Chapter 987: People in captivity
What kind of thoughts does this steward have, Li Zhi doesn't know, but he came just to run to the big people in this large human gathering place and the super creatures in the ruins of Tian Glaze City, not afraid to find trouble, but afraid to see no one.
And this Hu steward pulled Li Zhidong to ask the west, but when he talked about the topic, he avoided it, which made Li Zhi a little confused, what kind of thing is this.
Therefore, Master Li is ready to take the initiative!
"Steward Hu, I'm also very curious about your human gathering place, I heard that here, humans and mutant beasts, that is, the ruins of the Tianbei City opposite, have reached some kind of agreement?
Since it is a matter that is already known to everyone, it is impossible for the Hu Steward to say that he does not know, otherwise he would not even dare to say it to the little head guarding the gate of the city!
Steward Hu squinted his eyes and nodded, "There is such a thing!"
Li Zhi's eyes flickered, and he asked curiously: "Is there really one, then I don't know if Hu Guan can tell me about it, what is going on? Doesn't it mean that mutant beasts and human survivors are-for-tat?"
Steward Hu squinted his small bean eyes, and said with a smile: "With Little Brother Li's wisdom, what is so difficult to understand, as long as the mutant beast evolves into a high-level mutant beast, its wisdom is no less than that of humans, and the higher the degree of evolution, the more intelligent it is."
If it is beneficial to cooperate with humans, then you will naturally choose to cooperate!"
After a slight pause, he continued with a smile: "What's more, ordinary mutant beasts don't have any special feelings about life and death, although they are both mutant beasts, but high-level mutant beasts and ordinary level mutant beasts are definitely not a type of creature, and they won't have any thoughts of blood relationship, which is different from human beings!"
What Hu Guan means is that mutant beasts do not have the concept of the same clan and the same race, and are more based on individual evolution.
Beasts, cold-blooded, it's not hard to imagine!
At this point, humans are indeed different from beasts, because people have feelings, and the seven emotions and six desires account for a large proportion of human beings.
Li Zhi nodded, indicating understanding, and then pretended to be casual and asked: "I heard that the survivors here, in exchange for peace in the ruins of the 'Tian Glaze City', need to pay some financial tribute every year or even every month, and even the population?"
A hint of essence flashed in Steward Hu's little eyes, and he nodded and said, "That's the case, but this is also a last resort!"
"Is it a last resort?" Li Zhi repeated the four words that Manager Hu said again.
Originally, this is someone's private matter, for an 'outsider', there is no need for him to comment on what people do.
From a human point of view, it is a little unreasonable to 'pay tribute' to a group of mutant beasts, or to pay tribute to one's own compatriots!
"How many people do you need to pay tribute every month?" Li Zhi wanted to inquire about the specific number inside.
Shopkeeper Hu squinted his eyes and said, "Three thousand!"
"Three thousand?" Li Zhi frowned, for a human survivor base with more than two million people, three thousand people is not much, but it is not a lot, and more than 30,000 people need to be paid tribute in a year.
He asked curiously: "What will happen to these people who have paid tribute?"
Steward Hu squinted his eyes and laughed twice, but the smile was cold: "Eat!"
"Eat?" Li Zhi frowned, and Shi Sha, who was sitting next to him, stared at the boss.
Steward Hu nodded, squinted his eyes and said with a smile: "Yes, eat, the human beings who pay tribute will be eaten as food by the big people in Tian Glaze City, and it is also the best ending for them, this is something that cannot be changed after all." ”
The best solution?
Can't change something?
This is still the case in the upper reaches of this large human gathering, so you can imagine the shadow side of the hearts of the people in the city who may be treated as pigs, sheep and cattle at any time.
Even if it is death, no one wants to be eaten by a mutant beast!
But the interests involved are too great, 3,000 people a month, how to choose? Is it based on luck, or according to what division?
"Can't such a thing be avoided?" Li Zhi said with a frown.
