Besides Joining the Anomaly Containment Association, They Had No Other Choice

Xu Rou and Yang Yu exchanged a glance.

They endured the discomfort, trying their best to ignore that it was mutated wild boar meat, and chewed it up before swallowing it.

Actually, the meat doesn't taste too bad; at least it doesn't have that sour, rotten smell. As long as you don't worry about whether you'll get diarrhea, stomach perforation, radiation contamination causing mutations, or skin ulcers after eating it, it's still barely edible.

Bai Zuo tilted his head slightly and smiled, seemingly satisfied with their reaction, or perhaps simply in a good mood.

But they were filled with dread.

This meal was specially prepared for them. What was the purpose? To test their character, patience, willpower, or something else?

They can't tell.

Those dark eyes, forever brimming with endless darkness, held emotions no one could fathom.

Perhaps, once you've fully understood it, you'll suddenly realize that you're already mired in a quagmire, unable to escape.

Those who cannot be defeated choose to submit.

Du Jiashi returned looking pale and sickly, only to find them still eating, their faces contorted in disgust.

He exclaimed in shock, "What?! You guys can actually eat all that?"

His two companions frantically tried to signal to him with their eyes.

Du Jiashi saw Bai Zuo looking at him with a half-smile, and he shuddered, forcing a smile as he said, "Actually, this soup tastes pretty good. Hmm, if you taste it carefully, it has a kind of original, natural flavor."

Du Jiashi gritted his teeth and scooped up another bowlful, then gulped it down.

The Contract Anomalist all ate it.

Security personnel and spies are not immune either.

The security guards remained relatively expressionless; after all, they worked for the Anomaly Containment Association and had seen all sorts of situations.

There are all sorts of bizarre and outlandish creatures, even more grotesque than mutant animals; as long as you don't die from eating them, there's no problem.

The spies were different; they knew it was radiation-mutated meat and had personally witnessed the wild boar that had broken into the camp.

That grotesque appearance makes it impossible to eat. Can this kind of meat really be consumed?

The spies felt a churning in their stomachs; they felt like vomiting even before they had eaten.

Wait until they finish eating.

The Bai Zuo then asked, "What about the White Sand Settlement?"

The group sat around the sofa, eating fruit to aid digestion while reporting their findings to Bai Zuo.

Du Jiashi: "We investigated several things at the White Sand Settlement. The first thing we found out was who the intruders who attacked our organization were."

"In this world, they are an organization called the Blood Feast Armed Forces. Their predecessor was originally a rebellious organization called ' Radiance ' that resisted oppression. Later, the initiator of the uprising died, Radiance disappeared, and their ideals shattered. They then became a bandit gang called ' Blood Feast,' which went on the run, stirring up fights, robberies, and killings everywhere."

"As for the White Sand Settlement, they have no connection with the Blood Feast Armed Forces."

Xu Rou added, "We also mentioned establishing a gathering place here."

Bai Zuo: "Establish a gathering place? Us?"

Bai Zuo propped his chin on his hand, his eyes devoid of laughter or any other emotion. "Did I really say that?"

Yang Yu played with his fingers. "You didn't say that, but we've discovered such a vast world. I think even if the surface is full of radiation, there must be many scarce resources underground that can be mined."

"The organization probably won't let such a large resource mine go; if that's the case, they'll definitely establish a settlement here."

"After all, there are so many settlements here. Without a proper base, mining would be extremely difficult, wouldn't it?"

A white Spider emerged from Bai Zuo's shoulder. "You're right. Generally, when an organization encounters a well-developed and healthy space with abundant intelligent civilizations, it will first choose to establish influence and integrate into the group, and then gradually acquire resources."

But this space is not.

Bai Zuo waved his hand in the air, "Excessive radiation is everywhere, mutated creatures, chaotic environment—before this world falls into destruction, the first to be destroyed will be the creatures on it."

The world may not necessarily end.

Perhaps in a few million years, the earth will turn green again, the radiation will disappear, and new life will reappear.

However, it is no longer humans who rule this land.

"The Humanity Protection Code only protect civilization. The civilization of 100,000 people is still civilization. As long as they are not extinct, theoretically, civilization has not been extinguished."

"They can live in the safe havens provided by the organization, recuperate there, and pass on their civilization."

As for how many of those 100,000 people can eventually be recovered, that's not something the Anomaly Containment Association concern itself with.

And this world will be taken by the Anomaly Containment Association as payment for their help, allowing the world to recover to its original state more quickly.

"Um, those gathering places?" Du Jiashi asked cautiously.

"If they know what's good for them, the Anomaly Containment Association won't need their help."

They understood the underlying meaning of the Bai Zuo's words: if they didn't know better, then they had a ready-made excuse, didn't they?

The fact that their own employees were attacked has given the Anomaly Containment Association the moral high ground, and that using it as a pretext to wage war against the world is merely a retaliation.

As for whether the Blood Feast Armed Forces are not of the same ilk as these gathering places?

They are outsiders, and they can't distinguish which of these forces belongs to whom; they are all people from your world anyway.

Either hand over the Blood Feast Armed Forces to the settlement, or join the Anomaly Containment Association Anomaly Containment Association become its subordinate, or if you are protecting the Blood Feast Armed Forces, the Anomaly Containment Association eliminate them along with the Blood Feast Armed Forces.

The Anomaly Containment Association never intended to have a good relationship with them in the first place.

Especially after learning about the situation here, a civilization that is on the verge of extinction and needs the protection of the Anomaly Containment Association to survive, they have no right to choose the way they want.

They had no choice but to join the Anomaly Containment Association.

"Since you've already made your decision, why do you want us to investigate the White Sand Settlement?"

The White Sand Settlement was just a small settlement. If the Anomaly Containment Association already planning to use violent means of crushing it, there was no need to investigate such a small settlement; they could simply crush it.

As for whether they have any connection with the Blood Feast Armed Forces, that will be investigated after the crushing is over.

Mi Lan walked over and tossed something to Bai Zuo, saying, "Since you guys are so free, I'll give you some input."

Bai Zuo took it and looked at it; it contained the radiation concentration data from various surveys.

In some places, especially near giant craters, radiation concentrations are significantly higher than normal, while in other places, such as those with settlements, radiation concentrations are relatively low.

It seems that the locations of those settlements were not chosen randomly.

This saved the Bai Zuo a lot of trouble.

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