Chapter 616 Construction Site
On the other hand, those sea beast shadows were treated like slaves, with no time to rest at all, and their huge and ferocious bodies carried building materials on their backs again and again.
There is no time to rest at all.
After all, they are not tired, they are just tools to obey orders.
At this moment, everyone in Daxia worked together and fought hard!
But underneath the struggle, there is unity and enthusiasm.
Everyone's face was filled with hope.
Every day at noon, the surrounding people and volunteers from afar would deliver some homemade buns, pies, and some home-cooked dishes to the Great Steel Wall construction site.
Each worker works continuously for two hours at high intensity and must rest for half an hour before going back to work.
This is a unity that has been passed down for five thousand years.
And the other side.
Free country, mines.
As General Mike said, it is a real purgatory on earth.
"boom!"
"boom!"
The sound of mine explosions keeps coming. Now they no longer care about sustainable development. Almost all the original underground mines have been blown up into open-pit mines.
The crowd instantly shouted.
"It exploded, move it quickly!"
"To survive!"
"To get into the shelter!"
In an instant, dense crowds of people rushed into the mine like ants, frantically carrying the broken ore.
"This piece is mine!"
"Don't try to rob me, I don't want to die!"
"mine!"
Everyone is like a wild animal, with red eyes.
Everyone is transforming into a beast at this moment in order to get a spot to enter the shelter.
"Get out!" A middle-aged man who was usually gentle to others kicked a teenage girl away and snatched the ore from her hand.
In times of crisis, there is no morality and no law.
Just to survive!
An old lady in her sixties held her granddaughter's hand and looked around with confused eyes, picking up the smallest ore.
Not to mention rest, many people have not slept for two days!
Work hard!
There was no canteen to provide delicious meals, and there were no volunteers and people around to support them with steaming hot food. Everyone was thirsty and hungry.
It's not like there aren't places selling food around. Those consortiums always seize every business opportunity and have already opened countless canteens in mining areas and working places.
But……
The price of food and water in the canteen is more than ten times more expensive than outside!
Even a piece of dry bread costs more than ten free coins!
"Mom, I'm so hungry." A girl with chapped lips weakly tugged on her mother's sleeve.
The woman's face was yellow, her eyes were swollen, and her fingers were stained with blood. The two days of labor had made her almost lose weight, and her expression had become numb.
"Hungry..." The woman licked her chapped lips.
She was also very hungry and thirsty.
She looked at the canteen opened by the consortium in the distance. There was bread and water there, and you could even smell fried chicken burgers.
The girl looked at her mother pleadingly: "Mom, let's go buy some food."
"No..." the woman shook her head: "We can't buy food...the remaining money must be calculated with the points. Every dollar spent may cause us to lose our place in the shelter."
"Mom must send you in!"
"The things over there are too expensive."
The girl almost cried: "But I'm so hungry..."
The woman is silent.
She is also hungry.
But it’s too expensive to buy things at that canteen!
As a woman, if she wants to compete with those men for a spot, she has to do her best!
But if you go to the supermarket outside the mine to buy it, it will take at least a day to go back and forth, and any materials on the market today are also much more expensive because of the consortium's high price for recycling.
The most important thing is that if you delay it for a day...
The woman swallowed and suddenly looked at an old man in his fifties who was carrying a travel bag in front of her.
The travel bag is bulging, there must be something in it.
"Don't worry, kid, there will be food soon."
The woman was silent for a moment, then she picked up a piece of ore weighing more than ten kilograms and walked towards the old man's back tremblingly.
"boom!"
Blood splattered.
The woman came back with a bloody backpack, which contained bread stained with blood.
The woman gnawed a piece with a stiff expression and handed a piece to the girl: "Eat."
The moment the old man fell, the people around him who were also suffering from hunger suddenly fell silent, looking at the dead old man with complicated eyes.
In order to maximize their chances of getting a place in the shelter, they have been saving money, not buying food, and have been working.
hunger……
And the old man's body...
