Chapter 186: Efficient Office Work

After they met up, Luo Sanlin said that apart from the blast furnace workers, everyone else in the Steel Factory had also evacuated.

He was waiting for Liu Mu now to see how to arrange things: whether to continue holding the fort to smelt steel, or to hide away for this spell first.

Liu Mu shook her head, "This isn't just a spell of cold wave, but an Extreme Cold that we don't know how long will last. Arrange the evacuation; it has already dropped more than twenty degrees tonight."

Seeing her so certain, others might have questioned it, but Luo Sanlin would not.

Back before the Ten-Day Burning began, if not for Liu Mu betting her reputation to warn them, his family—no, the entire building of people he had called up—would not have just suffered casualties; at the very least, more than half would have died.

"That's fine, the vehicles on my end are all prepared, and we can still take a few trucks of cargo back."

Seeing Liu Mu about to object, Luo Sanlin hurriedly explained, "The road is iced over. Let the heavy vehicles go in front to crush the ice layer; it will be easier for the vehicles behind to travel."

"Alright, you make the arrangements. I'm going to the storage yard; you can leave first once you're ready."

Luo Sanlin thought Liu Mu had something to retrieve and wanted to persuade her otherwise, but she had already run off.

Liu Mu wasn't going to retrieve things, but to put things away.

She wanted to release all the iron ore stored in her space; as for the mechanical equipment, however, she still had to take it with her.

Under the Extreme Cold, even if the equipment were left in the factory, many parts would freeze and break.

When Luo Sanlin, having finished arranging the departure, arrived, he saw two small hills in the warehouse.

He grabbed a handful and rubbed it, "The quality is very good. Should we take a portion back to the Barrier? Although it's Extreme Cold, the blast furnace there should be able to smelt a portion."

"No need," Liu Mu shook her head helplessly, "Our main goal afterward is to survive. The steel needed to build the Underground City there is still enough for a while."

"That's true. I've already agreed with the workers at the factory; once we get there, we'll arrange farm work first. If we can pull through, we can develop later!"

Regarding the personnel arrangements after the Extreme Cold, Luo Sanlin and the few main persons in charge on Liu Mu's side had already discussed it many times. Everyone had many ideas, but too few could be realized in reality.

"Have the personnel on duty here all been arranged?"

Extreme Cold is Extreme Cold, but the factory still needs people to guard it.

The Steel Factory had also built simple underground facilities, and with the sufficient coal reserves already here, heating was not a problem.

"The personnel for the six-month rotation have all been arranged. The only difficulty is delivering daily necessities regularly," Luo Sanlin tucked his hands into his sleeves, hugging his arms, "Let's go; I'm afraid the road surface will have problems if the temperature continues to drop."

The first shift of the rotation consisted of eight people. Originally, Luo Sanlin wanted to stand the first watch, but the former Black Fire Gang member, now Deputy Factory Director Feng Mo, snatched it up.

The boss of the Black Fire Gang, Black Fire, also requested to stay. After that great battle at the Steel Factory, those from the Black Fire Gang who could work had basically entered the factory, which could be considered as having turned over a new leaf.

The convoy was ready to set off. Black Fire said goodbye to his little brothers, frost hanging on his eyelashes.

"Boss Liu, my brothers and family are all entrusted to you. We are risking our lives here, so please treat them well and don't let anyone bully them. Especially my partner; I'm going to go get our marriage certificate with her as soon as I finish my shift!"

It was hard to tell if it was from the freezing or from crying; the boss, whose mohawk was covered by his hat, was putting on a show of chivalrous tenderness.

"Rest assured, I guarantee they will have work to do, a place to stay, and food to eat," Liu Mu patted this little brother on the shoulder, "What kind of relationship do we have? If I don't look after others, could I not look after our Black Fire Gang people?"

"That's right, good brothers for life!" Black Fire didn't feel bad anymore and immediately patted his chest to guarantee, "With me, Black Fire, here, you can also rest easy. If anyone dares to have designs on our factory, I'll be the first to pull a gun and blast them!"

Liu Mu did not encourage his behavior, "You are also someone who will have a family soon; don't be so hot-headed. You still need to listen to Feng Mo's arrangements."

Clearly, Black Fire did not take these words to heart. In his view, the Black Fire Gang were all his family, but the Steel Factory was already their home.

When the cold wave leaves in the future, they will still reunite at the factory.

