Chapter 1407 The goodness of human nature and the evil of human nature!
Wandering around from noon to evening, Lao Zhang and Luo Xiang, who went out to inquire about news, brought back some bad news.
“Because of the impending disaster, tens of thousands of people are gathering here every day to get the protection of the golden eagle. We arrived early. It is estimated that in a few days, we will be blocked in the The number of people here will increase more than ten times!”
“Although the internal review is not closed now, it is almost the same. Only a thousand people can be reviewed every day. At this rate, it’s their turn. We need at least a week!”
“I mentioned to the guard that we have the correct answers to those questions, but he told me that there are at least 150,000 people blocked here now. Said the same thing to me.”
"It's so scary. I heard that a fight broke out two days ago and hundreds of people died."
"The land route is currently building defensive checkpoints to resist disasters, so we can only enter through the waterway. "
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As he listened, the smile on Somo's face slowly faded.
Although he had guessed that this might happen before he came, no one expected that it would deteriorate to this point. More than 200,000 people were blocked in front of the checkpoint and could not enter the territory. In the distance, There are tens of millions more people on their way.
If a tide of beasts enters through the waterway after the disaster breaks out, the consequences will be unimaginable.
“In a territory with a population close to 100 million, we can only review a thousand people every day?”
Thinking of this, Sumo turned his head and stared at the place that suddenly became noisy not far away. .
At noon this was still the outermost part of the floating community, and by now it had stretched back nearly a hundred meters.
Generally speaking, the guards of the golden eagle will not come to such a peripheral place to maintain order.
But now, Sumo saw dozens of figures wearing yellow uniforms.
They were surrounding several sampans asking questions, and they didn’t know what the specific situation was.
Not long after, after a burst of cheers, nearly 30 people on two of the sampans were taken away by the guards.
Lao Zhang looked envious, "They are the lucky ones, they were chosen by the golden eagle."
"The lucky ones?"
"Hmm, the golden giant eagle will select some people with good performance among the survivors to enter the territory directly without review every day. Sometimes they will pick the survivors in the middle, and sometimes they will pick the survivors in the periphery. It's a pity, we just He was so close and was not selected.”
“Is there any other explanation?”
Su Mo frowned, he seemed to understand why the ship was blocked.
On the grounds of review, the survivors who came from earlier were not allowed to enter and the entrance was blocked.
In the name of selection, it also gives the survivors a certain degree of hope, so that people on the periphery also hope that they will be selected, and are unwilling to turn around and leave, blocking the exit.
Why are everyone stuck here?
The answer is ready to come out.
"Do they have anyone registering survivors' information?"
"Yes!" Luo Xiang nodded quickly: "Although the review speed is very slow, the registration is quite fast. Yes, I have reported all our basic information.”
“Does the information ask about route level, physical fitness, combat ability, and material reserves?”
"Hey, cousin, how did you know?"
Luo Xiang was a little surprised. The items Sumo mentioned in the registration information were more important than the origin.
The registrar specifically asked not to commit fraud, otherwise you will be directly disqualified if found out.
"So, you won't write on it that we can use guns, have certain supplies, and are in good physical condition, right?"
"Yes, yes."
Luo Xiang said with a smile: "If we screen the survivors based on their quality level, we will definitely be able to select them."
"It's over."
Su Mo couldn't help but raise his forehead, this silly boy, It's just plain scary.
Luo You, who was next to him, also reacted. He was also speechless and patted Luo Xiang.
“Didn’t I tell you not to make your own decisions? Are you in a hurry to die?”
"I just reported information, and I didn't commit any fraud. What's wrong?" Luo Xiang retorted vehemently before realizing the problem.
"Alas, this"
Luo You looked at Sumo helplessly, and after receiving a nod in agreement, he continued: "This is a naked conspiracy. I didn't expect that the golden giant eagle also Doing this will ruin our previous expectations for the super territory.”
“Silly boy, they gathered so many people here and refused to let them in, not because they thought there might be a traitor among them. They plan to turn us into cannon fodder to prevent disaster.”
“What?”
While Luo Xiang was still thinking, Lao Zhang finally came to his senses and showed a horrified expression.
Before, they were still thinking about whether they would be captured as strong men after entering the golden giant eagle to resist the disaster.
As a result, now they have no intention of letting people in and arresting them, but just regard everyone as a strong man.
In this way.
“The better our physical fitness and the stronger our combat effectiveness, the smaller the probability of being selected?”
"It's not smaller, it's zero." Luo You shook his head.
He looked at the place where the two boatmen had just been taken away. At this time, many survivors had gathered around, fighting for control of the two sampans.
