Meanwhile, the hiring market for Superpowers users showed an almost pathological level of activity.
In this special market, all kinds of corporations and factions, like sharks scenting blood, turned their attention to the unique group of Superpowers users.
Some major multinational corporations, in order to gain an absolute edge in business competition, spared no expense in hiring Superpowers users to carry out all manner of high-risk, high-difficulty missions.
Some criminal organizations were not to be outdone either. They hired Superpowers users for illegal activities such as smuggling, drug trafficking, and assassination.
The addition of Superpowers users made these criminal activities more covert and efficient, posing an enormous threat to public safety.
However, the existence of this black industrial chain severely disrupted the normal economic order.
It was like a massive malignant tumor, eating away at the economic foundations of society.
Legitimate businesses suffered tremendous blows, and many traditional industries fell into difficulty because they could not compete with the advantages brought by Superpowers users.
At the same time, this excessive worship of Superpowers brought a series of negative consequences.
Under the influence of public opinion, Superpowers had been portrayed as a supreme force. Possessing Superpowers meant possessing wealth, status, and power.
Some people blindly pursued Superpowers, willing to pay at all costs to obtain Compound Five.
They searched everywhere for sources of Compound Five and even colluded with criminals.
Some people, in order to raise the money to buy Compound Five, sold off their family property and took out usurious loans, ultimately shattering their families and leaving themselves buried in debt.
Worse still, some people were willing to sacrifice their lives in pursuit of Superpowers.
They knew that the mortality rate for adults injected with Compound Five exceeded ninety percent, while the survivors either mutated or became Superpowers users and