It wasn't easy to fight against order.
There were no allies in this world for no reason. Lin Xiao held four trump cards that corresponded to four dragons. It was precisely because of this that he could be like a fish in water in the City of Silver. From a weak professional, he had taken one step at a time to his current position of being above tens of thousands of people.
In the entire City of Silver, the only faction that could match him was the Brotherhood. Lin Xiao wasn't arrogant. Even though he had four legendary dragons and dozens of Silver-ranked dragon-blooded creatures, he still hadn't taken action against the Brotherhood. It wasn't that he wasn't confident in winning, but even if he did, it would be a pyrrhic victory. When the time came, the cards he had would be greatly reduced.
For the Brotherhood to be able to get half of the City of Silver's resources, they naturally weren't nobodies. The two brothers, Ge Da and Ge Er, were confirmed to be Legendary experts. In addition, they had an extraterrestrial lifeform under their command. It was said that it could devour all matter, including miscellaneous items, useful resources, and flesh and blood.
What Lin Xiao was truly afraid of was the extraterrestrial lifeform. It was unknown which dimension the lifeform originated from, but the moment it appeared, it was obtained by the Brotherhood. From then on, the Brotherhood relied on the monsters they captured outside to feed the extraterrestrial lifeform, creating batch after batch of Silver-ranked experts. After all, those experts weren't professionals in their previous lives, but a group of extremely ordinary refugees. Because of the extraterrestrial lifeform, they obtained magical powers, but the price was their lack of intelligence and ignorance.
Those Silver-ranked experts obeyed the orders of the extraterrestrial lifeform and acted in unison. Even if the extraterrestrial lifeform ordered them to commit suicide, the thousands of Silver-ranked experts would do so without hesitation. That's right, the Brotherhood relied on the extraterrestrial lifeform to create thousands of Silver-ranked experts without intelligence.
In terms of high-level combat strength, the Dragon Gate led by Lin Xiao was naturally superior. This was because he had four legendary dragons and many dragon-blooded creatures that were at the peak of the Gold-rank.
On the other hand, although the Brotherhood only had Ge Da and Ge Er on the surface, they had an entire team of Silver-ranked experts under their command. As those experts lacked intelligence, they could unleash even more terrifying lethality. They were more agile than beasts, smarter than zombies, and faster than insects. They were simply natural killing machines.
The extraterrestrial lifeforms controlled those terrifying unintelligent people, while the Brotherhood controlled the extraterrestrial lifeforms. It was precisely because of this strange dimensional lifeform in their hands that the Brotherhood could fight against the Dragon Gate as equals, and neither could do anything to the other.
If it was said that Lin Xiao had paid the most attention to the Brotherhood before, then now, his focus had shifted from the Brotherhood to Order, which had cooperated with the City of Silver a few times.
Order was like having an endless supply of food. Even though there had been two transactions, with the original residents and the City of Silver sending over the old, weak, sick, and disabled, not only did they not suffer from a food shortage due to the increase in population, they even announced that they were holding a third population transaction not long ago.
He had seen the darkness of the apocalypse.
Lin Xiao once believed that the goal of the Order was to take these old, weak and sick people back for human experiments, or even to use large amounts of fresh blood to complete some sacrificial rituals.
Lin Xiao wasn't a chuunibyou. These things naturally weren't due to the knowledge from his previous life, but because he had survived the apocalypse for so long. Furthermore, he was half the commander of the City of Silver, so he naturally saw many scenes that ordinary people couldn't imagine. Over the long period of time, Lin Xiao had killed dimensional lifeforms more than once, and in the process of killing them, he had also collected quite a bit of local customs, and grasped quite a bit of knowledge from other dimensions.
For example, there were some names that required fresh blood to be sacrificed. Those powerful existences that lingered in certain dimensions were like blood-sucking worms. If one wanted to gain their favor, one had to sacrifice a large number of lives.
These sacrifices naturally didn't have much of a temptation for an expert like Lin Xiao. Furthermore, their strength was slowly increasing, and they instinctively had a sixth sense. Therefore, even if the heretics proposed sacrifices, Lin Xiao wouldn't agree. Instead, he would directly suppress or destroy them.
