Over the past few years, the Human City has become a paradise-like place that everyone yearns for. When Zhao Changxing announced that the construction of the Human City had begun, and the first batch of 300 units officially began to be sold, people's
Enthusiasm was ignited almost immediately.
Although the down payment of 330,000 contribution points is prohibitive for most people, the sales department was still bustling with people on this day.
From time to time, people would squeeze out of here with bright faces and happily - obviously, they must have collected enough down payment and finalized the purchase of a house. Whenever this happens, everyone's envious eyes will focus on them.
There are also people who are frowning, or are discussing something nervously through personal communication devices, or with their companions around them. It seems that these people are temporarily unable to collect the down payment and are raising money everywhere.
More people simply came to watch the fun. They stood in front of the human city model for a long time, reluctant to leave.
Sima Pingping held Xuanyuan Lizhen's hand, and beads of sweat began to appear on his forehead unconsciously.
"Afang, do we really, really want to buy it?"
Xuanyuan Lizhen also felt that her throat was dry and it was very difficult to even speak.
That’s a full 330,000 contribution points!
In the past five years, although their salaries have been a little higher than before, reaching 5,000 and 4,600 respectively, they have consciously scrimped on food and clothing. They have never gone to the supermarket if they can live in the big cafeteria. They have not even bought new clothes for several years.
Yes, but in five years, I only saved a total of 300,000 contribution points, and the remaining 30,000 were borrowed with great difficulty.
Now, after paying this down payment, you are really clean. You have to shamelessly pay for your meals this month on credit in the cafeteria.
Not to mention, starting from next month, I will have to repay a loan of 4,000 contribution points every month, and I will also be burdened with a debt of 30,000. Just thinking about it makes me feel that this burden is extremely heavy.
Sima Pingping's eyes were firm and he nodded vigorously.
"Azhen, you have to know that 20 or even 30 years from now, the government is unlikely to have enough energy and time to build a second city. But our population has been increasing, and various
Materials are becoming more and more abundant, and salaries are gradually increasing. But there are only so many houses, and they cannot be increased in a few decades. In other words, houses in the human city are the rarest resources. Believe it or not, in a few years
, the price of houses in the human city will continue to rise.
The current price of 1.1 million contribution points per unit is like the government giving benefits to ordinary people. You only have this opportunity, if you don’t seize it, you will never get it again in this life! Listen to me, that’s right!”
Xuanyuan Lizhen was finally convinced by her lover.
After successfully paying the down payment and completing all the procedures, looking at the envious eyes of everyone, and looking at some people who regretted and beat their chests and beat their chests even after having collected enough money because they arrived late, Sima Ping's waist became even more erect.
I felt straight and felt that all the suffering I had endured in the past five years was worth it.
At this moment, at the Human City construction site, the huge construction task has officially begun.
In the plan, the human city was also built underground, with a length of a little more than two kilometers and a width of one kilometer. In order to reach a sufficient height, the engineers originally had to dig out the ground on Sedna.
A large pit 40 meters deep.
Calculated in this way, there are 80 million cubic meters of earth, with a total mass of more than 100 million tons. A heavy-duty train can transport 8,000 tons of earth in one trip, and it can be transported 20 times a day. Such a large amount of earth, alone
For transportation, it will take almost two years.
Of course, the actual operation does not need to take so much time. Because the location of the human city was chosen on the surface of Sedna, a place lower than the average height of the surrounding area, that is, inside a large pit. So
This greatly saves the amount of earthwork. For the first phase of the project, the amount of earthwork is even less.
After the construction officially started, people first started the foundation work. They leveled the land and laid various underground pipes and cables. After everything was completed, the first floor was laid, followed by the second and third floors...
Building materials from the industrial area were continuously transported here by train. Under the hard work of hundreds of construction workers, they were combined into different shapes and integrated into the overall buildings of the human city. Each building is tall and straight, and has multiple functions.
Support columns for different purposes, such as lighting poles, monitor poles, and line poles, rise from the ground, directly connecting the "sky" from the ground, and simulation screens that can be seamlessly connected are installed on the support columns.
They can simulate different sky scenes at different time periods according to people's instructions.
In September of the 117th year of the New Calendar, more than two years after the construction of the Human City began, the external frame of the first phase of the Human City project - a large box 1 kilometer long, more than 500 meters wide, and 35 meters clear in height - was announced to be completed.
