Under Ryan's guidance, everyone quickly searched for the kind of fertilizer that Egg needed among the piles of fertilizers.
"Here, everything is piled up here." Ryan said to Egg.
Egger looked at the molecular formula on the fertilizer label and saw that this was it.
Egger looked at his watch and saw that it was already 2 o'clock at noon. He said to the team members: "Take a break first and eat."
Nicholas and Ryan didn't expect there would be lunch. They thought there were only two meals a day.
There was no way to light a fire today, so everyone was given a glass of drinking water, a bag of bread and a can.
Ryan's eyes lit up as he looked at the label on the can.
"Hey, man." Looking at Ryan's uneasy expression, Thomas, as an "old man," said in a very calm tone: "Find a place to light a fire at night and make a pot of hot soup. We can
We had pasta and pizza. The baked pizza was especially delicious.”
"No need." Iger said as he opened his own can. He frowned and saw another can of solidified beef. It was winter, and Iger really wanted to eat hot food.
While Ige dug out the canned beef with a spoon and spread it on the bread, he said to several team members: "After taking the meal, rest for 30 minutes, and then start moving the fertilizer and loading it into the truck. I think we can rush back to the base camp today.
Brothers, to be honest, I really don’t want to spend the night in the wild unless necessary. It’s too unsafe outside.”
When Egger said this, Joanna and Thomas both nodded with fear.
After lunch, Egger took advantage of the break to check several cars in the yard.
Only one car has a car key inserted, but it may be that the battery has run out of power and cannot ignite, so it needs to be wired.
There were no extra wires on hand now, and there was no urgent need for a vehicle, so Iger gave up trying.
Iger wrote down one more thing: From now on when going out in the field, bring two extra wires with you.
After checking the vehicle, Egger looked at his watch and saw that it was almost time. But before moving the fertilizer, he had to find something first.
The smell of chemical fertilizers is very strong, very choking, and toxic. Once the dust from chemical fertilizers is inhaled into the body, it will burn the respiratory tract and lungs after combining with water molecules. When they enter the human body along with the mucous membranes, they will cause acute poisoning.
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You must wear a mask when handling fertilizers, at least an N95.
Egger went to the staff office and rummaged around, and found a few cool gas masks in the locker room.
Iger picked up a gas mask and put it on his head and tried it. There was a rancid smell of sweat and bad breath inside the gas mask.
Obviously, this gas mask has not been cleaned for a long time, and the personal hygiene of the person wearing it is not very good.
Iger held back vomiting and took off the gas masks, and then tried them one by one. Each gas mask had a smell inside, but the severity was different.
Back at the van, Iger distributed gas masks to everyone. Iger handed the one with the weakest smell to Joanna. Then, he chose the one with a slightly better smell and distributed the others randomly.
Everyone made a retching sound after putting on their gas masks.
It's just a small difficulty and will be overcome soon.
Everyone put on gas masks and started working. Iger hoped to fill the van before 4 o'clock.
It was very difficult to breathe while wearing a gas mask, and everyone's physical strength declined very quickly. So after working for a while, everyone had to go to a ventilated area, pull off the gas mask and sit on the ground to rest.
After resting like this for several rounds, Egg saw that it was already extremely dark. He looked at the time and saw that it was only 15:24 in the afternoon.
The truck was only 2/3 loaded, and the efficiency of manual transportation was far lower than Iger imagined.
Although the job of loading a car has no technical content, it is very physically demanding.
While Iger was breathing the fresh air, he said to Ryan: "It's really weird. There is no forklift or other tool trucks in such a large fertilizer storage warehouse. Hi, Ryan, if you usually buy fertilizer, how do they load it?
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Ryan wiped the sweat from his neck and said to Egg: "I originally had an electric forklift, but it broke. After the forklift broke, it has not been repaired. It is probably because the repair price is too high and it is not cost-effective.
Nowadays, we rely on manpower to move goods.
What they hire here are illegal workers who cross the border, and each person pays 10 dollars a day. This is much cheaper than buying a new forklift."
Iger was shocked when he heard that such a formal enterprise actually used illegal workers. He said in surprise: "No way."
Ryan thought that Iger thought he was lying, so he sneered and said: "When our farm is busy, we also ask illegal border crossers to help, and the salary per person is only $8 a day."
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As expected of a capitalist country, this is awesome. Iger silently gave it a thumbs up.
No wonder the capitalists and the people at the bottom have completely different attitudes towards illegal border crossers. For details, just look at the dispute between the Donkey and Elephant parties over border immigration.
There is no such thing as love or hate for no reason in this world. The key to love or hate is whether you are the beneficiary or the loser.
Suddenly, Iger remembered something and asked Ryan: "Are there many illegal border crossings in our area?"
Ryan frowned and said: "Many, very many, more than flies."
"Guys, I think we may have underestimated the number of infected people in this area." Egger grasped the key point, although many people think that there are already too many infected people to kill anyway, and it doesn't matter if it is 20% or 50% more.
,Has little effect.
But for Iger, it's bad news.
Iger looked at the sky outside again. If he had to rush back to the camp today, he would have to walk in the dark. It’s just that the van’s four headlights, high beam and low beam, were broken. It was not impossible to drive this car at night, but it was dangerous.
The coefficient is a bit large.
Forget it, I won’t rush today, finish my work and have a good rest.
After thinking of this, Iger said to Joanna: "Joanna, go to the office and see if there are conditions for cooking here, or take down the gas stove on the pickup truck. We want to have some hot food tonight."
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"Okay." Joanna stood up and patted the fertilizer on her body. It smelled so bad that she hated it.
"By the way, the gas stove must be far away from the fertilizer, and it must not be lit in the warehouse." Egg reminded Joanna.
Joanna nodded, she was not stupid.
"Come on, brothers, let's work harder to finish loading the goods." Iger stood up and put the gas mask on his head, then took the lead and walked into the warehouse again.
Everyone was sweating while carrying fertilizer when they suddenly felt a coolness. It turned out that it was raining in the sky, and then the rain became heavier and heavier. The hot warehouse soon became very cool.
Iger walked to the door of the warehouse and looked at the heavy rain outside. He suddenly remembered a story he heard when he was a child.
"On a rainy day, it's a day for guests, but if it rains, I won't..."
