Chapter 553: A New Ecology of the World
It was not an expedition member or something that was sent by Shen Chao, but Fred, codenamed S-104, who had previously helped the expedition gain a full day of action time on the surface of Zhiyuan. As one of the best Covenant language and culture experts the expedition has found so far, Fred was temporarily appointed as an advisor to the POW area.
Shen Chao gave him the task of helping the guards here quell the rebellion of the Star Alliance prisoners of war. This can be regarded as a good opportunity to give full play to his residual enthusiasm and strengthen the understanding between the two sides. After all, Shen Chao was still counting on the help of him, a close comrade-in-arms of the Master Chief, to persuade the Master Chief to join his expedition in the future.
Talking about how and how can never be more effective than actual actions can deepen understanding and trust between the two sides. In the previous rescue operation through Guò Zhiyuan, Fred and most of the soldiers they rescued affiliated with the UNSC had a considerable impression of the expedition.
Further cooperation would help cement this goodwill, and allow Spartan warriors like Fred to finally recognize the shape and abandon the UNSC in favor of the olive branch extended by the expedition. The rescue operation on the surface of Zhiyuan was completed several days ago.
Although everyone was not saved in the end, the number of people who were rescued by the space-time fleet was close to 100 million, far exceeding the initial estimate. That's a lot more than the total population I had before I was on the Legendary Plane!
These "new immigrants" occupy the absolute center of gravity of the various institutions under the Space-Time Council and even the space-time fleet, so it is impossible for Shen Chao to send troops over on a large scale to support the guards of the prisoner of war camp at this stage.
In fact, in order to maintain the stability of the surface society during this chaotic phase, even half of the space-time fleet on the front line was transferred back to help maintain order. Compared to the social shock and organizational chaos caused by the arrival of nearly 100 million new immigrants, this small riot in a prisoner of war camp is completely inadequate.
The wristbands issued to the prisoners of war in the camps were intended for the new immigrants, but a number were mobilized due to repeated requests from the camp administrators. The boar beast, Raqqa, put on the bracelet and was taken to another part of the camp for further examination, along with the other uninjured boar beasts.
Several teammates who had been injured were left behind and sent to the hospital for examination. Raqqa, on the other hand, was taken for other tests. The POW camp where Raqqa is currently located has the highest security requirements due to its location at the exit of the space-time gate, and only accepts low-threat prisoners of war.
The traditional war scum races within the Covenant, such as Boar Beast and Jackalmon, are naturally identified as low threat, but low threat does not mean that they are useless, on the contrary, after a period of exploration. The commanders of the guarding forces found that the boar beast was the easiest prisoner of war to care for and even use.
The reason is also very simple, these round boar beasts have excellent language talents, most of them can speak more than two foreign languages, more than one-fifth of the boar beast prisoners of war have learned human language, and more than one-tenth of the boar beasts can communicate directly with humans!
Raqqa was taken to other places for testing in order to find out if he was such a "useful" prisoner of war. After all, a prisoner of war who is able to communicate is always much easier to manage than not to communicate.
From the point of view of the management of the detention force, prisoners of war who can speak human language are very useful, and can even be used to help suppress riots in other areas! The latter idea was proposed by Fred, a newly arrived consultant.
It was only under his introduction that the caretaker units understood. It turns out that the UNSC has accumulated valuable experience in how to manage the Covenant captives. Although the UNSC does not have as many Covenant captives as they have here, they have far more management experience than the expedition team.
According to UNSC's successful experience, in order to effectively manage the Covenant's captives, it is necessary to find ways to open channels of communication, the easiest way to do this is to select boarmons from among the prisoners of war who can speak the human language, and let them serve as interpreters and assistant administrators.
Due to the low status of the Boar Beast within the Star Alliance, it is timid. After being captured, they were more willing to cooperate with humans. And by using them as a microphone, these boar beasts will lose the trust of the other Covenant captives on the one hand. On the other hand, they will work harder to help humans suppress other captives, thus forming a "virtuous circle".
Follow Fred's building yì. The caretaker forces are changing their management methods. While this is contrary to the original purpose of their direct management, it is likely to create new problems in the future. For example, the wild boar beasts use the information monopoly in their hands to create new oppression and contradictions.
