The End of an Era
There were not many newspapers still being published in the Federation, because every year brought a long winter, greatly increasing the risks faced by newspaper delivery workers.
Delivering newspapers outdoors in temperatures of thirty or forty degrees below zero, walking across thick sheets of ice, was no different from courting death.
At first, some delivery workers were willing to keep working under the lure of high wages. But soon, after several delivery workers died of hypothermia, almost all of them stopped working.
With no one delivering newspapers, the newspapers could not reach their subscribers, and without deliveries, people would stop renewing their subscriptions. More and more newspapers began shutting down.
However, there were rumors that once they entered the shelters, they would consider resuming work.
After all, such harsh conditions did not exist inside the shelters.
But the Federal Daily was still operating. Its editor-in-chief and publisher declared that they would certainly outlast Congress and become the last people to enter the shelters!
And this time, the Federal Daily's front page contained only a single headline. There was no other text, not even a picture.
Even without any other content, people clearly understood what they were trying to express! With Congress and the political organizations evacuating from Bu Peien, it meant that the Federation had at least surrendered to nature! When many people saw the headline as soon as they received the newspaper, they fell silent. Human society had, in fact, largely accepted that the shelters would become humanity's final refuge.
But when that day truly drew closer and closer, the unease in people's hearts still began to spread uncontrollably.
This time, Congress had chosen the southernmost city as its destination. They would establish a temporary Federal Government there and hold out until the very