Chapter 1600: Human Suffering, Carrying the Burden Forward

Under the tree.

The workers sat on the ground in groups of three or four, eating corn tortillas and drinking boiled water.

If it was before the end of the world, some people would feel that their lives were over and hopeless if they ate such food and did such heavy labor!

But for the workers at this moment, eating dry and hard-to-swallow corn tortillas, they felt that the future was worth looking forward to.

Because they had suffered too much in the end of the world, they felt satisfied with a little benefit.

They were able to eat and get points, and in their opinion, such a good thing was too good!

Away from the crowd, under a big tree about a hundred meters away from the ditch excavation.

Two people sat face to face and ate food.

"Brother Feng, it would be great if there was such work every day!" A skinny young man said to another bald man.

The bald man drank a sip of cold water, picked up the corn crumbs that fell on his pants and put them in his mouth.

"The better the trade fair develops, the more work we will have."

"What are you doing?"

Brother Feng saw that the skinny young man had only eaten half of the tortilla, so he stuffed the rest of the tortilla into the cloth bag.

He frowned, "Xiao Bing, don't leave it to your sister. The work here at the construction site is so heavy. You can't hold on for long if you don't eat enough. You still have points to earn. You can get points after work. Then you can use the points to buy food for her."

The young man, called Xiao Bing by the bald man, scratched the back of his head a little embarrassedly.

"I have a small appetite and I'm full."

The bald man glared, "Eat it! How can you work in the afternoon if you don't finish it!"

"If you can't hold on for a few days, you will be kicked out later. If you keep working and get sick, you won't be able to go to the hospital!"

The young man felt that what the bald man said made sense when he heard it.

So he took out the half tortilla from the cloth bag and ate it in small bites.

The tortilla was very dry, but a little sweet.

He cherished the food in his hand. He remembered that he and his younger sister almost died of starvation three years ago.

That day, the wind was howling, as if the world was collapsing.

They huddled in a small room, looking at the storm outside the window in horror.

They curled up in dirty, wet bedding.

Not only did they have to worry about the zombies outside discovering them, but they also hadn't eaten for five or six days and were almost starving to death.

When he was the hungriest, he even began to have a revolving lantern, a sign of impending death.

An owl flew in to avoid the rain.

It crashed in front of him.

It was like a gift from God.

At that moment, he burned with the hope of survival.

He didn't even tear the hair, but bit the owl's neck directly and sucked blood.

With a mouth full of feathers, he ate raw meat bite by bite.

After drinking the blood, the two of them shared the owl.

Even the internal organs were not spared.

Eating the owl helped them get through the most difficult time.

Later in the flood, some snakes and frogs came to the soaked first floor.

They ate this kind of food and survived until the flood was over.

He was very grateful, grateful for the gift from God.

Even though he lived such a miserable life.

To be honest, when he was on the verge of death, he cursed God, why did he let his brother and sister suffer such hardship.

After that experience, he never gave up living again.

No matter how hard it was, was it as difficult as that time?

People who had died once cherished their lives very much and lived every day as if they had earned it.

Find joy in suffering.

After eating a whole tortilla in small bites, he burped.

His face was filled with a bright smile.

"This tortilla is delicious!"

Bald Feng said with a smile: "You kid, you have never eaten good food. When we accumulate more points, I will treat you to it"

Before he finished speaking, the bald man stood up suddenly, picked up the hoe beside him, and rushed towards the young man.

"Brother Feng, you."

"Fuck you!"

Brother Feng hit the zombie behind Xiao Bing with a hoe, and the zombie fell to the ground.

The handle of the hoe hit the zombie's head with great force, knocking the zombie down directly.

"Fuck you!"

"Fuck you!"

The bald man was shirtless, hitting the zombie's head with the hoe, and he cursed every time he swung it.

The head of the zombie on the ground turned into a pile of mud under his heavy blow.

No more movement.

"Be careful, a zombie suddenly ran out of the bushes behind you just now, and scared me." The bald man put down the hoe and said to Xiao Bing.

Xiao Bing looked at the zombie on the ground with lingering fear, raised his head and looked at the bald man and said:

"Thank you, Brother Feng, if it weren't for you, I might be dead."

"Say that." Brother Feng waved his hand.

Looking at the bushes behind Xiaobing, he frowned and said, "We can't rest here, it's too dangerous."

