Chapter 404 Jingshu’s goal this time
After several attempts, they finally completed the first step of their second mission, successfully infiltrating Austin and officially becoming citizens! The next step was to enter the technology building and steal a series of equipment, including dehydrated vegetables.
"Amitabha, I am so sorry." The monk put his hands together, confessed, picked up the fork and started to eat voraciously. The beef stew with potatoes made by Jingshu was really delicious.
A group of people lived in the first-class residential houses they were assigned and went to bed early after dinner. Although it was rather crowded, the big castle always emitted a soft light, and the temperature inside was as warm as spring. There were also smart cleaning robots on the key streets. It all felt like living in a quiet high-tech city before the end of the world, clean and comfortable.
Of course, paying such an expensive fee only makes you a basic first-class citizen. There are second-class and third-class citizens above that, just like VIPs who pay money. The more you pay, the more services you can enjoy.
Not only that, if you want to survive in Austin City, the food you bring with you may not be enough. You also need to work like before the end of the world. The vagrants outside are scrambling to do the physical work. The high US labor costs have also become cheap at this moment. As long as you are given food, you will do anything. Therefore, the ordinary middle-class people in the castle have to rack their brains to think of other ways to earn food so that they can continue to live in the castle.
After all, it doesn't mean you can live a worry-free life for the rest of your life just by entering the castle. There are expensive transaction fees, monthly management fees, taxes to be paid, etc. Becoming a citizen is just a stepping stone, a beginning. This is also the reason why many people say that they can afford to buy a car but cannot afford to maintain it. Many people think that they can live comfortably in a castle that was built with a lot of money and is absolutely safe by paying 100 pounds, but this is not the case.
Technology developers can get very good treatment here. Recently, they have developed various foods in order to increase productivity.
Jingshu then remembered that when Wucheng was developing food a year or two ago, it had introduced a special profession: the food taster. The taster was required to eat various developed foods in front of the public every day. If nothing happened in three months, they would receive a bonus, and if they didn't die within a year, they would be promoted to a regular employee. This was to let the public accept these particularly weird and disgusting foods, and they would use their movements for experiments and so on... Extinct animals are more precious than humans.
"At that time, there were still many problems caused by eating. Some people went crazy while others grew other parts of their organs. This group of people did make a certain contribution to the food in the end times. I didn't expect that the United States would start so early." Jingshu sighed. She was almost starving to death, so how could she care so much?
"Hey, the United States started research so early, so if we bring back some information in advance, it should also be considered a contribution, right?" Jingshu came up with this idea unconsciously.
By the way, Austin has also introduced fertility workers who specialize in giving birth to children for Austin citizens. The salary is good, at least food and accommodation are provided, but they cannot choose their partners. They can live with one partner to give birth this year, and then move to another partner to give birth the year after. Jingshu doesn’t know how to comment on this.
In fact, after the tyrant came to power, facing the sharp decline in population, he also implemented similar policies. He even added new positions for formal workers aged 20-45 who enjoy formal worker treatment and have free sex. This means that if they like single or widowed men, they can pair up with them, and the man has no right to refuse until they get one. A man can even pair up with multiple women at the same time.
You can refuse but you have to pay the price of food. For example, the tyrant is also a handsome iceberg. Many people ask him to have children, and he has indeed handed over a lot of food for this, but how can you explain this difference between your left pocket and your right pocket?
After the child is born, it can be raised by the state or by the man. This relatively free choice has actually been controversial, because if the man wants a child, he must spend money to match up, and there are still a lot of single people.
No matter what, Jingshu had never considered relying on having children to support herself in her previous life, and it was even more impossible in this life.
For Austin, putting aside the country and external factors, this is definitely one of the best places to live in the apocalypse. First, it is extremely safe. No one in the castle can carry a gun except the security guards. Second, it is very comfortable. It is really good to have such a self-luminous material in a place without sunlight in the apocalypse. Third, it is relatively easy to obtain food sources.
Jingshu also set her own goals for this second mission.
: See if there are any suitable plants to grow, add some new supplies to the upgraded space, and then go to high-tech places to see if you can steal some useful supplies that are not available in the country, or see if there are any that can be used;
Finally, the material of the castle wall that Jingshu had been thinking about. Jingshu quietly observed it by the wall. It was like an LED lamp that would always be on. It would be electrified when touched with the hand. It had independent characteristics, that is, it could also be lit. Of course, its own temperature was over 40 degrees, which was very warm. It was like the huge bathroom heater in the castle, which not only emitted light but also warmth.
Jingshu quietly got some of the powder off, and surprisingly, it glowed! She wanted to get more to bring back home, or to inquire about the research and development of this material. If she could get this thing back home, it would definitely be a great achievement, and she would also be able to openly establish herself in the future.
"Ten years in my previous life, I was not out of touch with the news. At least I knew about the major events in the world. Why didn't such an awesome and precious material spread in the apocalypse? I haven't even heard of it? It can't be that the person who invented this material also traveled through time in this life, right? Besides, being able to make this material into city walls and ceilings dozens of meters high, it can't be particularly precious, right?" Jing Shu was really puzzled.
The next day, the team split up. Jingshu, Heshang and Xiao Heilai came to the agricultural research and development center in the castle, where all things related to agriculture were gathered, including Austin's planting center and Jingshu's goal this time, the new dehydration planting technology.
Jingshu and her companions came to scout the area, and of course, to look for a job. After learning that Jingshu could cultivate medicinal herbs and was a Chinese doctor, she was quickly received by a research and development staff member, a blonde, blue-eyed beauty.
"Oh damn, there are too few private doctors in Austin, and even fewer who really know how to cultivate medicines. Thank God, we only extract antibiotics. Other medicines are in short supply. We can't just use antibiotics when we are sick, right? You came at the right time. If you can really cultivate medicinal materials, I will definitely apply to the higher authorities to make you a third-class citizen." Eiffel said excitedly, and Xiao Hei translated in real time.
Jing Shu raised an eyebrow. "Excuse me, you have all the equipment and conditions. If you can grow all kinds of vegetables, why can't you grow medicinal herbs?"
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