The Wail of the Underground World
Killing people to solve this problem was obviously unrealistic.
More than half the population had taken the special medicine, and they were all the finest members of the population. The proportion had even reached sixty or seventy percent. Were all those people really willing to be killed?
Even if they were willing to die, who would carry it out? It was impossible to have the old, the weak, the sick, the young, and the women kill all those able-bodied adults, right? They were all relatives, friends, or teachers and students. Countless tangled relationships bound them together, making it impossible for anyone to bring themselves to act.
Besides, no one would be willing to accept responsibility for the killings. Especially when it involved such a vast number of people, they could never kill them all, nor could they kill them.
To make matters worse, Titan Academy and Taiyi Academy were currently selling the special medicine like mad and seizing the market. The medicine was still spreading at a frenzied pace.
By the time the truth came fully to light and was made public, its coverage would probably have already reached eighty percent.
It was just like a vaccine. Once coverage reached eighty or ninety percent, the entire population was essentially immune. The special medicine was actually the same.
They could forget about breaking the deadlock or salvaging the situation.
All they could do now was limit the damage as much as possible. Even so, how easy would that be?
This was not something that could be handled as easily as diarrhea from eating spoiled food. Once the general trend took shape, many things became irreversible.
Forget reversing the situation—even stopping the decline and preventing matters from worsening would probably be extremely difficult.
After all, the