Free Web NovelChapter 560: Chapter 199: Drawing People Together, Planting the Roots of Civilization!
The residential units were not built on the vacant land in the block, but were chosen to be behind Jiajiale Supermarket.
This was one of the reasons Cheng Ye targeted the residential units.
The town’s land was likely very cheap at that time, even though Jiajiale Supermarket wasn’t a chain supermarket, the parking lot behind it was exceptionally vast, spanning over a thousand square meters.
Furthermore, from the remaining traces, Cheng Ye could vaguely identify that this was also one of the town’s market stall locations for large fairs.
Entering through the alley beside the supermarket, although the ground had lost its hardened traces long ago, it was still lined with the foundational soil from back then, and covered with herbicide. After clearing away the surface rubble ruin, there were no weeds rooting underground, saving a lot of cleaning effort.
Rows of residential units were built with a dormitory-style thinking. To prevent the Infected Body from ambushing from dead angles, the three unit clusters did not adopt the same layout, overall forming a "口" shape.
The central unit, House No. 1, was already completed, consisting of 36 residential units, arranged 6 units horizontally and 6 vertically, measuring 14.4 meters long and 10.8 meters wide, resembling a neat block.
Cheng Ye bowed his head and walked into House No. 1, finding many residents had already moved their personal belongings inside and claimed their bed spaces.
However, everyone was very conscious, taking up less than one square meter of space per person. Cheng Ye imagined that a person about 1.7 meters tall could barely roll over if curled up in the space.
But considering a family gathering together, with children included, the combined area was rather comforting.
Inside the house, there was a main passage running vertically at 1.2 meters, with an additional cross passage running horizontally at 1 meter, configured in a cross shape to facilitate quick evacuation if danger arose at night.
Coming out from the back, House No. 2 was also completed, using 35 units.
It adopted a layout retracting into a semi-arc, arranged 5 units horizontally and 7 vertically, measuring 16.8 meters long and 9 meters wide.
On the part facing the riverside, a waist-high defensive wall was already piled up outside House No. 2, with bricks and stones at the base, interspersed with steel plates in the middle, leaving observation holes and shooting holes, obviously considering the potential threat of waterborne Infected Body coming ashore at night.
Now, only House No. 3 near the block was left undergoing assembly, with the space bustling. Several groups had different building methods.
Some started with the framework, others with the floorboards, appearing chaotic yet brimming with a fiery enthusiasm.
Cheng Ye stood beside watching for a while, suddenly finding it fascinating.
Modern society’s construction is defined by strict standards, processes aligned like a copy-paste procedure.
But upon reaching the Wasteland, freed from those constraints, this kind of untamed growth with a roughness, instead grounded the roots of civilization instantly into this barren land.
No shackles of blueprints, no tedious approvals, just driven by the need for liveability and defense, each residential unit firmly stood up. freeωebnovēl.c૦m
Wow.
Temporary lighting lamps were hung atop the supermarket building, shining bright light down, illuminating the entire parking lot as bright as day.
Looking beside, the patrol teams lined up had already familiarized themselves with the route, stepping lightly through alleyways of surrounding buildings, flashlight beams scanning through fractured walls and ruins, leaving no corner untouched.
Torches tailored for pioneering were also lit one by one, with orange-red flames spreading along the street, lighting up the once silent abandoned block, even filling the air with the warmth of burning grass and woods.
With Wang Kang overseeing, Cheng Ye did not disrupt the assembly of the residential units.
He stepped out from the alleyways again, standing on the town’s main road where firelight and lantern light intertwined.
The sounds around him suddenly became clear, the bubbling sound of water boiling in a metal pot bringing steam, the crisp and neat sound of nails being hammered, the residents’ rushing footsteps carrying energy, occasional conversations though light, were full of hope for the future.
Mingling together, these sounds made him feel a bit dazed.
He looked toward the direction of the Red Zone in the distance, where there was also firelight, and vaguely the same bustling sound could be heard.
At this moment, Cheng Ye suddenly felt like he was in a post-apocalyptic game he previously played.
The small town after civilization’s collapse, with the players’ efforts, rekindled its lively atmosphere, shedding the long-standing deathly silence. freewebnoveℓ.com
In the gradually darkening night, the planned architectural blueprints in his mind seemed to come alive, a warehouse for materials beside the supermarket, defensive walls to be built on the riverside, streetlights to be set up after the hydroelectric station powered up... The entire street needed renovation, one public building after another would rise from the ground.
These thoughts settled in various directions of the town, vividly as though within reach.
Unlike those outdated framework buildings in the Buffer Zone, which adhered strictly to rules, the "blank" of Dapo Town instead made him feel secure.
After all, even on the pedestrian street, the Elder granted him the privilege to construct, but if he wanted to alter any of the pedestrian street’s plans, he actually had to go through Engineer Liu for top-level approval, underwent the Industrial Bureau’s verification, only then could the funding of 20,000 points be utilized for construction.
Yet in Dapo Town it was completely different, if he wanted to build defenses, if he wanted to set up posts, as long as an idea was born, he could immediately take action.
At this moment, a strange yet determined thought suddenly emerged from Cheng Ye’s heart, with unprecedented clarity:
This is his Dapo Town!
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