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The result later became the new "ritual".Many experts have put forward various explanations for this, trying to make it more scientific and reasonable.

"In fact, these kinds of sick rules are the epitome of Sky Island's sick life and society."

While nibbling on the sandwich, Russell said casually, "Think about it, is it the rules themselves that killed that executive?"

"—The one who killed that person was actually himself."

Xia frowned: "No matter how you say it, it's too much for no one to come.

"Working in the head office for more than [-] years, I don't know how many people have been promoted, but in the end there is not even one person who is willing to give him a ride. This shows that this person has reached the point where he has caused public outrage."

"Not necessarily."

Bing Shui rested his left hand on his cheek, and dug into the ice cream with his right hand, and said quietly: "Maybe it's also possible that everyone forgot about him, or he was too busy at work and just caught up with overtime. Although the probability is very small, it's not impossible.

"The real problem is...he actually guessed or felt it a long time ago. Otherwise, why would he bring the poison to the banquet to send him off."

"It's almost the same. But you don't realize the crux of the problem... In fact, the real problem does not lie in the banquet itself."

Russell shook his head: "If everyone has a good life, then this kind of party is not a pressure at all, but a 'team building' to unite new employees and send off old employees. Even the company can pay for part of the reimbursement, or long-term Chartering a certain restaurant to change the membership price and so on... After all, it actually helps to improve team cohesion.

"Also, this rule has been around for at least 100 years. This rule existed before the Sky Age, why didn't something happen until the last few years?

"The reason is very simple ... because the development of the company started to slow down.

"When everyone's life starts to suck, they're going to look for reasons, to find a responsible party. And in the end, people take out some of their hatred on this tradition, and reverse it, trying to make the correction itself life.

"This kind of behavior itself is like a dance of praying for rain. If it rains, then the praying for rain is effective; if it doesn't rain, then the heart is not sincere enough... But in short, it doesn't cost money to try. It's just for peace of mind .”

"...has the development slowed down?"

Xia was a little puzzled: "But I think Tianen Group's income seems to be increasing all the time."

"some."

The ice water on the side nodded.

She looked at Russell with great admiration, and at the same time explained to Xia in a low voice: "Because of the lack of supplies."

"... Lack of supplies?"

For a moment, Xia couldn't understand the word.

In other words, most people in this era are like this.

Schools don't teach ordinary people where the food they eat every day comes from, and where the materials for various commodities come from... Basically, schools don't teach knowledge about the age of the earth.Because once taught, it is difficult to explain why they moved to the sky.

In most people's perception, these are continuously shipped out of the eternally roaring factories in the lower city.

These materials are not worth paying attention to, and even the gangs in the lower city will not move their bases near the factories that produce important materials.

What the earlier forms of those product materials were...they had no idea.

"Haven't you noticed that the price of goods has started to increase in recent years?"

Bing Shui said slowly, "That's right, you're the eldest lady, so you shouldn't be aware of it."

"I'm still aware of this—but the price has been increasing, right?"

Xia asked rhetorically, "Isn't the recent increase in prices due to the battle between Angel and Xiacheng District, which destroyed too many factories?"

"That's right. But in fact, the uneven speed of rising prices and incomes started about seven or eight years ago.

"Because of fierce market competition, companies can only choose to forcibly occupy the market niche by sharing profits, or increase prices simultaneously with powerful competitors who can dominate the market. This has led to the speed of market price increases, which is actually a lag due to rising real prices.”

The short-haired girl shook her head: "I guess you don't know...it's because the ingredients are reduced."

Chapter 63 Long-term investment of elves

"Is it raw materials transported from land?"

Russell asked the well-informed Bing Shui.

He is one of the few people in this era who knows the common sense that "Sky Island doesn't have that many resources".

Bing Shui nodded: "Yes. It is said that since 20 years ago, there have been signs on the ground that resources have run out.

"But there is no way. If the output is reduced, it will not be able to support so many people... Prices will continue to rise, and it may even lead to unrest.

"So they chose to continue to collect resources, but at the same time began to study marine resources and nuclear energy. In recent years, it is said that research has achieved a certain level of breakthrough... But the time is still not enough, far from enough."

"...I really don't know about it."

Xia felt inexplicably guilty.

Bingshui added: "In fact, since about seven or eight years ago, the head office has been secretly controlling the output of the factories in the lower urban area. The final feedback to the market is that the price increase is higher than wages-this is In fact, it is a way to curb resource consumption.”

"Wait," Xia suddenly realized something, "couldn't it be...the battle in the lower city destroyed the factory, which led to the rise in prices?"

"Yes," Russell nodded, "but think about it. If the factory is repaired immediately, will the prices in the market drop immediately as the resources are replenished?

"will not."

Xia's basic knowledge is still not a problem.

She quickly replied: "Because the inventories of each company have not been replenished to the safety line, there is no way to fight a price war."

"exactly."

Russell slowly said: "The company let the angels fight with the lower city, not just to wipe out the lower city.

"They're looking for... or rather, waiting for someone to take the blame."

"Mr. Qunqing, you mean..."

Ice water is very smart.

She immediately realized what Russell meant, and showed a surprised expression: "Is the company deliberately letting them blow up the factory?"

"Is such that."

Russell took a deep breath, and marveled at how long the company's layout was: "It turns out that as long as the factory is bombed, but they choose to delay repairing...then the efficiency of the factory in the lower city area to use raw materials to manufacture intermediate products will be unbearable." Avoid the drop.

"—Because, the number of factories has dropped!"

Hearing this, Xia was stunned.

