Chapter 842: Cat Getan Renovation in Progress (Part II)

The old staff member led a group of chattering children through the corridor, and on the way, Jason discovered that compared to an apartment building, this place was indeed more like a hotel.

There were beige patterns on the dark gray floor tiles, a huge potted plant every three meters or so, a carpet at the entrance of each room, and a trash can every three rooms.

There were still many patterns carved on the ceiling, and the lighting was relatively soft, which could be said to be a bit dim, but it added to the feeling of home. Walking to the room at the very end, the staff member reached out and pressed the doorplate on the door, and then a name appeared: "Jason Todd."

Jason walked up, grabbed the doorknob without fear, the doorknob flashed, and with a "click," the lock opened.

The old staff member introduced: "The materials used for the door are very advanced. Currently, the known firearms in Cat Getan have no way to break this door. The windows are the same."

Jason pushed the door open, and the room that appeared in his field of vision made him almost scream.

This place was indeed very much like a hotel, even the room was—a small room that could only fit one bed. However, on the wall near the corridor, there was a wall cabinet fixed, a painting hanging at the head of the bed, and a window opposite.

This window wasn't too big, only about half the length of the bed, but there was a very small bay window, and Jason could just sit on it.

Looking out the window, outside was the street that hadn't been renovated yet, and the construction site that was being renovated in the distance. Looking far into the distance, the view was excellent.

"The rooms at the corners have a better view." The old staff member said: "The rooms surrounding the interior, although they don't have such a good view, have a larger area, and some even have balconies. Sunlight hours are all guaranteed."

Many children rushed into the room chattering, and Jason wasn't angry. Instead, the six-fingered gang leader rushed in and said: "All out! All out! Don't touch things randomly here, be careful of breaking things, you'll have to pay for them!"

A child touched the soft bed sheet and said: "My god, if I slept on this, I would never want to wake up..."

"This cabinet is still quite big, it should be able to hold a lot of things, but I don't have so many things to put in it. Should I go out and find some?"

"Look! Look! There are cabinets under the bed, the bed can be pulled open, and there is a place to put things underneath..."

"Wow, you can also put things behind the painting!"

The children were like treasure hunters, turning the place upside down. They discovered that although the room was small, it was fully equipped. Basically, every place that could be used for storage was made into storage, and even the headboard was made with secret compartments.

Jason was also very excited. He clenched his fists and whispered: "The cabinet on the wall can be used to put books, the one under the bed can put clothes, no no no, it might be a bit damp, maybe..."

The old staff member heard him say this, so he smiled and said: "No need to worry about the dampness problem. The entire building has an intelligent ventilation system, and at the same time, it will intelligently adjust the humidity and temperature. It won't be cold, and it won't be damp."

The children erupted into another cheer.

After leaving Jason's room, following the end of the corridor and turning, the front suddenly opened up. Jason discovered that this building was actually a cylinder, with a hollow small square in the middle, which was quite similar to the structure of the South District of the Living Hell.

When the Living Hell was undergoing tap water renovation, they retained a portion of the wells and turned them into entertainment squares. Although the area was small and the lighting wasn't very good, it at least gave people a place for free activities.

This place was no exception. Standing on the corridor bridge, one could just see the small square below, which was paved with floor tiles, had benches, and a few fitness machines.

Besides that, every three floors were staggered a bit, leaving a crescent-shaped terrace outside the building, which could also be used for people's activities. And the west side of the building wasn't completely built yet; it was to be connected to other buildings.

After touring the residential area, all the children went to see their own houses. At this time, it was already dark, but this journey wasn't over yet. The old staff member took them to take the elevator down and arrived at the first floor of the entire building.

That floor, which was level with the small square, was actually the living center. Street vendors, newsstands, and restaurants were all here. It was conceivable that if tenants moved in later, the children could work here.

Cat Getan didn't have any rules about not hiring child labor. Many children were helping in the kitchens of restaurants, and there were also those kneading dough in the kitchens of bakeries. Here, there were all the employment conditions they needed. Even if Cat Getan's weather was often bad, they could go to work without leaving the building.

This was also the concept of Wayne's design for this type of building. Simply put, it was to thoroughly internalize the human city, integrate living, commerce, and storage into the interior of the building, and then connect the communities to each other through the buildings.

Thus, they had almost infinite expansion space. As long as the technology could support it, they could expand upwards and downwards. The structures supported each other, and the functional areas complemented each other, to achieve the goal of transforming Cat Getan into a tree that constantly grew upwards.

