Resurrection Empire-Chapter 940 - 363: Victory Will Ultimately Belong to Us

After finishing the draft, Ren Zhong put down his pen and lay back in his chair, the scenes from the documentary immediately resurfacing in his mind.

Even though he had personally experienced these events, even though he had reviewed them while editing the video, at this moment, just a slight recollection triggered a surge of adrenaline, accelerating his heartbeat and making his breathing heavy.

All across Source Star, when logistics were disrupted and food was scarce, a large number of citizens evacuated, taking most of the town’s reserve supplies with them as they left.

Subsequently, cannibalism was merely the initial phase.

Many small towns descended into complete chaos, turning into pure survival of the fittest.

The town became a large slaughterhouse, with blood splattered on the streets, and meat of different ages, genders, and body parts labeled with prices.

Ren Zhong named these towns Blood Towns.

There were also some military-strong towns that temporarily found food substitutes, sending out team after team to hunt.

However, the hunting target shifted from the semi-biological, semi-metallic, basically inedible Ruined Beasts, to organic animals.

This classification of organic animals also included wild nomads.

Citizens exploited nomads in the town, while town nomads used their equipment superiority and cooperative ability to massacre wild nomads.

A new food chain was thus born.

Ren Zhong referred to these towns as Butcher Towns.

The earlier types of towns had various characteristics, but these butchers and executioners subtly adhered to an unspoken rule, which was not to touch the human brain.

The more numerous Hunters always appeared in time to take away these precious resources. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

No matter how many people died at the same time, the Hunters could always manage.

Ren Zhong once had Ou Youning inquire, and only then did he learn the reason.

It turned out that someone had once wasted a human brain, and the consequence was a rapid and powerful retaliation from the Hunters.

Another category of towns was even more bizarre; when Ren Zhong arrived, there was not a single person with a clear mind, not even infants were exceptions.

Slow-moving and rigid, with bodies rotting everywhere, people wandered aimlessly, moved, or crawled in the streets.

When they sensed the breath of carbon-based life, they abruptly became animated, adopting inhuman postures with inhuman speed, charging like beasts, moving with a swiftness that seemed more akin to agile Ruined Beasts than humans.

At that time, Ren Zhong silently watched as his armor’s air filtration detection system issued an over-abundance of virus warnings.

There was no need to investigate the truth further; ten to one, this town had become an experimental field for the Mengdu Group.

This was a failed gene fusion experiment, creating a horde of zombie-like Armored Soldiers.

Ren Zhong named these towns Monster Towns, and with an expressionless face, slaughtered all these quasi-humans, then set the entire town ablaze.

He had also seen many towns completely overrun by the Beast Tide, rescuing several starving orphans from the ruins.

Ren Zhong discovered a very strange phenomenon.

According to historical records, past Beast Tides always followed a certain pattern. Although terrifying, the Beast Tide rarely appeared on a large scale in the same region, always leaving humanity a chance to catch their breath for reproduction.

Moreover, when a Beast Tide conquered a town, it would usually linger for a while, indulge themselves, and then promptly disperse, retreating into the mountains and forests.

But this time, after gathering, the Beast Tide did not disperse; after taking over a small town and stripping it bare, it actively migrated to the neighboring town, recruiting more Ruined Beasts along the way, forming an even larger Beast Tide army.

It was as if, after the disappearance of the "Net," the actions of the Ruined Beasts had completely lost their pattern.

Ren Zhong shook his head vigorously, trying to cast aside these memories for the moment.

He then called in Ou Youning, saying, "You can go notify the others now."

At two o’clock in the afternoon, a large group of people gathered outside Ren Zhong’s office, including Ju Qingmeng, Yujin, Chen Hanyu, Zheng Tian, Bai Feng, Ou Youning, Wen Lei, Sun Miao, Wang Zhaofu, Tang Shuying, and the Ma Family father and daughter.

As the group met outside the office, they were all a bit puzzled, not knowing why Ren Zhong had suddenly summoned them, only knowing that it was to announce something important.

Once everyone was seated, Ren Zhong gestured and said, "All of you here are the ones I trust the most, and I’ve briefly spoken to you before about my ideals; you have a rough idea."

"But I haven’t been thorough enough; at the time, my knowledge wasn’t broad enough, and my thoughts weren’t systematic. I once thought Starfire Town had reached the worst state it could. But this time, after visiting more places and gaining more understanding, I realized my naivety and have formed some new ideas."