Chapter 224

Wu Pifu put aside the idea of continuing to upgrade the shelter to level five.

On one hand, he could not decide the life, death, and future of tens of millions of people.

On the other hand, he did not feel that his current strength could cope with a world-ending disaster.

Let's put it this way: let alone destroying the moon directly like the great god Chu Minghao, he couldn't even throw a mountain; how could he fight the end of the world?

So Wu Pifu completely abandoned the idea of continuing to upgrade the shelter. Although he did not obtain a title, the rewards for the first four levels of the shelter were not bad.

One random draw, one designated acquisition, then a one-level increase in personal attributes, and the datafied display of personal information for this world and one selected world—these were all the rewards for a level four shelter.

Oh, right, there was also the awakening reward of fifty sleepers or five citizens... As for the draw, he was a professional!

"Not to mention anything else, I still had a one-level personal attribute increase reward from before that I hadn't used. Adding this personal attribute increase, I can raise my title to citizen level one."

Wu Pifu said to Jiu Jiu and Daphne while getting out of the vehicle.

Jiu Jiu chirped casually, and Daphne also barked casually.

Wu Pifu shook his head and said: "Don't think that titles don't matter. I originally thought so too, but now I know many things about titles. For example, when I reach citizen level, I will have a portable space where I can put many things: fresh water, food, and even you..."

Jiu Jiu bumped its head against Wu Pifu's temple, while Daphne bit his wrist.

Wu Pifu didn't mind, just saying: "I'm serious. Your strength is too weak. Although you have the demon source transformation now, one lasts five seconds and the other eight seconds—what's the use of that? After using it, you can't move for a whole day, and it's not a permanent state. So I really have to think of a way to improve your survivability. And I don't know if that personal space can hold living things. If it can, then using it to hold you would be really good... Speaking of which, doesn't this look like a portable pocket monster?"

When Wu Pifu said this, he laughed himself. He reached out one hand forward and the other backward, making a throwing motion, and said: "I choose you, go, Pika-Jiu!"

Just at this moment, the gate to the underground garage opened, and Li Xianchun and a group of men and women stood behind it, all silently watching Wu Pifu.

Wu Pifu's face turned red, but fortunately, he had been tempered. At this moment, he took the opportunity to retract his hands and feet, coughed twice, and prepared to walk through the crowd.

But Li Xianchun immediately stopped him and said: "Mr. Wu, we have important matters we want to report to you!"

Li Xianchun said this very formally and solemnly. Wu Pifu's heart stirred, and he had a rough premonition. He said: "Fine, I'll come over after I wash up."

Very quickly, Wu Pifu washed up simply on his floor, washed away the smell of blood from his body, and felt the spiritual energy of heaven and earth radiating from the three spiritual machine cores. After nodding with satisfaction, he brought Jiu Jiu and Daphne to the first floor where Li Xianchun and the others were.

Nearly a hundred people were present, all of whom were leaders of various regions who had already grasped real power, as well as some researchers and powerful lone wolves. They all watched Wu Pifu walk onto this floor and then saw Li Xianchun greet him.

Li Xianchun said solemnly to Wu Pifu: "Mr. Wu, we held a national referendum three days ago. In three days, we have completely counted all the votes, totaling more than 26 million. Those in favor of uncovering the truth were 64 percent, far exceeding those who wanted to maintain the falsehood, so we have decided to continue exploring the truth!"

Wu Pifu nodded and said: "Understood, I refuse."

(I have done my duty. If even this is not enough, then we might as well all go die together!)

Wu Pifu continued: "I said, I refuse."

Not only Li Xianchun, but the others were also stunned.

They never expected the result to be like this.

Since Wu Pifu took Li Xianchun to meet the members of the Azure organization and learned the unbelievable truth, half a month had passed. During this period, Wu Pifu took Jiu Jiu and Daphne to kill biochemical beasts every day, and in order to kill more, he drove the heavy transport super-machine and ran directly outside the human territory to slaughter them.

His strength was completely sufficient for him to face a large number of biochemical beasts. These huge biochemical beasts had no threat at close range, and he happened to be immune to long-range attacks—it could be said he was a direct counter. So, after half a month of slaughter, he had killed at least five hundred large biochemical beasts, among which at least two were Overlord-class. Unfortunately, the Overlord-class biochemical beasts did not drop spiritual machine cores, but they provided more than ten times the spiritual energy of heaven and earth compared to ordinary biochemical beasts.

Besides this, Wu Pifu did not do anything else; he just practiced boxing, rested, killed biochemical beasts, and obtained spiritual energy of heaven and earth to continue cultivating. But in these half a month, these elites and righteous people who controlled human civilization had truly pushed for a national referendum. In order to get more people to participate, they even used the promise of one kilogram of fresh water for every person who participated to promote the referendum, which is why they were able to gather more than 20 million votes in half a month, barely counting as a true national referendum.

