Chapter 346: Unity and Illumination
“Death isn’t an escape...”
When he heard the tagline of the ga from the other person’s lips, Fisher felt an indescribable chill consuming him.
According to him, this phrase is the central the of the ga. If Dead by Daylight was the hint Fisher had unraveled, could this an that the central the of the ga was Chen Chen’s underlying motivation?
This ant that the plan never was to let them go...
When Fisher thought of this prospect, he felt his entire body collapsing on him as an overwhelming sense of despair took over. He sat on the ground with a thousand-yard stare. He wanted nothing more than to directly escape this island.
It was rely a montary thought. He was well aware that his odds of successfully crossing the Atlantic Ocean without any proper equipnt was abysmal at best. He was better off hoping that Blacklight Biotechnology found the goodness in their heart to let him go.
“Mr. Fisher?”
While Fisher was still petrified by this thought, he suddenly heard Jennifer’s voice coming from beside him.
Fisher turned around and saw Jennifer approaching with the other blonde lady as well as several mbers of the Environntal Protection Association. There was a steel-forged look of determination in their eyes.
“You guys...”
Before they even said anything, Fisher knew what they were thinking.
It looked like they were planning to sacrifice themselves to light up the signal towers.
Jennifer quickly announced solemnly, “Mr. Fisher, myself, Anthony, Walton, and the others would like to volunteer to beco the first group to light up the signal towers.”
Fisher smiled bitterly when he heard this. He wanted to tell them about his speculation but stopped himself from saying it.
Although he had an idea that Blacklight Biotechnology was probably not going to let him off the hook, the tiny strand of hope he had left forbade him from saying sothing potentially despondent.
Besides, having the two won here made things a lot more difficult than they needed to be. They were the only two won here on the island and the rcenaries have had their eyes on them since the very beginning. Unless he could co up with a solution in ti, they were going to be the spark to the confrontation between himself and the band of rcenaries.
When he thought of this, Fisher suddenly shut his eyes, clearly dealing with his inner conflict. “Perhaps there’s still so other solution...”
“We don’t have any other solution left.”
Jennifer shook her head, her expression was still calm. “This evil company wants to test our self-sacrificial spirit and mock us with it. In that case, we’ll prove ourselves with actual actions.”
As she said this, she looked at the people around them who were either sitting or lying down. She announced at the top of her voice, “Ladies and gentlen, my na is Jennifer. I’m sure most of you know who I am when you joined White Embers. What I’m trying to say here is faith and honor, bravery and freedom... How much are you going to pay for these attributes that are essential to a human’s character?”
When they heard what Jennifer said, they turned to look with an ongoing numb expression on their faces at the hardy blonde-haired lady.
“Life is an invaluable object. However, when we humans live in this world, certain things are more important than life itself such as belief and freedom!”
Arriving at this ntion, Jennifer started to look around into pairs of dark emotionless eyes staring back at her. “They want to toy with our resolution, challenge our belief. It’s for this reason that we should be ever more united instead of guarding ourselves against one another and be viewed as a joke!”
As Jennifer delivered her speech, more people started to approach and ford a ring with Jennifer at its center.
“Today, we’ll be the first batch of volunteers to light up the signal towers. I know there are not a lot of us but believe , after we begin this venture, more people will join our cause and sacrifice themselves along with us so that the remaining three hundred can survive and make it out of here!
“They’ll carry with them our collective wrath and exact revenge on this vile corporation!”
“Revenge!”
“Revenge!”
“Revenge!”
They roared ceaselessly.
...
With Jennifer’s impromptu speech, a torch was lit in many people’s eyes. In just several minutes, more than thirty people stepped out from the crowd and motioned to join the group and sacrifice themself to light up the signal towers.
Seeing this further inspired passion in the gathered flock. Fisher felt compelled to step forward and stand beside Jennifer to announce, “Everyone, we must be grateful for this group who volunteers to sacrifice themselves for us. But please don’t forget that inside that harrowing jungle are five monsters trying to hunt us down. Therefore, I hope that everyone can begin forming small teams to cover for them while they light the signal towers and then escort them back to the safe zone, can we do that?”
The crowd agreed with a collective grunt.
Fisher heaved a silent sigh of relief when he saw the reception.
It was certainly true that in tis of trouble, the hearts of n were more prone to such shifts. Tis like this were the ideal ti to establish leadership as people were more likely to band together.
Upon considering this, Fisher quickly pressed his advantage and used this opportunity to divide the volunteers into different groups and began drafting their plan for lighting the signal towers.
They formulated their plan from early morning until late noon and during this period, more people joined their cause either by way of choice or peer pressure. After all, as the people who joined slowly began to increase, they would naturally begin to suspect what the others were up to. Under this mounting snowball effect, the lone wolf rcenaries saw how the situation was unraveling for them and had to join as well.
Of course, there was the occasional stubborn rcenary who expressed the slightest bit of interest in being involved with Fisher’s crew. They ended up getting beaten to death by the enraged mob.
After the excited crowd got rid of two people who tried to step out of line, the rest were assigned to tasks like scouting, collecting resources or guard duty. All in all, everyone had joined the crusade started by Jennifer.
At the end of the day, it was a tall task to convince people to sacrifice themselves. Most of them only gave their word to protect the volunteers who set out to light the signal towers and to safely escort them back to the safe zone.
After all, they were all inford of the rules of the ga — in the event that the person who lit a signal tower died, the tower would also be extinguished.
In the end, thirty-three people in total volunteered to be the first group willing to sacrifice themselves.
Each one of them was assigned to thirty-three separate groups. Apart from the volunteers, there were an additional five to six people in each group acting as their guard. If they ran into the wandering monsters inside the jungle, the sole duty of the guard was to ensure the volunteer made it back to the safe zone, whatever the cost.
“This is the most ideal solution possible when facing such a crisis like this.”
The sociologist Adenauer comnded, “Humans can be extrely motivated creatures, provided that a suitable leader is leading them. Undoubtedly, Fisher is an extrely qualified individual with great leadership qualities. Is Blacklight Biotechnology really not considering recruiting him at all?”
Samuel frowned when he heard this comnt. “These people are as cunning as they co. They even went as far as to kidnap my daughter and threaten . Professor Adenauer, I’m well aware that you yearn for the upper-class life and want to fit yourself into the mold at all costs, but it’s simply foolish behavior to plot little ideas like this on an experint subject.”
“It’s because we’ve already handed them their death sentence from the very mont they arrived at this island!”
Adenauer made a gesture and tried to counter his argunt before Professor Erickson suddenly cut them off. “Alright, both of you, save your bickering for so other ti. For now, let’s just patiently observe how they progress from here on.”
With that, he directed his attention back to the giant display and suddenly stated loudly, “Look, they’ve divided themselves into smaller groups and are setting out now. Hold on, so of them are giving their communication devices to the volunteers?”
This ca off as a shock to them as everyone turned to the display. Sure enough, many people were giving their communication devices to the volunteers.
“With this one maneuver, the people who don’t have their communication device can stay in the safe zone without being hunted by the tyrants. anwhile, the volunteers won’t be restricted to only lighting one signal tower but can light five or even ten instead...”
Professor Erickson quickly turned to Yoru Kamidera who held his silence all this ti. “Mr. Consultant, does this count as a loophole inside the ga? Should we report this?”
“No need.”
Yoru Kamidera held his still expression and shook his head. “The rules of the ga were never sothing we needed to pay attention to. That’s their ga as far as we’re concerned.”
After stating that, Yoru Kamidera looked at the first group approaching a signal tower as his expression beca grave. “Our work has only just begun.”
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