"The truth is that the situation is even worse than you think. ”

After a subtle silence, the middle-aged man codenamed White Bear was the first to break the deadlock, he turned his gaze to Evan and calmly said:

"It's not that we fight each other, it's that we are being slaughtered unilaterally. Those veterans who have taken the lead in becoming strong through first-mover advantage have long since divided their respective spheres of influence. They call their spheres of influence pastorals, and each of them has a reaper who and his teammates, and every once in a while, they do a round of harvesting. We, the lucky ones who slipped through the net, are neither harvesters nor free-range animals—so it's all the more annoying. ”

“......”

When Evan heard this, he also shuddered, and subconsciously opened his mouth, but he had nothing to say.

"Once the Reaper has accumulated enough strength, the Museum Challenge will take place, whether it is death or clearance, and the remaining pastoral area will be replaced by a new Reaper, and the cycle will be repeated from generation to generation...... In a way, the system has become the rule. ”

The "seal" rested his hands behind his head, stared at the ceiling, and said lazily, his voice cold as if it had nothing to do with him.

"In that case...... How long can we live?"

Halfway through his words, Ivan noticed that there seemed to be ambiguity, and hurriedly added: "I mean, if we don't die in an accident and live forever, how long can we live?"

"Three hundred days. ”

"Cannibal Flower" lowered his head gloomily and showed a helpless smile: "After three hundred days, this body that Shylock gave us will lose its vitality. ”

"Then what are you hesitating about!?" Ivan suddenly felt bad when he heard that he only had three hundred days.

"You...... What are you talking about?"

The woman in white stared at him in surprise, her eyes were complicated, as if she was looking at a neurotic who behaved deviantly.

"Take the initiative, since the reaper's butcher's knife will swing at us sooner or later, then we must find a way to kill them!"

"And then?"

"Replace them as Reapers, of course!" said Ivan without hesitation.

"You're going to be a reaper!?"

"Man-eating Flower" suddenly turned pale, pursed his lips, supported his body with his knees together, and pulled out a pistol in his right hand like lightning and pointed it at the other party, his eyes were indifferent like a king cobra:

"Get out of here now!"

"Have you forgotten that we're in team mode?"

Evan sat calmly in place and looked at her indifferently: "Even if it's not a team mode, in such a small room, there is no difference between me killing you and killing a baby." ”

"Calm down, calm down, I think what Iron Hand said is not unreasonable. ”

Seeing that the atmosphere suddenly became tense, "Seal" hurriedly stood up and played a round, although his tone was biased towards Evan, but his body leaned towards the "man-eating flower" without a trace.

“......”

"White Bear" still maintains a taciturn style, staring at the screen, sitting motionless, as if the whole person is addicted to the Internet and indulged in the realm of transcendence.

"We don't welcome reapers. She held the gun in the same posture and said coldly.

"Why aren't you welcome? Is it a sense of morality?"

Ivan glanced at the muzzle of her gun, then took it for air, smiled and continued: "It's better to have rules than no rules, and now that all this is true, what we need is to adapt to the rules, not give up on ourselves. ”

"You want to be a murderer too!?"

"Cannibal Flower" looked at him with a sharp look and spit out a syllable heavily.

"I'll make the simplest analogy, two gladiators, under the orders of their lord, had to fight to the death. The rule is that only the victor can live, and if they refuse, both will be put to death. ”

Evan narrowed his pupils, restrained his smile, and asked seriously:

"Excuse me, then, if one of the gladiators dies in battle, can you say that the victor is guilty?"

"......" and "Cannibal Flower" flashed their eyes slightly, but did not answer.

"No, the guilty one, it's obviously the mentally retarded lord. The "seal" flicked his Adam's apple and replied hesitantly.

"You're right!"

When Evan saw him say what he wanted to say, he immediately showed a look of deep approval:

"The culprit of all this is Shylock, and the qualified have just evolved a new way of living in a harsh living environment. If you can't live without killing, then you can't be guilty of murder, and it's the one who makes the rules!"

"Fallacious reasoning!"

