Chapter 895 "Scale Man" (Sixteen)

Almost no additional explanation is needed to understand why there is an outbreak at this time.

Rather than saying that the large army is migrating, it is better to say that they are in exile. Without a clear destination, humans and scales are running around every day. Even if they set up temporary camps, they are often awakened from their sleep by sudden natural disasters.

At such moments, the scale people who are better able to adapt to the environment and have stronger skills tend to react faster. If the scale people pack their bags and hit the road immediately, it won't take much time and they can get out of danger as soon as possible.

But the same cannot be said for humans. Many times they have been involuntarily held back in their actions, causing the scale humans to suffer losses as well.

Resentment and anger gradually accumulated with every incident, and the scale people were divided into three factions. Some scale people could not suppress their restless thoughts and wanted to enslave mankind; some scale people headed by Rui had the completely opposite position and believed that if they did this , is that any different from how humans treated scale people before, so I firmly oppose it.

The last part of the scale people transcended the differences between races and felt that all the old, weak, sick and disabled who were holding them back should be left where they were. Whether they were humans or scale people, as long as they delayed the progress of the large army, it was wrong and they should be left to fend for themselves. never mind.

As for the attitude of the scale people, the human side also had different reactions.

Some people emphasized to Rui that they had skills and talents that, even if they could not use them now, would certainly come in handy in the future when they started to carry out infrastructure construction;

But more people did not go to Rui, but started to form a group around one or a few scale people. Human beings worked hard to show their own values, all kinds of values, in order to seek the protection of strong scale people, just like slaves and slave owner.

This kind of primitive "transaction" has happened several times in private, and Rui can't stop it, because before the human being can refute, the human being who has sold his body and dignity will take the initiative to say that he is voluntary. Even Rui, as a leader, lacks the qualifications to intervene in what you and I wish to do.

But now, such "transactions" and "encircling people" have been brought to light.

"Red Jiu, Min Hua! Stop! What are you doing, robbing?!" Shu Zhen stopped a scale man who was about to walk towards the human resting place.

"What an open fight." The leader, Chijiu, waved his arm, "They give me what they want, and I protect them. This is fair!"

"you……"

"You're here to scream when you have time, right? Why don't you take responsibility yourself? If you can't stand it, just drag them into your 'scope'!"

Chijiu spat on the ground, a sarcastic look on his face that was almost completely covered by scales, even though the dense scales made him feel sick no matter what expression he made.

"We have to protect these soft-footed shrimps every time, and think that we are freeloaders? There is no benefit at all. I work in the company and get paid! Why, now we have to rely on noble moral character and self-awareness?"

Chijiu sneered, "I just have low quality and no morals. What's wrong?!"

Shu Zhen was speechless for a moment and could only watch as Chijiu, Minhua and the others turned around and stomped around to find Rui.

Chijiu walked all the way into the place where humans settled. Small groups here have become a common practice. People with scale people in social relationships now stay firmly with scale people, which invisibly shows that "they have their own masters". Comfortably avoiding Akagi's scrutinizing gaze.

The red dove passed by them and continued to move further away. His eyes stayed on humans, especially women, and quickly locked onto a family of three with no scale people around them.

"Hello!"

He walked over carelessly, grabbed the young girl's arm without any explanation in her frightened eyes, and pulled her to stand up.

"I remember your name is Hemerocallis? Come with me! My name is vacant now, and you and your family can all protect it! What do you think? Do you want to follow me?"

Hemerocallis was anxious and angry, and tried her best to throw her hands away, but scale people were generally much stronger than humans, so she was restrained and unable to move.

"Sir, you can't do this...! Chief Rui said, this is..."

Hemerocallis's parents stood up, their eyes full of fear and worry, but they did not dare to conflict with Chijiu at this time, so they could only communicate in a friendly manner.

"Hey, what's the difference? Don't you believe in my ability? Let me tell you, even if Pan Hong is the strongest among you humans, in terms of strength, I am much stronger than him!"

Chijiu raised his head in disdain and didn't bother to say more. In his opinion, this was a good deal. As long as they are loyal to him, Hemerocallis and his family can live safely until they reach the new oasis.

"Okay, okay, come with me!" He dragged Hemerocallis outside forcefully.

I don’t know who started this rule. Those who have “encircled people” must wave their own “human resources” in front of everyone and tell other people that “these are mine.” Chijiu is going to do it now. Such a thing.

"Let her go!"

An extremely angry voice sounded, and Chijiu stopped.

The one in front of me is Amber, who was in Rui's team before the disaster, and is a powerful scale man except Apo and Aliu.

In terms of strength, Chijiu is indeed incomparable.

In terms of relationships, the two usually work side by side and have a good relationship.

