Chapter 502: Everyone is rushing to work
Wen Xu has followed Li Yu'e in running the Lingxu Gang for many years and has learned some skills. How could he be so foolish as to run back to Li Yu'e's house?
He escaped from prison and tried to find a way to get a shielding suit to leave the underground city, but the investigation was too strict, so he had no chance to get a shielding suit and had to find a place to hide.
Li Yu'e's house had been converted into a chess and card room, with people coming and going every day, making it unsuitable for hiding. On the contrary, Xia Xiaoman's house was very quiet, with no one there.
So Wen Xu found a way to enter Xia Xiaoman's house and hid there, hoping to wait until the storm had passed. Then he would use the supplies in Xia Xiaoman's house to make a shielding suit and an oxygen mask to leave the underground city and go to other cities to make a living.
He just didn't expect Xia Xiaoman to come back so soon. Before he could take the next step, he was blocked under the bed by Xia Xiaoman.
Xia Xiaoman looked at Wen Xu, "Wen Xu, how can you say that I am cruel? Aren't you the one who is truly cruel?"
"You have designed to kill all 103 people in Xingang City because of your selfishness. Have you ever thought about what would happen if their families knew about their deaths?"
Wen Xu's face froze. "I, I, this world is a world where the strong prey on the weak. They, they will die because they are not strong enough. It has nothing to do with me!"
Xia Xiaoman looked at Wen Xu coldly, "Yes! They died because they were not strong enough, and you were arrested and sent back to labor camp because you are not strong enough. In this case, what qualifications do you have to complain here?"
Xia Xiaoman was too lazy to talk nonsense with him and notified the security team to arrest him. Seeing this, Wen Xu struggled to get up and tried to escape. Maodan raised his paw and slapped him on the head, knocking him unconscious.
When Wen Xu was taken away, Li Yu'e and Wen Ling happened to meet him. They were speechless when they learned that Wen Xu had escaped from prison.
In order to settle the mess caused by Wen Xu, the Fucheng officials paid a lot of food to Xinggang City. The Fucheng officials didn't say anything, so how could Wen Xu have the nerve to escape from prison?
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After resting at home for two days and feeling that his physical fatigue had gone away, Xia Xiaoman took Maodan and Nini to the science museum to see the wolf cubs.
Besides Director Hou, there are only two other employees in the Science Museum. Xia Xiaoman joked, "Director Hou, are you laying off a lot of people in the Science Museum? How come there are so many fewer employees?"
Director Hou said as he fed the birds: "Didn't you see when you came back? All the people were transferred to work in the water world. 80% of the people in the underground city were forced to work in the water world, and the remaining 20% were unable to leave or were family members of the military and did not need to go out to work."
Xia Xiaoman frowned. No wonder she didn't meet many people on the way to the Science Museum. "Is the construction schedule of Water World so tight?"
Director Hou patted the crumbs on his hands and said, "A new cold wave will come in a few days. After this cold wave, the temperature outside may plummet to minus 70, 80 or even 90 degrees Celsius. By then, let alone rushing to work, I'm afraid we won't even be able to leave the house."
"The underwater pillars of the water world were broken when the ground sank. Without the pillars, the higher-ups are worried that the accumulated snow from the cold wave will crush the water world, so they want to quickly seal the roof of the water world."
The top of the water world is semicircular, and the snow will slide down if it doesn't accumulate too much. If the top is not sealed, the whole water world will be a huge bowl, and the snow cannot be drained out, which may sink the water world.
In addition, only by sealing the roof of the water world and isolating it from the cold wind outside can they continue to build the water world during the cold wave.
Just as Director Hou finished speaking, Xia Xiaoman received a text message from Lu Lanshan. Lu Lanshan said that in two days, he would let her take the crew to the water world to help.
Assembling the top of the water world is a technical job. Xia Xiaoman and his team have not received any training and cannot assemble it. Lu Lanshan arranged for them to transport goods. They are all people who have taken meteorite liquid and have greater strength than ordinary people. They deliver goods, while others can do some more delicate work.
Xia Xiaoman was also responsible for delivering the goods. When she went to the warehouse to pick up the goods, she saw Qiao Wan who was also picking up the goods.
When Qiao Wan learned that Xia Xiaoman and the others had just started working today, she said indignantly, "It's not fair. Why should I start working the day after I come back? You guys only came to work after taking five days off! This is too unfair."
Xia Xiaoman shrugged. "You are in the system, so you have to do whatever the higher-ups tell you to do."
Qiao Wan is different from Xia Xiaoman and the others. Qiao Wan relies on the officialdom to make a living. Without the protection of the floating city officialdom, she would have been eaten by a group of hungry wolves without leaving any bones. Xia Xiaoman and the others live by their own abilities. Even without the officialdom, they can live well.
Therefore, the authorities dare to exploit Qiao Wan, but they dare not exploit Xia Xiaoman and others.
Eighty percent of the people in the underground city were working in the water world. The water world was brightly lit and people were coming and going, all working. The transparent cover above the water world only had a small circle in the center to cap it. Everyone gathered under this small circle, busy with its capping.
After the efforts of many people, the Water World was finally successfully topped out on the sixth day before the cold wave arrived.
After the roof was sealed, Xia Xiaoman and his team's work was not over. The passage connecting the water world and the underground city exit elevator also needed to be sealed with a transparent cover, otherwise they would not be able to reach the water world from the underground city during the cold wave.
The distance from the underground city exit to the water world entrance was not far, only about 100 meters. Tens of thousands of people rushed to build the cover for this section of the road before the cold wave hit.
On the night of the completion of the project, there were gusts of cold wind and the temperature dropped rapidly. In one night, the temperature dropped by about ten degrees and was still dropping.
During the cold wave, the weather was unstable, so Lu Lanshan asked all the people working in the water world to return to the dungeon and wait until the cold wave was over and the weather was more stable to see if the temperature in the water world was suitable for work.
The water world was completely shut down, and many people stayed at home with nothing to do. The chess and card room was very busy during this period, and Li Yu'e and her colleagues were too busy to handle it. But suddenly one day, the number of customers dropped significantly.
Li Yu'e asked someone to find out what was going on. Not long after, Su Ran came back with the information he had found out.
"The government has set up an adult university, which teaches everything and does not require tuition. Many people want to learn a skill and go to the adult university to study."
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