When Spberg came to his senses, he was already standing in an empty corridor.
The X-16 used some method, and he avoided everyone without knowing it, took him out of prison, and took away the body of the assailant... It didn't attract anyone's attention along the way.
After they left the prison, they entered an underground passage, walked a long, long way, and then got on the elevator, and got here.
Not far behind him was the elevator door, and there was no gap in the cement-gray floor under his feet. There were dark gray walls on the left and right, with warm wall lights on the walls.
The industrial style design gives people a solemn, simple but elegant style, and it is like a palace corridor that combines modernist style.
He has never been to this place.
The X-16 that had been following him had disappeared. I don’t know if it was re-invisible or completely left here.
At a loss Sberg swallowed and muttered nervously.
What the hell is this...
He thought no one would answer, but he didn't expect a pleasant voice to come from behind him.
Inner city.
The sudden sound scared Sberger, and turned around and found a strange man standing behind him, smiling at him.
Inside, inner city?!
That's right, the man nodded and continued with a smile, and it was the center of the inner city, the huge stone building surrounded by countless tall buildings.
……Who are you?
Sberg looked at the man in front of him.
He wanted to know which noble man came to save him.
If it weren't for the invisible master who entered his room in advance, he would undoubtedly have turned into a corpse.
The man didn't hide it and replied in a relaxed and pleasant tone.
Ibers.
Ibers...
What a familiar name.
Sberg frowned and thought for a long time, his eyes suddenly widened so that they almost protruded, and the expression of his whole face also changed.
Jushi Military Industry?!Who are you
That’s right, the chairman and president of Jushi Military Industry.Appreciating the expression on his face, Ibers said with a smile.
Ibers!
The boss of Jushi Military Industry!
The undisputed second person in the Stone City!
Sberg's heart was shocked and he swallowed unconsciously.
He could never imagine how this big man would be interested in him.
By the way, how many are these?
Yes... do you want to see me?
However, Ibers' answer was beyond his expectations.
My curiosity about you ended when I saw you first, and what I wanted to see was another real big man.
As he said that, he walked forward and passed by Sperger.
Come with me.
Looking back at Ibers's back, Sberg's heart was as messy as a tangled bunch of wool.
This feeling was like sitting on a train heading towards the fog. The train was about to reach the end, but the scenery outside was getting worse and worse.
What made him even more painful was that he had many things to ask, but he didn't know where to ask, or even why he was standing here.
In order to solve the mystery in his heart, he swallowed and followed.
The two of them moved forward all the way and soon arrived at a wide door.
The door opened by itself.
Ibers took him in.
Stepping carefully, Sberger looked around.
The room was clean, there was no dust on the mirror-like floor, and there was no decoration or furniture around it, as deserted as a prison confinement room.
It's just that it's very spacious and quite spacious, far from comparable to that of a small closed room.
The only light in the room is a milky white light sprinkled from the center of the ceiling, and there is no other light source.
It was pitch black on all sides, like an invisible abyss, which also made him unable to see where the boundary of the room was.
...Where is this?
Ibers did not answer, shook his right hand slightly, took out a remote control like magic, held it in his hand and pressed it gently.
The light in the center of the room instantly went out, and Sperg felt only falling into darkness.
However, the darkness did not last long.
The surrounding walls were gradually lit up by faint light, and gradually presented a clearer picture, with more and more colors replacing the original black and white room.
It was not until this time that Spberg realized that this turned out to be a panoramic screening room!
There seems to be similar things in the outer city, you can watch some movies from the pre-war era, but the tickets are usually surprisingly expensive and most people cannot afford them.
This screening room seems to be more exaggerated than the screening room in the outer city, after all, he heard that the screen in the outer city only had a curved screen.
And here.
From the walls to the floor, to the top of the two people's heads, and even the surrounding air is filled with brighter and brighter light particles, as if it brings them to another time and space.
Buildings and streets began to emerge.
Then the field of vision spread outward, presenting the outline of the huge wall.
A surging crowd gradually appeared on the street, their outlines became clearer and clearer, and the deafening shouts gradually approached.
Sberg suddenly came to his senses and was screened here on the main road leading from the giant wall gate to the inner city!
People with fictional lights and shadows came towards him.
They shoulder to shoulder with their arms hooked together to form a torrent that could not be seen.
They were filled with righteous indignation and full of anger, shouting something in unison, and walked towards the group of soldiers wearing exoskeletons and powered armor in full swing.
They seemed to be unable to see themselves.
Their eyes passed over him and passed through his chest like a sharp dagger pointing directly to the inner city behind him.
Sberg swallowed, and a terrifying ripples suddenly appeared in his blank pupils.
Of course, this is not because of those simple anger. He stood with them from beginning to end. Of course, he could feel that the anger was not targeting him at all.
Only real cowards are afraid of the anger of ordinary people.
What really frightened Sberg was that he saw himself lying on the white cloth in the middle of the vast crowd, although his face was blurred by blood, it was undoubtedly his body!
I……
Already dead?
Sberg touched his face blankly, trying to find a little real thing from this illusory world.
The tide-like sound gradually became clear.
People's faces are getting closer and closer.
He saw familiar faces, and he remembered their names. Although most people couldn't name them, they would agree as long as he called his coworkers.
At this moment, they roared angrily.
‘Let’s shoot!’
‘Cowards!’
‘Look straight into our eyes!’
As his eyes moved away from the illusory and real scene, Sberg looked at Ibers in horror.
...You faked my death?
No wonder they didn't let themselves say goodbye to their coworkers!
These people faked their own death!
But why?
Ibers suddenly laughed out loud.
Hahaha, why do I do that?And who do you mean specifically?Is it my first time meeting?Or the adult I've never seen before?Or...a black card friend whom I never knew?
Sberger's face read at a loss.
Ibers whispered softly after he closed his laughter.
The picture you see didn't really happen, it was just a 'possibility', one of the countless assumptions deduced by computers... Of course, it was almost going to happen, maybe only 1 second away.
I'll call it, "A Ending".
Sberg looked at Ibers blankly.
From the beginning, he couldn't understand what this guy was talking about.
What's the meaning?
Not surprised by his confusion, Ibers continued lightly.
Aren't you telling a story?Then let’s use your talent.If I had not intervened, X-16 did not enter your room early, you died in prison in a fight with a certain killer, and died in an extremely miserable state. After all, the killer wanted you to die and not die so quickly, and it was difficult for those idiots to find such a twisted guy at the same time.
Then, the angry workers saw your twisted body. They would occupy the prison and lift you up high. The workers in the entire settlement became workers... In fact, you have occupied a large piece of land, such as the prison. The warden there would not resist you at all, and would even stand with you in silence.
Sberg's Adam's apple moved.
Then what?
He wants to know what happened next.
Then, like it has happened countless times before.Ibers raised his chin and pressed the button to continue playing indifferently.
The images in the room continued to move.
After the crowd crossed the cordon, the commander of the militia ordered the shooting, the bravest people walked in front and died first, the people behind began to run away, the hesitant people were caught between the dead and the cowards, and the innocent people began to fall.
The crowd was killed and injured, and the streets were stained with blood. The child was lying on his parents' bodies and cried, but was taken away by young workers.
Those cowards were indeed scared. They would rather kill one by mistake than let one go.
After all, the seeds of hatred are invisible, and the gunshots cannot stop.
