My days as a landlord in Gotham

Getting off the bumpy motorcycle, Lin Xiangyu looked at this familiar but somewhat unfamiliar small village.

This is my hometown, but like many rural areas in remote mountainous areas, the level of economic development here is sad.

Not only is there no decent vehicle road here, ordinary passenger vehicles in the county will not come here, and there are only two ways for villagers to go out.

One is to walk 5 kilometers to the next village to get a ride, and the other is to buy a motorcycle yourself.

It's just that for the people in this village, motorcycles are also very luxurious and big items.

Lin Xiangyu also wandered around the county for a long time, and finally paid a lot of money to rent a motorcycle to take him here.

Lin Xiangyu turned on his mobile phone, but luckily the signal was able to cover here.

He first sent a text message to his wife, and then made a phone call.

There are only three or four telephones in the whole village, right?

The telephone located at the canteen at the head of the village becomes the public telephone for families without telephones in the whole village.

Not only is it expensive to make calls, but you have to pay to even answer them.

No way, monopoly is the biggest business.

Lin Xiangyu quickly dialed the number, reported his parents' names, and then agreed to call in 5 minutes.

Because he still had to wait, Lin Xiangyu picked up his bag and walked towards the village.

It is actually at least half an hour to an hour's walk from the village where Lin Xiangyu grew up, but the only rural road that is still open to traffic goes right there.

Going forward, there are either extremely steep and rugged mountain roads, or field ridge roads that are so narrow that only one person can walk.

Lin Xiangyu remembered that when he was young, he could easily walk this mountain road in less than half an hour, but now he felt a little tired after walking for only a few minutes.

Sure enough, do men lose half their physical strength at the age of 30?

Lin Xiangyu couldn't help but smiled wryly.

He took out his mobile phone and dialed again. This time it was his old father who answered the phone.

Lin Xiangyu told his father that he came back for lunch and would stay at home for a few days.

Father Lin was a little strange about Lin Xiangyu's arrangement.

You must know that Lin Xiangyu has almost never returned to the village since he was admitted to the provincial key high school. He only knows that his child was admitted to a university in the capital, then went to study abroad, and finally settled in that country on the other side of the ocean.

As for the fact that the child came home less and less later, Father Lin didn't think it was strange. He had to know that the money for one flight of his child was enough for himself and his wife to work in the fields for a year.

Therefore, Lin's father repeatedly asked Lin Xiangyu not to waste money like this.

Of course, even though Father Lin said so, he was also like Mother Lin in his heart, wishing his son would go home every day.

After all, even if they can meet once a year, Father Lin, Mother Lin, and Lin Xiangyu can still see each other more than twenty times at most.

When Lin Xiangyu saw the small canteen at the head of the village, he already felt that his feet did not belong to him.

Especially the sneakers on the feet, which are called special for mountaineering, did not cost a little bit at all. Not only did they not relieve the soreness of the feet, but they also slipped and stepped into the paddy field.

But the thick sports socks on the feet are quite sweat-absorbent, and they suck up half a catty of muddy water when they step on the paddy field.

When Lin Xiangyu walked to the entrance of the village, he found his father squatting in the corner of the canteen smoking a cigarette.

Lin Xiangyu hurried over and complained: "Didn't I tell you to wait at home?

It's not that I don't remember the way. "

"Not at ease, your mother insists on me waiting here for you."

Papa Lin showed a flattering smile on his face, "Are you alone?"

"She was busy with work, and I was preparing to go home temporarily, and forgot to apply for visas for their siblings."

Lin Xiangyu naturally knew who Papa Lin wanted.

Speaking of which, after his son and daughter were born, he hadn't brought them home yet.

It is really difficult to go home this way, Lin Xiangyu silently blamed this fault on the inconvenience of transportation.

"I have something to discuss with you when I come back this time. If you agree, it will be very convenient for you to see your grandchildren in the future."

Seeing that the aunt in the canteen was stretching her ears, Lin Xiangyu dragged Papa Lin to the house, "I'll talk to you when I get home, and see what your opinion and our mother's opinion is."

Lin Xiangyu looked at the sky, it was clearly midsummer, but it was vaguely like the end of autumn.

The rice in the field hasn't headed yet. I guess this crop of rice is useless again?

Lin Xiangyu's hometown is in the south of Lingnan, and rice is grown three times a year in previous years.

But since the extreme cold period is approaching, the rice here can be harvested once a year.

But this year, I can't even do the minimum cooking.

Fortunately, I have a better choice now, otherwise my parents might not be able to make it through, right?

Lin Xiangyu is now an employee of Ocean Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Development Co., Ltd., and this company was established by Atlantis Empire, Human Council, Wayne Enterprises and other companies.

Relying on its own technology, the Atlantis Empire built more than a dozen underwater farms and pastures in the relatively flat places on the bottom of the four oceans.

The human committee is responsible for sending employees to work here, which can be regarded as solving the survival problem of some people in the extreme cold period.

It's just that when the company recruited employees, most people chose a wait-and-see attitude.

After all, here is to do real work, and it is said that going to Noah's Ark or Life Bank is just to sleep.

