Chapter 57 Construction of the Highway Network
The actor said nothing, but turned his head away.
These days, many of the former Boy Scouts suddenly have their own parents and brothers, which makes the children like Xizi extremely envious. Although the children in the Boy Scouts say that they don't know these people and will never leave Rongdong,
But the actors could see that they had gradually changed from resistance at the beginning to acceptance and joy.
The actor was happy for them, but he couldn't suppress his jealousy and fear. This repeated emotional tug-of-war almost drove him crazy, and there were many children who had the same emotions as him.
Nowadays, homeroom teachers in primary school transition classes have been deliberately separating the two groups. Children with parents are allowed to spend more time with their parents and siblings after school, while children without parents are given one-on-one "tutors" at adult education colleges. These "teachers" are both students and the guardians of these childless children.
The adoption program is called "Red Ribbon of Love", which means that even if there is no blood relationship, the two parties connected by the red ribbon can be as close as a family.
However, this plan not only failed to alleviate the jealousy and inferiority of these orphaned children, but even aroused their anxiety. The homeroom teacher had no choice but to report the situation and report the statistics one by one to the planet commander.
Xizi, the "king of children" who once boasted that he must follow Shengxia, was also sent to Shengxia after school that day. However, before he was sent here, he couldn't help but quarrel with 345 because 345 took the snacks made by his mother Abu and wanted to share them with Xizi, but Xizi knocked them away.
345 looked very stunned, and the actor looked at the stunned 345, not knowing what was going on, and started crying in anger and frustration. Then, without waiting for 345 to say anything, the actor turned around and ran away.
Before arriving at Shengxia's office, Xizi had been feeling a bit restless, but he didn't know how to explain his emotions. Fortunately, Shengxia was also busy with work, so Xizi sat in her office for a full hour without Shengxia raising her head from her work to look at him.
So the actor was happy to sort out his feelings at ease, until Shengxia finally freed herself from her official duties and looked up at him and asked, "Are you okay?"
Strangely, when the actor heard these four words, he always felt like crying again.
Shengxia came over and didn't scold him. Instead, she rubbed his head lovingly, then picked him up and walked out.
"Where are we going?" The actor panicked for a moment. He was not a little sister who needed to be coaxed. He was still very shy to be carried out by Shengxia like this.
"I'll take you to see the topic your brother is currently researching."
"Um?"
The actor remembered that he had a brother who was not very well-groomed at the Adult Education College. Not only was that guy not well-groomed, he was also very quiet. When the actor stood next to him, he always felt like a mascot.
But what touched the actor was that he often gave him some small stages or toys he made by hand and wrote handwritten letters to encourage his dream of performing on stage.
"What a strange fellow."
Taking the elevator from the second underground floor of the Rongdong all the way to the ground, Xizi thought Shengxia was going to take him directly out of the Rongdong. Who knew that after changing to another elevator, Shengxia actually took him straight to the tower on the ground floor of the Rongdong.
After reaching the top of the tower, the cold wind blew in his face, causing the actor to subconsciously close his eyes. As Shengxia reached out and turned on a heater and opened the tower's cold-proof shield, a soft but powerful voice rang in his ears: "Look."
The actor tentatively opened his eyes, but was soon shocked by the scene before him. He saw that the ground of the originally dark planet Volk was now lit up with guiding lights that looked like the runway of an aerospace starship.
Strings of light spread out along the mountain ridges and the road in front of me. In the distance, I seemed to be able to see the plains behind the mountains and the city covered by ice and snow.
"It's shocking to see this," Shengxia said, smiling as she leaned over to explain to Xizi that in the past, only the larger cities on the surface of Volk had corresponding standard roads. Other places had either dirt roads or mountain roads that had been baptized by artillery fire. What Xizi's brother is doing is connecting these remote areas to the central city's road network.
From now on, even remote areas can enjoy the prosperity and convenience of the central city. More importantly, after the construction of these road networks is completed, the Volker planet will be on the road to complete poverty alleviation.
From food security to poverty alleviation and towards a well-off society, the people of Planet Volker had lagged far behind before, but are now catching up step by step.
"Do you know how difficult it is to design a suitable highway connecting to the main road on the planet Volk?" Shengxia took out the road map hand-drawn by Xizi's brother and showed it to Xizi. Xizi took the exquisite hand-drawn map that looked like a work of art, and while admiring the neatness and complexity of the lines, he also recognized the city streets where he used to sell addictive drugs.
"Yes, he took over the design of this highway because you grew up there. You see, in the future, if it is extended along this road, it will connect the three nearby villages. At the same time, according to your brother's envision, he wants to plan a drama school for you on this land."
"Drama School?" The actor couldn't help but scream again. Shengxia reached out and rubbed his head soothingly, telling him that the existing educational resources and venues in the melting cave were far from enough. So when the cold winter ended, the future planet Volk would build more universities, high schools, middle schools and elementary schools.
That's right, just like other planets outside the star field, Volk also needs a complete education system.
"At the same time, I will continue my nine-year compulsory education, during which the cost of education will be fully funded by the state."
“So cool.”
Looking at this hand-drawn road map, the actor could already imagine the drama academy that would rise from the ground after being connected to this road network. Even if he just visited it, he would feel extremely happy.
Shengxia suddenly changed the subject: "Come to think of it, your brother once gave you a lot of handmade toys and a small stage, right?"
The actor's breathing suddenly stopped. He looked at the precisely marked open spaces and the shapes of these open spaces. Without saying a word, he turned around and wanted to go down the tower and return to his residence.
Shengxia stopped him at this moment and said, "This is your brother's completely hand-drawn blueprint. It's the only one of its kind. You must keep it. As for other children, have you received similar gifts?"
