Viewed from the air, Beta City is like two folding fans put together, sitting north and facing south in the northern part of the Divine Fall Plateau.

The center of the fan bone of the two folding fans is the core area, which is now renamed the integration area, and is not yet open to the public because there is a portal to the Epsilon side.

From west to east, the folding fan below is an ecological green park, a research institute and an agricultural and animal husbandry base, and there are not many buildings, all of which are large forest gardens, farmland and pastures.

From west to east are the new area for immigrants, the Adventurer's Square, and the Trade Zone, which has now expanded into residential areas for adventurers who are willing to settle in Beta.

Originally freed from the Holy Light Castle, the enslaved adventurers, and the immigrants of the Shadow City, the population of Beta City now exceeds 100,000. The entire city is centered on the tower in the center of the integration zone, shrouded in a protective barrier with a radius of five kilometers. The legendary sorcerer of the Storm Isles, Zold's father, Perro, is guarding the city in a pure soul essentia.

Mayne walked the streets of the new immigration district, which is now called the "Inverted Tower District" with a somewhat strange name. If you enter the square inside, you can understand the origin of the name if you look closely at the sculptures and the text of the notes on the square.

It was a collapsing tower, surrounded by several dense circles of human sculptures, and the outermost sculpture was lifelike, shouting something with a beard. The bronze tablet under the sculpture is engraved with the origin of this tower, and the whole thing.

As a member of the Fergus Youth Fighting Regiment and the liaison of the Residents' Committee of the 32nd Sub-district of the Fallen Tower District of Beta, Mayne already knew the identity of each statue well, Dress, Seke, Quicksilver, Red Horn, Moshwu......

Having worked as an assistant counselor in an immigration class, she knows very well why she chose the name, why there are these sculptures, and why the deeds of these people are engraved here.

In fact, she felt that it was time to do this from the beginning of the class, but fortunately it was not too late.

When the immigrants from Shadow City had just finished their studies and moved into their new homes, the scene she saw was like a nest of cats, dogs, rabbits and mice that had been locked up in a black cage for a whole year and were released, which was extremely unbearable.

Although it was contrary to the good nature of the paladin, Mayne had to admit that at that time, she really felt that many people, if not most people, did not deserve to live here, and not to be worthy of the sculptures in the square. She has tried very hard to suppress her anger many times, not allowing herself to scold or even do it.

The workshop only gave the immigrants of Shadow City a rough idea of where they were, what kind of place this is, and what kind of life they lived. I have no idea who I am, how I should live, and what I should live for.

The Inverted Tower was the most comfortable and tidy neighborhood Mayne had ever seen, with many conditions not even enjoyed by the nobles of Alanis.

The entire residential area consists of more than 300 apartment buildings, which are built of solid wood and even stone, with little interference between the upper and lower floors. Each building does not exceed five floors and can accommodate dozens or hundreds of households, or hundreds of people in a single apartment. From a distance, it looks like a small fortress if not with many windows.

On paper, there is a lot of residential density here, but the designers of the Infrastructure Committee have made sure that each house has enough space and plenty of daylight. Even the kind of bachelor apartment where Mayne lives has a bedroom, a living room, a storage room, and a utility room, which is sixty or seventy square meters.

The Infrastructure Committee didn't have the manpower and time to make the interior of the room, but the thick stone walls, wooden floors and ceilings were unusually neat and warm. Beta also distributed various fabrics and blankets to each household, enough to decorate their tiny homes.

In terms of living conditions, each floor of the apartment building has a common water room, kitchen, and toilet, so you don't have to go far to get a bucket of water to get to the toilet as before, and you don't have to toss for a meal for a long time. There is also a free bathhouse, barber room, and laundry room in the living service center between the buildings, which is enough to meet the daily needs of daily life.

Mayne felt that not to mention comparing with the villagers in the countryside and the citizens of other cities, even if it was compared with the fragrance, as long as the immigrants were more diligent, they could be as glamorous as the people of the fragrance.

Now......

Mayne turned onto the street where Subdivision 32 was located, and the ten apartment buildings on either side of the road made up the entire subdivision. She carefully avoided the garbage discarded on the street, and actually saw swirling excrement!

Originally, the city hall planned to let the old citizens take on the municipal service work, including water supply and drainage maintenance, street cleaning, garbage removal, and the operation of life service centers. But the old townspeople joined the army, and instead of getting the legionnaires of Redstone and Hadron to sweep the streets and take out the garbage, cut their hair and rub their backs, the town hall had to hit the idea on the immigrants themselves.

