Complete Storage Space
He took the "leaflet" and read it carefully:
Recent climate anomalies have led to communication disruptions with other cities. Special situations call for special measures. Our forces will take the following actions in response to extreme weather conditions.
Notice 1:
Starting tomorrow, citizens can go to the Xinghai Apartment complex outside the eastern suburbs with their ID cards to register personal information and receive a week's worth of survival supplies. Those with elderly or children in their families can bring identification information for the elderly and children to collect on their behalf. Anyone found to be falsely claiming or over-claiming supplies will have their supplies revoked and will permanently lose their eligibility to receive supplies.
Notice 2:
Our forces will construct a shelter in the eastern suburbs of Sha City. Anyone who participates in the construction of the shelter for 100 days will be granted a living space in the shelter. Participants in the construction will receive an additional two working meals per day and an extra set of cold-weather clothing each month. Requirements: Age 16-45, physically strong, no chronic diseases. Those with special skills will be given priority.
Notice 3:
Due to the need for shelter construction, those who contribute various building materials will receive contribution points based on the quantity contributed. Those who reach 500 contribution points will be granted a living space in the shelter. Contribution points can be exchanged for supplies, and the exchange details will be posted outside the Xinghai Apartment complex in the eastern suburbs.
Notice 4:
Starting today, each district and county will have a squad of soldiers patrolling with live ammunition every day. It is forbidden for citizens to engage in looting, murder, violent coercion of women, or other malicious acts. Anyone found guilty will be shot on the spot.
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There was a long official statement following, which Lin Shi skimmed through.
His previous guess was correct; the eastern suburbs were indeed targeted by the authorities. When he had asked Liao Peng to find a location, he had noticed the eastern suburbs. After all, there were not many places that met the requirements for building a shelter. His own safe house was on a small hill in the western suburbs of Sha City, which was quite far from the eastern suburbs. The high terrain and small area meant that even if land was requisitioned, it would not affect his own three hundred square meters.
So he felt reassured about building his safe house.
In no time, people from every corner of the streets and alleys came out of their homes and surrounded the soldiers distributing these "leaflets."
"Comrade! Do you have any food?! I'm starving to death!"
"I'm so cold, do you have any extra clothes?"
"Brother, my child is sick, do you have any medicine?"
...
The surrounded soldiers could only keep explaining:
"We didn't bring any supplies. You can go to the eastern suburbs tomorrow to get supplies. It's all written on the leaflet. Please step aside, we need to complete our mission first."
Finding out that these soldiers really didn't bring any supplies, the crowd immediately became restless:
"At a time when human lives are at stake, what's the point of distributing these damn leaflets?!"
"You came so late, my father is gone! If you had come earlier, maybe my father wouldn't have died. He was only in his sixties..."
"You don't even bring food when you go out?! Do you know how hard it is for us common people? What kind of soldiers are you!"
"Strip their clothes off!"
...
The more people gathered, the more determined they were not to let these soldiers leave without leaving something behind.
"Bang!"
A gunshot rang out.
The crowd fell silent for a moment.
But then it was followed by even more chaotic shouting, and some even started to take action.
A bald, strong man pushed the soldier who fired the shot, staring him in the eyes and saying:
"If you have the guts, just kill me! Today I'm putting it out there, without giving us something, you're not leaving! See if you dare to fire that shot!"
"That's right!!"
"None of you are leaving!!"
"Your guns are meant to be aimed at the enemy, not at us common people!"
"I dare you to make a move!"
Murmurs of agreement continued to rise from the crowd.
A conflict seemed imminent.
Lin Shi stood leisurely by the roadside, observing the scene, curious to see what kind of orders the military commander of Sha City would give to these soldiers.
To develop Sha City into the largest official sanctuary, the commander must be very resourceful.
"Bang!"
As the gunshot rang out again, the burly man who had been making the most noise looked at his bleeding chest in disbelief and fell.
The crowd finally fell silent.
The leading soldier, with a stern expression, surveyed the crowd and said:
"Troublemakers, kill. If you want supplies, go to the eastern suburbs tomorrow. Now, move aside immediately!"
The crowd scattered in a panic.
Lin Shi took all of this in.
He glanced at the sky and left the area with the flow of people.
The gold he collected today was enough to upgrade his space.
He planned to go back first and check out the eastern suburbs tomorrow.
Now that he had settled in Sha City, he needed to understand the rulers of this place.
...
On his way back, passing by the entrance of Wolong Village, Lin Shi noticed that the villagers were holding a funeral.
He had been leaving early and returning late these past two days, hardly seeing any villagers from Wolong Village.
From a distance outside the village, one could see almost every household hanging white cloth, indicating that many people in the village had died.
But at this critical moment, with the next snowstorm unknown when it would arrive, these villagers still had the mind to hold a funeral.
Lin Shi didn't know whether to call them ignorant or foolish.
He quickened his pace, eager to return to his safe house.
After greeting the Demon King, he took out the gold and other precious metals he had collected today.
His heart was filled with tension, excitement, and anxiety, but most of all, anticipation.
Lin Shi took a deep breath and whispered:
"Upgrade item duplication."
Most of the gold jewelry in his hand disappeared.
A dazzling golden light emitted from Lin Shi's forehead,
The entire treasure basin interface flickered like a code in front of him.
Lin Shi's pupils contracted, staring intently at the changes before him.
The last time the treasure basin interface had such drastic changes was when it absorbed the second ancient coin.
Lin Shi's heartbeat unconsciously quickened.
The Demon King was already stunned on the side.
Although he was somewhat used to Lin Shi's casual conjuring of things in his daily life.
But this time, it actually emitted light?
It was the first time in his dog life that he had seen a human who could emit light by himself!
The Demon King's mouth was wide open, oblivious to the drool flowing to the ground.
Looking at Lin Shi with his dog eyes, the color of worship was visibly replaced.
After a while, the treasure basin interface reappeared in front of him:
[Pottery Basin]
[Storage Space (Complete): The space volume can increase with the user's physical energy, and living beings can be stored]
[Function: Item Duplication *381]
[Upgrade required wealth points: 1.24 million]
"Can store living beings..."
Lin Shi roughly glanced over the previous words, staring straight at the "can store living beings" five words.
He was clear what these words meant.
He quickly checked the space with his consciousness.
What he saw was that the entire space had been expanded to the horizon, even the things inside had become tiny.
The nearly ten thousand containers of supplies collected at the port before, which had already occupied one-third of the entire space.
After upgrading five times yesterday, those supplies only occupied a corner of one ten-thousandth of the space.
But now, the entire space seemed to be divided in half by something.
One side was still as large as before, a vacuum area, and the other side actually appeared a piece of land as big as a football field!