"Whether it's true or false is not important." Shi Yin had a bit of a headache. Why did Huiming say so much after he died? "Belief is truth, and disbelief is just talking about faith. It's always been like this."
“Miss, you misunderstand. I just vaguely sensed something and wanted to confirm it. If a question remains unanswered, it may cause inner demons.” Jingwu looked at Shiyin, his eyes were clear, with a warm and firm expression: “Miss, are gods and Buddhas for all living beings, or are all living beings gods and Buddhas?”
“Since you already know, why ask me?” Shi Yin turned her face away: “Superpowers are a reflection of the human heart.”
The so-called "village of gods and Buddhas" is nothing more than the recognition of the will of Mingtai Temple. The long-term burning of incense and worship of Buddha, people's faith and will have forged these things.
Gods and Buddhas are born from the offerings of human will, but no one can tell when the will of people's faith exists. Perhaps it is because of their existence that people offer their will to them?
Before the apocalypse, Shi Yin didn't know, but after the apocalypse, Shi Yin understood that this was nothing more than the embodiment of countless hopes and wills, just like superpowers.
Back at the Doomsday Beacon, everyone was exhausted. The leader gave Kitakyou and his bodyguards two days off, and said they would talk about it later.
Since the post-apocalyptic scenario changed, all workers have been working one day on and one day off. Shi Yin and others have long emphasized the importance of the mental well-being of those with superpowers. Even if the work is not finished, we cannot allow those with superpowers to suffer a mental breakdown, and we prohibit exploiting them by making them work overtime.
"Sister Yin!" Lin Beiyue was very happy to see Shi Yin return, but she didn't see Gu Changge: "Where's Gu Changge? Hasn't she come back yet?"
“Yes, she wants to cultivate.” Shi Yin nodded.
Lin Beiyue: "?"
What profession is he practicing? Has Gu Changge become a monk?
Never mind, let's not worry about that.
"Sister Yin, we've recently discovered a lot of unusual phenomena. We found traces of human habitation in some schools and residential buildings." Lin Beiyue flipped through her tablet: "These should have been gathering places for those exiles."
"Logically, more than half of these exiles should be people with superpowers, but when we arrived, they had all turned into zombies. We didn't see any corpses."
"That's normal. Maybe it was eaten by a zombie." Shi Yin leaned back in her chair, seemingly unconcerned. "If we don't see the body, there are only two possibilities: either it was eaten by a zombie, or it escaped."
“We guessed the same thing, but those zombies were a bit strange.” Lin Beiyue hesitated, “Even the ordinary zombies seemed to have superpowers, and we were almost injured… Moreover, after they attacked us, their whole bodies seemed to turn into crystals similar to crystal cores.”
"Isn't zombie evolution just about gaining power? What's the big deal?" Shi Yin raised an eyebrow: "When you went to the training pods to fight advanced zombies, weren't you attacked by extra abilities?"
Lin Beiyue was speechless, but she was still very puzzled.
Although no one noticed anything unusual, she had a vague feeling that something was wrong. The way those people attacked didn't feel like simple zombies; it was as if they possessed human consciousness.
Could it be because these zombies are transformed humans, thus retaining human consciousness? But why wasn't this the case before? Aren't low-level zombies supposed to be just wild beasts?
"If a human's energy core is overloaded, the human will be assimilated by the superpower and die because they can't withstand the limit. The same goes for a zombie's crystal core," Shi Yin explained. "Zombies don't have human brains, so it's easy for them to mess things up if they try to attack with all their might."
"Yes, and there are fewer and fewer low-level zombies. We've been able to hunt almost no purple crystal cores lately."
In some ways, this seems like good news.
"Also, here are the latest casualty reports." Lin Beiyue placed a stack of documents in front of Shi Yin, looking somewhat disappointed: "I'm sorry, Sister Yin, the mortality rate of ability users still can't be reduced."
Exploring on old maps that have already been explored is fine, but once you go to a new map, almost every squad loses 1 to 2 teammates on average every time they go out.
This loss is considerable.
"Don't blame yourself, this is normal." Shi Yin glanced at the report.
Suddenly, chaos erupted outside the door. Shi Yin looked out the window and saw several parachute-like objects drifting down from the sky. Underneath the parachutes were humanoid figures struggling desperately; they were clearly zombies.
Someone poisoned it!
Lin Beiyue glanced out the window, her expression normal; it seemed this wasn't the first time she'd encountered something like this.
"Bang bang bang!"
Several gunshots rang out as sniper rifles accurately blew the heads off the zombies on the parachutes.
These zombies lost consciousness before they even reached mid-air. After being shot in the head, they were precisely caught by the large nets in various locations and pulled back to the doomsday beacon.
"How many times has this happened?" Shi Yin asked.
“On average, I encountered them two or three times in other safe zones, but quite a few times near the Doomsday Beacon, about four or five times. However, they were all intercepted precisely each time,” Lin Beiyue answered truthfully. “They always happened when the superhuman teams were out exploring.”
Those people were quite clever; they knew that as long as the doomsday beacon remained, humanity's fight against the apocalypse would not end. Therefore, they focused most of their energy on this, hoping to try their luck and capture the doomsday beacon.
There's nothing we can do about that. The reason the doomsday beacon stands here isn't because of luck, but entirely because of its strength.
"However, how many of those exiles survived? Did you ask Guan Nianshan to count them?" Shi Yin asked. "There were probably one or two hundred million people who left Yanlong Kingdom before."
This number sounds exaggerated, but in reality it only accounts for less than 20% of the total population of Yanlong Valley. The population base of Yanlong Kingdom is simply too exaggerated.
In the Yanlong Kingdom, nothing is niche.
“Yes, Guan Nianshan’s business used to be booming. He was making a killing every day.” Lin Beiyue said with a hint of envy, “He told me that at first, his chain stores made at least tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions, of yuan. Now, all of them together are less than 100,000 yuan.”
"And recently the weather has warmed up, and without the blizzard and food shortages, it seems some people are getting restless again," Lin Beiyue whispered.
Previously, when people were exiled, the state did not allow them to bring any heating equipment. Even if they solved their food problem, they would still freeze to death. Now that they no longer have to worry about freezing to death, they only need to focus on solving the food problem. Naturally, many people are no longer willing to accept the control.
Moreover, some of them are people with special abilities.
Of course, not everyone is willing to dedicate themselves to the country. Those who stay in the superhuman squad have to fight even if they don't want to, and they can never desert when they encounter danger, otherwise they will be the first to be shot on the spot.
They have to charge forward, which means they are very likely to be killed. The management of people with superpowers is strict, and there is almost no profit to be made.
During this period, many people turned against their masters and ran away when everyone was in crisis. The consequence, of course, was that their identity badges were revoked and they became unregistered citizens of the country.
They tried to enter the Yanlong Kingdom again, but before they could even step inside, they were thrown out.
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