Chapter 1696 Damn it! How much has changed after being away for just two months?
The next day.
Oil City.
The third uncle climbed up the wall of the trading market and overlooked the buffer city construction site not far away.
Behind him were Xie Changshan, Liu Yu and others.
Jie Changshan pointed to the buffer city wall in the distance and said:
"Minister, now the foundations of the buffer city wall have been constructed.
Moreover, the eastern and southern sections of the fence have been built to a height of 6 meters. Next, we will continue to increase the height of the eastern section and the southern section of the fence, and we will also build the western and northern sections of the wall."
The third uncle looked at the wall rising from the ground in the distance, like a giant dragon.
"Enclose the western section and the northern section as soon as possible. After enclosing, we can start building greenhouses."
"Are you recruiting more people?" Xie Changshan asked.
The third uncle nodded and asked:
"Well, let's recruit people again. When will we be able to connect the walls?"
"One week, one week can complete the encirclement, but it can only reach a height of six meters." Jie Changshan replied after thinking for a while.
"A week?" The third uncle was a little surprised, it was much faster than he expected.
The third uncle smiled and said: "Very good."
Xie Changshan breathed a sigh of relief when he saw his third uncle's smile.
He has barely had a good night's sleep in the past few months,
One engineering task after another without stopping.
Moreover, these tasks are all urgent, and each one is faster than the last.
During this period, he lost 20 pounds, his eyes were sunken, there were dark circles, and his face was full of exhaustion.
In the trading market, construction workers are recruited almost every day.
The total number of construction workers on the construction site now exceeds 60,000.
There are also many construction material transport teams, non-stop searching for building materials and transporting them back to the construction site.
Now the buffer city construction site is overcrowded. In order to protect the construction site, the third uncle sent two more brigades from the Civil Armed Forces Division there.
It takes a long time for workers to enter and leave the trading market every day.
With so many workers working on the construction site together, the effect is remarkable, and the buffer city walls are changing almost every day.
At the same time, the daily distribution of food and points in Oil City is also a huge number.
Now, after several weeks of continuous transportation by the transportation brigade, they are transporting food from the northern border and the headquarters base to Oil City.
The grain reserves in the oil city have reached 17,000 tons.
Next, the last three thousand tons of grain from the north will be transported to Oil City, and the grain transportation task is over.
By that time, the grain reserves in the oil city can reach 20,000 tons.
Oil City plus the trading bazaar includes 12,345 level members, now nearly 200,000 people.
On average, each person consumes 1 kilogram of grain a day, and 200,000 people can consume 100 tons of grain a day.
100 days is 10,000 tons of grain, and 20,000 tons of grain is enough to support the oil city and trading market for nearly 200 days.
In order to support the development of Oil City, the northern border and the headquarters base can be said to have squeezed out all the food produced in the past year.
Only 1,000 tons of grain were left in the northern border, and 4,000 tons of grain were left in the headquarters base. All the remaining grain was transported to Oil City.
However, the population of the Da Zhangshu headquarters base is relatively small. Even if there are only 4,000 tons, and even if the greenhouses can no longer produce food, they can still support it for more than a year and a half.
What's more, whether it is the headquarters base or the northern border, because of its greenhouses, it can ignore most natural disasters and can continuously produce food.
The planting area in the buffer city of the Dazhangshu headquarters base reaches more than 10,000 acres, occupying more than half of the buffer city, and the grain output is amazing.
On the construction site of the buffer city wall.
Eastern section.
Two figures wearing gray and black torn cotton clothes squatted on the ground to tie steel bars. Even though they were dirty, they still couldn't hide their slim figures.
Bada——
A drop of sweat flowed from Dai Xinyan's forehead and fell on the steel bar.
Although the temperature is only 7 or 8 degrees Celsius, they continue to work and tie steel bars, walk back and forth, and stand up and squat down continuously, which consumes a lot of energy.
The two of them were a beautiful sight on the construction site. There were relatively few female workers on the construction site, and even fewer young girls under the age of twenty like them.
A whistle sounded, and a middle-aged man pushing a cart to transport cement passed behind them.
"Two big golden flowers, tsk tsk, those little butts are really round, if you ask me, why don't you go to Tingfeng Tower instead of having to do such hard work..."
A man following him smiled and said:
"Old Zhao, if you say that again, I will get angry and hit you on the chest."
"Hahahaha." Several people around burst into laughter.
The supervisor in charge of this area came over and
"What are you two talking about? Hurry up and transport the cement! Points will be deducted if you find you are lazy again!"
Hearing that their points would be deducted, Lao Zhao quickly explained:
"Supervision, we are not lazy, we have been working hard."
The supervisor frowned and said angrily:
"When I say you are lazy, you are just lazy. Do you still want to refute? Do you want to do it?"
"No, no, no..." Lao Zhao hesitated and left in a hurry.
