Chapter 402: Monsters in the Crowd
"Elton!"
Su Ming yelled, and then the old butler in a suit and tie walked out tremblingly from the side.
Su Ming looked at him in surprise . Elton's suit was still neat, but it was covered in dust, and his silver hair was greasy.
In this horrible space, there is no extra water for daily bathing, so everyone is very sloppy. Elton has always done a good job in completing the tasks assigned by Su Ming, which has caused Su Ming to ignore the old man who has been helping him for a long time.
Only then did Su Ming realize that the old man was just an ordinary person, and his persistence was merely a sign of his trust in him.
"Can you help us deal with this?" Su Ming asked in a gentle tone.
Elton turned his head and looked at the body, then nodded hesitantly and said, "I think so, sir. Are you sure that this body will not..."
"Don't worry, there will be no danger." Su Ming said.
"Okay, I'll ask someone to clean it up right away." said the old butler.
Su Ming nodded slightly and turned to leave, but was suddenly stopped by Cao Fengling: "Xia Ming, don't you want to explain? What kind of supernatural power was that just now?"
Anyone can see that the superpower Su Ming just displayed is completely different from the recovery power he used before. Most people do not possess two superpowers. After all, people with compound superpowers are a minority in this world.
However, if you have the ability to seize supernatural powers, the situation is different.
Facing Cao Fengling's questioning, Su Ming did not turn around. He turned his back to the other party and said, "There are no coincidences in this world. How to judge, you decide for yourself."
Cao Fengling frowned, looked at Su Ming's back, and watched him enter the main house.
Does the other party's words just now count as a tacit agreement?
There are no coincidences in this world. It turns out that what Chi Fei said was true, and Su Ming was the murderer in the video.
But would a murderer like that really try so hard to save everyone?
From the beginning to now, if you want to choose the best leader among all people, it is undoubtedly Su Ming. People like her and Bai Chifei can only gather people who have similar views as themselves, and they cannot include ordinary people in the scope of protection , but Su Ming did it.
Regardless of whether Su Ming is the murderer wanted by the alliance, Cao Fengling believes that her future life depends on Su Ming. Even if Su Ming is really a murderer, without him, this huge group will inevitably fall apart like loose sand.
But...the answer to the question of whether Xia Ming is Su Ming is very important to ordinary people.
Ordinary people's judgment is not as rational as hers. The judgment of the masses is often superficial and direct. They recognize people rather than things. If the group thinks a person is trustworthy, they will continue to believe in him until the other person makes a mistake or they find out that the other person is not trustworthy. If a person is not trustworthy, the masses will not follow him from the beginning, even if that person has a perfect experience.
"Big sister, what should we do with so many people?" Luo Bing scratched his head in distress.
Cao Fengling turned around and looked at the total number of people he was responsible for protecting, with an unhappy expression on his face.
These guys are all real idiots. Some of them are pure idiots, while others are smart idiots who can't pretend. It takes a lot of effort to protect them.
…
"Boom boom boom! Boom boom boom!!"
"Master! Master!"
Su Ming woke up from his recliner with a start. He blinked his sore eyes and looked towards the curtained window. A lavender light was shining in from outside. Judging from the brightness of the light, it was definitely daytime. Did he get up late?
"Elton, did I oversleep?" Su Ming asked while rubbing his eyelids.
"Master, something big has happened again! You have to come and see!"
"Another death?"
"No, it's a corpse! There's something wrong with the corpse!"
…
Five minutes later, Su Ming and Elton stood in front of a pile of body parts.
There was no one else except Elton and Su Ming.
"Yesterday I had someone use a cart to transport all these body parts to the side of this landfill and put them there for a while. I was planning to have someone take them to a farther place to dispose of them early this morning. But then I found the bodies turned out like this... They clearly weren't like this yesterday!" Elton suppressed the fear in his voice and tried to explain to Su Ming what he had done as objectively as possible.
Su Ming frowned and carefully observed the changes in the body parts, every detail. A part of the flesh on the inner thigh was missing, a large piece of flesh disappeared from the cheek of the head, and there were traces of knife cuts in other parts. There was even a half-cut piece of flesh hanging on the thigh.
Pictures flashed through Su Ming's mind. From these clues, Su Ming could imagine the intentions of the people who did these things.
There was a man who did not sleep in the dead of night and followed Elton to the place where the body parts were stored. Then after Elton and the servants left, he took a knife to the garbage heap and cut the body parts.
The man first aimed at the thigh, but after cutting for a while he found that the deformed thigh muscles were too hard and too old, so he gave up and turned to the delicate muscles on the inner thigh.
