I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 491 Zhou Chao's Complaints

Along the way, Zhou Chao kept cursing the captain for being inhumane and unsympathetic, bullying him, a weak investigator, and leaving him alone in such a dangerous place.

Not only that, he also greeted all those teammates.

"The supply officer didn't even leave me any extra food, so I had to find wild vegetables and dig mushrooms by myself, and I had to worry about the wild vegetables and mushrooms jumping out and attacking me."

"Old Tian swore to me that there were fish on this empty island. He said he had seen one as big as an arm. It was all a lie! The fish had long been killed by the activated water. There wasn't even a bug in the water."

"He also lied to me that the bugs on this island are delicious. I ate them and my mouth was filled with bitterness. It took me three days to recover."

Zhou Chao was obviously full of resentment, and after learning the inside story of the island, he vented it all out at once.

He had been lonely for too long, and it was not his intention to stay on this island. It was inevitable that he would feel resentful as he was fighting wits and courage with the activated pollution every day.

Li Luo followed behind and listened, nodding and grinning.

Until Zhou Chao complained about one thing:
"And this broken electronic screen. Yuanxin Technology must have cut corners. It broke down after the warranty period. I don't even have a place to entertain myself on this empty island. I squat on the ground and count ants every day."

"I couldn't even check if the mushrooms I dug were edible. If I wasn't lucky, I would have died a long time ago."

"Unscrupulous capitalists!"

Hearing this, the smile on Li Luo's face disappeared instantly.

"What's wrong with you?" Zhou Chao noticed that something was wrong with Li Luo.

"It's okay, I really have no conscience."

"Oh." Zhou Chao responded slowly and continued to curse.

From the bad atmosphere of the investigation team, to the materialistic and decadent life in Dawn City, some people were suffering in the abyss, while others were enjoying themselves in the high-rise buildings in Dawn City.

"Do you know what those capitalists would think if the activated pollution really spread to Dawn City?"

"What do you think?" Li Luo asked curiously.

"They don't think about how to deal with the activated pollution, but how to use it! They will use the activated pollution to turn the figurines into living ones, and then sell them to those ACG people. You know, the money of ACG people is the easiest to cheat! Maybe those ACG people will be grateful to them!"

"Also, they might activate all the machines in the factory so that they don't need to consume electricity. However, if the machines gain consciousness, will they ask for rest? Ask for weekends? But it's useless to ask for it. Even among humans, there are many who don't need rest or weekends..."

"They might even animate water to generate electricity, animate flames to fuel boilers, animate pickaxes to mine, and animate corpses to get them back to work!"

Zhou Chao spoke indignantly, and his words became more and more outrageous.

"The housing prices in Dawn City are so high, will they revitalize the houses in other cities, and then whip them to come to Dawn City on their own, and then they will sell the houses?"

Li Luo listened to his nonsense and didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Would you buy a living house? Aren't you afraid of being eaten by the house?"

Zhou Chao was stunned for a moment, and muttered: "Now the house is not alive, but it still eats up a lot of people..."

"There's more! There's more!" Zhou Chao suddenly thought of something.

"Have you seen those cows plowing the fields in history textbooks?"

"Yes, what's the matter?" Li Luo nodded.

"When cattle plow the land, do they need to eat grass? Grass feed is a cost, and we also have to spend time and energy to care for the health of the cattle."

"Later, humans replaced cattle with machines to plow the land. At this time, oil became a cost, and time and energy had to be spent on maintaining the machines."

"Isn't it the same? The only difference is that the efficiency has become higher. The development of human productivity is the pursuit of the ultimate efficiency, which is also what capitalists pursue." "But what is the most efficient? Let the land cultivate itself!"

“Revitalize farmland!”

“In this way, both the cows and the machinery can be optimized.”

"This is the same for any job. For example, a clerk working in front of a computer is like a cow. A cow needs grass to eat, and a clerk needs a salary. They are the same. Their salary is the cost. Ten clerks need ten salaries, ten costs."

"But the efficiency of clerks is limited. How can we improve efficiency?"

"Revitalize computers! Let computers work on their own. There will be no need for clerks, no need for wages, and no need to care about computers. There is no "Computer Operation Protection Law" for computers, so can't we exploit them as much as we want?"

"The clerical staff can also be optimized, and let them do whatever they want."

"Got it! Let them buy houses. Anyway, no one buys the houses that they came to Dawn City on their own."

"What? No salary?"

"They spent all their salary on buying action figures? Who can they blame? They should blame themselves!"

……

Zhou Chao's resentment gradually faded away amid constant complaints.

He was just an ordinary person struggling in the abyss, and was naturally entangled in those worldly things. In Li Luo's view, his words were just nonsense.

Although it is wild and imaginative, it is also unrealistic.

Fortunately, the activated pollution only exists on this sky island and has not spread. Dawn City is also far away from here, and Zhou Chao’s nonsense will not be realized for the time being.

"In short, I won't let the activation spread any further. Although I complain, I never regret staying on this island. As long as I'm here, the activation pollution won't be able to leave this island!"

"Weren't you forced to stay here by the captain? What is there to regret?"

"Then... that must be my personal wish! The captain can't force me!" Zhou Chao explained anxiously: "Of course I have to agree, the captain will keep me here, this is also my decision."

Li Luo listened to his stumbling defense and did not pursue the matter further.

In any case, the Zhou Dynasty did stay here.

"I will also stop the activation of pollution." Li Luo said seriously.

Zhou Chao was stunned. He didn't know why Li Luo suddenly became so serious. After thinking about it, he could only think that Li Luo was affected by his emotions just now.

He sighed and apologized a little embarrassedly:

"I'm a person who doesn't talk too much, and I haven't talked to anyone on the island for a long time. Don't mind me, just ignore my nonsense."

"I think what you said makes sense. Activated pollution is indeed terrible. We can't let it spread to Dawn City." Li Luo said seriously.

Seeing Li Luo so serious, Zhou Chao was speechless.

"Uh, well...you don't have to be so nervous. Capitalists won't do that."

"No." Li Luo shook his head: "Capitalists really do this."

(End of this chapter)