Why it never ends

Chapter 35 The Abandoned People

Calvin's anger calmed down slightly, but his eyes were still as sharp as a sword, piercing Sean's back.

"Then why do you want to escape?"

Sean's throat moved, and he held Calvin's arm tightly with both hands, just looking straight at him.

"This is not escaping, it's not escaping." Sean lowered his voice, but seemed to be even more forceful. "What kind of life did we live in Hekla? Like bedbugs, like mice, in short, not like human beings, what did we do to feed ourselves? We are willing to do it, and we must do it. No one cares about our life or death except our mother. Everyone is busy living today, and no one has the strength to think about how to live tomorrow.

"Remember when we first arrived in Tanyi, what was the life of the people here? They had cake shops on the street, beautiful clothes in the window, and people drank on the street every night, and even homeless people ate it Like a fat pig, lazily lying in the corner...

"Do you still remember, at that time we both swore that we would definitely buy a big house in Tanyi in the future, it would have to be as high as two floors, with a backyard of 25 square meters and a big cellar, we would buy a big house in the yard Three big dogs in the house, casks and casks of fine wine in the cellar... as long as we work here till we're [-]—”

"The premise is that this place is not captured by chelates." Calvin's voice was low.

"Yes, isn't this just our mission? I thought so too at the time." Sean laughed, "Until I found out the gender-to-battle ratio of Mercury Needle, do you know what it is? 16:1... Carl , don't you think this is absurd?"

Calvin didn't speak.

Sean continued: "I don't understand, even though men are slightly inferior in stamina, we are obviously stronger in strength and explosiveness, so I tried to find the reason why the mortality rate of men's mercury injections is so high.

"At the beginning, I wondered if there was a factor of breeding the next generation, so women are always better protected. But I soon discovered that the efficiency of obtaining new mercury by birth alone is too low-male mercury The talent is almost not inherited, and the probability of a female mercury needle giving birth to a child with talent is only about 1/30.

"Even if you gather all the female mercury needles together and let them keep getting pregnant and giving birth, it is impossible to catch up with the efficiency of going directly to the wasteland to find new people. Besides, this group of women cannot be imprisoned.

"Then, I thought it might be due to task allocation. Perhaps all the high-risk tasks far from habitable places would be assigned to men, so I compared 41 high-risk annihilation missions with heavy losses in the past century, and finally found that the problem It's not about distribution at all, it's about the effect of blood loss on bullet time.

"When the blood loss reaches 10% in a short period of time, the percentages of men and women who can continue to maintain bullet time are 93% and 97% respectively; when it reaches 30%, this data drops to 46% and 89% respectively; and when the blood loss exceeds After 40%, men face shock or immediate death, while 43% of women can continue to maintain bullet time.

"As for female mercury needles, they will only completely lose their combat effectiveness when the blood loss exceeds 50% - women have an almost overwhelming natural advantage in fighting blood loss."

Although Sean had tried his best to control his volume, he was still very excited.

"This is the root cause of the high rate of men's battle losses - the more dangerous and difficult the battle, the longer it lasts, and the longer the battle lasts, the more unfavorable it is for us!"

"so what?"

Sean looked at him, "Carl, have you ever thought that people like us are destined to be tools in a habitable place?"

"……Ah."

"Do you remember the introduction to natural history last semester?" Sean said in a low voice: "In any sexually reproducing population, most males can be discarded, because only the number of females is firmly monopolized For the reproduction of a population, as long as a small number of males survive, the seeding of the entire population can be completed.

"And people like us, born as trash, born unprotected, destined to be pushed up to die, are the same whether in Hekla or here."

Sean looked deeply at Calvin.

"I've made it clear that no one or anything should try to suck blood from me. I'm just myself, and I only live according to my own will. Only in this way can we be worthy of our survival, and only in this way can my mother in heaven would be happy-"

Calvin shook off Sean's arm with some disgust.

"Carl!" Seeing that Calvin turned to leave, Sean chased after him a few steps, "Don't you understand me? Don't think about fighting, no one here is really thinking about us, the mercury needle is simply Using us as consumables, we should find a way to retreat to the logistics, or even retreat to the government forces in habitable places-only by going to those places can we get rid of this inertia of being casually abandoned, and we can go up. Go higher, even—”

"Go away!"

Calvin shouted angrily, and pushed Sean aside.

Sean lost his balance and sat on the ground. He had never seen Calvin so furious, and he froze there.

Calvin took a deep breath, turned around and walked in the opposite direction, Sean suddenly felt a little flustered, just when he was hesitating what to say, Calvin stopped.

"Carl...?" Sean called out in a low voice, "Carl, we—"

"Without our land, we are nothing."

Leaving this sentence behind, Calvin stepped away.He heard Sean calling his name loudly from behind, but he still walked forward without turning his eyes, until he disappeared at the end of the corridor.

Then, he reached into his pocket and pressed the pause button of the recorder.

……

In the evening, Calvin came to Valenti's office alone, and gently knocked on the door.

"Please come in." Valenti turned her head and saw Calvin pushed the door open with a gloomy face. She was a little surprised - when she asked Calvin to talk about Sean a few days ago, he refused, Said it would take some time.

Now that Calvin took the initiative to find him, it might mean that there was a turning point in this matter.

Valenti smiled and motioned Calvin to sit down, "Is there anything I can help you with?"

"...I want to talk about Sean." Calvin whispered, "About, about him and Hesta."

"Ah."

"Yesterday, Ms. Morley suggested that I record the conversation with Sean, so as to restore the situation to the greatest extent possible," Calvin frowned, "but—"

"Is there such a thing?" Valenti was surprised, "It's unreasonable."

Calvin raised his eyes and glanced at Valenti, "You also think this is unreasonable?"

"Yes, this is unreasonable." Valenti's expression became serious. "I will go and have a good talk with Molly. This kind of method should not appear in the request to you."

"...I had prepared a recorder," Calvin said in a low voice, "but when I was talking about these topics with Sean, I forgot to turn it on, so I didn't record it. But if you are willing to listen to my thoughts, I can talk to you now."

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