Chapter 897 "Scale Man" (XVIII)

After the aftershock passed, Rui and others set up tents and counted the number of people. During this period, some people smiled and said they would go and relieve themselves before coming 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 it, or they didn't. 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 solemn expression and mottled wrinkles on her face made her look less like a researcher than an ancient shaman in charge of tribal spiritual beliefs.

"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 what caused the scales was the acid rain and the emotional peak of a certain moment. 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 have some realization 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 hampered, 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 turned into a human being, 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 of postpartum depression, his mother 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 people."

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 wish'."

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 the people 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 go on 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 gesticulating 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. 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 magma during the day gave them a lot of fright, and the survivors slept more deeply, so no one noticed that a large number of people came to the other side one after another.

At the end of the road was Yan Bing.

He returned to his gentle appearance, with a kind smile on his face, not afraid of the big scene in front of him, and his eyes were full of joy.

"Thank you. Thank you for coming."

Yan Bing started with his usual low profile when he appeared on the big screen, "I took the liberty to call you all 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, and then an incomparable nausea.

Yan Bing took the reversal of black and white to the extreme. He blamed Dr. Carter for everything in the past, and unbuttoned his clothes in public, allowing everyone to see the scales on his body.

In his mouth, he was a puppet who was privately scaled by Dr. Carter for research, and had to stand up to the public at other times to continuously raise funds for Dr. Carter.

Rui and he originally knew each other at the experimental base. He asked for help from the more powerful Rui, but Rui did not save him when he escaped. Not only that, Rui finally stood on the side of Dr. Carter and pushed Yan Bing to the front and became the target of public criticism.

If you think about this statement carefully, it is actually full of mistakes and omissions, but first, Yan Bing's public image has always been good; second, the people who took scales in the experimental base were always medical staff, and he only appeared in the scientific research hall, not in front of the scale people; third, the most important point is that people will only hear what they want to hear.

As long as they are dissatisfied with Rui and Rui's practices and policies, they will naturally accept Yan Bing's gossip here and choose to believe him.

So Yan Bing shared his proposal with everyone.

His position stood on the side of the scale people, which made those scale people who believed that the scale people should enslave humans in turn feel very comfortable. But at the same time, Yan Bing used his words to make these humans who depended on the Scale People feel that they didn't suffer too much.

"My former human compatriots." Yan Bing said earnestly, "You did the right thing by choosing the Scale People. Think about it, what is the composition of our society? It is family, school, and work unit. People always need an organization, a circle to connect everyone together."

"But what did Rui do? He just used the excuse of equal treatment to cover up his inaction. Think about it! If one day, the mecha container is not enough to take enough people away, then who will be eliminated? What is the standard for being eliminated and abandoned? He certainly can't say it!

"So by then, it will definitely become 'kinship is greater than reason'. Whoever has the best relationship with Rui, Abo A Liu, and Shu Zhen Amber will definitely be able to live first-just like Pan Hong, the human!"

"I, Yan Bing, hate hypocritical hypocrites the most in my life." Yan Bing shook his head and sighed, "Compared to the loose migration that depends on fate and the personal preferences of the leader, why can't we establish a new organization with rules and order? "

"Just like now. We take each scale person as a unit and let each scale person be responsible for his/her human relatives and friends. In this way, humans are also blessed and protected, and the scale people also get what they want. Isn't this good?"

Many humans who gave up their dignity and joined the scale people already had a deep sense of shame in their hearts. Don't they know that it is a dirty and shameful behavior to give up the arrangement of the large army, choose to sell their bodies, and kneel down and lick the "master" like pigs and dogs? But "the situation is like this" and "life is forced", what can they do?

These people who were secretly tortured by their self-esteem heard the words of Yan Bing at this time, as if they were pardoned.

Yes, what's shameful? This is such a fair deal, I paid and I got, what's wrong? What's wrong?

They followed Yan Bing's words to brainwash themselves and flattered their "loyal masters" even more.

Live a life of shame? No, this is forced by the disaster, this is forced by Rui and others!

I have made the best choice!

The status of the scale people is high now, the scale people are The strength of a person is strong. Just like what 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. How wonderful it is. Soon life will return to the harmony of the past.

The emotions of the crowd overflowed as if they had substance, like the silk threads nailed to the joints of a puppet, which were held in the palm of Yan Bing's hand.

He sneered in his heart.

Giving power to some people makes others think that they enjoy privileges.

Look, Rui, how easy it is to manipulate people's hearts.

