After the aftershock passed, Rui and others set up tents and counted the number of people. During this period, some people smiled and said that they would go and relieve themselves and then come back. Soon after, no one was seen. There was only the whistling of the wind and the sound of falling to the ground hidden in the wind. Everyone either didn't notice, or He guessed what happened and didn't say much. The atmosphere was as sad and numb as ever.
Hemerocallis was called over by Dr. Carter, while Yan Bing, who was tied up in the corner, looked on coldly.
After a while, when everyone was eating, Rui heard the good news.
"……'Strong desire'?"
He sat in front of Dr. Carter and was slightly startled.
Dr. Carter nodded slowly. Her serious expression and mottled wrinkles on her face made her look less like a researcher and more like an ancient shaman who was in charge of the spiritual beliefs of the tribe.
"Yes, this is not scientific and has no basis. The only data support is the small number of existing statistical results."
Dr. Carter said, "Remember when I asked you how you felt and thought when you had scales many years ago?"
Rui nodded: "angry. Because some people bully the dean based on his status and prevent the children in the courtyard from receiving education. I went to argue and fight, but lost. So I hope that I can become stronger, no matter what method I use, as long as It would be nice to get those people to change their minds.”
Dr. Carter nodded.
"I previously thought that the acid rain and the emotional peak of a certain moment caused the scales to grow. Anger, irritability, sadness...etc."
She explained, "But now I can basically conclude that the source is not emotions, but something deeper than emotions, a 'strong desire from the heart'."
Rui seemed to realize something and lowered his head in silence.
"You, Apo, Aliu. The essence of anger lies in 'wanting to defeat' and 'wanting to defeat'."
Dr. Carter began to name names.
"Shu Zhen. She likes to make milk tea and wants to make the recipe and process perfect in every step.
"Calculate. Her lack of ability indirectly caused a captain who was also a teacher and friend to be seriously injured. Therefore, she hopes that her thinking will be sharper and her strength will be better.
"Cheng Ying. The weather was hot, work was hindered, he was troubled by blood-sucking insects in trivial matters, and he was frightened by Shu Zhen who ran away... so his anxiety and irritability reached its peak in a short period of time, and he hoped that 'all the scaled people should die'."
One "case" after another came from Dr. Carter's mouth.
"Sixty-seven-year-old Shigesu. Because his office worker's son became a human being, and his proud career and life were destroyed in a single breath, he felt sad and painful about this. He felt sorry for the collapsed child and longed to understand his situation.
"Seven-year-old Chu Miao. Because his mother suffered from postpartum depression, she became a woman, covering up her face all day long and crying, so he felt that if he could become the same as his mother, she would no longer be so sad.
"Today's Hemerocallis. Needless to say, because she wants to change the predicament and save the lover in crisis.
"Thus, these people's bodies responded to their wishes and made them scale humans."
Dr. Carter coughed twice and took the water handed by the caregiver.
“Whether you want to defeat or protect... everyone has different moods and different ideas.
"The only similarity is the 'intensity of desire'."
She swallowed the water slowly and said warmly.
“We have always been studying science and pursuing the truth.
"I think it's time to return to our original nature and feel, understand and believe in the mystery of 'people' themselves.
"The most important thing in a disaster is our faith..."
The camera slowly moved forward, the bright moon hung high, and most of the thick fog and smoke in the air dissipated.
"That's actually the case."
Apo sat cross-legged next to Rui, "Thinking about it carefully, it seems that what I was thinking at that time was 'I must become stronger and kill all of you who laugh at me'..."
"There are many people who have had this wish." A Liu shrugged, "That's why there are so many powerful guys among us."
When he said this, he thought of something and opened his mouth, but after looking at Panhong and Panqing on the other side of Rui, he closed his mouth again.
"What do you want to say?" How could Panqing not notice A Liu's micro-expression.
Her questioning tone was neither humble nor overbearing. A Liu stared at her face, then looked at Pan Hong's silly face. After a while, he turned to Rui and said seriously.
"Boss, I don't think we can continue like this."
A Liu raised a small wall of fire around him, Panhong hissed, and his tendons immediately started to sweat.
"..." A Liu.
You humans are in real trouble.
"Open the soundproof cover." Rui said to Panqing.
Panqing nodded, and the hemispherical light shield with texture like a turtle shell encased everyone in it. A Liu waved his hand to disperse the wall of fire.
"What I want to say is-"
Following his words, the screen moved to the gathering place. The camera swept through the tents one by one. Shu Zhenmeng was still gesturing and doing experiments. Amber and Hemerocallis were sleeping in each other's arms. In another nearby tent, Hemerocallis's parents were lying. It was rare for the second elder to sleep peacefully and his brows relaxed.
