Chapter 238: Little Sasha
Guangshi now has a population of 1.5 million, of which only 70,000 or 80,000 are awakened, and the number of soldiers is also 100,000, but the overlap rate of awakened and military personnel reaches 50%, which means that there are nearly 1.4 million ordinary people in the base city.
So many people are going to eat, and the military region is in a good mood and sends out a few steamed buns, but this one is not enough to eat at all. So many people are not only eating, eating, wearing, sheltering, and transportation, everything is indispensable.
If you want to be fed and clothed, you need to pay something. The military district has opened a lot of factories, there are food processing, there are construction companies, and there are other civilian industries, which can solve a part of the labor force.
It's just that most of these posts are occupied by the families of military personnel and the families of the awakened, and half of the remaining people have no food, no clothing and no work. In order to survive, something must be done. If the military region opens an academy of supernatural abilities, then teachers are needed. When a business family starts a business, it needs a variety of employees.
Now that the base city has formed a society, the order is relatively stable, and all kinds of commercial service industries have begun to gradually recover, but no matter what industry it is, in fact, the ultimate service object is the awakened.
The end times don't believe in paper paper, so the hard currency in the base city is the crystallization of energy. The military region has issued energy coins, which are actually sealed in glass to seal the energy crystals inside, and the face value is determined by the weight of the energy crystals inside. And this currency simply cannot be faked.
And the people who can obtain energy crystals, except for the military region, are the team of the Awakened. So the awakened have become the source of money, and the banks have lost the ability to issue money, and now it is tens of thousands of awakened people who issue money.
Therefore, the 1.4 million ordinary people are actually dependent on the families of the 780,000 awakened and 200,000 awakened to earn a living.
The awakened are no longer in the stage of struggling to survive, the so-called food and clothing, lust, as long as the things below are still there, this is inevitable.
The imbalance of power has led to polygamy, and polyandry has become a matter of course. The military region can only be said to be unabidden, but no one can prohibit it.
The Awakened are desperately hunting for energy crystals, living on the tip of the knife every day, and they will definitely be wandering when they return to the base city. The so-called wife is not as good as a concubine, a concubine is not as good as a prostitute, a prostitute is not as good as stealing, and stealing is not as good as stealing, and the service industry has prospered. Even some people who are unable to enter the service industry and go hungry every day because of their physical reasons hate having an extra leg when they are born.
So, if the Awakened want to drink, then more than a million people will go to make wine. Wasting food by brewing? Just kidding, it's a waste of protein to shoot guns, not to mention that sake lees are also a hot commodity.
Black potatoes have long been widely planted, of course, this planting process can only be done by the military region, but not for soldiers to grow sweet potatoes. The army was only responsible for sending the workers who planted the black potatoes to the planting fields, and the workers quickly cleared the open space, threw the black potato seedlings on the ground, and then quickly evacuated. The harvest is about the same, no human labor is required during the period, and irrigation is no longer needed. With the strong survivability of black potatoes, it is estimated that if you don't wash your face for a few more days, black potatoes can grow.
Now, the black potatoes have entered the first harvest period, and the black potatoes have been transported back to the base city one after another, and the food crisis has been lifted immediately.
Dulong Pharmaceutical, as a research and development institution for black potatoes, didn't get a penny, because Du Fei promised at the beginning that black potatoes would be provided for free. However, it received a 20% patent tax from the black potato processing industry.
The black potato is too unpalatable, sour and astringent, and mutant beasts don't eat it. Unless you're hungry enough to eat the bark, it's hard to swallow. But this is just right, if the black potatoes are delicious, they will be eaten by the mutant beasts before they are harvested. Even if the harvest comes back, it will be robbed in one go.
Now black potatoes are very unpalatable, but it's better than nothing, those bigwigs are not interested in black potatoes, so black potatoes can really fall into the hands of ordinary people.
The military region opened a black potato processing factory early on, and I really have to admire those talents who have artificial meat and artificial eggs, such an unpalatable black potato is actually stuffed into the machine, and it comes out with a piece of instant noodles. Although the texture is not very good, and it doesn't taste like a taste, but sprinkling some soy sauce on top will make it a rare delicacy in the last days.
In addition to the processing of black potatoes in the military region, there are also many folk masters, and it didn't take long for someone to use black potatoes to make wine, which is somewhat similar to Erguotou. Then someone immediately invested in setting up a factory to brew black potato wine in batches. When hunger was no longer the number one problem that plagued humanity, various industries were revived.
After all, the awakened are still a minority, and most people still need to live like before the end of the world, and in a short period of time, the base city has returned to a little bit of the pre-apocalyptic scene.
At this time, Du Fei was leading Yiyi and Yaya to wander on the street, and the shops in the base city sold everything except for food, but all of them had bleak business without exception. For example, although there are more than one million people in the base city, there are not many people who pursue fashionable clothes.
