After the crowd gradually dispersed, the three captains continued to walk with Xiao An, but Xiao An rarely stopped making noise, but quieted down.

Suddenly, the captain patted Xiao An's head and said, "What? Did it scare you? ”

Xiao An glanced at the captain and snorted disdainfully: "Are you so underestimated?" Isn't it just a dead man, I've seen a lot. ”

The captain chuckled and said, "Then you...... Think that man deserves to die? ”

"I can't do it, of course I deserve it." Xiao An replied without hesitation, but, after saying this, he hesitated again and said, "But...... The value of a person's life is always stronger than that of death, especially if the person is still a scavenger. It's a pity to die like this, if he can be soft, he won't have to die. ”

The captain nodded lightly and muttered, "Yes, it is always better to live than to die." ”

After walking in silence for a while, the captain suddenly said, "Actually, if we had made a move just now, we would have been able to save that man." ”

Hearing the captain say this, Xiao An immediately looked at him, but immediately lowered his head again, looked intently ahead, and after a long time, he said sullenly: "Since this is the case, then why don't you save him?" Aren't you a military man? You keep saying that you want to protect the people. There were innocent people who died in front of you. ”

The captain nodded and said, "Yes, an innocent person died in front of me just now, but I didn't save him...... But ah......"

The captain touched Xiao An's head and said, "Do you know that in the wilderness area, no, in all other places except for the scientific research city, do you know how many people died innocently like that person just now?" ”

Xiao An impatiently broke his head away from the captain's hand and said, "How do I know?" The number is so huge, who can still count it? ”

The captain smiled helplessly and said, "Yes, it's because the number is too large...... So, it can't be saved at all. ”

"Huh?" Xiao An'an immediately looked at the captain and frowned. He vaguely felt that the captain seemed to have something to say, but after all, he was young, and he couldn't understand the meaning of the captain's words, and he didn't quite understand what the captain wanted to express.

The captain's face suddenly showed a kind of grief and indignation, a kind of helplessness, a kind of ...... An unwilling look.

"Xiao An, you know what? Before the end of the world, the population of the entire human race was at its peak at seven billion people. Even after multiple plane overlaps, the total remains around six billion. This is the total population of the Earth before the end of the world...... However, after the apocalypse, after incomplete statistics, the total population of the world is less than 500 million...... Not even one in ten people survived......"

The captain's face showed a look of pain, not only him, but also Lao Ding and Xiao Jiang's faces became extremely heavy, although Xiao An didn't quite understand this concept, but when he heard that the population of seven billion had dropped to less than 500 million, his face couldn't help but change for a while, and said, "Are so many people dead......?"

The captain nodded, then looked ahead, and said, "There are still many men like that just now in this post-apocalyptic world...... They are constantly struggling to survive between life and death, and in the end, they are just trying to eat a full meal. Waste pickers like him risk their lives every day to dig through the ruins of old cities, often digging for a week or even a month without necessarily finding anything valuable. Many scavengers did not die at the hands of monsters or aliens, many of them actually starved to death while digging the ruins. ”

"But ......"

The captain looked at the surrounding shops and the bustling streets, and was a little speechless, but after a while he said, "Are the people hiding in the shelters really alive and well?" ”

The captain patted Xiao An on the shoulder, pointed to a somewhat deserted shop on the corner of the street and said, "Including the boss Wang just now, they seem to be thousands of times better than those scavengers and even the residents of the Oasis Market, but in fact, why don't they live a difficult life?" Not to mention those fallen shelters, even if they are sheltered by the Great Wall of Steel, how can they not be squeezed layer by layer? Even if the style of the Great Wall of Steel inherits the pre-apocalyptic troops, in the post-apocalyptic world, if you want to stabilize the morale of the military, so that these soldiers can still maintain military discipline and style without the support of the world government, it is necessary to improve the treatment of soldiers. And these treatments ...... Where do you come from? ”

The captain sighed and said, "Otherwise, why do you think the Vault has to pay for it?" And these bustling shops, do you think they don't have to pay taxes? To control the Vault is to control a large source of wealth. Even if the people of the Great Wall of Steel do not deliberately exploit it, they are actually at the top of the interest chain. And in this materially poor apocalypse, if you want to maintain such a chain of interests, you can only ...... Layers of exploitation. Like the previous scavenger, he is the exploited at the lowest end, and that Boss Wang is just slightly better than him. But even the Great Wall of Steel at the very top...... Do you think their lives are really going to be easy? ”

The captain said: "The Great Wall of Steel has won the hearts of the people in the southern part of Central Continent, and can become the most powerful force and dominate the entire southern part of Central Continent, in addition to their own force, more importantly...... They also took on the responsibility, the responsibility of being a soldier...... Things like last night's extermination of the Goblin Horde, the Great Wall of Steel has done countless things. They continue to exterminate all kinds of wild monsters and alien races. Maintain order in oases and sanctuaries. Let more and more people have a way to live, which is the reason why the Great Wall of Steel can be strong. ”

"But, ah......"

"But what?" Xiao An was listening attentively, and when he heard the captain's sudden turn, he subconsciously asked, "Isn't the Great Wall of Steel doing a good job?" ”

"It's good......," the captain laughed, but he immediately sighed again and said, "However, they can't do their best." A situation like today's is already the limit of what they can reach. ”

"What do you mean?" Xiao An frowned, he really didn't understand.

The captain said, "Didn't you ask me why I didn't save that person before?" I say...... Because it can't be saved. ”

Although Xiao An still didn't understand a little, a kind of realization gradually surged out of his heart, and it seemed that he began to understand the captain's words more or less.

The captain continued, "I saved the man...... What can it be? I can save one of him, can I save the people in the whole southern part of Middle-earth who have suffered the same as him? Or, to expand the scope a little more, to the whole of Middle-earth, and even to the whole world...... Can I save everyone? ”