Chapter 65 Chapter 65 Zombies
But these are just statements made by the base to appease the public.
The truth is that after the rat infestation occurred, a third-level psychic in the military took the opportunity to launch a coup, ousted the former base director and several other senior leaders of the Zhongshui Base, and arrested and executed them for endangering public safety.
The key point is that the residents of the reclaimed water base applauded this and even built a large public toilet with their ashes for free use.
When He Junxia first heard the news, she was stunned.
Chai Ren, the director of the Zhongshui Base, was originally a deputy mayor of City A. He had a good reputation and came from a prominent family in the capital. He had support from above and it took him only two years to rise from a small local official to deputy mayor.
It was thanks to his family’s great efforts that he was able to become the base commander this time.
At the same time, the highest leader of the Zhongshui Base Military Department was also a member of the Chai family who was parachuted in.
Although it was an airborne operation, it is no exaggeration to say that the Zhongshui base was almost completely controlled by the Chai family.
He Junxia racked his brains but couldn't figure out how the base commander had made himself the object of everyone's hatred.
You have to know that the zombie outbreak has only been going on for less than half a year, and the Zhongshui Base has only been established for 140 days at most.
Moreover, ordinary people don’t bother to care whether the highest leader of the military and the base commander are family members. They only care about whether they can live a better life.
The fact that they have fallen to this point can only mean that the Chai family has repeatedly angered the public and done things that have angered heaven and man, forcing their subordinates to rise up in resistance and forcing the residents of the Zhongshui Base to hate them so much.
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There is no wall that is impenetrable.
Even though the top brass at the Yunjiang base tried their best to suppress the news, the cause and details of the coup at the Zhongshui base still spread throughout the streets and alleys with the refugees, and quickly became a hot topic of the month.
Even the old men and women sweeping up garbage on the roadside would angrily call it a beast when they mentioned this.
——This deputy mayor, who used to have a good reputation, seemed like a different person after becoming the base director. He acted arbitrarily, cruelly and coldly, and ignored the central command. It was true that he did not do a single good thing, but a lot of bad things.
Their crimes are too numerous to list, including but not limited to repeatedly reducing central government-mandated living allowances, restricting online channels for residents to express their opinions, refusing to dispatch rescue teams to help trapped citizens, explicitly categorizing residents into five levels: upper, middle, and lower, implementing a hierarchical system, forcing the lower classes to perform corvée labor, and secretly conducting human experiments on people with special abilities...
It is hard to imagine that this is something that a person who grew up in a normal society could do.
Of course, there were people who opposed him during that period, but not long after, these people would suddenly die in accidents.
As the number of accidents increased, there were fewer people who opposed it, and the Yunjiang base became completely a place where Chai Ren of the Chai family had the final say.
In other words, Chai Ren became the local emperor of the base.
And his children are even better than their father.
They bully men and women, do all kinds of evil, and even play with human lives. They force ordinary people to go outside the base to attract zombies, so that they and a few friends can stand on high places and kill zombies for fun.
But such evils have "awakened" their special powers one after another, making people hate them so much that they grit their teeth and curse God for being blind.
Does the probability of awakening superpowers depend on one’s status?
Otherwise, why do the children of high-ranking officials awaken their special powers one after another, while the news of ordinary people awakening their special powers continues to decrease.
Just when everyone was confused and angry, a piece of gossip that suddenly came out irritated everyone's nerves.
The children of high-ranking officials did not awaken their superpowers naturally, but rather had their superpowers taken away from low-level superpower holders by digging out the superpower cores in their brains.
At first, not many people believed this rumor, but as the matter grew bigger and bigger, the base used the most severe punishment to prohibit everyone from talking about it, even children of a few years old were not spared.
This behavior not only aroused public anger again, but was also tantamount to incriminating oneself.
People spontaneously checked for missing or dead psychics, and were horrified to discover that many low-level psychics with ordinary family backgrounds disappeared within a few days after awakening their powers.
No one ever saw them again.
All the signs point to a terrible fact.
In an instant, everyone, whether ordinary people or people with special abilities, felt in danger.
But where there is oppression, there is resistance.
The poor people in ancient times who were illiterate knew to rise up in resistance when they could no longer survive. What about people who grew up in modern society and received a complete ideological education?
