The collapse of the Tongmu team has caused a lot of impact in the base. After all, there are only a few wood-type supernatural beings who can ripen fruits and vegetables, and any one missing will have a certain impact on the base's material supply.
Fortunately, the usual "service scope" of the leader of the Tongmu team does not include ordinary people in the base, so those who are more affected now are those who have lost a way to improve their diet, not those who are already struggling with food and clothing. Ordinary people can be regarded as a blessing in misfortune.
But for the base, the death of the Tongmu team not only represented the loss of a source of supplies, but also brought to light the conflict between the supernatural beings and ordinary people in the base in an extremely cruel way.
Even though Shen Qing and the others realized a long time ago that with the passage of time, the level of supernatural powers continues to increase, and the gap in combat effectiveness and productivity between them and ordinary people continues to widen, which will lead to an even greater disparity in their social status. Many measures have been taken to address this issue.
For example, in the base, it is strictly forbidden for people with supernatural powers to use their powers to hurt people without reason, whether people with supernatural powers or ordinary people are equal before the law, and setting up jobs that ordinary people can also hold to ensure that they have the ability to support themselves...
But even though they have done so much, there are still people with supernatural abilities oppressing ordinary people in some places that are not visible in private. Like the Tongmu team, relying on their own abilities, there are not a few supernatural beings who do not treat ordinary people as human beings, and there are still many supernatural beings who have not done so well, but they still have contempt for ordinary people in their hearts. .
In this regard, they see it in their eyes and are anxious in their hearts, but they don't know what to do.
After Ye Xuan discovered this, he spent a long time recalling the events of his previous life, and finally found a possible breakthrough.
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When having dinner with Shen's family, Ye Xuan pretended to be unintentional and said: "Speaking of which, I haven't seen a newborn child in the base for a long time. Ordinary people are not in good health and are afraid that they will not be able to support their children. It's not hard to raise a child, and no one wants a child?"
Shen Ping glanced at him, and asked coldly: "Why, do you want a child?"
"You can't talk nonsense!" Ye Xuan was taken aback by him, and waved his hands again and again: "I was sorting out the supplies stored in the space two days ago, and suddenly found a batch of baby equipment I collected before. I put it in the space and didn’t see a chance to sell it, so I suddenly remembered this matter.”
Shen Mingyue said in disbelief: "Brother Ye Xuan, there are still things for babies in your space?"
"Yeah, when I was collecting supplies, I felt that I had a lot of space. I didn't have to carefully calculate where to put things, so I just collected everything. I thought that when the social order stabilized a bit, these random things would be enough I was able to resell it at a high price, and now it seems that I chose the wrong product.”
"Brother Ye Xuan, have you been thinking about reselling supplies in the future?"
"After all, my ability level was not high at that time, and I didn't know how to use the wood-type ability. I thought my ability was very useless. In order to better support my family in the future, I had to think more."
Shen Ping glanced at him again, and said in his heart: Ever since I knew you, kid, I haven't seen you pass materials and crystal nuclei!
However, looking at the niece with a moved face and the nephew whose eyes were not obvious but softened a lot, he curled his lips, but still didn't say anything to disrupt the situation.
Ruan Congshan, who was sitting quietly by the side listening to the chatter of the juniors, suddenly said, "Speaking of this, I haven't heard of a child being born in any family for a long time."
Shen Minglang said: "The birth rate of newborns in the base in the past two years is indeed not high, but adults can't even support themselves, how can they have the mind to have children? Besides, in the current environment, let alone newborn children , that is, many adults can’t stand it, how can they support them?”
Mr. Shen interjected: "It was not difficult for us at that time. Who did you see having fewer children? Difficulties are difficult, and no matter how difficult it is, there will be no less inheritance. This is something engraved in the bones of many people. How can it be because of now Give up if the situation is not good?"
Shen Qing looked at his younger brother who was unwilling to fall in love in his thirties, the eldest son and daughter who had passed the age of puppy love and hadn't realized it yet, the youngest son who hadn't reached the age of love, and the one who was destined to die in this life. The nephew who couldn't get married and have children like ordinary people suddenly felt that it was not appropriate to talk about marriage and have children in his own family...
At the same time, Ye Xuan also thought about the staffing of the Shen family, even if the end of the world has not come, no one will think about why there is no newborn in a few years. Seeing that the topic was about to go to Yikusitian, he quickly reminded: "I suddenly thought just now, maybe it's not that they don't want children, but that they can't have children?"
