"You can't see the whole picture just by observing in the field. You should be able to distort the light to achieve invisibility, right? Let's go to the village and have a look. If these crops need to be harvested once a month, the workload will still be huge."
Huang Tao snapped his fingers, and then there was a burst of light distortion where the two people were, hiding their figures: "Didn't I say that mechanized agriculture has been implemented here? Isn't the work about driving to harvest and driving to sow?"
"Oh, you have no experience in rural life. Before you traveled through time, there were many areas in the country that had mechanized agriculture, but during the busy farming season, everyone was as tired as a dog. Do you think you have been driving for a whole day?
Easy?
And don’t vehicles need to be loaded and unloaded? The harvested grain needs to be dried in the yard and repacked for storage. Even if it is all mechanized, there are still many places that require manpower.
A place that is ripe once a year must be busy for at least two months, let alone a place like this that is ripe at least ten times a year.”
The Emperor was not a farmer before traveling through time, so he really didn't know much about this aspect. He thought that after mechanization, farmers would just drive sowing seeds, spray pesticides, and harvest, and spend the rest of the time playing mahjong at home.
The two of them went to the village invisibly. As soon as they entered the village, they saw piles of large wheat spread out to dry in the huge yard. Many people were busy bagging the wheat and loading it into cars. The steam cars kept coming.
Not only men are busy here, but women and children are also busy.
"Huh? There are actually children here? And there are quite a lot of them? Even if the probability of premature death in this world was very high before you came, it wouldn't be so high, right? Children here account for almost a quarter, excluding those under eight years old.
There is absolutely no ability to work. Isn’t this an exaggerated proportion?”
Lan Nuo rolled his eyes: "Don't you think, what should be more surprising is that people living in the Kingdom of God also need to eat?"
"That's right! They actually want to eat too." The emperor realized belatedly at this time. He was being chased by an army of machines in front of him. He had never thought about this issue at all. Only now did he feel that it was against his will.
"You have accepted that they need to eat, but can't you accept that they also have birth, old age, sickness and death? Among those children, the youngest is only eight or nine years old, but they can continue to engage in various non-heavy physical activities
Labor. Do you think you have the patience at your age to endure fatigue and continue to complete complex work?
I estimate that these are most likely dead people whose souls have resurrected in the bodies of newborns in this world. They are equivalent to reborn people. They have previous memories and can understand the knowledge they have learned before without studying. You don’t
Did you notice? Everyone here can read and do math, but in the cities and villages we passed by, there were almost no schools."
"No way? It's not that outrageous, right? Doesn't this mean we have to work so hard since we were young? If it were me, I would have been lying flat!"
"Haha, lie down? That's a nice thought. Why don't they lie down?" Lan Nuo observed the actions of these people and could see that they worked very hard, and there were almost no lazy ones. To say this,
It's because of his piety that Lan Nuo wouldn't believe it even to death. After all, he has run so many civilizations, but he has never seen any one where all the people can work voluntarily based on pure faith.
"Then why don't they lie down? Didn't you see anyone whipping them?"
"Tsk...why don't you have a long memory? Why didn't you lie down before you traveled through time? Why did you want to be a social beast in the company?" Lan Nuo rolled his eyes.
"Because I have to earn money to support my family, I have to marry a wife, I have to pay off the mortgage, I have to think about housing in the school district, and my children have to spend money to go to school. If I don't have any savings when I get old, it will definitely not be a happy ending. I am lying flat and drinking Northwest wine with my family.
Wind?"
"That's okay. Before you traveled through time, housing, education, and medical care were so expensive that you had to work overtime voluntarily. But to be honest, if these things are gone, it's not like you can't live, but it's just uncomfortable. Guess,
What will happen if what is monopolized is not real estate, but food, clothing, or even water?"
Huang Tao: "..."
In fact, when Lan Nuo asked the question, he had already reacted. After all, he was an emperor, so he still had this experience. However, with their productivity at that time, it was impossible for him to do such a thing.
