Chapter 230

The same scene occurred in all districts.

043 and 047 returned to the exchange point.

The layout of the entire exchange point is very simple.

When in use, a table is left facing outwards in the front, and the lone man in charge of exchanging supplies sits behind the table, checking the quantity of supplies while making the exchange.

In the dead of winter, the door is opened every three days.

Today is a holiday, so the metal shutter of the exchange counter in front is pulled down, indicating that it is closed.

At the exchange point, a wall separated the back and front desk spaces. If you stood outside the exchange point, you couldn't see what was going on inside.

043 They walked to the side, opened the door with the key, and pushed it open and went in.

The area behind the entire exchange point is a large warehouse, where materials used for exchange are usually temporarily stored before being delivered and exchanged.

But there has never been a time when the place was so full of stuff that they couldn't even find a place to step when they just returned.

"You're back so soon? Just in time, come and help." The one-horned man with the number 042 hanging on his chest poked his head out from behind a supply box and said to them hurriedly.

“I’m completely overwhelmed.”

043: "Even if I hang myself, I still need to take a breath. I'm going to drink some water first."

As he spoke, he changed his coat, went to the small rest area next to him and poured a cup of hot water. He gulped it down before he breathed a sigh of relief.

The entire rest area is only about seven or eight square meters, with two simple bunk beds stacked on top. The upper bunk has a rolled-up bedding, and the lower bunk's bed board has been removed, with several unopened boxes neatly stacked on it.

On the other side, against the wall, there is a simple energy supply device. After connecting an external power strip, it can be used to boil water and heat instant food.

Although Qi Heng worked hard to provide electricity, his focus was still on the underground city. Apart from the necessary public lines, he did not popularize electricity in the gathering area.

So people like the One-Horned People still use portable mobile energy supply devices as before.

This is also the device that Qi Heng will vigorously promote in the gathering place in the future.

"Have you checked the quantity? There's nothing missing, right?" 047 walked over to 042 and asked, "Don't start in two days and find out there's too much missing."

042, wrench in hand, unpacked the box and said, "It's pretty much the same."

After drinking the water, 043 walked to the side, turned on the computer, and began to debug the medical equipment used for physical examinations.

These big things occupied a corner of the warehouse.

Eighty percent of the supply boxes here contain medical supplies, and a small portion contains daily necessities for emergency use.

A medical scanner, various medical instruments for blood collection, and a box for sealing.

Soon, the inventory work reached the final step.

"Verification complete, there's no problem with the quantity in this batch." 042 stretched and prepared to proceed to the next step: "All these ID cards must be activated and the identity IDs must be bound."

"Which Zergs are you going to start with?"

There are 49 districts in the 2 good gathering places. Excluding District 1 which has the most complete facilities, the other districts are terribly backward.

The lack of electrical equipment is just the most inconspicuous point. Other things like the number of Zerg people have not been counted. Only a few of them are responsible for giving tasks to the Zerg recruited to maintain order.

As long as there is no trouble, the higher-ups don't care whether they are in charge of the Zerg or the Zerg are in charge of themselves.

"If not with the Guards, who else can we start with?"

"In addition, there are those Zerg who have been approved in advance and come to us to receive the light computer." 047 sat on a box and clicked on the light computer on his wrist.

"I'll notify this part of the Zerg."

With a light computer and internet access, all you need to do is send a message.

043 agreed with him and said, "There aren't many of them, so we can practice with them first."

"To be honest, I've never done the process of registering my identity information."

047 smiled and spread his hands, saying, "Except for District 1, which district has the experience of registering male insects?"

"There are three of us. One is responsible for entering identity information and binding ID cards, one is responsible for doing simple physical examinations, and the other is responsible for taking their blood."

Blood sampling is for recording DNA, identity information recording includes fingerprints and irises, and physical examination is to collect information about the current physical condition of the Zerg so as to provide targeted improvements and treatments.

Apart from anything else, the supplies they have here also include a lot of medicines that replenish the trace elements needed by the body.

Based on the Unicorn's many years of experience in guarding the Tianjia Zerg, regardless of whether there are other diseases, the Zerg are more or less related to malnutrition.

