Chapter 62 – Women’s Shelter Life (2)
Although the women were only living inside the camp, it was clear that the city was currently on a state of alert.
In particular, women who lived in the back world quickly noticed subtle changes in the air around them, as noticing would save their lives.
Depending on where you work, you have to quickly catch a small change in the expression of a man kneeling down to serve, or a gesture from her.
I used to see women getting slapped for not doing that or worse.
[Confidential. Residents, please refrain from asking such questions. The city is safe. Relax and soothe your tired mind and body. We welcome you.]
A curious woman asked a question through the on-screen answering machine, but she couldn’t get a useful answer.
“His name is Rose? Right?”
Another woman who was watching from the side asked her.
“It is a machine, not a person. It’s artificial intelligence, to be exact.”
Even after manipulating the touch panel here and there, I couldn’t get anything other than the information I already knew.
Opportunities to communicate with the city’s operators were extremely limited, and most of them were one-way, top-down.
The central control AI called Artemis did not appear on the first day, except for briefly warning about the city conditions and precautions.
It was a short time because it was a voice full of dignity, but it left a strong impression.
‘It has been determined that at least one example is needed for effective control.’
Her example of which she spoke, her warning against her banishment, was firmly imprinted on every woman’s head. In this day and age, expulsion means death.
The second is Rose, the public security AI.
Her voice could be heard frequently.
This is because it was in charge of order control for daily meals, bathing, and other activities, and it was a role to appear and sanction whenever deviant behavior occurred.
[Enters the restaurant. Keep order.]
When it was time to eat, Rose’s tidy voice spread through the speakers installed everywhere.
Anticipation is on the faces of the women standing in line in front of the large restaurant.
Because the act of eating is the best vitality point in prison life.
Especially for women who were starving and were on the verge of starvation not too long ago.
[You are being given a diet that contains all the essential nutrients. This is of the highest quality compared to any correctional facility you have ever lived in.]
In addition, the meals served here were of a higher quality than any other prison.
But, wherever you go, there will always be people who have complaints.
Some women demanded food equivalent to snacks, arguing, “Can a person live on rice alone?” Mainly in the prison camp for former prison guards.
[Preferences here mean luxury goods. Craving a sweet tooth? If so, contribute to the community. You will soon be assigned a worthy task.]
Most of the conversation was in the form of Demand-〉 denial, but sometimes physical control was applied.
The first case is the public bathhouse suppression.
Sex crimes of this kind happen in prisons, but same-sex sexual activity is not the exclusive property of men’s prisons.
In addition, there were two peculiarities in this current concentration camp.
The first is that most of the residents felt threatened for their survival.
When a woman feels a threat to her life, her instinct to leave offspring before she dies is triggered, and she becomes engulfed in intense sexual desire.
It was only at the marine prison that I had no energy from starvation, and everyone had a rotten smell coming from all over their bodies because they couldn’t wash themselves.
But now I eat well and do not have to work, so I am full of energy.
With the relief of being safely protected, both the body and clothes were dry, and the suppressed sexual desire exploded all at once.
In addition, immediately after the outbreak of war, older female prisoners were pardoned or sent to the south, and only women under the age of 40 were sent to maritime prisons.
No matter where you look, there are fresh women, so the blood on the side trying to attack is bound to boil.
The second peculiarity is that the world is completely ruined.
If the world was fine, women would have chosen to solve it on their own or tolerate it.
However, it has become a hopeless dream to go out into society after serving the sentence and be embraced by a man.
Strictly speaking, ‘society’ now refers only to this camp.
“Isn’t this practically equivalent to life imprisonment?”
Someone who suddenly realized it shouted, and indeed it was.
When I reached this point, I felt no reason to hold back anymore, and women began to touch me around me.
Some of them had secret relations with each other by mutual consent, but there were also many women who tried to commit it by force.
Their hunting ground is mainly the bathroom.
It was a place where everyone was naked, the temperature was warm, and it was possible to wipe yourself right after finishing. Wouldn’t it be the best place to work?
Crucially, the guards didn’t even patrol here. Although there was surveillance itself.
Attacks were mainly aimed at weak-looking women, but of course, there were women who stubbornly resisted, and scuffles would break out.
At such times, Rose intervened without a doubt.
[Physical and sexual violence is prohibited. This disrupts community order and wastes medical resources.]
They were arrested on the spot and punished according to the nature of the crime.
[It’s easy to knock down a pile of bricks, but it takes a lot of effort to put them back together. Those who break the rules must pay a price heavier than the chaos they created.]
Rose’s control was both fair and strict.
Well, that’s a common feature of AI, though.
Then, what about the only human being, a man named Seo Jin-soo?
On the 3rd day of moving in, he gave a talk through a full broadcast.
[Welcome to our city. This is Aegis Civil Disaster Prevention City Eup Type 1, abbreviated Shelter.
After receiving a rescue signal from Director Lee Se-young from the Maritime Prison, we rescued you and led you here.
There must have been rules that everyone must always follow, whether in the society they have lived in or in prison.
Likewise, there are various rules in this city.
In some ways, it may be stricter than the places I’ve stayed before.
This is because, unlike an open city, the deviation of one or two people here can pose a danger to the entire community.
For example, lighting a fire outside of designated areas without permission is subject to heavy punishment. The same applies to refusal to work without justifiable grounds, and may result in a maximum sentence of deportation.
Garbage dumping, which was done without much thought in the outside world, is also not lightly punished here.
All for an eternal cycle.
You didn’t read or sign the contract, but it’s assumed that everyone agreed at the time we reached out to help and entered this city.
The quality of life you will enjoy will be somewhere between a normal person before the infection and a person in prison.
I guarantee that it will be superior to the life of any survivor on the present Earth.
Dear residents,
It’s safe here.
There is plenty to eat and drink, and you will not suffer from the cold.
We will give a reasonable reward to those who obey our control and actively engage in production activities to produce results.
You are now living in a limited area called a camp, but after all quarantine procedures are completed and necessary administrative preparations are completed, you will be released from here and provided with better food, clothing and shelter.
If time goes by like that, at some point you won’t care much.
About which country we belonged to, how to prepare for the coming future, and so on.
That’s no problem at all. That task is our role as leading the city.
The various residents only have to do their assigned jobs, stick to the rules of the city, and obey our word.
Then, the current stable and sufficient food, clothing, and shelter will continue indefinitely.]
The only regular resident of the city and the highest authority.
In addition, the feats introduced on the information screen and the struggle to the death in the video were so great that it reminded me of the main character in the movie.
As a result, his presence felt unrealistic to women.
Because he was so high in power, and because of his unrealistic achievements, a sense of distance was felt. Like a fictional character.
However, when Jinsu returned from his first expedition, things changed a bit.
Traces of battle can be seen everywhere.
The vehicle carrying and unloading the achievements of the expedition.
It was relayed throughout the shelter camp.
The women who saw the scene felt that the long-forgotten senses in modern life slowly lifted their heads.
The sense that was created in the primitive age and imprinted in women’s DNA.
Hunting, and achievements.
An image of a man going outside to fight and bring rewards.
The scene simply bridged the gap between the women and Jinsu.
The day after the women slowly adapt to life in the shelter, and Jinsu successfully completes the expedition.
Finally, the job aptitude test began.
