Overturned Tower

"Is it raw materials transported from land?"

Russell asked the well-informed Bing Shui.

He is one of the few people in this era who knows the common sense that "Sky Island doesn't have that many resources".

Bing Shui nodded: "Yes. It is said that since 20 years ago, there have been signs on the ground that resources have run out.

"But there is no way. If the output is reduced, it will not be able to support so many people... Prices will continue to rise, and it may even lead to unrest.

"So they chose to continue to collect resources, but at the same time began to study marine resources and nuclear energy. In recent years, it is said that research has made a certain breakthrough...but the time is still not enough, far from enough."

"...I really don't know about it."

Xia felt inexplicably guilty.

Bingshui added: "In fact, since about seven or eight years ago, the head office has been secretly controlling the output of the factories in the lower urban area. The result that was finally fed back to the market is that the increase in prices is higher than wages-this is actually It’s a way to curb resource consumption.”

"Wait," Xayah suddenly realized something, "couldn't it be...the battle in the lower city destroyed the factory, which led to the rise in prices?"

"Yes," Russell nodded, "but think about it. If the factory is repaired immediately, will the prices in the market drop immediately as the resources are replenished?

"Won't."

Xia's basic knowledge is still not a problem.

She quickly replied: "Because the inventories of each company have not been replenished to the safety line, there is no way to fight a price war."

"exactly."

Russell slowly said: "The company let the angels fight with the lower city, not just to wipe out the lower city.

"They're looking for... or rather, waiting for someone to take the blame."

"Mr. Qunqing, you mean..."

Ice water is very smart.

She immediately realized what Russell meant, and showed a surprised expression: "Is the company deliberately letting them blow up the factory?"

"Is such that."

Russell took a deep breath, and marveled at how long the company's layout was: "It turns out that as long as the factory is bombed, but they choose to delay repairing...then the efficiency of the factory in the lower city area to use raw materials to manufacture intermediate products will inevitably Decline.

"—Because, the number of factories has dropped!"

Hearing this, Xia was stunned.

She blurted out: "Is this the meaning of existence for the uncoded people in the lower city?"

"I'm afraid a large part of the reason is for this."

Bing Shui shook her head: "Thinking about it carefully, the 'criminal theory of the uncoded' seems to have been fully developed in the past ten years.

"If this has anything to do with rising prices..."

—Then it means that the company will not wipe out the Xiacheng District in the short term.

A new understanding emerged in Russell's mind.

After receiving crucial new information from Miss Bingshui, he realized that... his reasoning before was indeed half right.

The lower city is indeed used to take the blame. But it's not the fault of such trivial things as disrupting order and bringing chaos...

It is the pot that damaged the factory and greatly reduced the productivity of the whole island!

The company will squeeze a group of people into the downtown area recently, this is to release market pressure on the one hand, and to strengthen the downtown area on the other hand.

The real reason is that resources are running out—the company has to rein in output.

But companies controlling factory output out of thin air, or simply closing factories, are bound to drive up prices dramatically.

Despite their near-unlimited power, corporations are not true rulers after all.

They cannot command the market.

And if the head office chooses to make concessions and make concessions, it will be immediately hanged in place by other companies.

The essence of a company is capital, and the instinct of capital is to seek profit... No company will choose to give up profit in such a disaster and crisis.

Even a company that is just a little soft-hearted will be swallowed up by its more cold-blooded counterparts in no time. Finally, "co-evolution" at the cold-blooded level is realized.

So, the head office needs an excuse. An object that has nothing to do with them but can reasonably explain the "production reduction phenomenon".

This is the war in the lower city!

Through this war, it is reasonable to "reduce the number of factories". Then don't go to repairs, and wait for the prices to gradually become outrageous.

And at this time, they can rush to the lower city to kill a group of uncoded people to appease the hatred in the hearts of the people in the upper city.

But prices that don't go down because of this will drive another group of people to the downtown area-so they can kill another group of people.

In this way, the number of residents on the empty island is gradually reduced.

When the number of residents is reduced to a certain value, it will be able to adapt to the rapidly rising prices after production reduction, so as to reach a new balance.

— After all, digital currency does not need to print money.

When the time is right, you can naturally rebalance prices by giving everyone money and salary increases.

Maybe, even earlier...

The board of directors had already decided to use this plan from the time Delphinium drove the mechs to destroy the factory.

It's just that the church suddenly intervened and decided to expand its influence... So the company delayed the plan a little bit, added a few sums to it, and shared a few sums with the church and the angels.

Because corporations aren't allowed by dragons to kill people, they set up a situation like this...to have people kill each other.

For this purpose, sprites were laid out twenty years ago.

In addition to being a "psychic petri dish", the lower city also has such a function—that is, to let the uncoded bear the responsibility of dismantling the "automatic factory" on a large scale in the future...and in the case of reducing the number of residents in the upper city, it will be "dismantled". "Eliminators" force towards a certain fixed area.

It's like flooding.

When the "flood storage" reaches a certain level, it can be made to flow back.

This is similar to the principle of elves doing business.

Elves do business very differently from humans. When they invest in a certain project, it takes decades or hundreds of years to achieve results, and the cycle is longer than the lifetime of ordinary people... Of course, the benefits are completely different from short-term investments.

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And what they have done is to create a "gathering area for uncoded people" to wait for the friction and conflict that will naturally occur between the two sides when the conflict accumulates to a certain extent decades later—as the population decreases, the pressure on resources will also decrease. It can buy more time for the "new resources" and "new energy" that the company is developing.

"Boom, boom, boom—"

Just when the three fell into silence, bursts of low-pitched thunder came from outside the window just right.

The cold wind suddenly pushed open the window of the coffee shop, and the hair of the three of them was blown tousled by the wind in an instant.

Xia only felt that her fingers were cold.

For her, who could barely catch her breath, the cool breeze seemed to save her life. She was gasping for breath, with a look of horror on her face, as if she just remembered that she could breathe.

She couldn't tell whether it was the cold wind from outside the window that poured into her cuffs, slashed her waistline...or the colder words soaked her brain.