Chapter 433 Propaganda War
The person who knows a person best is always himself.
Would a useless person not know that he is useless? Of course he knows.
It is too cruel to just accept the reality that you are an incompetent waste. It is much easier to blame others for your failure than torment yourself with self-blame.
Do people who have taken the wrong path not know that they are stupid? Of course they do, but it is too hard to accept the reality that they have ruined their own lives. It is easier to curse the heavens and the earth, be cynical, and take out their anger on others.
Sam betrayed Captain Gavin and three other Night's Watchmen, with whom he had been living day and night, and ruined his future advancement within the church. In the dead of night, will he not regret his stupid behavior and turn from a promising Night's Watch officer into a dog that bites whatever others point at?
Yes.
The people who dragged him into this were respectful at first but arrogant later, the vicious behavior that forced him to take action when dealing with Mrs. Gavin, the fear and sleepless nights when receiving the daily greeting letters from the Night Watch headquarters in Creek City... Sam had regretted it a long time ago.
But accepting this feeling of regret is too painful and too hard to bear.
Sam could only escape, could only coax himself and convince himself to hate fate, to hate the Gold Coin Church, to hate the Atwood family for not treating him well enough - blaming others was much better than blaming himself.
Agent Stanford did not see through Sam's self-deception. He simply pointed out the facts that Sam himself was unwilling to and tried hard to hide deep in his subconscious. He put these shameful things that could not be seen in the light and told to outsiders clearly on the table...Sam's defense was broken.
Sam saw with his own eyes that his illegitimate father squandered all the family fortune that his grandmother had worked hard to save as a mistress in less than ten years. How could he, who had lived a hard life since childhood, not know how promising a job being a Night's Watch Officer was?
How could Sam, who grew up in the civilian area of Lars City, not know how many people could not find a job and had to rely on robbery to do hard labor? If it weren't for the surname Atwood, how could the position of Night Watch Officer fall so easily on his head?
Sam had simply deceived himself, to the point where he even believed that he was really only doing it out of anger and hatred.
Agent Stanford punctured Sam's mental defense layer that was built on a foundation of deception. Sam, who was already out of control, took another critical hit like this. He would want to disappear more than anyone else - from his body to his soul, completely disappear.
If it were the Earth plane, if a person's mental defense layer was exposed, the worst that could happen was schizophrenia or madness, but at least the body could still be left. But in this plane where mental power can interfere with matter, then people would literally disappear on the spot, leaving nothing behind.
While Agent Stanford was shocked by his own "results", on the other side, the player who was struggling to complete the mission with a group of "troublesome people" in the nameless canyon finally waited for the Adler militia to receive the civilians.
Like the militia in Innader, the militia in Adler had 30% female soldiers. However, because the Rhine Kingdom was an agricultural country with a relatively conservative social atmosphere, there were very few female soldiers who enlisted in the army, and not even 20% of the quota was filled.
Taking into account that there were women among the civilians to be received, Major Kirk assigned several female militiamen to the team that received and resettled civilians; and this arrangement indeed paid off.
The civilians who were tied up by the undead in the valley and "forced to protect" were frightened and cried for their parents when they saw that the soldiers were coming to take them. It was not until they found that there were many female soldiers among them that they calmed down a little...
It’s not that these “troublesome people” are difficult to deal with, but the army is a violent organization... Even on Earth, China is the only country that feels relieved immediately after hearing “the army is coming”.
If there are female soldiers in an army, and these female soldiers are equal to male soldiers and are not the ones who are enslaved and oppressed, then such an army can at least give people an initial impression of "civilization and fairness" - no matter which dimension, no matter whether people have the nature of admiring the strong and bullying the weak, most people still prefer to be in an environment that emphasizes fairness and civilization and does not openly bully the weak.
After passing this hot potato to the NPCs, the players of Qin Guan Blood Alliance left the valley without any reluctance and headed straight for the southern mountainous area of Tachia Territory - everyone else had reaped the benefits of their "world view breakthrough mission" and were happily capturing cultists and looting spoils, but they were still dragging a bunch of unruly people here to guard the place, which was disgusting!
The Adler militiamen had long known that the Tarantan undead were restless, so they didn't care about the undead who would run away after handing over their lives. They searched the canyon, picked up large furniture, utensils, carriages, mules and horses that the undead looked down upon, and then left the mountain with more than 200 surviving civilians.
Led by the guide, the civilians were brought back to Baboba Town. The militia did not immediately repatriate the civilians, but hastily set up a camp outside the town and temporarily detained all the civilians...
The girl Bennett is from the town of Baboba. During the days she traveled back and forth deep into the mountains, she experienced ups and downs and strange encounters that many people would never experience in their entire lives.
When he saw his hometown from afar, the exhausted Bennett thought he could go home immediately. However, the militia who brought them out of the mountains had no intention of releasing them and still isolated them outside the town. This made it difficult for the nervous Bennett to control his emotions, and he burst into tears after being sent to the simple barracks.
The girls and women who were imprisoned in the same barracks with Bennett were infected by her and began to sob.
The female militia guarding the women's barracks came in and took a look. Seeing that these civilians were just crying by themselves and not fighting or pulling each other's hair, she ignored them and retreated.
"I want to go home! Why don't you let me go home!" Seeing that the two female militiamen who had taken care of them along the way were not going to care about them, Bennett pretended to be brave and cried.
"Don't be anxious, wait a moment. Once we're sure there's nothing wrong with you, we'll let you go back." The female militia turned around and comforted her.
"What's wrong with us? We didn't do anything?" a woman who was sobbing quietly said hurriedly.
