Chapter 77: Building a safe zone

In order to find some available vehicles and machinery in the industrial zone, the Saiyans selected more than 20 people who were good at driving various special vehicles from the army. Xie Tian also took Song Hui and the others to board the infantry chariot and prepared to search in the industrial zone with more than 20 people sent by the army. Xie Tian kept the Saiyans in the power plant, but was afraid that the soldiers would not be able to restrain them, so he controlled the Saiyans to specifically explain that their subordinates should obey their orders and arrangements, and sent Shunzi to assist. This was why he was truly relieved.

The army sent a military truck to carry people, and drove a heavy truck and forklift from the coal yard. In addition, infantry fighting vehicles all drove out of the power plant gate. The first stop was to head to a nearby pure water plant. There is a relatively famous pure water brand industrial park in China. Although it is close to the river water, pure water resources are still rare.

For these civil buildings, infantry fighting vehicles are invincible. The automatic door with power was easily knocked open. Xie Tian ordered soldiers to follow the infantry fighting vehicles through the intercom, and it was strictly prohibited to get off the vehicle without orders. The infantry fighting vehicles detour the factory workshop and warehouse location. A few uniformed zombies are simply not worth mentioning to these humans with live ammunition. Soon, the small number of remaining zombies in the factory were wiped out.

Xie Tian said to Zhu Jinxi, who was driving the marching chariot: "Old Zhu, knock the warehouse door open. After the door is opened, he immediately retreats and gives up space to the soldiers behind him."

"Okay!" Zhu Jinxi said, adjusting the direction of the chariot, aiming at the warehouse door and hitting it. With a rumbling sound, the entire iron door was knocked to the ground, and the situation in the warehouse suddenly appeared in front of him: dense pure water buckets piled up most of the warehouses of more than a thousand square meters.

"That's great!" Xie Tian said excitedly: "So much pure water is enough for us to use it for a long time!"

"The shelf life of barreled water should be only a few months, right?" Chen Feng, who was beside him, couldn't help but say: "These water may not be stored for long."

"It doesn't matter." Xie Tian said indifferently: "Even after the shelf life, the water is still sealed and will not be contaminated by zombie viruses. At worst, it can boil it before drinking it in the future. However, so much water is a strong guarantee for us."

"The soldier got out of the car, and the forklift and truck were all driven in. Try to fill up some water and go back. After going back, unload the water and come over. Let's move a few trucks of water back first!"

Shunzi received Xie Tian's order and immediately led the soldiers to jump out of the truck. The forklift and the truck drove into the warehouse. With the help of the forklift, a large amount of pure water was loaded into the truck. After filling it, the truck returned to the power plant first, unloaded all the pure water, and loaded it back and forth three times, but only moved one-fifth of the water in the warehouse.

Since we are going to build a solid and safe zone with the power plant as the center, building materials have become a very urgent resource. Xie Tian and a team of people found several filling cement trucks in a commercial concrete factory not far from the power plant. The cement is full, which is very suitable for reinforcement of the wall. Moreover, there are several cement towers in the factory, which store a large amount of cement. In addition, there are concrete mixers, which are also very useful to them. Yellow sand and gravel are more common here. Commercial concrete factories have material yards, and a large number of building gravels are piled here. There are many sand yards for sand mining ships on the banks of the Ganjiang River. The yellow sand is piled up like mountains and cannot be used up. Drive a forklift and truck, and then pull it back one by one.

As for the steel bars used in construction, Xie Tian didn't need to go out to find them. A large number of buildings in the power plant are made of steel structures, and it is enough to be demolished directly. This power plant is a huge decoration for them. The large number of equipment inside is useless at all. Even if one is retained, it will be enough to deal with hundreds of thousands of people if it is opened in the future. The others are completely idle resources, so it is better to dismantle them to reinforce defenses.