It is impossible for people in the 21st century to do such crazy things.
The development of the matter was not as expected by the two of them. A bell rang, and people working in the yard rushed to the canteen one after another. They exchanged a special anti-counterfeiting note for poor food and a small glass of water, and started gobbling it up.
"Tsk! The food is clearly placed in front of them. Even if it is unpalatable to eat raw, wouldn't they eat it secretly if they are really hungry?" The Emperor looked at the believers who were eating like devils and felt that his fists were hardened, but it was very painful.
His questions were soon answered.
Before work ended for the day, these people all lined up in a long line and passed in front of a man in black robe, and the man in black robe was holding a pendulum in his hand.
When most people pass by, the pendulum will rotate counterclockwise, but when someone passes by and the pendulum rotates clockwise, something bad will happen. When a woman passes by, the pendulum will rotate clockwise.
She was immediately pushed to the ground, and then someone searched her body. After finding nothing, someone began to ask her where the food was hidden.
The woman gritted her teeth but did not tell the location of the food, but it was useless. The man in black robe took out a cane, stood it up, looked at the direction where the cane fell, pointed there, and immediately
Someone started searching that way with him.
It didn't take long to find several sacks of hidden grains. The woman had been beaten until her nose was bruised and her face was swollen, but she still didn't say a word. The man in black robe stared at her coldly: "Say! Who else are your accomplices? Don't tell me.
If so, I will send you to the support team!"
The Great Emperor once again incarnated into a hundred thousand whys: "What is the Stand Up Team?"
Lan Nuo: "..."
"It's something that will be blocked if you say it. I thought this name was passed down from you? It seems to be the fault of several other time-travelers. Anyway, you can guess where it is."
Huang Tao: "..."
On the other side, the interrogation did not go well, but the man in black didn't care: "Huh? You won't tell? Do you think you can save them if you don't tell? If you don't tell, you can only make their crimes worse."
The man in black robe grabbed a handful of grain, then closed his eyes and fell asleep. After a while, he announced a few names, and guards immediately arrested them one by one. The next scene was not suitable.
To describe it in any form, in a world where no one will die, there really aren't too many ways to make people suffer so much that they can't even wish for death.
…
"Damn, what a bunch of beasts!" Huang Tao clenched his fists until they turned white. This was the first time he had seen how far extraordinary power could be used in high-pressure rule.
Lan Nuo looked at the scene in front of him, but he had no intention of taking action. Instead, he fell into thinking.
"Why are you still standing there? Aren't you, the Mo family, the most evil people? Aren't you doing things all day long to fight against injustice? Why are you so indifferent now?"
Lan Nuo shook his head: "First, if our previous inferences are correct, people in this world will not die under normal circumstances, so the situation is not urgent enough to require immediate action. Second, I am thinking about this woman
The motive of hiding food with her accomplices is just to have an extra mouthful of food, it doesn't seem worth it."
Huang Tao thought for a while and asked: "You mean they are planning to escape, escape from the village, go to the wilderness to survive, and completely get rid of this model of not being able to support themselves with food?"
"It's possible, but there's one more thing that doesn't make sense. You've also seen that children in this world are as old-fashioned as adults. Our previous guesses are probably right. The God of Steam and Machinery controls this world.
Similar to the authority of reincarnation, it can control the cycle of life and death of people.
So if you escape in this life, won't you have to be captured in the next life after death? And because you escape in this life, you will definitely experience inhumane torture in the next life.
Maybe some people who really can't stand the life they live in front of them will choose this way, but if you ask me, people who choose this way will most likely lack long-term vision, and such people want to organize a group of people to escape with them.
, the difficulty is too great.
Although I’m not sure, there is probably an organization in this world that can help believers escape from reincarnation. Otherwise, why do you think this woman can be so aloof from death?”
The Emperor seemed to have thought of something: "Are you saying that there is a resistance organization in this world, and that the other party has mastered some kind of method that allows people to actively reincarnate?"