However, ordinary people were different. They lived in an abyss of suffering, and with the cold weather, they could encounter thugs at any time. Therefore, what they pursued the most was some sort of hope.
If someone were to tell them that they only needed to sacrifice some flesh and blood to obtain supreme power, then most of the pitiful people who had been ravaged by the apocalypse would choose to turn evil and throw themselves into some evil means.
If it wasn't a sacrifice of life or something evil, in the end, the residents who had been traded would completely disappear from the world before long.
This was Lin Xiao's initial thought, but not long after, Lin Xiao's spies reported that the old, weak, sick, and disabled that had been exchanged for food didn't decrease sharply. Instead, they obtained their own land and food that could fill their stomachs. Everyone in Order lived in brick houses. Usually, they didn't have to worry about the blizzard or the cold weather outside. It wasn't that there were few, but that no one froze to death on the streets.
When facing an enemy, the most terrifying thing was not being able to see through them. As for Order and its leader, Chen Feng, Lin Xiao was in a state of confusion.
I can't wait any longer …
Originally, Lin Xiao was still a little confused, but after Order proposed to trade people for the third time, Lin Xiao instinctively captured an important piece of information. Order's original intention was to nibble away at the City of Silver.
Due to the cold weather, the City of Silver could no longer grow food. For a city that was lacking in food, this was no less than a disaster.
Just as everyone was lacking in food and was worried about food, Order suddenly appeared. Not only did it have a large amount of food, but it also had a great desire for people.
If Lin Xiao thought that he had taken advantage of the first trade, then the second one made him wary. And the third one made him completely suspicious.
Although he didn't want to admit it, he had to accept that at some point in time, the City of Silver had become the target of Order's hunting.
Like a ferocious tiger hunting a reindeer in the forest, Order quietly lurked by the side. When the City of Silver wasn't paying attention, it would step forward to take a bite of its flesh. One or two bites would be fine, but if it continued eating like this, when the bones of the reindeer were exposed and its flesh and blood were all gone, its life would come to an end.
Since Lin Xiao had reacted, he was naturally prepared to counterattack. His idea was very simple. Since Order could hunt the City of Silver, then the City of Silver could also turn around and hunt Order!
Of course, Order was a city with a population of a million, so Lin Xiao naturally wouldn't act rashly. Therefore, he sent out his subordinate, Cang Ying, who was best at hiding, to explore. Cang Ying had already left for three days. Although it was a little abnormal, it didn't attract much attention from Lin Xiao. To him, it was impossible for Cang Ying to be discovered because this was the confidence they had built over a long period of time.
Lin Xiao wanted to counterattack Order.
And before he really carried out his plan.
Lin Xiao still had something rather important to do, and that was to meet some people next door.
The attitude of these people was the key to all of Lin Xiao's subsequent plans. If they were willing to help Lin Xiao, then Lin Xiao wouldn't have to activate the backup plan. But if they weren't willing to help Lin Xiao, then Lin Xiao could only rely on the backup plan to deal with Order.
And this backup plan had many loopholes. These loopholes were based on more confidence in the City of Silver, as well as the fact that Order's strength was relatively belittled.
Lin Xiao knew that the latter was in a completely unstable state. As long as Cang Ying didn't return, he wouldn't know the reserve strength of Order. A decision made in a completely ignorant state naturally didn't have much of a chance of success.
And the biggest key factor that determined Lin Xiao's victory was the Brotherhood!
All this time, Lin Xiao's attitude towards the Brotherhood was very complicated.
As the two largest factions in the City of Silver, there was naturally a lot of friction between them. And when it came to certain matters, there was also quite a bit of conflict between the two sides when it came to the way they handled things.
But for more development, Lin Xiao had always avoided any obvious conflict with the other party.
For example, this time, although Lin Xiao's goal was to get rid of a dangerous enemy once and for all, it was undeniable that he was also doing it for the sake of Order's unlimited reserves of food.
Lin Xiao's trip to meet the upper echelons of the Brotherhood was to test their attitude and then make a small request.
This small request was to borrow the [Unintelligent Army]!
That's right.
Lin Xiao wanted to use the power of the [Unintelligent Army] to get rid of the trouble that was Order!
