Within fifteen minutes, three advertisements recruiting residents for shelters appeared in total. Two of the shelters offered free accommodations, electricity, and hot water.
One of them offered all that for free, and even provided residents with free food--
Only enough to keep one person from starving to death. Obviously, if they wanted to eat their fill or eat well, the food would be nowhere near sufficient.
But at least it was free. As long as people moved in, they could guarantee that they would not starve or freeze to death. That alone was quite attractive to many ordinary people.
The advertisements left Lin Qi with an indescribably absurd feeling. He then rose, went to the study, picked up the phone, and dialed Conner's office.
Conner had only just arrived at the office as well. He was somewhat puzzled to receive Lin Qi's call; anything that needed saying should have been finished earlier.
"Do you have a television over there?"
Conner glanced at the muted television and nodded. He suddenly realized that Lin Qi could not see him nod, so he added, "Yes. It's playing a program. Is there some news I should pay attention to?"
"Switch to... channel. Pay attention to the advertisements that follow."
Conner had his secretary change the channel. After watching for a short while, another advertisement promoting a shelter appeared.
It was more or less the same sort of content, offering many basic necessities for survival free of charge. Even Conner found it somewhat astonishing.
"We were just making arrangements to deal with the fact that so many people in Maliro couldn't move into shelters. Now we've discovered that our country's shelter resources are already excessive?"
Conner also felt that something was very wrong. "I'll arrange for someone to investigate. I'll contact you when we have