Chapter 125 The Principal
Ji Zai no longer wanted to say anything more.
The situation is quite simple now.
That's when the virus is rampant, and there's nothing anyone can do about it.
The capable doctors are now working hard to study the virus, while the rest of the population, who know nothing about it, are terrified of the doctors and believe that they spread the virus.
But the truth may not be so simple.
It's true that the virus is related to doctors, but whether they spread it is still up for debate.
Until an antidote is developed.
All the arguments are pointless.
That's why Ji Zai instructed Su Mai to seek help from outside.
After all, this is a tough battle.
We can't afford to run out of supplies.
We'll wait until the lab develops the antidote, and then we can go and steal it. Until then, let's leave them be.
However...
There are still some questions I need to ask.
After Ji Zai finished speaking, she was about to leave. She didn't know if Dr. Cui had understood, but she had said everything she needed to say.
Catching someone in the lab has the same effect as not catching them.
If Dr. Cui still insists on escaping Ning City and seeking external assistance to seize the laboratory, she can only wish him success.
Just as Ji Zai was about to leave, he was called back.
She turned around and saw Dr. Cui, who was still hesitating. His pale face had regained its composure, and he looked a little embarrassed. "Alliance Leader, since you've put it that way, I won't go and do such a thankless task. But there's one more thing..."
He cleared his throat lightly. "Does Ningmeng still need people to farm? I think we can!"
Ji Zai's mind went blank for a moment after hearing this.
Oh, this.
I originally thought that Dr. Cui was planning to take more than fifty students to find Ga.
Unexpectedly, Dr. Cui brought more than fifty students to conduct on-site interviews.
This left Ji Zai momentarily speechless. "Wait, you were just thinking about running away, why are you suddenly deciding to stay and work?"
This is changing quite quickly.
Upon hearing this, Dr. Cui sighed and said, "I left because I couldn't survive. Ning City is in such a state now that it's not a place where humans can live. I'm afraid that if I stay here, my students and I will all perish. But as you said, Lord Alliance Leader, the culprit in the lab is also suffering, and they don't have any so-called antidote. So there's not much difference between leaving and staying. After thinking about it, I think it's more worthwhile to stay and work."
Dr. Cui did initially want to go out.
After all, before Ji Zai explained it to him, he believed that everything was the laboratory's fault, and that as long as the laboratory was captured, the apocalypse would be averted.
But he didn't expect that even the doomsday laboratory couldn't withstand it.
Even the laboratory is helpless against it.
In other words, this doomsday scenario is currently unsolvable.
The apocalypse is related to laboratories, but it is not controlled by laboratories.
Everyone was equally bewildered.
So whether or not the labs are targeted doesn't really matter.
To put it bluntly, Ning City's current setup is as follows: a laboratory specifically responsible for the zombie virus's progression, shelters responsible for protecting ordinary citizens, a gold mine responsible for providing resources, and the Ning Alliance responsible for military force output.
Ning City is now like a greenhouse where viruses have started to mutate, filled with viruses, but no one knows what the viruses will become or how they will harm people.
It's like a giant virus breeding worm.
The people inside were all acting independently.
But they all had the same thought in mind—to end the apocalypse.
Ending the apocalypse means ending the virus.
But the labs know the virus best, and as long as they don't make any new discoveries, the apocalypse won't end.
Aside from waiting, all that's left is to survive as the zombies get stronger and stronger.
In this respect, the four major powers share the same goal.
The four major powers represent the new order of the apocalypse.
As for Ji Zai, being the leader of one of the four major forces in Ning City, finding a job under her would always offer better pay than other jobs in the apocalypse.
That's what Dr. Cui was thinking.
Ji Zai admired his awareness. "Then go and farm. I think the empty spaces in the school, like the road behind the mountain, need to plant some potatoes so that we don't run out of food in the end."
“I can take out a few kilograms of rice every day to cook a big pot of porridge.”
Upon hearing this, Dr. Cui's eyes lit up. "Understood! We'll go planting tomorrow!"
After saying that, he left in a hurry.
Ji Zai watched this scene speechlessly.
He probably knew what Dr. Cui was planning to do.
After all, they were so tired of eating dry rations that they were about to throw up. If they didn't hurry up and get something to eat, they would starve to death.
But the zombies outside are getting stronger.
Going out rashly would be a dead end.
So the only option is to find a job from the alliance leader.
Although they weren't full, they weren't starving to death.
You can also have a nice treat while you're at it.
Dr. Cui left happily after getting the job.
Ji Zai stretched, looked at the setting sun, and sighed.
She could only hope that the antidote would come out soon, whether it was an antidote from outside or from a laboratory, whatever the antidote was, it was coming.
Otherwise, no one would have known that this virus would cause such a commotion.
The greatest enemy in the apocalypse—a mutated zombie virus.
Once it mutates, no one knows what will happen.
Hopefully, the evolutionary process will proceed as predicted by the lab; otherwise, everyone in Ning City will die.
Ji Zai returned to his dormitory, resolved some issues, cleared up some doubts, and finally felt much better.
She was at least 80% certain.
The lab isn't a bad guy.
After returning to the dormitory, Ji Zai made up his bed and was about to go to sleep when he saw his nemesis roommate watching a melodramatic soap opera.
She got out of bed and squeezed over, saying, "Let me see what you're looking at."
Liang Qiyue said resentfully, "I'm watching a melodramatic forced love drama. So far, the male lead has already forced himself on the female lead. The two of them are all lovey-dovey and entangled, but they just won't do anything inappropriate for children!"
Ji Zai found it hard to believe, "You really expect them to do something inappropriate for children?"
"No, no, no..." Liang Qiyue said seriously, "My perspective isn't that narrow. There's one thing I particularly enjoy about forced love stories: after all the turmoil, they ultimately separate..."
"This feeling of loving someone you can't have makes me desperately try to win them over."
"I love watching forced love stories because the feeling of being destined to love someone but not be with them really resonates with me."
Ji Zai couldn't understand this feeling. "So you just like bad endings, don't you?"
Liang Qiyue shook her head, saying profoundly, "No, it's not that. If I had to say, I like the feeling of having loved someone, but it's destined to be a regret. The essence of forced love is coercion—coercion against the heroine's own will, coercion that imprisons her freedom..."
"Do you know what I hate the most? It's when the male lead forces love against the female lead's will, but it still ends up being a happy ending."
"If it really is a happy ending, it will give me the feeling that the female lead doesn't love herself, the author doesn't love the female lead, and even the readers don't love the female lead."
Liang Qiyue paused here, then calmly said, "This gives me a suffocating feeling of being trapped in the Truman Show."
“No normal person would accept this kind of love. Only someone who has been brainwashed and has lost their sense of self would accept this kind of love after being persuaded by others. Isn’t that terrifying? It feels like everyone around you is a paper doll, and there’s no sense of a living person at all.”
As Ji Zai listened, he became somewhat curious, "Then what do you think is true?"
Liang Qiyue thought for a moment, "It's true that some people object."
"A person cannot only make one sound."
"Look, everyone is saying the lab is the villain, the culprit behind the apocalypse, but have you ever thought about what if the lab wasn't?"
Ji Zai paused for a moment after hearing this, and then glanced at Liang Qiyue.
His eyes were filled with surprise.
She discovered that Liang Qiyue was a truly amazing person.
She always manages to find flaws in people's thinking, reason through them, and ultimately arrive at an answer that is close to the correct one.
Thinking of this, Ji Zai thought of the principal again, "Principal, you are really blind. There are so many pillars of society, and you haven't caught a single one of them."
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