Chapter 737 The disaster is over, food prices soar!
The first wave of hailstones that fell started to be 3cm in diameter, about the same size as an egg.
According to the frequency of 5,000 pellets per minute per square kilometer, it is not terrifying, but the crackling sound of explosions hitting the ground and buildings makes people feel a little numb.
Through the camera, Sumo focused on the changes in several test buildings outside.
Among them, the brick and tile structure could not withstand the continuous bombardment of hail, and holes were formed in about ten minutes, making it difficult to continue to protect the objects inside.
However, buildings made of reinforced concrete and solid wood are still strong and can basically ignore the damage caused by the first wave of hail.
"It seems that the target of this disaster is not humans, but the exposed buildings and farmland."
"Reducing food production is probably the first goal of this hail disaster."
Putting down the tablet, Sumo gradually felt something bad in his heart.
This discovery is quite a big deal.
You must know that the time in the wasteland is qualitatively different from that on the earth.
Take the summer harvest as an example. The summer harvest on Earth occurs around the time of Ear Grain, that is, from mid-May to mid-June.
But in the wasteland, due to the climate, the maturity time of crops is generally delayed from mid-June to mid-July.
There is a whole month's gap in between.
The maturity time of various crops in Tianyuan territory is much faster than that of crops in other gathering places.
Like the previous Qingguo territory, if the fields there are to mature, they have to wait until at least mid-July before they can be harvested.
Also, after last year’s grain price speculation in Wuyafu and several other large territories, Tianyuan Territory, as the spokesperson, in order to quell this sudden price increase, has already put a lot of its own inventory into the market to forcefully lower the price, which turned out to be bad.
Currently sitting on several large territories with grain.
Once the hailstorm ends, the other party will use this request to make some moves on the price of grain, thereby leveraging the territory's financial resources.
The consequences are simply unimaginable!
"No, if that's the case, there's no reason why the territory knew the news in advance and didn't take action."
"Don't tell me"
Suddenly remembering that the territory's management could know the news of a disaster half a month in advance, Sumo smelled a hint of conspiracy again.
As far as the situation is concerned, the current major wasteland territories still lack a large number of low-level labor forces to carry out construction.
And the solidified status class makes it more difficult to replenish these fresh blood.
A very simple example.
The same 1,000 identity points can be used to buy the identity of a middle-to-high-level manager if you are in the Qingguo territory.
Not only do you not have to do physical work and enjoy a comfortable and leisurely life, but you can also use this status to dominate and dominate ordinary people.
But if you use these 1,000 points to go to Tianyuan territory and look through the entire price list, you can only buy an ordinary plantation worker identity.
Comparing the two, anyone with a normal mind would make a choice.
But if the food production is reduced, the economy of those small and medium-sized territories will directly rot and collapse.
As for the choices of ordinary civilians, it's hard to say.
Perhaps those who have certain assets will choose to continue to hold on in the territory until the next harvest season arrives.
But those who have no assets, even if they are black accounts, may not choose to stay.
Within a month or two at most, they will flow into various major territories where food prices are still balanced in various ways to make a living.
"This move is too vicious. If my guess is true, this plan is completely squeezing the living space of small and medium-sized territories."
"Those ordinary people, even if they join a large territory, have no status, and work at the lowest level, as long as they can be fed and given some benefits, they can be won over and greatly replenish the territory's fresh labor blood."
"And whoever can do better welfare can attract more people at this time!"
It's hard to gain publicity in a battle to steal people.
After all, if one company starts to engage in vicious competition, it will easily lead to a large-scale identity collapse, and the rules of the game it has established will directly rot.
And those who have just spent huge sums of money to buy an identity will soon find that the identity they bought has plummeted, causing turmoil.
Only in this way can we continue to attract high-level talents who can afford the points, maintain the rules on the surface and continue to operate, and secretly win over unidentified gangsters.
Only by "accidentally" can the reversal between territories be completed.
"Identity, it is indeed an identity again!"
"These gangsters who sneak into the city have no identities. If they want to stay, they will definitely be extremely eager to have an identity that they can show off, so that they no longer have to live a life of fear and being kicked out at any time."
"If someone comes to open a lending business at this time, let them buy the most basic identity with a long-term loan and use the next few decades to repay the loan."
"Then in the past few decades, the territory will be able to have workers who work hard and are always dedicated to the lowest level. The profits they create can also be used by the territory to continue construction and complete various facilities to resist disasters."
