Chapter 409 Right of Choice
"Is everyone clear? Only thirteen people can survive, including the seven of us and Mr. Zhou. We are going to kill Su Ming next. Do you mind, Mr. Zhou?"
Zhou Xiaoxiao smiled slightly, took a step forward and said: "Everyone, please don't be polite, just call me Lao Zhou. Also, I don't mind if you want to kill Su Ming, even though I have been helping Su Ming before, but that was because I thought what he did was right, but now... I don't think so anymore?"
"Oh? Can you tell me more specifically what Su Ming wants to do?" Bai Chifei narrowed his eyes, his face showing curiosity.
"He knew from the beginning that only thirteen people could leave here, so he wanted to select the thirteen best people to leave here. This is what he has been doing all along."
"So... now you're breaking up with him because you think this is wrong?"
"No, it's not wrong. Even now, I still think Su Ming's idea is correct. It's just that Su Ming's judgment is no longer sufficient to support him to complete this idea, so I left him and came here... I will try my best to continue to complete Su Ming's idea in my own way." Zhou Xiaoxiao said.
There was a hint of amusement in Bai Chifei's eyes, and he became more interested in this civil servant whose personality had changed drastically.
"Can you tell us specifically why Su Ming's judgment has failed? How did you figure that out?"
“He was overconfident in the intelligence he had, and was full of distrust of what was happening before his eyes. Even if something really happened right before his eyes, as long as it contradicted the intelligence he had known before, he would believe the intelligence without any reason and not trust his own eyes.
Guided by the god Tyr, I gained the courage to fight against all fears, but Su Ming thought that I had made a deal with the devil disguised as a 'god' and that I had become abnormal. Not to mention whether he would put me among the thirteen who survived, I was already surprised that he didn't kill me.
Su Ming is too paranoid. If he continues to do things the old way, the people he chooses in the end are not the thirteen best people at all, but at most thirteen ordinary people who have no ability to transform. "Zhou Xiaoxiao pushed his glasses, turned his head to look at Bai Chifei, and raised a meaningful arc at the corner of his mouth.
"So... you want to live?"
"Hahaha, who doesn't want to? But I'm not afraid of death. I want to live for one reason. Another reason is that I'm one of the best people here. I'm a person guided by God."
Zhou Xiaoxiao deliberately dragged out the last sentence. After he finished speaking, he slowly turned around and scanned the faces of other people one by one.
"Everyone must be thinking that a weird person like me doesn't look mentally normal at all, right? For example, you, and you... and you, you all think so and you don't trust me at all." Zhou Xiaoxiao shrugged nonchalantly, looking confident and calm. He didn't care about the doubts of the people around him.
It has to be said that if a person has a strong aura, it is easy to impress others. Although Bai Yufei and others felt that Zhou Xiaoxiao seemed a little weird, seeing how confident he was, they felt that he might really be capable.
"Don't mind me. I won't be angry. The process of preaching is always difficult, isn't it? An unbelievable fact, as long as it is presented before your eyes, makes you have to believe it. I will prove to you how great power I have gained under the protection of God... That is a kind of spiritual sublimation.
In this devil's land, a pious heart can bring you salvation. I advise everyone to believe in God, otherwise you may be dragged into the abyss by the devil. "
"Excuse me for interrupting. I personally admire you very much, but I'm curious. Without combat power, how are you going to survive in this place?"
"The god Tyr will give me the power I need. The reason why I don't have the ability to fight now is simply because my brain alone is enough to deal with the current situation." Zhou Xiaoxiao said, "For example, now I know what else we need to do besides killing Su Ming."
"Please go ahead."
"I don't know why you want to kill Su Ming, but I don't object, because Mr. Su Ming is indeed too paranoid. He has deviated from the path he believes to be correct without knowing it. But..."
Zhou Xiaoxiao paused and sighed softly: "But I still admire him very much. He is a man of strong will and noble character. If he could believe in God, he would definitely get the right guidance... What a pity."
"In short, if you want to leave alive, you must do two things. The first is to become the last thirteen people alive, and the second is to keep a normal mind. I think everyone has no objection to this, but how to do it is another question. More and more people will turn into monsters, and they will probably become more and more powerful. If you don't become stronger, you will not be a match for those monsters in the end.
Therefore, the number of survivors must be reduced as quickly as possible, and this process of reducing the number of people must be carefully controlled to prevent people from mutating into monsters that are more powerful than you.
According to my observation, the strength of the mutated monsters is likely determined by the strength of the person you want to kill. If you want to kill an ordinary person, you will gain the power to kill ordinary people. If you want to kill a stronger person, the power you gain will be slightly stronger.
Having said so much, have you thought of the answer? "
Bai Chifei glanced at the team members around him, and everyone shook their heads slightly, indicating that they didn't understand at all.
Bai Chifei smiled and said politely: "Please give us some advice."
"We don't take action, but let ordinary people kill each other. This is the only way to effectively reduce the number of people and ensure that the monsters that are born during this period are of a level that we can handle. The method to make them kill each other is very simple, that is, to give up the all-powerful strategy in the game and try to seize as much food as possible. In this way, everyone will fight each other due to lack of food."
Bai Chifei nodded, thinking that this was a good idea. He could tell it was just a prototype, but the idea was right.
He had changed his opinion of Zhou Xiaoxiao a lot. Originally, he went to find Zhou Xiaoxiao purely to confirm whether the fact that thirteen people survived was true, and he wanted to win her over just to find out information about Su Ming.
He was not stupid. After listening to Zhou Xiaoxiao for so long, he had already realized that Su Ming did not tell him anything particularly important. At that time, Zhou Xiaoxiao's own value of use was almost zero. However, the new idea just proposed made Bai Chifei want to keep Zhou Xiaoxiao.
