Chapter 33: The Calm Before the Storm
Zhang Yang and Jeff are inconspicuous on the construction site of Nuoda, and countless people are doing exactly the same job as them, carrying construction waste, or helping to unload goods from trucks, as the cheapest low-level labor, selling their strength to make them the only way.
Unlike them, there are dense steel shelves everywhere on the construction site, and the I-beam with a diameter of 50 centimeters is transported to the air by the tower crane.
Because of the need to stabilize and retain the height difference, the height of the steel frame itself has exceeded the wall, reaching 80 meters at the highest point, and a gust of wind can shake people, and if there is no protection measures, it will be miserable to fall from a height of 80 meters.
Looking down from above, it is easy to feel dizzy, so experienced old workers will not directly look down, but look into the distance to relieve the feeling of tension.
"Hmm......"
Zhang Yang raised his head from time to time to prevent something from falling from a high altitude, even if it was a raw egg, falling from 80 meters in the air, it could also smash people out of a bag, and the safety helmet was only limited to small garbage, if it was something like a large part, I was afraid that it would be knocked unconscious on the spot, and it was possible to die directly.
On the construction site, the welders who are working in the air and the porters on the ground are the most dangerous, one is worried about being thrown to death, the other is worried about being stoned to death, compared to driving a truck to deliver cement and steel, truck drivers are simply the happiest profession. There are porters for loading and unloading, and you only need to drive back and forth, and you can rest in the cockpit when you are sleepy and tired. Of course, the premise is that you have to have a truck, and most of the trucks provided on the site have a designated driver.
"I remember at the beginning of the movie, Beckett was working on the coastal fence as if it was in Alaska."
Zhang Yang recalled the plot in the movie.
Beckett, the male protagonist of the movie, was attacked by monsters in order to save a fishing boat because he violated the order of the black general to protect the city, and his brother was killed, and the mecha was destroyed. In the blink of an eye, he went from a high-flying mecha pilot to a sling wire welding steel on the construction site.
I have to say that the course of the mecha pilot is too comprehensive, and in the full set of courses in the hunter trainee, it includes training courses for occupations such as electric welding and tower cranes. After all, seventy or eighty meters of mecha turning and moving and other operations are no different from tower crane drivers in some aspects.
Because of this, the monster that can be beaten on the mecha is a standard welder when you get off the machine and pick up the electric welder. Beckett can only be expelled from the PPDC in the event of being expelled. Find a job welding and live your way.
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, but because Beckett is far away in Alaska, and Zhang Yang is in San Francisco, the possibility of being close to Beckett is extremely slim.
"Whoa!"
Zhang Yang pushed a small cart full of construction waste and came to the garbage heap that had been pushed into a hill by an excavator. The handlebars were lifted upwards, and the garbage inside suddenly poured out with a bang. Raising a pile of dust, Zhang Yang saw that there was nothing in the car, held his breath, decisively closed the car and retreated, completing a perfect trip to take out the garbage.
"Well done, flamboyant!" Jeff gave a thumbs up.
Zhang Yang grinned and pushed the cart back to the place of work.
This method is indeed very fast, but the trolley full of garbage is very heavy, and if you want to take out the garbage in the car at one time, you can't do it without a certain amount of arm strength and skill, but no one will pay attention to a small porter, so the perfect act of taking out the garbage does not attract anyone's attention.
After cleaning up the pile of garbage, Zhang Yang and Jeff continued to run to the next garbage pile under the arrangement of the overseer wearing a small blue hat, and in the dust, a morning passed like this, and at 12 noon the construction site sounded the whistle of the end of work, and everyone was ready to eat.
"Are you okay with your hands?"
"It's okay, I've already asked a doctor to apply anti-inflammatory drugs." Jeff grinned.
Zhang Yang's own body is very good, and the hard work of the morning is not difficult for him, but Jeff, although his body is good, he used to play basketball instead of carrying bricks and sacks on the construction site, and he also grinded out a blister with gloves, and he grinned in pain when he squeezed it.
"Let's go, let's go to lunch first, there's another afternoon."
Holding the ration card, Zhang Yang, like other workers, lined up to enter the restaurant and began to eat, there are four large restaurants on the whole construction site, according to the time difference between morning and evening, only two for breakfast, four at noon, and two at night.
