hapter 70 70 ★ Zombie Apocalypse, 70
◎Life is like grass◎
Wenzhu was drinking an ice drink in the exchange hall and was in a daze.
She is not needed to maintain order, and the sun is very bright at the moment. I can just find a place to rest and visit the store to pass the time. I can also get acquainted with the new customers, and take a look at the people who are collecting supplies. What to find.
Some people value privacy. They discussed it with Wenzhu some time ago and asked if they could get a private room. They had to queue up to enter. If someone was there, it would be automatically locked to prevent prying eyes. After all, if they really redeemed a large amount of points, none of them wanted anyone to know. This was a very reasonable request, and Wenzhu immediately agreed, spent his points on buying a single room, and installed it.
Now she has the authority to decorate various stores, and she can modify everything down to a vase of flowers and a floor tile. But generally speaking, Wenzhu does not spend a lot of energy on decoration. Generally speaking, the templates provided by the system already have scientific functions, dynamic line design, and necessary beauty. She only needs to choose the one she likes. Unless there are new functional requirements like this, Wenzhu will add some necessary facilities.
Private rooms are very popular, after all, everyone needs secrets and the sense of security that secrecy brings. You can be careless about daily top-ups, but most first-timers, or those with some financial means, like to queue up to enter a single room, and even the very act of queuing can bring them comfort.
A sense of civilized order is undoubtedly a deep-rooted need of modern humans. Once you can return to a stable social environment, you may not be so moved by the enjoyment of eating, drinking, playing, etc., but the stability and pleasure brought by this sense of order are irresistible. It is a higher-level luxury. .
Wenzhu understands this better than anyone else, and is discussing with the system whether to save a large amount and open low-rent housing in the next wave.
"Actually, low-rent housing is just a name. It's just a term borrowed from the past. People nowadays are not poor in terms of housing conditions. Especially how can it be compared with our Taoyuan? I don't think there is any need for housing qualifications. After all, it is a luxury consumption. And it is time to open a family account. What do you think?" Wenzhu sipped ice tea to discuss with the system.
She had this idea very early on, because she knew from the beginning that the system would open housing of various conditions to the outside world. Even family accounts are a suggestion provided in the system settings. It's just that there was no such condition before, so there was no need to make it so complicated.
Family account is a supplement to the dedicated card system.
The exclusive use of special cards actually protects not the rights and interests of customers, but the rights and interests of the system. This can be very effective in preventing customers from using this place as a purchase point in the early stages of opening a store. They can purchase goods from Wenzhu at very low prices and resell them to other places to obtain high profits. After all, as a store owner, Wenzhu does not have the ability to monitor the whereabouts and use of every batch of goods. It is also a heavy workload for the system. It can be done, but it is not necessary. If it is not curbed from the source, there is no doubt that Taoyuan will only enrich second-level dealers, or even third-level dealers.
It is certain to increase the number of layers, exploiting the terminal and enriching everyone who has dealt with it, except Wenzhu and the system at the source.
Wenzhu is aware of the shortage of the materials he provides and the vastness of the market, so of course he cannot give up his profits to others. She may not suffer any harm by doing this, but her life is maintained by the system. Is it a long-term cooperative attitude to let others harm the interests of the system?
The system is my home, and its maintenance depends on everyone. Without the awareness that oneself and the system are a whole, how can one become bigger and stronger and dominate the world?
People who can come to Taoyuan to consume are actually those who have gone through a wave of screening. They must have the spending power, but it just depends on the amount, and they also have a certain fighting capacity to protect their belongings. The special card is for exclusive use and does not allow anyone else except the owner to use the purchased goods. This protects the interests of Wenzhu and the system while also protecting the interests of customers.
At least it ensures that even if their things are taken away, others will not be advantaged. And precisely because the things are not expensive and cannot be used after being robbed, it is better to buy them yourself than to rob them.
As for those who cannot afford to come to Taoyuan for consumption, they naturally cannot get gifts voluntarily given by family, friends, or other people with any relationship. In Wenzhu's eyes, this is not a problem at all.
How these people lived in silence before her arrival, and how these people also lived in silence after her arrival. Outside the area where Wenzhu is located, there are countless people living in silence and pain like this, and may die at any time. . But their pain and difficulties were not caused by Wenzhu. Wenzhu will maintain its own market and customers on the premise of obtaining benefits for the system and earning life and quality of life for itself. This is the long-term vision and win-win cooperation required for doing business, but it does not mean that she should feel guilty and compensate for anyone.
Even before the end of the world, there are always countless people in this world who should not die casually, dying silently, anytime, anywhere, every moment.
In some countries that retain terrible traditions, people are even randomly taken away and buried because of the death of the poisonous vegetable ruler. Maybe someone should be responsible for these deaths, but the fact is that the vast majority of people in the world know nothing about it, and the culprits will never be punished. Instead, they will enjoy long life, stability, and unimaginable luxury because of poisonous vegetables. Life.
