Chapter 188 Never let ordinary people become slaves!
"The most urgent task now is to think about how to deal with the accountability of Yunhai Base City." Someone said with a wry smile the dilemma they are facing now.
They have lost their top combat power to resist the beast tide, but the beast tide is a matter for the future. Currently, their five major base cities have not faced the beast tide.
But the time has come for Yunhai Base City to be held accountable. Yunhai Base City was originally stronger than their five major base cities. Now that their five major base cities have lost their top combat power, the gap in strength between them and Yunhai Base City has become even greater.
If they can't think of a good way to deal with it, they will be destroyed by the Yunhai Base City before the beast tide arrives to destroy the Base City.
The current post-apocalyptic situation is that each major base city acts independently, either teaming up with each other or being hostile. Humans are best at infighting. The top leaders of the five major base cities put themselves in other people's shoes and think that if they were to have an advantage like Yunhai Base City, they would definitely not let go of other base cities.
The top leaders of the five major base cities gathered together, all of them were in a state of panic. They had lost their top talents, and were held accountable by the Yunhai Base City. Then there was the beast tide crisis. They felt like they were in a dire situation and it rained heavily. They were extremely unlucky.
Suddenly someone suggested, "Why don't we just surrender to Yunhai Base City? The top masters of our five major base cities are no match for Yunhai Base City. If we surrender to Yunhai Base City, we can ask the masters of Yunhai Base City to help us survive the beast tide and save the base city. Moreover, we are not too close to Yunhai Base City. Even if Yunhai Base City sends someone to take over our base city, they can only occupy the positions of Zhang Qi and others. What's the difference between us listening to Zhang Qi and others before and listening to Yunhai Base City now?"
This person's words immediately made the hearts of the top leaders of the five major base cities present start beating faster.
Yes, although these people are high-level officials of the five major base cities, they showed up only because Zhang Qi and other strong men were captured by Yunhai Base City.
In fact, they say they are high-level officials, but in fact their status only means they can participate in high-level meetings and have a voting right. The people who really control the base city are not them, but strong people like Zhang Qi.
Now Zhang Qi and others have been captured by Yunhai Base City, and no one knows whether they are dead or alive. But no matter whether they are alive or dead, the five major base cities are subservient to Yunhai Base City. Yunhai Base City can at most send some strong men to take over the five major base cities, but Yunhai Base City does not have so many powerful men with special powers to send over to replace all the senior personnel of the five major base cities, right?
So what’s the difference between this and before? It's nothing more than that they used to obey Zhang Qi and others, but after surrendering to Yunhai Base City, they have to obey the managers sent by Yunhai Base City.
There doesn't seem to be any harm to their interests.
But some people raised objections: "But the owner of Yunhai Base City, Gao Siyuan, is a strong man who likes to enslave people with special abilities. What if he asks us to be his slaves?"
Who would be willing to give up their freedom to become another person's slave? Even if the other person is so powerful that he can decide their life and death, they would not be willing to do so.
In fact, if Gao Siyuan hadn't treated the psychics in Yunhai Base City as slaves, the psychics in the other five base cities wouldn't have been so indignant and might not have united to attack Yunhai Base City.
The psychic who proposed surrender just now was a high-ranking official of Pingshan Base City. He added, "As I said before, our base city is not too close to Yunhai Base City. Even if Yunhai Base City rules us, even if they make us slaves, the emperor is far away. What's the difference from before, except for leaving a mark on the lower jaw? And everyone has this mark, even tenth-level psychics like Lin Zhen and Song Ming have them. Why should we feel ashamed?"
Many people think that this makes sense. After all, it is just a title. They are not the supernatural beings in Yunhai Base City. They may never have the chance to meet Gao Siyuan, their master, in their entire lives. Why should they care whether they are Gao Siyuan’s slaves?
They also don't believe that after being treated as slaves by Gao Siyuan, the psychics will really be whipped and forced to work like slaves. After all, who will be the supervisor? It’s impossible for Gao Siyuan to come by himself, right? It can't be that ordinary people who can't control people with special powers come, right?
Therefore, they all felt that this slavery might just make the psychics slaves in name, and it would not change their lives much. As the strongest one, Gao Siyuan might just be pursuing the pleasure of enslaving all the psychics, and only cared about being the master of all the psychics in name.
This analysis made the top leaders of the five major base cities more inclined to submit to Yunhai Base City, mainly because they had no choice. The beast tide season was about to arrive. If they did not submit to Yunhai Base City, without top powerhouses guarding the base city, the beast tide would destroy the base city, and they, the psychics, might even lose their lives and would not be able to become slaves.
