novel-bin Chapter 486 The World is Stupid
Chapter 486 The World is Stupid
A strange fragrance wafted through the ordinary apartment room.
Rentaro Satomi, Enju Aihara and Hiyori Kasuga (the name of the little girl rescued from the corrupt police) couldn't help swallowing their saliva frantically, suppressing the urge to pick up their chopsticks.
Damn. It smells so good…
The man of unknown origin named Zhang Hong said he wanted to treat everyone to a meal and came to Rentaro Satomi's house without any greetings.
Like a magic trick, he took out a bunch of high-end ingredients, including marbled beef, shrimps and crabs, fresh seasonal vegetables... and then made them into hot pot dishes like a juggler.
The cooking was incredibly good, and the three of them had never smelled such delicious food in their lives.
The four of them sat around the dining table, drooling at the delicious hotpot, but they held back and did not eat out of politeness.
Zhang Hong laughed at this and said, "Eat, eat. Don't be polite. Eat as much as you can tonight!"
"Then I'll start!"
"I'm not welcome!"
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
"It's so delicious! I'm almost crying!"
As soon as the first bite of food entered their mouths, they completely forgot about being reserved and polite, and Rentaro and the other two wolfed down the food in a very ungraceful manner.
Only after I was about 80% full did I regain some control of my body and slowed down my eating pace.
"Um...Brother Zhang Hong, what exactly do you do? Are you really a savior?"
Rentaro couldn't help but ask, and he became deeply curious about Zhang Hong's origins.
This man has a mysterious origin, powerful strength, and a rare sense of relaxation, which makes people involuntarily let down their guard and feel friendly.
...No, it's more like this person doesn't seem to take anything to heart, giving people the feeling that everything is under his control.
So he exuded a sense of relaxation from the inside out.
"As for me..." Zhang Hong ate his food slowly, "I am a traveler from another world. I just happened to pass by your place. Saving the world is my job... Rentaro, I already know the situation in your world."
"To be honest, I am quite disappointed with the humans here..."
Lan Liyuanzhu questioned rudely, "Hey, big guy, you are kidding me about being from another world. Are you saying that on purpose because you have no place to live?"
"Let me make it clear first, we are both poor, and this small place is not big enough for us to live in. In consideration of this meal, I can help you find a good place to stay tomorrow."
Zhang Hong smiled at the arrogant little girl, "I appreciate your kindness. But it's not necessary. I won't stay here for long."
While chatting with Rentaro and others, Zhang Hong had already figured out the situation of this world clearly.
Although he has not read the original work, Zhang Hong can already confirm that this should be the world of anime from a certain island country.
Because of the bizarre setting of relying on a young girl to save the world, the customs of the underworld, the unstable mental state of the people, and the regional background of the island country.
Obviously, they are all in the style of Japanese anime.
And the people in front of us, such as Rentaro Satomi and Aorihara Tsubasa, should be the [protagonists] of this world.
By exploring the situation of the world and combining the memories of Rentaro and others, Zhang Hong already knows the details of this world.
This is a world based on modern Earth. In 2020 AD, a virus-like creature called "Protogastrics" appeared on Earth. The humans and animals parasitized by it turned into ferocious and bloodthirsty monsters, bringing great disasters to mankind.
Humans were defeated in the war with the protostomes, suffering heavy casualties, almost to the point of national extinction.
Perhaps because there is always a way out, just when the war was at an extreme disadvantage, a special metal called "錵" was discovered. This metal has a strong restraining effect on protostomes.
Relying on new weapons made of [錵] metal, humans were finally able to turn the disadvantage around and establish a safe zone in the doomsday.
However, although they have found weapons to restrain the monsters, humans have not yet completely won. They have only temporarily driven the protogastric animals out of the core area. There are still a large number of monsters wreaking havoc in areas outside the safe zone.
The enterovirus has infected all organisms in the world, and humans simply cannot kill them all.
As a last resort, humans had to live in a safe zone, relying on giant stone tablets made of [metal] to drive out the protostomes and regain peace - at least in the world [inside], humans lived in a relatively safe environment.
Except for the occasional sporadic protostomes that run into the safe zone and cause trouble, human life in the safe zone has returned to a level similar to that before the end of the world.
The threat of the enterovirus is that it can infect humans and animals, causing them to mutate into bloodthirsty monsters.
As the mutation deepens, these monsters will even grow to a point where the weapons possessed by humans cannot defeat them.
Therefore, in the war with the protogastrics, humans paid a heavy price and almost lost an entire generation.
People who have experienced that era have a deep-rooted hatred for these monsters.
Then, came the part that made Zhang Hong speechless.
After the war, humans discovered that many of their newborns were infected with the gastrula gene, and all of them were girls.
These "infected" did not turn into gastrula, but still maintained their human form and mind. However, their physical fitness had been greatly improved, which was dozens or even hundreds of times that of ordinary people.
Then the weird operation happened.
The government and the public regarded these "infected" as "cursed children" and expelled them from the city, leaving these children, who were only a few years old, to fend for themselves in the suburbs where monsters roamed.
On the other hand, the government selected a group of children from the "infected" and trained them to become a "special forces" to fight against enteroantigens and use them as tools.
Except for a few people with conscience, most people, especially most decision makers, hate to discriminate against and persecute "infected people" while at the same time using them as tools and consumables.
They completely ignored the fact that these "infected people" were also innocent victims of the enterovirus scourge.
It is completely ignored that they are just a group of children who were born with the crime forcibly defined by the outside world.
Be it the authorities, the incited public, or even children of the same age, they do not regard these girls as human beings.
"If it weren't for the perverted days, I really couldn't think of such a perverted plot."
In comparison, Zhang Hong was filled with admiration.
Are the human leaders of this world idiots?
Aren’t these children their own people? When people suffer such hardships, isn’t the first thing they think of how to expel them instead of curing them?
Even slave owners are not so cruel as to force children of a few years old to save the world without giving them basic human rights.
There are a hundred ways to properly deal with these children, but people in this world chose the stupidest and most inhumane one.
So there was the scene where Zhang Hong ran into the police and naturally killed the little girl.
"It's hopeless, let's destroy it."
Thinking of this, Zhang Hong was too lazy to deal with the affairs of this world slowly, and directly deployed a large number of troops around the world to conquer the world by violence.