Chapter 158 Students
The Chinese people always give people the external image of being humble, polite, moderate and low-key, but in fact... when it comes to martial virtues, there are really few nations on earth that can compete with the Chinese.
The ancients said, "Are there any kings, dukes, generals or ministers of different species?" Today, people firmly believe that the Chinese nation will eventually usher in a great rejuvenation. When their homes are flooded, Dayu controls the floods; when it doesn't rain, they whip the Dragon King; when there are too many suns, Houyi shoots them down; when the way out is blocked, Yugong moves the mountains - they regard going against the will of heaven as the righteous path in the world. In fact, the Chinese have never concealed their own martial virtues...
Yang Qiu is undoubtedly an orthodox Chinese. When conditions are not right, he can only be a madman causing trouble all over the world. When conditions are right, he can't control the martial virtue engraved in his bones and blood - with three thousand undead in his hands, he can't go to the world, and he can't go to a little Innadeli like you?
Of course...it is still very difficult to take down Innadri with only 3,300 undead.
It's not that it's difficult to win. No army can compete with the undead in terms of casualties. Morale, food, and supplies, which are the factors that determine victory in a war, have no effect on the undead. As long as Yang Qiu provides a temporary teleportation point and continues to use himself as a power bank to provide players with unlimited resurrection, winning a battle is only a matter of time.
The biggest problems are how to smoothly take over management and how to ensure local order after taking over.
It took the US military less than half a year to control Afghanistan's major cities from the first round of air strikes.
Then... the security war lasted for 18 years, and the US military was so exhausted that they wanted to die...
It only took the players one night to capture Westram, but it took three full months for Westram to truly accept the rule of the "Tarantan system".
In the past three months, not to mention how much effort Rex, Ji Tang, Zhao Zhenzhen and others put in, Yang Qiu alone moved several containers of instant noodles...
The Innadri territory has a big city, more than 20 small towns, over 200 to 300 villages of various sizes, and a total population of over one million. With Westram's current team, it is impossible to manage such a large territory.
Yang Qiu dropped a bomb to blast Rex silly and then left in style. Ji Tang, sweating profusely, immediately logged off and ran to get help - not to mention that Zhao Zhenzhen was assigned away by Yang, even if Zhao Zhenzhen was still there, she alone as a political cadre would be completely unable to handle the situation!
The expert group conducted a multi-angle and comprehensive psychological assessment of Yang, and had a plan for the possibility that Yang would take the initiative to attack Innadili - especially after Yang himself revealed to Zhao Zhenzhen that he was indeed an Earthling and highly suspected to be a Chinese.
The Tarantans' behavior of running into someone else's house, occupying a small room and refusing to leave would inevitably lead to a retaliation from the host; since Yang is also a Chinese, he must know the eternal truth that "I will not allow others to sleep beside my bed", so in order to avoid the enemy rushing into the house and destroying the stable order that he had worked so hard to maintain, Yang would be more likely to take the initiative.
November 23rd, Saturday, 8 am, Earth time, 2 pm in the other world.
Two skeletons appeared silently at the undead birthplace in the center of Exile Town.
The two skeletons looked at the scenery of the cross street of Exile Town with curiosity, then swiftly got down from the earthen platform and met Ji Tang who was waiting nearby.
Ji Tang quickly brought the two big guys into the back streets and distributed five sets of equipment for novice players to them - a T-shirt and shorts, a steel knife, a piece of leather armor with iron plates, and a waist bag.
After dressing up the two big guys to look like ordinary players, Ji Tang immediately took the two reinforcements and headed straight to the Undead Chamber of Commerce...
In the cafeteria of the Undead Chamber of Commerce headquarters, in addition to the two "tools" Master Liu and Lao Geng, there were about twenty local natives.
These natives... are naturally Mia's fellow countrymen, the Camor people who followed Yang to Tarantan. Among them are Collins Carter, the lame man who once depended on Mia, and Martina, the woman who was once rescued by the player.
