Wasteland Border Inspector - Chapter 768

Chapter 768: Chapter 255: Multiple Fronts Activated, Drastic Changes in the Buffer Zone! (3)

The speed of expansion is too exaggerated. No wonder the authorities are laying out such a large-scale plan to renovate the entire buffer zone’s infrastructure.

As he processed the logic behind the population changes, Cheng Ye lightly tapped the table with his fingers and said in a deep voice, “According to this trend, are there already communities that need to be relocated to the external satellite cities?”

“Yes! The community system has now been fully implemented, and in the future, an elimination system will also be enforced!”

Elder Zhou nodded heavily and explained in detail, “Currently, there are sixty-eight communities established throughout the buffer zone, with each community having a mandatory recruitment quota. Every month, there will be a comprehensive scoring that involves various dimensions such as construction progress, community order, and contribution value output. If any community ranks at the bottom for three consecutive times, it will be relocated wholesale to a subsidiary satellite city.”

It has indeed begun!

Cheng Ye’s heart tightened. Earlier, he had only speculated based on the Firewood system that Happiness City might implement a satellite city grading system, but he hadn’t expected Happiness City to execute it so quickly and completely, even starting before all the satellite cities were fully constructed.

Under this grading system, it’s imperative to quickly filter and select the population in the buffer zone to establish a “Main City First” framework and build a more stringent hierarchical order.

Once the selection is complete: Inner City, Buffer Zone, Level One Satellite City, Level Two Satellite City…

The hierarchy will be clearly delineated.

The further out you go, the lower the rank and safety factor; the closer in, the higher the rank, and the more complete and safer the infrastructure and facilities will be.

No wonder everyone is so anxious about his safety. Although Celestial Essence Community is not at risk of being eliminated for the moment, it also has to bear the pressure of “charging forward.”

When it comes to community order, Celestial Essence has always been solid, but the contribution value output, and those economic indicators…

Difficult!

After all, this is a competition between communities. It’s not enough to just try your best; you must do better than all the other communities.

Cheng Ye pondered for a moment and suddenly asked, “Has the broadcast announced that it’s now possible to cultivate around Happiness City?”

Hmm?

As soon as the words fell, the three elders were stunned, their faces full of confusion as if they hadn’t heard clearly.

Long and Er Long were visibly taken aback too, even if they understood Cheng Ye’s words, they couldn’t believe their ears.

“What did you just say?” Elder He was the first to react, his tone filled with incredulous astonishment.

“I said, the land around Happiness City can now be cultivated; the curse underground has vanished, did you know?” Cheng Ye emphasized his words, speaking clearly once more.

“What!”

Elder Song shook violently, a look of shock and disbelief written on his face, almost jumping out of his seat.

“Something changed outside, and the curse on the land has completely disappeared. From now on, crops planted won’t lose their traits but thrive instead… In other words, the 200 kilometers of land around Happiness City is now no different from those arable lands in neighboring provinces!”

Cheng Ye finished all in one breath, quietly waiting for the group to digest this groundbreaking news that could upend their perception.

From a different height, one sees different things.

Just from Elder Zhou’s brief explanation and the changes in the entire buffer zone and overall situation, he had already spotted numerous issues.

The industry in Happiness City is too fragmented, and the industrial zone has to be suspended for the entire winter; so many people can’t stay idle forever.

Right now, while the infrastructure is still incomplete, it’s feasible to absorb some labor through work-for-relief, but once infrastructure is perfected, are more than a million people supposed to stay at home or occasionally take on odd jobs to get by?

Moreover, Yue Ye’s death might also be inevitably linked with industry demands.

The reconstruction of the Pioneer Corps and reopening the land for cultivation could provide subsistence work for at least thirty to fifty thousand people, and furthermore, once each satellite city enters steady construction, the establishment of factories can help alleviate some employment pressure.

Only by ensuring that residents have jobs and stable incomes can the current large population size be maintained, otherwise, after this winter passes, tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands may relocate to other shelter cities by next spring.

“Tan Ming’s influence has helped Happiness City solve a major problem, indeed…”

Cheng Ye leaned back in his chair, contemplating deeply.

After quite a while, the three elders gradually regained their senses, their eyes a mix of complex emotions, excitement, and bewilderment.

It seems that every time Cheng Ye returns from his travels, he brings pivotal information that catapults the community into the “next grand scheme.”

But this time is different from the last when Dapo Town was constructed; that plan was within everyone’s understanding, while the sudden revival of Stone Province’s land, barren for decades, was beyond anyone’s comprehension.

“Inspector Cheng, so what are we supposed to do now…” Elder Song’s white eyebrows trembled slightly, unsure of what to say.

“My idea is to disperse part of the population from the community to my Dapo Town, stationing there to preemptively seize the surrounding land for pioneering. This way, by mid-next year, we can gain a substantial additional income and secure more competitive advantages for the community.”

Cheng Ye paused his speech for a moment, then solemnly shook his head, “But I must make it clear, there will certainly be casualties in this process, and I can’t guarantee how many. Venturing out early for pioneering comes with costs, and these costs might be more severe than anticipated!”

Having undergone life-and-death trials during the containment of the Immortal Objects, even when discussing “death,” Cheng Ye himself was unaware of how subtly his mentality had already shifted.