Chapter 1221: Fierce Fight! Master and Disciple 49 (Part 2)

Boss, are you hiring? "

A woman with chapped lips stood at the door of a restaurant with a lifeless face. The boss looked at the woman with dark skin and shook his head.

"No!"

The woman licked her lips.

"Can you?"

Before the woman finished speaking, the boss turned around to look at other applicants, and the woman was quickly squeezed to the back by the crowd.

Most restaurants are already full of people. This is an industry in the city where jobs can still be found, but you must be strong and have a good appearance to enter the restaurant.

Most people can't hold on anymore. Although there is food and water distributed by Congress every three days, for many people, this hopeless life every day is extremely cruel for many people.

At this time, the woman with dark skin looked at everything in front of her blankly. She didn't know what to do in the future.

A truck slowly drove over, and a person on it shouted with a loudspeaker.

"The tobacco plantation of Sumer's family is in urgent need of a large number of people, with a salary of 20 yuan a day and three meals a day. "

At once, a large number of people squeezed over, and dark-skinned women also ran over in a hurry. If there was money to be made, many people did not want to live like waiting to die, eating relief food every day.

Located in the northeast corner of the city, there is the family's planting area. Basically, except for a small amount of crops, all of them grow tobacco, which is the second most important supply in the city after food. Tobacco has been fully opened to the family at the beginning of the city's establishment.

Most families would grow food when food supply was insufficient at the beginning, and there was no restriction on commodity law at that time. The food produced in the family's fields was of the highest quality, and the price of food was generally higher than the overall market price. Some small families were self-sufficient. Some medium and large families use it for business.

But after the introduction of the Commodity Law, the market price of food was stabilized. Although the family's food is still high-quality and is still supplied to the upper class, the price profit margin of raw materials has begun to fall, so most families have started to engage in the tobacco industry.

There are a large number of tobacco companies in the city, ranging from the cheapest 1 yuan per pack of cigarettes to 100 yuan per pack of cigarettes. Cigarettes of various flavors are the second largest consumables in the city after food.

In recent years, most families have built tobacco cultivation greenhouses on all the crops in the fields, except for the fields that are enough for their families every year.

"Can you do the work?"

The head of the Sumer family asked, and the dark-skinned woman nodded. People kept coming up on the truck, but many people still didn't seem to want to work in the fields. The salary was too low for many people. At this time of year, working in a restaurant can basically get 1,000 yuan a month.

"Come up! "

The woman thanked him gratefully and got on the truck. Soon the truck was filled with more than 100 people. They could no longer recruit people. It could hold 200 people, but the person in charge was still shouting hard.

At this time, some reporters on the street were interviewing some low-level people.

"I need a job."

Most people would answer like this when facing reporters' questions. Nowadays, more and more people are idle at home in the city. Nearly 65% ​​of people have no jobs and can only continue to wait for the full start-up of the factories in the west.

Not everyone can get relief food. Only those who are so poor that they can't take out a dime in their pockets can get it. Complaining, anger, and crying have completely lost their effect. Many people can only continue to endure.

The current managers have given many people a feeling of toughness. The public security problem has indeed been solved, but more problems are spreading.

The eastern and western parts of the city are already devastated and dilapidated. The houses that are not good have been demolished. Although the owners will receive compensation from Congress and the houses will be rebuilt after the project is completed, Everyone is resentful.

Now that the Angus family has gone public, the voices of dissatisfaction in the city have intensified. Most people think that the Angus family is too greedy. The city construction, which is already profitable, has been put on the stock market. In just a few days of opening, the Angus family's stock has rushed all the way and can no longer continue to rise. A large number of businessmen, companies, and some people with some spare money have put their money in.

Because everyone knows that if you are one step late, you will make less money. As long as the construction continues, the Angus family can make money continuously.

x stood quietly on the roof of a high-rise building on the ground floor, looking at the people below who were still waiting to receive relief food. The city was in a mess, and many public facilities were no longer usable.

"Eddie, that bastard! "

x knew very well that if this construction project had not been messed up by him, the factory would have been started now. His purpose in doing so was to force Angus to go public. In the end, Angus could not bear it anymore and could only integrate most of the resources through going public. Only with money could they continue to speed up the progress.

This is a construction project worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Funds will flow around the city day and night. The coin thrown by capital can always make the city move. In the end, this coin will become extremely large and return to the hands of capital, but all aspects of the city will be driven.

In X's view, there was no problem with the gods' plan, but they still overlooked one point and did not eradicate the Hillman family. However, they had no way to do it decades ago, and there was no chance for the gods to do it. Family is a problem plaguing the city.

