"That's ......"

Dong Xie recalled what Carl had said before, and it was not much different from his inference.

"So, when anyone dies, the family must be with them and take off the mask in time. The mask removed by the deceased will slowly shatter and eventually shatter completely, and if it is put on by another person before it is cracked, then there will be no more cracks. If someone puts on a mask with a rift, they will become a Facebreaker. Of course, no one would do such a stupid thing. ”

"About the ...... of the Face-Splitter" Dong Xie asked another question: "How did he become a strange spirit?" After all, the Facebreaker is not a dead man. ”

"Well......" the beggar took another bite and, after swallowing, said, "This is the case of the Splitter. If the surface continues to crack, it means that if you wear any mask, there will be a crack in the same place on the mask. Regardless of whether the mask is worn afterwards, the same crack will appear on the skin in the same part of the face. Eventually, when the cracks spread all over the face, the person's face and mask will completely crack open into countless pieces. At this time, people will become alien spirits. ”

"What happens when you become an alien spirit?"

"This ...... Actually, I don't know very much about this. This is top secret, and those who have seen the strange spirits, except for the Black Corps, are basically dead. ”

"So...... Terrible? ”

"Hmm. For years, the Black Corps has taken the Facebreaker and the Facemelter out of the black wall, and after they are taken out, even if they become aliens, they will not come back. However, if you become a strange spirit after being brought out of the black wall, you will need the corpse chasers of the Black Corpse Team. ”

Chasing corpses is also a localized translation of the apartment. As we all know, the word originated from the legend of chasing corpses in Xiangxi. In the past, when Dong Xie created horror, he also collected a lot of information about the corpse in Xiangxi, and thought it was just a superstitious rumor, but after entering the apartment, he felt that maybe this phenomenon really existed.

"However, how the Black Corps drove the corpses is also highly classified. It can only be determined that someone in the Black Corps has a special method to lure the spirits outside the black wall. It's just that it's dangerous. In the Black Corps, corpse chasers are the positions with the highest mortality rate. ”

……

Dong Xie's thoughts returned from memories to reality.

"Chasing corpses doesn't seem to be the way to survive in the apartment."

"If the mortality rate is really high, then it certainly isn't." Mu Ziyi is very sure of this, "The way of life given by the apartment must be able to give the residents vitality." And it doesn't sound like it's something anyone can do. ”

"However, this beggar only knows some common sense, and there must be some secrets that only the Black Corps can understand."

Dong Xie realized that they had all been imprisoned by the mask on their faces.

Once the mask is removed, they will also become the Facebreaker. Finally, the whole face is shattered.

However, according to the beggar, no matter how long the mask was worn, it would not have any negative effect on the skin of the face. On the contrary, take off the mask and the whole face will be completely shattered. The only difference that the beggar knew about was that the Broken Spirit was rumored to be a faceless image. As for the face melters, it is completely unaware that their faces have completely merged with the facial skin, and the mask has completely replaced the real face. ”

What kind of thing is this mask?

Speaking of which, the situation of Dong Xie and the others is very similar to the ancestors of the people living within this black wall. The difference is that their memories are not erased.

"After observing it in the past few days, I feel that the people here are really boring." At this time, Lian Zixin, who was on the side, walked up and said: "Walking on the street, there are beggars and homeless people everywhere, and even after walking a few steps, there are people peddling drugs to us." The people in the slums can be said to be living in poverty. ”

"The inside and outside of the black wall are hell alike." Mu Ziyi hugged her chest with both hands, looked at the land outside that was gradually covered in silver, hugged her chest and said.

Suddenly, her gaze caught a spot.

"Wait, you see that guy?"

Then, everyone looked towards the place where Mu Ziyi had said, and saw a person lying there on a street corner, and the heavy snow almost turned him into a snowman. However, he did not react at all.

"Go out and have a look!" Dong Xie is also anxious, if the other party is frozen to death, but does not take off the mask in time, then he will become a face melter!

As soon as the group opened the door of the restaurant, they were greeted by a biting cold wind, which made people feel frozen deep into their bone marrow.

Rushing towards the man covered in ice and snow, Dong Xie swept the snow off his face, touched his body again, and there was no body temperature anymore. And Dong Xie then leaned towards his chest, and he couldn't hear his heartbeat.

The man's arm was so thin that the skin was almost clinging to the bone. It is clear that the man's long-term starvation led to low immunity, and he soon died in this blizzard.

"Leave him alone." At this time, a passer-by came over and said, "It's snowing so hard, and the Black Corps will be patrolling around here soon." He's dead, right? Take off your mask and set it aside, and the Black Corps will take the body. ”

The tone of the passer-by can be described as unusual, as if this is a very common thing. Dead a person, like a dead ant, indifferent.

