Chapter 147: Freedom?
Mars’s daily rhythm is actually more suitable for human survival.
Blue Star rotates once in 23 hours and 56 minutes, while Mars takes 24 hours and 37 minutes.
In a sense, humanity can use this extra 40 minutes to sleep in.
Huang Wei stretched lazily and couldn’t help but sigh that this extra 40 minutes of sleep in every day was simply too comfortable, keeping him energetic throughout the new day.
After a simple wash-up, he put on his favorite black leather jacket, styled his hair in front of the mirror, held his head high, and walked out the door.
“Mr. Huang, the plan shows that today you will head to D21 area outside the West District to complete land cultivation work on 20 mu, estimated time six hours, and upon completion you will receive 300 in salary.”
An electronic mechanical voice sounded in the earphone, introducing the work Huang Wei had to complete today.
In today’s Utopia City, almost everyone among the nearly one million population has their own job.
Among them, there are those responsible for collecting ore outside, those handling public affairs within the city, and also staff like Huang Wei responsible for reclaiming land on the outskirts of Utopia and planting grain.
Spitz Company still delivers batches of needed supplies to Utopia City every once in a while, but since the population migration was completed, these supplies have entered a paid mode.
For the current Utopia City residents, their clothing, food, housing, and transportation have all begun to enter the market.
Under Primal’s management, a human community with preliminary internal economic circulation has basically successfully settled on Mars.
From being the boss of a 30 trillion listed company to now working 6 hours for merely 300 in salary as a laborer, Huang Wei showed no discouragement on his face.
“You can still smile?”
As soon as he stepped out, a familiar figure leaned over from beside him.
Huang Wei didn’t need to turn his head; he knew from the voice it was Jin Ze, who always had a bitter and grudge-filled expression.
He used the few assets of San Xin, nearly 10 billion, to exchange with Mark for tickets for 1000 people.
Bringing a large group of elite executives from San Xin’s metallurgy department, with great ambitions they came to Mars, the purpose of which goes without saying.
But upon arriving here, they discovered that although Utopia City has been constructed to initial scale, it is still far from being able to go out ‘prospecting for gold’.
Under that mayor who never shows his face’s planning, all Utopia residents now have only one task.
Within 5 years, complete the land cultivation area for grain consumption for 10 million people, as well as the breeding of meat food animals.
Thereby escape continuous reliance on Spitz Company’s high-priced supply of materials.
The current Utopia City is a semi-militarized city; the people here, besides following the tasks issued daily through their earphones, currently have no other paths to take.
“Why not? Don’t you think this kind of life now is very wonderful? Although I only have 300 in salary now, I feel it’s more reassuring to hold in my hand than the Nvidia shares back then.”
A smile appeared on Huang Wei’s face; he genuinely felt that the current life suited him well.
Unlike Jin Ze, before Nvidia, he was just a simple student who started from scratch.
His former great ambitions had long been completely crushed by Xinghai’s graphene chip.
Jin Ze followed along; he too had a land reclamation task outside the West District today.
‘Distance to West District parking lot: 23 minutes 51 seconds.’
“This place is really advanced; the public transportation system’s arrival time is precise to the second.”
Sitting next to Huang Wei, looking at the time displayed on the orbital bus, he couldn’t help but exclaim.
Beside him, Huang Wei also became very interested upon hearing this.
“Yes, I suspect most management systems here use a combination with artificial intelligence. Look at our daily task assignments, and during tasks, the earphone occasionally corrects. Only artificial intelligence can achieve such precision.”
Jin Ze didn’t quite understand this and turned to look at him puzzled.
As Huang Wei talked about this, a strong sense of confidence immediately appeared on his face.
“This city is full of cameras with voice recording everywhere; haven’t you seen them? When Spitz Company built Utopia, their scientists must have long considered handing over Mars’s public affairs to artificial intelligence for management in the future, after all, its computing power now should be the sum of all humanity’s or even more.”
A trace of gloom appeared on his face; without Xinghai, the supercomputer here today would only possibly use Nvidia’s chips.
“Could it be that we, the first batch to come to Mars, won’t even have our own freedom?”
A trace of struggle flashed in Jin Ze’s eyes; his words fell into Huang Wei’s ears and were also captured by the earphone into the supercomputer where Primal was.
“Freedom?” Huang Wei glanced at him with a scoff.
In his view, these two words were ridiculously childish.
“You don’t still think Mark is a great businessman now, do you?”
“Isn’t he? He’s still the president of Spitz Company.”
Huang Wei looked at Jin Ze amusedly without answering. Soon the bus arrived at the station; he patted Jin Ze’s shoulder and walked down.
West District gate; a long line had already formed early, but the crowd’s movement speed was very fast.
Huang Wei knew that although there were dozens of security personnel at the gate, the identity information check work was all managed by artificial intelligence.
Otherwise, with human efficiency.
Soon, the line reached him; there was no need for document checks—just pause at the scanning ray area, and upon hearing ‘cleared’, one could go to the depressurization chamber at the gate.
All humans entering or exiting Utopia City would put on their nano-coat here and take their life support system.
Soon, the depressurization process ended; Huang Wei, draped in the nimble nano-coat, stood outside Utopia City looking out.
Several large factories were operating like old machines, with towering smokestacks continuously emitting thick black smoke.
Around the factories, various types of engineering vehicles were densely parked.
And further away, mining, metallurgy, metal processing, and a series of supply chain factories were all present without exception.
Though perhaps not large in scale, to complete the production and manufacturing of primary industrial products in just two years relying on only 1 million population in such an extremely harsh environment, Utopia City’s development potential is evident.
This is also why Huang Wei particularly likes it here.
“Mr. Huang, your work vehicle is ready, currently in full charge state; please head to the designated location as soon as possible.”
Of course, there’s also this artificial intelligence that fascinates him greatly.
