Chapter 8: First time working in a dangerous area (2)

Hundreds of students came in one after another. The wooden room was noisy and crowded, the decibel level was alarming, and the staff were very busy.

Students who come here for the first time, even if they know what they should do in theory, often encounter all kinds of problems in practice. Some people even wear a protective suit with clear front and back, with the buttocks in the front, and complain about how their eyes are covered.

After Ye Na had dressed herself and checked herself, she turned around to help three female classmates who she usually got along well with get dressed, reminded them to check and keep their documents, and took them along the signs to the next process so that they would not get together with other classmates who were in the chaos.

This long row of prefabricated houses also forms a passage. When you go out from the other end, you will be standing inside the third layer of the electric fence. After walking for a while along the signboards, you will arrive at an open space. You will first see a garbage dump like a small hill in front of the open space. Then you turn your head and see a row of mobile prefabricated houses at the edge of the open space. There are rows of flatbed carts on the ground in front of the houses, and staff members are directing the flow on the side.

“Oh my god, is that the mountain of garbage we’re going to clear away?”

Such a huge mountain of garbage is really shocking.

"Come on, take the cart. This is a job assigned to us. We earn money for every bag we deliver."

Ye Na was also surprised for a moment at the spectacular mountain of garbage, but then she quickly calmed down, walked quickly forward, and pushed a cart.

When the female classmates saw her leaving, they quickly caught up with her, each pushing a cart, and arrived at the garbage mountain.

The awakened ones pack the garbage into bags in the danger zone and transport them here, while ordinary people transport the garbage bags to the garbage trucks.

As he got closer, he could clearly see how huge these filled garbage bags were. They were the oversized size used in 360-liter sanitation garbage cans. Because they were used to hold garbage from another world, they were made with special craftsmanship and thickened. Any bag weighed about kilograms. With Ye Na's current strength, he could not lift them at all, and had to drag and haul them onto the cart.

The cart was only big enough to hold three bags flat, but if one had enough strength one could continue to stack them. Ye Nai did not try to be brave, and after putting two bags in, she went to help the classmate next to her.

"How many pounds does this big bag weigh? It's so heavy."

"About 100 kilograms. My family always buys 100 kilograms of rice. I mentioned this weight before." There are six people in Ye Nai's family. They always buy 100 kilograms of rice, and the rice shop delivers it to their door.

"Yes, about 100 kilograms. My family buys rice this way, too." A man just carried a bag of rice to the car by himself, straightened up, and took a deep breath through the mask. "Oh, I'm so tired. I can't even wipe the sweat off when I'm wearing this, and it's hard to breathe with the mask on."

"If this job is easy to do, can it become a guaranteed job for the whole society?"

"It's because we don't have the ability to find a job, so we can only sell our physical labor."

"Yena, how many bags are you pushing?"

"Two bags."

"Can you push it?"

"I can push it. How about you? Two bags too?"

Ye Na has been releasing energy from the fungi outside to improve her endurance, keep her physically strong and energetic. She didn't feel tired when she was helping her classmates carry bags just now, because she knew she had the strength to do it.

"No, no, no, let's try pushing one bag first."

"Row."

Ye Nai pushed two bags by herself, and the other three people tried one bag first, loaded the car and left.

Once on the road, we found that it was very wide and flat. People who walked fast could overtake at will. There were street lights on the roadside and surveillance cameras installed on the lamp poles.

Ye Na saw that there was a dirt road under the lamp pole, and she released spores as she walked, but the protective suit and mask were too tightly sealed, and even such small spores could not get out. Finally, she pulled the mask slightly to reveal a gap on her face, and the spores flew out close to her face, drifted with the wind, and sank into the surrounding soil to decompose the organic matter in the soil, providing her with a long-term supply of energy to maintain her physical strength.

She didn't come here to experience life, she really wanted to leave home and be independent, and to make money.

Pushing the cart, I took big steps and walked seriously, gradually pulling away from the three classmates. Before I knew it, I couldn't even hear their voices. I didn't have a watch, my phone was in my pocket, and I was wearing a protective suit. I couldn't tell the time. I had no idea how long I had walked. I finally saw the open parking lot at the end of the road. Three closed garbage trucks were parked there with their backs open. I could just pick one and pull over.

Ye Na came to the back of the car closest to him. There was someone guarding there, instructing Ye Na to get the cart into the lift platform at the rear of the car. After it was fixed, the lift platform rose up and flipped over, and the garbage bag was poured into the truck bed.

Then the man asked Ye Na to turn her back to him and drew two strokes on her back with a red pen, meaning that she delivered two bags this time.

2 yuan per bag.

The cart returned to the ground, and when Ye Na was about to turn around and leave, she saw the three classmates catching up with her.

"Yena, you are amazing. You can push 200 pounds and walk so fast. I can't catch up with you."

"You'll have the strength if you practice. Come on, you can earn 2 yuan for each bag you deliver, which is enough for a day's food. Your family won't scold us for eating for free."

Ye Na was in a hurry to make money. Although they were classmates she usually got along well with, at this time, time was money and she had no time to chat with them.

The three classmates watched her push the empty cart and run away. Thinking of what she had just said, they felt as if they had boundless strength.

"She's right. We should make good money and not let our family scold us for eating for free."

"Yes, my family wanted to arrange a blind date for me last night. If I don't make money, I will get married and rely on having children to get subsidies. They treat women like pigs. It's terrible."

"Go, go, go, hand in this bag quickly."

They handed in the garbage, got a mark on their backs, and jogged along with their empty carts, passing countless classmates, before finally catching up with Ye Nai who was running happily ahead.

"Yena, wait for us."

"Why are you chasing me? You will run out of energy very quickly. We have to work until noon before we can go out to rest and eat. You have to set your own pace."

"No, no, I feel relieved to see you."

"...What the hell?"

"You go your way, we will follow you and won't hold you back."

Yenne didn't understand, but she respected it and continued to push her cart.

The three classmates were chasing after him, panting.

"Is Yenna's stamina so good?"

“I can’t really tell at ordinary times.”

He ran back to the garbage mountain, picked up two more bags, and pushed the cart away.

Trip after trip, two bags at a time, Ye Nai had piled up two full bags on her back before noon. None of her classmates were as efficient as her. The best male classmates could only carry two bags at a time. They didn't eat enough on a normal day, so even an adult boy would find it difficult to carry 200 kilograms.

The worker who was marking her right next to the garbage truck told her to keep going.

"You are very motivated, little girl. Keep it up and wait a few days. If you can keep doing this, maybe you really have a talent for this job."

"Thank you."

(End of this chapter)