Chapter 898 "Scale Man" (XIX)

A trace of astonishment flashed across Yan Bing's eyes, followed by deep pride and contempt.

Rui was coerced so quickly. Ha, he is really just a young kid.

The crowd was in an uproar, but the scaled people who were shouting loudly and the humans who decided to follow them were satisfied, and they really lined up in front of Pan Hong.

"Hey, too few!... Ugh!"

The scaled person who was the first in line to receive the supply box was surrounded by a flame around his neck. The hot flame pulled out a long line, like a collar and a chain, and the end of the chain was held in the palm of Rui with an expressionless face.

Abo and A Liu, who were standing on both sides of Pan Hong, also stepped forward and glared at their former companions.

"Why, do you want to fight?" Abo said coldly.

The man swallowed his dissatisfaction, snorted coldly, took the supply box of one arm's length and half an arm's width from Pan Hong, and couldn't help but glance at A Liu before turning around.

He clearly remembered that this guy also had complaints about the current situation.

Ah Liu met his gaze coldly: "Get out of here after you take the things."

The next person in line was the human "under his name", two girls and one boy, all very young.

The girl in the lead met Pan Hong's face, his lips were tightly pursed, his eyes were red, and he was more disappointed than angry?

The girl was stunned, and her hand that was about to take the supply box could not help but stop in mid-air.

"Hold on, you obviously found a way to evolve yesterday..."

Pan Hong's teeth were chattering when he spoke.

Time went back to last night, Rui listened to all of Ah Liu's ideas and decided to let the group of people who had changed their minds leave.

Of course, Pan Hong had an argument with him, but he was speechless after a few words of Rui's rebuttal.

"The scale-people who want to be superior to others, and the fence-sitters who are greedy for life and afraid of death, if a disaster like today happens again in the future, they will probably swing their knives at their own people."

Rui said calmly, even indifferently, "We are now homeless, and our primary goal is to survive. There is no basic social order, and forced control and good persuasion are useless."

"In a critical moment, some people will not care about your rules and regulations, and will just grab a weaker one as a shield. By then, the victims will have no words to say, and how can we have time to go through a set of court procedures and punish those who do this according to the law? Even if we punish them afterwards, what can we do?

"Expulsion will make others think that they will be abandoned, and people will panic; detention will waste resources in vain; withholding supplies will make the other party desperate and turn against us; simply beating them up? Then he may dare to do it next time.

"We don't have extra energy to share with these people.

"If we can't manage them, it's better to cut them off. "

Pan Hong was silent for a long time.

He wanted to say that some people were just easily swayed, and maybe if he tried harder, he could convince them to stay.

But Rui was different.

Kindness and cruelty existed at the same time in this white-haired young man. He became more and more lonely in his migrations and exiles. Because he knew that he was unable to do anything, he was more willing to protect those who should be protected and love those who should be loved.

Just like now, Rui gave them a choice.

Pan Hong listened to Rui's words, so he distributed supplies to these former companions who were almost sentenced to death for the last time with a painful expression.

How could someone be stupider than me, how could he be bewitched by Yan Bing and unwilling to believe Rui.

Just yesterday, the scales with people were swallowed by magma. The bloody facts were clearly in front of him, why...

His movements were very mechanical, and his eyes were full of frustration and disappointment, so that the people he helped subconsciously After a moment of hesitation, he gritted his teeth, took the supply box and ran away. He didn't dare to face Pan Hong again, just like he didn't dare to face his bottom line, dignity and conscience.

Another pair of hands stopped in mid-air.

It was a young boy named Lu Wu. He attended the party last night simply because his parents and relatives had died in the migration to protect him, so he listened to the words of the familiar Lin Ren and rushed to Yan Bing's speech.

He thought that without the protection of his parents, he should find the next person who could protect him.

But at this moment, looking into Pan Hong's eyes, Lu Wu suddenly felt cold all over.

He remembered that his parents had always told him, "Knowing how to endure hardships is growing up."

And the suffering he understood was to exchange suffering for protection.

Now, seeing the scars on Pan Hong's body and his depressed and regretful expression, Lu Wu felt that he seemed to understand something, but he couldn't say why.

"I, I don't want it anymore! "

He suddenly said.

The long queue behind him suddenly became noisy. Lu Wu looked around helplessly and ran back to Mao Xu and the others. The meaning was self-evident.

"Bah, coward!" Someone in the team spat.

Shu Zhen, Amber and others folded their arms and sneered.

Lu Wu's action seemed to turn on a small switch. Then someone also regretted it and chose to stay with a red face.

Yes, didn't they say that you can evolve if you have a strong desire? What if I can evolve too?

If I become a scale man, I won't be treated disgustingly by those scale men!

