Time: January 3, 1655, at half past four in the morning.

When the first faint rays of morning light fell on the glass windows of the Red Building, the people in the building had already eaten breakfast and gathered in the cave.

Today is the first day for everyone to go out to burn the wasteland, and it is also the day for everyone to really get in touch with that new world for the first time, which is very commemorative, so everyone in the Red Mansion got up very early.

It's rare that everyone gets up at three o'clock in the morning.

The main reason is excitement, in fact, many people have not slept well this night, and are about to come out of the cave to face this new world, except for a few people with big nerves, most people are a little excited, and even can't sleep at night.

Sun Lao is also one of the early risers, seeing that most people get up so early, so he took the opportunity to suggest that since everyone is up, then just start work in advance, this time period should be very cool outside, and there will be less mosquito nuisance, which is very conducive to our construction work, right?

Everyone quickly accepted Sun Lao's motion, and when the matter came to an end, everyone finally realized that not only the mosquitoes were terrible outside, but also the amount of work was also very large, in order to prevent mosquito attacks as much as possible, then simply advance the start time in the morning to half past four.

In particular, a group of young people, after making a trade-off between sleeping lazily and avoiding mosquito bites, finally agreed that it is more important to make full use of the relatively low temperature time in the early morning to carry out construction work......

Therefore, the overall work and rest time is four hours earlier than the normal situation, according to Sun Lao, in the current special period, the "early summer time" is temporarily implemented, and of course, the evening rest time is also advanced.

However, before that, there were people who got up earlier than everyone started.

When everyone gathered in the cave gate with sleepy eyes, the three who were already waiting at the scene were Hou Xianglin, Lao Wang and Lao Zhu.

What everyone didn't know was that these three came to the gate of the cave after observing the terrain outside the building for half an hour on the roof of the Red Mansion in advance.

After all, this is the first project after everyone crossed into the new world, and in the face of the unfamiliar and complex wild environment, Hou Xianglin, as the chief commander of the project, was very cautious about the first construction operation of the new world.

On the roof of the building, the three of them once again carefully compared the engineering sketch in their hands with a large-scale topographic map of the whole island brought from the old world, and also carefully compared several points and lines drawn on the map earlier between the dense contour lines in the map, and finally determined the direction of the road and the specific location of the vegetable garden and pasture, and then went downstairs to the cave to wait for the arrival of everyone.

Last night, Hou Xianglin and Lao Wang and Lao Zhu stayed up all night, and finally determined the specific plan and personnel deployment plan for the project operation.

They decided to arrange for 76 male laborers to participate in the field burning operation during the day, including 27 construction machinery operators, truck crane drivers, and 49 members of the burning team.

The burned area of the first phase is about 120 acres, ranging from the west bank of the Moon River to the vicinity of the cave gate, a rectangular plot of land about 200 meters north to south and about 400 meters east and west.

Hou Xianglin's plan was to use three bulldozers to first open three burning passages in the grass, south, north and east, or fire barriers.

The fence in the east of it is the largest open land in the earlier plan, which is the base for everyone to go out and burn the wasteland.

The purpose of the barrier is to enclose the land that is ready to be burned, so that the burners can set fires from three directions along these three passages.

After the land is completely burned, construction vehicles will be sent into the site of the fire to plough the land, build roads and various facilities.

Hou Xianglin believes that all future burning operations will be carried out according to this model.

Obviously, this is a very concise construction plan, as for how to implement it after leaving the cave gate, it depends on the improvisation of Hou Xianglin, the commander-in-chief of engineering operations.

At this time, on the inside of the cave gate, the three small bulldozers led by the head were quietly parked there, and the front of the car was facing the cave gate, and the first and second products were arranged in a zigzag shape.

Hou Xianglin, Li Sanduo and Ren Ke sat in the cabs of the three bulldozers.

In addition to Hou Xianglin, Li Ren and the others were the best in yesterday's training assessment and selection.

According to Hou Xianglin's work arrangement, he was responsible for driving the bulldozer in front, and behind him were Li and Ren, and the two bulldozers followed closely behind him on the left and right.