The food supply is insufficient and the variety is limited, which can only ensure their survival but cannot provide them with adequate nutrition.

Even though they have now followed the orders of that adult and loosened the previously tightened restrictions on material exchange, that doesn't mean they can go from having life-sustaining meals to being able to eat until they are 70% full.

If they were allowed to eat as much as they wanted, the supplies on Tianyun Star would definitely not be enough and would run out soon.

042: "Let me make it clear first, I don't do blood drawing."

"Then you'll be responsible for entering the identification information." 043 thought for a moment, "I'll be responsible for taking the blood."

"With the help of equipment, it should be relatively easy."

"It's not like we haven't tried drawing blood with them before, so it should be similar." 043 said uncertainly.

The so-called blood-drawing attempt is to make the Zerg exchange blood for food - this behavior has withdrawn from the option of exchanging supplies after they have been severely beaten.

047's mouth twitched. "Don't mention the past, please. Let's just let that dark history go."

043 picked up a needle and tube for blood collection, all of which were disposable items. After use, they were collected and transported away for disposal.

The blood collection process is also very convenient.

It only needs to be installed on the blood collection instrument, and the instrument can automatically scan the subcutaneous blood vessels.

Then the person responsible for drawing blood only needs to place the instrument in the corresponding position, the needle will pop out, and the drawn blood will be automatically injected into the blood collection tube below.

When the blood reaches the set scale, blood collection will stop.

At this time, you just need to pull out the needle and press with a cotton ball to stop the bleeding.

Before starting the next one, you only need to change the needle and blood collection tube, and the whole process takes as little as one second.

047 pushed the boxes in the inspection area around, making enough space for five or six people to stand, and then asked 043.

"Is the equipment debugging completed?"

043: Done, it's already turned on, just use it.

"That's fine. I've already notified them to come over. Let's do a rehearsal later."

There are only dozens of Zerg with optical computers in the entire area, which is just the right number.

"No problem. Where's the guard team? Can we make an announcement?"

042 tidied up the table. On one side was a simple device for fingerprint and iris entry, and on the other side was a terminal computer with a household registration and identity system.

In the open box at his feet were neatly stacked ID cards.

"047, you go."

047: "Okay, the announcement is over, and it's time to tell the story."

There is a microphone connected to the broadcast at the front desk of the exchange point. Once a broadcast is made, the speakers in the entire area will sound synchronously.

In addition to the microphone, there is also an audio-visual device that can be used to play music, stories, etc., and these stories and music are full of a strange yet familiar civilization.

——The Tianjia civilization has been destroyed for 10,000 years. Apart from the information related to the Tianjia civilization in some entertainment works, it is difficult to know what the Tianjia civilization was like during its glorious period.

It is generally believed in the interstellar world that everything created by the Tianjia civilization disappeared with their destruction.

After all, when the Tianjia civilization was destroyed, because the resistance was so fierce, the various civilizations responsible for encircling and suppressing the Tianjia civilization adopted the means of cutting the grass and eradicating it completely, and would rather destroy it than let them leave any trace of the seeds of civilization's revival.

Not only the Zerg in the gathering place are interested, but even the One-horned People who have been listening for a long time look forward to the "Story Broadcast Time" every afternoon.

Due to distance, the first ones to arrive were those closest to the exchange point. Among them were female insects from the guard team, as well as female insects who had passed the Gray Mist exam and were responsible for conducting small teaching classes in their spare time.

The door on the side of the exchange point opened and several female insects walked in.

Compared with ordinary Zerg, they are more "familiar" with the Unicorns, especially the female Zergs in the guard... You know, they have been dealing with each other for a long time.

If you trace it back, their female father and their female father's female father had dealings with the one-horned people.

Therefore, when the unicorns changed their attitude towards them and the situation reversed from looking down on them from a superior position to treating them as equals, they found it difficult to adapt for a while.

It took me a month of adaptation to avoid embarrassment.

When the literacy campaign organized by Gray Mist was rolled out to various districts, the first people to be assigned tasks by the One-Horned Man were the female insects of the Guard.

