Doomsday Pillars

Chapter 9 - Assembled

The meeting with the mayor took a few hours. Alex had a lot of tasks prepared, the mayor was very supportive, with the right "motivation" of course. The mayor assembled some of his staff to be briefed by Alex. For the first 2000 workers, Alex planned for them to be builders so he required all to be male with a minimum age requirement of 18 years old. All will be provided with 5 times their normal salary, but the job will be massive. There will be minimum breaks and they will need to be willing to stay onsite, all food and lodgings will be provided. Alex also required a few hundred farmers to plow the field. It would be best if Alex can prepare the farm right away. Next is a group of mechanics and engineers. Alex needed at least 50 people, he offered them a year's salary in advance, if they could start right away.

Lastly, Alex gave the mayor a list of names, there were 50 names in this list. 10 of them were underlined as important. To find the right person, there was a simple description of each person physical characteristic. The task is to find detail information about the name in the list, their location, and current activity.. When he made this list, somehow he was lost in thought for a few seconds. This list of names was the Bali locals that he was closest with in his past life. Each of the people on the list at the end met their unfortunate demise, this time Alex plans to change their fate as well.

Another day has passed, it's now day 6, he only has 24 days left to prepare. This morning The Bay city suddenly became more crowded. Alex's team of 200 workers and their 300 families, a total of 500 people already arrived in Bay City.

Alex gathered a group of people for a breakfast meeting in the villa's hall. The villa was currently still running as a service hotel, there were 30 workers still working here. Alex decided to keep their job, especially the kitchen staff, he planned to add many more people to the kitchen. The plan was to involve the families of his work to fill the quota. This morning for breakfast, the group were having; porridge, fried rice, fried chicken, sausages, toast, and cereals. It's actually an ordinary hotel breakfast, but he knew in a few months, people will kill each other just to sit at this kind of table.

Currently, at this table, there were his managers and his brother Hendrik, Alex gave his brother a task to coordinate between his team and the mayor office. He then briefed the team about the development of 2 location, one in the villa an the other up north. With the data provided by the mayor's office, Alex already found out the second location. Some of these areas were still owned by the government, so with enough "incentives", they could start moving right away.

Alex started talking to his managers about the recruitments of 2000 plus workers, then he talked with Nina about the number of supplies ready and the one still on the way. Alex planned to move just 1/10 of the supplies to this location.. while the rest will be sent to the second location. But all of the vehicles and boats will still be sent here. When he was about to hand out more tasks, suddenly he realized the confusion on the faces of his managers.

All the worker who already arrived here in Bali were all committed to follow Alex in this new project. But this is the first time they learned some of the details of his plan.. the massive recruitment, the choice of location, the supplies prepared.. this made them really worried.

"I know this plan might be confusing for you all, currently I can only say that this development will be the most important work we will ever do, I hope you can trust me. I will explain it later."

Alex then continued handing out the task, Rina will be in charge of profiling all workers and their families, she will also need to note the one with supervising experience.

Eka, one of his project managers will be in charge of renovating the villa, building parameters around the hill, setting up supply tents and turning the villa hall into a command center. Alex also handed out detail tasks for him to organize the mechanics and engineers.

After handing out the tasks, Alex took Tony the construction manager and the two other project managers together with a few local workers for a trip up north. There were also a few government workers set up by the mayor to help him. Alex recognized one of them, his name was Benny, the mayor right-hand man, and his favorite assistant. Alex recognized him because, in his past life, he was quite known in the first year of the plague. But nothing has ever been heard from him again later, he probably died quietly early.

It's time to go to the next location, Alex brought with him a big bag full of diving equipment and climbing gear. He put this equipment in one of the cars. All 4 cars were driving to the designated location. It was actually only 18 km away from Bay City, but because of the rough terrain, the trip took them more than 2 hours.