Their disgusting self-esteem, which desires privileges but is unwilling to admit, will first bind themselves tightly without the rulers saying much, and then indulge in endless self-comfort and satisfaction... at the mercy of others.

In the distance, the soundproof cover was closed, and Rui looked at the direction of Yan Bing's speech without any expression.

"Don't worry." He said to A Liu, "I'm dealing with it. "

...

The next day, Ray announced the results of Dr. Carter's analysis.

The terms "belief" and "strong desire" are mysterious, but humans who have relatives and friends of scale people around them think carefully and have to admit that there is some truth in them.

"I see..." Hemerocallis nodded. As a person involved, she knew very well what it felt like.

However, there were too many people who could not find the way. After listening to Rui's words, they immediately thought that they could become scale people, so they sat on the ground and tried their best to hold back their anger and began to work hard. Their faces and necks turned red but they did not react. They were dissatisfied again:

It was obviously fake!

Rui was just making up stories. As for Hemerocallis, Amber must have secretly given her something that could evolve!

Yan Bing's speech and proposal last night fermented wildly in their hearts, fully building a ladder for emotional catharsis. Not long after, the riot really happened.

Following Yan Bing's guidance, this group of people did not use force, but stood up one after another, forcing Rui and other senior officials to talk to them with words and attitudes.

They demanded the release of Yan Bing and asked Rui to "follow the more correct path". If Rui could not do it, then he should hand over the ruling power and resources to "more qualified people" to control.

Smart but insidious behind-the-scenes manipulators, bad guys who thought they were smart and in control of the situation, and a large number of idiots who followed the crowd. The cause of each riot is so similar.

Rui actually let Yan Bing appear in front of everyone.

When making this decision, Rui still stood steadily, with a slender figure and no wavering, which in the eyes of some people seemed to be "forcing himself to be upright and incorruptible".

Yan Bing pretended that nothing happened last night and expressed his thoughts as they had planned.

Soon his Scale People supporters echoed him, and the dialogue was with those Scale People who stood on Rui's side or remained neutral.

"This is a world where the strong prey on the weak!" The followers of Yan Bing spoke impassionedly, "Have you forgotten how humans treated us before?! Discrimination, insults, and oppression! Now that the scale people have turned over, why can't we stand up!"

"Peace? Go to hell with peace! Peace is the difference between the strong and the weak!"

He rushed towards the scale people who had fled with Rui in the early days, "Fellow tribesmen! Think about it carefully. If humans hadn't treated us like that, why would we have to wander around and flee without even a decent home!"

"That's right!"

"Bah, what human beings, I don't want to protect them anymore!"

"It would be fine if they were obedient, but you can actually ask for protection with confidence. What are you thinking! Why should the scale people be exploited and oppressed by you at this point!"

The voices were getting louder and louder. Suddenly, a stone "slapped" the shoulder of the scale person who was shouting the loudest.

"What nonsense are you talking about..."

The old scale person, who was not considered strong even among humans, stood up tremblingly.

"If we really do what you said, then what's the difference between us and those people before the natural disaster!"

"Mao Xu!"

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?!"

He said, and looked at Mao Xu's son again: "What about you?! Are you as cowardly as your father!"

"Cowardly?"

Mao Xu's son clenched his fists, and the sneer on his face was a little hideous because of anger.

"I hate it, but the person who really took the scales and used the scales, and hit us scale people to this point, isn't he standing there!"

He pointed at the Yan soldiers in the distance with one hand, stretched out his hand to grab the collar of the scale man in front of him, "You don't get angry at the culprit, but instead incite your own people. What kind of ability is it?!"

"Don't we hate humans? Don't we know that it is the discrimination and exclusion of society that makes us live like neither human nor ghost? But all this, do the humans living under the sun know about it?"

Mao Xu's son angrily pushed the scale man away.

"Yes. I hate, but I choose to forgive."

He said word by word, "I don't ask you to forgive with me, but don't ask me to hate with you!"

"Don't you have to choose? I choose Boss Rui!

"You can say I'm stupid, say I'm cowardly, but it's true that I just want to see a new world where scale people and humans live in harmony!

"What's the difference between strong and weak? We used to be the weak who were bullied. Now we have become strong and continue to bully other weak people. This is simply a dead cycle! You are still proud of it!"

After he said that, he supported his father, and the father and son glared at the scale people who instigated the riot.

The situation was deadlocked, and Rui walked forward with his arms folded.

"Those who can't stay and want to leave, go over 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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