Unfortunately, people with extraordinary strength, organizational skills, people who are willing to grow, and even people with a little specialty have been picked out by various units, and the remaining civilians are almost all the kind of people who make Mayne jump to their feet.

Looking up at the windows of the apartment building, most of them are covered by cloth blankets or even wooden boards.

Shadow City immigrants aren't vampires or zombies, they can't be hurt by the sun, they're just used to making their houses dark for generations, and they don't feel safe otherwise.

Mayne sighed secretly, feeling that the work would be difficult today.

She clenched her fists and secretly cheered herself: "Can't let Sam laugh at me, I'm still a senior in the work of the neighborhood committee." ”

A few days ago, the senior level of the Afghan Communist Party held a meeting with the clerks and liaison officers of the neighborhood committee, and demanded that the residents be organized and mobilized to make the necessary contributions to the war.

The liaison officers of the neighborhood committees have reported that the residents do want to organize, but they are thankful that they can manage themselves and maintain their homes on their own.

Cardinal Tarens, Cardinal Aurora, Minister Stan, and Chief Assane had an in-depth understanding of the situation, and still adhered to the policy of war mobilization to promote the construction of the population.

Cardinal Aurora said at the time: "Whether the mud is good or bad, put it on the wall first!

Fortunately, it was decided to strengthen the grassroots so that the liaison officers would no longer despair about the job prospects.

Many people from the Legion and other departments have filled the neighborhood committee, and Mayne is happy that Secretary Stan has transferred Sam, who is still in the study class, to the 32nd Division as the chief liaison, and she can partner with Sam again.

At present, there are about 20 people in the neighborhood committees of each subdistrict, and the chief liaison officer is in charge of the overall situation, and the other liaison officers are responsible for the work of organization, daily life, public security, medical care, publicity, education, etc., and Mayne and several others are responsible for the organizational work is the most difficult.

The establishment of residents' groups in each building, the promotion of self-management by the residents, and the mobilization for war on this basis are the core of the current residents' management work.

Mayne didn't expect any mobilization for the war, and she felt that it would be a great victory to get the residents organized to clean the streets first.

Building 3201......

"Did you send something? Can you give us a red blanket? The one that was used as clothes by the children before, didn't it? The residents helped each other? Oh, can't we just live honestly and take care of ourselves? Let me tell you, the family next door to the bread that was distributed yesterday secretly took two more, and I saw it with my own eyes!"

"No problem, but my husband and I are old, and our legs and feet are not good, can you change us downstairs? Oh, let me tell you, today we lined up to get bread, and the downstairs and upstairs grabbed the hot ones in front, and it was our turn to be cold. ”

"What do you want to help each other? Do you have any contribution points? No? What is there to say? What are you doing for nothing? By the way, I went out late the day before yesterday and didn't even get the bread! I was almost hungry and fainted before you sent it here. Why do I have to go so far?"

Building 3202......

"No problem, no problem, I'll do whatever you say, but my brother has joined the Reserve Army, why don't I have special treatment? Also, the bread tastes wrong these days, isn't it made of spoiled wheat flour?"

"It's not that I don't open the door, Miss Liaison, I'm afraid of light, everyone knows it when I study class. What can you do when you look at me? Sunglasses? Oops, you can't see the road when you put them on. Oh, can you tell me about it, don't get spider meat again, today's bread is mixed with spider meat, and I want to vomit when I smell it. ”

"My name is Winnie, I remember you, your name is Mayne, you're Sam's counselor's assistant, can you let me live with you? My aunt and I are registered in a house, but she is with ...... Well, but what do you need me to do, just say, though I can't do anything. ”

Hundreds of households in the two apartment buildings ran down, and one-third of them were not at home, most of them were watching the mirage in the life service center. A third seemed to be asleep and didn't pay attention to it, and a third saw that she was either complaining about this or complaining about that.

There was even a guy with a weird smile on his face and tried to do something to her, but she kicked him down and dragged him downstairs to the Redstone Legionnaires stationed there. The whole process also attracted other residents to point fingers, as if she was committing violence.

Upstairs in the life service center, in the neighborhood committee office, Mayne collapsed in her chair exhausted, smiling wryly at the other liaison officers who ran the apartment building.

"Don't you have much to gain?"

