The Incineration Plant Working Overtime

The Incineration Plant Working Overtime

The female mayor's voice echoed throughout the city from time to time. However, the speeches about living or dying alongside W37 usually didn't include an image of the mayor, and information about government officials was rarely seen. Their secrecy was impressive.

Of course, the tree-crown pillar helped with that. The buildings above it were where the senior government officials conducted most of their business. Ordinary people and Players who hadn't joined W37 generally couldn't go up there, and weren't allowed to.

Strictly limiting communication and establishing a clear divide between the rulers above and the ruled below should, by conventional wisdom, have led to irreconcilable tensions. But so far, the residents of W37 Xu Huo had encountered had no complaints.

It wasn't that they'd been conditioned to accept it. W37 Base City had suffered numerous Attack Incidents in the past. Players, ordinary people, and even the infected could suddenly become attackers. These recurring incidents had caused W37 considerable losses. The worst one had destroyed a batch of grain seeds that had just passed testing in the Laboratory.

Grain was a lifeline for ordinary people. While they worked to build up a new stock of seeds, the food supply in the markets dropped by a third. Almost all the residents went from three regular meals a day to two. Having gone hungry, the people decided to find a way to prevent such incidents, and so the proposal to build the main government departments and important Laboratories high in the air came about. It was the result of a vote by all the residents.

Some Players had come to cause trouble in W37 since then, but they'd had little impact on the city's basic operations, which had also proved the decision was right.

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