She blurted out: "Is this the meaning of existence for the uncoded people in the lower city?"

"I'm afraid a large part of the reason is for this."

Bingshui shook her head: "Thinking about it carefully, the 'criminal theory of the uncoded' seems to have been fully developed in the past ten years.

"If this has something to do with rising prices..."

——Then it shows that the company will not wipe out the Xiacheng District in the short term.

A new understanding emerged in Russell's mind.

After receiving crucial new information from Miss Bingshui, he realized that... his reasoning was indeed half correct.

The lower city is indeed used to take the blame.But it's not the pot that disrupts order and brings chaos...

It is the pot that damaged the factory and greatly reduced the productivity of the whole island!

The company will squeeze a group of people into the downtown area recently, this is to release market pressure on the one hand, and to strengthen the downtown area on the other hand.

The real reason is that resources are running out - the company has to rein in output.

But companies controlling factory output out of thin air, or simply closing factories, are bound to drive up prices dramatically.

Despite their near-unlimited power, corporations are not true rulers after all.

They cannot command the market.

And if the head office chooses to make concessions and make concessions, it will be immediately hanged in place by other companies.

The essence of a company is capital, and the instinct of capital is to seek profit... No company will choose to give up profit in such a disaster and crisis.

Even a company that is just a little soft-hearted will be swallowed up by its more cold-blooded counterparts in no time.Finally, "co-evolution" at the cold-blooded level is realized.

So, the head office needs an excuse.An object that has nothing to do with them but can reasonably explain the "production reduction phenomenon".

This is the war in the lower city!

Through this war, it is reasonable to "reduce the number of factories".Then don't go to repairs, and wait for the prices to gradually become outrageous.

And at this time, they can rush to the lower city to kill a group of uncoded people to appease the hatred in the hearts of the people in the upper city.

But the prices that don't fall because of this will force another group of people to the downtown area-so they can kill another group of people.

In this way, the number of residents on the empty island is gradually reduced.

When the number of residents is reduced to a certain value, it will be able to adapt to the rapidly rising prices after production reduction, so as to reach a new balance.

——After all, digital currency does not need to print money.

When the time is right, you can naturally rebalance prices by giving everyone money and salary increases.

Maybe, it will be earlier...

The board of directors had already decided to use this plan from the time Delphinium drove the mechs to destroy the factory.

It's just that the church suddenly intervened and decided to expand its influence... So the company delayed the plan a little bit, added a few sums to it, and shared a few pots with the church and the angels.

Because the company is not allowed by the dragon to kill, so they set up a situation like this...to make people kill each other.

For this purpose, sprites were laid out 20 years ago.

In addition to being a "psychic petri dish", the lower city also has such a function—that is, to let the uncoded people bear the responsibility of dismantling the "automatic factory" in a large area one day...and in the case of reducing the number of residents in the upper city, the The "eliminated ones" are forced towards a fixed area.

It's like flooding.

When the "flood storage" reaches a certain level, it can be made to flow back.

This is similar to the principle of elves doing business.

Elves do business very differently from humans.When they invest in a certain project, it often takes decades or hundreds of years to bear fruit, and the cycle is longer than the lifetime of ordinary people... Of course, the benefits are completely different from short-term investment.

They regard "lack of resources" as an "investment".

And what they have done is to create a "gathering area for uncoded people" to wait for the friction and conflict that will naturally occur between the two sides when the conflict accumulates to a certain extent after decades - as the population decreases, the pressure on resources will also decrease. .It can buy more time for the "new resources" and "new energy" that the company is developing.

"Rumble rumble—"

Just when the three fell into silence, bursts of low-pitched thunder came from outside the window just right.

The cold wind suddenly pushed open the window of the coffee shop, and the hair of the three of them was blown tousled by the wind in an instant.

Xia only felt that her fingers were cold.

For her, who could barely catch her breath, the cool breeze seemed to save her life.She was gasping for breath, with a look of horror on her face, as if she just remembered that she could breathe.

She couldn't tell whether it was the cold wind from outside the window that poured into her cuffs, slashed her waistline...or the colder words soaked her brain.

Chapter 64 Heroes Before Awakening

The original plan has been completely disrupted by the new deduction——

Of course, Xia can also force herself to convince herself that this is just an inference that she doesn't know the truth of.

Kexia also believed that neither Bingshui nor Russell could talk nonsense about such an important matter... and all of this could explain the confusion she had already had.

If we say that the original her is like looking down on the abyss from a high place.

Then, the impending truth at this moment pushed her forward again... and half of her foot was already in the air.

This brought great fear to her—for the first time, Xayah realized that exposure to this level of truth wasn't fun or fun.

What she thought she had "revealed" the truth before was just an introduction to another conspiracy.If it weren't for this conversation, she might still think that she did the right thing, and be satisfied with the realization of her "justice", and be complacent for a while.

— But what if it was the other way around?

If she tells all the truth through the live broadcast.Telling people that the world is running out of resources and the company is just letting them kill each other - so what?

Undoubtedly, that would bring unprecedented chaos.It may even accelerate the destruction of the world.

There may be more people killed indirectly than the former.

Rationally speaking, the elf's approach is correct.

Because that's the best way the company can take on the problem, and it's the only way to solve the problem—it's not even the "right way," it's just "the only way that's possible." future".The specific situation depends on whether the company can find new ways to use new resources and new energy before the resources are completely exhausted in the future.

But if everything is left alone, it means the inevitable destruction and chaos... It means that people will hate each other for no reason, and it means that innocent people will die because of it.