Chapter 451: Political Change (III) (1/2)

Chapter 451: Political Change (III)

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Luo Yuan was perusing the files and documents regarding Hope City in the Mayor’s office.

His speed of resolving all issues was shockingly fast, especially with the aid of his 16-point of Intelligence. In under 15 minutes, he had finished reading a stack of documents.

Luo Yuan sighed and felt depressed as Hope City was facing a huge loss after the disaster. It caused about 700,000 deaths. Although the disaster happened around one to two o’clock in the morning, there were many people still working in the factories. Hence, there was no difference whether it happened during nightfall or in broad daylight.

Of course, that was not the only reason that caused so many deaths. There was a total of six industrial zones in the Reconstruction Area including those in the underground city. Although the heavy pollution in the industrial zone on the upper ground was crucial, it was just one of the many with approximately 500,000 workers.

Moreover, those workers were divided into two shifts - day and night. Based on usual circumstances, the maximum number of deaths was about 250,000 workers.

In fact, Hope City had been attacked by two level eight creatures a while ago - there were a few industrial zones yet to be rebuilt. Many of the workers sacrificed their own free time to help on the reconstruction and establishment work at night in order to speed up operations. At the same time, the former Mayor and Deputy Mayor were also helping to oversee and coordinate matters at the work site as well.

Those 100,000 people did not manage to evacuate and take cover underground when the disaster happened. All of them died immediately due to the explosion of the nuclear-powered antimatter intelligent space bomb.

As a result, there were only 2.4 million of a population left compared to the original population of more than three million.

There were about 28,000 researchers and scientists which amounted to 1/80 of the total population, and about 40,000 engineers and technicians which are 1/60 of the total population.

The ratio was even higher than the time before the apocalypse, and it was the current numbers after the new capital city had taken away some of their manpower.

However, it was actually normal as Hope City was prioritized as the most important city of the Reconstruction Area - its research and development standards were ranked just below the new capital city. Moreover, it was difficult to compare the importance of research when everything was at peace versus the apocalypse when humans were struggling to survive.

However, although there were quite a number of researchers and engineers, it was not sufficient to redevelop civilization. Based on the number of researchers and engineers they had, it was considered fortunate if civilization was not on a downward spiral. They needed ten times the current numbers of researchers and engineers to maintain their standards of technology.

Fortunately, the technology of cloning was now advanced enough to clone humans, hence, the population had become part of the manufacturing plant of the factories. They could increase the production of researchers and engineers with the cloning technology. It was not an issue, as long as they had enough time.

He sighed softly and turned the chair around. He looked at the map of the Reconstruction Area on the wall and then circled three of the cities nearby Hope City. It was Twilight City, United City, and Victory City.

Although those three cities were nearby Hope City, it did not get destroyed by the nuclear-powered antimatter intelligent space bomb. Many survivors remained in the underground city. However, their situation was even worse than Hope City and the survivors would not be able to survive for long if search and rescue missions were not being conducted as soon as possible.

They must at least get the situation checked thoroughly first.

Luo Yuan picked up the intercom phone and said, ”Come in.”

The line was definitely the most stable one in the municipal hall.

A moment later, a young guy with tanned skin entered the room silently and said courteously, ”How can I help you, Mr. Mayor?”

His name was Cheng Guanghui, who was the secretary of the former Mayor. Although he had passed away, Luo Yuan did not plan to change a new one as the game of office politics was totally meaningless to him. He said, ”Please contact the team members of the Firearms Bureau, and get them to gather in my office.”

”Yes, Mr. Mayor. Is there anything else I can help you with?” Cheng Guanghui asked.