"Here..." "Bai Anyi" said, "It's the paradise of the official superpowers, it's their energy replenishment station... It's also their breeding farm."
Even the winner of the final race will be used by them, obediently sticking out his head, voluntarily surrendering his freedom, and wearing a collar.
"Bai Anyi" said: "This plan is officially called the 'Protection Plan for Abilities'."
Chi Xiaochi smiled: "... Ha, 'protect'."
He looked to the sky, to false bird trails, false clouds.
Everything that is false is as beautiful as it is real: "...Isn't it 'protection'?"
Chi Xiaochi figured out a lot of things.
Those who oppose abilities are not all blindly opposed.
Every move contains an element of interest.
From the beginning of concealing their identities, for whatever reason, Bai Anyi and these "superhumans" have been labelled "sinners" and "unstable elements" by society.
They have to ensure that they monitor every power user, because once the secret of "power users killing each other can improve their ability level" is made public, it is difficult to guarantee that power users will not kill each other for profit.
Therefore, in order to protect the personal safety of "law-abiding" power users, the relevant departments need to detain these "unstable" power users, and "reasonably" use the evolutionary laws to screen out illegal and useless power users for the garrison. Provide "nutrition" and give three survival places, in order to implement the policy of elite soldiers and strengthen the power of the superhuman guard team, so as to better maintain the existing social order and protect obedient superhumans and normal humans.
As for gambling the lives of these "powerful people", it is just one of the side jobs to maximize profits.
Seeing Chi Xiaochi's expression, "Bai Anyi" knew that digesting this news was not easy.
Even he, when he saw the plan, smoked half of the cigarette he grabbed at the computer screen.
Even if they escape successfully, they will become rebels who threaten social stability and will be wanted for the rest of their lives, unless they can escape to a country that provides shelter for supernatural beings, remain anonymous, and spend their entire lives.
However, if you compromise with the rules, fight for life, give up freedom, and choose to stick your head into the collar, what is Bai Anyi's insistence at the beginning
For a while, even "Bai Anyi" didn't know how to choose.
He is not a person, he is just a shadow that exists because of Bai Anyi's existence.
If it was Bai Anyi, what would he want to do
Chi Xiaochi sat on the oasis and listened to a gust of wind.
During this period, Lou Ying was half-kneeling behind him, doing nothing but holding on to his shoulders.
He was calm and his expression was the same.
"Bai Anyi" looked at the pair curiously from the side, and felt that the aura between them was subtle, not tense, but very peaceful.
After sitting like this for four or five minutes, Chi Xiaochi stood up, and Lou Ying also stood up.
Chi Xiaochi: "Let's go."
"Bai Anyi": "Where to go?"
Chi Xiaochi: "Solve the problem."
"Bai Anyi" was half surprised by his neatness, and half was curious about what he thought in these short minutes: "How to solve it?"
Chi Xiaochi: "Murder."
"Bai Anyi": "...Are you going to abide by the rules and participate in the game?"
Chi Xiaochi: "No. It's using the rules."
"Bai Anyi" said frankly: "I can't think of how you can use the rules under this kind of tram problem."
There are many versions of the so-called "trolley problem."
Basically, it refers to a speeding and unstoppable train that is about to pass a fork. The fork is divided into two tracks, one with only one child playing, while on the other track where the train was supposed to travel, five children were playing together.
The protagonist facing this dilemma holds a life-and-death switch in his hand.
In the case that there is no time to dodge, which side should he turn the switch to
Once the problem was born, it sparked a heated debate.
How should this be resolved
Is it to respect most lives and give up that one child? Or do you believe that any life has the same value, just don't turn the wrench and let it be
Extending to the current situation, it can be compared to, is it to sacrifice freedom for self-help, violate principles, or sacrifice life for freedom
Chi Xiaochi asked back, "What do you think about this issue?"
"Bai Anyi" said: "The version I heard is not like this. Among the two forks, the one where only one child is playing is a half-abandoned railway track; the one where five children are playing is clearly marked. Rails 'in use'. That is, five kids are breaking the rules; and the one kid who obeys the rules is at risk of being hit and killed. Ask, what do you do in this situation? choose?"
Chi Xiaochi nodded, without expressing any extra comments: "Well, I've heard of this version."
