Chapter 737 The Disaster Is over, and Food Prices Are Skyrocketing!

The first wave of hailstones started at 3cm in diameter, about the size of an egg.

At a frequency of 5,000 hailstones per minute per square kilometer, it was not terrible, but the crackling sound of the hailstones hitting the ground and buildings made people's scalps numb.

Through the camera, Su Mo focused on the changes in several test buildings outside.

Among them, the brick and tile structure could not withstand the continuous bombardment of hailstones. After about ten minutes, holes appeared, making it difficult to continue to protect the objects inside.

However, the buildings made of reinforced concrete and solid wood were still strong and basically ignored the invasion brought by the first wave of hailstones.

"It seems that the target of this disaster is not humans, but those exposed buildings and farmlands"

"Reducing food production is probably the first goal of this hail disaster"

Putting down the tablet, Su Mo gradually felt uneasy.

This discovery is a very important event.

You know, the seasons in the wasteland are qualitatively different from those on Earth.

Take summer harvest as an example. Summer harvest on Earth is around Grain in Ear, which is from mid-May to mid-June.

But on the wasteland, due to the climate, the maturity of crops is generally pulled to mid-June to mid-July.

There is a full month of time difference in between.

And the various crops in Tianyuan Territory mature much faster than those in other settlements.

For example, in the previous Qingguo Territory, if the fields there want to mature, they have to wait until at least mid-July to be harvested.

In addition, after the speculation of grain prices in several large territories such as Wuyafu last year, Tianyuan Territory, as the person in charge, has already put a lot of its own inventory into the market in order to calm down this sudden price increase, forcibly lowering the price and making enemies with several large territories that currently have grain.

Once the hail is over, the other party will use this request to make some moves on the price of grain, so as to leverage the financial foundation of the territory.

The consequences are simply unimaginable!

"No, if that's the case, there's no reason why the territory knew the news in advance and didn't take action."

"Could it be that"

Suddenly remembering that the territory's management could know the news of the disaster half a month in advance, Su Mo smelled a hint of conspiracy again.

In terms of the situation, the current wasteland territories are still lacking a large number of grassroots labor for construction.

And the solidified identity class makes it more difficult to replenish these fresh blood.

A very simple example.

The same 1,000 identity points, if in the Qingguo territory, can buy the identity of a middle or senior manager.

Not only do you not have to do physical work, enjoy a comfortable and leisurely life, but you can also use this identity to bully others and be superior to ordinary people.

But if you take these 1,000 points to the Tianyuan territory, you can only buy an ordinary planting worker identity after looking through the entire price list.

Comparing the two, anyone with a normal mind will make a choice.

But if the economy of those small and medium-sized territories is directly rotten and collapsed due to the reduction in grain production.

Then the choice of ordinary civilians is hard to say.

Perhaps those with certain assets will choose to continue to persist in the territory and wait until the next harvest season arrives.

But those without assets, even if they are illegal residents, will probably not choose to stay.

Within a month or two at most, they will flow into the territories where grain prices are still balanced in various ways to make a living.

"This is too vicious. If my guess is true, this plan is completely squeezing the living space of small and medium-sized territories."

"Those ordinary people, even if they join the big territories, have no identity, and do the lowest-level work, but as long as they can eat enough, they can be won over with a little welfare, which greatly replenishes the fresh labor blood of the territory."

"And whoever can do the welfare better, whoever can absorb more people at this time!"

It is difficult to get the battle for people in the open.

After all, if one company starts to compete viciously, it will easily cause a large-scale identity collapse, and the game rules set by itself will be directly rotten.

And those who have just spent a huge amount of money to buy an identity will immediately find that the identity they bought has plummeted, which will cause unrest.

Only in this way can we continue to absorb high-level talents with a certain amount of qualifications, maintain the rules on the surface, and secretly win over the black households without identities.

Only in this way can we "inadvertently" complete the reversal between territories.

"Identity, it's identity again!"

"These black households who sneaked into the city have no identity. If they want to stay, they will definitely be extremely eager to have an identity that they can show off, so that they don't have to live a life of fear and being cleared at any time."

"If someone comes to open a loan business at this time, let them buy a basic identity with a long-term loan and repay the loan in the next few decades."

"Then in these decades, the territory will have a hard-working and always at the bottom of the labor force. The income they create can also be used by the territory to continue to build and complete various facilities to resist disasters."

