Apocalypse Rebirth: 3000 million won at the beginning

Chapter 2076 Kilometer Underground Rail
The city lord's office.

Li Yu sat on the sofa, somewhat surprised after hearing Dong Ying's words.

Theoretically, it could even cover the entire globe?

It seems that this shortwave broadcast has a very wide reach.

Thinking of this, he continued to ask:

"When the loudspeakers at each branch base are not working, could we broadcast to the whole country so that residents who are out on missions can also listen to the broadcast on the radio?"

Additionally, it can attract mobile survivors with radios to join our Great Camphor Tree faction.

Dong Ying nodded and said:
"Of course."

“Alright then.” Li Yu said, looking at his second uncle and Dong Ying.

"In addition to broadcasting from the branch bases, we can broadcast nationwide to attract more survivors from outside."

Second Uncle nodded slightly, and Dong Ying quickly nodded as well:
"Okay, City Lord."

Li Yu had asked all the questions he needed to ask, so he let Dong Ying leave.

It was already 6:30.

As darkness fell, Li Yu recalled the three plantations outside the city that he had seen from the air earlier.

It looks quite decent overall.

To be honest, although Li Yu had been to Plantation No. 1, he had never gone through the underground passage.

He had only taken a brief look at Plantation 1 from the beginning, when it was under construction, in a Unimog motorhome.

Li Yu asked his second uncle, who was standing to the side:

"Second Uncle, have you been to Plantation No. 1 outside the city?"

"Yes, I've been there."

"Did you get there via the underground passage?"

"Yeah, you haven't been there?"

"No, not really. When the helicopter landed just now, I was wondering what the underground was like. I wanted to go and take a look."

Second Uncle blinked. "Well, if you want to go, then go."

Li Yu then got up and called Li Tie to go to Plantation No. 1 outside the city together.

The entrance to the underground passage of Plantation No. 1 outside the city is located on the west side of the buffer city.

They arrived at the west side of the buffer city in an off-road vehicle.

The west entrance looks unremarkable; from the outside, it just looks like a house.

However, the main gate was quite large, and the gates on both sides were closed at this time.

There is also a guard booth on the right side of the gate, where two armed guards are on duty.

"City Lord."

"City Lord."

When the two armed guards saw Li Yu approaching, they quickly came out of the guard booth.

"Open the gate, we want to go and see Plantation No. 1 outside the city."

"Yes, Lord City Lord." The guard quickly ran back to the guard booth and pressed the gate switch.

Kakakka~
The gate rolls up, opening from bottom to top.

The space inside was larger than Li Yu had imagined, at least a hundred square meters.

There is no ceiling above; it's empty.

A strong wind blew in my face
Li Yu and Li Tie went inside.

The guard who followed him in explained:
"Please wait."

As he spoke, he picked up the walkie-talkie and contacted the guards at the second gate, asking them to open the second gate in advance.

Then he led the two of them to the edge of the two tracks.

Along these two tracks, there is a trailer-style cargo box at regular intervals.

And it's always in motion.

The guard explained:
"One of these two tracks goes to the plantations outside the city, and the other goes back from the plantations outside the city."

"Xiao Zhao, come up here and come with us," Li Yu said.

Guard Xiao Zhao was overjoyed upon hearing this, as this was a rare opportunity to get close to the city lord.

So he personally demonstrated how to get on the mobile cart.

These mobile carts are somewhat similar to the tipping-type mining carts used in underground coal mines.

He followed the enlarged tipping minecart for a few steps and then jumped inside.

Then it popped up again.

"Lord, these small carts are very slow, so it's easy to get up there," Xiao Zhao said to Li Yu.

Li Yu nodded and stepped into a mobile van.

This mobile cart is about three meters long, two meters wide, and one meter deep.

He even discovered that a row of seats had been welded into the back of these mobile vehicles.

These mobile carts can be used as transport vehicles for supplies between the large camphor tree and the plantation outside City No. 1.

When Li Tie saw Li Yu get into the car, he ran a few steps and jumped into the same car as Li Yu.

Xiao Zhao quickly followed.

The track car quickly descended, traveling along a gentle slope of about ten meters.

The underground passage has become more spacious.

There are two tracks in the center, one for entering and one for exiting, and there are some gaps on both sides of the tracks that serve as pedestrian walkways.

"Where are the water pipes and electrical wires located?" Li Yu asked.

Xiao Zhao, who had been standing the whole time, replied:

"The water pipes and electrical wires are buried underneath."

