Chapter 15 Compromise
Bai Mo looked in the direction where his hand was stretched out, and what he saw was a delicate face. A thin boy stretched out his hand.
Holding the boy's hand, he slowly stood up.
"Thank you, what's your name, please?" Bai Mo asked.
"Zheyi, what about you?"
"Heixue." Bai Mo didn't use his real name because he felt that the impact of what just happened seemed a bit big and he didn't want to reveal his true identity, so he casually made up a name using his own name.
"Why did you come to this place?" he asked again casually.
"Because, because I want to find something that can change my destiny!"
Bai Mo looked at the boy who was speaking his second line to a stranger in a serious manner. He didn't answer his words, but waited for his next words.
"I have been bullied since I was a child because of my thin stature. As a weak character, I have always been afraid and dare not protect myself. But I've had enough, I've had enough of this kind of life!"
"In this world that has obviously become different, I want power! I want the power to never be bullied again!" The boy said in a low voice, but Bai Mo could feel the intensity of the emotions contained in it.
After the boy confided his feelings to a stranger, Bai Mo looked at him as if he was less timid, and his eyes shone with a trace of ambition.
He looked at this funny boy and smiled, and then said: "Then you have to work hard. By the way, I would like to remind you to try to increase the time you spend soaking in the river. There is no need to force yourself to go too far. It will not be too far downstream. It’s much more cost-effective to stay in a difficult place as long as you can, rather than forcefully rushing forward.”
In order to thank this cutely stubborn boy, Bai Mo kindly gave Zhe a few words of encouragement. Of course, how much he could get would depend on how determined he was.
After that, he didn't waste any time and quickly moved to where he parked his car, leaving behind the thoughtful boy Tetsuichi.
This forced upgrade caused too much damage to his body. Although he had a strong self-healing ability after being baptized with spiritual energy many times, it was still quite troublesome to recover from such serious injuries all over his body.
It took him several minutes to move to his car, then opened the car door, and while the night was still dark, he quietly drove out of Linghe under the cover of darkness.
Others in the camp thought that Bai Mo had decided to give up this rare opportunity and go back to recover from his injuries. Many people expressed regret for his choice, and of course some people were gloating about his misfortune.
After thinking for a while, Zheyi decided to listen to Heixue (White Mo)'s opinion and try to increase the time he spent soaking in the river.
In order to pursue the power he longed for, after thinking about this, he had no intention of returning to the camp to sleep. Instead, he reached the lowest reaches of the Ling River in the dark and began to walk forward slowly.
This time Zheyi did not rush forward like others in order to gain abilities. Instead, he chose a place downstream where the pressure was not very high and stopped, soaking motionlessly...
Bai Mo, who was seriously injured, dragged his remaining body and drove intermittently for more than an hour before returning to the hotel, and then walked through the hotel lobby with force.
After entering the room, he couldn't hold it anymore, fell directly on the bed, and fell into a deep sleep.
He slept in the hotel for three days, and during these three days, the world became more lively...
The attention of all parties in Hawaii was almost attracted by the light beam, and a large number of manpower was sent to the incident site to investigate the specific situation.
After the investigators found the adventurers by the Ling River, it didn't take much effort. They quickly learned that the light beam was a phenomenon that occurred when an unknown strong man's ability evolved.
Then they got even more exciting news from the adventurers - the Spirit River can induce the emergence of superpowers in ordinary people!
Originally, the adventurers wanted to keep the latter news secret, but under the "silver bullet" tactics of the investigators, some of the inconsistent adventurers still revealed the news.
After learning such news, almost the entire people in Hawaii were shocked, and a small number of people who would rather believe it drove off to Spirit River without hesitation.
A small number of people thought this was just fake news created by reporters to attract attention and clicks, and ignored it. However, because the road was actually not far away and the drive only took an hour or two, most people still had the mentality to watch the excitement. We drove to the crater to watch the excitement.
Thanks to the development of the Internet and the dedicated work of reporters, in less than half a day, all major mainstream media around the world reported the news.
Countless people with various ideas and dreams set out for Linghe, which was closest to them. For a time, society began to paralyze. Many government agencies and public transportation also came to a semi-standstill because some drivers and civil servants skipped work to pursue their dreams.
Although there are many volcanic craters and many spiritual energy rivers gushing out, they cannot handle the large number of people. One day later, there are already more people in each spiritual energy river than in a swimming pool in midsummer.
And because the middle reaches and the upper reaches are not suitable for people who have not experienced strengthening, everyone can only be packed in the lower reaches, and then the crowds of onlookers are all over the two sides.
Under the huge base, ability users have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, including those who breathe fire, control electricity, and play with ice. Although they are still just small tricks, their power is not much different from tricks, let alone being the main force in combat. But everyone who has acquired the ability is full of confidence, believing that they can become a powerful person like the protagonist in the novel.
However, while countless people are rejoicing that they have obtained superpowers, many problems have also arisen.
When they first received the news, governments of various countries also thought about blocking various spiritual rivers, but they soon gave up this unrealistic idea.
Not to mention that there are a large number of spiritual rivers. Basically, whether it is an extinct volcano or an active volcano, a large volcano or a small volcano, as long as it is a volcano, a spiritual river will erupt. No country has blocked all spiritual rivers. manpower required.
Secondly, this kind of blockade will definitely cause strong dissatisfaction among the people. If in some countries that allow the possession of thermal weapons, a war between the military and the civilians may even break out.
Finally, in the face of the power at your fingertips, whether the loyalty of the people who block Linghe relies on is enough to resist temptation.
After some secret consultations, the top leaders of each country still made a compromise. They basically just sent people to maintain order and control the security around Linghe. They even arranged for full-scale troops to enter Linghe for training during certain periods. The social order on the verge of collapse was barely maintained through compromise.
But soon, a new and more serious problem faced mankind - because after absorbing spiritual energy, a large amount of external energy is required to optimize the human body structure, so a large amount of food will be consumed after entering the spiritual energy river and coming out.
Now the whole world has fallen into the "Reiki Frenzy", and for the first time, the food issue has been put in front of the major developed countries.
"Although it has not reached the level of lack of food at this stage, we have to start to consider the problem that food consumption exceeds production by a large margin, because we do not know how long this incident will last." U.S. President Joseph Lee said in Talked about it when meeting with EU heads of state.
In black Africa, where there is a general lack of food, after witnessing the first wave of people eating a lot of food after coming out of the Ling River, the people behind had to start weighing whether the amount of food on their hands was enough before entering the river. A handful.
The large consumption of food has made many African civilians shy away from the river. Of course, some careerists and warlords have begun to use the Ling River to train troops, or directly recruit desperadoes who dare to enter the Ling River to fight.
In China, due to the popularity of various online novels, a larger proportion of people believed in the rumors that they could obtain superpowers by crossing the Ling River from the beginning. In addition, the huge population of China itself made it difficult to go to the Ling River to "test" "The number of people is almost uncountable.
The military can only dispatch four shifts of the People's Liberation Army to maintain order every six hours 24 hours a day, control the social order of each Linghe River throughout the day, arrange the order of queuing, and also maintain order every day. Three hours were set aside for military and government personnel to enter.
Compromise between the government and the public eventually became the mainstream. In some authoritarian countries, attempts to use force to monopolize the Linghe River basically failed due to the various reasons mentioned above. In the end, concessions were made in exchange for reconciliation between the two parties.