Seeing Kohaku's face distorted with anger, Chijiu was stunned and laughed.

"Oh! Do you like this? Well, here it is!" He smiled heartily and threw the daylily in the direction of Amber.

Amber subconsciously caught her beloved girl, her expression was full of surprise and a little dazed, as if she didn't expect it to go so smoothly.

"Huh? What's wrong?"

Chijiu scratched his head, smiling sincerely and kindly. He reacted after a few seconds, waved his hands and said with a smile, "Oh, what are you thinking about? We are of the same race! It's just a woman. How dare I rob it from you? If you like this, just take it." Go ahead, I’ll just pick something else and it’ll be over!”

A matter-of-fact attitude, the same tone as distributing livestock, bread and water.

The adult and young audiences in the theater who could understand the plot invariably had their blood pressure rise.

There were still tears hanging from the corners of Hemerocallis's eyes. She went to look at Amber, but Amber was stunned.

For a moment, he felt as if... there was nothing wrong with it?

Yes, when he was still a scoundrel whom everyone shouted at, the Hemerocallis family believed in him, took care of him, spared no effort to help him cover his whereabouts, and gave him precious survival supplies. But now that the scale man has become stronger, he can repay the girl who loves him, and he can also take care of her family.

Isn't this the same as being helped before...?

The trust and expectation in Hemerocallis's eyes disappeared little by little after meeting Amber's eyes.

She looked at Amber in disbelief. Amber was stunned, and there was even some shyness and joy on his face, as if he had been accused of being married.

"Well, then, Hemerocallis, from now on we..."

His words were interrupted by a slap from Hemerocallis.

"Our family never looked down on you when we helped you!"

Hemerocallis cried out in disappointment and sadness, "We respect everything about you! We respect your self-esteem and freedom! What are you doing now!"

Amber froze on the spot, the force of that slap was just an itch for him, but at this moment, it was like a sharp lightning that split his cheeks.

"I……"

He murmured, but Hemerocallis cried and threw herself into the arms of her parents.

Rui arrived at this time, and Hemerocallis' family of three returned to the place where they had just rested. Amber stared at them blankly and wanted to walk over, but was persuaded to back down by the complicated expressions of the two elders.

Something is indeed changing quietly.

Position, status, mentality...including those condescending pity and arrogance that are invisibly rooted in the heart.

The camera turned to night, and Pan Hong put a small amount of food and water in front of Yan Bing with a cold face.

This guy is not dead yet, because the researchers at the base have fallen one after another when the climate suddenly changed. Now if you want to know the research information over the past few years, you can only pry it out from Yan Bing's mouth.

Yan Bing chuckled lightly.

Pan Hong, who had already turned around, paused and then turned around.

He glared at him.

"It's really ugly." Yan Bing smiled leisurely, "Look at your appearance now. Neither you nor Rui know how to manipulate people's hearts and make good use of their power."

Pan Hong clenched his fists.

"You don't need to say these words. Leaders and rulers exist to protect everyone. Rui is much better than you at this point."

Yan Bing let out a string of weird laughter.

"What's wrong? You are no better to humans now. At best, you have turned cattle and sheep into domestic pets. You are still emphasizing that Rui, as a leader, is different from me. You are really being sentimental..."

He smiled so much that he even lowered his head, then raised his head suddenly, "The essence of this world is the tyranny of power!"

Yan Bing's eyes sparkled with crazy light and he said sarcastically:

"I heard Rui's speech. He only knows this, and he keeps saying 'to create an environment where humans and scale people can coexist peacefully'... Hahaha, how is that possible!"

He put on a hypocritical smile: "Don't you know, scale people can't give birth, only human women can. So you will soon have internal strife, and the final outcome will be to kill all the human men and keep the women. , just raise them and have children..."

Pan Hong suddenly trembled: "Impossible!"

"What's impossible?" Yan Bing said contemptuously, "What can human beings provide now? They have no energy, and they don't even have basic self-preservation capabilities. Their value is only physical and spiritual. Either dedicate their bodies or provide emotional needs. ?”

"Nonsense."

Even Pan Hong, who was always talkative, couldn't stand listening and turned around again.

"What? You've been poked, and you don't want to hear it?"

Yan Bing laughed and said, "Aren't you Rui's pet now? You follow him all day long. I think he is very happy to have a silly dog."

Pan Hong's fists and entire arms were bursting with veins: "What did you say——"

A burst of flames made his anger disappear immediately. Rui Han walked out of the darkness with a smile on his face, and the cold sword tip was nailed near Yan Bing's throat.

"Ignore him."

Ray said coldly, "Come here, Dr. Carter has something to say."

Pan Hong suddenly beamed with joy, he was always like this, his emotions came and went quickly, and he walked away with Rui without saying a word.

