Chapter 301: Little People
In the City of Steel, since many years ago, new residents have not had their own exclusive space, even temporary ownership. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Among them, those who are better treated are also arranged in a unified collective space, with a fixed place to live, but without any other privileges.
Just like buying a house outside, a house in a collective space can only be inhabited by people. Growing flowers, raising birds, of course, is also possible, but it is impossible to create things and the like.
Even more general treatment, even official residents are not counted, they can only be regarded as supernumerary personnel, and in the collective space, they are not assigned a fixed residence.
These supernumerary personnel, often after joining the Steel City, are directly assigned to their posts, and before becoming official residents, they receive only a quarter of the standard contribution.
That's it, in the eyes of outsiders, it's already a paradise-like life.
Zhang Rulai and his wife, the treatment is relatively good, in the No. 2 collective space, there are independent apartment villas, the place is very large, almost a small manor.
And the residents who have their own space, of course, they can't be compared, but they are more than enough.
At least, you don't have to change positions like those non-staff personnel, and you have to move once.
Zhang Rulai and his wife, a family of six people, in addition to the husband and wife, Zhang's mother and mother-in-law are still alive.
The two old men, with their grandchildren, stayed in the city of steel, which can be regarded as worry-free.
At present, Zhang Rulai's eldest son and youngest daughter are receiving the highest level of education in the steel city, which is open to the outside world, and once they complete their studies, the future is promising.
If you change to a supernumerary staff, your children will need to spend twice as much if they want to receive the best education.
That's an astronomical amount for non-staff personnel.
Perhaps it is precisely because of the contrast that Zhang Rulai and his wife are so satisfied with the status quo.
If you are not afraid of not knowing the goods, you are afraid of comparing goods.
Both are regular employees of the observatory, and Zhang Rulai is still the station's director.
Although it was a temporary position, not permanent, it was enough to be the envy of many new residents, who were big names in their eyes.
A higher status brings not only vanity, but also more contributions and a better future.
There is a contribution, there is everything, contribution, in the city of steel, is the highest gold content of the hard currency, no matter how it is not enough.
The observatory is a foreign station established in the steel city in the last ten years, and a large number of new people have been appointed, which has given Zhang Rulai and his wife a chance, if not, even if he is valued by the people above, he may not be able to have today.
Of course, compared with some overseas stations far from the Arctic, some "fat shortages" with better treatment, the treatment of the observatory is not too good, but it is definitely not bad.
Because of its proximity to the Iron City, the security level of the observatory is very high, and although the "salary" is "relatively average", the benefits are very good.
Similar posts are all errands for new residents to break through.
Ordinary observers of the observatory can receive a large contribution reward every year, which is worth two or three ordinary secret exploration adventure missions.
Even if it is halved, it is not a small amount for the average resident.
The wealthiest people in the City of Steel are never those who accept long-term employment, but the field workers who often go on missions and explore secret realms.
But don't look at the secret realm exploration mission can get a lot of contributions, and even extra money, it's simply a desperate battle, and it's the same when you go out to perform special tasks.
Unless you really want to be the best powerhouse, finding a permanent job in the Steel City is the long-term plan for ordinary people.
In the City of Steel, most of the things that have nothing to do with enhancements and personal space permissions are extremely cheap and can be easily exchanged through the platform. As long as you are willing to do things, everyone can get good material enjoyment in the steel city.
If there is anything Zhang Rulai regrets, it is probably only half of the reward contribution. There is no way to do it, unless they are residents who joined the City of Steel seventy or eighty years ago, only if they have a complete education of the highest level, residents can enjoy uncompromised incentives.
The reason why Zhang Rulai and his wife raise their children at all costs is also for this reason.
It is said that the first residents to join the Steel City will not only have full resident rights, but will even have their own personal space!
Although the ownership of the space is not owned by the individual, it can only be privatized after paying an astronomical contribution. And in terms of size and completeness, it is far from being comparable to the public space that can almost be regarded as a small world, and it takes a lot of contributions to open up, create, and improve the internal natural circulation system, but it is also enough to be enviable.
There are not many of those senior residents in the Steel City, mainly because they are all mysterious, and the dragon does not see the head but the end, so even Zhang Rulai doesn't know a few.
He doesn't envy them, everyone understands the principle of first come, first come. The cake is so big, how can it be enough for everyone?
If he is busy envying others, he will wait until he is dismissed by the person who is angry with him, and he will be called sad!
