Chapter 316: Super Underground Space (2/2)

”It’s located in another building, very close by,” Xie Junhui summed up.

In just a short span of time, with the casual demeanor they had built, their relationship had improved. The three of them went out of the lobby together, towards another building. As poor Minister Ren was completely ignored, he had no choice but to tag along.

”Where were you previously? At the front line or the mining area?” Li Dong asked curiously. The evolved people of their department were mostly from these two areas. The front line had the highest number of evolved people, and so it was common to have one or two strong and powerful evolved people. On the other hand, the mining area located outside the Reconstruction Area, had a large number of troops at the station, as their battles were more cruel and harsh. Therefore, the abilities of the evolved people were much stronger than those stationed at the front line.

”I just came here not too long ago!” Luo Yuan replied.

Luo Yuan response was rather unexpected to Li Dong. He stopped walking, and asked as if he had heard it correctly, ”Just came? Just came to Hope City?”

”Just came to the Reconstruction Area; I was outside in the wilderness all this while.” As the two of them seemed to be shocked, he explained, ”Not the wanderer that you may think of. During the large migration, my city had been destroyed. Hence, we have been traveling this entire time, and only got here two months ago.”

Li Dong opened his mouth in shock and was lost for words for a brief moment. As a member of the sword unit, their missions covered most parts of the area that were reachable by humans. He had certainly been in the wilderness a few times, but most of the time, he could only manage a peep from the plane.

The large world today, apart from human habitat, was covered by a large area of greenery. Traces of humankind, such as the high-density road network and the high-rise buildings in cities had already disappeared. Apart from parts which are no longer green, the ones left in green had remained a healthy green.

He could not imagine that someone could survive under such living conditions.

”Are there still any survivors in the area that was destroyed?” Li Dong asked.

”Probably not, we did not see anyone towards the end,” Luo Yuan replied in a low voice.

The atmosphere suddenly became gloomy. After all, every one of them had lost contact with their family and friends. They were fortunate to be able to catch the last train, while many others were left behind, at the destruction.

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Soon, the three of them had entered the building and went directly into the elevator. They pressed on the button to the fifteenth underground floor.

Luo Yuan realized that there were many buttons in the elevator. Nonetheless, it differed from the normal elevator, because it did not have any positive numbers at all. The negative numbers which began from negative one to negative fifteen, had shown that the underground space was very deep into the earth.

”Negative one to negative five are the warehouses; negative six to negative ten are the residential areas and the slightly polluted industrial area; while negative 11 to 12 are the agricultural areas. The last three floors are currently still empty, in preparation for the increase in population and industrial expansion. Those factories you have seen along the road are the heavily polluted industrial areas,” explained Minister Ren, as he knew Luo Yuan had just arrived and knew nothing much.

Luo Yuan gasped in shock. No wonder he saw only factories along the way, as the residents lived underground! The factories were only just a small part of Hope City.

Even it was just a small part of the city, Luo Yuan was amazed as it was many times larger than any industrial area he had ever seen. It was, after all, a giant-sized industrial area, of about 300 square kilometers.

For a city with a population of more than three million prior to the apocalypse, the workers involved in industrial factories usually made up about one-third of the population, while the other two-thirds were mostly from the service line. Nonetheless, there was almost nobody involved in the service line during the apocalypse. The ratio of the population of industrial workers was higher than 90%, comparable to a large city with ten million people.

It was an insane generation. If it were to be compared to the underground world of Hope City, the underground refuge was still simply a work in progress.

1 Li Dong (李东) was also known as ”shorty Li” because his name is homophonous with Li Donggua (李冬瓜) Likewise, when someone is called Donggua (冬瓜), it means the person is short and plump. Li or 李, refers to the person’s family name.