Ling Feng's explanation left Liang Yue completely speechless for this man.
She didn't even know how to describe Ling Feng.
Because he has his own set of behavioral logic when doing things.
It was such a pure emotion that no matter what he did, he would never feel that he was wrong.
Even if he sacrifices others to achieve his own goals, Ling Feng has a way to justify himself.
The key is that Ling Feng is not quibbling, he truly believes that he is right.
Pure good or pure evil are both things that scare people.
Liang Yue kept silent and stopped communicating with Ling Feng.
At night, the temperature drops sharply.
Ling Feng said to Liang Yue and others: "Let's go back and rest first at night! Now that the field of vision has become worse, we don't worry that Zhang Yi will notice anything abnormal."
He took the members of the special operations team back and passed by the tunnel excavation site on the way to inspect the work.
There are more than 1,000 surviving residents in Xujia Town, and nearly 1,000 laborers can be dispatched.
However, it is impossible for so many people to excavate tunnels at the same time.
It must be divided into batches, with twenty people working in each batch.
Then there will be a shift handover every half hour.
The initial excavation is the most tiring.
Because there is a certain depth below the surface that is frozen into permafrost, it is very difficult to excavate solely by manpower.
Ling Feng came over with the captains and asked Academician Wu who was in charge of the project: "How is it? Did the first day of work go well?"
Academician Wu said: "Everything is going according to the original plan. If nothing happens, with such non-stop excavation work day and night, we will be able to open this 1,500-meter-long tunnel in a month!"
"Then—boom!"
Academician Wu made an explosive gesture and said with a smile: "We will use 2,000 kilograms of explosives to send Zhang Yi's shelter flying into the sky!"
Ling Feng nodded with satisfaction.
He looked at the construction site, which looked very busy.
There were several soldiers with guns guarding the area.
Not far away, the people waiting to hand over their shift were already waiting with shovels and bamboo baskets in their hands.
Suddenly, Ling Feng frowned. He quickly walked up to a villager and stopped him.
"You, raise your head and let me take a look!"
The villager's face was wrapped in a scarf, but he was thin.
After hearing Ling Feng's order, he pulled off his scarf, revealing a childish face.
Ling Feng's eyes suddenly widened, "How old are you?"
"I am thirteen years old."
The boy answered honestly.
Ling Feng suddenly became furious and shouted at Xu Dongtang and Academician Wu who were nearby: "Didn't I say that children under the age of sixteen should not be allowed to work!"
"Do you know that children are the future and hope of the nation?"
Xu Dongtang hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Captain Ling, we are all farmers. Although he is only thirteen years old, his hard work is no worse than that of adults in the city."
Ling Feng said angrily: "I said no, it's no! No matter how tight the project is, we must have a bottom line when doing things!"
He pointed at the boy and said, "Take him back to me immediately! This is a battlefield, and children cannot be allowed to join!"
Xu Dongtang quickly pulled the child aside, "Yes, yes, I will take him back right away!"
The boy looked at Ling Feng with a look of gratitude and admiration in his eyes.
Not far away, Liang Yue witnessed this scene and felt even more speechless.
She really didn't know how to evaluate Ling Feng.
Ding crab?
Liang Yue was speechless, but the two people were indeed very similar.
Xu Dongtang asked someone to take the child away.
Ling Feng said to him: "In order to speed up the progress of the project, our tunnel must not stop for 24 hours. Mayor Xu, I hope you will take the lead and let everyone work hard to overcome it."
Xu Dongtang was stunned when he heard this.
Ling Feng had never told him about this matter.
No, Ling Feng never considered his opinions and those of the villagers in Xujia Town.
Including digging tunnels, these people don't know what the purpose is now.
Xu Dongtang was shocked when he heard that he had to work 24 hours a day.
"Team Ling, isn't this workload too much?"
Ling Feng asked, "Is it big? There are 40 people in two shifts per hour, and about 1,000 people a day. Isn't this reasonable?"
Xu Dongtang defended: "But in this kind of weather, even if you only work for half an hour a day, ordinary people's bodies can't stand it!"
"What's more...if it really continues, we don't know how long this project will take."
"Captain Ling, what on earth do you want to do?"
Xu Dongtang summoned up the courage to ask.
Ling Feng did not explain to Xu Dongtang, but lightly patted his shoulder with his hand.
"Lao Xu, you just need to cooperate with our work. Do you understand?"
"Everything we do is for the good of your Xujiazhen. If we don't get rid of the devil Zhang Yi, you will all die in the future!"
"Be smart and don't think that I am harming you!"