The woman in white gritted her teeth and glucked, and her eyes flashed with uncontrollable anger, like an enraged female leopard.

"What a righteous messenger, when you allowed the leopard to attack me, you were not as righteous as you are now. This ambiguous attitude really makes it impossible to tell whether you are kind or timid. ”

Evan showed a sarcastic look, stretched out his arm lightly, his five fingers were like hooks, grabbed her wrist like lightning, pinched it gently, and couldn't help but let go of the hand holding the gun.

Smack——!

The pistol landed gently.

“......”

"Man-eating Flower" gripped her stinging wrist, her face gloomy to the limit.

"I'm a newcomer, and even if I die, I have more time than you. ”

Ivan didn't look at the weapon that landed on the ground, and set his eyes on the "seal":

"Discussing morality here is tantamount to discussing liberal democracy in a slave society, which is ultimately a dead end. If you don't want to become a martyr, I hope you will consider my thoughts. ”

"What to do? I think he has a point. ”

"Seal" glanced at "Man-Eating Flower" and then at "White Bear", showing an eager expression:

"The sense of morality that restrained me before seems to be gone without a trace now, since we can't leave here without killing people, then killing people definitely can't be our fault!"

"Don't listen to his nonsense, it's because we stay human that we can be considered human. Seeing him waver, the woman in white suddenly showed an eager expression.

"I have an old proverb for you here – if God wants to destroy a nation, He will give it to the rule of the Guardians. Ivan looked at her stubborn appearance, and his heart became more and more impatient.

“......”

"Cannibal Flower" took a deep breath, tried to calm down, clenched his back molars and asked:

"Since you insist on tricking everyone into killing people, then may I ask you, what is it like to kill someone for the first time?"

"Feelings?"

Ivan narrowed his eyes, thinking of the scene where he killed Ozmandis, and replied truthfully:

"I have the power. ”

“......”

The woman in white was stunned for a moment, as if she didn't expect him to say this, and then raised her eyebrows, and was about to sneer at each other, but was interrupted by a vibration from the soles of her feet.

———————————— the dividing line of Chapter 2——————————————

Buzz——!

With the buzzing sound, the magnitude of the earthquake grew larger and larger, and the light bulb hanging from the ceiling swayed left and right, thumping.

"White Bear" reacted quickly, reached out and hugged the computer at once, and protected it in his arms. "Man-eating Flower", "Seal", and Evan didn't care about arguing at this time, and ran to the blinds together and quietly looked out.

It was already dark outside, and looking through the cracks in the shutters, there were only a few places in Flying Squirrel Town that still revealed faint lights, and most of them were street lights.

The faint moonlight in the night sky was exceptionally clear in the somewhat oppressive darkness of the skyline, like a faint silver makeup, pouring down on the constantly shaking town. Unlike the increasingly noisy city, there was no light in the buildings, and the only thing that existed was an almost frozen darkness. It was as if it was mixed with his own shadow and settled in the night.

As the ground shook more and more, the moonlight was quickly cut off by the rolling dark clouds, and within a few seconds, the ensuing torrential rain swept towards the ground like thousands of water guns.

There is no exaggeration, Ivan has lived two lifetimes, and he has never seen such a heavy rainstorm, and every rain line has the strength of a high-pressure water gun.

Boom——!

In the deafening sound of the rain, the water pooled into the river along the city's drainage network, and the river quickly overflowed the banks of the river and then flooded the town in turn.

The dark clouds grew thicker and thicker, gradually approaching the city, and when lightning streaked across the sky, the color of the sky could be faintly seen behind the torn dark clouds.

The light of the lightning also shrouded some of the dark clouds, and in a flash, the oval dark clouds moved in the darkness, and another lightning streaked across the sky, and the oval dark clouds changed like an angry face.

Coo-goo-goo——!

Dark clouds that released lightning flashed in torrential thunder, the rain grew heavier, and strange noises rang from the depths of the city—as if a thirsty giant was drinking nectar.

"It woke up. ”

"White Bear" said lightly.

