Chapter 581
Although they queued up at the checkpoint, people in the outer city were still very frightened about the classified registration, for fear that they would classify people and use them as fuel to keep the energy tower burning.
This statement seems to be widely spread in the outer city. Everyone is saying that the Earl of the North uses the souls of living people to keep the energy tower burning, so that people in the inner city can get warmth.
Now there is not enough 'fuel' in the inner city, so we have to trick people from the outer city into entering the city, and then turn them into fuel.
But life in the outer city is really hard, with no clothes to keep out the cold, no food to satisfy hunger, and even no fuel to keep warm!
They can no longer survive! Who cares how he dies?
As long as the family can survive and be fed and clothed, what if they are thrown into the energy tower as firewood?
Even if it only allows the family to survive temporarily, and they will be thrown into the energy tower in the future, it is still the hope of survival, right?
For ordinary people, as long as there is a glimmer of hope, they will always try to survive and silently bear the burden imposed on them by the rulers.
"Little Yelena, remember, you must listen to your mother-in-law later. Don't be naughty or make trouble. Just line up and my mother will come find you after registration!" A ragged man The woman was holding a sallow-looking child and explaining carefully, while beside them stood a shriveled and weathered old man.
"I know, Mom, I will be obedient!" The little girl seemed to be very sensible and did not cry or feel scared like other children.
"Good boy! Wait for mom, mom will come find you right away!" The woman seemed to be worried about her child, but she still gritted her teeth and pushed her to the old man aside.
The old man hugged Yelena and assured the woman: "Don't worry, I will take good care of little Yelena. Even if they need fuel, I am the old woman who can withstand the burning better, right?"
< br>The old man holding Yelena behaved very openly, as if what she was talking about was not her own life.
In fact, for the elderly at this age, they have already lived enough. If they can exchange their own life for their children to survive, they will not be stingy with their old life.
Just like in ancient times, when there was not enough food in the villages or tribes, it was often the old people who took the initiative to go to the mountains to relieve the burden on the villages or tribes.
Originally, the old man wanted to make this choice, but when she left the temporary hiding place and was about to find a place to die, she heard a loudspeaker call from the other side of the city wall, knowing that she could go there The checkpoint was set up at the original city gate. After passing the checkpoint, you can enter the inner city.
So under the old man's persuasion, the three of them came here together, preparing to find a way to pass the inspection and enter the inner city.
Watching the old man and Yelena walking together to the line of old people and children, the woman reluctantly came to the line of women.
Most of the people in the team were women similar to her, and they were frequently looking at the queue of old people and children. Their children were all there.
The outrageous rumors that living people were used as fuel to light energy towers in the inner city intensified their fears and worries. However, in order to survive, they still suppressed their worries and watched their children pass through the city walls. Go up to the checkpoint and then enter the city walls.
Although screams could be heard on the other side of the city wall and fires could be seen rising, no one escaped from the city wall, and some people stood up and shouted that they were burning evil spirits. Believers, these women still suppressed the fear of turning around and running away, waiting for themselves to be pulled up the city wall.
Fortunately, there is really no danger in entering the inner city. As long as you are not judged as a cultist by the church magistrate, you will not be burned as firewood. This was learned by the woman in a black uniform who was maintaining order when she saw the isolation area behind the city wall after being lifted up on the city wall in a hanging basket.
And the woman happens not to be a cultist.
Although the outer city has been infiltrated by the Evil God Sect, it is true that not everyone is a believer of the Evil God Sect.
On the one hand, of course, the Evil God Sect also has standards for recruiting believers. Those who do not meet the standards are not called believers, but are called sacrifices prepared for the gods, and are livestock.
Of course, they were more or less marked with the marks of the old gods, just like the herdsmen would brand their own marks on the butts of sheep.
And these marked people can only be dragged away and burned.
“Have you been to the altar of the Evil God Sect and participated in their sacrificial rituals?” The judge, wearing a robe and heavy armor, with a hammer next to him, said in a way that seemed to make him angry in the next second. He looked at the woman in front of him with eyes that would smash her head with a war hammer, and asked her carefully.
The woman felt very scared, but still replied seriously: "No, I have not been to any activities of those evil sects! That is not what a believer of the All-Father should do."
Although he lives in the outer city, The woman was surprisingly a very devout believer in the All-Father.
This was not uncommon in the outer city. After all, Quanfu was the officially recognized faith of the empire and the mainstream faith of the countries in the old world.
But as the social order collapsed under the threat of apocalyptic disasters, the outer city became an area controlled by the Evil God Sect. The people were gradually bewitched by them, giving up the righteous faith of Quanfu and turning to the Evil God Sect. .
However, there will always be some people who insist on their beliefs. After all, the evil sect has been suppressed by the church for thousands of years. Now it is just a temporary gain. If you want to completely control everyone in the outer city in a short period of time, it is impossible. Unrealistic.
So after all, there are still some people who maintain their faith in the All-Father, but with the expansion of the evil god sect, they are gradually being squeezed out, and many are even targeted.
Some people died inexplicably, and some tried to move to the inner city, which was still controlled by the church and the empire, hoping to get asylum.
The woman is such a person, but she still failed to find a chance to enter the inner city before the blockade, so she could only stay in the outer city until she encountered an opportunity to come in this time.
The magistrate examined the woman and asked her to place her hands on the Church's Book of Psalms and pray to the All Father. Seeing that there was indeed no trace of corruption, the woman was allowed to pass the checkpoint and enter. A temporary isolation area was established.
In the quarantine area, the woman quickly found the old man and little Yelena, and the three of them hugged each other tightly, thankful that they were still alive.
At the same time, they were also glad that they had finally entered the inner city and could continue to live.
(End of this chapter)