Suddenly seeing through the true meaning of this layer of game rules, Sumo felt a chill on his back and didn't know what to say for a moment.
Call it bad, the territory wants to build these public facilities and implement the so-called "underground civilization" plan.
It will inevitably require countless ordinary people to work at the bottom and provide a large amount of labor to complete it.
In addition, through identity, you can continue to harvest those large households that have made money, so that they can also use the money to carry out territorial disaster resistance construction and various technological research and development.
But to put it mildly, everyone in the apocalypse is already living a poor life and is extremely hopeless about their future life.
Under such exploitation, it is bound to be like an open grenade, but it is temporarily pinched by the ring.
Once the pull tab is loosened one day, the explosive inside will explode, and the person holding the pull tab will also be killed.
"I must verify these ideas quickly"
"If it is true, it means that the era of chaos and turmoil is coming again!"
"When the time comes, the territories will all depend on means, and even the cities within the territories will be reshuffled."
Thinking of this, Sumo also made some guesses about the identity of the manager of Baoyu County who was suddenly rewarded by the game.
He stayed in this small town of Mulberry Fields, just waiting for the final zombie disaster to arrive, which was obviously not what the game wanted to see.
Considering all human actions, they cannot escape the monitoring of the game.
If the game wants him to gain authority in this world, it must continue to secretly support him to promote him, an outsider, to perform well during the disaster response.
Letting his ranking appear on the standings is a means, and rewarding him with the status of Baoyu Town manager worth four million is also a means.
"Going to Baoyu County is a development hint given by the game?"
The more thoroughly he thought, the more cautious Sumo became, not daring to think about it in a low voice for fear of being watched.
I want to become the lord of the territory within another year and lead the entire territory through the next super disaster without exposing my identity.
There are only two ways.
The first one is the violent attack that was previously conceived, and the beheading operation will be carried out directly after making the mecha.
Kill all those who betray the territory or have other intentions to complete the concentration of power.
The second article is to figure it out slowly and see the big from the small.
Strive to complete the collection of rights within the rules and directly use transaction points to buy the desired identity.
I haven't figured out which one to use.
Sumo could only suppress his thoughts for the time being and wait until after the summer harvest to get enough funds to make a mecha.
This will not take long. According to the worst-case scenario, it will be completed in early August at most.
At this time, it was still 10 months before he left this world.
Under the gloomy sky, a giant translucent cover covered the entire city, emitting a faint glow.
That horrific hail disaster, in this city that has integrated almost all human technology, can only be considered a distant spot at best.
Even if an ice cube as big as a fist hits the protective shield, it will only cause a faint ripple and then disappear.
In the city.
People come and go, and traffic flows constantly.
People who go to work still leave home at eight o'clock, take public transportation to the designated place, and complete the remaining work.
Those in the service industry did not panic at all. They still had formal smiles on their faces and completed their work.
Status divides people into three, six or nine levels, while leaving the possibility of promotion and a better life.
Even if life is the same, people living in this city still have great visions for tomorrow.
Of course, the entire city is not without change.
For example, in the Qingye Villa area where many important people live, the defense force increased dozens of times after one night.
There is a post at five steps and a sentry at ten steps.
Guards armed with live ammunition had blocked several surrounding streets since early in the morning, and the formation was terrifying.
Go inside the villa area.
Several vacant houses have been temporarily requisitioned as office areas, and they are filled with all kinds of well-dressed people.
Next door closest to the sixteenth villa.
Looking at the several pieces of information sent over, a middle-aged man vaguely surrounded by the middle suddenly frowned: "Is there no news yet?"
"Back to the military leader, no matter whether it is the standings or the latest news from Tianyuan Territory, we have not been able to find Sumo's whereabouts."
"We suspect that the game made a mistake with the rankings, there was a loophole, and the names were released." Three men in military uniforms who looked like a think tank stood in front of the table and said respectfully.
"Made a mistake?" Hearing the speculation from his subordinates, the man called the military leader frowned deeper: "What did Lord Su say? Do they have any news?"
"No, and according to Lord Su Chan, she has used her exclusive liaison device and issued several orders through the air, but there is still no definite discovery." After shaking his head, the man on the left finished speaking.
