Chapter 95: The Population Problem (I)
Duncan is a senior ship designer at Energy Ship Industries, the largest shipbuilding company in eastern Yseras, and has been working for more than a decade in the second shipbuilding plant under the Imperial Armament Department. In the eyes of his colleagues, Duncan is a good colleague who is hard-working, solid in technology and experienced. At the same time, his withdrawn and unapproachable personality made him have few friends, so few that he could count them on one hand. What makes others even more incomprehensible is that Duncan, who is over forty years old, is still single, and he never goes to see people who others introduce him, and he rarely has contact with female colleagues. His personality makes many people think that he may be physically unspeakable, and it is inconvenient to communicate with others.
Not enough, Duncan's technical excellence cannot be ignored.
In Energy Shipbuilding Industries' No. 4 shipboard weapons design room, Duncan can be said to be the absolute pillar. It's a pity that this person is too honest, and many of the excellent weapons designed by him have been taken away by the director designer and named after him, which has earned bonuses and fame, and at the same time, his road to promotion has been extremely smooth. It's no exaggeration to say that without Duncan, whether that director would have been able to join the company's leadership is another matter. With the experience of the past, the new chief of staff continued to squeeze Duncan's design, but Duncan never made any excuses and worked hard.
The stars on the horizon were setting, and dusk hung over the large company.
"Hey, Duncan, the director won the first place in the design this time, and he said that he invited everyone to rub it in the evening."
Duncan silently packed up his things and said without looking back, "I'm sorry, I have something to do at night." ”
After saying that, he hurried away. Someone else's voice came from the back: "Look, I said a long time ago that he wouldn't participate, and you still don't believe it." ”
The man who stopped Duncan shook his head and said, "This Duncan...... I really don't feel worth it for him. If I had his talent, I would have climbed to the position of director long ago. ”
Back in his bachelor apartment, Duncan locked the door, took off his coat and hung it up, sat down in front of the light brain as usual, opened a website specializing in the treatment of various incurable diseases, and entered a series of hundreds of special characters in the search column, and gently pressed OK.
A completely different section from the style of the website opens, which is a very ordinary forum with only one discussion board on it.
What puzzled Duncan was that in the past, when he came home from work, there would be at least dozens of unread posts in this discussion board, but today, there is only one unread.
Then, he moved his finger and lightly tapped it on the unread entry. When he finished reading this post, two lines of tears immediately slipped down the corners of his eyes.
"Finally...... It's finally here! ”
After a few minutes, after his mood had calmed down a little, Duncan had to stand up, quickly turned off his light brain with both hands, unplugged the internal memory used to store information, and then took out a bottle of liquid in the shape of water from under the bed in the bedroom, and soaked the internal memory in it. After a few minutes, the photobrain part was corroded and melted, dissipating into the liquid.
Duncan looked around at the room he had lived in for more than a decade, his gaze becoming determined.
He said to himself, "Wife...... Don't worry, I'll avenge you! ”
After saying this, he went out of the boat's coat, and he did not move anything in the room. Half an hour later, Duncan appeared next to the nearest rail lift, looked around, and then entered the elevator as if no one was around......
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"Damn, it's finally time."
A group of sweaty soldiers gasped and left the training ground, judging by their ranks, all of them were recruits who had only joined this year.
Walking out of the training ground, several recruits talked as they walked.
"Our instructor is training too hard, what kind of training is this, I think he completely wants our lives."
"yes, I really envy those people in the third team. You can see that their instructor is completely like he doesn't care about anything, and he just lets them train on their own, which is really easy. ”
"Are you two idiots? Don't you know that the more rigorous the instructor training, the better our results? When the boot camp is over, the people in the third squad will wait to cry, it is estimated that at least thirty percent of them will be eliminated, and the rest will not be assigned to any good places. ”
"Yes, this brother is right. Hehe, those guys in the third squad are so unlucky to be assigned to such a guy who doesn't care about anything. ”
"No, my cousin is in the army, I heard him say that the instructor of the third squad was extremely brave back then, and the group of battleship fighters he led fought bravely one by one, and they were extremely powerful, and they were the pacesetters of the fleet for several years. And that instructor is said to have won the Order of the Blue Leaf of the Second Degree......"
"Impossible, right? How could such a powerful guy be sent here to train recruits? ”
"Hey...... Who knows. ”
When the recruits had left, the instructor they had spoken of as an indifferent instructor appeared like a ghost and stood in front of them, and after a silent glance at the backs of the men, he turned and walked towards his dormitory.
After returning to the instructor's dormitory and washing away his exhaustion, he sat on the sofa with a military optical brain in front of him.
After entering a series of dense characters on a certain equipment warranty platform connected to the military's intranet, the screen suddenly changed, and an extremely ordinary forum appeared on the screen. Looking at the only unread post on it, he was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and smiled bitterly: "After such a long time, there are fewer and fewer people coming here." These lazy people don't even post a post. ”
After saying that, he clicked on the unread post, and then, he froze.
