Chapter 4377

Barry ran on the streets of Metropolis, and he had already discovered that compared to Los Angeles, there were not many homeless people on the streets of Metropolis. Because this place is cold and by the sea, it will blow that kind of very cold wind. And the street structure here is not designed for cold protection, which leads to many streets becoming wind gaps. At the current temperature, blowing in the cold wind for more than ten minutes, there is no need for rescue.

You can find some in the wind-sheltered alleys. Most of them wear thick cotton-padded clothes, put on sleeping bags, and sit in the corner half-dreaming and half-awake. It's really not that everyone takes drugs. Most people don't move, just because the calories of the food they find are not enough to support them to exercise. Sitting there, they can better preserve energy.

And most of the homeless choose to live together. Part of them is centered on the shelter, choosing to stay on the streets near the shelter, so that if someone comes out, they can go in.

And the remaining majority are all centered on the food distribution point. Within the radius of the three food distribution points, the most homeless people will gather. And it doesn't need any precise calculation to find that if you want to satisfy two meals a day, then the homeless can spend all their time during the day from going to get food to queuing, to getting food, to coming back, and then going to get the next meal.

Maybe some people feel that there is no need to eat two meals a day, anyway, they are just staying still, one meal a day is enough. But in fact, it won't work, because the calories of the food distributed are not as high as imagined. And going to get food also requires consuming calories, eating one meal a day is not enough to cover the gap.

Many relief meals look like they are quite the thing, with meat patties, bread, and beans. But strangely, in those bizarre videos, those desserts with huge calories, such as donuts covered with syrup, ice cream that can be piled up to half a meter high, and a large bucket of sugar-oil mixture, none of the ingredients will appear in the relief meals.

The United States is a place where syrup is so cheap that it's like it's free. Walking into any fast-food restaurant, syrup drinks or adding more syrup to food are unlimited supply, which is why the obesity rate is so high.

However, there is no such thing as syrup in relief meals. Even if you pour a spoonful of the cheapest corn syrup, it might provide them with enough calories to support them for two days, but there is just none.

This is because the relief meals distributed will control calories. This is to make the energy that the homeless can obtain just slightly higher than the calories they consume to get food every day. In this way, they have no time to do anything else, and every day is an infinite cycle of queuing for food, eating, and then going to get food.

And the homeless eat two meals, but there are 3-4 foraging points around, because many foraging points will be vacant from time to time, making many people run in vain. In this way, the calories they accumulated before can be consumed, allowing all stored fat to return to zero.

The purpose of doing this is to consume the energy of the homeless, and at the same time, it is also to bind them forever within the range of the food points that provide relief meals. In this way, they will not appear near other communities, which is a method of managing urban public security. Shelters are the same, always waiting and grabbing, so that people can be bound.

Victor retrieved a lot of surveillance data, and Barry also ran through it once, basically determining the range where the homeless in Metropolis gather, and the number of people was also counted.

The situation is very bad. Barry held his phone and spoke while walking: "Many of them are too thin, fat has almost been exhausted. They can't survive this winter."

"Prioritize transferring this batch of people." Diana said on the phone, "Don't take mandatory measures first, it's best to talk well. J'onn and I have found a good place, do you want to come and see?"

A few seconds later, Barry appeared where Diana was. This is an abandoned factory, originally there were some homeless people, but because this place is relatively remote, it is better to say they are wilderness survivors than homeless people. Two or three people gathered around an oil drum to roast fire, and someone was even roasting rabbits, obviously just caught on the mountain next door.

They were very vigilant about these outsiders, but obviously, Diana had already negotiated with them. So although they stood far away and looked, there was no aggressive behavior.

"We can seal this side." J'onn said, "In this way, the wind on the mountain will not blow over. This side faces the sun, smash this wall, and the lighting will be much better. We will install heating equipment in the basement here, which can basically radiate the whole building."

Barry nodded, he thought this idea was good. Diana exhorted again: "Don't kidnap, it will be troublesome if it causes panic. Talk well, there will always be someone willing. Once a certain scale is formed, we don't need to find them, and someone will come voluntarily."

At this time, Hal also came back and said: "The procurement matter is basically settled, but the truck hasn't driven over yet."

"What's wrong?" Several people asked with concern, "Is there a problem?"

"No." Hal shook his head and said, "I thought, we just go and tell people out of thin air, they won't believe it. It's better to let the driver drive a truck with a relief sign around the city, so they will know that a new relief point has been opened. Maybe they will want to come over voluntarily, and then transport them over, it won't be so difficult."

