After an obvious pause, Shaka smiled and did not pick up the topic, but said: "Do you believe in the theory of cause and effect?"
Xu Huo made a "please" gesture, indicating that he would continue.
"Sowing causes leads to results. The things we see every moment may be causes or effects. Fruits have bitter fruits, but the people who eat the bitter fruits may not be really pitiful. It is also possible that they have sown evil causes." Shaka sat across from him and spoke calmly, "The environment in Area 026 has always been so harsh, and it hasn't changed since evolution began. Those mutated plants that can eat people in the outer area can't even sprout here, but we have always been together through thick and thin." It’s easy, but sharing wealth and honor is difficult.”
"Gathering 01 used to help each other and use containers to catch acid rain to survive. So even in that environment, new cities were still built. However, the more people there are and the less resources there are, some people must be sacrificed."
"So some people proposed to cut off the resources of marginal cities and let those places with small populations fend for themselves."
"Most cities have approved this proposal, because the resources of each city are common. Those with more care have less care, and some have no care. Everyone has a heavy burden."
"But there are also those who disagree, because if you give up the weakest people today, who will you give up tomorrow? This is just a cover-up. The important thing is to solve the resource problem, not to reduce the number of people who use the resources."
"The central city at that time was far smaller than it is now. It was only a medium-sized city. Because of its strong opposition to the proposal to abandon the city, it was squeezed out by other cities, cut off from resource exchanges, and became a cake shared by other cities during a rare rainless season."
"The number of ordinary people who died in the attack on the city at that time was as much as one-third of the total population. If it were not for the mayor's efforts to turn the tide, Central City would have disappeared from the map long ago."
"Later, with the purchase of water extraction equipment, the situation in the central city gradually improved, and it gradually became the best among the 01 clusters."
"But at this time, the people who had besieged Central City came out again. They demanded an equal share of the water source. After being refused, they launched no less than a hundred assassinations, including twenty-three poisonings in the water extraction equipment..."
"Evil causes lead to evil consequences," Shaka said: "The people in the 01 gathering place are just reaping the consequences."
Shaka understood that people like Xu Huo could not have any plans for Area 026. The only reason why he could make this trip was that other cities persuaded him to take action on his behalf.
"Mr. Xu, you are a good person, but don't let others take advantage of you."
"Poor people are not necessarily really pitiful."
Xu Huo tilted his head slightly at this time, looking through the building wall at the clean and tidy streets outside, and suddenly asked: "When was the central city attacked?"
"Twenty years ago." Shaka replied, "Twenty years, a generation has not passed yet."
"Did all the cities participate in the siege?" Xu Huo asked again.
"No, but cities that did not participate received preferential treatment." Shaka said firmly.
"What's going on over there in the slums?" Xu Huo paused, "They say they send a group of people there every few years."
Speaking of this, Shaka couldn't help but smile sarcastically, "Someone tried to send the extra population into Central City. At first, we accepted some people, but we didn't expect that there were players mixed in. Later, they had no choice but to give up. .”
Xu Huo nodded, "As you said, they deserved it."
Shaka's expression was visibly relaxed, "I really didn't expect that we would see each other again one day, why not stay in Central City for a few days. Although it is not as dangerous as outside, it is not as dangerous as the outer area."
"In addition, the people in the slums are indeed pitiful, but just providing them with water will treat the symptoms but not the root cause. Let's do this. Later, the central city will bring in the cooperating cities for a meeting. If anyone is willing to accept those people, the central city can reduce the water bills of these people. , and then give preferential treatment to the city.”
This was a way of giving Xu Huo some face, so that he wouldn't have to go on a trip in vain.
At this point in the conversation, both parties were quite satisfied. The previous tense atmosphere had completely disappeared. Sha Jia stepped forward and shook hands with Xu Huo in a friendly manner, "You are the same as when you were in the big sea world. You haven't changed at all. At that time, I felt You are a very principled person and I really want to make you a friend, but I don’t know what to call you.”
"Xu Zhi." Xu Huo held his hand.
After the two settled the conversation, they prepared to leave. Shaka asked Ji Minzhang to prepare the car and he wanted to introduce his friend to the mayor.
As the super evolver of Central City, Shaka has a transcendent status. Ji Minzhang complained a lot but still did as he said. However, when passing by Dajiang and Kang Miao, he said: "It's a pity that the helper you found, Now a friend of Central City.”
The two people who were confused and confused completely changed their expressions when they saw Xu Huo walking out, chatting and laughing with Shajia, and for a while they didn't even dare to come forward and talk to him.
"Which city are these two... from?" Shaka glanced at them.
Dajiang and Kang Miao didn't dare to speak, Xu Huo said: "The players from the slums came with me."
Shaka saw through it without telling them, and asked someone to entertain them for dinner, and said: "The matter in the slums has been solved."
Seeing the two of them standing still, Xu Huo nodded slightly and said, "You go ahead, no problem."
Dajiang wanted to ask something but was stopped by Kang Miao. Shaka didn't care about the two of them and urged Xu Huo to get in the car.
The two of them talked about super evolution on the way, and Shaka was very curious about how he made such rapid progress and also had two-way super evolution.
"Why don't we discuss it?" Xu Huo suggested.
Shaka was about to move, but Ji Minzhang, who was in the same car, coughed lightly and said, "We're almost there."
"Let's talk about this later." Shaka turned around, "The mayor is getting old and has a bit of a weird temper. Please be patient with him."
Just now, Shaka mentioned that the mayor turned the tide and changed Central City's fate of being destroyed. Xu Huo thought that the other party was the B-level player that others mentioned, but he did not expect that it was an old man sitting in a wheelchair with a very old face.
"Mayor, I brought a friend to see you." Shaka walked over, squatted down and raised his head to talk to him, and said: "He is the same person I mentioned to you that I met in the dungeon. The spirit of a super evolved person, but he is more talented than me."
The old man didn't respond. Xu Huo looked at his slowly rising and falling chest, and his breathing slowed down.
Following the old man's gaze and looking out the floor-to-ceiling window, the wind was getting stronger outside, blowing black raindrops onto the clean glass and stretching them into long lines.
The black rain lines on the glass window increased one after another. Xu Huo looked a little lost. Gradually, even Shajia's voice became intermittent. After a while, he sat down on the sofa next to him and kept looking outward like the old man. The posture of looking.
After an unknown amount of time, Shaka finally stood up. He glanced at Xu Huo, who was in a daze, and nodded slightly to Ji Minzhang outside the door.
(End of chapter)