A few months later, Collins Carter, who was so weak that he had to count on his fingers waiting for death, and Martina, who had such poor eyesight that she could not tell the gender of a man or woman more than one meter away, have recovered and are now radiant with health.
Collins Carter's legs were still badly lame and he walked with a limp, but he could now carry 20 kilograms of frozen meat and walk briskly - before his body was ruined, he had been a strong plantation cotton farmer.
Martina's eyesight is still poor, but she can now see normally - like other women whose eyesight has been damaged by long-term textile work, she wears glasses.
Ji Tang invited the two big guys into the cafeteria. The natives such as Carter, Martina, etc. who were waiting in the hall in advance immediately stood up and bowed in unison.
"Hey, why are you doing this?" This welcome scene did not satisfy the two new bosses. One of them said unhappily, "Xiao Ji, you guys come here to carry out your work, don't act like you are the emperor."
"Don't be so serious, Brother Zhou." Without waiting for the embarrassed Ji Tang to explain, Master Liu smiled and said, "They did it on their own initiative. We definitely didn't give them any random advice. The world here attaches great importance to the inheritance of master and apprentice, and there are many rules. When we told them that a teacher was coming to teach them skills, they were so panicked that they didn't dare to agree. It took them a long time to agree to worship you two masters. If you even dislike being polite, it's like telling them not to learn skills from you."
The boss whose last name was Zhou pointed at Master Liu with his finger. In Boss Zhou's opinion, Master Liu was the type who was too smooth. But after all, it was not good to expose someone's past in front of young people.
"Alright, alright, when in Rome, do as the Romans do." Master Liu didn't care what Boss Zhou thought of him at all, and smiled like a Maitreya Buddha. "These students have a weak foundation, but they have the drive to learn, so they are worth teaching, especially Carter, the guy with a problem on his leg. He has a good comprehension and high awareness. Lao Geng and I both think he is a good candidate for doing things. Lao Zhou, please work harder."
Boss Zhou had no way to deal with Master Liu, so he could only turn around and look at the older students who were waiting for his teaching.
These students are quite old...
Judging from their average age, they are over 40 years old (in fact, the average age is less than 40). They all have big hands and feet, and their faces are full of traces of time. You can tell at a glance that they all come from poor backgrounds.
Nineteen of the twenty-four students were women. All of them were less than 1.6 meters tall (due to long-term malnutrition) and all wore glasses.
But... they all had good spirits and clear eyes. It was obvious that Master Liu and Lao Geng had put a lot of effort into selecting these people.
Having worked at the grassroots level for many years, Mr. Zhou has developed a keen eye. With just a quick glance at the older students, he knew that they were a group of people who were passionate about changing their lives and their destinies.
Boss Zhou couldn't help but nodded... As a human being, you must have this kind of energy and drive, and the courage to start over again no matter how old you are. Only then will life have a purpose and meaning!
"Everyone, please sit down. Sit down." Boss Zhou raised his hand and pressed down, "Don't stand. Sit down and talk."
After letting the older students sit down, Mr. Zhou didn't rush to start the class. He pulled a stool over and started chatting with these students...
When the other boss saw that Lao Zhou took over the job without saying a word, he naturally would not argue with Lao Zhou and turned to look at Ji Tang.
Ji Tang immediately took this big guy to Westram...
This big guy had seen the students of Lao Zhou's school and was prepared to teach the older students again. But... Ji Tang dragged him to a place with a sign that said "shelter" and pulled out dozens of young and pretty men and women...
The boss just looked at Ji Tang deeply without saying anything.
Ji Tang was sweating profusely: "Chief, please don't misunderstand... These are the people who were mentioned in that report and who have been persecuted."
The boss thought about the contents of the report and looked at this group of overly young and beautiful students again, his eyes softened a lot.
This time, when he looked at everyone carefully, he also found that... these natives from other worlds looked at him with expectation, nervousness, curiosity, but more importantly, with urgency.
The urgency of wanting to prove oneself.
The boss nodded slightly.
People who are born in a poor family and have unfortunate fate, but still yearn for the opportunity to change their fate through learning and to prove their own value, deserve positive feedback from fate.
