251 The Tenth Store
◎Get ready to go.◎
There is still a long time before the mission deadline, but Lu Yao inexplicably has a sense of urgency, something she has not grasped is pressing her step by step.
After the situation of the Green Ant City site stabilized, the experience and process had been gone through once, and the follow-up only needed to follow the same method. Lu Yao immediately planned two cities to build new sites.
Jinyao City and Gaosheng City are similar in size, and are neighboring cities of Gaosheng City. The Hope Base located in the urban area is three times larger than the Dawn Base, and the number of survivors is even greater.
These data come from Li Mi and Xia Huaisong. After the two joined the errand shop, they quickly adapted to the work content and rhythm of the store.
Compared to the Hope Base where they had been, the working environment and atmosphere of the errand shop were much simpler.
Li Mi felt this particularly clearly. She was good-looking, and she always got into trouble at the base. However, any clerk in the errand shop was prettier than her, and no one would notice her at all.
The clerks had different personalities, but they were all very strong.
Working with them, it was as if all teammates were at the same level as the instructor.
It was nothing but peace of mind.
When Lu Yao began to plan to build the second and third stations, Li Mi and Xia Huaisong told Lu Yao what they knew.
In terms of city size and population density, Jinyao City is a very suitable city for building an errand station. There is no need to conduct too much investigation. Just copy the example of the Green Ant City station and build the errand station directly outside the Hope Base to obtain a stable source of customers.
However, during the Mid-Autumn Festival event, some irreconcilable conflicts occurred between the errand shop and the top management of the Hope Base. Lu Yao blocked a group of people, all of whom were from the Hope Base who were active in Gaosheng City at the time.
Since then, the clerk has not met anyone from the Hope Base again.
Lu Yao did not include Jinyao City in the site construction plan for the time being. She had set up an enemy before the store opened, which was time-consuming and laborious to deal with.
Her target cities were actually Zhongling City and Yinbian City.
Because Zhongling City is adjacent to Jinyao City, the errand shop only passed by Jinyao City and went to Zhongling City.
Yinbian City is in the coastal area, adjacent to Zhongling City, and when it arrived in Zhongling City, it was not far from Yinbian City.
The store prepared two transport vehicles for this trip, and computer equipment, shelves, supplies, personnel, materials for building signal towers along the way, and signal receivers were all prepared in advance.
In addition to Lu Yao, Lu Mingxiao, and Xie Zili, Guan Zhong, Mo Bao, Xia Huaisong, Jiang Yifei, and Zhou Mingyang were also on the trip.
The most lacking thing in building a branch station is personnel. Guan Zhong is from the Fusheng Liujiemen. A few days ago, he signed a contract with Lu Yao and joined the errand shop.
He is also a member of the express delivery team. Like Xie Zili, he was responsible for driving this trip.
After the recruitment notice with the new conditions was issued, more and more people came to inquire. Lu Yao successively recruited more than 30 new errand runners in Alexandria and Fushi Continent, and they are currently in training.
According to Lu Yao's plan, the subsequent stores will be stabilized, with the assistance of the errand system and the transmission array. Each station will be arranged with eight errand runners, two stockers, a receptionist, a back-office programmer, and an administrative staff.
However, the errand runners recruited from the alien world need to take vacations and may resign. Taking these situations into consideration, Lu Yao recruits as many people as possible and trains them to work in the errand shop in groups.
Because there is a strict confidentiality contract signed, monks, demons, and aliens are all immortal species, and resignation is allowed, but the contract will not be terminated due to resignation.
In addition to errand runners, reliable ordinary store clerks are also needed.
Residents living near the errand shop saw that the shop was hiring, and many people came for interviews.
Lu Yao recruited the four college students and Zheng Han, trained them in the store first, and then transferred them to different branch stations as needed.
When Lu Yao told the store staff that he was going to build a new station, Jiang Yifei immediately asked to be taken with him when she heard that she was going to Zhongling City.
Jiang Yifei's home is in Zhongling City, and Zhou Mingyang and she are not in the same city, but they can only follow the route of the errand shop.
The two discussed going to Zhongling City together first, and they were willing to be transferred to the Zhongling City station.
Xia Huaisong was brought along because he had to pass through Jinyao City, and he was more familiar with Jinyao City.
Li Mi wanted to stay in the main store in Gaosheng City. She is now working as a stock clerk with Zheng Han.
The work is not too much. I usually work out with Ding Qing, striving to improve my physical fitness and increase my self-protection ability.
Harold will not be participating in this trip. He will stay in the main store to fill the vacancy left by the owner.
Having been with Lu Yao for more than a year, Harold is considered to be the alien clerk in the store who is more capable of dealing with human customers. He has top-notch fighting skills and the strongest mobility, which is enough to handle some complicated situations.
In the words of the Internet cafe customers, Brother Harold has the bearing of the second-in-command of the shopping street.
Before Lu Yao left, he greeted Ji Zhixin, Ji Qingyan, Cheng Ye, Bai Yi and Zhou Su, and held a meeting to discuss what Harold did not understand.
If they encountered something they could not handle, it was estimated that Harold would still go directly to Lu Yao.
Lu Yao was just used to arranging things before going out. She actually believed in the ability of the store staff.
Although the store staff had been staying in the shopping street for more than a year and seemed isolated from the world, their actual working ability had not been compromised and they had been tempered a lot.
In the morning of late autumn, the wind was as cold as a knife and the sky was not yet completely bright.
Lu Yao's team was ready to go.
Xie Zili drove the car, while Lu Yao, Lu Mingxiao and Mobao sat in the passenger seat.
The car at the back was driven by Guan Zhong, while Xia Huaisong, Jiang Yifei and Zhou Mingyang sat together. All the equipment and supplies were in the cargo box.
