Chapter 127: The will of the people and the trend of the times
Wu Youai's words made the group fall into silence. The thought was extremely terrifying. Now even people can't get enough to eat, let alone the prisoners. What will happen then?
There may be only one way out.
Zhu Fan shuddered, accidentally touching the wound and grimacing in pain. He stretched out his withered, old hand and couldn't help but tremble, "Why, why did it become like this?"
The wound continued to fester, ooze, and then form sores. It didn't become inflamed even in such hot weather, but it seemed like it would never heal. Zhu Fan asked the other two people and they were in the same situation. It was as if all the water in their bodies had been sucked out all at once, and they looked several years older.
Jingshu also thought about this question.
That day, Su Meimei's adoptive father was stung by a bee released by Jingshu on the road. Jingshu, who was anxious to know the situation, secretly went to inquire about the situation the next day, only to find out that Su Meimei's adoptive father had hitchhiked away from Wucheng overnight.
This made Jingshu, who had some subsequent thoughts, feel a little regretful. "Well, he ran fast."
Because Su Meimei no longer had her biological father to protect her, she returned home from the ward, and Zhang Hanhan was taking care of her.
Jingshu saw Su Meimei from afar on the day she was discharged from the hospital. She looked so miserable. Her eyes were covered with gauze, and she stumbled along following Zhang Hanhan.
Her entire body was seeping with pus, some of which had dried into hard pods. Her skin was as wrinkled and shriveled as that of a sixty-year-old woman, and her cheeks were sunken.
Zhang Hanhan, who was supporting her, had a look of disgust on her face. Zhang Zhongyong, who came to pick her up, kept frowning and shouted impatiently, "Hurry up!"
Jingshu sneered. Some people are only now beginning to pay for the sins they have committed. Su Meimei still has a lot to suffer in the future. Let her first taste the feeling of being abandoned by everyone.
Jingshu observed the situations of the other people after being stung. An incredible thought arose in her mind and became uncontrollable. She seemed to have vaguely guessed something.
"I wonder what effect the combination of money-making seeds, spiritual springs, and bee stings will have?" Jingshu was excited for a long time, just waiting for a suitable person to come and try it out.
Jingshu felt that she had been falling into a misunderstanding, thinking that using the spiritual spring would definitely lead to good things, but what if it was the other way around?
If consuming spiritual spring water increases vitality, then after a bee stings someone after eating spiritual spring water, they will lose vitality madly. "Yes, that must be the case. I am such a genius!"
The Rubik's Cube space is really a magical space. It seems that there are infinite abilities waiting for her to develop. Jingshu can't wait to practice the Rubik's Cube, hoping to upgrade it soon so that she can get a glimpse of more abilities!
In the blink of an eye, it was July 2023. The government carried out drastic reforms, starting to clear out criminal suspects in one area after another, and began to check house by house, confirm identities, and popularize new laws.
The theory of the end of the world has been circulating on the Internet for a long time. The country has gone from opposing it at the beginning to accepting it now. Jingshu knows that this year's National Day will officially announce the recognition of the theory of the end of the world, and will designate January 1, 2023, the day when the sunlight disappears, as the first day of the end of the world.
Jingshu clearly remembered the speech that day: "More than seventy years ago, the Chinese nation was founded. More than seventy years later, we are indeed facing the end of the world, but this is not scary. The scary thing is that we cannot work together to overcome the difficulties!..."
It is precisely because of the apocalypticism and the words that darkness will follow forever that many people have disregarded laws and regulations, exposing the darkness of human nature and primitive desires, causing them to fail to react when the police were cleaning up, and revealing expressions of disbelief before they died.
After all, when the world ends in movies and novels, the government has nothing to do with it. The government is just a stepping stone to highlight the protagonist's awesomeness.
It is more about highlighting the ugly faces of government officials. They will show their incompetence to the fullest, and the social system will collapse overnight. For example, many policemen leave their posts because they have families to take care of, and many government employees leave their posts because the money is no longer useful and the government can't think of a solution.
Murder, robbery and arson were commonplace, and no one cared anyway. There was no plot like in novels where supermarket supplies were robbed and all the supplies disappeared.
While these people are dreaming of doing whatever they want in the end times, the reality is:
The government killed corrupt officials two months before the end of the world and slaughtered fat sheep one month before the end of the world. When the end of the world came, it took control of food factories and canneries, and collected all food supplies in the second month.
In the third month, arrangements were made for the families of all police officers, and in the fourth month, all resources were decisively thrown into the big pit of artificial sun. It can be said that half of the resources of the entire Chinese country were invested in it. This was simply a desperate move.
After the monthly inflation depreciated to the point where it could no longer be used to buy food, virtual currency was urgently used as a substitute. No matter how chaotic the situation was, the government and public institution employees were first won over, and rewards of vegetables and virtual currency were given to these people, so that this group of people would wholeheartedly protect their own interests.
In the sixth month, the condolence specialist worked together with big data to implement the case, and in the seventh month, the murderer was brutally executed on the spot, eliminating the process of filing a case and sentencing.
You want to talk about how powerful the government is... Jingshu thinks that it just captures the hearts and interests of the people and then brings them together.
This probably explains the true meaning of what the people want and the general trend are.
Except for those who didn't have time to escape at the beginning, everyone else ran away. They thought that now there was no sunlight and they couldn't see their faces clearly, and there was no surveillance, so how could they be caught?
Of course, there are also many people who were arrested while sitting at home. They will never know how they were discovered. Jingshu said that this is where the government is being shady, as it did not tell the public about big data.
The criminals who escaped would find it difficult to commit crimes again, because most of the knives were traded for meat. Most importantly, no one had anything to eat, so what else could they steal? Don't envy the days when people slept with their doors open at night, because there was nothing back then! There was nothing worth stealing!
The knife recycling has been implemented for two months, and China has basically recycled all knives and dangerous weapons. Now it is still a matter of exchanging a steamed bun for a knife. Very few people would not replace their kitchen knives when they have to choose between eating maggots and steamed buns. After China completes this round of sweeps and completely ensures safety, every household will exchange their last life-saving knife for a steamed bun again.
So what can these people do? They can only walk into a trap and catch bugs in exchange for work points. Virtual currency exchange and use require facial recognition for identity verification, which exposes their identities. Then, depending on the circumstances, murderers will be executed immediately, robbers will be executed if they cause casualties, and thieves will be subjected to labor reform. There is endless work to do every day, and they eat maggots. The mortality rate is reportedly 60%.
Wu Youai: "Everyone, today the Second Detachment will be clearing our area. To ensure everyone's safety, please stay home and don't go out. Please gather in the basement at noon. We will question everyone about their situation. Those who fail to show up will be charged as fugitives, with the exception of civil servants and public servants."
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