Gao Zhongxuan drove his electric car and headed northwest along the township road. He planned to visit his grandparents.
There are 37 forest rangers in Huangshatou Town, each with five forest rangers.
Halfway through, he stopped and waited for the traffic light. As a new human being, he could not violate discipline easily. If he ran a red light, it would be recorded in his personal file.
Today's eDonkeys all have insurance and a unified license plate, but a driver's license is very easy. He bought one directly from Xinren.com.
That’s right, driver’s licenses are now purchased directly, and some domestic car manufacturers will even directly give driver’s licenses to customers who buy cars.
Of course, this situation currently only applies to new humans, because new humans can directly download skill and knowledge packages.
Gao Zhongxuan's motorcycle driving license cost 50 yuan. The driving license included motorcycle driving skills, motorcycle maintenance skills, and a knowledge package of traffic regulations.
After passing the traffic light, we continued driving northwest. Suddenly, on the roadside in front of us, there were many people paying homage at the gate of the Dashi Temple.
There are relatively few food religions in the northern part of Qin Province. For example, most of their villages are atheists, and a few old people believe in Buddhism. They usually pay homage to their ancestors.
However, after taking a quick look, Gao Zhongxuan discovered a very surprising sign. There were far fewer people in the small square where people were worshiping.
As the only large food temple in Huangshatou Town, classmate Gao Zhongxuan took him to visit it several times before. Every time he passed by it, there were forty or fifty people worshiping in the small square.
Now there were less than ten people, which made him look at them a few more times.
In fact, this is a common phenomenon, because the new humans are all materialists, and this is a transformation of thought.
As new humans with vast amounts of knowledge, most of them are fanatical scientific sects, and a few of them still have very rational beliefs even if they retain their original religious beliefs.
In other words, primitive religion is rapidly dying out, replaced by the materialist truth sect and new humanity's belief in the truth.
As there are more and more new humans, this is an inevitable and irreversible process. When humans can change the world, defeat diseases, and learn countless knowledge.
Human beings, who are getting closer and closer to omnipotence, will naturally stop worshiping those stone statues and clay sculptures, and deny the existence of gods from the perspective of recognizing the essence of things.
Many people have even developed a rebellious mentality, leading to the emergence of fanatical atheists, scientific scholars, theories of human evolution, theories of alien gods, etc.
This is a trend of materialism that has become increasingly obvious in China recently.
As for the external manifestations of society, that is, the self-awakening of primitive religious believers and conversion to Scientology, the surge in the number of atheists, and the scientific research on the imagination of gods and ghosts, and the enthusiasm for life science and cosmic science has greatly increased.
That's why Gao Zhongxuan saw that the number of worshipers was decreasing. It is estimated that within a year or two, these primitive worships may become the historical archives of the museum.
The Netherworld is vigorously promoting dialectical materialism and the theory of human beings. The so-called theory of human beings believes that human beings can evolve into "gods" through scientific means.
The continuous emergence of biocomputers and other technologies has a huge boost to the materialist trend.
After all, humans themselves are close to being omnipotent. Why should we believe in those illusory bird-men? It is better to offer incense to the sages of all generations. At least the sages have left legacies to us descendants.
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The eDonkey drove about 27 kilometers, and at the foot of the Leeward Slope Mountain not far away, a three-story building appeared in a Populus euphratica forest.
Looking around, there are the ruins of the ancient Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty on the hills in the distance. They are the only earthy color in this area.
A water pipeline with a radius of two meters extends from the building to the northwest. There are many branch pipes in the water pipeline.
At the door of the building is a large grassland, a vegetable field and a goat breeding house enclosed by fences.
Several elderly women were feeding goats or digging and watering the ground.
"Po!" Gao Zhongxuan shouted to the old woman who was weeding.
The old woman with a towel on her head looked up and discovered that she was a child from Lao Wu's family.
"Xuan, why didn't you tell me in advance?"
"This is some food my parents asked me to bring over."
"You're welcome. We have everything here. My mother-in-law has recently learned how to shop online. I will pick some vegetables to take back later." The old woman accepted the calfskin paper bag.
