Chapter 024 New Era
Five minutes later, Su Ming got on the bus to the Investigation Bureau. When passing by the Dongyang Island Commercial Center, Su Ming was stunned by the scene before him.
In Su Ming's imagination, the world's technology has stagnated, productivity has stagnated, and the living standards of human beings have regressed due to the existence of strange things.
But the splendor of the commercial street in front of Su Ming and the dress of the pedestrians all prove that the local people have a very good living standard.
The bus drove past the road near the commercial area. Looking out the window from where Su Ming was sitting, he could see a huge central square. In the center of the square was a huge elevator tower. The elevator tower went vertically upwards, with straight and narrow corridors extending in all directions along the way, like the branches of a huge tree.
The corridor is built in the air and connected to the surrounding buildings. People entering the square can take the elevator and go to various areas of the commercial district using it as the hub.
The buildings surrounding the square are of various shapes and very artistic, showing an ultra-modern artistic consciousness.
On the surface of the peculiar-looking department store, a huge electronic screen plays advertisements in a loop, and the shop windows on the street are filled with a wide variety of goods.
Passersby on the sidewalk were talking and laughing, as if they were living in a stable and harmonious society, as if they were completely unaffected by any weird interference or invasion... The scene in front of Su Ming was full of unreality, but this was reality.
"Why? Didn't you say that technology has stopped developing?" Su Ming asked.
"There really is no development. That's what's written in the book. What's wrong? Is there a problem?"
"It's so prosperous, even more prosperous than the world I live in! Maybe before the Great Collapse, the scientific and technological level of this world was already very high." Su Ming said.
Xia Xiaoyu stroked her chin and thought for a while, then took out her cell phone and asked, "Is this the phone you used before you traveled through time?"
"Exactly the same."
"And where do you live?"
"It's almost the same, but this place is much more prosperous than the city I lived in before I traveled through time! I've only seen buildings with such fancy shapes in movies!" Su Ming said, pointing to a commercial building twisted into a pretzel not far away.
Xia Xiaoyu: "What you said has nothing to do with the development of science and technology. Although science and technology have not advanced since the Great Collapse, the overall productivity of mankind has been showing a trend of skyrocketing growth. For example, food and manpower problems have been solved because of the emergence of superpowers.
Except for the early days of the Great Collapse, when humans had a very hard time, their living standards have been improving rapidly since then. Of course... this is generally speaking.
Although the living standards of residents on some islands are very poor, if we look at it from a global perspective, the material life of mankind has improved several times compared to before the Great Collapse.
It can be said that if there were no weirdness, the world would enter a brand new era, superpowers would become an irreplaceable new energy source, all rules would be broken, and humans would rule everything. "
"So that's it! It's the gap in productivity, no wonder!" Su Ming suddenly realized.
"The hotel I stayed in was so bad compared to this one!" said Su Ming.
"After all, this was an island where superpowers were supreme. It was only liberated by the Alliance not long ago. The developed area of the island is not large. This is the first urbanized area. The address of the Seventh Investigation Bureau is nearby." Xia Xiaoyu said casually.
The bus passed through the commercial area and arrived at the residential area.
At this time, Su Ming saw a completely different scenery from before. The building next to him became very short... No, it couldn't even be called a building. Su Ming couldn't tell what it was.
They are cylinders with a diameter of five meters and a height of about three meters, neatly arranged on the ground at certain intervals. Looking down from a high place, they look like huge oil tanks that are closely arranged.
Humans... don't live in bungalows like this, do they?
How many people can live in these cylinders? There are probably less than a thousand people in such a large area.
With the rapid increase in productivity
"Building houses like this is a waste of land resources. Why not build high-rise buildings?" Su Ming asked in confusion.
"Anomalies appear very frequently. Once they appear, many of them will cause extremely huge damage to the surrounding environment. If the floors are built too high, the collapse of the building will cause terrible secondary injuries. Therefore, all residential areas are now buried underground." Xia Xiaoyu explained.
As she spoke, she pointed toward the cylinders outside.
"Did you see those cylinders? They are all numbered by unit. Each unit usually has thirty floors , and each floor can accommodate about thirty people.
In other words, the standard number of people that a unit can accommodate is nine hundred.
The area you are seeing now should have a hundred units, which means it can accommodate 90,000 people.
There are many residential areas like this on Dongyang Island.”
"Then they won't be able to get any sunlight, so they won't be healthy, right?"
“There’s simulated daylight.”
"So powerful!" Su Ming exclaimed.
"Do you think it's amazing?"
Xia Xiaoyu stared at Su Ming and began to wonder what the world Su Ming had lived in before was like.
"Well, we couldn't have built 30 floors of underground apartments back then. This is really outrageous!"
"In the future, you will definitely encounter more exaggerated things." Xia Xiaoyu murmured with a smile.
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Su Ming and Xia Xiaoyu got off the car across the street from Investigation Bureau 7. Su Ming looked up at Investigation Bureau 7 in front of him.
The appearance of the Investigation Bureau's building is very simple, with almost no unnecessary decoration, but the overall shape is very oppressive. The building is large on top and small on the bottom, forming an inverted tetrahedron. Standing at the door and looking up, it feels that the sloping outer wall is like a crumbling cliff that may fall down at any time, giving people an inexplicable sense of oppression.
There is a very open square in front of the main building, with a horizontal stone tablet in the middle, engraved with "Paranormal Investigation Bureau 7".
Judging from the length of the fence outside, the Investigation Bureau occupies a large area.
Su Ming estimated that the actual space for investigating Bureau Seven was much larger than what he saw now, and there might be thirty floors hidden underground .
As for the three floors on the ground, they are probably for show. They are the order maintainers of Dongyang Island and naturally have to maintain their dignity.
As Su Ming entered the room, he ran into Sylvie head-on. It seemed as if she had been waiting for him here for a long time.
"You're here earlier than I thought. Come with me. I'll take you to register."
Su Ming walked with the other party, looking around all the way, while Xia Xiaoyu, who followed him, acted as a tour guide and explained carefully.
"Investigation Bureau 7 is the investigation bureau with the largest number of personnel among the five investigation bureaus on Dongyang Island, and it is also the investigation bureau with the strongest actual ruling power. The Japanese Investigation Bureau is the local investigation bureau second only to Investigation Bureau 7."
"Wait a minute!" Su Ming interrupted, "Didn't you say before that there is no concept of country anymore? Why do they have that prefix?"