There are already too many stories that happen silently in a world that is not noticed. Perhaps everyone living in a peaceful world would be shocked and sympathized with this if they knew about it - but this kind of thing will not even make the news, because A country that is too small has no voice, and a country that is too weak has no voice either.
Likewise, those who are too weak have no voice.
But Wenzhu will not feel ashamed of anyone because she is unable to change the status quo, because she knows what reality is. It was not her who was cruel, and it was not her who was responsible.
Just like the fable, a little boy rescued fish that were stranded by the tide on the beach. He said the fish cares, and the fish cares. So for people with limited abilities, instead of blaming themselves for living a painful life for those people they cannot reach, and worrying about the conscience of distant people, it is better to start from now and treat the people in front of them in a down-to-earth manner every day. of this fish and that fish.
Besides, after experiencing countless disasters, there are very few elderly people, children, and women who are actually completely powerless, and they will be eliminated. To be precise, the lowest level in a base is not a person without full capacity for civil conduct, but a person without the ability to fight. Children who are too young, women who are too weak, and old people who are too old will be greatly reduced in the first wave, because they cannot run, fight, hide, and are delicious.
During the subsequent escape, these vulnerable groups are particularly likely to be abandoned, exploited, and exploited, making it even more difficult for them to survive.
Only when the first batch of bases are established and the weak ones who are lucky enough to be alive can they be protected by order. But what follows is extreme weather and high-intensity work...
So the situation is actually like this. There are also people with no combat ability who rely on superpowers as the mainstay. Their life will not be too bad. Whether it is wild vegetables, sour rice dumplings, or rats and earthworms on skewers, they can at least have a stable supply and not be full. I will never die of hunger, but there are tiles to cover me, and there are people to hold me to keep warm in winter.
People who have no support will only continue to reduce their number, reduce their number, and find it difficult to survive. Even in the skin and flesh business, it is difficult to support oneself - yes, people have needs in that regard. The skin and flesh business is ancient and still has strong vitality, but it is not easy for everyone to live now. It is impossible for people to live by selling their bodies alone. Those who go down have to find manual labor. Regardless of whether you are a man or a woman, no matter how beautiful you are, you cannot lie down and spread your legs to eat.
These fragile lives will die without leaving any trace if they encounter a slight accident or be hit by wind and rain.
There are still people counting. If you look at the different age and gender data of the survivors, you can find that the performance at the macro data level is completely different from before the apocalypse, resulting in a serious imbalance - the survival rates of newborns and mothers are very low, and the numbers are not high. The most fragile life is the easiest to perish. Those who can exist as a family unit can already be regarded as a medium living standard at this time.
The word "life is like a piece of grass" is being interpreted by countless lives.
Therefore, from Wenzhu's point of view, considering the people who will not come to the store to consume is an unrealistic ideal and it is difficult to put it to use.
They have begun to open branches in the base. Those who can spend 100 points can have a full meal and a good bath, but it is hard to say how much effect one or two full meals can have. Wen Zhu is very optimistic: "It's better than not having food and clothing, right? But it's time for us to start creating jobs and boosting domestic demand."
The system had no objection to the opening of a family account: "It's very good. Soon we will be able to form a community here, and the development will be faster and faster in the future!"
While talking, Zhou Jinghui and his party walked in. People who came here for the first time were dazzled from the street entrance. They walked very slowly, almost enjoying the clean atmosphere that they had not seen for a long time. If they didn't dare to fall behind in a strange place, they wouldn't be able to come in together. It was full of familiar people. As soon as they entered the door, they shouted "come to life" and ran to Wen Zhu to say hello: "Boss Wen! We are here again! This time we brought more than a dozen people, look at it!" "
As she said this, she motioned Wen Zhu to look at the two old and two young people behind her.
Wen Zhu was thoughtful, and walked forward to signal the receptionist robot customer service to leave: "I'm here to receive them. Hello, I am Wen Zhu, the boss here. Please come with me to register and apply for a card."
Perhaps these are the first customers with family accounts.
The author has something to say:
A sudden double update.
This chapter can be considered as an answer to many of Baos questions. What about vulnerable groups?
The answer is: there are not many vulnerable groups at all, and if there is no other way, we can only ignore them.
Wenzhu is more open-minded. She knows that this is not her responsibility. If she wants to take care of it, she can only develop Taoyuan first. The path was given by the system early on, which is to upgrade and open a store. It's not that she has countless supplies, but that the system does. There is a difference. To radiate love infinitely and take care of things that you can't take care of despite your limited abilities, wouldn't that be the same as the failed host of the system before? It is a path that has long been proven to be impossible.
Also, the ruler of Poucai believes in voodoo, and after death, he randomly grabs people and buries them (blood sacrifice). This is what happened in 2023. What happened in the world we live in, I forgot which African country it is. But you can take a look at Bilibili up Little Johns weird little country series.
We who live in order always think that order is an innate power that everyone should have. In fact, it is not, and many people do not have it.
This can only be said to be a cruel and helpless reality that cannot be solved by individuals. This is even more true in the extreme environment of the last days.