themonasnovels Chapter 1196 - 931: Two Good News_3
Chapter 1196 - 931: Two Good News_3
All of us cultivators ended up here by accident, and theoretically, no one is nobler than another, but what should have been a scene of unity and facing the enemy together, has now split into strong and weak factions.
After the world was thrown into chaos, barely hanging on, it only further provoked the darkness and desire in the hearts of the strong, while those who resisted were beaten down mercilessly by their collaboration, forced to swallow their pride.
"Swish, swish, swish!"
Yellow sand slid down from above the shelter, causing everyone’s hearts to tense involuntarily.
Being stranded in the desert was bad enough, but who would have thought that there lived a huge and powerful venomous demon scorpion here? A few unfortunate cultivators were pierced by the scorpion’s poisonous tail stinger right after landing, dragged into the yellow sand, and instantly perished, becoming food for the demon beast.
Fortunately, several earth attribute cultivators stepped up, constructing a fairly safe shelter, which not only isolated the unbearable heat outside but also provided some resistance against demon beast attacks.
The power of two hundred cultivators united should not be underestimated, especially since all had just faced misfortune; their remaining spirits still somewhat upright, they supported each other and managed a reasonably good period of survival.
However, the good times didn’t last long. As the resources in the storage bags were quickly depleted, and the future seemed bleak, most cultivators didn’t have matching attributes or adequate strength, leading to increasing disagreements.
Ultimately, the strong aligned, forming one opposed group to the weaker who banded together.
Conflict peaked when elixirs, spirit stones, and other resources unexpectedly arrived!
The thirty-nine fire attribute cultivators were naturally unaffected by the environment and were a community of shared interests, immediately seizing the resources; though there were fire attribute cultivators in the opposing camp, they were ultimately outnumbered.
After being bolstered, the smaller coalition’s strength increased, seizing the opportunity to find an excuse to heavily injure several threatening cultivators from the opposing camp. In doing so, ensuring that the others were powerless to resist and could only obey commands.
Yet, after that unexpected resource acquisition, there was no further movement, and the small coalition, holding the majority of the resources, felt that keeping more than a hundred people as slaves was too excessive.
They wanted to reduce the numbers but feared thoroughly provoking the others to a life-and-death struggle, so tentatively, they set a rule of sending out ten people daily to clear out the demon beasts.
Today marks the official start of the attrition plan—given the state of the opposing camp, it’s lucky if three out of ten return alive.
Forcing them to send out ten people is also a strategy, as stirring up an internal fight means they can’t mind other matters, anyway, better them than me, right?
However, everyone knew that the odds were high they would die if they went out, so instead of internal strife, they aimed their animosity at the opposite side. Evidently, too many smart people aren’t easily fooled!
"Well, the result of refusing to go out and hunt is getting attacked by demons. Those ten selfish individuals will doom all the other survivors," the red-robed leader of the small coalition leisurely incited. "By then, we fire attribute cultivators can still protect ourselves, but the others? Tsk tsk, ten people implicating over a hundred others, truly selfish!"
The rustling sound of the sand falling became louder.
Two earth attribute cultivators from the large coalition spoke in a deep voice, "The demon beast is attacking our shelter, someone must go eliminate it, otherwise..."
"Would it be good to reduce a part of the shelter?" the young ice attribute cultivator softly suggested. "Remove the part on the other side, and we can be safer. Besides, once those who incite internal strife and seize by force are dead, we can rely on the remaining resources to survive a few more days."
The expressions of about thirty people from the small coalition immediately changed.
The young man continued to chuckle softly, "You don’t want to lose the shelter? Fine, exert some effort, go hunt the demon beasts outside.
Previously, no one wanted to tear the face, considering the mutual aid shared before and fearing any noise would draw a demon beast siege, holding back wasn’t too excessive. But now, with life or death on the line, face is naturally not as important as life. You show no virtue, don’t blame us for being unrighteous."