They are needed for the construction of the city, and they are also needed for the development of the city. The emergence of Xingke is just a meaningless move in x's opinion. Human society will always have endless problems, and the root of these problems are the problems that humans have had since birth. The desire to possess.

x came here today with the intention of going to the west, because according to the information the AIs gave him, the gods had come up with something quite extraordinary for the purpose of supplying electricity, and x wanted to take a look.

At this time, in an alley, some people holding the food they had just received walked into a house with a smile. When they came out, the bags used to receive the food were already empty. Many people transferred the money in their hands. Carrying a bag of liquid food, he quickly disappeared into the street.

x shook his head. These people seemed to have no idea what they were doing, because in the eyes of many people, there is a concept that the law does not punish the public. In fact, this is indeed the case, although many people are involved in black market transactions and act Coe also knew, but did not arrest these people according to the previous punishment methods.

“If this continues, it will only usher in an era of increasingly stronger supervision.”

Eddie's plan has been successful, and the Angus family also knows what kind of risks it means to go public, but in the end, their family still took such a huge risk to go public. It won't take many years for the entire Angus family to collapse. .

Most businessmen know what to do, because there are not many such opportunities, and a sniper attack will start without any verbal or written agreement. This is something that businessmen do not need to think about at all.

The increasingly unbridled chaos has allowed businessmen to see a lot of opportunities to make money. There will be no winner in this zero-sum game.

"You're still too young Eddie!"

x has witnessed this kind of society countless times. Businessmen and powerful people are all keen on this feast. Many people think that as long as they can eat a piece of meat, it is good, but they do not know that the food they eat will one day remain intact. Vomit it back without moving.

The weather began to heat up in the afternoon, and the temperature was still very high. On the truck heading to the Sumer family in the northeast, many people started chatting familiarly.

The short, thin, dark-skinned woman was sitting quietly in the corner outside the truck. She did not interact with anyone else.

Although many people complain, but with wages and three meals a day, it is still good for many people who cannot find jobs.

The truck was stuck on the road, and the driver started yelling. Looking at the traffic jam time given by the AI, it would take half an hour.

At this time, people in the truck began to take off their coats in unison and covered their heads. The hot temperature made many people sweat profusely.

The dark-skinned woman couldn't bear it anymore, and she leaned forward in disgust.

"Miss, you will get heat stroke if you continue like this."

A man with sallow skin but a burly figure handed over a bottle of water. After the woman took a grateful sip, the man poured the water on the woman's head, making her feel a little better.

There are already many people on both sides of the highway selling bottled water. This is a very common scene. If there is a traffic jam, some people who are exposed to the sun in this afternoon will definitely not be able to bear it.

A 1kg bottle of water costs 50 cents, which is just ordinary tap water. However, 1 ton of water from a water plant only costs 25 cents.

Although there were some people from Section 5 nearby who saw it, they did not stop this behavior because everyone was just trying to survive.

The woman shook her teeth, took out the last 1 yuan from her pocket, and bought a bottle of water, feeling a little more at ease.

Finally, the car started to start, and smiles returned to many people's faces. At this speed, it would take at least tonight to reach the place.

After the car had traveled just a few kilometers, it encountered another traffic jam. The driver and person in charge turned around and told everyone.

"We will be stuck in traffic for an hour this time, so everyone should buy some food first, otherwise you may not be able to hold on on the road later."

As he spoke, the driver and the person in charge walked towards a small restaurant on the street, and some people in the truck also got up and got out of the truck.

The woman got out of the car looking a little tired. There were food stalls everywhere on the street, and the aroma stimulated everyone's taste buds. It was just 4 o'clock in the afternoon.

However, the dark-skinned woman soon discovered that the last 5 cents left in her pocket could not even afford the cheapest egg pancake, which cost 8 cents. After betting 5 cents, his expression became solemn.

In order to find a job, the woman did not queue up to wait for food distribution today. She finally found a job, but now she is dizzy with hunger.

The woman stood numbly on the street, looking at many people who had bought food, and then sat casually in some resting areas on the street, wolfing down the food. The woman licked her chapped lips, and drank. A sip of water.

"Take it!"

The woman raised her head in surprise and saw a hot egg pancake placed in front of her. It was the man who gave her water just now. He grinned.

"When you get your salary, you can just pay me back."

The woman looked a little embarrassed, took out 50 cents from her pocket, handed it to the man, and said thank you tremblingly. The man shook his head and did not take it.

"My name is Luo Jun, what's yours?"

"Bayek."

The dark-skinned woman lowered her head, looked at the egg pancake with half left, and handed it over.

"You haven't eaten yet!"

The man became embarrassed and took it with a smile. The two looked at each other and started talking about some things after going to the farm.

As it approaches 5 o'clock, the sun's rays begin to dim, but this is for other areas of the city except the east.

The temperature on the eastern farms is still a bit hot. In order to allow the crops in the agricultural base to mature more quickly, daily light is necessary.

