Wednesday is September 27th of the wasteland calendar year.

When the first ray of sunlight fell on the ground through the mist, the sleeping Hope Village quietly woke up.

Logically speaking, the recent continuous high-pressure work has put a lot of pressure on both the mind and the body. During this long-lost holiday, many people should sleep until noon.

However, in fact, the hands of the clock had just crossed seven o'clock when the doors of prefabricated houses were pushed open everywhere.

The villagers with excited faces walked out, opened their arms happily, and breathed in the fresh air.

Compared with a few days ago, Hope Village now has undergone earth-shaking changes.

Because the village entrance market contributes management fee income every day, as well as regular taxes from several factories.

It is hoped that the public accounts of the village will no longer be in the deficit as they were a few months ago, and will become more prosperous day by day.

With the money, Chen Shen, who was in charge of the village's development planning, was not stingy and took the initiative to place orders for several large-scale infrastructure projects.

Until now.

All the original gravel roads in the village have been replaced by clean and tidy hardened cement roads, with tall black columnar streetlights separated by 25 meters on both sides.

The two-story bungalows made of reinforced concrete began to take shape, neatly lined up in a row, with no less than twenty in number.

Walking along the road into the village, there is a circular open space.

The statue of Oreo is placed in the center of the field, surrounded by a person-high iron fence, which looks quite solemn.

Looking up further, we see the second phase of the Hope Village construction project that is currently under construction.

The buildings here are mainly one-story bungalows and courtyards, which is a residential area that is about to be established.

Following the architectural styles of those in the western suburbs, each bungalow is not closely connected to each other, but is separated by more than ten meters.

So although the density is still quite high, it doesn't look that oppressive.

It won't take long, even if all the villagers still can't collect enough points to move into the underground city.

Here, you can also have your own independent space at a lower and more affordable price.

Of course, if there are residential areas, there will naturally be supporting commercial areas.

After every two hundred bungalows, a commercial area of ​​about two thousand square meters will be planned.

According to the construction standard of 1,000 rooms, there will be at least over 10,000 square meters of commercial space here.

If it can really be built according to Chen Shen's plan, then I hope that the village will no longer be at the level of a village, but will be transformed from a village to a town in an upright manner, becoming the first town collection in the territory.

It was a few kilometers outside the village at this time.

More than twenty humans wearing gopher man's standard clothes and two four-wheeled motorcycles carrying goods were slowly approaching.

Perhaps it was their first time to visit the world outside Qinggang City, and they were extremely curious.

Even the ordinary soil underfoot feels novel. From time to time, someone will lower his body and pick up a handful, lovingly sniffing the special smell inside.

Next to this group of people, more than a dozen border guards armed with live ammunition were following nearby.

However, there was no further contact between the two parties. The distance in between was about fifty meters, and it looked more like an escort.

We walked along the soft dirt road.

Looking at the "big construction site" gradually appearing in the thick fog ahead, Wang Qian's eyes widened and he almost thought he was hallucinating.

"This is Tianyuan Shelter?"

In my impression, there are very few shelters that extend their sphere of influence to the ground.

The entire Qinggang City has such a large area and dozens of gopher gangs. Only Qinggang Shelter has the strength to build a large-scale industrial zone on the ground.

But now, Wang Qiande has been added to this list.

Although the outer walls of the village in the distance are not as tall as the Lightning Wall, there is only one person standing at the top.

The roads in the village also look ordinary, without any sense of high-tech.

Including those neat cement houses and colorful iron houses, they also seem a bit fragile.

But there is no denying that they do live on the ground.

A completely different road from the Gopher Man, this place is more like a large gathering place where stragglers gathered together!

"Aren't they afraid of war?"

Thinking of Good's instructions before leaving, Wang Qian became more and more curious.

Liehu wanted him to take this opportunity of visiting to find out the details of the other party.

In particular, the defensive layout of this unfamiliar shelter, the strength of the soldiers, the industrial base, etc. can determine the strength of the two shelters.

