The first day, nothing happened.
The second day, nothing happened.
…
On the monitor at Da Hwa's Phecda command central, the number reached 100. This was the 100th day since Team Hope departed.
Nothing happened in the past 100 days.
On the 30th day, both countries announced the news of victory to the outside world. The Alliance of Vital Will had been destroyed and the members of Team Hope who completed the ambush had all gone missing. There was a possibility that none of them survived.
The outside world welcomed this news with both excitement and suspicion.
With each passing day, the news became more and more real. At the same time, the world was coming back to life, and people's lives were getting back on track. No one knew how Team Hope managed to defeat such a powerful enemy, but it was a victory they had won.
Unbeknownst to the public, an expedition team had returned to Da Hwa City from Ulthar in Dreamlands.
The channel was discovered by Lucky on the 91st day. The connection between Phecda World and Dreamlands was restored. Phecda immediately sent a team to Ulthar to investigate. This time, it was led by Peacock and Malachite. Lou Xiaoning who had regained her mobility also tagged along.
Since the exit of the channel was at the Enchanted Forest near Ulthar, the team arrived at their destination without much difficulty. They found Wu Shiyu inside the Temple of Ulthar but she had already fallen into a deep slumber.
There were cats wandering around the room. Wu Shiyu was sleeping on a wooden bed. She looked peaceful like she was having a good dream.
The Great Atal said there was a nightmare sealed by Wu Shiyu. Once she woke up, the nightmare would return.
The Great Atal said they would not be able to wake her up so they did not have to worry about her. The Ulthar Cats would take care of her and she would find her home.
Could this be the legendary Goddess of Hope of the City of Kindle? What happened to her? Where did she go? What about the nightmare?
They had no answers to these questions. They tried to wake her but she did not respond, she continued to sleep.
After the team brought back this information, Phecda finally confirmed their victory. However, they didn't have the time to rest. After heaving a sigh of relief, they continued forward. This world was like a weak patient who had just recovered from a serious illness. The road to recovery had just begun.
Neither Tong Ye nor Xiao Xu had forgotten that the Alliance of Life Will was not the only dark force, and the shadow of hemoptysis was still there.
He would continue to develop the team of Transcendents, continue to excavate the ruins of Carlott College in River End Village, and nurture more Carlop doctors to protect the ordinary with Transcendents. He would continue to treat patients with petrification, abnormal diseases, and common diseases, so that the world would be less painful and healthier.
This was the main working principle of Phecda, and it was what they had to do well.
However, there were too many problems in this world that was riddled with holes. Economy, people's livelihood, international relations … There were many things that were beyond the scope of Phecda's authority.
The supernatural method of becoming a Carlot Doctor would change many things, it might even change the entire human civilization. Just this alone, how to share and cooperate between different countries, how to redraw the boundaries of many things, these problems would not be easily solved.
Xiao Xu, Peacock, Malachite, Lou Xiaoning, Chang Qianhang and the rest would become Doctor Carlop. They would gain supernatural power by sacrificing themselves to the Goddess of Life. With regards to the crows, Phecda would continue the previous agreement, the crows would decide for themselves.
Faced with this world, they could only try their best to live up to their fallen heroes.
…
Day 243, nothing happened.
"I'm going to work!"
Inside the living room, Guo Pengbin called out as he grabbed his briefcase and headed for the door.
Yu Qi and the two kids were still having breakfast at the dining room table. Little Tiger and Little Chick were making a ruckus as they ate. Yu Qi kept urging them to finish their food. The television on the wall was playing a show about Doctor Carlop. The kids loved to watch Doctor Carlop, they were like superheroes.
Before Guo Pengbin left the room, he turned back to look at his family and smiled. Then he hurried away.
It had been half a year since the family moved out of the central settlement. It had been 2 months since they moved back to their own house in Eastern State.
The world now was like the aftermath of a war. Jobs were hard to find but opportunities were plentiful. He was lucky enough to find an office job with a decent salary. However, he had to be frugal. Before this, he drove to work but now he had to take the bus.
He hurried out of the elevator and out of the residential area. When he waited at the bus stop, he finally had some personal time.