Suddenly, when the camera focused on the next place, the humans and scale people who had their eyes closed opened their eyes.
These are small groups centered around one or two scale humans, who rest and sleep together.
These people walked out of the tent quietly and furtively, and met the scale men on patrol at night. Just when they were panicking, they saw the other party smiled at them, winked, and joined the team.
The audience in the screening hall suddenly felt shocked, what are they doing?
On the first night of camping, everyone was more tired than usual. In addition, the volcanic eruption and rolling lava during the day gave them a lot of fright. They slept more deeply after the disaster, so no one realized that this batch was quite large. People came to the other side one after another.
At the end of the road is Yan Bing.
He returned to his gentle look, with a kind smile on his face. He was not afraid of the big scene in front of him, and his eyes were filled with joy.
"Thank you. Thank you everyone for coming."
Yan Bing started with the low profile he always showed on the big screen, "I took the liberty of calling everyone here because I want to reveal a truth..."
He began his speech in an orderly manner, and the audience in the screening room felt a chill, followed by an unparalleled nausea.
Yan Bing took the confusion of right and wrong to the extreme. He blamed the past on Dr. Carter and unbuttoned his clothes in public to let everyone see the scales on his body.
In his mouth, he is a puppet whose scales were removed by Dr. Carter in private and studied at other times. At other times, he has to stand up to the public and constantly raise funds to make money for Dr. Carter.
Rui and he originally met at the experimental base. He asked the more powerful Rui for help, but Rui did not save him when he escaped. Not only that, Rui finally sided with Dr. Carter, pushing Yan Bing to the forefront and becoming the target of public criticism.
If you think about it carefully, this statement is actually full of mistakes, but firstly, Yan Bing's public image has never been bad; secondly, the people who remove the scales in the experimental base are always medical staff, and he only appears in the scientific research hall, not in front of anyone; The third and most important point is that people only hear what they want to hear.
As long as they are dissatisfied with Rui Herui's methods and policies, they will naturally accept Yan Bing's stirring up trouble here and choose to believe him.
So Yan Bing shared his proposal with everyone.
His position is on the side of the scale people, which makes those scale people who think that the scale people should enslave humans in turn feel very comfortable. But at the same time, Yan Bing used his clever words to make the humans who were attached to the scale people feel that they had not suffered too much.
"My fellow human beings in the past." Yan Bing said sincerely, "You did the right thing by choosing human beings. Just imagine, what is the structure of our society? It's family, school, and work unit. People always need an organization. , a circle connects everyone together.”
"But what did Rui do? He just used the excuse of treating everyone equally to cover up his inaction. Think about it! If one day, there are not enough mecha containers to take enough people away, then who will be eliminated by then? Eliminated, eliminated What is the standard for abandonment? He certainly can't tell!
"So by that time, it will definitely become 'friendship over reason'. Whoever has the best relationship with Rui, Abo Aliu, and Shu Zhen Amber will definitely be given priority to live - just like that human being Pan Hong !”
"I, Yan Bing, hate sanctimonious hypocrites the most in my life." Yan Bing shook his head and sighed, "Compared to the Great Migration, which is loose and dependent on fate and the leader's personal preferences, why can't we establish a new organization with rules and order?"
"Just like now. We take each scale person as a unit and make each scale person responsible for his/her human relatives and friends. In this way, humans are also blessed and protected, and each scale person gets what they want. This Isn’t it bad?”
Many human beings who gave up their dignity and took refuge with the scale people already had a deep sense of shame in their hearts. Don’t they know that it is both dirty and shameful for them to give up the arrangement of the large army and choose to sell their bodies and kneel down to lick their “master” like a pig or a dog? But “the current situation is like this” and “life is forcing us to do so”, what can they do?
These people, who were secretly tortured by their pride, heard Yan Bing's words and felt as if they had been granted amnesty.
Yeah, what's there to be ashamed of? What a fair deal this is, I paid and I got, what's wrong? What's wrong?
They followed Yan Bing's words to brainwash themselves and became more flattering to their "loyal master".
Just living an ignoble existence? No, this is what the disaster forced me to do, this is what Rui and the others forced me to do!
I've made the best choice!
Now the status of scale people is high, and the strength of scale people is strong. As Mr. Yan Bing said, the world will always be ruled by the strong. As long as we weak people are obedient, we can be safely kept in captivity. This How wonderful that life will soon return to its former harmony.
Everyone's emotions spilled out in a tangible way, like the threads nailed to the joints of a puppet, held in the palm of Yan Bing's hand.
He sneered inwardly.
Give some people power and make others think they enjoy privileges.
Look at Rui, how easy it is to manipulate people's hearts.