Several people felt that this method was very good. Thus, Diana and J'onn built the base, Hal followed the truck, Barry went to do publicity, Victor provided them with information and logistics support, and soon it was quite effective.

Some people are indeed unable to survive. Because if you want to get relief, you have to get up early. More importantly, you have to walk fast, so that you can grab the queue before others. If you come too late, and there is no food when it's your turn, then the whole morning is completely wasted.

And because of being hungry, the afternoon relief race can't run faster than others. This will form a vicious cycle: the weaker people can't grab it, and then the hungrier and weaker they are, the less calories they have to resist the cold, and in the end, they die cold and hungry.

Barry turned around and found more than a dozen such people, most of them were older. They had no way to go out to get relief, and they were all crouching in tents, waiting for kind street friends to give a little, or just waiting to die.

Barry said there was a new relief point, they didn't care anyway, even if they were cheated to do human experiments, at least they had a full meal, and nodded to leave very readily.

But it is not easy to transport these people. Barry didn't dare to take them into the Speed Force, this group of old, weak, sick, and disabled couldn't stand his tossing, so it's better to find a car to pull them over.

This kind of thing definitely can't find a regular freight company, people won't be willing to do it, can only find that kind of truck driver who is willing to take private work. Barry ran around the city and found a truck driver's parking lot, but it seems it's not the time to run the car now, there are only cars and no people in the parking lot.

Fortunately, Victor quickly retrieved the driver's mobile phone number based on the license plate number. Barry called them one by one, and to his surprise, there was really one person willing.

Barry waited for a while in the cold parking lot. Not long after, a strong man walked out of the shop next to him, with tattoos on his head, holding a pile of chocolate bars in one hand and a bottle of beer in the other. When he walked over, Barry was a bit scared.

He swallowed his saliva, shook hands with this strong man, and said somewhat stutteringly: "That... we opened a new relief point in the suburbs, want to pull some homeless people over..."

The strong man narrowed his eyes, looked at him, and said: "You don't look like someone from a medical institution."

"I'm not," Barry emphasized hurriedly, "We are not selling corpses, nor are we doing human dissection or drug testing. It's a real relief point, if you don't believe it, I can take you to see it."

The strong man frowned, seeming not to want to waste this time. But Barry touched his arm, and the next second, he appeared in that abandoned factory.

He looked at Barry with wide eyes, Barry spread his hands and said: "We are super-powered individuals. Because we feel that our superpowers can help more people, we did this. Of course, it's not that you help for nothing, we will pay you."

Taking the driver back again, the truck driver hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said: "Fine, get in the car."

Barry got into the passenger seat of the truck, leading him to pick up people at the place he just talked about. Actually, there were more than he imagined, about twenty or thirty people, mostly elderly, with three or four women, and a pregnant woman.

The journey was a bit silent, these people obviously hadn't communicated with others for a long time. And when they arrived at the place, they didn't have any reaction, looking very numb. Until the fire barrel was lit, and some food was given to them, someone asked: "Can we stay here?"

"Of course, but only for the winter." J'onn thought for a while, then said, "We can guarantee that you will safely spend this winter. Perhaps when the weather gets warmer, you can try to find a job."

Some of them nodded, while others just remained silent and stuffed food into their mouths. Barry whispered to J'onn: "Can they find a job?"

"If they don't take drugs, actually they can." J'onn said, "Regular jobs can't be found, they can go to work illegally."

Barry nodded. Before, when he was turning around in the city, he also saw some restaurant blocks, which actually lacked illegal workers very much. And the reason why they can't use homeless people is because homeless people need to spend most of their energy on finding food and maintaining body temperature, and have no extra energy to find a job at all. But if they can be raised for a winter, let their physical condition recover, those who don't take drugs can go to work illegally.

This kind of work doesn't need a fixed address, and even includes food and housing, except for low wages and tiredness, it can be done. Although physical quality might not be as good as those who have been moisturized, as long as the asking price is low enough, there will definitely be bosses who accept it.

Ordinary homeless people can't do this, because they don't understand when they first become homeless, they can't find this kind of work at all, and they can't accept the gap. But when they adapt to the environment and have a way, their bodies have already been ruined, and they can only be like others, falling into the cycle of getting relief meals.

This made Barry realize that the help they need is not much. In fact, as long as they can eat enough for a few days, accumulate a certain amount of fat in their bodies, and have some strength, maybe they can turn over by physical labor. Starting so smoothly also made everyone more motivated.