The harm caused by construction pollution to agricultural bases has now become more serious.

Ye Chunwang squatted down in a field with many withered crops. Not far away was the construction site, and construction particles flew over from time to time.

"The most serious problem is this area, Jean. The surrounding land has begun to become desertified. It won't work if we don't do something."

Gene next to him nodded. The two of them had visited most of the places that were polluted by dust in detail today, and finally concluded that the only way was to isolate the wall.

The flying construction dust will be pushed to the agricultural base by the wind when the temperature drops at night, and the flying height will be between 20 meters and 100 meters.

In other words, if you want to contain it, you must erect a 110-meter-high isolation wall outside the agricultural base. It is not that good during the day. Once it comes to night, when the sun goes out, the wind will push most of the dust particles to In the agricultural base.

Nowadays, only the middle layer in the east and the middle and lower layer in the west have been constructed and renovated. The southern and northern parts have not yet been constructed and renovated. The terrain in the north is much higher than other places, and the harm will intensify in the future.

Cultivation of planting soil is a difficult and time-consuming project. Once the land becomes desertified, the desertification will become more and more serious as the area expands.

"It must be completed within a week, otherwise the situation will be even worse."

As Ye Chunwang said, Gene squatted on the ground and lit a cigarette.

"I'll let Werther come up with a plan within an hour."

Ye Chunwang nodded.

"Let the gods come over. Now there is no way to mobilize too many workers, and Congress cannot come up with this extra money. The length of more than 100 kilometers should not be difficult for you. In a week's time It’s built.”

Gene smiled and nodded. Now that there is light and shadow matter, Rose only needs to release her power. The other six people are constantly helping to carry it back and forth and use Mimic Objects to simulate the required materials. Construction can indeed be carried out quickly.

"It doesn't take a week, just five days is enough."

Jean took out a ring from his pocket, and soon six light and shadow screens appeared. The six guys looked at Jean with solemn expressions.

"There is nothing we can do about it. Witte, hurry up and come up with the design drawings. As for the other guys, hurry up and start delivering materials. I will ask Xiaopang to issue an urgent notice."

Ye Chunwang nodded, now there is no other way. If there is no semi-permanent and recyclable material like mimicry, the consequences will be disastrous.

Looking at the land behind me that has been cultivated for half a century, it was finally fully reclaimed some time ago. It will take time for the land to recover in some places.

"If the factories in the west don't start operations, the city will be in a very embarrassing situation. It needs to be done as soon as possible. If it doesn't work, you can participate in the construction."

"Xiaoye, what exactly does suffering bring to people?"

Ye Chunwang nodded, and then smiled helplessly. He knew what Jean wanted to say. Things always have two sides. There is no absolute beauty, and there is no absolute suffering. Hope and suffering always coexist. The city has become comfortable 20 for many years.

Especially in these years, people in most areas can only live by relying on various subsidies in the area, or by collecting some rent and doing odd jobs, and they can enjoy everything safely.

There have been several labor shortages in the city. It’s not that there is a real shortage of people to find, but that there are too many people who are unwilling to work.

Even in places like agricultural bases that require a large number of people to work all year round, unless they are criminals or people who really can't live, they will rarely come to work in this place.

The gods have always been very tough in maintaining stable prices. It is a miracle that there has not been any serious inflation in these years. There are many invisible arrangements behind it, and the gods will use AI all over the city to advance the situation. See everything.

It is always possible to introduce some corresponding laws and regulations when the city is moderate to stabilize and effectively curb the city's prices.

The price level 30 years ago was actually the same as it is now. In the past, an egg cost 5 cents. Now, in some districts, it only costs 40 cents, or even more than 30 cents. In the past, the per capita salary of the bottom class was 150 to 200, but now it is 500. More, it has increased by about 3 times. The middle-level salary that used to be 800 to 1,000 has risen to 2,000. The upper-level salary that used to be around 2,000 has now averaged over 4,000.

In the past, part of the tax revenue would be used for subsidies. Although corruption problems often occurred, in recent years, they have been comprehensively and strictly curbed, except for the three marginalized subjects.

During these 20 years of abundant material life, it was stable for everyone, but some people have developed inertia.

Nowadays, as soon as the regional tax subsidies in cities are cut off, problems arise one after another. With the deepening of construction, most people bought houses, cars and many items needed for life in the past comfortable years. Those who live in Japan may not be able to get even 1 cent out of their pockets.

In the past, many people worked for half a year and then rested for half a year. Some people even participated in crime in order to be more comfortable. Nowadays, crime has been completely suppressed by Section 5.

In the past, some people who relied on petty theft and participated in crime, as well as most people who lived a comfortable life, no longer have any source of income. These people number nearly 4 million, and the proportion at the bottom is very serious.

