Chapter 108: Prototype
Xia Ran's words didn't play a big role, probably because his eloquence and incitement were not enough to confront the harsh reality.
This is not a game, it does not mean that as long as you mouse around and click on the target, all the selected units will rush up and fight the enemy, not afraid of death, not fearless, never half a step back......
Therefore, everyone just smiled reluctantly, but did not echo Xia Ran's words.
There are really too many things happening in the past two days, and they are all crammed together. This makes it physically and mentally exhausting, and it is difficult for them to accept it immediately and unconditionally. If they want to regain their strength, they will probably be the only ones who have figured it out and regained their will.
- Other than that, it's not easy to do anything.
Illusion magic such as courage magic is also useless, because after Xia Ran pondered for a while, he felt that it was not of much significance to inspire courage for a short time, and the problem that this group of people was facing now was the low and depressed willpower itself.
Willpower is different from emotions in that it is something more fundamental than a general mental state, and strictly speaking, even to the point where it can really crush the enemy's spirit and modify the memory of the target object, it may not be able to interfere with the realm of willpower.
Xia Ran can only briefly inspire the courage of others at critical moments, but it is impossible to fundamentally strengthen a person's will, theoretically this should be a person's own determination and consciousness, and it is impossible for others to do it for him.
Therefore, he gave up his plan to use illusion magic, and just comforted a few people with kind words, asking them to rest first, think about it carefully, and then talk about it carefully, and don't rush for a while.
It's nearly three o'clock in the afternoon, and although the evening hasn't arrived yet, and it's still a long time before nightfall, this group of people has been busy for most of the day from morning to now—
Just pushing cars that have crashed together, or that have been abandoned, to block roads and block entrances and exits to buildings, takes a lot of physical effort.
So it's not enough to say that they must rush to brush the monster map now, and in their current state, it is estimated that they will give away people's heads.
And because he hadn't seen another group of people, Xia Ran originally thought that they had all escaped, but after asking, he found that the group of people did not run away, but were running up and down inside a department store in Nuoda, trying to clean up the corpses.
From morning to now, the group of people has basically not stopped except for a little food and rest at noon.
I probably want to show my hard work and diligence, show my worth, and prove that I don't just eat rice...... Because what people are most afraid of is not being able to find their own value and positioning, especially in such a collapsed world-
If it is of no value, it is basically the same as being sentenced to death, and no one is obliged to let the waste eat and wait for death.
And just as Saya Tonggaocheng can analyze, the dead zombies inside this large department store were specially cleaned up by Xia Ran, and it is very likely that she is going to be used as a stronghold, and she is not the only smart person.
The others were the same, after discovering that this place had temporarily become the safest area in the city of the living dead, which was particularly well stocked and safe, they were reluctant to leave this place and face the sinister world outside.
This is the reason why they did not take the opportunity to escape, but chose to stay.
Some people began to think calmly after the fear, and some people ran out and quickly rolled back in embarrassment, and brought back a bunch of dead zombies...... Anyway, it is either actively aware of the status quo, or forced to recognize the status quo.
- Staying and facing that monster, they are indeed "may" be in danger, but if they run out and prepare to survive the apocalypse alone, then they will "certainly" die a particularly miserable death.
After realizing such a cruel status quo, they can only stay honestly, and try self-hypnosis, self-persuasion, and find all kinds of evidence to prove that staying is the wisest choice, and that monster is not in danger......
And so on and so forth.
Don't blame them, after all, it is difficult for people to live in a worrying environment, and if they really have no choice, then self-hypnosis is a very necessary thing.
And there's a lot of evidence, it's sufficient, it's not hard to find at all-
For example, Xia Ran did not take the initiative to attack others, and the group of thugs who died before were the first to do it without knowing whether they were alive or dead.
After that, he didn't kill everyone indiscriminately, although the methods really made people's scalps tingle, and the math class he taught by words and deeds seemed violent and neurotic......
Well, that's right, as long as you don't take the initiative to provoke, there will be no problem.
And having such a terrifying, powerful and reasonable character in charge may still be a good thing.
Even if it's an inhuman, even if it's an alien, at least it's much better than the previous group of thugs, right? Compare the two, and I don't even know which side is the real monster at all-
One side is a so-called outlier who will not take the initiative to hurt the innocent...... On one side is a person who bullies the weak but thinks he is sorry and does all kinds of evil......
In such a comparison, it seems that the former is really a more suitable thigh.
