Wasteland Border Inspector-Chapter 258 - 118: The Might of the Wanderer, Outer City Plan!
Central Inspection Station.
Station Head Office Building.
The off-road vehicle hadn’t even come to a complete stop before Ding Yishan had already pushed open the car door and jumped out, his entire body wrapped in a thick, inescapable smell of smoke.
Jiang Chuan followed closely behind, carrying a file bag. The two hurriedly stepped onto the stairs, rushing all the way up to the third floor.
Unlocking the office door, Ding Yishan headed straight for the refrigerator in the corner, pulling open the door to grab four bags of nutrient paste.
Unlike the standard market versions, the nutrient paste inside the refrigerator was all in blue bags.
Its nutritional value was ten times that of ordinary nutrient paste, and it included many anti-fatigue components. Normally, drinking one bag could sustain half a day’s intense work.
At the moment, he gulped down four bags.
After drinking, he finally clutched his lower abdomen and let out a long breath, his whole body seeming to collapse bonelessly into the wide office chair.
"It’s too chaotic..."
Rubbing his throbbing temples, Ding Yishan’s voice was full of weariness.
Since the astronomical anomaly, the troublesome matters encountered this year have been more than the past five years combined.
Especially in the past month.
He Fei’s death, the invasion of the Stand-In Starfish, the arrival of Void Mist... and now a Guardian Extraordinary has appeared.
Frequent incidents impact the checkpoint so much that they can’t even finish organizing and filing the previous incident before the next crisis hits, leaving no time to catch their breath.
And what’s more absurd, an Intern Inspector was able to detect traces of a Guardian Extraordinary first?
Ding Yishan couldn’t help but sigh. 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎
Since its establishment, the checkpoint has never recorded such an event, and very likely won’t in the future.
The Cheng Family has once again brought "surprises" to the inspection station.
Fortunately, at the meeting a few days ago, as the station head, I mentioned focusing on nurturing newcomers; otherwise, I’d really be at a loss now.
And for this "Wanderer."
The inspection station was almost turned upside down during the day; a High-level Inspector held an urgent meeting, arguing from ability analysis to potential threats until people’s heads hurt.
The Third-Phase and Second-Phase Inspectors not on duty were running their legs off, leading teams to conduct a carpet search in the Buffer Zone, not daring to overlook any corner.
In the afternoon, with further transmission and verification of the intelligence, the high-levels of Happiness City held another meeting in relay.
From estimating the number of migrants, resource allocation plans, to fortress expansion and migration support plans...
Every item debated took almost four hours, more than double the length of the last reconstruction meeting after the Stand-In Starfish outbreak.
And this was just the preliminary meeting; at least three to five more special-topic meetings were needed to finalize the specifics.
As for whether to give up taking in this wave of migrants, no one mentioned it from start to finish in the meeting.
This is simply a godsend opportunity!
Countless Shelter Cities are exhausting efforts to compete for population and resources, yet Happiness City just happens to encounter such an opportunity post-infection wave.
Even if it’s five hundred thousand, or a million, they must swallow it down despite the difficulty!
However, while the high-levels make decisions easily, executing them on the ground requires breaking legs.
Jiang Chuan opened the bulging file bag, spreading the stacks of signed resolutions on the table, tongue-tied:
"Sir, at a minimum, preparations need to be made for seven hundred thousand people, how can the Buffer Zone accommodate this? We can’t just have them sleep on the street, right?"
"We must accommodate them, even if we burst; we must take them!"
Ding Yishan spoke, his voice hoarse, "Autumn is coming soon. If we accept these people, Happiness City could double in size, where else would we find such an opportunity if we miss it?"
"But..."
Jiang Chuan hesitated, "Even with the inspection station working at full capacity, the maximum entry is ten thousand per day, and this cannot be sustained for long. Personnel fatigue and streamlined processes will increase the likelihood of Infected Bodies slipping through, and if some do get through, the consequences would be..."
"That’s why we can’t let the inspection station work at full capacity."
Ding Yishan interrupted, contemplating for a moment before pulling out a document from the pile, "Don’t focus on those; look at this first."
Every document on the desk was stamped with a red seal, recording plans screened and voted on at the meeting, worthy of further evaluation.
As for those impractical proposals, they were directly dismissed, unqualified even to appear on paper.
Jiang Chuan took it, his gaze landing on the title.
[Outer City Expansion Plan (Draft)]
Scanning quickly along a few lines, he raised his eyebrows. The draft planned to outline a new area on the outskirts of the Buffer Zone, gradually expanding into an Outer City for gathering the incoming migrants.
Using a "register information first, designate temporary residences next, then batch divert" model, it proposed breaking down and stabilizing people, finally channeling them in batches through the inspection station into the Buffer Zone.
"Is this... planning to create a Buffer Zone outside the Buffer Zone?"
"It’s just a draft, just take a look."
The anti-fatigue components in the nutrient paste began to take effect, and Ding Yishan’s voice softened, "Certainly can’t let everyone just rush in; supercomputer simulations have shown that the Buffer Zone’s current capacity limit is 647,000 people, even one more could be catastrophic. And it’s not a minor supply problem, but an issue that can explode the whole Buffer Zone!"
"But now, there’s no time for us to build slowly; the migration team is already on the move, the first batch of forty thousand could arrive as early as the day after tomorrow, and from this group onward, it will only grow."
"Many have proposed first outlining a range with barbed wire outside, setting up temporary shelters, stabilizing people, adjusting resources, pulling electric wires, employing work-for-relief, and utilizing the migrants to build gradually. Once the skeleton of the Outer City is done, people can be channeled proportionately into the Buffer Zone."
