Overturned Tower

The barber tilted his head and looked at the others at the table.

He shook his head in disappointment.

Although he was the proposer of the plan, Tovatus was completely lifeless when he was refuted by the barber in person.

He just asked with interest: "Tell me more about it?"

"It's very simple. You only heard 'there will still be stupid people who blame angels'. I don't deny the inevitability of this development... but that's not 'people will only blame angels'."

The barber said calmly: "Although the voices used to attack the church will be amplified by the company, more voices will 100% be directed at us."

Without waiting for Tovatus to speak.

"Full Ripe" was the first to stand up and refuted the barber's words: "You are so naive. We have been hated by those wage slaves from the very beginning... What does it matter if we are disgusted? If disgust can be turned into harm , I have been killed countless times.

"The fact is: As long as the church continues to unfreeze other angels, we will die sooner or later. Because it is impossible for us to fight against angels now, and it takes a lot of time to hibernate and grow. For this purpose, no matter what the price is, we should bear it. You become a mage The time is too short and I don’t understand anything at all.”

Hearing this, the barber laughed happily.

The barber was very happy that someone could jump out and step on him at this moment.

Because he deliberately showed weakness and caught a fish as a target.

In this case, the barber's direct target of attack is no longer the difficult Tovatus.

Yes, he intended to thwart Tovatus' plans. Or conspiracy.

He knew very well that those "church-sponsored buildings" were exactly what the poor and weak of Uptown needed.

——Because he grew up relying on various projects funded by the church.

In order to protect those orphans, in order to allow the dead to rest in peace... in order to prevent college students and civilians from spending high prices to "purchase" books.

In order to prevent those people who were already having a very difficult and tiring life from falling on the "last straw that broke the camel's back", he had to stop Tovatus' conspiracy at all costs.

Just because he's here, hears it - and can do it.

However, there is no point in just shouting.

Tovatus called so many people just to vote - in addition to Tovatus, there are four mages in the Veil of Ignorance, but they didn't say a word, which shows that Tovatus has already They have been convinced.

In a meeting of twenty-one, he had five votes from the start.

Not counting "Full Mature", the target of his attack, and the barber himself.

——The barber must win the support of at least ten of the remaining fourteen people.

This meant that he almost needed to reverse the thinking of everyone present.

Very challenging.

But he felt that he might not be able to do it——

"If I remember correctly, you should be a fraudster."

The barber suddenly mentioned casually: "You are even the mentor of other fraudsters in the eternal reincarnation. You specialize in teaching them how to deceive and incite others."

"That's just my profession, it doesn't represent my personal character."

"Full Ripe" didn't care about this level of attack: "This is also me helping the new people in the organization learn survival skills. What's wrong?"

"So you will be particularly good at diverting other people's attention and planting cues in others."

The barber said with a smile.

The purpose is different from that of the other mages present.

The other mages were still discussing how to delay time and increase the number of similar ones.

"Full Ripe" was the first person to come up with the idea of ​​"simply directing the church's firepower to other empty islands."

"To you, the Uncoded are not the same kind; the Uncoded in the same gang as you are still not partners; even mages - as long as they are mages from other empty islands, can be abandoned."

"What's the problem?"

"Full Ripe" sneered: "That's how it should be... We are about to die ourselves, how can we care about them?"

"So, what if danger looms among us? I believe that at that time, you will also classify us as 'them'.

"As long as the company and the church promise to keep you alive, you will betray us without hesitation."

The barber said leisurely: "You are just a scared selfish person."

Without waiting for something to be said, his voice suddenly rose and he changed the topic back to the previous discussion: "As this coward said... what's the use of 'hostility' from Uptown?

“The simple answer is to make downtown no longer needed.”

Not many people had heard the barber's words before.

But everyone present showed more or less no expressions of surprise or surprise.

Obviously... during the long struggle with the company, they more or less realized that the company "kept a hand".

It is precisely because Tianen Group did not kill them that they were able to survive from the cracks; it is also because the company always left them a way to survive that they were able to continue to launch plunder and attacks on Shangcheng District.

"The Church has never been hostile to the Uncoded, and even occasionally helps the Uncoded. The ones who are truly hostile to the Church are actually us mages.

"——What is our real advantage? Our advantage is that civilians do not know the existence of the 'Mage' at all, and the company cannot explain this!"

The barber's sonorous voice fell.

"If the church wants to attack us, it must ask the company for the power to 'arm criminals' on its behalf, and open up the 'authority to destroy factories.' This means the loss of the company's power, the profit sharing of the right to speak, and a long-lasting and substantial increase in commodity prices. Elevation, and the accompanying popular protests against corporations and churches.