This guy is a bit weird, but he seems to be smarter than before. Maybe it will be useful to keep him.
Bai Chifei pondered for a long while, looked up and wanted to ask a few more questions, but happened to meet Zhou Xiaoxiao's gaze. The other party was staring at him with a faint smile, her eyes deep.
Bai Chifei frowned and was shocked. He felt a little annoyed and suddenly didn't want to keep him anymore.
"If it were before, I wouldn't have come up with these plans. Thanks to the guidance of the god Tyr, my mind has become a little more flexible." Zhou Xiaoxiao said, "Although I can't do anything except have a good eye, I think I can still help."
Well, this sounds nice, so let's just keep him for now.
"Let's work together to get out alive ." Bai Chifei stretched out his hand to Zhou Xiaoxiao, and the other party held his hand tightly.
"We should really try to survive," Zhou Xiaoxiao said, "together."
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It was that smoke-filled room again, and Liu Lingshan was hiding behind the smoke.
She put out the cigarette in her hand and said slowly: "Xiao Ming, can you make a choice?"
"Master, I did it. I know what to do." Su Ming said.
"Do you really want to do this?"
"It has nothing to do with whether I want to do it or not, right? This is the best outcome."
"Have you forgotten what I said?"
"You said that we should make choices, see the road ahead clearly, and not use fixed ideas to understand the world."
"Did I say that? Oh, that's not what I meant. I meant that you shouldn't be like Xiaoxi, working non-stop. There is no end to the work. Just finish it within the deadline."
Su Ming was stunned and asked blankly: "What do you mean?"
"Proper relaxation and rest, as well as thinking, sometimes inspiration for solving problems comes that way. Besides, do you really want to do this?"
"You asked that just now."
"Don't you think I can't see? You're hesitating."
Su Ming clenched his fists and suddenly roared in anger: "How could I not hesitate when doing something like this! I want to kill people! Living people! Real, ordinary, completely innocent people!"
"Don't want to do it? Want to save them all?"
"Of course...of course I do!"
"Want to live?"
"Yes." Su Ming covered his face with his hands, put his head on his chest, and his shoulders twitched.
Liu Lingshan sighed and said speechlessly: "What's the use of crying? No one can save everything. As long as we can save as many people as possible, it is enough. Human power is limited... Often when facing a situation beyond our ability, we will realize this.
Xiao Ming, you have to know that there is no perfect ending in this world. If you don't want to do anything against your conscience, you can just kill those alien creatures and share all the food you get with them. In the end, you will die at some point, and those who are still alive will mourn you and miss you deeply.
You are perfect, noble and pure in their hearts, just like the night star to the residents of Dongyang Island, a true hero.
But you also have to know that life is not a novel , and you are not the protagonist of the novel. Either you become the villain, or you just stay aside and play a supporting role. "
Liu Lingshan paused for a moment, sneered, and continued: "If you want to feel better, don't do anything after you wake up, let them kill each other, kill whoever comes to kill you, kill whoever kills innocent people... Don't care about anything, don't think about anything... Let this space choose who to let out.
In this way, all you kill are monsters, not humans.
You protected those people as much as possible, but they turned into monsters on their own, so you had no choice but to kill them, right?
It would be best if there were normal people among those who went out.
If there is no normal person, then you kill them all, and then you are perfect. You tried your best to protect everyone, but these people did not stick to their original intentions and became monsters. It’s not your fault.
I ask you... can you do this kind of thing?"
"I can't do it... I want them all to survive." Su Ming choked.
"You little bastard! Why are you crying? Do you really want to be a good person?" Liu Lingshan shook his head helplessly.
"I'm not a good person, not at all."
"Since none of them are good people, then why are you still hesitating? What you need to do is to let the good people survive, not to be a good person yourself. How about this?"
Su Ming suddenly opened his eyes and looked at the monotonous pale ceiling. It was the first time he felt so clear-headed after waking up.
He lay in bed for a while and heard a faint noise outside, so he got up and walked out. He opened the door and looked down from the corridor on the second floor. He could see Elton arguing with a large group of people. Elton tried his best to appease these people, but was pushed to the ground by one of them.
"Hey! What are you doing!" Su Ming shouted angrily.
When everyone heard Su Ming's voice, they suddenly fell silent. Elton got up from the ground and ran up to the second floor holding the handrail. The leader below shouted to Su Ming: "Let's ask for justice!"
"What's justice?"
"Mr. Xia, it's fine if you let those psychics protect those traitors, we accept it! But now we are all starving to death, and they are still alive and well... This!" The thin-faced man gritted his teeth and said, "No! At least half of them must come out, otherwise it's too unfair!"
"Half of them come out? Half of them come out for you to kill?"
"Right! We don't want anything from , we just can't accept it! Why should we die while they can live? Those who betrayed us can survive by talking and pretending to be innocent, but we have to starve to death? We don't want to kill anyone, but those who betrayed us and got benefits should also pay a price, right?
You are a good person, how could you do this? If you want to protect them, why did you distribute food to everyone in the first place? Why not pick a few people you like and give them the food? What's the difference between what you are doing now and letting us starve to death? "
As the man spoke, he choked up.
It can be seen that he is really unwilling to give in.
"Gather everyone together. I want to tell you the most important thing. You can decide for yourself what to do next."
Su Ming decided to make public all the secrets he knew.
If people's hearts collapse at this point, then let them collapse. He will be responsible for burying those who give up being human. But if someone still wants to struggle to survive as a human being after knowing the truth, then... at least give enough respect to those who have such beliefs.
