Published: March 1, 2025
"By the way, tell me about the situation in Mudanjiang City." Although Wen Yu had spent his previous life in Mudanjiang City, he had never cared about such things as the situation back then. For the cannon fodder, those matters were irrelevant!
Just now, amidst the lively playfulness, Zheng Ye ultimately hadn’t said anything useful. Moreover, based on Wen Yu’s estimation, kids probably wouldn’t be able to provide much of the information he wanted. It was better to take advantage of this quiet moment to ask Zhang Xiao!
Hearing Wen Yu’s words, Zhang Xiao fell silent for a moment, then looked at Wen Yu with a slightly bitter smile on his face. "The situation? What does 'situation' even mean?"
This might have been self-deprecation or perhaps a meaningless outburst. Wen Yu naturally understood this, remaining silent for a moment without saying anything, just adding another piece of firewood to the campfire.
As soon as Zhang Xiao finished speaking, he immediately realized that his tone was somewhat inappropriate. Fortunately, Wen Yu didn’t mind the pessimistic emotion in Zhang Xiao’s words. After taking a deep breath, Zhang Xiao spoke again.
"The current situation in Mudanjiang City is not good. At least for me and these children, it is very bad."
Wen Yu nodded slowly upon hearing Zhang Xiao's words. Given the strength of Zhang Xiao and the kids, the entire apocalypse environment must be filled with malice; it had to be filled with malice!
"Continue."
"Since the apocalypse began, Mudanjiang City lost government management and also lost moral and legal constraints. At the very start, survivors discovered the function of the Exchange Stone Pillar, and the first to suffer were the zombies in Mudanjiang City."
"A large number of zombies were slaughtered by more numerous and stronger professionals, and when the zombies were nearly wiped out, the next to suffer were the mutated beasts in Mudanjiang City!"
"Under the influence of point enhancement, the individual powers began to show differences!"
"When individual powers showed differences, it meant the reorganization of class order, and this process didn’t take long."
"The reorganization of order can also be described as a small-scale revolution! Revolution means bloodshed, so the third to suffer were humans themselves!"
"At that time, battles between humans and mutated beasts, confrontations between groups, and conflicts between individuals were all too common."
"Fighting was everywhere, slaughter was everywhere, and the ugliness of human nature was everywhere!"
"Rivers of blood flowed!"
"The victors were just a few humans, while more were left with despair and pain!"
After saying these words, Zhang Xiao fell silent again, perhaps lost in memories.
Clearly, this process of class order reorganization must have contained many stories that weren’t so pleasant! Moreover, it was likely that Zhang Xiao was also a victim.
"By the way, what did you do before? Listening to you talk is quite interesting!" Wen Yu interrupted Zhang Xiao's reverie with a smile.
"Ah? Oh."
"I was a teacher, a history teacher, one of the most useful professions before the apocalypse, and one of the most useless after."
Wen Yu nodded.
"Until recently, about half a month ago, the entire Mudanjiang City only just regained some calm." Zhang Xiao continued in a low voice.
"At least, it was a partial calm."
"The former head of the police station, Wang Zhigang, united with part of the garrison around Mudanjiang City, using absolute power to dominate the entire city, and then, they established the Central City."
"Central City, huh?" Hearing the phrase 'Central City,' Wen Yu couldn’t help but feel a wave of emotions.
In his previous life, Central City was the holy land that Wen Yu yearned for!
However...
"Entering Central City requires a fee, and ultimately, Central City is not the government; it will not provide free food for survivors."
"There are vacant rooms in Central City, but only if you can pay the exorbitant admission fee."
"That’s not all; when professionals go out hunting and then return again, they also need to pay the admission fee!"