"Hello everyone, my last name is Jiang..."
Ji Tang quietly left the room that served as a classroom and handed it over to Boss Jiang.
The helmets obtained by the expert group in the second internal test are more used in medical research, and it is impossible to open them to let people enter the "game". Besides, with the scale of the continent that can be glimpsed in this alien world at present, if they have to keep sending people to help with the administration, it would be a bottomless pit - China is too busy with its own family affairs!
It is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish. It is better to give a man a push and let him walk by himself than to hold him up to walk.
The revolution of this world and the people of this world cannot be absent.
When coming out of the shelter, Ji Tang ran into Ms. Shirley, Ms. Sibel and others who were taking turns to rest with tired faces.
"Hurry up and go to the leftmost room on the second floor of the third building. Classes have just started, so there's still time to go now." Ji Tang said hurriedly.
The clerks working in the town hall of course knew that Mayor Ji Tang had invited some great teachers to teach them skills, so they became excited and immediately ran towards the third building.
At the pool not far away, among the people who were washing clothes, a lady suddenly raised the soap in her hand high and threw it into the basin with force.
The people nearby were splashed with dirty water and shouted angrily, "Phi Pi! What are you crazy about?"
Fei Bi was already full of anger and had nowhere to vent it. Seeing someone dared to provoke her, she immediately rushed over and started fighting...
Ji Tang, who hadn't even walked out of the shelter, was shocked and ran back quickly: "Stop it, what are you doing?!"
Those who have not obtained the Azalea Badge cannot hear the sounds of the undead. Fei Bi and the angry woman who fought back could not hear Ji Tang's shouts to stop them, and the fight became more and more fierce.
Ji Tang had no choice but to control Fei Bi, who took the initiative to beat others, and asked someone to call the housekeeper Mia.
There had never been a fight in the shelter, so Mia took this matter very seriously. She immediately dropped what she was doing and rushed back. She called Phoebe and the lady who had been fighting into the room to ask what had happened.
After confirming that it was Fei Bi who unilaterally provoked the trouble, Mia asked the other lady to go back and rest, leaving only Fei Bi behind.
There was no one else, and facing Mia, who had always been responsible for the daily lives of all of them and was very easy to talk to, Fei Bi finally spoke the truth: "I can read, and I have suffered a lot on this street like everyone else. I am no worse than others, and I am much younger than Shirley and the others - why doesn't the clerk want me?!"
Mia fell silent...
After a long while, Mia sighed softly: "Because you are missing something, Feifei."
"What am I missing? Even Xibel can walk on the street and show off, how am I worse than that woman?!" Fei Bi was very unwilling.
"You have no empathy for other people's pain." Mia said faintly, "Don't you realize that you are a person who only cares about yourself?"
"Stop saying such nice things. Tell me, is there anyone in this world who doesn't only care about himself?" Fei Bi shouted angrily.
"There's nothing wrong with thinking about yourself, Fei Bi. Everyone needs to think about themselves. It's reasonable. If you're just an ordinary person, it's okay to be a little selfish." Mia said patiently, "But if you want to become a clerk working for the town hall and gain power, you must have empathy and compassion for the pain of others. Otherwise, the power in your hands will not only fail to make you work better for the town hall, but will become a knife in your hand to hurt others."
In order to expand the administrative team, Mayor Ji Tang's idea from the beginning was to look for members from the proletariat who had suffered the most and endured the most pain.
It doesn't mean that people who have suffered and endured hardships can be taught to be fair and just when doing things. In fact, there are many people who, having suffered themselves, wish others to suffer more.
People who have experienced hardships and can maintain empathy are the best candidates for doing mass work - those who only have empathy but have never experienced hardships are likely to be brain-dead saints and not pragmatic in their work; those who have only experienced hardships but have no empathy are likely to turn into greedy tigers after gaining power.
Whether it was the Exile Town or Westham, the clerks and operators, as well as the students participating in this training, were selected according to this principle. Mia, the chief steward of Westham's Logistics Department, knew this very well.