Hundreds of soldiers turned into construction workers and began to prepare a large amount of concrete in the open space in front of a cooling tower of the power plant. The courtyard wall of the entire power plant must be reinforced and increased. Xie Tian planned to increase the courtyard wall to at least three meters, and a new wall must be built outside the area where people live. The newly built wall does not require bricks, and all of them are reinforced concrete structures.

Li Xiaohe and the others became nannies for these hundreds of people. The cooking just made these girls busy. Fortunately, Li Xiaohe had a good coordination and coordination ability. Even with a large workload, they were orderly in their work. Under the general control building, a few large charcoal stoves were built, and almost all the cooking and boiling water were here. The soldiers quickly realized the importance of these logistics and actively asked to change the food rationing model. Li Xiaohe and the others were responsible for all three meals a day. The soldiers came to collect food according to the person and the quantity at meal times every day.

The construction team of nearly 300 people is surprisingly efficient. Although there are not many people who really understand bricklayers here, they can still handle things like strengthening the courtyard wall. Every day, except for one team responsible for security, everyone else devotes themselves to the reinforcement and defense project. There is a lot of manpower and material resources. The wall was reinforced in just three days. The reinforced wall was more than three meters high and had a thickness of 40 cm.

Under the grand tone of working together to survive, the atmosphere of the entire team was very harmonious. After the courtyard wall was reinforced, at dinner, Xie Tian said in front of nearly 300 people: "Comrade Sai Chao and I discussed it and wanted to build a simple shooting tower every 50 meters in the courtyard wall. With a shooting tower, if a large number of zombies attack, we can use the courtyard wall as the support and use the shooting tower as the commanding height for effective sniping. However, the project is a bit large, and I want to hear your opinions."

The soldiers were talking for a while, but most of them discussed it with an agreement. After all, Xie Tian’s proposal was to make it safer here. If there is a shooting tower, the advantages of the courtyard wall can be fully utilized, so that the courtyard wall is no longer simply resisting zombies, but can also effectively kill zombies.

Xie Tian saw that most people agreed, so he spoke: "The height of the shooting tower must reach at least six meters. We can make it easier. There are countless steel materials in the power plant to use. The shooting tower is welded with a full steel frame structure and is not only durable, but also saves time and effort when constructed. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone. However, at present, we only have a small diesel generator less than 10 kilowatts, and there are only one or two sets of cutting and electrical welding equipment. The problems we urgently need to solve are not food, water and other daily necessities, but energy!"

School official Hu Haibo said: "Energy is indeed a big problem for us. We are guarding a power plant, but we can only use the on-board power supply and the small generator as energy. It is really a bit depressing. This energy is not enough for our lives and lighting electricity, and it really needs to be solved as soon as possible."

Xie Tian smiled helplessly: "We don't have professional talents and want to run the generator sets in this power plant. I think it's a dream, but you should remember that in Nanling County, there were high-power generator sets in the county hospital. I think if we can find a way to get such a high-power diesel generator set, it will be a great help to the energy problems we urgently need to solve."

A young soldier in his twenties put down his bowls and chopsticks, raised his hand and said, "I am an engineer. At that time, I was responsible for the power of Nanling County. In fact, the power of the generator set in the county hospital was not very large, only 500 kilowatts, but 200 kilowatts could barely maintain the operation of the hospital. If we can get a generator set with 500 kilowatts or even higher power, then both industrial and domestic electricity will be enough."

Xie Tian said happily: "Since you are a talent in this field, that's great! Do you think there are generators in Fengcheng City?"

The engineer said: "Almost every medium and large hospital has its own generator set, but the generator sets of the hospital are all small generator sets. If you want high power, it is an industrial and mining enterprise. Most of these places are equipped with large generator sets, starting at 500 kilowatts and 1,000 kilowatts. Fengcheng is a coal city with many large and large coal mines. These coal mines should have their own backup power generation systems."

Li Yang stood up and said, "Brother Xie, I have seen the detailed map nearby. There is a coal mine a few kilometers behind this power plant!"
Chapter completed!