Apocalypse Rebirth: 3000 million won at the beginning

Chapter 1600: Human Suffering, Carrying the Burden

under the tree.

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

If this happened before the end of the world, some people who ate such food and did such heavy labor would definitely feel that their life was over and there was no hope!
But for the workers at this moment, eating the dry and inedible tortillas, they feel that the future is worth looking forward to.

Because they have suffered too much in the last days, they would feel satisfied with just a little bit of benefit.

They can get free meals and earn points, which is a great thing for them!
Away from the crowd, under a big tree about a hundred meters away from the ditch excavation.

Two people sat facing each other and ate food.

"Brother Feng, it would be great if we could do this kind of work every day!" said a skinny young man to another bald man.

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

"The better the bazaar 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 into the cloth bag.

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

The young man, called Xiaobing by the bald man, scratched the back of his head embarrassedly.

"I have a small appetite and I am full."

The bald man glared and said, "Finish eating! How are you going to work in the afternoon if you don't finish eating!"

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

When the young man heard this, he felt that what the bald man said made sense.

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

The tortillas were dry but a little sweet.

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

That day, the wind was howling, as if the sky and the earth were collapsing.

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

Curled up in dirty, damp 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 revolving movements, a precursor to his impending death.

An owl flew in to avoid the rain.

Bumped into him.

Like a gift from God.

At that moment, he burned with hope to survive.

Without even tearing the hair, it just bit the owl's neck and sucked its blood.

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

After drinking the blood, the two shared the owl.

Even the internal organs were not spared.

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

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

They survived the flood by eating this kind of food.

He is very grateful, thankful for the gift from God.

Even so, he lived such a miserable life.

To be honest, when he was on the verge of death, he cursed God for letting him and his sister suffer like this.

After that experience, he never gave up on living again.

No matter how hard or difficult it is, will it still be difficult at that time?

People who have died once cherish life very much and live every day as if it were earned.

Enjoy suffering.

He ate a whole tortilla in small bites and burped.

A big smile spread across his face.

“This taco 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 a meal."

Before he could finish his words, the bald man suddenly stood up, picked up the hoe beside him, and rushed towards the young man.

"Brother Feng, you."

"Fuck you!"

Brother Feng used his hoe to dig down, and the zombie behind Xiaobing fell to the ground.

The handle of the hoe hit the zombie's head with such force that it knocked the zombie down directly.

"Fuck you!"

"Fuck you!"

The bald man, with his bare chest, hit the zombies' heads with his hoe, and cursed every time he swung the hoe.

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

There was no more movement.

"Be careful. A zombie suddenly ran out from the bushes behind you and scared me." The bald man put down the hoe and said to Xiaobing.

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 Xiao Bing, he frowned and said, "We can't rest here. It's too dangerous."

Just at this moment, the supervisor from the opposite side came over.

"Work has started. Didn't you hear me? 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 questions in a row.

Brother Feng, who had been so domineering just now, now felt uneasy.

"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, you guys should be careful, there are guards watching the place and you didn’t stay, why did you have to run here.

If you run around in a place like this and get bitten by zombies, there will be no compensation!"

"That row of trees next to the main road is for you to rest. Why did you have to come over here? You are so bored!"

The supervisor cursed and turned away.

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

He muttered:

"If someone in my group gets bitten by a zombie, I'll be criticized as a typical example."

"Thank you, Brother Liu. Brother Liu, we will definitely listen to you." Xie Feng nodded quickly to please.

Although Xie Feng is fierce, he does not lose temper with supervisors.

Supervisors can deduct an appropriate amount of points from workers' daily earnings based on their performance, such as laziness, leaving the team without permission, digging without following instructions, etc.

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

These small supervisors can hold the lifeblood of these low-level survivors.

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

"Go to work quickly, and don't leave my sight during your next break. This is for your own good!" said the supervisor.

Xie Feng and Xiao Bing nodded vigorously, picked up their hoes and trotted over to start digging.

Supervisor Liu Min looked at the two men's backs and shook his head: "Why are you so troublesome?"

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

But he also rose from the bottom, it was just that he risked his life during a thunderstorm disaster and exchanged it for the status of a level four personnel.

We are all poor people, so why make things difficult for each other?

He knew very well how difficult it was for both of them.

So, he didn't deduct their points.

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

The hot air in the air evaporates and forms mist.

