"Gambling?"
"Or rather, resistance that lacks hope and patience."
Peony acted as a commentator on one side and a commentator on the other. Her cold and clear tone was a stark contrast to the ardent scene of a million people marching in the live camera. But Luo Nan was unable to interrupt. He could only listen honestly, and he felt that his knowledge had been greatly broadened.
"Forty years after the war, three generations have passed. The entire society has more or less completed the solidification of social strata. The emergence of the social authority system has made this phenomenon even more expressive. In some of the less well-run cities, people became even more restless. If there's a chance to get rich overnight, why not? "
"You want to turn the abnormality into a normal state just because you're agitated?" Bamboo Pole raised his eyebrows. "The public's mentality should be more conservative, not so radical … So, you've been used, right? You should have a deduction or something. "
Peony slowly turned around and transmitted the scene of an even wider region for them to see. Her voice, however, was as clear and definite as always. "At present, it looks like the direct driving force is money. From the perspective of public power, many people don't want to spend any more money. "
"What do you mean?"
"Forty years after the war, all kinds of abnormal phenomena continued to occur in the wilderness. However, did the nomadic tribes in the wilderness perish? No! According to incomplete statistics, the vagrant population has achieved five consecutive increases, and the population growth rate has even exceeded two-thirds of the 88 large metropolitan areas. There is not much difference in the lifespan. "
Zhang Yingying interrupted her, "Hey, the pre-war and post-war generations are far from reaching the peak of natural deaths."
"But this is the situation before us! Who would care about what would happen twenty or thirty years later? Many people felt that the aberrations were nothing to be afraid of, and the overall situation was not bad. Tens of thousands of nomadic tribes, hundreds of millions of people, such a large number of people served as lab rats, living in a region with high incidence of abnormalities for decades. They don't show any signs of perishing and are even very prosperous. So why do they view them as ferocious tigers and venomous snakes and spend trillions of dollars every year to guard against them? "
"…"
"There are also many people who think that with the arrival of the Era of Distortion, the genetic environment on Earth will change, and large-scale genetic pollution is almost inevitable. Large-scale expenses every year could only push back the time by a few decades at most, a generation or two. Since this is the case, what's the point of working hard now? "
Bamboo Pole snorted, then sighed. "That's a mutation after all!"
"In this era, the economy is the economy of eyeballs, and politics is the politics of eyeballs. Without eyeballs, there would be nothing. For some people, the strategy developed in the early days after the war was too old-fashioned. According to the old rules of the past, throwing a huge amount of social investment into a place that everyone was used to and insensitive to did not conform to the current rules. They need to invest their money in areas that have more room for growth and more influence.
"Facing the distortion, coexisting with the distortion, turning it into a controllable and usable positive element — regardless of whether it can be truly realized or not, for politicians, this statement is dazzling enough to convert votes; for businessmen, it's eye-catching enough to create a whole new consumer market. Since that's the case, why not?
"What's more, be it politicians or businessmen, they are also members of the public. They also have a corresponding sense of crisis and gambling mentality. Whether it was the inner world or the Burners, these special elements that had never appeared in the past hundreds or thousands of years were constantly infiltrating the global governance system and obtaining an increasingly important position. How many people could remain calm in the face of all this?
"The worst that can happen when a mutation is introduced is to slightly bring forward the inevitable trouble. Normally, a new balance can be formed. At the most ideal, they can practically control and possess this power … Why wouldn't they do this sort of gamble where there is practically no loss?"
Luo Nan basically understood Peony's explanation. This set of analysis was extremely insightful, but did she mean to say that the current situation was already a surging tide that could not be reversed?
Luo Nan didn't really like this conclusion.
It wasn't that he had any discrimination against the mutation, but he didn't like the people who controlled everything from behind … Even though he didn't really understand this person or the exact identity of this group of people.
Luo Nan also wanted to ponder deeply, but it was a bit beyond the scope of his ability. He Yueyin and the others' level of analysis should far exceed his … So he wanted to hear more discussion. Something unexpected suddenly happened to the fleet of vehicles that had arrived at the live broadcast area at this time. It attracted his attention.
A bit of chaos had occurred in a corner of the fleet. The reason was that a certain military hero who had been infected with the mutation virus had fainted. Under the expression of the visible mutation, that person's state had clearly fallen into an irreversible abyss.
It was impossible for this military hero to participate in the welcoming ceremony in such a state. The medical vehicle that carried him immediately accelerated, leaving the fleet and speeding in a different direction.
Luo Nan's mind stirred, and his telepathic thoughts locked onto the medical vehicle.
It was clearly impossible to perform emergency treatment on a patient on the verge of death with a layer of isolation clothing separating them. Luo Nan anchored his telepathic thoughts once more. He didn't even have time to transmit the image back before the special coating formed by the interference of the external neuron reacted. A new indicator light lit up.
