Apocalypse Rebirth: 3000 million won at the beginning

Chapter 2088 I used to stand like an ant, but now (5000 words)
The convoy reached the edge of the city.

Since the outer city was not yet completely surrounded, they went in along the highway.

The city of Edge City has six gates, each located along the surrounding roads, thus making full use of these roads built before the apocalypse.

Although the highways before the apocalypse were dilapidated, they had at least been built with great effort and were located in relatively reasonable locations.

Therefore, they will continue to use these roads.

After the vehicle entered the outskirts of the city, construction had already begun.

Construction is underway on agricultural greenhouses, residential housing, and other facilities.

Looking at the vast outlying city from the convoy, Li Qi sighed:

“I remember when I came to Oil City before, it only took a few minutes to get to the main city. Now that the outlying cities are built, it will take us at least twenty minutes to get back to the main city.”

Zhu Xiao felt this strongly and agreed:

"Who could have imagined that the oil city could develop to this point, but it will probably stay this way from now on."

Li Qi nodded. "It seems so. Last time I heard the president say that the overall plan is to extend to the outskirts of the city, and it is estimated that there will be no further expansion."

Zhu Xiao asked:

"How big is the entire oil city again?"

“Over 100,000 mu, roughly 100 square kilometers,” Li Qi replied.

Upon hearing this, Zhu Xiao's eyes widened in disbelief. "This is equivalent to the area of ​​a square with a length and width of 10 kilometers?"

"Yeah, you're pretty good at math." Li Qi said sarcastically.

A math problem involving 100 square kilometers, calculating its length and width, is something even a first-grader could do.

Zhu Xiao also sensed Li Qi's sarcastic tone, frowned, and asked:

"What's wrong with you? Did you get shot? Or did you get your period? You've been talking to me in a sarcastic tone since yesterday."

Li Qi glanced at him, unwilling to say anything more.

He picked up the walkie-talkie and contacted Cao Hu, the captain of the goalkeeping team, to ask him to prepare to let them through.

After receiving the message, Cao Hu immediately replied:

"Okay, you can go in through the west gate of the buffer city. I've already spoken to them."

Today, Oil City has expanded from a single main city to a trading market, a buffer city, and next, a peripheral city.

The goalkeeping team has also expanded its ranks.

The number of people has expanded from the original thirty to nearly three hundred.

They are specifically responsible for security checks at all the gates of the oil city.

Despite being a vast outlying town, there wasn't much smoke or dust.

All of this is thanks to the misting system; as soon as you enter the Edge City, a layer of water mist begins to fall from the sky.

It was as if it was raining throughout the entire city of Edge, but the raindrops were smaller.

In hot weather, this water mist can help cool you down.

It can also reduce dust on construction sites.

The entire construction site in Edge City was filled with vehicles and bustling construction workers.

Nearly 100,000 workers are busy at the construction site in the outskirts of the city.

Because the construction site was rather chaotic, and there were workers busy on both sides,

The convoy couldn't travel too fast either; it took them a good ten minutes to travel from the entrance to the gate of the buffer city.

They traveled a distance of six or seven kilometers in more than ten minutes, which was almost as slow as a snail's pace.

We finally arrived at the west gate of the buffer city.

After coordinating with Li Qi and others, the squad leader in charge of the west gate quickly ordered his security personnel to conduct a routine inspection.

There are basically no zombies outside, so security checks are relatively easier.

"You all, get down!" a security team leader shouted to Liu Benshan and the others sitting on the roof of the car.

far away.

Security checkpoint team leader Ma Tian looked at the people on the electric truck and asked Zhu Xiao:

"Captain Zhu, who are these people?"

Zhu Xiao replied:
“The construction workers who came back from Wuyuan Mountain in the Northwest were previously sent there to provide support. I have the approval order here.”

As he spoke, he took out a piece of paper.

Security team leader Ma Tian examined the text on the order, finally looking at Ju Tianrui's signature in the lower right corner.

Having spent so many years in the oil city, he naturally recognized Ju Tianrui's signature.

He nodded and then put the approval document away.