Yan Bing, who was tied up and could only move his only arm, squinted his eyes and stared at their backs with sinister eyes, as if he had been quenched by poison.

"Well, what he just said..." Pan Hong spoke after walking a distance.

"He is lying." Rui's voice was calm, but he could not hide his worry. "In fact, all scale people are sterile. No matter whether they are scale people or scale people, they cannot reproduce."

Pan Hong took a breath in surprise, opened and closed his lips several times, but still could not say the word "extinction".

"Dr. Carter found that the evolutionary direction of scale people is mainly to strengthen the body and develop fire abilities, followed by improving intelligence and mental strength, like your sister, like Shu Zhen."

Ruidao, "But no matter what kind, scale people cannot give birth to offspring. This may be the price of the evolution of our individual abilities."

Pan Hong was silent.

"There must be something wrong somewhere." He said after a while, "There must be something there...but no matter what, your symbiosis concept is correct. I think it is correct."

Rui raised his hand, and the flame jumped flexibly between his fingers like a small fish.

"It's too late." He whispered, "The temperature is getting higher and higher. If people can't become scale people as soon as possible now, they won't be able to survive just by rushing."

"But after evolution, you can no longer reproduce - ah, although you should survive the current crisis. But, but this... and there are also old people and children who are not in good health among the scale people... they... uh ah …”

Pan Hong rubbed his head in pain.

Rui lowered his eyelids: "Dr. Carter is still studying the roots of evolution. Today he has sorted out and recovered some of the data. There may be progress."

He murmured to himself as if he had made up his mind, "I have to find time to treat everyone thoroughly..."

"Ah, Dr. Carter!"

Pan Hong woke up from his dream, "Didn't you just say that she had something to say——"

"It's just an excuse." Rui said.

"...Oh." Pan Hong bowed his head obediently.

Rui said nothing, and the moonlight cast their shadows on the rock wall.

The two left, and after a while, a figure turned around from the other side of the giant rock.

It's one of Rui's right-hand men, A Liu.

He looked not very good, leaning against the boulder in a daze.

"Do you really want to give advice to the boss?" Another voice sounded, and Apo appeared from the shadows and sat down hastily on the ground where the temperature was not too low.

A Liu's lips pursed into a thin line: "It's time. If this continues, we humans will not be able to survive..."

Po: "But the boss said that humans and scale people are both human beings."

A Liu: "But now humans are holding us back. I would rather choose my own race."

Po: "...That bastard is also of our race."

A Liu's expression seemed to be stung: "Yan Bing is out of the question!"

Apo sighed: "I still don't think everything can be decided by race... You see, Yan Bing has another factor, and Panhong has to have another factor too. His sister Panqing is a rare talent among people, you can't let it happen Boss, please separate the brothers and sisters."

A Liu hammered the rock wall hatefully.

"It's really... troublesome!" He gritted his teeth, "Do you know how much trouble I have spent these days suppressing Chijiu and the others from rioting? Don't you know how much everyone who escaped from the base hates humans? But that Pan Hong , wandering around all day long, so what if he apologizes? There are many people who hate him! I will not choose to forgive like Cheng Ying! "

Cheng Ying is Lu Qiang's ex-girlfriend, who suddenly became a stranger in the commercial street.

Apo was silent for a few seconds: "I know what you mean. Of course we can not forgive, but... you alone have the final say whether to forgive or not to forgive. The boss also often said that the choice should be left to the person involved, rather than forced or induced by others. He/she gets to choose…”

He stood up and patted A Liu on the shoulder.

"Think again. If you feel really uncomfortable, why don't you go back and beat that bastard Yan Bing?"

The footsteps faded away, and A Liu stood beside the rock wall. For a moment, he punched and kicked him while shouting, and then slid down against the surface of the boulder in frustration.

Why.

Why is there so much involved, discrimination, suffering, abuse, hatred, it's so messed up that I can't even figure it out, and there's no way to tell who is right and who is wrong...except for the unpardonable Yan Bing.

But even so, when he saw the scales on Yan Bing's body, he still felt a sense of disgusting kindness; when he saw Pan Hong and other humans' smooth, bare skin, he still subconsciously felt hatred from the bottom of his heart.

Although he knew that most human beings were unaware and were still victims deceived by Yan Bing - but they still enjoyed the "energy benefits" made of human flesh and blood, right? Before the natural disaster, they were happily living a high-tech, normal, and sunny life!

Regardless of whether they admit it or not, "scaled" and "scaleless" are a psychological gap, which is the first criterion for dividing "one's own people".

With such a history soaked in blood and tears before us, can we... really find a new peaceful future?

Ah Liu looked at the moon and didn't move for a long time.

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