Surviving the Long Night: Starting from the Gas Station and Infinite Upgrades

Chapter 80 Anticipation, Report Writing, and the Arrival of the Cable

The upgraded warehouse gives the impression of transforming a small bungalow into a large villa, but this is only the external appearance.

Meng Lingshi walked to the door and looked around the warehouse carefully. He found that the warehouse had been raised and divided into two floors.

However, the layered approach involves building an aerial platform at half the height of the warehouse, which occupies half the area of ​​the warehouse. This ensures greater storage space while also allowing goods that are taller than half the height of the warehouse to be placed.

The logs were quietly piled up in the corner, taking up almost a quarter of the entire warehouse area.

Lu Sheng confirmed that with these logs, the camp had 105 units of timber remaining.

In comparison, there are still 10 units of steel remaining.

He wasn't worried at all; he was just waiting for the first batch of scrap steel to arrive tomorrow so he could start large-scale construction immediately.

However, there is still one thing left tonight.

"At that time, bring over a piece of timber."

"Wow, don't you have any chivalry at all?"

"This is the last thing I'll do tonight, I promise."

"Fine, I'm really unlucky. I was experimented on at Golden Sunflower, and now that I'm finally out, every day feels like I'm being forced into labor."

Since Lu Sheng didn't specify the thickness, Meng Lingshi simply picked out a relatively thick log from the pile of timber, just in case there wasn't enough material later.

She carried the wood and followed Lu Sheng out of the secondary warehouse. When they passed the gas station warehouse, Lu Sheng carried five more units of steel.

When the two arrived at the abandoned commercial street, Jiang Xin just came out of a house.

"Station Chief Lu, what's going on...? And who's this person behind you?"

Jiang Xin's gaze passed through Lu Sheng and landed on Meng Lingshi, who was carrying a large log.

Lu Sheng said he had a clean and tidy appearance, but he had also been to the front line of the forest farm and seen how the workers transported such timber. Those muscular strong men could not lift it without four or five people.

But Meng Lingshi, a short little girl, easily lifted it up in front of him, and seemed to be under no pressure at all.

"This is Meng Lingshi, a destructive awakener. She was not sent by the Lu family."

Lu Sheng briefly explained Meng Lingshi's identity:

"If I had to put it that way, they were my private soldiers, and also part of the camp's management."

Jiang Xin nodded, then asked Lu Sheng:

"Station Chief Lu, what are you going to do?"

"I'll fix your house."

Lu Sheng said bluntly:

"Have you chosen a shop space yet? If you have, I'll repair and reinforce it right now to make sure you have a place to rest tonight, and you can open for business tomorrow by putting up a sign at the entrance."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Xin nodded and pointed to the second room to the west of Su Caiwei's house:

"Let's go with that one, since it's less damaged."

"Okay, move aside."

Lu Sheng had previously demonstrated to Jiang Xin his efficiency and precision in repairing small objects, and now Jiang Xin witnessed Lu Sheng's methods of modifying large objects.

Under his gaze, the steel and some of the wood transformed into streams of light, and in an instant, the damaged materials were reconstructed into a complete two-story shop with doors and windows.

"All done. Commissioner Jiang, you can get some rest. We'll head out when it's time to call it a day."

"Yay!"

Jiang Xin watched the two leave, chatting and laughing. He then turned around and looked at the place he had chosen. He walked up, pushed open the door, and the interior looked brand new, as if it had just been renovated.

"Unbelievable! Has the Lu family become so foolish as to allow such a person to remain at the border?"

He walked around the room, then closed the door and put the key in his pocket.

Before he had all the furniture, he was willing to spend the night in his truck. For the long journey, there was a single bed with a soft mattress behind the seat of his truck.

A few minutes later, Jiang Xin returned to his car, turned on the roof light, took off his shoes, sat on the bed, turned on his bracelet, and began writing a report to submit to his family.

The family gave him a week to investigate, but the value Lu Sheng demonstrated made him feel that reporting the information even a minute late would be a dereliction of duty.

At the end of the intelligence report, he added some of his own subjective opinions:

"From the perspective of old-fashioned family business concepts, Lu Sheng's maternal family is of low status and it is difficult for him to enter the core. However, if viewed from the perspective of more advanced corporate concepts, he has extraordinary potential."

The Lu family was short-sighted; they failed to recall him to the family immediately after discovering his abilities. The enemy's mistake was our golden opportunity.

Jiang should abandon outdated notions such as nepotism, respond to the Federation's call to appoint based on merit, and maintain a good relationship with this person.

Jiang Xin knew very well that when it came to feudalism, the Jiang family was not much more enlightened than the Lu family, but the situation was changing every day.

The meritocratic company is becoming increasingly powerful, while the nepotistic family is constantly losing strength in internal strife. If no changes are made, only demise awaits the Jiang family.

"May the God of All Things bless us. Since you are willing to bestow such a favor upon the Lu family, I do not expect the Jiang family to produce a Jiang Sheng as well. At least let these old fogies open their minds."

He lay down, placed his hands behind his head, looked at the roof panel, and slowly closed his eyes in prayer.

The next day, as soon as a sliver of light appeared on the horizon, the travelers who had rested overnight gradually woke up from their sleep. Some, seeing that the sky was still hazy, lay down to continue dozing off, while others glanced at the map, confirmed that there was enough time in the day to make their journey, and also lay down to continue dozing off.

Those who were pressed for time and had heavy tasks hurriedly ate something, started the engine, and drove to the west gate of the camp.

Guan Rui, the sentry at the bottom of the watchtower, had just come to relieve the guard. Seeing that a car was about to leave, she opened the iron gate for him, waved, and said:

"Bon Voyage!"

From this moment on, the camp gradually became more active.

As time went by, more and more people woke up, and the pedestrians who had stopped to rest embarked on their journeys once again.

After eating the compressed food they wouldn't normally eat, the family members went one by one to Cheng Qiushui's residence, hoping to get a job and join the operation of the camp.

Lu Sheng contacted Wei Fa early in the morning to confirm the other party's arrival time.

Today is the day the armored cables and scrap steel have arrived; with these two items, the entire camp's solar power system can be built.

More importantly, the establishment of stable supply channels for steel and timber will accelerate the future construction of the camp.

About half an hour later, Lu Sheng, who was standing on the watchtower, saw the large truck in the distance.

Seeing the modified body, which was twice as long as a regular truck, he immediately recognized it as Wei Fa's vehicle.

A moment later, Wei Fa slowly drove the truck into the camp. After it came to a stop, Lu Sheng had already called the workers over.

Under his direction, the workers began unloading the armored cables from the truck, but the scrap steel, being unprocessed, consisted of a large pile of oddly shaped steel products that were difficult to unload by hand.

A few minutes later, Meng Lingshi came over and took a look.

"You're not picky at all, using materials like this."

"Due to limited resources, I also want to use high-quality steel, but that costs half again as much."

Lu Sheng shrugged:

"It's up to you. Just pile them up next to the warehouse."