Chapter 1900: Chapter 1900
Rumors, ultimately, are just rumors; there’s no evidence to prove their truth or falsehood. At this stage, the only person people can trust is Su Sigui, the Level 9 New Human, believing in everything she does, trusting her choices!
What will be the result?
To personally destroy the hope held within one’s heart is utterly cruel to a person. If only despair remains, people won’t even have the courage to continue fighting.
The closer to this point, the more people need a light ahead to guide them towards the direction they should proceed. Whether it’s hope or fantasy, regardless of whether the result is complete victory or all efforts turning to waste, once you choose to abandon the struggle, all possibilities cease to exist!
Sorrow weighed on their hearts, not to mention they couldn’t defeat this world-renowned entity, even if they could, they dared not act casually.
Thus, a standoff ensued between them and Li Henian, and no one knew what to say. All they could do was guard against each other, fearing Tang Ye might suddenly lash out and kill everyone in one go!
The atmosphere was frozen for about ten seconds, first broken by Tang Ye’s laughter.
"Hehe ha~ just now realizing who I am? Speak, what do you want from me?"
"We..." Upon hearing Tang Ye’s words, two or three among them immediately wanted to speak. Yet, as soon as they said two words, their speech halted. You could tell they were very hesitant, but once they’d chosen to open their mouths, lying to someone like Li Henian, who was practically at the forefront of evolution, was meaningless.
Life or death was entirely at the whim of the other.
Finally, the slender man at the back of the crowd plucked up the courage to finish speaking: "... It’s... We are here to rob... We need Yajin..."
"You need Yajin..." Tang Ye touched his fingers, seemingly lost in thought, soon he asked again: "What do you need Yajin for?"
"For...for, to..." The slender man’s response to Tang Ye became incoherent, such things were truly hard to articulate for them, if there were any other way, no man would willingly become a woman.
Yet, in the end, the slender man disguised as a woman still managed to say, "to perform... transgender surgery... We require a large amount of Yajin for one surgery; it’s truly difficult to gather so much Yajin in a short time, we have no choice but to resort to this..."
Upon finishing, the hefty men before Tang Ye were filled with shame, as if they would rather bury themselves into the ground.
And Tang Ye, being more roguish, let out an "oh~" after hearing the answer, with a long trailing sound, his mocking tone nearly made them faint from embarrassment!
Most of the faux women in front of him were ordinary people, only one Level 2 New Human among them. The reason they could hunt New Humans was purely due to the powerful laser weapons they wielded. Aside from the Level 2 New Human, for a group of ordinary people, leaving Cloud Gorge Base meant that their life safety on the run was the hardest to ensure.
Never mind the long journey, they also had to avoid encountering high-level zombies on the way, and with the Apocalypse advancing, zombies of three or four levels are as common as cattle, with Level 5 and Level 6 zombies roaming everywhere. No survivor team dares to assure avoiding terrifying high-level zombies en route. Tʜe sourcᴇ of thɪs content ɪs 𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭•𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓮•𝘯𝘦𝘵
If they want to avoid high-level zombies, the time required for escape would be unimaginably long; resources are scarce, and once famine strikes, those without means of self-defense will be the first to become dinner for others!
In this way, they might as well wait for zombies to come and keep them captive.
The arrival of the Apocalypse brought many crashing down from paradise to the ground, countless people traded back and forth in the slave market didn’t know the number in high society before the Apocalypse.
And this time, zombies beginning to farm humans offered some self-proclaimed smart individuals a chance, a belief they must seize, a chance to change their social class!
After pondering for a while, Tang Ye could understand their thoughts. He knew a bit about those survivor bases kept captive. Once thoroughly taken over by high-level zombies, the social class distribution inside had undergone earth-shattering changes!
There were altogether six classes, the first being the elderly and those whose physical disabilities rendered them incapable of self-care. This class held the lowest status with no utility value whatsoever. Reportedly, after the zombie wave breached the base, these individuals were "cleaned" out completely on the first day!
The second class was men aged twelve to fifty, irrespective of New Human levels. Even Level 6 and Level 7 New Humans, in zombie-farmed bases, only held slightly higher status than the disabled and elderly. When zombies chose "food," they would start with this class, those chosen undoubtedly becoming ghosts in the zombies’ stomachs, while those not chosen continued working under life-threatening intensity, living worse than beasts!
A fat pig can still eat and sleep before getting butchered.
Normal men living within a zombie-farmed survivor base had no different life than living in hell.
And the third class was women aged twelve to sixty, ranked higher than men, and the reason for their higher status was entirely due to rarity. After the Apocalypse arrived, due to women’s naturally weaker disposition compared to men, the death toll among women vastly outstripped men’s, statistically, among all survivors in the Apocalypse, one in five is a woman, a terrifying ratio disparity!
Zombies farming survivor bases clearly saw this too; to prevent disproportionate gender ratios, men naturally became the priority target in selecting "food," yet it didn’t mean women were absolutely safe in farmed bases, some of the unlucky ones sometimes "became food" as well!
However, women inside didn’t have to work relentlessly like men, enduring a life worse than death; before being eaten, they had a relatively easier time in the Apocalypse, and this aspect suffices allure, also the key reason men in other bases urgently want to become women!
Following is the fourth class, then newly born infants to children aged eleven. There’s no evidence proving their status is higher than the preceding three; merely children fitting the age range never worry about being labeled as "food" by zombies, and their living comfort exceeded even that of average women!
And above the "child" class lies the scum among humans!
Those who, to survive, choose to assist zombies willingly, even accept being a zombie slave!