There are signs on the road, and it's easy to find Avenue 4, after all, the so-called "main street" is just a small alley in a large underground laneway. There is no natural light in the underground tunnels, but there are artificial light effects, Li Hao and Zhao Ji in order to avoid the Zhuo Kai people, before entering the 17th Vault, the sky will still be bright, and now, according to the reality of the clock of the administrative center on the main road of the Vault, it is a quarter of 8 o'clock in the morning, and the lights also create an early morning effect.

The overall effect of ventilation is not enough, it does not make people feel depressed and deep underground, Li Hao did not encounter guard patrols, but you can see cameras with a wide coverage everywhere. There were many people walking on the main road, but they were all in a hurry, and no one looked like they were loitering, so he naturally didn't stop at random to talk to someone, so he asked for directions, and then found the management office of No. 4 Street.

Then Li Hao found out that the job assigned to him by 025 was garbage removal.

Well, there is no distinction between expensive and low work, and garbage removal is a vital part of life.

The head of the management office is a thin middle-aged man, who is lackluster and has nothing to say, he looked at Li Hao's number plate, entered his face and basic information on the computer, and said: "Piecework settlement, the more you do, the more you will be paid." ”

Li Hao nodded, but he didn't think that 025 sent him to take out the garbage on purpose, but asked, "On-site checkout?" ”

The middle-aged man took a card like a card in the university and handed it to Li Hao, saying, "Yes, settle the bill on the spot, and the salary will be credited to your card, and then you can exchange your salary for what you want, including food, drinking water, and all the living materials you need." It's a refuge, but it's not a place for idlers. ”

Li Hao nodded again, this is the most basic social division of labor, and this place is also the most basic human community, and he didn't ask how much the garbage removal and transportation wages are, and the concept of how much is only meaningful when exchanging. They had just arrived, and since Zhao Ji didn't want to attract more attention, they all had to start with the most basic physical work.

Garbage removal and transportation is not only simple manual work, the working environment is still relatively bad, dirty and smelly that is only the most basic, the greater difficulty is that the transportation distance is relatively long, and the way of transportation is relatively backward.

All Li Hao had was a trolley that could hold two huge square trash cans. He had to go to every garbage station to clean up the garbage, and then push the trolley along a long passage to the end to take out the garbage. This section of the road is 2 kilometers back and forth, to say the least, and the transportation method is very backward, and the efficiency is naturally very low. And the place where the garbage was dumped is a pothole, and I don't know who left it and when, and where it leads, but it feels vertical and unfathomable.

Li Hao also found that there was another person doing this work before, but since he took over, that person stopped doing it, or did something else. According to the middle-aged man's request, after Li Hao collected two buckets of garbage, he now swiped his card at the door of the management office, passed the monitoring there, and then pushed the trolley to take out the garbage.

A small community of more than 500 people produces garbage all the time, and Li Hao found that these garbage are also ordinary household garbage after careful observation. There are not many food scraps, perhaps because the food itself is not much, no one has anything to waste, there are not many types of garbage, and it is obvious that the supplies are not abundant.

Li Hao now has great strength, good physical strength, and fast speed, and the speed of ordinary people walking 2 kilometers back and forth is about 20 minutes, and he can walk it in 15 minutes. However, the 2-kilometre round trip refers to the distance from the exit to the dumping point, and the distance he travels to collect garbage on the street is counted separately. He wanted to know how much he could get in exchange for taking out the garbage, so he worked non-stop for at least four hours, at his average pace, he walked at least 30 kilometers round trip in those four hours, dumping at least half of the household garbage.

Every time I settled the account at the management office, Li Hao saw that now there are 50 points in his card, or 50 points, but I don't know if it is equal to 50 yuan. If it is only equal to 50 yuan, that is to say, his salary for one hour is 12.5 yuan, and 100 yuan for 8 hours a day, then he is a proper manual laborer.

Li Hao didn't feel that there was anything unacceptable, he used to stay at home and code, and he didn't necessarily earn more money.

The large clock in the administrative center points to 12:30 p.m., and the lights become a little more intense, apparently simulating the midday sun. It's not hot, it's underground after all, I don't know how deep it is, but because of the good ventilation, the real sunlight outside can't shine in, it's actually very cool.

Li Hao went back to his "home" first, but Zhao Ji didn't come back, he was sweaty, and he was full of the smell of garbage, so while Zhao Ji was not there, he took a shower in the small bathroom. Of course, there was no change of clothes, and he was very thirsty, Li Hao didn't dare to drink tap water directly, so he came outside and swiped his card to buy a bottle of water at a vending machine.

Asking for 2 points, sure enough, one point is equivalent to 1 yuan, Li Hao felt a little heartache for no reason, if he came like this, it would not be enough to drink a few bottles of water after working for a day.

