Chapter 262 Hungry Ghost Doomsday Lies
Chapter 262 "The End of the Hungry Ghosts" Lie
Canyon Lao Liu's eyes were sharp: "You mean, they were planning to rob it at that time?"
"It doesn't matter now."
Jiang Qian smiled and patted Lao Liu on the shoulder:
"In short, this "Hungry Ghost Apocalypse" can almost take a breather now. Only by holding our position and preventing the remnants of the Predators from coming back can we return safely. "
Canyon Laoliu agreed and analyzed:
"According to the current deployment, even if these remnants have the courage to attack, they have no ability to go back. They should not show up for a while."
"If I were them, I would choose to hide in a human settlement as far away from the guardians as possible, and use the remaining time to vigorously cultivate the tribe, recharge their batteries, and make a comeback at the critical moment."
Speaking of this, Canyon Lao Liu said urgently:
"I suggest cooperating with humans to hunt down hunter groups around the world! The appetite of those remnants will not diminish. As long as they try to eat people and capture people to create a group, they will definitely leave traces and even alert the joint defense forces. We will have a chance to Cut them off before they grow big!"
As he spoke, he suddenly pulled off the goggles on his head and made a motion of wiping his neck.
Canyon Lao Liu's only regret in this battle is that the guardian camp failed to kill all the hunters in one fell swoop!
"Not urgent."
Jiang Qian quoted the notes from the Jugang strategy meeting:
"What you said is also the urgent wish of the joint defense forces. The human commanders are eager for us to come forward to deal with these time bombs."
"You really want our new mutants to consume each other, right?" Canyon Lao Liu sneered.
“Everyone takes what he needs, and that’s everything.”
Jiang Qian didn't mind this at all. He revealed the essence of the current relationship between the three with a calm enough perspective:
"For humans, we are also new mutants, and we are not fundamentally different from the hunter camp. Unless they are forced to do so, there is no reason for humans to continue to cooperate with us."
"Without the hunters making trouble, how can the defenders turn the tide?"
At this moment, Canyon Lao Liu understood why Jiang Qian was not in a hurry to kill all the hunters.
There is still some time before the end of the "Hungry Ghost Apocalypse" instance, and Jiang Qian does not want to turn his allies into enemies again during this period.
"Then what are you going to do next?"
"Maintain stability and rectify," Jiang Qian took a sip of water from his teacup and said in a relaxed tone, "Then take some time to solve the last issue of this dungeon."
"The last topic?" Canyon Lao Liu was a little curious, "What other topics are there?"
Jiang Qian picked up a fancy bell from nowhere:
"The science of evil."
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The next day, Canyon Lao Liu returned to Devos Island with home-cooked Northeastern dishes to improve the food in the mysterious place.
Jiang Qian came to the medical support department of the military fortress to visit Elizabeth and the defender players who were injured in this joint battle.
After one day of post-war rectification, normal operation has been restored here.
Elizabeth was living in the special care ward. Although she was completely conscious, the skin injuries on her body still needed medical treatment, so she had been in the ward since she came back with Jiang Qian's plane.
Dr. Kate and Monat accompanied her.
This female leader of Ideal Town is still the same as when we first met her. Even if she is in the ward, it does not affect her charm at all, making people around her and even the medical staff feel like a spring breeze.
"Dr. Jiang! I knew you would become the hero who saves mankind."
Elizabeth expressed heartfelt admiration to Jiang Qian.
"The victory of mankind depends on the efforts of all parties, and I am just an insignificant part of it."
Jiang Qian observed the other party's speech and behavior, and found that there was no obvious difference between the other party's voice, appearance, and smile when he was alive, and the effect of the resurrection was impeccable.
After a brief reminiscing about old times, Jiang Qian pulled Dr. Kate aside and asked about his experience in establishing a religion, then said goodbye and left.
Passing by the pharmacy on the way back, Talia took little Alan to pick up medicine at the pharmacy.
Also waiting in line were three beautiful female gamers with North American flair. They were all defenders of the same camp whom they met once when they were picked up.
Because the doctors and nurses on duty paid more attention to little Allen, which "delayed" the process of getting medicine, which aroused the dissatisfaction of several players. They relied on their status to ridicule Talia, little Allen, and the doctors and nurses on duty. Tricky words.
This makes an originally solemn and clean place like a pharmacy filled with a disharmonious atmosphere.
