After finishing the draft, Ren Zhong put down his pen and lay back in his chair, the scenes from the docuntary imdiately resurfacing in his mind.
Even though he had personally experienced these events, even though he had reviewed them while editing the video, at this mont, just a slight recollection triggered a surge of adrenaline, accelerating his heartbeat and making his breathing heavy.
All across Source Star, when logistics were disrupted and food was scarce, a large number of citizens evacuated, taking most of the town’s reserve supplies with them as they left.
Subsequently, cannibalism was rely the initial phase.
Many small towns descended into complete chaos, turning into pure survival of the fittest.
The town beca a large slaughterhouse, with blood splattered on the streets, and at of different ages, genders, and body parts labeled with prices.
Ren Zhong nad these towns Blood Towns.
There were also so military-strong towns that temporarily found food substitutes, sending out team after team to hunt.
However, the hunting target shifted from the semi-biological, semi-tallic, basically inedible Ruined Beasts, to organic animals.
This classification of organic animals also included wild nomads.
Citizens exploited nomads in the town, while town nomads used their equipnt superiority and cooperative ability to massacre wild nomads.
A new food chain was thus born.
Ren Zhong referred to these towns as Butcher Towns.
The earlier types of towns had various characteristics, but these butchers and executioners subtly adhered to an unspoken rule, which was not to touch the human brain.
The more nurous Hunters always appeared in ti to take away these precious resources.
No matter how many people died at the sa ti, the Hunters could always manage.
Ren Zhong once had Ou Youning inquire, and only then did he learn the reason.
It turned out that soone had once wasted a human brain, and the consequence was a rapid and powerful retaliation from the Hunters.
Another category of towns was even more bizarre; when Ren Zhong arrived, there was not a single person with a clear mind, not even infants were exceptions.
Slow-moving and rigid, with bodies rotting everywhere, people wandered aimlessly, moved, or crawled in the streets.
When they sensed the breath of carbon-based life, they abruptly beca animated, adopting inhuman postures with inhuman speed, charging like beasts, moving with a swiftness that seed more akin to agile Ruined Beasts than humans.
At that ti, Ren Zhong silently watched as his armor’s air filtration detection system issued an over-abundance of virus warnings.
There was no need to investigate the truth further; ten to one, this town had beco an experintal field for the ngdu Group.
This was a failed gene fusion experint, creating a horde of zombie-like Armored Soldiers.
Ren Zhong nad these towns Monster Towns, and with an expressionless face, slaughtered all these quasi-humans, then set the entire town ablaze.
He had also seen many towns completely overrun by the Beast Tide, rescuing several starving orphans from the ruins.
Ren Zhong discovered a very strange phenonon.
According to historical records, past Beast Tides always followed a certain pattern. Although terrifying, the Beast Tide rarely appeared on a large scale in the sa region, always leaving humanity a chance to catch their breath for reproduction.
Moreover, when a Beast Tide conquered a town, it would usually linger for a while, indulge themselves, and then promptly disperse, retreating into the mountains and forests.
But this ti, after gathering, the Beast Tide did not disperse; after taking over a small town and stripping it bare, it actively migrated to the neighboring town, recruiting more Ruined Beasts along the way, forming an even larger Beast Tide army.
It was as if, after the disappearance of the "Net," the actions of the Ruined Beasts had completely lost their pattern.
Ren Zhong shook his head vigorously, trying to cast aside these mories for the mont.
He then called in Ou Youning, saying, "You can go notify the others now."
At two o’clock in the afternoon, a large group of people gathered outside Ren Zhong’s office, including Ju Qingng, Yujin, Chen Hanyu, Zheng Tian, Bai Feng, Ou Youning, Wen Lei, Sun Miao, Wang Zhaofu, Tang Shuying, and the Ma Family father and daughter.
As the group t outside the office, they were all a bit puzzled, not knowing why Ren Zhong had suddenly summoned them, only knowing that it was to announce sothing important.
Once everyone was seated, Ren Zhong gestured and said, "All of you here are the ones I trust the most, and I’ve briefly spoken to you before about my ideals; you have a rough idea."
"But I haven’t been thorough enough; at the ti, my knowledge wasn’t broad enough, and my thoughts weren’t systematic. I once thought Starfire Town had reached the worst state it could. But this ti, after visiting more places and gaining more understanding, I realized my naivety and have ford so new ideas."
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