Because of the huge size of the City Lord's Mansion, the fire-breathing dragon left at the door by Su Bai yawned lazily, suddenly raised his head slightly and looked at the City Lord's office on the third floor.
Through the weak bond between the elf and the trainer, it can sense that the master seems a little... restless?
…
"This is...the reason why you want me to come back right away..."
Su Bai looked at the corpse of a creature in front of him that looked a bit like a demon in the records of his previous life, frowning.
He had only seen things like sub-beasts in textbooks.
This kind of "human being" contaminated by death air will appear in appearance depending on the degree of death air invasion.
There were several pictures of sub-beasts in the textbooks, but actually seeing such things still made Su Bai feel sick.
It's not that Su Bai is afraid, it's just the physical disgust and resistance from the bottom of his heart when he sees this evil-looking humanoid creature.
"This is probably the uncanny valley effect..."
Su Bai smiled bitterly and touched the skin covered with goosebumps. This thing was really disgusting.
From the looks of it, the apostle is really pretty, even in Amino's spider form, he looks better than this pimple-covered thing.
It seems that high-level sub-beasts like apostles still retain some human aesthetics...
"The uncanny valley...what is that?"
Dong Feng looked at Su Bai doubtfully, shook his head and said, "Forget it, you always say something I don't understand..."
He picked up the map, drew a red circle on a place and said: "In short, the place where this body was found was outside the Elf Land area... Do you have any clues?"
Sub-beasts have not invaded human territory for a long, long time. Although this creature is cruel, it obviously has little interest in exterminating humans.
Driven by instinct, it was enough for them to reproduce and survive. After humans retreated from the front, this was the first time that traces of them were found outside the territory of the sub-beasts.
He looked at Su Bai and hesitated to speak.
Su Bai sighed and said, "It's because of the elves... it should be so."
Dong Feng didn't dare to say it, of course because he was afraid of offending Su Bai.
Having witnessed Su Bai kill the lord of the restricted area with his own eyes, he understood that even if Su Bai didn't use the elf, no one could bear it when he got angry.
Even if there are still three patients with twelve zodiac signs in the Big Rock City Hospital!
"Don't be so formal, City Master Dong, I'm just the boss of the elf center."
Su Bai waved his hand and said, "Actually, I discovered a long time ago that there is a very special hostile relationship between dead beasts and elves."
"They are like two sides of things, one symbolizes light and the other symbolizes darkness, and each one always wants to destroy the other..."
"After killing the Lord of the Forbidden Zone, I understood that to these ugly beings who live off death energy, the vitality of elves is as conspicuous as a torch in the darkness."
"At first, I thought only dead beasts with no ability to think independently would be like this. Now it seems... sub-beasts are not much better."
He fiddled with Yashou's body casually, raised his head and asked, "I believe City Master Dong has already taken corresponding countermeasures, right?"
Dong Feng nodded and said: "I have sent out the Elf Legion. I will release a reward later and let the trainers from Haicheng join in to defend the surrounding area of the Elf!"
"The people of Rock City have been waiting for this day for too long. The life they finally got...I will not allow them to destroy it!"
Dong Feng's face was full of determination.
As the city lord, when he saw the shock and ecstasy expressed by the people in the city when they saw the blue sky and white clouds and the land full of life, he swore.
He must protect all of this, even at all costs!
As for why the already empty treasury of Giant Rock City still had money to offer a reward... This time, most of the crystal cores of the dead beasts that were cleaned up fell into the city lord's palace!
After dealing with those crystal cores, there must be enough money to pay the rewards to the trainers...
"City Master Dong responded quickly."
Su Bai nodded. It didn't surprise him that the Lord of a city did this.
The appearance of a sub-beast on the border of any city would shock the entire human race. Many people would even lose their minds due to the superimposed fear of death for two thousand years.
Under this situation, Dong Feng had no intention of blaming the elves for the appearance of sub-beasts. Instead, he responded immediately by wanting to protect these elves... which Su Bai quite approved of!
only……
"The elves themselves are not creatures that need protection...their fighting power is very strong, very strong."
