Chapter 1854: The Benevolent Is Invincible

San Antonio, Inner City Temporary Containment Area.

This is a block destroyed by artillery fire, with continuous bomb craters and broken walls, and devastation under the broken reinforced concrete. And among the ruins, hundreds of people are busy working.

The sound of bang bang bang kept ringing in the containment area, and workers were tearing down the bombed buildings and filling the ground. Due to the shortage of various mechanical equipment, many tasks must be done manually.

Rows of simple houses are being built on the filled ground. These houses are all three-story structures, only simple bedrooms, toilets, bathrooms and other ancillary facilities are specially built.

Several workers in helmets are doing wiring inside and outside the house. Most of this is wires, but a few are racks for wireless surveillance cameras.

Simon patrols the containment area with a SWAT team in his pickup truck. The containment area in front of him will meet the temporary housing needs of about 2,000 people, at least allowing many bottom-level people who can only live in shacks to have a home with peace of mind.

"The Legion is really different from the Baath Party." Simon chatted with his partner.

"Yeah, it's really different." The partner in the co-pilot seat was fully armed with long and short firearms, but mentally he was quite lazy. Because the law and order in the city is much better than in the past, there is no need for the special police to be highly nervous all the time.

When the ban on guns was first issued, many people were extremely disgusted. People felt that without guns, they would not feel safe, and citizens were forced to hand over their weapons. Most people have more than one or two firearms, or even a dozen, and countless ammunition.

Simon has seen all kinds of powerful things in the process of collecting weapons. What are long and short guns? Grenades, bazookas, and heavy machine guns are all trifles, and some people even hide an 'Abrams' main battle tank in their backyard.

Fortunately, the manpower of the police is particularly abundant now. The policemen who have received short training are constantly combing every corner of the city, and even use magnetic detectors to find various metal parts everywhere. In addition to cleaning up various shrapnel, there is also a large amount of unexploded ammunition and guns and weapons.

At present, the Legion has initially estimated that more than 20 million guns have been confiscated, and the number of guns is greater than the population. Most of the weapons flowed out of unattended US military bases. There were a lot of damaged weapons due to poor maintenance, and there were also many usable weapons.

In order to prevent these weapons from spreading out again, Zhou Qingfeng had to get an electrolytic furnace to destroy them. Because the weapons were often mixed with ammunition, several electrolytic furnaces were blown up and many people died.

Such a large-scale collection of weapons has achieved amazing results. The first point is that policemen like Simon feel safe and their deterrence has increased. They don't need to worry about violent attacks while patrolling, and they don't need to worry about stray bullets flying out somewhere.

Everyone's spirits began to slowly relax, and anxiety and panic were disappearing. This is a rare thing since the last days. The sense of security is invisible and intangible, but it is a precious necessity in human life.

"X-ray machines, monitors, and strict security checks." The co-pilot partner sighed: "I now understand why the army commander wants to ban guns. This policy makes the city quiet. It's too quiet."

Without guns and weapons that can easily kill people, ordinary people will become less courageous and less aggressive. Gunshots no longer sounded in the city at any time, and people were even a little uncomfortable.

You know, when the Baath Party controlled San Antonio, people died every day in the city from various shootings. And now .

No one was killed by shooting not only because the weapons were confiscated, but also because there were surveillance cameras all over the city. With this gadget, the work of the police is much easier. Whenever something goes wrong, everyone immediately requests the police data center to play back the video on the radio.

Communication base stations all over the city will store everything that happens in every corner in the data center of the police station. Now there is a case,

The police didn't even bother to investigate. As long as the suspect's height, appearance, clothing and other key elements are mastered, intelligent AI will automatically find the suspect.

This is the benefit of the wasteland's more advanced artificial intelligence combined with the rabbit security system. Zhou Qingfeng even sold dozens of Wasteland's supercomputers and smart software to Rabbit, which smoothed out the increasingly terrifying trade deficit.

Because the United States has always emphasized personal privacy, the government cannot spend taxpayers' money at will on this kind of system. The media can also demonize comprehensive security surveillance, telling people that being monitored is like losing their freedom.

Even Simon has always felt that such a powerful monitoring network is too scary, living in it is like being stared at by countless eyes. But now that he has really experienced the convenience of this network, he feels that being a policeman is quite boring.

When Simon's pickup was about to leave the containment area, he yelled into a simple house, "Buffon, how is it today?"

A young man came out of the simple room, trotted up to the pickup and said, "Hi, Officer Simon, nothing happened today, very calm."

The young man named Buffon has a disabled arm and cannot do heavy work. People like him used to beg and steal for a living, and nobody cared about him. And once he failed to steal, he would probably die from a severe beating.

Now that he can have a job as a security coordinator, Buffon is overjoyed. In order to keep this job, he can be said to have fulfilled all the tasks assigned by the city government with due diligence.

"Is there anyone else hiding guns?" Simon asked.

"I heard that there is a black market for firearms in a block to the west. I have been asking who is doing it these two days?"

"Did someone sabotage the surveillance network?"

"No, after you came to capture a few saboteurs last time, no one dared to mess with those surveillance cameras anymore. But I heard recently that someone wanted to sabotage by cutting off the power, and I'm also watching."

"How many people still don't like to monitor the Internet?"

"It's half to half. Some people like it and some don't. In general, there are more and more people who don't care."

After chatting with Buffon for a few words and telling him to keep an eye on some saboteurs, Simon finally drove out of the containment area. He looked back at the area under construction and sighed: "In the past, this kind of containment area must have been a dirty, messy, violent, disgusting place."

"Hehehe..." the co-pilot partner said happily, "Because this kind of place doesn't collect taxes, the government doesn't care about it. But now the rich and poor areas in the city are equally safe, and we have to drive every day Shaking and shaking here.

Those poor ghosts enjoy the treatment of the rich without spending a penny, building houses for them, providing them with cheap food, convenient transportation, and valuable security, which was unimaginable in the past. Even I feel that the Legion is too kind to the poor. "

"Yes, yes." Simon sighed: "So the poor are willing to go with the legion, and the poor are the majority. Just like that Buffon, if the Ba'ath Party fights back, he will definitely resist.

The Legion has paid a huge price to capture these many people, and it can also use these people, no one in this world can compete with it. "

This heck can be called—the benevolent is invincible!