Shen Minghui let out an ah, and suddenly asked: "Is it like in some fairy tales about cultivating immortals, the higher the cultivation level and the longer the immortal cultivator lives, the more difficult it is for the cultivator to have children?"
"Who knows?" Shen Ping leaned on the sofa, and casually continued: "No one has figured out the difference between the bodies of supernatural beings and ordinary people. the same?"
Mr. Shen gave him a sideways glance, and after successfully staring back at his stupid words, he said to Shen Minglang: "Minglang, you go to the research institute tomorrow and ask if they have any research on the birth rate in recent years. .Remember, focus on comparing the data between superhumans and ordinary people to see if there is any difference."
Although I feel that the matter of the birth suffering of the supernatural person sounds a bit ridiculous, but for some reason, Mr. Shen has a very strong intuition, and feels that this matter is probably true.
He looked at Ye Xuan who started talking about the issue and started talking to his granddaughter about his storage of space materials. He lowered his eyes and suppressed the guesses in his heart.
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Half a month later, the research institute of the Northwest Base announced the latest data - since the last two years, 87% of the newborns in the base were born between two ordinary people, and 11% It is born of the combination of supernatural beings and ordinary people, and only a very small 2% is conceived by the combination of two supernatural beings.
The announcement of this data has aroused a lot of attention in the base.
You must know that two years after the end of the world, due to the fact that the death rate of ordinary people is much higher than that of people with supernatural powers, and some ordinary people have awakened their powers, the proportion of people with supernatural powers in the total population has changed from 100% to 100%. Once it has risen to about 7%, combined with unofficial data, it shows that the proportion of people with supernatural powers who choose to keep their children after pregnancy is higher than that of ordinary people. Even though there is no reliable evidence to explain the reason, but people with supernatural powers It is already obvious that it is more difficult than ordinary people to conceive offspring.
It has to be said that nature is fair in a sense.
While the supernatural being gained powerful power and gained more chances to survive, he also inadvertently lost something. Although it is not 100% impossible to have offspring, judging from the current situation, it is indeed much more difficult for them to have blood inheritance than ordinary people.
If human beings want to continue to pass on from generation to generation, so that they will not disappear in this world one day because they cannot have offspring, these ordinary people who are looked down upon by supernatural beings and seem to be of no use other than dragging human beings back, It is an extremely important part.
After that, even though they didn't want "reproductive tool" to become a label for ordinary people, the base still deliberately promoted it when ordinary people couldn't survive and were treated as waste by people with supernatural powers or even some people within themselves. This news, and exaggerated the importance of ordinary people in the matter of human inheritance.
After the deliberate guidance of the base officials, after instilling in the base the point of view that "whether supernatural beings or ordinary people are an extremely important part of human society, and human beings cannot continue to survive without anyone", the status of ordinary people in the base has finally come to an end. There has been some uptick.
As for whether there will be people with supernatural powers who will have evil thoughts after this and forcefully control ordinary people to give birth to them, that is another matter. After all, before this news was made public, wasn't there a scum like the Tongmu team who relied on their own abilities to forcefully bully ordinary people
For complete equality, we can only wait for the social situation to further stabilize, the influence of personal combat ability on social status has weakened, and all walks of life have developed again.
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However, for Ye Xuan and Ling Jiaze, two people who never thought of having children in their life and never bullied ordinary people, the biggest impact of this incident is not the change in the status of ordinary people or the mentality of supernatural beings. It was the Shen family's further acceptance of their relationship as a couple.
When Ye Xuan first arrived at the base, he realized that the Shen family was not particularly optimistic and supportive of the two of them, but more of just letting it go and letting time deal with it. Feelings.
Knowing that they should not be in a hurry to accept that their child is gay, Ye Xuan didn't deal with this matter first. The two of them lived their own lives. After a long time, whether it is true or false, it is a long-term Love is still impulsive and sooner or later there will be a result.
After getting along for more than a year, they seem to realize that they and Ling Jiaze are serious and want to go on for a long time. They have tested their thoughts with the question of children several times, and found that these two people are in these He had thought very clearly about the issue, and he had made up his mind completely. After the two of them lived their whole lives, their attitudes had loosened a bit.
Now that it is difficult for supernatural beings to have children, it was like the last straw that overwhelmed their last ounce of opposition. What they were worried about at the beginning was that when the child grew older, there would be no one to take care of him. Nowhere for old? But now it seems that even if he is with a girl, his nephew will hardly have children in his life, so why force him to separate from Ye Xuan, so that he can't get what he loves
They will still settle this account.