Chapter 4 The Choice of Life and Death
This night, many people in the Phoenix Mountain Camp were spent in anxiety.
Chi Hua and his friends came and announced that they would take over the management of the Fenghuang Mountain Camp. Yun Tiangong and Lin Hui took some people away and took away all the food in the camp. The alternation of power from ancient times to the present often means bloody fighting, and this is even more so in the end of the world where rules have been lost.
But the night was so calm, there was no fighting or even calmness, and there was no reaction, as if nothing had happened. People who tossed and turned all night were woken up by the fragrance of rice porridge. The rice porridge was so thick that shredded pork was added to it, and many people even doubted whether they had not woken up.
Everyone was given two bowls of thick meat porridge and a small piece of jerky for breakfast. This was the first time many people had to eat enough in months.
A full meal for hungry people is the greatest happiness. The full people raised their heads and smiled on their faces and looked at Chi Hua, Song Yu and others standing on the platform in front.
Chi Hua was also watching the people around the audience. There were about 300 people in the audience, most of whom were young in their twenties and thirties. It was difficult for people with old age and poor health to survive the first year of the end of the world. Even the people who survived were all skinny and had torn clothes. Many people had the sequelae of severe radiation, because they had just had a full meal, and many people looked pretty good on their faces.
Chi Hua stepped forward and said aloud to everyone in the audience: "What you just ate was the last bit of food we brought. Now there is no more food in the camp. I will give you the last chance to choose. If you want to leave, you can leave now."
There was a slight commotion and discussion in the audience, but no one stood up and no one chose to leave.
"Since you all chose to stay, then your destiny will be tied to me from now on! No matter what happens in the future, you will no longer have the right to leave or give up without authorization. If you violate today's choice, I will regard it as betrayal, and the end of betrayal will be the same as theirs." Chi Hua reached out to the side of the platform, and Gao Yiming walked up with a pale face. The tray was the heads of Yun Tiangong and Lin Hui.
There was another commotion in the audience. The alternation of power really requires bleeding, but this time the difference between the strength and weakness between the two sides was too obvious. They were directly told the result without seeing the bleeding process.
Chi Hua made a quiet gesture and continued: "I allowed them to leave before, but they took away all the food in the camp. This is a betrayal of the camp. Whether now or in the future, the betrayal will never be forgiven!"
"Next, please remember every word I want to say next. From today on, I, Chi Hua, is the leader of this camp, and the daily management of the camp will be subject to Yi Fengleng." Yi Fengleng took a step forward and bowed to everyone below the stage. Yi Fengleng was still wearing a blue Taoist robe, and his weird outfit caused a slight discussion in the audience.
"Song Yu and Yang Hongquan will assist Yi Fengleng in the management of the camp." The two of them just smiled and nodded to the people below. Yang Hongquan had already stood up, and his face was also covered with blood. Chi Hua used an evolutionary crystal core to pull him back from the verge of death.
"From today, this place is no longer called Phoenix Mountain Camp. It is called Phoenix City, Doomsday Phoenix City. I will take you dying people to be reborn from the fire!"
Everyone in the audience looked at Chi Hua who was giving passionate speeches on the stage with some silence. No matter who the leader of the camp or what the name of the camp was, they didn't care. For those who were waiting for death, these had nothing to do with them, and they were not even as attractive to them as a full meal.
Since the end of the world, Chi Hua has seen too many such numb gazes. In the eyes of wanderers, beggars, enslaved people, and even in the eyes of the former swallows and orioles, this is the gaze of only those who have completely lost hope for life and the future.
Chi Hua wanted to awaken them and rekindle their hope for life, so he raised his tone and said, "As a person, either live wonderfully or die with dignity! And what are you doing? Hiding here and watching yourself rot little by little until death! Now I give you a second chance to choose and a chance to become an evolver!"
The crowd below exploded, from the dying person to the evolutionist at the top of humanity, this is a step from hell to heaven! No one can remain calm, no one can remain unmoved by this, and his numb eyes have changed again, but some people's eyes are full of doubts, and some people's eyes are full of fierce desire.
Let the crowd below calm down again, Chi Hua continued: "There will not be a pie in the sky. Being an evolver is not without a price. You only have one-third of the chance to become an evolver. The result of failure is death! Of course, I will not force you to make a choice, especially those whose bodies are not seriously damaged by radiation. Even if you do not make any choice, I will not abandon anyone!"
