The dormitory area for the Chinese workers consisted of five rows of prefabricated rooms with colored steel roofs, totaling over a hundred rooms. More than two hundred people lived there, with some rooms kept vacant for flexibility and to accommodate temporary visitors like Ye Tong and the others.
The two Demonesses shared one room, Li Bai and Ye Tong shared another, "Uncle Biao of Shuangyashan, Wujiang" Lu Sanhu and "Little Tusi of Centipede Cave, Qiannan Road" Zabu shared one, and the two other experts shared another. The numbers had been calculated precisely.
Just as Director of Human Resources Zhong Kewei had said, each dormitory room held two people and was only a little over ten square meters. There was no air conditioning, only ceiling fans and desk fans, and even the power supply was unstable. The wooden beds and bamboo mats transported from China were covered by Mongolian-yurt-style mosquito nets. The conditions were indeed crude,
but nobody complained. Once they dealt with the biggest obstacle at the excavation site—the snake den crawling with snakes—they could return to wherever they had come from instead of staying here to suffer.
After storing their important belongings and valuables in the safe room in the warehouse, "Uncle Biao of Shuangyashan, Wujiang" Lu Sanhu returned and saw that Li Bai was still sitting at the dormitory entrance, leisurely fanning himself with a large palm-leaf fan. He asked in confusion, "Li Bai, why didn't you go put your things away? There are individual safes. They're safer than the dormitory."
He had stored an SLR camera, a notebook computer, his passport, bank cards, and similar items. They did not take up much space, so a standard small personal safe was more than enough.
Everyone had gone to store their things just now. Only Li Bai and the