"Rebirth in the Apocalypse" - No Rebirth (Part 20)...
The overall contraceptive effectiveness at the facility has never been so good.
In the past, there were women who didn't want to have children and would discuss with their husbands whether to get pregnant, as their bodies really couldn't handle it.
But how could a man possibly restrain himself in such a situation? The hot-tempered ones would resort to violence, the clever ones would use a combination of coaxing and deception, and the even cleverer ones would agree on the surface but secretly find other women.
If the woman finds out, he'll only get a few scoldings; there are mediators who specialize in family mediation who will come to his home to mediate.
Aren't all men the same? Just bear with it. You're already pregnant, and abortion would hurt your body, so just give birth.
You can't control men, but you have children. Don't hurt your children just because you're angry with a man!
Women who married before the apocalypse could mostly only endure such things; what can women do after the apocalypse?
Since childbirth only requires women to pay the price, and men don't, they're certainly not that stupid to make themselves suffer.
But things are different now. Now, when women get pregnant, not only can they not get the child, but the women will also directly gain superpowers. How can that be allowed!
Seeing others gain an advantage is often more painful than suffering a loss yourself. A man who could never control himself suddenly becomes able to.
He used to be so eager to sow his seed everywhere, flirting with every woman he saw.
Now, suddenly, she is so chaste that she is like a monk, devoutly guarding her chastity as if she were worshipping God, and will never let those women who like to take advantage of others take advantage of them in the slightest!
Condoms, which were previously ignored in the base, suddenly became hot-selling items. Those who couldn't afford condoms became as celibate as monks in meditation, remaining pure and chaste.
But it's a bit too late to abstain now; before abstinence was even implemented, the base already had many pregnant women.
They could prevent women who weren't pregnant from getting pregnant, but they couldn't stop pregnant women from injecting superpower drugs. So, a rumor quickly spread throughout the base—
"Injecting superpower drugs into the embryo is tantamount to trading the child's life for the mother's."
"This is too cruel! What responsible mother would do such a thing!"
One of the bad things about the end times is that order has collapsed, good ideas are gone, but bad ideas can still rise from the dead. People who lived before the end times may revive the "morality" of the end times at any time.
Pregnant women, regardless of whether their illness was serious or minor, were prepared to receive injections of supernatural drugs.
After all, when it comes to childbirth, only those who give birth truly understand, and only those who die are truly afraid.
When they encountered a companion who died in childbirth, even though everyone around them was crying and praising, they were truly afraid that the same fate would befall them.
Before the apocalypse, when you see stories of great mothers risking their lives to give birth, you can't feel their pain from outside the screen.
All one can feel is the slightly broken beauty of the pretty actress under the pain, and the super strong moral capital and status leap that follows. It's a kind of satisfying torture, so it's natural that one can easily say that I am willing to die for my child.
But when you actually endure the pain of pregnancy, suffer all kinds of terrible pregnancy reactions, watch the woman next door struggle to die, and lie on the chopping block waiting to be slaughtered, no one can withstand that real fear.
Moreover, since men don't give birth, they don't have a real sense of what women feel, so even when they praise someone, it seems very abstract.
They often sing praises of greatness one minute, and then suddenly begin to describe: "You know what? That woman died without even wearing pants."
The audience froze, but the speaker, still thinking he was doing a good job, began to repeatedly talk about women's pants, using this to demonstrate the greatness of women who risk their lives and disregard shame in order to give birth.
If women can be brainwashed by this kind of praise that seems to isolate them from other species, then they should reflect on whether this is their first time being born as a human.
But some malice doesn't need an organization; it comes naturally without a teacher.
It's unclear when exactly, but the women at the base have been isolated.
Wherever he went, people would make jokes. Whenever a woman asked for a favor, the men would refuse to help or give her the runaround. When they saw a woman coming, they would loudly talk about killing children.
At the end, they even added a hypocritical sentence: "You seem like a very nice person, with a kind face, unlike those women who want abortions. You wouldn't do that, would you?"
What could that lone woman say? Humans are social animals, and facing isolation within a group would certainly be terrifying. She would give a few perfunctory replies and then hurry away, not daring to say anything more.
Under this storm of public opinion, not only were ordinary women silenced and dared not mention the injections, but female superhumans were also affected, especially Qu Menghan.
She openly broke with her husband and didn't hesitate at all when injecting the drug, immediately becoming the focus of public criticism.
Her husband also liked to play the victim in public, portraying himself as an honest man abandoned by a scumbag woman. He acted as if nothing had ever happened, even though he had caused trouble several times that required a mediator to come to his door.
People pity this honest man, whose child was killed by a wicked woman who aborted his child. The woman surnamed Qu is neither fit to be a wife nor a mother.
In response to Qu Menghan's rejection, all the men spontaneously united without any prompting. Even the cafeteria worker would deliberately give her a piece of expired, rotten meat when he saw her.
Qu Menghan heard the snickers around her, glanced at the rotten meat on her plate, and didn't say anything. She just looked up at the man who served her food and said, "You gave it to me."
The man serving the food was secretly pleased with himself for getting back at Qu Menghan, but he was stunned when he didn't expect her to be so persistent.
He stammered, "Captain Qu, this is you..."
Before he could finish speaking, Qu Menghan shattered the shop window with a slap, pulled him out through the broken glass, and shoved his head into the overturned plate on the floor: "I'll let you eat!"