Bruce and Schiller both knew that Cat Getan's rain might have problems. Even without the Court of Owls, the rain here really couldn't be called clean, and the rainwater would pollute a lot of drinking water, causing problems in the groundwater and oceans here.

And once such a three-dimensional building structure was put into use, purified water would become a complete system, ensuring that the water used by every resident here was clean, which could reduce the probability of them going crazy.

After seeing the bottom floor, the old staff member took the children to the top floor. The landscaping on the top floor hadn't been completed yet, but one could see some scenes of a park.

The old staff member pointed to the construction site that was still working and said: "The house next to it will be 16 floors higher than this one. This garden will become the terrace garden for that house and your top-floor garden."

"The plants here will all join the drip irrigation system. You don't need to water them, and you don't need to maintain them. At the same time, they will provide fresh air here."

"And the top floor of that building opposite will become a high-level square shared by you and them, used to supplement the insufficient sunlight hours in the building."

Just as he said this, they heard a commotion downstairs. Looking down, they found that many gang members had surrounded the place.

Some children said with some worry: "Although they don't come in, if they surround this place and don't let any cars in, what will we do for food?"

"Don't worry, the transport channel doesn't pass through the road. Now, we have a transport channel underground, and two overpasses that are being built and are level with the fourth floor of the building. Even if they wait there for a year, they won't be able to affect you."

"Now, the prices here are still on par with the outside because the renovation project hasn't been completed. Once all the renovation work in Cat Getan is fully completed, prices will be intelligently regulated to ensure that everyone has sufficient wealth to purchase basic survival materials."

The children lay on the railing and clicked their tongues in wonder, but soon, they saw the gangs pointing their guns at them.

They retreated two steps in some fear, but the old staff member said: "It's okay. If they wait outside without shooting, we won't shoot either. But if they shoot at the building, the defense system will enter marking mode until they are subdued."

The children shivered, remembering the miserable state of the gang members before. They discovered that these weapons only attacked the limbs of the gang members and wouldn't hit their vital parts. But if the legs and arms were hit by four or five shots, that person probably wouldn't be able to survive, and even if they could survive, they wouldn't have any mobility at all.

"In the future, the chip marks on your bodies will grant you different permissions, allowing you to go to different places, and all of this is controlled by the system. No one can interfere..."

"Then what if I want to move?" a child raised his hand and asked.

"You can go to the sales office below to apply for a change of residence. Any vacant residence can be chosen, but if it doesn't match the model of the one you are currently living in, you need to pay extra or receive compensation."

The children asked chattering, but most of them were small things, such as whether they could raise flowers, what to do if the flowers died, whether they could raise pets, who would clean the bathroom, and so on.

Then, the old staff member took them to the leisure area. This was an indoor square, or rather, more like a canteen. One window after another was still empty, but soon people would move in.

Next to the canteen was a bathhouse. There were two bathhouses in the entire building, one was a cubicle for ordinary bathing, and the other was for soaking. The old staff member said: "The water here is recycled, so you don't have to worry, but there is a limit to the number of times you can use it. You can't come to wash every day, otherwise the circulation system won't be able to supply it."

"But how do they judge the number of times we come?" Jason asked.

"When you enter the door, the mark will be triggered, and the system will automatically record the time you enter. In summer, it's once every other day, and in winter, it's once every three days. If the time you come is less than the interval, you will be blocked outside the door."

The other children weren't interested in this question at all, but Jason felt like he was being monitored. However, soon, he thought that only he would be so pretentious. These children were very happy.

When people have trouble surviving, they won't consider privacy at all, let alone monitoring the number of times they enter the bathhouse. Even if there were cameras in the bathhouse, they wouldn't care. As long as they could soak in the warm pool, they would leave the rest to God to worry about.

But Jason could imagine that once the children adapted to this mode, they would be even more adapted to this mode of the city, and then adapt to the so-called marked chip permissions.

But he didn't know if this was a good system in the long run. He only knew that it was definitely much better than the gang system. At least here, the children could survive and live very well.

When night fell, Jason put on his uniform again and came to the roof of this building, in the garden that hadn't been completed yet, and then he heard a low voice sound behind him.

"Nice uniform. Did you make it yourself?" Batman asked.

"No, my friend helped me make it." Jason looked down at the uniform on his body and said: "The black uniform is indeed very cool, isn't it?"

"I want to make a uniform like this for Dick too, but I hope he learns to make it himself. Do you want to learn with him?"

Jason looked up into Batman's eyes and said: "No, I don't want to learn, because the uniform is not important."

But Batman's eyes were getting brighter and brighter. ===== CHAPTER 843 =====