"The snow is getting heavier." Lian Zixin looked out the window, and at this time, he saw that the outside had completely become a world covered in silver.

Dong Xie looked at the window at this time, always a little worried, after all, it was not surprising that anything happened now.

"I'll go boil some hot water again." Guo Wenxuan stood up, "Fill all the hot water bottles first." ”

"I'll help you, Wen Xuan." Gao Yiyu also stood up.

"Wait." Mu Ziyi immediately said, "You stay here." From now on, anyone who separates from us will have to say the code again. So, try to act collectively. ”

Hearing Mu Ziyi say this, everyone could only sit down.

"Voices coming from outside the black wall, I speculate...... Probably something to do with the entrance to hell. ”

Hearing Mu Ziyi's words, everyone's faces became solemn.

The entrance to hell, the sword of Damocles that hangs over the heads of every occupant, no one knows when it will fall.

Dong Xie looked at the black square drawn by Mu Ziyi again, and said, "Then, we have two choices now. Delve into the core area within the Black Walls and find a way to get a high-level mask for further information, or ...... Just leave the Black Wall and follow the Black Corps to look for the Golden Mask outside the wall. ”

The only golden mask, once found, becomes the undisputed king within the black walls!

As for going deep into the core area, the most important thing is to find a way to obtain a higher-level mask.

That's right, the gray mask is indeed the lowest mask. However, wealth is in danger. In fact, the agent had previously introduced them to the business of counterfeiting the color of the mask. And the beggar told Dong Xie that even in the rich area with relatively good security, there are people who take risks and hunt down rich people with high-level masks!

"In general, low-level masks must obey higher-level, although there are specific restrictions on the authority of different color commands, and those who do not obey will also become face-splitters, but ...... In fact, there are many countermeasures. For example, wearing a mask of a fake color, killing the high-level masked and taking their masks. ”

"Another common scenario is a mask kidnapper. Originally, masks would have shattered after the death of their owners, but many wealthy people had multiple spare masks. As long as the last wearer of the mask does not die, the mask will not shatter. ”

"The so-called mask kidnappers generally choose to kidnap the children of high-level maskers. They generally commit crimes in gangs, so they have higher requirements for the number of masks. Even if a child has a high-level mask, as long as the child is stunned at first, and then the mouth is covered so that the child cannot speak, or even cut off the tongue to prevent the child from speaking. Anyway, all the masks have hollowed out mouths, and it's not difficult to cut out the tongue. Then it demands a ransom of a mask of a specified color. ”

"Actually...... So cruel?"

"In general, the ripping rate will be very high. Such kidnapping crimes remain high every year. Although it is expressly forbidden by law to seize a mask two orders higher than oneself, as long as the high-level mask is taken away, money and power can be obtained at your fingertips. These people are actually a high percentage of high-level masked people, and they will pay to support the election of legislators who do things for them to change the law for them. In fact, in the past, it was illegal to seize a mask under any circumstances. ”

In fact, in the circle of the rich, there is already a semi-acquiescence to this kind of thing. At the end of the day, it's a contest between old money and new money. The people who take the mask become New Money, and they and Old Money, the people who have passed down the ancestral high masks, each support the Silver-Faced Councillor and act for their benefit.

After all, this is an open secret that even beggars know. With one vote, you can change shotguns for guns, from a low-level pariah, to an upstart.

"However," Gao Yiyu still felt incredible: "If the one who seized the mask was an ordinary gray mask, even if he wore a blue mask, he could easily gain money and power?"

"There are generally two scenarios." Dong Xie explained: "The first situation is to kill a rich man and seize his mask, and then completely impersonate this person. Of course, this requires long-term collection of information about the other party, as well as the help of internal ghosts. When this first happened, the King of the Golden Mask, who still existed at the time, issued a strict code to punish him. Even at that time, there was a strict household registration system that distinguished people with the same mask, but now the household registration system has been completely abolished. ”

"It's natural." Mu Ziyi added: "In the earliest days, there was only old money, and as vested interests, they were also the real ruling class, and it was impossible to allow the people below to change their masks and blend into their class. ”

"But...... With the changing times, it is different. The mask-grabbers are becoming more and more intelligent and cunning, and more and more of them are slipping through the net and blending into the upper masked class, at least among the middle class. ”

"Moreover, no one can have wealth forever. If a rich man declines and goes bankrupt, his mask will be used as an asset to pay off debts and fall into the hands of others. With the exception of the Gold and Silver Masks, all other masks can be multiplied and increased through fertility. The New money class is accumulating. ”

"Sounds magical......"

Mu Ziyi shook her head and said, "It's not magical at all. Spain, Britain, and even the United States today have become the founders of modern civilization after the great geographical discoveries, relying on foreign colonial expansion, and then whitewashing their bandit history through the industrial revolution. Who remembers that the United States was first founded by a group of Puritans exiled to the British colonies? They still shout about human rights, democracy, and freedom every day, while the bones of Indians, black slaves, and Chinese laborers in their land have been completely forgotten. What happened to this wall is nothing compared to that. ”

Again, that's the same sentence.

Those who steal the hook are punished, and those who steal the country are princes.

Dong Xie continued: "After there are more such people, they hope to gradually recognize the legitimacy of their act of seizing masks through the law, but they don't want anyone to take away their masks again, so the compromise law of the legality of seizing masks within the first order has been introduced. ”

"That's what the beggar told you?"

"It's not hard to imagine from my own analysis." Dong Xie didn't want to say anything more on this topic, and then began to get to the point: "And the second case...... It's something I'm thinking about as well. The higher the mask, the more privileges. Even if you were poor before, as long as you wear a high-end mask, you won't have to worry about running out of money. If you've read O'Henry's Million Pounds, you'll relate to this. ”

"If it's a black mask, you have the right to hire laborers, apply for a business license, and become self-employed. If you wear a red mask, you can use the mask as collateral to take out loans with low interest rates, gain the right to hire others to mine minerals and get all the proceeds of mining, and even the right to buy land. And if you have a blue mask...... can obtain a high level of political power, and automatically be regarded as a public servant. The government inside the wall will give subsidies to all people in blue masks, they can work directly in government agencies, and when people in red masks need to cooperate with the government, they need to be reviewed and approved by blue mask public officials, so even if they are not big bureaucrats, as long as they get a good job, they have as many opportunities to make money. ”

"Can you become a civil servant by wearing a blue mask?" Guo Wenxuan sniffed: "How difficult it is to take the civil service exam in our country!" Here, you can be an official if you are born with a blue mask? This government is too child's play, isn't it? ”

"This is normal in terms of the class hierarchy of mask colors. And you can only become a civil servant, and how high you can climb still depends on the drill camp in the officialdom. And the beggar finally told me something......"

"In order to alleviate the current economic pressure, the government decided to implement a system of buying officials. Other words...... As long as you have enough money, you can buy a blue mask! ”

"Blatantly selling officials?" Guo Wenxuan gasped, "Really? Even if you sell it, you can't do it openly, right? ”

Mu Ziyi said: "Have you watched "Towards the Republic"? On the eve of the First Sino-Japanese War, the Beiyang Naval Division was in deficit, and this kind of thing happened. ”

"But can we afford it?"

"So that's just one of my considerations at the moment. But if we buy a blue mask and find someone to wear it, we can mobilize others to go outside the black walls to find us the entrance to hell, and the clues to the golden mask! ”