The nobles quickly announced the illegality of the co-workers' association. The gates of the outer and inner cities fell heavily, and a large number of mercenaries were mobilized or bought, forming a search team to enter the industrial area to capture the members of the co-workers' association.
However, the words "workers" will not be written on their faces, which is much harder to identify than those who are keen on cannibalism, which has led to many tragic tragedies.
Some people who confiscated money also began to spontaneously join the search team, using lynching revenge on their former enemies, or simply rob the finances legally, or simply vent their desire to be suppressed by order.
Everything that is not allowed on weekdays is tacitly accepted by the nobles at this moment, because they are more afraid of invisible ghosts than a few evil dogs.
The first ones died became the luckiest ones. They died bravely and gloriously, and the escaped cowards would regret it. Why didn’t they choose a happy way to die at that time?
By then, living is the real hell...
When everything is over, the gates of the outer city will open again, and new survivors will flock in to replace the locations of the residents of the outer city. The blood-stained streets have long been washed away, and the gates of the inner city will be opened again depending on the situation. No wastelanders will care about the past of a certain settlement, just as they rarely consider the future.
After twenty or thirty years of silence, everything will return to its origin, as if nothing has happened.
After all, most people in the wasteland have a lifespan of only twenty or thirty years. Only nobles can live longer, but they usually don’t last too long.
After watching the follow-up to the A finale, Sberger's lips trembled.
He couldn't accept it, and that was their end.
What he couldn't accept was that such things had been repeated countless times.
No one ever told him that this would be the case!
He must stop them!
There must be... there must be a better way!
...You are lucky because of my intervention, your coworkers just suspect that you are dead.Although the amount of bleeding was absolutely enough to kill, they did not see your body.
The warden tries to convince them to calm down. The murderer who heard you tell the story before was yelling to fight to the death with the nobles, but your coworkers don't trust both of them very much, after all, they have their own position.Now, your friends are still arguing whether to press the button to destroy everything and completely smash the mess.
Ibers suddenly spoke as he admired the ever-changing expression on his face.
I said Is there a possibility that the killer was actually sent by the administrator of the alliance.
Absolutely impossible!Sberg replied without hesitation, his eyes extremely firm, like a burning torch.
Without denying his judgment, Ibers continued slowly.
Well, in our deduction, this probability is not without. He only needs to spend a small price to solve the "trouble" of Big Rock City, right?Actually, I'm also very surprised why this possibility exists.
According to my observation, the man has never been smart, but he is not good at it. His strengths are actually open-minded plots and duels.Logically speaking, this character disdains to use assassination. There should be something we don’t understand that interferes with our ‘probability’.
Sberg stared at him and said seriously.
Machines are not omnipotent, maybe you think the machine with the probability that it will break.
The assembly line will occasionally get stuck.
Even if no one deliberately destroys it, the machine will break it from time to time.
Ibers suddenly smiled.
You are right, this possibility exists.And there is actually another possibility. It is not Chu Guang who took action, but someone else.After all, Giant Rock City is not the only survivor settlement on the wasteland. I am not bragging, and there are still many people who covet the treasures in our hands.
Legion, enterprise, college...even including the Great Rift itself.
All the old members of the Post-War Reconstruction Committee obeyed an ancient vow not because they had a very high moral standard, but because there was something that endorsed the vow and made it a true contract.
Of course, so many years have passed, it is hard to say how powerful the thing is. Perhaps the old dominators were just too lazy to deal with the cockroaches who made a living in the wasteland. From the bottom of their hearts, they didn't think that the order picked up from the garbage dump of history could do a great cause... but this is another matter.
……
We have deduced thousands of possibilities, not only the ending A you see, but also this... Let's call it B.Ibers pressed the remote control, and the screen turned, and the two stood at the door of the beer hall.
Time seemed to be back at the beginning of the month, when Sperger was just caught.
Sperger looked at Alec and Kent and walked towards the everyone at the tavern door with his guards. The fierce conflict broke out almost as soon as the two sides contacted each other.
They are like burning powder barrels, and everyone is
Two hundred people rushed towards the guards of just a dozen people with a fierce momentum.
Kent was killed on the spot, Alec ran away without saying a word, Phyllis fired... and Spberg himself seemed to be a bad guy again, his brain was blown away by a bullet.
However, the casualties were kept within a limited range this time.
The gunshots of the beer hall only spread a few streets. The workers knew that a few brave young men died that day and felt sad for their deaths. Even Weijia pretended to shed a few tears, but that was all.
People die every day in this city, and their deaths are no different from others. Later, Mr. House said on the radio that they were thugs and killed a loyal young man named Kent, and some people gradually began to think so.
The Stone City successfully survived the superficial crisis. The raiders would eat people for the winter. It also ate some people, but used the knife and fork of civilized people.
The death notice was delayed for a while, but the bomb was not removed, but was buried deeper and more.
I don’t know when the next crisis will come, but it will definitely be more severe than this time, and it will definitely come.
The liquidation will finally come.
This time...is there any difference?Sberg swallowed.
He can't say whether this is a good ending.
He died himself.
The first coworkers who got together died.
But because of their death, the vast majority of people in this city survived...at least those innocent people don't have to die.
This settlement is not just the rat people who do cheap work, but there are also many well-dressed gentlemen and tender girls on the bustling streets.
Most of them have neither black cards nor oppressed anyone, and have even suffered from the grievances of life. They just swallowed their anger and lived ordinary life in a less distorted settlement on the wasteland.
Sberg doesn't love innocent people, after all, they have never loved themselves.
He is willing to die for the manager because he feels that it is actually good, but those glamorous guys are not worthy.
But if he was asked to kill them, he wouldn't be able to do it.Because humans are not rational animals, the few are those who are always awake.
You may not believe that in fact, this branch B ending is only a small difference from the "almost real A ending" you just saw.
...What are the differences?
Your clever inspiration just saved yourself.
Looking at the confused Sberg, Ibers smiled slightly and continued in a bard-like tone.
Drunk Boer untied his belt, but instead of humiliating Stephen and his family, he broke up his black card and turned to unite the people who had been bullied by Stephen.In the ‘possibility’ corresponding to the ending of B, you wrote a completely different story. You did not mention the coworkers’ association, but instead described in detail how Stephen’s wife and daughter fell into the abyss of ‘happiness’, how painful and desperate Stephen was… Awakening brought Boer not only the power of revenge, but also the worship of the girls.
Your coworkers actually like to watch such stories more.
Sberg blushed, he did think so.
After all, it was almost snowing at that time, but Mr. Weijia fooled them with IOUs. On the way home, he was humiliated by Kent again.
He is a coward, but a coward is not a wooden man. He needs to vent his emotions even if he is angry.
But he didn't expect that the A ending where tens of thousands of people died and the B ending where only dozens of people died were separated by only a few old newspapers.
That's it?!
That's right, that's it.And... you actually wrote a little bit, right?But in the end I stopped the pen.Our calculations are not assumptions out of thin air, but require samples to be deduced.
Looking at Sberger who was blushing and stunned, Ibers smiled and began to chant softly like a poem.
… ‘Bol is an awakened person. He has the strength to do so of course, no one can stop him’.
When Spberger heard others read what he wrote, his ears were red. This was of course different from his own feeling.
He coughed violently, interrupting Ibers' re-reading.
Enough!I see!Don't read it again!
Ibers smiled without any malicious intentions and continued jokingly.