Lou Ying said: "I have also heard of another version. That one child is a good boy with excellent academic performance; and the five children are famous gangsters with bad behavior and poor learning. The same question, in In this case, how do you choose?"
Chi Xiaochi fell into silence.
"Bai Anyi" and Lou Ying were both waiting, wondering what answer Chi Xiaochi would give.
But Chi Xiaochi didn't answer directly, but pursed the corners of his lips: "...So, did you see it?"
Lou Ying pondered.
"Bai Anyi" raised his eyebrows: "What do you see?"
"The person who asked the question is intentionally adding conditions to it." Chi Xiaochi said, "He is intentionally inducing the answerer to hit the five children."
"Bai Anyi": "… "
As if... it was.
"It's like an application question done in elementary school. All the conditions are clearly laid out, and the ultimate goal is to let you get the last and only answer. This is also what the question maker asked us to do."
Chi Xiaochi said: "This kind of topic of deliberately adding conditions is meaningless at all. Because conditions are infinite, they can be added without limit. Suppose those five people are all murderers full of evil? Suppose those five people don't die, The next day, there will be a global tsunami, which will kill thousands of people; or simply assume that the existence of those five people will lead to the destruction of the earth? Will you collide? If you don't collide, I can still pile up Go on countless 'what-ifs' until you break through your bottom line and induce you to choose the answer the questioner wants."
"This is the same choice we face. Assuming that the power users who conceal their identities are harmful, and assuming that the secrets of the power users will lead to chaos in the social order, it makes sense to imprison and execute the disobedient power users. … That's what the builders of the institution came to based on the conditions."
"And in such a situation, we will also be induced. Either by killing ourselves to save ourselves, or by suicide, or by being killed by others, because this is the rule, the result of various conditions. But I want to try , is there a fourth way to go?"
"Bai Anyi": "What is the fourth way?"
Chi Xiaochi opened the warehouse and swiped the screen to find the card: "Whoever came up with this stupid problem, I will solve it. This is what I said, 'solve the problem'."
"Bai Anyi" asked from Bai Anyi's point of view: "What if you need to kill someone during this process? Do you think this is what Bai Anyi wants?"
"Since Bai Anyi has chosen to come back, then he is very clear about what he wants. He wants to survive." Chi Xiaochi said, "Living itself is an extremely utilitarian thing. And utilitarian means not sacrificing something. cannot be achieved.”
He said: "Some things, Bai Anyi may be clearer than you think. People who have died once should know that if they want to look up at the starry sky in peace, they must walk through that thorny field with their feet on the ground."
"Bai Anyi" said, "Mr. Pragmatist, you must be clear. When you say 'solving problems', you need to solve an entire organization, or even an entire country."
"I know." Chi Xiaochi said, "so I need help."
"So? What's our next move?"
Chi Xiaochi said: "Go back to the D20 area and win over new teammates."
"Bai Anyi" became more and more interested: "...Where is the teammate from? Is it someone you know?"
Chi Xiaochi rummaged through the warehouse for cards that could teleport, and said, "I just saw it. But when I save his life, we will be teammates."
"Bai Anyi" was at a loss: "... huh?"
What happened in the hour he was gone
It was Lou Ying who explained for Chi Xiaochi: "When we were waiting for you to come back, we found that some contestants came in outside the forest to rest."
"You borrowed their bodies and went to their world. It's impossible to get away with it. When they find out that the team members are dead, they will definitely check who has come to the D20 area. The worst is also the most likely possibility," Koike said. , you were discovered as soon as you went out, maybe someone was already investigating. So, Koike did not remind the power user who entered by mistake... "
"Bai Anyi" suddenly realized.
He thought he had no bottom line until he saw Chi Xiaochi.
Chi Xiaochi interjected: "To put it bluntly, I just want to pull someone to be the back."
"Bai Anyi": "Aren't you afraid to implicate that person?"
"My brother has released the poisoning function of his collar. At least he won't die immediately." Chi Xiaochi said, "It's almost time to count. We'll set off to save him now."
