Chapter 1497 Secret Mission, Human Nature is Despicable

Li Yu chatted with Tiger Lord for a long time in the Sanqing Palace of the Fourth Outer City.

Many of Tiger Lord's ideas were things that Li Yu had never thought of before, which brought him a lot of new ideas.

It was already 5:30 in the evening when he came out of Sanqing Palace.

"I have benefited a lot from talking to Tiger Lord for so long. It's getting late now, so I'll go back first." Li Yu stretched his numb legs and said to Tiger Lord.

Tiger Lord said with emotion: "City Lord Li can come to me often when he has time to chat and sit. I don't have anything to do now, and I am very happy to be able to chat with City Lord Li."

"Haha."

Just at this time, a child's voice came from outside.

"Grandpa."

I saw a little boy about ten years old, carrying a canvas bag and running into the door.

This little boy about ten years old was Tiger Lord's grandson Li Yizhen, who was studying in the school in the inner city of the big camphor tree base. Now it was time to go home.

When the little boy saw Li Yu, he slowed down his pace and looked at Li Yu with admiration.

His eyes were like fans seeing their idol.

He walked up to Li Yu and said politely to Li Yu, "Hello, City Lord."

Li Yu recognized the little boy and rubbed his head with a smile.

"Ah Zheng, are you done with school?"

Ah Zheng nodded vigorously, "City Lord, when will you give us lessons? I heard from my classmates that you will give us lessons occasionally?"

There are not many full-time teachers at the headquarters base, but there are many part-time teachers, and there are even more part-time teachers than students.

Most of these part-time teachers are people who work on the front line, such as Anya, Bai Jie, Madi, Lao Lu and others. When they are free, they will conduct special teaching in the school.

Generally, there is only one class a week, which does not take up much of their time.

Li Yu is the same.

The main course he teaches is the wilderness survival course.

"Next week, I guess I don't have time this week." Li Yu replied with a smile.

This week, he has to prepare to go to Xishi to meet with the big guys in the northwest to discuss the cooperation and joint development of zombie vaccines.

After hearing Li Yu's answer, Li Yizhen was not too disappointed, "Next week, it will be possible. Many students in our class want to listen to your course."

"Haha, is that so?"

Li Yizhen nodded heavily:

"Yes, that Lv Zifei said that your class is the most interesting."

Lv Zifei?

When Li Yu heard this name, he thought about it and remembered that this was Lao Lu's daughter.

This girl has a gentle temperament, but she is gentle on the outside and strong on the inside. When they were asked to eat earthworms and caterpillars raw, this girl didn't frown at all. She is a promising talent.

Li Yu looked at the time on his watch, raised his head and said to Tiger Lord:

"Tiger Lord, I'll go first."

He waved to Ah Zheng again, "Goodbye Ah Zheng."

"Goodbye, City Lord."

"City Lord Li, come again." Tiger Lord pushed the wheelchair to send Li Yu off, but was persuaded by Li Yu.

After leaving Sanqing Palace, he saw Deng Benlai Dongsheng and others waiting at the door.

Deng Ben saw Li Yu coming out and said quickly: "City Lord, Deputy Minister Song and Engineer Zhou were called away by the president, saying that there was something urgent."

"What urgent matter?" Li Yu asked curiously.

Deng Ben said excitedly: "It is said that the entire set of steel smelting equipment of the new steel plant in Gan City has been transported back."

"I heard that the equipment is well preserved and should be able to be used directly after repair."

Li Yu's eyes lit up and nodded: "That's great, let's go and take a look."

From the fourth outer city, they hurriedly came to the buffer city.

Since the thunderstorm disaster, the construction of the buffer city has never stopped, and the height of the wall has now been built to more than ten meters.

The buffer city is very large, with an area of ​​more than 20,000 acres. It is temporarily divided into three districts. The rest has not yet been decided what to do and has not been developed.

Nearly half of the area is used to build greenhouses to produce food in the later stage.

In addition, nearly 3,000 acres of area are used for industrial parks, and another 1,000 acres are left for cooperative personnel and non-staff personnel to live in.

The remaining 6,000 to 7,000 acres have not been developed for the time being.

After more than a month of construction, a quarter of the greenhouse has been built, and crops have begun to be planted in the greenhouse.

Some heavy industries in the inner and outer cities of the Dazhangshu base have been moved outside, and some factories have also been built.

Such as lime factories, cement factories, daily chemical factories, plastic factories, oil refineries, and wood processing factories

All along, the steel used in the base and even the PC sun panels used in the greenhouses have been found from outside.

Especially steel, most of them are found in the steel wholesale markets in surrounding cities.

With the development step by step, they built some small workshop-style factories in the outer city of the Dazhangshu base, which can also meet their needs at the time.

But now, due to the increase in population and the expansion of the base, the demand for various industrial products has skyrocketed, so a batch of new factories have been built in the buffer city.