A decision is difficult, especially a choice involving one's own life and death!
Chi Hua's eyes swept through the faces of the people below the stage, quietly waiting for their choice.
One-third of the chances of becoming an evolver or slowly dying, everyone is fighting fiercely!
Finally someone walked up to the crowd. It was Wu Haiyang who patted his shoulder yesterday. The part of Wu Haiyang's body exposed to his clothes was covered with large pieces of festering. "Captain Chi, I am willing to choose this opportunity. I never want to live like this without being a ghost!"
Chi Hua nodded, "Come with me!"
Chi Hua turned around and led Wu Haiyang into the room behind the platform. "Close your eyes and open your mouth." The moment Wu Haiyang opened his mouth, Chi Hua threw a crystal core into his mouth, "Relax, feel the energy melting in your body, sleep, and your world will be different after waking up."
Chi Hua did not use an evolutionary reagent with only one-third of the success rate for Wu Haiyang, but instead gave him an evolutionary crystal core that ensured 100% success. Whether Wu Haiyang can become an evolutionist determines whether the people behind him have the courage to continue to choose to try. Moreover, Chi Hua believes that as a subordinate Qi Hao once relied on, Wu Haiyang will definitely be 100% loyal to the self who gave him a new life after becoming an evolutionist!
Time passed by minute by minute, and the crowd below looked motionlessly at the direction of the door, looking forward to whether a miracle really happened.
An hour passed, and some weak people even sat directly on the ground but were still waiting, waiting to verify whether there was really an opportunity to change their destiny. The door to the platform suddenly opened, everyone's eyes moved, Wu Haiyang walked out step by step, the ulcer on his body did not disappear, and many people showed disappointed expressions on their faces.
Wu Haiyang walked towards the stage step by step. As everyone looked at him, his body gradually became taller and bigger, and his black short hair grew. His sharp canine teeth splashed out from his mouth. Wu Haiyang let out a wolf howling sound like a wolf, and a two-meter-high black-haired werewolf appeared in front of everyone.
Wu Haiyang turned around, his eyes filled with tears, and he knelt down to Chi Hua on one knee...
The crowd below exploded again, and people cheered, and it turned out that they could really become evolvers!
"Captain Chi, I'm willing!"
"Captain Chi, let me do it!"
A bald man with a large festering face spread apart his wife's hand holding his arm tightly, "Let me go, I don't want to live like a monster now even if I die!"
The people in the audience rushed towards the stage one by one. When they knew they would die, they suddenly had a chance to make themselves immortal and become an evolver. Just like the straw on the head of a drowning person, they had to seize it even if they tried their best!
With Wu Haiyang's successful case in the past, people have selected to ignore the risk of two-thirds of the failure, especially those who are subject to severe radiation to die. Just like patients with advanced cancer, many people know that they will die if they undergo surgery, but they have to take the risk of having surgery for the low chance of survival.
"Ten people come in groups, one by one, you all have the chance to choose before noon today!" Chi Hua said loudly as he looked at the excited crowd below the audience.
The first group of ten people, including the bald man, walked in, and the purple reagents had been prepared by An An. The evolution reagents snatched from the Light Alliance were used for the first time. The person who took the reagents showed a expression of pleasure or pain, and Chi Hua was nervously waiting for the final result.
In the end, only three people walked out, and the man without the bald head was impatient to show the abilities they had gained on the spot, and the crowd in the audience cheered warmly again. After the dying people walked out of the room, they gained magical abilities. The huge changes in the front and back stimulated the nerves of everyone in the audience!
But people only saw the person who had successfully become an evolutionist in front of them, and chose to ignore the seven corpses carried out from the house.
The second group immediately rushed up impatiently, including the wife of the bald man who had just wiped his tears. Over the whole morning, 87 people in the camp chose to take evolutionary reagents, most of whom were severely radiated.
In the end, only 25 people, including Wu Haiyang, came out alive, and the success rate was less than one-third. Chi Hua speculated that it may be related to the poor physical condition of the person receiving the reagent, because people with less radiation damage are obviously more likely to survive than those with severe radiation.
Song Yu and Yang Hongquan, who had been guarding by the side, still cannot fully accept the facts in front of them. In just one morning, there were 25 more evolvers in the camp, and they suddenly jumped from a small camp that was on the verge of disintegration and dying to a large force with more than 30 evolvers.
Chapter completed!