Guo Pengbin took out his phone to play with it. The other people waiting for the bus also had their heads lowered as they scrolled through their phones. They were either reading the news, watching videos or playing games. No one spoke. Everyone wore masks so that even their faces were blurry.
In the morning, the streets of the city were already crowded with cars. It was noisy, and the exhaust from the cars was suffocating, especially when the big cars passed by.
Guo Pengbin browsed through a thread. It was about the mutants that had been captured and detained. There might be only one or two of them in one place, but the total number of them in the world was more than ten thousand. They were not like the patients with Abnormal People's Syndrome who could still be cured. They had been converted, so how should they deal with them?
"Kill them all." Someone replied. "Don't leave them alive to harm the world."
This reply received a lot of support. Another voice was for them to be locked up for now and not to be allowed to wander around. However, they had to find a way to save them. These people had not done anything wrong. Those who went on that website were usually unlucky. They had families, so they should be saved.
Guo Pengbin thought about it. Kill them all? He had a bad feeling about it, but when he thought about the number of mutants left in the world, he felt uneasy.
He continued to read the replies on the thread. The two groups of people started to argue. Those who wanted to be killed scolded those who didn't. Shooting them would not be too much, so what was the problem with euthanasia? Those who wanted to be saved scolded those who wanted to be killed for being inhumane. Those were once ordinary people …
He sighed and closed the thread. Then, he looked at another thread. It was about the reform of medical insurance. There were rumors that some rare diseases would be covered by medical insurance at exorbitant prices. In addition, the reimbursement for ordinary diseases would be better, but the individual medical insurance contribution would also be increased.
This thread was a mess again. Some people objected that it was a waste of resources. Instead of spending a lot of money on patients with rare diseases, it was better to spend the money on more ordinary people. They did not even mention that most patients with rare diseases did not contribute much to society in the first place … More people said helplessly that rare diseases and serious illnesses were unfortunate and painful, but that was life … There were also people who supported the idea of letting more people live a better and more dignified life. In fact, it was beneficial for everyone …
He browsed through another news. A blind man with a guide dog on a public bus was chased away by other passengers.
He did not want to continue reading, so he closed the thread. Then, he turned to some foreign news, but he saw all kinds of contradictions and chaos.
"Sigh." Guo Pengbin simply stopped reading the news. This was really an era that needed to be changed. But what could an ordinary person like him do?
At this moment, a bus drove over from the distance. Everyone on the platform temporarily put down their phones and turned to look at the bus that had arrived and stopped. With a bang, the bus door opened. There were no passengers getting off from the back door, but they were getting on from the front door one after another. The bus was almost full.
Guo Pengbin just got on the bus and paid. Before he could stand properly, he was squeezed by a man behind him. The man ran to an empty seat and sat down.
In fact, he did not want to snatch the seat. He did not want to cause trouble at all. At that moment, he just muttered in his heart and pulled the ring to steady himself.
The door had just closed, and the driver had not started the bus. There was a series of uncomfortable coughs in the bus. "Cough, cough …"
The person who coughed seemed to be holding it in, but he did not stop coughing. It made the already dull bus even more depressing. Suddenly, everyone on the bus looked over. Guo Pengbin was no exception. Coughing in public was such an uncomfortable thing.
Guo Pengbin saw a middle-aged uncle sitting at the back of the bus coughing. His face was covered by a mask, so he could not tell whether he was well or not. The surrounding passengers quickly moved away. No one dared to sit next to the uncle.
"Does anyone want to get off?" The driver asked. His tone was indifferent, but he knew that someone would want to leave in such a situation. "Does anyone want to get off?"
The uncle who coughed did not get off. A passenger sitting next to the uncle and two other young people got off and left. The others were telling the driver to hurry up and drive. Guo Pengbin did not get off either. He sat in an empty seat. Although the coughing sounded uncomfortable, it was inevitable. It was not the first time he had encountered it. If someone coughed, smoked, or spat, he should not go out.
The bus was quiet. The passengers lowered their heads to look at their phones. Guo Pengbin was the same. This period of time on the way to work was a rare private moment.
At that moment, the bus started moving. It moved forward on the dusty road of Eastern State. The coughing started again.
(End)
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