Chapter 388 Bai Chifei's Lobbying
According to past experience, as long as a monster dies, Su Ming can obtain the energy and characteristics collected by the system by standing close to the monster. But this time, he was so close to the place where the lizard monster died, but he got nothing. This forced Su Ming to rethink the conjecture that he had denied before.
After coming in, Su Ming always regarded the devil's land as a different space like the white fog, that is, this space itself was normal, but it became abnormal because of some strange existence. For example, the white fog, the white fog world itself is a real world. If there were no three gods, then the white fog would be an ordinary different world.
Back then in the white fog world, they took advantage of the loophole of the God of Hope and escaped from the white fog world. This time, Su Ming felt that he could also find a new loophole in the devil's territory and let everyone leave alive.
Originally... this is what Su Ming thought.
But what happened just now dispelled Su Ming's idea.
The lizard monster was obviously a monster, but they killed it and did not get any reward, which was different from all the situations they had experienced before.
There are two ways to explain this situation.
The first is that this space can be regarded as an exception, and the rules of the system cannot apply to the creatures in this alien space.
This explanation is a bit far-fetched. After all, in the white fog world, Su Ming did not directly kill the dreamer Jin Yumin, but he also obtained the characteristics stripped from Jin Yumin. Therefore, this optimistic explanation cannot be accepted by Su Ming from the bottom of his heart.
He felt that the truth should be the second one, that is, they did not actually kill the monster, they only killed part of the monster.
If you consider this entire devil's land as a whole, and the eight-legged meat ball monsters, human-faced monsters, and lizard monsters inside as part of the land, then it makes perfect sense that he didn't gain any energy just now.
Because they didn't defeat anything at all. Killing a lizard monster might be just like losing a hair or something for the entire devil's world.
Once they accept this setting, it is tantamount to denying the possibility of everyone's survival, because when the entire "world" becomes a weirdness, then leaving this world by eliminating a certain weirdness will not work. They are in this world, and the only thing they can do is to follow the deformed rules of this world.
Only thirteen people can survive?
Yes, it is written like this in so many files. How could there be an exception just because of me?
It's ridiculous that I had such naive thoughts at that time.
"You seem to be worried." Bai Chifei looked at Su Ming and asked with a smile, "Are you dissatisfied with the results this time?"
"No, I'm fine, just thinking about other things." Su Ming said.
Bai Chifei did not think too deeply about Su Ming's answer. He just thought that Su Ming was under too much pressure to take care of everyone, so he was not relaxed enough.
At the same time, Bai Chifei also believed that the big family that could not last long. The reason why those people still listened to Su Ming was because Su Ming chose an option with extremely small risk among many options with huge risks.
This hunting trip seemed to be a unity of the big family, but in fact it was just a trade-off of personal interests. Bai Chifei felt that Su Ming should also know this, so he was in such a bad mood now.
The road ahead is completely predictable. Sooner or later, this superficial peace will collapse.
Humans are greedy. Even if Su Ming keeps providing them with options with less risk, in the end, they will always want the option with no risk.
Sharing food equally now is like cutting meat with a soft knife. Although the losses in a short period of time are not much, everyone hungry, and everyone is bearing the punishment brought by this inexplicable game.
To be honest, Bai Chifei now feels that Su Ming may have been wronged. Although there is solid evidence for his wanted warrant on his own intelligence platform , judging from what Su Ming has done in recent days, this person is definitely not the kind of pervert who kills without blinking an eye.
Bai Chifei believed that this was not Su Ming's disguise, because some details could not be disguised.
His Owl Squad has caught many perverted criminals. Many of them also like to hide themselves among the ordinary people, but as long as you investigate carefully, you can find clues, because the inner thoughts of perverts are different from those of ordinary people. They cannot use their own inner activities to empathize with others and think from their perspective, so there will be a subtle sense of disharmony in the details of life.
But Su Ming didn't. He treated the children and the elderly appropriately, even better than most people.
Bai Chifei felt that... he could win over Su Ming.
He wanted Su Ming to face reality.
…
“I’m back!”
“They’re back!”
“Finally back!”
Su Ming was sitting in the car and heard shouts of joy coming from the manor. As several vans drove into the manor, people of all ages came out of their houses and surrounded the cars.
Su Ming got off the car and said to everyone, "We have successfully dealt with the monster. It won't be long before the monster sends us new food. Don't worry, you won't starve to death.
In addition, there is still a lot of blood left after this battle. I will return this blood to everyone. Of course, if anyone feels well, they can also give the blood to others.
Those who are willing to give up sharing the blood can talk to Zhou Xiaoxiao and I will count the number of people. "
"Mr. Xia, the monster outside is coming!"
"Oh, don't be afraid, that monster should be here to deliver food."
Not long after, the human-faced monster staggered into the manor and stood in front of everyone. The space around it twisted, and food and water reappeared on the ground where there was nothing. The lips on the chest of the human-faced monster opened and closed, making rough and unpleasant sounds.
"This is yours."
As it said this, the food and water around it slowly faded into the air and disappeared. A few seconds later, they appeared next to Su Ming and several other psychics. All the food was evenly distributed to all the people participating in the battle and Su Ming who was suffering the injury.
Seeing the new food appear, the people around showed joy and were extremely excited. The joy of obtaining survival resources even diluted their fear of this unknown monster. When they were tortured by hunger and weakness, they had no extra energy to imagine what would happen in the future.
And this is exactly what Su Ming is worried about. If everyone is unable to think deeply about the problem when they are hungry and cold, then the next time a monster with the appearance of a god appears in front of them, hands them a prop, and tells them that this prop can change their current situation. As long as they accept God's guidance, they can escape from the current desperate situation.
