Chapter 225: Prisoners
Shaking his head, putting these thoughts behind him for a moment, Thor looked back at the man standing on the other side of him, always looking at the sea but not speaking, Maxwell, a former professor at Columbia University. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
After Isgerin conveyed Susie Conrad's suggestion, Thor was naturally very interested, but now that he had established a country in the Deserted Corner, he certainly couldn't leave the tribe and go directly to the Wotan continent and leave the tribe to Diana to deal with.
Now he is the king of the Sothians, and the whole country has a great deal of affairs to attend to every day, although he is already assisted by men like Diana, Paladin, and even Simon and Gratia.
But there are still a lot of things that he has to decide in person, so Thor can't do without Wasteland at all.
Eddie, who is Thor's doppelganger, takes on the task, and Thor, Pac, Tumar and Mark accompany him to Isgerin, to Worms across the sea, where they have full authority to discuss matters with Susie on their own behalf.
But Sorrentino and Maxwell stayed in Ujungpandang.
Sorrentino, who had been with Pompeii for almost all day, had been with him for a few days, and the two men had selected a hundred men from the army of Soss to form the first and only firearms unit in the country.
As a senior advisor, Sorrentino spends his days telling Pompeii and the other soldiers what he knows about firearms, instructing them to practice marksmanship.
And the people who Saul pinned his hopes on to change this shabby state were naturally a large number of scientists from another world.
The atmosphere was silent for a moment, and Thor stepped forward to a reef that was high above the embankment, and stood on it, but the distance made him feel that the sea breeze was a little stronger, and the cool wind dissipated the heat of the island.
He looked back at Maxwell, who was still looking ahead, and asked:
"Mr. Maxwell, how are your compatriots?"
The scientists were imprisoned, and Sorrentino, who had been in a coma at the Georgia Institute of Technology, came to his senses, and Saul was cold at first, not explaining anything, just keeping the people together and putting them under strict guard.
Even Kratos' main task now is to patrol the prison every day, and these scientists are too important to Thor without him.
But this does not mean that Thor should lower his posture and kneel down and beg this group of scientists to serve him, which is of course impossible.
And he can't use mind control, because it is a lot of consumption to maintain this control.
The only way Thor could think of for a long time was the path of oppression and division.
Although knowledge does not mean that these scientists are brave and fearless to death, no one wants to be imprisoned in a cage in another world for the rest of their lives, never to see the blue sky and the sun again.
What Thor is doing now is consuming them, consuming their faith, their spirit, their will. He didn't tell them why they were locked up, or when they would be released, but they kept the water and the food and shut them up.
Thor believed that it would not be long before the group would be in chaos from within, because no matter what knowledge they had, man himself was such a chaotic creature.
"Some of the faint-hearted are starting to get hysterical, Mr. Thor—" Maxwell listened to Thor's question, and slowly panned his gaze from the sea, revealing a somewhat grim smile, and said in a hoarse voice.
For some reason, Saul always felt that during this time, this originally energetic associate professor became more and more gloomy, which always reminded Saul of his other important subordinate, the witch doctor - Kaziba.
"Okay, maybe it has something to do with mind control, right?" Maxwell is still under Eddie's mind control, but now this complete mind control no longer needs to be maintained like hypnosis, but permanently changes the other party's mind.
But what the side effects will be, Thor himself is not sure, and he is a little worried that Maxwell may become a vegetative person or an idiot in the future.
"I think we can already start reaching out to some of them. Maxwell continued in that slightly gloomy voice.
Thor took his attention away from the other party's tone, voice, and appearance, and thought carefully for a while, when Diana, who was beside him, asked with a puzzled face:
"Your Majesty—you say these people are great scholars, but what are they good at?"
Diana had obviously not been to another world and did not understand that these people were "magicians" who really had mastered magic.
Thor smiled lightly and said to Diana first, "There are many things they are good at, but we still have to take our time, maybe the first thing they should do is to help us build a few machines that can make mining more labor-intensive." ”
After abducting the scholars to the world of Wotan, Thor's first goal was to build internal combustion engines and generators, and there was no doubt that the machinery that could provide a lot of power would definitely make the entire tribe of science and technology go by leaps and bounds.
Jumping through the age of animal power with machinery and stepping directly into industrial civilization is simply a great temptation for Saul.
But of course, there is still a step-by-step road, and there is a reason why Thor didn't hypnotize these scientists immediately on the first day and then let them build machines for himself.
The Sothians themselves had never seen such a thing as a machine, let alone an experienced worker, and even if he built an internal combustion engine, no one would be able to operate it.
On the other hand, the development of the tribe as a whole is still very uneven, and the resources on the island are not very rich, another reason why he is impressed by Susie is that he is targeting the coal mines and perhaps the oil resources buried deep in the ground in the territory of the Grand Duke of Yongfa.
Thor is not in a hurry, he has a long time to wait for the tribe's technology to slowly improve, so his main concern now is not the issue of developing technology immediately, but how to pass on this knowledge.
Then he said to Diana, "And these people, perhaps, will later become the teachers of all the Soths, and they will train us a great deal of talent." ”
Diana was still a little confused, Saul was right, but she didn't understand why His Majesty was sure that those who were locked up could do this.
After Saul and Diana finished speaking, he turned his head and told Maxwell, "Mr. Professor is familiar with these people, and you must know which of them is the most timid and who is the most susceptible to swaying. ”
With a smile on his face, Thor said briskly, "I'll leave this matter to you, and it's best to win over three scholars who are willing to join us within a month." ”
Maxwell replied with a slight bend of the bend, "Yes, Your Majesty Thor—"