Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 581

Although they lined up at the checkpoint, people from the outer city were still very terrified about the classification registration, fearing that they were going to classify people and turn them into fuel to keep the energy tower burning.

This statement seemed to be widely circulated in the outer city. Everyone was saying that the Earl of the North was using the souls of living people to keep the energy tower burning so that people in the inner city could get warmth.

There is not enough "fuel" in the inner city now, so they have to trick those people from the outer city into coming into the city and then turn them into fuel.

But life in the outer city area is really hard. There are no clothes to keep warm, no food to fill the stomach, and even no fuel to keep warm!
They are already dying! Who cares how they die?
As long as I can keep my family alive and have enough food and clothing, what does it matter even if I throw them into the energy tower as firewood?

Even if it only allows my family to survive temporarily and they will be thrown into the energy tower in the future, it is still a hope for survival, isn't it?

For ordinary people, as long as there is a glimmer of hope, they will always try hard to survive and silently bear the burden imposed on them by the rulers.

"Little Yelena, remember, you must listen to your mother-in-law later. Don't be naughty or make trouble. Just line up obediently. Mom will come to find you after the registration is completed!" A ragged woman was pulling a skinny child and giving instructions carefully, and next to them stood a skinny and haggard old man.

"I understand, mom. I will be good and obedient!" The little girl seemed very sensible. She didn't cry or feel scared like other children.

"Good child! Wait for your mother, I will come to you right away!" The woman seemed very worried about her child, but still gritted her teeth and pushed her to the old man beside her.

The old man hugged Yelena and assured the woman: "Don't worry, I will take good care of little Yelena. Even if they need fuel, an old woman like me can handle the fire, right?"

The old man holding Yelena acted very open-minded, as if she was not talking about her own life.

In fact, for the elderly of this age, they have already lived enough. If they can exchange their own life for the survival of their children, they will not be stingy with their lives.

Just like in ancient times, when there was not enough food in the villages or tribes, the elderly would often take the initiative to go to the mountains to reduce the burden on the villages or tribes.

Originally, the old woman wanted to make this choice, but when she left her temporary hiding place and prepared to find a place to wait for death, she heard a call from a loudspeaker on the other side of the city wall and learned that she could go to the checkpoint set up at the original location of the city gate and enter the inner city after passing the inspection.

So, under the old man's persuasion, the three of them came here together, ready to find a way to pass the inspection and enter the inner city.

After watching the old man and Yelena walk to the team of the elderly and children, the woman reluctantly came to the team of women.

Most of the people in the team were women of similar age to her, and they kept looking at the queue of elderly people and children, because their children were all there.

The outrageous rumors that the inner city used living people as fuel to ignite the energy tower intensified their fear and worry, but in order to survive, they still suppressed their worries and watched their children pass through the checkpoints set up on the city wall and then enter the city wall.

Although screams could be heard and fire could be seen on the other side of the city wall, seeing that no one on the wall had escaped and that some people had stood up and shouted that they were burning the cultists, the women still suppressed their fear and waited to be pulled up to the wall.

Fortunately, the inspection to enter the inner city was not dangerous. As long as you were not judged as a heretic by the church judge, you would not be burned as firewood. The woman learned this from an official in black uniform who was maintaining order nearby when she saw the quarantine area behind the city wall after she was lifted up to the city wall by the basket.

And the woman happens not to be a cultist.

Although the outer city area has been infiltrated by the evil god sect, it is true that not everyone in the area is a believer of the evil god sect.

On the one hand, of course, the evil cult has standards for recruiting believers. Those who do not meet the standards are not called believers, but sacrifices prepared for the gods, which is livestock.

Of course, they also bear the marks of the old gods to a greater or lesser extent, just as shepherds will brand their own marks on the buttocks of sheep.

Those who were marked could only be taken away and burned.

"Have you ever been to the altar of the evil cult and participated in their sacrificial ceremonies?" The inquisitor, who was wearing a robe and heavy armor and had a hammer beside him, looked at the woman in front of him with a look as if he would swing the hammer to smash her head in the next second, and asked her scrutinizingly.

The woman was terrified, but she answered seriously, "No, I have not been to any of those evil cults' activities! That is not what an All-Father follower should do."

Although she lived in the outer city, the woman was surprisingly a very devout All-Father believer.

This was not uncommon in the outer city area. After all, the All-Father was the official belief of the Empire and the mainstream belief of the countries in the Old World.

However, as the social order collapsed under the threat of the doomsday disaster, the outer city area fell into the control area of ​​the evil god sect. The people were gradually bewitched by them, gave up their faith in the All-Father, and turned to the evil god sect.

However, there will always be some people who stick to their beliefs. After all, the evil god sect has been suppressed by the church for thousands of years and is only temporarily in power. It is unrealistic to completely control all the people in the outer city area in a short period of time.

Therefore, there are always some people who maintain their faith in the All-Father, but as the evil cult expands, they are gradually marginalized and many are even targeted.

Some people died inexplicably, while others tried to migrate to the inner city which was still controlled by the church and the empire, hoping to get asylum.

The woman was just that kind of person, but she still couldn't find a chance to enter the inner city before it was blocked, so she had to stay in the outer city until this time she had the opportunity to come in.

The judge examined the woman and asked her to place her hands on the church's sacred book and pray to the All-Father. Seeing that there was indeed no sign of corruption or depravity, the judge allowed the woman to pass through the checkpoint and enter the temporary isolation area.

In the quarantine area, the woman quickly found the old man and little Yelena. The three of them hugged each other tightly, feeling lucky that they were still alive.

At the same time, they were also grateful that they had finally entered the inner city area and could continue to live.

(End of this chapter)