Chapter 459 Refusal to cooperate
With a new idea, Xia Xiaoman gave up competing with the people in Shacheng for the mine.
She counted the supplies on the ship and checked the cities she would encounter on the way back. She planned to contact other cities on the way back and collect more useful supplies.
Imagination is beautiful, but reality is cruel.
On the way back, every time he came across a city, Xia Xiaoman tried his best to contact the local underground city.
However, most cities did not respond. A few cities sent people to meet Xia Xiaoman, but when they heard that they were from Fucheng, they turned around and ran away as if they were some kind of monster.
Sun Qing looked puzzled. "Are these people sick? They turned and ran away when they heard we were from Fucheng. Are they afraid that we would eat them?"
Ye Xiaojie frowned and thought for a while, "Maybe it's because of the nanochip."
There are many cities that have not yet gotten rid of the control of the nanochips, and the incident of the floating city resisting the nanochips has spread to various cities. Those cities controlled by the nanochips know that they are from the floating city, and they are worried that if they come into contact with them, they will be judged as Floating City spies.
Once they were identified as spies, the consequence would be that the chip in their bodies would explode and they would die. That was why those people regarded them as ferocious beasts.
Sun Qing figured out the reason and asked in confusion: "Why does Xinggang City dare to cooperate with us? People in Xinggang City should also be injected with nanochips, right?"
"That's because they have nowhere else to go." Xia Xiaoman interrupted, "Xinggang City has been forced to go out to find food. If they don't cooperate with us, they will starve to death in no time."
Sun Qing recalled the embarrassed look of the Star Harbor City captain salvaging aquatic creatures in the rain, and murmured, "Those people in the capital only know how to fight for power, and they don't even know how to send people to deliver some food to Star Harbor City."
Xia Xiaoman smiled and said, "An underground city has at least 100,000 people, and at most several hundred,000 people. The capital can deliver food for a while, but can it deliver it for a lifetime?"
Who can afford the food for so many people, not to mention the grain, and just the consumption of the boats to carry the goods back and forth? Everyone in the capital is a cunning fox, how could they be the one to be taken advantage of?
Sun Qing sighed, "So what are you going to do now? Other cities are unwilling to cooperate with us in trade. Do we still have to look for mines again?"
Xia Xiaoman shook her head. "Let's go back first. I'll discuss countermeasures with Yu Jie when I get back."
If they want other cities to cooperate with their Floating City, they must first solve the problem of nanochips in other cities.
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After half a month, Xia Xiaoman and others returned to the underground city.
After returning to the dungeon, Xia Xiaoman went to the laboratory to visit Fu Baiwei first.
From the outside, Fu Baiwei had not changed at all since she left the dungeon, but Fu Baiwei's emotions were clearly under control. She was not as irritable and irritable as before, and her pronunciation was much clearer.
"They said...you went out to look for mines. Did you meet my...companions?"
Xia Xiaoman shook her head. "We took another route and didn't meet your companions. How did you feel in the laboratory? Did they treat you well?"
Fu Baiwei pursed her lips and did not answer Xia Xiaoman's question. Instead, she asked, "Am I... so ugly now? If Sun Haiyun saw me like this... he probably wouldn't recognize me, right?"
Xia Xiaoman was silent for a moment, and then comforted him dryly: "Don't think too much, actively cooperate with the treatment, maybe you can become a normal person again."
Fu Baiwei didn't know if she had heard him or not, so she whispered, "Tell...your people not to embarrass my companions. They are all women with miserable lives...all abandoned people..."
"Don't worry, I will help you convey it."
After hearing Xia Xiaoman's promise, Fu Baiwei slowly closed her eyes and didn't want to talk to her anymore.
Seeing this, Xia Xiaoman left the room and did not continue to disturb Fu Baiwei.
After leaving the laboratory, Xia Xiaoman took Maodan to Yu Jie's office to report on their outing.
Yu Jie was a little disappointed to learn that the copper mine had been occupied by someone else. "Forget it, this copper mine has been occupied by someone else. You guys take a rest and leave in three days to find another mine."
"So rushed?" Xia Xiaoman frowned. Last time she could rest for ten days, but this time she could only rest for three days.
Yu Jie placed the tablet in front of Xia Xiaoman and said, "After monitoring, we estimate that in less than three months, Xiaguo will enter darkness. Without sunlight and with the ozone layer damaged, Xiaguo may enter a frozen state."
"We must build an elevator to the surface before Xiaguo enters a frozen state. Otherwise, when night falls and everything freezes, the underground city will also be frozen under the water, and we will be unable to get out."
Based on the experience of the previous two years, the eternal night will last at least 8-11 months. If they don't build an elevator that can get out of the water, then after the eternal night falls, they will be trapped in the underground city and unable to go out, wasting more than half a year in vain.
"Right now, the materials for building the elevator in the dungeon are not enough. We need more ore to forge steel. So you must go out and find a mine as soon as possible. Three days of rest is the most time I can give you."
Xia Xiaoman said, "We don't necessarily have to find the mines ourselves. We can cooperate with other cities and share the mines."
"Xie Yi should have told you about Xinggang City exchanging crucian carp for food, right? In addition to cooperating with Xinggang City, we can also cooperate with other underground cities. As long as we have enough supplies, we can exchange them for enough ore or steel."
Yu Jie was silent for a moment and said, "Xie Yi has already told me your idea. This is a good idea, but the prerequisite is that other dungeons are willing to cooperate with us."
Xia Xiaoman said: "As long as the nanochip issue is resolved and those cities are out of the control of the capital, I think they will agree to cooperate with us for better development."
"Nanochips are not as simple as you think. They can't be solved easily." Yu Jie tapped the table lightly, thinking whether to cooperate with other cities according to what Xia Xiaoman said.
She was able to successfully get rid of the nanochip in the floating city because of the right time, right place and right people. But other cities were different. Their hatred for the capital was not so deep, so it was not so easy to get rid of the nanochip.
Furthermore, she had already offended Zhou Zejun by letting Fucheng escape from his control. If she helped other cities solve the nanochip problem, she was afraid that Zhou Zejun would spare no effort to kill her.
After thinking for a long time, she looked at Xia Xiaoman and said, "I'll let Lu Lanshan contact other cities and see their attitudes before making a decision. In the meantime, you still have to go out and look for mines."
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