Apocalypse Rebirth: 3000 million won at the beginning

The blizzard has been falling.

The temperature is also dropping every day as time goes by.

Throughout the oil city, people try to avoid going out unless it is necessary.

It's really too cold outside.

The temperature difference between indoors and outdoors reaches sixty degrees.

It's minus 40 degrees Celsius outside and over 20 degrees Celsius inside.

Trading bazaar.

Commercial area, house number 13, official clinic of the trading market.

A group of people came running in, among them a man was carrying someone on his back.

"Hurry, hurry, save him." As soon as the man came in, he shouted loudly to the nurse inside.

Zhang Shuzhen, the nurse on duty, saw the group of people coming in, and also saw the dying man on his back.

He stood up immediately and rushed over with several nurses.

The nurses pushed an emergency bed over at the same time.

Zhang Shuzhen placed the unconscious man on the emergency bed and asked:

"what happened?"

The man who carried him in quickly replied:

"We were called up to the snow shoveling team. My second brother suddenly fainted while shoveling snow. He might have been frozen. Please save him quickly."

Zhang Shuzhen was about to continue asking questions when Bai Yongzhang came over from behind.

He pried open the eyelids of the man lying on the hospital bed and frowned.

Considering the man's cold limbs, pale lips and tongue, and purple face, it's obvious that he's suffering from hypothermia. It appears that his breathing is weakening and he could die at any time.

Saving lives is like putting out a fire. Bai Yongzhang said to Zhang Shuzhen without hesitation:
"He has hypothermia. Push him to the warm room immediately."

He put his hand into the man's neck and felt it was wet and cold inside.

"Take off all his clothes, his clothes are all wet, change him into dry clothes, and check his vital signs, including blood pressure, blood oxygen, pulse, heart rate, etc."

"Yes." Zhang Shuzhen nodded and quickly pushed the man on the mobile bed away with other nurses.

Bai Yongzhang asked the group of people standing nearby:

"What did you just do?"

One of the gang replied:
"We are a snow shoveling team. We have been working since last night. When Afeng was shoveling snow, he accidentally fell into a snow pit."

After listening to what he said, Bai Yongzhang thought for a while and said:

"Okay, I think I understand. I just checked and he has hypothermia. It's not a big problem. You guys go over there and pay the bill first."

"Okay, thank you." The group quickly expressed their gratitude and headed to the payment counter.

Looking at their backs as they left, Bai Yongzhang sighed.

Recently, there are more and more patients suffering from hypothermia. The temperature outside is too low, more than 40 degrees below zero. If people work in such a cold weather and wear too thick clothes, they will sweat a lot.

However, some clothes have poor perspiration-wicking properties, and sweat accumulates in the clothes, which is extremely uncomfortable.

Sometimes, if you don't protect your neck well, the snow will blow into your neck and slide down your back.

Because the blizzard was so heavy, people’s hats were soaked by the snow, which was very troublesome.

For many survivors, their cold-resistant equipment is not good enough and they always encounter problems of one kind or another.

Working in a blizzard for seven or eight hours at a time, you may catch a cold at best, or even suffer from hypothermia at worst.

But there is no way around it. Someone has to shovel snow in the trading market and even in the buffer city, otherwise the entire oil city will be unable to pass normally.

Without normal traffic, supplies cannot be transported.

The survivors were stuck in residential buildings and could not leave or go to commercial areas to buy food.

Moreover, although Shop No. 2, which specializes in selling tortillas, will stockpile some food ingredients, it is definitely not a large amount, and usually only stocks enough for three or four days.

Every few days, they would go to the Oil City granary to get the ingredients for making tortillas.

"I hope the snow will stop soon," Bai Yongzhang said to himself as he turned around and looked at the snowflakes falling outside.

Time is like water.

In a blink of an eye, the blizzard lasted for eighteen days in a row.

During these eighteen days, they encountered problems such as water pipes freezing and bursting, outdoor workers suffering frostbite, and so on.

But they solved them one by one and got through it.

The snow outside the city was buffered and burned five times with gasoline, with the snow piled higher each time.

After the last burn, the ice layer reached 5.5 meters high and was only three meters away from the top of the wall.

In addition, the thickness of the snow further away reached nearly ten meters.

