The life of the residents of Pingtan shelter is very poor.

This was the reality that Sumo saw with his own eyes while going down the spiral staircase.

I don’t know how these gopher guys tolerate the closed space. They have lived in a place with less than three square meters per person for more than two hundred years, and they are still accustomed to such a narrow space.

This is simply scarier than going to jail!

The dungeons set up in the territory are at least eight square meters per person. Compared with this place, it is simply paradise.

Somo's expression was a little subtle.

He somewhat understood why the residents in this shelter showed such strong purchasing power when they encountered fresh vegetables.

These poor people can hardly even take a few breaths of fresh air, let alone mature plants on the surface.

Perhaps it is not the taste of those vegetables that wins the popularity, but the atmosphere of freedom that attracts gophers to buy them one after another.

They try to use this method to adapt to and perceive their future life in advance.

"The Pingtan Shelter has a total of twenty-one floors, and the sixteen floors above are the living floors for residents. Theoretically, the comfortable capacity here should be 30,000 people, and the maximum cannot exceed 50,000 people. Unfortunately, as time passes,

Over the years, the residents of the shelter continued to multiply, and eventually this limit was seriously exceeded, which led to today's evil consequences."

Yehu continued to introduce.

They are all idle in the shelter and cannot go out to work on the surface.

What else can you do?

Initially, there were just over 20,000 people in Pingtan Shelter, but after only three generations, the number of people surged to 100,000.

Compared with now, life was more difficult then.

Many families of five have to live in a space of less than five square meters. It can be said that there is nothing else to do except sleep.

"Many people can't bear to live in such a miserable life in shelters. Especially as the living environment further deteriorates, more and more people have begun to propose to open up new gathering places on the surface, or build in another place.

New shelter ideas.

The shelter manager at the time did not refuse, and of course he had no reason to refuse. After all, the manager also had a very large responsibility for the deterioration of the living environment. And under such indulgence, at least one-third of the people went to the ground."

"In fact, many of the homeless people you see in cities today have ancestors who were residents of shelters."

"So this is how the homeless people came here?"

Sumo said slightly surprised.

He had always thought that homeless people were people who had no shelter in the pre-war era and had escaped and multiplied by themselves.

I never thought that the ancestors of these wanderers were also gophers.

"The impact of the nuclear war was too great. Although there is a natural harbor around Qinggang City where a large amount of seafood can be caught, those seafood have long become extremely ferocious under the influence of radiation. It is no exaggeration to say that compared to

When the biennial beast disaster breaks out, the combat power of the Radiant Beasts is no less impressive."

"If we just relied on homeless people to reproduce on their own, I'm afraid they would have disappeared in the city long ago."

Having said this, a look of emotion appeared on Yehu's face.

When this situation first occurred in the shelter, each resident was given the opportunity to choose for himself. He could choose to continue living in a small space or go out and explore.

But as many people step out of the shelter and realize that the outside world is not as peaceful as they imagined, these people inevitably have the idea of ​​returning to the shelter life.

By this time, those who stayed in the shelter had discovered that their living environment was getting better and better as these people left.

Naturally, conflicts broke out from here.

Many shelters have begun to introduce rules that as long as you step outside the shelter, you will be removed from the shelter and will never be able to return.

The start of the rule operation went quite smoothly.

Because more than 99% of the people saw the tragedy outside and the restrictions of this rule, they gave up the idea of ​​leaving the shelter, so naturally no one objected.

However, not long after, as the number of people increased again, new conflicts inevitably appeared.

Either limit the population growth of the shelter, or expel a group of people out at regular intervals.

In order to maintain combat effectiveness, a new rule emerged from who knows which shelter to start from.

elimination system.

For example, in Pingtan Shelter, residents on each floor have monthly mission plans.

If the monthly tasks are not completed three times in a row, an entire layer of people will be kicked out of the shelter and left to survive in the ruins of the city outside.

He was also one of the people who was almost kicked out of the shelter back then. If it hadn't been for good luck later, he might have died in a corner long ago.

"Then these homeless people in Qinggang City all ran away from Qinggang Shelter back then?"

"I'm not sure about this. It may be from other cities."

No one will keep statistics on the origins and origins of the wanderers.

Following the footsteps of Hunter Tiger, Somo quickly climbed the stairs to the last floor of the residential floor.

The further down you go, the better the living conditions are.

By the time we reach the sixteenth floor, everyone's living space has been enlarged to a full "ten square meters."

Although it still sounds like a quite small number, when you consider that the rooms on the upper floors can only accommodate one bed for sleeping, and cannot even move around, you can understand how big the difference is.

In addition, the public living space here is much larger than above.

Standing on the stairs and looking inside, Sumo even saw a greenhouse separated by glass, with many green plants growing in it.

However, it is a pity that with the large amount of fresh fruits and vegetables imported into Tianyuan Territory, the greenhouse here must have been abandoned. Many plants look a little yellow and yellow, obviously due to lack of human care.

Continue down to the seventeenth floor.

The space here has become larger, and there are even no separate rooms for residents.

What surprised Sumo was that in the center of this space, he actually saw a 'living' nuclear power plant!

It is about the size of a van, and it is making a clicking sound as it continuously outputs energy and conducts it to various locations in the shelter.

"Is this the source of energy for the shelter?" Sumo said excitedly.

Hunter Tiger nodded.

"Yes, the entire shelter's energy supply comes from this machine."

"How long can it be used? Ahem, I mean, can this thing be used directly without any restrictions?"

"No restrictions?"

The hunting tiger's head shakes like a splashing drum.

"Of course there are restrictions. Nuclear power plants require special fuel rods to start. Fuel rods need to be purchased from the foundation's merchant ships, or exchanged for them from the company's fleet."

"What, do you still need fuel rods?"

Sumo said in surprise.

If it were a serious nuclear fusion reactor, it would only require ordinary seawater and some light nuclei.

Otherwise, how could it be called "inexhaustible" clean energy?

But if special fuel rods are needed, then this nuclear generator.

Isn't it the same as the nuclear generator on the Starscream? It still doesn't get rid of the restrictions of the manufacturer.

"Yes, a fuel rod can be used for one year. In the past, when the foundation's merchant ships came, this was the best-selling and most sought-after item. Every shelter needed fuel rods to maintain underground energy supply."

Liehu sighed.

"It's a pity that I didn't take it seriously when the foundation merchant ship came last time and only grabbed two. If we can't find a new source of replenishment next year, I'm afraid Pingtan Shelter will really be abandoned like the Red Core."

Two?

There was a trace of amusement on Sumo's face.

However, he did not choose to continue questioning, after all, this is the ultimate secret of every shelter.

Yehu might have hidden some, but in order to prevent anyone from "borrowing" them, the excuse of two is really a good one.

"There's nothing interesting about this thing. If you're interested, I can even sell you one. But you have to find the fuel rods yourself."

"Forget it, without fuel rods he would be useless."

Sumo shook his head and rejected the tiger hunting proposal.

If it is true as he said, fuel rods are needed to operate this thing.

There is no point in buying it back.

After all, there is an industrial core capable of manufacturing nuclear power plants in the research institute.

After passing the seventeenth floor, there are the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth floors below.

The third floor is the territory of Pingtan Army.

"The Pingtan Army currently has a total of 9,300 people. Counting the guards responsible for shelter security, the total number is 11,000, a ratio of almost six to one. In the entire Qinggang City, it is considered

A relatively medium proportion.”
To be continued...