Chapter 1382 (1/2)

After the restart of shengdun, the sky over Wanghai city is covered with a faint orange. The sun shines on the earth through the graviton barrier, and is infinitely elongated in the slowly moving radioactive dust. From a distance, it looks like an immortal holy light, which has a kind of sacred flavor.

As far as Jiading in the north and Songjiang in the south, Wanghai city is shrouded in Holy Shield and isolated from the whole waste soil. Once in a while, there were xenobiotics or marauders who wandered around the area to fight with NAC's patrols. However, since the opening of the Holy Shield, all those who had misbehaving had to face this unbreakable shield and were bewildered.

In the four directions of southeast, northwest and northwest, NAC has only set aside about 120 entrances and exits of different sizes, each of which is equipped with sentry posts. Besides, the first division led by Cheng Weiguo dispatched heavy troops to guard them.

Protected by the Holy Shield, Wanghai city has become the safest place in Pan Asia. With the continuous influx of immigrants, the population of NAC is growing. In order to meet the needs of citizens' living space, the wall on the east side of the sixth block has been pushed down, and it is said that it is considering expansion in the direction of the city center.

Migration brings not only labor, but also poverty and crime.

In order to digest the surplus labor force and solve the problems brought about by immigration, NAC has adopted a rather simple and crude method -

that is to expand the army!

It is very consistent with the military government's approach. All foreign survivors who want to obtain NAC's household registration either pay a settlement fee of 1000 credit points or serve in the NAC army for at least three years.

As soon as this policy was launched, more than 50000 survivors were mobilized into the army in just one month. Some of the recruits were incorporated into the new barracks for military training, while others were incorporated into the logistics system and sent to NAC's factories in Jiaxing or Shenxiang to engage in production activities.

Militarism leads to economic recession, and this law does not apply to waste land.

Poor resources simply can't support a large-scale industry, and highly automated science and technology have reduced the labor demand of factories to the extreme. The sixth block has limited jobs for survivors.

What's more, the economy of wasteland itself is based on the word ”violence”. Whether it's scavengers or hunters, or mercenaries escorting caravans, everyone has to carry that gun. It is not the canned meat or instant noodles that will never worry about the market in the waste soil, but the orange bullets.

Compared with militarism, Jiang Chen is more willing to call this expansion ”wasteland version” to work for relief.

To put it bluntly, rather than let these idle vagrants do business everywhere, it is better to put them under centralized management and pay them salaries. It's better to watch them play in the barracks than to let them go back to their old business and kill people and set fire to them.

Of course, Jiang Chen did not let these people really idle.

Among these recruits, many of them are very good at shooting alone. Without two brushes in their hands, they can't walk through the dangerous waste land to the distant Wanghai city. Jiang Chen simply organized them into ten hunting groups and sent them to the inland areas to the west of Hongcheng to hunt for exotic fur and sub crystals.

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On the fifth day after the celebration, the convoy ship returned from North America and landed at a port on the outskirts of Wanghai city.

In order to return for the celebration, the warship was sailing at full speed for almost a week. When the anchor chain was dropped, the sailors on the ship could not wait to jump into the port. When the celebration was over, everyone's expression was quite disappointed.

Fortunately, all of them received beer, pork and credit points distributed by the military government, which made up for their hard work in risking their lives to sea.

After receiving their salaries and benefits, most of the sailors on board went to the sixth block, ready to take advantage of this short vacation to relax. As for the captain of the warship, he was summoned to the Marshal's house of the fish bone base.

Jiang Chen has a lot to ask about the situation in the North American colonies.

“…… We took the freighter to the west coast of North America, and then we started to return. According to past experience, as long as we cross the waters near Alaska, we will not encounter any danger in the future. Even if there are, most of them are marauders in small boats. It is more than enough to deal with several predators with heavy machine guns on cargo ships. ”

”After entering the waters near North America, we encountered” electromagnetic turbulence ”, which basically blinded us when we were more than 30 nautical miles away. However, electromagnetic turbulence also has its advantages. Most of the deep-sea alien species that are extremely sensitive to electromagnetic waves will lurk in the waters below 500 meters when electromagnetic turbulence occurs. Even if we turn off the drive sonar, our ship will be free at sea

Standing opposite the desk, Captain Wang Haitao briefed Jiang Chen on the voyage.