Chapter 1562 - 510: Ideal City_2

Chapter 1562: Chapter 510: Ideal City_2

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The player’s stealth skills are strong, but for Lin Miao, who can locate all the players, they are still exposed even if they can traverse Subspace.

From the moment they boarded the ship, their locations were synchronized to the command layer of Tokyo University on the ship. If it weren’t for the repeated orders from above, they would have been caught the moment they entered those confidential areas.

Moreover, the ones trying to find a place to hide are far more than the four glamorous women; thousands of players are curious about the changes in their hometown, and almost everyone wants to find a place to hide and smuggle to take a look, so every corner on the entire ship capable of hiding people was packed solid.

Steam rooms, ballast rooms, arsenals, warehouses, and even freezers were hidden, making the Tokyo University officers numb, too embarrassed to talk, and could only come to find them after docking.

The glamorous women were taken out of the steam room and found the corridor full of caught players, being escorted to the deck by Tokyo University soldiers, all of them smugglers.

But players disembarking from Watson District port were astonished to find Night City had drastically changed from when they left a year and a half ago.

Besides the top-tier tourist area Taiping Continent, the densely packed shopping and office building city center, residential Haywood, and upscale Charter Mountain area, Watson and Santo Domingo districts have been completely reorganized and merged into industrial areas, and even connected all the way to Stone Ridge Mountain.

Looking over, various pipelines pump fresh lifeblood to the major factories like capillaries. Countless transport platforms and belts pull tons of nutrients. Clouds rising from cooling towers form a whole, and the reinforced concrete forming the factories create texture.

What should be cold iron is now bursting with unimaginable vitality, like a giant snoring while asleep.

This giant’s food is the mountain of garbage 70% eaten outside the city, Night City’s hundreds of thousands piling nearly a century’s discarded waste, almost completely digested by this giant within a year, and even felt insufficient, pulling more from other California cities.

This is the circuit board humans print on the earth.

Integrating the world with a city, building a city for the world.

Wildman stood high up, looking at countless factories, exclaiming in awe.

"Oh my god... I can hardly recognize this place."

"A highly intelligent integrated industrial area, what did you expect?"

Steamed Bun, who returned together, said.

"This involves tens of thousands, hundreds of different model pipelines, hundreds of square kilometers, hundreds of meter tall steel structures, requiring close to ten thousand gas, electricity, construction, communication, water treatment, equipment companies, close to a hundred thousand people, tens of thousands of intelligent machines in cooperative construction, even bigger than the previous entire Night City."

Her tone was also full of emotion.

"Nearly eight hundred thousand people work inside here, with hundreds of AI from various industries assisting."

"As far as I know, even in reality, no industrial area can compare. Without so many intelligent AIs and robots helping, I really don’t know how they built such a terrifying thing within a year."

Industrialization’s absorption of population is astonishing, previously high unemployment was entirely because companies needed to ensure market circulation scarcity, while production efficiency due to technical advances was high, so they only hired a minimal number of workers for production.

Once all people join this highly intelligent, automated production, the erupted productivity is terrifying.

To ensure enough throughput for industrial district roads, workers even cut and leveled mountains, leaving broad spaces for roads.

The surprising part is such large industrial goods mainly circulate internally; most products are used for self-sustainment.

Why expand?

To build more factories.

Why build more factories?

To expand faster.

With the cyber world’s technology, even if merging North and South California and nearby states, their productivity wouldn’t match Night City’s current manufacturing output, their full internal circulation, and almost zero pollution environmental monitoring, nearby Taiping Continent can’t smell industrial waste gas.

Night City didn’t become smog-filled due to heavy industrialization; instead, abundant artificially planted trees and flowers already blooming on roadsides added vitality to this city reborn.

Even lower-class people from other cities heard of local conditions and demand for workers, moving en masse to Night City for jobs.

During this, there were many incidents due to European Community planned terrorist attacks, but with enhanced monitoring and drone patrols, their airtight internal operations thwart any attempts.

These attacks instead caused companies like Biotechnology and Soviet Petrochemical to be kicked out of Night City by the city council under terrorist attack pretense, now Horizon Corporation + the Ye family + Huang Ban almost involves a third of seats, occupying seven-eight tenths of the industry, besides Military Technology no one can challenge them here.