Lu Yuan is now the honorary factory director of the rat trap manufacturing plant. After all, he was the one who made the suggestion, he was the one who used his connections to get the steel, and he was the one who recruited the people. Everyone agreed with Lu Yuan's decision to become the factory director.
Lu Yuan usually spends his time at the factory urging them to speed up the progress, since there are still many families that need rat traps, and if things go too slowly, the rats will eat all the food.
Lu Yuan's greatest pleasure every day is learning CNC lathe techniques from Chen Gang, and he enjoys it immensely because he also has a plan in mind: to set up some traps or something for his home.
In the short term, people's attention is still focused on fighting rats, but after a while, things will definitely change. More and more families will be attacked by rats, and when people run out of food, they will start to think of other ways to get food, such as robbery!
Although the house has walls over three meters high and various wire mesh and high-voltage electricity on them, this absolutely cannot stop people with a good mind. Moreover, due to the power outage, the high-voltage power grid in the house is basically useless. Although there is solar power generation, the electricity required for these high-voltage lines is definitely not something that a bunch of solar power plants can handle. The main problem is the transformer.
However, with high temperatures, fires, and rampant rat infestations plaguing the entire country, transformers are indeed hard to find. Lu Yuan had inquired online, but due to the current power shortage, there were simply no spare transformers for sale, not even secondhand ones.
Therefore, the issue of traps must be addressed, but it is too early to do so now. We can only make plans first, learn how to use CNC lathes, and then use some leftover steel to process various nail plates, steel spikes, spears, and the like in advance.
Every time Chen Gang saw Lu Yuan carrying a bag of things home, he always thought Lu Yuan was thrifty and would always advise him not to bring these things, saying they were useless and the small scraps were unusable. Lu Yuan would just smile and not explain much.
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It was past 2 a.m. when Chen Gang left the factory that day, and he had already gone to bed.
Lu Yuan had just finished packing his things and was preparing to carry them home.
Suddenly, a series of cries came from the factory gate, followed by repeated banging on the iron gate. Chen Gang immediately got up from the small bed made of wooden planks.
"Director Lu, what's going on?"
Lu Yuan also looked puzzled and said, "I don't know, let's go take a look! It can't be that someone's house has been attacked by rats again! This should be something we should call the rat-catching team!"
As he spoke, Lu Yuan followed Chen Gang toward the gate. When the gate opened, Liu Tiantian and her husband Sun Zhe, looking panicked, stood in front of the gate holding a crying child.
"Lu Yuan, please help us! My child was bitten by a rat. We thought it was nothing serious, but the anti-inflammatory medicine didn't work. My child keeps crying. Can you take us to the hospital?" Sun Zhe pleaded with Lu Yuan.
Lu Yuan wiped his hands on his clothes and touched the child's forehead. It was very hot, at least forty degrees Celsius, and the child's face was flushed and he was covered in sweat.
"When were you bitten?" Lu Yuan asked as he led them toward his home without giving it much thought.
"It was probably around 9 p.m. when I fell asleep at night. I had taken fever reducer, but it didn't work."
Sun Tiantian anxiously showed her child's arm. The fair arm was covered in red, with a large gash on the forearm. The bleeding had stopped, but the wound was starting to fester.
"Alright, you guys wait here for me, I'm going home to get the car! Don't keep the child's wound covered!" With that, Lu Yuan dashed off home.
Although Lu Yuan was reluctant to meddle in other people's business, seeing such a small baby bitten by rats like this, he couldn't help but want to help. For him, it was just a small favor.
Almost everyone in Zone 3 was out of gas, except for Lu Yuan, who had the foresight to buy an electric car. People around the area were very envious of Lu Yuan for frequently driving around.
However, with current electricity restrictions, even if you buy an electric car, you still need a place to charge it, which has deterred many people from buying one. Moreover, the price of electric cars has skyrocketed. Electric cars that were unwanted before the apocalypse could be bought for a little over 100,000 yuan, but now some people are even willing to pay a million yuan and still can't buy one.
Moreover, there aren't many charging stations available. However, Lu Yuan spent some money when he bought the car, and the dealer installed a private charging station at his home, which can fully meet his charging needs through solar power.
Lu Yuan quickly returned home, and without even changing his clothes, he got into his car and drove off.
After picking up the family of three, Lu Yuan sped off to the nearest hospital.
"Thank you so much! We really don't know what we would have done without you!" Sun Tiantian said gratefully, holding her child with tears in her eyes.
"Yes! Thank goodness for you, I really don't know how to thank you enough!" Sun Zhe sat in the passenger seat, feeling the cool breeze inside the car, but he was still covered in sweat. Afraid that his sweat would get on the car, he didn't dare to lean back in his seat.
"Hehe! It's okay, the road ahead isn't very smooth, you should sit tight!" After saying that, Lu Yuan floored the accelerator, and the car reached a speed of 120 km/h.
There were hardly any cars on the road at this time. Although it was already bright outside, there were still few pedestrians, since very few people could afford to drive.
They soon arrived at the Municipal Hospital of Qingshui City, where the entrance was already crowded with people, and some security guards wearing T-shirts were spraying disinfectant in the lobby.
Although the disinfectant smell was strong, Lu Yuan could still smell a stench of feces, so he immediately covered his nose with his sleeve and pushed through the crowd in front of him.
Behind Lu Yuan, Sun Zhe and his wife, carrying their child, followed closely. Sun Zhe slipped and almost fell. When he looked down, he saw a pile of poop under his foot. He wondered whose child was so inconsiderate as to poop in the hospital lobby.
As Lu Yuan walked, he carefully watched his step, afraid of stepping on feces. Although there was central air conditioning in the hall, it was still very stuffy, and many people were clutching their stomachs and looking pained.
Lu Yuan knew that this was a disease caused by being bitten by a rat. The mutated rats carried a lot of bacteria that could quickly destroy the human immune system. If bitten by a rat, a severe high fever would appear in a short period of time, which would then lead to various complications, among which diarrhea was the most common.
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