old acquaintance
Liu Xia was slightly stunned, not sure whether the illness Zhao Dan was talking about meant that he would get sick sooner or later due to the nuclear radiation in the wasteland, or that he would get sick sooner or later due to working in the mine.
As for whether it was cruel, Liu Xia thought carefully: "If there is no cure after the disease occurs, then doing this is actually kind."
"Mercy." The silent Zhao Dan muttered the word to himself, and suddenly burst into laughter. He felt an inexplicable liking for the new transporter and patted Liu Xia on the shoulder. "You're very interesting. I'm a little fond of you. What's your name?"
Liu Xia felt somewhat grateful to this cheap captain and replied in a gentle tone, "Call me Xiao Xia, Sister Dan."
"Xiao Xia, hmm...it's a nice name." Zhao Dan noticed Song Xuan, who had been watching from a distance, and deliberately put his arm around Liu Xia's shoulders. He lowered his head and whispered, "That's your boyfriend, right? I think he's very nervous about you."
Liu Xia shook her head calmly: "Just friends."
"You're lucky, you just caught up."
Zhao Dan shrugged indifferently, laughed gruffly, and had no interest in delving into other people's privacy.
"Brother Meng will take us to do something big tonight. After unloading the cargo, we'll have a good meal. We won't have time to rest after that."
The loading and unloading workers were very efficient. In less than twenty minutes, they had almost unloaded most of the goods on the transport truck. The forklifts kept transporting goods into the factory like industrious little bees, just like they were transporting pollen into a beehive.
As the giant warehouse opened, an extremely fishy and unpleasant smell slowly emerged from the depths.
The workers seemed to be accustomed to all this, and the smell did not affect their actions at all.
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Staff restaurant,
As a new female member of the transport team, Liu Xia received special hospitality from Captain Zhao Dan and was able to enjoy the captain's meal standard. However, Song Xuan did not receive this treatment and could only follow his partner, the driver of car number five, each holding a shiny silver plate, and line up with the ordinary transport employees.
Even though it was a team of ordinary transporters, the meals were still very plentiful. The chef stewed large chunks of luncheon meat mixed with potatoes and made them quite tasty. There were also many meat dishes displayed in the window, which were full enough for everyone to eat until they were full. Various rich aromas mixed together, floating faintly throughout the restaurant.
The difference from the captain's meal is that the captain's meal serves a lot of fresh stewed vegetables, such as tomatoes, beans, and greens. These vegetables are rarely seen in the dungeon.
Although the mine was located in District 8, it was indeed the place with the best dining conditions Liu Xia had ever seen, even better than the food at the Beehive. Although this knowledge was limited to the night Shen Wanren captured him and brought him back to the Beehive, it was enough to prove the richness of the food here. This was just the food standard for ordinary employees. The dining standards of the mine owner Tan Meng were simply unimaginable.
The cigarettes that the transporters casually took out during the day were a luxury in the wasteland, but they didn't seem to be a rare item here. One can imagine how generous the living conditions and treatment in the mines were. No wonder so many people still came to work there even if the transporters died of illness.
Members of each function were divided into teams and sat at the dining table in an orderly manner.
Liu Xia took a quick look and found that in addition to the transport team with truck logos, the loading and unloading team with forklift logos, and the security team with shield logos, there were at least five different teams, including miners, blasters, maintenance workers, etc. It can be said that this is a mine with a very mature functional configuration. There are at least 500 people dining in the entire restaurant at the same time.
The fact that Tan Meng can support so many people at the same time shows how financially strong he is.
When Zhao Dan saw that everyone from the first team had arrived, he picked up the beer beside him and said solemnly, "Come on, brothers, let's toast to Lao Mao first."
"Goodbye, Lao Mao!" He then spilled the beer in his hand in a circle in front of him. "Your family will receive the pension soon. Go with peace of mind."
The others also stood up and followed suit with heavy faces: "Respect to Old Mao!"
"Come, let's toast to our two new brothers and sisters." Zhao Dan sat down and opened another bottle of beer. His thick eyebrows flew upwards, and the sadness he had just shown was completely gone. He was obviously in a good mood. He laughed loudly and said, "From now on, we are brothers who have shared life and death together. Cheers!"
In a short while, the atmosphere here became lively due to Zhao Dan, and the original members of the team were very cooperative. It was obvious that he was a person who knew how to regulate the team's emotions.
"Hey, hey, hey, brothers..." After three rounds of drinks, everyone started talking. The driver of Song Xuan's car had a look of delighted laughter on his face and said to everyone, "Does Xiao Song like Xiao Xia? I see this guy staring at Xiao Xia all the time without blinking!"
"Don't be surprised."
"They came here together, they might be a couple!"
Others also started to joke around, causing the usually stern Song Xuan to feel a little shy. However, his eyes, which had been focused on Liu Xia, never moved away, as if he agreed.
Liu Xia had spent the past two days with Song Xuan, so she was naturally aware of his constant gaze on her, and her heart wasn't entirely unmoved. She just felt like he wasn't looking at her, but at the body's original owner. Furthermore, her anxiety to return to reality and save Bai Fei kept reminding her, so she chose to ignore it.
He was a little embarrassed to be teased by others at this time, so he simply chose to lower his head and not look at Song Xuan who was looking at him. He just kept chewing the luncheon meat stew in his mouth and started eating silently.
Because Liu Xia avoided answering, the light in Song Xuan's eyes dimmed a little, but it still did not affect his attitude of staring at her closely.
In a very quiet area on the second floor of the staff restaurant, a fat man with big ears and a portly face was stuffing himself with food. He didn't care at all even if the oil got on the sparkling gems on his fingers. In addition to vegetables and fresh meat, the meal in front of him even included expensive radiation-free red wine. It was obvious that he was not an ordinary person.
"Brother Peng, I saw someone I know downstairs at the First Transport Team."
The black-clad bodyguard who had almost peed his pants when Liu Xia threw a flying knife at him was standing respectfully behind the fat man with a vicious look in his eyes.
"It seems that the woman who opposed you in Paradise also caused the loss of many of our brothers."
Brother Peng suddenly stopped stuffing food into his mouth, and slammed the wine glass in his hand to his side with a loud sound of glass breaking. He stood up angrily and looked in that direction. Sure enough, he saw a familiar face in his memory. He would remember that cold and expressionless face even if it turned into ashes.
Not only did he steal the "Eros Number Nine" that she was so desperate to get, but the bastard who followed her and called him a fool was also making trouble and throwing bombs everywhere, causing his security guards to break a leg in order to get him out safely, and five security guards were directly killed or trampled to death or injured. Otherwise, he would probably be in great danger now.
"Gather all the brothers in the excavation team!" Brother Peng stood up, holding onto the table. Enduring the pain in his legs, he stared at Liu Xia, who was still unaware downstairs. He gritted his teeth and sneered fiercely, "How dare you show up on my territory? Today, I must kill her!"
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