Their disgusting self-esteem, which longs for privileges but is unwilling to admit it, will first tie them tightly without the ruler saying anything, and then indulge in endless self-comfort and satisfaction... at the mercy of others.
In the distance, the soundproof cover was closed, and Rui glanced expressionlessly in the direction of Yan Bing's speech.
"Don't worry." He said to Alius, "We'll take care of it."
…
The next day, Ray announced the results of Dr. Carter's analysis.
The terms "faith" and "strong desire" are mysterious and mysterious, but when humans with relatives and friends around them think about it carefully, they have to admit that there is some truth.
"I see..." Hemerocallis nodded. As the person involved, she knew exactly how it felt.
However, there were too many people who couldn't figure it out. After hearing Rui's words, they immediately thought that they could become scale people, so they sat on the ground and started to exert force while holding in their breath. Their faces and necks turned red and they didn't respond. Suddenly he was dissatisfied:
It's obviously fake!
Rui is just talking nonsense. As for Hemerocallis, Amber must have secretly given her something that can evolve!
Yan Bing's speech and proposal last night fermented wildly in their hearts, fully setting up a ladder for emotional catharsis. It didn't take long before a riot broke out.
Following Yan Bing's guidance, this group of people did not use force, but they stood up one after another and used words and attitudes to force Rui and other senior officials to talk to them.
They demanded the release of Yan Bing and asked Rui to "follow a more correct path." If Rui could not do it, then hand over the control and resources to "more qualified people" to control.
There are smart but vicious behind-the-scenes manipulators, bad guys who think they are smart and in control of the situation, and a large number of idiots who follow what everyone else says. The causes of every turmoil are so similar.
Rui actually let Yan Bing appear in front of everyone.
He still stood firmly, with a slender figure and an unwavering appearance. In the eyes of some people, he was "forcibly pretending to be upright."
Yan Bing pretended that nothing happened last night and expressed his thoughts as they planned.
Soon there were supporters of his scale people echoing around, and the conversation was with those scale people who were on Rui's side or remained neutral.
"This is a world where the weak prey on the strong!" Yan Bing's supporters spoke generously, "Have you forgotten how humans treated us before?! Discrimination, insult, and oppression! Now that the scales have turned over, why can't we just stand up!"
"Peace? Damn peace! The difference between strong and weak is peace!"
He took a few steps and rushed towards the people who had fled with Rui early on, "Same race! Think about it carefully, if humans hadn't treated us like that, why would we be wandering around without even a decent home!"
"Yes!"
"Bah, what kind of human being? I no longer want to protect you!"
"It's good to be obedient, and you can ask for protection with confidence. What do you think? Why should I be exploited and oppressed by you even if I am like this!"
The noise became louder and louder, and suddenly, a stone hit the shoulder of the one who was shouting the loudest.
"What nonsense are you talking about..."
The old man, who was not considered strong even among humans, stood up shakily.
"If we do what you said, then what's the difference between us and those people before the natural disaster...?"
"Mosu!"
The scale man who was hit by the stone came over angrily, "Don't you know how much you and your son have suffered?! Even if you are bullied like this, don't you hate it?!"
As he spoke, he looked at Shigesu's son again: "What about you?! Are you as cowardly as your father!"
"cowardly?"
Shigesu's son clenched his fists, and the sneer on his face was a bit ferocious because of his anger.
"I hate it, but the person who really took off his scales and used his scales to hit us so hard, isn't he standing there!"
He pointed a finger at Yan Bing in the distance, stretched out his hand to grab the collar of the scale man in front of him, "If you don't get angry at the culprit, what's the point of inciting your fellow tribesmen?!"
"Don't we hate humans? Don't we know that it is society's discrimination and exclusion that makes us live like humans and ghosts? But do the humans living under the sun know about all this?"
Shigesu's son pushed the scale man away angrily.
"Yes. I hate it, but I choose to forgive."
He said word for word, "I don't ask you to follow me in forgiving, but you also don't want to ask me to follow you in hating!"
"Don't you have to choose? I choose Boss Rui!
"You can call me stupid or cowardly, but yes, I just want to see a new world where scales and humans coexist harmoniously!
"What is the difference between strong and weak? We used to be the weak ones who were bullied, but now we have become strong and continue to bully other weak ones. This is simply an endless cycle! You are still so proud of us!"
After he finished speaking, he supported his father, and both father and son glared angrily at the scale man who encouraged the riot.
The situation reached a stalemate, and Rui stepped forward with arms crossed.
"Those who can't stay any longer and want to leave should go there to collect supplies and then leave."
He tilted his head and pointed in the direction of Pan Hong, who was standing next to the mecha.
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