In Su Bai's mind, the majestic figure of the Phoenix King appeared.
How could such a being need protection?
"You also saw it...a wild Kentero can easily deal with this incoming sub-beast, not to mention that Kentero is a gregarious creature. This Kentero may have just strayed away from the group accidentally..."
"The elves will not sit idly by if the sub-beasts dare to come."
To be honest, after seeing the terrifying physical reaction of the beast at first, Su Bai didn't pay too much attention to these ugly things.
After all, he has seen too much of the world.
However, as soon as he finished speaking, Dong Feng said with a hesitant look on his face: "Um...Boss Su, in fact, many things are not written in the textbooks."
"In the age of heaven...do you know how many humans there are?"
Su Bai said in astonishment: "It's not written in this book...how many are there?"
Dong Feng smiled bitterly and said: "After the last census, the total population of the world was eight billion, and we have less than 100 million existing humans."
"Coupled with the undetectable illegal household registration, it almost means that in so many years, human beings have... been wiped out!"
Su Bai took a breath. He knew that human beings were miserable, but he didn't expect it to be so tragic!
In his previous world, even the most tragic war was said to have killed only 70 million people, and only 130 million people were injured.
It’s not that this data isn’t shocking enough.
But the humans in this world... are so miserable!
"City Lord Dong means..."
Su Bai didn't understand what Dong Feng meant by mentioning this at first, but after thinking about it for a moment, his eyes suddenly widened!
Dong Feng looked at Su Bai, who had always been calm, with this expression, shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Yes, you are right."
"There are eight billion human beings in total, and most of them have died due to the constant erosion of death energy and attacks by dead beasts."
"The last time most countries were still barely in power, this number had dropped sharply to 3.8 billion."
"Then there was the extremely tragic human migration."
"This migration brought the final glory of mankind to naught... Those who were bitten to death by dead beasts, became sub-animals, and died due to internal strife over supplies... It is said that wherever humans go, the trees that follow are particularly strong. …”
"In short, by the time the Eastern God Federation was established, the number of humans was only 100 million."
"The Eastern God Federation has not been able to change the decline of mankind. The total number of humans has continued to decrease over the years... But your elves have given me some hope..."
Su Bai's face at this time gradually became a little gloomy. He had grown up in this world since he was a child. In fact, he didn't have much sense of separation like other time travellers.
He is also a native of this world!
He shook his head and said in a deep voice: "How many people are there who have turned into sub-beasts?!"
At first, he thought it was simple. The overall combat power of the sub-beasts was on the same average as that of the dead beasts, but the more prominent individuals among them had stronger upper limits.
It's just that he ignored one thing...that is quantity!
"We have no way to accurately count the number of sub-beasts... But based on the situation at that time, except for the Eastern God Federation and a few small countries that have strong control and have not allowed the Death Worship Cult to spread, other countries, especially those who advocate freedom, Most people in those countries have chosen to become sub-beasts..."
"Although not everyone can successfully fuse the death energy, the number is still terrifying."
"Furthermore, even if the sub-beasts have absorbed the death energy, they are still considered living creatures, and they still have the instinct to survive and reproduce. Although there will occasionally be fights between sub-beasts and dead beasts, according to our speculation, the number of sub-beasts is still far greater than Dead beast.”
"This order of magnitude... about two billion!"
"Two billion!"
Su Bai looked at Dong Feng in shock. The meaning behind this simple number was simply disappointing!
Two billion sub-beasts, let alone others, even if they come to the elf center to die collectively, they can't kill them all under the current situation!
And...this is just a guess.
Who knows what the real number might be?
Maybe even more!
The terror of the sub-beasts lies not only in their combat prowess... but what is even more terrifying is that their numbers are many times greater than that of humans!
I was almost captured by the bed and couldn't get up... Is there anyone with experience who can tell me how long it takes to get better after a mild case?
(End of chapter)