I thought to myself: It seems that these two girls are protected.
In the trading market, there is a mixture of good and bad, and there are all kinds of people.
Many of them are bullies, but they don't dare to do anything openly. Once a fight breaks out, everyone will end badly.
But if you are addicted to it verbally, people often do it.
Therefore, in the residential area of the trading market, you can often see people quarreling and swearing, and all kinds of unpleasant words to greet your parents are endless, which has become a scenery in the trading market.
Whenever there is a scolding, a group of good-hearted people will gather around to watch.
But those who participated in the scolding only dared to spit at each other and did not dare to take action.
Once someone takes action, the nature will change. If someone reports it to the patrol team, the person who did it will die.
There have been more than one deaths due to fights at the trading market.
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The other side.
The supervisor saw him hurriedly pushing the cart away and turned to look at the two sisters Dai Xinyan who were squatting on the ground to tie steel bars.
Their eyes were a little complicated. The two sisters worked very diligently on the construction site and were never lazy. He didn't even have to monitor them, and they would work very hard.
A few days ago, when the two sisters were assigned to his supervision area, Zhang Wei from the 17th Division of the Civil Armed Forces asked him to take care of them.
With Zhang Wei's greeting, he naturally did not dare to embarrass the sisters. On the contrary, if someone embarrassed them, he would still need to speak out to help them.
beep——
The trumpet honked.
"During lunch time, please line up each group and receive food in turn."
As the broadcast sounded, the sound of machinery on the construction site slowly stopped.
The mixer suddenly stopped spinning and the conveyor belt stopped running.
The workers on the construction site, under the guidance of the supervisor, lined up one by one to wait for the arrival of the food truck.
From the trading market, more than a dozen pickup trucks drove out, each with tall steel drums and mountains of tortillas on them.
The working meal at the construction site is very simple, just water and tortillas.
However, there are two types of water, one is salt water soup with salt added, and the other is drinking boiled water that has been purified and disinfected through five stages.
Work on the construction site requires a lot of physical energy. If you don't take in enough salt, the workers will not have the energy to work, so they added salt water soup.
The west section of the construction site.
Wang Ou, Chen Chen and others lined up, waiting for the arrival of the dining car.
They were responsible for grouting concrete, so at the end of the day, we were covered in lumps of cement.
Cement is corrosive to a certain extent. If your skin comes into contact with cement slurry for a long time, some places will become red and swollen.
So every time after work, they have to take a shower to wash off the mud splashed on their bodies during work.
For this job, their points are relatively high.
The cold wind howls.
The dining car was steaming with white mist, and the salt soup on it had been heated. Now that the temperature was relatively low, it was a good idea to give them something hot to warm themselves up.
Meng De approached Wang Ou and asked in a low voice:
"Brother Wang, how many points do we have now?"
Wang Ou dug into his pocket and pulled out a crumpled receipt.
"209.3 points. I have accumulated a lot of points during this period. After a while, I will go to the Water Dragon Club to buy two bottles of wine for everyone to relax." Wang Ou had a smile on his face.
There are a total of thirteen people in their team, and they have been here from Tongshi for more than twenty days.
For more than twenty days, they put the pickup truck in the parking lot of the trading market and kept working on the construction site without going anywhere.
There is no consumption. In terms of food, the construction site can basically provide two meals a day.
In terms of housing, they live in the third-grade houses, which are the worst.
The points earned on the construction site, except for renting a house, buying water for bathing, and the rest are all deposited into the team number plate.
The water price in the trading market is very low, and renting a house is also very cheap, so you don't need to spend many points.
They saved almost 95 percent of their points.
If they use these points sparingly and eat one tortilla a day, it will be enough to support their team for two months.
soon.
The dining car arrived at their side.
Wang Oulen received a piece of tortilla and filled a full cup of salt water with the kettle he brought.
The salt water was hot. He took two sips and his body quickly warmed up a lot.
He tore off a piece of dry corn tortilla, chewed it twice in his mouth, and poured another mouthful of salt water into it.
Let the tortilla slowly soften in your mouth so that it can be swallowed easily.
.......
North of the trading market, Zhengyang County.
Two garbage trucks loaded with 180 tons of yellow clay drove towards the trading market.
In the middle of the garbage truck, there is a van sandwiched between two garbage trucks.
The original load capacity of this muck truck was 30 tons, but the actual load capacity of one of their trucks reached 90 tons, which was 200% overloaded.
If you were caught by the traffic police before the end of the world, you would definitely be fined 2,000 yuan, deducted 6 points, and have your vehicle impounded.
The yellow clay on the garbage truck was piled into a sharp point. If it wasn't really too much, they might have overloaded it and loaded more yellow clay.
There are no traffic police now, so the survivors who specialize in transportation are naturally pursuing maximizing profits.
