Chapter 52: The City of Freedom

In February 4218, the year of the joint calendar, sunny to cloudy,

In the six months since the explosion at the Kappa nuclear power plant, the Asr alliance has quickly descended into chaos, with conflicts continuing in the Toye region, and a previously peaceful and stable society becoming panicked and unstable.

Whether it is the SDFs that have sprung up from all over the Asr Alliance, or the other surrounding regions that covet the resources of the Asr Alliance, they are all participating in it for their own benefit.

And the trigger for all this was a record published by the Yaxing Neutral News Network at the end of July 4217 in the United Calendar.

A video recording of the real-life experience of patients in the Asr Alliance, the Paye Quarantine Area, in a temporary seriously ill shelter set up by the Asr Alliance's top brass, secretly filmed by the undercover investigators who infiltrated it.

As soon as the news was released, it quickly dominated the headlines of major media websites, social networking sites, and everything that could convey the message.

With the revelation of this true record, the most widely discussed news and 'truth' conveyed to the world is the fact that nuclear radiation will cause the human body to mutate into monsters, and of course, the crazy criticism of the Asr Alliance's attitude towards radiation sickness patients.

At the same time, social media around the world was debating exactly what level of quarantine restrictions should be imposed in the radioactive areas, and the debate continues to this day, without a satisfactory answer for everyone.

On top of that, the resettlement of a fishing boat full of radiation sickness patients who had escaped from the Kappa quarantine area has become a hot topic.

The resettlement of a fishing boat full of radiation sickness patients evacuated from the quarantine area has become a hot topic.

The opposing arguments of "we must permanently seal off the Kappa Radiation Zone and wipe out everything that leaves the Kappa Zone" and "We should not abandon any life, even if it may be dangerous, because we are a civilized society" are arguing day and night, and neither can convince the other.

Their supporters even made an offline appointment and got into a fight.

Just when the Asr Alliance was in a hurry, on the Papazan continent where the Asr region is located, there was also a 'mutation crisis' from unknown sources in other regions, and the entire Papazan continent quickly became a mess.

At this moment, the angry people can no longer rationally judge who is to blame now.

Because those super forces who have never shown up and intervened behind the scenes are the real gamblers on the Papazan continent.

After all, a winner can never be produced on a chessboard.

Although the lives of humans in the southwest hemisphere of Asia have suddenly fallen into dire straits, and the understanding of survival has been turned upside down, in the continent of Leysen in the northeastern hemisphere, revelry and parties are still the dominant colors of those glamorous cities.

Different from the backward Papazan Continent, the Laisen Continent, which is dominated by the free city-states, is one of the most developed regions in many industries such as science and technology, economy, culture, and manufacturing on the Asian Star.

The only thing in this world that can match the comprehensive strength of the free city-states is the Baionic Empire on the other side of the endless ocean.

The relationship between these two superpowers can be described as disagreeable to each other, and even deep hatred.

Leaving aside the empire for the time being, the free city-state located in the northeastern hemisphere of Asia, the full name is the free trade city-state of Leysin and the economic and cultural complex of Zhengwenzhi, which is composed of a total of 54 megacities and their surrounding jurisdictions that are very large in terms of territory and population.

Each of these fifty-four megacities is comparable in size and population to the entire Asr Alliance.

At the same time, these 54 megacities also have their own characteristics, each with its own pillar industries and laws, and probably people all over the world can find their dream city in these cities.

Of course, except for the populace of the empire, they scoff at everything about the free city-states.

At the same time, although the 54 cities of free trade have their own characteristics, the most common talk is the one that is a headache for other cities and claims to be the most liberal 'free capital' in the world.

It is also a paradise for alternative, illegal immigrants who are almost isolated from the free city-state - the Bad City.

Because of the special nature of the 54 cities of the free city-state, these cities are only consistent in their foreign attitudes and some major cooperation projects, so the laws between these cities are not interconnected, and there is still a certain competition in many cases.

The Bad City has the most lenient laws in the world, as well as .......

The harshest judgment.

For illegal immigrants who want to use the Bad City as a springboard and eventually get a residence permit in other megacities in the Free City-States, the laws of the Bad City are tailor-made for them.

Of course, these are just the materials that Salin has seen on the news before, free city-states, free capitals, bad cities......

These are just symbols on the computer monitor, and Shalin is not sure what the legendary dreamlike world looks like.

For a man who has been adrift at sea for half a year, these problems are not yet within his consideration, and he does not know the major events that have happened in human society, and for Shalin, it is more important to land on the land inhabited by humans as soon as possible.

And at this moment, in the middle of the calm sea, the man with a rudimentary sunhat woven of grass and rattan on his head, is sitting in the stern of the boat fishing, and his face is reflected in the sparkling sea.

It was a face that was completely different from what it used to be a monster.

After six and a half months of exposure to the wind and sun, although Shalin's skin was not much tanned, the burn-like scars on his body had almost faded, and the pitted pus on his face had all disappeared, leaving only a few dark red patches.

Although his face has not fully recovered, his appearance at this moment presents another healthy and resolute taste, which is slightly different from what he used to be.

This was definitely not an illusion, Shalin clearly noticed that his facial features had become deeper and more three-dimensional, and his hair color and pupil color had also changed to a certain extent, and they had quietly become much lighter.

This face no longer has the innocence and clarity of a teenager, it has a little more of the calmness of a mature man, and a little more condensation accumulated over time.

But the most obvious change is a mysterious and profound aura emanating from it.

Shalin's appearance deviated from the characteristics of the original race, and approached other races, but he didn't know what kind of race could give people such a mysterious and exotic appearance, which made people unpredictable and easily fell into it.

It took him a long time to get used to looking away at his reflection.

Shalin believed that when all the color patches on his face disappeared, no one would ever call him a monster again, and everyone would be surprised.