Chapter 270: The Birth of a Superhero
And those who abide by the law and take the initiative to declare the awakening of superpowers also have a lot of criticism about the policies of the authorities.
In the beginning, when the superpowers were just awakened, the authorities provided each would-awakened person with a certain amount of genetic medicine, which was regarded as a state subsidy or "novice welfare".
But subsidies and benefits cannot be given endlessly - although the Earth Alliance family has a great cause, the landlord's family has no surplus food!
If visible progress cannot be made within a certain period of time, free genetic drugs will definitely be gradually reduced until they are abolished.
If you want to continue cultivating, you have to go to the Extraordinary Association to earn contribution points, or buy them at a fairly expensive price.
This has made many awakened people very dissatisfied.
They think that they have already awakened, and they are always ready to contribute to the earth, and it is right for the authorities to help them cultivate, and awakening is an iron rice bowl, so how can they still ask for money and contribute something?
It's not impossible to help the Association do tasks, but many awakened people have their own jobs, and the family has to support their families, for example, they were originally programmers, and it is impossible to say that they suddenly awakened the ability of the palm to breathe fire, so they are not programmers - then who cares about the food?
I often have to work overtime and stay up late at my own job, ninety-nine-six or something, precious rest days, sleeping heavily, taking care of housework, accompanying my son to interest classes, and paying public food to my wife...... I can't wait to break it into three petals for a minute, how can I have time to cultivate what ghost refining and what ghost tasks to do?
Moreover, Reiki revival is a new thing after all, the very association is also a new store opening, the task setting and membership upgrade system are not reasonable, even if many awakened people can breathe fire and discharge, but they don't know anything about martial arts, and it is impossible to spend a year and a half to cultivate, how many tasks can they do?
In this regard, the Extraordinary Association has learned a lesson - just a few days ago, a few awakened people took on a comprehensive security management task, followed the police ass to inspect a second-hand market, and happened to bump into two superpowered wanted criminals hiding here, and after a fight, three of our awakened people, one dead and two seriously injured.
As a result, the family members felt that the very association was a careless disregard for human life - the awakened person who sacrificed was just a middle school teacher a few days ago, and he had no combat effectiveness at all, and suddenly awakened the ability of "infinite power", which is not invulnerable, he himself has just awakened, he is ignorant, and he thinks that it is all like in the movie, with superpowers, he is a superhero, and he goes out to uphold justice as soon as his mind is hot, how can the extraordinary association be so rash and let him risk his life without strict review?
No one thought that the public security patrol would become a firefight with a superpowered wanted criminal, and when the mission agreement was signed, there were corresponding exemption clauses, but the seventy or eighty family members of the victims were dressed in linen and filial piety, with wreaths and curtains, and sat under the building of the very association, crying all day long, gongs and drums sounded, and many family members were old men and old ladies in their seventies and eighties.
This incident made the authorities very passive.
Chairman Yu didn't dare to run to the city council.
No, it should be said that she didn't dare to walk out of the door of the extraordinary association - as soon as she walked out of the door, several family members rushed up to hug her thighs.
The Extraordinary Association can only adjust the task system, raise the standard of review, and try not to involve the first awakened in dangerous tasks.
However, the improvement of the review standard will inevitably mean a reduction in operational efficiency, and many awakened people are complaining that there is no suitable task, and even if they receive a task, such as acting as a temporary joint defense team member, maintaining law and order in the community, etc., they will not be able to exchange for many contribution points.
In the long run, many awakened people have found that the cultivation-task-upgrade system, which looks beautiful and reasonable, is simply a cake to satisfy hunger, and there is only a theoretical possibility.
This is really an irreconcilable contradiction.
To put it mildly, it is "the contradiction between the growing cultivation needs of the masses of the people and the limited spiritual energy resources."
The reason why many people take the initiative to declare their superpowers is that they think that as long as they declare, they are "people from the authorities", and they can hold an iron rice bowl and eat imperial food for a lifetime.