However, only a part of the factories are now in use, and a large part of the factories are in preparation for construction.

When Li Yu arrived at the buffer city, he happened to see Xiao Hu directing everyone to use the crane to lower the equipment weighing dozens of tons on the car.

The infrastructure required by steel plants, such as blast furnaces, converters, electric furnaces, rolling mills and other items, are very heavy. Some can be dismantled into parts and transported back, but some are difficult to disassemble and only large transport vehicles can be used to transport these equipment back.

In the transportation fleet, the equipment in the steel plant is very large.

Cranes, forklifts, and hanging towers are all in use.

Li Yu felt a little excited as he watched them carry it down in an orderly manner.

Now, we can smelt steel after the iron ore from Xunwu, Linxian County, is transported here.

From now on, their Dazhangshu base will be able to completely realize independent steel production.

Significant.

It is certainly convenient to find ready-made steel materials, but after so many years of searching, there are fewer and fewer steel materials available.

Moreover, although the shelf life of steel is at least several decades, steel that has been stored for too long will be corroded by wind and rain, and its quality will also decline.

Especially for steel that is not wrapped in oil, the weathering and rusting situation is more serious.

The second uncle and Song Min were also here. Seeing Song Min and the second uncle in front of them chatting, Li Yu walked over.

"Song Min, it was finalized at the previous central meeting. The industrial park should form a complete system and form an industrial chain. The steel plant will be set up near the cement plant. In such a steel plant, the iron ore will bring in the molten iron and then use the electric furnace. Steel is made and then rolled into steel, and the iron slag and steel slag are sent to the cement plant to make cement, forming a perfect closed loop.”

Song Min nodded beside him, "Understood. I have talked with Mr. Ding before. The factory next to the cement factory can store equipment and the space is large enough."

"City Lord." As soon as Song Min finished speaking, he saw Li Yu walking towards them behind his second uncle.

Li Yu nodded.

The second uncle turned his head and saw Li Yu, and said to Song Min:

"Go and tell Ding Jiu and Xiao Hu about the equipment assembly and post-production steel plant employees. You should also keep an eye on them."

"Okay." Song Min glanced at Li Yu and left in a hurry.

"Second uncle." Li Yu came over with a smile on his face.

"How was your chat with Master Hu?" asked the second uncle.

Li Yu looked at the people carrying the steel plant manufacturing equipment and said:

"It's okay. I think some of the suggestions mentioned by Mr. Hu are quite interesting. With the Da Zhangshu Base as the center and the surrounding five satellite cities as the basis, 30 outpost points will be set up along the surrounding roads, with fixed posts in each post. Ten people, let non-staff serve.”

"These outposts can patrol the surrounding area to prevent enemy invasion; support cooperating personnel; and provide short-term shelter."

"And it's also very simple. It uses a stacked container structure, which is a bit boring, but even without ultraviolet lights, they are safe in such a fully enclosed container."

"Container?" The second uncle thought for a while.

Containers are also fine. Closed containers are cold in winter and hot in summer, so they will probably be very stuffy.

The container is too closed and has no windows. You can also use a cutting machine to cut out the windows, and then use iron railings to weld them on top.

Although the living environment is a bit harsh, it still meets the needs of defending against zombies at night.

And according to what Li Yu just said, there are 30 outposts, each with ten people, and a total of only 300 people, which does not require many manpower.

It will be able to strengthen the control over the entire Gan City.

This suggestion can indeed be implemented, and it is expected that the effect will be pretty good.

Just imagine, if the collaborators were transporting ore from a mine two to three hundred kilometers away from the gathering base back to the headquarters base, something unexpected happened on the way and it became dark and they could not return.

You can also temporarily stop at the outpost.

Anyway, the outposts are made of stacked containers, so it should be very simple to build.

It doesn't have to be as restrictive as the current restrictions. Only five satellite cities can provide shelter.

Seeing his second uncle thinking, Li Yu continued to ask: "Second uncle, what do you think?"

"It sounds feasible. Do you mean to give it a try?" the second uncle asked.

"Then try it!" Li Yu gave a clear answer.

"Okay, then I'll let Ding Jiu talk about it and see what happens." The second uncle nodded and continued:

"In a week, it's time for you to meet with the northwest boss. When do you plan to set off?"

"Wait until Tiezi comes back and go when you're ready."

"good."

Ouch!

Li Tie in the fifth satellite city sneezed violently.

"I'm sorry, where did you just say it? You continue."

Zhao Bin, the person in charge of the fifth satellite city, wiped the saliva on his face with a calm expression.

"fine."

"That night, a white tiger appeared. It was very big, bigger than ordinary tigers. We shot it with guns and scared it away."

"Scared away? Did you miss?"

"It's all in the dark, you can't see clearly."

"Why are we fighting? The wall here is high enough, so it can't jump in, right?"

