Chapter 1711 Men don’t complain when they are tired, silently carrying the sky
Zuo Ruxue looked at the sky outside the window, which was dark and gloomy.
A dim blue light was wandering in the clouds.
Although she didn't know what was going on with the blue light, this strange calmness made her feel uneasy.
Generally speaking, there would be some strange phenomena before the natural disaster.
It was too quiet at this time, without a single breeze.
Between heaven and earth, it was so quiet that one could almost hear one's own breathing.
There were no insects chirping, no wind, no sound at all.
Very strange.
But anyway, the strong wind finally stopped.
Zuo Ruxue picked up the intercom and said to Xiao Hu:
"I think it's okay, let's go quickly, I feel that the current situation is a little wrong, and it is very likely that a blizzard will fall soon!"
"Okay."
Xiao Hu used the intercom to notify the whole team, "Everyone, prepare to return to Oil City, and leave here in order."
Zuo Ruxue asked Wang Chunqi and Guifei to go over and open the car door. They were the escort team and needed to protect the safety of the convoy.
Moreover, the escort team is also the advance team.
There are always several vehicles walking in front of the main force.
In this way, if the advance team encounters any situation in front, they can report it to the main force in time so that the main force can make adjustments.
For example: there is a landslide in front, blocking the road, and the main force can change direction in time.
It is very troublesome for hundreds of vehicles to turn around and adjust.
Soon.
The imperial concubine opened the gate of the cement factory, and the ordinary zombies outside swarmed in.
The imperial concubine and others opened fire and quickly eliminated these ordinary zombies at the door.
They used a triangular firepower cross network to cover the space of the gate without dead angles.
The zombies were quickly cleared by them.
After clearing these zombies, they immediately drove away and walked in front.
There were many zombie corpses piled up at the gate, but they didn’t have time to get off the car to move the zombie corpses away.
So they drove directly over the corpses.
The armored vehicle weighing tens of tons rolled over, and the zombie corpses were pressed into the soil.
Bones and flesh were mixed with soil.
One after another, trucks weighing dozens of tons passed through the gate, and the corpses of the group of zombies were completely flattened at the back.
When all the vehicles were out, Xiao Hu, who was at the rear, led people out of the car, and the gate of the cement factory was closed and locked.
The leather boots were full of slime from the zombie corpses.
Xiao Hu rubbed the loess next to him with some disdain to remove the slime from the soles of his shoes.
"Let's go, get in the car." Xiao Hu said to several team members.
The group returned to the car, the vehicle started, and hurried to catch up with the main force.
The camphor tree base.
The wind stopped, but made Li Yu even more uneasy.
When he woke up early in the morning, he hurriedly ran towards the Natural Disaster Research Institute.
Before he arrived at the Natural Disaster Research Institute, he saw Song Zhihong and a group of people looking up at the sky on the open space outside the Natural Disaster Research Institute.
During this period, Song Zhihong and others almost lived in the institute.
They studied natural disasters day and night, and deduced the intensity, time, and so on of the frozen natural disaster.
The weather is changing too fast now, and it may change within a few hours.
They need to judge the possible subsequent situation based on this change immediately.
"Song Zhihong." Li Yu walked towards him and shouted.
Song Zhihong and a group of staff members of the Natural Disaster Research Institute looked at him when they heard Li Yu's voice.
"City Lord."
"City Lord."
"City Lord."
The personnel lineup of the Natural Disaster Research Institute is actually very luxurious, covering experts from various disciplines.
Such as geologist Zong Jing, astronomer Fang Xingbang, meteorologist Deng Wen,
physicist Zhang Shuqi, petrologist Liao Fan, oceanographer Wu Nianchuan
and so on.
Li Yu didn't want to greet them, and asked Song Zhihong directly:
"Why is there a faint blue color in the sky?"
Song Zhihong had a messy hair, and he adjusted the black glasses frame and said:
"City Lord, the atmosphere itself is colorless. Generally speaking, after the rain, the sky will appear bluer. This is because the number of particles in the air increases after the rain, which enhances the scattering effect of light."
"So, the blue color of the sky at this moment should be caused by the interaction between atmospheric molecules, ice crystals, water droplets, etc. and sunlight.
In addition, the rolling of the accumulated clouds may cause sunlight to penetrate the clouds, and the clouds are too thick, so this strange dark blue light will appear."
Li Yu then asked:
"Why did the wind stop all of a sudden? Is it going to snow soon? Will there be more wind later?"
Li Yu asked three questions in a row, which was enough to prove his eagerness at the moment.
These questions were indeed what he wanted to know urgently.
Although the wind stopped, even a fool could see that something was wrong with the current situation.
It was too depressing. The clouds became extremely low, giving people a feeling of being unable to breathe.