Suddenly seeing through the true meaning of this layer of game rules, Su Mo only felt a chill on his back, and didn't know what to say for a while.

Say it's bad, the territory wants to build these public facilities and wants to implement the so-called "underground civilization" plan.

It will inevitably require countless ordinary people to work at the bottom and provide a large amount of labor to complete it.

Moreover, through the identity, he can continue to harvest those big money-making households, and let them also take out money to carry out the disaster prevention construction of the territory and various scientific and technological research and development.

But to put it well, everyone in the end times is already bad, and they are extremely hopeless about their future life.

Under such exploitation, it is bound to be like an open grenade, but the pull ring is temporarily pinched.

Once the pull ring is released one day, the explosives inside will explode, and the person holding the pull ring will also be blown to death.

"I must verify these ideas quickly"

"If it is true, it means that the era of chaos and turmoil is coming again!"

"At that time, the territories will rely on means, and even the cities within the territories will be reshuffled."

Thinking of this, Su Mo also had some guesses about the identity of the manager of Baoyu County that the game suddenly rewarded.

He stayed in this small Sangtian Town, just waiting for the arrival of the final zombie disaster, which was obviously not what the game wanted to see.

Considering that all human actions will inevitably not escape the monitoring of the game.

If the game wants him to gain authority in this world, it must continue to secretly fund him to promote him as an outsider to perform well in disaster relief.

Letting his ranking appear on the scoreboard is one means, and rewarding him with the identity of the manager of Baoyu Town worth four million is also a means.

"Going to Baoyu County is a development hint given by the game?"

The more he thought about it, the more cautious Su Mo became. He didn't dare to think about it in a low voice, for fear that the monitored game would hear it.

He wanted to ascend to the lord of the territory within another year and lead the entire territory through the next super disaster without revealing his identity.

There are only two ways.

The first is the violent rise to power that was conceived before, and directly carry out the decapitation operation after making the mecha.

Kill all those who betrayed the territory or had different intentions, so as to complete the concentration of power.

The second is to take it step by step and see the big picture from the small.

Strive to complete the collection of power within the rules and directly use the trading points to buy the desired identity.

I haven't thought clearly about which one to use.

Su Mo could only suppress his thoughts for the time being and wait until the summer harvest to get enough funds to make the mecha.

This time will not be long. According to the worst-case estimate, it can be completed by early August at the latest.

At this time, there are still 10 months before he leaves this world.

Time is still very ample!

Dragon Flag Territory·Fire Province·Fenghuo City.

Under the gloomy sky, a giant translucent cover covers the entire city, emitting a faint glow.

The horrible hail disaster can only be regarded as scratching the surface in this city that integrates almost all human technologies.

Even a fist-sized ice cube can only cause a slight ripple when hitting the protective cover, and then disappear.

In the city.

People come and go, and the traffic is endless.

People who go to work still go out at 8 o'clock, take public transportation to the designated location, and complete the remaining work.

Those in the service industry were not panicking at all. They still had a formal smile on their faces and completed their own work.

Identity divides people into different levels, while leaving the possibility of upward promotion and a better life.

Even if life is monotonous, people living in this city still have great aspirations for tomorrow.

Of course, the entire city is not a place without changes.

For example, the Qingye Villa District, where many big figures live, has seen its defense force increase dozens of times after one night.

There is a post every five steps and a sentry every ten steps.

The guards with live ammunition have blocked several streets around since early in the morning, and the battle is terrifying.

Go to the interior of the villa district.

Several vacant houses have been temporarily requisitioned as office areas, filled with various people in neat clothes.

Next to the villa closest to the 16th villa.

Looking at the intelligence sent over, a middle-aged man who was surrounded in the middle frowned suddenly: "No news yet?"

"Reply to the military commander, whether it is the scoreboard or the latest news sent by Tianyuan Territory, we have not been able to find Su Mo's whereabouts"

"We suspect that the game has made a mistake in the rankings, there is a loophole, and the name was released." Three men in military uniforms who looked like a think tank stood in front of the table and said respectfully.

"Mistaken?" Hearing his subordinates' guesses, the man called the military commander frowned even more deeply: "What did Lord Su say? Do they have any news?"