As a local webmaster, as long as the evaluation score is above average, you can get a free reinforcement opportunity every year, which is a reward that many people dream of!
Even for Zhang Rulai, this is the most important benefit as a webmaster!
Unless he gave up providing the best educational environment for his children and gave up buying life-sustaining spiritual liquid for his two old mothers, Zhang Rulai would have to spend at least half of his contribution before he could obtain the same reinforcement through exchange.
Zhang Rulai is not the kind of battle maniac, but he also understands how important personal strength is in today's world.
Many residents of the City of Steel, like Zhang Rulai's wife, are not ignorant of the importance of personal strength, nor are they unable to earn enough contribution rewards for enhanced exchange, but there are too many things to exchange, and there are too many places to spend, so they can only sigh in the face of the most expensive personal enhancement exchange.
Zhang Rulai's wife is fine, but she has no combat effectiveness, at least the basic strengthening and genetic optimization that should be carried out in the physical aspect have also been carried out.
Zhang Rulai can afford that level of additional expenses.
Many of the inhabitants have not even enjoyed it.
Words of combat effectiveness ...
Although it is pitiful, it is not unbearable.
What the City of Steel needs are residents, individuals who can create wealth and value for the City of Steel, not necessarily guardians and warriors!
After all, the Iron City has the protective power of the Steel City, and it also has an inherent order.
Whether it is a normal resident, or even an outsider, a refugee, or even a monster, as long as you are on the territory of the Steel City, you must abide by the rules of the Steel City!
Every inhabitant of the Iron City, even the supernumerary, is protected by the Iron City!
As long as you don't leave the Steel City, or the subordinate branches abroad, at least in terms of security, ordinary people can also be very secure.
Those patrol sentinels, mechanical guards, all servants of the god of steel, just and powerful.
The other residents who have accepted the task of guarding are not weak chickens, and because of the gaze of the Iron God, they can guarantee the most basic justice.
Even, even the fully automatic defense system in various places, as the highest force that the stationmaster can control, has considerable deterrent power!
"Haha! don't worry, little fool!"
"Don't forget, where we are. ”
"We don't have to be as scared as we used to be!"
Zhang Rulai's voice was a little low, as if recalling the dark years in the past.
Although the family survived the difficult times, in the early years, they did live a precarious life.
Zhang Rulai has parents, several brothers, and uncles, but when he has the ability to shelter these people, there is only an old mother left by his side.
Zhang Rulai is not a refugee, but a townsman from a military garrison in the northern part of the East Asian Alliance, who was selected by a resident of the Iron City on a mission to enter the Steel City about a decade ago.
Compared with real refugees and wanderers, he was extremely lucky back then.
But even so, under the protection of a powerful regime, he could see soldiers patrolling outside with guns every day, which could not bring him any sense of security.
His father, his uncle, and even several of his brothers were among the best warriors in the human world. Only he, because he was sick and weak, did not join the army. And they are all buried in the wilderness!
That's the difference in absolute strength, unless you become an alien, strong and weak humans are the same in front of those monsters, they are all food, the difference is just that the chewing is different, and the reality is desperate!
When an integrated army can't withstand a hideous beast or a dragon's breath, how can people have a sense of security?
The City of Steel is different, it is even more above the monsters!
"Hehe, really don't be scared anymore, baby. ”
"The space of the ice sea is a little chaotic, but it is not enough for a large number of monsters to pour out!"
"Even if they come, don't worry, because we are already standing at God's feet!"
"Praise be to the God of Steel, who has given us this land of paradise and brought hope to live!"
Zhang Rulai persuaded his wife, admonished himself, and praised the gods.
He seemed full of piety and full of faith.
No matter how much of this is deliberately comforting and self-consoling, the City of Steel is indeed extraordinary.
The Iron God is a real existence, and is suspected by believers to have reached level 6 as a great existence!
Just the power of the steel city to the outside is enough for those who are close to it to feel at ease in this troubled world. What's more, the residents of the Iron City, who can more intuitively feel the strength of the Steel City, will of course have confidence in the Steel City.
Even if the demonic disaster is becoming more and more serious, even if there will be more and more powerful monsters, even if the human race will eventually be destroyed, at least, I believe that within a hundred years, as long as they hold on to the big thick legs of the Steel City, they will not have to worry about their own safety.
As for the future, who knows what it will hold?