At this moment, the supervisor on the opposite side came over.

"It's time to start work, didn't you hear? I've been looking for you for a long time!"

"Who told you to rest here? Didn't I tell you not to leave the crowd?"

Two consecutive questions

made Brother Feng, who was so domineering just now, feel awkward.

"Um, Brother Liu, I'm sorry, it's too hot under the sun, so I want to find a cool place to rest."

The supervisor looked at the zombies on the ground and frowned:

"Anyway, be careful. There are guards watching the place, but you don't stay here.

If you run to this place, you will be bitten by zombies, but there is no compensation!"

"Beside the main road, the row of trees are reserved for you to rest. You have to run here. You are so bored!"

The supervisor cursed and turned around.

"Hurry up and start working. I don't want to deduct your points. If you do this again, I will really deduct your points!"

Muttered:

"If someone in my group is bitten by a zombie, I will be criticized as a typical example."

"Thank you, Brother Liu, Brother Liu, we will definitely listen to you." Xie Feng nodded and flattered.

Although Xie Feng is fierce, he has no temper with supervisors.

Supervisors can deduct workers' points for the day according to their performance, such as laziness, leaving the team without permission, and digging without following instructions.

In the eyes of ordinary survivors, points are food, and food is life.

A small supervisor can hold the lifeblood of these bottom-level survivors.

When Xie Feng and Xiao Bing returned to the construction site with hoes, the workers on the construction site had already started working.

"Go to work quickly. Don't leave my sight next time you take a break. This is for your own good!" said the supervisor.

Xie Feng and Xiao Bing nodded vigorously, trotted over with hoes to dig.

Supervisor Liu Min looked at the backs of the two and shook his head: "Why are you so worried?"

According to the regulations, Xie Feng and Xiao Bing violated the regulations, and he could deduct their points.

But he also rose from the bottom, but he fought for his life during the thunderstorm disaster and got the status of a fourth-level personnel.

We are all poor people, so why bother each other.

He knew how difficult it was for the two.

So, he did not deduct their points.

Two o'clock in the afternoon, the hottest time of the day.

The hot air in the air was steaming and forming.

The pickup truck drove over again, filled with boiled water to rehydrate them.

Although there are more than a dozen excavators here, it is not enough to rely on excavators alone. There are some sunken places where excavators cannot pass, and they can only be dug manually.

The time came to four o'clock in the evening.

With the joint efforts of two thousand people and more than a dozen excavators, a ditch with a length of one kilometer and a width and height of two meters was finally dug.

But it has not been finely leveled.

Xie Changshan, who was checking the situation from Nanwan Lake, took a vehicle back.

When he saw the excavated ditch, a smile appeared on his face.

This was the first time he smiled after taking over the water plant construction project.

He promised in front of the ministers that he must build the water plant within one month.

Alexander.

No one knows how much pressure he is under, and he promised to complete it within one month.

He actually has no idea in his heart, after all, he has never taken such a rushed project before.

But today, the ditch was excavated for one kilometer, and the depth and width met the standards.

At this rate, the progress will only get faster and faster. It is estimated that it will take less than ten days to connect the trading market and Nanwan Lake.

Today is a good start.

"Very good, Liu Yu, keep up this progress tomorrow." He said to Liu Yu next to him.

Liu Yu nodded and said, "Keep moving forward tomorrow. I will allocate some to level the ditch later to ensure that."

"That's fine."

Xie Changshan added:

"After digging five kilometers, the grouting machine and the wall-building team can enter the site. It takes time for the cement to dry. Anyway, you calculate the time. Fifteen days, get these done."

"Yes!" Liu Yu said solemnly.

Dingdangdang——

A pickup truck drove past behind them, "It's time to get off work."

Xie Changshan glanced at his watch, "It's only four o'clock and we're off work? There are still two and a half hours before dark!"

Liu Yu said awkwardly: "The guard team notified us that so many people entered the trading market, and it will take time to check when entering the city. I plan to let the workers out early tomorrow."

"Oh, okay." Xie Changshan thought for a while after hearing Liu Yu's explanation and said:

"Xiao Yu. No, Xiao Liu, I'll leave the project here to you. You've done a good job over the past year, and I'm very optimistic about you."

Liu Yu pursed his lips and nodded heavily.

