latent body

Chapter 113 The Secret of the World 6
"During that period, various bases issued various rules and regulations applicable to the region. "Mutant Human Inspection Standards", "Daily Activity Monitoring Form", "Normal Human Behavior Code (Divided into Male and Female Two Implementation Standards)" " Regional Daily Work and Rest System" and so on."

"The so-called system and implementation standards, to put it bluntly, are actually the means of managing the people. Of course, the starting point is good, especially in special circumstances that can quickly quell chaos and maintain a stable order. But as time goes by, the external environment The threat has gradually weakened, or even disappeared, and the power holders of the refuge have also had more ideas."

“They became less fair and used their power to change the principles of food distribution. At first, the amount of milk, sugar, and meat distributed to children was reduced by a third. The reason was that there was insufficient energy and the capacity of indoor farms was affected.”

"The people accepted this statement and no one disputed it. Because everyone knows that times are difficult and we must work together to get through this."

"According to normal standards, the daily food ration for each adult (regardless of gender) is: [-] grams of cassava biscuits, [-] grams of tomatoes, [-] grams of green vegetables (the specific variety depends on the supply of the farm), [-] grams of root vegetables [-] grams of crops (radishes, potatoes, turnips), [-] grams of vegetable oil, [-] grams of salt, and [-] grams of sugar."

"All these rations are divided into three meals a day, which are actually a piece of cassava biscuit processed by synthetic technology, which contains part of salt, sugar and oil. As for all kinds of vegetables, including tomatoes, they are directly distributed to various residential areas. The team leader or group leader, in a group of 50 people, mixes and boils thick vegetable soup in a large pot, and then distributes it to each person."

"I have read the relevant information stored in the computer. To be honest, the vegetable soup is very good. There is no problem with the allocation of a large pot of red, green and green. Everyone has a large bowl full. It is okay to drink enough. What’s more, the cassava biscuits are genuine, neither the quantity nor the quality is adulterated, and they are enough to fill your stomach. If you are a person with a large appetite, you can ask the team leader to satisfy them as appropriate.”

Ling Zihan kept frowning, and he couldn't help it when he heard this: "How could they do this, don't these people have brains?"

Victoria's eyes flickered: "What are you referring to?"

"The leader of the base, I am referring to the so-called managers above." Ling Zihan made no secret of his attitude and thoughts: "The supply of food to the people is really too much. It should be reduced by at least a third, or even halved." .”

Victoria was silent for a long time, then nodded slowly: "You are right, but at that time it was difficult to change the long-term implementation of the rationing standard."

Ling Zihan asked puzzledly: "There is one thing I don't understand. As early as in the old days, hydroponics technology has been mature. But why the shelter's indoor farm still uses cassava as the main crop instead of rice or wheat?"

"Is it just because of the high yield of cassava?"

Victoria smiled: "Production is only one aspect. In fact, the main food materials provided by the shelters at first were indeed rice and flour. But in the No.12 year after the lunar debris impact, with the surge of newborn population, each shelter also There was a policy change, changing the daily ration from rice and bread to cassava biscuits."

"Surge in population?" Ling Zihan asked with interest: "How much has it increased?"

Victoria's expression became serious. This was obviously a question that impressed her deeply: "As I said before, the narrow space inside the shelter has caused various problems. The so-called residential area is actually a place where individuals or families Separate beds and single rooms for the unit. In order to save and utilize space as much as possible at the beginning of construction, strict identity checks were carried out on all people entering the shelter. The living quarters for single men and women are actually collective dormitories. A A bed, a cabinet, nothing about the so-called private space."

"The family suite sounds good, but it is built according to the standards of two adults and two children. It is narrow, with beds on both sides, and a closed cubicle with only a narrow passage in the middle. Don't think about the independent bathroom. According to the implementation standards, every 500 people share a set of bathing, excretion, and activity systems."

"It's a place similar to an auditorium. There are fixed tables and chairs in the middle of the empty part, where food is usually distributed and lined up here. There are hundreds of faucets installed on the walls on both sides for washing, and there is a faucet on the front of the auditorium. A very small platform for the team leaders and group leaders to gather the people and announce important events and various rules. The small door on the left leads to the shower room. Everyone receives shower tickets regularly, and the average person has four tickets a month. When they are used up, they have to wait until the next day. The small door on the right leads to the public restroom. There are armed patrols at the door, and there is 24-hour surveillance inside. If someone is found to have excreted without flushing, the punishment is public whipping and cleaning of the public area for one month. "

Ling Zihan asked: "You just said that families are used as a unit to resettle refugees. In the case of a two-person apartment with two small children, if the couple has only one child, one bed will be vacated. Isn't that a waste?"

Victoria shook her head: "There is no such thing as waste in the shelter. If the situation you mentioned occurs, the manager will arrange for other children to live in. When disaster strikes, many people lose their families. Too many children I became an orphan. At that time, almost all families were incomplete, so no one would reject a child who also lost his family.”

"However, here lies the problem...Because there is no blood relationship, and living together for a long time, feelings have developed between children and adults, and then it has become a super-normal intimate relationship."

"Wives who lost their husbands need new emotional sustenance, and husbands who lost their wives need a lover to relieve their grief. The combination of adults is normal, but because of the narrow space they are in, not to mention intimate physical contact, even kisses There’s no privacy for this kind of behavior, there’s eyes all around, and even the toilet stalls are packed when needed.”

"Humans are very adaptable to the environment, even in places like shelters. There are four beds in the family suite, so people start to communicate in private, couples, couples, men and women in love, in short, they like each other. Both parties of the opposite sex who want to try to have a deeper contact, enter the designated suite at the appointed time, close the door...everything that should happen has happened."

