Chapter 1,384 The Opener (Part 1)

June 19, 2223

"Sorry!"

Just after noon, Li Ang looked at the six mutant employees in front of him. Today was the day they officially left here. Li Ang had taken advantage of the loophole before and was discovered. The Operations Department had ordered Li Ang to comply with the regulations issued by Congress. He must comply with the regulations before the 20th, otherwise the business license of Li Ang's brewery would be revoked.

"This is your salary."

Li Ang handed the thick money bags to the six people, who were a little surprised.

"Boss, you don't have to give so much, no"

"Take it, it's okay, I'll find a way to see if I can take advantage of some more loopholes, so I'll open one"

Before Li Ang finished speaking, several mutants bowed deeply, and the six turned around and walked away. Li Ang also knew the current situation in the city. The voices against mutants were getting stronger and stronger, and this might be the reason for the large number of mutant violent incidents.

Recently, all walks of life have been very prosperous, but the mutant group has a relatively poor life, and even now there are mutant robberies in society.

Although Congress has repeatedly issued orders that if people continue to spread rumors about mutants, they will be arrested, and some people have indeed been arrested, such voices have not stopped at all. Instead, they have become more intense as mutant rampages occur more frequently.

Recently, the medical industry has returned to normal, and Li Ang has also breathed a sigh of relief. In order to allow his parents to have good medical conditions, Li Ang could only set up a medical room in his home to let doctors take care of his parents 24 hours a day. His parents' health has been getting worse and worse. Li Ang also knows that his parents want to see him start a family, but Li Ang has never thought about it because he can never find a suitable candidate.

Now the profit of the winery is much lower than in the past, because a lot of new employees have been recruited to maintain the original size of the winery, but the number of employees is too large. If the number is reduced, the production capacity cannot keep up. Many old customers in the past will definitely not be happy, and this is the reason why he has been able to develop steadily over the years.

Because of the adjustment before, the winery lost some customers because the production capacity could not keep up, and his own business was taken away by others. This happened many times in the past few months because of the problem of mutant employees.

Li Ang also fulfilled his promise to the mutant employees and did not abandon them, but the operations department in the area now has a very strict inspection on mutant employees. Li Ang finally couldn't hide it anymore. Now he can only fire these old employees. Now there is only one mutant left in the entire winery.

Many of the newly recruited employees are not familiar with everything in the winery. The production capacity is now less than two-thirds of the past. Li Ang can only take it slowly.

Li Ang originally wanted to invest in building a winery at the bottom, but at this juncture, Li Ang finally gave up the investment. Looking at the pedestrians on the street, Li Ang was a little helpless.

Now it's time to eat, and the six mutants who got their wages also started to eat. Sure enough, the restaurant across the street refused them to enter. This is also a situation in the city now. Ordinary people are excluding mutants, and they are blindly excluding them.

This is incredible and difficult to understand for Li Ang. Congress wants to increase employment positions too simply and crudely. This practice of taking some jobs from mutants has actually caused a huge rift between ordinary people and mutants.

Now many mutants have to compromise and join the Operations Department. According to the figures released by the Operations Department, nearly 5,000 mutants have become special recruits of the Operations Department.

These mutants are low-level mutants who really can't find a job and have a family. Li Ang understands what the Operations Department wants to do, but it is a big problem to recruit them in this way. If you want to get the basic salary and benefits of the Operations Department, you must pass the examination of the Operations Department through study, which is extremely difficult for most mutants.

Because most mutants have been workers for a long time with their strength, and many of them are illiterate and have long passed the age of learning. The Operations Department does not recruit mutants who come, but according to age. Some older mutants have no chance at all.

Bang

Li Ang slapped the window sill and looked at several old mutant employees in the distance. They have been refused entry to the store for the third time. Several people seem to be planning to wait for the food to be prepared in the store and then take it to a secluded place to eat.

Many things in the current Operations Department seem extremely unreasonable to Li Ang, especially the current 7th Department. The financial system is so chaotic that it is difficult to clean up. The stock market has become a tool for many people to speculate and make a lot of money. This is the dereliction of duty of 7th Department, because their original review system is not perfect. Li Ang has proposed many systems and hopes that 7th Department can revise them, but the reply he gets every time is thank you for your enthusiastic suggestions, and they will be accepted later, so that Li Ang can wait for notification.

Many of these suggestions and opinions have been more than three months, and Li Ang has not received any response. Now the people in 7th Department are busy with the medical industry, and they should not have the time to pay attention to the opinions submitted by ordinary citizens. Li Ang couldn't help but laugh bitterly.

"I really don't understand more and more, what is the Operations Department doing."

The funniest thing for Leon was what happened a while ago, just half a month ago, because most people in the city were questioning a rumor that the criminals who threatened the Operation Department in the Barrier Zone were manipulated by the Angus family. This was the funniest thing Leon had ever heard.