But he started talking about something else:
"Military Commander, according to the backend investigation of the Sky Eye Project that we previously developed together with Tianyuan Territory, we found that the other party's Supervision Department had an illegal operation on the night of June 6th, deleting some data and adding some new data.
Go in. We cannot directly access the specific operation records for the time being, but the application letter has been sent to Pei Shao, the general manager of the Inspection Department."
"In addition, we also obtained all their query records for the day through some previously built-in interfaces. This part is fixed and cannot be deleted. There are 47 people in total. This is the list."
It seemed that he had guessed that the military leader would check the list of 47 people one by one. After speaking, the man took out a thick stack of paper from his pocket.
Among them, the data of 47 people are listed in full, and each person has more or less pages of introduction.
"47 people?"
After receiving the data, the military commander began to read through it one by one.
His eyes were extremely vicious, and some information was only read through for a few times before being put aside directly.
Some read it carefully one by one before carefully placing it on the other side of the body.
Not long after, only nine of the 47 materials were left, listed side by side in front of him.
If Su Mo could see the names on these materials at this time, he would definitely be shocked to find that his perfect personal information is also included in them, but ranked slightly lower, ranked eighth.
"These nine people, continue to check for me."
"In addition, to improve the protection of Lord Su's courtyard, I need to ensure that this matter is over and no one can disturb Lord Su's daily life for any reason before the coffin is sealed."
"Those who disobey the order will be killed without mercy regardless of their identity!"
When the word "protect" was mentioned, the military leader's face changed slightly, and there was a faint hint of murderous intent.
Human nature is a very complex thing.
Where there is a bright side, there must be a dark side.
The cruelty of the doomsday wasteland will greatly separate the two. Positive people will become more positive, and evil people will become more evil.
For ordinary people, the human Su Shen is the hope of the future and is synonymous with countless possibilities.
But in the black market, which has a small scope of influence but cannot be ignored, the human Su Shen is "goods" and an expensive "treasure".
Take the bounty list as an example.
Human Su Shen has been ranked first for six years, with an amount of billions.
Countless people who follow this list want to know why he was able to possess so many powerful props and weapons in the first year of the wasteland.
There are also countless people who want to track down the real reason for his disappearance and try to find a way back to Earth.
In the past many years, although these people have spent too much time and thought spreading random news, it has not stopped them from acting like crazy as soon as they get the news.
But this time, the game suddenly appeared and put its name on the list for the first time.
It's enough to make these people move like sharks that smell blood.
"If he doesn't come back, then we don't have to worry, Tianyuan Territory is not a mess, and everything will be taken care of on its own."
"But if he really comes back, these lunatics can only become the nourishment for him to rise again." Scanning the desktop information again, the military leader smiled lightly and said calmly.
A sudden hail disaster.
It came suddenly and went away quickly.
When the disaster bell rang again in Tianyuan Territory, many migrant workers realized that the disaster had been successfully overcome.
Three days.
They went to bed when they were full and ate when they woke up. They lived extremely peacefully in the official shelters and were no longer as cautious as they were during the previous disaster.
Many people even thought of joining the Tianyuan Territory no matter how much they spent when the disaster was over, just because of the comfort of these three days.
"Come out, everyone. Starting tonight, your freedom is back!"
Just after twelve o'clock, ten minutes after the hailstorm stopped, a unified trumpet sound finally sounded from each narrow official shelter.
Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers also began to follow the guidance of the staff and move toward the ground along the passage.
"Huh, this hail is so powerful, it has smashed the ground into this shape!"
"Damn, the roads have been smashed, Tianyuan Territory is going to spend a lot of money this time."
"It's a pity that this summer harvest passed by in such a hurry. I didn't even earn one-fifth of the money in previous years."
"You kid, just have fun secretly. Those who work on official plantations don't even have one-tenth of yours, right?"
"Hey hey hey, who makes us smart? No, we are smarter in Ziliangfang. Their machines are really awesome!"
Walking on a street full of potholes, seeing the ice cubes that have not yet dissipated right in front of them, many people were chatting with fear and walked towards the public communication booth.
After the hailstorm, the ground looked like this, so there was no need to worry about any crops.
All they can do at this time is to contact their families quickly to see if their territory is safe, and then decide when to return to the territory.
But unfortunately, when the first person in line arrived at the contact booth and successfully made the call.
Tonight is destined to be a sleepless night for all outsiders!
"What, the price of food in the territory has increased five times!"