There were still many people eating in the cafeteria at this time. At first, everyone was laughing and watching the excitement, but now everyone stood up and fell silent.
Standing in a group, with the encouragement of the group, you can say whatever you want and do whatever you want. But when you really face a powerful superhuman, everyone will be scared and can only watch the man scream and smear blood all over the ground.
At that moment, there were also people with superpowers eating in the cafeteria. Immediately, one of them used his superpower to uphold justice: "You've gone too far!"
Upon hearing the sound, Qu Menghan turned around swiftly like a mother leopard, clenched her fists, and instantly summoned two balls of flame, one blue and one white. One flame directly neutralized the attacker's attack, while the other blasted the first bird away.
According to conventional thinking, those who awaken their superpowers first are stronger than those who awaken them later. This is why that person dared to stand up for justice. But how come Qu Menghan, this artificially awakened person, is so strong!
Summoning elements out of thin air is a hallmark of top-tier superhumans. Only a handful of people in the Sunshine Squad in the entire base can do it, but it seems to be no problem for artificial awakeners!
The other superhumans watching, seeing the situation, also realized it was bad. They exchanged glances and attacked Qu Menghan together.
Their original intention was probably to prevent Qu Menghan from being so arrogant. Everyone in the base hated Qu Menghan, so even if they all attacked her together, it would be to uphold justice!
But the rules are meant to protect both sides. If you don't follow the rules first, then someone else will naturally have to step in later.
Facing attacks from multiple people, Qu Menghan showed no sign of backing down, beckoning to everyone like a demon, while the female superhumans watching fell silent.
The silent anti-female sentiment that has been quietly rising in the base these days will not only affect Qu Menghan, who is in charge, but also other female superhumans.
Because female superhumans have long been marginalized, they are more tolerant.
But the atmosphere has already reached this point, so why hold back?
Taking a deep breath, the power-enhanced ability user slammed his hand on the table, pulled up a table leg, and flung it at the crowd, joining the battle.
Elementalists can control anything, causing all sorts of things to fly around, making it more terrifying than a battlefield.
Now even the onlookers dared not eat their melons anymore, scrambling out of the cafeteria and standing outside to watch this epic battle.
There are more male superhumans than female superhumans in the base, but in war, it's not just about numbers, but also about morale.
The ultimate goal of male superpowered individuals is to suppress the rising trend of female superpowers and maintain their special status.
The female superpowered person wanted to vent her anger after enduring so much ridicule, oppression, suppression, and exclusion for so long. She had endless rage to vent!
Threats and intimidation may bring temporary peace to the oppressed, but when they can no longer be suppressed, they will backfire like a volcanic eruption!
All the female superhumans who participated in the battle acted like madwomen, pinning the male superhumans to the ground and attacking them with both hands.
After defeating these superhumans, they followed Qu Menghan upstairs in a grand procession, kicked down the dormitory door, and dragged out Qu Menghan's husband, who was confiding his grievances and showing his sadness to a group of female mediators.
Amid her husband's gasps, Qu Menghan stripped him naked and dragged him all over the street, giving him a wider stage to perform on. The people with her laughed behind her back, even silencing the man's screams.
With such a large-scale operation, the base's higher-ups naturally couldn't sit still and anxiously said to Ye Xiqing, "Dr. Luo, shouldn't you do something about this situation?"
Ye Xiqing, who was watching the excitement—or rather, broadcasting it to viewers outside the world—followed the crowd all the way from the cafeteria to the dormitory, grinning from ear to ear, when she suddenly heard this sentence.
He slowly composed himself, turned to look at the person who had asked the question, and smiled—
"Shouldn't you be more mindful of how you talk to me now?"
Interrogator: ...
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That fierce battle in the cafeteria ended with all the participating superhumans being punished with community service and all the cafeteria staff being dismissed and replaced.
Qu Menghan, as the most serious offender, was punished along with the other fire-type ability users by being sent to the boiler room to boil water.
But when they went to the cafeteria again, they were not met with harsher treatment, but rather with an auntie diligently serving them rice.
Because of their commotion, the entire cafeteria staff was replaced. The cafeteria auntie who had just gotten this good job wanted to treat them like royalty.
Thank you! Thank you!
This incident completely shattered the previous isolation of women by men, because they discovered that women could actually learn their methods.
Previously, they deliberately refused to serve women in order to make things difficult for them. Now, women are following suit. Men, well, you just wait.
If you want a woman to mend your clothes, well, you'll regret it. If you want a woman to do housework, well, you'll regret it. If you want a woman to see a doctor, well, you'll regret it. If you want a woman to get vaccinated, well, you'll regret it.
They're making them wait the same way they made them wait before.
If the price of giving up their community positions and providing unpaid services is that men can stand above them and manipulate them, then they would rather not wait any longer!
Women who are not pregnant and are not required to have children put down their belongings, leave the maternal and child health hospital, and go to the base to compete for community jobs.
The pregnant woman quietly went to that famous detached house to inject herself with the superpower drug.
Men who have their jobs and positions taken away by women, and who also suffer from being ostracized by female employees, finally realize that women are half of the company and should be respected.
The husband tearfully confessed to his wife, "It's not that I think the children are more important than you. I'm just worried about the fact that the power-enhancing drug has a 50% mortality rate. What if something unfortunate happens to you?"
His wife, who had just returned from outside, looked at him with a good mood and said, "Then you don't need to worry. I've already had the injection. From now on, I'll take care of you."
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