Overturned Tower

"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 "empty islands do not have that many resources".

Bing Shui nodded: "Yes. It is said that since twenty years ago, there have been reminders of resource exhaustion on the ground.

"But there is no way. If we reduce output, we will simply not be able to feed so many people... Prices will continue to rise and may even lead to unrest.

"So they chose to continue collecting resources, but at the same time they began to study marine resources and earth's nuclear energy. In recent years, it is said that the research has made some breakthroughs... but the time is still not enough, far from enough."

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

Xia felt a little 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 city. The final result fed back to the market is that the price increase is higher than wages - this In fact, it is a way to curb resource consumption.”

"Wait a minute," Xia suddenly realized something, "Isn't it... that the battle in Xiacheng District damaged the factory, which caused the price to rise?"

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

"Won't."

Kasumi's basic knowledge is still fine.

She quickly replied: "Because each store's inventory has not been replenished to the safety level, so there is no way to start a price war."

"exactly."

Russell said slowly: "The company allowed the angels to fight with Xiacheng District, not just to destroy Xiacheng District.

"They are looking for...or waiting for someone to take the blame."

"Mr. Ultramarine, you mean..."

Ice water is very smart.

She immediately realized what Russell meant and showed a shocked 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: "So, as long as the factory is bombed but they choose to delay repairs... then the efficiency of the Xiacheng District factory in using raw materials to make intermediate products will be impossible. Avoided decline.

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

Hearing this, Xia was suddenly stunned.

She blurted out: "Is this the meaning of existence of the uncensored people in Xiacheng District?"

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

Bing Shui shook his head: "If you think about it carefully, it seems that the theory of 'uncoded people being guilty' has only been fully developed in the past ten years.

"If this matter is related to rising prices..."

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

A new realization dawned on Russell.

After getting crucial new information from Miss Bingshui, he found out... his previous reasoning was indeed half correct.

Xiacheng District is indeed used to take the blame. But it is not the fault of such trivial things as disrupting order and causing chaos...

But it is the cause of damage to factories and greatly reducing the productivity of the entire island!

The company will recently squeeze a group of people into Xiacheng District. On the one hand, it is to release market pressure, and on the other hand, it is to strengthen Xiacheng District.

The real reason is that resources are running out—and companies have to curb output.

But companies controlling factory output out of thin air, or simply shutting down factories, will inevitably raise prices significantly.

Although corporations have near-unlimited power, they are not truly rulers after all.

They cannot command the market.

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

The essence of a company is capital, and the instinct of capital is to pursue profits... No company would choose to give up profits in such a disaster and crisis.

Companies that are even slightly more merciful will be immediately swallowed up by their more cold-blooded counterparts. Finally achieve "co-evolution" on a cold-blooded level.

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 Xiacheng District!

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

At this time, they can rush to the lower city and kill a group of uncoded people to soothe the hatred in the hearts of the people in the upper city.

But the prices that will not drop due to this will force another group of people to go to the lower city - so they can kill another group of people.

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

When the number of residents drops to a certain value, it will be able to adapt to the rapidly increasing prices after production cuts, thereby reaching a new balance.

——After all, digital currency does not require printing money.

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

Maybe, it will be a little earlier...

The board of directors had already decided to activate this plan when Delphinium piloted the mech and destroyed the factory.

It's just that the church suddenly intervened and decided to expand its influence... So the company postponed the plan a little, added a few additions to it, and divided the pot between the church and the angels.

Because the company was not allowed by the dragon to kill people, they set up a trap... to let people kill each other.

For this purpose, the elves began to lay out twenty years ago.

In addition to serving as a "psychic petri dish", Xiacheng District also has such a function-that is, allowing the Uncoded to assume the responsibility of dismantling "automatic factories" on a large scale one day in the future... and reducing the number of residents in Uptown District. The "eliminated" are forced towards a fixed area.

It's like a flood.

When the "flood storage" reaches a certain level, it can be allowed 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 often takes decades or hundreds of years to see results, and the cycle is longer than an ordinary person's lifetime... Of course, the benefits are completely different from short-term investments.

They regard "lack of resources" as an "investment".

What they have done is to create "uncoded people gathering areas" to wait for the friction and conflict that will naturally occur between the two sides decades later when the conflicts accumulate to a certain extent. 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 of them fell into silence, waves of low thunder could be heard outside the window at just the right time.

The cold wind suddenly pushed open the window of the cafe, and the hair of the three people was instantly messed up by the wind.

Xia only felt that her fingers were cold.

For her who could barely breathe, this cool breeze seemed to save her life. She gasped for air, with a look of panic on her face, as if she had just remembered that she could breathe.

She could no longer tell whether it was the cold wind from the window that penetrated her sleeves and cut across her waistline...or whether it was the colder words that penetrated her brain.