Unfortunately, my machine can't calculate how you will write it in detail, but I just described it in an abstract way... I'm actually quite curious about the story that has not been written. Why don't you write it out when you have time?
Sberg said with a red face.
Enough, no matter what, it is just a bad novel...I don't think it has such a great influence.
Seeing the disbelief in his eyes, Ibers whispered.
That's right, it's just a bad novel, it's amazing, right?Although it was just the story of "Awakening Boer", for the workers who saw things like "books" for the first time, his words and deeds almost became the guiding ideology of their actions.
After all, most of them had their heads like blank paper. They immediately believed what House said, and they immediately refused to believe it after they found out that House was lying.Simple good and evil right and wrong are what most people think about every day. It is like a single-core CPU...Ah, you may not realize that you have done so many amazing or evil things. Although this is not your "credit" alone, future generations should give you a relatively objective evaluation.
Enough, I don’t care about that kind of thing. By the way, why did you take me to see these things... Whether it is the ending of A or the ending of B, it actually didn’t happen, right?Sberg stared at the lunatic guy in front of him and said nervously, "Aren't you going to take me to meet someone?"Let him come quickly. After seeing him, I want to go back to meet my friends, they must be very anxious.
He suddenly became a little scared of the guy in front of him.
Is this guy really a human?
Or is it that he is the same as an X-16, but he is just something that looks similar to a human being. Otherwise, he will be at this critical moment, so how can he still laugh?
Sberg didn't know what the Uncanny Valley Effect was, but he could feel that sense of incongruity of real existence, and it was getting stronger and stronger.
Ibers smiled at the nervous Spberg and said happily.
Well, of course, that big man is coming.But he is always late. This habit has been with him for a long time. Don't expect him to suddenly be punctual.
He paused, and he continued.
As for why he brought you here, that's what he meant. You may not be able to feel that mood... In short, after watching so many repetitive movies, he was almost annoyed.
Moreover, this time is different from before.
According to the calculation results, after entering the A finale, the gate of the outer city will not open again after it is closed.
Just as a person's self-healing ability has a limit to endure, there is also a threshold for the self-healing ability of the Big Rock City.
Once that threshold is exceeded, the settlement enters a spiral downward cycle.This situation is usually not spontaneous, but interferes with external forces that break the rules.
Logically speaking, that adult should not intervene. The Rock City also has its historical mission, and it is actually a glorious thing to complete its historical mission.
All things are from life to death, and from death to life, which is the norm of nature.The fate of rising and falling is unavoidable. With an era of prosperity, there must be an era of wasteland.
It's just a matter of time.
However, the adult was still too kind after all, so he pressed the pause button a second before the powder barrel was about to explode.
It's cheaper for these people.
Ibers held a smile on his lips.
He suddenly thought of something and continued.
...Ah, anyway, the game is over, you lose.I still have an important meeting and can't be with you here.
After glanced at the watch, Ibers threw the remote control to Sberg, and smiled slightly as he looked at the latter who was hurriedly caught.
Take it and play. Before he comes here, you can see enough. Maybe there is a good ending in your dream?
Although in those endings, you and your friends are either the protagonist or the ones.
This screening room stores countless future possibilities calculated by computers.
And all the things that have happened here in the past years...
These are valuable materials.
Looking at the stunned Speller, Ibers asked in a teasing tone.
...By the way, are guys who have worked as a coolie like me who have worked for a century and a half, and who have never received a penny of salary also considered workers?
Sberg was stunned.
This goes beyond his knowledge.
There is no such special exception among all the people he knows, and no one can live for a century and a half, so that he didn't know how to answer for a while.
etc……
A century and a half?!
Sperger stared at the guy in front of him in surprise, as if he had realized something.
But Ibers didn't give him time to think, as if he had decided that he could not know the answer, but just laughed and disappeared from the room...
……
Dawn City.
In the manager's office of the Alliance Building, Cheng Yan reported to Chu Guang the commotion that was happening in the Rock City with a serious expression.
This commotion is obviously a follow-up to the arrest half a month ago.
Just as Chu Guang predicted.
Once the fuse is inserted into the powder barrel, there will definitely be a itchy guy igniting it, whether intentionally or unintentionally.
That day, Sberg returned to the cell as usual, and then there was a sound of fighting inside. The coworkers and the prison guards rushed over immediately, but only saw a pool of blood, a lot of blood in the room... Our embassy staff entrusted your residents to get the photos.
Chu Guang stared at the photos on the VM screen, his eyebrows tightly locked, and suddenly raised his head and asked.
No corpse?
Not to mention there is no body... Jushicheng did not admit that he was dead at all. Instead, he said he had escaped from prison, but changed his words and said that he had been transferred. They had greater trouble and had no time to deal with this small matter. Even though this matter continued to ferment, Cheng Yan sighed and continued, and after hearing about Spberg's experience, more than 90% of the workers in the entire Jushicheng have joined the coworkers' association, and they want to go to the inner city to ask for an explanation.
Chu Guang asked with a frown.
What are their demands?
Cheng Yan continued.
If Spberg died, they would see his body, and if he was still alive, the inner city would have to hand him over.
Very simple request.
Not too much either.
However, the nobles in the inner city are now busy with another thing, and it is natural that they cannot hear these simple wishes.
So was he dead?
I tend to think that he is dead... After all, I don't believe that he can still survive if he is bleeding.Cheng Yan carefully expressed his judgment.
In his opinion, the nobles in the inner city were indeed not smart. Even the diplomats who were unfamiliar in business knew that they should do things cleanly and neatly.
If you just simply let someone disappear silently, you may not have such a big reaction, but they just have to do something inconsistent.
He didn't want him to leave his body, and he also wanted to make such bloody things with great fanfare. He regretted that he didn't do anything at the beginning. In the end, this arrogance hurt everyone.
Of course, what the final result will be, as an outsider said, he may not necessarily see the whole picture of the matter.
The alliance cannot decide how things will develop.
Only those Sberg's friends and those coworkers' associations have the power to decide what they are going to do next.
Chu Guang closed his eyes and thought for a while.
He actually wanted the newspaper-reader to survive, otherwise he would not have invited him to visit the league.
The story of the Awakening Boer was born in the Stone City, but it does not belong only to this small settlement. There are many survivors as small as him but important as him.
But one thing goes one by one, and this is the business of Giant Rock City itself.
Suddenly, Chu Guang opened his eyes.
I've been confused about something.
Cheng Yan: What's the matter?
Chu Guang thought for a moment, the lord of the Giant Rock City. At first I thought he just simply didn't care about us, but I didn't expect that he didn't just care about us.
Cheng Yan frowned and tried to understand the manager's words.
Suddenly, he thought of something and opened his eyes wide.
Do you think there is a possibility... this matter is actually related to the city lord?
There are many nobles in Giant Rock City, but there is only one city lord.When mentioning him, even the most arrogant nobles would show some respect.
In theory, this settlement has an omnipotent guy.
I don't know, Chu Guang shook his head, I was no less confused than you... To be honest, so far, our plan has not only gone smoothly, but also went too far. I couldn't help but want to step on the brakes several times.
Cheng Yan whispered.
Then...what do you think we should do now?
Chu Guang thought for a while and spoke.
I feel that something big will happen. Let the embassy withdraw first, and just bring the dormant cabin and necessary documents. I will arrange for the staff of the refugee home and some residents of the shelter to pick them up at the door of the Giant Wall.
