"Old Xu, how many people do you have there now?"
Ye Hao spoke very quickly, and he did not consider this issue.
However, although he didn't think about it, he still asked the question very skillfully.
According to common sense, a normal person would ask such a question at this time: "Old Xu, how many people are left on your side?"
But Ye Hao didn't use the word left, and just asked him how many people he shared.
It sounds like this is just a difference between the word "community" and "leftover", but in reality it feels very different.
Chinese characters are extensive and profound. The same sentence can be translated into completely different feelings by different people, different tone, and different words.
This is not unreasonable.
In the current reality, if Ye Hao really blurts it out subconsciously according to common sense, how will it make the team members feel?
Depressed! not optimistic! Somewhat pessimistic.
This can also easily cause psychological panic and worry among team members.
Especially Derek. The young man is currently emotionally unstable. At this time, Derek's thoughts are undoubtedly the most sensitive.
Now any word, any word may make the other party restless.
There is no doubt that it will be better if Ye Hao replaces "left" with "common".
This change may not have much effect, but it is definitely better than using "leftover" directly.
The use of "leftover" shows more of a kind of tragedy, which makes people intuitively go back and calculate how many people in the team died.
Ye Hao didn't know if Derek paid attention to the number of people in Lao Xu's team when they left the stadium.
After all, the situation was chaotic at that time and the incident happened suddenly. All of them were shocked by the sudden actions of Lao Xu and others.
After that, he had been worried about the crisis that Lao Xu and others encountered during their operations. It was reasonable for Derek to not pay attention to the number of people in the new army because of his worries.
In addition, there are unfamiliar faces on the opposing team, so it is understandable that they are ignored. Ye Hao also hopes that Derek will only remember Hu Xiaodong, Lei Tong, and Xu Renjie as he hopes.
So when he uses "common" here, he also wants to avoid his problems from arousing Derek's overthinking as much as possible.
If "left" is more about asking people to only think about how many people in the team have died, then "together" is guiding people to pay attention to how many people in the team have survived.
Ye Hao asked this question simply because he wanted to know the current composition and combat strength of Lao Xu and others.
Because only if he masters these objective details and clues, can he better infer the actual situation of Lao Xu and others.
And prepare countermeasures in advance when a crisis strikes. Of course, the countermeasures here are only to deal with the emotional changes of the two teammates around you.
As for how many people in Xu Renjie's team died, Ye Hao had no interest in knowing who they were.
Apart from Xu Renjie, Lei Tong, and Hu Xiaodong, what does it matter to him if there are more people left in the team?
He, Ye Hao, was not familiar with those guys. He was already worried enough about Lao Xu and others. He had no reason or time to worry about those strangers whose names he didn't even know.
As long as Xu Renjie and the three of them can be kept alive, Ye Hao doesn't care even if the others all die.
Ye Hao's thoughts sound quite inhumane and selfish, but this is his truest thought, and it is also what most of us have in common.
It's none of your business, this is not something you say casually.
When you encounter a crisis, it's not your family, and you can never worry about strangers as much as you worry about your own family.
Lao Xu heard Ye Hao's question clearly.
He pondered for a few seconds, and finally decided to tell the truth without hiding anything on this issue.
Xu Renjie naturally knew what Ye Hao's purpose was in asking this question.
If possible, he would selectively conceal it, but as far as the current reality is concerned, he is sure that concealing it is meaningless.
The reason is very simple. The few people who died on our side died inside the building after leaving the security guard. The others were killed by beasts outside.
Therefore, there is no doubt that Ye Hao and the others saw the whole process of the brother who died outside the building.
Although Lao Xu couldn't be sure whether Ye Hao and the others had seen all the process, at the moment he had to make inferences based on certainty.
In this case, there is no point in hiding it at this time.
At this time, Ye Hao didn't know about the presence of security guards, but he knew everything else.
The scene where the security guard was attacked and bitten by animals also happened outside.
And based on the conclusion that humans will undoubtedly die if bitten, what else does Xu Renjie have to hide?
Based on this, if he overreported... nonsense, Lao Xu was kicked in the head by a donkey and overreported, and now he overreported the number of killed, he didn't have enough trouble outside, right?
What about underreporting? Indeed, Xu Renjie originally wanted to underreport his crime.
After all, although the number of people doesn't determine anything, it gives the outside team members the feeling that the more people they have, the stronger their combat power will be and their chance of survival will be greater.
But they have all seen the situation related to the problem. The other party deliberately underreported the number of people when they knew how many people died on their side. Isn't this the case of three hundred taels without a shadow here?
Xu Renjie knew that Ye Hao asked about this situation because he wanted to know the situation on his side.
But he was not sure what the purpose of Ye Hao's tentative inquiry was.
Are you acting with him, deliberately raising such a question and asking him to make false statements so that the team members can feel at ease?
Or was it just to test how wet Xu Renjie was when he answered and spoke?
Or is it just to know the truth?
So smart people can sometimes be in trouble.
If this question were asked by Wang Qiang or Derek, why would Lao Xu need to consider it so carefully? He would definitely give an answer based on reality.
In terms of brain reflexes, Wang Qiang and Derek were not as sharp as Ye Hao.
But it was precisely because of Ye Hao's quick brain that he gave Lao Xu a headache.
Fortunately, things are relatively simple at the moment, and the actual situation has made the decision for Lao Xu.
Although Ye Hao's thoughts were elusive, reality forced Lao Xu to tell the truth.
"There are six of us now."
Lao Xu did not lie. The only New Army members still alive in the building are him, Hu Xiaodong, Lei Tong, Guo Laosi, Wen Tianming, and Hong Tao. They add up to exactly six.
After hearing this, Ye Hao thought about it for a moment, then nodded subconsciously.
It is not difficult to see that he has concerns about Lao Xu's answer.
Wang Qiang, did Derek make a special count of the number of new troops coming out of the hall, but he, Ye Hao, did.
As a professional liar, attention to detail is very important.
After following Ye Hao's calculations, he determined that there were ten people in total when Lao Xu and his party came out of the museum.
So based on the answer given by Lao Xu last time, the ten people minus the six people currently alive in the museum, the number of people who died in their team during this trip is already very clear.
Four... Regarding the number of deaths of the fourth brother, Ye Hao could confirm that Xu Renjie's answer was reliable based on the results he had been monitoring in the high-rise building.
From this, he could also conclude that Lao Xu was basically telling the truth when communicating with him.
At least that's what happened so far.