In order to ensure the vision ahead and let the construction machinery carry out operations in the right direction, Lao Wang and Lao Zhu also took the walkie-talkie to the roof of the building and condescendingly remotely corrected the travel route of the construction operation.

The cracks of the doors and windows of the bulldozer's cab are closed with tape, and the whole cab only leaves the top skylight ventilation with the glass removed---- and instead of the glass is three layers of fine gauze window cloth, which are supermarket materials, and after being glued with glass, they are tightly covered on the skylight to prevent mosquitoes from entering.

In order to prevent accidents, the driver in the cab is also tightly wrapped.

The group found a hundred rubber gas masks from Anna's chemical equipment aid, the kind with a glass cover on the front that wrapped the entire head.

It seems that Anna has prepared quite a lot of labor protection supplies for everyone, in addition, there are various specifications of labor protection work clothes, high-top soft-soled thick cowhide shoes, as well as labor protection gloves, masks, motorcycle helmets, rattan helmets, etc., all of which have come in handy now.

There are also two cans of insecticide spray in the cab of each car, and the doctors have equipped each person with toilet water and cooling oil in case of possible emergencies.

Not only the drivers in the cab should be equipped with these, but the burners who are ready to go out at any time also wear gas masks, necklines and trouser legs are tightened, and insecticide spray is hung around their waists.

Four doctors also joined the Burning Team, and unlike the others, they carried first-aid kits, and each doctor was equipped with a walkie-talkie.

Seeing that everyone is wrapped up and down like zongzi, there are many people at the scene looking at each other and laughing, although it is the summer of the southern hemisphere, but no one has taken off these protective clothing, people have learned that mosquito attacks here are terrible, so now no one shouts heat, compared with mosquito bites, even if it is a little hot, you have to endure it.

Fortunately, although it is summer at this time, the temperature in the early morning is still cool, and there is a salt water air conditioning device in the cave, which is still relatively cool, even if it is tightly wrapped, the whole ambient temperature is still within the range that everyone can bear.

At this time, the cab door of the bulldozer at the front opened, and Hou Xianglin, who had finished preparing for departure, came out of the cab, took off the gas mask on his head, stood on the pedal and looked back at the team behind him, and a crisp whistle sounded in his mouth - this is his professional habit.

At this time, Brother Hou held the door handle with one hand, and shouted loudly with his front finger with the other:

"Attention all! Now it's time to open the doors! Please exit the cave and close the door to the corridor!

Be on guard against possible mosquito attacks!

Now, open the door! Let's conquer this wild world! ”

The people in the cave couldn't help but be a little excited, and many of them raised their tools and shouted in their mouths, but because they were all wearing gas masks, they couldn't hear what they were shouting to each other.

After Hou Xianglin said this, he re-entered the cab, slammed the cab door, and waved to Song Chen and Hu Xiaolin, who were standing on the inside of the cave gate, and the two immediately struggled to pull a pulley chain, accompanied by the sound of the chain sliding, the five-meter-high all-steel gate began to slowly move to both sides: the gate facing the new world was slowly opening.

It was the eve of dawn, the sun had not yet sunset, and only a glimmer of gray light from the sky had spilled into the cave gates.

With the rumbling sound of the door opening, a wave of air rushed in, mixed with the smell of salty and wet sea water and the smell of plant humus.

The people in the cave nervously watched the gate, all holding their breath and quietly looking at the world outside the doorway that slowly unfolded like a stage curtain, where there was a sky of artemisia grass and a palm tree standing abruptly in the distance in the dark night.

For the sake of prudence, Hou Xianglin did not start the bulldozer immediately, but stood in the cab, leaning against the glass window and looking out.

It can be seen that today is a sunny day, the sun has not risen at this time, the morning light is in the sky, a few seabirds suddenly appeared in the middle of the air in the distance, after flying a few laps in the distant mangrove forest up and down, under the dark blue sky, the surrounding crows are silent, except for the faint sound of the waves lapping the mangroves in the distance, everything is silent, giving people an inexplicable sense of tranquility......