Chapter 383 The First Person to Know the Truth
"We just had to leave suddenly yesterday! My child has diarrhea. Do I have to chop wood when the child has diarrhea? That's unreasonable!"
"That's right, we're not the only ones who haven't cut down any trees. Besides, I think there's enough wood. It would be redundant to cut down any more!"
"If you don't give us food, we will starve to death. How can you do this?"
"Call Xia Ming out. He was the one who said yesterday that we are a big family. It turns out that he just said it to sound good. He actually wants to use us as cheap labor!"
"Yes! Call him out!"
"Call him out!"
Elton looked at the angry crowd in front of him and didn't know how to comfort them. Their fingers were almost poking his nose.
"I...I was just following the master's orders, and you didn't do anything." Elton argued with a bitter face.
"At least I moved a little bit yesterday, right? I didn't just leave! I left because of something else later!" A man "argued" at the top of his voice.
After he shouted like that, the other people around him became even more noisy. The sharp voices of the women and the angry questions of the men all mixed together, making old Elton frightened. He was afraid that this group of lunatics would rush up and beat up this frail old man.
Just then, a clear cough came from the top of the stairs on the second floor. All sounds stopped abruptly, and everyone's eyes were focused on Su Ming's face above.
"I, we just had something urgent to do yesterday, so we left. It's not that I don't want to help."
Su Ming's eyes fell on the face of the person who spoke, and he nodded expressionlessly: "I said that yesterday, right? We are now a big family, and everyone has to contribute. I think the food and water should belong to everyone, but if you don't really want to live with everyone, then you are not a member of the big family.
To put it bluntly, no one is stupid. If you do something like eating and drinking for free, you should be prepared to be ostracized. Food and water are already scarce. I can't share these precious resources with those who are unwilling to work for everyone. If I share the food with you, it will be unfair to other people who work hard. "
"So what? So you want to watch us starve to death? An old man like me can't work, so I'm going to die?" A white-haired old man walked out of the crowd and asked in a trembling voice.
"Of course not, old man, just do what you can." Su Ming smiled, "The same goes for children."
"What if some people are born with poor physical strength and can't move things?" someone in the crowd asked.
"If it's really because of his poor health that he can't help, I can accept this reason, of course." Su Ming paused, his eyes slowly swept across the crowd, "I will use my own way to confirm whether it is true or not. We have psychics with strong observation skills here who can see through lies. Lying is useless here."
"How can we believe that man won't lie! How do you prove that his judgment is correct?!"
"If you don't trust him, then you don't need to join our big family. Just find your own way to survive. We don't need people who are full of doubts about their companions."
"But, but aren't you doubting us?" a young woman said timidly.
Su Ming glanced at the other party and said coldly: "The responsibilities are different. I have to make sure that everyone who joins us must be trustworthy, and what you have to do is to learn to trust others... Of course, if you don't want to live with everyone, please do as you please."
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Night fell. This was Su Ming's second night since entering the devil's realm.
Here, the purple moon is high in the sky regardless of day or night, but the background of the sky is gray during the day, and the sky at night is much darker than during the day. Although there is still deep purple moonlight, that light alone is not enough to illuminate the night, so people need fire... even if it is just a spark.
"You distribute food and water to the elderly and children, which is completely correct from a moral point of view, but do you know that many people below have objections? They feel that the food and water they work hard for are taken away by those who don't work at all, and many people feel resentful. This is not good." Zhou Xiaoxiao said.
He looked at Su Ming, who was sitting with his back to the desk and facing the window, and felt heavy and complicated.
Frankly speaking, he couldn't understand what Su Ming was doing. He looked confident and wise, as if he knew exactly what to do next, but what he did was unbelievable. It gave people the feeling that he had never seriously considered the rationality of the rules he set.
"Xia Ming, if this goes on, there will be internal divisions soon. Those things alone cannot stop it. Soon all the food and water will be used up. Then there may be new competitions, and you may not necessarily be the biggest winner." Zhou Xiaoxiao said earnestly.
"Old Zhou, let me tell you the truth, and then you will understand why I did this." Su Ming turned his chair around and faced Zhou Xiaoxiao. The deep purple halo behind him was coated on Su Ming's outline, making him look mysterious and gloomy. This made it difficult for Zhou Xiaoxiao to see him clearly, and it was even more difficult to guess Su Ming's heart.