Leon might not be able to guarantee other people, but the practices of the Angus family were for the future of the city in Leon's view. Leon had also been to the Angus family countless times, and he didn't need to use his eyes to confirm things, and he didn't even need to listen to anyone, but most of his judgment was always in a state of abnormality for some reason.

A few days ago, when Leon was eating, he heard several people in the staff cafeteria discussing the Angus family.

"One day the Operation Department will have to eat the bitter fruit."

In order to convince the people in the city, the Operation Department decisively announced all the records of the investigation of the Angus family as soon as it received such news. This clearly showed that even the Operation Department knew that it could not be the Angus family, but they still investigated the Angus family, just to do a formal investigation, which actually increased the suspicion of the rumor.

Li Ang also knew what the purpose of the Action Department was, just for stability, for the stability of the city now, because the economy in the city has obviously improved, but this is the result of snatching millions of jobs from the mutants, and such dividends will not last too long.

If the city wants to satisfy everyone, it can only continue to develop new industries to increase the number of jobs in the city, so that it can continue to develop, but the city has been maintaining its original state for so many years, which is difficult for Li Ang to understand. Coupled with the problems of the councilors, the whole city is now really like a smoking pot.

"Rather than a pot, it's better to say it's a furnace!"

And behind all this, many rigid regulations have their source in the gods, and many things are set by the gods, but for gods, although most people don't understand, they always have an inexplicable sense of awe, which is what Li Ang has seen in these years.

Many people may criticize Congress, but they will never criticize God. This is a strange phenomenon. No matter what decision the gods make, if they do well, they should naturally be admired by everyone, and if they do not do well, should they be criticized? But if the gods can't do well, how can they be called gods?

Li Ang thought about this problem countless times, but finally gave up.

"All this is too far away from me. Hey, I'd better find a way to motivate the employees."

In the past, when the winery had a large number of mutant employees, all employees worked very hard because their wages were good, but now it's different. The number of employees has increased. If the salary is increased, the profit of the winery will only be lower.

When the profit is too low to maintain the operation of the winery, the only way is to reduce the production capacity, and reducing the production capacity means that someone will be fired. This simple truth is understood by everyone, but many workers hope to increase their wages a little bit recently, because everyone can only see a bunch of numbers. The sales volume of the winery is still high, but they can't see what is behind these numbers.

Li Ang doesn't want to reduce the production capacity under the current employee size, so as to dismiss employees, and then he will be labeled as a black-hearted boss. Just raising the salary a little bit may be happy for individuals, but it is a burden for the whole.

No matter when, there will always be problems between workers and bosses. The boss only wants higher profits, while the workers only want higher wages. However, the boss knows the capacity of his industry, while the workers only know that their wages are not high and they are tired every day.

If you want the city to have a larger market, the population of the city must increase, but the increase in population also means the increase in risks. Although the Action Department is still curbing and controlling the population to a certain extent, it has not been controlled to a very strict level, which is also extremely dangerous in Li Ang's view.

Just as Li Ang was thinking, there was a sudden loud bang. In an instant, Li Ang looked over. There was a street behind this street. The street was crowded. I don't know what happened. However, the next second, the light and shadow pole began to broadcast an emergency evacuation broadcast, and a mutant ran away.

Li Ang's eyes widened in astonishment. He thought of the six mutant employees. He immediately turned downstairs, and then left the winery. A large number of people who wanted to take refuge rushed in. Li Ang was soon squeezed aside by the crowd. He still ran to the street, and the noise on the opposite side became louder and louder.

With a loud bang, Li Ang saw a power pole on the opposite street collapsed, and a shop not far away was full of panicked people. He ran along the street. Although he didn't know why, Li Ang still wanted to confirm it.

Li Ang quickly detoured and soon saw the special management team running over from the top of some houses.

Gradually, the noise became more and more intense. Li Ang heard a roar. The next second, he just stuck his head out of the back street alley and instantly saw a huge car crashing not far in front of him. Li Ang was startled. The next second, he saw the violent mutant pinching the neck of a clerk and smashing him to the ground in an instant.

"What on earth is that!"

This was the first time for Li Ang to see a violent mutant at such a close distance. He looked like a monster. This mutant was obviously very powerful, and the restraint gun obviously had no effect on him. The 10 special team members had already He got entangled with this mutant, but he was only able to get entangled, and attacks had little effect on this violent mutant.

The street in front of him was too tragic, and there were still dead people. Li Ang looked at everything in front of him in horror. He couldn't look away and couldn't move his feet.

With a loud bang, Li Ang watched as two members of the special management team were instantly knocked away by the violent mutant and crashed into a house. The violent mutant followed him like a bomb. After smashing into the house that was raising dust, Li Ang saw the despair on the faces of other special team members. They did not chase after them, but called for support.

