Cultivating Immortality with Scientific Thinking
Chapter 884

The Crisis in Yun Cang

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Yun Cang City lay in the southwestern territory of East Hua, a rather remote city some distance from Tianhai City. It could not compare to a metropolis like Tianhai City; it had no major heavy industrial parks, no mineral resources, and even its local industries were underdeveloped. It mainly relied on the service sector for support.

Yet because it was situated on a plain where the waters of Three Rivers converged, the area had a huge population numbering several million.

To make a living, vast numbers of people migrated southeast every year, arriving in the Tianhai City region to work and survive. They then sent much of their wages back home to raise their children, bolster local education and tax revenue, and sustain the service sector, allowing the entirety of Yun Cang City to function and meet the needs of its enormous population.

With a constant influx of funds, coupled with the fact that this place stood between poverty and wealth, Yun Cang City's birth rate had remained high. Its population had grown positively year after year, continuously supplying Tianhai City with cheap labor.

Logically, this situation should have continued until local resources could no longer support population growth, at which point the numbers would begin to decline.

But who knew that beginning in June of this year, Yun Cang City had somehow begun to see a massive decrease in its floating population.

At first, the local human resources department believed the reduced population was simply due to people leaving to find work. But when even the number of people within their teams began to show a marked decline, they abruptly realized something was wrong and hurriedly sent personnel to investigate.

The outcome was obvious enough afterward. Under the surveillance of Yun Cang City's Skynet System, the personnel stationed there

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