Chapter 2748: Liberating Slaves

The slaves were miserable. They could only rest for four hours a day, and then they were mechanically acupunctured to stimulate their ability to produce through pain. They were full of tubes to deliver necessary nutrients and excrete. Once they lay down, they would die. No one would come to liberate them during the whole process.

There were cries of grief all night long. The slaves had run out of tears, but no one cared.

The slaves were desperate. The old slaves would tell the new slaves that they would either die or suffer forever. No one would come to save them. There was only despair in this space.

Sang's legs were cut off because he wanted to escape. There was nothing below his knees. Just because he was a rare electric blessing, he was sent here, plugged with tubes, and then tortured for twenty hours a day. He did not cry, but repeated the story of the savior over and over again: "The burning savior will come to save me. His name is Agni..."

At first, the old slaves in the two beds next to him felt sorry for him. After all, he was captured and enslaved when he was only a teenager. But later, after hearing him repeat it over and over again, he began to refute him, saying, "There is no savior at all. All slaves can only come in alive and die and go out. There is no such thing as someone who can survive with his whole body burning."

"I saw it with my own eyes." Others did not believe him, but Sang did not get angry. Instead, he told them that he had seen it with his own eyes and told them his story.

The slaves thought Sang was crazy, but after one day, two days... and more days, Sang still insisted that he had seen the savior, a man named Agni, who was burning with flames and would come to save him. Sang did not give up hope, and finally a slave began to ask what the man with the burning flames looked like.

Sang described more details, making more slaves believe that there is a savior in this world who burns and brings warmth to people.

Over time, the slaves began to believe it and began to regard the savior as their hope. Obviously, they could no longer see hope, but Sang kept describing it, adding fuel to the fire, and described Agni as the savior in the wind and snow.

Of course, the savior is also suffering now. In the original book, Agni sneaked into the city-state again after being rescued, but he did not do it to save San. San was just a little follower he met on his journey of revenge. Agni never thought of protecting him, let alone saving him. In the original book, because Agni sneaked in from the sewer, he happened to pass by the slave farm and saved them all. Maybe at that moment Agni really wanted to be a hero.

In short, because he saved San, Agni's identity as the savior was confirmed, so a new religion was established, the Agni religion with Agni as the god. It was a new religion that rose after the fall of the Ice Witch Cult.

However, with Duran's arrival, Agni's religion may not rise, because the universal religion is now fighting against the city-state religion.

And this universal religion treats everyone as its own people, and has already established a foothold in the city-state. The next step is to add slaves. As long as the slaves also believe in religion, they can be tortured without torture instruments.

Duran's plan is this. First, let the slaves believe in religion. Since they believe in religion, they must have a pledge of allegiance, that is, they must produce enough resources every day. Only if they do this, they are considered believers. If they fail to do so, they will not be considered believers. Although believing is also production, there are no torture instruments, but faith is used as motivation.

Moreover, production can also earn points. With a few points, you can upgrade and become a fanatic, and you can eat better and wear better. Of course, as a fanatic, you must also pay for supplies. Upgrading again will make you an apprentice priest, and then a priest, and then a priest, and then a high priest.

With the upgrade system, there is a motivation for production.

Duran said that this is a new game that allows everyone to join in by integrating religion and the ancient Roman system. The old game represented by the high priest is over.

In addition to the rules of the game, there must be a development direction, otherwise relying solely on the resources of the blessers will also be a waste of resources. Duran proposed two points, one is archaeology, and the other is research.

There is no need to talk about archaeology. Three hundred years ago, before the temperature dropped, human technology had already moved to the stars and the sea. Although the three hundred years of doomsday brought a huge blow to civilization, there are still crystallizations of human technology under the ice and snow and in the frozen soil, as well as a full set of knowledge. If they can be dug out, it will definitely be helpful.

The second is research, so that the blessing can increase production capacity. Since the blessing is a product of technology, and the ultimate form of the blessing is a superhuman who can use all abilities, then it should continue to upgrade along this route.

The three superhumans known in the original book are all women, and the superhumans look exactly the same. The first one to appear is the protagonist Agni's sister, who has been burned to death by Dema. The second one is the high priest, so Agni thinks that she looks very similar to her sister. In fact, they are not similar, but exactly the same.

There is also a mysterious woman whose specific identity is unknown, but this woman knows a lot of knowledge and has been secretly looking for a solution to the doomsday.

I just don't know whether this kind of evolution can be both men and women, or only women. Anyway, the three who appeared in the original book are all women, and there are no men. If only women can evolve, then the future Earth will be a land of women.

However, as long as they evolve into super humans, the cold is nothing, and they can even live until the Earth is destroyed.

So although the doomsday is terrible, human scientists have already made preparations. As long as they survive the most difficult hundreds of years, humans in the future don’t have to fear the doomsday at all.

But the problem is that many people fell in the darkness of dawn, before victory. No one knows when victory will come, one second later, ten thousand years later, or never.

People cannot predict the future, so human behavior often makes humans themselves doubt whether their behavior is meaningful or not? At this time, some people will call on everyone to have faith, because only faith can do things unconditionally, not transactions.

Since it is unconditional and does not seek rewards, it doesn’t matter whether it is meaningful or not, just do it. But transactions seek rewards, do it if there is a reward, and don’t do it if there is no reward. But what kind of reward is meaningful? Many people can’t say it.

So there must be a group that can do practical things down to earth without forcing to think about the meaning and without seeking rewards. Only in this way can human civilization develop, such as scientists three hundred years ago.

Scientists three hundred years ago arranged everything, but they didn't expect that there would be a lack of practical people who would "liberate all mankind first and liberate themselves last" in the doomsday. Everyone prioritized their own gains and losses to ensure their survival in the doomsday. In the end, civilization regressed more and more, and did not develop according to the scientists' plan at all.

Of course, it is not wrong to prioritize oneself in the doomsday, but if human civilization is destroyed, they will also bear most of the responsibility.

So Duran raised his arm and prepared to rebuild organizational power, mobilize the power of mankind again, give them motivation and hope.

As a representative of the old forces, the high priest did not resist too much. After all, although she represented the old forces, she did not have the determination to fight to the death. So when she saw that Duran was so fierce, she wanted to retreat. After all, she had the ability to heal herself and was not afraid of leaving the city-state at all.

Only the original leaders of the city-state were very angry because their power was weakened, and even if they joined the Protestant Church, they could not be the same as before. In the past, they had priority in choosing women and seizing spoils, but there was no such rule in Duran, and everyone obeyed the distribution.

So they wanted to rebel, but the high priest would not take the lead, so they could only rebel on their own.