Chapter 209 The Silent Giant

Jaywe Shelter.

Hall No. 15, Hive Wall No. 02.

Yang Cheng sat at the door of the capsule grid, looking at the huge projection opposite.

The daily barren rock news is being played above.

"Xiao Cheng, how many people do we have here?"

"If we use such a large area to produce food, we can still create a crisis of food shortage."

His next-door neighbor came over to chat with him.

The other party's name is Yue Ming, a man in his 40s with some baldness on his head. It is said that he was once a small director of a cosmetics company.

And his question.

In fact, it also comes from the news that is being broadcast now.

There was an extremely spectacular looking breeding farm on top.

Roughly speaking, it was only the part that Yue Ming saw.

The area is larger than two football fields.

It was larger than all the planting spaces opened up in the medium-sized shelter he had stayed in before.

But it’s such a huge area.

In the narrative of news reports.

It was just a new breeding farm built in just a few days.

It is far from enough to meet the food needs of the new population.

"I guess it won't be less than 1 million."

"All infected people in Jianghe City will be sent here sooner or later."

"Coupled with the first two days, 150,000 people moved to the new dormitory just through the lottery."

"Fifty or sixty thousand people continue to move out every day."

Yang Cheng thought about it for a while and came up with a rough guess.

These data are all public information on the projection.

Coupled with the fact that the lottery for relocating dormitories is held every two hours, it has never stopped from beginning to end.

And there are often people around 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 don't win every draw."

"I just said that my luck is not that bad."

Yue Ming clicked his tongue a little.

Not to mention that he hadn't realized where he was.

More than a million people have gathered.

That can be understood.

Why must everyone be forced to be confined to a grid of only two cubic meters each, and not allowed to go out and move around at will.

So many people.

It would be nice to have a place to sleep.

If you want to go out and move around, you may not have to run to the surface.

"Actually, it doesn't matter whether you win or not."

"We are already very lucky."

Yang Cheng smiled and looked more open.

Although I can't go out during this period, I can still read the news on the projector, as well as various details of life.

He can feel it.

This shelter that takes them in is actually doing its best to give them the best treatment.

Although his behavior is a bit rigid, he treats everyone fairly and consistently.

And to be fair, it looks simple.

But even before the end of the world, it was a word far away from ordinary people.

Finished reading the news.

It didn't take long.

A robotic arm delivered a mobile phone to Yang Cheng.

This is also something you get in a lottery.

It's just different from drawing a quota to move into a new dormitory.

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 work part-time to repay the debt.

Seriously.

In fact, it is just like getting an opportunity to buy a new mobile phone through a loan.

Get your new phone in your hand.

The body, which is nearly two centimeters thick, 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 network.

The familiar social forums and various long-lost interactive messages made him feel like he was back home.

But he wandered around.

But I quickly discovered something different.

Every one of the friends he once made on the Internet who are online now is either living in a capsule grid or has simply moved into a new dormitory.

Their respective experiences were almost surprisingly consistent with his.

"This is how many people were sent here."

Faintly.

Yang Cheng felt that his previous guesses seemed a bit too conservative.

Perhaps, more than half of the people in Jianghe City have already gathered here.

The mainstream of Jianghe City has actually moved here?

Didn't spend too much time catching up on the forum.

Considering that because of the new mobile phone, I am still burdened with a seemingly large amount of debt.

Yang Cheng quickly opened the designated game again.

Next, he needs to work hard in the game and use game currency to pay off his debts.

Like Yang Cheng, there are many people who have discovered that something is wrong.

With the birth of the permanent healing potion.

There is no longer a risk of death from the LoRa virus.

Many senior shelter officials who escaped from fear only discovered this later.

After experiencing this virus catastrophe.

The number of residents in their shelter has been greatly reduced to an unacceptable level.

The worst part is that all ten rooms are empty.

From a large shelter that once held tens of thousands of people, it has been reduced to a small and medium-sized shelter with less than 2,000 people.

Even the most basic hydropower plants and plantations cannot find enough people to maintain them.

They can only reduce the scale urgently and seal a large amount of equipment into warehouses.

At this time.

Compared with the prosperity in the past.

Many people suddenly felt an unspeakable loneliness and panic.

Although the remaining people have more resources on average.

But looking at the empty shelter.

To some extent, desertedness is also a kind of horror.

"At present, the total population of our shelter has dropped from 3.1 million before the outbreak of the virus to about 2.4 million."

"Among them, about 100,000 people have been confirmed dead or are still staying in various quarantine areas."

"The number of seriously infected people sent to the Huangshi shelter is about 600,000."

Official shelter.

At a non-public meeting of the highest level.

The Ministry of the Interior reported the latest internal dynamics of the shelter.

Many senior officials participating in the meeting looked unhappy.

Of course, most of them look down on ordinary people at the bottom.

But at the same time, they are also very clear that the basis of their power is these ordinary people.

Now one-fifth or even more of the population has been lost all of a sudden.

In fact, it is equivalent to a great reduction in their power and status.

"What is the situation of the civilian shelters?"

The chief director Bai Ruian, who presided over the meeting, asked.

"Their loss is even more serious."

"It is estimated that more than half of the population has moved to the Huangshi Shelter."

"Strictly speaking, the Huangshi Shelter is now the main body of the civilian population."

"The others can only be regarded as a minority."