Chapter 618: Representatives from the Oil Fields
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After the rescue army had laid down the saltpeter mine, everyone except the staff on the armored train had been stationed in the saltpeter mine that afternoon.
After living on the train for so many days, it was nice to have a spacious dorm room for a good night's sleep. There are staff dormitories in the mining area, and people can live in them after a simple tidying up.
But before that happens, there's still a lot of work to be done.
The first thing to do is to clean up the battlefield and mend the walls.
After a day of fighting, the saltpeter mine was littered with zombie corpses. Some of the flesh has been removed, and some of it hasn't moved at all. The flesh needs to be removed as soon as possible, and then the body should be buried. Otherwise, just looking at it will make you feel infiltrated!
The fence of the mining area has long since become dilapidated after bombardment by the self-help army and several charges by chariot troops. If you want to get a good night's sleep, you have to build the wall quickly. At the very least, find some wooden planks, iron sheets, steel pipes, etc., and enclose the holes in the wall. Next, they can slowly repair the walls of the resource point with peace of mind. This is the Gobi, and there is no danger around. Therefore, in the plan, Chen Yuan is ready to build the wall of the saltpeter ore resource point to 12 meters high! Of course, that's for later. Chen Yuan estimated that he would return to the Steel Fort before the city wall was built.
In addition, there are a lot of supplies on the train, which need to be transported into the mining area. Fortunately, they found more than a dozen trucks carrying ore in the mine. Otherwise, they will have to use buses and minibuses to transport them. It's just that the bus loaded with cement is dusty everywhere, and then used to carry people, which is sour and refreshing that cannot be described in words.
So everyone got busy, and the entire mining area used to be full of zombies, but now it has been replaced by humans.
Soon it was 8 p.m., and it was starting to get dark. The repair of the fence is not yet over. But the lights are on all over the mine. Plenty of lighting for people who are still busy.
There is a small, independent power station in the mining area, and with the handling of technicians, the power supply is restored in the mining area before dark. After nearly half a year, the place is finally lit up again.
Chen Yuan didn't care that these lights would attract the zombies in the neighborhood. There is no man's land all around here. Don't be careful at all that zombies will find the lights here at night.
By the next morning, the workers had already begun their work on the saltpeter mines. Due to the fact that a large amount of machinery and equipment in the mining area have been dismantled by the previous zombies and made into weapons. So the workers only cobbled together a slightly complete set of mining equipment. With the help of equipment, a mining team of only 100 people mined nearly 300 tons of saltpeter ore in one morning.
By the afternoon, after an emergency repair by the maintenance squadron, a saltpeter refining line was also back in work.
In addition, the half-corpse reconnaissance team sent out earlier also returned smoothly. Nearly 50 survivors were also rescued.
Chen Yuan immediately personally met with the two half-corpse scouts who were in the dust, and asked them about the location of oil fields, oil refineries, coal mines, and iron mines, as well as the number of zombies in various places.
"Castle Chief!" Seeing Chen Yuan in the conference room, the two half-corpse scouts immediately stood up excitedly and saluted him.
Chen Yuan stepped forward and shook hands with them affectionately, although these half-corpses carried the virus in their bodies, they would not be infectious.
"Sit down. I have been fortunate to you for the past three days. How's it going? Is the reconnaissance mission still going well? ”
"Report to the fort chief, overall it went well." One of the scouts sat up straight and replied, "We used these three days to complete 12 oil fields, 1 oil refinery, 3 chemical plants, 2 coal mines and 1 iron mine around the railway station town according to the markings on the satellite map. At present, the situation in several places has been ascertained, except for the iron ore mine. ”
"Oh? Can't you check the situation in the iron mining area? Chen Yuan asked suspiciously.
"Yes." Another scout replied, "This iron mine is small, but it is surrounded by walls, and we can't get close. I don't know why, as soon as we get closer, the zombies in the iron mine shoot arrows at us. ”
"That's it!" According to the memories of his previous life, many possibilities flashed through Chen Yuan's mind, but he didn't say it. Instead, he nodded disapprenantly and said, "Forget it, let's talk about the situation in other places first." What about the oil fields? Are there many zombies? ”
In addition to the need to obtain saltpeter ore, oil resources are also extremely important during this visit to Xinjiang Province.
A half-corpse scout immediately replied happily, "Captain, the situation in the oil fields is better than we expected. The 12 oil fields vary in size, all of them are located in the remote Gobi Desert, and they are relatively scattered. Therefore, there is no unified place of residence, and all employees go back to the town to live, and there is a special shuttle bus to transport them to and from work. Except for overtime production that night, most of the oil fields had only a small number of watchmen and guards turned into zombies. Not much. ”
"Two oil fields have even been occupied by human survivors. One is larger, with more than 1,000 survivors, while the other is smaller, with only about 200 survivors. We had some contact with the people in both survivor colonies, and the survivors of the smaller oil field were interested in joining us in the Iron Castle, so we brought back one of their representatives this time. Now she's resting, and we've got some food for them in the kitchen. In the past few days, we have collected limited food, and everyone has not eaten very well. (This is relative, in fact, there is already a lot of food collected in the town of the half-corpses, at least it can fill their stomachs a little, but compared to the food in the settlement, it is more than one level worse!) The captain can call her over at any time and talk to her. ”
"Oh, that's great! There should be oil workers among them, which will save us a lot of things. But I'm not in a hurry to see you yet. Let's move on to the rest of the place, what about refineries and chemical plants? ”
The half-corpse scout continued, "The situation at the refinery is a bit more complicated. The refinery is also on the outskirts of the town of the railway station though. But according to the survivors we found, the refinery works in three shifts, and some people work overtime at night. And when the apocalyptic virus broke out, it was just the time for the shift change, so there were two shifts of workers in the refinery at the time. Coupled with the harassment that erupted, workers set fire to an oil depot and a large explosion occurred. It attracted a lot of zombies from the surrounding area, and now there are 1,500 zombies in the refinery. There are slightly fewer zombies in the three chemical plants, which are highly mechanized, and although they also have night shifts, they are not very numerous. The number of zombies is in the hundreds. One of the chemical plants that produces polyethylene also has quite a few survivors. One of the two coal mines is a large survivor settlement, with more than 4,000 people, walls, and the armed forces do not seem to be weak. However, the procedures for entering the city seemed to be strict, so we didn't rush into contact with them. The other one was not occupied, and there were about 300 zombies in it. ”
Chen Yuan nodded, the overall situation seemed to be pretty good. Then they asked the two half-corpse scouts in more detail, such as the number of enhanced species, what kind of corpse control they had, and so on.
It was about half an hour before he took two half-corpse scouts with him to meet the representative sent by the small oil field who wanted to join the Iron Castle.
When Chen Yuan saw this representative, she was in the independent private room of the restaurant, quickly eliminating the delicious meal prepared for her by the self-rescue army in front of her like a storm.
It's just that Chen Yuan didn't expect that the representative sent by the other party would be a woman. And a pretty girl of typical Uyghur descent!