Li Ang watched the entire house collapse to the ground. He sat down on the ground, without any strength in his body. He had finally acquired a little bit of alienated genes before, but this alienated gene had not fully awakened. Over the years, it seems that As if falling asleep, Li Ang's first reaction at this time was to be glad that he had not become a mutant, otherwise he might become such a monster one day.

With a loud bang, the violent mutant rushed out from another house. He was destroying everything he saw. The black particles were like violent artillery fire. In just an instant, everything around him was shattered. Li Ang swallowed After taking a sip, I couldn't stand up at all.

No one from the remaining eight special teams dared to step forward. The nearby 5th Section personnel were also watching from a distance, and could only let this crazy mutant destroy everything on the street.

Bah

Following a burst of intense red lightning, Li Chu watched in shock as a woman fell from the sky. He kicked the violent mutant away in an instant, and the woman pursued him without hesitation at an extremely fast speed.

Li Ang had never seen this scene before. Red thunder and lightning crackled. The director of the executive branch dodged around the violent mutant. Suddenly, a shocking red lightning pierced the violent mutant. The human body stood motionless on the spot. After letting out a whimper, the body began to break into pieces, like a stone rotten by the wind, breaking bit by bit.

A sense of fear instantly enveloped Li Ang's body. At this moment, he somewhat understood why ordinary people were so afraid of mutants and began to exclude mutants, because they were indeed monsters.

At this time, a large number of people from Section 5 came closer and began to run towards those lying on the ground.

"Sir, are you okay?"

Li Ang swallowed and shook his head.

"I'm fine, I'm fine!"

Li Ang was picked up by a person from Section 5. As soon as he walked to the street, Li Ang saw the solemn expressions of countless people with fear. Any normal person would be afraid of this kind of thing. These things were lurking around him like bombs. If a mutant suddenly goes berserk one day, his life will be in great danger.

The good images of mutants in the past began to disappear in my mind. Even when I thought from the perspective of a observer, the ordinary people in the city treated mutants badly, and such thoughts began to be torn apart.

Li Ang began to be afraid, because currently no medicine can suppress the violent transformation of mutants. Hua Shen, the leading doctor in the city, has already said this.

Li Ang hugged his body and stood on the street with a pale face. He felt something strange in his body at this time. White particles overflowed from his body uncontrollably. The soft and white particles made Li Ang startled. At this time, the people around him looked at him with horror. Li Ang stretched out his hands and wanted to say something, but the people around him had already dispersed, and several people in the business department also looked at Li Ang with some fear.

"No, I'm just ordinary."

"Sir, please calm down, calm down!"

Li Ang felt his head was dizzy, and he didn't know what was going on. His physical condition had been very bad recently, and he would feel dizzy from time to time. The next second, Li Ang looked at the black little ones growing on the back of his hands in horror. Damn, he screamed like crazy, and at this time, the people from Section 5 immediately withdrew from the range and took out the guns used to deal with mutants, as well as ordinary guns.

"I'm still normal, I'm still awake, I"

Li Ang wanted to raise his hands, but there was a buzzing in his head. He felt that the sight in front of him was distorting, and there was a huge feeling of dissatisfaction and disgust with everything around him in his heart. These feelings of disgust gradually began It turned into hatred and anger. Li Ang didn't know what happened to him, but looking at the dense bumps on the back of his hand, Li Ang held down his right hand with his left hand that had not yet had any problems.

"Shoot him first!"

Li Ang's eyes widened, and he heard the voice of someone shouting in his ears. He froze, and his excitement became more and more difficult to control. Li Ang wanted to rush over and crush him instantly. The neck of the person opposite.

"Put down your weapons and let me handle it!"

Li Ang looked over and saw that it was the female director who had just killed the powerful violent mutant. He looked at the female director who walked over step by step in horror. He could not make any sound in his throat and his whole body was very hot. , and the most important thing is that I really want to do something, and the vision in front of me is distorted for a while and normal for a while.

"I'm fine, I won't, I"

Leon began to become incoherent. He didn't know what he wanted to say, or he didn't remember what he wanted to say. However, at this time, Leon was still half conscious. He didn't want to become that kind of monster.

Looking at the female director who was getting closer and closer, Leon exclaimed in despair, but this despair came out of his throat and turned into a roar and roar.

The members of the Operations Department around him had retreated far away, and at this time everyone saw the amazing changes in Leon's body. His right arm was a whole circle thicker, with many black bumps on it, and some black particles were floating in the air.

Leon knelt on the ground in pain. He didn't want to become a monster, nor did he want to die. Leon pressed his abdomen with one hand and was almost out of breath. He was still holding on at this moment.

"Idiot, everyone has times when they can't hold on. The more you can't hold on, the more you have to move forward, because I will never let anyone look down on me."