Ling Zihan found it really hard to accept this: "Eight people, four couples? Just in their own beds... How is this possible?"

"If there is a need, it is possible." Victoria said with a cold expression: "Every word I said is true. The order and chaos began at that time. Because there is no barrier to face to face, the last secret between husband and wife and outsiders is gone. Men see other women's bodies clearly, and women have more continuation fantasies about other men."

"In the refuge, "exchange" is a word rich in alternative meanings. This terrible, dirty, shameless behavior quickly broke through the moral bottom line, and many people fell into self-numbing sinking."

"What's worse is that this kind of behavior soon had an impact on the child. Computer data showed that early pregnancy was particularly serious during that period, and there were even records of nine-year-old girls becoming pregnant."

Ling Zihan asked in disbelief: "Is there no one to care about all this?"

"I've managed it, but I can't." Victoria sighed heavily again: "In the face of survival, all problems must be ranked second. In addition, the impact of moon debris and wars have greatly reduced the number of human beings. No one knows whether the survivors will survive." Whether to survive until the day when the radiation dissipates and we leave the shelter. The administrators can only turn a blind eye to this kind of sexual chaos that seems terrible to us."

"Twenty years have passed, and the total population of shelters has quadrupled. As you can imagine, in such a closed and narrow environment, almost all you can see are babies, children, and teenagers; The voices heard in the ears are full of quarrels, crying, and cursing; everywhere is filled with the smell of sweat, milk stains, bad breath, etc. There is no quiet place, and things like men and women hugging and even physical contact can be unscrupulous in full view proceed below."

"So I can completely understand those free people who voluntarily leave the shelter. I would make the same choice if I were to change."

"Of course those in power don't have such troubles. They have their own private rooms and even private bathrooms. In short, they have everything that ordinary people dream of."

"It's just that they were chosen... that's the funniest, funniest thing."

"If you live in a fixed place for a long time, you will develop habits and become dependent."

"As early as the first year of the new earth calendar, some people in the system of power proposed "increasing the supply of animal fat", but it was rejected immediately. The reason is that the people cannot be given too superior living conditions, as long as the material supply It is enough to maintain the current baseline and let them eat enough and get enough nutrients."

"My opinion is the same as yours on the matter of eating enough and eating well. People only generate motivation when they are hungry, and they become numb when they are full. The surge in population in the shelter is also due to this. Excess physical energy and energy must find a place to release. Although there are a large number of jobs in the shelter, such as cleaning, farm workers, guards, scientific research... But in terms of the overall population base, there are still too many unemployed people, which eventually leads to The overall social environment has had a serious impact.”

"Many radical young people began to form organizations. All kinds of messy parties emerged. Now it seems that behind these so-called parties, there are various religious organizations secretly manipulating them. Because the slogans they put forward have various connections with religion, They even chanted the slogan "religion is supreme."

"The leaders of the refuge are overwhelmed by this, and a strong suppression will inevitably kill a large number of people, but this will cause internal strife, causing the situation to become out of control."

Ling Zihan asked: "Artificial technology has already matured, so mass production of fertilized eggs shouldn't be a problem, right?"

Victoria replied: "Fetus can be mass produced, but the problem of instilling consciousness cannot be solved even now. Without a stable social comprehensive supporting industry, even if newborns become adults, they are just a group of walking corpses without independent thinking."

"The reason why I have said so much is to tell you that mass massacres were impossible under the circumstances at that time. Because the setting up of the signal transmitting stations on the ground has been completed, and the networks between the bases and the shelters are interconnected .Although there are encryption restrictions from various managements, the normal flow of information between civilian networks cannot be prohibited."

"The entertainment industry is very important in any era. Movies and television, and various types of literary and artistic works are indispensable spiritual food for the general public. This is not a slogan, but a reality."

"If the civilian network is completely cut off, it will take no more than half an hour, and large-scale riots will occur in various bases and shelters, which will escalate into terrible violent conflicts."

Ling Zihan was deeply touched by this and nodded slightly.

Just imagine, confine a group of people in a narrow space, and give each person a mobile phone. When there is network coverage, they can freely choose their favorite entertainment items.Movies, short videos, island country action movies, e-books... But once the Internet is cut off, there is no second way to soothe the spiritual world, and they will become restless and violent physical conflicts.

Victoria continued: "All in all, it is difficult for the leaders of the base to make a single choice on the issue of "killing" and "maintaining order". They tend to arrest the leader of the trouble, and then publicly impose punishments such as whipping, This will have a deterrent effect on the public.”

Ling Zihan said understandingly: "So there are large areas of black clouds on the tops of the mountain ranges, and a large number of people in the shelters in the nearby area are missing, so it becomes a mystery?"

Victoria's expression became a little complicated: "There is no accurate answer to this question until now."

Ling Zihan asked sharply, "Accurate?"

"You mean, part of the answer has already been found?"

Victoria's face was gloomy: "We can only speculate based on common sense."

"Let's go back to the issue of the formation of the underground world! The black clouds on the top of the mountain range have aroused all-round attention, and each base sent a large number of drones, as well as all the flying equipment available at the time, to their respective selected targets Reconnaissance. However, when they were about to reach the airspace above the target, all the aircraft lost control and crashed and were damaged."

"It was later found out that a large-scale electromagnetic storm occurred at that time, causing all the equipment to be affected and lose their functions in an instant."

"Through the analysis of the zenith black cloud through the photo, it is determined that it is a mixture of clay, sand and rock."

(End of this chapter)