But soon guards in yellow uniforms came over and guided the ship to retreat from the rear.
Luo You's eyes became more and more complicated, and his mind started to have random thoughts.
If we really observe external performance and randomly select people to enter, then there is still some hope.
But if it was just for show, the people waiting here would be in misery.
"No, it's impossible that we are the only ones who have thought of this, and others haven't realized it, right?" Luo Xiang is still a bit stubborn and has a filter fantasy about Yusanjia's territory.
After all, in the communication on the World Channel, apart from the Tianyuan territory of the human Su Shen, the Yusanjia territory has become the greatest hope for mankind.
"So, this is a conspiracy." Luo You replied, "Now that you know, what can you do?"
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Luo Xiang hesitated twice and was speechless.
After realizing the truth, he chose to stay, conserve his physical strength and combat effectiveness as much as possible, and be prepared to deal with disasters. As long as he survived until the war, he would get the opportunity to join the Golden Eagle Territory.
But if you want to use this to cause trouble?
The guards of the golden giant eagle will probably arrive as soon as possible to rectify the law on the spot as a warning to others.
Of course, there is another option, to leave silently.
Without making any announcement, leaving one person alone will have no impact on the overall situation.
There are still countless "cannon fodder" coming in the distance with full of hope, ready to show off their talents in the Golden Eagle.
Is this the truth about the wasteland?
Luo Xiang felt a little chilly all over, and the feeling of being forced into a cave by Somo to fight hand-to-hand with the frogmen, and being on the edge of death every time, came back to him.
He knew what kind of emotion it was.
Helplessness, struggle, despair, unwillingness, forced to accept
So many negative emotions gathered together, how could it appear in this seemingly peaceful environment?
Looking at Luo Xiang, who was finally getting out of his psychological shadow, he fell into isolation again.
Sumo pondered for a while, and several plans appeared in his mind.
It is difficult for ordinary people to enter the territory of the golden giant eagle, but it is actually very simple for him.
The fastest way is naturally to contact Tianyuan Territory and the Golden Eagle, indicating that there are people from Tianyuan among the people waiting outside, and let them accept them.
If there are only a few people, the Golden Eagle will definitely set out to pick them up immediately without even checking.
But in this way, his identity will be exposed, which is not in line with Somo's original intention.
Of course aside from this method, there are many other ways to enter.
For example, find a way to bribe the guard and send the answer to the question into the Golden Eagle territory through the guard. As long as the person asking the question has verified it, he will naturally be qualified to enter.
Or even be a little more violent, sneaking directly into the territory of the golden giant eagle, finding the questioner for verification, and then asking him to send an invitation letter to invite people.
Compared to Soma's current abilities, these methods are as simple as eating and drinking. But
Do we really want to sit back and watch so many ordinary survivors on the periphery become cannon fodder to resist the disaster?
As a lord, Sumo can understand the thoughts of those federal lords after the level.
If this opening were opened today to allow outsiders to enter and take refuge at will during disasters, it would be too unfair to the survivors who had previously entered the territory to devote themselves.
These people came and left when the disaster was over.
But the Golden Eagle has to spend a lot of resources to resist the disaster, and the survivors inside must also contribute their labor unconditionally.
Over time, the gap will only get bigger and bigger.
Besides, the current population of Yusanjia's territory has basically reached the upper limit of its capacity. Once it continues to recruit survivors unscrupulously and plunder the population of small and medium-sized territories, it will only result in all eggs being put into one basket.
If there is a targeted disaster, it may not be tens of thousands of people who die, but hundreds of thousands of people.
However, even if he could understand the thoughts of those lords, Sumo did not think that everything they did was right.
The strength of human beings lies in unity and cohesion.
Whether we are facing alien races or disasters, if we rely on deception to achieve unity, we may not be able to achieve even 30% of the combat effectiveness we can ultimately unleash.
And this is also the reason why the aliens dare not take action at all now.
At present, the cohesion of human beings in major gathering places has reached its peak, and everyone will fight for their homeland at all costs, even if they sacrifice their own lives.
But if these things done by Yusanjia territory are instigated by someone with intentions, it will cause a huge wave of distrust.
“I have to do something, at least hiding is not what I should do.”
With greater ability comes greater responsibility.
Sumo always thought that these words were used for moral kidnapping, but when things really happened to him, he discovered that taking the so-called responsibility was actually an almost instinctive behavior.
If you have enough strength, a convenient thing can make you happy and make you feel at ease.
Why not do it?
Sumo lowered his head and pondered. It was rare that he did not directly express his opinion, which immediately made several other people on the boat feel confused.
