Pokémon: Hoenen Rage

Chapter 91 Social Investigation of the South China Sea Islands (56) (Please collect and recommend for further reading)
He said goodbye to Mori and Haiyuan Island. Because he had entrusted education to Mori, Rai did not explore the outer islands too much. And because he was touched by the education and concepts in the marginal areas, he decided not to delay too much and went directly to the South China Sea Islands. , conduct your own social investigation.

After nearly a month of hard training and long-distance flights, the big-billed gull gradually adapted to manned flights. It only needed to rest once or twice a day. Therefore, with less training, it took less than two days to complete the flight. We successfully arrived at our destination: the South China Sea Islands.

However, the initial landing place was not Tianshui Island, but an unknown island at the southwest end of the archipelago.

The island is very small, and the settlement cannot even be considered a small town, but a village of dozens of scattered households.

The houses generally don't look old, but they are not big. There are no small buildings with more than two floors in the whole village, and the materials used seem to be quite economical. They are probably simple products of post-disaster reconstruction.

Walking on the road, everyone was in a hurry, and they were not surprised by this sudden outsider, or they were very indifferent. Not only did they not have the same enthusiasm as Pal Island, but they also did not have the initial vigilance of Haiyuan Island. It's like Len doesn't exist.

In addition, along the way, the most common things Lai saw were children who seemed to be malnourished, and middle-aged and elderly men and women who were at least 50 years old, not to mention young and middle-aged men. Even women of the same age were rare.

Stopping an old man who looked kind-hearted, Lai asked:
"Hello, old man, I'm sorry to bother you. I'm a traveler from other places. My name is Lai. Can I ask you something?"

The old man looked slightly wary at first, then after thinking about it, he calmed down and said with his usual expression: "A traveler? That's right, we old bones have no money."

Lai asked in surprise: "What did you say? I didn't quite understand."

The old man shook his head: "It's nothing. If you want to know anything, just ask. But as you can see, we don't have anything here to receive you."

Lai quickly waved his hand and said: "No, no, I have brought daily necessities myself. I just want to ask, why are there only old people and children in this village? Where are the other people in broad daylight?"

"There's no one else."

"?!"

Seeing that his own words might be a bit ambiguous, the old man explained: "In the past, no one lived in our place. They were all people who had no strong labor at home or young people who went out to escape and couldn't pay taxes. They came to live here, and no one cared about us. .In just a few years, there were so many people.”

The situation is similar to what Wright said, even more serious, Lei thought to himself.

Knowing the situation, Lai thanked the old man.

Seeing the hardship of the people here, Lai wanted to show his gratitude by leaving some money, but the old man refused. The old man said: "As soon as I ran away from famine here, I have no intention of leaving here again. On weekdays, this No one comes to the place, so what’s the point of asking for money? Young man, keep it and spend it yourself.”

After saying that, without waiting for Lai to say anything else, he left slowly.

The old man's indifference or numbness somewhat pricked Lai's heart. The hardships witnessed with his own eyes are always far greater than all words.

He walked to the center of the village, and the power of his heart spread silently. In the first effortless display, it covered the entire island.

The total number of people is 134, and the total number of young and middle-aged people is only 10, and all of them have physical defects.

Withdrawing his special ability, a thin layer of sweat had already appeared on his forehead. Lai silently took note of this unknown island and village, and summoned the big-billed gull to take off and leave. ······
From early spring to mid-spring, and then for a full month, he traveled around the South China Sea Islands, observed, inquired, and recorded.

Compared with the unnamed island I saw for the first time, the situation on other islands is more or less better. Although they are also disheveled, hurried, and lack of youth, at least the houses and streets are still clean, and they can I saw scattered fishing boats, scattered groves of trees, women gathered to wash clothes, and children running and playing in the streets, who had not yet been affected by sorrow.

In constant conversations with local people, Lai recorded the basic situation of various places and learned that some of the young adults in various places were killed or injured due to natural disasters and man-made disasters, while most of the other parts went out to make a living, and only a few stayed in the local area.

When Lai mentioned to them intentionally or unintentionally the pirates raging in the south, most of them kept it secret and talked about him indifferently.After several attempts, no valuable information was obtained, but it made some people slightly unhappy.Seeing this, Lai had no choice but to change the topic and ask about family matters and understand the situation.

According to surveys, local industries in the Nanhai Islands suffered heavy losses in natural disasters.

Due to the lack of young people, funds and equipment, the fishery is difficult to carry out in a centralized manner, and can only be transformed into scattered individuals. However, because they dare not go to the open sea, the harvest is very little.

Tourism was originally a pillar industry in this area, but after the natural disaster, it basically collapsed due to safety issues, and reconstruction has been delayed. Gangs have appeared frequently like weeds in spring and summer, making recovery elusive.

Planting is not the strength of the Nanhai Islands, and it is now difficult to sustain.

The depression of the industry brings about extreme economic difficulties, and the extremely difficult economy makes it impossible for the industry to recover, creating a vicious cycle.

Education is the most critical link to despair.

Regardless of whether it is a small town or a village, after the disaster, various places have been unable to build schools again, and the original schools have been abandoned one after another.

For local people, even if there are schools, they are not of much use to them now.

Under the heavy pressure of life, young children often need to become the family's labor force. How can there be funds to send children to school?
Under the pressure of life, no one except a few people wants to go to school.

Moreover, even if you go to school, there are not enough teachers and basic teaching materials and teaching aids.

The all-round lack makes people's future have no way to go, and the original education funding mechanism mentioned by Wright has also been shelved due to practical reasons.

The only advantage of this area is the natural harbor located on Tianshui Island. Part of the large natural harbor was developed and utilized in the early years, and now it is also used as a window for the entire South China Sea Islands to trade with the outside world.

Today, the job of most middle-aged and elderly women is to produce handicrafts for the economically developed city of Kaina in the north, such as cheap textiles needed by the beach.

The further he walked, the heavier Lai's heart became. In his eyes, everything in front of him was the real "poverty around him", and behind the words and figures recorded in the survey was the even heavier "lasting poverty" and "intergenerational continuation of poverty".

What he faced was a structural quagmire that was destroyed by natural disasters and eventually sank into man-made disasters.

　At this point, I have finally completed the recycling of some of the content in the opening stage, including some of my own ideas. You are welcome to communicate with me.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)