing through this main road.
Many times, after those cooperating personnel mined and collected building materials outside, during the return transportation, their vehicles always broke down due to rugged roads.
At the same time, trucks carrying various raw materials also bumped, causing many building materials to be knocked out of the truck.
It has greatly affected transportation engineering.
Therefore, after discussions between Li Yu, his second uncle, and others, they unanimously decided to start building the road.
Even if natural disasters will break out later and cause damage to roads, they can't stop building roads just because of natural disasters.
At least now, this main road has been repaired, so that vehicles transporting various materials will not always break down due to road problems.
"Lao Zhang, this area has been filled and leveled, bring the roller over!" Shunzi shouted in the distance.
"Here we go!"
Boom!
A road roller slowly came over and crushed the filled potholes.
"This is treating the symptoms but not the root cause. Road construction is too rough. We should first clean up the gravel and garbage in the pit before piling. What kind of gravel should we use... There is also asphalt in the base. It can be filled with asphalt.
Fill these gaps." Wang Cheng, who was next to Shunzi, sighed.
Shunzi glanced at him and said, "What you said is too complicated and the speed is too slow."
"If you do it this way, you won't be able to repair this road in a month, not to mention who knows when a natural disaster will break out. What's the use of building it so well? It's going to rot later."
When Wang Cheng heard what he said, he didn't know how to refute.
Looking at the workers building roads on the road, I couldn't help but think of the time when I first joined the Da Zhangshu Base.
At that time, there were probably only a few dozen people in the entire Da Zhangshu Base.
At that time, he was working in a cement factory with Ding Jiu, and he was very impressed by that day.
The city lord shot Manager Zhou to death with his own hands, which really shocked him.
After all, the apocalypse had just broken out at that time, and the situation was different from now.
Who dared to kill anyone at that time? Let alone killing people, they would even run away from zombies when they saw them.
As for now...
Killing a few zombies is not much different from killing a chicken, and it will not cause mood swings.
It's around two o'clock in the afternoon, the hottest time of the day.
Wang Cheng and Shunzi stood on the side and watched the construction workers repairing the road.
There are two people on guard in each of the four directions of the road, front, rear, left and right, in case zombies suddenly appear.
Although the weather is hot now, and it's still daytime.
But occasionally there will still be some zombies attracted by the noisy construction sounds.
The roar of the road roller was loud, making a clicking sound as it crushed the gravel.
rustle--
A breeze blew by, and the leaves slowly fell under the hot sunshine.
A zombie suddenly appeared from the road on the right.
This zombie was extremely clumsy, but made no sound as it walked from the grass to the edge of the national highway on the right.
"Hey, here comes another one."
A non-staff member shook the mace in his hand. The mace was stained with some black goo, and sharp iron nails protruded from the head.
He was seen calmly waiting for the zombie to approach, and when the zombie pounced on him, he bent his waist and held his hands as if playing golf.
Whoosh!
The mace accurately hit the zombie's head. Due to the force, the zombie fell backwards and fell on the edge of the national road.
die!
He dragged the dead zombie onto a truck and later burned the corpse.
Today's mutant zombies are able to obtain more viruses from corpses of the same kind, thus becoming stronger during heavy rains and natural disasters.
Therefore, they tried their best to burn all the zombies they encountered after killing them.
In fact, the overall number of zombies is not as large as before, but the few remaining zombies are stronger than before.
Zombies climbing walls are unlikely to appear during the day, so it's not that dangerous.
Most of the zombies that appear are ordinary zombies. These ordinary zombies move slowly due to exposure to sunlight during the day.
When Wang Cheng in front saw this scene, he withdrew his gaze.
He asked Shunzi next to him: "In what year did you join the Da Zhangshu Base?"
"Second year, what's up? What year are you in?" Shunzi glanced at Wang Cheng, feeling a little proud.
Seeing Shunzi's arrogant look, Wang Cheng pretended to be pretentious.
"I... am the 48th member of the Da Zhangshu Base in the first year."
"What the hell, you're so early?" Shunzi looked surprised. He didn't expect that this middle-aged man who was just doing construction in the base would be earlier than him.
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Shunzi curled her lips, looking dissatisfied.
"I remember you used to work with Ding Gong, right?" Shunzi asked.
Ding Jiu is in the current Dazhangshu base, coordinating all the projects in the Dazhangshu base, which can be said to have a high position of authority.
"Ang. What about you?"
Although he didn't ask clearly, Shunzi knew what he meant. Wang Cheng was actually asking who Shunzi was with before.
"Congratulations, Director."
"Oh, that's good. Manager He is a good person."
When Shunzi heard him praising He Chao like this, he said, "That's because Brother He manages four outer cities and has much more power than Gong Ding."
"So what." Wang Cheng disagreed.
"Don't talk about this."
Shunzi lowered his voice and complained:
"I don't think it's fair at all. Look at Fu Sheng, Xu Zhen and others were able to enter the inner city later than me. I am also a senior after all, and I haven't entered the inner city yet."
Wang Cheng didn't know how to answer him for a while.
If he relied solely on his true ability, and according to the current four-level points system at Da Zhangshu Base, starting from working as a collaborator, he would probably be barely able to earn points as a non-staff member.