This approval order will be archived later, so that if this group of people causes any trouble in the trading market, the security personnel will have an explanation to prove that it was not their responsibility.

Subsequently, Ma Tian ordered his men to take a headcount.

After confirming that the number of people on the order matched the number of people entering the city, and after a routine inspection found no problems, the convoy was allowed to pass.

The inspection here took another ten minutes or so.

In the blink of an eye, nearly half an hour had passed from when the convoy arrived at the edge city to when it entered the buffer city.

However, once they entered the buffer city, the convoy's speed increased significantly.

Although the buffer city has been under construction for the past two years, it has not yet fully utilized the land within it.

However, the transportation infrastructure was completely completed.

With pedestrians and vehicles separated, many vehicles were heading towards the trading market on the wide road.

The overall planning was excellent; even with a convoy of hundreds of transport vehicles arriving, there was no traffic congestion.

However, the convoy did not head towards the trading market, but instead headed towards the buffer city's storage area.

The trading market has a limited area, and its storage area is already full.

Therefore, a large volume of supplies must be transferred through the buffer city.

As for the supplies and equipment that the scavengers brought without careful sorting, they were placed in the outlying city.

Crunch!

The vehicle suddenly stopped at the intersection of the buffer zone.

Li Qi got out of the car and went to the electric truck behind her, shouting:
"Liu Benshan, you can get off here. We're going to the storage area of ​​the buffer city later. It will probably take two hours to unload the goods. You can go into the trading market first."

A small portion of the supplies they were transporting this time were steel rails, which, according to regulations, should be placed in the buffer city.

As for the oil, it is ultimately transported to the storage area of ​​the trading market.

Upon hearing Li Qi's words, Liu Benshan quickly stood up and shouted at her:

"Okay, thank you Captain Li for giving us a ride."

He turned around and shouted to the crowd behind him:
"Get out of the car, everyone."

Everyone got out of the car.

Li Qi saw them get out of the car and were about to return to the armored vehicle.

Suddenly she remembered something and quickly went over.

"Liu Benshan, there's something I need to remind you of. Your construction department has moved. They're no longer in the trading market. You need to report to Building 6 in the buffer city."

"Huh? Isn't it in the North District Administration Building of the Trading Market anymore?" Liu Benshan asked, somewhat surprised.

Li Qi shook her head and said:
"We've changed locations. Go to Building 6 in Buffer City."

"How do I get there?" Liu Benshan had been away from the buffer city for half a year and was no longer familiar with it.

Li Qi pointed north and said, "It's also in the northern district."

Forehead.
He glanced at Liu Benshan and the others, and immediately realized that it would probably take them quite a while to walk from the West District to the North District.

The buffer city also covers an area of ​​tens of thousands of acres, which is much larger than the trading market.

If they were to walk there, the five-kilometer journey would take about forty or fifty minutes, not to mention they were carrying luggage.

So he shouted to the driver of the electric truck:
"Xiao Ling, you guys drive them over there and then come to the storage area."

"Okay, Captain."

Liu Benshan expressed his gratitude once again.

Li Qi waved, signaling that the other vehicles could leave first.

After Liu Benshan and others arrived at Building No. 6 in the buffer city.

They gazed at the eight-story construction department building.

A flood of emotions welled up within me.

The construction department now has its own building.
The oil city has indeed changed quite a bit in the past six months.

Liu Benshan told the intermediate and junior workers to wait outside, while he led a dozen senior workers into the construction department building.

And following the signs, we arrived at the registration desk on the first floor.

There were a few people sitting at the registration window, chatting and eating sunflower seeds.

It's not peak registration season yet, so the people at the registration desk are relatively relaxed.

Liu Benshan took out his points number card from his wallet and walked to the registration window.

"You, we need to register."

One of the female staff members saw that he was dressed in dirty clothes and was tanned dark.

He casually took the SIM card from his hand, swiped it on the machine, and checked the information on the computer.

He looked up, somewhat surprised, his attitude much better than before, and asked:
"You came from the Wuyuan Mountains in the Northwest?"

"Correct."