Later, they adopted the method of old teachers teaching new ones, asking them to recommend some female insects who had free time and did not need to support a family to attend classes. After they completed the basic language and literacy courses, they were dispersed throughout the district to conduct small classes to teach some surrounding insects.

Qing, who lives in District 9 and is also a member of the guard, has experienced all the changes that have taken place in the entire gathering place from its inception to the present.

"Come over here when you're here." 042 picked up a brand new ID card and waved to Qing who came in first.

"Qing, come here first. The other bugs will line up behind you. Come to my place first to enter your identity information, then go to 043 to have your blood drawn, and finally go to 047 for a physical examination."

Three Zergs came. They were familiar with each other and stood behind Qing, watching with some curiosity.

They knew some inside information about the insect census plan. After all, they would be needed to maintain order when the census really began.

Similarly, their personal experiences can make other Zerg less resistant and fearful.

——As a lackey and tool of the Ikal civilization, the unicorn has a bad reputation among the Tianjia Zerg and is not trusted at all.

Who knows if they are planning to do something even more vicious to them under the guise of doing good for them.

...exploiting them, sucking their bones and marrow, cutting off the insect wings of the cubs, and snatching the cubs away... They have never forgotten any of these things.

The new ID card is inserted into the card reader next to it, and the activation process begins. An interface pops up on the household registration system requiring information input.

042 swiped open the virtual keyboard on the terminal, looked at Qing and asked, "Do you want to change your name?"

"It's hard to change your identity after you register. I see you all like to add a surname to yourselves."

Unicorns can also enter the Gray Mist forum, but the content they can see is limited. All content that they are not allowed to see is blocked and marked with *.

They were also quite tactful, spending most of their time hanging out in Gray Mist's external forums, where Zergs with optical computers from various districts were basically asking questions, and the conversations in the exchange area were more lifelike.

Choosing a suitable and favorite character as a surname is the first thing the Zergs do after taking history education classes.

In fact, the fundamental reason was that Qi Heng took into consideration that there were too many insects in the gathering place who gave random names. In order to avoid having seventy or eighty people look back when he called out "Cloud" in the future, he included some personal opinions in the educational content.

Having a surname is both a return to old customs, allowing everyone to get closer to the past and ancient civilization, and it can also reduce the rate of duplicate names. Why not kill two birds with one stone?

As for his surname, Qing had already decided which one he wanted to use. When asked about it, he didn't hesitate and said it directly.

"Yun, Yunqing."

Yun was the name of his female father, but his female father had been gone for several Falling Star Days. He could not see the changes in the gathering place now, nor could he see the future.

He carries his father's name and looks towards a better future.

042 typed in his name, then filled in his gender, and then he got stuck on the date of birth column.

He asked hesitantly, "Do you remember when you were born?"

This really touches upon Yun Qing's blind spot in cognition.

In other words, when all the Zerg's blind spots were asked, few of them knew when they were born.

042's gaze swept over the female insects behind Yun Qing who were also becoming somewhat confused. Needless to say, it seemed that they didn't know either.

"How do we do this?" 042 said, looking at 043 and 047 who were joining in the fun.

043 said, "When I was checking just now, I saw a handheld scanner. This kind of medical scanner should be equipped with some basic functions."

"Bring it here and see if there's a function that automatically detects bone age."

047 turned around to look for it and soon found it.

After fiddling with it for a while, 047 said, "It can scan the wrist bones. Yunqing, stretch out your hand so I can see if that's how it works."

This batch of instruments were sold by a fourth-level civilization. They didn't know the specific inspection principles, but that didn't stop them from using them.

Yun Qing stretched out his hand.

The scanner flicked across his left wrist.

047 raised his head and said, "No, without basic data, I can't compare and give a result."

042, who was waiting on the side, received a new message, clicked it, and knocked on the table to attract the attention of 043 and 047, then said:

"The data is here."

"It seems we're not the only one experiencing this problem. Other districts have reported it, and they've sent us a data package that can be directly loaded onto the scanner and used."

They fiddled with it and quickly uploaded the data.

"Try again now." 047 scanned again.

This time, the calculation results came out quickly.