Apocalypse Rebirth: 3000 million won at the beginning

Chapter 1399: As more people come, hidden dangers arise (explosive update 11000)

Scorching sun.

Xincheng, National Highway 319.

Wow!
A co-worker shoveled a shovelful of gravel from a pickup truck and poured it into the sunken pothole.

Fill up.

There are more than a dozen electric pickup trucks loaded with gravel along the entire National Highway 319.

At the same time, hundreds of people were doing similar things on the national highway, filling the depressions with crushed stones.

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, which has the advantages of strong bearing capacity, good durability and low maintenance cost.

Asphalt road is a road paved with asphalt materials. It has the characteristics of good anti-skid performance, low noise and fast construction speed.

Part of National Highway 319 is asphalt road, and part of it is cement road.

The road in Xincheng is mainly asphalt.

However, due to the previous high temperature weather, these asphalt roads melted and became bumpy.

All kinds of weeds and wild flowers grew in the cracks.

The road had not been maintained for a long time, and a thick layer of dust had accumulated on it. When vehicles passed by, smoke and dust filled the air.

The thunderstorm has subsided, and after more than ten days of exposure to the sun, the accumulated water on the road has gradually evaporated.

Now that the Dazhangshu base has started large-scale infrastructure construction, a large amount of various building materials are needed, and all these building materials have to be transported back to the base from outside.

Moreover, all the five satellite cities need to pass through this main road to travel back and forth.

Many times, after the partners have mined and collected construction materials outside, their vehicles often break down on the way back because of the rugged roads.

At the same time, the trucks loaded with various raw materials were also shaken due to the bumps, causing many raw materials to fall out of the trucks.

It has a great impact on transportation projects.

Therefore, after discussion between Li Yu, his second uncle and others, they unanimously decided to start building the road.

Even if natural disasters occur in the future and cause damage to the roads, they cannot stop repairing the roads just because of the natural disasters.

At least now, this main road has been repaired, so that vehicles transporting various materials will not break down frequently due to road problems.

"Lao Zhang, this area has been filled and leveled, drive the roller over here!" Shunzi shouted towards the distance.

"Here we go!"

Rumble!
A road roller slowly drove over and crushed the filled potholes.

"This is only a temporary solution and not a fundamental solution. This way of road construction is too rough. We should drive piles to clean up the broken stones and garbage in the pit first. What kind of broken stones are there? There is also asphalt in the base, and we can use asphalt to fill these gaps." Wang Cheng, who was next to Shunzi, sighed.

Sunja glanced at him and said, "You are talking too complicatedly and too slowly."

"If you continue to do this, it will take more than a month to repair this road. And who knows when a natural disaster will strike. What's the point of repairing it? It will rot away in the end anyway."

When Wang Cheng heard him say this, he didn't know how to refute.

Looking at the workers repairing the road on the road, I couldn't help but think of the time when I first joined the big camphor tree base.

At that time, there were only a few dozen people in the entire Dazhangshu base.

At that time, he was working with Ding Jiu in a cement factory, and he had a very deep impression of that day.

The city lord shot Manager Zhou dead with his own hands, which really scared him.

After all, the apocalypse had just broken out at that time, and the situation is quite different from now.

Who would dare to kill anyone at that time? Not to mention killing people, people would even run away when they saw zombies.

As for now...
Killing a few zombies is not much different from killing chickens, and it won't cause your mood to fluctuate.

It is now past two in the afternoon, the hottest time of the day.

Wang Cheng and Shunzi stood by and watched the construction workers repair the road surface.

There are two people on guard in each of the four directions of the road to prevent the sudden appearance of zombies.

Although it is hot now, it is still daytime.

But occasionally the noisy construction noise would attract some zombies.

The road roller roared loudly, and the gravel made a crackling sound when it was crushed.

rustle--

A breeze blew by, and the leaves slowly fell under the scorching sun.

A zombie suddenly appeared from the road on the right.

This zombie was extremely clumsy, but made no sound as it walked through the grass toward the edge of the national highway on the right.

"Oh, here comes another one."