The female staff member skillfully reset his SIM card, handed it back, and said:

"Go up to the second floor later to complete the promotion process. It's room 204 on the second floor. After the promotion is completed there, they will assign you a new job."

Liu Benshan was somewhat surprised to hear that he could be promoted directly:

"I'm going to get promoted right away?"

The female staff member nodded and said, "Yes, but you are only being promoted in your construction position, from Level 1 Supervisor to Level 2 Supervisor."

To reach your personal level within the camphor tree's influence, you still need to go to the administration building to complete the necessary procedures.

I checked my records the day after tomorrow, and you've met the points requirement and passed the review. You can be upgraded from Level 4 to Level 3!

At this point, a smile flashed across the female staff member's face.

"Congratulations, you're about to become a Level 3 personnel!"

The female staff member was just a low-level employee at the registration office, only a level four staff member.

Her authority is limited, and everything must be done in accordance with regulations, leaving almost no room for maneuver.

Most of the people who come here are at level six or five; there are very few at level four.

As for Level 3 personnel, they are even rarer; you might not see one even once a month.

Liu Benshan suppressed his excitement, even though he wanted to jump up and shout.

But he still didn't want to appear unsophisticated in front of this staff member.

After taking the number plate, he asked the female staff member:
"The people behind me are also from the Northwest. Shouldn't they be promoted soon too?"

The female staff member frowned and said:
"Well... I don't know either. We'll only know after the card is swiped, since promotions aren't under our jurisdiction."

"Row."

Liu Benshan quickly called over Zhao Mingjian and the others behind him to register.

After thirteen senior workers registered, only five of them showed they were eligible for promotion after swiping their cards.

Zhao Mingjian was one of them.

Zhao Mingjian shouted excitedly from the window.

Because he was not only promoted from a level 5 staff member to a level 4 staff member,
It has also been upgraded from a major engineering institution to a first-level regulatory body.

In the construction department, laborers of all levels—from junior to senior—have to do the work and are all on the front lines.

Only when he was promoted to Level 1 Supervisor could he be considered to have stepped into the management level.

"Brother Liu, I've been promoted too!" Zhao Mingjian excitedly ran up to Liu Benshan and said.

His face showed barely concealed joy.

Suddenly, he noticed that the expressions on the faces of several of his colleagues next to him were not quite right.

It dawned on me instantly that these colleagues hadn't been promoted.

So he comforted him, saying:

"Zhou Song, Wang Erkui, Cai Digua, you haven't been in the construction department for long, and your points aren't enough yet. There will be other opportunities later."

With your experience supporting the Northwest, you've accumulated enough points to be promoted directly.

Zhou Song sighed and didn't say a word.

But Yu Yonggan, standing beside him, looked resentful and complained to Liu Benshan:

"Brother Liu, why haven't I been promoted? I joined the construction department earlier than Zhao Mingjian, and I have enough points, so why can't I be promoted?"

Liu Benshan's face was full of black lines.

Although Yu Yonggan has enough points, his individual performance is really poor.

There were three warnings for violations alone.

However, since Yu Yonggan had followed him for a long time, he gave him a relatively high score in the personal evaluation.

Seeing Liu Benshan remain silent, Yu Yonggan looked at him and asked somewhat angrily:
"Brother Liu, you're not going to give me a bad grade, are you? I've been following you for over a year!"

"What makes Zhao Mingjian so special?"

"Fuck you."

Upon hearing Yu Yonggan start swearing, Liu Benshan shouted sternly:
"enough!"

What the hell!
How dare you, a mere engineer, speak to me like that?
Who gave you the courage?

If it weren't for the fact that they had been colleagues for many years, Liu Benshan would have kicked him out long ago.

Once they enter the regulatory layer, they can choose their own majors.

Some skilled workers who lack the necessary abilities are often dismissed and have no choice but to return to the construction department to find a supervisor willing to take them on.

In some rare cases, the performance of senior workers was so poor that they ended up in a situation where, despite their high rank, they could not find a job.

Liu Benshan glared at Yu Yonggan and said:

"You know the assessment criteria. I gave you senior engineers high scores. It must have been other departments that gave you low scores during their assessments that caused you to fail."