Such a high level of snow is the result of spontaneous collapse and compaction.

The entire oil city seems to be built in a basin.

In addition, during this period, more and more people applied for low-interest loans offered by the Oil City officials.

However, those who apply for low-interest loans must have collateral of corresponding value.

It also provides a way out for extremely poor survivors who cannot provide collateral.

Give them a work agreement to pay off their debts with work.

Let these people go to some more dangerous places to shovel snow.

These days, due to the low temperature outside, many people have suffered frostbite.

Although you can earn points by doing snow removal work, you have to endure extreme cold to earn them.

However, those who signed a work agreement and took out a loan will not be given any points, only the most basic benefit of two tortillas a day.

The remaining 0.5 points will be used to repay the loan and interest.

For the survivors who had just entered the trading market, they had no points and no food reserves. They had no choice but to accept it.

Boiler heating has covered most residential areas.

There are several buildings in Area C where some of the lowest level of poverty survivors live.

These people can't even pay the heating bills, or even the rent.

Some people cannot participate in snow removal work due to disabilities.

Some people are too lazy to go out to work.
Some people are too young or too old to earn points.

For this group of people, Oil City has launched a series of activities to try to keep them alive.

Free housing and heating are provided for children under 10 years old and seniors over 65 years old.

Children under the age of 10 are required to sign a long-term loan agreement that can be repaid after five years, and they will be given a free tortilla every day.

This is actually equivalent to a contract of sale.

Also.

The Oil City also provides opportunities for people with physical disabilities.

Identify survivors with physical disabilities and assign them to work in the boiler room or do some manual work to earn points.

The number of such disabled people is relatively small. After all, due to physical problems, they cannot compare with normal survivors and have lower survival ability.

Those who can survive have some technical background or other skills.

As for the survivors who had no problems with their hands and feet and were poor simply because of laziness, the Oil City did not pamper them. Those who died of starvation or freezing were taken directly to the incinerator, where their bodies were burned to generate electricity.

Because the blizzard was so heavy and Oil City is relatively small, the pressure of snow shoveling is not that great.

But the pressure of snow removal work in buffer cities and trade markets is very high.

In addition, because the outdoor temperature reached minus 40 degrees Celsius, people could not stay outside for too long to work, so the working hours were modified.

We work in four shifts, twenty-four hours a day, with one shift working six hours.

It takes 2000 people to recruit and guard one shift in the buffer city, and 8000 people in four shifts.

The number of people working in the buffer city and the trade fair to clear snow reached 4000 in the first shift and 16000 in the fourth shift.

Compared to the headquarters base, Oil City has a shortage of snowplows, so a large amount of manpower is needed to fill the gap.

On the other hand, the Dazhangshu base, with a large reserve of snowplows and excavators, only needs one-seventh of the manpower to complete the snow removal work.

In the residential area of ​​Zone C of the trading market, people freeze to death every day.

Every day they could see people carrying out corpses, putting them on trucks, and then taking them to the incinerator for cremation.

For some survivors who have joined the trading market for a relatively long time, it is not sad.

They rely on the points they previously stored to buy food and water, pay heating bills and rent, and have not encountered any problems for the time being.

But it's still very tormenting for them as they watch their points gradually deplete every day and Blizzard shows no sign of stopping.

Sit back and eat nothing.

This feeling is very uncomfortable.

Trading Mart, Residential Area, Area C.

in a room.

Xu Qingwen sighed:

"Old Sui, I wonder when this snow will stop. It has been snowing for almost 20 days, right?"

Sui Dahua was sitting on the bed opposite him, shaking his head with a worried look on his face and said:
"If you ask me, I don't know either."

"By the way, how many points do you have?"

Xu Qingwen took out the small piece of paper and took a look at it. "There are 150 points left. How about you?"

"I'm about the same as you, with 152 points left." Sui Dahua replied.

Hearing this, Xu Qingwen nodded and said:

"We are still relatively good at comparing prices. I heard that many people in the building next door have no points left. They can only apply for loans and then go to the buffer city to clear snow. They go there every day, and many people have frostbite."

"Ah."

Sui Dahua thought for a moment and said:

"So what we did before was right. We saved a few more points. We have three people in our family to support, and there are three people in your family too. Our family of three spends about 1.5 points a day. How about you?"