I never consider the issue of overloading. As long as it can be loaded and the vehicle can pull it, I will try to fill it as much as possible and take it back.
In the car.
Nandou controlled the garbage truck and said with a smile to the murderous intent of the co-pilot:
"Brother, now we have also changed the situation. We should be able to earn dozens of points during this trip, right?"
Killing Heart glanced at him, "Absolutely."
Nandou said again:
"Brother, if we don't ask someone to help us load the soil onto the truck, we can earn at least thirty more points on this trip. The labor of asking someone to help us load the soil onto the truck is too expensive. How about we do it ourselves next time."
The corners of Shaxin's mouth twitched.
"What kind of international joke are you kidding! How can eight of us finish nearly two hundred tons of yellow clay? There is no need to save such a few points!"
"Okay." Nandou looked through the rearview mirror at the van behind him.
In the van, they pulled a dozen people over to help them transport the yellow clay to the van.
The points spent on labor costs for these dozen people are not cheap. Each person requires a high price of 1.6 points.
But in this situation, it would be great if someone comes out with a sports car.
There are zombies everywhere outside, and there is also the possibility of encountering wall-climbing zombies. Taking such a big risk and running out to help carry it will result in fewer points and no one is willing to do it.
Since the last time Shaxin and the others searched for some valuable materials and exchanged them for more than two hundred points, they combined these points with the points they had saved before.
He spent a lot of money to purchase and assemble a dump truck.
Specialized in transportation.
The trading bazaar buffer city wall now requires a large amount of construction materials.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The demand is huge and there is a lot of work.
This gives Killing Heart and the others a chance to earn points.
They worked hard, took risks, put their heads on their belts and went out for transportation. In a short period of time, they earned hundreds of points, so they purchased and assembled another garbage truck.
Two garbage trucks are specially used to transport construction materials back to the buffer city.
Because there were not enough manpower, they began to look for help in the trading market to help them load the car, offering a high price of 1.6 points a day.
You can earn 0.5~0.8 points a day by working in the buffer city of the trading bazaar. With free food, you can earn 1~1.3 points a day. It's also safer and you don't have to run out.
It is not difficult to find a job in the trading market now, with hundreds of worker positions posted every day.
So they offered a price of 1.6 points, and barely anyone was willing to come over and help.
Thumb, thump, thump—
The vehicle trembled twice as it passed through a bumpy road.
The yellow clay on the car was shaken down.
When Shaxin saw this, he cursed: "Don't drive so fast. If you are shocked, you will lose two points again."
Nandou felt a little distressed when he heard what Killing Heart said.
"I'll slow down a bit, but this road is too difficult. It would be nice if I could repair it."
"Build shit, who has nothing to do but build a road in the apocalypse?" Killing Heart rolled his eyes and looked forward.
The yellow clay loaded on the car is used to make bricks.
Although the walls of the Dazhangshu Base and Petroleum City are made of cast-in-situ concrete, bricks can be used in many cases.
The soil for making bricks cannot be used just by digging some soil somewhere.
The soil for making bricks also has many requirements. It needs to contain an appropriate amount of clay.
Because soil with high clay content can be made into bricks with better texture, higher strength and durability.
etc.....
Suddenly, dozens of zombies appeared in front of the garbage truck, blocking the way.
"Brother Sha, there are zombies ahead!" Nan Dou shouted to the co-pilot Sha Xin in fear.
Killing Heart cursed: "I'm afraid, this nearly 100-ton garbage truck will directly run over it, speed up!"
Nandou held the steering wheel of the garbage truck steady and stepped on the accelerator to the bottom.
Boom boom boom~
The huge force of the garbage truck directly knocked away the zombies in front, and the zombies that fell to the ground had not had time to get up.
Bang!
Bang!
The tire rolled over.
Sizzling——
The zombies were instantly crushed into a two-dimensional state.
In front of a garbage truck loaded with nearly one hundred tons, zombies become particularly vulnerable.
Crush!
Rampage!
The driver of the van following behind swallowed as he looked at the cleared road ahead.
"It's really fierce!"
Dump trucks were running rampant before the apocalypse, and even more so in the apocalypse.
You need to be careful when walking with zombies, and give way to garbage trucks when encountering them.
...
The buffer city wall is at lunch time.
Suddenly there was a buzzing sound of helicopters in the sky, and two helicopters were seen flying from the west, flying towards the Oil City.
Black Hand looked at the trading market below and said with a choked voice:
"Finally, back!"
Over the past two months, it has been really difficult for him and Zheng Shiwu.
Got through it!
Black Hand looked at the buffer city wall construction site, the dense crowd of workers below, and the buffer city wall rising from the ground. He was a little surprised.
I've only been away for more than two months, not two years!
Why has Oil City changed so much?
So many people appeared out of thin air, and such long walls were built.
"Old Zheng, look down there, I'm wiping it! It's changed so much!"