"Another way is to declare our existence as 'mages'. But in this case, people will realize that the 'chip' that they have tacitly regarded as part of the body should not actually exist. This will lead to new trends of thought. .

"So a practical situation is... although the angels will not be tired from the war, it is still impossible for the church to cause a sustained and lasting attack on us, because the war-weary voice comes from the civilians in the upper city. The civilians cannot attack the lower city. They directly benefited from the crackdown, but the obvious increase in prices and the shortage of various daily necessities will directly affect their lives.

“But if we attack buildings uptown — that’s different.”

After hearing this, many people gradually understood.

Hangzhou said slowly: "If we incur the hatred of those wage slaves, the war will be prolonged. Because they also have hatred for us...the desire for revenge can make them endure the inconveniences in their lives."

"exactly."

The barber snapped his fingers and said with a smile, "I really want you to see my ecstatic expression."

The blue-haired young man with squinted eyes was surrounded by overwhelming rationality and confidence.

Sitting on the seat next to the elf, he, the youngest "mage" present, seemed to be the second leader at the conference table.

"Full Ripe" realized something was wrong.

The short man, wearing sunglasses indoors, countered without hesitation: “There’s no need to scare us like that, barber.

"According to your own statement, neither the company nor the church can announce the existence of the mage, and the company's biggest enemy is the church - we don't count at all. As long as the company needs to use us to attack the church, they can't let us die... ...We even have to find ways to continue the legacy of the 'Mage' and increase our combat effectiveness to maintain balance.

"With the support of high-tech equipment from the company, we can drag the Angels into a war of attrition.

"Because the existence of the 'mage' cannot be announced, the church cannot continue to unfreeze the angels. And our lower city will continue to give birth to new mages... In this way, although we are burdened with infamy, we can gain real victory!"

"--Is it really?"

The barber asked back: "Then let me tell you, if we really continue to bomb the buildings invested by the church, what will be our final result?

"The company no longer needs the lower city district as a target to pit the people in the upper city district against each other, because all the damage done by our 'magicians' will be counted among the entire lower city district and the entire group of uncensored people. At this time, if the company chooses to annihilate The entire downtown area will be unanimously recognized by everyone - this will no longer be 'maintenance of law and order', but a 'war' with reasonable excuses.

"In other words, the company gets a 'fire declaration.' They can unban all lethal weapons, just to kill us at all costs, because Uptown no longer has any mercy for us, but is full of hatred." ... This kind of hatred will make them ignore the existence of the 'first consensus'.

"And if all the lower city is wiped out, regardless of whether there are still mages alive, the church will have no excuse or reason to allow these angels to continue to forcibly interfere in the already 'peaceful' upper city. These angels who remain in the world may shake the church influence from above, so they too will be frozen again.

"In exchange for letting the church freeze the angels, from the perspective of eliminating unstable factors, all the mages who have taken refuge in the company will be liquidated... When the birds are gone, the good bows are hidden; when the cunning rabbits die, the lackeys are cooked.

"For a long time afterwards, the company that launched this 'war of justice' will have a strong influence. After that, anyone who resists the company will be subconsciously labeled as 'uncoded' position. All the losses we have made before will in turn become evidence to prove the value of the company. The company has become the 'guardian of order'..."

The corners of the barber's mouth raised, but there was no smile at the corners of his eyes.

"The company is anxious. They can no longer stand the current kind of constrained exploitation and want more, more, more. They want to push everyone behind them so that they have nowhere to escape - so there is such a conspiracy.

"They have monopolized most industries, owned most of the wealth, and are almost the uncrowned kings of this world. But they still want more."

Never-ending greed.

Contempt all arrogance.

"If their plan succeeds, the goodwill of the church among the people will be greatly weakened, and the thawed angels will be frozen again. The uncoded ones in the lower city will be completely wiped out, the inheritance of the mages will be completely cut off, and the people in the upper city will not dare to stop. By resisting the company, the price of living has increased significantly, and the original order of life has been completely disrupted.”

The barber stretched out his hand and tapped the table with the index finger of his right hand every time he spoke.

The voice is very soft, but it is very heavy in people's hearts.

The conspiracy that was intertwined like a spider web and a shadow was shattered by him in an understatement.

The barber stared at Quan Shu with an ugly face and said word by word: "So in the end, who is the only winner?

"And you - whose position and perspective are you on, to make such deceptive suggestions to those of us who just want to survive?"

His words trailed off.

The atmosphere of the meeting completely changed.

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