There were too many relevant components, and the area within the medical vehicle was even filled with a blazing light.
Hiss, this change was truly unexpected!
Luo Nan gasped in surprise as the corresponding system windows appeared one after the other. The theoretical completion rate of the advanced formula soared at a steady rate. In a short few seconds, the infected person's contribution to the formula had already surpassed Huang Bingzhen's, causing the relevant value to jump up by two points.
Just like this, it matched up with Huang Bingzhen's side!
Luo Nan clenched his fist in secret. This reaction didn't quite conform to the standards of morality. After all, one was a hero on the verge of death, and the other was a despicable and lecherous worm. But in terms of logic in his field of expertise, there was no difference in the nature of the two.
Though he said this, Luo Nan's telepathic thoughts spun around in the medical vehicle. He saw the state of the military hero, and how could his heart not be moved?
The tower-like man had already been imprisoned within the sterile tent. Right now he was coughing up large mouthfuls of blood, and his throat emitted a hoarse sound of leaking air. His rock-hard muscles had shriveled substantially, and the majority of his body's energy reserves had been devoured by the mutation process.
This was a painful process. The stimulation of the body was secondary. The despair towards the future and the distorted illusions brought about by the mutation itself on the mental plane were enough to cause the free will that humans were so proud of to completely collapse.
Luo Nan was able to ignore and even take the initiative to guide Huang Bingzhen's related processes because he felt that Huang Bingzhen's mental world was completely worthless. But now that he was facing Huang Bingzhen, he felt quite uncomfortable in his heart. He just wanted to cut off his telepathic thoughts.
But just as his telepathic thoughts were about to leave, his mind was suddenly subtly stirred.
He didn't realize what was going on for a time. His consciousness stagnated for half a second, and it was also at this moment that a corner of the densely packed indicator lights within the medical vehicle extinguished.
Though the patient had already taken off the isolation suit, the surrounding area was still equipped with a sterile tent. This provided a very good concealment effect. For a short period of time, no germs would leak out. At the very least, the few raw materials listed in the advanced formula were all enclosed within this area. They were extremely concentrated.
But during the half a second that Luo Nan's consciousness stagnated, there were a few corresponding indicator lights that suddenly disappeared without a trace.
Within the virtual brain system, the complete degree of the advanced formula of the medium was displayed. There were no changes. The relevant data only reflected the problem of having or not having it. There were no requirements for the quantity to increase or decrease.
But the indicator lights continuously extinguished. It was too strange. Was it because the germs, raw materials, and so on were exposed to the air? Was it because they weren't able to adapt to the environment? But the other raw materials of the same type were clearly still perfectly fine!
Luo Nan naturally shifted his consciousness to the area where the indicator lights were extinguished. Similar situations continued to occur during this period of time. Fortunately, after a few seconds of inspection, Luo Nan shrunk his range once more. He focused on the edge of the treatment bed, on a certain rescue worker.
After observing for a few more seconds, Luo Nan really wanted to say to this person, "Hey, your isolation suit has a tear."
Yes, this rescue worker had been busy all this time. The isolation suit on his body wasn't completely sealed. A portion of his skin was separated by a thin, breathable undergarment. It was exposed to the air.
No one would pay attention to this sort of detail in the midst of all this chaos. In theory, his self-contained defense system should have alerted him, but it didn't.
Luo Nan believed that this was most likely due to this person taking the initiative to turn it off.
This irregular operation caused the person's exposed undergarment to transform into a net. It swayed a few times in an environment brimming with fatal threats, and it was covered in the blood and saliva of the infected person coughing up. There were also skin tissues stripped off from the rescue, and so on. There might even be floating germs and other special compounds.
Was this person courting death? Clearly not!
From Luo Nan's perspective, this person was simply using a speed that could be seen with his eyes to collect the things that were covered in the grid …. No, he was sucking them into a deeper layer.
Luo Nan raised the precision of his observation to the highest level. He only vaguely discovered something through the concealment of the clothes. It was this person. Some hairs were bizarrely retracting in and out from the pores of his skin. They could stretch out two to three centimeters at their longest. They were like slender 'probes'. They interacted with the contaminated things on the undergarment. Then they rapidly extracted a portion of the miscellaneous substances from the hairs. They were even refined. Only then did they pass through the hollow pipes of the hairs to be absorbed into the body.
It was as if there was another person hiding under the skin of this medical worker, carrying out a series of precise operations.
Or perhaps it was a monster?
No matter what it was, they were only interested in the raw materials of the advanced formula.
Luo Nan couldn't help but associate this with Xia City, with the 'sarcoma' parasitic within Li Yiwei's womb. One was hidden within, and the other was exposed outside. If their functions were pieced together according to their goals, everything would become a matter of course … Gathering raw materials and storing them.
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