"Oh! That's not necessarily true. It was just a little bit close. He jumped to a height of more than five meters in a random jump. It scared people to death. I suspect it is a mutant tiger."

Li Tie thought for a while and then nodded and said:

"Okay, I'll note it down, and I'll report it to the city lord and guild president personally."

After speaking, he looked towards the entrance of the satellite city, and the last electric transport truck entered the gate.

As the last electric truck entered the gate, four or five guards on both sides of the gate pushed the heavy gate hard, and then locked six long locks.

This is not over yet. After putting on these six locks, they drove an electric truck weighing dozens of tons and loaded with coal to the back of the gate.

In the satellite city, there are more than a dozen electric trucks loaded with coal, more than thirty trucks loaded with limestone, and four or five electric trucks loaded with tungsten ore.

Hundreds of electric trucks, loaded with various raw materials, are neatly parked on the open space in the center of the satellite city.

"Where do they get this coal from?" Li Tie was a little curious.

There seem to be fewer coal mines around Gan City, but there are ridiculously many tungsten mines and rare earths.

Zhao Bin shook his head and said, "I don't know either. There is an Lao Lu coal mine in Gan City, but it was flooded and collapsed."

"Why don't I ask them to come over and I'll ask for you."

"Go."

A few minutes later, Zhao Bin brought a man behind him.

When this man saw Li Tie, his face was excited.

"Xia Zihou, the leader of the 78th cooperative team, greets Captain Li Tie."

"Do you know me?" Li Tie asked curiously.

"I know him. Many people in our big camphor tree base should know Captain Li Tie." Xia Zihou flattered him calmly.

Li Tie laughed and scolded: "Where did you get all that coal?"

Xia Zihou quietly approached, "Just to report to you, the coal mine in Xunwu County can still be mined."

"Oh." Li Tie thought about it carefully. Xunwu was in the next county, but he rarely went there. I knew that there were many iron and tungsten mines in that place, but I didn't expect that there were coal mines.

"Okay, I know, you go down." Li Tie nodded and said.

Xia Zihou hesitated for a few seconds before leaving.

Northwest.

Lan City.

Wuyuan Mountain.

The lights illuminated the hall, and the wine was clinking.

"Lao Ma, I have to leave tomorrow, I can't drink anymore." A man in tattered clothes, who looked no different from an ordinary survivor, waved his hand vigorously to refuse Ma Laoliu's urging to drink.

"Gongcao, there's no rush tomorrow, you can stay for two more days."

"That won't work, I came here with a big mission." The man's face flushed, with a hint of pride on his face. He held the wine glass in his hand and wanted to drink, but he had some concerns.

Ma Laoliu pricked up his ears, and when he heard the three words "big mission", he raised his eyebrows, and immediately stood up and leaned over to fill the wine glass of the man opposite.

"Gongcao, we have known each other for several years. The last time we met was the last time. We haven't seen each other for so long, so we have to drink to our heart's content." Ma Laoliu said, and at the same time came over and whispered: "Don't worry, we have the final say here. If the boss is not here, who can control you and me? The boss won't know."

"Drink!" Hong Gongcao shouted. Hearing Ma Laoliu's words, his originally tilted balance completely tilted to this side. He raised his hand and was heroic and cool.

"Hahaha, brother Gongcao is so mighty and domineering!"

Ma Laoliu gave a thumbs up and praised, which made Hong Gongcao feel flattered after hearing it.

"Brother Ma, you don't know, I've been so miserable in the northwest, I haven't had a drink for a year, a whole year. Now the boss sent me out to perform a secret mission, and I can finally relax here."

"Secret mission? What secret mission?" Ma Laoliu asked.

"Burp--"

Hong Gongcao burped, and a breath of alcohol blew on Ma Laoliu's face.

"I said it's a secret mission, it can't be leaked." Hong Gongcao stood up shakily, and said proudly: "This is the task that the boss personally gave me. So many squadron leaders gave this task to me. Haha, do you know how valuable this is?"

"Great." Ma Laoliu didn't ask him what the task was, but just gave a thumbs up.

Sometimes it's like this, the more you ask people, the less they will tell you.

If you don't ask, the person will rush to tell you, and you have to listen.

Human nature is mean.

Ma Laoliu's response was too bland, which made Hong Gongcao a little uncomfortable.

He thought Ma Laoliu would ask, but Ma Laoliu didn't.

This made him feel uncomfortable, and he wanted to show off!

"Don't you want to know what the secret mission is?" Hong Gongcao asked.

"Yes." Ma Laoliu replied indifferently.

"Then why don't you ask me."

"What secret mission?"

"Your attitude is so annoying. I won't tell ordinary people. You, Ma Ge, are also a member of our Northwest forces after all, so it doesn't matter if I tell you. This time, I'm going to that oil city."

(asking for monthly tickets)