After Ling Feng finished speaking, he turned around and left without giving Xu Dongtang any chance to bargain.
In other words, in his eyes, Xu Dongtang was not qualified to bargain.
"Let's go back and rest! We will continue to come here tomorrow!"
Ling Feng smiled and said to Liang Yue and others.
As the main force in frontal feint attacks, they launch supernatural attacks, which consume a lot of money.
Liang Yue saw through Ling Feng at this time, so she followed him across the river back to Xujia Town without saying anything.
After returning, someone immediately ordered the women in Xujia Town to quickly prepare food and deliver it to them.
Not long after, a table full of food was placed in front of Ling Feng and the others.
The main foods are steamed buns and grilled fish. After all, these two foods have the largest reserves nowadays.
Ling Feng ate big mouthfuls, and could bite off most of the handmade steamed buns with just one mouth opening.
For the next period of time, life became plain and boring.
Ling Feng and several strangers feigned attacks around the shelter as usual every day.
Then on the other side, the villagers in Xujia Town all became coolies, working hard to dig tunnels.
Because Fatty Xu is a stranger and will be brought back to Xishan Base in the future, no one asks him to participate in the work.
But after losing the communication equipment, he also completely severed contact with Zhang Yi.
Time comes on the third day.
The tunnel was successfully excavated to more than 100 meters. At this time, the difficulty of the working environment became apparent.
The deeper you go, the thinner the oxygen becomes.
There is no oxygen supply equipment, so the only way to transport air inside is through rubber tubes.
Similar to the most primitive diving device, air is pumped into the tunnel through artificial shaking from the outside.
However, this method is obviously far less effective than modern equipment.
Coupled with the cold temperature and high degree of labor, someone finally fell down first.
There were screams in the tunnel, and everyone carried the person out in panic.
There was a military doctor in the special operations team. After checking it out, he shook his head.
"Acute myocardial infarction, there is no way to save her."
The man who died was named Xu Youzhi, fifty-two years old, and a construction worker.
Elderly people are most likely to have myocardial infarction and cerebral infarction when exposed to low temperatures.
This disease is not impossible to treat, but it just needs to be quickly sent to a place with a good medical environment for bypass surgery.
Xishan base has such medical conditions.
But there is no need to go to such trouble for an ordinary villager.
So Xu Youzhi was directly pronounced dead.
The villagers in Xujia Town looked at Xu Youzhi's still warm body, feeling sad and angry.
Xu Youzhi is not dead yet, but he is already dead.
And he risked his life to work for the Xishan Base.
A young man yelled at the surrounding special forces members: "What you are doing is inhumane! You are treating us like cattle and horses, I won't do it anymore!"
As he spoke, he angrily dropped the shovel in his hand.
Seeing this, the surrounding Xujia Town villagers also dropped their tools and shouted to give them an explanation.
The supervisor, Shen Hong, frowned and said coldly: "Organizational orders cannot be violated! Everything we do is to avenge you."
"Now that we have come to this point, anyone who dares to back out is equivalent to a deserter!"
The word deserter was bitten hard by Shen Hong.
He shook his assault rifle and pointed the muzzle vaguely at the group of villagers.
This simple action was like a basin of cold water poured on their heads, cooling the blood in everyone's bones.
Xu Dongtang sighed: "Carry the person back! Replace with someone else!"
With sadness in their eyes, the villagers could only carry Xu Youzhi's body away and prepare to take it back to Xujia Town for burial.
However, when one person dies, what happens next becomes out of control.
As the tunnels are dug deeper and deeper, the conditions and intensity of the work are rapidly changing.
The second, the third, the fourth...
More and more villagers in Xujia Town died while digging tunnels.
Some people were working and suddenly fell to the ground.
There are also people who come home after a day's work, lie in bed and never wake up.
The human body is inherently fragile.
They have tried their best to survive in the extremely cold temperatures.
Now they are forced to work in harsh conditions, which is like the straw that breaks the camel's back and makes them lose their lives.
When we got to the back, several corpses were taken out of the tunnel every day.
The mood of the villagers in Xujia Town also became violent as the number of corpses increased.
Although they did not dare to directly conflict with the special forces armed with guns, there were constant verbal conflicts and small actions in private.
After Ling Feng learned about this situation, he became unusually calm.
Because everything was within their expectations.
"Just pick a few leaders and beat them to death. Some people won't know how to be afraid until they see blood."
"In addition, we only require that the progress of the project be managed by their own village chiefs and town chiefs."
"They are the best at managing their own people, better than us."