Chapter 2486: From Now On, You Are No Longer Slaves

After all the dead soldiers were successfully detoxified and their moods gradually calmed down, Ye Chen walked down the stone steps and came to the square.

Thousands of people looked at him, kneeling and kowtowing gratefully and piously.

390, who was at the head, choked up and said, "On behalf of all the dead soldiers and their families, I thank you for your great kindness!"

Others also knelt on the ground like him, shouting respectfully, "Thank you for your great kindness!"

Ye Chen looked at the thousands of people kneeling on the ground and said indifferently, "Get up, everyone. From now on, you are no longer slaves, and you don't have to kneel and worship anymore."

After speaking, without waiting for others to respond, he said to 390, who was kneeling respectfully in the front, "Take me to visit the place where you live."

390 said respectfully, "I obey your command!"

After speaking, he stood up, pointed to the back of the square, and said, "Sir, the area where the dead soldiers live is behind the square, please follow me!"

Ye Chen nodded and followed 390 through the huge square.

While walking, 390 introduced to Ye Chen that the square was basically a place for dead soldiers to train except when distributing antidotes, whether it was close-quarters combat or firearms shooting, it was all carried out in this square.

After passing through the square, there was a corridor nearly five meters wide and thirty meters long. After passing through the corridor, it was the living area of the dead soldiers.

The living area of the dead soldiers was more like an underground town, where the street planning was horizontal and vertical, like cutting tofu, precisely divided into multiple square areas.

In each square area, there were eight rooms of more than ten square meters, as well as a public kitchen and a public bathroom.

The domestic water in the entire living area was taken from the groundwater in the copper mine, and then transported here after being filtered and purified by purification equipment;

Domestic sewage was directly treated together with the production sewage of the copper mine, and often discharged into the sea at night, so it had not been discovered that there was any abnormality by the outside world.

The air in the entire underground space all relied on the ventilation equipment in the copper mine, which could ensure that the air quality indicators in this underground hundreds of meters deep were still up to standard.

Here, there was only one type of energy, which was electricity, including the daily cooking of dead soldiers, which also used electricity;

The ceiling of the public area was covered with full-spectrum lighting, illuminating the entire public area as bright as day.

390 introduced to Ye Chen, "Here, we can't see the sun, moon, and stars. Whether it's dark or bright depends entirely on the lighting to simulate. As long as the wake-up bell rings, all the lights will turn on at the same time. For us, this enters the daytime. When the curfew time comes at night and the lights-out bell rings, all the lights outside turn off, which for us enters the nighttime."

As he spoke, he sighed and added, "People like me who have gone out to perform tasks at least know what the sun, moon, and stars look like, but my wife, as well as other women, and those children who haven't had the opportunity to go out to perform tasks, haven't really seen the sun and the moon until now."

When Ye Chen heard this, he couldn't help but feel sympathy and regret for the fate of these dead soldiers.

A person, from birth to death, might not have seen the sun. If this were said, I'm afraid no one would believe it.

Thinking of this, how to solve the lives of these dead soldiers and their families in the future became a relatively tricky problem.

Ye Chen naturally didn't want to continue letting them live 600 meters underground, but this copper mine was a scale of hundreds of people in the eyes of the outside world, so it was impossible to move everyone to the ground, and the number of people suddenly increased too much, which would also arouse the suspicion and speculation of the outside world.

At this time, Ye Chen changed the subject and continued, "However, from today on, the passage between the dead soldiers and the ground will remain unobstructed. You coordinate internally, and you can let a part of the people go to the ground in multiple time periods every day to feel the real day and night, and feel the real sun, moon, and stars."

390 was extremely excited when he heard this, and hurriedly said gratefully, "Thank you, Sir! Thank you, Sir! If the children can go out to see the real world and breathe fresh air, I will be satisfied!"

Ye Chen smiled, "Everyone can go out, but for the time being, we still have to endure humiliation and burden, so everyone still has to continue to endure and be wronged for a period of time. However, don't worry, in terms of daily food, clothing, housing, and transportation, I will let people improve the treatment of dead soldiers as much as possible. If the children need to receive normal education, I can also let people coordinate some teaching materials and aids suitable for children of all ages for you. If you have any needs, you can also bring them up to me. I will solve as many as I can."

390 said gratefully, "Sir, it would be great if the children could receive real education. At present, the children's education is basically limited to literacy, as well as the sporadic basic knowledge we have mastered. But people like us, even if we have the opportunity to go out, we are all going to perform tasks. The time is urgent, and there are people watching in the dark, so we don't have the opportunity to come into contact with any systematic knowledge, and we can't even get a world map to show the children..."

Ye Chen nodded and said understandingly, "I will let people solve all these problems in the shortest possible time."

After speaking, Ye Chen asked 390 again, "By the way, how do you usually solve the medical problems?"

390 explained, "We have a medical team consisting of ten people. The members of this medical team are all selected from young girls by the Anti-Qing Society and trained. However, they mainly learn about gynecology and obstetrics to ensure the production of pregnant women and the care of infants and young children in the entire station."

Ye Chen couldn't help but ask, "If someone has a major illness, how is it usually handled?"

390 thought for a while and said, "We don't seem to have encountered any major illnesses, because of the weekly antidote, our bodies will always be in a relatively healthy state, and this antidote will improve our physical quality and make our strength continue to increase."

Ye Chen suddenly realized.

When Wu death date and those dead soldiers were there, although they were not real martial artists, their physical quality was not inferior to martial artists. Coupled with modern weapons and careful tactics, their real combat level was very high, and even an eight-star martial artist was not their opponent.

I think their physical quality is so strong because they take this antidote regularly.

390 added, "Although the antidote can significantly improve our physical quality, it seems to have a great impact on our average life expectancy. Long-term use of the antidote causes our average life expectancy not to exceed sixty years. The oldest dead soldier on record lived to fifty-eight, and most of them died of illness around the age of fifty."

Ye Chen nodded, "That kind of medicine doesn't rely on medicinal power to improve your physical quality. It just accelerates the burning of your own vitality, so that you can burst out greater potential. Looking at it in the short term, the strength is indeed greatly improved, but in reality, it is overdrawing the subsequent life."

As he spoke, Ye Chen asked him, "How old are you this year?"

390 said respectfully, "Reporting to Sir, I am forty-five this year."

As he spoke, he couldn't help but sigh softly and mocked himself, "I guess I only have ten years left to live. I hope that within these ten years, I can follow you to eliminate the Anti-Qing Society!"

Ye Chen looked at him and said seriously, "Don't worry, eliminating the Anti-Qing Society won't take that long at all. Moreover, you won't only live to fifty or sixty. Now that the deadly poison in your bodies has been cleared, I will make your average life expectancy keep up with normal people."

390 knew that Ye Chen was definitely not talking nonsense, and said gratefully, "Thank you for your rebirth!"

After speaking, he knelt on one knee to show piety.

Ye Chen saw him kneeling on one knee and smiled helplessly.

Just said not to kneel, he changed kneeling on both knees to kneeling on one knee.

Ye Chen shook his head, helped him up with one hand, looked at the time, and said, "I see it's almost dawn. Go and let all the underage children prepare, waiting to enjoy their first sunrise on the ground!" ===== CHAPTER 2487 =====

Ye Chen shook his head, helped him up with one hand, checked the time, and said, "I see it's almost dawn. Go and have all the underage children prepare themselves. Wait to go up and enjoy the first sunrise of their lives!"