"It doesn't have to be active reincarnation. It's also possible to completely kill a person. To be honest, with their living conditions, even if they don't say that life is worse than death, it should be about the same. To a certain extent, complete death is the opposite.
It's a relief.
It is very important to us whether there is such an organization. If it exists, it will at least provide us with two pieces of information. First, the God of Steam and Machinery cannot conduct comprehensive monitoring of his kingdom, or what?
Relatively easy methods can block his monitoring.
Second, his control over reincarnation is not perfect. In this way, we can give a promise that is enough to make the believers here excited.
If in the human world, God promises believers a paradise full of honey and milk, then in the current hell, what we can promise them is eternal rest. Is there such a method or item? For us,
Very important."
Lan Nuo has become more accustomed to this kind of independent mission without logistical support. After all, his personal strength is limited, so he still has to find a way to borrow the strength of the local indigenous people.
"Then how do we find the possible rebels, and how do they exist? There are diviners here. We should be able to find the location of the rebels through divination, right? If they can't find them, they will be chased.
Why can we find a rat that has been killed and is running around?" Huang Tao's IQ suddenly came online and asked a soul question. Indeed, this is the home ground of the God of Steam and Machinery. If they can't catch the rebels, then the two of them will have nothing to do with it.
If you want to find it.
"Well... what you said makes sense, but there must be extraordinary people among the resistance. They can use anti-divination technology to interfere with the results of divination. In addition... some organized covert operations can also be used
Interfering with the results of divination.
For example, during the execution of an operation, a group of people are set aside specifically for relay, just like they are used to interfere with the enemy's meat machine during a hacker battle.
This is also very common in normal criminal operations. That is, the mastermind never appears in person, but delegates tasks level by level. Through divination, he can capture at most a few grassroots members in order to get clues about the mastermind.
, it will be much more difficult.”
"Then how can you find such a person, or how can you completely kill the residents of this world. If I can still communicate with the Sea of Dirac, I can use vacuum decay to completely kill them, but the parameters of the universe will change.
Let alone the Sea of Dilac, many parts of our mecha that use electricity are no longer easy to use. At most, I can snatch a few souls from the hands of the God of Steam and Machinery, but I can only snatch a few.
If there is no way to let people rest in peace, it will be difficult for us to convince these people who will never die."
"Actually, it's not impossible. If we can't find them, let them come to us. The enemy of our enemy is our friend. This is not true in all cases, but if it is a desperate organization,
I will definitely find a way to contact the enemy of my enemy.”
"You mean you want me to make a big fuss?" Huang Tao raised his eyebrows. He had already wanted to take action. If the teammates around him hadn't been suppressing her, he would have killed the woman just now when she was tortured.
"That's pretty much what it means, but you have to present our philosophy. We can't let the people of this world think that we were tricked by the God of Steam into killing us. We have to make them think that we are here to liberate them.
Since this Kingdom of God is used as a weapon, other people must have been imprisoned in the past, and they all died at the hands of the aboriginal people of this world. On a certain level, they are not only afraid of the God of Steam and Machinery, but also fear the God of Steam and Machinery.
They have a blood feud with outsiders like us.
If my guess is correct, 90% of the outsiders will see the army approaching the border as soon as they arrive, and most of them will kill without mercy as soon as possible. People in this world will definitely put a lot of hatred on the heads of the outsiders.
, so we have to behave differently from them, understand?”
Huang Tao: "..."
…
While the two were discussing, the woman who hid the food and her accomplices had been beaten to pieces with whips dipped in salt water. The bodies they used would probably not survive tonight, and once they died and became souls, they would probably die.
There was no hope of escape. At that time, I was even more vulnerable, and I didn’t know what kind of torture I would suffer.
Just when despair appeared in the eyes of several people, a loud shout suddenly sounded: "You are the lackeys of the false god! You bully men and women all day long, and work as a slave to others. Aren't you afraid of retribution?" Huang Tao was covered in black flames, with demonic energy overwhelming the sky, and countless people behind him.
With lightning as the background, the pose is so domineering and cool!
