Food God System: Wasteland-Chapter 486 - 273: Wasteland Emperor (Finale)

It is said that Chief Chen wants the entire million residents of the Ninth Special Zone to have rice to eat.

This excites many people, because rice, how delicious must it be?

Some also say it's just a show.

That Chief Chen just wants to exploit free labor.

Who knows what schemes he's plotting behind the scenes.

Or perhaps Chief Chen has gone mad, as he's completely banned the circulation of any prohibited substances throughout the Ninth Special Zone... Addicts here must either detox for free under the zone's arrangement, or get out of the Ninth Special Zone.

Anyone daring to sell any prohibited substances in the Ninth Special Zone is to be executed on the spot... Those using such substances who refuse help are driven out, and should they step back in, they are executed on the spot.

Has he gone mad?

In these end times, countless people rely on substances to relieve stress, yet he forbids their use?

It is said that even human smuggling and organs trafficking, slavery trading have been regulated, practices common in other zones and across the Wasteland. From that day onward, they weren't permitted in the Ninth Special Zone, not in any corner of either Upper City or Lower City Districts.

Anyone involved is to be executed on the spot.

In the streets and alleyways, during lulls between meals, people are talking about how after Chief Chen issued this decree, substantial unrest brewed within the Ninth Special Zone, as many gang members and those earning from it launched massive rebellions.

It is said even the alluring Red-Dress Queen personally acted, and heads rolled.

How many people died?

The regular army was deployed, together with others, and supposedly more than 10,000 people were slaughtered.

Some say it's 30,000, others say 50,000.

Nobody knows for sure, but reportedly, the crematoriums on three shifts never stopped, generating electricity the entire time.

It is said more than a thousand people died at the hands of the Red-Dress Queen.

Claims so vivid, but whether they're true or not is unknown.

Interestingly though, after all that, those engaging in these trades vanished without a trace...

Another month passed.

The events raging through the Ninth Special Zone became all the rage, endless stories abound.

First, internally within the Ninth Special Zone, the Beta currency of the Night Empire was abolished and replaced by contribution points issued by the official government of the Ninth Special Zone as currency.

The utility of contribution points became immensely significant.

Now, supposedly if you earn enough contribution points each month, you don't even have to pay residence taxes!

It's said the exchange rate on the black market is now 1 contribution point to 10 Beta coins!

Additionally, salt and iron became strictly governed by the official government, with no private sales allowed.

That's quite intriguing.

The external livestock city walls began construction.

The walls were built simply, as they were merely intended to encircle the land for farming and grazing.

No one expected that the vast barren land outside could actually grow lush green branches.

It seems under Chief Chen's suggestion, several companies were established in the Ninth Special Zone... It's said those companies were called national enterprises.

A craze for talent acquisition ensued... Indeed, all capable residents of the Ninth Special Zone surged into the national enterprises, breaking heads to snatch a position, as the benefits were supposedly outstanding.

One person entering a national enterprise means the whole family no longer needs to pay residence taxes!

It is said they even get rice distributed per capita annually.

Truly envy-inducing.

Comprehensive reforms were boldly initiated throughout the Ninth Special Zone.

Though many residents harbored apprehension towards these reforms, they later discovered the reforms were actually quite good.

Countless job opportunities were created within the Ninth Special Zone under Chief Chen's reforms.

Unknowingly, as time passed, many residents found the burden on their shoulders seemed to have lightened significantly this year.

The drive and quality of life inexplicably improved.

The Ninth Special Zone saw an influx of numerous new residents, as Chief Chen built a port on the great river, making business bustling.

It is said a fat catfish roamed the river, driving away all ecological beasts attempting to approach the river, often seen leaping and frolicking in the river, heard with its mucus-laden voice, shouting, "I am the King of the River!"

The farmland outside the walls turned from green to golden in just three months, shockingly ready for harvest.

A group of ecological beasts arrived, but came completely unawares, just as those crops were about to be harvested.

In the former Ninth Special Zone, many would have been preparing to flee, as it was, after all, a beast tide coming.

Strangely enough, during this beast tide, fewer than 1,000 people fled the entire Ninth Special Zone.

A million people went madly defending against the beast tide.

Even the ecological beasts seemed never to have seen humans so frenzied, so united. 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

What a marvel it was.

Could it be because of those golden ears of rice behind them?

On the day of harvesting.

Many in the Ninth Special Zone smelled the aroma of rice, a scent they'd never experienced before.

Truckloads of rice were transported into the city.

That day, the aroma of rice wafted throughout the entire Ninth Special Zone, and the Red-Dress Queen invited the whole city to feast on rice.

The fragrance of rice touched unknown numbers of hearts, and that bowl of rice rooted many in this place called the Ninth Special Zone.

The rice harvested every three months, and potatoes every two, replaced the staple diets of all residents in the Ninth Special Zone over the following three years.

Nobody knows how Chief Chen accomplished it, but he did it nonetheless.