The grandfather and grandson walked towards the first floor of the building while chatting about their daily life.
As a collective dormitory, the first floor of the ranger dormitory is the hall, dining room, kitchen, and bathroom; the second and third floors are the ranger's room, computer room, and study room; there is also a tool warehouse next to it.
In fact, this kind of forest protection point is equivalent to half a nursing home.
There were five forest rangers, two were elderly people living alone, and the remaining three came with their wives.
One of the rangers was on the watchtower on the third floor, and Grandpa Gao Zhongxuan and another old man were riding donkeys, patrolling nearby.
The task of the forest ranger is to maintain the jungle and grassland near the station, prevent forest fires, protect wild animals and plants, prevent poaching and illegal mining, rescue the lost, etc.
They are all equipped with the recently eliminated Bayi Bar, but they are quasi-militiamen with combat effectiveness, especially the physical fitness and combat skills brought by the new humans.
At noon, Gao Zhongxuan had a meal in the restaurant of the ranger dormitory, and the two old men ate lunch in a hurry.
Then they mounted their donkeys with rifles on their backs and headed toward the jungle in the northwest. They were going to change the guard.
In fact, there is a gun training range in Huangshatou Town. It costs one yuan to shoot 10 rounds of ammunition. The firearms are all the Bayi guns that have been completely phased out recently.
As a new human being, Gao Zhongxuan is eligible to purchase conventional firearms. Starting from September this year, there will be no restrictions on this aspect.
As long as you go to the virtual office of the relevant department to apply for a gun license, new people will generally be able to pass it, while non-new people will be rejected.
Because of the internal discipline of the new humans, they will not do extreme things.
If there is an anti-social tendency, the Nuwa Core will alarm; if an anti-social action is to be carried out, the Nuwa Core will directly lock the host's muscle cells and alarm immediately.
The opening of firearms is mainly to deal with the G organization. Once mobilized for war, a group of skilled soldiers can be drawn out.
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After bidding farewell to the two old men, Gao Zhongxuan carried a bag of vegetables and rode the electric donkey again, preparing to return to Huangshatou North Village.
In Yulin in October, the sun is still shining brightly, and autumn tigers are still entrenched, but starting from next month, autumn will begin.
On the road, I passed by a convoy of vehicles. There were rows of saplings and turf on top of the vehicles. They were probably the company responsible for the desert greening project.
Except for nature reserves, it is estimated that deserts will be rare in the future.
The desert area in the northwest is divided into original desert ecological reserves, ecological forest areas, ecological grassland areas, ecological mixed areas, pastoral areas, planting areas, industrial areas, and residential areas.
The areas with the word "ecological" are all protected areas, accounting for about 60% of the total desert area; the remaining areas are developable areas, accounting for about 40%.
In the extension direction of the water pipeline, development zones and protected areas are concentrated in their respective areas.
With the transformation and utilization of saline-alkali lands, deserts, and Gobi Desert, the area of domestic cultivated land has increased significantly.
For example, the Mu Us Desert, also known as the Ordos Sand Land and the Mu Us Sand Land, has a total area of 42,200 square kilometers, half of which is within the territory of Yulin.
The Mu Us Desert is known as the "artificial desert". Historically, it was once rich in water and grass, with herds of cattle and sheep. From the Tang Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, due to irrational human development and utilization, the Mu Us Desert gradually turned into a vast desert.
After water injection reconstruction, 17,000 square kilometers here have been turned into development zones.
Among them, the pastoral area is 9,000 square kilometers and the planting area is 7,000 square kilometers. [Note: 1 square kilometer = 1,500 acres. 7,000 square kilometers is 10.5 million acres]
Moreover, the current utilization rate of domestic cultivated land is very high. A large number of glass greenhouses and three-dimensional agricultural planting buildings allow the output of domestic cultivated land to be equivalent to 5 to 10 times that of ordinary open-air cultivation.
This is the foundation for Netherworld Palace to achieve self-sufficiency in food.