Chapter 59: Acute Disease (1/2)

Chapter 59: Acute Disease

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Once he looked at the newspaper, Luo Yuan realized that there were articles about evolved people in every other page. Judging by what he read, things did not look good for the evolved.

Hedong City had been on a high-pressure policy ever since the world had started mutating, but there were still robberies happening from time to time. They only seemed to increase in time as a big portion of audacious evolved people got involved in murders and rapes, even killings of policemen and men of the armed forces.

As social security issues magnified, the government lost its patience and decided to completely wipe out these kind of people.

At least that’s what he had deduced from reading the newspaper, and it didn’t seem like reality was far off.

Luo Yuan put down the newspaper. His heart felt a little heavier.

Others would never believe that he wasn’t an evolved person and the police would definitely come knocking on his door when people realized that he was different. This made him worry because there was a real evolved person in the house. It was not that he did not approve of the government’s recruitment policy or that he was worried about being dissected for scientific purposes– only an otaku would come up with something that ridiculous.

He just didn’t want to lose his freedom.

The various regulations and unspoken rules made working in government sectors suffocating. This was also why he had never attended any civil service examination even though it would have been a piece of cake for his 13-point Intelligence.

Using his ability, he could survive without getting recruited. There was no need for him to commit himself to the government.

The fat middle-aged man did not leave right away after his haircut. Instead, he sat down next to Luo Yuan and spoke to him like they were close friends, “Let’s leave together when you’re done. That mutated earthworm scares me. We can have each other’s back.”

“Why did you come out at all if you’re scared?” Luo Yuan was curious about his attitude. If he was that afraid, then why had he left his house in the first place?

“I didn’t want to, but we don’t have any rice left at home anymore. I couldn’t let my wife and children starve!” The man rubbed his belly as he smiled wryly, “I just went out rashly. I thought there’d be nothing to be afraid of. It’s just an earthworm after all. But to be honest, I dare not go back now.”

This was when Luo Yuan noticed the bag of rice next to the couch.

“Right, so why did you come out?” The man had to be telling the truth about working in insurance. He sure could talk a lot.

“If it doesn’t even have a mouth, how can it possibly eat a person?” Luo Yuan quipped.

The man agreed, “Yeah, I don’t know what there is to be scared of. The residential area was deserted the whole morning.”

While they chatted, Luo Yuan found out that the man’s name was Huang Wei, and that both him and his wife were jobless.

Even though Hedong City was still an industrial area, the number and size of its factories could never compare to those before the mutation. The unemployment rate in Hedong City was higher than 70%. Most people were losing their jobs.

Luo Yuan’s neighborhood was still a middle to high income residential area, and most people were of a certain financial status, so they could still survive without a job. However, there were also people who didn’t have a lot of savings, and even people in debt who had to depend on relief food to get through the day.

It was almost ten by the time Luo Yuan had gotten his haircut.

Just as he was stepping out of the barbershop, a black insect about the size of a fist flew right past him.

Luo Yuan instinctively grabbed it and the insect was crushed inside his hand. He wasn’t sure if that was because of his strength or because the insect had been too fragile. Opening his palm, he found a slimy substance on it together with the insect’s carcass. He frowned in disgust.

“What is it?” Huang Wei asked curiously.

“Not sure. Just a bug. Wonder where it came from,” Luo Yuan said carelessly.

Bugs like that were common these days, even at home. He had killed multiple cockroaches the size of a palm in his own bedroom and had become immune to them. They seemed to have disappeared after his Sensory Perception had leveled up anyway.