Li Yu surveyed the underground passage, which was about five meters high and six meters wide.

The roof is sealed with concrete, and at intervals, there are load-bearing columns and red distress buttons on both sides.

Ventilation fans are installed on the top of the underground passage to ventilate it.

The fan was quite powerful; even sitting on the railcar, they could feel a gust of wind blowing.

The underground passage is not dark; there are two lights every three meters on average.

It's this claustrophobic feeling that makes people a little nervous.

Crunch, crunch, crunch——

The railcar they were riding in turned on the track, and the sound of the railcar colliding with the track echoed throughout the track.

After traveling for a while, several people were sitting on the oncoming railcar.

The line of track cars behind them was full of people.

When they saw Li Yu on the track car ahead, they all became excited.

They all stood up to greet Li Yu.

"City Lord~"

"Lord City, what brings you here!"

"Greetings, City Lord!"

Li Yu greeted them with a smile and asked cheerfully:
"Are you off work already?"

One of the growers said:

"Shift change, go back to headquarters to rest."

Li Yu nodded and said, "Okay, get some rest."

They only exchanged a few words before passing each other as the railcars moved on.

Even as Li Yu and his group's figures receded into the distance, the planters remained excited about encountering him.

"Didn't the city lord say he went to other branch bases? When did he return?"

"How would I know? You should ask Supervisor Ye Shi."

"I wouldn't dare. Manager Ye has a bad temper, and I'm afraid of offending her."

"Coward."

This railcar travels at a slow speed, only 15 kilometers per hour.

The distance from the No. 1 City Outer Plantation to the Big Camphor Tree Headquarters Base is 15 kilometers.

In other words, it would take them an hour to get from headquarters to Plantation No. 1. After hearing from Xiao Zhao that it would take an hour to arrive, Li Yu...
He rested his elbows on the handrail of the railcar, while his palms supported his chin.

It takes an hour to travel 15 kilometers, which is quite slow.

but
These railcars did meet their needs for transporting supplies.

The continuous stream of railcars can efficiently transport the harvested grain from the plantation to the headquarters.

Before the construction of this underground passage, Li Yu had attended a meeting on its design.

He knew that the water, electricity, and even fertilizer for the plantations outside the city all had to be transported through the headquarters.

Otherwise, there would be no way to build additional irrigation canals to bring water from the reservoir to the plantations outside the city.

The train travels very slowly on the track, making the time seem extremely long.

Li Yu sat in the car, chatting idly with Xiao Zhao.

"Xiao Zhao, I remember you're from the security department, right? Are you married?"

How old are you this year?

Li Yu, like an elder, cared about Xiao Zhao's life.

Xiao Zhao was a little shy, scratching his head as he answered Li Yu's question.

"Yes, Lord City Lord, the 3rd Squad, 3rd Company, 2nd Inner Guard Battalion, Security Department."

"I'm 35 this year, and I just got married the year before last."

"Hehe, you're married? That's great. Where did you find your wife? What kind of work does she do now?" Li Yu asked with a smile.

Xiao Zhao tugged at the hem of his clothes and said:

"Well... I participated in the matchmaking event organized by our big camphor tree before. My wife works in a chemical plant, and she's currently a team leader there."

As he spoke, he raised his head, his face beaming with happiness, and continued:

"She gave birth to a big, healthy baby boy for me this year, but we're both busy, so her younger sister usually takes care of him. However, I can see them when I go back to work at midnight."

Seeing his subordinates living such happy lives, Li Yu was also very pleased.

This Xiao Zhao, although he only served as a guard in the underground passage of the buffer city.

But Li Yu remembered him; this Xiao Zhao had been with Dazhangshu for quite some time, almost five years.

Perhaps because he rarely leaves the camphor tree base, his leveling up is relatively slow.

But he was very content.

Although I am currently only a Level 3 staff member, Level 3 staff members have a fairly high status in Dazhangshu and enjoy good benefits.

The Great Camphor Tree's power ranking system currently has six levels.

Moreover, as the number of participants gradually increases, even the fourth and fifth levels have become more valuable.

Upgrading from level 6 to level 5 also requires contribution points.

Therefore, the earlier someone joins the camphor tree faction, the higher their initial level will be.

Some people join at level four or level three immediately.

But the survivors who joined later were all level six when they joined.

One must pass through various requirements at each level before one can be promoted step by step.

Now, as the population increases, the benefits enjoyed by the early residents are also increasing.

