Chapter 146: Corpse Worms Also Have Shit
Time flies. During this hottest time, Jingshu insisted on staying at home with air conditioning, drinking beverages, eating big meals, practicing Rubik's Cube, drying vegetables, and checking out the trivial things happening in several groups. She silently lurked and didn't say anything. She would never go out unless there was something to do.
People continued to die in droves. Three more people died in Jingshu Community due to prolonged water shortage. When Wu Youai called to ask about the bodies being dragged away, he said that they had all been taken to the crematorium to be fed to maggots, who were too reluctant to lay eggs.
The government's water supply is getting less and less, and it has been reduced by another 100. Even the mountain spring water used by senior government officials is almost gone. Now the rich dare not take a bath casually. Jingshu's family dare not take a bath or wash clothes now. The clothes are piled up in half of the house.
Seeing that the last ton of water was almost gone, they dug water from the fish pond to irrigate the land. Seeing that the water level in the fish pond had dropped by a layer, Jingnai was also anxious. Only Jingshu was sitting still and eating and drinking as usual.
The major reservoirs in Wucheng are now only quagmires. Some of the water people drink now is the black snow water brought down from the snow-capped mountains that has been simply filtered. It is said to have a strong bitter and fishy taste that makes people want to vomit after drinking it. Jingshu knows that it is the excrement of the carrion worm.
Don’t ask Jingshu why she knows... Ugh!
Now people in the group are asking every day why the water is so unpalatable. After boiling, there are many small black spots. Are they viruses or something? Then after a long time, the government said, oh, that is the feces of carrion beetles.
Jingshu and her family no longer go to get water. Firstly, there is too little water. Secondly, there is not enough water to irrigate the land. The livestock will not drink the filtered water in the cans, which is smelly.
Outside the villa is hell on earth, inside the villa is paradise on earth. In this end-of-world life, Jingshu successfully lives the life she wanted.
Just when most people were about to collapse due to lack of water, governments across China finally brought shocking news: the artificial sun was about to be put into use.
The Wucheng government will officially start using the artificial sun on October 1, National Day. If they can hold on for the last few days, everything will be over!
At the same time, in order to ensure the normal operation of artificial solar energy, Wucheng took over all available energy, including oil, natural gas, coal, etc.
Operating an artificial sun is actually a process of nuclear fusion. The government has not disclosed this to the outside world: there is still a key technical point that has not been resolved, but they are forcing it to be built.
The consequence is that money is being burned like crazy every second. It has not achieved true nuclear fusion, but requires energy to drive it.
No matter what, the artificial sun has given the general public a belief to survive.
But as soon as the news came out, Jingshu's high school classmates exploded. The twenty or so classmates who had gone there last time invited some classmates who had not come to buy the distiller, and then they promoted it crazily, inviting relatives and friends to come.
Zhang Lingling is so busy every day that she is dizzy. In her previous life, Jingshu had already left the group and no one knew what happened to her later. But in this life, she found out that Zhang Lingling had opened twenty casinos and was courting death.
A person has 20 work points and can develop unlimited downlines, but her family opened more than 20 accounts and directly invested 400 work points. This means that she must recruit 200 people to make a profit. She opened a new account for every 10 people she recruited, using one account to support another.
However, this high school classmates group alone has brought her a lot of benefits.
After taking the distiller home, everyone excitedly found a deep hole to bury it according to the instructions, and the next day there was water in the box.
After the students took it home, they asked their relatives and friends to help them collect work points, and even sold their last belongings to buy this thing. Later on, the distiller became unimportant.
A few days later, a classmate raised a question.
"My distiller has been running for two days and has only collected a mouthful of water. Isn't the effect too useless?"
Zhang Lingling: "I have quite a lot of them, you didn't place them in the right place."
Nima Sang: "That's right, we already have three at home, so why not buy a few more?"
Any group that has doubts will definitely speak with one voice and unite against the enemy. Students who have doubts will have nothing to say. No matter whether the thing is good or bad, if you want to sell it to the outside world, you must say that the thing is good!
Even if the distiller is not good, everyone tacitly does not talk about its shortcomings.
good.
However, it was announced today that the artificial sun will be used, and there will be no shortage of water in the future. This means that the distiller, which mainly serves as a water collector, will become useless to humans because no one needs it anymore.
So everyone in the group was asking what to do.
"I only took back 10 points."
"I did make a little over 10 cents, but unfortunately my relatives haven't earned it back yet."
Zhang Lingling: "Everyone, this is inside information. Don't be misled by the news. The artificial sun won't be launched until October 1st. It will take ten or eight days for water to be produced. It's unknown how long it will take for it to reach the public. We still have a lot of room for maneuver. Hurry and reconnect. Don't open any more accounts!"
Wang Chao: “Got it!”
The news of the launch of the artificial sun caused a sensation throughout China as soon as it was announced, but the subsequent notice about shortening the power usage time again was a bit of a drizzle.
Wu Youai: "Everyone, because we need to supply the artificial sun, the electricity usage hours in Wucheng will be adjusted to 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM from now on. It's not impossible to return to darkness before the artificial sun stabilizes. Anyway, people don't need to cook or boil water for bathing now."
The power supply has been reduced from 2 hours a day to 1 hour, but everyone is already counting the days until the artificial sun is turned on.
Wang Qiqi: "By the way, on September 29th, the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Wucheng government will be hosting a buffet for the day. It only costs 0.1 work points, and you can eat all kinds of insects to your heart's content."
Fatty: "Great, I can eat pepper worms as much as I want again, that's great!"
Zhang Bingbing's husband: "Take my wife out for a good meal. We need to provide some nutrition for the baby in our belly."
On the Mid-Autumn Festival on September 29, 2023, Jing's father picked up his uncle and his family of three and brought them to the villa for a reunion dinner.
According to convention, we were supposed to go to my uncle's house for dinner.
Although my uncle and aunt have become visiting specialists, we cannot cook because the natural gas has been cut off, and the supply of vegetables has stopped, so there is really no food to eat at home.
Recently, Jingma's Agricultural Management Department stopped supplying vegetables to ordinary civil servants due to severe water shortage, and only supplied a few hundred people at the top.
The government replaced vegetables with rice, and each civil servant could receive two meals of white rice and a small piece of meat every day.
I don’t know how many people are jealous and crazy about this treatment. They are trying their best to find a job in the government. The government is supposed to stimulate people, and only when there are clear hierarchies and classes can people be motivated to move forward.
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, people usually enjoy the moon while eating at night. This time was no exception. The temperature during the day was too terrible, so the time for dinner was naturally set at night.
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