Chapter 255: The State of the World
Time flies, and the years go by.
Nearly a year has passed since the outbreak of the zombie virus, and the time has entered the moment of 2020, and the whole world has undergone a fundamental transformation at this time.
If it weren't for the surviving people who still cling to some traditions, the face of humanity as a whole would have changed radically.
If someone traveled from the past to the present, he would never have imagined that the world today still had anything in common with the world he remembered.
If it should be said that it is the same, it may be that the names of the ruins of the cities that are now controlled by zombies still use the names of the past, so that people still remember the past of human civilization.
However, most people do not have the leisure to reminisce about this past, and many ordinary people now live below the subsistence line.
Every day, he has to sacrifice his life to survive, and even kill a friend who was very friendly just now for a little food.
The biggest problem after the disaster is no longer the zombie horde, although the zombie horde is still the most dangerous group in the world today.
But these monsters now don't know why they are entrenched in those big cities most of the time, so for ordinary people, their harm is not imminent.
The real biggest danger is indeed the shortage of food, and even the shortage of many daily necessities.
There are no survivors of human life in the ruins of the major cities today, and even those who did not escape have disappeared with the passage of time and the lack of food.
In the wilderness and in the major survivor bases, after losing the production capacity brought by modern industry, there is a shortage of food and living materials.
Now in the private black market of survivors, even a small bag of rice can be sold for a sky-high price.
Peacetime leftovers, which are almost measured in gold, are now very rare.
Most of the food is a variety of wild vegetables and the latest crops.
It's just that today's crops are also very difficult to grow, perhaps due to the impact of the zombie virus, and today's crop cultivation has also undergone a fundamental change.
Many plants have also undergone mutations, and crops such as rice and wheat, which used to depend for survival, have also undergone strange changes.
Not only has the yield decreased dramatically, but even the growth cycle has changed, and if it weren't for the fact that the last grains of rice can be milled, everyone would think that rice no longer exists.
The yield of rice and other crops has been reduced on a large scale, but the human needs have only been reduced by about half, and the shortage of food is very serious.
This is also because most of the survivors are from the countryside, otherwise it would be useless for people in the cities to guard the vast land.
Despite the food shortages, the survivor bases, especially the large and super-large ones, still live in luxury.
And because of the shortage of food, many beautiful women abandoned their dignity in order to survive and had to throw themselves into the arms of these powerful people, and those who were mediocre could only become street girls standing in front of dilapidated houses one after another, selling their bodies in exchange for insignificant food.
Those in power who want a super survivor base that wants to dominate the world will also be able to use the collected industrial equipment to produce modern industrial products and try to restore them to their pre-disaster state.
But the people in power of those small bases are indeed living a drunken life, the whole base is a dilapidated phenomenon, people do everything to survive, no one cares about rebuilding their homes, they are just trying to survive.
Although these guys are using guns to force ordinary people not to escape, they still can't stand more and more people trying their best to risk moving to the nearby large and super large bases.
Although the large base is also rich and poor, at least you can find a job to fill your stomach.
So with the passage of time, all kinds of large and small survivor bases formed around the world after the outbreak of the disaster, after a year or so, those small bases either ran away because of the brutality of the people in power, or disappeared because they could not resist the occasional siege of zombie groups.
Now there are basically all kinds of large survivor bases left.
The population of these survivor bases is at least a million, and they are scattered all over the world, but they are basically built around the major cities in each region.
There are 5 super-large survivor bases in China, all of which have a population of more than 100 million.
Of course, these places are not so much called bases as they are base clusters.
After all, in peacetime, such good transportation and urban facilities can support a population of 2 or 30 million, and it is very difficult for a base to have a population of nearly 10 million in this era.
After all, there are not so many construction workers and facilities now, so many people gathered, not to mention food, excrement alone can make people collapse.
So these super bases are actually super large bases that combine a dozen or even dozens of bases.
It's just that they have wiped out the zombies within the base alliance, so they seem to have formed small countries one by one.
The rest of the world does not have as many people as China, except for places like India, most of which are at most 10 million or 20 million people.
But even so, there are still nearly 2 billion survivors around the world living in large bases, living a barely surviving life.
Although it may seem like 2 billion people, everyone will be surprised by the nearly 7 billion people in the world before the disaster, and this disaster can be said to be the largest disaster in the history of mankind.
More than half of the population disappeared or turned into terrifying zombies, and when this information spread on the Internet, many people couldn't help but cry, especially those poor people who lost their loved ones and lived alone.
It can be said that most of the world has now returned to an ancient society, except for the fact that the level of cutting-edge technology has been maintained well or surpassed by the original countries of various major powers.
Except for a small number of aircraft passing between super-large bases, it is basically difficult to reach each other by land.
The zombie-infested cities between them are the biggest threat, which is why there are less than 2 billion survivors left in the past, which is almost 3.5 billion.
In addition to the lack of food, most of them died by the zombie hordes on the road when they moved to various large bases.
While most of the world is working from morning till night for food, there is one place where the world lives an isolated out-of-this-world life.
People here can only browse the world's Internet and can't send any information, but people here don't have to worry about food.
Scientists, engineers, workers, farmers, construction workers, academics, entertainers, there are all kinds of work to be done every day, even if he is an artist, there is a lot of work to do.
In addition to the small points, it can be said that although the sparrow is small, most of the occupations in the peaceful era have blossomed here, of course, the most prominent is large-scale equipment manufacturing and biomedical technology.
Now there are nearly 30 million people living here, not only do they have no worries about food and clothing, but also in just one year, a lot of buildings have been formed.
Although many buildings have not yet been completed due to time, many people are still very satisfied with the current state of being a bit crowded.
Especially after everyone learns about the outside world from the Internet, they have no complaints and cherish everything now.
Of course, if you have to complain, you can't communicate with the outside world.
Of course, everyone is not stupid, knowing that if there is a leak here, people from other places will definitely flock to it, and it is unknown whether their current home can be saved.
I wanted to connect with people from other places, but I put up with it for the time being.
That's right, this is the Ark base, where the Ark Corporation was originally located.
Now the area here is very large, after three expansions, the formation of three urban districts.
However, even the outermost part of the new city is clean and has all kinds of infrastructure, and in many cases, people mistakenly think that this is a provincial capital in the past.
But the floating spaceships that fly in the sky from time to time tell everyone that this place is different from the original provincial capitals and those super first-tier cities.
Moreover, there are people from all over the world in this city, although the Chinese still account for nearly half of the number, but whether it is white or black, they can be met on the street from time to time.
Of course, these are all rescued from the ruins around the world by the Wolf Warrior Team through the teleportation function of the cave.
Originally, it was for the researchers, but gradually everyone brought back most of the survivors.
Of course, this process also encountered some eye-catching gangsters, but under the strong suppression of the Ark Company's security brigade and the promotion of the registration work system for all residents, they basically disappeared.
Now this place, which everyone calls the city of the ark, can be said to be closed at night.
In particular, the application of supercomputer Yudie in the whole city is intelligent, making the automation of this city quite high, whether it is urban cleaning, or home life, all aspects can be completed through the Yudie system.
And instead of using money, transactions are made in a credit way, and this transaction is also monitored by the intelligent Jade Butterfly system.
So even coercion and coercion can be detected by the system, so that the crime rate in this city has dropped to an unprecedented level.