And there was no wind at all, which was also very abnormal.
Song Zhihong hesitated for a moment, but still answered truthfully:
"City Lord, the current natural disasters are really irregular. To be honest, I don't know why they stopped, and I don't know if there will be wind later, but based on the existing experience, it is likely to be a blizzard later!"
"When?" Li Yu asked.
Song Zhihong said with some difficulty: "It can be as short as a few hours or as long as a month."
He was really helpless, because according to common sense, after the clouds accumulate water vapor, it will rain and snow within a few hours to a few days.
But now the clouds are astonishingly thick, but there has been no snow or rain for a month or two.
So he felt that based on the nature of the urine, using the most conservative estimate, it might take up to a month.
But it could be a few hours.
Li Yu felt helpless after hearing what he said.
"Okay, I understand. If you have any latest progress, please report it to me immediately."
"Okay, City Lord." Song Zhihong said with some shame.
The city lord trusted him so much, but his research on natural disasters...
Although it is extremely difficult to study natural disasters, no great results have been achieved so far.
After Li Yu finished communicating with Song Zhihong, he contacted his second uncle and asked where he was.
Knowing that his second uncle was on his way to the first outer city administrative building, Li Yu asked his second uncle to wait for him there.
After finishing speaking, he walked towards the first outer city.
On the road, Da Zhangshu Base seemed very quiet compared to before.
The wind died down and the site did not restart.
At this time, it's a bit like being alone in a very noisy bar,
The next second, he suddenly arrived in a basement that was closed on all sides.
The contrast between before and after is too great, which makes the world even more quiet at the moment.
Li Yu was also thinking about things on the way over.
The wind has stopped and the order to retreat was issued last night. Do you need to adjust?
Should construction on the site continue?
etc.
If you want to adjust the previous order, you must do it as soon as possible.
Thinking of this, Li Yu had arrived at the First Outer City Administration Building without knowing it.
The first thing the second uncle said after seeing Li Yu was:
"Xiaoyu, Zuo Rongqian and the others at the sentry tower have contacted your uncle and asked if they want to continue retreating according to last night's order?"
"Now that the wind has stopped, do you want to retreat?"
Li Yu said without hesitation:
"Of course we have to withdraw, and let them retreat back as soon as possible."
"I just came from the Natural Disaster Research Institute. According to Song Zhihong and the others, the cessation of the wind may be a precursor to the arrival of the blizzard, but they cannot determine the duration of this precursor. It may be a few hours, or it may be a month."
"Ah? Such a broad range." The second uncle asked in surprise a few hours to a month after hearing this.
"Um."
Li Yu nodded and said:
"It's not that they are incapable, it's just that natural disasters are too unpredictable."
"My idea is not to gamble. Even if it lasts for a month, we have to let them all retreat. Now that the wind has stopped, let them come back quickly, otherwise they may not be able to come back later."
"Of course, the same goes for Oil City. Let them act according to yesterday's order."
"Okay." The second uncle thought for a moment and did not refute Li Yu's idea.
"What about the construction site? Do you want to continue?" The second uncle continued to ask.
Li Yu walked to the window and stretched his hand out of the window.
Not a breath of wind.
"Go on, there is no wind now, so we can continue construction."
"But don't send people out. Just use the construction materials you have hoarded now. Once it starts to snow later, stop the work immediately and let the workers go indoors."
"As for the Oil City side"
Li Yu stopped when he mentioned Oil City.
The buffer city side of the trading market is different from the Da Zhangshu base.
Most of the buffer city at Da Zhangshu Base has been built, and the walls are so high.
Moreover, the buffer city’s duty room, mobile gate blades, ultraviolet lights and other supporting facilities on the fence have been completed.
When workers are engaged in construction, they are just doing something in the buffer city.
Relatively safe.
But in the buffer city of the trading market, the walls have not yet been built, so it is relatively dangerous.
Moreover, there are so many people in the trading market, and the time required to withdraw them all from the trading market cannot be completed in more than ten minutes.
But
The wind stops, but I don’t know how long it will stop.
If we stop for a month, it will be a waste of time.
Li Yu thought over and over again and finally made a decision.
"Construction in Oil City will continue, but all outside activities will be suspended. At most, construction will be done in the buffer city."
"In addition, let Third Uncle and the others prepare emergency evacuation plans so that they can retreat to the trading market as soon as possible once a blizzard occurs."
The second uncle rolled his eyes and said:
"Okay, in this case, the wall of the trading market can be built higher. It will be safer when a blizzard comes later."
"That's right." Li Yu added:
"There are four gates over there at the trading market. If it snows, it will be really slow to enter the city through the east gate alone. We can open two more gates to let people in to improve efficiency."
The second uncle nodded and said: "Okay, I will contact your third uncle right away."
