Chapter 209 The Silent Giant
Chapter 209 The Silent Giant
Jervy Shelter.
Hall 15, Honeycomb Wall 02.
Yang Cheng sat at the door of the capsule grid, looking at the huge projection opposite.
The daily routine Huangshi news is being broadcast above.
"Xiao Cheng, how many people do you think we have here?"
"Using such a large area to produce food can still lead to a food shortage crisis."
His next-door neighbor came over to chat with him.
The man's name is Yue Ming, a bald man in his 40s. It is said that he used to be a small manager in a cosmetics company.
And his doubts.
In fact, it also comes from the news that is being broadcast now.
There was a farm that looked extremely spectacular.
Roughly speaking, it was only the part that Yue Ming saw.
The area is larger than two football fields.
It was much larger than all the planting spaces opened up in the medium-sized shelter where he had stayed before.
But it's such a huge area.
In the narrative of news reports.
It was just a new farm that was built in just a few days.
It is far from enough to meet the food needs of the new population.
“It’s estimated to be no less than 100 million.”
"All the infected people in Jianghe City will be sent here sooner or later."
"In addition, in the past two days, there were 15 people who moved to the new dormitory through the lottery alone."
"After that, 50,000 to 60,000 people continued to move out every day."
Yang Cheng thought about it for a while and made a rough guess.
These data are all public information on the projection.
In addition, the lottery for moving to the dormitory was held every two hours and never stopped from the beginning to the end.
And there are always people around me who win the lottery and move out, and then new people keep coming in to fill the vacancies.
The credibility should not be low.
"so many people."
“No wonder I never win the lottery.”
"I said, my luck shouldn't be that bad."
Yue Ming was a little surprised.
Not to mention that he hadn't realized where he was.
It has gathered more than one million people.
That's understandable.
Why must everyone be forced to be confined in cells of only two cubic meters and not allowed to move around freely?
So many people.
It would be nice to have a place to sleep.
If you want to go out and move around, you may have to go to the surface.
"It doesn't matter whether you win the lottery or not."
"We are very lucky."
Yang Cheng smiled and became more open-minded.
Although I can't go out during this period, I can still see the news on the projector and various details of life.
He can feel it all.
The shelter that accommodates them is actually doing its best to give them the best treatment.
Although his behavior is a bit rigid, he always treats everyone fairly.
And fairness, looks simple.
But even before the end of the world, it was a word very far away from ordinary people.
Finished reading the news.
It didn't take long.
A robotic arm brought a mobile phone to Yang Cheng.
This is also something you get through a lottery.
It’s just different from drawing lots for places to move into new dormitories.
If you want to participate in the lottery, you must not have a mobile phone available.
And even if you win the lottery, you still need to pay off your debts by working part-time.
Seriously speaking, it is just like getting an opportunity to buy a new phone through a loan.
Take your new phone in your hands.
The nearly two-centimeter-thick body gives people a heavy feeling.
However, in terms of various functions, it is not much worse than ordinary mobile phones.
I played with it for a while and tested the functions of the phone.
Yang Cheng tried to connect to the Internet.
The familiar social forums and the long-lost interactive messages made him feel like he was back home.
But he kept walking around.
But soon discovered some differences.
All the friends he had made on the Internet who were now online were either living in capsule cells or had already moved into new dormitories.
Their respective experiences were surprisingly similar to his.
“This is how many people were sent here.”
Faintly.
Yang Cheng felt that his previous guess seemed a little too conservative.
Perhaps, more than half of the people in Jianghe City have gathered here.
The mainstream of Jianghe City has actually moved here?
Didn't spend too much time catching up on the forum.
Considering that he was burdened with a seemingly not small amount of debt because of his new phone.
Yang Cheng quickly opened the designated game again.
Next, he needs to work hard in the game and use the game coins to pay off his debts.
There are many people who, like Yang Cheng, discovered that something was wrong.
With the birth of permanent healing potions.
There is no longer a risk of death from infection with the Rola virus.
Many high-level officials in the shelter who had escaped from fear only realized it belatedly.
After experiencing this virus catastrophe.
The number of residents in their shelter has been drastically reduced to an unacceptable level.
The worst case scenario is that nine out of ten houses are empty.
It has been reduced from a large shelter that once accommodated tens of thousands of people to a small or medium-sized shelter that accommodates less than 2000 people.
Even the most basic hydropower plants and plantations cannot find enough people to maintain them.
They had no choice but to urgently reduce their scale and store a large amount of equipment in warehouses.
at this time.
Compared with the prosperity of the past.
Many people suddenly felt an indescribable loneliness and panic.
Although the remaining people have more resources on average.
But looking at the empty shelter.
To some extent, desertification is also a kind of horror.
"Currently, the total population of our shelters has dropped from 310 million before the virus outbreak to about 240 million."
"Among them, about 10 people have been confirmed dead or are still in various quarantine areas."
"The number of seriously ill patients sent to Huangshi Shelter is around 60."
Official shelter.
At a private meeting of the highest level.
The Interior Department reports on the latest developments inside the shelter.
Many senior officials participating in the meeting looked unhappy.
Of course most of them look down on ordinary people at the bottom of society.
But at the same time, they are also very clear that the foundation of their power is these ordinary people.
Now one-fifth or even more of the population has been lost in one fell swoop.
In essence, this actually means that their power and status have been greatly reduced.
“What is the situation at the civilian shelters?”
asked the director general Bai Ruian who was chairing the meeting.
“Their loss is even more serious.”
"It is estimated that more than half of the population has moved to the Wasteland Stone Shelter."
“Strictly speaking, the current Waste Rock Shelter is the main body of the people.”
“The rest are just a minority.”
(End of this chapter)