It can be said that for this, none of them had closed their eyes much these days; they truly treated this as the future of humanity and fought for it.

But who knew that Wu Pifu, who they thought would have no problem at all, would be the one to cause a situation.

Li Xianchun thought Wu Pifu hadn't heard clearly, so she immediately said: "We really held a national referendum. Every step was supervised by each other, and there was absolutely no situation of fraud or the like. This is definitely..."

Wu Pifu interrupted her: "The vast majority of people do not know what their choice means. They don't even need the truth, nor do they need falsehood. They just hope to live, to eat, sleep, and hit their children every day, to have a wife, children, and a warm bed. If they can live better and better, that's even better. If they can live a life without illness or disaster, then they feel this is happiness, not the so-called truth of your referendum."

At this time, someone couldn't help but say: "But when we held this referendum, we also clearly told them the content of the referendum and sent personnel to constantly promote and explain it. They know that once they choose the truth, life will change drastically, and the world may change drastically. They know it."

"If they knew, they wouldn't have chosen to want one kilogram of fresh water."

Wu Pifu shook his head and said: "Now none of us know what the truth is, and they don't know either. But they will 'watch'—watch what the people around them vote for, watch what you big shots choose. Even if you haven't said anything, don't underestimate the insight of the working people. They will choose the path most conducive to their 'survival', but this does not mean it is their true thoughts and choices."

Everyone looked at each other, and some people in the teams were indeed nodding secretly.

At this time, the one-eyed old man, the lone wolf mercenary with the code name Cang Lang, asked: "So Mr. Wu, how do you think we should act? The national referendum is already the final decision of humanity that we could think of. If this doesn't count, does it mean we are not qualified to seek the answer at all?"

Wu Pifu thought for a while and said: "That's not necessarily the case. How should I put it? Everyone must be responsible for their own choices. Actually, to be serious, the national referendum result you have obtained is indeed sufficient in terms of law and reason to explore the truth. Even if it triggers some great catastrophe, no one can blame you, so you are qualified to explore the truth. And my refusal, besides feeling that this national referendum does not represent their true thoughts, also has a key problem..."

!

"I am not confident in facing a global doomsday."

Wu Pifu spread his hands frankly and said: "Have you all truly witnessed the doomsday? Take the moment the biochemical beasts originated: eighty years ago, biochemical beasts appeared out of nowhere and slaughtered billions of people worldwide, leaving less than one percent remaining in this small territory. Who among you has witnessed all that with your own eyes? Who has truly experienced all that?"

Everyone present looked at each other. Even the oldest person among them had not personally experienced all that; to them, all that was just recorded past history.

Wu Pifu continued: "I have witnessed the doomsday with my own eyes, a real, terrifying doomsday... Demons dancing in chaos, countless monsters, devils opening a single eye from the moon, land gods returning from death. Everything turned into a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. There was no safe place, and no one could survive. You don't understand at all what the two words 'doomsday' mean!"

Everyone present lowered their heads in silence.

They knew from Li Xianchun that Wu Pifu was a pre-war human who had just awakened from sleep, so they naturally thought that the doomsday and scenes Wu Pifu spoke of were the great massacre when the biochemical beasts originated.

"So I refuse."

Wu Pifu said seriously to everyone: "Either you explore the truth and the answer yourselves, and any result needs to be borne by you yourselves, or you accumulate strength—for example, you can develop science, build more schools, encourage childbirth, build large amounts of defensive fortifications, and make the existing human civilization stronger—or you wait for me to become stronger, until I can bear the burden of resisting the doomsday alone. At that time, I will naturally explore this truth, but not now."

After speaking, Wu Pifu ignored the expressions of the crowd, turned around, and returned to his own floor alone to continue using the three spiritual machine cores to cultivate the Human Immortal Martial Dao and the Iron Refining Record.

Everyone looked at each other, all helpless, because the channels to explore the truth were now only in Wu Pifu's hands. He was unwilling, and the others were unable to do anything. After discussing it again and deciding to hold a plenary meeting here every month, everyone could only disperse helplessly.

This matter seemed to have come to an end, and even Li Xianchun could only helplessly choose to put it aside for the time being. That night, Li Muxia came to Li Xianchun's room.

"What's wrong? You're such a big kid now, afraid of the dark again today? Want to sleep with your sister?" Li Xianchun was lying on the bed reading a book. When she saw Li Muxia, she was stunned for a moment, then couldn't help but say with a smile.

Li Muxia walked out of the darkness. Li Xianchun's expression changed immediately. She immediately reached out to take a pistol from under the pillow, and at the same time, she was about to shout.

Li Muxia was expressionless, but used a man's voice to say: "Do you... want to explore the truth?"

"I need your help to let the true super-soldier evolutionaries know what the truth is!"

(End of chapter)