However, due to the identity of the opponent's "player", the medical staff here did not dare to say anything; Talia also cared about the presence of little Allen and kept it silent. She pursed her lips, pulled up little Allen and was about to leave, when she met him head-on. Shang Jiang Qian came over.
When the two saw Jiang Qian, they were stunned unconsciously.
At this time, several players also noticed Jiang Qian's appearance.
Everyone silenced.
Especially those players who tried to cause trouble immediately shut up after seeing Jiang Qian appear. They thought of Jiang Qian's friendly greetings to the human commander when he got off the plane.
Although Jiang Qian is not the nominal commander of the defenders, as the organizer of the defenders' camp, he leads the players to a beautiful victory in the confrontation with the hunters, and miraculously reverses the defeat in a mysterious place unknown to everyone. The commander's prestige has been invisibly formed in the Guardian Alliance, which is prohibitive.
Jiang Qian approached silently, and the eyes of the humans or players waiting around him were all focused on him, guessing his whereabouts and purpose.
"What's wrong? What's the problem?" Jiang Qian looked past Talia and Little Alan and looked at the three female players who were causing trouble.
His tone was gentle, but it was wrapped in an invisible pressure, which made the three players feel uneasy.
This was a warning.
"It's okay, it's okay, let's just chat..." The medical staff on duty quickly stepped forward to smooth things over.
"No problem, boss." One of the female players quickly softened her expression and whispered to Jiang Qian.
"I'm sorry for causing trouble to everyone!" Another player apologized immediately.
But the person she apologized to seemed to be Jiang Qian.
The potential conflict was calmed down.
Several players also quickly left with medicine.
Talia watched Jiang Qian rescue herself and Little Alan without saying a word, and she was shocked and ashamed.
She pulled Little Alan, lowered her head, and prepared to leave Jiang Qian quickly...
"Wait."
Talia paused and looked at Jiang Qian nervously. Little Alan, who was holding her hand, also looked at Jiang Qian and swallowed unconsciously.
"I dropped something. Have you seen it?"
Jiang Qian's eyes were fixed on Talia's face, calm and deep, still an unfathomable gaze.
But Talia felt her cheeks burning.
Not only her cheeks, but also her heartbeat accelerated in vain, and all the pores from the soles of her feet to the top of her head were sweating...
She didn't understand where this strange symptom came from, but she still carried out Jiang Qian's will: she took out the black porcelain doll found in the armored car from her pocket.
"Thank you."
Jiang Qian took back the doll, lowered his head and smiled at little Allen, as a greeting.
Just as he was about to turn around, Talia's voice came from beside him, still with some doubts and entanglement:
"You don't look like a villain."
Jiang Qian's eyes paused slightly, and he didn't answer.
His attention has shifted to little Alan beside Talia. He lowered his body and put his hand on the boy's head:
"It's not a good habit to eavesdrop."
"I didn't!"
Little Alan actually defended himself in fluent Chinese: "You were so fierce at the beginning! Besides, you never asked me..."
"Talk back," Jiang Qian looked at Talia calmly with a surprised look on his face, and kindly reminded, "Pay attention to the child's family education."
After that, he forcibly rubbed the boy's head: "You should be discharged from the hospital, occupying medical resources."
"Hey, it hurts..."
Little Alan didn't avoid Jiang Qian's hand, covering his head and grinning, but when Jiang Qian turned and left, he shouted at his back:
"Thank you for saving Elizabeth!"
Just after coming out of the medical support department, Jiang Qian, accompanied by the human commander, went to the prison where the hunter prisoners were held and personally interrogated the prisoners.
These players were over-consumed due to fighting, and after a day and a night without sufficient meat supplements, they were on the verge of collapse. Seeing Jiang Qian, it was like a dog seeing its master, lying on the ground begging for food!
Beth, who was accompanying Jiang Qian, was quite moved when she saw this scene.
She seemed to see herself a few days ago.
However, now, she could feel the hunger gradually disappearing from her body. As Jiang Qian said, as long as regular food is consumed for a long time, the abnormal hunger will gradually slow down and disappear.
Therefore, Beth only now strongly realized that being a hunter is a blasphemy against freedom!
In the following days, Jiang Qian interrogated the hunter captives every day and "classified" them for surgery.
Now, Jiang Qian can successfully restore the mutants in the first, second, and even third states and fusion stages to normal license holders, and the success rate of the operation is increasing day by day.