So, except for a few individual dissenting voices, most people nodded in approval of the proposal, and after voting, decided to submit to Yunhai Base City.
Lin Zhen was still waiting for news from the five major base cities. He was thinking about how to use Zhang Qi and others to make a fortune from them in exchange for huge profits.
Unexpectedly, what they received was a letter of surrender sent by the remaining senior officials of the five major base cities.
Lin Zhen was completely stunned. Are these people so tactful?
As the leader of this mission, Song Ming saw the letters of surrender sent by the five major base cities and said with a smile: "They are sensible."
Then he took these letters of surrender to report to Si Yuan. Lin Zhen followed behind him and felt confused. Why did it seem like Song Ming was not surprised by the surrender of the five major base cities?
After meeting Si Yuan, Song Ming reported the matter respectfully: "Master, I sent someone to bribe a high-ranking official in Pingshan Base City who was at odds with Zhang Qi, and then asked him to submit to the master at the joint meeting of the five major base cities. Under the absolute strength of the master to capture all the members of the delegation, they all expressed their willingness to submit."
It turned out that at the meeting of the remaining senior executives of the five major base cities, the senior executive of Pingshan Base City who proposed to surrender to Yunhai Base City was bribed by Song Ming, and that was why he made this suggestion at that critical moment and convinced the senior executives of other base cities.
The reasons that the bribed senior executive used to convince other senior executives were also the reasons Song Ming used when he sent people to persuade him.
However, Song Ming never mentioned the big promise he made to that person in front of Si Yuan.
Anyway, the matter has been settled. How to deal with it next depends entirely on Si Yuan's decision. Song Ming will never interfere. After all, what he cares about is Si Yuan's trust and reuse. He will never let Si Yuan feel that he is overstepping his authority.
The image of a loyal and devoted lackey that Song Ming created in front of Si Yuan was quite successful. At least after listening to Song Ming's report, Si Yuan was very satisfied with his ability to do things.
So Si Yuan praised him: "Not bad."
Song Ming was immediately delighted, as if he was extremely lucky to be praised by his master. Even though Si Yuan knew that Song Ming did it on purpose for him to see, he still respected him a little more.
Lin Zhen on the side seemed to have no sense of existence. His mind was still immersed in Song Ming's plan to bribe the top leaders of Pingshan Base City and persuade the remaining top leaders of the five major base cities to voluntarily submit to Yunhai Base City.
I regretted why I didn’t think of it before. This allowed Song Ming to once again become the center of attention in front of his master.
Si Yuan never cared about the secret competition between Song Ming and Lin Zhen. He would use whoever was capable and could stand out in front of him.
When a superior employs people, he does not have to care whether his subordinates are competing secretly. He only needs to see whether the person who emerges meets his standards. If not, he will replace him until he is satisfied.
Anyway, there are many good horses, but there are few good horse trainers.
The person at the top of the ladder is always full of people who try hard to be noticed and employed by him.
Si Yuan now thinks that Song Ming is doing a good job, so he plans to give Song Ming the task of promoting the method of awakening enhanced superpowers.
This time he simply ignored Lin Zhen and only brought Song Ming to his experimental base, allowing Song Ming to see the current strength of those ordinary people who had gained enhanced superpowers in the experiment.
Song Ming didn't know that these enhanced psychics in front of him were ordinary people not long ago. He stood behind Si Yuan in confusion, watching these enhanced psychics demonstrate their strength. Their enhanced abilities were very normal and mediocre, no different from the enhanced psychics Song Ming had seen before. There was nothing special or outstanding about them. He didn't understand why Si Yuan brought him to see this.
At this time, Si Yuan explained to Song Ming: "These people with enhanced abilities were ordinary people not long ago. They practiced this body-refining method and injected this strengthening potion, and then they successfully awakened their enhanced abilities."
After listening to Si Yuan's words, Song Ming was shocked: "Can supernatural powers be awakened by external interference?"
Si Yuan's smile became a little subtle. In fact, the people he created with the body refining method and strengthening potions were not enhanced psychics, but ordinary people who simply improved their physical fitness. However, he reached an agreement with the world consciousness in the dark and took advantage of the loopholes in the laws of heaven and earth. Therefore, with the help of the world consciousness, these ordinary people who improved their physical fitness to the level of those who had just awakened enhanced superpowers were judged to have awakened enhanced superpowers.
Once they are judged as such by the world consciousness, they will naturally have enhanced abilities.
But of course he couldn't tell Song Ming this, so Si Yuan just said: "Only the enhanced superpowers can be awakened in this way. Other superpowers can only be awakened by oneself and cannot be awakened by external forces."
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