Sam sighed, "Those people downstairs have been watching Mirage all day, so turn off Mirage, maybe they're going to make trouble." No, they don't care about anything else. ”

"I don't think that's right! It's a problem with the system!"

Mayne couldn't help but take a dangerous step: "They should never have been given free food and lodging and free houses from the beginning! If you want food and a house to live in, you have to work, this is the ubiquitous truth of Finn's world!"

"Now it is our duty to give them food and a house to live in. If they do anything, we will have to coax them, and we will have to trade with them with benefits!"

"How can they make any dedication like this? If they continue like this, they are guilty of and we don't hand over the paper, and we are oppressing them!"

Sam stroked his forehead: "Mayne, pay attention to the image......"

Mayne crossed Erlang's legs very unimpressively: "How did the first old citizen come over? I asked Asuna and Katie, and they both said that they earned their own money step by step from slave to limited contract to citizen!"

"How good those old citizens are, they compete to do everything, and they don't care about contributing points, they just see if things are beneficial to Beta City, and whether they make others admire him. I still don't understand why these immigrants should be treated differently and served like old men. ”

"Mayne, I warned you not to doze off during the meeting," Sam sighed, "these immigrants have left their homes, and they have nothing. They are not slaves, at least not in that form. Giving them food, drink, and lodging is the basic condition we should provide, and ......"

Sam said in a somewhat confused tone, "Minister Stan said that we are building on this group of people...... A society based on public ownership, rather than a return to the old path, is also an experiment, and it can only succeed and not fail. ”

Mayne's eyes widened: "Public ownership? Is it the kind of divine property system that only extreme churches can engage in?"

The others also looked at each other, and this was the first time they had heard of this.

The so-called divine property system means that land, houses, grain, cattle and sheep, gold bushels, and even each believer himself are owned by the gods. In such a church, all believers are not allowed to have private property, and any harvest is given to the church, which distributes it in the name of the gods.

This kind of church is so extreme that only neutral or even evil gods such as the Lady of Pain and the Blood Goddess can have it. Even the Loyal Divine Court, which Queen Theresia is trying to overthrow, will not go so far by only oppressing believers with tithes, holy water taxes, indulgences, etc.

Mayne's remark made everyone a little frightened, think about it, the old cardinal of Tarence was once the high priest of the Lady of Pain, could it be that the Fei Gong also wanted to establish such a system?

"The belief of the Fei Gong is that everyone is for me, and I am for everyone", Sam is also a member of the Youth Combat Corps, and he has no theoretical attainments, but he should have received special advice from Stan on this matter, and he can also say something: "Public ownership means that everyone owns it together, and everything in the divine system is given to God and then distributed by the church, which is completely different things." ”

He thought of something, and then said, "I remember before Mayne and you and ...... Speaking of living in the Order, it's pretty much the same as that. ”

Mayne's face darkened, and he suppressed a figure that was about to float in his mind, and thought about Sam's words, and suddenly said: "That's good, the Order's fields are cultivated by everyone, the houses are built by everyone, and the gold busheres earned are also exchanged for the materials that everyone needs." Like brothers and sisters, there is nothing that cannot be shared except for personal things......"

She spread her hands and said, "But that's the Order of the Holy Warriors, and everyone is a Holy Warrior." Do you expect these mud to be like the holy warriors, who will be strict with themselves, abide by the rules, and do not care about personal gains and losses?"

"Of course it can't be the level of a paladin," Sam said, "but that seems to be the goal of the Fei Gong, so let's try." ”

Mayne thought of the things on the street again, pinched her nose and said sarcastically, "What a sacred cause." ”

Sam said again: "Don't be discouraged, the Fei Gong didn't put everything on us. ”

"Cardinal Aurora is preparing a campaign to review the history of the Shadow City, awakening their minds, which have been numbed by the oppression of the magicians. At the same time, we also have to promote the Shadow City warriors who have performed well in the war, and the materials will be sent to us soon, so we have to get busy. ”

"In two days, each sub-district will send an education team to the neighborhood committee to organize all the children to educate them, which is also to prepare for the establishment of schools in the future. ”

"Along with the education team, there is also a medical team, and they will use their experience in treating demon warriors to treat the soul erosion of the people of Shadow City, so that they can live longer. ”

"The Planning and Development Committee and the Civil Affairs and Social Security Committee have also determined the living allowance scheme for residents, so those who are not extraordinary will not need to use their assistants, so they will give residents a fixed amount of red coins every month to buy daily necessities in designated service markets. The apartment building will also be remodeled so that each household has its own kitchen, and I heard that the kind of steel and wood that was fished from the Storm Islands is very durable when used as firewood. ”

"The amount of red coins is not high, it is only enough to meet the basic needs of life. The Planning and Development Commission releases all kinds of work as commissions, which are collected by residents and earn more red coins. ”

"It's long overdue," Mayne and the others exhaled, it seemed that the Fei Gong had been so engrossed in the war that they had not had time to make more detailed plans for the emigration, and now they finally had some rules.