In the end, who would have thought that the other party would actually build a gathering place on the ground like the Qinggang Shelter, and the scale would already reach thousands of people.

This is not the least bit enviable for the gopher guy who is extremely insecure.

Especially on such a large plain that is easy to attack and difficult to defend, if troops come from all directions, the people inside will be trapped and die in this small area.

If you can't reach the level where you can use hard power to break the situation like Qinggang Shelter, you can only die slowly.

"Ahem. Chief, their industrial area is actually built on the ground."

The new deputy chief who was following Wang Qian coughed and pointed to the industrial zone opened up next to the village.

over there.

The billowing black smoke, which is not environmentally friendly, is rising into the sky, mixed with the white mist, like black snakes hiding in the water.

The rumbling sound, mixed with the blowing of the wind, was as melodious and long as a trumpet.

Occasionally, bursts of white water vapor will be discharged to the side, as if high-temperature work is taking place inside.

Wang Qian stood staring blankly, and the dozen or so guards following him not far away also stopped.

For people who have lived three-dimensional underground for a long time, it is difficult to form this flat concept in their minds.

From the moment they are born, most people accept the concept of a small room of twenty square meters, spiraling stairs up and down, and an activity space of no more than one hundred square meters.

Except for combatants, ordinary civilians, as long as their luck is not too bad, may have to wait until they reach adulthood before they have the opportunity to go to the ground and experience the environment in which humans originally live and the dangers that have been spread by word of mouth.

Wang Qian still remembers the first time he went to the ground, when he was eleven years old.

Following his father's broad back, he saw with his own eyes the dangerous world on earth that everyone said.

There is a sky that cannot be touched, and there is an earth that has no boundaries.

There are towering buildings and a wide river beside the Fifth Ring Road!

From that day on, the yearning for the world outside the shelter was like a seed rooted in his heart.

After returning to the underground, Wang Qian finally couldn't help but tell her father her thoughts.

Surprisingly, Wang's father, who was just a commoner at the time, did not refuse, but was pleased to find friends on another level.

Liu Li, Liu Lu's father, who was already the deputy director of the B-7 floor at the time, asked him to find someone to help with training.

Later, during the five long years.

From the most basic physical training, to willpower training, and then to learning the killing skills and marksmanship used in combat.

Finally, during the chaos in Pingtan Shelter more than ten years ago, Wang Qian succeeded in taking the position by force and firmly secured the position of deputy director of the B-9 floor.

At this time, seeing the industrial area on the ground in the distance, more and more memories began to flow into my mind.

After staying there for several minutes, Wang Qian finally came back to his senses and let out a long sigh.

"How happy the people living here must be."

The small underground cannot accommodate too many dreams and ambitions.

Countless people with potential and genius are born and die in it, and are submerged in barren basic needs all their lives.

Before coming here, he thought that this place was also a powerful underground shelter.

But now, a trace of melancholy and happiness appeared in Wang Qian's heart at the same time.

Fortunately, in order to repay Liu Li's favor, Liu Lu was reminded at a critical moment.

The other party later reciprocated the opportunity and helped him get rid of the B-9 floor leader last night.

And tried to find a way to make it work, so that he became the person who went to Tianyuan Refuge for diplomacy this time.

This is a place where you can have deep friendships!

She had an idea secretly in her mind. Regarding the large number of unreliable introductions and recommendations made by Liu Lu, Wang Qian's resistance began to disappear quickly.

Indeed, this place is much more civilized than the Pingtan Refuge.

They can at least allow residents to come to the ground to move around, live, and engage in production at will.

There is no need to forcibly divide fourteen hours of time out of twenty-four hours a day to perform repetitive tasks that are meaningless and are just for killing physical strength.

It might be a good choice to join Liu Lu's team and set up your back line here.

With this idea in mind, the team moved on.

When there were only a few hundred meters left, the villagers in the village also discovered the strange visitors.
To be continued...