After The Fall Of The Earth, My Hotel Became Popular - Chapter 67

Chapter 67 – The Origin of The Holy Church

　　They drove towards the safe zone, encountering more and more filth along the way. The temperature that had been dropping for several consecutive days had finally stopped, allowing the filth to come out.

　　Wen Bei remained calm as he watched a ladybug rushing towards him, trying to bite the car window. Several shapes of faces grew on the originally black spots on its back.

　　The contaminated ladybug exploded and died the moment it was about to touch the car window.

　　It was Qiu Tin’s handiwork.

　　Everyone is used to it.

　　They only thought that Qiu Tin’s ability was related to body explosion. The actual situation was only known to Wen Bei. He was able to do this by quickly activating the pollution in the filthy objects, causing the pollution in their bodies to reach the highest level and cause an explosion. The speed was so fast that no one noticed that the filthy objects underwent a second mutation in the last second before they exploded.

　　They stopped the car to rest, and Bo Ji pushed up his glasses to explain science: “The shape of the spots on this ladybug’s body could be the face of the food it recently ate.”

　　A’Luo’s expression changed: “I just saw that one of the spots was a human face…”

　　He dry-heaved, drank some water and quickly recovered. After walking in the contaminated area for a few days, much of the childishness on his face disappeared.

　　A’Luo took the initiative to take on the job of making fire, and they lit a fire again in the snow.

　　Wen Bei began to count the goods. Among the three trucks, two were filled with the cheapest multi-grain cakes and one was filled with canned chickpeas.

　　He opened one of the cans of chickpeas and the good news was that, aside from being frozen solid, the contents were undamaged.

　　He dropped the can directly into the hot water, hoping to soften it.

　　A’Luo stared at the steaming pot, with hope in his eyes: “A’Mei likes chickpeas the most.”

　　Mutated chickpeas are a rare emergency food that doesn’t have a strange taste, but they taste a bit like crumbs.

　　Once, someone came to the base to exchange a batch of supplies, and his brother grabbed a can of chickpeas. That day happened to be his sister’s birthday, and they rarely had food other than dry multi-grain biscuits.

　　Wen Bei glanced at him and asked, “How old is your sister?”

　　A’Luo scratched his head embarrassedly: “She’s not an adult yet. She just turned fourteen this year.”

　　In other words, she experienced the end of the world when she was less than ten years old.

　　Children and the elderly are the groups with the highest mortality rate in the apocalypse. Those who are still alive today must have gone through hardships.

　　Wen Bei lowered his eyes and whispered, “You will become a hero in your sister’s eyes.”

　　A’Luo grinned and touched his pocket, which contained two candies. He didn’t have crystals to buy candies in the hotel, so Bo Ji lent him crystals to buy them.

　　He wanted to take the two candies back to his brother and sister, so he kept them close to him.

　　While they were chatting, the white fox appeared from nowhere and hid under Wen Bei’s feet with a look of grievance.

　　Wen Bei looked down and found that his hair had become dirty. He had been following them all the way and had never gotten dirty before. But now, not only was his hair standing on end, but it was also covered in gray patches.

　　”Where have you been?” Wen Bei was about to pick him up when Qiu Tin suddenly appeared out of nowhere and stopped him.

　　”Dirty.” He said briefly, then pulled Wen Bei’s hand and wiped it with a handkerchief.

　　The white fox immediately exploded at the man.

　　This masterpiece on his body was his doing.

　　Not only did he forcibly separate him from the young man, but when he was driving past a mud pit, he used his supernatural powers to throw him into it.

　　He walked away without hesitation, and even tutted in dissatisfaction when he saw that he hadn’t been left behind and came back in a mess.

　　The white fox bared its teeth at Qiu Tin, and Wen Bei looked at the man in confusion: “Did you bully him?”

　　Qiu Tin sneered: “Bullying a puppy? What good will it do me?”

　　‘This shameless green tea!!’

　　The white fox was so angry that his lungs were about to explode, but he couldn’t tell him about the shameful thing he had just been through. He could only swallow his anger and try to strangle him with his eyes.

　　Wen Bei: “Can you coexist peacefully?”

　　Qiu Tin nodded perfunctorily: “Yeah.”

　　The white fox watched him acting coldly, its claws ready to move.

　　Then he was picked up by Wen Bei again. There was an inexplicably reassuring atmosphere in the young man’s arms.

　　Wen Bei: “I’ll take him to take a shower.”

　　It’s so dirty and looks a bit uncomfortable.

　　This time the one who was being coy was the white fox again. He poked his head out from Wen Bei’s arms, and a provocative look appeared on his furry face in a human-like way.

　　There was some hostility in Qiu Tin’s eyes: “Heh.”

　　After being washed, the white fox’s fur became soft again, and his tail swung proudly as he looked at Qiu Tin with contempt.

　　Qiu Tin looked at Wen Bei expressionlessly: “Do you feel that you are still short of a scarf?”

　　Wen Bei: “Hmm?”

　　Qiu Tin: “I’ll make you a fox fur scarf.”

　　Su Wu:”……”

　　With the lessons learned from the previous incident, he stayed a little further away from his vengeance this time, not wanting to be thrown into the mud again.