"Bai Anyi": "… "
It turns out that Chi Xiaochi was in a daze just now. He was not ruminating on the news he had obtained, but was calculating to save the power user who was pulled into the water for no reason
"If you go early, the battle may not have happened yet; if you go late, it will be too late." Chi Xiaochi said, "As long as I save his life, the probability of him choosing to join us is greater than 70%, so it's worth a try. "
"Aren't you afraid he's a 'catfish'?"
Chi Xiaochi took out a card, sandwiched the glowing poker-like object between his index and middle fingers, and squinted at him.
"The purpose of 'Catfish' is to kill people, and they always have to try to do it. It depends on whether you are alert enough." Chi Xiaochi laughed, "It's up to you."
"Bai Anyi" stared at Chi Xiaochi's back, and suddenly asked thoughtlessly, "...What have you experienced?"
He still didn't believe that Chi Xiaochi came from normal human society.
The normal social background should not give birth to a freak like Chi Xiaochi.
Chi Xiaochi turned his back to him and said calmly, "It's not worth mentioning."
"I take the liberty to ask. Are your parents still alive?"
Chi Xiaochi has dealt with similar questions many times from reporters, and the answers are fluent: "Both parents are still alive, and there is no divorce."
"Will they hit you?"
"Are you Lu Yu?" Chi Xiaochi said something unpopular, but he pursed his lips in amusement, "They don't hit me... They rarely hit me. At most, they just ignore me."
"Classmate relationship?"
"It's all fine."
"Have you ever encountered school bullying?"
"Meet, a small group. Then I said to one of the participants, no matter what bullying I get, whether it's him or not, I'll end up just putting the blame on him: I can't beat five of them, Always beat him. After he was beaten a few times by me, they stopped looking for me."
"Workplace bullying?"
"I'm making movies. The starting point is not bad, and it's a bit related. The crew is basically acquaintances, and they always hold me."
"Is the work stressful?"
"Not much. For me, acting is not difficult."
"Will you be scolded?"
"Often. That's why I occasionally scold the marketing account to solve the boredom."
After answering so many questions, Chi Xiaochi smiled: "Reporter Bai, is the interview over?"
"Bai Anyi" came to a conclusion: "You are really a freak."
Chi Xiaochi nodded noncommittally: "Thank you for the compliment."
"Bai Anyi" thought that Chi Xiaochi must have experienced something else, so he asked Lou Ying with his eyes.
Lou Ying shook his head, indicating that he didn't know either.
But he knew that Chi Xiaochi, as a person who once liked to look up at the stars, had traversed the thorny ground for thirteen years.
In the end, it just turned into a few understated jokes in his mouth.
When Chi Xiaochi was picking out whether there were any available cards, and planning to put them in the spare slot to use at any time, "Bai Anyi" approached Lou Ying: "Aren't you his friend?"
"A friend doesn't want to know everything about him." Lou Ying said calmly, "I just need to know what he wants me to know, and it's enough to believe it."
He added: "… Also, can I correct you a little bit?"
"Bai Anyi": "Correct what?"
Lou Ying: "I'm his boyfriend."
Chi Xiaochi, who was still holding his hand just now, shook his hand and almost teleported them to the N20 area, which was far away from D20.
After the teleportation was achieved without any risk, the re-entry purpose was already a wreck.
A huge sinkhole was blasted at the edge of the woods, and at the bottom lay a bloody corpse, dressed the same as them, but with clean soles.
… should be someone sent by the agency.
"The people in the organization may be angry because of the loss of a team, but in order not to attract attention, they will never send too many people." Chi Xiaochi showed the odds table displayed on the watch screen. "Because I have observed that this person named Wei Shiliu has good odds, and there should be people involved in gambling watching him. People in the organization dare not move too much."
"Bai Anyi" looked at his watch and chuckled.
On the odds table, Bai Anyi's name is really ranked last, and the odds are extremely high, but no one cares.
However, a digital account without a username actually bought a hundred bets for Bai Anyi.
Although "Bai Anyi" thought that this might be a rich man casting a wide net to catch fish, he still memorized the nine IDs.
They chased deep into the jungle.
In order to avoid revealing his strength, "Bai Anyi" fell into Chi Xiaochi's body early.
The location of the battle is constantly changing, as can be seen from the sound of gunfire that constantly changes directions.
Chi Xiaochi couldn't run, so he simply lay on Lou Ying's back and carried him forward all the way, constantly approaching the center of the battle.
