Chapter 239: The Traveler
The uncle shook his head, he didn't know how many people were here.
"When the shelters were first built, there were about a million people living in each place, but now that the situation here, there are definitely not that many people. ”
Uncle arrived, in the past few decades, there were still more than 200,000 people living in the market towns around here, and the market towns at that time were more than twice as large as they are now, but then a sudden cold wave broke out, and nearly half of the people were frozen to death.
However, there were slightly more deaths in the market towns outside, and the living conditions of the people in this acropolis were relatively good, and there should not have been many deaths in the cold wave at that time.
However, there are not many people in the Acropolis City, and it should be about the same as the number of people outside now, about 100,000, so the entire 88th Shelter is only about 200,000 people.
This number is just an approximation, and the specific uncle doesn't come up at all, but when he guessed like this, Chang Fa immediately judged a lot of things.
He speculated that if the situation of each shelter was similar to that of Vault 88, there would be only about 60 million people left in Middle-earth, which is four-fifths less than when it was first built.
With such a calculation, Chang Fa feels that human beings really can't stand the toss.
In white, now people have always dominated the ball themselves, but the so-called hegemony of human beings is still very fragile in nature.
Even if there is no such weapon to destroy the world, if a planet hits the earth in the air, it may be a catastrophe that will destroy the world, and the hegemony of mankind may be wiped out in an instant.
Chang Fa still remembers an example that a teacher in history class told them before, in the early days of the earth's formation, there was no relatively advanced life at that time, and then a planet hit the Linqiu, causing a dark night of 400,000 years.
Because the impact of the planets caused many volcanic eruptions on the earth, volcanic ash and other things covered the air, and the sun's light could not penetrate it, so the night lasted for 400,000 years.
This also directly led to the entire world being frozen at that time, and 99% of the creatures on it were directly extinct.
What if human beings were faced with such an environment? 400,000 years without the sun, everything around them was frozen into ice, how many people would survive?
The uncle was very excited to talk about these historical events, and he didn't pull Chang Fa to buy anything, just stood there and explained to him endlessly.
He said that in recent decades, human science and technology have developed again, and many materials left in the dust of history have been re-collected, and some knowledge of the past has gradually improved.
Now in this market town, it looks very dilapidated all around, but there are already a lot of high-end things, a lot of high-tech things in the Acropolis City.
To put it simply, in the whole market town, people use candles or kerosene lamps for lighting at night, and not every house has a lamp or candle, and many people have nothing to light after dark.
But in that acropolis almost every family had access to the antelope, and they could use electric lights at night to illuminate them, which were much brighter than the so-called oil lamps outside.
The fat uncle also took out the kerosene lamps and the black kerosene sold in his store to show Chang Fa.
The uncle didn't know anything too long, but he also said that at the beginning of the establishment of the Acropolis, people actually did not distinguish between the Acropolis and the residents of the market town.
At that time, the market town was their main place of life, and the houses in the acropolis were only partially inhabited, as well as some buildings such as hospitals and factories, and the acropolis at that time really played a protective role, and when there were some dangers on the periphery, such as the invasion of wolves, people hid in the city for refuge.
And now the meaning of the Acropolis seems to have been distorted, and the reason why it is still called the Acropolis is because all the walls are guarded underneath.
And these guards are not there to deal with the so-called dangers, of course they also have this duty to deal with dangers, but more importantly, to prevent the outcasts from the outlying market towns from entering them, and to separate the acropolis from the market towns.
In this case, the displaced people living in the market town and the people in the acropolis became two classes, which was not the primary significance of the construction of the acropolis.
The fat uncle told Chang Fa a lot of things, and when he talked about it, Chang Fa suddenly had a big doubt.
He didn't shy away from it in the slightest, and asked the uncle directly: "Uncle, why do you tell me so many things? I feel that there are many things that are very basic knowledge, don't everyone know?"
The fat uncle's eyes widened, and he snorted: "Son, I see that you are well-dressed, you should not be the people who survive in the market town outside, I don't know if you are here to study or to practice, so I gave you these, the survival of people in this market town is a problem, how can I have time to pay attention to these things?"
At this, Chang Fa immediately thought of some of the things he had told him before.
When these three hundred shelters were established, they were not arranged in a straight line, nor in horizontal and vertical lines, but in a spiral like a snail's shell.
The middle point is Vault One, and then spirals outward, opening wider and wider as it goes, all the way to Vault Threehundred.
At this time, the people in the outer 300 shelter can continue to shrink to the middle, and then people can continue to hide in the shelter with a slightly lower serial number, so as to prevent some unknown dangers and allow people to better gather Zheng
However, some strange changes have occurred since the construction of these shelters, and people have not always lived up to their original intentions, and they have not always been aimed at human survival.
Later, there was civil strife among some of the people in power, and these sanctuaries gradually ruled separately, and now the three hundred sanctuaries have been divided into several factions, and even hatred for each other.
But the shelter is not like the army, which can move at will, all his places are fixed, and the distance is fixed and does not change.
Like Vault 88, it is adjacent to the serial number Vaults 87 and 89, and each of them is about a hundred kilometers apart.
The people in the outlying market towns are mainly fighting for survival, and there will indeed be all kinds of people in the Acropolis City, and if they don't have to worry about survival, some people will venture through this 100-kilometer dangerous area for study tours or experiences.
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