Chapter 621 (1/2)

Rui Wenwen's threat has opened a new era. The network connects people with each other, but the social productivity has fallen back more than ten years ago.

This is like the film industry during the great depression. Other industries have declined because of the economic downturn. Only movies that can make people escape reality sell very well.

The network is the same. The network is an illusory real world. It is much stronger than the immersion of movies. It is difficult to imagine how interesting the network will appear in an era of economic depression.

In Tiandou Empire, in an ordinary worker's apartment, the man who came back from work collapsed powerlessly on the bed in the living room. The worker's apartment is basically an apartment with one room and one hall as a family of two. Not even the kitchen. The bathroom is also placed directly in the living room. A family of three living in such an environment can imagine how bad the experience is.

For the rapid development of the Empire, he had to work until he was exhausted in the factory every day. The wages obtained can barely maintain food and clothing.

This seemed good to people decades ago. At least they could eat enough. But there is no harm without comparison. Once upon a time, a man had his own house, and he and his sister even had their own rooms.

But after the bloody reform, everything changed. Their houses were recovered and transformed into state-owned garment factories, and any larger buildings were requisitioned.

And they are arranged in a snail's house, living a life of repeated nights every day, like a screw.

The wind and rain of reality made him learn not to fantasize. No longer fantasize about having a romantic candlelight dinner with your wife, buying some toys for your children, ordering a cocktail in the bar when you are alone, and getting rid of this repetitive and boring life one day.

But when he became numb, the world changed quietly, when he got the news of network recovery. Somehow, he began to fantasize again.

Maybe he can't do anything in reality. But in the online world, he may have a big house. Maybe you can be the king of the game. Or maybe you can go to see the illusory beach with your wife. He has never seen the sea since he was born.

The renewed hope was as beautiful and deadly as a poppy, and the sweatshop drained all his strength. And he wants to devote all his spirit to this illusory world.

He is not the only one lying in bed in the worker's apartment, but also his wife and children. In this era, women and children are not without pressure. In a way, their pressure is not much worse than that of men.

Women who need a lot of repetitive work and are not excluded from the factory. Rotating machinery is often fatal to hair. In a row, several female employees were twisted into the machine because of their hair. And after breaking to pieces.

All female employees have to cut off their beautiful long hair in the past, perhaps because their long hair can be changed into a memory of a meat meal, or perhaps just because they can't afford a hat to wrap their hair.

Children study in school, but the pressure of learning is no less than that in the factory. Their scores determine their future, which is much crueler than the college entrance examination. The scores in that exam determined their fate for the rest of their lives.

Efforts and talents are essential. Children without talents can't change their fate even if they work hard, because the Empire doesn't have so many resources to train children with insufficient talents to become leaders.

They will be assigned to a humble home similar to their parents, and then form a family with a woman they don't know. They will bear and work like machines and reproduce.