The second uncle held a thermos cup in his hand and walked towards the communications office.
Communications Office.
The second uncle contacted the third uncle and told him the latest instructions and suggestions.
Then he found his uncle and Ding Jiu and informed Li Yu of his decision simultaneously.
To sum up in one sentence:
The wind died down and the pullback order remained, but construction continued.
Oil City.
After the third uncle received the news from the second uncle, he also held a high-level meeting in Oil City.
Pass on the instructions passed down from the headquarters base.
After the meeting.
Xie Changshan immediately contacted Liu Yu, the person in charge of the buffer city construction site, and asked him to resume the construction of the buffer city construction site.
As for the boiler heating system, it must continue regardless of whether the strong wind continues or not.
Lao Luo asked the people in the communication office to notify the guards of the sentry towers around the oil city one by one, and let them retreat back to the oil city as quickly as possible.
In addition.
Lao Luo also contacted Zuo Ruxue of the transport brigade and learned that they were on the way now.
It is expected to arrive in the oil city at 3:30 this afternoon.
The wind stopped, which is a good thing for them.
Xunwu County.
Coal and iron mine station.
A man stood in front of the radio station and nodded.
"Hey, hey, hey, okay."
"I understand, okay, um."
"Everything has been packed and can leave at any time. Yes, we can leave now."
"Okay, okay."
Jian Ming, the person in charge of Xunwu Coal and Iron Mine, took off the radio headset with a smile on his face.
A man next to him asked quickly, "Brother Ming, what did the headquarters say? Do you want to go back?"
"Or... continue mining?"
Jian Ming's mouth moved and he smiled, "Notify Dongdong and let him drive away!"
"Great!" The subordinates were overjoyed and ran out of the car.
They were scared all night last night and really didn't want to stay at the coal and iron mine station.
The weather has been gloomy recently, and there have been two wall-climbing zombie raids when they were mining during the day.
Although there are ultraviolet lamps, this mine is an open-pit mine with a large area.
The wall-climbing zombies are hard to guard against, and two workers died. People are panicking recently.
If it weren't for the high contribution points for mining here, none of the workers here would want to work here.
This job is like tying your head to your belt.
Every day, I am afraid that if I am not careful, a wall-climbing zombie will run out from some blind spots of ultraviolet lamps and attack.
After receiving the news, Dongdong raised his eyebrows and his eyes were full of joy.
"Okay, I got it!"
"Fuck! Finally I can go back to the headquarters. I've been in the mine for nearly three months and haven't showered a day. I'm almost black!"
Dongdong picked up the walkie-talkie to contact everyone, "Announce a good news, the headquarters' order from yesterday remains unchanged, return to the headquarters immediately."
"Now the convoy, line up in an orderly manner to leave."
Oh oh oh——
The convoy cheered.
"Great! Damn, I was thinking yesterday that it would be great if the wind stopped today. I didn't expect that the wind really stopped, and we can be safer on the way back."
"Yeah, I haven't been back for a long time. I don't know how my girl is doing in the headquarters base."
"How old is Yaya?"
"Eight years old. Captain Luo of the transportation team helps me transfer the points I earn every day to my wife's card. They should be living well in the headquarters base."
"It's not easy." A middle-aged man next to him said earnestly: "We take such a big risk to mine, isn't it for our wives and children at home."
"Yes, fortunately for these months, at least I have saved some points. In this natural disaster, it can be better than before." Lao Liu sighed.
They work in the mine during the day and live in a simple container station next to the mine at night.
They don't have any consumption, food and accommodation are all included, and the points are saved.
In addition, their overseas mining workers have much higher points than those working in the headquarters base.
After all, the risk is high, and the reward is greater.
Boom boom red --
The vehicle started.
The mountain road is difficult to walk on, and the vehicle is shaking.
Lao Liu sat in the modified bus, looking at the forest outside the window.
The gray forest, the bare tree trunks, and there is no leaf on them.
Finally, I can go home.
For him, where his wife and children are, there is home.
His wife and children are at the big camphor tree base, so for him, the big camphor tree base is his home.
Home, a warm harbor.
When he thought that he would be able to see his wife and children for a few months,
his black face, which had been stained by coal ash and ore for a long time, was filled with a bright smile.
When he grinned, his teeth were white and shiny.
He thought secretly in his heart:
Haha, Yaya, you have food and drink in the past few months, you should have grown taller.
Your hair should not be as dry and thin as before.
Looking back on the past few months in the mine, it was very bitter.
The body is suffering, and the heart is suffering even more. He is always on edge, like walking on a tightrope.
However, for the mother and daughter to live a good life, he feels that it is worth it no matter how hard, tiring, or difficult it is.
As a man, he must always take on his responsibilities and support the mother and daughter.
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