Chapter 24: Responsibility

The next morning, Su Mengli got up as usual and went to school, seemingly unaffected by what happened last night. However, Ye Xuan could sense that Su Mengli seemed to have broken free from some kind of restraint. Her smile today was brighter than usual and more genuine.

Clearly, cutting off ties with Su Guodong yesterday might have caused some pain in the short term, but in the long run, it might not be a bad thing.

Seeing that Su Mengli was fine, Ye Xuan felt relieved. He took out the notebook he had previously written down and looked at the events recorded on it.

After the rebirth of spiritual energy, the incident with the flying tiger was just the beginning in Jiangcheng. Similar abnormal events were happening in other cities as well. However, after the flying tiger’s incident, the authorities immediately sealed off the news to appease the public, so the subsequent abnormal events were not as widely known as the flying tiger’s.

But Ye Xuan knew very well that today, Jiangcheng would experience a second major abnormal event, which would be much more severe and result in heavy casualties compared to the flying tiger’s incident.

Similar events had likely occurred in various parts of the country.

It was because of this that the government announced the rebirth of spiritual energy to the public and allowed middle school students to use awakening spirit spheres for unified testing and awakening, in order to enable more ordinary people to become awakened and have the ability to fight against the strange beasts.

This incident was already a distant memory in Ye Xuan’s mind. It happened in a large chain supermarket in Jiangcheng.

The supermarket was large in scale and stocked various fresh products, especially a wide variety of live seafood, which was quite famous. Ye Xuan’s family often went to this supermarket to buy seafood. And it was this afternoon, around six or seven o’clock, during the peak shopping hours of the supermarket when a King Crab awakened.

Everyone knew what an ordinary King Crab looked like, with its large size and covered in hard shells and edges. But what about a King Crab that had awakened and grown several times in size?

After awakening, the King Crab stood over two meters tall with a body diameter of more than three meters, resembling a huge grinding disc. Its eight crab pincers were each five to six meters long, extremely hard and covered in spikes. With a single pinch, it could send blood and flesh flying.

At that time, there were hundreds of customers in the large supermarket, and the awakened King Crab suddenly went on a bloody rampage. Its eight pincers, each over five meters long, were like killing machines, easily harvesting one life after another.

In the end, fifty percent of the customers died under the King Crab’s pincers, and another twenty percent died due to trampling and crushing during the panic. Only thirty percent of the people survived, but they were all injured to varying degrees.

This showed just how destructive the awakened King Crab was.

Although Ye Xuan knew about this incident, he couldn’t do anything to prevent it in advance. The supermarket had a high flow of customers, and new products were introduced every day. Ye Xuan had no way of knowing which King Crab had awakened. Therefore, it was impossible for him to eliminate the King Crab in advance.

The only way to deal with this situation in advance was to disperse the crowd before six o’clock to avoid the hundreds of casualties.

Ye Xuan still remembered that after the King Crab massacre in the supermarket, some people managed to take photos of the scene. In the photos, human bodies were scattered like pieces of meat, and blood covered the entire supermarket. If this were just a movie scene, it might be thrilling and make people feel that the movie was realistic and bloody. But when it happened in reality, it only made people silent and deeply saddened by the tragedy of their own kind.

Ye Xuan was a normal person, and he was no exception. Therefore, he had to do his best to prevent this King Crab incident and minimize the casualties.

Time passed quickly, and it was lunchtime. Ye Xuan said to Su Mengli, “Mengli, I have something to do this afternoon and won’t be coming to school. Can you help me get a leave of absence from the teacher?”

Su Mengli asked, “Okay, what’s wrong? Are you feeling unwell?”

Ye Xuan nodded and said, “Yeah, my back hurts a bit. Maybe I’ve been studying too hard these past few days.”

Su Mengli knew that Ye Xuan was just making excuses. He was the least hardworking student in their class.

After that, Ye Xuan quickly had a meal and headed to the supermarket. The awakened King Crab incident happened around six o’clock, so Ye Xuan had to evacuate the crowd before five-thirty.

In doing so, the awakened King Crab would not have the opportunity to kill anyone. Even if it managed to escape from the supermarket, it would still cause casualties, but not as many in such a densely populated area and within such a short period of time.

Moreover, although the awakened King Crab had strong killing power, it was still manageable for the police. After all, it was still the budding stage of the rebirth of spiritual energy, and the awakened mutated beasts were relatively weak.

The main ability of this awakened King Crab was its massive increase in size, strength, and body durability. For ordinary people, it was like cutting vegetables.

But when faced with the police, it would not be enough. Just get a large truck and crash it head-on into the King Crab, and it wouldn’t be able to withstand it. After all, its body was not indestructible, and it couldn’t fly. As long as the response was timely, dealing with it would be easier than dealing with the flying tiger.

Before long, Ye Xuan arrived at the entrance of the supermarket. Looking at the bustling street near the only intersection of the supermarket, he could see people coming in and out continuously.

Seeing this scene, Ye Xuan couldn’t help but sigh. Who could have imagined that according to the original fate, more than seventy percent of the people who would still be in this supermarket a few hours later would be dead or injured?

After the rebirth of spiritual energy, a person’s life had become exceptionally fragile!

With such emotion in his heart, Ye Xuan entered the supermarket and looked around.

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