Jushi City is a good novice village. Those diplomats are precious talents trained and cannot be lost for no reason.
Once a person dies, the situation will escalate further and it will be even worse.
Cheng Yan nodded and said seriously.
I'll do it now!
Looking at Cheng Yan's departure back, Chu Guang was about to call Luka and tell him that the things he had prepared for the past could be arranged.
However, at this moment, the door that had just been closed by Minister Cheng suddenly sounded again. This time it was Charlie, the elder of the Shangshang Guild.
Seeing his serious expression, Chu Guang didn't say nonsense and asked straight to the point.
What's the matter?
President Melvin of the Rock City wants to meet you.Old Charlie reported truthfully.
Melvin?
Chu Guang was not surprised that this guy wanted to see him.
He guessed that the Bank of Jishi City might not be able to hold on anymore, and after thinking about it, the only way was to beg for himself.
Chu Guang suddenly became curious about how Mr. Melvin planned to explain the runs in the Rock City during this period and the intercepting of export goods by the City Hall.
When will he want to make an appointment?
Old Charlie said respectfully.
He is already downstairs!
……
At the gate of Giant Rock City, in previous winters, it was deserted and filled with snow, but this year's winter was abnormal and it was as lively as a festival.
From the entrance of the Far Wind Hotel to the checkpoint of the Jubi Main Entrance, the crowded stalls were almost blocked.
The merchants holding two-headed cows came and went, and mercenaries in strange costumes and travelers were mixed.
These wasteland tourists were like hyenas wandering on the ruins. They all smelled the smell of rotten corpse in the air, and couldn't wait to come over to share...
...Ceres, sausages and jerky are so popular. I can understand why soap is so popular?Passing by a stall, Ye Shi saw a few big words written on the sign and couldn't help but mutter in a low voice.
Barter only collects grains, sausages, air-dried meat, and soap.
Give money only silver coins, Cr and dinar.
Some stalls are even more amazing, so they simply stick the chips to the wooden board and draw a red cross to indicate that they don’t want this garbage thing.
This is not in Giant Rock City, and most merchants are not from here at all. Naturally, no one will care about them if they do this.
The strong wind walking beside him glanced at the stall next to him and said casually.
The shelf life is very long, the size is small, it is easy to carry, the demand is stable, it can solve hygiene problems, and it can wash anything.In a period of scarcity of consumer goods, cheap and easy-to-use soap will be more popular and more convenient to price than specialized sub-products such as shampoo and shower gel.After all... in the most extreme cases, fragrance, brand value added, and user experience cannot sell for premium.
Ye Shi touched his head.
Something makes sense.
If a person does not take a bath for a long time, the smell will smell worse than that of a livestock. This is not only a matter of hygiene and sanitation, but exposing the odor on the wasteland is a very dangerous thing.
Experienced hunters will lock their prey through scents, and some experienced merchants will avoid danger because they smell the corpse of the raider.
Wow, Uncle Kuangfeng knows a lot!
He nodded happily, with a learned expression. Ye Shi, who was standing beside him, couldn't help but burst out laughing.
Ha ha ha ha!Uncle Qianfeng!
He glared at the brother and sister in embarrassment, and Qianfeng shut his mouth and stopped talking.Seeing this, Lao Bai, who was walking aside, smiled and patted his shoulder.
Brothers, let these two young people be proud for a while, and in more than ten years, everyone will be old people.
Realizing that he had lost his words for a moment, he turned his eyes for a long time and said in a weird way.
It's okay!We don’t talk about games outside of the game, and the game characters will not change. You will definitely be handsome little brothers in more than ten years!
Lao Bai was amused by her words and said with a smile.
Hahaha, it would be great if our Yeshi had your emotional intelligence!No, I almost forgot that you are the whole family.
Ye Shi, who was still happy the previous second, was immediately dissatisfied when he heard this.
Damn, why don’t I have no emotional intelligence!
The strong wind coughed.
Just think you have it.
Ye Shi: Damn!What does it mean to think I have it!
Lao Bai: Hahaha!
The group walked noisy towards the gate of the Giant Rock City, joking with each other, unlike when they came from the wasteland.
But this time is different from usual.
Because of the extra scoop that came to join in the fun for a long time, the three buddies were more reserved to joke with each other, and they were embarrassed to be called father and son, and the topics they talked about were more elegant and easy-going.
These days, the dog managers of the cattle and horse herd have basically spent their time on the Stone City.
Fang Chang got a large amount of chips from somewhere, and with the cooperation of Fred's traitor, he bought several factories that supply Jushi Military Industry.
Niuma Group not only digs out equipment, but also digs out with people and equipment.
Especially for some skilled engineers and old workers, they not only give one person a settlement fee, but also help arrange the whole family.
Those generous conditions not only touched the corners of the hole, but even the boss who helped them wave their hoes was envious.
So far, what Niuma Group has paid is only some increasingly valuable chips and a small amount of silver coins.
Yes.
Although chips are becoming less and less valuable, they are official currency after all, and you still have to use chips to buy things in the Stone City.
Some means of production transactions are still using chips to make money, and there is almost no price increase.
Even a discount can be negotiated.
This is one of the typical symptoms of the economic overheating stage. Although commodity prices continue to rise, the means of production that produces commodities enter the stagflation cycle ahead of schedule.
The prodigal merchants in the Rock City are often very generous and are willing to take the initiative to discount or even fracture the high-quality assets they are in their hands. However, in exchange, they often imply that the buyer asks to pay an additional tip with Cr or silver coins.
For those stingy people who are only willing to give chips, no one cares about the business circle of Jushi City.
After all, no one is stupid.
Smart people can still recognize what real money looks like.
Compared to those wasteland customers who pretend to be stupid and want to take advantage of the situation, the buyers of the alliance seem too generous when dealing with these problems.
Therefore, the profitable businessmen in the Rock City like the most is the guests from the alliance.
Finally, he squeezed to the gate of Giant Rock City. Lao Bai took out his chips and was about to pay the tax on entering the city, but the militia standing at the door pushed back.
Old Bai frowned slightly and asked at the man.
What's the meaning?
The man said expressionlessly.
Someone in the city is causing trouble and will not let anyone in today.If you want to enter, I won’t stop you, but I don’t know when I can come out.
After a pause, he warned meaningfully.
Something happened inside, don't blame us for not reminding you.
Ye Shi raised his eyebrows.
joke.
He lives in three days!
Could it be someone who is afraid of trouble?
However, as soon as he raised his foot and was about to step in, he was pulled back by Lao Bai and Qianfeng beside him, and dragged it to a place more than ten meters away.
Damn it!Are you scared now?!
Looking at Ye Shi with wide eyes, Qianfeng said calmly.
Calm down... If my speculation is correct, something big should have happened in the Rock City.
Lao Bai also nodded seriously.
Well, Fang Chang said this in the group before, but maybe the worst situation happened... I must go in when I go in, but at least I have to ask what happened inside first.
Qianfeng: Go to the official forum to ask?
Lao Bai glanced around.
Let’s take action separately, and the nearby NPCs are also inquiring... Maybe there is news that other players have not dug up yet.
Looking at the two communicating, Ye Shi was stunned.
Wait, what did Fang Chang say again? Why don’t I know?
The wind rolled his eyes.
Go to the small group to crawl and chat records by yourself!
The one who followed the brother didn't say anything for a long time, stood beside him obediently and listened quietly, but his eyes were filled with excitement.
