Chapter 290 The Measurement of Life and Potential
At noon on the same day, the airship arrived at Houying Island. Sitting on the airship and looking out through the windows on the wall, you can see the whole picture of Houying Island. Its general appearance is no different from other islands, but the other half is completely shrouded in black fog.
This was also the first time that Su Ming saw the appearance of an island from a distance. The island was in the shape of an inverted cone, with a city built on the upper part and many huge steel buildings, or equipment, hanging upside down on the rocks at the lower part. From a distance, it looked like the entire island was mechanized.
Although it was the first time Su Ming saw this scene, he had learned about this in online courses. The lower part of the island was a large equipment that provided power to the entire city.
This setting greatly increases the difficulty of maintenance and construction of power supply facilities, but there is a reason for this construction. The reason why the Alliance places the equipment under the island instead of above the island is because the number of flying monsters is much smaller than the number of non-flying monsters. This also makes the facilities hanging upside down in the air less likely to be destroyed.
Combined with his imagination when the Beast Demon appeared last time, Su Ming felt that this arrangement was very clever.
The ground beneath his feet vibrated slightly, and Su Ming could already feel the inertia of the airship's deceleration.
The airship gradually approached the island and finally landed at the dock. There were only dozens of people on the airship, but there were hundreds of people waiting on the dock.
Su Ming observed the people who got off the airship. None of them came to the island for tourism. They were all specialists from the Investigation Bureau, responsible for supporting this dangerous mission.
Those waiting at the dock are the residents of the island, and they are slowly boarding the airship in a certain order.
Su Ming and others left the dock, got on the shuttle bus that had been waiting for them, and drove to their destination.
Along the way, Su Ming saw empty shops and streets. The whole city was almost deserted, with not a single person in sight.
"Ordinary people have almost been evacuated. If conditions permit, we will let the students evacuate slowly as well," said the driver.
"No need to retreat." Liu Lingshan, sitting in the back seat, looked at the deserted street scene and said expressionlessly, "I will make things return to normal here."
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After a two-hour drive, they arrived at their destination, Houying No. 1 Middle School, from the pier.
The area around the high school was in a mess, with blood and signs of destruction everywhere. The school gate was completely smashed, and the monument at the entrance was covered in blood. Three hundred meters away on the left side of the road at the entrance, there was thick black fog... This was the place closest to the black fog.
On the way here, the driver had told them some of the characteristics of the black fog. The characteristic of the black fog is that the fog will only appear around the monsters' activity range. In other words, if the monsters in the black fog do not come out, the black fog will not expand.
But if the monsters in the black fog came out and killed all the humans outside and occupied human settlements, then it wouldn't be long before black fog would appear in this place and it would eventually become the territory of those monsters.
Therefore, in order to prevent the black fog from expanding, all the psychics on the entire island are concentrated and stationed at the edge of the black fog. Once a monster appears in the black fog, it must be killed immediately to prevent the scope of the black fog from continuing to expand.
Therefore, all the people who could fight on the island were concentrated in the buildings on the edge of the black fog and stationed there.
Although Su Ming and his friends came to Houying No. 1 High School, the people temporarily staying here were not a group of high school students, but a group of college students, who were generally older than Su Ming and his friends.
After dropping Su Ming and the others off in front of the school, Liu Lingshan drove alone into the black fog without stopping for a moment.
The person who was responsible for receiving Su Ming and others at the door was a professor from a university in Houying, who was now stationed here with other teachers and students.
The professor's name is Akratia. He is already sixty years old, but still energetic. According to his self-introduction, his ability is [Part Replication], which is a healing ability. He is currently responsible for the treatment of post-war wounded.
"Thank you for your support. After three months of holding out, Lord Liu and Lord Lin are finally here." Akratia expressed gratitude.
"You're welcome. This is a mission." Gu Dongshu replied casually.
Su Ming was surprised to hear the other party say that they had been here for three months.
Because not long ago, Liu Lingshan was training them on Dongyang Island.
That is to say, when deaths were happening here, Liu Lingshan did not come to resolve them, but instead trained them on Dongyang Island.
This shows that in Liu Lingshan's mind, training them takes priority over saving lives.
The deputy director is a very intelligent person and has lived a long life. She must have her own reasons for doing things. In her heart, there must be a reason for this decision.
After a casual thought, Su Ming thought of a possibility.
The black fog incident should be some kind of unpredictable natural disaster. When a natural disaster occurs, whether to provide disaster relief immediately or temporarily put aside disaster relief and choose to create more efficient disaster relief tools are two different options regarding strategic layout.
The deputy director chose the latter, as she believed that training people like them would be more beneficial for humans to suppress the weirdness.
In other words, the deputy director put them on the scale and measured them against the tens of millions of people who died on Houying Island, and in the end she concluded that they were more important and more valuable.
If his guess was correct, then in this world, there were many devastating disasters like black fog and white fog, so many that people like the deputy director had no time to rest.
If there is a gap between the occurrence of these strange disasters, the deputy director will definitely not ignore the disasters. Instead, she will choose to resolve the disasters and then take advantage of the gap before the next disaster occurs to train these young people with potential.
But it turned out that the deputy director placed a strange disaster of the level of black fog and came to Dongyang Island to train them.
This action has proved that disasters of the level of black fog occur frequently all over the world, and there is no gap. When you are dealing with one disaster, more disasters have already occurred in other parts of the world. If you only want to save people, then you will not be able to do anything except perform your mission.
Su Ming felt that his previous assessment of the danger level of this world was still conservative. This world was more threatening than he had imagined. Human beings all over the world were being eliminated like ants and had no power to resist.
At this moment, another question popped up in Su Ming's mind: If he were in the position of deputy director, would he be able to give up the lives of millions of people on an island in exchange for a month to teach potential juniors?
In Liu Lingshan's eyes, the lives of the millions of people who died in the black fog were not as valuable as the training they had for a month? Did she think that none of the millions of people who died were as valuable as them?
