Chapter 216: 235. A Gradually Recovering Body
"And the cities up there aren't affected or troubled by seasonal shifts. The chances of producing superhumans are far higher than in the lower levels. Unlike down here, even if some lucky person awakens as a superhuman, their supernatural circuits will be blemished by the seasonal mist. Their starting level won't be high, and they won't have much of a future."
"The Light Institute withdrew from the lower levels because they hadn't recruited a single student down here for years."
It was as if Xiao Man had opened the floodgates, and she went on and on.
"When I was little, they still showed promotional films about the cities up above on TV, encouraging children to work hard to become superhumans, get selected, and head to the upper levels for a better life. Now they don't even show those commercials anymore."
Xu Zhi nodded along. The topic seemed to have drifted a little, but they had two hours, so Xiao Man was bound to say something useful eventually, right?!
For quite a while afterward, Nurse Xiao Man kept complaining about how the lower levels had been abandoned and how those above had made the process of abandonment painfully clear to those below.
There was a faint indignation in her tone. She probably couldn't understand why the lower levels had to bear the hardships of the seasonal shifts on behalf of those above, only to be abandoned by them as well.
After talking for quite some time, Xiao Man suddenly realized, "Oh, I think I got off topic."
Xu Zhi let out a long sigh in her heart. You finally noticed, sis!
Yet she still looked exceedingly tolerant as she said, "It's fine. I quite like hearing you talk about these things."
Xiao Man chuckled.