Lunch is more expeditious than breakfast, the restaurant serves burgers, sandwiches, hot dogs, three main meals, drinks include coffee, beer and juice, each person can also receive a beautiful pizza, lunch just fooled around, if you eat too much, it will make people drowsy and slow down the progress of the project, so like a normal American family, the construction site is more hearty for dinner, and it is allowed to take it home.
Zhang Yang was not used to drinking coffee, so he took a large glass of juice and drank it himself, when there was a commotion in the crowd not far away, and many people surrounded it, but someone was fighting.
"You damn Bichi!"
"Bastard, I'm going to shove your head in your back!"
It was a black man and a white man who fought, and the topic was still the same racial issue for thousands of years, although they were all eating in the same pot at the moment, racial discrimination, regional discrimination still existed, and the people around them went up to persuade them, but they annoyed the white man, and he pulled out a dagger from the backpack next to him.
Seeing the other party pull out his dagger, everyone took a few steps back.
Because the construction site does not provide accommodation for ordinary workers, most of the workers go out to work in the morning and go home from work at night, and it is very dangerous to go out alone, among which the construction site is forbidden to carry firearms and bows and crossbows and other hot and cold weapons, but the control of daggers is not so strict, and in fact, the effect of the prohibition is not so good, because if a worker wants to make a machete or dagger, it is simple, find a suitable iron piece, polish the blade, and weld the handle with electricity, and a simple machete or dagger will be baked.
At this moment, the dagger in the white man's hand was made of a piece of steel, because it was small, it was easy to carry around.
Someone moved the knife, and the situation in the field immediately became a little chaotic, especially the face of the black man who was beaten.
"Come on! Aren't you going to fight with me, come on! ”
With an extra dagger in his hand, the white man felt much more confident, and threatened the people around him, who were afraid of being scratched and retreated.
Zhang Yang frowned, although he was not a hot-blooded young man who was brave and brave, but he didn't want to see the other party like this, just as he was about to make a move, suddenly a shadow passed through the crowd and smashed into the hands of the white man.
"Bang!"
Everyone looked at it, it turned out to be a glass bottle containing ketchup, the white man who smashed it hurt a lot, his face was full of red ketchup, and the dagger in his hand also fell to the ground, and he was immediately kicked away by the person next to him, and then fell to the ground.
"Damn it, let me go!"
The white man was still struggling, but he was caught by four or five people, and at this time, the security guards at the construction site also rushed over, and took the guy away with an electric baton in their hands, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the crisis resolved.
Some curious people wanted to see who the person who threw the ketchup was, but just now the black pressed a large group of people, and it was not clear who threw the ketchup, so they had no choice but to give up, and everyone scattered and returned to their positions.
After Zhang Yang went back, he saw that Jeff was eating a hot dog slowly, and he didn't seem to see what had just happened, Zhang Yang looked at him thoughtfully, until Jeff was a little uncomfortable, and then he spoke.
"Beautiful three-pointer!"
Jeff scratched his head embarrassedly: "You see? ”
It turned out that the one who threw ketchup was Jeff of the former professional basketball team, and Zhang Yang was still wondering who had such an accurate head, throwing a bottle from the crowd and hitting the opponent's wrist, but it was quite difficult.
"I just saw that guy was too arrogant, that's why I ......," Jeff wanted to explain.
"Don't worry, I won't say it." Zhang Yang gestured in a reassuring posture.
After lunch, everyone rested in a house on the construction site for more than half an hour, and would not return to work until the food was digested and absorbed.
There are only three elevators on this side of the coastal fence, and after coming up, the workers are separated along the I-beams with the thickness of the soles of their feet, and when they go up, they can clearly feel the wind blowing from the coast, which makes people tremble slightly, and the outer layer of the coastal fence with a thickness of 10 meters and a height of 75 meters has been built 85% of the way, and the bottom layer has been built, and only the top gap of the wall needs to be stitched to be completed.
When the exterior wall is completed, the buffer layer that clings to the exterior wall, that is, the prototype of these I-beams, 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 built, so that the coastal fence with a thickness of up to 25 meters will be completely completed.
Standing on the coastal fence and feeling the sea breeze blowing in your face is simply very pleasant, the flat 10-metre wall is large enough for three trucks to drive side by side, and the unfinished gap can be seen with a large number of exposed steel frames, which will take some time to complete.
At this moment, Zhang Yang, who was standing on the wall blowing the sea breeze, suddenly felt that the earth seemed to tremble slightly. (To be continued......)