Chapter 14: The Race for Survival
At this moment, everyone was almost stupid, and after a long time, Guo Wenxuan was the first to run over, close the window firmly, and relock it.
Subsequently, when Guo Wenxuan retreated, everyone was still frightened, staring vigilantly at the window in front of them, and did not dare to relax.
After a long time, nothing happened, and they breathed a sigh of relief.
"This ......" Gao Yiyu said something similar to self-comforting, "It's the apartment scaring us, right?" It's just, just scare and scare us, right? ”
"Perhaps...... bar. Dong Xie can only say this at this time, there are indeed many meaningless fright points in the blood word task, which will exert huge psychological pressure on the residents. In fact, this psychological pressure is the key reason why many residents end up missing out on their lives. However, it cannot be ruled out that there is a real dead end.
At this stage, this house is likely to have been mixed with evil spirits, but under the restrictions of the apartment, it is not yet done to the residents.
"Don't panic yet," Mu Ziyi began to stabilize people's hearts at this time: "Even if there are really evil spirits, they will be under the restrictions of the apartment, and there is no way to kill us quickly." ”
There are actually a lot of loopholes in this sentence, but Dong Xie realized that the key to this sentence is to appease everyone. Otherwise, with a strong fear psychology, for Guo Wenxuan, Lian Zixin and Gao Yiyu, there would be no way to act normally.
The group then walked to the first floor, gathered at the door, and as soon as the evil spirit moved, they immediately rushed out of the door and fled.
"Do you feel like the temperature in the room is starting to drop?" Gao Yiyu kept rubbing his hands, and the white gas exhaled from his mouth became more and more.
Guo Wenxuan comforted: "Don't fall into a panic......"
"I've thought about it!" Gao Yiyu continued: "The way to survive should be to obtain the Golden Mask!" The higher the mask level, the harder it is for the spirits to attack us. And wearing a golden mask......"
"There's a huge hole in your claim." Mu Ziyi ruthlessly interrupted her words: "The living conditions for each resident in the apartment are equal. However, there is only one Golden Mask. It's impossible, only one resident can survive, right? ”
Of course, one thing is certain. If you really wear a golden mask, you will indeed live a great life. Of course, this is also not absolute, otherwise how could the King of the Golden Mask disappear completely outside the walls?
"Huh? That? At this time, Gao Yiyu was stunned, "Then, could it be to get a silver mask?" There are five members of the Silver Mask, and we have exactly five ......."
"You know that there are only five silver masks in total, so it's so easy for us to get them? Or could you consider running for the Silver Mask Councillor? ”
Hearing Mother Ziyi say this, Gao Yiyu was speechless for a moment.
Guo Wenxuan took her hand and whispered, "Forget it, Yiyu, with me with you, don't worry." ”
Another ten minutes passed, and nothing happened, not even the slightest unusual sound.
"Hoo ......"
Dong Xie breathed a sigh of relief, no matter what, he didn't want to face the evil spirit head-on at this time no matter what. The gray mask has no advantage in front of the evil spirit.
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"It's probably the heaviest snow in years."
Carl looked at the snowflakes fluttering outside the window, sighed, picked up a cup of hot water, and took a sip.
Anna, the wife behind her, wiped her hands after cutting vegetables and said, "The price of vegetables and meat is going to rise again." In a remote place like ours, there are already many hidden dangers in transportation, and now there are robbers who rob grain everywhere. ”
"The security in the city is much better, but we can't live there." Carl was worried, "Now the housing prices in the prime area of the city have risen very terrifyingly, and the price of our house can't even buy the area of a toilet in the prime area of the city." If we could buy a higher-tier mask...... Like a red mask, you can borrow a mortgage to buy a house at a very low interest rate. ”
As we all know, bank interest rates are created by inflation rates, loan recovery risk, etc. The high-end mask itself will never depreciate, and the fact that the red mask obtains a low-interest loan is its own authority, and the bank cannot refuse the red mask's loan request. In the future, the pressure of repaying the mortgage will also be much reduced.