The inspectors aren't just sitting idly by; they can see how you behave on the construction site.

After saying that, he told the other workers outside the door to go and register themselves.

Then I went up to room 204 on the second floor.

A sign hangs at the entrance of room 204: Personnel Department.

Liu Benshan pushed open the door and entered the hall, where there were many people queuing up.

It seems these people are all waiting for work assignments.

He obediently followed the shortest queue.

The staff inside were incredibly efficient; it took him less than five minutes to get his turn.

"Number card," the staff member inside said impatiently.

Every day I have to receive hundreds or even thousands of people, and after a while I become a bit numb to it all.

Liu Benshan was in a good mood today and didn't pay attention to the staff's attitude.

He quickly handed over his blue number plate.

After the staff swiped the card, their attitude immediately improved a lot.

He asked, "Are you going to take a week off or go straight back to work?"

"You can still rest?" Liu Benshan asked, somewhat surprised.

“Yes.” The male staff member inside swiped the form and continued:
"Regulatory staff are entitled to rest, especially since you've returned from the Northwest. You've been given a week of paid leave."

"Paid leave is great! I'll take a week off!"

"Hmm." The male staff member nodded and added:

"However, paid leave is the basic work provided, and there is no double pay."

"It's okay, I understand. I'll take a week off." Liu Benshan has been in the Northwest for the past six months and has hardly spent any money. He now has hundreds of points on his loyalty card.

He has barely had a break in the three years since joining the construction department.

Now I finally get a week off, and it's paid leave, it couldn't be better.

The male staff member clicked the electric mouse a few times, then turned the computer screen around to show him:

“Okay, you can choose which project you want to join. There are many projects underway in the oil city right now. If you have a familiar supervisor, you can continue to join their project.”

As Liu Benshan looked at the projects on the screen, a storm raged in his heart.

So many projects
Factory construction, perimeter wall construction, plantation outside City 3, and commercial district renovation and upgrades.
There were more than a dozen projects, and his eyes were getting tired from looking at them.

The list of projects is marked with a Level 3 regulatory label.

Suddenly, he saw a familiar name.

"I want to participate in the commercial district renovation project."

"Okay." The staff member turned the computer screen around.

After clicking the mouse a few times, he continued to ask:

"Were the workers who came back with you also the ones who went to this project with you? Are there any who need to be fired?"

Yu Yonggan's face instantly flashed into Liu Benshan's mind.

He had tried to kick him out of his team more than once before, and the regulators have that right.

But he always considered their relationship.

But the image of Yu Yonggan yelling at him just now reignited his anger.

"Kick Yu Yonggan out, keep the other workers."

“Okay.” The male staff member wasn’t surprised by this; supervisors often did this.

If a construction worker is disobedient, the supervisor naturally has the right to remove him from the construction team.

There are so many regulators. If this worker was maliciously kicked out, then naturally there will be regulators who appreciate him and come to take him back.

But if this worker is of poor character and incompetent, the regulators will naturally not want him.

Workers who are unwanted by everyone will eventually find it difficult to survive in the construction sector.

After the procedure was completed, the male staff member handed him a slip of paper.

"It's all been processed for you. You've been upgraded from Level 1 supervision to Level 2 supervision."

"I've also chosen a job for you."

"Next Wednesday, go to the business district to report to Hua Changsheng, the third-level supervisor. He will arrange specific work for you."

"In addition, you can be promoted to Level 3 personnel and will be going to the North District Administration Building of the Trading Market."

"Thank you," Liu Benshan said gratefully.

The male staff member handed him his number tag along with the ticket, saying, "Congratulations."

"Thank you," Liu Benshan said again.

He took the number plate and walked out of the hall.

As he walked down the building, he stood very straight, as if his spine had been straightened.

With hundreds of points in hand, I'm about to be promoted to Level 3.

That's the source of his confidence to stand up for himself.

He used to be so poor that he was like an ant in the oil city.

You have to be careful when you speak and try to keep your voice down.

现在
I, Old Liu, have stood up too!
He looked at the sun in the sky, but didn't find it dazzling.

(End of this chapter)