The Walking Dead: Starting as a Cowboy

Chapter 223 Septic Tank

After hearing Milton's words, Caesar felt relieved.

Caesar said with concern, "Milton, you are a talent in Yellowstone. You can be busy with work, but you must take care of your health."

Milton waved his hand dismissively and said casually, "Okay, okay."

After joining Yellowstone, Milton realized his feelings for Andrea. One day, he bumped into Andrea on the street and confessed his love to her.

Unsurprisingly, Andrea refused without hesitation.

In a daze, Milton returned to his room and secluded himself for several days, focusing all his attention on his work, planning how the power lines should be distributed in the town of Yellowstone, and how to connect them to everyone's home more safely and reasonably.

He also considered starting to build septic tanks and artificial wetland treatment systems.

After throwing himself into his work, Milton understood.

Women are the most useless thing; it's more important to focus on your career.

"Milton, if you don't take good care of yourself, I'll find someone to supervise you all the time, and you'll only be allowed to work during designated hours," Caesar said with a hint of threat.

Milton paused slightly, then said dejectedly, "Alright, alright."

Caesar's expression changed, and he said with a smile, "That's more like it. Come on, tell me about this septic tank you built."

Milton snapped out of his daze and pointed to the brick box in front of him. "This is the septic tank, and here's the ventilation pipe."

Milton then pointed to the tube on top of the square box.

"The ventilation duct can expel the flammable and toxic gases produced by fermentation in the septic tank. After being diluted by the air, it will not have any effect on the human body as long as you don't get too close."

"After anaerobic decomposition, some grayish-black liquid that has undergone preliminary sedimentation will flow out of the septic tank, and flow through the ceramic pipe to the gravel bed over there."

Milton spoke with hand gestures, and although he looked thin, he had a special kind of energy and spirit; his eyes were almost shining.

"Over there is the gravel bed, which is an artificial wetland system. There is an impermeable membrane at the bottom, as well as pebbles and reeds on top. Under the sunlight, sewage flows in, and the water slowly seeps out. The reeds and other plants absorb the organic matter and harmful substances in the water."

"The water flowing out of the wetland's catchment channels is clean and can be used to irrigate crops."

Milton spoke very seriously, and he tried to use language that was easy to understand.

After he finished speaking, Caesar nodded repeatedly and clapped his hands.

"How many people can your system be used for?"

"What you see here can only be used for a few people; it's a miniature septic tank," Milton quickly replied, understanding what Caesar wanted to ask.

"I did this just to test it out. Later, I will scale it up proportionally and build a septic tank that can supply more than 600 people."

"Furthermore, we can build biogas digesters in the future, which will solve the town's gas problem."

Caesar nodded in satisfaction and patted Milton on the shoulder forcefully.

But Milton was too thin and weak; the slap made him sway and almost fall.

"I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry." Caesar helped Milton up with an apologetic expression.

Milton, the guy in front of me, is a real genius. He came to Yellowstone and immediately solved Yellowstone's waste disposal problem.

Although the small buildings built in the town had pipes and toilets installed, they were just dry toilets that needed to be cleaned every now and then.

It was practically devoid of any modern housing features, which troubled Caesar for a long time.

In the entire town, only Caesar's stone house has electricity and pipes, and it also has a separate small biogas digester and generator.

Because Caesar's stone house is a product of the pre-apocalyptic era.

However, with Milton by his side, Caesar had no worries that the town couldn't be built.

As expected, in the apocalypse, the most valuable thing is still talent.

After that, Milton began to speak at length, explaining the principles behind his design of the power system and the calculation formulas, among other things.

Caesar was at his wit's end, but he couldn't very well refuse his capable assistant.

Amy watched from the side, her eyes full of mockery; she hadn't seen Caesar get his comeuppance in a long time.

Most of the local residents came to work, and under Milton's direction, they filled in the septic tank.

"Milton, the septic tank was just built, and I was the first to come and see it. Hershel will be back from the plantation in a couple of days."

"You should bring him and Carol to see for yourselves these things about the quality of life for residents; they need to understand them too."

When it was finally over, Caesar had a sudden inspiration and made a suggestion.

"Uh—" Milton thought for a moment, then nodded repeatedly, "That's good, Herschel and Carroll should both take a look."

Hershel is the minister of the planting department, and has the largest number of residents under his command. They rarely live in the town and have built their own houses in the planting area, but the conditions there are even worse than in the town.

Those houses all need Milton's help with renovations, and it's essential that Hershel take a look at this septic tank.

As a high-ranking official in the logistics department and Milton's direct superior, Carroll was bound to come and see what his subordinates were up to.

Seeing Milton nod, a smile appeared on Caesar's face.

After saying goodbye to Milton, Caesar and Amy returned to the town. Having two people there wouldn't be of any help and could even delay Milton's progress.

Over the next period of time, Milton verified the effectiveness of the septic tank and constructed wetland system, and quickly built a large septic tank that could supply all the residents of the town.

A large septic tank can support more than 600 people. Huangshi has more than 1,000 people, so two septic tanks would be enough.

But with future in mind, Milton immediately built three large septic tanks, and the constructed wetland system began to expand rapidly.

Almost all the reeds in the valley were moved over, and pebbles and other materials were also transported over by the truckload.

Such high enthusiasm for labor shows that the town's residents have been looking forward to a solution to the toilet problem for a long time.

The moment the septic tank was put into use, countless residents were finally able to use their toilets and enjoy the freedom of going to the toilet.

As Yellowstone was developing rapidly, Michonne and Daryl were riding their motorcycles north along the highway.

Michonne's face was ashen, her expression indifferent, yet tinged with weariness.

They've been on the road for several days now.

But the journey was far from peaceful. They were already quite adept at this routine: robbery, counterattack, finishing blows, and looting corpses.

Daryl, wearing goggles, looked up at the sky and said, "It's getting late, we need to find a place to rest quickly."