Good guy!
Is something big going?
The X-16 used some method, and he avoided everyone without knowing it, took him out of prison, and took away the body of the assailant... It didn't attract anyone's attention along the way.
After they left the prison, they entered an underground passage, walked a long, long way, and then got on the elevator, and got here.
Not far behind him was the elevator door, and there was no gap in the cement-gray floor under his feet. There were dark gray walls on the left and right, with warm wall lights on the walls.
The industrial style design gives people a solemn, simple but elegant style, and it is like a palace corridor that combines modernist style.
He has never been to this place.
The X-16 that had been following him had disappeared. I don’t know if it was re-invisible or completely left here.
At a loss Sberg swallowed and muttered nervously.
What the hell is this...
He thought no one would answer, but he didn't expect a pleasant voice to come from behind him.
Inner city.
The sudden sound scared Sberger, and turned around and found a strange man standing behind him, smiling at him.
Inside, inner city?!
That's right, the man nodded and continued with a smile, and it was the center of the inner city, the huge stone building surrounded by countless tall buildings.
……Who are you?
Sberg looked at the man in front of him.
He wanted to know which noble man came to save him.
If it weren't for the invisible master who entered his room in advance, he would undoubtedly have turned into a corpse.
The man didn't hide it and replied in a relaxed and pleasant tone.
Ibers.
Ibers...
What a familiar name.
Sberg frowned and thought for a long time, his eyes suddenly widened so that they almost protruded, and the expression of his whole face also changed.
Jushi Military Industry?!Who are you
That’s right, the chairman and president of Jushi Military Industry.Appreciating the expression on his face, Ibers said with a smile.
Ibers!
The boss of Jushi Military Industry!
The undisputed second person in the Stone City!
Sberg's heart was shocked and he swallowed unconsciously.
He could never imagine how this big man would be interested in him.
By the way, how many are these?
Yes... do you want to see me?
However, Ibers' answer was beyond his expectations.
My curiosity about you ended when I saw you first, and what I wanted to see was another real big man.
As he said that, he walked forward and passed by Sperger.
Come with me.
Looking back at Ibers's back, Sberg's heart was as messy as a tangled bunch of wool.
This feeling was like sitting on a train heading towards the fog. The train was about to reach the end, but the scenery outside was getting worse and worse.
What made him even more painful was that he had many things to ask, but he didn't know where to ask, or even why he was standing here.
In order to solve the mystery in his heart, he swallowed and followed.
The two of them moved forward all the way and soon arrived at a wide door.
The door opened by itself.
Ibers took him in.
Stepping carefully, Sberger looked around.
The room was clean, there was no dust on the mirror-like floor, and there was no decoration or furniture around it, as deserted as a prison confinement room.
It's just that it's very spacious and quite spacious, far from comparable to that of a small closed room.
The only light in the room is a milky white light sprinkled from the center of the ceiling, and there is no other light source.
It was pitch black on all sides, like an invisible abyss, which also made him unable to see where the boundary of the room was.
...Where is this?
Ibers did not answer, shook his right hand slightly, took out a remote control like magic, held it in his hand and pressed it gently.
The light in the center of the room instantly went out, and Sperg felt only falling into darkness.
However, the darkness did not last long.
The surrounding walls were gradually lit up by faint light, and gradually presented a clearer picture, with more and more colors replacing the original black and white room.
It was not until this time that Spberg realized that this turned out to be a panoramic screening room!
There seems to be similar things in the outer city, you can watch some movies from the pre-war era, but the tickets are usually surprisingly expensive and most people cannot afford them.
This screening room seems to be more exaggerated than the screening room in the outer city, after all, he heard that the screen in the outer city only had a curved screen.
And here.
From the walls to the floor, to the top of the two people's heads, and even the surrounding air is filled with brighter and brighter light particles, as if it brings them to another time and space.
Buildings and streets began to emerge.
Then the field of vision spread outward, presenting the outline of the huge wall.
A surging crowd gradually appeared on the street, their outlines became clearer and clearer, and the deafening shouts gradually approached.
Sberg suddenly came to his senses and was screened here on the main road leading from the giant wall gate to the inner city!
People with fictional lights and shadows came towards him.
They shoulder to shoulder with their arms hooked together to form a torrent that could not be seen.
They were filled with righteous indignation and full of anger, shouting something in unison, and walked towards the group of soldiers wearing exoskeletons and powered armor in full swing.
They seemed to be unable to see themselves.
Their eyes passed over him and passed through his chest like a sharp dagger pointing directly to the inner city behind him.
Sberg swallowed, and a terrifying ripples suddenly appeared in his blank pupils.
Of course, this is not because of those simple anger. He stood with them from beginning to end. Of course, he could feel that the anger was not targeting him at all.
Only real cowards are afraid of the anger of ordinary people.
What really frightened Sberg was that he saw himself lying on the white cloth in the middle of the vast crowd, although his face was blurred by blood, it was undoubtedly his body!
I……
Already dead?
Sberg touched his face blankly, trying to find a little real thing from this illusory world.
The tide-like sound gradually became clear.
People's faces are getting closer and closer.
He saw familiar faces, and he remembered their names. Although most people couldn't name them, they would agree as long as he called his coworkers.
At this moment, they roared angrily.
‘Let’s shoot!’
‘Cowards!’
‘Look straight into our eyes!’
As his eyes moved away from the illusory and real scene, Sberg looked at Ibers in horror.
...You faked my death?
No wonder they didn't let themselves say goodbye to their coworkers!
These people faked their own death!
But why?
Ibers suddenly laughed out loud.
Hahaha, why do I do that?And who do you mean specifically?Is it my first time meeting?Or the adult I've never seen before?Or...a black card friend whom I never knew?
Sberger's face read at a loss.
Ibers whispered softly after he closed his laughter.
The picture you see didn't really happen, it was just a 'possibility', one of the countless assumptions deduced by computers... Of course, it was almost going to happen, maybe only 1 second away.
I'll call it, "A Ending".
Sberg looked at Ibers blankly.
From the beginning, he couldn't understand what this guy was talking about.
What's the meaning?
Not surprised by his confusion, Ibers continued lightly.
Aren't you telling a story?Then let’s use your talent.If I had not intervened, X-16 did not enter your room early, you died in prison in a fight with a certain killer, and died in an extremely miserable state. After all, the killer wanted you to die and not die so quickly, and it was difficult for those idiots to find such a twisted guy at the same time.
Then, the angry workers saw your twisted body. They would occupy the prison and lift you up high. The workers in the entire settlement became workers... In fact, you have occupied a large piece of land, such as the prison. The warden there would not resist you at all, and would even stand with you in silence.
Sberg's Adam's apple moved.
Then what?
He wants to know what happened next.
Then, like it has happened countless times before.Ibers raised his chin and pressed the button to continue playing indifferently.
The images in the room continued to move.
After the crowd crossed the cordon, the commander of the militia ordered the shooting, the bravest people walked in front and died first, the people behind began to run away, the hesitant people were caught between the dead and the cowards, and the innocent people began to fall.
The crowd was killed and injured, and the streets were stained with blood. The child was lying on his parents' bodies and cried, but was taken away by young workers.
Those cowards were indeed scared. They would rather kill one by mistake than let one go.
After all, the seeds of hatred are invisible, and the gunshots cannot stop.
