Chapter 994: Reciprocate the favor, the gopher man's market is really here!
Wednesday is September 27th of the wasteland calendar year.
When the first ray of sunlight fell on the ground through the mist, the sleeping Hope Village quietly woke up.
Logically speaking, the recent continuous high-pressure work has put a lot of pressure on both the mind and the body. During this long-lost holiday, many people should sleep until noon.
However, in fact, the hands of the clock had just crossed seven o'clock, and the doors of prefabricated houses were pushed open everywhere.
The villagers with excited faces walked out, opened their arms happily, and breathed in the fresh air.
Compared with a few days ago, Hope Village has undergone earth-shaking changes.
Because the village entrance market contributes management fee income every day, as well as regular taxes from several factories.
Hope Village’s public accounts are no longer in the red as they were a few months ago, and are becoming more prosperous day by day.
With money, Chen Shen, who was in charge of the village's development planning, was not stingy and took the initiative to place orders for several large-scale infrastructure projects.
Now.
The original gravel paths in the village have been replaced by clean and tidy hardened cement roads, with tall black columnar streetlights separated by 25 meters on both sides.
The two-story bungalows made of reinforced concrete began to take shape, neatly lined up in a row, with no less than twenty in number.
Going along the road into the village, there is a circular open space.
The statue of Oreo is placed in the center of the field, surrounded by an iron fence as high as one person. It looks quite solemn.
Looking up further, we see the second phase of the Hope Village construction project currently under construction.
The buildings here are mainly one-story bungalows and courtyards, and it is a residential area that is about to be established.
Imitating those architectural styles in the western suburbs, each bungalow is not closely attached to each other, but is separated by more than ten meters.
So although the density is still quite high, it doesn’t look so depressing.
It won’t take long, even if all the villagers still can’t collect enough points to move into the underground city.
Here, you can also have your own independent space at a lower and more affordable price.
Of course, if there are residential areas, there will naturally be supporting commercial areas.
After every two hundred bungalows, a commercial area of about two thousand square meters will be planned.
According to the construction standard of 1,000 rooms, there will be at least over 10,000 square meters of commercial space here.
If it can be built according to Chen Shen's plan, then I hope that the village will no longer be at the level of a village, but will be transformed from a village to a town in an upright manner, becoming the first collection of towns in the territory.
It was a few kilometers outside the village at this time.
More than twenty humans wearing gopher man's standard clothing and two four-wheeled motorcycles carrying goods were slowly approaching.
Perhaps it was their first time to visit the world outside Qinggang City, and they were extremely curious.
Even the ordinary soil underfoot feels novel. From time to time, someone will lower his body and pick up a handful, lovingly sniffing the special smell inside.
Besides this group of people, more than a dozen border guards with live ammunition were following nearby.
However, neither party made further contact. The distance in between was about fifty meters, and it looked more like an escort.
Go forward along the soft dirt road.
Looking at the "big construction site" gradually appearing in the thick fog ahead, Wang Qian's eyes widened, almost thinking that he was hallucinating.
“This is Tianyuan Shelter?”
In my impression, there are very few shelters that extend their sphere of influence to the ground.
In an area as large as Qinggang City, with dozens of gopher gangs, only Qinggang Shelter has the strength to build a large-scale industrial zone on the ground.
But now, Wang Qiande is added to this list.
In the village in the distance, although their outer walls are not as tall as the Lightning Wall, there is only one person standing at the top.
The roads in the village also look ordinary, without any sense of high-tech.
Including those neat cement houses and colorful iron houses, they also seem a bit fragile.
But there is no denying that they do live on the ground.
A road completely different from that of the Gopher Man. This is more like a large gathering place where stragglers gathered together!
“Aren’t they afraid of war?”
Recalling Goode’s instructions before leaving, Wang Qian became more and more curious.
Yihu wanted him to take this opportunity of visiting to find out the details of the other party.
In particular, the defensive layout of this unfamiliar shelter, the strength of the soldiers, the industrial base, etc. can determine the strength of the two shelters.
Who would have thought that the other party would actually build a gathering place on the ground like the Qinggang Shelter, and the scale would reach thousands of people.
This is not the slightest bit of envy for the gopher guy who is extremely insecure.
Especially on such a large plain that is easy to attack and difficult to defend, if troops come from all directions, the people inside will be trapped and die in this small area.