It's time to get off work.

They stopped the car in the crowd of workers.

Liu Yu got out of the car and watched Xie Changshan drive towards the trading market.

After Xie Changshan left, he found the core construction supervisors.

"Xiao Wu, Xiao Ding, A Bi, Fang Zi, let's have a small meeting after we enter the city. I have something to tell you."

Zhang Feng and Xiao Bing have no team, they are just survivors of the guerrillas.

The two lined up, carrying hoes and cloth bags, in which they eat and water bottles.

The two met a year ago, by chance.

They were alert to each other, did not speak to each other, and each made way and separated.

Later, before the thunderstorm disaster, they met again at the trading market.

Coincidentally, they were all assigned to the same dormitory.

Fate.

After a few visits, they gradually became familiar with each other.

"Brother Feng, Brother Liu who supervises us is actually a good person." Xiao Bing saw the supervisor leading the team in front and whispered to Zhang Feng.

Zhang Feng nodded slowly, "Yeah, I know."

"Right."

Zhang Feng suddenly looked at Xiao Bing: "I remember, you used to be an online writer?"

"What's your pen name?"

Xiao Bing heard this and said with a wry smile:

"Don't mention it, it's not worth mentioning. My previous work is useless in the end times."

Zhang Feng shook his head and disagreed.

"You can't say that. I still admire you cultural people. Although it's the end times now, you see that the trading market is developing so fast. Maybe in a few years, you will have a place to use your skills."

"By the way, what type of novels do you write?"

"Science fiction end times."

"What?" Zhang Feng raised his eyebrows and looked at Xiao Bing in shock.

"You write science fiction end times, why are you so miserable? Shouldn't you understand it very well? Aren't you familiar with the situation in the end times?"

Xiao Bing shook his head and smiled bitterly, and burst out with a swear word.

"I wrote about the end of the world in the rebirth category, and I didn't rebirth, and I didn't expect the end of the world to be so bitter!"

"Hahaha!" Zhang Feng laughed and patted Xiao Bing on the shoulder.

"It's okay, find joy in suffering, and it's not bitter."

"Yeah." Xiao Bing agreed with this statement.

They lined up and walked back to the city.

The inspection of the city was as strict as ever.

Xiao Bing and Zhang Feng put the hoe in a fixed position and underwent a full-body inspection.

After passing the inspection, they lined up to the point collection place.

Because the place where they were working belonged to the front section, they came in earlier.

When they came in, there were more than a thousand people queuing up behind them.

Ding——

The staff next to the points punching machine took the number plate from Xiao Bing.

"No. 95278, original points 12.9, increase 0.65 points, now 13.55 points."

"Take a look. Confirm."

Xiao Bing looked at the number on the screen, nodded and said:

"The number is correct, thank you."

He took back his number plate and ran to Zhang Feng's side.

"Brother Feng, where are you going later?"

"I'm going to sit in the bar, drink some sweet potato wine, and sleep well at night. What about you?"

"I'll buy a multi-grain cake first, and then go back to the dormitory to find my little sister."

"Okay."

"The iron gate is open, let's go." Zhang Feng saw the iron gate open and ran into the trading market with a smile.

Xiao Bing looked at Brother Feng's back and shook his head helplessly.

Brother Feng likes to drink, but he has never been willing to do so before.

Now he buys wine when he has some points, alas.

I have to find a suitable opportunity to remind him not to spend points indiscriminately.

Holding a corn tortilla that he had just received after work, he was in a very happy mood and walked towards the commercial district.

I earned points today, so I bought my little sister a multi-grain cake that was more delicious than a corn tortilla.

Although it was more expensive than a corn tortilla, one corn tortilla was worth 0.25 points.

One multi-grain cake was worth 0.3 points.

Although it was only 0.05 points more expensive, these points could be used to stay for five days!

But my little sister had been thinking about it for a long time.

I earned points today, and I will have stable points for the next ten days.

They were very poor, and every point had to be deducted and spent.

He finally bought a multi-grain cake for my little sister.

Tonight, I will eat the corn tortillas that were distributed, and my little sister will eat the multi-grain cake.

My little sister will definitely be very happy.

Thinking of my little sister, the corners of his mouth could not help but rise.

Life is so good.

Everything is getting better slowly!

(Seeking monthly tickets)