"No, and according to Lord Su Chan, she has used her exclusive communicator and issued several orders remotely, but there is still no definite discovery." Shaking his head, the man on the left started a new topic after he finished speaking:

"Military commander, according to the background retrieval of the Sky Eye Plan that we previously developed with Tianyuan Territory, we found that the other party's Inspection Department had an illegal operation on the night of June 6, deleting some data and adding some new data. We cannot directly access the specific operation records for the time being, but the application letter has been sent to Pei Shao, the general manager of the Inspection Department"

"In addition, we also obtained all their query records for that day through some of the built-in interfaces before. This part is fixed and cannot be deleted. There are 47 people in total. This is the list"

It seems that he guessed that the military commander would check the list of 47 people one by one. After speaking, the man directly took out a thick stack of papers from his pocket.

Among them, the data of 47 people were listed in full, and each person had a few pages of introduction.

"47 people?"

After taking the data, the commander began to look through them one by one.

His eyes were extremely sharp, and some of the information was only flipped through a few times and then placed aside.

Others were carefully read one by one before being carefully placed on the other side of the body.

Not long after, only nine of the 47 materials were left, and they were listed in front of him.

If Su Mo could see the names on these materials at this time, he would definitely be shocked to find that his perfect personal information was also placed among them, but ranked slightly behind, ranking eighth.

"Continue to check these nine people for me"

"In addition, improve the protection of Lord Su's courtyard. I need to make sure that this matter is over. Before the final conclusion, no bad people can disturb Lord Su's daily life for any reason"

"Those who violate the order will be killed without mercy regardless of their identity!"

When it comes to the word "protection", the commander's face changes slightly, and there is a hint of murderous intent.

Human nature is a very complicated thing.

Where there is a bright side, there must be a dark side.

The cruelty of the doomsday wasteland will greatly separate the two, and positive people will become more positive, and evil people will become more evil.

For ordinary people, the human Su Shen is the hope of the future and a synonym for thousands of possibilities.

But in the black market, which has a small impact but cannot be ignored, the human Su Shen is a "goods" and an expensive "treasure".

Take the bounty list as an example.

The human Su Shen has been ranked first for six years, with a total amount of billions.

Countless people who pay attention to this list want to know why he has so many powerful props and weapons in the first year of the wasteland.

There are also countless people who want to find the real reason for his disappearance and try to find a way back to Earth.

In the past many years, although the rumors have consumed too much time and thought of these people, they have not been able to stop them from acting like crazy as soon as they get the news.

And this time, the game suddenly appeared and put its name on the list for the first time.

It was enough to make these people move like sharks smelling blood.

"If he doesn't come back, then we don't have to worry. Tianyuan Territory is not made of clay and will handle everything."

"But if he really comes back, these crazy people can only become nutrients for his rise again." Scanning the information on the desktop again, the military leader smiled lightly and spoke casually.

A sudden hail disaster.

It came suddenly and went away quickly.

When the disaster bell of Tianyuan Territory rang again, many migrant workers realized that the disaster had been successfully survived.

Three days.

They slept when they were full and ate when they woke up. They lived in the official shelters and lived a very stable life. They were no longer as cautious as they were before the disaster.

Many people even wanted to join Tianyuan Territory at the end of the disaster no matter how much it cost because of the comfort of these three days.

"Come out, everyone. Starting tonight, your freedom is back!"

After twelve o'clock, ten minutes after the hail disaster stopped, the narrow official shelters finally sounded a unified horn.

Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers also began to follow the guidance of the staff and went to the ground along the passage.

"Wow, this hail is really strong, it has smashed the ground into this state!"

"Damn, the road has been smashed, this time Tianyuan Territory will have to spend a lot of money"

"It's a pity that this summer harvest passed so quickly. I didn't even make one-fifth of the money in previous years"

"You kid should be happy secretly. Those who work in the official plantations don't even make one-tenth of you, right?"

"Hehehe, who made us smart? No, Zizailiangfang is smarter. Their machines are really awesome!"

Walking on the pothole-filled street, looking at the ice that has not yet dissipated in front of them, many people chatted with lingering fear and walked towards the public contact booth.

After the hail, the ground became like this, so there was no need to think about all the crops.

All they could do at this time was to quickly contact their families to see if their territory was safe, and then decide the time to return to the territory.

But unfortunately, when the first person lined up at the contact booth and successfully made a call.

Tonight is destined to be a sleepless night for all outsiders!

"What, the price of food in the territory has increased five times!"

"Are you crazy?"