Even a child would understand that a large number of ants could kill an elephant. As an excellent cannon fodder that could continuously replenish its army, the City of Silver would have the ability to crush Order with the dragons under my command and the death squad of over a thousand.
The Unintelligent Army had no fear to speak of. No matter how terrifying the enemy was, it was meaningless to them. Most of the time, they only treated attacking as an order. Even if their lives ceased to exist after this order, it didn't mean much to the Unintelligent Army.
After all, their intelligence had disappeared from the moment they were modified. Now, they were more like a group of human weapons, monsters with flesh and blood.
Therefore, when he decided to deal with Order, the figure of the Unintelligent Army immediately popped up in Lin Xiao's mind. If he could control this army, then Lin Xiao's chances of winning would increase by at least 20%. The army's powerful warriors would become the dragon's best partner.
Once he obtained the help of the Unintelligent Army, Lin Xiao's reservation plan could be reduced by half.
He might even not need to spend so much effort to rely on Cang Ying to kill the upper echelons of Order. Instead, he could finish them off in one go and leave behind more subordinates after the siege.
But!
Lin Xiao couldn't figure out the Brotherhood's attitude towards him. He couldn't be sure if Ge Da and Ge Er were willing to lend him the extraterrestrial creatures.
…
A snowstorm filled the sky.
Lin Xiao's figure appeared in an unfamiliar environment. Even though he was in the same city, the Dragon Gate and the Brotherhood belonged to two different factions and had never interacted with each other before.
The howling of the cold wind was getting louder and louder.
In the slums, a group of half-grown children were gathered together. The surroundings were very cold, but the children didn't seem to care at all. They formed a circle and focused on the front. From time to time, someone would stand on the other side and imitate, assuming a fighting posture.
They were secretly learning combat techniques.
For these children who lived at the lowest level, they didn't have many ideals. Their parents encouraged them to come over, hoping that they could secretly learn something so that they wouldn't have to bully them when they were searching for food in the future.
The slums were the largest group in the City of Silver. 70% of the city's poor lived here. They couldn't become professionals for a series of reasons, so they became the cheapest labor force. And in the area under the command of the Brotherhood, these poor people were also the substitutes of the Unintelligent Army.
The extraterrestrial creatures seemed to be able to level up. According to the information Lin Xiao received at the beginning, the so-called Unintelligent Army only had a few hundred at the beginning. And after a few years of development, the number of the army had exceeded two thousand. What did this mean? It meant that the extraterrestrial creatures could level up and then create more Unintelligent people.
The Brotherhood was mostly a group of egoists. As the representative of the evil faction, the Warriors who taught the children naturally didn't have good intentions, but had ulterior motives.
It was not as if there were no requirements to become a mindless person. Even if some old, weak, sick, and disabled people were to successfully mutate, their strength would be greatly reduced. After countless transformations and failures, the Brotherhood came to a conclusion. That was, ordinary people with relatively stronger physiques would have a great chance of mastering more power when they mutated. The Silver-rank was only the initial rank. During the long process of transformation, there were even more cases of Gold-rank mindless people because the host's strength was strong enough.
Therefore, these warriors were purposely arranged to be here. They repeated the same actions every day. It was not so that the children could master some self-defense skills and be able to fight back against the attacks of the monsters. It was so that the children could grow up to become a good unintelligent person after a period of time.
The Brotherhood.
Evil.
Arrogance.
Ego.
This was the attitude of most of the forces in the apocalypse toward ordinary people. More often than not, the upper class just regarded the lower class as a group of fat pigs that could be slaughtered at any time.
There was no conventional mercy and tolerance at all. Not only the Brotherhood, but also the Dragon Gate. It could be said that 99% of the resources were given to professionals, and those ordinary people were just the targets of exploitation. They did the most difficult and tiring work, but they received very little. Most of the time, their lives were not guaranteed because they didn't know when they would be unlucky and become the food of the giant dragon, or one of the members of the Unintelligent Army.
Lin Xiao had long been accustomed to these things. For him, there was only one thing to do now, and that was to find the upper class of the Brotherhood as soon as possible and explain his intentions clearly. Because he didn't know why, after knowing the purpose of the Order, his heart was vaguely uneasy. It was an indescribable sense of urgency, and it was even mixed with some irritation and inexplicable fear …
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