A non-staff member swung the mace in his hand. The mace was stained with some black sticky substance and sharp iron nails protruded from the head of the mace.

He waited calmly for the zombie to approach him, and when the zombie pounced on him, he bent his waist and put his hands in a golf position.

Swish!
The mace hit the zombie's head accurately. Due to the great force, the zombie fell backwards and fell on the edge of the highway.

dead!
He dragged the dead zombie onto a truck, where all the zombie bodies would be burned later.

Today's mutated zombies can obtain more viruses from the corpses of their own kind, thus becoming stronger in heavy rain 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 have become stronger than before.

Wall-climbing zombies are unlikely to appear during the day, so it is not that dangerous.

Most of the zombies that appeared were ordinary zombies, which moved slowly during the day due to exposure to sunlight.

The royal city in front saw this scene and withdrew his gaze.

He asked Shunzi next to him, "What year did you join the camphor tree base?"

"Second year, what's the matter? What year are you in?" Shunzi glanced at Wang Cheng, feeling a little proud.

Seeing Shunzi's somewhat arrogant look, Wang Cheng started to put on a pretentious tone.

"I am a first-year member of the Camphor Tree Base, number 48."

"Fuck, you're here so early?" Shunzi was surprised. He didn't expect that this middle-aged man who was just doing some construction in the base was here earlier than him.

"It's OK. I'm lucky. I was taken in by the city lord early on."

Shunzi curled his lips, looking dissatisfied.

"I remember you used to work with Mr. Ding, right?" Shunzi asked.

Ding Jiu is in the current big camphor tree base, coordinating all the projects in the big camphor tree base, and can be said to be in a high position of power.

"Yeah. What about you?"

Although he didn't ask clearly, Shunzi knew what he meant. Wang Cheng was actually asking who Shunzi was with before.

"Manager He."

"Oh, that's good. Manager He is a good person."

Shunzi was proud to hear him praising He Chao like this, "That's right, Brother He is in charge of four outer cities, so he has much more power than Engineer 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 Fusheng and Xu Zhen, they were able to enter the inner city after I did. I am a senior after all, but I still haven't entered the inner city."

Wang Cheng didn't know how to answer him for a moment.

If he relied solely on his real ability, according to the current four-level point system of the Dazhangshu base, starting as a cooperative staff member, he would probably barely be able to become a non-staff member after accumulating points.

But who made him lucky?

It was his first year joining the Camphor Tree Base, and there was no outer city yet.

As soon as he came in, he was already an inner city official. What can we do?

"Fusheng made a significant contribution when cement production was difficult at the base. As for Xu Zhen, the drainage project he designed and built ensured that the drainage in the base was connected, and there has been no flooding so far."

"They all joined the Inner City based on their real abilities and have made significant contributions."

Shunzi became even more dissatisfied when he heard that Wang Cheng did not agree with him.

"Xiao Jun, Dongtai, and Lao Bi all came later than me. Why can they become outer city personnel, but I can't?"

"Ah!"

Wang Cheng sneered, "They are from the army, have been fighting outside, and have made great contributions to the camphor tree base. It is only natural for them to become inner city personnel. If you have the ability, you can also go out and fight."

"Why don't you go when they are carrying out combat missions abroad at their own risk?"

"They came from the military, so their combat capability should be stronger than mine. What's there to compare?" Shunzi pouted, his voice getting smaller and smaller.

"But that doesn't include the people who entered the inner city. That old Dong, and Dong Ying, Kong Shuang, Hua Qian, and even Qing Yang, it's even more exaggerated. He directly became a member of the outer city."

"Now he can enter and leave the inner city at will, but he hasn't done anything. His two brothers don't have to do anything in the base, they just eat and drink for free. If I were the city lord, I would kick them out."

Wang Cheng felt a little uncomfortable after hearing his complaints.

But today they came out together to take charge of the road repair task, and he didn't want to make the relationship awkward.

So he comforted himself and said:
"Don't worry, just accumulate points and complete missions, and you will eventually be promoted to become an inner city staff member."

