Surviving the Long Night: Starting from the Gas Station and Infinite Upgrades

Chapter 31 The Prisoner, the Golden Sunflower, and Keeping the Promise

Lu Sheng hadn't seen Sun Zhiyuan for several days. Usually, when the other party came to his door, he was collecting materials in the ruins.

"Brother Sun, it's been a long time."

Lu Sheng waved to Sun Zhiyuan, whose face still bore the usual kind smile.

"You've been so busy lately, I haven't seen you for days."

"I'm destined to be a workaholic. I was repairing supplies a while ago, and I had just finished getting it almost done when hordes of ferocious beasts came to live next to me. Then the clan came up with a mission, and I haven't had a single day of peace."

When Sun Zhiyuan reached Lu Sheng, he thanked Jiang Shutong.

"Thank you, girl. I have something I'd like to discuss with your station manager, Mr. Lu, in private."

"Okay, Lu Sheng, call me if you need anything."

Jiang Shutong gave an OK sign, gave Lu Sheng some instructions, and then took Zhaocai back to the gas station.

After she left, Sun Zhiyuan looked around to make sure no one was around before speaking:

"Every time I come here these past few days, I take pictures of the changes here, add my own observations and make a report, and submit it to the leader. Let's just get straight to the conclusion."

Your boss thinks highly of you.

Lu Sheng nodded, waiting for Sun Zhiyuan to continue. He felt that Sun Zhiyuan's mysterious manner meant that there was more to it than just this.

"You probably know that the recycling and utilization of the remains of nocturnal creatures is an important industrial system in this day and age, but you probably don't know that the boss behind the body recycling company I work for is Golden Sunflower."

When Lu Sheng heard the name Jin Kuihua, his first reaction was that it wasn't a person's name. He thought about it briefly in his predecessor's memories and found that she was indeed someone with quite a background.

During the Long Night, smaller families would attach themselves to larger clans, eventually forming a powerful force that dominated a region. In order to jointly fight against the Long Night, these forces formed a coalition.

It is called the Torch Federation.

The fact that the world's currencies were unified into credit points was achieved through the concerted efforts of all major powers after the establishment of the Torch Federation.

Since they have united to form a federation, they need to elect a federal administrator. With administrators come those who are managed, and thus, different classes are formed.

In today's era, there are seven giant enterprises at the top, and Golden Sunflower is one of them. Its full name is Golden Sunflower Biopharmaceutical Group.

Sunflowers grow towards the sun, and Golden Sunflower's corporate philosophy is as gentle as its name, but for the people living under its rule, Golden Sunflower is the sun in a long night.

It has ten departments, each with its own unique skills. Each department alone is comparable in size to a large, powerful family in a region.

From his predecessor's memories, Lu Sheng also learned about a world-renowned masterpiece of this group: the Six Fiends.

By reverse-engineering the genes of a vast number of nocturnal creatures and usurping the power of the long night, six colossal beasts were created: Yayu, Zaochi, Jiuying, Dafeng, Fengxi, and Bashe.

Each one possesses the power to flatten cities and shatter mountains and rivers.

"Your information has been reviewed by the branch manager in the nearby area. Their approval is that they agree to invest in you, not with money, but with a person."

Sun Zhiyuan's voice pulled Lu Sheng out of his memories. Lu Sheng nodded and asked warily:

"What are your requirements?"

Seeing that Lu Sheng didn't even show any joy, and immediately asked what the investors' requirements were, Sun Zhiyuan paused for a moment, then took a deep breath, his expression turning serious:

"A group of criminals exiled from headquarters will be coming to you soon. They have been sentenced to life imprisonment and their personal rights have been transferred to the Lu family."

Lu Sheng was stunned for a moment, then sorted through the information and realized that this matter was a bit outrageous.

"Wait a minute, is this the investment you were talking about?"

Sun Zhiyuan nodded:

"It sounds simple, but it took a lot of effort to cover it up."

Lu Sheng understood the general situation from Sun Zhiyuan's subsequent explanation.

The Golden Sunflower group of exiled prisoners was quite special. They were originally death row inmates, but they volunteered to participate in the group's internal drug trials and survived, earning a life sentence.

According to company regulations, although they were spared death, they were forbidden from ever entering the territory of the Golden Sunflower headquarters again, so they were packed up and sent to a remote branch office.

The branch office doesn't lack workers, but the company has already spared them from death, so they can't be killed now. Otherwise, it could be used as leverage against them for violating company regulations, and the branch office manager and their entire family would be killed.

Coincidentally, one of the Lu family's corpse recyclers submitted a report requesting to invest in a young awakened individual named Lu Sheng, who was under the Lu family's control. Coincidentally, the Lu family was preparing to develop the area where Lu Sheng was stationed and was looking to recruit an experienced construction team.

The branch manager had a sudden inspiration. He bribed the leader of the Lu family in charge of recruiting for this project, and together with him, the exiled prisoners were packaged as a professional construction team and sold to the Lu family.

It's already loaded onto the truck and is being sent to Lu Sheng.

"This is okay?"

Lu Sheng was dumbfounded after hearing this.

"If you ask me, the fact that this deal went through is partly due to the proper handling of the people, but another part is that someone within the Lu family wanted to sabotage the development project."

Sun Zhiyuan glanced at the bus across the street:

"Your Lu family clearly has its own construction team, but what about it?"

First they brought in a group of refugees, and then they hired outsiders for subsequent development. I can't think of any other reason besides someone deliberately causing trouble.

Lu Sheng nodded, guessing that the actual situation was roughly the same as Sun Zhiyuan's guess.

Liang Shan and his group were at least decent workers, but Lu Sheng felt uneasy at the thought of managing a group of death row inmates.

"I'm just giving you a heads-up so you can prepare early. You should look at things dialectically; maybe some of those death row inmates are actually quite capable."

Hearing Sun Zhiyuan's words of comfort, Lu Sheng sighed, then took a deep breath and rallied his spirits:

"Alright, thanks for letting me know, Brother Sun. It would be even better if you paid me more for today's recycling order."

"Don't worry, the boss specifically asked me to look after you, how could I not listen?"

Seeing that Lu Sheng had cheered up, Sun Zhiyuan patted him on the shoulder and then settled his order.

One Iron-footed Spider costs 20 credits. A total of 37 were killed, but the settlement is based on 40.

After deducting the ammunition for the replaced bolt-action rifles, automatic pistols, and revolvers, the land-based student gained 760 credits.

After seeing Sun Zhiyuan off, Lu Sheng put the matter of the prisoner out of his mind for the time being. He took the electric hydraulic shears, rode an electric cart, and entered the ruins to begin today's material collection.

As evening approached, when he returned, he encountered Liang Shan and his group waiting for him outside the wall. Some of these people were injured, clearly having encountered ferocious beasts in the ruins.

Behind them was a large pile of materials, which Lu Sheng glanced at and realized exceeded the amount needed to repair the house.

"Station Chief Lu, is this enough?"

That's enough.

Lu Sheng handed the electric stroller to Jiang Shutong and then waved to Liang Shan:

"Come with me."