Chapter 61
They drove towards the safe zone, encountering more and more filth along the way, and the temperature warning that had been dropping for several consecutive days finally stopped ringing.
Wen Bei remained calm as he watched a ladybug rushing towards him and biting him outside the car window. Several types of face shapes grew on the originally black spots on its back.
The contaminated ladybug exploded and died the moment it was about to touch the car window.
It was the work of Qiu Ting.
Everyone is used to it.
They only thought that Qiu Ting's ability was related to body explosion. The actual situation was only known by Wen Bei. This was because he quickly activated the pollution in the filthy objects, causing the pollution in their bodies to explode. The speed was so fast that no one noticed that the filthy objects underwent a second mutation in the last second before they died.
They stopped the car to rest, and Boji, pushing his glasses, explained: "The spots on this ladybug are likely the faces of its recent food."
A Luo's expression changed: "I just saw that one of the spots was a human face..."
He dry-heaved, drank some water and quickly recovered. After walking in the contaminated area for a few days, most of the childishness on his face disappeared.
A Luo took the initiative to take on the task of lighting the fire, and they lit a fire again in the snow.
Wenbei began to count the goods. Among the three trucks, two were filled with the cheapest multi-grain cakes, and one was filled with canned chickpeas.
He opened one of the cans of chickpeas and, good news, aside from being frozen solid, the contents were undamaged.
He dropped the can directly into the hot water, hoping to soften it.
Ah Luo stared at the steaming pot, his eyes brimming with hope: "Ah Mei loves chickpeas the most."
Mutated chickpeas are a rare emergency food that doesn't have a strange taste, but they do taste a bit like crumbs.
Once, someone came to the base to exchange some supplies, and his brother grabbed a can of chickpeas. That day happened to be his sister's birthday, and they rarely had food other than dry multi-grain biscuits.
Wen Bei glanced at him sideways: "How old is your sister?"
A Luo scratched his head embarrassedly: "I'm not an adult yet. I just turned fourteen this year."
In other words, he experienced the end of the world when he was less than ten years old.
Children and the elderly are the groups with the highest mortality rate in the apocalypse. Those who have survived to this day must have experienced hardships.
Wen Bei lowered his eyes and whispered, "You will become a hero in your sister's eyes."
A Luo grinned and touched his pocket. There were two candies in it. He didn't have crystals to buy candies in the hotel, so Bo Ji lent him money to buy them.
He wanted to take the two candies back to his brother and sister, so he kept them close to him.
While they were chatting, the white fox appeared from nowhere and hid under Wen Bei's feet with a look of grievance.
Wen Bei looked down and found that his hair had become dirty. He had been following them all the way and had never gotten dirty before. Now, not only was his hair standing on end, but it was also covered in gray patches.
"Where have you been?" Wen Bei was about to pick him up when Qiu Ting suddenly appeared and stopped him.
"Dirty." He said concisely, then pulled Wen Bei's hand and wiped it with a handkerchief.
The white fox immediately exploded at the man.
This masterpiece on his body was his doing.
Not only did he forcibly separate him from the young man, but when they were driving past a mud pit, he used his supernatural powers to throw him into it.
She left without hesitation, and even tutted in dissatisfaction when she saw that he hadn't been left behind and came back in a mess.
The white fox bared its teeth at Qiu Ding. Wen Bei looked at the man in confusion: "Did you bully him?"
Qiu Ting sneered: "Bullying a puppy? What good will it do me?"
This shameless green tea!!
The white fox was so angry that his lungs were about to explode, but he couldn't tell him the shameful thing he had just done by being thrown into the mud pit. He could only swallow his anger and try to strangle him with his eyes.
Wen Bei: “Can you coexist peacefully?”
Qiu Tinge nodded perfunctorily: "Yeah."
The white fox watched him act coldly, its claws ready to move.
Then he was picked up by Wen Bei again. There was an inexplicably reassuring atmosphere in the young man's arms.
Wen Bei: "I'll take him to take a shower."
It's so dirty and looks a bit uncomfortable.
Now the one who was showing off was the white fox. He poked his head out from Wen Bei's arms, and a provocative look appeared on his furry face in a human-like manner.
A hint of hostility flashed in Qiu Ding's eyes: "Heh."
After being washed, the white fox's fur became soft again, and its tail swung proudly as it looked at Qiu Tin with contempt.
Qiu Tinge looked at Wen Bei expressionlessly: "Don't you think you're still short of a scarf?"
Wen Bei: “Hmm?”
Qiu Tinge: "I'll make you a fox fur scarf."
arctic fox:"......"
With the lessons learned from the previous experience, he stayed a little further away from his vengeance this time and didn't want to be thrown into the mud again.
Wen Bei ignored the two childish guys and found Bo Ji who was studying a wild flower.
When Boji heard his question, his face suddenly became very nervous: "You, you mean that you met someone in a white robe at the bottom of the crack?"
