Chapter 497: Still no seafood (next chapter still late)
He Rui really couldn't figure out how the fish got ashore.
Did the fish have legs? Or was I exaggerating? Perhaps they were just crabs?
He remembered what Brother Ji had said before, that when they were riding motorcycles across the cross-sea bridge, his brother had captured a lot of mutated marine creatures under the bridge.
Marine life was the largest group to survive the tsunami.
The types of mutations are quite diverse - not only fish, but also marine mammals, invertebrates, and even microorganisms.
However, the energy provided by those tiny mutated microorganisms is almost negligible.
The other party once explained to him that the energy obtained from mutant creatures might be linked to concepts such as "soul" to some extent.
So dead mutant animals cannot provide energy.
Insects and microorganisms have neither complex brains nor much so-called "soul" power, so naturally they don't have much energy to obtain.
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From the moment He Rui got the communicator from Brother Ji, he hung on him like a koala, wrapping his limbs tightly around him, not wanting to be left alone.
Ji Changqing held him with one hand, listened to the direction instructions in the communicator, and led his men away teleporting.
When they teleported five times and appeared at their destination, the scene before them made He Rui's face change.
"F*ck!" He couldn't help but swear, and the relaxed look on his face disappeared.
It was already daybreak, and they were suspended in the air. Beneath their feet was a coastal city that had been devastated by a tsunami more than nine months ago and was in a state comparable to that of a major earthquake.
He Rui didn't expect it to be so tragic.
When I passed the cross-sea bridge over the inland sea a few months ago, although the cities on both sides of the bridge were badly dilapidated, the bridge and major buildings were basically intact.
He didn't expect that the coastal city near the open sea would be damaged so badly.
This was the first time he witnessed the devastating scene after being directly hit by the strongest tsunami. The scene before him was far more shocking than his brother Ji had ever imagined.
In the past, wherever Brother Ji went, he would clean the road and surrounding environment with one click.
But the ruins before him seemed to require no cleaning at all.
Low reinforced concrete buildings collapsed in large numbers, their foundations seemed to have been hollowed out, the ground was chaotic and uneven, and the few surviving high-rise steel-structured buildings were not spared either. The glass curtain walls were all shattered and peeled off, leaving only crooked steel frames standing alone in the ruins.
The ground was littered with the wreckage of ships, cargo ships, cars, and the bones of corpses that had liquefied after ten months.
Green moss spreads across the uneven ground, adding a strange vitality to this hell on earth.
The ground was quickly cleared, leaving only potholes and a few dilapidated buildings in the original ruined city.
He Rui couldn't help but think of the devastating tsunami. Even in the inland city where they were, the sea water flooded to a height of five stories.
As a coastal city facing the tsunami directly...
His brother's scope was limited at the time, and he was unable to witness it with his own eyes. He could only speculate and understand from the news he had heard in the previous five years that the people in the coastal areas must have faced huge waves of terrifying scale.
A tsunami of this magnitude, even if you happened to be in a high-rise building that was not flooded and escaped death, it would be difficult to survive the subsequent months of sea water siege.
The only people who survived were probably those who learned the news in advance, built shelters on high ground near the sea, carried out earthquake and tsunami-resistant reinforcement and renovation in the shortest possible time, and evacuated to the mountains in advance.
He Rui curled his lips into a sneer.
These people are very careful about their lives. When they find the threat of mutated marine life, they immediately seek shelter from their brother.
A sudden strong aversion to the refuge where he sought help came over him.
Although in reality, all shelters are essentially the same.
He simply could not accept this selective rescue mechanism: some people were sheltered in a safe zone, while others were ruthlessly abandoned.
Even if we consider the overall situation, this is a helpless move to preserve the flame of civilization, but setting screening criteria and making artificial life and death decisions is still disgusting.
Thinking of those victims who were abandoned and had no idea what happened to them until their death, He Rui's brows furrowed more and more.
The people around him tightened their arms around him.
He Rui was startled and looked up at Ji Changqing, catching a fleeting trace of worry in those deep eyes.
Brother Ji can always see through his emotional fluctuations at the first moment.
The soothing and powerful hug was like a warm breeze, slightly dispelling the depression in his chest.
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