Chapter 639 - Population Is Also a Resource (2/2)
Besides, in the whole Realm of Devils, there probably weren’t that many humans.
All of them nodded. “Then let’s do that first.”
Roland stood up. “You guys decide the rescue plan. I’m going to go to Fareins now to talk to someone about this.”
All of them agreed.
Solisa even stood up. Her pretty face was filled with anticipation. “Roland, it’s up to you.”
“I’ll try my best.”
Roland felt a great burden.
When Roland left, the people in the meeting asked the messenger some more questions, and finally, they immediately started moving, with several groups of guild members heading over to the city.
The messenger was in the forefront, and he waved his hand toward the walls, making a strange gesture, and the gates opened.
A strange, foul odor rushed out with the opening of the city gates.
It was obvious that the air inside was murky; it even bore a slight yellow tinge.
This stench was intense. Mages who knew Detoxification started to cast it or Magic Shield to isolate the smell.
Players loved cleanliness.
But when they got into the city, they suddenly felt so f**king pretentious for what they had just done.
There was not a single building in the city that was intact. They were all little cages built of rubble.
WIth no sewers and few streets, people urinated and defecated in the open road, which was dry and thick with excrement, turning all the red land black.
The vast majority of humans slept on the dry excrement.
They had no clothes, let alone furniture.
They were covered with black stains, hair bonded into slabs, and oily slick.
Skinny little girls who were probably less than fifteen years old held and fed even skinnier babies.
These babies were also quite emaciated.
In the city, every ten or so meters, there was a wooden pile about two meters high with a stone trough hanging from it.
When Solisa saw someone who was hungry, they’d go to the top and pat the stone trough, and a black powder would float down.
Those waiting below opened their mouths to catch it, and after swallowing a few times, they went back to sleep.
Most of them seemed muddled and displayed no intelligence to speak of, acting only on instinct.
It almost felt like they had degenerated into wild beasts.
Seeing this, the players from several guilds were too shocked to speak.
“My lords, my lords, please save them.” The messenger knelt in front of them again. “They might look like this but as long as they lead a normal life, they will become human again. Please take them away, will you, please.”
Looking at the messenger who knocked his head heavily on the ground, Solisa’s lips trembled and stammered, “This… is… a disgrace… to humanity.”
She wasn’t fearful but angry, so angry that it caused a temporary loss of verbal ability.
“We’re not pigs, so please let us go back to the human world.”
The messenger wept bitterly.
A guild chairman pulled the messenger up as he said lightly, “Don’t worry, they will be saved immediately, and as for the other humans, we will also save them.”
After the shock, several guild groups set about preparations
First, they fished people out of this filthy environment.
Over 80,000 people seemed like a lot, but it wasn’t that much.
All but a few humans, who still possessed intelligence, had become animals who only instinctively followed orders.
And the more this was the case, the more smoothly the rescue plan went. The Priests formed a barrier at the gate for Detoxification and Cleansing while the Warriors and other professions commanded and controlled the actions of the less intelligent humans in the city.
… Telling them to walk outside and telling them to line up.
Summoner girls patrolled the area to prevent any devils from coming over to kill and cause trouble.
And more players rushed over from the portal.
Because of livestreams, the entire player base was now aware of this.
A discussion on this was held in the forum.
It was not a discussion of whether people should be saved or not, but a discussion of how, after saving the people, they also had to be responsible for teaching them to survive.
“Epidemic prevention is important. The environment of the breeding city is too dirty. Everyone must enjoy Detoxification and Cleansing at once.” “Now that all the Priests in the guilds are heading to Sisilia, there should be no problem in terms of numbers.”
“The most important thing is the recovery of intelligence. You can’t save tens of thousands of fools and then have to feed them for the rest of their lives.”
“It’s not too hard. Wolf children can communicate normally after two or three years back in the human world.”
“I’ve heard that Mages have Awaken, a level-6 spell!”
“In that case, it’s time to find a master Mage, @Roland.”
“He’s busy now. He has to find a place for those people to live. Let’s leave him alone for now.”
“No matter what, daring to raise humans like pigs and eat them like pigs, none of the devils will live… I’ll make a promise now to kill all the devils in the world. By the way, the succubi are the exception.” “Ditto, I’m also switching from a casual profession to a combat profession.”
“So that’s what’s going on with the Realm of Devils Expedition, I see.”
At this time, Roland was already in Fareins and had found the First Princess Stephanie.
She was having afternoon tea with some noblewomen.
Roland was brought directly to her by the butler.
“Please sit down.” Stephanie smiled brightly. “What could have brought you, such a busy man, to my place?”
A couple of noblewomen nearby looked at Roland with extreme interest.
After all, according to the rumors, it seemed that it was this man who had a rather ambiguous relationship with the First Princess.
Roland shrugged: “We see each other often, okay… I would like to ask, if I had hundreds of thousands or even millions of people that I wanted to put in Fareins, would you take them?”
The noblewomen froze.
Stephanie even looked like she had seen a ghost. “You are planning to be a slave trader? No! Even if you are a slave trader, you can’t have such a large population, so where are you starting a war of annihilation?”
In Stephanie’s mind, the only way to get a large population in the millions in a short time was through war. “We, the Golden Sons, are fighting back against the Realm of Devils.”
Pu!
Stephanie spewed out a mouthful of fruit tea, but it hit Roland’s Magic Shield and bounced back.
It got a lot of drops of water on Stephanie and the noblewomen sitting across.
“What did you say? A counterattack on the Realm of Devils?”
Because Hollevin was a bit far away from Fareins, the news spread a bit slowly.
Besides, even the mayor of Sisilia was not sure what the Golden Sons were up to when they gathered together. He was having a headache and was shaking with fear.
“Yes! Just like you heard.”
Stephanie immediately understood where this large population was coming from. “There’s no problem with that! But you’ll have to come into the palace with me and talk to Father.”