Chapter 397: Turning Point
After Su Ming announced the new information, everyone's life returned to its original rhythm, life did not change, even the omission of labor, except for eating and drinking, everyone sat and chatted, passing the boring time, uneasiness entrenched in everyone's hearts, but everyone wanted to ignore it as much as possible.
The people of the owl team, in the corner away from the crowd, counted the cans and water they had just brought back from Su Ming, and if the rest of the food was saved, it would probably last for more than ten days.
"Brother, a lot of people have already brought food back from Su Ming, what should we do now?" Bai Yufei asked.
"Find an opportunity to deal with a few people, then grab their stuff and fill your stomach first." Bai Chifei smiled, "As long as the prey is carefully selected, even if some people disappear, no one will notice, and we can get more food and water." β
"It's really a good plan" An unfamiliar voice suddenly sounded in Bai Chifei's mind.
Bai Chifei was stunned for a moment, looked around, and made sure that the sentence just now was not from the outside world.
This is the temptation of the devil that Su Ming just said?
The smile on Bai Chifei's face gradually retracted, and he muttered in his heart why this strange phenomenon happened to him, is this strange phenomenon random? Or do you meet what the conditions are?
'Why are you so wary of me?' Do you think what that guy said is right? You'll need a little bit of your own judgment. β
Bai Chifei did not respond to the other party.
However, the voice in my head has no intention of stopping.
'Why do you accept food and water from monsters when you're so repulsive to weird things?' Because you have no other choice, you will soon die if you don't eat or drink. In that case, why don't you think deeply about the reason for my appearance? Am I really here to tempt you? Or is it here to help you? β
"Maoqiu, you go to find a suitable target for us to start, and the others should rest by themselves first, and I will also take a rest." Bai Chifei said.
"Brother, are you alright? You just looked a little strange. Bai Yufei asked with concern.
Bai Chifei smiled and shook his head, signaling that he was completely fine.
He didn't answer the voice in his head, but the voice in his head kept repeating itself.
'Su Ming and you are both competing, what he is doing now is also for himself to get out alive in the end, if you don't want to find a way to take resources from him, then you and Bai Yufei will both die here, do you want to see such an ending?"
'Su Ming, he was originally a murderer, once this identity is confirmed, his personality charm is not as good as yours at all, you can completely replace it. β
He said he shouldn't believe what I said, do you believe that? It's fair play in this place, this weird space just provides a harsh environment, but the necessary living conditions are still met, you eat that food and don't become monsters, do you? β
'Why don't you think of me as water or food?' I'm actually a resource, not a danger, if you really believe in him that way, then just listen to him, why do you have to go against him before? You are an assertive person, and you should be able to judge whether what I say is right or not. β
Bai Chifei didn't respond a word, but he didn't feel that the voice in his head was in any danger, at least the other party said so much, it didn't have any impact on his spirit, and even most of it was quite reasonable.
But Bai Chifei still thought that the voice in his head was dangerous, as Su Ming said, it was the devil's sweet words.
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After Su Ming opened the food retrieval policy and disclosed the information of the voice in his head, ten days passed in a flash.
For ten days, it was as if nothing had happened to this dead manor, but it was as if something had happened.
Some people don't want to stay in densely populated estates because they have their food back, so they take the food back to their original place of residence.
Originally, they had to stay in the manor all the time by receiving relief, but now that they have autonomy, they have gained personal freedom in disguise, and even if Su Ming calls them to do some necessary work, they can completely escape.
Many people have this idea, but few people have noticed that although they had to stay together before, at least they have a strong cohesion, and everyone is bound by a fixed order.
But now everything has changed, and invisibly, the cohesion has dissipated.
In ten days, Su Ming counted the number of people three times, and the number of people was uneven three times, the first time it was 800 people, the second time it was 700 people, and the third time it was 500 people.
And there were only 290 people who still kept food in Su Ming.