"Holy! That's not true, is it? ”
He excitedly put his eyes close to the screen, and after watching it three times in a row, he clenched his fists and shouted, "It's coming...... It's finally here! ”
He then quickly pulled the memory out of his optical brain and turned to leave the room. A few minutes later, he showed up at the weapons test ground at the recruit training base, used his position as an instructor to receive a single soldier particle cannon, and walked to the shooting range.
After a loud "......boom", the internal memory has disappeared.
Throwing the particle cannon aside, he strode out, ignoring the shouts of the administrator behind him.
Leave...... Rent a car...... Out......
Three hours later, he had appeared in the planet's spaceport. Standing on the dock, he looked at the time and said to himself: "It seems to be early, there is still more than half an hour before the agreed time......"
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South of Iseras, Bong Ringstar.
In the evening, the town of Ginkgo biloba is enveloped in dusk, which looks extraordinarily beautiful. People who have finished a day's work from the farmland outside the town, with their sweat and exhaustion from their hard work, fly home on the hoverbus to the town. There are also some people with small assets, who drive their own hovercars, singing and laughing along the way.
Since a few months ago, when the entire Baron's clan in control of the area was slaughtered and even the Baron's Mansion was blown up, no other nobles have come to the land. It is rumored that there is a very powerful innate master hidden in this town, and those nobles are afraid that they will end up with the same fate as Baron Ryan if they inadvertently offend that master, and no one dares to encroach on this land after Baron Ryan's death. As a result, these lands fell into the hands of the locals.
A few days ago, there was a thriving farm on the eastern side of the town, which became the most enviable part of the town.
It is said that the Gobi was originally barren, and only a few areas could be used for cultivation. However, the owner of the farm was not discouraged by this, and planted large radix grass around the farm to block the wind and sand, and planted a large number of fragrant grass for the soil environment. After more than half a year of hard work, the land has finally become suitable for planting. A month earlier, the farm had harvested a large amount of wheat, which alone had brought the farm hundreds of thousands of imperial gold dollars. In addition to envy, people also began to think about whether they could also follow their planting method?
As a result, since last month, the Gobi Desert around the town has been bought by people at a low price. This was originally land that no one wanted, and the officials of the imperial government were happy to exchange it for pocket money in their own pockets. Those who bought the Gobi had some funds to do it themselves, and those with little money formed a joint operation with others, and those who had no money to make a living by working became extremely sought-after at this time, and all kinds of farms sprung up one after another, all kinds of manpower were needed, and in order to grab more workers, they offered higher wages one by one.
In this way, the whole town began to flourish, and it is expected that within a few years, the town will become very prosperous.
All of this has changed because of one person, a person that everyone doesn't know.
At this time, on the downstairs of a certain district settlement in the town, more than a dozen people were sitting in a small living room, each with surprise on their faces.
"What you say is true? Is the boss really coming to the news? ”
An honest old man sat on the sofa and looked at the young woman who was most opposite him with excitement.
The young woman was still holding a little girl who looked like six or seven years old in her arms, and she was also very happy, and said, "It's true, I received a message from the boss in the afternoon." He said he was going to take me and Sabe out of here. In the meantime, let me ask you, would you like to give up the farm here and leave with us? ”
The old man hesitated for a moment, then said, "That...... Do you know where the boss is going to take us? ”
"The boss didn't say anything." The young woman shook her head and said, "However, I believe that the boss will not harm us." It's going to be a better place than here! Although our farm is already in form, ...... here," she smiled wryly, "I never feel any joy or joy in the country of Iseras, what about you?" Do you feel the same way? ”
The old man smiled: "Perhaps, Ginkgo Town is the only paradise in this country. At least, there are no aristocrats and bureaucrats here to oppress us. ”
"Not now, won't it be in the future?" The young woman looked at him: "Everyone can see the next big development of Ginkgo Town, and when the economy here reaches a new level, I can guarantee that those nobles will definitely swarm like sharks that smell blood." ”
The old man didn't speak, but looked at the others around him: "What about you, to go or not to go?" ”
There was a lot of discussion in the living room, and soon two voices formed. The younger ones expressed a desire to leave, while the older ones offered to stay.
"So be it, there's no way we're going to hang ourselves from a tree!"
The old man stood up, like a stubborn pine growing among the rocks, and said, "If you are willing to leave, go with Sabrina." If you don't want to leave, stay with my old man, and we'll continue to work on our farm! In this case, if the farm is not good in the future, we can still go to the children. And the children are having a bad time outside, and they are coming back soon, what do you say? ”
An hour later, the old man and six or seven others who had also stayed behind looked at the hovercar in the distance, and the pain of separation brought tears to their eyes.
"Let's go, we should go back too. Halfway through the walk, we're going to grab some workers tomorrow like those farms, and we'll have to get a few mechs...... Hehe, fortunately, we still have mechas, so we don't have to spend a lot of money to rent other people's mechas. As soon as he took two steps, the old man suddenly stopped and said solemnly: "No one can tell anyone about this today. Everyone knows what the boss did before he left. If you don't want to harm your children, you must not talk about it. Now everyone is unified, if someone asks, they will say that they went to Lianshan City to develop ......"