This section of distributing supplies does not take up a long time in the entire "Scale Man" film. Some people in the audience did not want to see this scene of torture of human nature, so they grabbed popcorn and stuffed it into their mouths, while others looked at the giant screen from time to time and sneered.

What. Isn't it known that what Yan Bing and the others did was not a good thing?

Now that there is hope for evolution, they immediately expect that they can also hold their heads up with dignity, and even be superior to others.

Soon, the group of people who had received the supplies gathered in a pile in the distance, and drew a clear line between themselves and Rui and others.

Rui even gave Yan Bing's shattered mecha to him. In Yan Bing's eyes, this was a cowardly compromise, and in Apo A Liu's eyes, it was letting it fend for itself.

Different positions, different perspectives, and naturally different views and feelings.

The group left.

Yan Bing really took away a large number of people, not to mention humans, and many powerful warriors among the scale people followed him.

Rui ignored it and continued to count the number of people and sort out the remaining supplies.

There were many old, young, sick and disabled people among the people who stayed. Rui could see that some of them wanted to leave with Yan Bing, but they knew that they could no longer "contribute" anything and had no value to that group of people.

But it didn't matter, Rui didn't ask too much.

After settling the remaining people, he and Pan Hong went out hunting.

The corpses of several wild animals hit the ground and stirred up a layer of dust, which was very visually impactful. The people who were a little concerned about why they gave Yan Bing and his men supplies immediately put this little thought behind their minds.

Yes, this is a doomsday escape, and only with strength can you have everything.

The strongest scale people and the strongest humans are here, hunting for food for them, taking care of their injuries, and respecting their personality. Then, what reason do they have not to choose to follow?

The weather tonight is unusually cool. A bonfire is set up in front of every few tents. The divided meat is skewered on rough iron rods. Some are roasted by scale people, and some are grabbed by humans who can't stand it and rotate evenly, seasoning it from time to time.

Those who can play with fire don't necessarily know how to roast meat. Listening to the people who were chefs before escaping complaining that the young people can't cook, everyone couldn't help laughing as they smelled the meat in the air and chewed the juicy meat.

A few days later, the great migration continued.

The raging fire paved the way for Rui and his heavy motorcycle. The flames burned all the way to the horizon, spreading gorgeous beauty and absolute power. Just looking at it gave people a sense of security.

The mecha carried the container through it, and the technological light intertwined with the simple and primitive flames. The camera panned and the perspective advanced. The giant screen was like a flowing painting, and every frame was a magnificent spectacle.

In another moment, Yan Bing's ivory-white mecha broke into the audience's field of vision. He and his fans looked equally free and comfortable, walking through the dense forest.

Rui and others settled on the plateau. The scale people hunted and defended. Humans were scattered in various containers to do what they could. Children of all races sat together and listened to the teacher's lectures.

Several beams of light cut through the thick trees. Yan Bing's mecha took the lead and quickly cleared a circle of open space, leading everyone to camp on the ground.

At night, Pan Hong leaned against the mecha, sat cross-legged on the ground, gritted his teeth and encouraged himself, Pan Qing chuckled beside him, and Rui looked helpless.

Dazzling flames rose, Yan Bing and the Scaled People roasted meat, the flames scared away the wild beasts that came around smelling the meat, humans gathered in groups of three or two around their thick thighs, some were called to dance to cheer them up, so they walked to the middle with a smile on their faces.

The migration continued, Rui and his group traveled through mountains and rivers, and accidentally found a vein of minerals. The Scaled People and humans with corresponding skills were mining in full swing. Not long after, new mechas were born under the hands of Dr. Carter and Pan Qing. They were bulky and simple in shape, but vaguely revealed an ancient style, like the mechanical beasts in the classics, and the crowd was in a frenzy of learning to drive mechas.

Some Scaled People on the Yan Bing side were tired of playing with resources and proposed to exchange. Under the absolute power suppression, humans had to obey their orders. Some were injured, some died, and some struggled to become Scaled People. Now there were more people and less meat, and the atmosphere was tense.

Rui counted the current population again, this time in detail to the level of education and personal interests. New scale people such as Xuancao learn from Rui how to manipulate the fire power, and people with special talents in driving mechas are also training diligently around the gathering place.

Disaster strikes again, landslides trigger a riot of beasts, Yan Bing leads people to flee in a hurry, and humans who can't catch up in time are thrown away by scale people as bait. The scale people who control the supplies are careless for a moment, and the food boxes fall from the air and are smashed and trampled into mud by the beasts.

Earthquake strikes, and the habitat that has just been built is destroyed. Everyone follows Rui to flee far away. The storm scratches the new mecha, and the driver is rolled out of the cabin. Lu Wu, who is closest, doesn't know where he got the strength from, and desperately grabs his clothes. Similar things happened one by one, from the departure of the large army to the landing again, no one is left behind.