"It's easy to say. I'm not as lucky as you. I can become an inner city staff member directly. I'm so unlucky. I'm one year later than you, but I've always been an outer city staff member. According to the current system, to be promoted to an inner city staff member, you have to make significant contributions. How can it be that easy!" Shunzi rolled his eyes and complained.

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Wang Cheng did not choose to answer him again.

He has said everything he should have said, and he has also said things he shouldn't have said.

Sometimes it's like this, when the timing is not right, you have to work harder than others to get results.

But Wang Cheng felt that Shunzi was still too paranoid. You should stop comparing yourself with Xiao Jun and his people, and stop comparing yourself with Qingyang and Lao Dong.

Xiao Jun won his place in the Tianrui family through fighting. He knew very well how much contribution Old Dong had made to the power system of the Dazhangshu base.

As for Qingyang, you can say a few words.

He also felt that Qingyang got in through connections.

But this was specially approved by the city lord, who would dare to object?

The big camphor tree base was built by the city lord himself, and no one else can interfere with what he wants to do.

What's more, there are very few people like Qingyang who are highly favored by the city lord and directly recruited into the outer city.

Moreover, Qingyang is also very capable and has excellent skills in traditional Chinese medicine.

His senior brother is teaching martial arts in the outer city, and he is actually a very capable person.

In fact, neither he nor Shunzi knew that the person Li Yu really valued was Qing Yuan.

silence.

half an hour.

Wang Cheng still chose to speak:
"Shunzi, don't think too much. We should learn to be content."

"There are so many people in the base now, thousands of them, and there are many people among the cooperative personnel and non-staff who are more capable than us."

"But at least you are still an out-of-town staff member, and you are an out-of-town staff member as soon as you join. You are much better than the cooperative staff who joined later."

"We have limited abilities, so we must learn to be self-sufficient."

"It's easy for you to say that. As a person in the inner city, of course you should be content. I have never entered the inner city yet." Shunzi was still a little dissatisfied.

"Ugh"

Wang Cheng originally wanted to advise him, but now it seems unnecessary and he is too lazy to say anything more.

I've said so much, but you don't listen.

He won't listen to anything else you say, and will instead vent his anger on himself.

People like Shunzi, even though they don't have much ability, are envious of others' promotions.

But I don’t have much ability, and I’m not willing to take risks or work hard. It’s impossible to have such a good result just by thinking about the final result!
nowadays.

There are thousands of people at the Dazhangshu base, and with so many people, people’s minds become complicated.

There are people joining in every period, and many of these people join as teams.

It is inevitable that some people will form cliques and compete with each other.

Comparison will cause psychological imbalance
Once the balance is lost, people will become unwilling and resigned like Shunzi.

This problem becomes more and more obvious as the number of people in the base increases.

However, due to the city lord's great prestige in the base, no one dared to bring it up publicly, and they only dared to talk about it in private occasionally.

Especially some elderly people like Shunzi who have joined the Dazhangshu base for a long time.

They have been people from the outer city since the beginning. Some of them are very timid and seldom go out on missions. In the past few years of the apocalypse, they have been staying in the outer city or its surrounding areas doing miscellaneous tasks.

Seeing more and more people coming from outside the city, I must feel a little unbalanced.

Especially when he saw that people who joined later than him were able to become inner city members, he felt even more uncomfortable.

They had never left the Big Camphor Tree Base, had never been to the Oil City, and had never been to the North.

In this solid fortress of the big camphor tree base, we have become accustomed to a stable life.

But we don’t know how much danger those people who are carrying out the mission outside have taken and how much they have paid in exchange for the points they contribute.

People, in this life, always envy others.

What Shunzi didn't know was how much those co-workers who were working hard to build the road on this national highway envied him.

Being unsatisfied will only bring pain.

Wang Cheng didn't want to continue chatting with Shunzi. His negative energy ruined his good mood today.

But he felt something was wrong.

The last time he went out to the satellite city to carry out a mission, 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 both had some opinions about the base's system.

Coincidentally, that person was also the one who followed He Chao before.

If you encounter it once, you will just listen and not care.

