According to plausible rumours, the base’s policymakers were furious. However, in this time of confusion, they no longer had absolute control. They eventually made a great concession. They would temporarily disable the killing rights of the Trial Court. The members of the Trial Court would still conduct a routine inspection but those suspected of being infected wouldn’t be immediately killed. Instead, they would be taken to a military training camp at the other end of the base for decentralized observation. Secondly, the Judge wasn’t allowed to carry a gun and had to stay in the Lighthouse’s laboratory to cooperate with research. He wasn’t allowed to go out. It was difficult to say if this was the base’s protection or defense against the Judge.

The atmosphere of the base finally eased. After all, their main target was Lu Feng. Colonel Lu was the Judge of this generation and his degree of arbitrariness and the number of people he killed was amazing to everyone. If the Trial Court executed 5,000 people a year then 4,500 people would’ve fallen under his gun. The remaining 500 people were executed by the other judges because the Judge wasn’t at the Trial Court.

After a brief period of calm, the people started to blame the Lighthouse for not making any progress worthy of mention. Dr Ji, the one in charge of the project, was Lu Feng’s old friend. The ‘last hope of humanity’ was obviously a lie. It was a one-sided cover. They demanded that the Lighthouse should produce enough convincing results or they had to surrender Lu Feng.

“They are relying on the premise that the human community can no longer afford to lose a single life in order to do everything.” The doctor poured himself a glass of water. “Their rhetoric is full of loopholes but this is the only way for them to vent their fear.”

He raised the cup to his lips but his hands were shaking and water splashed out of the cup onto the table. The doctor took a sip but a pained expression appeared on his face and he leaned over and retched.

“I also live in great… great fear. I want to vomit.” He trembled. “The cold snap has arrived. Winter is coming. It is the time when monsters are the most insane and in need of nutrition.”

“We all know that humans are only a piece of oily fat in the eyes of monsters. In the prime of the base, the monsters were constantly trying to attack. You guess…” The doctor smiled and whispered. “When will they find out that the human base is already fragile to this point? When will they gather to capture the human base? Just like they previously swarmed the Underground City Base.”

Lu Feng told him, “You calm down first.”