San Antonio, temporary containment zone in the city.
This is a neighborhood destroyed by artillery fire. There are craters and broken walls one after another, and the broken reinforced concrete is full of devastation. And among the ruins, hundreds of people are busy working.
Bang bang bang banging sounds continue to be heard in the containment area, and workers are knocking down the bombed buildings and filling the ground. Due to the lack of various mechanical equipment, many tasks must be completed manually.
Rows of simple houses are being built on the filled ground. These houses are all three-story structures, with only simple bedrooms, toilets, bathrooms and other ancillary facilities specially built.
Several workers wearing helmets are wiring inside and outside the house. Most of them are wires, and a small amount are racks for installing wireless surveillance cameras.
Simon drove a pickup truck and led members of the SWAT team to patrol the containment area. The containment area in front of him will meet the temporary housing needs of about two thousand people, at least allowing many at the bottom of society who can only live in shacks to have a safe home.
"The Legion is really different from the Baath Party." Simon chatted with his partner.
"Yeah, it's really different." The partner in the passenger seat was fully armed with long and short firearms, but mentally he was quite lazy. Because the security in the city is much better now than in the past, there is no need for the special police to be at high altitude all the time.
nervous.
When the gun ban first came out, many people were extremely disgusted. People felt that they would not feel safe without firearms, and citizens were forced to hand over their weapons. Most people had more than one or two firearms, or even ten.
Several guns, and countless ammunition.
In the process of collecting weapons, Simon has seen all kinds of powerful gadgets. What are long and short guns? Grenades, rocket launchers, and heavy machine guns are all trivial. Some people even hide an Abrams in their backyard.
battle tanks.
Fortunately, the police force is particularly abundant now. Police officers who have received short-term training are constantly combing every corner of the city, and even use magnetic detectors to find various metal parts. In addition to cleaning up various shrapnel, there are also a large number of unexploded ordnance and
Guns weapons.
At present, the Corps has initially estimated that it has confiscated more than 20 million firearms. The number of firearms is more than the population. Most of the weapons have flowed out of unattended US military bases. There are particularly many weapons that have been damaged due to poor maintenance.
There are also many weapons that can be used.
In order to prevent these weapons from being scattered again, Zhou Qingfeng had to get an electrolytic furnace to destroy these weapons. Since the weapons were often mixed with ammunition, several electrolytic furnaces were damaged and many people died.
Such large-scale weapons collection has achieved amazing results. First of all, police officers like Simon feel that they are safe and their deterrence has improved. They don’t need to worry about encountering violent attacks during patrols. They don’t need to worry about anything.
There will be stray bullets flying out of the place.
Everyone's spirits are slowly beginning to relax, and anxiety and panic are disappearing. This is a rare thing since the end of the world. A sense of security is invisible and intangible, but it is a precious necessity in human life.
"X-ray machines, monitors, and strict security checks." The partner in the co-pilot sighed: "I now understand why the army commander wants to ban guns. This policy makes the city quiet. It's too quiet."
Without firearms and weapons that can easily kill people, ordinary people will become less courageous and their aggressiveness will naturally decrease. Gunshots no longer ring out at any time in the city, and people are even a little uncomfortable with it.
You must know that when the Baath Party controlled San Antonio, people were killed in various shootings every day in the city. But now..., a tabloid just founded in the city advertised in an exclamatory tone - Miracle, no one has died for a week in a row.
Shot to death.
No one was killed by gunfire not only because the weapons were confiscated, but also because surveillance cameras began to be spread all over the city. With these things, the police's work is much easier. As soon as something goes wrong, everyone will be on the radio as soon as possible.
Apply to the police data center for video playback.
Communication base stations all over the city will store everything that happens in every corner in the police station's data center. Now when a case occurs, the police are too lazy to investigate. As long as the suspect's height, appearance, clothing and other key elements are known, the intelligent
AI will automatically find the suspect.
This is the benefit of the combination of Wasteland's more advanced artificial intelligence and Rabbit's security system. Zhou Qingfeng even sold dozens of Wasteland's supercomputers and intelligent software to Rabbit, which at least smoothed out the increasingly terrifying trade deficit.
.
Because the United States has always emphasized personal privacy, the government cannot spend taxpayers' money on such a system at will. The media can also demonize comprehensive security surveillance and promote to people that being monitored is like losing freedom.
Even Simon has always felt that such a powerful surveillance network is too scary, and living in it is like being watched by countless eyes. But now that he has truly experienced the convenience of this network, he feels that being a policeman is quite boring.
When Simon's pickup truck was about to leave the containment area, he shouted into a simple house, "Buffon, how is the situation today?"
A young man came out of the simple room, trotted to the pickup truck and said, "Hello, Officer Simon, nothing happened today. It's very calm."
The young man named Buffon has a disabled arm and cannot do heavy work. In the past, people like him could only make a living by begging and stealing, and no one would care about him. Once he failed to steal, he would probably die from a beating.
die.
Buffon is overjoyed to now have a job as a security coordinator. In order to keep this job, he has done his best to complete all the tasks assigned by the city government.
"Is anyone still hiding firearms?" Simon asked.
"I heard that there is a black market for guns in a neighborhood to the west. I have been asking who is causing trouble these past two days."
“Did someone sabotage the surveillance network?”
"No, after you came here last time to arrest a few saboteurs, no one dared to mess with those surveillance cameras anymore. However, I recently heard that someone wanted to cause sabotage by cutting off the power, and I am also watching."
"How many people don't like monitoring the Internet these days?"
"It's about half and half. Some people like it and some don't. Generally speaking, the number of people who don't care is increasing."
After chatting with Buffon for a few words and telling him to keep an eye on saboteurs, Simon finally drove out of the containment area. He looked back at the area under construction and sighed: "In the past, this containment area must have been dirty and dirty.
It’s a chaotic, violent and disgusting place.”
"Hehehe..." the partner in the passenger seat said happily: "Because places like this can't collect taxes, the government doesn't care. But now the rich areas and poor areas in the city are equally safe, and we have to drive every day.
It's shaking here and there.
Those poor ghosts enjoy the treatment of the rich without spending a penny, building houses for them, providing them with cheap food, convenient transportation, and valuable security. This was unimaginable in the past. Even I feel that the Legion is sincere to the poor.
That’s great.”
"Yes, yes." Simon sighed: "That's why the poor are willing to go with the Legion, and the poor are the majority. Just like Buffon, if the Baath Party fights back, he will definitely resist.
The Legion paid a huge price to capture these many people, and it can also use these people, no one in the world can compete with it."
This damn thing can be called—the benevolent are invincible!