Chapter 1077: Hotbed of Evil
We have experienced so many things one after another, supporting and warming each other with others.
Li Luo is deeply aware that in this devastated world, keeping to oneself may bring temporary stability, but it cannot bring true peace and satisfaction.
Especially when I think back to the people I saw struggling in difficult situations.
The helplessness and desire in their eyes were like heavy hammers, constantly hammering at Li Luo's heart.
She was no longer satisfied with just protecting her own little home.
Instead, I am eager to use my own abilities to do more for this broken world.
The world may be in tatters, but there are always people who can patch it up.
And she just wanted to be the one who did the mending.
Even if the power is weak, even if the road is rough.
She also wants to do her best to bring warmth and hope to those in need.
Li Luo knew that this journey might be full of hardships and challenges.
But every time I see others smile because of my help and hear their sincere thanks.
She felt that it was all worth it.
She firmly believes that as long as more and more people are willing to lend a helping hand, the world will one day be repaired and regain its former glory.
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Three days of peace passed quietly.
During these three days which seemed short but extremely precious, the entire Jinling base appeared to be calm and peaceful.
However, beneath this calm appearance, there is actually a tense and busy atmosphere everywhere.
Every corner seems to be shrouded in invisible pressure.
Everyone's nerves were on edge.
From dawn to dusk, people were in a hurry with serious expressions.
In the streets and alleys of Jinling Base, people can be seen busy everywhere.
Everyone is racing against time to make comprehensive and adequate preparations for the coming eternal night.
Everlasting night.
It was a horrific disaster recorded in the doomsday manual.
The daylight completely disappeared, as if wiped out from the long river of time by an invisible giant hand, leaving no trace.
The sun, the once shining star that gave life and vitality to all things, disappeared without a trace, as if it had never existed in this sky.
There was only the endless, bottomless night, like a heavy black mountain, ruthlessly crushing the earth.
In Li Luo's memory of his previous life, the Eternal Night period was like a nightmare from which one could never wake up, bringing with it endless chaos that was horrifying and terrifying.
Order was like a meticulously constructed magnificent building, which suddenly collapsed under the violent ravages of a violent storm and turned into a messy ruin in an instant.
The moral defenses completely collapsed, as if they had never existed, and disappeared without a trace.
Darkness, like a fertile soil for sin, has become a hotbed for crime to grow rampantly, exposing the ugliest and most evil side of human nature nakedly to the world without any cover.
In that long dark night that seemed to have no end, all kinds of unimaginable and heinous vicious incidents emerged like surging waves, one higher than the other, one after another, continuously.
The robbers were like mad beasts who had lost their minds, waving sharp weapons that gleamed with cold light and rushing through the narrow and winding streets.
There was only greed in his eyes as he unscrupulously snatched the few remaining supplies that others relied on for survival.
Murders happened repeatedly, and the blood of innocent people flowed freely in the darkness, condensing into heartbreaking dark red pools of blood on the cold ground.
And then there is the disgusting and insane human trafficking.
Living people are bought and sold at will, like commodities without life or dignity.
The bottom line of humanity was completely trampled upon and completely lost at this moment.
The fear in people's hearts was infinitely magnified, like a vast, bottomless dark ocean, ruthlessly devouring their souls and making them gradually sink into the abyss of despair, unable to extricate themselves.
The ugliness of human nature spreads wildly in the darkness, like an unstoppable and deadly plague, ruthlessly eroding every corner of society.
The streets have become a place of death where dangers and murders are lurking everywhere.
Every step you take seems like you might step into a dark abyss from which there is no escape.
The front door of home, once a warm shelter for people's hearts, is now as fragile as paper and can no longer prevent the wanton invasion of evil.
Violence and evil appear and disappear like ghosts, easily breaking through the defenses that were once considered indestructible, and engraving fear and despair deeply in everyone's heart, becoming an indelible pain.
There were countless criminal incidents during the Eternal Night. Even though the authorities wanted to crack down on them, they were simply overwhelmed and could not spare more energy to investigate each case one by one.
They are full of helplessness. Although they have a sense of justice, they are powerless and can only focus their limited resources and energy on major incidents that have extremely bad impacts and cause great harm.
The remaining cases can only be put on hold for the time being.
This helpless situation undoubtedly makes criminals more emboldened.
Those who originally had the desire to steal but not the courage to do so, after realizing that the authorities were too busy to deal with many small-scale crimes, gradually became bolder and plunged into illegal and criminal activities.
Because they know very well that as long as they don't make a big fuss, the authorities will not waste precious manpower and resources to deal with them.
As a result, crime has become more rampant, growing like weeds and is difficult to curb.
And those who have always abided by the law have fallen into an unbearable predicament.
They live in fear and anxiety every day, constantly worrying that their lives and property are threatened, but they have nowhere to appeal and can only struggle hard and barely survive in this chaotic world.
Li Luo still clearly remembers an incident she witnessed during that horrific eternal night that still scares her to this day and makes her sweat in her dreams at midnight.
It was a freezing cold night with a howling wind.
The darkness was like a huge magic net, covering the entire world tightly, as if ruthlessly dragging it into an endless bottomless abyss.
After a whole day of hard work, Li Luo staggered towards his dilapidated shack, exhausted.
However, when she finally arrived, she was shocked to find that her bed in the shack had been brutally occupied by someone else at some point.
Even her meager and precious possessions disappeared without leaving any trace.
She stood at the door, her eyes blank, the anger, grievance and helplessness in her heart intertwined like a tangled mess.
