Calamity of Tomorrow-Chapter 523 - 522 pillars

Zhao Haomiao stared at the severely injured Zhou Bai, listening to the words he had spoken, and was utterly shocked.

"Are these words someone would say?"

"No, could an ordinary person even say something like this?"

"Even at this moment, he's still thinking about waste management?"

Zhao Haomiao looked at the man before him, recalling how he had repeatedly sacrificed himself to save him, and even now, what filled the other's mind was still the issue of waste management.

Together with the desires reclaimed and the positive energy returned, Zhao Haomiao felt he was about to cry from being moved.

As for whether the situation at hand was a double act between Zhou Bai and his Soul Emergence, Zhao Haomiao, who had just been rescued from a life-and-death crisis, simply had no time to think about it.

Although he had thought about it afterward, the idea of sacrificing a great master's Soul Emergence to deceive him just to steal waste seemed unlikely to Zhao Haomiao.

At this moment, he looked at Zhou Bai and said, "Don't think too much right now, first focus on healing your injuries…"

Christina grasped Zhao Haomiao's hand, "Waste!"

Zhao Haomiao could only comfort her, "Don't worry, once your injuries are healed, I will help you figure out the waste issue."

Zhou Bai's Primordial Spirit, which had just stealthily returned to his own body during their clash, watched Christina's performance and commented expressionlessly, "Forced expressions, quite exaggerated."

Christina retorted, "Why would you say that? See how moved Zhao Haomiao is right now?"

Zhou Bai responded, "He's moved because my greed ability has taken effect, controlling his emotional fluctuations to match your exaggerated acting."

As he spoke, Zhou Bai regained control of his body and said to Christina, "Take a good look at what real acting is."

Zhao Haomiao saw Zhou Bai, who had just collapsed, suddenly shudder, and blood continuously flowed from his seven orifices.

"Are you alright?" Zhao Haomiao immediately helped Zhou Bai up, "I'll take you to the hospital right now for treatment! You must hang on!"

Zhou Bai slowly said, "I'm glad you're alright. Today, I actually wanted to discuss waste management issues with you; I didn't expect all of this to happen."

Zhao Haomiao looked at Zhou Bai, whose eyes were clear and sincere, showing no trace of pretense.

Zhao Haomiao couldn't help but ask, "Why are you so insistent on managing waste? Handling waste only earns a few thousand points in materials a month at most, and it might even affect your cultivation."

Zhou Bai sighed, a light of compassion for the world flashing in his eyes, "The waste pollution in Donghua City is too severe. Do you know how much waste three hundred million people can produce each day? Every day, tens of thousands of tons of waste are generated in Donghua City."

"If this waste were used for landfill, it could pile from the bottom to the top of a 2000-meter high building in Donghua City every day."

"If this waste were to be loaded into train carriages, then every day it could circle the entire city."

Zhou Bai became more agitated as he spoke, a sickly paleness crossing his face, yet he persisted, "With so much waste, it must be sorted for transport, processed, recycled, and many harmful types of waste still lack effective treatment methods."

"With Donghua City's processing effeciency, it's simply impossible to handle all the waste each day, and the excess, unprocessed waste can only be temporarily piled up outside the city."

"This also means that workers need to risk their lives every day, facing the danger of being contaminated by polluted mechanisms, to push the large amounts of waste to the wilderness."

"And the trash continues to pile up, constantly destroying the environment around Donghua City."

"Our groundwater, our soil, our atmosphere is continuously being polluted."

Zhou Bai, his face full of sorrow, grabbed Zhao Haomiao's shoulders, "If this continues, it won't take twenty years for the entire surrounding area of Donghua City to become uninhabitable! What will we do then?"

"Have you seen the civilian area on the surface of Donghua City? Already, hundreds of children are sick because they drank contaminated water."

"Have you seen those garbage disposal workers? Some of them have been deformed due to prolonged exposure to the polluted spiritual machines in the wilderness."

Zhou Bai, his eyes slightly red, spoke earnestly, "This is just the tip of the iceberg of garbage pollution."

"At least for the children's future, we should hurry up and take care of the garbage, shouldn't we?"

Looking into Zhou Bai's eyes, filled with concern for the future and Donghua City, Zhao Haomiao felt infected by his patriotic and compassionate spirit, deeply sensing the urgency of waste disposal.

Zhao Haomiao looked at Zhou Bai, feeling waves of shame, "Zhou Bai is truly a hero devoted to humanity. Even when seriously injured, he is still thinking about waste disposal.

In comparison, I'm just a selfish creature. While he was thinking about how to dispose of garbage, how to build Donghua City, I actually thought about destroying such a pillar of humanity."

Zhao Haomiao felt extremely ashamed, considering himself utterly unworthy.

His heart was already leaning towards Zhou Bai's garbage disposal policy.

But after thinking it over, he still clenched his teeth and said, "But I've asked the people from the Plague Department; they think throwing garbage directly into the void is dangerous."

"Dangerous? What nonsense!" Zhou Bai said angrily, "The void is the dwelling of Heavenly Dao, theoretically a convergence of all information and matter in the world; our Material World is but a projection of the void.

The trash we throw in, in the grand scheme of the void, is less significant than dust, how could it possibly be dangerous?!"

Zhao Haomiao felt that Zhou Bai made some sense, but as the most professional institution researching distortions, the authority of the Plague Department was deeply rooted in his mind.

Seeing Zhao Haomiao hesitant, Zhou Bai said, "If you don't believe me, you surely believe Jiaojiao, right? As a being capable of combating deities, her words are authoritative, aren't they?"

Zhou Bai spoke earnestly, "We can go ask Elder Jiaojiao together, see what she thinks about dumping garbage into the void."

...

"Pervert."

"Throwing trash into the void, honestly, is quite perverted."

"Typical of you to come up with such an idea, Zhou Bai, it's got your style."

Hearing Jiaojiao's judgment, Zhou Bai smiled awkwardly, "Heh."

Surprised, Zhao Haomiao said, "Really, there are no problems? But that's not what the Plague Department said."

Jiaojiao scoffed, "The Plague Department is just a group of incompetents who hold positions without fulfilling their duties. They like to hold onto things they can't manage."

Zhao Haomiao felt her words might contain some deeper meaning, but he couldn't grasp it at the moment.