In the distance, they saw two people.
The pursuer's right arm made a tingling mechanical turning sound, the gun body twisted, and the hot and soft barrel gradually expanded and thickened, changing into the appearance of Bazooka.
"chirp-boom-"
Tongues of fire spewed out from the muzzle, and the people who fled in front of them moved nimbly among the dense branches and leaves, their bodies were like chameleons, pale green, and blended with the surrounding green leaves.
However, under the impact of Bazooka's air waves, the three towering giant trees side by side suffered. He staggered and hung on a slightly shorter branch, and his chest was immediately dyed with the dark brown of the trunk.
The leaves hit Wei Shili on the back like a bullet.
He let go of his hand and rolled down from the tree, his clenched right hand released, and he threw something.
… It was the 24-sided dice that he had held in his mouth as hard candy in the car.
While the dice were still rolling in mid-air, he caught it with his left hand, opened his palm, and glanced hurriedly.
After seeing it clearly, Wei Shiliu suddenly changed his color and cursed loudly. He didn't dare to slack off in the slightest. He clenched his dice and ran deeper into the forest.
Strangely, when his hand touched the tree on one side, his hand did not change color anymore.
The man who was chasing him got close, and planned to make another shot.
When the muzzle began to glow red and gather energy, the barrel of the gun, which was steaming with heat due to overheating, was tied into a knot in the air.
By the time the hunters noticed it, it was too late.
… the shell banged and blew up.
The power of Bazooka was extraordinary, and Chi Xiaochi watched the man be smashed into scum by his own cannonball in front of him.
And Lou Ying, who caused all this to happen, picked up a tarpaulin that had been prepared a long time ago, waved it in the air, and covered it on Chi Xiaochi, blocking a wave of blood rain.
Lou Ying gritted his teeth, swallowed a wave of acid water, rushed through the corpse, and stopped in a clean place where there was no smell of blood.
Chi Xiaochi jumped off Lou Ying and said, "Come out. I know you are hiding behind a tree."
Wei Shiliu stuck out half of his head from behind a tree, and when he saw the person in front of him, he immediately became overjoyed, regardless of the fact that his life was just relieved, his words doubled: "Little glasses?! I remember What's your name Bai... Bai? We're on a train, do you remember me? I'm across from you, and I talked to you—"
Chi Xiaochi: "Yes. I remember. You are Wei Shiliu."
Wei Shiliu jumped out from behind the tree, his unkempt hair straightened: "Thank you, thank you, if you are one step later, I'll catch a cold and finish the calf."
"you are welcome."
In this sentence, Chi Xiaochi said it sincerely.
As Chi Xiaochi expected, in the face of these two people who "saved him", Wei Shiliu offered to form a team without even having to take the initiative to speak.
"Just right." He cheerfully said, "I just thought, to form a three-person team. No more, no less, just three people, and then live together, I didn't expect anything to come. This mask buddy, hello , did you screw the barrel of the gun just now? You are so fucking handsome. If you were a woman, I would definitely kiss you. What kind of power do you have? Why didn't I see you when I parked the car just now. what?"
Faced with a series of questions from him, Lou Ying did not answer any of them, but instead asked, "What is your ability?"
He and Chi Xiaochi had both seen his movements just now, and had already guessed his abilities.
But it is still necessary to try.
Wei Shiliu smacked his lips: "Well... If you want to say it, it should be 'luck'."
"luck?"
"My luck has not been very good since I was a child. I haven't even won the 'one more bottle' of the drink." Wei Shiliu showed the 24-sided dice in his palm, "All my good luck is on it."
24-sided dice, each side is marked with an ability.
On the side facing Chi Xiaochi, three small characters "Chameleon" were written.
… It happened to be the skill Wei Shili used when he escaped from the tree just now.
"The duration of each ability is 5 minutes, and it can only be shaken 10 times a day." Wei Shiliu said, "The ability displayed on each side of the dice will be updated the next day, and there will generally be three to five. blank side."
With the experience just now, Wei Shiliu must have regarded them as his true partners, and revealed his abilities and abilities like a bean in a bamboo tube: "Thanks to you. Marx sang the Internationale."
After talking about himself, Wei Shili looked at them eagerly: "What about you? What is your supernatural ability?"