The first thing I do before healing people is survey the surrounding area.
The area around here is full of tight alleyways and sharp corners. Countless places to hide in. Ive already moved quite a distance away from the housing and the best way to lose my followers was to die into the darker, less frequented areas.
Though, most places Ive been to lately have had little light. Now that I think of it, Ive been able to see pretty clearly in the dark. My eyes must have been adjusting to the dark light, far beyond the norm.
I an, its not like they have streetlights out here. What gets is how subtle the change was. I think I just subconsciously I thought this world just brighter nights or sothing.
In actuality, it is several leagues darker.
Since the world is larger and obviously the technology level is lower, there is less light pollution overall.
Not only that, but most light at night from the majority of people who even have light sources, only have very small lights. Just enough to see the small areas in which they live.
Its not only that, though. As my scan pulses over these areas, I co across a common the.
There are just so so many poor and injured people.
For every 1 person living in a building, there are 12 others on the street.
The small snapshots of things I see are things I am surprised to see, but really shouldnt be.
Many people are in the process of getting robbed, stabbed, murdered, hurt, and, in way too many cases, abused.
And so, I co across a conundrum.
Is it enough to just heal people, letting them fall back into the sa dangerous situations?
My answer with Ai and Lin was to work with them directly. With the demi humans, I have a strong suspicion that Gong had already filtered out most people who would have been a problem.
maybe even hoping of using the chaos as an opportunity to get rid of community naces.
Even if I was willing to do that which Im unsure of, what would the ramifications be of sothing like that?
I would have to scan each person to give a fair judgent.
Possibly, but Id die. Which isnt a hypothetical.
Id really die from that, if I tried to do that with every other type of scan still active.
The only way I could do sothing like that would be over ti and adjusting the others.
My scan shows each of the people within the nearest 20 km that fits that criterion and is in a desperate state.
More than half will fall into the sa state, even if I heal them, because of being in an ongoing situation.
So, what will I do? What can I do?
And then the obvious answer cos to . One that should have been obvious from the beginning.
My taming ability.
It doesnt have to appear to be that does the healing. It doesnt even have to make sense.
If people see that these animals are defending and attacking them, they will obviously assu there is soone behind them.
But if the animals seem intelligent, there will be the slightest bit of doubt.
Maybe the power is coming from them? Maybe they are similar to spirit beasts?
Not only that, but using them like also allows to have them being a centering piece, like what I did with Gongs spiders during the assault.
Ill be able to heal the people and scan things around them from the connection. Which will lower the cost enough for to be able to get a general idea of whether it is right to intervene in a situation. And not die from the process.
It will suck imnsely when I need to do scanning on other things at the sa ti. Most likely, will be a similar intensity to earlier.
There is a major downside to this, though. The animals themselves WILL be attacked. Theyll be dissected and torn apart. Every secret exposed. Theres no way the big groups will ignore this.
Fortunately for , the contract with them seems to be sothing that wouldnt show up even in the most detailed information pulls. Ill also be able to do this from a much greater distance because of the centering effect.
Nonetheless, Ill put it in the contract for consent. If they ever want to stop, especially once they receive the human intelligence level, Ill have them switch away from that role.
One rule, though. No insects or anything resembling them. I cant have them be affiliated even slightly with Gong or I.
That would just be asking for trouble.
I also need to be doing sothing else while I do these things. Otherwise, sothing like what happened when I healed that Yellow Sashes mber will happen. Cultivators with their spiritual sense may discover a pattern, as well. I also cant just stay in one area or place either. That is what a practitioner who had such an ability would have to do.
Ill need to lower my local scanning power to compensate. I should be able to just reduce the effective area of my defensive scan (as Ill call it) to around 2 ters or so.
Unfortunately, this is not nearly enough distance to protect adequately. The only good thing about the situation is that my reaction speed and preparedness could allow to dodge even spiritual sword attacks this ti. Even from that distance.
I still be doing periodic pulses around myself, to make sure that there're no threats in my area and if there are, to shift my attention to those instead.
And so, with my area clear, I began my operation.
I started out with taming a ton of rats. 10,000s of people's worth of rats.
Instead of bringing them all together like I normally do, I spread them further apart. I still leave bunches of them together in a way that would allow for them to work together to fight against the situations, as I was thinking.
A piece of is also reminded of those investigative unit shows and how they would be able to triangulate soones position by establishing a general area that they worked within.
Which is sothing called geographic profiling, which works by determining the most probable area of an offenders base of activities through an analysis of his or her cri locations. In this case, it would be where the rats awakened and will now be working.
So, I used my scan to also determine a pattern and randomized my taming in a way that would be highly resistant to such investigative thods.
Just in case.
I end up having rats active across this portion of outer city, with multiple fake potential zones that I could be active in, but that would ultimately show no true pattern. In so ways, even giving the impression that it is soone operating from outside that area.
Exactly as I wanted.
With this done, I began to search out people to heal.
As to expected, there are an exceptional amount of people around that need both healing and help in getting out of a continuous situation.
The only question for is if I partially automate this process with my scan.
If I dont automate this sowhat, I will be constantly distracted by the different situations the rats are encountering. If Im consistently distracted at the sa ti as sothing is happening they will be able to determine its .
I wish that was a hypothetical, but with the cultivation thods out there and spiritual scans, they can catch miniscule changes like that. While they wouldnt assu its , theyd likely believe Im involved or getting information. Which ans torture by high level people. An unfavorable situation.
So, automation is the only answer left. Whether by my scan or by trusting the rats to make judgent calls.
Eventually, I will be able to generally give instructions to the rats, like the hero group or spiders and trust them because of their intelligence and contract but I just tad these creatures. Theres no way they are there yet.
With this in mind, I set my scan to figure out the different levels of issues that would be responded to vs ignored. This is, in a sense, setting up my own system of law. Determining who gets to live vs die, as a standard.
I never thought I would determine this at this ti, but its at least partially necessary that I make personal lines on what is worth death or other asures.
And how to respond to them.
at least my scan is able to determine the truth.
Though, it will run slowly and across many cases for these things. Which is why my area of personal defensive scanning is so small. Its being used for big operations.
Of course, allotted within this, is enough lee-way to be able to do local scanning. Albeit, over a period of ti. I can partially reduce operations to reallocate to local stuff if needed.
Once this is done, I will be able to actually get into the work of helping people. And then, focusing on my current situation.
Which is, coming up with things to do in the city, to appear busy.
Sigh
This has gotten so complicated. The life of being more cautious in a really dangerous cultivation world.
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