Xia Huaisong, Jiang Yifei and Zhou Mingyang had not taken a long-distance ride for a long time. This was also their first time riding in the store's transport vehicle.
They felt that the dashboard on the driver's seat was different from what they remembered, and Guanzhong drove very casually, with one hand on the control panel, and even supported voice commands.
Several people were not familiar with Guanzhong, and the atmosphere was a little stiff.
Guanzhong saw the curiosity in their eyes and took the initiative to say: "The owner of this car took it to the instrument maker to modify it. Is it different from what you have seen?"
The three of them shook their heads slowly.
What is an "instrument maker"?
Xia Huaisong was quick-witted and asked the question as soon as he thought of it.
The errand shop hired a lot of new people, and the staff began to become complicated.
For safety reasons, Lu Yao did not equip the new clerks with mobile phones for the shopping street, nor did he disclose the existence of the shopping street.
Guanzhong was from the Fusheng Liujiemen, and he got a mobile phone after he joined the company.
However, Xia Huaisong and others did not have mobile phones for the time being, and did not know that there were dozens of shops in another world behind the errand shop.
Guanzhong stared at the car in front of him, was silent for a few seconds, and added stiffly: "It's the car mechanic."
Xia Huaisong & Jiang Yifei & Zhou Mingyang: "Oh——"
There is a wall between errand runners and ordinary clerks, and they are not without self-awareness.
Sometimes when they encounter such obvious perfunctory words, they pretend not to know.
After experiencing the viciousness of many people, the three ordinary clerks cherish their current jobs and treatment, and are not very curious.
After leaving the city, we got on the highway. In just a few months, weeds grew on both sides of the cement road. Some were three or four meters high, with thin and long leaves sticking out, growing wildly in the sun. Climbing plants even climbed to the middle of the road.
Gaosheng City has rarely seen a large-scale zombie wave recently. The highway was also quiet, with no vehicles passing by. The two transport trucks were running at full speed, but they had to stop every 45 kilometers. Lu Yao got off the car to mark and prepare to place signal towers on the return trip.
The transportation route of the errand shop is covered by the network throughout the journey, but it is not as dense and detailed as that in the city.
Before the transportation route was officially opened, Lu Yao led the team to personally survey and set up signal towers along the way.
The signal tower only responds to the equipment of the errand shop, and there are signal receivers specially installed on the transport vehicle, and the line is monitored by the errand system throughout the journey.
They stopped and started along the way, and each stop took at least 20 minutes to survey and mark.
The transport vehicle runs faster than ordinary vehicles. Before dusk, the Luyao team arrived in Jinyao City smoothly.
After crossing the border and entering Jinyao City, the number of zombies on the roadside increased significantly.
After entering the city, the density of zombies rose sharply.
Before it got dark, zombies could be seen wandering on the streets, in the dilapidated shops on the roadside, and even in the houses on the upper floors.
The whole city was filled with a faint stench of decay.
Xia Huaisong leaned against the car window, a little puzzled: "It's so strange, I always feel that there weren't so many zombies before."
Zhou Mingyang: "In comparison, Gaosheng City is too clean."
Xia Huaisong frowned: "I think something is wrong."
There are too many zombies on the street, and the speed of those wandering zombies on the roadside tends to be the speed of normal people walking, not like before when they moved one step at a time.
Xia Huaisong stared outside for a long time and couldn't help but send a message to Lu Yao.
"Shopkeeper, can we go to the Hope Base to take a look?"
It was not dark yet, and the car had to continue driving.
Lu Yao planned to leave the Jinyao urban area and find a deserted place to rest. There were too many zombies in the city.
Although he gave up on officially building a station in Jinyao City, Lu Yao still planned to leave a mark in Jinyao City and build another transmission array.
When Xia Huaisong contacted him, Lu Yao agreed.
After the vehicle entered the city, the Dream Yuanmeng system began to scan the city and make a map.
Before the map came out, Xia Huaisong acted as a manual navigation to show them the way to the Hope Base.
The Hope Base is not in the city center, nor in a remote suburb.
It is located in a comprehensive residential area in the southern part of the city. When the base was first established, the area had complete infrastructure and perfect functions. There were many large supermarkets and shopping malls, and there were also many people left behind.
The base was established very quickly and in an orderly manner. In less than half a month, it became the most famous shelter in Jinyao City.
Xia Huaisong fled the base for personal reasons, but he never expected that when he returned again, the Hope Base had become a ruin.
Two transport trucks were parked side by side on the roadside not far from the gate of the Hope Base. Lu Yao and the shop assistants got off the cars one after another and watched from afar.
The gate of the Hope Base had been breached, and zombies were wandering inside and outside. The houses were dilapidated and no one was seen.
The gate, the guardhouse, the roadside, and the yellow grass were full of corpses that had been gnawed to the point that they could not be seen in human form. Some corpses were half-eaten, and the remaining half of the body was zombie-like. The other half of the body was crawling on the road with bones, dragging red rotten meat and internal organs, and scavengers and flies were chasing behind them all the way.
Xie Zili and Guan Zhong had only been working for a few days, and this was the first time they had seen such an explicit scene, which had shocked their minds to some extent.
In the Floating World Continent, martial arts were valued, and the strong were respected, but few people would fool around with life so cruelly.
Lu Yao: "Let's go in and take a look?"
Jiang Yifei and Zhou Mingyang retreated silently.
Xia Huaisong was a little tempted: "Will it delay time?" Lu
Yao shook his head: "Hope Base does look bigger than Dawn Base. The outer wall is very high and looks very solid, but it looks like it was easily breached. I want to find out what happened here."
[Author's words]
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