Chapter 349 Why not create it yourself...
Kom Ombo.
In the new employee dormitory area of Gobi Desert New District.
More than 500 temporary workers have already moved in here. Although there are no big villas, according to the promises made by the team leaders, they all think that they have just joined the company and are not yet eligible for those benefits.
Especially as they watched the various infrastructure in the Gobi Desert New District being improved day by day, they naturally did not think that the Sapiens Company was fooling them.
It is located about 7 km south of Kom Ombo.
A road extending from the Gobi Desert New District is advancing rapidly towards the southwest.
Under the scorching sun.
More than a dozen professional equipment are busy .
Since this area is all desert, gravel desert and rocky desert, large-scale construction can be carried out as long as it is approved by the Egyptian authorities, and there is no need to discuss land expropriation issues with the locals.
Driving a large crawler bulldozer, Kaxiu flattened the small sand dune in front, and then instructed Tis, a temporary worker who was sitting in the passenger seat, to teach him how to familiarize himself with the operation of the equipment as soon as possible.
On the pushed-away ground, another heavy roller rolled the roadbed back and forth.
Not far behind, salt bricks pulled from the mixed salt processing plant in the Gobi Desert New District were laid on the roadbed one by one by forklifts. Each salt brick was 30 cm thick and 2 meters long and wide.
There are a total of 10 large salt bricks placed in a row, with a gap of 3 to 4 centimeters between each salt brick.
But after laying 10 rows, a dozen temporary workers, led by the new human captain, quickly installed a row of 40-centimeter-high iron plates in the front.
A mixer truck and a pouring truck poured a special cement onto the surface of the salt bricks, and soon formed a layer of gray mud.
This is an organic cement formed by mixing 85% sand, 10% calcium oxide powder, 5% nutrient paste and seawater.
The characteristic of this cement is that it does not require too many raw materials. Sand can be obtained locally. If there is no sand, small stones, shale, etc. can be used.
All that is needed is nutrient paste, calcium oxide and silicon bacteria, which greatly reduces the amount of transportation.
To construct a building of the same volume, the ratios of cement required for ordinary cement, coral cement, and organic cement are 10:8.2:1.5 respectively.
That is to say, for the same building scale, using organic cement as raw material can reduce about 85% of industrial building material input.
At this time, a 3-cm thick layer of mud quickly formed on the surface of the salt brick poured with organic cement, and because four ordinary bricks were placed at the bottom of the salt brick, there was also a 3-cm gap at the bottom.
So the mud of organic cement envelops these salt bricks, and the mud, which contains silica bacteria, rapidly consumes the nutrient paste, secretes large amounts of calcium carbonate and silicates, and then binds the surrounding sand together.
This bonding is not the bonding of ordinary cement, but a bonding at the molecular level, so the sands will become a whole rock slab.
The role of salt bricks is actually to act as a filler and internal support.
Although the annual precipitation in the Sahara Desert is around 20 to 150 mm, this occasional heavy rain does dissolve some of the salt bricks, thus adding a protective layer to the salt bricks.
The shell formed by organic cement has excellent strength and wear resistance.
It takes about 5 hours for the silica bacteria to consume all the nutrients in the mud. Once the nutrients are consumed, the sand in the mud will be completely combined . At the same time, these silica bacteria will also retire, stimulating their self-dissolution mechanism.
After eight hours of hard work, a 1,200-meter-long simple road was paved.
The sun sets.
On the Nile River in the distance, many ships are heading off into the distance in the afterglow of the setting sun.
Although work at the construction site has stopped, the more than 200 construction team workers did not return to the Gobi Desert New District, but rested on the spot.
Next to the construction site, there are 60 large household vehicles parked.
These include 25 dormitory vehicles, 10 refrigerated storage vehicles, 5 normal temperature material storage vehicles, 5 methane storage vehicles, 5 fresh water storage vehicles, 2 kitchen vehicles, 2 shower vehicles (with water circulation systems), 2 toilet vehicles, 1 communication vehicle, 1 medical vehicle, 1 power generation vehicle, and 1 office equipment vehicle.
Kaxiu led his team back to the camp.
He took nine temporary workers and got on the team's exclusive dormitory car: "Everyone take a shower first, and then go over to eat together."
"OK."
They opened their respective wardrobes, took out clothes with unique numbers, and headed to the shower truck.
There are already people taking showers in the two shower vehicles. These specially customized shower vehicles are a bit like double-decker buses, with six separate bathrooms and a laundry room.
Some people don’t take a shower first, but go to eat first, so there are more than 20 people in the queue.
Kashu sat on a small stool and opened a bottle of cold Coke. Since the terrain here was relatively high, he could see the city of Kom Ombo and the Nile River in the distance.
Most of the red setting sun was hidden behind the horizon.
"Captain Kashu, will the company really give us houses?" Tis looked at the disappearing afterglow of the setting sun.
"Tis, where is that over there?"
Following Kashu's finger, Tis looked over and said, "Where? Isn't that Kom Ombo?"
Kaxiu took a sip of Coke and said, "Do you know why the company wants to build a new district in the Gobi Desert?"
"Why?" Tis scratched his stubble in confusion.
“Because we want to build a new world.”
Tis's eyes flashed with confusion: "Building a new world? What does this have to do with giving out houses?"
"You are very confused? Then why don't you doubt your past life? Why don't you doubt what kind of life you will live in the future?"
Tis, who was confused by the question, quickly took a sip of Coke to replenish his sugar intake.
Kaxiu looked at the city in the distance with deep eyes: "Kom Ombo, that is the city of the old times, and the Gobi Desert New District is the new world. You should not ask when the houses will be divided, but create all this with your own hands."
Tis was a little confused: "But aren't we building a highway now? How can we have time to build a house?"
"Why do you think like that? You should put yourself in the company's shoes. You are building roads, and others are building houses, producing daily necessities, and growing crops. We are all part of a whole. As long as you work hard at your job, you will naturally get everything."
Tis thought about Kasu's words in his mind.
Kaxiu smiled and continued, "That's why we have to build a new district, because the rules and regulations of the old world will only hinder us from building a new world."
"But..." Tis was about to retort, but then stopped.
Because he suddenly realized that his previous life was indeed restricted by various rules and regulations, and these restrictions did not bring him a wealthy life, but made his life more difficult.
The others also began to think about it.
If those rules and regulations cannot bring development and a better life, they are a mistake in themselves.
Why else do they have such a hard time?
Tis struggled for a while: "But will the company really bring us a good life?"
"It is normal for you to have doubts and concerns, but at this time you should choose to trust the company and then try hard to see if the company can deliver."
Beneath Kashu's calm exterior, he actually has a heart filled with fanatical confidence.
Confidence and fanaticism are the characteristics of these new humans.
