My Ability Pool is Superior - Chapter 419: Doomsday

“Pah!”

Vice President Zheng spat out a mouthful of sand and dust, pushed aside the advertising board that had broken in two and fallen on him, and struggled to stand up.

He looked around and noticed that the Can Society members, including the special duty personnel escorting them, had all become quite disheveled.

One Can Society member even had his leg broken by some falling object and was letting out heart-wrenching screams.

Vice President Zheng’s gaze quickly locked onto Lu Bai.

Compared to the embarrassed crowd present, Lu Bai looked like an outsider, with not even his clothing dirtied.

Lu Bai looked toward the direction of the explosion, his gaze seeming to pierce through the building blocking his view: “That’s…”

“It’s the heavy element reactor.” Pu Xueli said with an ugly complexion, filling in the rest.

Lu Bai had once stopped an attack on the heavy element reactor, so he naturally knew Pu Xueli was not exaggerating.

It must be said that the heavy element reactor provided more than seventy percent of the energy needed for the underground city, forming the foundation of its existence and the lifeline concerning survival.

Without the heavy element reactor, there would be no underground city—this was no exaggeration.

Admittedly, with various backup measures, it was not impossible to continue maintaining the underground city.

But without the heavy element reactor, Shelter No. 9 absolutely could not support the current population.

As for the casualties caused by this heavy element reactor explosion?

Under the current situation, they no longer seemed so important.

Li Shan rushed over covered in dust and grime, grabbed Vice President Zheng’s collar, and growled lowly with some loss of emotional control: “What the hell is going on!”

Vice President Zheng had lost all his abilities and was now just an ordinary person, dragged violently by Li Shan until he could barely breathe.

But he still tried his best to regain his composure and said hoarsely: “I didn’t expect him to actually succeed.”

“Who?” Li Shan blurted out without thinking.

Hearing this, Lu Bai reacted.

He should have thought of it long ago.

In Can Society’s organizational structure, besides the directors and the president, there were two people in the vice president position.

As for that vice president he had never met, Lu Bai had already ignored him after dealing with the president.

He had never anticipated that vice president could cause such a huge commotion.

The subsequent effects of the heavy element reactor damage had not stopped.

As time passed, the power supply to the holographic sky screen was cut off.

Since everyone was accustomed to days simulated by the holographic sky screen mimicking the sky, its extinguishing made people momentarily think it was just an evening without visible stars.

As for the dense Yiju Buildings, they fell into darkness one area after another, unit by unit in Yiju City.

Faced with an event threatening the shelter’s continuity, all backup energy would only be prioritized for various functional departments.

At this time, if someone came to the space above the shelter, they would see that in the vast area, only a few scattered buildings still emitted light.

The other tiny lights in the darkness were merely personal devices like mobile phones and flashlights.

Beep beep beep~

Everyone present, whether special duty or Cheng Zhi Wu, as long as they had an official background, received the level-one vigilance order issued by the City Association.

This was the highest level vigilance order, and since entering the underground city era, it was the first time the City Association had issued this order.

Everything prioritized stabilizing the situation and humanity’s continuation, and if necessary, even the shelter could be abandoned.

……

Facts proved that even though the City Association had prepared a crisis plan in advance for heavy element reactor problems, the situation was still not so easy to control.

Security personnel, including ground armed forces, were all thrown into stability maintenance work.

Armored vehicles equipped with extra lighting moved along the roads in orderly fashion like diligent worker ants, with red and blue lights and warning bells constantly urging the civilians to remain calm.

Unfortunately, it had little effect.

The public network had long been shut down, which curbed the widespread spread of rumors, but instead intensified the panic emotions in the civilians’ hearts.

Especially in such pitch-black surroundings, everyone was filled with uncertainty.

The vast majority of honest civilians were caught in uneasy waiting.

However, some nefarious individuals treated the present as a pre-apocalypse revelry, harboring the idea of indulging before death and no longer considering consequences, becoming reckless and unrestrained.

The proportion of such people was not high, but under the premise of a population in the billions, the number of thugs harboring such ideas and taking action was in the thousands.

Once the hidden bestiality in human nature was triggered, it would spread like a plague, with the subsequent destruction equally immeasurable.

The City Association had considerations in this aspect, which was why it fully activated the violence machine to maintain basic stability.

Unfortunately, achieving even that was quite difficult.

Do not forget, the previous terrifying explosion of the heavy element reactor had an extremely exaggerated scope, almost encompassing the entire underground city, with only differences in the degree of disaster.

This also meant that a considerable portion of civilians needed help.

Whether injured or trapped in buildings needing rescue, getting these people and their families to stay calm and wait patiently was fundamentally impossible.

With various factors stacking up, the chaos throughout the underground city intensified at a speed visible to the naked eye.

“What do we do now? Do we return to the City Hall Building?”

Feng Yixuan had to shout her inquiry, otherwise it couldn’t be heard clearly.

The Sixth Squad Captain remained relatively calm, raising his hand to signal Feng Yixuan and everyone present to stay calm while trying to contact the Cheng Zhi Wu General Captain and any other reachable superiors.

Pu Xueli did the same, though he was contacting his old friends.

In such a disaster, whether official personnel, ordinary people, or death fighters, there was no difference—everyone was trying to find their own pillar of support.

On the contrary, Li Shan did not do this; he somewhat dejectedly released Vice President Zheng, and after a daze, his gaze gradually shifted to Lu Bai.

He was like a drowning person seeing the only lifeline, or the only hope.

Li Shan made no attempt to hide the hope in his eyes, staring straight at Lu Bai: “Do you have a way? You can take my last ability too.”

The heavy element reactor had already exploded; restoring it would probably require reversing time.

Unfortunately, even if Lu Bai rummaged through his entire discard pile, he still couldn’t produce an ability group capable of such a thing.

He could only spread his hands: “What way could I have.”

Hearing this reply, the light in Li Shan’s eyes completely dimmed.

“But if it’s just about illuminating the entire underground city, that’s actually quite simple.”

Lu Bai said suddenly, then snapped his fingers: “Let there be light.”

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