Volume 9: Outbreak Chapter 5: The Situation (Real World)
The situation in the world of Entagre is turbulent, and the situation in the real world is not far behind.
Since the arrival of the first rings, human beings have come into contact with this magical world, and the entire human society has been significantly affected in all aspects.
First and foremost is the actual economic system.
The economic system of mankind is based on the production of labor and the distribution of resources, especially in terms of basic means of subsistence, and no matter which country follows this principle. But as more and more players enter the world of Entagre, that foundation is starting to falter.
Especially after it was determined that the world of Entagre could strengthen human beings' own abilities, and even allow human beings to "evolve", many people were no longer willing to continue to be low-level workers, creating wealth for capitalists while only getting a pitiful reward. More and more low-level people began to give up their original jobs and devote themselves to the world of Entagre, pursuing the so-called dreams, and the deeds of those players who got a certain adventure in the world of Entagre, and then were favored by a certain big guild, and ascended to the sky in one step, are like adding fuel to the fire, driving them to put everything into this bottomless pit without hesitation.
This is the main reason why the number of players has increased dramatically since the world of Ntagri was fully opened. The main impact of this is the lack of a large number of workers in the real world, and the resulting reduction in the production of goods and the spike in prices.
And the technology possessed by governments cannot make up for such a huge labor gap in a short period of time, which makes the total amount of basic living resources continue to decrease, and this situation is basically impossible to change in the short term.
In just about a year since the full reopening, food prices have risen on average three times worldwide, and the prices of meat, fish and various by-products have at least tripled. At the same time, due to a large number of farmers spending the time they would have spent farming on adventures in the world of Ntagre, the total arable land area in the world has rapidly decreased, and although there is no specific figure yet, Yu Bin estimates that it has shrunk by at least nearly half!
In addition to this, facilities such as mines, factories, etc., have closed down in large numbers due to the massive loss of workers, or are in a state of shutdown. Iron ore prices on futures exchanges have risen sixfold over the course of the year, and copper ore has risen eightfold, and even then, demand has been in short supply.
Agriculture as the primary industry and industry as the secondary industry have been affected so dramatically, let alone the service industry as the tertiary industry! Just on Hong Kong Island, where Yu Bin is staying temporarily, you can often see that the original bustling and splendid commercial street has become a deserted, cold and empty ghost street in just a few months.
Correspondingly, business activities in the world of Ntagre are becoming more and more popular day by day.
Especially when Angel Covenant took advantage of the opportunity to auction the territory qualifications, it raised hundreds of billions of dollars overnight, which made everyone realize what a huge market it was. Since then, all kinds of auctions have emerged in an endless stream, whether it is equipment or potions, territory or profession, anyway, as long as it can be traded, almost all of them have been taken into the arms of those auction houses.
This has created the illusion of financial affairs around the world, where countless funds are constantly flowing in this auction, creating an illusory picture of prosperity, and these funds do not increase the total wealth of human society in the slightest!
And these huge amounts of wealth have blinded many people, and countless players have paid with their lives for it, just to kill a monster and get a prop that can make them rich overnight.
This terrible illusion is destroying the foundation of human society step by step, but no one has the ability to stop it, not even individual countries can stop it, there is an old saying called "blocking people's money, like killing parents", for those capitalists, the wealth created by the world of Entagre for them has long exceeded the so-called 500% degree in Capital, in order to continue to enjoy the feast of this wealth, they are even willing to subvert a country for this!
Another impact of the world of Entagri on the real world is that it has greatly shaken the political system with the state and the nation as the main body!
Because of the peculiarity of players in the world of Entagre, it is easy for them to cooperate according to their chosen race, and over time they will slowly form groups one by one, and these groups will eventually evolve into a union one by one, or even attach to a certain territory, becoming a federation with this territory as the core!
Although many countries are aware of this, from the very beginning consciously through various means of government agencies, to unite their own players, or in the form of guilds to bring these players into a unified management, but this behavior can only cover a small number of players, more players are still inevitably united according to their own interests and purposes, and eventually become a group. In reality, the players in these groups often belong to different countries and nationalities.
As a consequence, these players who belong to the same group no longer act in the interests of their country and nation, but in the interests of their own group. After all, for these players, the state cannot meet the purpose of their evolution, but the group can!
As a result, a large number of separatist forces began to emerge within various countries, especially when the state occupied a large amount of resources, and most groups were extremely dissatisfied with this, believing that the actions of the state harmed their own interests, thus causing hostility and turmoil within the state and the nation.
After the full opening, more than 50 countries have declared their dissolution, mainly in Africa and South America, some because of increased internal divisions, and some are completely because some big business groups are behind the control, they need more players who obey their orders, so they have set their sights on these small and medium-sized countries with low power.
And the consequence of these divided and disintegrated countries is to further increase the turmoil in human society. Players who are in a desperate situation because of the disintegration of the country, and even go to war, blame all this on those powerful countries and groups, thus becoming a source of violence. Coupled with the continuous emergence of mutants, they have the means to threaten powerful countries.
