People in Terra, poor and weak but invincible

Chapter 958 Sacrifice

The waves rushed onto the beach again and again, then retreated weakly, only to be swept up again by the following waves.

Outcast sat on a reef, quietly watching the waves bloom at his feet.

Dario stood behind her, adjusting his hand cannon.

"Madam, since you have already found out that the enemy is hiding deep in the church, why don't you attack directly?" Dario asked.

"According to Anita, every time Saltwind City experiences a hundred high tides, a lot of food will appear on the shore."

Outcast looked at the waves and said, "By that time, the priests will appear on the coast and guide them to enjoy this gift from the ocean. That will be the best opportunity to take action."

"It sounds like they're actually doing good things." Dalio's praise was mixed with undisguised sarcasm.

"It would be a good thing if we didn't have to send a living person into the sea every time in exchange for food."

"Another sacrifice. These Deep Sea Church members are a little too unoriginal sometimes."

"I just discovered that you have a sense of humor."

Outcast couldn't help but laugh out loud: "Does this kind of thing have to keep up with the times and come up with hundreds of ways to die for the people of Saltwind City to experience one by one?"

Dario: “…”

While he was silent, Elini and Anita came together from the city.

Anita seemed somewhat reluctant to approach the beach, and her steps were hesitant.

Elini was also feeling a little down, and she walked over to Dario and whispered:

"We're back. This city is very hostile to outsiders. I was just scolded by a grandma."

"Eline, Petra means no harm, she's just sick." Anita explained in a low voice.

"Maybe..." Elini glanced at Anita, "But in my opinion, you and that grandma are the only ones in this city who are not sick."

ANITA: ?

Does this young judge have some strange habit that makes him speak up for the person being scolded?

"What did you find, Elini?" Dario asked.

When she heard her teacher ask, Elini immediately perked up and reported her findings:

“The people in this city are very strange. Although I don’t like to use this word to describe people, but... they really are like a group of livestock kept in captivity.

Their emotions as human beings have been worn out, and they live an empty life here, without thinking about leaving or being self-reliant, just waiting to get food according to a certain pattern to continue their physical life.

"So what are you going to do?" Dario asked again.

Ileni said without hesitation: "Find the real culprit behind all this and bring him to justice!"

"Ah."

Dario responded calmly.

After getting her teacher's approval, Elini's originally depressed expression became noticeably more cheerful.

Outcast turned around with a smile, looked at the fussy little bird, and asked:

"So after the real murderer is dealt with, will the city be revived?"

The excitement on Elini's face suddenly froze.

"That's something we should consider." Dario spoke up to protect his child.

"Good good."

Outcast spread his hands to indicate that he would not say any more.

But Elini kept the question in mind and looked at her teacher in distress, not wanting to be fooled so easily.

Dario noticed Elini's look and raised his chin towards the waves:

“We need to think more. Enemies are not just enemies sometimes. If we use the means they possess properly, they can actually help us.

For example, they use the method they use to manage Salt Wind City, let them send food to Salt Wind City again, and then get rid of them, so that Salt Wind City can hold on until the real rescue arrives. "

"I understand!" Elini's eyes widened.

"You'd better really understand." Dario warned, "What we have to do now is not to forcibly change the situation in Saltwind City and let these people who are accustomed to despair continue to indulge in despair."

"Well……"

Ileni blinked and turned to look at Anita beside her.

Meeting Elini's gaze, Anita raised her right hand and gently held her thin left arm. She had a strange expression on her face:

"Elini, I didn't quite understand your conversation, but I felt... my heart was beating faster than ever before. What does this feel like? Am I sick?"

Before Elini could figure out how to explain to the girl, two men from the other end of the beach near the city walked towards them hesitantly.

The two people in the distance stopped.

They were the two people who had been taught a lesson by Dario in the house before.

One of the men, whose face was relatively clean and seemed to have been carefully washed, shouted in a weak voice:

"Wooden frame, come back quickly. It's not time yet. We can't go near the sea."

"Ironhide, I...I'm fine."

Anita turned around and shouted, then explained to the people around her: "Wooden Frame is also my name, or rather, Anita is the name I gave myself later. It's a little strange, I hope you won't find it funny."

After hearing this, Elini felt mixed emotions.

A normal person's name will become a ridiculous existence among a group of abnormal names.

Deep on the coast, Ironhide heard Anita's response, and a look of dull worry appeared on his numb face.

Another scruffy bearded man beside him tugged at his shirt:

"Iron sheet, danger, sea, danger, wooden frame, danger."

"Wall Dust, I know." Ironhide soothed, "Wait here for me, I'll bring back the wooden frame."

"Danger."

The wall dust can only repeat its dry vocabulary dully.

Tiepi pressed down Qianghui's arm and walked towards Anita and others step by step, but halfway through, he stopped where he was.

"That's... high tide... a hundred... a hundred times!"

Ironhide suddenly showed a relieved look on his face: "Wooden frame, come back quickly, the tide is high for the hundredth time, we will have food tomorrow!"

Anita heard his shout, turned her head to look at the tide, and suddenly slapped her head:

"Oh, I don't even count these, ma'am. Please follow me back to the city. We really can't stay on the coast any longer now."

Outcast and Dario looked at each other, and neither of them said anything. They obediently followed Anita into the city.

When the iron sheet and the wall dust saw the few people turning back, they didn't even wait for them and ran hurriedly back to the city.

When Outcast and his companions returned to the city streets, they saw the "bustling" scene in the city for the first time.

A group of zombie-like people gathered in front of a jar, reached out and took out a white shell from it, checked it twice, and then turned and left like a machine completing a fixed procedure.

Anita stood beside them without moving and explained:

"After a while, I will be old enough to participate in the ceremony. As long as someone takes out a red shell and lives in the sea, it can be exchanged for food for everyone."

Elini: “…”

Anita's calm but somewhat excited narration was like a knife stabbing deeply into Elini's heart.

She thought she had walked around the city and had gotten used to it, but when the darkness at the heart of the city was revealed before her eyes, she still felt a little breathless.

"teacher……"

Elini raised her head and said, "I know that if we don't destroy anything at this time, we can save more people, but...if someone really wants to walk into the sea and die, I can't just sit there and watch."

Dario said indifferently: "You broke this rule and have no means of replacement. You will only let everyone in the city starve to death."

Elini couldn't help but grit her teeth.

Just when she was at a loss, she saw two familiar figures.

The man named Walldust also squeezed into the crowd and took out a shell from the jar.

Before he could check the color of the shells, he was bumped by someone next to him. The already weak Walldust fell to the ground immediately, and the shells in his hands flew out.

"My...my..."

"Wall Dust, hold on to your shell."

Tiepi put a white shell into Qianghui's hand.