"Seal" stared out the window at the ground that was shaking like a rag, and deliberately lowered his voice, saying to himself, "This time the scale is unprecedented...... Is something happening?"

“......”

Ivan knew that the 'it' in their mouth was referring to Flying Squirrel Town itself, so he didn't ask anything.

Woowoo——!

The wind howls furiously, and the sporadic lights are bright and dim, like lonely ghosts at night, wandering in the boundless earthly world.

Violent tremors emanated from all corners of the town, and a large number of cracked ruins and rubble splashed wantonly, and the huge town was now under the baptism of an earthquake, constantly raising rumbling dust and dust, and then quickly flooded by rain.

And as the earth shook, red light seeped from the windows of the rows of buildings, opened like pupils, the doors let out a low roar, and the clumsy and sluggish bodies rose from the ground—like animals awakened from sleep, stretching their waists and coming to life.

Before the rainstorm, Flying Squirrel Town was a lifeless abandoned town, and after the rainstorm, all the buildings in the city were soaked in the rain and came back to life.

All this is like an absurd and bizarre nightmare.

Even the cylinder building where Evan and the others were located rose from the ground in a violent vibration, colliding with each other, squeezing and moving slowly, and then swaying leisurely like a middle-aged uncle who had made a fortune.

And Ivan and the others, who were hiding inside its body, did not dare to make a sound at this time holding their breath.

"White Bear" also turned off all electronic devices, including computers, for fear that the tower would find out that there was a strange inhabitant in his body - in this case, he would undoubtedly be beaten by all the buildings.

......

Based on the trajectory and movement of the towers, Evan was shocked to find that these buildings were not 'everyone equal', but followed a strict hierarchical concept.

The bigger the body, the more status it seems.

Giant structures such as stadiums are giants, firmly at the top of the hierarchy of buildings, second only to skyscrapers, and are also huge giants. The next sequence is public buildings such as police stations, hospitals, and parks, and private villas and tall and thin electric towers are in the third sequence. Then there are residential buildings such as tube buildings, storefronts in commercial streets, and the smallest telephone booths......

By observing, just when Evan thought that the phone booth was the lowest level building, he saw a group of phone booths bullying a public toilet, and the latter was so angry that he kept spitting out and accumulating old feces for an unknown amount of time.

“......”

Seeing this scene, everyone couldn't help but cover their mouths and noses.

This farce of phone booths bullying public toilets was finally interrupted by a larger public toilet, and the phone booths were splashed with old feces.

The rescued small public toilet snuggled up next to the large public toilet, making a whimper similar to that of a puppy being bullied, while the latter stuck out of its side wall and kept slapping against the back wall of the comforting other.

After seeing this scene, Ivan felt an uproar in his heart, it turned out that these buildings are not only active, but also emotional and social.

Not only that, but he also found that these buildings are related to each other, such as giant buildings such as gymnasiums, where a group of younger brothers follow, and the skyscrapers are also brothers, and the villas in the same community are closely related, and the tube buildings are inseparable from each other, and they are in groups.

The remaining scattered buildings, such as telephone booths and public toilets, are bullied by large buildings, but also form groups led by the largest individuals to strengthen their resilience.

The only buildings that look different are the police station, the hospital, and the government building.

Buildings of all types, sizes, and even uses are often grouped together to run rampant, and even the gymnasium, a giant with a bunch of younger brothers, has to be shunned. Not to mention the tragic buildings close to the ground floor, such as the "middle-aged uncle" where Evan and they are, as soon as they touch the police station, they obviously start to tremble, and even the illegal residents feel ashamed.

I don't know how long it took, but gradually the rain stopped, and the rain was still rolling on the eaves.

When the rain thins out, the western sky appears bright.

When the sky brightened, the buildings looked uncomfortably like a crowd exhausted after a night of partying. Lazily returned to their respective foundations, and after settling down, they were silent.

It didn't take long for the town, which had been noisy and bustling before, to return to its former calm and desolation, and even the folds of the road were gone, as if nothing had happened.