Now that I find out, far from being like that, then what else to declare?
In this way, big data shows that after the number of awakened people who took the initiative to declare continued to grow in the first few months, in September, the growth rate gradually decreased, and the growth curve became weaker and weaker, and the number of new awakenings declared in October was only 80% of that in June.
It stands to reason that as the intensity of the spiritual tide outbreak becomes higher and higher, the number of awakened people should be increasing.
Now that the data is declining like a cliff, it is obvious that some people have lost confidence in the authorities, and even evil forces such as the Celestial Organization are secretly fanning the flames, including illegal travelers like "Yan Luo", who are also privately recruiting troops, making many awakened people hide their superpowers - this is really a very dangerous thing.
By the end of October, a new situation had emerged.
The lack of police presence has set off a ripple effect.
A large number of police forces, military forces, and resources have been invested in stopping the crimes of the awakened and traversers, and the control of traditional crimes will inevitably be relaxed.
Those hooligans, gangsters, petty theft, extortion, and even robbery gangs and evil forces are the best at taking advantage of the fire to rob and fish in troubled waters, relying on the authorities' main focus on the awakened and traversers, who are ready to make waves.
These guys can't make much of a mess, but they are enough to stir up a miasma of smoke and make the public more and more frustrated with the authorities.
You know, there are many citizens now, but they have awakened superpowers.
In the eyes of many citizens, since the authorities are so weak and powerless in fighting crime, it is better for us ordinary people to roll up our sleeves and do it ourselves!
As a result, some "vigilantes" who have watched too many superhero movies appeared.
Wearing masks, cloaks, and tights bought from toy stores, they spontaneously took to the streets to "uphold justice and punish crime" without registering with the Association or following legal procedures.
Most of the vigilantes didn't even think about arresting the out-of-control awakened and illegal traversers or anything.
Their main target is the gangsters and underworld forces near their homes, and they don't need conclusive evidence anyway, just find a random bar, song hall and nightclub, and see that there are gangsters playing hooligans, drag them to a dark corner, and use their superpowers to beat them around.
At least at the beginning, this kind of practice of "punching the master to death" really frightened many hooligans and gangsters and underworld forces trembling, and they did not dare to show their heads for the time being, arrogant and domineering.
In this way, countless citizens have become admirers and supporters of superheroes - vigilantes, and even compared them to the real-life Iron Man, Spider-Man, Batman or something.
By contrast, the authorities have become increasingly disgraced.
Many people who don't know the truth don't know how much work the authorities have done behind the scenes, and they think that the authorities will only throw out the vigilantes to wash the floor after they have eliminated the crime!
Even many awakened people who were originally registered in the Extraordinary Association dislike the task system of the Extraordinary Association, Rory, which is not refreshing enough, and the evidence and procedures are still talked about when catching a criminal, and the remuneration given is stingy, so they simply pat their butts, and they don't play with you, let's wear a mask and go out to do chivalrous righteousness, not for anything else, just for the sake of addiction - awakening superpowers, isn't it just for enjoyment, for refreshment, for fun!
The authorities, of course, are opposed to these superheroes, vigilantes.
If everyone is a vigilante and runs out casually to "hoe the strong and help the weak, and uphold justice", what else do the authorities do?
And these so-called superheroes, who have not received professional training at all, do not know how to arrest people at all, and the collateral damage caused by private actions is much greater than that of police law enforcement, and many times they will make the wrong target - some people are treated as hooligans because they drank a few more drinks in the bar and walked arrogantly when they came out, and they were dragged into the alley and broke one arm and two legs.
However, the masses are very tolerant of these so-called superheroes, and even blame the authorities for the damage and harm they caused.
"Who let the authorities not give their strength and not eliminate the evil as soon as possible?"
The crowd cheered, "We also know that these 'vigilantes' are not professional, and your relevant departments are professional - then you professionals, hurry up and arrest all the villains!" ”