"I'm telling you, this isn't right! Even if she's a monster, we should show some humanity. You guys..."
"Exactly! Killing someone is one thing, but there's no need to go this far. I'm telling you, don't do this. You're from the Seventh Team, right?"
"I am! So what? I'm going to try out this monster today. Move aside~"
"That's enough, all of you!"
Just then, a burly man over two meters tall, with a hulking build, broad shoulders, and a thick beard, walked
over.
At least half of the soldiers surrounding us fell silent when they saw him.
I held my tail in front of me, trying to cover as much of my exposed body as I could. There were already at least five or six hundred people surrounding me,
and more were still coming from farther away.
"Brother Beard!"
"You Hei! Brother Beard's going first? All right, then this kid'll wait for his leftovers."
"Brother Beard, you can't do that! We're soldiers, not hooligans or bandits!"
At least half of these five or six hundred people were in favor of... that.
Only seventy or eighty people called for the others to stop. The rest were just watching.
And of those seventy or eighty, only a dozen or so stepped forward. The rest merely shouted, but not one of them came forward.
The apocalypse had corroded people's hearts to a... despairing degree.
Before the apocalypse, an old man could collapse on the ground, and no one would dare help him...
Before the apocalypse, people wouldn't dare drive without installing a dashcam...
Before the apocalypse, there were even people who pretended to be helpless, deceiving others just to get them to help.
The collapse of morality had become the norm in a vast and resource-rich country like Hua Nation. Perhaps it