Under various factors, the original regional and ethnic state system has been severely impacted, and the countries that are not strong enough are in a state of turmoil every day, not knowing when they will be the next target of disintegration, and those who are strong have to be forced to strengthen their control over various player groups in the country in order to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past.
And this kind of behavior in turn exacerbated the resistance mentality of the players, and riots and rebellions around the world became more and more intense day by day, and there was even a big incident of attacking the United States as Yu Bin knew!
In previous lives, this confrontation between player groups and state institutions lasted for several years, and eventually the drastic changes brought about by the convergence of the world led to the destruction of states and their replacement by new political systems dominated by cities or groups.
But in the process, how many human beings paid for it became a secret that no one knows. At least in the previous life, according to the information Yu Bin obtained, the population of the entire earth was far less than before the world merged!
The third effect is the growth of individual human strength!
The biggest change that the world of Entagri has brought to players, in addition to the various information shocks from the magical world that they have never been exposed to, is the physical enhancement visible to the naked eye, and the earth-shaking mind.
Before that, you might have been just a beggar, a farmer, a worker crawling in the mines, digging coal with a pickaxe every day. But as you continue to adventure in the world of Ntagre, your body will continue to strengthen, and your spirit will gradually strengthen through the killing and fighting, and all these will suddenly make you realize that you are no longer the same person you once were.
So what was originally just a small quarrel is likely to turn into a fight, or even death due to a mistake.
This happens not just one or two, but everywhere in the world. More and more people are aware of the power they have in their hands, and this power drives them to want to be treated accordingly.
After all, you can't expect everyone to be a Superman, and be content to be a small newspaper reporter at the same time!
The awakening and growth of individual power has greatly changed the daily life of the entire human society. When people find it easier and easier to use violent means to ensure that their interests are not harmed, or even to fight for the greater good, then who will waste their time and money on laws and rules?
And after seeing that others have more power than themselves, no one will want to sink down, they will do everything possible to become stronger than others, so as to better protect themselves and even obtain more benefits. In such a situation, do you expect them to strictly abide by the so-called law or morality?
This is obviously impossible!
This is one of the reasons why a large number of countries have disintegrated in the following years. When government institutions are filled with rules of conduct based on violence, law and morality naturally disappear! And without these most important things, the so-called government agencies are no different from the underworld groups!
As the two worlds get closer day by day, more and more influences will permeate all aspects of human society, and eventually the whole world will become another world, until the two worlds are merged.
In Yu Bin's opinion, this is very scary! Because it is not through the so-called external means to change the entire human race on the planet, but through this subtle way, let the human beings themselves shape the whole world into another shape!
In science fiction movies, it is common to see aliens descending on Earth with huge fleets and then using terrifying military power to force humans on Earth to become their slaves. But Yu Bin wants to say that compared to the impact of the Entagri world on the earth, the aliens in those science fiction movies are simply pure and kind, like moral models!
In the face of alien weapons and a huge space fleet, humanity can at least choose to fight to the death! Under this external pressure, humanity is united, striving, and exists as a unified whole.
However, when faced with the world of Entagre, humans simply cannot acquire this ability to resist! On the contrary, the more players enter the world of Entagre, the more humans will turn themselves into slaves, and they will be willing!
It doesn't get much more desperate than that! Because you don't even have the heart to resist! The world of Entagri is spiritually destroying the entire human race!
In fact, it is not that no one has questioned this. At least after the Second Coming, there were so-called scientists and some private research institutions who openly put forward "conspiracy theories" on the Internet, believing that these rings that did not know where they came from were alien conspiracy, and that the world of Entagre was the poison that made humanity addicted to it. This accusation reached its peak after the full opening up, and hundreds of scientists even submitted a petition to the United Nations demanding a complete ban on human access to the world of Ntagre.
But in the face of the benefits offered by the world of Ntagre, the requests of these scientists and research institutions were all lost, no one believed them, no country was willing to support them, and even many ordinary people thought that these scientists were deceiving them, so that they would be slaves of the capitalists forever, and create wealth for them with their lives and labor, in exchange for a little food enough to satisfy their stomachs.
Yu Bin also considered whether to change this result, but in the end he chose to give up. Because he knows very well that the emergence of the Entagri world has stimulated the deep desires of everyone, and the desires of human beings cannot be extinguished, as long as it still exists for a day, human beings will not be able to resist the attraction of the Entagri world, and will inevitably go forward and plunge into this abyss.
Just like in previous lives, the violent turmoil of world integration has caused countless human deaths and caused many families to lose their loved ones, but with the end of the integration, most people have given up the so-called sympathy and remembrance in a very short period of time, and they don't even have the idea of revenge, all they think about every day is how to make themselves stronger, just like Yu Bin at the beginning!
This is destined to be an irreversible end! Since that night, when the first rings descended on Earth across the stars, the world has lost its chance to turn back, and can only continue to move forward along this long-planned path.
And all Yu Bin can do is to prevent himself from falling off this speeding train halfway and becoming a handful of loess that is crushed on the side of the road!