Chapter 426: The Matthew Effect
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"Below is the base of the Duran family's training camp, which is about the size of a state in the Beacon Star. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ο½ο½ο½Uο½Eγ info It is enclosed in an ecological enclosure, and the internal environment is exactly the same as that of the earth. Because it is impossible for ordinary people to survive in the primitive environment of Gray Star for a long time, but if it is modified, it will lose the most important prerequisite for stimulating its potential and training superpowers. So in the end, the method of the ancestors of the Great Voyage Era was used to establish a ** ecosystem on the planet. All bootcamps do just that, separating the superpower trainer from the average person, and excitation and survival into one. β
David pointed to the Tower of Babel: "That's the management center, it's the heart of the whole training camp, like a busy beehive. All kinds of institutions, offices, testing centers, tens of thousands of clerks, clerks, deacons, and technical advisors and trainers, most of them are ordinary people without any superpowers, I remember the supreme person here-" He thought for a moment, and then said uncertainly: "It should be an overseer squire, barely counting into the ranks of the high squire." β
"But it's just such a small man who is not even a high-ranking squire or not, and the ordinary people under his command who are even lower than him, who rule over the thousands of superpowers and millions of potential people who are ready to rule. Nearly half of the superpowered beings in the universe have been subjected to their absolute rule in their childhood. David couldn't help but shake his head, "Sometimes, I really think it's a really funny thing. Whether it is the temple system or the entire human society......"
"The first place I went to Gray Star was this management center. At the top of the Tower of Babel is a space elevator that can be connected directly to the slave ship. Unlike other planets inhabited by humans in the universe, there is no spaceport built in planetary orbit, and the only way to communicate with the outside world is the Tower of Babel in the center of the ecological cover, and even the entire ecological cover becomes a spaceship in a critical moment. The cosmic general law of environmental protection is completely ineffective here, and the spacecraft can go directly into the planet's atmosphere - if that thin layer counts as the atmosphere, but after nearly two years of staying here, I haven't seen the whole planet once. From the space elevator to a few astronomical units from the planet, the outer walls of slave carriers and training ships were always completely closed. It wasn't until I left here that I looked down at the Gray Star from space for the first time, from a whole new perspective. β
"We were driven into the space elevator by formation after formation. It resembles a giant capsule, and the inside is totally weightless. Companions floated around, rubbing shoulders like churned cereal. I remember being at a loss and Philip was complaining. It made people even more dizzy, and I think it must have been because he was so good at complaining, and I forgot about my nervousness and fear......"
"We fell down with the space elevator for more than half an hour in weightlessness. Then we arrived at the large circular square. David pointed to the tower with the largest diameter in the middle of the Tower of Babel for Gu Hanhan to see, "It's in the middle, the largest one." β
"We were asked to line up in the square, and then the 'Emperor' who rules the planet, the Inspector Squire, appeared prominently on the high platform in the center and gave a welcome speech. His speech briefly put all politicians to shame, only two sentences. The first sentence is: 'This is purgatory on earth, one road leads to heaven and the other road leads to hell.' The second sentence is: 'I am waiting for you to leave.' And with that, he left. It took less than five minutes from the time he appeared to the time he left, and then he never showed up again. I hadn't seen him again until I left Greystar, and I saw him twice in total. β
"--Actually, we don't think we've seen each other. The platform was really high, and there was no projection broadcast, and when I looked up, I could only see a vague figure. And then that timeβ" David shook his head, as if to throw something disgusting out of his mind. "I didn't see what his face looked like," he said. β
After the two-sentence welcome speech, it was time for us, the slave children, who had come all the way, to officially part ways. The first people to be taken away were the children who had already determined that they could not have superpowers on the ship, and it was the Shinsengumi who took them away. The New Servant Screening Group, as the name suggests, is an agency under the Ministry of Slave Purchases, but stays in the training camp. The three towers on the top floor of the Tower of Babel are their territory. They stay closest to heaven and do the same thing as the devils of hell. β
"When they bring back these kids who have been eliminated in the superpower screening, they will immediately conduct a second round of screening to find out what they think is useful and can add value. Those who have extremely high IQs, extremely fast reactions, are gifted with special talents, and even look beautiful enough......"
