Volume 5: A New Era Chapter 19: Trap
After being disrupted by a battle, Zhang Hao gradually calmed down, although he did not hear clearly what Lu Bai said to the other party.
He reread the information about Lu Bai's foreign martial arts learning mutual aid association.
I found that the promotional materials of the entire mutual aid association only explained the benefits but not the costs.
The only price is the pitifully low membership fee.
This is not normal.
Or rather, it's not normal relative to what you get.
Lu Bai's "Immortal Touching My Head" can allow people to learn various martial arts instantly. After the "memory instinct" is injected, one can master that martial art with just a little practice.
Complete, convenient, fast and without side effects.
Everything looks fine except for the snake-like lines that form around the ears.
The reason why Zhang Hao was so excited before was because this could quickly accumulate "military power".
In this era where force is capital.
It takes a lot of time for ordinary people to accumulate martial arts skills, and decades of practice to gain internal strength.
At that time, even if ordinary people had inner strength , they would not have any competitiveness.
No one would be willing to give the precious transformation quota to an old man in his seventies or eighties.
Either they are already members of that class, or they can show superhuman talents at a young age.
Otherwise, it would be of no use for ordinary people to practice martial arts hard.
This kind of thinking is not a big problem in this era.
That's why Zhang Hao was so impatient before.
Moreover, in order to get help, foreign warriors bleed heavily to help others. This logic seems to be correct.
But as Zhang Hao calmed down, he immediately discovered the problem.
That is, the blood shed was too great, and the price they paid was too small.
Related things have also happened in the Kewu dimension.
Various fraud incidents emerge one after another.
For example, a certain company offers a transformation quota, but the condition is that you work for them for a certain number of years.
It looks very normal, but in the regulations, they did not specify what kind of transformation quota this is.
In fact, it is just a modification quota for industrial tools.
Some people sold themselves without knowing it and became labor tools.
It became a robot arm, or an industrial lathe or something like that.
Those people argued that although things like robotic arms were intended to be used for work, they could also be used as scientific and military equipment, but they were just of inferior quality.
Then you will have to work for those who persecute you according to the contract, otherwise you will lose even the tools of your labor.
Those people will modify some more parts during the transformation, so that that part will determine your possibility of survival.
If you are recycled, you will become a disabled person who will have a hard time surviving .
So when it comes to this, people only have two options.
Just admit defeat and become a tool.
Fight to the death, then become a criminal and be shot dead.
There really isn't enough courage.
Although the authorities have been vigorously cracking down on this behavior in recent years, similar anti-fraud campaigns have been carried out many times.
However, there are still many young people who are deceived because they want to change their class too much.
This is the alienation of personality.
In addition, various traps are emerging one after another. For many things, as long as you are a little greedy, you will step into them and there will be no way out.
Zhang Hao originally thought that Lu Bai was from a foreign land, and foreigners had no base in this world, so they would not set those traps.
This kind of taken-for-granted thinking made him ignore the possibility of danger.
So it became particularly fanatical.
However, as the frenzy subsided, some questions came to Zhang Hao's mind and he hesitated.
He is not just one person; his efforts and his glory are all for another person.
Holding Xiaoxi's hand, Zhang Hao apologized to her in a low voice, saying that he was too reckless today.
Xiaoxi smiled and shook her head, then held Zhang Hao's hand tightly, indicating that she didn't care, but asked Zhang Hao to be careful in the future.
This seemed to be just an episode. More and more people joined the mutual aid society, and almost everyone chose to receive the initiation and add a snake-shaped pattern on their ear.
It’s not that no one sees the possible traps, but many people don’t care about it.
Compared to the invisible despair that permeates their lives, they would rather bet on Lu Bai being a human being.
There are very few people like Zhang Hao who just join but do not receive initiation.
The night gradually became quiet and most of the contestants chose to rest.
Lu Bai received a notice from Hu Niu that they had already secured six boat tickets through various means.
There are still four vacancies.
All the competitions have ended, and apart from the twenty tickets left for tomorrow's sailing, there are no other official tickets for sale.
"There are still some in the 'black market', but each one costs a very high price."
"You are asking for a lot. We have enough money, but this kind of transaction is not just about money."
Tickets on the black market are priceless and there are many people who need them, and they have no trouble finding buyers.
So sometimes transactions are not just about money, there are more resources behind it.
These resources cannot be provided by Lu Bai and others. After all, it is very difficult for people from foreigners to establish a foundation in this dimension.
Therefore, if you buy tickets on the black market, you might be able to get one or two at a high price, but it is unlikely to get all four remaining tickets.
“So we can only rob.”
The group of ten people reunited again.
Then came to this conclusion.
Because of the live broadcast, it is easy to find the locations of other people.
There are currently a total of 280 tickets available, most of which are in the hands of various contestants.
At this moment, the data of these contestants have been counted by Jiang Yue and listed in a table.
It is easier to target which ones are in groups, which ones are lone wolves, and which ones are in a state of unrest.
Of course, when Lu Bai and others choose others as prey, there will also be people targeting Lu Bai and others.
After all, Lu Bai and his group consisted of only ten people, and there were obviously a few novices among them.
Even with the intimidation of Gou Zi, the martial arts master, he could not stop those people.
"Besides, he is just an ordinary martial arts master. He doesn't have any technological weapons to support him. This kind of martial arts master is just like that."
Scientific warriors, with the help of technological equipment, are often able to fight above their level.
Gou Zi seemed to be a very traditional swordsman. These scientific warriors instinctively felt arrogant towards such a warrior.
Over the years, some so-called "masters" have indeed emerged among those peasants through hard training .
However, when these "masters " faced warriors, they always ended up being beaten.
Although they knew that people from foreign lands were different from the ordinary warriors here, they still looked down on them when they saw that they did not have high-tech equipment.
So the next moment, these people took action.