The nobles quickly announced the illegality of the co-workers' association. The gates of the outer and inner cities fell heavily, and a large number of mercenaries were mobilized or bought, forming a search team to enter the industrial area to capture the members of the co-workers' association.
However, the words "workers" will not be written on their faces, which is much harder to identify than those who are keen on cannibalism, which has led to many tragic tragedies.
Some people who confiscated money also began to spontaneously join the search team, using lynching revenge on their former enemies, or simply rob the finances legally, or simply vent their desire to be suppressed by order.
Everything that is not allowed on weekdays is tacitly accepted by the nobles at this moment, because they are more afraid of invisible ghosts than a few evil dogs.
The first ones died became the luckiest ones. They died bravely and gloriously, and the escaped cowards would regret it. Why didn’t they choose a happy way to die at that time?
By then, living is the real hell...
When everything is over, the gates of the outer city will open again, and new survivors will flock in to replace the locations of the residents of the outer city. The blood-stained streets have long been washed away, and the gates of the inner city will be opened again depending on the situation. No wastelanders will care about the past of a certain settlement, just as they rarely consider the future.
After twenty or thirty years of silence, everything will return to its origin, as if nothing has happened.
After all, most people in the wasteland have a lifespan of only twenty or thirty years. Only nobles can live longer, but they usually don’t last too long.
After watching the follow-up to the A finale, Sberger's lips trembled.
He couldn't accept it, and that was their end.
What he couldn't accept was that such things had been repeated countless times.
No one ever told him that this would be the case!
He must stop them!
There must be... there must be a better way!
...You are lucky because of my intervention, your coworkers just suspect that you are dead.Although the amount of bleeding was absolutely enough to kill, they did not see your body.
The warden tries to convince them to calm down. The murderer who heard you tell the story before was yelling to fight to the death with the nobles, but your coworkers don't trust both of them very much, after all, they have their own position.Now, your friends are still arguing whether to press the button to destroy everything and completely smash the mess.
Ibers suddenly spoke as he admired the ever-changing expression on his face.
I said Is there a possibility that the killer was actually sent by the administrator of the alliance.
Absolutely impossible!Sberg replied without hesitation, his eyes extremely firm, like a burning torch.
Without denying his judgment, Ibers continued slowly.
Well, in our deduction, this probability is not without. He only needs to spend a small price to solve the "trouble" of Big Rock City, right?Actually, I'm also very surprised why this possibility exists.
According to my observation, the man has never been smart, but he is not good at it. His strengths are actually open-minded plots and duels.Logically speaking, this character disdains to use assassination. There should be something we don’t understand that interferes with our ‘probability’.
Sberg stared at him and said seriously.
Machines are not omnipotent, maybe you think the machine with the probability that it will break.
The assembly line will occasionally get stuck.
Even if no one deliberately destroys it, the machine will break it from time to time.
Ibers suddenly smiled.
You are right, this possibility exists.And there is actually another possibility. It is not Chu Guang who took action, but someone else.After all, Giant Rock City is not the only survivor settlement on the wasteland. I am not bragging, and there are still many people who covet the treasures in our hands.
Legion, enterprise, college...even including the Great Rift itself.
All the old members of the Post-War Reconstruction Committee obeyed an ancient vow not because they had a very high moral standard, but because there was something that endorsed the vow and made it a true contract.
Of course, so many years have passed, it is hard to say how powerful the thing is. Perhaps the old dominators were just too lazy to deal with the cockroaches who made a living in the wasteland. From the bottom of their hearts, they didn't think that the order picked up from the garbage dump of history could do a great cause... but this is another matter.
……
We have deduced thousands of possibilities, not only the ending A you see, but also this... Let's call it B.Ibers pressed the remote control, and the screen turned, and the two stood at the door of the beer hall.
Time seemed to be back at the beginning of the month, when Sperger was just caught.
Sperger looked at Alec and Kent and walked towards the everyone at the tavern door with his guards. The fierce conflict broke out almost as soon as the two sides contacted each other.
They are like burning powder barrels, and everyone is
Two hundred people rushed towards the guards of just a dozen people with a fierce momentum.
Kent was killed on the spot, Alec ran away without saying a word, Phyllis fired... and Spberg himself seemed to be a bad guy again, his brain was blown away by a bullet.
However, the casualties were kept within a limited range this time.
The gunshots of the beer hall only spread a few streets. The workers knew that a few brave young men died that day and felt sad for their deaths. Even Weijia pretended to shed a few tears, but that was all.
People die every day in this city, and their deaths are no different from others. Later, Mr. House said on the radio that they were thugs and killed a loyal young man named Kent, and some people gradually began to think so.
The Stone City successfully survived the superficial crisis. The raiders would eat people for the winter. It also ate some people, but used the knife and fork of civilized people.
The death notice was delayed for a while, but the bomb was not removed, but was buried deeper and more.
I don’t know when the next crisis will come, but it will definitely be more severe than this time, and it will definitely come.
The liquidation will finally come.
This time...is there any difference?Sberg swallowed.
He can't say whether this is a good ending.
He died himself.
The first coworkers who got together died.
But because of their death, the vast majority of people in this city survived...at least those innocent people don't have to die.
This settlement is not just the rat people who do cheap work, but there are also many well-dressed gentlemen and tender girls on the bustling streets.
Most of them have neither black cards nor oppressed anyone, and have even suffered from the grievances of life. They just swallowed their anger and lived ordinary life in a less distorted settlement on the wasteland.
Sberg doesn't love innocent people, after all, they have never loved themselves.
He is willing to die for the manager because he feels that it is actually good, but those glamorous guys are not worthy.
But if he was asked to kill them, he wouldn't be able to do it.Because humans are not rational animals, the few are those who are always awake.
You may not believe that in fact, this branch B ending is only a small difference from the "almost real A ending" you just saw.
...What are the differences?
Your clever inspiration just saved yourself.
Looking at the confused Sberg, Ibers smiled slightly and continued in a bard-like tone.
Drunk Boer untied his belt, but instead of humiliating Stephen and his family, he broke up his black card and turned to unite the people who had been bullied by Stephen.In the ‘possibility’ corresponding to the ending of B, you wrote a completely different story. You did not mention the coworkers’ association, but instead described in detail how Stephen’s wife and daughter fell into the abyss of ‘happiness’, how painful and desperate Stephen was… Awakening brought Boer not only the power of revenge, but also the worship of the girls.
Your coworkers actually like to watch such stories more.
Sberg blushed, he did think so.
After all, it was almost snowing at that time, but Mr. Weijia fooled them with IOUs. On the way home, he was humiliated by Kent again.
He is a coward, but a coward is not a wooden man. He needs to vent his emotions even if he is angry.
But he didn't expect that the A ending where tens of thousands of people died and the B ending where only dozens of people died were separated by only a few old newspapers.
That's it?!
That's right, that's it.And... you actually wrote a little bit, right?But in the end I stopped the pen.Our calculations are not assumptions out of thin air, but require samples to be deduced.
Looking at Sberger who was blushing and stunned, Ibers smiled and began to chant softly like a poem.
… ‘Bol is an awakened person. He has the strength to do so of course, no one can stop him’.
When Spberger heard others read what he wrote, his ears were red. This was of course different from his own feeling.
He coughed violently, interrupting Ibers' re-reading.
Enough!I see!Don't read it again!
Ibers smiled without any malicious intentions and continued jokingly.