Feng Mo also stepped forward and gave the duty roster to Liu Mu, "Bo, Boss, you, hurry, leave. We, we, sufficient, supplies, rest assured!"

"Good, you must contact the Barrier on time. If the connection is lost due to weather, don't worry," Liu Mu pulled him aside, not letting Black Fire and the others hear her words, "Remember our principle, right? Saving your life is the most important thing. If it really doesn't work, just hide."

"Un, understand!" Feng Mo nodded, "If we are bullied, we have you, you help, help take revenge! As long as the factory is still there, we can snatch, snatch..."

"Snatch it back, that's right," Liu Mu was very gratified. The Black Fire Gang's drive to risk their lives wasn't just talk; she was just afraid these young people would get carried away and end up risking their lives against others, losing both the people and the factory.

The convoy set off, and Feng Mo also led his men to lock the factory gate and re-checked the defenses everywhere.

Now that the temperature still allowed people to come out, if it continued to drop, people wouldn't be able to come out, and these defenses wouldn't actually be of much use.

The reason Liu Mu urged them to just do their best was because she was certain that once the people from the church discovered something had happened at the mine, they would not let it go.

Haide Kamp might be a fool who only had the church in his heart, but judging from the contact over this period, the Thirteen Holy Nuns Association was not a stupid organization.

Quite the contrary, it possessed an extremely strict hierarchical system, which also included the believer ranks and church staff rank systems that Liu Mu already knew about.

But what made Liu Mu most wary was its business model. In the apocalypse, those mechanical devices were things that even the Haicheng Barrier—which claimed to have the full support of the General Command and was the economic and military core of the Southeast Three Provinces—could not produce, yet the church gave them away just like that...

You could say they attached extreme importance to iron ore and thus provided full support, but this did not affect the preciousness of these devices.

Reflecting on it, either this person Haide Kamp had a truly special status in the church, or the church was blind and had misjudged the person. If they had sent someone even slightly more shrewd to mine, Liu Mu would not have been able to achieve results so easily.

"Hiss, I forgot an important thing."

Liu Mu suddenly opened her eyes, distressedly ruffling her long hair that hadn't been washed for a long time, even pulling out a half-dried piece of waterweed from it.

"What's wrong?" Li Fei, who was driving, had a steady hand and was not affected by his immediate superior's sudden regret, ensuring driving safety.

Liu Mu looked at the electronic screen placed in front of her, which showed a map of their current situation, "Guard against people, guard against beasts, guard against plants. When the Extreme Cold descends, the first to find a place to shelter are the Mutated Animals."

Worried about the evacuation the whole way, Li Fei hadn't thought of this point, "A person as meticulous as Luo Sanlin should have made deployments, right?"

"I hope so," thinking that the Steel Factory's defenses were Luo Sanlin's deployment, Liu Mu didn't panic much. This person had executed dozens of missions with the military and had direct knowledge of the danger of Mutated Animals.

But what she didn't know was that Luo Sanlin had to worry about the organization of the entire factory and had to keep an eye on the workers at all times to ensure not a single person was left behind, so he really hadn't thought of this point.

Just two hours after they left, the Steel Factory was attacked by a large group of mutated beasts.

Liu Mu, who thought she could rest for a while after returning to the Barrier, was completely irritable when she received the news that the Steel Factory needed support.

"Tell them to hide, save their lives first!"

She almost roared it out. The Confidential Clerk reporting was Jiang Wenjun's deputy, Ma Si, who was trusted enough to be assigned to assist Liu Mu.

"I've already said so, but the attack cannot end in a short time. I'm afraid even if they hide, they will be found. You know, the abilities of Mutated Animals now are uncertain. Some can even perform Space Jump, not to mention conventional abilities like digging holes and destruction. Therefore, our suggestion is to send people to support as soon as possible; otherwise, it will be impossible for them to evacuate back. The more it is delayed, the possibility of total annihilation exceeds eighty percent..."

Seeing him go on and on, Liu Mu hurriedly raised her hand to stop him, "Stop, stop, stop! I only said one sentence, was that necessary?"

"Go! I'll go immediately. I won't even drink a sip of water, my butt won't even touch the chair, I'm leaving right now!"

Ma Si, however, did not let her off at that, following closely with quick steps and starting to report other matters, focusing on seizing every opportunity, efficient office work, and being talkative.