He trained these captives in the same way as he trained Beth, kangaroos, crocodiles and others.
A few days later, the Guardian camp added new members.
One day, Jiang Qian was about to go to the cell for routine inspections, but received an urgent message from the human commander-in-chief Schubert:
Reports from various regions have reported that residents in human settlements have suddenly mutated naturally, growing into human-faced anteater monsters with long hair and narrow cheeks, and attacking humans and other creatures indiscriminately!
Just like when the crawlers first appeared, it happened without any signs, spreading and spreading for unknown reasons, causing the mutant population to develop day by day, and the human living space to be increasingly compressed...
On the way to the meeting, Jiang Qian once again remembered the prompt when he first entered the copy:
[People don’t even know how "it" happened: some humans are "transforming" into another species: cruel, greedy, hunting their own kind for food...]
[The world order is therefore rewritten...]
The reincarnation chain has been cracked, and this world has escaped the cause and effect of nightmare reincarnation, but the ground vein pollution is still affecting this world like boiling a frog in warm water.
This is the result that Jiang Qian once doubted, and now it is being verified in a vivid form.
The ground vein is polluted.
The global crisis is only "temporarily" resolved.
One month later, he and all the players will leave here smoothly and return to reality. Everything here will be forgotten like a temporary game.
But the disaster of this world has just begun.
Looking at the people who were anxious and uneasy around the conference table, when the whole conference table fell silent after the arguments, anger and anxiety were vented, Jiang Qian, the outsider, slowly raised his right hand:
"I have a plan."
All human commanders looked at the young and quiet outsider leader.
"This plan is very simple, just two words: lie."
When this was said, everyone was shocked!
"Lie?"
"What do you mean?"
"Is he kidding us? Now we are talking about the racial crisis of mankind, a global disaster! He is an outsider here and makes sarcastic remarks..."
"Stop talking nonsense, just listen to what others say first!"
Even if they are of the same race, it has always been difficult for humans to achieve complete unity of thought.
But Jiang Qian's words are not nonsense.
At this time, Beth and Crocodile have pushed the whiteboard to Jiang Qian, on which a brief diagram of humans, crawlers, human servants and their energy structure is drawn.
He stood in front of the commanders like a teacher, and explained the disaster logic of "Hungry Ghost Ending" in a language that was easy for them to understand:
Human desire/evil thoughts + poison pollution (catalyst) = dangerous species.
The root cause of the disaster is the expansion of human desires and the growth of evil thoughts.
The pollution of the ground veins is actually the proliferation of catalysts. This direction has now been clearly unable to be effectively eradicated.
Then the only direction to make efforts is to start from human desires/evil thoughts and find ways to make changes.
"But desires and evil thoughts are deeply hidden in people's hearts and are difficult to detect in the rooting stage."
Jiang Qian used vivid language to describe the huge hidden dangers of the extinction of the human race in this world:
"When this heart has completely become the soil of desires and evil thoughts, and happens to encounter sufficient catalysts, then mutations occur."
"However, desires and evil thoughts are contagious. One after another, the majority drives the minority, and after countless mutations, disasters come and crises emerge."
This theory shocked all the commanders present, some questioned, some were frightened, and some did not take it seriously.
Commander-in-Chief Schubert stood up and raised the question that everyone present was concerned about:
"You said that the source of the disaster is human desires and evil thoughts, so why do you think the solution will be: lies?"
"How to use lies, what kind of lies?"
Jiang Qian thought about it and calmly answered the question of the human commander-in-chief:
"Use lies to build a belief, a world full of kindness, wisdom and hope. Let people whose hearts have not yet rotted believe in this lie and practice this belief."
"In this hopeless world, the truth will not help anyone, but faith will lead people to the direction they are determined to go."
Jiang Qian said, holding up a bell and shaking it in the air.
The bell made a clear and pleasant ringing sound:
"Just as some people find this bell beautiful and pleasant, some people will become hungry and lose control when they hear it..."
"You are the ones who control the bell in this world."
As soon as Jiang Qian finished speaking, a young human commander stood up, looked at Jiang Qian in confusion, and then looked around at everyone present and said:
"I think the plan you described should not be called a lie, it is called faith."
Jiang Qian smiled: "Whatever you define it, that's your homework."
After that, he tore off the diagram and information on the whiteboard and tore it to pieces in front of everyone.
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PS:
The typos will be corrected first and then corrected.