But when you are thirsty, you still have to drink water, and when you are hungry, you still have to buy something to eat, Li He bought a loaf of bread on the vending machine and decided to use this to satisfy his hunger for the time being. He wanted to buy Zhao Ji something to eat and drink, but he didn't know where she was, and he didn't have a mobile phone, so it was like going back to the eighties of the last century for a while. Fortunately, he knew that with Zhao Ji's ability, it was not enough to deal with Zhuo Kai or that kind of large mutant dog, but if ordinary people wanted to bully her, they would be asking for hardship, so he ate bread and drank water, and he continued to take out the garbage.

This was done until the evening...... The clock and light adjustment show that it is evening, Li Hao ran nearly 70 kilometers back and forth at the end of the day, earning 120 points, he really didn't feel tired when he was tired, he was thirsty and hungry, he estimated that Zhao Ji should also "go home", so he decided to go back and see first.

On the way back, he bought an electric kettle in a store, which was slightly expensive and made him very painful, but with an electric kettle, he could boil water to drink, and he could save a lot of money on mineral water, after all, no matter what kind of virus and bacteria are difficult to survive in the high temperature of 100 degrees Celsius, and he is not afraid of this zombie virus alone. In addition to the electric kettle, he also bought two mouthwash cups, two toothbrushes, and two towels...... Suddenly, he had a sense of living.

But this Nima is the end of the world......

Li Hao returned to "home" with a strange feeling in his head, Zhao Ji had indeed returned, but she was just bored sitting on the chair, seeing Li Hao coming back, and then seeing the bunch of bottles and cans he brought back, her expression was very rich for a while.

Li Hao found that Zhao Ji was empty-handed, so he asked, "Have you eaten?" ”

Zhao Ji shook his head like a broken wave drum, and his eyes lit up when he heard what he said.

Li Hao sighed helplessly, he had actually expected it a long time ago, so he bought two large boxes of instant noodles, plugged in the electric kettle and began to boil the water.

Zhao Ji watched Li Hao put what mouthwash cups and toothbrushes on the bathroom sink, and suddenly remembered that she hadn't brushed her teeth for many days, and why did she feel a little ...... Weird? But this weird feeling is not high, and she is not disgusted, and even a little ...... Feeling good?

"Let's talk about it." Before the water boiled, Li Hao sat on the edge of the bed without a futon and looked at Zhao Ji who was sitting opposite him, and asked, "What have you been doing all day?" ”

"I'm ......" Zhao Ji organized his language and said, "I'm observing the situation here." ”

"What did you observe?"

Zhao Ji said: "There is actually an anarchy in this, and the people here are basically looking after each other. I don't know what kind of person that distant brother is, but he is the leader here, and everyone in charge of things is arranging things under his banner. But the management is not strict, there is no professional armed force, and there is no fixed patrol, and I wonder if the entrance where we came in, if there is no waterlogging and irrigation, there will be no one to guard it at all. In other words, zombies may also be able to enter, and there is a big security hazard here. ”

Li Hao said: "Wasn't that Liu Xinrong the patrol before? He also has guns. ”

Zhao Ji said: "I'm not saying no, I'm saying that there are no fixed patrols, and there is no formed armed force, but the whole feeling is relatively scattered." It's hard to say that the distant brother is incapable, or he doesn't want to build an orderly and effective management system. In addition, in addition to the designated responsible persons who arrange all kinds of work, many others are going their own way under this loose system, not so much as a refuge but back to the door-to-door property community in the city. ”

Li Hao shrugged his shoulders, he felt that this was also good, although he always felt that something was wrong, but it was also very relaxing. He worked for a day and got the remuneration he deserved, although the pay was not high, but he did it as hard work, neither looking at anyone's face, nor being oppressed by anyone, let alone bothering to manage interpersonal relationships, just the same principle as he stayed at home before. If he can live here for a long time, he really likes this model.

At this time, the water boiled, and he began to make noodles.

Zhao Ji asked thoughtfully, "Don't you think this is a big problem?" ”

Li Hao asked rhetorically: "What's the problem?" ”

Zhao Ji spread his hands and said, "The people here are too indifferent!" This is not in a normal society, this is in a disaster! Shouldn't we be closely united and then come together to deal with the disaster? With the current security measures in this shelter, it could collapse at any time if the zombies come! ”

Li Hao thought for a while and said: "What you said makes sense, but there are so many people here, and after all, there are managers, and the emergency shelter facilities are also very complete, so there should be enough countermeasures." Let's eat noodles first, then again, didn't you go to the logistics team? What did the team leader tell you to do? ”

Zhao Ji cut off the instant noodle bowl handed to her by Li Hao, blew it a few times, and began to eat it with a sigh, saying while eating: "The so-called logistics group is actually washing clothes. "Then needless to say, this kind of thing like washing clothes, Officer Zhao is naturally not willing to do it.

Li Hao smiled bitterly and shook his head, but he didn't blame her for anything, just asked, "What about tomorrow?" What are you going to do tomorrow? ”

"Tomorrow?" Zhao Ji was about to say something, when she suddenly heard a sneer coming from outside the door, and this voice suddenly made her and Li Hao feel bad.