"The screening ratio is about 1 percent, 1 percent on the screen, and 99 percent on the screen. The one percent on the screen is considered the essence and has the value of being cultivated into an elite. Every month, there is a special slave ship to send the selected one percent of the essence to the family's upbringing school. After ten or eight years of education and cultivation there, they can start to contribute to the family as the lowest class attendant or slave. β
"It doesn't matter if the 'elite' families they have cultivated are really out of use, they can sell for a good price on the auction table in the high-end slave market, which is enough to cover their worth and years of investment in them. As far as I know, many families in the process of shrinking or declining power are making a living from this trade, so you see, the superpowered aristocracy is the biggest slave trader in the universe. β
"As for the ninety-nine percent of the children with slightly mediocre qualifications, in the eyes of the Slave Purchasing Department, they are complete scum. There may be oil stars, but they are not worth squeezing, so they are all packaged and disposed of by slave companies to make it easy to lose money. The superpowered nobles have a forced buyback contract with the slave company every time they purchase a large number of child slaves. The buyback price often depends on the power of the family and the degree of bribery of the purchasing steward, but it will never be only 5 yuan. The aristocracy decided that ordinary slaves were not worth their exploitation, so they would choose to squeeze slave trading companies. β
"So, you see, Hanhan, the ecology of our universe is oligarchy, the Matthew effect is everywhere, the strong are stronger, and the weak are weaker. The superpower family is like a huge black hole, sucking everything that is beneficial to them, better talents, and more valuable resources, and then they can't look at throwing them out before it is the turn of others to fight and bite. He was an accelerating, behemoth that overlooked the clouds. It's hard, and it's getting harder, and it's getting harder and harder for people under the clouds to resist itβMr. Lin is a romantic, and I envy and admire him, but I think he must have never been to training camp. β
The next person to be taken away is the supernatural awakened or potential person who has been determined to be unmistakable. They were few in number, and a combination of trainers, a superpowered warrior, and a couple of servants took them away. β
"Can you see some mountains over there, Hanhan, right on the sandbar. β
Gu Hanhan followed the direction of David's finger and saw that at the edge of the ecosphere, there were some large and small oases scattered in the center of the lime desert, which were formed by the exchange of factors such as temperature, pressure, difference, and moisture between the ecosphere and the outside world. The oases are covered with vegetation, natural precipitation and rivers, and each oasis is covered with hilly peaks, the base of which extends to the edge of the oasis β‘β‘ lava ash. Up the hill, there are houses along the way. And the further you go to the top of the hill, the bigger and more elaborate the house becomes. At the foot of the mountain, it can only be said that it is a shack facing the desert, and at the top of the mountain it can already be called a luxury villa with a garden.
"That's the slave camp. David said, "The standard for passage to the slave camp is a battalion of one hundred and fifty potentials, each with its own name and flag, and occupies a separate oasis. For example, the slave camp is called the Red Scorpion. β
David pointed to the nearest oasis, Gu Hanhan mobilized the energy field, and sure enough, he saw a flag flying high on the peak, and a fiery red poisonous scorpion was drawn on the flag. β
"Each slave camp is staffed with two senior trainers, four intermediate instructors, eight general instructors, eight correctional officers, one clerk, six clerks, a patrol team led by a quasi-senior superpower, and nearly 5,000 servants, stewards, and miscellaneous servants. β
"Children who have determined their potential level are sent to the slave camp, and then they are trained and domesticated until they are raised to be qualified superpower slaves. High-level potentials have to stay there until they touch the high-level barriers, and middle- and low-level potentialists have to stay there until they reach the limit of their potential. He said, "The Slave Camp is a place where the superpower world hierarchy can be implemented even better than the Acropolis. There are only two rules in it, one is hierarchical order, and the other is loyalty and obedience to the master. β
"The lower power is to obey and serve the one who is higher than him, and all men, both high and low, are subject to the correctional officer, because he represents the master. Every potential person who has just awakened and has not yet broken through the low-level barrier enters the slave camp alone, living in a damp and stuffy shack at the foot of the mountain, eating a nutritious paste that tastes bad like toothpaste, and clothes can only cover the body. As they level up their superpowers, they get better shelter, more elaborate and delicious food, more fancy clothing, and more slaves. In the slave camp, the top superpower person is level five, so those who desperately reach level five can occupy the big house on the top of the mountain and live like a nobleman, except that they still have to obey the correctional officer. β
"The slave camp is a place where all the means of subsistence are hierarchically divided, including dignity and personality. They use all means to squeeze your potential, urging you to break through, level up, and reach your limits. In the slave camp, at most, ten to fifteen years, a slave with intermediate and intermediate potential can break through to the limit of his own potential. β
"This is really unimaginable!" Gu Hanhan looked at the oases on this sandbar in shock, and muttered to himself, "How many such slave camps are there in the universe. β
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