But who gave him good luck?
The first year he joined the Da Zhangshu Base, there was no outer city at that time.
As soon as we come in, there are people from the inner city. What can we do?
"Fu Sheng made a significant contribution when the base was having difficulty producing cement. As for Xu Zhen, the base drainage project designed and built by others ensured that drainage in the base was connected, and there has been no waterlogging until now."
"Everyone joins the inner city based on their true ability and has made significant contributions."
Shunzi became even more dissatisfied when she heard that Wang Cheng did not agree with her.
"Then Xiao Jun, Dongtai, and that old Bi are all later than me... Why can they all become outer city personnel, but I can't..."
"Ah!"
Wang Cheng sneered and said: "They are serious people who have come out of the army. They have been fighting externally and have made great contributions to the Da Zhangshu Base. It is natural for them to become inner city personnel. If you have the ability, you can go out and fight."
"When people are risking their lives to carry out combat missions, why don't you go?"
"They are originally from the army, and their combat capabilities are stronger than mine. What's the comparison?" Shunzi curled his lips and his voice became smaller and smaller.
"But that doesn't count the people who entered the inner city. That old Dong, Dong Ying, Kong Shuang, Hua Gan, and even Qingyang, it's even more exaggerated. He directly became a member of the outer city."
"Now you can enter and leave the inner city at will, but he didn't do anything. His two senior brothers don't have to do anything in the base, they just eat and drink in the base. If I were the city lord, I would drive them away. go out."
After Wang Cheng heard his complaint, he felt a little uncomfortable.
But today, he came together to take charge of the task of building roads, and he didn't want to stalemate the relationship.
So he comforted himself and said:
"Don't worry, accumulate points and perform tasks, and you will eventually be promoted to an inner city officer."
"To put it lightly, I am not as lucky as you to be able to become an inner city employee directly. I am really unlucky. I am obviously a year behind you, but I have always been an outer city employee. According to the current system, I have to be promoted to an inner city employee. City personnel can only make significant contributions, how can it be so easy!" Shunzi rolled his eyes and complained.
"...."
Wang Cheng did not choose to answer him.
He has said everything that should be said, and he has also said what should not be said.
Sometimes it's like this, the timing is wrong, and you have to work harder than others to get results.
But Wang Cheng felt that Shunzi was still too paranoid.
Why don’t you keep comparing yourself with Xiao Jun and others, and don’t compare with Qingyang and Lao Dong.
Xiao Junju Tianrui's family was a result of his military exploits. He knew how much Lao Dong contributed to the power system of Da Zhangshu Base.
As for Qingyang, you can say a few words.
He also felt that Qingyang came in through connections.
But this is specially approved by the city lord, who dares to object.
The Great Zhangshu Base was built by the city lord. No one else can interfere with what he wants to do.
What's more, people like Qingyang are extremely favored by the city lord, and there are very few people who directly recruit people to enter the outer city.
Moreover, Qingyang's abilities are not outstanding, and his medical skills in traditional Chinese medicine are extremely good.
His senior brother was teaching boxing and kung fu in the outer city, and he was actually a very capable person.
In fact, neither he nor Shunzi knew that the person Li Yu really valued was Qingyuan.
silence.
Half a moment.
Wang Cheng still chose to speak:
"Shunzi, don't think so much, we have to know how to be content."
"Now there are so many people in the base, thousands of people, cooperation personnel, and non-staff personnel, there are many people with higher capabilities than us."
"But after all, you are still a member of the outer city, and you are a member of the outer city as soon as you join, which is much better than those who join the cooperation later."
"Our abilities are limited and we must know how to be self-sufficient."
"That's easy to say. You, an inner city worker, are certainly satisfied. I have never entered the inner city until now." Shunzi was still a little dissatisfied.
"well...."
Wang Cheng originally wanted to advise him, but now it seemed that it was unnecessary and he was too lazy to say anything more.
I've said so much and still don't listen.
He won't listen if you continue to talk, and will instead take his anger out on himself.
People like Shunzi obviously don't have much ability, but they feel envious when they see others getting promoted.
But I don’t have much ability, and I’m not willing to take risks or put in hard work. How can such a good thing happen if I just think about the final result?
nowadays.
There are thousands of people in Dazhangshu base. With more people, people's hearts become complicated.
There are people joining in every period, and many of these people join as teams.
It is inevitable that some will form cliques and compete with each other.
Comparison will lead to psychological imbalance
Once out of balance, people like Shunzi will feel unwilling and dissatisfied.
This problem becomes more obvious the more people there are with the base.
However, due to the city lord's prestige in the base, no one dared to raise it publicly, so they only dared to talk about it in private occasionally.
Especially some old people like Shunzi who have been with Da Zhangshu Base for a long time.
They have been people from the outer city from the beginning. Some of these people are very timid and rarely go out to perform tasks. In the last few years, they have been staying in or around the outer city to do some chores.
Seeing more and more people in outer cities, I will definitely feel a little unbalanced.
Especially when I saw that people who joined later than me could become inner-city personnel, I felt extremely uncomfortable.
