Chapter 376: Unknown is Despair
The world has changed a lot. Including Su Ming's manor, several other villas around it have also been teleported to this place. There is a large gap between the villa area and the ordinary civilian area, and then houses in the civilian area appear in the distance. There are quite a few houses. Su Ming estimates that at least a few hundred people have been teleported here. If he thinks pessimistically, there may be more than a thousand people.
Su Ming followed the eight-legged meat ball monster and came to the center of the open field, where a few people were waiting, but there were only fifteen people in total.
It seems that before coming to them, the monster had already gone to the civilian area to call people, but ordinary people did not follow because they were afraid of monsters. Among the fifteen people who followed, five of them had temperaments that were obviously different from ordinary people. They should be people with special abilities.
As for the other ten people, they probably felt that it would be safer to follow these psychics, so they took the risk to come here.
Su Ming glanced at them, and those people also glanced at him. There was nothing wrong with their looks, probably because they had not seen his wanted poster.
"Here are food and water for you." The huge monster spoke in a deep voice, and many kinds of food and water appeared in the air around it.
"Next, announce the rules."
Su Ming frowned slightly.
The rules were about to be announced. According to the system information, if they killed the monster, they would be able to obtain food and water and would not be bound by the rules that had not yet been announced... However, this ugly and crude creature in front of him looked very dangerous to Su Ming.
If they really had to fight, Su Ming was confident that he could win, but the risk of getting hurt might not be worth it. What's more, other alien creatures would appear later. If the alien creatures that appeared were much stronger than himself, then he would have to abide by the rules. There needs to be a delicate balance between killing and abiding by the rules. Preconceived ideas of killing alien creatures would plant an anchor in the minds of others, making them regard this strange phenomenon as a regular type of battle, which is not good.
Let's listen to what this monster says first, and then take the first step slowly, Su Ming thought.
"Now you will be divided into groups of two. One person will give the other person an order to abuse himself, and the other person will obey the order and abuse himself. The better the performance and the stronger the execution, the more food you will get.
The distributed food cannot be snatched or stolen. It can only be distributed by the parties involved. Otherwise, they will be punished. So now let’s start dividing into groups.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Su Ming felt a moment of weightlessness. In the blink of an eye, the scene around him had changed. He and another person were in a closed room. The wall behind Su Ming was covered with densely packed, various torture instruments. This room seemed to have been an execution room for dealing with criminals.
"The person close to the wall where the torture instruments are hung is the one who obeys orders, and the other person is the one who gives orders." The monster's voice came from nowhere.
"Hey! This is too ridiculous!" The man in front of Su Ming raised his head and shouted loudly at the air, but there was no response from the monster.
He lowered his head, looked at Su Ming, shrugged and smiled: "This is too much, isn't it?"
Su Ming nodded: "It's really ridiculous."
As Su Ming spoke, he pulled over an iron chair and sat down on it, sighing heavily.
Headache.
It's really a splitting headache. What should I do in this situation?
This time the strange phenomenon is just like the fear of stairs, making people feel helpless.
In a sense, the Fear Stairs is a more bizarre place than the Black Gate and the White Fog. Although the Black Gate is weird, it has its own rules inside, and the white fog is caused by three false gods. But the Fear Stairs is different. Although the Fear Stairs does not pose any threat to Su Ming, it brings Su Ming the deepest sense of powerlessness.
Now, the devil's realm brings Su Ming the same feeling, which makes Su Ming feel great pressure and produces a sense of fear.
"There's a timer here!" the man said, pointing to the timer on the table. The timer showed that there was one hour left.
Fortunately, there is still an hour left, so I can take a look at the system information. Regarding this weird introduction, there is an example of self-abuse in the public archives. This example of self-abuse should have a more detailed record in the hidden archives. I will open it and take a look immediately. Maybe it will be inspiring.
Su Ming called up the file in his mind, quickly browsed and searched, and finally found a relatively detailed file on the "rules of self-abuse".
【Questioner: "You said that the first competition you encountered at the beginning was a self-torture competition? Can you tell me more about it?"
Survivor: "This... is hard to describe. Anyway, it asked us to form a group of two. One person gave orders, and the other followed orders and tortured himself. The more brutal the execution, the more food he would get. It was a very simple rule."
Questioner: “What did you do?”
