Chapter 400 Who is to blame?
Zhou Xiaoxiao's question made these people hesitate.
Finally, someone spoke cautiously and in an uncertain tone.
"Since he assisted us, it doesn't count as a complete betrayal. It can be considered as redemption and can be forgiven."
Su Ming almost laughed out loud. From this sentence, he knew that this group of people were just using the rules he had set for their own benefit. Because they wanted to take away the food of the winners, they supported the rules and punished the betrayers.
But if the winner's food can only be taken with the help of a betrayer, then the rule is invalid and the helper can be forgiven.
Humph, principles and order...are they things that become ineffective so easily?
Su Ming shook his head, sighed, raised his head, looked at everyone and said seriously: "I will think about it, and I will talk to Lao Zhou later. Now please go out first, I still have some data to calculate here, maybe the existing food can support us for ten days."
When they heard Su Ming mention food, they suddenly fell silent. To them, this was a very important matter, and one that they could not help with. Continuing to disturb Su Ming at this time seemed... not so good?
"Then, us?"
"Everyone go back first, I will discuss it with Lao Zhou later." Su Ming comforted everyone.
So a large group of people rushed out of the study, and after a while, the study returned to silence.
But Su Ming didn't enjoy the quiet for long. There was a knock on the door and Fan Qi's voice came from outside the door: "Can I talk to you for a few words ?"
"Please come in." Su Ming rubbed his temples and cheered himself up.
Fan Qi walked in through the door, and his first question was, "What do you want to do next?"
"Many people have asked me this question, but I have no idea." Su Ming said casually.
"It's over here. The rules you set are no longer applicable." Fan Qi said it very directly, without beating around the bush, and his tone was decisive, without a trace of humility.
He is younger than Su Ming, and he has not behaved like Su Ming since he came into the devil's land. Most people would feel an invisible pressure when facing Su Ming, and the dominance of the conversation would also be subtly influenced by him, but interestingly, Fan Qi did not have that.
The reason is that the child is very confident in his own thinking ability. He feels that he can see the current situation as clearly as Su Ming, so his ideological status is equal to Su Ming's.
Su Ming thought this was a good thing. Although the other party's self-perception was a bit wrong, Su Ming did not hate this self-confidence.
"You're right. This is the end. I haven't thought of a good solution yet. Do you have any ideas?" Su Ming said, "I saw that you seemed to have thought of a solution to the number guessing game, but you didn't have time to implement it. It shows that you have a good brain... So tell me your ideas."
"My idea is to reintegrate, select clear-headed and smart people from the remaining people, and re-establish a collective. Mr. Xia, you can see clearly, right? No matter how you help those people, in the end they will only be blinded by interests, and will not consider the overall situation at all, and have no foresight at all.
If we continue to allow such people to stay in the group, incidents like this one will keep happening again and again. With our current number of people... we won't be able to handle it for many more times.
So! So... I think we should only let the necessary people survive! Those who understand the meaning of cooperation!"
"Does Lin Anyu agree with your idea?" Su Ming asked directly.
Fan Qi was stunned, puzzled: "Does this have anything to do with Lin Anyu?"
"Aren't you two very close?"
"Tsk! No way, we are just classmates who got dragged into this together." Fan Qi turned his head and said, "That guy can't recognize the reality at all!"
"Have you discussed this idea with her?" Su Ming asked.
Fan Qi showed obvious displeasure.
"Why would I discuss this with her?"
"Then I think it's better for you to discuss it with her. The current situation cannot be solved by your simple method. Simply calculating it like doing a math problem will not produce any effect." Su Ming said earnestly.
This sentence made Fan Qi frown. The feeling of being treated like a child made him feel very uncomfortable. What he hated most was being looked down upon.
"Unhappy? If you're not happy, you can try your idea yourself." Su Ming said mercilessly, "If there is nothing else, you can leave. Regarding your suggestion just now, my answer is no."
"Hmph, are you so immersed in your leadership position that you can't extricate yourself? I thought you were a sober guy, but I didn't expect you were just a daydreamer!" Fan Qi said angrily, then turned around and quickly left the room.
"Just a little bit off." Su Ming said to himself.
Using intelligence to choose who should survive and who should be abandoned, this method of selection is no different from the law of the jungle, where the strong devour the weak and the smart abandon the stupid. This is not the result Su Ming wants to see.
He wants to keep alive those who can save more people.
…
'So, you see, this time he completely gave up on others, which proves that he never took the big family he mentioned seriously from the beginning. From the beginning to the end, he was just deceiving others and playing house.
Those who are willing to play house with him deserve to die, and those who are clear-headed should survive. Isn't that right? That's how you have been all along, isn't it? '
"That's true. Maybe Su Ming was really lying before."
'Isn't this natural? If you lose yourself and become a monster by trading for power, then why can the revenger still maintain his self? You can see that, apart from being blinded by anger, the guy was very clear-headed, did not kill innocent people, and behaved normally. But he was dealt with privately by Su Ming. What does this mean?'
"It means that gaining power does not mean you will go crazy. Just like it has been a while since I responded to you, but I am still sane."
'We can't draw a conclusion like that, but it is certain that Su Ming has many secrets that he is hiding from everyone. Perhaps the execution of that man was also Su Ming's way of covering up something. That guy is a cold-blooded murderer, and he is also the former commissioner of the Investigation Bureau, and his rank is S-level. He knows a lot about the information of this place.
In other words, he can completely take advantage of information asymmetry, fabricate lies to restrict others from gaining advantages through legitimate means, and then do things at his own pace in private to gain advantages himself.