Various basic life support facilities have also been installed. After a series of procedures such as debugging and testing, the people working here can finally take off their space suits and go directly to the next step of work.
The next step is much more complicated. After all, it is a job similar to interior decoration, which is much more delicate and energy-consuming than the external frame. However, with the support of sufficient resources, these things are still progressing in an orderly and steady manner.
Under the eager and expectant eyes of the outside world, in the Human City Project No. 1, houses are rising from the ground, spacious and straight streets are beginning to take shape, and the greening work is beginning to show results. Street trees, lawns, flowers and plants
It began to add some vitality to the city under construction, and the creek promised in the original promotional video also appeared - it flowed in from one side, crossed the entire city, and merged into the forest promised in the plan.
and green spaces, while adding to the urban landscape, it also takes on the task of irrigating the green spaces.
When the Human City Project No. 1 was announced to be completed, it was already March of the 120th year of the New Calendar. The entire construction period lasted for five years. The first batch of 300 home buyers also spent these five years anxiously waiting.
year time.
They have been paying off their mortgage for five years, and at least they have paid back more than 200,000 contribution points. Of course, there is still a long repayment period of 25 years waiting for them.
The past five years have also been a comprehensive test of the industrial capabilities of the entire human civilization. During this process, I don’t know how many times people suddenly discovered that a certain engineering capability could not meet the requirements for building a city, so they had to urgently start research and development.
, to make up for this shortcoming in the shortest possible time. Many omissions that were not discovered in the past due to insufficient demand were also made up one by one during this process.
This single shortcoming or omission may be very small and completely inconspicuous. But when tens of thousands of them are brought together and all solved, it will directly bring the industrial capabilities of human civilization to a higher level. From this aspect
It seems that even if the human city does not inspire people's enthusiasm for work, it is still worthwhile to build it.
After the first phase of the Human City project passed the acceptance inspection, the handover ceremony personally hosted by Zhao Changxing was officially held.
With anxiety and excitement, Sima Fangfang and Xuanyuan Lizhen held hands tightly and took the fully enclosed passenger train from the No. 3 Comprehensive Base to the Human City No. 1 Station. When the train door opened and they walked out of the station,
What appeared before them was a shocking scene.
Spacious streets, tall houses, green vegetation everywhere, winding streams, especially the sky that is simulating the rising sun in the morning...
Everything is showing a completely different atmosphere from the cramped No. 3 Base. Although I have seen the appearance of cities where humans live in the Earth Age countless times in movies and TV series, when I am really here at this moment
The environment and the sense of livability still instantly shocked people's hearts.
This gave people the feeling of "not being inside a building, but outside the building" for the first time. Moreover, they were in the wild without wearing any life-support facilities or spacesuits.
Sima Pingping and Xuanyuan Li's hands held each other tighter and tighter. Sima Pingping could even clearly feel that Xuanyuan Li's body was trembling slightly. He hugged his lover gently, and saw his lover's
His eyes were already red, and tears were flowing out uncontrollably.
He clearly knew that neither he nor Azhen could ever go back. Even if they had not lived in the human city for a day at this moment, neither of them could ever go back to live in the No. 3 Comprehensive Base.
"Afang, Afang, this is our home, this is our home..."
Xuanyuan Li really hugged Sima Pingping tightly and burst into tears.
Among the people around me, some were shouting obliviously, some were hugging tightly and crying, some were dumbfounded and looked shocked, some were running and jumping crazily, jumping several meters high...
…
No more worrying about your head being hit by the ceiling when you jump up.
Facing the people who were almost going crazy, Zhao Changxing smiled slightly.
"This is nothing now, it's just the first phase of the project... Even if the entire human city is completed, it's actually nothing. Back on Earth..."
He smiled and shook his head, interrupting his recollection.
During this period, the delivery of the first phase of the Human City project has become a topic of conversation for everyone in the entire civilization. The first 300 families or individuals who moved in have all become celebrities, and they are surrounded by a group of people wherever they go.
Surround. In fact, the question that Zhao Changxing has been asked the most during this period has become when the construction of the second phase of the project will start and how long it will take to complete it.
The second phase of the project will start construction soon. This is just a step-by-step matter, and Zhao Changxing no longer needs to pay too much attention. At this moment, the thing that troubles Zhao Changxing and various government officials has turned into another thing.
He had a premonition that this matter had become the biggest bottleneck hindering the development of human civilization at the current stage.