Xu Qingwen calculated and replied:
"Similar to you, my family spends 1.45 points a day. It's mainly for heating, water, and food. I only took a shower once this month."

"With this consumption, we can at least hold out for another three months."

Sui Dahua looked at Xu Qingwen and said softly:

"I feel like the snow should stop soon. The sky is much brighter now than before."

"When the snow stops, I heard they're going to build a greenhouse. Shall we go and respond then?"

Xu Qingwen frowned when he heard this. "But, after the snow stops, I'm afraid the temperature will get even lower. It will be too risky for us to go out and build something."

"so"

Sui Dahua thought for a moment and said:
"So we have to buy another set of antifreeze equipment. The clothing store in the trade market has a set of antifreeze equipment that sells quite well. Should we go take a look some other day?"

Xu Qingwen looked at his wife, who was leaning her head on his shoulder. "I'll listen to you."

Xu Qingwen nodded, having a rough idea in his mind.

So he said to Sui Dahua:
"Okay, I'll go with you. If you want to do your job well, you must first sharpen your tools. Getting a set of better equipment is also to protect ourselves and to be able to work longer."

"That's right." Sui Dahua nodded with a smile.

The blizzard continued to fall, and the sky gradually became brighter.

During this period, the guards on duty in the buffer city did not see any traces of zombies.

Big camphor tree base.

Snowplows are driving around in the inner city, outer city and buffer city to clear snow.

Each of the members who went out to shovel snow was given a set of warm and antifreeze suits produced by the big camphor tree base.

Since the industry at the Dazhangshu base is relatively developed, we are now able to produce clothing.

Give these people a complete set of warm and anti-freeze suits, the inner layer of clothing is breathable and warm, and the outer layer is waterproof.

The hat has a scalp side that keeps your head warm, and a waterproof outer layer.

In addition, they also have corresponding masks, gloves, scarves, and waterproof high boots.
A complete set, very comprehensive.

This complete set of antifreeze equipment was actually also transported to the North and Oil City by a transport team.

The population in the North is small, so everyone received it.

The Oil City distributed it to the third-level personnel, but none of the lower fourth- and fifth-level members were given it.

Because there are so many level 4 and 5 members in the trading bazaar, hundreds of thousands of them, it is impossible to send them out.

The Dazhangshu base is the headquarters base after all, and it has abundant supplies.

The tower near the water gets the moon first.

Even members at level four or five will receive it, but their points will be deducted.

This set of equipment is only given free of charge to members above level three.

For the fourth and fifth level members of the trading bazaar, even if they have enough points, they cannot buy this set of warm and antifreeze suits produced by the large camphor tree base.

On the other hand, at the Dazhangshu headquarters base, even level 4 or 5 members can get it.

This is the benefit of being at the headquarters base.

The industrial system is well developed, facilities in all aspects are relatively complete, and welfare benefits are relatively good.

Moreover, the price of food here is lower, there are relatively more job opportunities, and almost everyone has no worries about food and clothing.

Due to the many years of development of the Third Outer City Machinery Factory, its R&D and manufacturing capabilities are amazing.

In order to deal with this icy disaster, they developed and manufactured a lot of new gadgets.

This makes snow clearing more convenient.

Among them is a snow suction device similar to that of a sprinkler truck, which sucks air from under the vehicle, picks up the accumulated snow, and then sucks it into a box on the vehicle.

There is also a motorcycle modified with a double-sided snow-clearing device. When riding the motorcycle, two plow-like objects are hung on both sides of the front of the motorcycle to shovel the accumulated snow to both sides.

These innovative modifications have provided a lot of convenience and saved manpower for snow clearing work at the Dazhangshu base.

Compared with Oil City, the Big Camphor Tree Base reacted much calmer when resisting the threat of this blizzard.

This is not only related to the small population pressure, but also to the hard power in the large camphor tree base.

After all, the Dazhangshu base has been developed for more than six years, and the Oil City was initially positioned as an oil production sub-base. It was only after the development of the trading market that it began to develop industry.

The trading bazaar lasted only one year and three months at most.

It can't be compared with the headquarters of the Dazhangshu base at all.

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