181: In what ways are modern people inferior to ancient people?

"Yao Yaonan, 23 years old, started working at Zhongshan Lighting Factory after junior high school."

"Three days ago, he was hit by a dayun heavy truck."

"But he didn't die; instead, he was blessed in disguise, Awakening..."

Thinking of the talent Yao Yaonan displayed, Yang Dian couldn't help but look pained:

"He Awakened a Heavy Truck Martial Soul."

"He can manifest the dayun heavy truck that hit him with energy, and then drive the heavy truck to hit people."

"I don't know if he has other abilities; he'll have to figure that out himself."

After speaking, he pointed to the pure, white-dressed female university student:

"Yao Yaonan's ex-girlfriend. She used the money Yao Yaonan earned from working to study for her master's degree. She's about to graduate and hooked up with a rich second-generation heir."

"Afraid Yao Yaonan would cause trouble and let the rich second-generation heir know she had a boyfriend before and wasn't 'pure,' she hired someone to kill him."

"The heavy truck that hit Yao Yaonan was the hitman she hired. The driver already owed a ton of debt and has now taken the money and absconded to Vietnam."

"As for this young rich second-generation heir, he doesn't know anything; he's simply an innocent bystander."

"That's how it is. Take them back to the station..."

After having Yao Yaonan and his girlfriend taken to the station, Yang Dian got back into Uncle Xiao's car.

After driving for a while, Uncle Xiao sighed again:

"Why do you think the social atmosphere has become like this now?"

"In our generation, couples supported each other and focused on managing their small family. It's nothing like now."

Yang Dian shook his head, having his own thoughts:

"Every era has its good and its bad."

"Uncle Xiao, in your generation, were there really fewer instances of men committing domestic violence against women, or women conspiring with lovers to kill their husbands?"

"It's just that in the past, information channels were limited, and transmission speed was slow, spreading at most within a village or town, rarely on a large scale."

"Now, the internet is developed, and in previous years, the internet was heavily infiltrated by hostile foreign forces."

"Some minor incidents can be exaggerated by them into major events."

"Things that can stir up gender antagonism are treated as monumental, creating huge waves on the internet and sweeping across the entire network."

"What, is there no true love among our younger generation?"

"Are there no cases of women suffering serious illnesses and men staying by their side;"

"Men dying, and women taking care of the children and the husband's parents;"

"Or women completing their bachelor's and master's degrees with the support of their boyfriends, rejecting rich second-generation suitors, and returning to a small town to marry their boyfriends;"

"Or stories of one person dying, and the other committing suicide out of love?"

"There are, and quite a few."

"If you search carefully online, or look away from the internet and at your surroundings,"

"You can actually see many such examples."

"It's just that such news isn't sensationalized, doesn't gain traction, and only spreads within a small circle."

"Most people still have normal moral values."

"So, it's not about people's hearts being corrupted or modern morals declining."

"The ancients were much more promiscuous and chaotic."

"In modern times, if you pick any young person and put them in ancient times, regardless of gender, most could be called a 'gentleman' or 'lady'."

"After nine years of compulsory education, there are indeed some scoundrels, but the moral values of most people are still above the average..."

...With some emotion, he passed through the checkpoint and entered Xizi Park.

From a distance, Yang Dian saw a huge, oily-white Mutant, sprawled in the woods, occasionally wriggling its body and lifting its head to eat a leaf.

Looking at the bulging rings on its body, Yang Dian couldn't help but feel goosebumps on his arms.

"Why does it look a bit like a maggot?"

Uncle Xiao coughed:

"When it was first discovered, it was indeed in the location of the public restroom in Xizi Park."

"After it left its original spot, we surveyed the area where it appeared."

"The restroom area was indeed broken through."

Yang Dian stopped, frowning, feeling uncomfortable all over:

"So it really is a mutated maggot?"

Uncle Xiao nodded:

"We collected some of its bodily fluids and sent them to the Research Institute."

"It's almost certain."

Yang Dian wanted to turn around.

But thinking that such a large bug lying there wasn't a good thing, he sighed again:

"Sigh~"

"Arrange for a helicopter to come; prepare to move this thing..."

At this point, Yang Dian looked around at the super-sized maggot:

"Do we have a place to house this thing right now?"

Uncle Xiao shook his head:

"No, we need to build one."

"But because all regions are preparing to construct defensive fortifications, and it hasn't shown aggression, there's been no rush to house it."

Pacing to the front of the giant maggot, watching it occasionally bite a leaf, Yang Dian frowned and thought for a moment.

Finally, he shook his head:

"Forget it, let's just deal with it."

As he spoke, the giant maggot, which had been lying on the ground occasionally wriggling, stiffened, then suddenly aimed its mouthpart at Yang Dian and sprayed a viscous, foul-smelling green mucus.

Then, without waiting for the outcome, it arched its body and ran towards the nearby lake.

Pulling Uncle Xiao back ten meters to dodge the mucus.

Watching the flagstone path sizzle and emit a burnt white mist under the corrosive foul-smelling mucus, Yang Dian couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.

"Tsk, this guy is really smart; he even learned to disguise himself."

Turning to look at the giant maggot, which had already wriggled quite a distance, Yang Dian ignored his disgust and reached out, grabbing at it in the air.

Under Uncle Xiao's incredulous gaze, a bloody large hand appeared out of thin air, directly grabbing the giant maggot and lifting it into the sky.

The giant maggot seemed to sense danger. After its tail end throbbed twice, it sprayed a large number of pinkish-white spheres towards the lake.

Looking closely, Yang Dian could clearly see that they weren't spheres at all!

They were clearly the giant maggot's eggs!

Inside the eggs, maggots the size of human heads continuously wriggled, as if about to break out of their shells.

"Damn it!"

Yang Dian, who had a slight phobia of clusters, cursed. Innumerable bloody threads extended from the large hand gripping the giant maggot, precisely entangling the eggs falling towards the lake.

"Still trying to run?"

As he spoke, the index finger of the Qi and blood large hand had transformed into a sharp Dragon claw, slashing across the giant maggot's body.

"Sss~"

With a sound like something being fried in oil, the giant maggot's tough skin, which even a rifle couldn't penetrate, was sliced open.

Then, an annoying buzzing sound came from within the giant maggot's body.

Moments later, a pair of white-jade-colored, bristly forelegs extended from within the maggot's body.

Then, a pair of huge compound eyes emerged from within the maggot's body through the skin Yang Dian had torn.

However, it only rotated its compound eyes once before the Qi and blood index finger, which Yang Dian had condensed into the shape of a Dragon claw, had already pierced its head, exiting through the other side of the giant maggot's body.

After carefully sensing and confirming that both the giant maggot and the mutated fly within it were dead and devoid of any life signs, Yang Dian continued:

"Send all the larvae, flies, and the giant maggot's corpse to the Research Institute."

"The giant maggot's skin has good toughness; it can be used for armor or other things."

"Perhaps the larvae can be farmed to see what their meat quality is like."

"As for the rest, let the people at the Research Institute decide."

With that, Yang Dian directly abandoned that portion of Qi and blood and walked away, rubbing his arm.

He felt somewhat unclean.

He needed a good wash...