"I see!!!"
The actor was as happy as a little rabbit that had just been fed carrots. His eyes were so bright that he felt like his heart was about to jump out of his chest.
As he rushed down the stairs and bumped into a patrolling federal security officer, the officer on duty couldn't help but yell, "Hey, be careful! Don't fall!" as he stumbled and ran.
The actor seldom heard such caring words before, but since he heard them too often, he has begun to ignore that this is also a kind of care.
So the actor turned around and said happily: "I know, you have worked hard too."
"Hey, you're quite sweet."
The actor felt that he was smiling rather foolishly. He continued to run through the education district until he returned to his home. To his surprise, his quiet brother was waiting for him at his residence. Upon seeing him, his brother felt a moment of shyness. He handed the actor dinner and explained, "You...didn't come today, so I came to see you."
The next second, the actor rushed over and gave him a big hug. At this time, the actor could feel his brother's body trembling for a moment. Then his brother stared at him stupidly with his eyes wide open, as if he couldn't believe that he could accept himself.
"You, you?"
"I have this." The actor handed over his hand-drawn road map and shouted, "Brother, you are amazing."
At that moment, the boy's face turned red like a nearly ripe tomato, and the actor didn't linger any longer as he dragged him by the hand to the residences of the other children in the class. Soon, under his endless narration, these children who had originally been jealous of the scouts who had families also found their own gifts, just like the lucky ones who received Santa Claus's blessings in winter.
"Wow, I'll have a sister too." "My brother is really awesome." "My brother is the best." "Nonsense, my sister is the best." "My sister can drive an excavator." "My brother can do that, too." ...
Listening to the childish comparisons between these children who were about to enter junior high school, the older brothers and sisters who had received the news and rushed over from all over the school couldn't help but cover their mouths and laugh, thinking that the love in their hearts had finally been conveyed.
At this time, 345 and her group of children who had families also showed up at Xizi's residence. The first second Xizi saw 345, he walked over, apologized to 345 earnestly and bravely, and asked 345 if he had any snacks made by her mother, thinking they must be delicious, as he was very hungry now.
345 had been holding back a lot of words, but now, seeing the actor's embarrassed expression as he scratched his head, all those words melted into a resounding "Hmm" the moment she opened her mouth.
Not far away, the non-Wolker family members who witnessed all this burst into tears. Abu couldn't help but say to Ami, "Our planet commander really raised our children very well."
"Yeah, it's really...very good, even better than what we taught you."
The main reason was that the actor's generous apology and bright smile also made the family members see another possibility for the children who were once displaced on the planet Volk.
After the apology, the children in the junior high school class reunited and even held a cheerful and lively "fake bonfire" party, singing their own songs and dancing their own dances.
For some reason, seeing this scene, the non-Wolker family members suddenly realized what Sheng Xia once said: "As long as we share the same beliefs, we can become a loving family even if our blood ties and customs are different."
This sentence is really great.
At the same time, due to the continuous construction of the road foundation and the farmland foundation, the senior leaders of the arms faction in the hot spring area suffered a lot. Breakfast time was rumbling, lunch time was dinging, and dinner time was crackling. If you count carefully, they had to listen to the noise coming from outside all day long.
What’s even more infuriating is that even if you want to stop it or complain, there is absolutely no way to do so.
"This is truly the most noisy winter."
When the top leaders of the arms faction were eating around the table, they looked at each other's haggard appearances and couldn't understand how they had fallen to this point.
How could this newly appointed planetary commander have such great charisma that he could completely control the entire Volk planet, so many forces and people, even including slaves who were not citizens of Volk Planet and whom they used to look down upon but would really hate to see them go away?
"Hasn't there been a response to the contact with the alien domain yet?"
Wanting to change the subject, my colleague, who was also my colleague, suddenly said, "All the technicians have been poached. Are you going to fix the equipment or am I going to fix it?"
Senior officials of the arms faction: ... "Alas." The simultaneous sighs truly expressed their sorrow and situation at the moment.
But soon, accompanied by the sound of an emergency contact, they suddenly discovered that the inter-star communication that had been cut off for a long time was now smooth again.
"Can you hear me?" The voice on the other end of the communication signal was something the group had never heard before.
"Of course... yes?" The senior executives of the arms faction answered the question of the contact person on the other end with an attitude that was almost servile to the extreme.
"very good……"
"According to my orders..."
"Restore the signal to the hot spring area..."
"Be careful to avoid...signal monitoring."
"Also...what's going on with the lights on the planet's surface during this period?"
At the same time, Shengxia was standing on the top of the tower in the Rongdong Cave, also watching these lights. The old expert from the Architecture Institute had originally suggested waiting until after the cold winter to start the construction of these infrastructure. He was worried that if the surface of Volk Planet lit up abnormally, it would definitely attract malicious glances from the surrounding star regions.
This may also cause the conflict to break out earlier, and the people, soldiers and even the corresponding military defense equipment on the Volk planet may not be able to make corresponding preparations.
Unfortunately, this proposal was rejected by Shengxia, and the reason given by Shengxia was very simple: "We can't always hope that the enemy is weaker than us or won't fire the first shot at us."
"With the foundation laid now, we will be able to build a comprehensive road network in seven months. If war breaks out, this mature road network will become one of our important trump cards in our counterattack."
"Also, how is the underground nuclear preparation project, which is being built and laid simultaneously with the highway network, progressing?"
Compared with the construction of the highway network, the real trump card - the underground nuclear preparation project is what Shengxia has prepared for, which may catch everyone off guard in future crisis response.
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