This is the benefit of joining the camphor tree faction early.

This is what these people deserve. In the early days, the big camphor tree was in dire need of reconstruction, and it was through their hard work that they built this empire little by little.

From initially worrying about the walls being breached by zombies, to learning from various natural disasters and gradually making the base more and more fortified.

Even now, they can confidently say that they have absolutely no need to worry about the threat of zombies while staying in the city.

This is the path they've walked all along.

after an hour.

They finally saw light ahead.

The light ahead was much brighter than the lights in the passageway.

Crunch, crunch, crunch——

The railcar carried them out of the cave.

Li Yu looked around. Nearby were two buildings, and in the middle of the densely packed greenhouses were neat roads.

In the distance is a ten-meter-high wall, with watchtowers scattered along its height.

The searchlights on the watchtowers patrolled back and forth, and the lights from inside the greenhouse shone through the polycarbonate panels, making the entire plantation outside the city extremely bright.

The scene before him gave Li Yu a feeling of the Peach Blossom Spring. After passing through an underground passage for an hour, he suddenly arrived at a bright and spacious place surrounded by walls.

"Lord, we've arrived," Guard Zhao said to Li Yu.

Li Yu jumped off the railcar, followed by Li Tie and Xiao Zhao.

The railcar continued forward, circled around, and then headed back onto the track leading to the headquarters.

Inside the greenhouse, you can also see the workers who are responsible for the planting.

Li Yu looked at Xiao Zhao, who was still standing guard behind him, and said:
"It's okay, you go back first, we'll wander around on our own."

After hesitating for a moment, Xiao Zhao nodded and said:

"Alright, Lord City Lord, please feel free to give me any instructions."

After saying that, he jumped onto a railcar and returned to Buffer City.

Li Yu randomly selected several greenhouses to visit.

The greenhouses here are no different from those at the headquarters.

Because it uses fifth-generation greenhouse planting technology, it doesn't require many people to supervise it.

Temperature, humidity, light brightness, and other factors can all be intelligently controlled.

Since the planting area at the headquarters base is already large enough and the grain yield is quite high, one-third of the greenhouses here are not planted with grain crops.

Several of these greenhouses are entirely planted with fruit trees.

Along the way, they encountered many planters, who all showed great excitement in the face of the city lord's sudden visit.

Afterwards, Li Yu and Li Tie went up the wall.

The No. 1 plantation outside the city is located in a relatively high position in Qiaotou Township. They stand on the wall, surrounded by the surrounding mountains.

It was pitch black all around, but some lights could be faintly seen when looking southeast.

That direction is precisely where the headquarters of the Big Camphor Tree Base is located.

There's nothing new or exciting about the plantation outside the city; it's all just a copy of the headquarters' system.

Li Yu chatted with Le Ziqing, the guard captain on duty here, for a while.

There are 500 people working in the 20,000 mu of greenhouses here, and there is also a militia brigade guarding the area.

The guards and planters here work in shifts, 12 hours a day, to ensure that there are people here 24 hours a day at Plantation No. 1.

Their meals are delivered from the headquarters base via railcars.

After half an hour.

After taking a walk around and finding nothing particularly interesting, Li Yu and Li Tie returned to the track area and took the track car back to the headquarters base.

On the way back, Li Tie complained:

"Brother, this railcar is too slow. 15 kilometers per hour is not even as fast as my running speed."

Li Yu said with a smile:

"Are you getting impatient sitting here?"

"This railcar can't go too fast, otherwise it's easy to tip over. Going too fast is not good for transporting supplies. At this speed, it is indeed a bit slow for people to get on, but we can't build another railcar for people to ride on."

"But opening up another track would make things a bit narrow."

“Building a 15-kilometer-long underground passage would require a lot of resources and manpower, and the project would take a long time. What we have now is sufficient.”

"Oh." Li Hang, like Ge You, lay on the railcar seat, looking at the ventilation fan above his head, his mind a bit muddled.

I spent the whole day in a helicopter, and before I even got back, I was off to the plantation outside the city.

He felt like he was about to die of exhaustion.

Before long, Li Tie, who was sitting on the railcar, fell asleep.

After hearing Li Tie's snoring, Li Yu smiled and shook his head.

This underground passage is a bit like riding a roller coaster; some sections go uphill, and some go downhill. Overall, it's quite interesting.

He watched the recurring scene in the corridor, lost in thought:

Train tracks are much more complex than underground tracks.

(End of this chapter)