But as long as the existing riots in the camps were quelled and the new guards were killed, few cared whether the human rights of the captives were violated. Against this backdrop, wild boar beasts like Raqqa have become the focus of attention of the guards.
Raqqa was led to the new test site by two armed men, and he saw a lot of street signs along the way. All are identified with human numbers and words. As a common boar beast with a talent for languages, Rakka had learned these things in school, so he could read the signs.
But just as the Celestial Empire's exam-taking exams produced many grammar masters who could speak English fluently, Raqqa had only studied the written part of human language, and he had not received systematic listening and speaking training.
Other words. He could read all the slogans and understand basic conversation, but he wasn't able to communicate fluently in human language like the Boar Beast intelligence analysts trained by the Covenant.
For this reason, he performed very poorly in this round of tests and was assigned to work as a basic laborer in ordinary camps. This is not a bad thing, because if it is found to have the language ability to communicate directly, then it will be immediately assigned to the most dangerous prisoner of war camps as interpreters, and if it does not get it right, it may lose its life.
Resistance is now very high in the camps of the elite, and it is normal to throw stones and even rush up to beat up interpreters, while outside the camps, the chaos caused by the influx of refugees continues.
The resettlement areas that were prepared before the operation were the remnants of several large cities that had been cleared up, including port cities such as New York, Sydney, Shanghai, and London. At present, I am the ground transportation system of the legendary plane, which basically relies on spacecraft airlift.
These cities, which rely on maritime transport, are still deserted, and although they have the physical facilities to restore port transportation, they do not have the necessary manpower to get them up and running again. Originally, the expedition team hoped to bring in a population of 10 million to 20 million, revitalize the new shipping system, and integrate some new industrial chains.
As a result, the actual influx of refugees turned out to be five times that number. All the resettlement areas were full, many of the arranged settlements had to be packed, and the pressure on drinking water and electricity was greatly increased. Major cities that would have been able to accommodate 20 million people and provide relatively comfortable living conditions are now overcrowded.
It should be noted that although the Temporal Council organized the personnel to clean up the debris in these cities and restore the operation of urban infrastructure such as water and electricity, the capacity of these cities has not yet been restored to its pre-crisis state, because the cleaning personnel are not particularly professional......
As it is now, every city is forced into tens of millions of people at once, and all systems are immediately operated at full power, and the population density has caught up with the dense areas of the Celestial Empire. And for a long time to come, refugees will essentially consume and produce nothing.
After all, although there are many people rescued from the surface of Zhiyuan, they basically flee and come empty-handed. You need to start from scratch and work for a while before you can produce something. However, the Covenant's captives were not a problem, and they usually had weapons and equipment to use as trophies when they were captured, and the expedition also captured a bunch of new warships.
This kind of gain is simple, intuitive, and can be immediately converted into combat power. This is why the expedition team is more willing to risk the danger to work in the high-tech plane than to develop the productivity of industry and agriculture.
Of course, just because the expedition team isn't willing to do the drudgery doesn't mean it's not worth it. For those who are interested, the arrival of a large number of new immigrants is an unprecedented opportunity. Stronger business groups were stationed in the new resettlement area early on according to the news released by the council.
After the previous large-scale resettlement, the expedition team no longer needs to manage the arrangement of heaven and earth, and some of the resettlement steps have formed a complete industrial chain, driven by interests, some people take the initiative to undertake the resettlement work that is directly responsible for the subordinate units of the expedition at the earliest.
For example, after the announcement of the resettlement area, many commercial organizations came at their own expense and took the initiative to join the action of cleaning up the urban area, and then after cleaning up the urban area, they set up offices and trading areas in the urban area they cleaned up, ready to cheat some money from the massive number of new immigrants after a large number of new immigrants arrived, I mean doing business.
While newcomers don't have the currency they need, that doesn't mean they don't have potential trading value. As with any large number of newcomers before the arrival, the government agencies under the Space-Time Council will collectively arrange for the food, shelter and transportation of these people for some time to come.
The members of the expedition had no energy to take care of such trivial matters, the government agencies lacked clerks of this size, and the military had not been prepared for these preparations in the previous large-scale migrations.
So naturally, these tasks are outsourced to civil society organizations. Whoever can get to the scene the fastest will be the first to grab the contracting order. And whoever can clean up the larger the urban area, the one who can grab the largest contract. (To be continued......)
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