Extreme Cold Era: Shelter Don't Keep Waste-Chapter 600 - 564: Salvation Plan

For the residents of Langton's lower city, the events of recent days have been overwhelming.

First, the Guild of Corpses was raided by the Imperial Military. The subsequent announcement revealed it to be a cult base. Cultists worshipping the Ancient Gods were performing sacrifices with corpses, summoning malign forces intending to destroy Langton.

Fortunately, the Imperial authorities discovered it in time and successfully eradicated the cult.

Though it caused significant damage to the lower city, ultimately the cult was successfully eliminated without causing more severe damage or casualties to the lower city.

The residents of the lower city thought this was the end of it, but the plan announced by the Langton City Government shocked everyone.

The Langton City Government intends to build a large shelter in the now mostly vacant upper city, recruiting a large workforce from the lower city, and promising that those who participate in the construction will have priority for residence once the shelter is completed.

At the same time, the Langton City Government will also build a large Energy Tower in the lower city to maintain the environmental temperature and prevent the lower city from freezing over completely.

These messages were explosive, yet they left the residents of the lower city bewildered.

If the Empire had these means and capabilities, why not build these facilities in Langton sooner?

Why didn't the Langton City Government begin construction of these facilities at the same time as the Church's shelter building?

However, the Langton City Government didn't answer these questions, merely stating that workers coming to the site could receive one ration of food per day, regardless of gender.

Seeing this, those who could still move in the lower city rushed to the recruitment site.

Regardless of anything else, as long as the Langton City Government truly distributes food, even if they have to dig their own graves, they'd prefer to die with a full belly first.

In response, the Langton City Government went all out, opening up to provide rations to the populace.

Although one ration per person is limited, there are no restrictions on age or gender. Anyone who can work at the construction site, regardless of age or gender, can receive a ration.

This undoubtedly gave the people great confidence. Even though the official Langton plan sounded like a scam, they chose to work hard anyway.

After all, they are actually distributing food. Who can guarantee they don't have the means to build the shelter and the Energy Tower?

As for why they didn't build sooner, it's possible the officials only recently remembered they also have these commoners!

In any case, after finally having a full meal, many didn't think too much but instead worked hard.

Very soon, the construction site in the lower city was cleared, and work began on laying the foundation for the Energy Tower. Some components were also produced by factories that had started operating again and were delivered to the site.

This was indeed an unimaginable scene. Since the Empire announced the impending apocalypse, all of Langton seemed to have fallen into a kind of desperation.

Factories halted on a large scale, and food and daily necessities were no longer available on the market, while the nobles and the Imperial Center migrated to the Northern Territory...

All of this indicated that Langton, along with the Empire's homeland, was abandoned by the Imperial Center.

This made many people regret not joining the immigration to the Northern Territory, thinking that staying in Langton was the better choice, and mocking those who went to the Northern Territory as abandoning their Langton identity to become country bumpkins.

Looking back now, how wise those people's choices were!

However, the situation is as it is; regret is useless.

Many have already given up hope of survival, merely clinging to life.

After all, there are quite a few Church-built sanctuary shelters in Langton, where many have found refuge, giving a small number of people hope that Langton still holds promise.

As long as the Church constructs more sanctuary shelters or people beg for help, there's still hope for survival.

But for many others, they've already lost all hope and possibility of surviving, merely waiting for death to come.

Now, with the Langton City Government announcing plans to build the Energy Tower and shelter, even though it's unclear what they truly intend, the sufficient food supply has offered many a glimmer of hope. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

After all, even compressed biscuits can fill the belly, providing sustenance for survival.

With hope for survival, people naturally cease to believe the teachings of certain Evil God Sects.

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"Everything is progressing smoothly in the lower city for now. As long as the Energy Tower can be erected on schedule, everything will be fine." Perfikot looked at the map of Langton City spread before her, a hint of satisfaction on her face.

Her aim in doing all this was still to eliminate the Evil God Sect because using force has never been an ultimate solution to eradicate them.

As long as the populace could be swayed by them, as long as their discourse had appeal, as long as there were people willing to trade their lives and beliefs for survival, the Evil God Sect could not be fully eradicated.

Even if Perfikot could eliminate all those Evil God Sects, these fundamental problems remain unchanged, and new Evil God Sects would emerge.

Therefore, at the root, to resolve this, the first priority is to address the populace's need for food, to fill their stomachs, allowing them to survive; many issues would naturally resolve themselves without Perfikot's intervention.

This has been well proven in the Northern Territory, where the Evil God Sects did infiltrate and indeed swayed some people.

However, when the Northern Territory officials began to clear out the Evil God Sects, these groups were quickly eradicated, and many sects were simply uprooted.

The astonishing success was primarily due to Perfikot's solid grassroots support in the Northern Territory, and the people's support for her.

Most importantly, the people of the Northern Territory had the means to survive without worrying about their livelihood for tomorrow.

Thus, Perfikot deeply understood that to resolve Langton's Evil God Sect issues, saving the livelihoods of Langton's populace is necessary first.

"The lower city's situation is easy to resolve, but what about the upper city? Those manor houses, villas, and palaces of the noble lords aren't so easily requisitioned. How do you plan to build enough shelters in the upper city to house all those people?" Sanderion wasn't trying to dampen Perfikot's efforts intentionally, but the slow progress in the upper city was an undeniable fact.