422: Chapter 402: Weak Points 422: Chapter 402: Weak Points This is not a rare or difficult-to-understand story, but a very common reality that occurs in this world.
“My hometown is in the suburbs, north of the ancient city, a small town that once served as an oil refinery.
Many people misunderstand the ‘pollution incidents,’ thinking that they frequently occur in cities, but they don’t realize that in the less reported suburban towns, a single medium-scale pollution incident could cause the most terrible tragedy, simply because they receive little attention…”
It obviously opened up old scars, but Hua senior sister spoke with a calm, even plain expression…
That was the look of someone who had grown used to pain and became numb to it.
Lu Ping’an glanced at Guan, perhaps this was the reason the two got along so well.
The story was simple and straightforward.
Two foreign cultists conducted a large-scale sacrifice in the town, managed to make the town an Exotic Realm, which has now become a medium-sized Secret Realm.
The wild Secret Realm was broken by the arrived Secret Keeper, survivors were rescued, and due to the low level of the Secret Realm, it was even semi-permanently sealed.
It seemed that everything was resolved…
However, that was already three months after the disaster happened, and many things had completely changed by then.
Reality doesn’t have that many perfect solutions.
I awakened during that incident, and many of my fellow townspeople became sacrifices or Magic Monsters.
Some were even more unlucky, they were both, and they were neither…”
Some survivors, having stayed too long in that Exotic Realm, were eroded by the rules and became half-human, half-Magic Monster…
They awakened but not entirely, and now they were in an awkward situation.
Physically, they were still 95% human, but the remaining 5% was enough to make them wary anomalies in human society.
Life is difficult for everyone.
We don’t even consider working in factories, and there are no local job opportunities for manual labor.
Even the surrounding fields are polluted, so we can’t grow our food.
I just want to start a company, be it security or other businesses, at least to give everyone a chance to reintegrate into society…”
The girl calmly spoke of her past, as if she had already grown accustomed to everything.
But in the end, there was still some resentment.
My parents, my brother, and my younger brother were also among them.
My brother is already in his thirties and has never dated.
He has no friends in the town either…”
Lu Ping’an nodded, understanding why they didn’t say anything before.
This is not an enjoyable anecdote, but most importantly, knowing all this doesn’t change anything…
In a way, this has become Hua Xueyi’s burden, and she is even prepared to take on the responsibility.
Perhaps this may be a good thing for the victims, but for the young people following Hua Xueyi, the situation is delicate.
Admittedly, professionals make much more money than ordinary people, but the main issue is not even that…
It’s that their club’s development goals are deviating from normalcy right from the start.
People join clubs for the sake of trade and to seek development opportunities together, to work toward success; but Hua Xueyi’s approach is more like charity, to work downward instead of upward?
“Don’t misunderstand, we were all informed of this after joining the club.
Many people have been to that town and had no objections, nor did many leave because of it.”
The implication of this statement is that some people did have objections, or even simply left already?
If a club has a limited development area from the beginning, and even moves away from big cities where there are more opportunities, it’s like cutting off its legs.
If the target of its development is not the interests of the club and its members, but merely to take on a responsibility, to bear a heavy burden…
While it may be noble, it is also quite unfair to the other members striving within it.
Lu Ping’an expected that, despite Hua senior sister holding her ground for now, on the day of graduation, many members would go from impulsive to realistic, from naïve students to being defeated by reality in the form of office workers, and half of them leaving would be a conservative estimate.
However, Hua Xueyi and Lululu had already seen all of this.
They could only take one step at a time.
In the end, the two most likely would become mercenaries, earning money to compensate for the failing businesses in their town…
They prepared to work in security companies because it was a fast way to make money, and maybe they could even arrange for some jobs for their hometown residents.
Lu Ping’an casually asked, “Have you ever considered moving them out?
If the factory and employment opportunities are gone in the town, there should be some in the city, right?”
“There used to be a regulation that ‘outsiders’ couldn’t settle in the city center.