The female militia had no choice but to stop and explain the situation to the civilian women: "You really didn't do anything, but because you have been in contact with the cultists, we must temporarily isolate you for observation to make sure you are not contaminated by them. We are not trying to embarrass you, but for the sake of your families and relatives and friends. You don't want to go home with potential safety hazards and harm your relatives, right?"
All the civilian women in the barracks opened their mouths wide...
The undead could not speak their language, and the militiamen who took over them were busy on the road and did not talk to them much. This was the first time since they had encountered the incident that they heard someone define the chief priest, priests, and black-robed followers they knew as a "cult."
"What, what cult?" Bennett asked in shock. "Sir, what are you talking about?"
The female militia slapped her head, and then she realized that these civilians knew nothing...
This female militia, who was originally a servant in a middle-class family in Dutata City, quickly reported the matter to the team officer.
The team officer who led the male militia to expand the camp also thought of this at this time, and hurriedly reported the matter to Yang - the militia led by Innadeli and Adler, all the non-commissioned officers were within Yang Qiu's brand matrix.
Yang Qiu also acted quickly and immediately issued an errand task, asking the players to deliver the anti-cult materials compiled by the clerk, as well as the small home projectors, microphones, speakers and other publicity tools used to play the materials to Baboba Town.
The civilians whose personal freedom was temporarily restricted were organized by the militiamen in charge of them the next evening and gathered in the center of the camp on the hastily leveled ground to receive education.
Robin, an Adler female militia member who used to be a maid in a middle-class family, had a certain level of education and was eloquent, and after urgently learning how to use the projector, she temporarily served as an anti-cult propaganda explainer.
The civilians, who generally suffered from night blindness and an inexplicable fear of the dark, sat down nervously in the center of the camp. They saw the hanging screen supported by bamboo poles and wooden sticks by the militia being lowered, projecting a huge picture that could be clearly seen from a long distance.
The first set of pictures projected were very shocking - a huge monster occupying the entire city street, and a large number of undead warriors working together to besiege the monster!
Well, these very impactful pictures are actually screenshots taken by players when they were destroying the "Eternal Sleeper" cultists and posted on the player forum...
The first-angle screenshots of players fighting monsters in person were so shocking that it goes without saying that the posts on the player forum were reposted crazily and were mistaken by many people on Earth as CG images or movie posters.
These shocking images attracted even the people on Earth, not to mention the civilians who had never experienced visual stimulation. Many people even thought that the monsters in the images were about to break through the curtain and run into the crowd to kill people. They tried to run away screaming and howling, and the militiamen who were maintaining order were sweating profusely.
"Calm down! Calm down! This is just an image of the monster that the Tarantan Undead have destroyed! It has been killed! It has disappeared from this world!"
The tour guide Robin shouted into the microphone, and the sound amplified by the speakers resounded through the clouds.
It was the first time for the militiamen to use this propaganda tool and they didn't know how to set it up, so they turned the volume of the speakers to maximum. Not only were the civilians in the camp shocked by the loud noise, but the residents of the nearby town were also attracted by the sudden woman's shouting and curiously poked their heads in the direction of the camp. Some of the brave ones even walked out of their homes and moved towards the camp.
And then...these townspeople who came out to watch the fun also saw the huge movie screen in the middle of the camp and the clear images of monsters projected on the screen.
Fortunately, the distance was a bit far, otherwise these townspeople would be frightened like the civilians near the curtain.
The civilians in the camp calmed down a little. The guide Robin wiped his sweat, carefully controlled the projector, switched the projected images, and nervously began to read the text on the materials:
"This monster was transformed from the 'Eternal Sleeper' cultist that the Tarantan Undead exterminated in the city of Dutata in Adler Territory last year. When the Undead traced the cult to the home of a man named Johnson, he put up a desperate resistance..."
Several huge pictures were released in succession, introducing the "Eternal Sleeper" cult rebellion that had actually been reported in the newspapers but most civilians still knew nothing about it. Then came the highlight - the black-robed leader who lost control and transformed into a monster in the nameless canyon and violently demolished the temple!
Because of the painful experience of forgetting to record Toby Bennett's "ending CG", Qin Guan developed the habit of taking screenshots and recording videos anytime and anywhere, and clearing the screenshot space (in fact, the built-in capacity of the player's own camera is not very large).
The monster that "appeared" for only 20 seconds, disintegrated due to instability after demolishing the temple, and was tragically "killed" by the plot, was recorded by Qin Guan in the whole process, posted on the player forum, and then used by Yang Qiu ...
Also because Qin Guan recorded the first-person video, this part of the promotional content is not just static pictures, but short videos!
The entire audience fell silent as the 27-second video of a monster demolishing a temple was played on a standard screen that was 15 meters high and 20 meters wide.
There is no sound, only pictures, but the shock is no less than the shock the Chinese people felt when they first saw a giant robot on the big screen.
Especially the civilians who had been to the nameless canyon and had witnessed how majestic and magnificent the temple was before it was destroyed, their jaws dropped to the ground.
After the video was played, the more than 200 civilians sitting on the ground in the camp and the local townspeople who came over in the dark to watch the excitement, opened their mouths wide for a long time.
"Are you curious about who this monster is that demolished a building just by showing up?" The guide Robin held the script in his hand, and his unstable voice was carried over half of the town of Baboba. "He is the leader of the so-called 'Holy Church' that you have seen with your own eyes!"
"The Tarantan Undead tracked down clues of the cult and went deep into the mountains, and found the lair of the cult that called itself the 'Holy Church'. This man who boasted of being the 'leader of the priests' turned into such a terrible and ugly monster!"