If it really comes to this, how many of these people present can resist the temptation?
Su Ming didn't know the answer, but he was worried.
After distributing the food, the human-faced monster left as usual. A large group of people blinked their sparkling eyes and stared at Su Ming.
Su Ming came out of his thoughts, looked at the food piled up like a small mountain around him, and said to the psychics who participated in the battle: "Transfer the ownership of these foods to me. I will distribute them to everyone after calculation."
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Everyone who participated in the battle handed all the food to Su Ming for safekeeping without any resistance. This made Su Ming feel very relieved, as he had thought that someone would object.
It seems that the character he established before was good. At least he is trusted now.
However, he now has to start thinking about how to "choose".
Su Ming spread out a piece of paper on the desk and wrote down his standards one by one with a pen.
1. The only ones who survive must be human
2. Those who survive must be good people
3. For those who survive, their personal abilities should be as excellent as possible, and it would be best if they could engage in professions similar to those of investigation bureau specialists to save more people.
Regarding the third point, in-depth testing must be conducted to ensure that the selected candidates can make ideal choices when faced with real situations.
That person’s qualities: rational enough, able to make choices, but also a little idealistic.
In addition, the following information must be made available to everyone:
1. You cannot accept items provided by any creatures or abnormal phenomena, and you cannot trade with anything.
Second, tell them the consequences of sacrificing themselves and making a deal with the "devil." 】
Having written this, Su Ming once again marveled at the appropriate name of the Investigation Bureau, the Devil's Land... It is indeed the Devil's Land. Calling those strange creatures "devil" is the most appropriate and easier for ordinary people to understand.
As Su Ming was thinking, he continued to write down what was in his mind, sorting out the details in his mind. At this moment, a knock on the door suddenly broke the silence of the study room - "Knock, knock, knock."
The pen that was sliding on the paper stopped moving. Su Ming looked up coldly at the door, quickly folded the paper and stuffed it into his pocket, and said in a deep voice, "Come in."
The person who pushed the door open was Bai Chifei, with a smile and a meaningful look on his face.
"Mr. Xia, I have something to talk to you about, is that ok?"
"Of course, please take a seat."
Bai Chifei sat down on the chair opposite the desk. He stared into Su Ming's eyes with hesitation on his face. Su Ming could see that the other party's hesitation was fake, and he even tasted some pride from this hesitation.
In an instant, Su Ming knew what Bai Chifei was here for, but he decided to listen to what he said.
"What's the matter?"
"Well, there is something. It's about the current situation of the big family."
"Tell me about it."
"Do you really think that the big family can continue to be maintained now?"
Bai Chifei went straight to the point and his first question touched upon the most critical point of contradiction.
"Objectively speaking, it's very difficult to keep going, but I can't think of a better way at the moment. Do you have any better ideas?"
"I don't have a better solution, but I think it's not a good idea to continue like this, especially since your identity is very special. Although no one has said it now, I can't guarantee that no one will say it in the future. If... your identity is known by them in the future, what will we do then?"
Bai Chifei's hint was already very clear. His words were equivalent to telling Su Ming, I know your true identity, you are not Xia Ming at all.
He expected to see some surprise and shock on Su Ming's face.
But unfortunately, Su Ming's expression was very calm, and he even looked a little disdainful after hearing what he said.
Bai Chifei's smile froze at first, then slowly disappeared. He narrowed his eyes with a playful look.
"You knew I knew that?" he asked in disbelief.
"It doesn't matter whether they know it or not. I've just been prepared for people to know my true identity." Su Ming replied.
This answer was half true and half false. Su Ming was indeed prepared for this, but he had actually guessed it a long time ago because Zhou Xiaoxiao had told him before that Bai Chifei and Maoqiu were in the same group and they did not look like serious people.
This "not like a serious person", translated according to Zhou Xiaoxiao's words, means doing things without considering right or wrong, but only considering benefits - they get the job for profit.
"I didn't expect it. I really didn't expect it." Bai Chifei nodded and repeated, as if Su Ming's performance gave him a big surprise.
Obviously, he thought he had the initiative and was in control of the negotiations, but in Su Ming's eyes, this young man was a little too conceited.
Although Su Ming and Bai Chifei are of similar age in terms of physical age, and Bai Chifei is even older, after just a few words of negotiation, Su Ming realized that the other party was no match for him and that this guy was too optimistic about the situation.
It can be imagined that Bai Chifei had never encountered such an unsolvable problem as the Devil's Land before, and he had never encountered such a weirdness as the Black Gate and White Mist. He was extremely confident in his own strength. The purpose of sitting here now should be to persuade him to act at his pace.
"Su Ming, I admire you very much. You are very strong and your character is admirable. At first I thought that what you did was just to win people's hearts and take advantage of those ordinary people, but now I have changed my mind. You really want them to survive.
You didn’t do the things in those videos, did you? "
"Of course I didn't do it, but no one would believe me if I said that because I'm wanted by the Alliance."
"Would you like to join us?" Bai Chifei said suddenly.
Su Ming looked up and stared into the other person's eyes, and asked back: "Join you? What do you mean by that? Do you want to create division here?"
"Hahaha! Of course not, I wouldn't do such a tasteless thing. If this status quo can continue, I'll be so happy!
But...seriously, do you believe it yourself? Do you really think these people can live in peace with us like this forever?"
Bai Chifei leaned forward, stared at Su Ming very seriously, and said slowly: "There are many kinds of difficult environments, battlefields, famine zones, sinful cities, I have been in all these places.
If you create a community like the one you have now in those places, it is possible to maintain it for a long time, but it is different here, you should understand.
This is not a normal world! The rules here are against common sense! The current stability is only temporary, you have to recognize this!"
