"Really? There can be such a powerful superpower as prophecy? Could it be just pure luck...?"
Zhang Xiaojuan was skeptical, glancing sideways at the crowded people not far away. "I've never even met someone who could accurately predict the future in my entire life, let alone have any prophetic abilities."
Han Rui, annoyed by the questioning, stood with her hands on her hips, puffing out her cheeks. "It's not just this one thing. They say there are many other things that can corroborate this prophet's identity."
"And Sister Sweetie was there just now, she can also testify for me that there really is such a mysterious big shot with uncanny foresight in the Deep Space Base."
Everyone turned their attention to Sun Tiantian, who immediately nodded. "That's what they said. Before entering the Eternal Night, the Deep Space Base had already begun preparing lighting and power supply equipment and stored a large amount of emergency equipment."
"It is said that this mysterious bigwig also provided a lot of help in the research of the zombie virus vaccine."
This completely shocked everyone present.
Predicting the future with uncanny foresight, accurately forecasting the next natural disaster, and even providing crucial information to unlock a zombie virus vaccine? In a novel, this would be a chosen one blessed with incredible luck!
With such human-powered cheat codes, it's no wonder that the Deep Space Base was able to rise so rapidly in such a short time...
"What's his name?" Lu Sheng asked, frowning.
She rehearsed countless possibilities in her mind, but she still couldn't believe that such a prophet with uncanny foresight really existed.
Having spent three years navigating the post-apocalyptic world in her previous life, she had never heard of anyone awakening prophetic abilities. More likely than prophecy, she suspected this person was a reincarnated individual like herself!
Han Rui tried hard to recall the gossip information she had just collected: "It is said to be a young man, handsome, highly regarded in the deep space base, who usually lives in the core area of the base and has never appeared in the outer areas."
They had just handed over the crystal cores when they were told that even if they completed the naturalization registration, they would only have one-third of the activity area within the deep space base.
The deep space base has a very strict hierarchy, and the huge base is divided into two parts: the core area and the outer area.
The residents within the base are also divided into different ranks, from level one to level five, depending on their abilities and contributions to the base.
Residents at levels one to three can only move around in the outer area of the base. Only after a resident reaches level four are they eligible to obtain an identity card to enter the core area.
The core area offers much better living conditions and more generous rewards for base missions, leading to a significant rise in living standards.
However, the resident rank is not static. The Deep Space Base will calculate the contribution value of all residents every month, and the core area will also implement a bottom elimination system to ensure that the total number of people in the core area is controlled within a certain range, while also allowing for a certain degree of mobility.
As the group was discussing their plan, a piercing electronic ringtone suddenly rang out from afar.
"Dinner's ready! Dinner's ready!" someone shouted at the top of their lungs.
The group of people who were just chatting enthusiastically suddenly turned into tigers released from their cages and ran wildly toward the cafeteria a few hundred meters away.
Zhang Xiaojuan curiously grabbed a young girl and asked, "Why are you all in such a hurry?"
"Oh, you guys must be new here? Our cafeteria outside has limited hours and quantities. It's only open for half an hour each meal. If you go too late, you won't even get any water to wash the dishes!"
"I'm not talking to you anymore! It's too late!"
The girl said something and then hurriedly ran away.
Lu Sheng and his friends arrived at the cafeteria with curiosity, only to find the windows already crowded with people getting their food.
Before they could even get close, an impatient voice came from inside, "That's all! There's no more food or rice!"
Those who hadn't gotten their food yet immediately groaned in despair, pleading with the staff at the window, "Is there any vegetable soup left? We can have some vegetable soup with bean cakes! We haven't been able to get any food for two meals already, we really can't take it anymore!"
Bang!
The burly man in an apron slammed the iron pot on the window, cursing, "You lowly residents are so hard to please! The base only provides such a small quota to the outer areas every day. Who can you blame if you can't get any? There's not even any soup, not even the ash at the bottom of the pot!"
Despite being refused, the remaining people lingered, peering longingly through the window.
Lu Sheng glanced at the plate of the person next to her. There was only one dish on the plate: boiled cabbage served with brown rice.
There wasn't a drop of oil in the dish, and the water used for stewing was unclean—a large, dark blob that looked unappetizing.
But everyone who got a dish cherished it and wolfed it down.
At the table beside Lu Sheng sat a mother and daughter. The mother looked to be about thirty-five or thirty-six, and the daughter looked to be in her teens.
The mother picked out a few vegetable leaves from the plate and placed them on her daughter's plate, gently comforting her, "Baby, just bear with it. Mommy will take on more tasks these few days to earn contribution points, and soon we'll be able to take you to live in the core area, okay?"
Seeing this, Zhang Xiaojuan asked Lu Sheng for a bag of spicy crispy sausages and went over to chat with the mother and daughter.
A few minutes later, he returned looking dejected. "This place is almost no different from a shady factory."
It turns out that the core area and the outer area are completely two different worlds.
The outer areas are like slums, where food, drink, and basic necessities are provided according to the standards of lower-class residents. Resources are fixed regardless of the population size. This leads to fierce competition for resources in the outer areas, a system of survival of the fittest.
The core area is like a wealthy neighborhood separated by a wall. Not only are there unlimited living resources, but you can also enjoy various entertainment facilities. As long as you can get in, you will have no worries about food and clothing.
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