Between sleep and labor, the natural inclination of the vast majority of people is to sleep.

But Lin Xiangyu's wife, Julia, is the middle management of Wayne Enterprises. There has been a saying in Wayne Enterprises that the number of humans that the Tinder Project can shelter is actually very limited.

And first half of this limited quota should be given to professionals who are helpful to the survival of mankind; the remaining half should also be considered for some wealthy and powerful people, and it should be divided according to race and population ratio of each country.

It can be said that those who can be drawn can basically buy lottery tickets.

And Julia is not the kind of person who is willing to leave her fate in the hands of others, because even if you win the Tinder Project, your identity is still different.

Class A identities do not need to hibernate, because they need to ensure system security and supervise system operation; Class B identities need intermittent hibernation, they are mainly engaged in assisting Class A identities, and they will sleep for five years after being awake for about one year Above; the rest of the Class C status, that is a dormant.

Although the human committee guaranteed the safety of the hibernation device, Julia was still a little worried.

So Julia took advantage of her job to sign up for the Ocean Farm and Ranch Development Project, and at the same time persuaded her husband to let the whole family move to the No. 015 Seabed Farm and Ranch in the Atlantic Ocean.

The scientific and technological level of Atlantis still amazed the double doctor Lin Xiangyu. The dome bases on the seabed, which resembled dome stadiums, lay quietly on the flat bottom of the ocean.

In fact, at this depth, the pressure of seawater, the visibility and temperature of the seabed are very unfavorable to humans.

Even the most ignorant people know that without the protection of technology, human beings cannot survive for a few minutes in such an environment.

Undersea farms and pastures use geothermal energy, thanks to the heat in the core of the earth that continues to feed humans.

Without this natural, nearly inexhaustible source of energy, Atlantis would not have been able to shelter so many humans.

The entire farm and ranch is divided into two parts, the living area and the working area. The living area is all gathered together, accounting for about 10% of the base area, and the rest is all the working area.

In the living area and working area, the temperature, humidity, wind and light are controlled by the computer, so although I am not used to it temporarily, it is still relatively comfortable.

But besides being responsible for the crops, Lin Xiangyu also needs to participate in the daily maintenance of the base.

It is precisely because he needs to participate in daily maintenance that he has an extra food subsidy, which is also Lin Xiangyu's greatest source of confidence.

Compared with the comfort of the work area and living area, the rest of the outside world is a dark and cold place.

Everyone must be in a completely enclosed vehicle when going to the maintenance point, and when going to the outside for maintenance, they must protect themselves tightly like astronauts.

Even so, everyone's working time outside must be controlled within 60 minutes, otherwise it will cause irreversible damage to the body.

The entire subsea farm and pasture adopts a very primitive commune system. Those who do not work do not get food, and even elementary school students have to participate in certain labor.

Although there are educational institutions in the base, and nine-year compulsory education is also implemented, but even the compulsory education stage requires participation in labor.

Elementary school students go to class half the day and participate in labor; junior high school students participate in labor half the afternoon; and Saturday is the prescribed working day.

Of course, due to the use of a lot of technology, the labor intensity of the seabed farming and ranching is actually not high, but it is a bit cumbersome.

Moreover, the seabed farm strictly controls the number of high school students and college students, and allocates the extra students to technical education institutions, hoping that these people can participate in the labor as soon as possible.

Although the extreme cold period is estimated to be only three years, it will take at least 50 years for the earth's ecology to recover.

The grains, poultry eggs, and meat produced by the seabed farms are all industrial standardized products. They are not delicious, but they are enough to feed the hunger.

With the arrival of the extreme cold period, the collapse of global agriculture and animal husbandry is also accelerating.

Undersea farms and pastures bear the burden of feeding humans, so there is actually not much food that can be left for distribution.

"Julia, do you think we can consider taking our parents over?

After all, the company now allows us to recommend internally. "

Lin Xiangyu thought of his parents after seeing the company's internal recommendation email.

Lin Xiangyu didn't dare to bet that his parents would be selected by the Tinder Project. Although the Tinder Project was drawn by lottery, the higher the score, the higher the chance of being selected.

The score is said to be related to factors such as age, education level, etc. Lin Xiangyu thinks that his parents' scores are probably the lowest in the world.

But my parents are good at farm work, so as long as I get used to the equipment here, I can basically get started.

My parents are still in good health and don't need me and Julia to support them at all, and according to Lin Xiangyu's estimation, the two elders can probably save their pensions before they completely retire.

"Your father is a professor of biotechnology, I think your father has a good chance of applying for a high-subsidy job; your mother is an elementary school teacher who has been teaching for many years, I think the company also needs such a job talent.

Not only will your parents not increase our burden, but they can also bear their own living materials. "

"exactly."

Although Julia didn't have much relationship with her parents, she was not indifferent enough to ignore her parents' life and death.

"Well, let's each talk to our parents and see what their plans are?"

"Then I'll go first. After all, it really takes some time to go back to my small mountain village."

Lin Xiangyu said.

"Okay, after your parents arrive, I will act again."

Julia agreed.