　　Wen Bei ignored the two childish guys and found Bo Ji who was studying a wild flower.

　　When Bo Ji heard his question, his face suddenly became very nervous: “You, you mean you met someone in a white robe at the bottom of the crack?”

　　As soon as he saw his big reaction, Wen Bei knew that his guess was correct.

　　The base really knew about the existence of those people.

　　Wen Bei: “They call themselves the Holy Evolution Church.”

　　”…It was them indeed.” Bo Ji muttered to himself, “So the loss of this batch of supplies was also their doing.”

　　Those official transport personnel of the base did not die at the hands of filth, but at the hands of their fellow human beings.

　　This result is even more infuriating.

　　Bo Ji’s expression changed several times before slowly turning pale. “Ah, I know what you want to ask. I will tell you everything. These things are considered taboos in the base and cannot be mentioned casually. Most ordinary people don’t even know the existence of this sect.”

　　”They call themselves the Church of Holy Evolution.”

　　”It’s a cult. They believe that all the distortions in this world are not pollution, but a sacred evolutionary process. Ordinary people who have never gained abilities are beings abandoned by evolution.”

　　Bo Ji took off his glasses and wiped the mist off them. “This group of people are almost all people with a pollution level of over 95. They are dying, so they are rebelling and want to drag more humans into the water. Countless humans have died in their hands.”

　　A pollution level of over 95% means that no matter how distorted the values of the people in this sect are, their strength must be very high.

　　This is the main reason why they could build camps in contaminated areas and constantly cause trouble for others.

　　Wen Bei: “Why hide their existence from ordinary people?”

　　No wonder he had never heard of the existence of this sect when he was absorbing common knowledge about the apocalypse in the base.

　　Bo Ji: “You know the Far Traveler Project, and you also know how many lives were lost because of this project. How is it possible that everyone has no resentment?”

　　Wen Bei slightly widened his eyes: “You mean… the Far Traveler Project is related to the Holy Progressive Church?”

　　Bo Ji: “The founder of the Holy Progressive Church is the survivor of the Far Traveler Project.”

　　”At the beginning of the Far Traveler Project, there was no procedure for watching people die. The base believed that after sending those people to the contaminated area, they would definitely die soon without supplies. However, they did not expect that some people would survive and create this anti-human organization.”

　　”At first, they used the Far Traveler Program to recruit members. Later, they began to kill humans. Only then was the serious flaw in the Far Traveler Program discovered by the base. After that, all Far Travelers had to be watched by their escorts as they died.”

　　Unfortunately, it was too late. The Holy Church already had a foundation, and even without the help of the Traveler Program, new members continued to join.

　　Not everyone whose pollution level exceeded ninety-five would volunteer to die.

　　In order to gain motivation and resources to survive, these polluters joined this sect, and layer after layer of brainwashing made the heroes who once protected the base to turn into executioners who killed their companions.

　　In troubled times, the only thing that is most easily abandoned is your stance.

　　There was such a big flaw in the Far Traveler Project that the base officials did not dare to announce it and could only hide it from the general public.

　　They let them believe that those travelers who were expelled because of pollution levels exceeding ninety-five or who committed crimes actually died outside the base.

　　After Bo Ji finished speaking, he was silent for a long time. He deliberately lowered his voice to avoid A’Luo.

　　After he finished speaking, he didn’t look at Wen Bei’s expression, but slowly picked up the can of cooked chickpeas. If he hadn’t happened to come across it, he wouldn’t have wanted to point out these things that exuded a rotten smell.

　　Because he was also a supporter of the Far Traveler Project at the beginning, and until now, he has no regrets.

　　This plan might be criticized as cruel in the future, especially after the emergence of the Hotel that could reduce pollution, the polluters who were abandoned at the time would seem even more pitiful.

　　But only the parties involved will ever know how many innocent people have been saved by this plan.

　　He is a scientific researcher and he knows very well that once the pollution level exceeds ninety-five, no matter how good a person’s character is, he cannot be trusted. Maybe one out of ten people can resist the urge to destroy, but they cannot afford to gamble on the remaining nine.

　　He once saw a father being secretly hidden by his family after the pollution level exceeded 95. They didn’t want him to become one of the travelers. They thought that as long as the pollution level was controlled at this number, no accidents would happen.

　　The end result was that the father could not bear the destructive desire brought by the pollution, and bit his daughter to death when she brought him food. After regaining his sanity, he committed suicide.

　　That family happened to be Bo Ji’s neighbors.

　　The father was a soldier who had saved the lives of many ordinary people. The crystals he left behind were enough for the family of three to live on for a long time.

　　Unfortunately, the surviving mother couldn’t hold on for long and committed suicide as well.

　　Bo Ji helped to handle the funeral arrangements.

　　He couldn’t understand the family’s actions at the time, and he still doesn’t agree with them now.

　　Bo Ji rarely showed any confusion: “Humans are stupid creatures driven by emotions, and so are those Saints. For such a weak group, being eliminated from the food chain may be in line with development.”

　　Stupid fights among themselves had made the already difficult living space for humanity even smaller.

　　The fear of death is the ultimate reason for the split in positions.

　　Wen Bei shrugged: “But humans are also the only creatures that still have emotions after the apocalypse. Just for this reason, humans have already won.”