The situation looked unprecedentedly bad, many people were very uneasy, and some small group leaders sensed the potential crisis and took the initiative to find Su Ming, hoping that Su Ming could introduce some new policies to improve the status quo, but Su Ming refused.
The screening has already begun, and the first step in letting this big family he created with his own hands fall apart.
He unravels everyone's moral constraints and gives anyone a chance to do evil, just to see who can stick to the bottom line and the last moment.
In Su Ming's opinion, everyone has not died enough.
Although this kind of thinking is vile and even very evil, the reality is that if there are not enough people who die, it is impossible to find the most suitable ones to survive.
On this day, Zhou Xiaoxiao, whose anxiety had reached the limit, knocked on the door of the study again.
"Knock knock!"
No response.
"Knock knock!"
Still no response.
Zhou Xiaoxiao frowned and opened the door, only to find that the study was empty.
After questioning Elton, Su Ming finally found Su Ming on the roof of the main house, and when he found him, he was standing on the edge of the floor-to-ceiling window, overlooking the vast garden in front of himβin the past, there were always many people in the garden, even if everyone didn't work, they liked to get together, but now there was no one in the garden.
"It can't go on like this." Zhou Xiaoxiao held his glasses and plucked up the courage to say to Su Ming.
Su Ming slowly turned around and looked at Zhou Xiaoxiao, he stepped closer to the other party, stretched out his hand to remove the glasses from the other party's face, and wiped them with his clothes.
"Calm down, what's happening now is normal."
"Nope! This is not normal! Zhou Xiaoxiao shook his head vigorously and snatched back his glasses from Su Ming's hand, "Today's number of people has been counted, there are only six hundred!" This time I told Elton to send people to find those who lived outside the manor, and all the people I could find were found, only six hundred! Do you know what that means? β
Zhou Xiaoxiao looked excited, and the muscles in her cheeks were trembling slightly.
The meaning behind the number he said, of course Su Ming knew, all the people who could be found were found, but there were only six hundred, which proved that nearly four hundred people were missing.
It is entirely conceivable what happened to these 400 missing people.
"Human nature is like this, Lao Zhou, I remember I told you that I was going to screen out the thirteen people who were most worthy of living, and you didn't seem to have such a big opinion at that time."
"Such a choice is not fair...... What about those who were killed? They did not fall either, and were just killed. β
"If they hadn't taken their portion of food from me, would they have been killed? If they hadn't left my estate and returned to their original home, would they have been killed?
People who are not smart enough are not satisfied with the conditions for living, if they are qualified to live as long as they are simply kind, then we don't have to worry about it now.
It turns out that simple kindness can't live, only we have been hoping that simple and kind people can live! β
Su Ming's voice became more and more beating, and when he said the last sentence, he paused, and then almost gritted his teeth to say the sentence.
"Those who are not smart enough will be discarded!"
Zhou Xiaoxiao looked at Su Ming in a daze, his mind blank, until Su Ming asked him again.
"Are you okay? Your hands are shaking? β
Zhou Xiaoxiao clenched his fists and restrained his trembling, he couldn't tell his mood at the moment, in short, it was very bad and uncomfortable.
"Do you think I'm wrong? Think I'm scary? β¦β¦ I know that if I do nothing, receive a fixed amount of food every day, like you, and worry every day about what the rules will be for the next game, then they won't be afraid of me.
Artificially selecting thirteen people out of a thousand people to survive is more terrible than a thousand people competing with each other and randomly surviving thirteen.
It's a very interesting psychological phenomenon, and I've been in a daze lately, and I've often wondered why I have this thought. Is it human sensibility that wants fate to be random?
Recently, I know the answer, because most people are ordinary people, and there are only a very few excellent and top ones, so for them, there is still a chance to survive randomly, but there is no chance for others to choose.
From this point of view, man is actually a very intelligent animal, and the so-called expression of feelings is only an intuitive expression obtained after optimizing rational analysis. β
Zhou Xiaoxiao frowned, and Su Ming could see that he was confused.