If you can't reach the level where you can use hard power to break the situation like He Qinggang Shelter, you can only die slowly.
"Ahem. Chief, their industrial zone is actually built on the ground."
The new deputy chief who was following Wang Qian coughed and pointed to the separate industrial zone next to the village.
There.
The billowing black smoke, which is not environmentally friendly, is rising into the sky, mixed with the white mist, like black snakes hiding in the water.
The rumbling sound, mixed with the blowing of the wind, was as melodious and long as a horn.
Occasionally, bursts of white water vapor will be discharged to the side, as if high-temperature work is being carried out inside.
Wang Qian stood staring blankly, and the dozen or so guards following him not far away also stopped.
For people who have lived underground for a long time, it is difficult to form this flat concept in their minds.
From the moment they are born, most people accept the concept of a small room of twenty square meters, spiraling stairs up and down, and an activity space of no more than one hundred square meters.
Except for combatants, ordinary civilians, as long as their luck is not too bad, may have to wait until they reach adulthood before they have the opportunity to go to the ground and experience the environment in which humans originally lived and the dangers that have been spread by word of mouth.
Wang Qian still remembers the first time he went to the ground, when he was eleven years old.
Following his father's broad back, he saw with his own eyes the dangerous world on earth that everyone said was dangerous.
There is a sky that cannot be touched, and there is an earth with invisible boundaries.
There are towering buildings and a wide river beside the Fifth Ring Road!
From that day on, the yearning for the world outside the shelter was like a seed rooted in his heart.
After returning to the underground, Wang Qian finally couldn't help but tell her father her thoughts.
What is surprising is that Wang's father, who was just a commoner at the time, did not refuse, but was pleased to find friends on another level.
Liu Li, Liu Lu's father, who was already the deputy director of the B-7 floor at the time, asked him to find someone to help with training.
Later, during the long five years.
From the most basic physical training, to willpower training, and then to learning the killing skills and marksmanship used in combat.
Finally, during the chaos in Pingtan Shelter more than ten years ago, Wang Qian succeeded in taking the position by force and firmly secured the position of deputy director of the B-9 floor.
At this time, seeing the industrial area on the ground in the distance, more and more memories began to pour out of my mind.
After staying there for several minutes, Wang Qian finally came back to his senses and let out a long sigh.
"How happy the people living here must be"
The small underground cannot accommodate too many dreams and ambitions.
Countless people with potential and genius are born in it, die in it, and are drowned in barren basic needs their entire lives. Before coming, he thought that this place was also a powerful underground shelter.
But now, a trace of melancholy and happiness appeared in Wang Qian's heart at the same time.
Fortunately, in order to repay Liu Li's favor, I reminded Liu Lu once at a critical moment.
The other party then reciprocated the opportunity and helped him get rid of the B-9 floor leader last night.
And found a way to operate it, so that he became the person who went to Tianyuan Refuge for diplomacy.
This is a place where you can have deep friendships!
I secretly had an idea in my heart. Wang Qian's resistance to Liu Lu's previous introductions and recommendations that sounded unreliable began to disappear quickly.
Indeed, this place is much more civilized than Pingtan Shelter.
They can at least allow residents to come to the ground to move, live, and engage in production at will.
There is no need to forcibly divide fourteen hours of time out of twenty-four hours a day to perform repetitive tasks that are meaningless and are just for killing physical strength.
It might be a good choice to join Liu Lu's team and set up your back line here.
With this idea in mind, the team continued to move forward.
When there were only a few hundred meters left, the villagers in the village also discovered the strange visitors.
What surprised Wang Qian was that he did not see any vigilance on these people's faces, nor did he see any resistance.
Even...many people actually cheered with surprise.
"Damn it, they said Cao Cao Cao Cao is here, but this gopher man's market is really here??!"
< br>“Look at their two cars, are they carrying any local products?”
“I heard that these aborigines have a lot of high-tech gadgets. It would be great if I could exchange a few of them for them. "
"Ahem, restrain yourself, don't scare others."
"I'm afraid of a hammer, and they can't understand us."
"Hurry up and open the stall. This is our best chance to sell products!"
He Lan Wang Qian was a little confused when the completely different pronunciation of the star language came into his ears.
But looking at their excited looks, they seem to be welcoming?
There are shelter residents who welcome outsiders who don’t know the details and have no experience with them?