"If you don't eat, you will die!" Someone suddenly shouted, "If we don't eat, we won't have the energy to work, we won't be able to enter the shelter, and we may even starve to death!"
"He's so old. Even if he works hard, he can't get into the shelter! Why don't you help us!"
"eat!"
In an instant, the surrounding crowd rushed towards the old man's body like wild beasts.
That's not all.
It was as if Pandora's box had been opened, and everyone's suppressed emotions erupted like a volcano.
In times of crisis, before life and death, who cares about moral laws?
Survival is the most important thing!
Some strong men looked at some old people, women and children with fierce expressions, and began to steal their food, even treating them as food!
"You, what are you doing!" A woman backed away in panic, while the 1.9-meter strong man in front of her was approaching step by step with a fierce look on her face.
"I won't kill you!" The man stared at the woman's bulging pocket like a wild beast: "I only want food, give me food!"
"You are trying to kill me!"
"Don't blame me, you are a woman, you can't do much work even if you are full!! You can't get in either!"
"boom!"
A man kicked a woman away and pulled out a piece of bread and half a bottle of water from her body.
Some people looked at the scene in front of them with complicated expressions.
"How did we become like this now..."
"Don't be sad, at least we are still better than Daxia."
"I heard over there in Daxia that soldiers held guns and forced the people to work, and they didn't give them food or clothing. Many of them starved to death."
"At least we still have a canteen. In fact, as long as we are willing to pay several times the price, we can still buy food and water. Moreover, whether we work or not depends entirely on our own volition!"
"Yes, it's better than Daxia, we still have freedom!"
In the white palace, General Mike looked at the surveillance screen with a gloomy face, picked up the walkie-talkie and shouted loudly: "Where are the security team, people over there are dying, hurry up and maintain order!"
The security captain replied: "General Mike, Mr. Roosevelt said that it won't matter if a few people die over there... Anyway, only 200,000 people will survive in the end."
"Damn it!" General Mike gritted his teeth and said, "Tell Mr. Roosevelt that if everyone inside fights and falls into complete chaos, it will affect output!"
"Also, I suggest that the consortium should at least provide free water and food, even if it's just dry bread! If you don't have enough to eat, it will also affect the production!"
Affect output!
This is something that affects the interests of the consortium!
As soon as these two words were spoken, within three minutes, a security team with armed guns immediately came to maintain order, and a dedicated person distributed a small amount of food.
"General Mike, thank you for your reminder. It almost affected production and our profits." Mr. Roosevelt's laughter came from the intercom.
Mike clenched his fists, his eyes were red, and he said nothing.
But it has to be said that under these conditions, the free country's mineral mining output and shelter construction progress are comparable to Daxia's progress!
After all, this is really life-threatening!
Two hundred million people, risk their lives!
Without eating or drinking, he would work hard day and night. If he didn’t risk his life, there would be no hope of surviving!
Even eating and drinking feels like a waste of time. After all, everyone around you is competing with you!
Of course, although the progress is similar, the process is very different.
The workers in Daxia have gained weight recently. Although the workload is heavy, they can't afford four meals a day in the canteen, which are all delicious sea animal meat and hard vegetables.
The surrounding people would come to feed them from time to time, and sometimes when they were building a wall, a bottle of water and a pack of cigarettes would suddenly float to them under the control of a person with supernatural powers...
Under the busy Great Steel Wall, there are always a group of workers who are forced to take a half-hour break, gathering together in small groups, smoking, playing cards, and eating. Sometimes even the disciples and the gods of Daxia are there. Rest and play cards there.
Lin Fan also lost two hundred yuan...
The roar of machinery and the laughter of workers seem to never stop.
In comparison, the construction sites in the Free Country were like purgatory.
Under the roar of the machine, there were only heavy breathing, suppressed roars, and tired sighs.
"We are better than Daxia!"
This was almost a word of comfort for everyone, and it was also the reason why they didn't collapse.
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