nycdaug Chapter 264 Big Project
Chapter 264 Big Project
Without further ado, we started to work. Currently, there is a vertical distance of about 10 meters between the entrance ground level and the ice layer inside the pit. Fortunately, the opening of this underground shelter is in the large storage warehouse of the original factory. For this project, many construction machines are parked at the entrance for our use.
In fact, I was just angry just now. They were laughing at me behind my back, so I deliberately tired them out by cutting out a one-meter-deep plane in the underground ice layer. Then I sat aside to rest and watched more than a hundred people busy for half a day.
The area of the pit bottom is at least 7000 square meters, and there are 10 floors in height. Even if each floor is four meters high, it is at least close to meters deep. There are also many facilities that need to be cleaned carefully... If we continue like this, we will have to stay in this base for at least a month.
But why should I care so much?
This job will take a few days to complete. During these few days, I have to crack the rules of my dimensional killing array. It is also crucial to examine whether they can defend their base. If they can't, I have to take Brother Chen, Chen Si, Chen Zhen and others away from here.
After witnessing the damage done to Chen Si and Chen Zhen today, I don't want to care about this broken base anymore. Those disaster victims deserved it if they died any way they wanted. If it weren't for the fact that their leadership team was really thinking about the disaster victims, I really wanted to knock Brother Chen unconscious and take them away.
While I was taking a break and drinking tea, Lu Lanxuan came to me and offered me a suggestion: "Brother Huo, can you try to cut these ice blocks directly on this ice layer into 2, 3 cubic meters or larger ice blocks? Wouldn't it be easier for us to move them this way? If these one hundred engineers are not enough, let me talk to Secretary Ding and recruit a few hundred more people."
Ding Shaoxi, who was standing by and heard Lu Lanxuan's suggestion, exclaimed, and suddenly thought of something. He came to me and questioned, "Huo Fei, don't you have a large space for supernatural powers? Why don't you use your space to collect these ice cubes? It's so hard for us workers to move them, and it's so time-consuming and laborious."
This sentence also woke up Lu Lanxuan, and he looked at me as if he was enlightened.
I shook my head and argued with them, saying that I had no more space, so what was the point of me moving just that little bit?
"How come you have no room if you can even fit a plane? You'd better take the plane out first." Ding Shaoxi ordered me in a domineering manner.
Her attitude made me even less willing to do it. I shook my head and said, "It's because after putting the plane in my space, there's no more room. And since I took the plane away, why should I take it out again?"
Ding Shaoxi clicked his tongue a few times and said, "You are too petty and you seem to have never seen the world." His words were full of contempt and mockery.
At this time, Lu Lanxuan didn't know which side to go to. He could only observe the two of us secretly in the middle to see who could convince whom in the end.
In fact, after I upgraded and saved lives many times, my space now has an area of several hectares. I can cut all the ice on the ground into pieces and put it into the space, and then throw it away when I go out. However, if I can do it so easily, they will definitely think that it is a loss to give me a plane, and they may make things more difficult for me later.
I stood up and said to her, "The small plane yesterday was only eight meters long and three or four meters high. With such a small space, I can load ice cubes once and then come back to cut them. The physical strength of any superpower person is limited. You should understand this, right? Either you consider using all my abilities to cut or to carry while cutting." I made it clear that one person can't do the work of two people. Doesn't it cost money to use superpowers? If I could do it so easily for them, they might not think that giving me too much. Now I fully understand the evil of human hearts. I am no longer a naive and kind-hearted little fool.
Lu Lanxuan said, "Brother Huo is right. Officer Ding, you see, Brother Huo only needs to cut things. We don't have that ability. We are only responsible for carrying things, which is a lot less work. If you ask your superiors to hire more workers, then won't we soon see the light of day for the underground shelter?"
Ding Shaoxi's face was very serious, as if he couldn't stand me but couldn't do anything about me. He just stood there without saying a word.
I shook my head and didn't intend to pay any more attention to her, but I could try Lu Lanxuan's suggestion to cut the ice into larger pieces, so that the engineers would be more efficient.
The tool immediately stood up and tried to cut the ice under his feet horizontally and vertically on the ice layer like cutting tofu, into sizes that two people can lift. It is better to let them use the human wave tactic and call more people to carry it purely by physical strength.
Ding Shaoxi finally agreed to Lu Lanxuan's plan. She took out her communication equipment and contacted Secretary Wu to ask him to send more people.
Maybe this project was too important. Just half an hour later, a group of people wearing the brand of winter warm jackets I sold to the base appeared inside the warehouse.
The leader found Ding Shaoxi and told him to follow the orders of his superiors and find 200 volunteers who were willing to work for free to support the completion of the project. The reward for these volunteers was a set of cotton clothes and a bottle of canned meat at night.
I thought to myself that it was not easy to do this kind of work of fiddling with ice in the snow.
The leader was a man in his 40s, probably a member of the previous leadership team. He looked very ordinary and wore gold-rimmed glasses. He probably worked in an office. Ding Shaoxi called him Lao Xiang.
Lao Xiang saw my incredible expression, he smiled and asked me: "What's wrong? Is there anything else you think is wrong?"
I wondered and said, "Can you attract so many people with just this little reward?"
Lao Xiang answered me slowly with a serious face: "Comrade Huo Fei, when you received the plane yesterday, I witnessed the whole process on the spot. I heard that you can cut the ice again today. I have to say that your ability is indeed quite outstanding! Maybe for you, you did not suffer too much hardship after the disaster, but in fact, since the sudden arrival of extreme cold weather, the pressure faced by our government is unprecedented! Nowadays, food supply is extremely tight, but such a can of meat is very attractive to everyone, not to mention that in addition to this, there are also jackets that can resist the cold and keep warm when going out in extreme cold weather! Therefore, when we learned that we needed to recruit volunteers to perform this task, everyone rushed to sign up for fear of not getting the job!"
Yes, after the extreme cold, I have a lot of food in the space and we don’t feel the pain of hunger at all. In fact, now it is a world of ice and snow with no grass growing. This base can hold on until now. The leaders of the base are already stretched to the limit to feed so many people. If the cold wave does not pass, I don’t know how long they can hold on.
Compassion is not my concern. I only promised them to clean up this underground shelter to complete my deal. So I don't care about other things. I just do my job well. I also secretly help them collect some ice cubes into the space to shorten the working time as much as possible.
My physical strength obviously decreased after splitting so many ice cubes, so I ate crystal cores twice to replenish my strength.
While everyone was working, I asked Lu Lanxuan, "How many superpowers are there in your base? Are they all on the city wall to resist the zombies?"
Lu Lanxuan shook his head dryly and answered me, “There really aren’t that many people with special abilities, and they are all level one or two. Well, basically they don’t have any very useful special abilities. The defensive ones are on the city walls blocking the zombie attacks, and a few who can generate electricity have been sent to the substation of the base. The few who have fire abilities are cooking in the kitchen…”
Speaking of cooking, it is already time for lunch. There are more than 300 people working on this construction site, and lunch is a big deal. Because we work physically and are different from other people who hibernate in the base, you have to make sure those who work are well fed.
Sure enough, after a while, the steaming hot lunch box arrived, although late.