PFC Chapter 170 Kangcheng Situation
Chapter 170 Kangcheng Situation
"It's probably worse than you think."
Qin Changyi lit a cigarette, took a light drag and exhaled, then took a deep drag before shaking his head and saying.
Seeing this, Yi Chen simply listened quietly, looking at Qin Changyi, knowing that the other party would continue speaking.
"The earthquake happened around 8 or 9 p.m. that day. After the earthquake, all the high-rise buildings in Kangcheng collapsed."
Those of us who had awakened our superpowers fainted shortly after we ran out that day.
The next day we tried to contact our superiors, but found that all communication had been cut off.
A professor at Cornell University said that it was probably a solar storm or something that destroyed all the electromagnetic communication equipment, rendering cell phones and other electronic devices unusable.
I wanted to seek advice from higher authorities, but the Party Secretary, Mayor, and Bureau Chief were all entertaining representatives from a large company from the south that evening, discussing investment and development.
When the earthquake struck, everyone died. I, a newly promoted deputy director, became the highest-ranking official left in Kangcheng.
Kangcheng isn't a military city, and there are no troops stationed around it. It's just our police system with so few people.
But we still have to save lives in this natural disaster, and the police system only has about a thousand people.
Fortunately, the masses were able to be mobilized to save themselves, and many people had awakened their superpowers. In about ten days, they were able to dig out everything they had dug up.
Kangcheng originally had a population of over three million, but less than a third of them survived; the reported number was only over 800,000.
People from the nearest villages and towns have also brought their families to Kangcheng.
I originally wanted to follow the road to find other cities, but the wild animals have also evolved, and they are all much bigger than before.
Some clever ones knew to avoid people when they saw them, but some bolder ones would come and scavenge corpses to eat at night while we were rescuing people.
But in this sweltering heat, the bodies would start to stink in just a few days. Given the difficult conditions, they had no choice but to keep things simple and cremate the bodies together.
They explored the area for a while, but the further they went, the more dangerous it became. The evolved creatures had all sorts of supernatural abilities, and a sudden sneak attack could cause someone to suffer.
We carried guns, and several police officers have died.
Therefore, we can only put this matter aside for now and focus on stabilizing the internal situation.
These days, everyone is trying their best to dig out old supermarkets, grain and oil shops, warehouses, and so on to ensure food security.
But beneath the ruins, there are also animals like rats and cockroaches that have ruined a lot of food.
In fact, if everyone works together, there will be no food crisis in the short term.
But the evolutionary thing has both advantages and disadvantages.
Without the evolved beings, perhaps less than 500,000 people would have survived in Kangcheng.
However, some evolved beings gradually became isolated islands in Kangcheng because we could not contact our superiors.
They possessed superhuman strength, which fueled their ambition.
At first, temporary shelters were better, and everyone gave the best and most nutritious food they dug up to the evolved beings.
These are acceptable, after all, it's only right that those who are capable should do more work and those who do more work should be rewarded more.
But things got weirder as time went on. Some evolved beings formed cliques and instead of digging for resources in the ruins, they violently drove ordinary people to dig, and then they reaped the benefits without lifting a finger.
They only gave ordinary people a little bit of the food they dug up; enough to keep them from starving but not enough to fill their stomachs.
There were even those who didn't treat people like human beings, throwing food on the ground and making ordinary people crawl on the ground like dogs to eat it.
In short, they've done everything that would have warranted execution ten times over.
Qin Changyi slowly recounted the events that had occurred in Kangcheng during this period.
"Then shoot them! Doesn't the police station have guns?"
Yi Chen asked, puzzled.
He was still very young and had the most basic hatred for evil.
"If it were that simple, I would have done it already."
Qin Changyi shook his head.
"Yichen, you are also an evolved being, and you also have superpowers."
"During your time surviving in the wild, you must have relied on eating wild animals to stay alive, right?"
Qin Changyi paused for a moment, then asked.
Yichen simply nodded.
"Then you should have noticed that the flesh of those evolved creatures with the most significant changes in body size is beneficial to us, right?"
Qin Changyi continued to ask.
Yichen continued to nod.
"We naturally discovered this as well, and Professor Liu from Kangda University had asked us to catch a few evolutionary organisms for him to study as early as during the earthquake relief efforts."
In just a few days, he developed a drug that could accelerate evolution.
That substance is extracted from evolved organisms and is extremely effective, but it requires a large quantity of evolved organisms.
So we issued a bounty to everyone, encouraging them to kill evolved creatures and come to us to exchange them for supplies.
This would also solve most of the food shortage problem.
Although evolved creatures are dangerous, ordinary people can easily kill less powerful evolved creatures by using tools to make weapons such as guns, spears, bows, and crossbows.
People ate the meat that was safe to eat directly. The meat that carried too many germs and could easily kill people was exchanged with us for safe and normal food.
Those stronger evolved beings also hunt evolved creatures, and they bring what they can't eat to exchange for supplies with us.
At that time, the disaster had just ended, and the relationships between people were still relatively simple. With everyone working together, they hunted many evolved creatures.
Professor Liu also produced a batch of evolution potions. After our police station's evolved individuals took them, their abilities underwent a qualitative change, and their physical fitness was greatly improved.
Professor Liu said this could be considered an advancement, and that it evolved during the earthquake, and was called a first-order evolver. Based on this, it would advance to a second-order evolver.
However, the remaining evolution potions were no longer effective for us. Professor Liu guessed that this was because we had already advanced to a higher level, and the evolution potions extracted from those first-level evolved creatures could no longer promote our evolution.
At the time, I planned to sell the remaining evolution potions to civilian evolutionists, who would then exchange them for the corpses of evolved creatures.
That very night, some people incited the crowd, saying that we obtained the evolution potion by using ordinary people, but did not share it with others, because we wanted to monopolize the power of evolution and enslave everyone.
Professor Liu's achievements should be considered a shared asset of everyone in Kangcheng, and everyone has the right to use them.
A large crowd surrounded the police station, demanding that we hand over the method for making the evolution potion.
At that time, there were thousands of evolved beings and hundreds of thousands of ordinary people, as if they were about to devour us.
At that time, our police station had over thirty second-tier evolved beings and hundreds of guns; if we really wanted to suppress them, it wouldn't have been a problem.
But I knew that once the guns were fired, the fighting would continue, and the will of the people would be shattered. If all the evolved beings were killed, all hope would be gone…”
Qin Changyi covered his face, his voice hoarse.