Chapter 33 The Calm Before the Storm
Zhang Yang and Jeff are inconspicuous on the huge construction site. Countless people are engaged in jobs exactly like them, carrying construction waste, or helping unload goods from trucks. As the cheapest and cheapest labor force, they are the only way to sell their strength to make them.
Unlike them, there were dense steel racks everywhere on the construction site. I-shaped steel with a diameter of 50 cm was transported to the air by the tower crane. Some people were brave and unafraid of death and tied it to their waists with a rope, and tied the other end to the iron rack next to them. They carried the electric welding backpack slightly to carry it on for welding.
Because of the need to stabilize and retain the height difference, the height of the steel frame itself has exceeded the wall, and the highest point reaches 80 meters. A gust of wind can make people shaking. If there is no protection, it will be a miserable situation if it falls from a height of 80 meters.
Looking down from above, it is easy to feel dizzy, so experienced old workers will not look down directly, but look into the distance to relieve the tension.
“Um…”
Zhang Yang looked up from time to time to prevent anything from falling from high altitude. Even if a raw egg falls from 80 meters in the air, he can smash a bag. The safety helmet is only limited to small garbage. If it is something like a larger part, it may be knocked unconscious on the spot and it may be killed directly.
On the construction site, welders and porters on the ground are the most dangerous. One is worried about being killed by falling to death, and the other is worried about being smashed to death. Compared to driving a truck to deliver cement and steel, truck drivers are simply the happiest profession. There are porters in loading and unloading trucks, so you only need to drive back and forth. If you are tired and tired, you can rest in the cockpit. Of course, the premise is that you have to have a truck. Most of the trucks provided by the construction site have designated drivers.
"I remember the beginning of the movie, where Beckett worked at the Coast Wall seemed to be in Alaska."
Zhang Yang recalls the plot in the movie.
The protagonist of the movie Beckett, who violated the order of the black general to protect the city, was attacked by a monster in order to save a fishing boat. His brother was killed and the mecha was destroyed. In a blink of an eye, from a high mecha driver to a steel pendant on the construction site.
I have to say that the courses for mecha drivers are really too comprehensive. The entire set of courses among hunter students include training courses for professions such as electric welding and tower cranes. After all, the operation of turning and moving mechas of seventy or eighty meters is no different from tower crane drivers in some aspects.
It is also because of this that when you can fight monsters on the mecha, you can get off the machine and pick up the welding. Beckett can find a job and work and live with the welding work when he is fired from the ppdc.
Although the monster has not yet attacked the coastal wall, Zhang Yang has a strong premonition that the monster's attack is not far away. However, because Beckett is far away in Alaska and Zhang Yang is in San Francisco, the possibility of getting close to Beckett is extremely small.
"Crash!"
Zhang Yang pushed the cart with a truck full of construction waste, and came to the garbage pile that was pushed into a hill by the excavator. The handlebars raised up, and the garbage inside suddenly poured out with a rush. A pile of dust raised up, Zhang Yang saw that there was nothing in the car, held his breath and calmly collected the car and retreated decisively, completing a perfect garbage dumping journey.
"Beautiful job, flamboyant!" Jeff gave a thumbs up.
Zhang Yang grinned and pushed the cart back to the workplace.
This method is indeed very fast, but the small car full of garbage is very heavy. It is not possible to dump the garbage in the car at one time without certain arm strength and skills. However, no one will pay attention to a small porter, so Zhang Yang's perfect garbage dumping action did not attract anyone's attention.
After cleaning up the pile of garbage, Zhang Yang and Jeff continued to run to the next garbage dump under the arrangement of the supervisor wearing a blue hat. The dust flew, and a morning passed like this. At 12 noon, the whistle of the after-get off work sounded at the construction site, and everyone was ready to have a meal.
"Your hands are fine?"
"It's okay, I've already asked a doctor to apply anti-inflammatory drugs." Jeff grinned.
Zhang Yang has good physical fitness, and the hard work in the whole morning was not difficult for him. On the contrary, Jeff, although he had good physical fitness, used to play basketball instead of carrying bricks and sacks on the construction site. He also grinded a blister with gloves, and squeezed himself into pain.
"Let's go, go for lunch first, there's still one afternoon."
Holding the quantity supply card, Zhang Yang, like other workers, lined up to enter the restaurant and started dining. There were four large restaurants in the entire construction site. According to the difference in working hours, only two breakfasts were opened, four at noon and two at night.
