Chapter 32: The Proliferation of Darkness
"—what did you just say?"
The delphinium turned her head abruptly and looked behind her in amazement, her pupils suddenly contracting. "The Reinventing Mechanism has been attacked."
Paradisebird pursed his lips and repeated, "Their purpose is probably to release those demons."
"Are they crazy?!"
Anger appeared on Delphinch's face, "Do they really know what they're doing?!"
"—they obviously don't know."
The expression of the horn on the side also sank.
The earthy yellow halo on his head shone brighter and brighter, and the smile on his face that was always smiling had long since lost its smile.
He had a shallow scar on his face, obliquely carved into his left cheek.
It was a wound he had recently been cut by a little girl with a pen while he was stopping the chaos.
For angels, it can be said that it is easy to heal this wound. But compared to the physical wounds, it was his heart, his ideals and gentleness that really hurt.
More and more people on the island of happiness are starting to go crazy. The entire island of happiness is gradually falling into chaos.
People become extreme, radical, and full of hatred – if there is a button,
As long as you press it, the island of happiness will fall in an instant, and everyone will die together, I'm afraid that at least three or four percent of people will press it.
The efforts of the Brokers are meaningful.
Because more and more people are now sobering up, they are even afraid of their crazy selves, and they are trying their best to solve this mess. But there are many more people who were neutral, or who were able to keep their composure, are now in chaos and madness.
And as the number of sober people grows and their influence gradually equals that of the fanatics, the lunatics become more and more hysterical, demanding "louder voices" and doing whatever it takes.
Obviously, in the beginning, they just wanted to find peace of mind – to know what the future holds for themselves and their families in the face of a lack of resources. They grab resources and hoard supplies. Verbally aggressively attacking others, building a fortress, or even abandoning their studies and work. So far, it's relatively normal.
But soon, madness, fear, jealousy, and hatred confused their minds.
Because not everyone is like them.
Many people believe that the end of the world, if it does, will be long in the future. So after the initial chaos, they quickly returned to their routines. The efforts of the Brokers, the return of the ice water, and the mediation of the delphinium also played a large role in it.
But those who have given up a lot of things are not so easy to go back. The abandonment of their studies, the dismissal of their jobs, and even the teachers and bosses they attacked have left them with no turning back.
If it were according to the old rules, all of them would have to enter the lower city and become ***. Or find a job that is much worse than your previous one, or pay more money to go to a tutoring class. In short, it is impossible to go back to the old life - because as the initiators and main sustainers of chaos, they must pay a painful enough price for people to forgive others who have been held hostage.
There are no more companions with them. Instead, they have become a minority, and no one will obey their commands anymore.
However, they did not admit defeat.
Extremely abnormal, they seem to have gone berserk, and they have invariably chosen more dangerous and aggressive strategies.
- Destroy other people's lives and make them lose everything.
It's like a green grasshopper turning into a yellow locust.
That is, no matter what the end result is, they will not get any benefit, and there is absolutely no good choice.
And the terrible thing is that they are starting to become "united" like never before. They are like zombies with hollowed out brains, with nothing but hatred and jealousy in their brains, trying to drag people down like water ghosts.
They began to smash factories in the lower city, creating a shortage of supplies in the upper city.
That's something that the original *** people would try to avoid when they fought each other
。 Even when the angels slaughtered the ***, they carefully avoided those factories.
The sky island is already crowded, and these fully automated unmanned chemical factories piled up in the lower city area are the key to maintaining the normal operation of the entire happiness island. And they didn't destroy these factories for any demand, not for threats – just for sabotage.
By the time the executive department realized what they were doing, they had already destroyed nearly a third of the factory.
With the support of Delphinch and Kasumi, the new head of the Executive Department, "Zhan", ordered the lifting of all firepower restrictions and signed his first "Permit to Kill" - a total of 8,500 killing certificates. All of them were stripped of their citizenship, and although they didn't have their chips removed, they also became "*** people".
All genuine prosthetics they use are remotely restricted and cannot be used; Each person's position is precisely marked on the Executive's tactical map.
However, after the Executive Department arrived in the lower city, they did not flee the scene and fought guerrilla warfare with the Executive Department. Instead, they continue to destroy the factory as if they were not mad civilians, but agents with a special mission.
As if they had been infected with some virus, the pupils of these people turned an almost dark golden color. In the middle of the night, it exudes a wolf-like sense of threat.
And the executive department also has to take care of the factory, and there is no change of thinking at the first time. This allowed them not to launch a covering attack on those "crazy people" at the first contact.
They also did not look back at the Department of Execution at all.
Instead, they disperse and continue to wreak havoc on the factory. Until they died, they just wanted to drag more people down.
Like those who were killed at the end of the Sharia War, they refused to accept the command that "the war is over" and continued to attack to destroy themselves completely.
In the end, when all 8,512 people were killed, none of the Executive Department even died.
However, the scope of the destruction of the factory has expanded from one-third to more than half.
Half of the factories were paralyzed and almost completely destroyed—a direct result of which all but the Celestial Grace Zone were severely short of supplies. Even in the Tian'en District, a large number of shops have been forced to close because they are no longer able to obtain intermediate and finished products from above-ground enterprises in other areas.
For the first time, even the inexhaustible supply of "food" was in short supply.
Factories that synthesized food in large quantities were destroyed, and for a time the price of pork and chicken in the market was even 20 times that of beef. Eggs, milk, wheat, fruits, and most vegetables are all out of stock.
The only vegetables that can be bought normally are potatoes and carrots, and the only meats that can be bought at normal prices are beef and duck. Seasonings such as onions, garlic, parsley, and basil leaves were completely cut off, and drinks such as cola were all out of stock. The price of flour has increased fivefold, and bread is three times more expensive than the same weight of beef.
This has led to the shutdown of factories that produce a large number of intermediate products because they are unable to get raw materials. This, in turn, led to the idling of the assembly line of the factory that was holding these intermediate products for finishing, so it had to be forced to shut down.
One restaurant after another, convenience stores closed because they could not buy materials, and one company after another, factories, announced an indefinite shutdown. People wander the streets in confusion, not knowing where to go.
Hatred and anger, fear and confusion –
Those black things have begun to multiply unstoppably.