"Don't even think about it." Anna smiled bitterly, "Do you know how expensive red masks are on the black market? At all, there is no market for it, and after all, many people are not willing to sell red masks at all. ”
"I'm just talking."
Just then, the phone rang.
Carl walked over to the telephone, picked up the receiver, and said, "Hey, this is Smith's house." ”
"Carl," a man's voice came from the other end of the line, "Something big is happening!" Big deal! ”
"What's the big deal? Ronnie? ”
"You know it's going to be a campaign in a few days, right? The James campaign has just broken a big story, and once James is successful, he will hold a contest that will be rewarded with masks! ”
Carl almost suspected that something was wrong with his ears.
"Masks as a bonus?"
"This old guy is very yin, you must know that the gray mask is the biggest vote base, and only those who get most of the gray mask votes can hope to be elected, and James announced such a thing!"
"Competitions? What competition? Sports competitions? ”
"You know there's a huge underground space built inside the Black Wall, right? It can even go straight to the outside of the black wall. You know that...... Many of the alien spirits transformed by the Face-Breaker and the Face-Melter are underground, right? ”
At this point, Carl immediately understood.
"Do you mean ......?"
James said that there will be a race for survival in this underground space! And the prize for the survivor is a high-end red or even blue mask! ”
Many people know that the government has a large number of masks in its hands. As long as the last wearer of the mask does not die, the mask will not shatter. As long as the mask is peeled off the face of the deceased, and then removed from the face of a living person who already has a mask before it shatters, the mask will not shatter. It has long been an open secret that corrupt government officials colluded with profiteers to channel these masks into the black market.
However, there has never been such a thing as a mask as a prize for a contest before. The mask is within the wall, which is a symbol of privilege. In the past, at least on the surface, it was certainly impossible to do such a thing. However, James is different, he himself is a businessman, and unlike the traditional politician Tonyd, he completely plays politics with a businessman's mindset. For him, as long as he can be elected, he doesn't care about the political repercussions. And his ability to issue such a campaign manifesto may also have something to do with the rumored practice that the government has begun to openly sell blue masks in exchange for official positions.
After hanging up, Carl and his wife, Anna, explained the matter, and both of them looked ugly.
"Competition...... Mask ......" she said suddenly, "He thinks we'll vote for him then?" ”
"At least there are not a few people who have been instigated. I believe that there will be no minority of people who will not survive this winter, and not everyone will be able to drink hot tea in the warm room like us. Without winter clothing and adequate food, the death rate of vagabonds, beggars and addicts in the cold wind is definitely higher than facing those spirits. ”
People do not necessarily die when faced with strange spirits. But without food and water, without winter clothes, it is certain to die. Especially as soon as this heavy snow comes, I believe that every morning in the future, there will be new corpses in the streets and alleys.
"The news will soon spread through the walls. James' campaign will be working around the walls to spread the word about it. ”
"The deliberate choice of this time period is to make it public so that the other party's campaign team will not have time to react to the matter."
"I think there's another factor." Anna analyzed: "For a long time, there have been a large number of strange spirits under the Black Wall, and the Black Corpse Team needs to drive the corpses outside the Black Wall little by little, but if ordinary people are allowed to go underground to engage in any survival competition, there will be more people who are afraid of death." The people above want to use this means to reduce the number of people living in poverty. When these people die, the burden on the economy and food, and the security problems caused by the unemployed, will also disappear. This is also the reason why James is confident that he will persuade the other four councillors to carry out this matter, otherwise, he may not be able to carry it out alone. ”
"Yes...... Is that so? ”
"Those masks are a shady source of government revenue, and if they were to be used for other purposes, it would be in the interests of corrupt officials, and if it weren't for that, other silver-faced legislators wouldn't support James."
"I think...... Let's vote for Tonyd...... This James is also terrible......"
However, as cruel as cruel as possible, as long as they survive this so-called race for survival, those in gray masks can wear high-level masks, those in red masks can easily get low-interest bank loans, and those in blue masks can immediately get government civil servant allowances. At the very least, we can survive this winter......"
At this time, both Carl and Anna felt that this winter, it seemed to be colder......