Since this is the case, it is natural to have a good performance, anyway, after the inspection, they can confirm that the interior of the department store has been thoroughly cleaned by Xia Ran, although it looks bloody and terrifying, and the ground is full of flesh and blood, stumps and broken arms.
This made this group of people feel particularly unacceptable, their faces turned blue and black, their stomachs twitched, and they were so nauseous that they were unimaginably nauseous, and it is estimated that they will leave a serious psychological shadow area in the future...... But even so, they forced themselves to do it.
In particular, the group of students, even after working for a while, ran to the toilet until the bile almost came out, and then came out with pale faces and went to the bloody slaughter site or the eating site, continued to dispose of the corpses, and then ran to the toilet after a while......
Repeat this process until you can't vomit anything anymore and you get used to it.
There is no other reason, purely because disposing of the corpse is the first clear and clear instruction given by Xia Ran, and it is also their best chance to express themselves. And those are real corpses after all, and they won't get up and tear off the arms of the living, open their mouths and eat the flesh of the living......
- It's much, much better.
After all, it's not that no one can't stand it halfway, and chooses to run out and plan to join the team of the protagonist group to deal with the corpses wandering the streets outside, but the result is still a gray defeat and returns.
Not everyone can switch identities as a matter of course and immediately become warriors, when they see those fantasy images that have been active from the era of black and white movies to the present appear in reality, and pounce with teeth and claws -
Not to mention seizing the brief opportunity to fight back fiercely, blowing their dog's head with one blow.
Most people are afraid and even forget the choice of dodging or running away, that is, their brains are blank in fear, and they only know that they are stiff in place and cannot move.
Not to mention taking the initiative to fight against the dead zombies, they can't even push them to push the cart, because once they see the zombies coming over because of the movement, and the others don't have time to clean up for the time being, then even if they are still half a street away, it will take at least a minute or two to touch them at their speed.
As long as they insist on pushing the vehicle forward, they will basically not be overtaken, in front of the old cow pulling the broken car, behind the old grandmother crossing the road, no matter how slow the former is, it is impossible to be easily overtaken by the latter.
However, they don't have that kind of psychological quality, and they will immediately run away like frightened rabbits......
This kind of work efficiency is simply to add to the chaos, and in the end, they can only blame themselves for choosing to come back and do some tiring, bitter, and disgusting work, but at least there is no danger - as long as they are not stupid enough to actively let the external wound come into contact with the corpse fluid.
Xia Ran is very satisfied with this, because this at least shows that the prototype of a team has appeared.
They don't need to force themselves, they will subconsciously do what they can do, so as to prove their worth.
So he walked around the mall and encouraged the group of people in person and praised their work.
The effect was immediate, even though the group was disgusted and tired, and only forced themselves to do this kind of work under some inexplicable fear and pressure. But after Xia Ran smiled with satisfaction and said some words of encouragement to them personally, they seemed to have been beaten with blood.
After all, from the very beginning, their goal was to satisfy this monster in human skin!
Now that the goal has been achieved, how can it not be very exciting, which shows that their thinking is not wrong!
Lower your profile, work hard, and prove your worth......
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"Material Search Team...... Back Office...... It's okay to build your team around these two cores for the first time. ”
On the top floor of the department store, I found a clean and spacious lounge - in fact, it was covered with dust, and by clean, I meant that there was no blood stained by corpses.
Xia Ran found a pen and paper, and while he still remembered, he quickly recorded the groping results of the previous trip on it.
"If you have the courage and guts, if you can fight, you will be assigned to the search team, and if you really don't have the material for fighting, you can manage the logistics......
Although Xiao Zuo memorized the map of the entire bed master city, it could only be used as a reference, and many details were no longer correct, and the current situation had to be explored in person to know what happened to a certain road and a certain area.
Whether it was burned by fire, or there was an explosion, or it was robbed of all that was looted in yesterday's turmoil.
When Xia Ran was farming monsters, he investigated it and marked all the resource points that he thought were more important, and planned to take a large army to slowly start clearing the map according to the planned route.
After drawing the last period with the tip of the pen, he couldn't help but yawn again, and the tired look on his face was even more obvious.
However, after he put down the pen, he did not choose to meditate and continue to refine his spiritual power, but went directly to sleep. Because his mental attribute value has reached 39 points, and it will be 40 points further.
Whether it is added or the growth embodiment of your own exercise, it is the same...... He didn't want the price of free attribute points to rise again, and the small goal now was enough for the liver.