So Su Ming waved his hand: "Some nonsensical conjectures are just used to pass the time, forget what I said." β
"Su Ming, won't you change the rules? The rule that you can't hurt each other was made by you on the first day. β
"Lao Zhou, calm down, you can always see through such a simple thing, right? Everybody's going to die...... It's just a matter of dying early and dying late, so calm down. Su Ming no longer looked at Zhou Xiaoxiao, took his eyes off Zhou Xiaoxiao's face, and turned to the garden below.
It was daytime, and the purple light hung over a messy garden, eerie and dead.
The attic where Su Ming was located was full of dust, the air was quiet, and time seemed to stand still...... Time, standing still in this purgatory-like place, feels good, unexpectedly makes people feel a sense of serenity and calm.
Suddenly, Su Ming felt very lonely.
It was an indescribable feeling, a feeling of detachment from reality.
When everyone is immersed in the cruelty and feels that the situation can't get worse, he can see worse things in the near future.
This kind of foresight made Su Ming unable to comprehend everyone's current sense of despair, but it allowed him to taste the despair that was about to come in the future, but had not yet come.
It's normal to die someone, if you die like this until the last thirteen people, Su Ming is afraid that she will die of laughter.
β¦β¦ But that's impossible, it won't be long before monsters that have lost their humanity will appear, and how to kill those monsters is the primary problem he needs to consider now.
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One thing that accelerated the entire screening process happened the day after Zhou Xiaoxiao and Su Ming talked.
A group of people ran into the manor in a panic, shouting Su Ming's false name in the garden, hoarse.
The usual dead silence of the manor was broken, and the other people who were still temporarily living in the manor came out of the surrounding houses one after another, looking curiously at this group of people who suddenly ran back.
Su Ming naturally also arrived.
"What's wrong?"
"Mr. Xia! Mr. Xia, help! A man led by him pounced directly and grabbed Su Ming's pants, his body trembled violently with fear, and there was a lot of blood on his body, but there was no wound.
Obviously, the blood did not belong to him.
"Whew!"
An iron drill came out of nowhere, aiming at the man's back, Su Ming shot out like lightning and held the iron drill steadily.
Su Ming looked up and saw a man covered in blood, striding towards this side with an angry face.
When the man at Su Ming's feet saw that the pursuer had arrived, he screamed in fright, and hid behind Su Ming.
With a wave of his hand, the man waved his hand, and many iron spikes appeared out of thin air, shooting at the other people who had fled here, and the group of people next to them were shot directly to the ground, and the iron spikes pierced through the chest, like flowers nourished by blood, and grew new branches in the bodies of the injured.
In just a few seconds, a small iron spike turned directly into a steel ball covered with spikes, disemboweling those people.
In the continuous screams, the bright red intestines and hot internal organs were pulled out of the body by steel needles, and the white steam rose in the slightly cold air, and those who were about to die, still blinking their eyes and staring at their stomachs, were frightened and stupid.
They are alive, but they will surely die.
The only survivor was the man hiding behind Su Ming, who had been frightened into a state of insanity, with some unintelligible words in his mouth and his pants damp and foul-smelling.
"Get out of the way!" The angry man stared at Su Ming and roared.
Su Ming's face was expressionless, and he said coldly: "Why do you want to kill someone?" β
"Get out of the way!"
The man roared hoarsely, he raised his hand to Su Ming, and some steel drills appeared in the air.
Those cold iron tools flew straight towards Su Ming, but in the process of flying, as if disturbed by an invisible force, each steel drill deviated from the track, fell straight down, and plunged into the ground.
"Have you lost your mind too?"
Su Ming stepped forward, grabbed the man's neck with both hands like lightning, and lifted the burly man with one hand.
"Tell me why! Otherwise, I'll kill you! β
Su Ming's fingers were like iron tongs, choking the man's throat, making him unable to break free.
At the same time, this suppressed man felt a chilling killing intent from Su Ming, and the hairs on his whole body all reacted.
In an instant, his boiling mind calmed down.
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