A pickup truck drove over again, loaded with boiled water to give them hydration.

Although there are more than a dozen excavators here, it is not enough to rely on excavators alone. There are some sunken places that the excavators cannot pass through and 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 one kilometer long and two meters wide and high was finally dug.

But it has not been finely smoothed yet.

Xie Changshan, who was checking the situation at Nanwan Lake, returned by car.

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

This was the first time he smiled since he took on the water plant construction project.

He had promised the ministers and others that the water plant would be built within a month.

Alexander.

No one knew how much pressure he was under, but he promised to complete it within a month.

He actually had no idea what to expect, after all, he had never taken on such a rushed project before.

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

At this rate of progress, things will only get faster and faster, and it will probably take less than ten days to connect the trading market with Nanwan Lake.

Today is off to a good start.

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

Liu Yu nodded and said, "Let's continue to move forward tomorrow. I will allocate some personnel to level the ditch and ensure that..."

"also."

Xie Changshan added:

"After we dig five kilometers, the grouting machine and the wall-building team can enter the site. The cement also needs time to dry. Anyway, you calculate the time. Fifteen days will be enough to get these done."

"Yes!" Liu Yu said solemnly.

Ding-dong-dong——

A pickup truck drove by behind them, "Getting off work."

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

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

"Oh, okay." Xie Changshan thought for a moment after hearing Liu Yu's explanation and said:
"Xiao Yu. No, Xiao Liu, I'm going to hand over this project 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 among 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 scattered survivors.

The two men lined up, carrying hoes and cloth bags, which contained their food and water bottles.

The two met by chance a year ago.

They were both on guard, didn't speak to each other, and made way for each other.

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, we gradually became familiar with each other.

"Brother Feng, actually our supervisor Brother Liu is a very nice person." Xiao Bing saw the supervisor leading the team in front and whispered to Zhang Feng.

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

"correct."

Zhang Feng suddenly looked at Xiao Bing: "I remember you were an online writer before?"

"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 intellectuals. Although it's the end of the world now, you see that this trading market is developing so fast. Maybe in a few years, you will be able to use your talents."

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

"Science fiction apocalypse."

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

"How come you're such a hard-core sci-fi writer? Shouldn't you understand it well? Shouldn't you be familiar with the apocalypse?"

Xiaobing shook his head, smiled bitterly, and swore.

"I wrote about the end of the world in the form of rebirth. I wasn't reborn, and I didn't expect the end of the world to be so miserable!"

"Hahaha!" Zhang Feng laughed and patted Xiaobing's shoulder.

"It's okay. Find joy in hardship. Hardship is not bitter."

"Yeah." Xiaobing agreed with what he said.

They lined up and walked back to the city wall.

Inspections in the city walls remain as strict as ever.

Xiaobing and Zhang Feng placed their hoes in a fixed position and underwent a full-body examination.

After passing the inspection, we lined up and came to the point collection area.

Because the area where they were working was at the front end, they came in earlier.

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

drop--

The staff member next to the points clock-in machine took the number plate from Xiaobing.

"No. 95278, original score was 12.9, increased by 0.65 points, now 13.55 points."

"Take a look. Make sure."

Xiao Bing looked at the numbers on the screen, nodded and said:
"The numbers are correct, thank you."

He took back his number plate and ran quickly to Zhang Feng.

"Brother Feng, where are you going later?"

"As for me, I'm going to sit at the bar, drink some sweet potato wine, and sleep well tonight. How about you?"

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

"Row."

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

Xiaobing 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 I buy wine when I have some points, ah.
I have to find a suitable opportunity to remind him not to waste points.

Holding a tortilla that he had just been given after work in his arms, he was in a very happy mood and walked towards the commercial district.

I earned some points today and bought my little sister a multi-grain tortilla which is even more delicious than a corn tortilla.

Although it is more expensive than tacos, one taco is 0.25 points.

One multi-grain cake is worth 0.3 points.

Although it’s only 0.05 points more expensive, these points are enough for a five-day stay!

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

I earned points today, and I will be able to earn stable points in the next ten days or so.

They are very poor and have to spend every point they have.

He finally decided to buy a multi-grain cake for his younger sister.

Tonight, I ate the corn tortillas that were distributed, and my younger sister ate the multi-grain tortillas.

My little sister will definitely be very happy.

Thinking of his little sister, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise.

Life is great.

Everything is getting better slowly!
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