Suddenly, Li Ang became more sober. He still remembered that in the physical education class before, when everyone was too tired to move, Niya was still exercising. That was everyone's first physical education class, and only Niya completed the physical training of the day.

"Listen carefully, young man."

The strong voice of the female director in front of him reached Li Ang's ears. He raised his head slightly. At this time, black marks like tears began to appear on Li Ang's right cheek. He was still struggling violently.

"If you don't want to die, try your best to maintain your intention, instead of being deprived of everything by anger. Listen carefully. If I see that you have no consciousness, I will kill you immediately."

Li Ang didn't hear it very clearly, but he understood the general meaning. He nodded slightly, and his body seemed to be pierced by thousands of fine needles. He kept roaring, but at this time Li Ang had a little more hope in his heart, because as long as he kept suppressing it, he could survive.

Ling Hong looked at the young man in front of her and confirmed his identity. He turned out to be Niya's classmate, which surprised Ling Hong. He was also a cousin of Li Xin.

However, this was the first time Ling Hong had seen such a situation. Most mutants could not be restrained after going berserk and would burst out in an instant. Ling Hong also heard from several staff members of Section 5 about the situation at the beginning. This mutant was a low-level mutant and saw white particles coming out of his body.

Ling Hong stood up and stood in front of Li Ang. She lit a cigarette and was still waiting for the result.

"Notify Hua Shen to come over immediately."

Ling Hong looked at this low-level mutant. The quality of the mutant cells of high-level mutants was higher, and their bodies were stronger. The most important thing was that most of the high-level mutants had a good life. Even if black mutant particles appeared in their bodies, these black mutant particles that looked like cancer cells would soon be destroyed by the normal mutant particles of high-level mutants. There was no problem at all.

Nowadays, the violent incidents of high-level mutants have never happened in the city.

Beep beep beep

Ling Hong answered Hua Shen's video call.

"Let me see."

After Ling Hong adjusted, Hua Shen could see Li Ang, who was curled up on the ground, holding his abdomen in pain and struggling.

"Try to stabilize his emotions. This may be an opportunity. We can know what happened before the mutant went berserk. This is what I have always wanted to know. If we don't know this, we can't find the root cause."

Ling Hong scratched her head.

"How to stabilize?"

"Tell him something happy."

Drip, drip

With a sizzling sound, the liquid dripping from Li Ang's right eye instantly left a small black hole on the ground and then evaporated.

"By the way, you are Nia's classmate, right? We used to follow Nia's sister to Angus's house."

Ling Hong found that Li Ang's body had a little reaction as soon as she finished speaking. The left half of his body did not change at all, his skin was still white, and the black liquid flowing out of his right eye began to solidify and did not continue to flow out.

A helicopter hovered in the sky, and Hua Shen jumped down from it. Ling Hong immediately stood aside. After Hua Shen landed on the roof, he jumped down immediately. When he saw Li Ang, he smiled in surprise.

"It's okay, you will be fine. Just keep going. Although it's a little painful, you can suppress the violent cells. Just keep going."

Hua Shen comforted him. At this time, everyone in the distance didn't know what was going on. Some people in the crowd questioned why they didn't shoot that monster. The members of the Operations Section who maintained order at the scene didn't know what to say, but now there was a director, and many members were more at ease.

Ling Hong directly issued an order to let the people from Section 5 drive away the nearby onlookers. Hua Shen was still patiently talking to Li Ang. He had opened a medicine box and started to prepare some medicines.

The situation was still not optimistic, but it was beginning to improve. The black bumps on Li Ang's right arm began to decrease, but he was so tired that he almost fainted. Hua Shen was still thinking about countermeasures. His hands were constantly moving, watching Li Ang talking to him.

The black bumps that had begun to disappear began to appear again. Hua Shen knew that his mental strength had reached its limit and he had to think of a way.

"By the way, Ling Hong, if it were Jean, what do you think he would do?"

Ling Hong frowned for a moment.

"I think if it were the principal, he would have dealt with it without hesitation. Perhaps, when he had completely turned into a monster."

Huashen nodded, smiled and put a hand on Li Ang's body.

"Although it's a bit painful, you have to endure it. Then there may be problems with the right side of your body, but do you want to live?"

Huashen asked, and Li Ang raised his head with difficulty, then dropped it heavily.

Huashen immediately poured the prepared medicine into Li Ang's mouth, and green particles began to appear. Ling Hong waited and waited.

"Trust me, I'm a doctor!"

For a moment, Li Ang screamed in pain.

"Hold him down Ling Hong."

Large red particles fell on the surface of Li Ang's body. He was pressed to the ground, unable to move at all, but the ground was denting little by little. Sweat continued to seep from Huashen's forehead, and the green inside It was still entering Li Ang's body, all of which seemed unbelievable to Ling Hong, because if he did this, if he did not control it properly, he would kill the young man in an instant.