Let the people of Shadow City remember the history, remember how their freedom came about, and let them cherish what they have now.

Sort out the supply relationships so that they have their own complete lives, and at the same time provide them with jobs to keep them busy.

From medical care and education, they can break through the fog of fate, let them look forward to the future, and their attitude towards life is no longer so decadent.

However, judging from Mayne's experience today, she feels that the effect may not be as good as she imagined.

"I don't think the people of Shadow City will make much difference even if these measures are implemented," said one liaison who was even more pessimistic than Mayne, "The people I came into contact with felt like they were just waiting to die." They don't have a clear direction in life, they don't know how long they can live, they don't know what they can do. ”

Another liaison smiled wryly: "The people of Shadow City who have a direction are all working hard for their lives." ”

Sam shook his head, "How come the people I come into contact with, why aren't they like this?"

"I'm in charge of the organization and liaison of Building 3210, although the mutual group has not yet been established, but there are already a few activists, and when I finish what I just said, I will talk to a few more people tomorrow, and the backbone will be there, and the group will be established soon. ”

Mayne laughed, "Because you're Sam, you're amazing." ”

The other liaison officers also agreed, Sam, a chubby halfling, has a natural affinity in image, coupled with the communication skills he has exercised in the study class, of course, he is invincible.

"I don't think there's anything special about me," Sam rubbed his belly a little embarrassed, "I'm just talking to them like I'm in a class." ”

"Have a good talk, who are they to talk to?" shouted a liaison officer, who seemed to have hit too many walls.

"How so?"

Sam said gently and patiently, "The people of Shadow City are no different from people in other places, except for those who are very bad-hearted, everyone else is ordinary people. As long as it is an ordinary person, it will not refuse the care of others. ”

"Treat them as friends, even family members, talk to them about their lives, talk about the past, understand their preferences, understand their worries, and they will naturally accept you. ”

"I think you've never been able to get into their hearts, and you've been separating yourself from them from the very beginning. Don't think of them as Shadows, don't treat them as strangers, and don't feel like you're giving them alms. ”

"It doesn't have to be a relative or a good friend to stand with them from the beginning, but you can see them as companions who are mentally troubled. ”

"I don't have any know-how, I just know that unless I commit a crime, or take the wrong position, such as oppressing other people, and take this kind of thing for granted, everyone else is the same as me. ”

"We have to work ourselves to be rewarded, we are all good people, and none of us want to squeeze others to satisfy ourselves. There must be something in common between our hearts. As long as he is willing and I can do my best, I will help him wholeheartedly. ”

The chubby halfling was very short, and he talked to everyone with his head tilted, but at this moment, not only Mayne, but everyone else felt that they were looking up at him.

Sam said sincerely: "Secretary Stan asked me how I do mass work, and I told him these things, and he said that it is really to serve the people. I don't think I'm that great, and I'm sure you can all do it. ”

Remembering that Sam had saved herself and the man in Redstone, remembering that Sam had been with her in Shaandia and by her bedside in Beta, Mayne felt her nose ache.

"Sam, you're no different from me than you are to anyone else," Mayne turned his head, grumbling to hide the turmoil in his heart.

"Of course it's different," Sam scratched his head, "we're really good friends." ”

The liaison officers looked at Mayne and at Sam, giving each other a certain look, and one of the liaison officers gave a thumbs up and said, "Sam is really ...... I admire you so much!"

"Don't praise me", Sam's little face turned bitter, "The guys downstairs who only know how to watch mirages, I don't know what to do with their work." ”

"Isn't that easy?"

Mayne pinched the knuckles of his fingers so loudly that "Turn off the mirage and let them make trouble!" I'll clean them up and replace you with the work." ”

She raised her eyebrows, and her ordinary face at that moment was also heartwarming: "Mayne and Sam are the ones who serve the people completely!"