Calamity of Tomorrow-Chapter 518: The 517 Garbage Conflict

The following day, an official from the Donghua City Committee came to find Zhou Bai to test his waste management ability.

Zhou Bai followed him to a garbage disposal site. Looking at the endless mountain of trash, his eyes sparkled with excitement, "Is this all mine? Everything I see before me, all this trash, it's all mine now?"

The staff member by his side didn't understand why this guy was so excited and nodded somewhat weirdly, "Yes."

Zhou Bai cheered and charged into the mountain of trash. Wherever he went, trash started disappearing en masse, like a whirlwind sweeping away leaves.

For every few truckloads of trash that disappeared, Zhou Bai would gain 1 point of laziness value.

Although it didn't seem like much, the sheer amount of trash meant Zhou Bai's laziness value kept rising almost relentlessly, nearly 1 or 2 points every second, occasionally even 5 or 10 points at a time.

The staff members who witnessed this scene were shocked. Several of them were in charge of waste management in Donghua City and knew all too well the hassle of dealing with what seemed like ordinary trash.

"He's like a ruthless garbage disposal machine... With Zhou Bai, Donghua City will never have to worry about waste management again!"

"That's great. Who would've thought Zhou Bai's waste management ability would be so astonishing? From now on, we should just dump the laboratory's waste on him."

"What about the sewage in the drains?"

"No, no, that needs to be recycled and reused, we can't just dump it on him."

The accompanying staff members all watched the scene, their faces lit up with excitement.

One of the younger staff members said, "Do you think we could also..."

His words were cut off as the young people around him covered his mouth and sternly said, "Mr. Ying Hui has said, never mention the matter of sh*t in front of him."

The young man with his mouth covered nodded.

As Zhou Bai's waste management ability was recognized, the massive government machinery of Donghua City kicked into action, diverting resources previously allocated for waste handling to sorting and recycling. The pure trash was all left to Zhou Bai to handle.

Before long, the slogan for waste sorting echoed throughout Donghua City.

...

In the training room, Nasha headed to the door early that morning and greeted Zheng Wentian, "Senior Brother Zheng, aren't you leaving?"

Since Zhou Bai started dealing with trash every day, his training schedule had changed, focusing on trash during the day and training at night.

Hence, the only time left for Zheng Wentian and Nasha to train together was at night.

After Zhou Bai left for garbage collection that morning, Nasha also planned to leave.

Zheng Wentian shook his head, "You go ahead, I'll train a bit more."

After watching Nasha leave, Zheng Wentian's face immediately took on a troubled expression.

"Yan Shan has disappeared..."

The news that Yan Shan had disappeared in Donghua City was neither major nor minor, but with the divine wind from his immortal god-kind talent, Zheng Wentian had still heard about it.

His mind instantly raced with possibilities, "Did they do it? Did they capture Yan Shan and take him back? Is it related to the recent commotion at the Plague Department Laboratory?"

"Just like that, he was taken away?"

Fear flashed across Zheng Wentian's eyes as his mind jumped to numerous conclusions, even worrying about his own safety.

"Will my father also take me away one day? Just like Yan Shan disappearing."

As soon as he thought of this, Zheng Wentian made up his mind, "During the day, I'll hide in Zhou Bai's training room, and at night I'll cultivate together with Zhou Bai. After all, Zhou Bai is the most valued talent at Dao School, and if I spend every day with him, they'll have to think twice before making a move, right?"

...

On the other side, Nasha, as usual, ate breakfast, then attended classes, practiced cultivation, had lunch, attended classes, and practiced cultivation.

Just like every other day, she had dinner, returned to her dormitory to rest a bit, and prepared to practice cultivation with Zhou Bai and the others at night.

The whole process was incredibly precise, like a cog turning day after day, each day running just as accurately, exerting all her efforts to enhance her cultivation level.

"Strive!"

"Fight!"

With two cries in her heart, Nasha bolstered her spirits and, as usual, sat at her desk. She opened her book and began to read the Dao scriptures.

She sat motionless, like a statue, until two hours later when she stood up.

"Off I go, to practice cultivation with older brother Zhou Bai and the others."

...

In order to increase the rate of resource recovery, reduce the burden of materials in Central City, and to improve Zhou Bai's garbage disposal efficiency,

the city started promoting waste sorting.

But in this process, there naturally arose opposition. After all, it increased many people's living costs, demanding more time each day for garbage disposal, inevitably causing complaints.

Especially for cultivators, for those who had to spend a lot of time each day on cultivation, as well as completing various tasks and responsibilities assigned from above, time was already scarce, and now they had to spend it sorting their trash and breaking old habits, which naturally led to even more dissatisfaction.

However, humanity was currently facing the Heavenly Demon, an unprecedented, life-and-death crisis, and the whole society had long been managed in a semi-military fashion. Even if dissatisfied, most people wouldn't take excessively confrontational actions.

But there were always exceptions...

...

Ying Hui said, "Zhou Bai, let's slow down the garbage processing recently."

Zhou Bai, "Huh?"

He looked at his auxiliary cultivation system panel; in just three days, he had raked in more than a million laziness points, bringing his total laziness points up to a full 2.1 million.

At that moment, he was thinking of continuing to make a big push, crazily earning laziness points to enhance his strength.

Zhou Bai excitedly said, "Why? Isn't it going well?"

Ying Hui said, "There are people opposing your continued efforts. After all, you're throwing it into the virtual void, and they worry about causing some unforeseeable harm there, causing substantial distortions or exacerbating the changes in Heavenly Dao."

Zhou Bai angrily said, "They don't know anything and are talking nonsense. The virtual void is so vast, how could a bit of trash cause problems?"

Ying Hui shook his head, "Don't be in such a hurry, we're trying to smooth things over. Just wait for now and don't mess around."

Zhou Bai calmly said, "Why would I mess around? You know I'm a person who likes to follow the rules. By the way, who is opposing this?"

"Just asking, no other meaning!"

Ying Hui helplessly said, "Zhao Haomiao. He's waving the flag of the Zhao Family from Central City, plus several divine beings of the Plague Department who recently came here to support. They are all opposing the garbage processing."

"The Zhao Family has significant influence in Central City, and the Plague Department is the authority on research and explanation of distortions and aberrations. If they disagree, the committee members are also very concerned and want to do some research first."

"Zhao Haomiao?" Zhou Bai questioned, "Who is that? Do I know him?"