When the leaders of the City R base heard that the support squads from Headquarters had arrived, they immediately came out to welcome them. They were all middle-aged, friendly, and polite.
Every one of them wore a thick coat pieced together from patched-up old clothes. The entire base had an air of straitened poverty.
The members of the Charge Squad could not help asking, "You've got mutated plants right outside your base, and so many mutant animals. How are you still living like this?"
Weren't all those things edible?
Qin Luo and the others immediately gave the Charge Squad a look as though they were idiots. The ratio of ability users to ordinary people was plain to see. Ordinary people still made up the vast majority nationwide. As for helping them evolve into ability users, the first obstacle was the Conservative Faction's concern about genetic modification, and the second was that no stable conversion drug had been developed yet. Ability users were still very scarce.
And how many of those ability users could fight mutated plants and mutant animals?
The fact that the City R base was living like this clearly meant they lacked resources, ability users, and powerful ability users in particular. There were also too many ordinary people. Supplies could not meet demand, leaving everyone scraping by.
It was so obvious that barely any thought was needed.
The Charge Squad had brought up the very subject they should have avoided. Weren't they just a bunch of fools?
Feeling 3A's looks of disbelief at their stupidity, every member of the Charge Squad jolted. They instantly behaved themselves and began inching backward, trying their best to make themselves less noticeable.
Sure enough, the leaders smiled awkwardly and explained the reasons as they walked beside them.
It was more or less