Even so, there are still people who are very enthusiastic to attract customers, because if they can sell one thing today, they can eat black potato brand instant noodles in the evening, and if there is no harvest, they can only go back to nibble on black potatoes.
When the clerk's eyes are accurate, when he sees a jeweled Armani clothes LV bag, don't go up, this kind of goods also belongs to the type of gnawing sweet potatoes, because a gram of energy crystals can buy a container of Armani and LV There is still leftover.
If you encounter someone who is dirty, with tattered clothes, sweating profusely and smelling of foxes, looking murderous and carrying two kitchen knives, and can smell blood, don't doubt it, hurry up and pounce up, this kind of strongman even if the vegetable residue is removed from between his teeth, it has the smell of energy crystallization.
When Du Fei pulled the two little girls to stand in front of the window of the largest shopping mall in Guangshi Base City, a few clerks came up and asked if they needed help. Although this is the largest shopping mall in the base city, it is actually a little stronger than the wholesale market before the end of the world.
Du Fei does not belong to the above two categories, but these clerks have a very accurate eye, and they can see at a glance that Du Fei is not eating sweet potatoes. Because, just gnawing sweet potatoes can't raise two white and tender little Lori.
As soon as Yaya saw the beautiful clothes in the window, she shook off Du Fei's hand and ran in, Illya looked up at Du Fei, and after seeing Du Fei nodding, she also ran in happily.
When Du Fei raised his feet and was about to walk inside, he suddenly turned his head to look at the roof of a building in the distance, but he didn't see a figure. It's just that just now I seem to feel that there is a gaze on me in that direction.
Seeing no figure, Du Fei wondered who would be spying on him, and then walked into the mall with his legs raised.
Yiyiyaya, these two little Lori, are jumping up and down to pick out those delicate little clothes, Yiliya is quite restrained, Yaya, the little demon king, can't do it, grabbed a princess dress and compared it to Yilia, and then said: "It's so beautiful, I want it." This one also looks good, and that one is taken away. ”
When Du Fei entered, Illya had already held a large number of clothes and skirts in her arms.
A waiter went up and asked, "I'll get it for you." ”
Yaya Little Demon King obviously has a negative EQ, waved his hand and said, "These clothes are mine, I won't give them to you." ”
The waiter explained for a long time before the little devil understood, and finally talked about the problem of money.
"What is money?" Yaya asked decisively.
The waiter explained again, and his attitude was excellent, there was no way, he didn't want to gnaw sweet potatoes, he didn't want to be pushed into the laboratory, so he could only offer the awakened as God.
The girl listened to it for a while, but she didn't understand what money was, until Illya leaned into her ear and said a word, she suddenly realized, took out a two or three grams of energy crystals and shook it in her hand, and asked suspiciously: "Can I use this to change into beautiful clothes?" ”
When the waiter saw the energy crystals in the little devil's hand, his feet were weak and he almost fell to the ground, and he couldn't speak, but he nodded violently like a chicken pecking rice. This is three grams of energy crystals, and for him, if he can earn so many energy crystals, it is enough to not have to gnaw sweet potatoes for a few months.
But in the eyes of the little devil, the energy crystals are like air, and when the hand shakes, there is a lot of uproar.
As a result, seven or eight waiters followed behind the two little girls as cows and horses, and offered the two little Loli as little ancestors, eager to give them grandsons immediately. After the little devil knew that the energy crystals could be exchanged for beautiful clothes, things got out of control, and the entire children's clothing area of the mall was overturned.
Du Fei didn't know how many energy crystals there were on these two little demon kings, but it really didn't take too much to buy the clothes, storefronts, and land here together with the clerks.
The two little Lori's kept going in and out of the fitting room, changing their clothes every time they came out, and they never got tired of it. It seems that not only women have no resistance to clothing, but also little girls.
By the time they had tried it out, they had already packed up a third of the children's clothing in the mall, and that was because the remaining two-thirds were men's clothing or too ugly.
Yaya, the little demon king, still felt that the energy crystallization was not eye-catching, and with a wave of her hand, she stuffed the packed clothes that were piled up in front of her like a small mountain into her own space. Immediately, the kryptonite eyes of the waiters were bright, and he wanted to climb down and kiss their feet.
Finally, when the two little Loli had enough to play and returned to Du Fei, Du Fei looked at their clothes and slapped his face again, his speechless expression was embarrassed.
At this time, Yaya was wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt, suspender jeans, and a peaked cap, which also had a pair of wings. Nima's, this is clearly Alalei's cos costume.
"They're so cute."
Just as Du Fei was embarrassed, an old hoarse voice sounded.
Du Fei turned his head violently and saw a black man in his sixties looking at Yiyi and Yaya with a smile, and the words came out of his mouth.
The old black man looked very strong, and he was dressed in thick clothes, and one eye was a little cloudy, but the other was as sharp as a sword.
Du Fei could feel that this old was definitely an awakened person, and his strength should not be weak.
"My little Sasha was so cute when she was a child." The old continued, the kindness on his face not like it was pretending.