This was so surprising that not only Wang Qian himself was stunned, but also the other members of the Pingtan Refuge who followed were a little at a loss, and for a while they felt a little "shy".
"It's really rude and disrespectful that we didn't come far to welcome our distinguished guest."
From a distance in the mist, two silent vehicles drove over.
Chen Shen jumped out of the car, speaking half-baked Blue Star language, with a friendly smile on his face.
“I am the village chief of the village ahead, Chen Shen.”
"I really didn't expect you guys to come here so early. I thought it would be in the afternoon."
The request from Pingtan Shelter to visit was the news from the border at five o'clock in the morning.
Hunting Tiger has such an impatient temper that he has no intention of enduring it for a few days until the disaster is completely over.
Qinggang City had just calmed down, and he hurriedly sent an envoy to request a visit to discuss cooperation.
Chen Shen originally thought that the so-called "envoy team" would come back in a day or two.
But who would have thought that it was only past ten o'clock in the morning, and this visiting team had already arrived in the village.
It is not difficult to infer that they actually set off with the messenger.
"The village chief is too polite. We didn't expect Mr. Pingtan to be so anxious and urged us to come here overnight."
Wang Qian smiled quite officially and went to Waving from behind.
All the dozen or so people who came to Pingtan Shelter bowed down at the same time and made an extremely gentlemanly gesture.
Then the four people at the rear lifted up the tarpaulin covering the locomotive, revealing the items loaded underneath.
Somewhat surprisingly, the two vehicles contained neither food nor industrial products, nor weapons and ammunition.
What was piled in the carriage were magazines and books that were obviously a bit shabby. They were colorful and looked pretty good when put together.
"This is."
"Master Pingtan asked me to choose a gift for Tianyuan territory. I guess Master Tianyuan will be very curious about the past and culture of our Blue Star, so Don’t underestimate these magazines and books from the pre-war era. Each of them is at least two hundred years old.”
Chen Shen stared at Wang Qian deeply in surprise, then stepped forward and picked up a thick book with about three hundred pages.
It is a little different from the roughness you imagined. The first touch of this book is actually a bit gentle, as if you are stroking jade.
Thinking about the fact that it can be stored for more than two hundred years and still maintain its current appearance, it is most likely that special technology is used to make paper.
On the cover of the writing, it is clearly marked in Blue Star language
"A Brief Talk on the Development of Intelligent Agriculture"
"Intelligent agriculture?"
Chen Shen didn't shy away from it and curiously opened the book and scanned a few pages.
The text inside is very dense, one page is estimated to have at least eight or nine hundred words.
But the layout of the book is very comfortable, with text descriptions on the left and comic-style illustrations on the right.
“Good things are really good things.”
After flipping through more than a dozen pages, Chen Shen's basic Blue Star language skills were not enough to understand this book.
But there is no doubt that the information recorded on it is of very high value, at least it is significantly ahead of the earth in terms of technological level.
Putting down the book, Chen Shen picked up a magazine with dozens of pages.
"Top 100 Porn Stars Illustrated Book"
After opening it, there are explicit photos inside.
After taking a few glances this time, Chen Shen blushed, coughed twice and returned to the front of the team.
"Thank you so much. I think...well, the manager will be satisfied."
"Then I'll feel relieved."
Wang Qian He smiled secretly, feeling secretly excited in his heart.
Choosing magazines and books was not his original idea.
After all, in cooperation between shelters and shelters, the first gift given is often something that the other party is scarce.
According to the reminder given by Liu Lu, the manager of the Tianyuan Refuge and the people under his command like those abandoned industrial products from the pre-war era, and seem to have a great interest in the culture of the past.
Wang Qian thought about it.
As a formal mission, you must not bring these contraband items as gifts.
In this way, these less valuable books and magazines are the only ones that carry the past culture.
He didn't even go to other floors to ask for help. He easily got two cars on the B-9 and B-7 floors.
Now it seems that this gift was indeed chosen correctly!
Not only the manager of this strange Tianyuan Shelter, but also the people below have the same information as Liu Lu gave.
There is indeed an interest in these antiques that is difficult for ordinary people to understand.
“Welcome, you haven’t eaten yet.”
"It happens to be breakfast time, so let me entertain you all as a landlord."
"After we finish eating, how about we go see the manager again?"
( End of chapter)