Although it is a bit of a stretch to think so, this possibility still exists, and it is not small.'
"So what do you think I should do?"
'You are now wondering if I am misleading you. You still remember what Su Ming said before, but I want to remind you that what Su Ming said is logically unfalsifiable, just like the brain in a vat. He said that what I said will sound right to you, and he also said that these seemingly correct words of mine are guiding your thinking.
Now if I put forward another hypothesis and tell you that you are actually a brain in a vat, would you believe it?
If you are really so wary of me, how about you do the opposite of what I say? You have the freedom to decide how to do it, but I will answer all your questions.
Now you ask for my advice, so my advice is to tell you to try to disrupt the current situation, discard the information that Su Ming told you, and then test it yourself.'
"You want me to test it myself?"
'You know what I mean. That group of people is finished now. Even if you don't do anything, you can get the test results. All you have to do is observe and see how many of them go crazy and how many don't go crazy after they gain power.
Then, you summarize those conditions, and in this way you can find a way to gain power without going crazy, right?
Although this place is cruel, the games played so far are all competitive, testing both IQ and strength. Even if one lacks talent, the mysterious monsters will make up for the lack of talent. From these characteristics, the statement that "this weird space will select better people from a group of people" is more credible than the statement that "this weird space will torture a group of people to death."
Moreover, he is very fair, even ordinary people can get the opportunity to compete with superpowers.'
Bai Chifei fell into silence. What the strange voice in his mind said was absolutely right. Based on current observations, this space was indeed more like selecting some people who were better suited to survive in harsh conditions, and it also gave these people power.
"Su Ming is very difficult to deal with. He knows too much information. I thought I could still compete with him before, but now I don't think so... I may still be being calculated by him."
"So be smart. Sometimes when faced with a difficult situation, you should use force to overcome cleverness. Su Ming is the only one there anyway."
"Yes, but it is unclear how many powers he has. He has the power to steal other people's powers."
"The ability to transfer injuries and self-recovery that you have shown so far is nothing to you. If it is only this level, even Maoqiu can kill him, not to mention that you also have Yufei. I think if you two come together, it will definitely not be a problem."
"but……"
'Still hesitating? I don't want to force you to do this, but I want to remind you that Su Ming's strength is not static. You know he has the ability to take away superpowers. Do you know what other superpowers he will have as time goes by? What he is doing now is definitely not just playing house. You don't know his purpose, so you finally define his purpose as making yourself stronger.'
Bai Chifei sighed heavily, thinking that what the guy said was right, Su Ming was a potential danger.
But taking risks is not the style of the Owl Team. Even though the Owl Team occasionally shows a very radical side when working, those situations were actually all decisions made by Bai Chifei when he was quite confident in the situation, which was completely different from this time.
"I need to discuss this with everyone."
"We should discuss this. It's time for everyone to realize how serious the current situation is." said the voice in Bai Chifei's mind.
Bai Chifei stood up and walked towards the team members who were laughing and playing in the distance. They were happy because they had received a good amount of food.
Bai Yufei was the first to notice her brother coming over. When she saw his serious expression, she realized something was wrong.
She knew her brother best. Normally, he would not show this kind of expression. He was the most opinionated person and his eyes were always firm even in the most difficult situations. But now he seemed a little hesitant.
"Brother, what's wrong?"
"Everyone, I want to discuss something with you." Bai Chifei said to everyone.
…
"Master! You'd better come!"
Elton's panicked voice woke Su Ming from his doze. Su Ming raised his head and looked at the watch on the table in the dim moonlight - it was still night.
"What's wrong?" Su Ming replied as calmly as possible to hide his tiredness.
“Someone died!”
"Oh, I understand. Lead the way." Su Ming said lightly.
Elton, who was standing at the door, was stunned. The contrast between imagination and reality made him a little dazed for a moment. He thought Su Ming would at least be surprised.
When Su Ming just walked out of the study door, he heard a noise coming from outside the house. It seemed that Elton was not the first one to discover the death, and panic had spread.
Walking out of the door of the house, there were flickering lights outside. A large group of people were holding torches and talking loudly about something. When they saw Su Ming coming out, they all fell silent in an instant.
Suddenly, a woman's cry broke out in the crowd. Then a woman rushed out of the crowd holding a child, trotted to Su Ming, knelt on the ground, tightly grasped Su Ming's trouser legs, and cried hoarsely: "Mr. Xia! You have to protect us! We didn't do anything, we didn't do anything bad! Wuuuuuuu~~"
The woman was crying, and the little girl in her arms was also crying loudly. Perhaps she herself didn't know why she was crying, but because her mother was scared, she was scared too.
Women at least beg for protection, but children just cry and they don't even know what's happening.
"Mr. Xia! You have to save us!"
"Mr. Xia! We didn't do anything! This is not our fault!!"
With two thuds, the two men also knelt on the ground, looking at Su Ming in despair and helplessness.
This woman started the conversation, and more and more people knelt on the ground, begging for Su Ming's protection. The reasons they gave were all the same: they were innocent, had never done anything bad, and had only randomly chosen a number to get the food, and did not intend to harm others.
As for those who were standing, their expressions were cold and few showed any compassion.
Su Ming lowered his head and his eyes fell on the face of the woman beside his legs. The middle-aged woman's face was covered with tears. The dust and tears from not washing her face for many days mixed together, making her face dirty. The little girl in her arms, who was only four or five years old, tilted her neck and howled with a hoarse voice.
For a moment, Su Ming's heart seemed to be gripped by an invisible hand.
Damn, he wanted to save them so badly... he really, really wanted to!
but……