"Alas," the passer-by sighed, too, "what kind of world is this, and how many more people will die this winter." In this slum, there will be more and more people who will not survive this winter. ”

In fact, the easiest way to determine if a person is dead is to take off his mask. If you are still a living person, you can't take it off anyway.

Dong Xie raised his hand and gently took off his mask.

The bloodless face under the mask looked extremely young, as if it was not yet twenty years old.

The clothes on his body were extremely thin, and at a glance he knew that he didn't have much ability to keep out the cold.

The passer-by came up, looked at the dead man's face, and said, "Alas, this child must still be of school age." ”

"Now, even such kids...... You have to come out and be a beggar......" Dong Xie put the mask on the ground, only to feel that the air became colder.

"This is not unusual. The unemployment rate has been rising in recent years, and this year's grain harvest failure is just a flashpoint. Passers-by crouched down and stared at the dead boy's face, "I was also fired from the shop where I worked in May this year, and then kicked out by the landlord. Now I've finally found a job where I can eat and live, but I don't know where I'll be in two months, and if I'll be able to eat a full bowl of food. If it weren't for the color class difference of the mask, the ghetto would have rioted long ago. ”

The snow continued to fall, gradually burying everything.

……

Back at the residence, Dong Xie and the others were very heavy in their hearts.

Although the apartment is equipped with a lot of money, the price of goods is rising at an unbelievable rate, and there is no doubt that even if it is relatively safe inside the black walls, it will be extremely difficult for them to survive once the money runs out. The number of unemployed people is unprecedented, and according to the passer-by, there are now hundreds of people competing for jobs for even one gatekeeper.

Soon...... They had the only option to go to the Black Corps. The Black Corps, a profession with such a high risk of death, is still attractive to join because of this.

"We ...... Based on the information we know so far, will it be too early to join the Black Corps? Guo Wenxuan was still quite hesitant, "If you really go outside the black wall, what will happen to you, the people inside the wall are almost unclear." ”

"It is known that ......" Mu Ziyi took out a piece of paper and drew a square, "Black forms a square with a side length of about 70 kilometers, and the internal area is about 5,000 square kilometers. We are currently in a slum to the east, almost twenty kilometres from the central city. ”

"The more I look at it, the more I feel that this black wall is like the circular ......giant wall in the anime "Attack on Titan", Dong Xie couldn't help but complain, "The inner 3,000 square kilometers of circular wall, this is too exaggerated." ”

"In fact, the setting of "Attack on Titan" is more exaggerated." Mu Ziyi took a pen and tapped the center of the circle, and said, "The total area inside the wall inside the giant is at least twice as large as the total area of the Japanese archipelago. ”

"You know that, too?"

"I used to like to follow Japanese anime, too."

"It's just an anime," Lian Zixin also found incredible: "5,000 square kilometers...... It's about the same size as SH City. There are such magnificent walls! ”

"The mode of transport here is mainly non-motorized vehicles, and there are even rickshaws. Originally, there were oil fields within the wall, but in the last decade or so, crude oil production has been decreasing and decreasing. When crude oil decreases, the supply of steel also decreases, because without oil, a lot of steel would become scrap metal. There are no other gold-like minerals within the walls that can be mined, so monetary credit has long been dependent on the production of crude oil. The reduction in oil production has led to a further reduction in the already small scale of industry, which has greatly reduced the credit of money, and the more it is issued, the more it will cause inflation. ”

Hearing Mu Ziyi's remarks, Gao Yiyu hurriedly asked, "Well, I didn't understand much...... Does money depend on oil and gold for credit? ”

"Otherwise what do you think is the credit of money?" Mu Ziyi began to popularize science to Gao Yiyu: "The so-called currency is the credit of the state to pay the currency equivalent, and you can regard the currency as a kind of bond endorsed by the state. If the state is unable to pay the equivalent of the currency, then the value of the currency will depreciate. Otherwise, who can't print paper money, the country can't become rich by printing more paper money. ”

"Yes...... Is that so? ”

"By the way, the hegemony of the dollar in the world is because of gold and oil. In the Bretton Woods system after World War II, the dollar was pegged to gold, and all countries could exchange dollars for gold from the United States. Therefore, the US dollar is closely related to gold and oil, thus becoming a world currency. As long as Americans are short of money, they can print more money and distribute it to the world to let them pay for the US government, and the dollar will not depreciate. In addition, although the area inside the wall is large, it does not represent the area of effective arable land, and the agricultural base itself is weak, and at the same time, the mineral output is also weak, and only poor quality steel can be produced. In this case, once the crude oil is depleted, there is no longer an equivalent to the currency, and the credit of the currency will plummet. ”

This should be the main reason why the economy inside the wall is collapsing day by day and the people are struggling to make a living!