Steward Hu sighed and said with a smile: "This is already the best result!"
The best result?
Damn it, no wonder the survivors looking at this place were numb in their eyes, but Li Zhi was a little curious, why did this ending last so long?
Can all of them be indifferent to the death of their loved ones, friends, neighbors, and even strangers?
Steward Hu seemed to guess what Li Zhi and Shi Sha were thinking, shook his head and said: "It's useless, exchange the lives of a few people for the lives of the majority, which is more important than the three thousand people and the more than two million human survivors? ”
Prisoner?
Li Zhi frowned and looked at the other party and said, "What if there are no prisoners?"
"The best choice is the old and the young!" said the Hu steward calmly with squinting his small eyes.
Li Zhi's face didn't have half a smile: "Give preference to the old and the young? Newborns will also be treated as tribute?"
Steward Hu had some color in his eyes, nodded and said with a smile: "That's right, the creatures in Tianhua City think that the meat quality of newborns is better, so one newborn can be worth two human places." For human survivors, newborns are useless, slow to grow, slow to evolve, and far better than giving adult survivors more time to grow!"
Cold!
Li Zhi felt cold all over his body, shouldn't the next generation be the root of a human gathering place?
This generation will eventually grow old one day, but the managers here are actually carrying out such inhumane behavior.
Gain time?Compared to the creatures in the ruins of Tianhua City, the survivors here still have a fart of time.
Nominally, this is the largest gathering place of human survivors within a thousand kilometers, but it is better to say that this place itself is a human being who has been captive by the creatures in the ruins of Tianhua City.
When Li Zhi looked at Shi Sha, Shi Sha was also looking at him, and the two exchanged a look, and at the same time read something from each other's eyes.
This kind of problem is not due to the survivors of this human gathering place, but probably more due to the managers of this large human survivor base.
It is even possible that the managers here are all the 'slaves' of those creatures in the ruins of Tianhua City!
If so, who can resist, and who can escape from here?
This is a shit human gathering place, this is a special captive human cage.
Only in this way can we understand why the managers of human gathering places have formulated such various countermeasures, and why Tianhua City is willing to cooperate here.
Maybe it's very different from what the two of them understood before they came. Even if there are evolutionary masters here, they are still at the orders of those great creatures in the ruins of Tianhua City, not serving the human survivors.
As for ordinary survivors, there is no right to resist, in such a circle, to be *, oppressed, unable to escape, unable to struggle!
Five years!
I don't know how the human survivors here have spent the past five years!
Steward Hu's eyes flickered, squinted his little eyes and asked with a smile: "Little Brother Li, have you figured out something?"
Li Zhi shook his head, took a deep breath, and said, "It's not necessary to share it, I have a few doubts now, and I hope your old man can explain it to me!"
"Oh, yes, but it's okay to ask!" Steward Hu nodded with a smile and said generously.
"How many human survivors are here?" Li Zhi thought for a moment and said.
"Less than three million!" said Steward Hu with a squinting eye and a smile.
Li Zhi nodded, this is more than he imagined, but it is not difficult to imagine that although the humans here are very numb, relatively speaking, they are also more comfortable than outside, at least they will not face a large number of mutant beasts and a huge number of casualties!
"Is there really nothing to do with the Technology Alliance?" asked Li Zhi, looking directly at the other party.
Steward Hu squinted his eyes, shook his head and said, "It's really not, little grandma can swear!"
Li Zhi didn't dwell on this issue too much, and directly asked again: "Then do you have anything to do with those creatures in the ruins of 'Tian Glaze City'?"
For this question, Manager Hu did not answer immediately, but squinted his little eyes and thought about it for a while, before he smiled and said: "Little Brother Li's reaction is really fast, and he has reacted in such a short period of time!"
Li Zhi nodded, although Steward Hu did not prove the answer, the answer in it was already about to come out.
The other party is indeed the administrator sent by those creatures in the ruins of Tian Glaze City, but I don't know if his authority is the greatest!