Lunch looks more fast than breakfast. The restaurant serves three main meals: hamburgers, sandwiches and hot dogs. The drinks include coffee, beer and juice. Each person can also receive a pizza that is beautifully made. The lunch is just a little foolish. If you eat too much, it will make people drowsy and slow down the progress of the project. Therefore, like normal American families, the construction site has a rich dinner and is allowed to be packed and taken home.
Zhang Yang was not used to drinking coffee, so he took a large cup of juice and drank it himself. At this moment, a commotion came from the crowd not far away. Many people surrounded him, but someone was fighting.
"You damn Bichi!"
"Bastard, I'm going to stuff your head in the back of you!"
The fight was a black man and a white man, and the topic was still a racial issue that remained unchanged for thousands of years. Although they were all eating in the same pot at this moment, racial discrimination and regional discrimination still existed. People around them went up to persuade them to fight, but in the end they annoyed the white man and drew a dagger from his backpack next to him.
"Wow" Seeing the other party pulling out the dagger, everyone took a few steps back.
Because the construction site does not provide accommodation for ordinary workers, most workers go out to work in the morning and go home from get off work in the evening, and go out alone is dangerous. Among them, it is prohibited to carry hot and cold weapons such as firearms and crossbows, but the control of daggers is not so strict, and in fact the prohibition effect is not that good, because if a worker wants to make a machete or dagger, it is simple to find a suitable iron piece, polish the blade, and then weld the handle to the handle, and a simple machete or dagger will be released.
At this moment, the dagger in the white man's hand was made of a piece of steel, because it was very small and easy to carry.
When someone touched the knife, the situation on the field immediately became a little messy, especially the face of the black man who was beaten changed.
"Come on! Aren't you going to fight with me? Come on!"
There was a dagger in his hand, and the white man felt much more confident and threatened the people around him. The people around him were worried about being scratched and retreated one after another.
Zhang Yang frowned. Although he was not a passionate young man who was brave and brave, he didn't want to see him like this. Just as he was about to take action, a shadow suddenly passed through the crowd and hit the white man's hand.
"Bang!"
Everyone looked closely and found that it was a glass bottle containing tomato sauce. The blow was so painful that the white man was covered with red tomato sauce. The dagger in his hand also fell to the ground. He was immediately kicked away quickly by the person next to him and then pressed to the ground.
"Damn it, let me go!"
The white man was still struggling, but was caught by four or five people. At this time, the security guards on the construction site rushed over and took the guy away with an electric baton in his hand. When everyone saw the crisis was lifted, they breathed a sigh of relief.
Some curious people wanted to see who was throwing the tomato sauce, but just now, a large group of people couldn't see clearly who threw the tomato sauce, so they had to give up helplessly. Everyone dispersed and returned to their own positions.
After Zhang Yang went back, he saw Jeff eating hot dogs slowly. He seemed not to see what happened just now. Zhang Yang looked at him thoughtfully until Jeff felt a little uncomfortable and then spoke.
"Beautiful three-pointer!"
Jeff scratched his head embarrassedly: "Did you see it?"
It turned out that the one who threw the tomato sauce was Jeff from the former professional basketball team. Zhang Yang was wondering before that who had such a precise head. It was quite difficult to throw a bottle from the crowd and hit the other party’s wrist.
"I just saw that guy was too arrogant, so..." Jeff wanted to explain.
"Don't worry, I won't say it." Zhang Yang gestured in a relieved posture.
A storm passed. After lunch, everyone rested in a house on the construction site for more than half an hour. They would not return to work after the food was digested and absorbed. Taking this opportunity, Zhang Yang, who decided to go to the high place to see the situation, took Jeff to sneak to the top of the coast wall.
There are only three elevators on the coastal wall. After getting up, the workers separated each along the I-shaped steel, which was as thick as the soles of their feet. When they walked up, they could clearly feel the wind blowing from the coast, which made people tremble slightly. The thickness reached 10 meters and the height of 75 meters had been built 85%. The bottom layer has been built, and only the gap at the top of the wall needs to be sewn together to be completed.
When the exterior wall is completed, the buffer layer close to the exterior wall, that is, the prototype of these I-shaped steel, will be filled with a large amount of mixed concrete and ordinary sand, and a buffer layer with a thickness of 15 meters will be completely completed, such that the coastal wall with a thickness of 25 meters will be fully completed, both inside and outside.
Standing on the coastal wall and feeling the oncoming sea breeze is very pleasant. The 10-meter-wide flat wall is enough for three trucks to drive side by side. A large number of exposed steel frames can be seen at the unfinished gap, and it will take some time to complete the construction.
Chapter completed!