What on earth is he thinking about?
"The truth? What truth are you going to tell me?"
"Something that makes people despair." Su Ming said, "You can't tell anyone what I'm going to say later. You have to keep it completely secret, otherwise the current peace will be broken."
“It’s not peace now.”
"Ha, this is already pretty good." Su Ming raised a smile, "If I can keep doing this, I can sleep well at night."
Zhou Xiaoxiao was silent for a long time, and finally moved a chair over and sat down opposite the desk: "Go ahead."
"You know that I used to be from the Investigation Bureau, and I happen to be very familiar with this strange phenomenon because I have read the files of the Alliance's investigation summary. First of all, let me tell you something cruel. No matter how many people come in here, there are always only thirteen people who walk out alive, no more, no less." Su Ming said lightly.
After the first sentence, Zhou Xiaoxiao was stunned.
After a long while, he came back to his senses and asked in disbelief, "You mean, it's not about the low survival rate, but that no matter what, only thirteen people can survive?"
Su Ming nodded slightly, indicating that was the case.
Zhou Xiaoxiao's shoulders suddenly slumped. Even though his outstanding observation skills told him that Su Ming was not talking nonsense, Zhou Xiaoxiao still couldn't believe it.
"The king never said anything like this." Zhou Xiaoxiao whispered to himself.
“The Molten Iron City is an island where religion is rampant. You believe in the God of Steel, but this strange phenomenon is actually a bit anti-religious. The rulers of the island will naturally not publicize it. Moreover, this strange phenomenon only occurs once every ten years on average. Although a large number of people are pulled in each time it occurs, it is not a big deal when viewed on the entire island. Perhaps more children are born on the island in one day than this.
Compared with other strange phenomena and demons, there is no need to spend time to solve this strange phenomenon that only killed a few thousand people. This strange phenomenon that even the four major alliances are helpless to deal with should be left alone. Brainwashing the people with safe information is the best choice. Instead of spending energy to deal with such strange phenomena, it is better to kill a few more monsters that cause greater direct harm.
This is why you have never known the true situation in the demonic realm."
"Devil...Earth? Is this the real name of this place?" Zhou Xiaoxiao looked at Su Ming with a dull look .
"Yes, the full name is the Devil's Land."
Zhou Xiaoxiao nodded blankly, and suddenly, he understood what Su Ming had just said.
Yes, the current peace might be the best state. If only thirteen people can get out alive, I am afraid a massacre will start soon.
"Now I'm going to talk about a couple of weird things that are going on here that are very relevant to what we're going to do later.
The first strange phenomenon was the self-abuse competition last time. Games like that would be held from time to time. The only way to survive was to win and then get food and water provided by the other party.
The second strange phenomenon is that people with faith have a certain chance of obtaining special props. You can think of those props as containment objects, but using those props will generally cause personality distortion, whether it is the world outlook, values, outlook on life or way of thinking, there will be varying degrees of distortion, and the personality will become abnormal.
The third strange phenomenon is that when a person is harmed by other humans, there is a certain chance that he will disappear directly, and then appear in other places. Some indescribable existence will provide power to the person being harmed, and the person being harmed will become stronger... Of course, the mind will become abnormal like those who use the props.
In addition, there is no public information yet: although food cannot be robbed or stolen, if the person who owns the food dies, the food can be used at will. In addition, if the other party is forced to make a verbal transfer, there is no punishment. "
Zhou Xiaoxiao frowned, digesting the three strange phenomena that Su Ming had just mentioned.
These three strange phenomena, combined with the last piece of information that was not made public, made Zhou Xiaoxiao foresee a horrible future.
In order to compete for food and water, everyone will inevitably hurt each other, but in the devil's realm, it is not purely a matter of the survival of the fittest, with the strong oppressing the weak.
If it were just the strong bullying the weak, it would actually be fine, but the existence of the second and third strange phenomena gives the weak the means to resist the strong, although the price of resistance is to give up their qualifications as human beings.
But there are many people who give up being a normal person in order to survive, and then... it becomes a vicious cycle.
Constantly killing each other.
Kill each other.
Kill each other.
Until there were only thirteen people left.
No…those weren't people anymore, just the last thirteen living things.