Unfortunately, my machine can't calculate how you will write it in detail, but I just described it in an abstract way... I'm actually quite curious about the story that has not been written. Why don't you write it out when you have time?
Sberg said with a red face.
Enough, no matter what, it is just a bad novel...I don't think it has such a great influence.
Seeing the disbelief in his eyes, Ibers whispered.
That's right, it's just a bad novel, it's amazing, right?Although it was just the story of "Awakening Boer", for the workers who saw things like "books" for the first time, his words and deeds almost became the guiding ideology of their actions.
After all, most of them had their heads like blank paper. They immediately believed what House said, and they immediately refused to believe it after they found out that House was lying.Simple good and evil right and wrong are what most people think about every day. It is like a single-core CPU...Ah, you may not realize that you have done so many amazing or evil things. Although this is not your "credit" alone, future generations should give you a relatively objective evaluation.
Enough, I don’t care about that kind of thing. By the way, why did you take me to see these things... Whether it is the ending of A or the ending of B, it actually didn’t happen, right?Sberg stared at the lunatic guy in front of him and said nervously, "Aren't you going to take me to meet someone?"Let him come quickly. After seeing him, I want to go back to meet my friends, they must be very anxious.
He suddenly became a little scared of the guy in front of him.
Is this guy really a human?
Or is it that he is the same as an X-16, but he is just something that looks similar to a human being. Otherwise, he will be at this critical moment, so how can he still laugh?
Sberg didn't know what the Uncanny Valley Effect was, but he could feel that sense of incongruity of real existence, and it was getting stronger and stronger.
Ibers smiled at the nervous Spberg and said happily.
Well, of course, that big man is coming.But he is always late. This habit has been with him for a long time. Don't expect him to suddenly be punctual.
He paused, and he continued.
As for why he brought you here, that's what he meant. You may not be able to feel that mood... In short, after watching so many repetitive movies, he was almost annoyed.
Moreover, this time is different from before.
According to the calculation results, after entering the A finale, the gate of the outer city will not open again after it is closed.
Just as a person's self-healing ability has a limit to endure, there is also a threshold for the self-healing ability of the Big Rock City.
Once that threshold is exceeded, the settlement enters a spiral downward cycle.This situation is usually not spontaneous, but interferes with external forces that break the rules.
Logically speaking, that adult should not intervene. The Rock City also has its historical mission, and it is actually a glorious thing to complete its historical mission.
All things are from life to death, and from death to life, which is the norm of nature.The fate of rising and falling is unavoidable. With an era of prosperity, there must be an era of wasteland.
It's just a matter of time.
However, the adult was still too kind after all, so he pressed the pause button a second before the powder barrel was about to explode.
It's cheaper for these people.
Ibers held a smile on his lips.
He suddenly thought of something and continued.
...Ah, anyway, the game is over, you lose.I still have an important meeting and can't be with you here.
After glanced at the watch, Ibers threw the remote control to Sberg, and smiled slightly as he looked at the latter who was hurriedly caught.
Take it and play. Before he comes here, you can see enough. Maybe there is a good ending in your dream?
Although in those endings, you and your friends are either the protagonist or the ones.
This screening room stores countless future possibilities calculated by computers.
And all the things that have happened here in the past years...
These are valuable materials.
Looking at the stunned Speller, Ibers asked in a teasing tone.
...By the way, are guys who have worked as a coolie like me who have worked for a century and a half, and who have never received a penny of salary also considered workers?
Sberg was stunned.
This goes beyond his knowledge.
There is no such special exception among all the people he knows, and no one can live for a century and a half, so that he didn't know how to answer for a while.
etc……
A century and a half?!
Sperger stared at the guy in front of him in surprise, as if he had realized something.
But Ibers didn't give him time to think, as if he had decided that he could not know the answer, but just laughed and disappeared from the room...
……
Dawn City.
In the manager's office of the Alliance Building, Cheng Yan reported to Chu Guang the commotion that was happening in the Rock City with a serious expression.
This commotion is obviously a follow-up to the arrest half a month ago.
Just as Chu Guang predicted.
Once the fuse is inserted into the powder barrel, there will definitely be a itchy guy igniting it, whether intentionally or unintentionally.
That day, Sberg returned to the cell as usual, and then there was a sound of fighting inside. The coworkers and the prison guards rushed over immediately, but only saw a pool of blood, a lot of blood in the room... Our embassy staff entrusted your residents to get the photos.
Chu Guang stared at the photos on the VM screen, his eyebrows tightly locked, and suddenly raised his head and asked.
No corpse?
Not to mention there is no body... Jushicheng did not admit that he was dead at all. Instead, he said he had escaped from prison, but changed his words and said that he had been transferred. They had greater trouble and had no time to deal with this small matter. Even though this matter continued to ferment, Cheng Yan sighed and continued, and after hearing about Spberg's experience, more than 90% of the workers in the entire Jushicheng have joined the coworkers' association, and they want to go to the inner city to ask for an explanation.
Chu Guang asked with a frown.
What are their demands?
Cheng Yan continued.
If Spberg died, they would see his body, and if he was still alive, the inner city would have to hand him over.
Very simple request.
Not too much either.
However, the nobles in the inner city are now busy with another thing, and it is natural that they cannot hear these simple wishes.
So was he dead?
I tend to think that he is dead... After all, I don't believe that he can still survive if he is bleeding.Cheng Yan carefully expressed his judgment.
In his opinion, the nobles in the inner city were indeed not smart. Even the diplomats who were unfamiliar in business knew that they should do things cleanly and neatly.
If you just simply let someone disappear silently, you may not have such a big reaction, but they just have to do something inconsistent.
He didn't want him to leave his body, and he also wanted to make such bloody things with great fanfare. He regretted that he didn't do anything at the beginning. In the end, this arrogance hurt everyone.
Of course, what the final result will be, as an outsider said, he may not necessarily see the whole picture of the matter.
The alliance cannot decide how things will develop.
Only those Sberg's friends and those coworkers' associations have the power to decide what they are going to do next.
Chu Guang closed his eyes and thought for a while.
He actually wanted the newspaper-reader to survive, otherwise he would not have invited him to visit the league.
The story of the Awakening Boer was born in the Stone City, but it does not belong only to this small settlement. There are many survivors as small as him but important as him.
But one thing goes one by one, and this is the business of Giant Rock City itself.
Suddenly, Chu Guang opened his eyes.
I've been confused about something.
Cheng Yan: What's the matter?
Chu Guang thought for a moment, the lord of the Giant Rock City. At first I thought he just simply didn't care about us, but I didn't expect that he didn't just care about us.
Cheng Yan frowned and tried to understand the manager's words.
Suddenly, he thought of something and opened his eyes wide.
Do you think there is a possibility... this matter is actually related to the city lord?
There are many nobles in Giant Rock City, but there is only one city lord.When mentioning him, even the most arrogant nobles would show some respect.
In theory, this settlement has an omnipotent guy.
I don't know, Chu Guang shook his head, I was no less confused than you... To be honest, so far, our plan has not only gone smoothly, but also went too far. I couldn't help but want to step on the brakes several times.
Cheng Yan whispered.
Then...what do you think we should do now?
Chu Guang thought for a while and spoke.
I feel that something big will happen. Let the embassy withdraw first, and just bring the dormant cabin and necessary documents. I will arrange for the staff of the refugee home and some residents of the shelter to pick them up at the door of the Giant Wall.
Jushi City is a good novice village. Those diplomats are precious talents trained and cannot be lost for no reason.