But after hearing it twice in a row, Wang Cheng realized that something was wrong.

He truly regarded the Dazhangshu base as his own home, and he did not want to see damage to the base due to internal strife.

"I have to report this situation to Engineer Ding later." Wang Cheng said secretly in his heart.

The composition of He Chao's subordinates is quite complicated.

They were all the first people to come out of Jiefang City. Among the forty or so people, there were some outstanding talents, but also some people with incompetent abilities.

People like Fusheng and Xu Zhen that Shunzi mentioned just now, were actually the ones who followed He Chao before.

Wang Cheng was also puzzled. They all came from the same place, so why were they so competitive?

I don't understand.

Boom boom boom!
Just at this moment, a convoy came from the opposite direction.

The trucks in this convoy are loaded with sand.

It was the team that was outside collecting construction materials and transporting them back to the headquarters.

After Wang Cheng saw this, he quickly shouted to the road repair team behind him:

"Everyone stop and make way for them to pass."

"What's going on?" Lao Zhang stuck his head out and took a look at the convoy in front.

Without asking any more questions, he 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 aside with shovels and dung baskets.

Click, click!
The truck stumbled twice, its tires sinking and bouncing in potholes in the unplowed road.

Le Ziqing, who was in the car, saw Wang Cheng on the side of the road. He rolled down the window about 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 at him.

But Shunzi just glanced at Le Ziqing, with a hint of disdain on his face, and looked away.

He is just a cooperative staff member, which is far from his status.

Not enough to make myself take it seriously.

In the car.

Seeing that Shunzi ignored him completely, Le Ziqing 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 a little uncomfortable after seeing the completely opposite attitudes of Wang Cheng and Shunzi.

After the truck passed the road under construction, he couldn't help but say to Le Ziqing:
"Brother Le, what's so great about Zhang Shunzi? Even a member of the inner city of Wangcheng greeted you with a friendly face. What is there for a person from the outer city like him to be proud of?"

"He is a bad person. I heard from Sergeant Luo and his team that Zhang Shunzi is a bad person."

Le Ziqing looked in the rearview mirror and leaned his head back on the seat.

"Don't worry about it. We just need to do our own thing and don't care about what happens."

"No."

Shi Jingsheng continued dissatisfiedly:

"This Zhang Shunzi, when you were not around yesterday, he made things difficult for us, saying that he was repairing the road and asked us to wait over there."

"I waited for more than an hour. There were other cars lined up behind me, but he just wouldn't give way. It's so abominable."

Le Ziqing frowned, "Was Wang Cheng there yesterday?"

"No, you see, the king's city is here today. He made way for us when he saw the convoy from a distance."

"If he wasn't here, we would probably have to wait for this straight again."

Shi Jingsheng continued:
"The construction site is in urgent need of materials and has been urging us to transport them over as soon as possible."

"Besides, isn't it a waste of our time for him to make us wait like this? We have more than an hour left. If we save up a few times, we can make more trips and earn more points."

Le Ziqing's eyes gradually became serious.

It doesn't matter if the project is delayed, what matters is that it delays them from earning points, and points are food.

Blocking someone's path to wealth is like killing their parents.

"I will discuss this matter with Manager He," Le Ziqing said.

Shi Jingshan taunted:

"That Zhang Shunzi used to follow Manager He. I think it's useless for you to mention it to Manager He, Brother Le. Who knows? He Chao already knew about it and even protected Zhang Shunzi."

Le Ziqing frowned, "I didn't expect they had this kind of relationship. How did you know?"

"I heard it from someone, a non-staff member, I forgot his name." Shi Jingshan replied.

Le Ziqing nodded thoughtfully, "Okay, I understand. I'll ask someone else to report the same thing. I'll just talk to Lai Dongsheng directly. He's from the inner city, so he should be able to help."

"Brother Le, how come you know someone like Lai Dongsheng who is from the inner city?"

"I didn't know he was from the inner city."

"I didn't know he was from the inner city at first. He was recently on the construction site, so we chatted for a while and became familiar with each other."

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