Perhaps because I have gotten used to Sumo's various arrangements during this period, it was really confusing without anyone to direct me.
“What should we do now, should we leave?”
Luo You frowned and turned pale: "It shouldn't be difficult for us to enter again after the disaster is over."
"Where to go, there are only four days left, it's too late for us to return to the Starfield Alliance, right? "
Old Zhang said with a frown on his face.
The only locations he could think of were the old place of the Starfield Alliance, and then the Grid territory where he had heard the news.
As for Somo's territory, I mentioned it two days ago, and it is in the central plate.
There were only four days left, so it was definitely too late to rush back.
Luo Xiang and Luo Jiao did not speak. After the two children learned the truth, their worldview almost collapsed.
The darkness in the human heart is indeed more despairing than the wasteland in a sense.
"Leave, staying here is not possible." Sumo thought for a while.
“I remember when I came here in the morning, there were many abandoned villages on the shore?”
Lao Zhang nodded, "Yes, I heard that it was built by the Golden Eagle in the past, but due to the split of the plate, the outer perimeter was abandoned in order to build a better defense line."
"We are going Will the disaster end there?"
"I don't know, let's go and see the situation first, our ship"
"This is easy to do, just communicate directly with the people outside. Maybe we can get a bigger sampan."
Lao Zhang said, patting his chest.
Basically, it will be difficult to get out after queuing for an hour, and the sampan coming from behind will completely block the escape route.
However, it is this way of blocking the queue that gives the survivors room to operate.
You only need to exchange sampans on both sides, and people at the back can go directly to the front.
"Then go and change it, we are leaving now."
Old Zhang is used to riding on guerrilla boats, and the "broken" sampan he bought with a lot of money is not distressed at all.
Soon, four or five men followed Lao Zhang in the night and jumped over from the sampan behind.
"Brother Zhang, your position is good, but are you sure you want to trade with us?"
The short man who was called slapped his thigh and excitedly called Lao Zhang a brother-in-law. .
They arrived late, and there were at least seven or eight hundred sampans between them. It would be great to be able to switch directly!
“I have to ask you this question. Your sampan is twice as big as mine. Let’s change it.”
"What's the use of being big? How can it be that it can crash into the territory of the golden giant eagle?" A man with a rough skin curled his lips, but when he said the words, he was glared at by the short man.
Damn it, what if he doesn’t change it?
Fortunately, Lao Zhang didn't care. The two parties quickly reached a cooperation, and four or five men also helped move all the supplies on the ship.
This is also the cleverness of Lao Zhang. He deliberately found a master who did not lack supplies to exchange positions, saving a lot of unnecessary trouble.
“Brother Zhang, if you have any trouble later, come directly to our brothers!”
"Okay, Brother Liu."
Lao Zhang nodded obediently, and then turned the sampan with Luo Xiang in the eyes of others who were puzzled.
“No, buddy, do you really want to leave?”
Some people have been wondering since they changed the sampan, and now they finally couldn’t help but said in surprise, they have all arrived at the door. Give up?
“What if we are waiting here to die and won’t let us in.”
Lao Zhang replied with a smile, but his eyes caught sight of the people on the sampan next door standing up suddenly.
The posture is almost like if he dares to talk nonsense again, he will be given some color immediately.
Hey, is there really surveillance?
“No more, no more, we have to go, otherwise we won’t be able to find a place to sleep tonight.”
After the words fell, the sampan rowed quickly, and immediately joined the queue of sampans. The board opened a few meters away.
However, Lao Zhang didn't dare to stop. He didn't relax until he was dozens of meters away, turned his head and looked behind him.
The people who had just stood up from the sampan were still staring at them.
The moonlight is shining, and a little bit of cold light is exposed on a person's waist, which is so cold that it makes people shrink their necks.
"What's wrong? There are quite a few people who have given up recently. It's normal for them to complain." A figure said strangely.
"This group of people is a bit strange, not like the previous ones." A voice immediately answered.
"What's weird? I think they're quite happy about switching from a small sampan to a big sampan?"
"No, they seem to be too calm, especially the people on the boat."< br>
“Really, I didn’t pay much attention to this, but except for the rowers, no one else complained.”
“Forget it, we’ve already left, there’s no point in thinking about it anymore. "
"That's right, as long as they don't want to cause trouble, what they plan to do has nothing to do with us."
"Yeah, let's continue on duty. It shouldn't be so peaceful in the next two days."
After saying that, I saw that the sampan had finally crossed the 100-meter warning distance, leaving without a trace of sloppiness.
The figures sat down with calm expressions, as if nothing had happened just now.