As soon as he saw his big reaction, Wen Bei knew that his guess was correct.
The base really knew about the existence of those people.
Wenbei: "They call themselves the Holy Protestant Church."
"...It really is them." Bo Ji muttered to himself, "So the loss of this batch of supplies is also their doing."
The official transport personnel of the base did not die at the hands of filth, but at the hands of their fellow human beings.
This result is even more infuriating.
Boji's expression changed several times before finally turning pale. "Ah, I know what you want to ask. I'll tell you everything. These things are considered taboos in the base and cannot be mentioned casually. Most ordinary people don't even know of the existence of this sect."
"The full name of the Holy Evolution is - Holy Evolution."
"That's what's called a cult. They believe that all the distortions happening in this world aren't pollution, but a sacred process of evolution. And ordinary people who haven't gained superpowers are beings abandoned by evolution."
Boji took off his glasses and wiped the mist off them. "This group of people are almost all people with a pollution level of over 95. They are dying, so they are reveling and want to drag more humans into the water. Countless people have died at their hands."
A pollution level exceeding 95% means that no matter how distorted the values of the people in this sect are, their strength must be very high.
This is also the main reason why they can build camps in contaminated areas and constantly cause trouble for others.
Wen Bei: "Why hide their existence from ordinary people?"
No wonder he had never heard of the existence of this sect when he was absorbing common knowledge about the apocalypse in the base.
Bo Ji: "You know about the Far Traveler Project, and you also know how many lives were lost behind it. How could it be possible that everyone is completely free of resentment?"
Wen Bei widened his eyes slightly: "You mean... the Far Traveler Project is related to the Holy Progress Church?"
Bo Ji: "The first person of the Holy Advancement Church is a survivor of the Far Traveler Project."
"From the very beginning, the Far Traveler Project didn't include a procedure for watching people die. The base assumed that after sending those people to the contaminated area, without supplies, they would surely die soon. However, they didn't expect that some would survive and create this anti-human organization."
"At first, they used the Farstrider program to recruit members. Later, after they began killing humans, the base discovered the serious flaws of the Farstrider program. After that, all Farstriders had to die under the watchful eyes of their escorts."
Unfortunately, it was too late. The Holy Progress Church already had a foundation, and even without the help of the Traveler Program, new members continued to join.
Not everyone whose pollution level exceeds 95 will willingly wait to die.
In order to gain the motivation and resources to survive, these polluters joined this sect. After layer upon layer of brainwashing, the heroes who once protected the base/safe zone would in turn become executioners who killed their companions.
In troubled times, the only thing that is most easily abandoned is one's stance.
There was such a big flaw in the Traveler Project that the base officials did not dare to announce it and could only hide it from the general public.
Let them believe that those travelers who had pollution levels exceeding ninety-five or were expelled for committing crimes were indeed killed outside the base.
After Bo Ji finished speaking, he was silent for a long time. He deliberately lowered his voice to avoid A Luo.
After he finished speaking, he didn't look at Wen Bei's expression, but slowly picked up the can of cooked chickpeas. If he hadn't happened to come across it, he wouldn't have wanted to point out these things that exuded a rotten smell.
Because he was also a supporter of the Traveler Project at the beginning, and until now, he has no regrets.
This plan might be criticized as cruel in future generations, especially after the emergence of hotels that can reduce pollution levels, making the abandoned polluters seem even more pitiful.
But only the parties involved will ever know how many innocent people have been saved by this plan.
As a scientific researcher, he understood clearly that once the pollution level exceeded 95, no matter how good a person's character was, they could not be trusted. Perhaps one out of ten people could resist the urge to destroy, but they could not afford to gamble on the remaining nine.
He once saw a father being secretly hidden by his family after the pollution level exceeded 95. They didn't want him to become one of the travelers and thought that as long as the pollution level was controlled at this number, no accidents would happen.
The end result was that the father could not bear the destructive desire brought by the pollution, and bit his daughter to death when she brought him food. After regaining his sanity, he committed suicide.
That family happened to be Bo Ji's neighbors.
The father was a member of the Orderly Army and had saved the lives of many ordinary people. The crystals he left behind were enough for the family of three to live for a long time.
Unfortunately, the surviving mother could not hold on for long and committed suicide.
Bo Ji helped to handle the funeral arrangements.
He couldn't understand the family's actions at the time, and he still doesn't agree with them now.
Boji rarely showed any sign of confusion. "Humans are foolish creatures driven by emotion, and so are those Saints. For such a weak group, being eliminated from the food chain might be in the best interests of development."
Stupid infighting has made the already difficult living space for human beings even smaller.
The fear of death is the ultimate reason for the split in positions.
Wen Bei shrugged: "But humans are also the only creatures that still have emotions after the apocalypse. Just for this reason, humans have already won."
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