And the one who led them in the rebellion was none other than a well-known senior leader of the military, one of the few third-level psychics in the base (now the only fourth-level psychic in City A), and a hero who was awarded the title of bravery for diving into the water to save someone while on vacation a few years ago.
The collapse of the Chai "dynasty" was natural.
The hero defeated the dragon, and all those in the Zhongshui base who had directly or indirectly participated in those events received the punishment they deserved. Logically, the story should have ended here.
But how could the Chai family in the capital easily allow others to throw dirty water on them?
Regardless of whether it is true or not, they cannot bear those charges, otherwise the Chai family will have no place to stand in the chaotic world.
Several factions quarreled endlessly, blamed each other and attacked each other, and finally came to a temporary end with the arrival of an investigation team from the capital.
However, the impact of this incident on the people goes far beyond this.
Once something is cracked, it is difficult to restore it to its original state. The scar will always exist and remind everyone from time to time.
Take the Yunjiang base for example. Although the base is well managed and people’s basic living needs are guaranteed, seeds of doubt still remain in people’s hearts.
According to rumors from the Zhongshui Base, the higher the level of the mutant, the stronger the rejection of the alien nucleus, and only the alien nucleus of a zero-level mutant can be fused with the brain of another person.
Therefore, most people will not report to the base immediately after awakening their superpowers. They will not go to the superpower service hall to test the active factor content until they feel that they have been upgraded to a first-level superpower or have been discovered and have no choice.
This situation greatly reduces the base's control over new psychics and also hinders the government's absorption of new psychics.
After all, upgrading superpowers is not an easy task. Converting it into data, it takes at least 50 level-0 crystal cores to upgrade from level-0 to level-1.
Moreover, the number of crystal cores that a psychic can absorb each day is limited. Forcibly absorbing the crystal core energy will only damage the psychic core. It does not mean that absorbing 50 crystal cores a day can immediately upgrade to a first-level psychic.
Not only that, whenever the children of high-ranking officials or people with slightly powerful families awaken superpowers, they will be suspected of stealing other people's superpower cores and forcibly awakening the superpowers.
No matter how hard the base tried to clarify, it was of no use.
Even Xie Liqing couldn't help but ask He Junxia whether the rumors were true, worried that someone was coveting his alien core.
Because there have been rumors recently that psychics can not only absorb the energy in the crystal core, but also absorb the energy in the alien core, and the energy of the alien core can promote the upgrade of psychics better than the energy of the crystal core.
In order to appease Xie Liqing's emotions, He Junxia could only give her an affirmative answer, but in fact he did not dare to let his guard down.
Don’t you see that drug dealers and human traffickers are rampant despite repeated bans? As long as the profits are big enough, there will be people who take risks.
In the end times, the strong are more respected. Even if the government tries to balance things out, the status of ordinary people and those with special abilities is still very different.
Are those who controlled a large amount of social resources before the end of the world willing to be an ordinary person, willing to be left behind by the rapidly changing society, and willing to watch the foundation they worked so hard to build turn into ruins?
Absolutely not!
He Junxia had no doubt that people from the Yunjiang base and the other two bases were involved in the incident, and there might even be people from the capital involved.
Otherwise, the dire situation at the Zhongshui Base would not have been revealed until after the coup.
His guess came true.
When the investigation team sent by the central government arrived at the Yunjiang base, thunder exploded out of nowhere. The Zhongshui base released a list of all people who participated in the superpower experiments.
Among them are many famous psychics, large and small private forces, and senior officials from the Yunjiang Base and the Capital Base.
Even the investigation team sent by the central government was involved with the involvement of some people's family forces.
For a time, the crowd was excited and the situation was chaotic.
Regardless of whether they are on the experimental list or not, the top leaders of the base are all busy and overwhelmed. Different forces are taking the opportunity to fight for power and stir up trouble, and all kinds of rumors are flying around.
The credibility of the base has been declining, and even people within the military and government are talking about it, which makes people feel that a storm is brewing.
Even under such circumstances, all the psychics in the weapons department received a message mysteriously asking them to gather in the cafeteria.
When everyone rushed to the cafeteria, they found out that the purpose of the gathering was to draw blood, to draw blood from everyone.
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