Chapter 389 Begins
Su Ming stared at Bai Chifei, silently labeling this self-righteous man in front of him - conceited, self-righteous, overly optimistic, and inexplicably confident in his own personal charm.
If the other party can maintain this optimistic and confident attitude in the future, Su Ming will still admire him. However, Su Ming knows that the more optimistic and positive people are, the more likely they are to collapse and fall into a vortex of self-doubt when they encounter setbacks.
Bai Chifei's confidence now all comes from his self-perceived control and understanding of the current environment. Once he finds out that he knows nothing about this devil's land, all the confidence he has built up before will collapse. Then, what will become of him?
Su Ming didn't know either.
Anyway, give it a little blow.
"Since you know my true identity, you should also know that I used to be from the Investigation Bureau, right?"
"Then?" Bai Chifei frowned, looking puzzled.
"I know a lot of information about this strange phenomenon. One of the pieces of information is that in this alien space, anyone can obtain some kind of prop and thus improve their strength. Those ordinary people in your eyes now may become stronger than you in the near future.
In addition, people who use those props will have distorted personalities, or in layman's terms, go crazy.
So the rule of this place is not about the survival of the fittest, but the people who are more willing to give up their bottom line are more likely to survive. If you don't mind going crazy, then just go ahead and use those props.
There was once a survivor who, after experiencing some things here, turned into a cannibal and ate his brother; some people developed a fanatical religious worship of some non-existent god, killed many innocent people, and regarded everything they did as God's will.
There are other examples that I won’t mention because they will be made public later. I hope you understand that power is useless in this place.”
After hearing Su Ming's words, Bai Chifei fell silent, and his original intention to win over Su Ming also disappeared in an instant.
" If there is nothing else, I will go and announce this information to everyone. Others also have the right to know what I just told you." Su Ming said.
"Wait! Why are you telling me such an important thing now?" Bai Chifei stopped Su Ming.
“Because the time has not come yet.”
After saying that, Su Ming left the study without looking back.
He asked Elton to call everyone over, gathered them together, announced the information he had just told Bai Chifei, and made a final summary.
"To sum up, if one of us gains power in this way, then we can no longer treat that person as a human being. He is no longer one of us. Do you understand?"
Everyone was talking and whispering. The joy of having obtained food was washed away by the sudden bad news. In an instant, everyone was in a situation where they could be harmed at any time. Everyone felt that they might be tempted by the devil.
"Then how can we leave this place?" someone in the crowd asked loudly.
"I don't know. All we can do is try our best to survive." Su Ming replied.
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Death finally occurred on the fourth day after the second supply of food.
The dead were two old people. No one knew whether they died of hunger or from donating their own blood. When someone found them, the old couple hugged each other tightly, looking a little uneasy, but also somewhat relaxed. Presumably, for both of them, even in such a deadly situation, each other's arms were still the safest place.
Su Ming had the two of them buried. The appearance of the first batch of dead bodies spread fear among the crowd. Some people objected to Su Ming's management, thinking that Su Ming's plan of distributing food equally was not humane enough, but in the end this weak protest was rejected by Su Ming with even more cruel reasons.
“In that case, let’s take out some of our own food to take care of the elderly and children. I’ve always thought it’s better this way .” - Su Ming only said this at the time, and the scene fell completely silent... Everyone was starving, and there was no one here who would rather starve themselves than save others.
Due to the shortage of food and the decline of everyone's physical strength, Su Ming reduced most of the physical work that everyone was supposed to do. He no longer lit torches in the middle of the night, but let everyone go to bed early. After getting up in the morning, they had nothing to do but to collect their own portion of food on time. Then the women complained to their husbands about their current suffering, and the men kept silent, endured it silently, and casually said a few insignificant words of comfort.
The atmosphere was hopeless. There was nothing to do, no direction, no hope. One just waited silently, taking canned food and drinking water like taking medicine, to delay the arrival of one's own death.
Twelve days passed in this atmosphere.
On the morning of the twelfth day, Elton went to the garden as usual to distribute breakfast to everyone, but he found a couple hanged on a tree.
They left a suicide note, the content of which was very simple. They hoped that Su Ming would give the food that originally belonged to them to their son. Every sentence and every line in the suicide note revealed their gratitude to Su Ming and the luck of a drowning man grabbing the last straw.
They begged Su Ming to share their food with their children as they had written in their suicide notes. This was the last thing they, as parents, could do for their children.
If the situation wasn't really hopeless, which parent would abandon their children and die first?
Faced with this situation, Su Ming's choice was to give the two children extra meals that day. Although it was only a little bit, it was already rich compared to other people's meals.
Because of this decision, Zhou Xiaoxiao came to him.
"You're not doing this right!"
This was the first sentence Zhou Xiaoxiao said when she entered the study.
Su Ming looked at the other person expressionlessly and said calmly, "Has anyone discovered it?"
Zhou Xiaoxiao was stunned, and her shoulders suddenly collapsed: "You knew it a long time ago?"
"Anyone with a little imagination can think of this, right? This is something that will happen sooner or later. Now it's just the beginning." Su Ming raised his head and looked at Zhou Xiaoxiao. "What do you think will happen next?"
Zhou Xiaoxiao opened her eyes wide, staring at Su Ming's face with a faint smile, and was so shocked that she was speechless.
He was actually laughing!
Why is he still laughing? What's so funny about this situation?
"Su Ming! What on earth are you thinking about! You..."
In the end, Zhou Xiaoxiao did not utter this fatal question. He didn't know why he didn't say it, but he didn't want to do this to Su Ming.
"Old Zhou, just treat me as crazy. By the way, if I were crazy, what would you do?" Su Ming's smile looked very strange in Zhou Xiaoxiao's eyes. The other's eyes were like two flashing lights, which made Zhou Xiaoxiao feel creepy.
Zhou Xiaoxiao was about to question the other party, but Su Ming interrupted him and said directly: "You only observe other people, why don't you observe yourself?"