In the past, before the ravines were formed, one quarry factory after another was in urgent need of a large number of workers, and there would always be varying degrees of labor shortages. The situation in factories was the same, with workers changing frequently. This was in contrast to how some factory bosses treated workers Although there is a certain relationship with exploitation, as long as you move your feet and go out, you can find work anywhere in the city.

The gods have announced such construction many years in advance, but some people are still indifferent. Today, nearly 2 million people rely on relief food to make a living.

The problem before everyone is a dilemma. If prices are raised, it will have a more serious impact on the city. Stabilizing prices has always created some lazy people.

Nowadays, problems in all aspects are beginning to emerge one after another, but the only hope is that the factories in the west start operating. Once the factories start operating, the city will start to move rapidly again, and all walks of life will reach their peak.

Ye Chunwang looked at Jean who was discussing matters with other gods and sighed helplessly.

What Ye Chunwang is most worried about now is that if the chaos continues after the construction, the gods will activate the citizen level. This is a nightmare for many people and forces everyone in the city to work.

Once it reaches this point, the situation at the bottom may become even more serious.

Ye Chunwang slowly walked to some withering crops not far away, squatted next to the crops, patted some crops covered with dust, and quickly cleaned up some of the dust, and the plants revealed their green color. He looked worriedly at the dark barrier area in the distance.

Although he has left the power center for a long time, Ye Chunwang has the authority to check many things. What he is most worried about is the current barrier area, where nearly 200,000 criminals already live.

This is based on the investigation report given by Section 3. Especially during the more than a year that Alpha has been tough on crime, a large number of criminals have fled to the barrier area.

In addition, now that private individuals are allowed to own lifts, some criminals can easily escape to the barrier area, and after a period of time, they will quietly return from the northwest to live in a large abandoned area in the west.

After discussing with the other six guys, Gene ended the call and came to Ye Chunwang's side.

"What's wrong, Xiaoye, are you worried?"

Ye Chunwang hummed.

"It's because of what Angie and Clark did, what Latis and the others are doing now, and what the students in the city trained by you are doing. Each subject has its own approach, although everyone can Working together, most problems can be solved, but I always feel uneasy!”

Jean nodded and squatted next to Ye Chunwang.

"The darkness before dawn always makes people feel uneasy and tormented. It's okay, Xiaoye. Everything has two sides. Some things must be done by someone. It's like reclaiming land. In the process of reclaiming land, many things will happen. , but the land finally reclaimed can grow food and feed everyone.”

"It's just that you've thought about not having Jean, would it be too cruel? This process."

Gene smiled and stood up.

"The city must move forward. It cannot stop. If it stops, humanity will have no hope. The night is sometimes very long for many people. I can't answer these things for you, Xiaoye. This is true for many questions. Although we are here You are God in your eyes, but we are not omniscient and omnipotent!”

Ye Chunwang nodded.

"I just hope that you will consider the matter of citizen level. I know that you should have planned it a long time ago."

Gene looked at Ye Chunwang with some surprise, and he said with a smile.

"During my free time, I went to see Li Chu. I heard about the citizen level from him. Although I don't know the details, this thing can control many things. But it’s too cruel for people. What I can think of is that what every citizen can do is completely formatted and hierarchical. This is a very sad thing for us people.”

Gene hummed.

“I don’t agree with the issue of citizen hierarchy, but if at some point the problem still cannot be contained,”

Gene's face was solemn and he didn't finish his words. Ye Chunwang stood up because there were already five large lifts coming towards this direction in the distance.

5:45

Just when many people were planning to go home and cook as soon as the electricity came, Locke's impromptu TV speech appeared on the Internet and in some places on the streets, which was regarded as an emergency notice.

In order to prevent the increasingly serious construction dust pollution, the gods will build a 113-kilometer-long isolation wall and a height of 120 meters outside the eastern grain base.

This speech notified all people nearby not to panic, because the gods will use their own power to complete the construction independently without the participation of any outsiders, but seriously warned anyone who approached the isolation wall and arrested them directly if they were found.

As the news was broadcast, many people looked to the east at the same time. At this time, the sun's brilliance began to weaken, and most parts of the city had fallen into darkness.

When the last ray of sunlight dissipated, Sumer's truck loaded with more than 100 workers slowly drove into a tobacco planting base.

Luo Jun and Bayek got off the car with other workers in the explanation of the person in charge. There was nothing in many tobacco leaf planting sheds.

The person in charge directly asked everyone to follow him to eat, and asked everyone to start work immediately after eating.

Bayek was a little surprised, because this place belonging to the family was sparsely populated. Along the way, he saw that there were almost no people in many of the family's plantations.

"Let's go!"

Luo Jun smiled and walked quickly. Bayek looked at the facilities in the Sumer family's plantation with some surprise. Although the salary was low, it was much more comfortable than the bottom level where she was.

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