Chapter 17 Journey
Liu Yu was taken aback for a moment when Zhou Cheng took the initiative to hug her in front of everyone. Her face flushed instantly. But the next moment, she took the initiative to raise her arms and hugged Zhou Cheng as well.
"Yo, yo!"
There were strange cries, whistles and applause from the group of young people.
The highest decision-makers, Professor Wang Liyun and her team, as well as many elderly people from the construction team watched this scene and couldn't help but smile.
“It’s great to be young…”
People sighed to themselves.
Letting go of the blushing Liu Yu, Zhou Cheng announced loudly, "Then let's all go, let's all go together!"
"good!"
“Let’s go together!”
The students cheered enthusiastically.
Wang Zhe shouted, "That's right. Everyone, tell me, it's hard to say whether we can dig anything out of the Yangjiagou ruins, but we can't just rely on the old veterans to do the hard work. We young people can't be left out."
"Yes, yes."
"Your Excellency, Decision Maker, we are leaving only after we have finished our work. You cannot stop us from going."
"Although we don't know much about construction, we have some strength, which can always be of some use on the construction site."
A smile gradually formed on the corners of the top decision-maker's mouth, and he looked at the students with satisfaction: "I am only happy that everyone has this heart, how can I possibly stop it?
Only when I see you can I feel that there is still hope for our civilization...
Besides, Zhou Cheng is the person in charge of the Yangjiagou site excavation project. Since he has agreed, I certainly won't stop him."
A man who looked like a secretary came to the top decision maker and whispered something.
He turned to look at Zhou Cheng and said solemnly, "Zhou Cheng, a total of one thousand on-site construction workers, 600 logistics support personnel, as well as various machinery, vehicles, equipment, and supplies are all in place.
Now, you're ready to go.
Go, go, go to Yangjiagou and see if there are any further clues there, and see what is buried there..."
Zhou Cheng said solemnly: "Yes!"
He turned around and looked at the old and young people gathered at Gate No. 3 of Dajing City.
"Set off!"
"Let's go! Let's go!"
The old and the young cheered together, each sitting in different vehicles, forming a long line along the slightly deserted road, and driving towards the distance.
Until the last car caught up with the convoy and moved away, the highest decision-maker still stood where he was, staring deeply at the direction where the convoy disappeared, refusing to look away for a long time.
"The gamble has begun. We, human civilization, have staked our chips on this. Who knows whether, in the end, we will win back a thousandfold profit, or lose everything..."
With a sigh, he finally withdrew his gaze, got in the car and headed towards the World Government Building.
There, there are too many trivial matters that are purely trivial to the decision makers in their prime era, but are extremely important to human civilization in its twilight years, and they need him to deal with them.
The abandonment of cradles, the relocation of populations, the breakdown of plantation buildings, the maintenance of power plants, the transfer of resources...
And so on and so forth.
…
According to the previously planned advance plan, the large convoy stopped at an abandoned settlement after driving for more than eight hours.
Amidst the flying dust, the heavy steel gate was opened and vehicles entered one after another.
Instead of repairing the dilapidated houses, people camped out on the open space for the night.
The next day, the convoy set off again, repeating this process for several days before arriving at an abandoned settlement closest to Yangjiagou.
Guangxi County settlement.
This county town was once home to tens of thousands of people. However, with the decline of human civilization, the few thousand remaining eventually moved to the cradle. Later, the cradle was also abandoned, and the remaining population moved to the cradle above.
Like any other abandoned settlement, it was overgrown with weeds and full of rats, rabbits, pheasants, etc.
With the arrival of people, the little animals were in a panic.
We can't just make do here like we did before.
According to the plan, people began to repair their houses, connect water and electricity, clean up, etc.
In the future, this place will become a material transfer point connecting human civilization and the Yangjiagou construction site.
After a busy period, we managed to clean up some habitable places and barely connected water and electricity. It was almost dark.
Several large pots were set up in the central square of the settlement. People started a fire and the aroma of food gradually spread.
People who had worked hard all day gathered around the big pot, chatting casually while waiting for dinner to be ready.
"Director Xiao Zhou, do you think there's a clue in that cemetery? If we dig there, will we be able to have a child?"
Zhou Cheng walked over, and an old man with a thin body and gray hair asked him hopefully.
Zhou Cheng knew that his name was Sun Tian and he was a team leader of the construction team.
Before Zhou Cheng could answer, his fellow workers burst into laughter: "Old Sun, even if you could have a baby right now, you're not strong enough to do it."
"Be careful with your old waist."
Sun Tian snorted, full of pride: "Don't think I'm not good enough now, but when I was young, I froze my sperm. The quality is excellent, and it will grow into a good seedling if I plant it."
"Oh, I didn't expect that you still have a trick up your sleeve, Old Sun."
"Why? I told you to spend all your money when you were young, and you didn't save any money. Now you're not in good health anymore, you must be stupid."
"Think about yourself first. You don't know how long you can live, and you miss your children."
Listening to Sun Tian's question, Zhou Cheng smiled and said, "Master Sun, that's not a cemetery, it's an ancient cultural relic."
"Aren't ruins just cemeteries? They're where people are buried anyway."
"That's quite true."
Zhou Cheng sighed, "We can only hope to find some clues there, but we're still far from solving the disaster."
"What's the point of this? I don't understand. Director Zhou, you're well-read. Just tell me, if we dig there, will there be hope of having children in the future?"
Zhou Cheng pondered for a moment and found that this logic was really impossible to refute. He could only nod and said, "It's just that there is hope, and the hope is very small."
"Okay, then we have to dig..."
Sun Tian murmured, his cloudy and old eyes full of longing.
After receiving Zhou Cheng's clear answer, the construction workers in their sixties and seventies fell silent, with a glimmer of hope in their eyes.
A night passed. On the second day, follow-up supply convoys continued to arrive. Here in the Guangxi County settlement, the transportation of materials and personnel to the Yangjiagou ruins had officially begun.
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