Once a person dies, the situation will escalate further and it will be even worse.
Cheng Yan nodded and said seriously.
I'll do it now!
Looking at Cheng Yan's departure back, Chu Guang was about to call Luka and tell him that the things he had prepared for the past could be arranged.
However, at this moment, the door that had just been closed by Minister Cheng suddenly sounded again. This time it was Charlie, the elder of the Shangshang Guild.
Seeing his serious expression, Chu Guang didn't say nonsense and asked straight to the point.
What's the matter?
President Melvin of the Rock City wants to meet you.Old Charlie reported truthfully.
Melvin?
Chu Guang was not surprised that this guy wanted to see him.
He guessed that the Bank of Jishi City might not be able to hold on anymore, and after thinking about it, the only way was to beg for himself.
Chu Guang suddenly became curious about how Mr. Melvin planned to explain the runs in the Rock City during this period and the intercepting of export goods by the City Hall.
When will he want to make an appointment?
Old Charlie said respectfully.
He is already downstairs!
……
At the gate of Giant Rock City, in previous winters, it was deserted and filled with snow, but this year's winter was abnormal and it was as lively as a festival.
From the entrance of the Far Wind Hotel to the checkpoint of the Jubi Main Entrance, the crowded stalls were almost blocked.
The merchants holding two-headed cows came and went, and mercenaries in strange costumes and travelers were mixed.
These wasteland tourists were like hyenas wandering on the ruins. They all smelled the smell of rotten corpse in the air, and couldn't wait to come over to share...
...Ceres, sausages and jerky are so popular. I can understand why soap is so popular?Passing by a stall, Ye Shi saw a few big words written on the sign and couldn't help but mutter in a low voice.
Barter only collects grains, sausages, air-dried meat, and soap.
Give money only silver coins, Cr and dinar.
Some stalls are even more amazing, so they simply stick the chips to the wooden board and draw a red cross to indicate that they don’t want this garbage thing.
This is not in Giant Rock City, and most merchants are not from here at all. Naturally, no one will care about them if they do this.
The strong wind walking beside him glanced at the stall next to him and said casually.
The shelf life is very long, the size is small, it is easy to carry, the demand is stable, it can solve hygiene problems, and it can wash anything.In a period of scarcity of consumer goods, cheap and easy-to-use soap will be more popular and more convenient to price than specialized sub-products such as shampoo and shower gel.After all... in the most extreme cases, fragrance, brand value added, and user experience cannot sell for premium.
Ye Shi touched his head.
Something makes sense.
If a person does not take a bath for a long time, the smell will smell worse than that of a livestock. This is not only a matter of hygiene and sanitation, but exposing the odor on the wasteland is a very dangerous thing.
Experienced hunters will lock their prey through scents, and some experienced merchants will avoid danger because they smell the corpse of the raider.
Wow, Uncle Kuangfeng knows a lot!
He nodded happily, with a learned expression. Ye Shi, who was standing beside him, couldn't help but burst out laughing.
Ha ha ha ha!Uncle Qianfeng!
He glared at the brother and sister in embarrassment, and Qianfeng shut his mouth and stopped talking.Seeing this, Lao Bai, who was walking aside, smiled and patted his shoulder.
Brothers, let these two young people be proud for a while, and in more than ten years, everyone will be old people.
Realizing that he had lost his words for a moment, he turned his eyes for a long time and said in a weird way.
It's okay!We don’t talk about games outside of the game, and the game characters will not change. You will definitely be handsome little brothers in more than ten years!
Lao Bai was amused by her words and said with a smile.
Hahaha, it would be great if our Yeshi had your emotional intelligence!No, I almost forgot that you are the whole family.
Ye Shi, who was still happy the previous second, was immediately dissatisfied when he heard this.
Damn, why don’t I have no emotional intelligence!
The strong wind coughed.
Just think you have it.
Ye Shi: Damn!What does it mean to think I have it!
Lao Bai: Hahaha!
The group walked noisy towards the gate of the Giant Rock City, joking with each other, unlike when they came from the wasteland.
But this time is different from usual.
Because of the extra scoop that came to join in the fun for a long time, the three buddies were more reserved to joke with each other, and they were embarrassed to be called father and son, and the topics they talked about were more elegant and easy-going.
These days, the dog managers of the cattle and horse herd have basically spent their time on the Stone City.
Fang Chang got a large amount of chips from somewhere, and with the cooperation of Fred's traitor, he bought several factories that supply Jushi Military Industry.
Niuma Group not only digs out equipment, but also digs out with people and equipment.
Especially for some skilled engineers and old workers, they not only give one person a settlement fee, but also help arrange the whole family.
Those generous conditions not only touched the corners of the hole, but even the boss who helped them wave their hoes was envious.
So far, what Niuma Group has paid is only some increasingly valuable chips and a small amount of silver coins.
Yes.
Although chips are becoming less and less valuable, they are official currency after all, and you still have to use chips to buy things in the Stone City.
Some means of production transactions are still using chips to make money, and there is almost no price increase.
Even a discount can be negotiated.
This is one of the typical symptoms of the economic overheating stage. Although commodity prices continue to rise, the means of production that produces commodities enter the stagflation cycle ahead of schedule.
The prodigal merchants in the Rock City are often very generous and are willing to take the initiative to discount or even fracture the high-quality assets they are in their hands. However, in exchange, they often imply that the buyer asks to pay an additional tip with Cr or silver coins.
For those stingy people who are only willing to give chips, no one cares about the business circle of Jushi City.
After all, no one is stupid.
Smart people can still recognize what real money looks like.
Compared to those wasteland customers who pretend to be stupid and want to take advantage of the situation, the buyers of the alliance seem too generous when dealing with these problems.
Therefore, the profitable businessmen in the Rock City like the most is the guests from the alliance.
Finally, he squeezed to the gate of Giant Rock City. Lao Bai took out his chips and was about to pay the tax on entering the city, but the militia standing at the door pushed back.
Old Bai frowned slightly and asked at the man.
What's the meaning?
The man said expressionlessly.
Someone in the city is causing trouble and will not let anyone in today.If you want to enter, I won’t stop you, but I don’t know when I can come out.
After a pause, he warned meaningfully.
Something happened inside, don't blame us for not reminding you.
Ye Shi raised his eyebrows.
joke.
He lives in three days!
Could it be someone who is afraid of trouble?
However, as soon as he raised his foot and was about to step in, he was pulled back by Lao Bai and Qianfeng beside him, and dragged it to a place more than ten meters away.
Damn it!Are you scared now?!
Looking at Ye Shi with wide eyes, Qianfeng said calmly.
Calm down... If my speculation is correct, something big should have happened in the Rock City.
Lao Bai also nodded seriously.
Well, Fang Chang said this in the group before, but maybe the worst situation happened... I must go in when I go in, but at least I have to ask what happened inside first.
Qianfeng: Go to the official forum to ask?
Lao Bai glanced around.
Let’s take action separately, and the nearby NPCs are also inquiring... Maybe there is news that other players have not dug up yet.
Looking at the two communicating, Ye Shi was stunned.
Wait, what did Fang Chang say again? Why don’t I know?
The wind rolled his eyes.
Go to the small group to crawl and chat records by yourself!
The one who followed the brother didn't say anything for a long time, stood beside him obediently and listened quietly, but his eyes were filled with excitement.
Good guy!
Is something big going?
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