They have never left the Da Zhangshu Base, have not been to Oil City, and have not been to the North.
In the strong fortress of Da Zhangshu base, I have become accustomed to a stable life.
But they don't know how much risk those people outside performing tasks took and how much they paid in order to earn points.
People, in this life, they are always envious of others.
What Shunzi didn't know was how much the cooperators who worked hard to build the road on this national highway envied him.
Not being satisfied will only bring pain.
Wang Cheng didn't want to continue chatting with Shunzi anymore. The negative energy all over his body ruined his good mood today.
But he felt something wasn't quite right.
The last time he went out to do a mission in the satellite city, he also followed a person from outside the city to carry out the mission.
What that person said was similar to what Shunzi said, and they both had some opinions on the base's system.
Coincidentally, that person was also the one who followed He Chao.
If you encounter it once, you will at most just listen and not care.
But after hearing it twice in a row, Wang Cheng sensed something was wrong.
He truly regarded the Da Zhangshu base as his home, and he did not want to see harm to the base due to infighting.
"You have to report this situation to Gong Ding later." Wang Cheng said secretly in his heart.
The composition of He Chao's subordinates is relatively complex.
They were all the first people to come out of Jiefang City. Among the forty or so people, there were some outstanding talents and some incompetent ones.
For example, Fu Sheng and Xu Zhen, whom Shunzi mentioned just now, actually followed He Chao before.
Wang Cheng was also puzzled. They all came from the same place. How could they compare like this?
Don't understand.
Boom boom boom!
At this moment, a motorcade came from the opposite direction.
The trucks in this convoy are loaded with sand.
It is the team that collects construction materials outside and transports them back to the headquarters.
After Wang Cheng saw it, he quickly shouted to the road construction team behind him:
"Everyone pauses and gives way to them."
"What's going on?" Lao Zhang stuck his head out and glanced at the motorcade in front of him.
Without asking any more questions, he quickly drove the roller to the side of the road.
The road construction workers on this national highway also stopped what they were doing and walked to the side with shovels and dung pans.
Knock, knock, knock!
The truck stumbled twice, its tires bouncing in the potholes on the unmaintained road.
Le Ziqing, who was in the car, saw Wang Cheng on the roadside, rolled down the car window ten meters away from him, and waved towards Wang Cheng.
Wang Cheng saw this and nodded slightly.
Also driving by, Le Ziqing saw Shunzi and waved to him.
But Shunzi just glanced at Le Ziqing, with some disdain at the corner of his mouth, and looked away.
He is just a collaborator, which is hugely different from his status.
Not enough for you to take seriously.
.....
In the car.
When Le Ziqing saw that Shunzi ignored him at all, he felt that he was asking for trouble and didn't take it to heart.
On the contrary, Shi Jingsheng, the subordinate who was driving the car, felt something similar after seeing the completely opposite attitudes of Wang Cheng and Shunzi.
After the truck passed this section of road construction, he couldn't help but said to Le Ziqing:
"Brother Le, what do you think Zhang Shunzi is so proud of? A person from the inner city of Wangcheng greets you with a good face, so why is he a person from the outer city so proud?"
"His character is not good. I heard Captain Luo and his team say that Zhang Shunzi is not good."
Le Ziqing looked in the rearview mirror and leaned his head on the seat.
"Don't worry about it. We just have to do our own thing well. It doesn't matter what he does."
"no."
Shi Jingsheng continued dissatisfied:
"This Zhang Shunzi, when you were away yesterday, he made things difficult for us, saying that he was building a road and asked us to wait there."
"After waiting for more than an hour, there are other teams lining up behind me, but he just won't give way. It's so disgusting."
Le Ziqing frowned, "Was Wang Cheng there yesterday?"
"No, you see, the royal city is here today. When we saw the convoy from afar, we gave way to it."
"If he wasn't here, this Shunzi would probably have to make us wait again."
Shi Jingsheng continued:
"The construction site is in a hurry for materials and has been urging us to transport them quickly."
"And if he makes us wait like this, isn't it a waste of our time! With more than an hour, if we save a few times, we can make more trips and get more points."
Le Ziqing's eyes gradually became serious.
It doesn't matter if it delays the project, what matters is that it delays them in earning points, and points are food.
Blocking people's way of making money is like killing their parents.
"I will discuss this matter with Manager He," Le Ziqing said.
Shi Jingshan mocked:
"That Zhang Shunzi used to be with Manager He. I think it's useless for you to mention it to Manager He, Brother Le. He Chao has known about it for a long time, and he even protected that Zhang Shunzi."
Le Ziqing frowned, "I didn't expect them to have this kind of relationship. How did you know?"
"I heard it from someone else. I heard it from a non-staff member. I forgot his name." Shi Jingshan replied.
Le Ziqing nodded thoughtfully, "Okay, I understand. I'll report it to someone else. I'll tell Lai Dongsheng directly. He is from the inner city and should be useful."
"Brother Le, how come you still know people from the inner city like Lai Dongsheng?"
"I didn't know he was from the inner city."
"I didn't know he was from the inner city at first. He was at the construction site recently. We chatted for a while, and we became familiar with him after going back and forth."