"Butler ......"
Speaking of this, Li Zhi suddenly stopped, and did not rush to continue, because, in Li Zhi's mind, another very important, or frightening answer came to mind!
"Little Brother Li, ask, why don't you ask?" Steward Hu squinted his eyes and laughed, but the laughter had become very eerie, especially in such an empty giant hall.
Li Zhi shook his head with a wry smile and muttered: "I finally figured it out, why has this place existed for so long, high, it is indeed smart enough!"
"Oh, I don't know what Brother Li is talking about?" asked Steward Hu with a smile.
Li Zhi looked at the other party and said calmly: "Within a radius of 1,000 kilometers, the largest human gathering place, with a population of more than two million, can compete with the ruins of the famous 'Tian Glaze City', this reputation, you know how powerful it should be when you hear it!"
After a slight pause, he continued: "But who would have thought that such a human gathering place that could compete with Tian Glaze City would be 'livestock' that was raised by the terrifying creatures in Tian Glaze City.
Fame can not only attract survivors to come, but also make the survivors who come over stay in peace, boiled frogs in warm water, how these people died in the end, I don't understand, Gao Ming, really smart enough, not a creature with great wisdom, I'm afraid I won't come up with such a terrifying idea.
What's even more terrifying is that this huge gathering place of human survivors has existed for five years, and how many survivors have been attracted to come and join us for so long?
The creatures of Tianwei City are kept in captivity by the humans here, and if they want to eat them whenever they want, they can let the humans here 'pay tribute' to a group, and they don't know it, and they can't talk about resistance.
Therefore, the evolutionaries here should not be too powerful, and even if there are, I'm afraid they are all those humans who have returned to Hetian Glaze City, Hu Zhuang, am I wrong about what I said?"
Li Zhi looked at Steward Hu and asked word by word.
Steward Hu narrowed his little eyes into a slit, shook his head and said: "Hehe, that's right, what Brother Li inferred is not wrong word for word, but for those ordinary survivors, isn't it good to live like this, at least you don't have to die immediately, and when someone dies for you, you can live for a few more years, or even more than ten years." ”
"But, eventually, you're going to die. Li Zhi shook his head.
"Hehe, with the height that Little Brother Li has now, can't we even understand this situation? We can't say that we are captive human survivors, we can only say that it is to let them live better, live more than ten years, and even be obedient, they can live until they die. ”
"But what about the next generation of mankind?" Li Zhi asked rhetorically, staring at him.
Steward Hu shook his head and said: "The next generation of mankind, what do they need the next generation, this apocalyptic world will belong to the super creatures in the future, and the human race is destined to be destroyed, replaced, and extinction is inevitable!"
It's hard to imagine that such words could come out of the mouth of a 'human'.
Shi Sha suddenly glared, looked at the other party and asked, "You, you're not human, are you?"
Not human?
Mutants?
Zhu Yu'er, the ghost face queen, can turn into a human form, and other mutant beasts may not be completely impossible!
This butler looks ...... Much like a ......
"I have more than seventy percent of the genes of human beings in my blood, which is very similar to the Blood Bat King Red Sea, but I am not completely human!" Steward Hu explained with a smile.
Even at this moment, the other party has no intention of turning his face with Li Zhishisha, at least he didn't show it on his face.
Li Zhi thought for a while and said, "Actually, I don't have to take care of the affairs here, and after our 'Doomsday City', we are also destined to deal with the emperor-level creatures who are already super creatures, so we still have to talk about it!"
"Oh?" Steward Hu opened his eyes, looked at Li Zhi and asked with a smile.
"What does Little Brother Li want to talk about?"
Li Zhi himself also smiled, and said casually: "I need human survivors, especially young women, and I also want to see those super creatures in the ruins of Tian Glaze City, aren't these all within the scope of talking?"
"Young woman, is this enough to satisfy you, as for the super creatures in the ruins of Tiangla City......