Chapter 31 The Great Trough ([-])
Song Xiang got up early, baked two sweet potatoes in the microwave for breakfast, and then put on police anti-riot gear to go out on duty.

In the two years after the Adelaide disaster, several coastal cities suffered disasters such as hurricanes and tsunamis, and the cumulative number of casualties exceeded 200 million.

This caused one thing: the coastal residents desperately fled to the interior of the mainland. Although the governments of various countries had already prepared for the expansion of inland cities and the transfer of coastal industries four years ago, because the focus of development has never been on this, in the end As a result, the infrastructure construction of inland cities lags far behind the needs of the times.

A large number of refugees flooded into inland cities, with hundreds of thousands or even millions of mouths, and the daily food consumption was astronomical. At the same time, the refugees also asked the local government to allocate vacant houses in the city to them, which seriously violated the interests of the aborigines. .

A community with a vacancy rate of 20.00% can barely be self-sufficient if all of them engage in indoor farming, and allocate vacant houses to refugees. Who will make up for the reduced cultivated area?
Let you live in, we have to die, so you should suffer.

The new building is being built overtime. Unless there is extreme weather, a large number of construction machines will not stop working.

There are 10,000+ refugees in the Jiang’an District where Song Xiang lives. It may take two or three months for them to be allocated new houses. steel house.

Who can bear this life, so many people resent the aborigines who are unwilling to take out the vacant houses in the community for them to live in.

Song Xiang's duty is to command the Robo-Police to use non-lethal means to expel refugees who try to break into the community to steal food and destroy important facilities such as greenhouses and power transmission towers.

"Uncle Yan, I'm here to change shift."

Entering the control room, Song Xiang took off his gas mask and said hello.

Lao Yan nodded, stood up from his seat, and said, "Xiangzi, pay close attention when the drones are patrolling, these guys who make it difficult for themselves and want to make it difficult for us have the audacity to destroy the underground UHV cables! I’m really not afraid of being electrocuted.”

The outdoor monitoring system was damaged a lot, and even if it was repaired, it would not be long before it would be damaged, so I simply used a drone to monitor it in the sky, but the requirements for the weather and wind speed were a bit high.

Song Xiang nodded and said, "Yes, I know."

With that said, he took his seat, took over the security system of the community, and began to be on duty.

"Okay, then I'll go back to eat..."

During the day, the police force was concentrated at the only main entrance. Song Xiang's task was to order the Robo-Police to expel the refugees who stayed in front of the community and prevent them from getting together and breaking through the gate.

The second is to control drones to patrol along the high walls of the community to prevent people from turning over and stealing things.

In fact, Suguang can complete these things independently, and the people on duty are only responsible for error correction.

A few hours later, Song Xiang discovered that someone was prying the manhole cover. Under the manhole cover is the cable fiber optic channel. It is very important that it is locked by a mechanical structure. Without authority or professional tools, the special manhole cover with the neuron chip cannot be opened at all.

He picked up the walkie-talkie and said: "The first warning, you are committing a crime, please stop immediately, the second time..."

After repeating it three times, the refugees did not intend to leave, so Song Xiang gave the order to attack.

The black barrel of the drone was exposed. This is a small civilian electromagnetic gun, non-lethal equipment. Then, a steel rod connected to a copper wire was shot out.

The steel rod is as thick as a finger, and the electromagnetic gun is not very powerful. As long as it does not hit the eye, it is difficult to injure anyone.

There are steel needles in the steel rod, which will be ejected and penetrate into the skin of the person. Then the drone will discharge at high voltage, and will give the target a thunderbolt Dharma set meal. Normal people will lose their mobility when they are shocked.

After knocking down a target, Song Xiang shouted again, urging them to leave.

It's just that the few remaining people didn't listen to the persuasion. Instead, they yelled without quality, swearing one after another, and even picked up rocks to smash the drone down.

Later, he reported to the higher authorities that the higher authorities would send military police to arrest these refugees.

Well, it's not called arrest, and the government doesn't have enough food to support them now, so it just throws them back into the refugee area.

……

Yiyun cuts her own wedding dress and wants to sew two new skirts for Yunyun.

Hearing Shuguang's reminder, she went to open the door, helped her husband change clothes, and said with concern, "Are you hungry? I left you a big bowl of fried rice with eggs, which is steaming in the rice cooker."

Song Xiang nodded and asked, "Where's Yunyun?"

"I went to play in the underground farmland with my friends. With the big girl from Yu's family watching, I won't cause trouble."

The man lamented, "This ghost world has a scope of activities similar to that of a prison. Sooner or later, the children will be suffocated."

Yiyun nodded, "Yeah, don't talk about children, we adults can't bear such a cage. Many people in the community suffer from depression. If it weren't for the entertainment of Suguang Technology..."

She also sighed and didn't continue, because it was an untouchable topic: Shuguang wanted to seize the power of the governments of various countries, and if you support Suguang, you are opposing the government's rule...

Song Xiang washed his hands, came to the master bedroom with hot egg fried rice, and saw the wedding dress cut to pieces on the bed:

"How did you cut this!"

Yiyun said: "It's useless to keep it, it's better to make two skirts for Yunyun, we can't even apply for clothes now."

"That's right, keeping it is just a thought..."

While eating, Song Xiang said, "The production of cotton and other fiber crops has been greatly reduced. Clothes can only be synthesized from oil, and my country's oil reserves have long been used up, so we can only rely on imports."

"However, importing oil from countries such as big geese and big dogs is expensive, and we have to exchange it for grain. I heard that many countries have the idea of ​​​​developing Antarctic oil. I hope that the snow foam incident the year before last will not repeat itself."

"The average temperature on the Blue Star Floor has risen to 18 degrees. Experts estimate that the North Pole will completely disappear in two years. The melting of Antarctic glaciers is accelerating, and the sea level is slowly rising. It is no wonder that residents of coastal cities are desperately fleeing to the interior!"

Evian said: "They shouldn't be heading inland now. The country has been preparing for a large population migration along the coast. If they come in a year or two at night, they will have a place to live as soon as they come, and there will be no trouble like this."

"I don't blame them. If it were me, I would run too. Who knows when the natural disaster will come to me."

The two sighed in unison, and everyone knew in their hearts that human beings had entered an unstoppable vicious circle.

"Yiyi, I heard from a friend who is a soldier that the army is using electromagnetic weapons to replace the existing gunpowder weapons on a large scale. Due to the battery technology, electromagnetic weapons cannot be far away from the power transmission tower for the time being. Do you know what this means? ?”

There is only one possibility for an immature new weapon to replace a weapon that is mature and applicable to multiple environments.

Yiyun thought for a while, and said in horror: "Could it be that there are no raw materials for gunpowder?! Nitrocellulose, white sugar..."

"No more sugar! That's a big deal!"

The main raw material for white sugar is sugar cane or sugar beet, both of which are spoiled crops, which cannot be grown in this environment.

(End of this chapter)

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