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Volume 7 New World 473 Adaptation

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    Perhaps everyone secretly denounced the "immorality" and "infringement of human rights" of the coalition's approach, but they have to admit that after most people walked out of the space gate and experienced the huge shock caused by "the indiscriminate right and left",  It was like suddenly waking up from a big dream - the changes that had happened to them finally reminded them that the cruel reality had arrived. Except for the underground city where they were hiding now, the entire earth had nowhere to retreat to.  Come down, what everyone has to do is to fight at all costs.

    The coalition's approach has also brought about an unexpected effect, which is to alleviate the current food crisis - before this, most of the food stocks on the earth were in the hands of the government and the rich, and most of the government's part was transported to space.  , and even specially stored in Carmel, mainly to supply the army and maintain the political power. Before the war begins, the government still needs to allocate part of this part of the food to stabilize food prices. Although the amount of this part of food is large, it is  It falls within the scope of the country's long-term plan, so its use is relatively rigid - after the war broke out, various countries have repeatedly lowered the food purchase quotas for ordinary people. Currently, it only refers to maintaining basic survival needs.

    The part of food in the hands of the rich, or in the hands of capital, is relatively "flexible". This flexibility only means that compared to ordinary people, the way to obtain channels is simpler - it just requires the exchange of things. Although war makes order  collapse, but the economic laws are still running stubbornly. On the first day of the war, the price of grain on the black market was equivalent to the price of gold, and on the second day, people couldn't exchange it for gold even if they wanted to.  Unless it is a permanent residence in Carmel, just like what happened with ancient famines, the more serious the war situation, the scarier the food, the higher the price of food will jump, and on the contrary, the less willing the food owners will be to sell the rising value of their food.  food.

    This move by the coalition forces seems to have cast a spell on everyone within its jurisdiction. After this magic, privately owned food is completely equivalent to poison to the people on earth, if the food has not been "processed" by the coalition forces.  , I am afraid that even if it is left to rot, no one will be willing to eat it - even if it is thrown into a farm to feed pigs and chickens, the only use is probably to use it to make wine, because ethanol is an achiral molecule, and the coalition has no way to do it yet.  Make sure to replace all the microorganisms.

    This kind of "space gate surgery" by the coalition forces is mandatory, and those who are unwilling to undergo the surgery will be sentenced to death for "treason", even those who previously held nationalities such as the Cayman Islands and Monaco due to tax avoidance or refugee needs.  People will also be sentenced to death for the newly expanded definition of "crimes against humanity" - among the latest crimes against humanity, the most important one is that if the person involved is confirmed to have committed "serious acts of hostility", any person  They can be killed on any occasion without legal responsibility, refusing to cooperate in entering the "space gate", and refusing to accept the supervision and review of the Consciousness Network are all newly added items in the legal provisions, which means that even these  If people want to store this food and eat it themselves, they can't do it.

    Some grain merchants carefully came to ask the coalition military if they could help them convert this batch of grain. In response, the coalition representatives told them with a smile on their face that this was absolutely no problem, but the current magic quota was very precious. If they  If you need to do this, you need to pay a little extra "war special income tax". This tax is mainly aimed at the reselling of key war supplies and the production of non-war supplies (the former is to increase the cost of hoarding supplies needed by the coalition forces, and stipulates that even if things such as food and gasoline are not sold,  , it is also necessary to levy taxes on a regular basis based on physical goods to increase their hoarding costs and reduce circulation costs. The latter is to increase the production costs of materials that the coalition does not need, such as most luxury goods, in order to promote the rapid release of this part of the production capacity and transform  In order to participate in the war), a stepped tax is implemented on sensitive materials. For example, for food, if the cumulative sales volume in one month is less than one-tenth of the total volume, a punitive physical tax of 50% will be imposed.

    If you don't "switch", the loss will be 100%. If you "switch", you will only lose 50%. This account can be calculated by everyone. Under the pressure of reality, these people are still unwilling to share it with the coalition forces.  A considerable amount of food was taken.

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    Just yesterday, Du Wei officially became a soldier - even though he had too many imaginations and plans for this war before the war, reality finally made him embark on this most practical path. What he did  The reason is simple - the rations for formal soldiers are higher than those for civilians, so that they will not starve themselves until they are full, that's all.