After a group of people fled far away, Yan Bing angrily scolded the scale people who made negligence. The other party was angry and rushed up to fight with Yan Bing. In the end, he was punished by Yan Bing and other scale people, and his scales were removed and his meat was used as food. Humans trembled, and some people tried to escape at night. They were caught and thrown into the blazing fire.

The climate gradually became suitable, and Rui led people to find a new world. The experienced old man touched the soil and was delighted to find that it could be planted here. So after careful consideration, some of the seeds stored in the container were taken out.

The spare scales were exhausted, and the energy of Yan Bing's mecha was gradually exhausted. The scale man who had volunteered to donate a scale every day at first changed his mind and questioned why Yan Bing didn't take his own scale first. Yan Bing was furious and drove the mecha to fight with the scale man who didn't obey his jurisdiction. Once the rules were broken, everyone was completely dominated by the law of the jungle. Yan Bing was outnumbered, his position changed, and the regime fell.

This entire plot is condensed in the silky switching pictures, which are as smooth as a film and television mashup or a one-click costume change on a singing and dancing stage. There is no PPT-style picture stacking, and there is no line throughout the whole process. Only the background music sets the atmosphere. The content is clearly expressed by the background, composition and character movements.

The transition is smooth and natural, either zooming in or out, or using dynamic landmarks to attract attention. The lens zooms, pushes, pulls, and rotates, and the color tone is reasonable, firmly controlling the visual center, and never letting the audience look away from the beginning.

These transitions are not fancy, and the main feature is "silky and seamless". They are all highlights when taken out separately, but at this time they are luxuriously and appropriately gathered together to form the effect of "pseudo long lens". People who can understand it admire the director and cameraman's skills, and those who can't understand it just feel that this fast-passing picture is crisp and refreshing.

Back to the giant screen, it was already evening, Pan Hong once again put in enough effort, frowned, clenched his fists, closed his eyes tightly, and showed a look of fearlessness on his face, but because he was too strong, his face and neck were red, which made him feel funny and constipated.

Rui sighed faintly, and his helpless eyes really looked like he was looking at his stupid dog biting his slippers and flailing around.

"...Huh!"

Pan Hong held his breath for a long time, and then he let it out, wiped his sweat and collapsed backwards.

"Still no progress..." he said.

Rui was also a little puzzled: "A stubborn fool like you, it should be easy to trigger a strong desire."

"Thank you for your frankness." Pan Hong's mouth twitched.

He sat up straight, and he was also confused.

After migrating for so long, many people have evolved into scale people. Although Rui repeatedly emphasized that there is no saying that scale people are more noble than humans in their large community, objectively speaking, scale people are physically stronger after all. If you can become a scale person, you can not only reduce the burden of the large army's march, but also have more combat power, which is a good thing to have the best of both worlds.

Pan Hong is also working hard, but there is no improvement, which makes him wonder if there is something wrong with him.

"What is your wish?" Rui asked, leaning against the rock wall with his arms folded.

"Well..."

Pan Hong thought for a while, "Take good care of A Qing, protect everyone, so that everyone can have something to eat when hungry, water to drink when thirsty, medicine to cure when sick, and -"

"Too many." Rui couldn't help laughing, "Don't you have any special goals you want to achieve?"

"The kind of unique goal that has lasted for a long time in your heart."

Pan Hong was strangely silent.

After a long time, he whispered: "Once, I wanted to be a people's guardian like Yan Bing."

Rui also fell silent.

The breeze with the faint fragrance of flowers and plants blew through the hair of the two people. The weather was getting more and more normal, and everything was getting better.

After a while, Rui, who was leaning against the rock wall, stood up straight.

"Maybe it's because of this reason." He said to Pan Hong, "Your ideals have collapsed, and it's hard to find a strong wish again."

Pan Hong nodded sullenly.

This pitiful look of witnessing the collapse of his idol on the spot made the audience feel a little sympathetic. Yes, if you think about it carefully, this guy is really miserable. The target person he has always admired and pursued turned out to be so disgusting. Only Pan Hong is always carefree, which makes him seem to have suffered little blow.

However, Pan Hong soon let everyone see that he was still the same, without any change.

"Don't think about it for now!"

He stretched and got up from the ground, "The boat will naturally straighten itself when it reaches the bridgehead, and I'm still thinking, if I have a super super big wish, how will God fulfill my wish!"

Rui lowered his head and chuckled.

"Well, then wait until you come up with that super super big wish."

He continued in a gentle voice.

As soon as the voice fell, there was a commotion not far away. The two of them did not need to look at each other and rushed to the source of the sound in unison. On the way, they happened to meet Amber, who came to deliver a message saying that Maoxu wanted to see Rui.

Rui nodded slightly, walked forward quickly, and was shocked when he saw it.

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