This time, he found it very smooth to cut, so he cut off the meat from the same part of the other leg as well.
After learning his lesson, he began to cut various parts of the corpse, using the feel of his hands to determine where the meat was more tender and where it was harder. Finally, he chose a few places, including the cheek meat, and carefully removed all the meat. He disappeared into the night with the bloody pieces of fresh meat...
Wait ! Some details are left out.
Su Ming saw that there was another side with a half-cut piece of meat still hanging there.
Just like how primitive people would try to avoid fighting wild beasts with their bare hands after they discovered that using tools could improve their hunting efficiency, normally people with normal brains would not repeat hard work twice, so it is not just one person but at least two people who come here to cut the meat.
The two men continued cutting the corpse under the deep purple moonlight and smelling garbage and blood. One of them felt that this way of working was inefficient, so he proposed a new working method. After discovering that changing the cutting method could indeed improve efficiency, the two men adopted a tentative cutting method.
If we are optimistic, there are only two people, but if we are pessimistic, there may be more than two people.
The purpose of cutting meat in the middle of the night was self-evident, but that was not what Su Ming cared about.
He had read many bizarre and horrifying stories, such as mysterious cases in caves, disasters in snowy mountains, and cannibalism during famine. The people in these stories committed similar acts, but Su Ming could fully understand them because they were the only way out when they were forced to do so.
However, the current situation is completely different from these stories. The hunger is not serious enough, and in order to appease people, he has been distributing very small amounts of food to everyone.
No one in their right mind would do such a thing in this situation.
If the people who came to the garbage dump in the middle of the night to cut up the corpses were compared to the protagonists in the snow mountain story and the cave story, then the snow mountain story would become a group of people who encountered an avalanche. The group had enough food for everyone to eat for several days, but one of them killed everyone and used the dead as his own food reserve.
If the protagonist were in trouble in a cave, the first suggestion he would make would be: "Come on, let's draw lots to kill a few people. This will save food and give two more people food to eat."
Ordinary people cannot think of such a method... There is only one explanation: some people are crazy.
"Elton, move aside, step back a few steps." Su Ming suddenly spoke.
Elton took a few steps back cautiously. Su Ming stretched out his hand, and flames suddenly burst out from his palm, covering all the corpses.
The flames burned fiercely, and in the blink of an eye, several corpses turned into charred black charcoal. However, during the burning process, the aroma of roasted meat was indeed wafted.
Even though no seasoning is added, the smell of this denatured protein can drive people crazy when they are extremely hungry.
Elton, who was standing nearby, swallowed his saliva, but his expression became even more horrified, because... he suddenly realized what those knife marks meant, and he also knew why Su Ming wanted to burn these bodies.
Finally, the original shape of the corpse could no longer be seen on its surface. Su Ming stopped releasing his supernatural powers and turned around and said, "Please transport this thing out. Also, don't spread what happened just now. Just you and I should know about it. Do you understand?"
"I understand, but sir, this..."
"Shh... stop talking, I'll take care of it." Su Ming patted Elton's shoulder, "Thank you for your hard work."
Some have gone crazy, and quite crazy. I don’t know if it’s because of the voices in their heads, or if they encountered other weird temptations. In short, the remaining people in the big family are no longer pure.
The monster has blended into the crowd, we have to identify him.
Find an opportunity to call everyone over, and then use your super intuition to find and deal with all those guys who have lost their humanity.
"Haha, are you planning to use your super intuition to find the bad apples? Don't you think you're being hypocritical? You had a solution to the [Numbers Game] but you didn't make it public, but now you want to find those monsters to protect the rest of the people. Think about what you're doing now?"
Su Ming stood there in a daze, his expression extremely shocked.
"Master? Master, what's wrong with you?" Elton saw that Su Ming's face was not right, and patted Su Ming's arm gently.
"Oh, nothing. I'll go back first. I'll leave the rest to you." Su Ming said quickly, then turned around and left.
And the voice in my head continues .
'You're walking so fast, are you trying to escape?
Su Ming, Su Ming, you are now like people on a sinking raft. You must leave behind a few people to survive, otherwise the raft will fall apart and you will all die. But look at you now, what are you doing?
You are a self-aware person. You clearly know that you cannot save everyone and that the situation is deteriorating rapidly, but you still do this. Do you want to work hard until the last moment when the raft falls apart and then embarrass yourself?
Isn't it ridiculous? What difference does it make if those people live a few seconds longer or a few seconds less?
You had made up your mind before, but you wavered after seeing the faces of the mother and daughter yesterday? You are such a saint, you know it yourself - this is hypocrisy! '
