Relying on a series of preventive preparations, although Hope City encountered two consecutive waves of self-hanging southeast branches, it did not affect too much.
It seems that Ge Zhaodu's strategy was successful, but not all viewers who watched the video agreed with this approach:
"I feel that they will commit suicide, and it also has something to do with the way the city-state handles it. When they are desperate, instead of comforting the other person, they lock him up alone. Isn't this pushing people to commit suicide?"
"It's so funny, brother, what era do you think this is? The era of creating a beautiful new world together in the 22nd century? This is the end of the world after the catastrophe!"
As soon as the opposition emerged, it was drowned in a sea of criticism: "Everyone is living a very difficult life. You yourself are mentally fragile and want to commit suicide. Who has time to care about you and provide mental counseling and treatment?"
This is directly mocked, and some are mocked through analysis of the historical background: "This world is obviously a medieval-style world. Even if you think about it, where can there be a psychiatrist?"
Seeing that there was a vague tendency to get noisy in the comment area, Ge Zhaodu coughed a few times and began to explain the current game format to ease the smell of fire in the comment area:
"Look, everyone, with my current operations, the hope value has begun to slowly rise again, but this is not the end."
Ge Zhaodu mentioned before that during the city-building stage of the game "Gods Abandoned Land", there will be three waves of self-hanging southeast branches. At present, the first two waves have already appeared, and there is still a third wave to go.
The opportunity for the third wave of self-hanging Southeast Branches to appear is after the normal food is consumed. At that time, if humans want to continue to survive, they can only feed on the flesh and blood of monsters.
After suffering from a series of previous incidents, many people were just one straw away from hanging on the Southeast Branch. Now this straw has fallen.
When I found that I could only eat that kind of extremely disgusting and indescribable food, I suddenly found that the last thought of living was gone.
When the normal food is exhausted and residents can only eat monster flesh and blood, they will follow the third and final wave of self-inflicted Southeast Branches.
It’s not that no one will die in the future, but because those who have low hope will die sporadically, rather than in groups like now.
However, this kind of statement is only from the perspective of a bystander, and naturally it is said very lightly, but people who have experienced all this will not think so.
At this moment, Suo Jian, who was performing the task as an invitee, had a livid expression on his face as he watched the city guards carrying the corpses in groups. These were all people who had come from Hanging Nanzhi in the past few days.
In fact, Suo Jian also understood that many of these people did not choose to hang themselves because they were unwilling to eat monster flesh and blood.
After all, they have all come to this point in the apocalypse. Many of the refugees have actually eaten human flesh, let alone those mere monsters?
The real reason why they can't stand it is that they can't see any hope for the future. They don't know the reason for continuing to persist like this.
If even an archangel came and told them that as long as they persisted, even if it took fifty years, they would see the sun appear again, then they would be able to endure it.
But the reality is that after the cataclysm, the sun god fell, the archangel betrayed, and the angels disappeared, leaving only a group of mortals struggling.
In this case, why is there any need to persist? After all, in this desperate and cruel world, every day of life is a struggle. Instead of continuing to struggle in despair, it is better to go to the destination as soon as possible.
Perhaps in the world of dreams, perhaps in the world after death, the sun can still shine, and we can live the same beautiful days as before the catastrophe.
That's why Ge Zhaodu said before that only those new generations who have little impression of the past can become the core force of the city-state after the cataclysm.
Because they have never seen the beauty of the sun, they can endure the cruelty of darkness. Those who hang themselves on the southeast branch cannot bear the despair of darkness precisely because they have seen the beauty of the sun.
The corpses were quickly gathered together. After the guards poured grease on the corpses, they lit a blazing fire, accompanied by a dull crackling sound, as if everything was returning to dust.
Suo Jian stood at a high place and watched silently, the fire jumping and burning in his eyes. The burning flame was so bright, but also so weak that it could not ignite this rich darkness.
I don't know when, Ling Mengyu was standing next to him, and the two of them didn't speak, still watching everything quietly.
"It's cruel, isn't it? It's desperate, isn't it?" Ling Mengyu asked after a while, and the answer was Suo Jian's hug, everything was in the embrace.
Pressing against the familiar person's body, feeling the warmth coming from the body and the powerful beating heart, Suo Jian couldn't help but feel a little bit alive.
"This is the end of the world. After absorbing the potion from here, I don't dare to come to this world again, because it is too cold and dark, and I can't see the future at all, completely."
Viewers watching the live broadcast could also see that the bonfire-dotted Hope City was in a dark and oppressive wilderness, and everything seemed so desolate.
One person couldn't help but said: "Those gods, angels and so on are really nothing. Look at these believers who worship them, but what do these people get?"
"You can't think like that. The game doesn't reveal any more information about the Cataclysm. Maybe something happened to force us to do this?"
"For example, the Sun God is about to fall. The archangels launched this cataclysm to save the world, but it just didn't go well."
What I have to say is that what appears to be a catastrophe is actually the result of a failure to save the world. This idea is not the first of its kind by Squid, and it can be said to be commonplace in other literary and artistic works.
So in this world, although no one has read "Lord of Mysteries", they have guessed some of the truth about the catastrophe by relying on the novel's routines.
Of course, the current audience is not aware of this yet, but continues to discuss what the archangels did during the cataclysm.
It’s still the same audience that criticizes the gods: “I’ll take a step back and make an assumption. Even if the catastrophe is the traitor’s attempt to save the world, it’s obviously not very successful.”
It is indeed not very successful. Regardless of whether the Sun God has the intention to destroy the world or not, the world after the cataclysm is not fundamentally different from the doomsday.
"In that case, why didn't they come and rescue the humans who believed in them? Instead, they allowed these people to struggle after the catastrophe."
"Again, how do you know that you haven't rescued some people? Maybe you have rescued some people, and then there is no chance. The game only shows what happened to those who were not rescued."
At this time, another audience member intervened: "I think your discussion is boring. "The Forsaken Land" reveals too little about the truth of the Cataclysm. Your air-to-air talk is meaningless."
The fourth viewer saw another aspect: "But I think that because of this catastrophe, we can make another game specifically."