Survivor: "We didn't do it, so we didn't get anything in the end. If I could do it again, I would definitely follow the rules! The only thing that matters is survival!" *Note: Although this survivor can communicate normally, his personality and thinking patterns are different from those of ordinary people, and he is easily emotional. *
Questioner: "As you said before, the distributed food cannot be snatched or stolen, right?"
Survivor: "Are you deaf? I told you! You can be robbed and stolen, but those who do these things will be punished. They will feel even hungrier after doing such things, and it won't help even if they eat the stolen food. In that world, you can only eat what you win in the competition, or what you rob from killing monsters... My head hurts, can you give me some painkillers?
* The person in charge gave the other party sedatives and painkillers *
Survivor: "I know, don't bother me, I'll do it!"
Questioner: "What did you just say?"
Survivor: "Ah...what...nothing . What did you ask me just now?"
Questioner: "I haven't asked this yet. Now let me ask you, if you win enough food, can you give it to other people?"
Survivor: "Yes, even if you are forced . If someone puts a knife to your neck and asks you to give him all your food, as long as you agree, your food will be taken away and become his... There are no rules for doing things in that place, only the devil's rules must be followed... There are no other rules."
*At this point in the Q&A, the survivor being questioned has clearly shown signs of impatience. According to the experts, he has lost his basic logical thinking ability and is completely unaware that the FBI is an organization that can easily destroy him. This is completely different from his initial willingness to cooperate.*
Questioner: "I would like to ask, if the food provided by those alien creatures is divided equally, will it be enough for everyone?"
The survivor was silent for several minutes, then responded: "Enough...Yes, it is enough."
Questioner: "Then why did so many people die? The only things limiting survival are food and water, and you just said that monsters will also prepare other things."
Survivor: “You don’t understand.”
Questioner: “Is it because someone is not cooperating?”
Survivor: "Yeah, everyone is on their own, it's like that."
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Su Ming finished reading the contents related to the self-abuse competition in the file and then fell into deep thought.
Food can be distributed to everyone, but in the end only thirteen people survive, and it always remains thirteen. The alien creatures do not interfere with or attack humans, so apart from starving to death, thirst, or disease, the only way to die is to be killed... killed by other humans.
This kind of environment is a bit like the post-apocalyptic environment where resources are limited and there is competition among people. People who are blinded by the fear of unknown life and death are unwilling to share resources, which eventually leads to the outbreak of other people's bestiality, causing harm to each other and ultimately leading to their destruction.
This situation must be avoided. The more distorted the environment is, the more we need to establish a stable order!
I want to save as many people as possible, but why are there only thirteen people who survived? Are the others destined to die? Is there no other way?
Could it be that there is a way for everyone to survive, but those who went out before just didn’t find it?
"This is outrageous. I didn't expect to enter the ghost realm. But it seems that those monsters will not harm us. They just pose such disgusting problems." The man in front of Su Ming laughed.
"You look calm." Su Ming said casually.
The man chuckled and scratched his head. “It’s not that easy, but in this place, people with faith can survive. I’m a devout believer in the God of Steel! Don’t look at me like this, I’m the best blacksmith in my area!”
"The more pious, the higher the survival rate? Who said that?" Su Ming asked with a frown.
The blacksmith was stunned and looked at Su Ming: "Aren't you a local? Everyone knows that. That's what the nobles say."
"Knowing that there is such a thing as a ghost domain, why don't you take your family and move away?" Su Ming asked again.
"It's the same everywhere. There is no absolutely safe place in this world. The last time a ghost land occurred was only 20 years ago. More than a thousand people died in the country. This is less than the number of people who die in fights in the slums every year. Isn't it too absurd to move away for such a thing?"
After saying this, the blacksmith paused and his smile disappeared.
"But, only after coming here, will you regret it. If I had known earlier, I would have taken my wife and son away from here, but there is no medicine for regret in the world."
"Have your wife and son come in too?" Su Ming asked, even though he knew there was no need to ask, as as long as they lived together they would definitely come in together.
"Well, they didn't follow us." The blacksmith smiled, "That's good. At least we don't have to participate in this disgusting game."
The blacksmith pulled over another stool and sat down, showing Su Ming a kind smile: "There are still more than fifty minutes left, let's chat and kill time. Judging from your attire, you should be a rich man. There must be a lot of servants and bodyguards who came in with you, right?"
"You want to come to my side?" Su Ming glanced at the other party indifferently and directly stated the other party's purpose.
