Chapter 202: Chapter 202 A Different Story Chapter 202: Chapter 202 A Different Story Ying Baiyi helped Diana up and also picked up the Luger revolver that had fallen on the ground, handing it back to her.
The recent commotion must have terrified the survivors, so he suggested they first check if all the windows on each floor were securely closed and comfort those who were frightened.
Diana nodded, stuffing the gun back into its holster. Pain in her left shoulder hadn’t subsided, lingering painfully, constantly reminding her that the man before her, Ying Baiyi, was emotionally unstable.
On their way, Ying Baiyi shared with Diana what had happened to this world and himself.
People around him had turned into red ashes one day, which gathered together to form towering black columns reaching into the clouds, gradually converging towards a certain place.
“You an those two crossing pillars…?” Diana recalled a video Chen Ke had shown her and asked.
“Yes, those ones, but not just those two. There are countless ones around the world—conservatively estimating, several millions,” Ying Baiyi said.
Diana gasped, with the height and number of those structures, if Earth were an egg, then those things were like needles—millions of black needles piercing the Earth…
“You said they’re gathering sowhere? Has the Administration Bureau deployed anyone to investigate?” Diana asked.
Ying Baiyi smiled briefly, seriously looked at Diana, then shook his head.
“Seven billion people around the globe, in less than a second, nearly half turned into ashes. By the ti we figured out what was happening, even the head of the Bureau had beco a pile of ashes…” Ying Baiyi said.
“So you’re saying… the entire human society was paralyzed during that period?” Diana exclaid.
“That’s right. Turning into ashes didn’t discriminate between class or species. Apart from humans, fish, birds, mammals, insects… all were the sa. At first, we thought we had been attacked with spiritual power weapons, but other countries experienced the sa,” Ying Baiyi explained.
The two reached the fourth floor, a survivor ard with an M14 was patrolling the hallway and greeted them.
“What was that noise just now?” the survivor asked worriedly.
“Don’t worry, it will be alright,” Ying Baiyi assured, patting his shoulder.
They knocked on room 402, and a little boy cracked the door open to sneak a peek outside. Seeing Diana, a smile appeared on his face, and he opened the door fully.
Lights were on in the room crowded with six survivors, young and old, with a little girl lying on the bed, her left arm in a sling belonging to Diana.
Diana approached, kneeled by the bed, gently touched the girl’s forehead, and examined her left arm. It was still swollen and had turned a bit purple.
The girl frowned, trying to sleep off the pain in her left arm but was unable to fall asleep.
“How is her condition?” Diana looked back at the other survivors.
“We wanted to find so ice to help reduce her swelling, but there isn’t even a refrigerator here. It seems like a cheap hotel without any dicine to treat wounds, so for now, we can only let her lie here,” an elderly man said, his forehead also showing signs of injury.
“Soone has already gone out to find dicine, and they should be back soon,” Diana reassured them.
“Hopefully so. We just heard so strange noises outside. If those searching for dicine haven’t returned yet, you better warn them…” another old man suggested.
“We will, everyone will get better, I promise,” Diana said.
“Turn off the lights, and also, rember not to open the windows, no matter what you hear, don’t open the windows, understand?” Ying Baiyi said.
Everyone nodded.
Ying Baiyi and Diana left the room and continued their previous conversation.
“So of the people turned to ash, what about those who remained?” Diana asked.
“At first, the remaining people were ready to rebuild order, but this optimistic attitude lasted less than two weeks because initially, our assessnt of the global situation was not thorough. However, after obtaining data on various disasters, we knew that with the current population, recovery would be a very long process,” Ying Baiyi said.
Diana nodded.
“Also, as you heard a while ago, those things in the sky keep hunting people on the ground,” Ying Baiyi continued.
“The Administration Bureau can’t handle these creatures?” Diana asked, puzzled.
“From the perspective of combat power, they can be dealt with, although they are not recorded in the Administration Bureau’s Monster Manual. But according to my experience, their strength is at most between C and B levels,” Ying Baiyi explained.
“I know, there’s always a ‘but,’ right?” Diana said.
“Yes, Diana… The strength of the monsters isn’t the key, no matter how strong, there isn’t anything that can’t be dealt with. If the agents and R6 can’t handle them, we still have the Spiritual Ability Army and superhumans… But these creatures, they can multiply infinitely,” Ying Baiyi shook his head and said.
“Infinite… Do they reproduce quickly?” Diana asked, puzzled.
“They don’t need to reproduce… As long as certain conditions are t, they self-divide, one becos two, two beco four, four beco eight… I once saw this happen in the sky above the square. At that ti, there were dozens of civilians on the square, suddenly one of those monsters flew over, and then the people below started screaming, I just watched it divide,” Ying Baiyi described.
“Has the research institute figured out the conditions for their division? I an… not just this monster’s division… With the world in this state, the research institute should offer so explanations… Don’t they have even a hypothesis?” Diana asked.
“They are overwheld themselves, and because many people turned to ash, hydro stations, dams, nuclear power plants, black box control centers… all these places experienced major accidents instantaneously, and it was a complete ss,” Ying Baiyi shook his head and said.
Modern human life can’t function without cities, and the infrastructure needed to maintain a city’s population is quite complex, including sewers, gas, water, and electricity, as well as waste managent, epidemic prevention…
It’s possible that the electricity in the city you live in cos from a dam thousands of miles away, and those dams need people to be manned at all tis.
Not to ntion civil aviation, transportation systems, and so on.
When people at these positions disappear in an instant, the world plunges into chaos, like a normally functioning machine that suddenly loses half its gears and circuit boards.
“Moreover, Diana, those people in the research institute are all madn. If the Administration Bureau is trying its best to suppress the occurrence of spiritual energy phenona, they would rather have a Spirit Explosion every day,” Ying Baiyi sighed.
“They are just thirsting for knowledge, wanting to explore the mysteries,” Diana thought of Wang Ailin.
“The cost of acquiring knowledge might be much greater than you imagine, like what’s happening now…” Ying Baiyi said noncommittally.
“You an… everything that’s happening here is caused by the research institute…?” Diana asked, confused.
“No, it’s just my speculation, and I tend to put the bla on them first,” Ying Baiyi said bluntly.
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