Chapter 228: The Ice Age Approaches
The meteorite event occurred in September, and the alien outbreak was in October. At that time, the clothes sold in the major malls were autumn wear, and most of the new winter collections were also on the shelves. However, since the weather didn’t cool down subsequently, these clothes didn’t sell, which ironically made things easier for Han Yi and his team.
Now, there are almost a thousand people in the Space-Time Base, and the number is continuously increasing as people come here every day to register for residence. Han Yi and Lu Changyuan are quite satisfied with the current pace of population growth, too slow wouldn’t favor development, but too fast could overload the system. The current rate is just right.
After all, if there were suddenly tens of thousands of people added, the amount of clothing, food, housing, and transportation required would also spike. Currently, the base’s food storage mainly comes from three sources: one is collecting supplies from outings, two is trading goods with other bases, and three is relying on Han Yi’s personal warehouse.
This is precisely why Lu Changyuan has been so focused on the greenhouse project. Water and electricity can wait, but food is of utmost importance. Once the Ice Age arrives, there will certainly be a large influx of people into the base, so the rate of food production in the base must keep up.
As Han Jiaojiao pondered this, she began to worry. She didn’t know whether the clothes and grain in the base would meet people’s daily needs when the time came. What if there was chaos?...
"Sigh..." She sighed softly.
Han Yi had already picked out a few sets of clothes suitable for the current weather. Hearing Han Jiaojiao’s sigh, he asked with a smile, "What’s wrong?"
Leaning her head on her hand, Han Jiaojiao responded: "I suddenly feel that having too many people isn’t a good thing..."
With too many people, many things get overlooked.
She remembered the times at the Beicheng Base in her previous life when the Ice Age had hit. The few thick clothes left in the trading center were snatched up, tents and containers provided no warmth, and people died every day... Countless frozen corpses piled up, then more people would desperately scramble to snatch clothes from the bodies, even if it meant tearing off a piece of extremely thin fabric to stick to themselves right away.