CHAPTER 125: DO YOU THINK THERE IS FOOD FOR PRISONERS NOW?

Su Meimei, who had publicly accused Jing Shu of murder, not only failed to bring Jing Shu down but instead saw her foe receive a medal of honor. Ultimately, Su Meimei was the one who landed in deep trouble, a fitting end to her efforts.

Xiao Shu’s Villa District even replaced the visiting specialist with one of their own people.

From then on, the roughly eighty people remaining in the group all understood one thing: the visiting specialist was powerful, weren’t they? This role was directly linked to their access to food and their very survival.

But Jing Shu was even more powerful, more terrifying, than the visiting specialist. It seemed that anyone who offended her never met a good end.

Chouchou recently developed depression, having nightmares every day about his eyes being gouged out.

The reason was that he had stumbled upon a monumental secret. He searched the group’s chat logs for any mention of Xiao Shu’s Villa District and discovered, to his horror, that everyone who had spoken ill of her had met a terrible fate.

The first was Boss Bai from the supermarket. He was beaten, hospitalized, and had all his goods confiscated. Just a few months later, news arrived of his death from heatstroke.

The second was Luo Hao from Building 13. He drank industrial water and died after resuscitation efforts failed.

The third was Luxury Car Specialist No.5. He triggered a robbery by Biri and was terrified at the time. Luxury Car Specialist No.5 had clearly led people to rob the villas, but later, for some unknown reason, all of Biri’s people died, including him.

The fourth case involved Zhang Feng, Shi Zi, and Zhu Fan. Together with Su Meimei, they had accused Jing Shu of being a murderer. A few days ago, they had gone to the villa and were stung by bees on the way, which caused massive, pus-filled swellings.

Who hasn’t been stung by bees before? A sting typically causes a large swelling, but it usually fades after a few days and isn’t a major issue.

To their dismay, their condition didn’t improve; it worsened significantly.

The swellings burst, oozing copious amounts of pus. The individuals visibly shriveled, as if drained of all moisture. The original pustules transformed into open sores, then into rotting flesh.

The fifth incident involved five people who attempted a robbery; they ended up having their eyes gouged out.

The sixth was Su Meimei. Her unbridled arrogance led to her downfall; she was completely removed, and her current situation is unknown.

He was likely to be the seventh! Because he had previously questioned why they couldn’t elect the visiting specialist themselves, he feared he might have offended that family...

I’m doomed, doomed, Chouchou lamented, sinking into a deep depression.

Jing Shu wasn’t even aware that someone in the community had developed depression out of sheer fear of her.

After removing Su Meimei as the visiting specialist and replacing her with Wu You’ai, Jing Shu, despite paying a certain price, finally managed to consolidate all the "golden jobs" of the apocalypse—agricultural cultivation, the livestock industry, and the role of visiting specialist—into her own family’s control.

In the future, whether it was food or domestic poultry, they would have a clear and legitimate way to procure them.

Jing Shu carefully inquired about the events of the day Wu You’ai was kidnapped. She learned everything Shangguan Jun had said and done to Wu You’ai. It was clear that Wu You’ai had now successfully earned her place as a trusted member of Jing Shu’s family.

When it came to her own people, Jing Shu was never stingy. Upon learning that Wu You’ai had secured a job within the system, Third Aunt Jing Lai was so ecstatic she nearly swore to serve Jing Shu like an ox or horse in gratitude.

Chunks of flesh were still missing from Wu You’ai’s leg. Jing Shu applied a little diluted Spiritual Spring to the wounds daily. Although healing was slow, it was a significant improvement from before, when Wu You’ai couldn’t walk at all.

"Let’s wait a bit longer before going home; the wound is still too obvious," Jing Shu said.

In the scorching heat, it would look suspicious if Wu You’ai still wore long pants. But without them, the gaping wounds on her leg would be clearly visible...

However, the role of visiting specialist gave Wu You’ai purpose. She had to visit each household in the district daily to assess their situation. Additionally, she needed to identify high-scorers from the big data, verify their circumstances, and designate them as key subjects for attention.

At the same time, visiting specialists, numbering from one to as many as three or four in each of Wu City’s districts, began to carry out their duties.

Their initial investigations immediately revealed the astonishing accuracy of the big data.

The most shocking discovery was the gang’s "pig-raising" incident.

In the secluded Red Apple District, over a hundred men had been butchered and turned into jerky. More than sixty women were imprisoned and used as sexual slaves, their only food being this human jerky. Due to the critical water shortage, the gang members initially forced the women to drink blood. Later, they resorted to forcing them to ingest polluted water drawn from sources contaminated by decomposing corpses.

After ingesting this water, many women found corpse larvae growing inside their stomachs, consuming them from within.

The criminal gang tied up each woman and gagged them to prevent suicide. They subjected these women to countless forms of torture. For two months, they reigned with impunity in the Red Apple District. Due to its seclusion, no outsiders came by. Any who did were captured: men were killed for food, and women were "raised like pigs."

These inhumane gangs, with their depraved proclivities, remained undiscovered until the government dispatched visiting specialists. Upon finding the entire district had fallen, authorities sent in law enforcement, who swiftly dismantled the operation.

The remaining twenty-odd women had been tortured beyond human recognition; most had lost their minds.

The news reports covered only these details. It was the bloodiest story at the end of June: the police had shot and killed all the gang members, but there was no mention of the fate of the twenty-odd surviving women.

Jing Shu knew that those twenty-odd women had also been secretly executed.

She didn’t know if it was as Wu You’ai’s mentor had predicted: a strategy to entice criminals to commit atrocities, thereby eliminating one group of people, followed by the military stepping in to eliminate another, all to solve Huaxia’s pressing food shortage.

Or perhaps, as she herself suspected, the Huaxia Government, from the instant they sensed things going awry, had been frantically consolidating all available resources. They were consumed with collecting supplies daily, and the insufficient police presence had led to widespread chaos. Yet, areas like government family compounds, police family residences, the oil community, and similar units remained secured by police forces...

In any case, this marked a new shift in power, and now, the government finally had its hands free.

The first to suffer under this new order were the various unruly factions: those who had seized control of districts, those with depraved hobbies, and the bands of robbers who operated under the apocalyptic mantra that "might makes right"—the one with the biggest fist was the boss.

This wasn’t confined to Wu City. Across the entire country, as if on a unified command, governments brought back their previously absent police forces. They encountered robbers and shot them dead. Those who had staked claims to territory as their own were shot dead. Anyone with a "crime score" exceeding 100 in their records was shot dead.

Wang Qiqi: "@everyone, do not venture far these days. Wu City police have started clearing criminals from the new district. The news reported that over three hundred people have been shot dead in Wu City in one day."

Zhu Fan No.7: "Big brother, can you tell me what’s going on? My cousin and I went to the supermarket to buy food. As soon as he swiped his ID card, it went BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, and then a few people rushed out and dragged him away! It’s been three days, and I still can’t contact him!"

Wang Qiqi: "Maybe he’s been recorded in the system."

Zhu Fan No.7: "What happens if you’re recorded? Do you get arrested and go to jail?"

Wu You’ai: "Go to jail? Do you think there’s enough food now to feed prisoners?"