Today's Hope City seems to be blooming with flowers and blazing fire, but Ling Mengyu clearly knows that a crisis is surging under the undercurrent.
Maybe ten years later, maybe a hundred years later, maybe a thousand years later, if the sun still doesn't appear, sooner or later the current City of Hope will be buried by that crisis.
This is not a man-made crisis, but the price that must be paid for survival in the doomsday, but this price has already brought some bad signs now.
After the eternal night falls and the sun disappears, the world's original farming and animal husbandry industries cease to exist at an extremely fast speed.
But humans have to continue to survive. In order to obtain a stable source of food, it is inevitable that they have no choice but to turn their attention to the monsters born in the darkness.
Because in today's world, only those disgusting monsters can continuously appear in this world and become a relatively stable source of food.
Everyone knows that eating this kind of food is not good, but everyone has no choice. How can the poor people struggling to survive in the apocalypse have the right to choose?
So starting more than seventy years ago, as the original food was exhausted, people had to use the flesh and blood of monsters as the food necessary for survival.
After more than seventy years, this evil effect has finally slowly manifested itself in many new generations of newborns.
Probably more than ten years ago, the first newborn with physical deformity appeared. Out of fear, the city-state decision-makers burned the deformed child to death regardless of the mother's cries.
But slowly, the number and frequency of deformed children began to increase little by little, and the city-state had to change its attitude.
So the decision-makers canceled the decree that the newborns should be executed immediately to prevent mothers from trying to hide their deformed children, thereby causing greater damage to the city-state.
After all, what happens to such deformed children? At least we have to wait until they grow up, so that we can have more evidence to convince future mothers.
Gradually, those deformed children grew up and became what the city-state called deformed people. This group of deformed people could be called a mixed blessing for the city-state.
The joy and sorrow of the city-state all come from the same thing. The deformed people are not inherently violent. Apart from being ugly on the outside, they are basically normal on the inside.
This proves that deformed people are also part of the human race, but precisely because of this discovery, it is completely impossible to reinstate the law to exterminate deformed children.
Therefore, the number of deformed people over the years, although the total number is still very small, is slowly rising bit by bit with an unstoppable momentum.
Therefore, not only Ling Mengyu, but also every discerning person in the city-state began to have increasingly disturbing speculations about deformed people.
If the situation continues to develop like this, perhaps one day a hundred and a thousand years from now, the city-state will not be destroyed by the tide of monsters, but by deformed people.
It’s not that deformed people are born with a dark psychology. In fact, as long as they are raised normally, their mentality is not much different from ordinary people.
Of course there will be deformed people with dark minds, but are there no dark minds among ordinary people?
The biggest problem with deformed people is their extraordinary strength. It would be fine if they did not take extraordinary potions, but once they do, they will have a higher probability of losing control than ordinary people.
So currently, although deformed people are allowed to survive in Hope City, they are not allowed to take extraordinary potions and can only do some normal physical labor.
But this is a decree that can only be promulgated in this current situation. Now among the population of the city-state, the number of normal people has an absolute advantage.
But judging from the current birth situation, sooner or later the number of deformed people in the city-state will exceed that of normal people. What should we do then?
The way to stop the deterioration of deformed people is very simple, that is to stop eating the flesh and blood of monsters. But in the post-apocalyptic world, this is simply impossible, so the city-state has no way.
Of course, there is another way, which is to allow deformed people to intermarry with normal people, which can reduce the probability of deformed offspring.
Because if deformed people intermarry with each other, their offspring will definitely be deformed, and the degree of deformity will be more serious.
But just like the method just now, deformed people are a bottomless pit. How could a city-state allow normal people to marry deformed people?
Therefore, although deformed people can live in the city-state, they are still affected by the "Extraordinary Prohibition" and the "Intermarriage Prohibition".
In fact, generally speaking, normal people would not want to marry a deformed person, but the forest is big and there are all kinds of birds. Aya Mengyu remembers a few years ago, there was a woman who would not marry unless she was a deformed person. Maybe this is love. Bar.
In short, the problem of deformed people has been vaguely revealed at this time, but due to the number and situation, Hope City can still control it.
But what will happen after thousands of years? Of course, Ling Mengyu only thought about it for a moment. After all, she didn't have long left in her life. By the time something really went wrong, Ling Meng Yu would already be gone in this world.
This is like an ostrich's behavior of avoiding the problem, but what can Aya Mengyu do? She really had no choice but to be an ostrich.
After all, as long as this world is still in the end, and it is still on this land abandoned by the gods, then this problem will be unsolvable, so there is no other way except to be an ostrich.
It has to be said that Ayan Mengyu's judgment is very accurate. These deformed people he is worried about at this time are the most important challenges that players will face after the game enters the fourth stage of the middle and late stages.
The first stage is wandering, the second stage is building a city, and the third stage is the intersection of power. In the fourth and final stage of "The Land Abandoned by Gods", the problem to be faced is this group of deformed people.
Because as time goes by, the number of these deformed people will increase and the degree of deformity will become higher and higher, causing great trouble to the city-state.
The reason why it was difficult to deal with at first was because even if all the deformed people were marginalized, there were still enough normal people to keep the city-state running.
But when normal people become a minority, if you don't want the city-state to be divided, you must cancel or even admit deformed people into the decision-making level of the city-state.
Generally speaking, the emergence of this kind of policy is a blessing, which means that the life of this city-state has entered a countdown.
It is undeniable that there are indeed some deformed people who, due to various reasons, are full of deformities from body to heart.
But for more deformed people who are treated relatively equally, they are just deformed in appearance, and their love for the city-state is not inferior to that of normal people.
However, the innate conditions are there, and the high rate of loss of control when taking medicine makes it impossible for deformed people to advance to a higher level, which limits the upper limit of the city-state's power.
Therefore, as the number of deformed people increases, at the same time, the power of the city-state begins to decline, and the tide of monsters that was once easily dealt with will become more and more difficult.