    The air-raid shelter near the school where they stayed at the beginning of the war had long been lost. After escaping from death, he was temporarily transferred to this underground city. Until now, Du Wei didn't know where this city was on the map, and of course he didn't.  Interested to know, because every day, except sleeping (the enemy attacks at night), all his energy will be used to work in the refugee camp.So they looked for someone - in that flood, Yu Xiaojuan was rescued on a lifeboat first because she was a woman, and they were separated from then on.

    The so-called refugee camp is what most people call it privately. In fact, it is a large piece of "rough flat land" with no construction at all in the underground city. This underground city is one of the earlier and more mature underground cities in Ningzhou.  , different from the simplicity of other underground cities, some prosperous commercial districts were even formed here before the war - at that time, underground cities had not yet been associated with war fortifications, and were only a "real estate" development project of the Ningzhou government.  That's it. It is precisely for this reason that there are more aborigines in this underground city than in other places. When Ned first came here, he was amazed by the apartment complex here that was similar to the one on the ground.

    Because the operating system here is more mature than other underground cities, when the war broke out, it was not the enemy's priority attack target, so the conditions here were naturally more superior than other places - before the war, this small "town" was  There are only tens of thousands of people, but now, only about a week after the war started, hundreds of thousands of people have already crowded in. Because the city cannot accommodate such a large population, most people have been arranged to "urban suburbs" and built in  Large tracts of temporary tents were built. As the war progressed, Du Wei could see the area of ????the tents expanding rapidly every day, because most of the people living here lost all their belongings due to the war and became "proletarians" with nothing.  So everyone also calls this area a refugee camp.

    A few days ago, Du Wei was also a member of this refugee camp, but after joining the army, he was arranged to live in the "military zone" under unified management. Although the name is different, the actual conditions are not much worse - both  It's just as simple and crude, except that the military zone pays attention to order, so it looks a little better in appearance.

    What Du Wei needs to do during the day, apart from the necessary military studies (he is currently learning magic on his own in the Consciousness Network, as well as some regular anti-magic training), is to help local officials re-register the population on a semi-voluntary basis - in fact, the registration is fake  , forcing people to enter the space station in batches to "transfer" is the real purpose. Although it only takes one door, for hundreds of thousands of people, this cannot be done in just a few days. It is the most troublesome during this transition period.  ¡ª¡ªAll food must be strictly divided into two batches, those that have been "transformed" and those that have not been "transformed". This made Du Wei couldn't help but think of the genetically modified food that everyone was keen to discuss when he was in college Now that I think about it, it's actually very strange.  Ridiculous, compared to genetic modification, changing the chirality of the entire human body is undoubtedly more risky, but the strange thing is that no one cares about this issue anymore.

    But after a few days, Du Wei has not found any news about Yu Xiaojuan - no one knows whether she encountered other misfortunes after she was rescued. He once tentatively asked their company commander if he could use AI  Come help me find it Until the night before yesterday, he even found a computer and copied the ai from other people, hoping to ask something from it. Of course "this" kl3014 would not know, the ai just told him this question  The answer is only available through the coalition military, so I won¡¯t answer any more. Du Wei took it for granted that this is AI¡¯s confidentiality measure. Since AI technology has been copied on a large scale, everyone thinks that the AI ??in their computers is inferior to the official one from the coalition.  It's a lot slower. Everyone's explanation for this is that this must be a "civilian version" issued by the coalition forces, so there are restrictions on functions. Of course, the response speed of AI using ordinary computers and AI using supercomputers is  It's incomparable. In the days of the Coalition, kl3014 could communicate with hundreds of millions of people at the same time without thinking. Now he often has to think about it for a long time when talking to a person, not to mention that the Coalition AI also has a huge monitoring network.  .

    When it is daytime on the ground, although this underground city looks a bit chaotic, it is basically stable. The whole city is brightly lit, people who have something to do are doing things, and people who have nothing to do can touch their mobile phones to play games or hug people.  Watching news on the Internet while watching the computer. Occasionally, a few enemies appear in the city, or compatriots are killed by magic. No one makes a fuss anymore. The scene of hundreds of people being chased by a few enemies like in the early days of the war no longer exists.  Well, in the previous "education" where countless compatriots died, most people have passively adapted to war. Now even an old man or woman who can't walk, or a boy or girl aged sixteen or seventeen, has learned to immediately react when seeing the enemy.  They can see the consequences of pulling the trigger of a pistol - not firing every day, which is to become corpses and be carried to "mass graves" for collective burial.

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