Chapter 1854: Life is worse than death

If it were in the previous world, maybe there would not be anything.

Because everyone does not have any major conflicts of interest.

Of course, even if there are, this conflict will not be so serious that it will affect life and death.

But in this sky island world, it is another story. It is not as stable as the previous world.

You must know that there will be wars every day here, and people will lose their lives every day.

And what makes them lose their lives is some food, iron ore and other resources.

Because everyone wants to survive, but there are only so many resources, and it is difficult for everyone to coexist peacefully even if they want to.

After all, everyone has to eat, defend against monsters that descend on the island, and guard against those pirates who may visit them at any time.

To survive under such conditions, they can only get more supplies, so that they can eat and drink enough, and exchange some facilities for defense.

If you don't want to fight, it's not impossible, as long as you keep a low profile, admit your weakness, and take the initiative to hand over the supplies you find.

Or you can live on your own sky island and never go out. In this way, you may be able to avoid fighting with others.

But even so, there is no guarantee that you will survive safely.

Let’s not talk about whether you can maintain food and clothing by fishing alone if you don’t go out to explore for supplies.

Let’s say that the monsters rewarded from time to time are constantly upgrading, which requires more manpower on your island to protect your safety.

Since there are more manpower, more food is naturally needed to feed them.

At the same time, more weapons are also needed to equip them, otherwise, without weapons and equipment, these people will only become food for monsters in the face of monster attacks.

Some people may hear this and think that as long as some lucky European emperors face it, they may be able to avoid war.

This sounds a bit reasonable, but it is not actually the case.

The food just mentioned is just a normal daily need.

The weapons and manpower mentioned are just for you to deal with monster attacks.

But the most terrifying thing on this sky island is not hunger or monster attacks.

Because except for special monsters like the autumn BOSS, the monsters that generally descend on the sky island to attack you are not too high in level.

As long as you buy weapons made by the Merchant Alliance, such as catapults, crossbow carts, etc., you can basically be safe.

What is really scary is the survivors like you.

It's just that some survivors are very honest. Even if they come to this Sky Island world of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, they still live the same as in the previous world and abide by the rules of the original world.

But the same sentence, just because you can abide by it doesn't mean that others can do the same as you.

As the saying goes, people's hearts are separated by their stomachs.

In the previous second, they call you brothers and say that they will stick their knives in your ribs for you.

But in the next second, for a little benefit, they may stab you twice.

This is the so-called brother, a brother who knows a person's face but not his heart.

So what you really need to pay attention to on Sky Island is not the monsters, but those beasts with human faces and beastly hearts.

Because these people had just arrived in this Sky Island world and had not yet adapted to the life here, they did not show it too obviously.

Whether it is being a person or doing things, they are extremely low-key, giving people the feeling that this is an honest and decent person.

However, as the living environment on the Sky Island became worse and worse, the nature of these people began to slowly emerge, and later they became the sky pirates that people feared.

So even if you want to stay honest, don't want to rob other people's resources, and don't want to provoke any war.

But as long as you are in this Sky Island world, you may be targeted by the sky pirates.

Once targeted, if you meet some people who have not lost their hearts, they may just rob your supplies and your fishing rod, and will not kill you with a knife.

But everyone knows that the fishing rod is the most important tool on the Sky Island, and it is also the basis for an ordinary person to survive after crossing to the Sky Island world.

Taking away your fishing rod, although you are not killed in person, is no different from killing you.

Unless you have the ability to take one from someone else after the sky pirates leave.

Or you find a force that is willing to accept you as a vassal, be someone else's slave, earn some living expenses, and keep yourself fed and clothed.

But think about it and you know it's impossible. Neither of these two can be achieved.

First of all, if you really have the strength to snatch supplies from others, you won't be targeted by other pirates and robbed.

As for the second point, do you think you can surrender to any force?

If you have no use value? If you don't have any benefit to others, why should others support you, a waste who can do nothing but eat and sleep?

Even if you go to be a slave, you are not qualified in the eyes of those large forces.

So those small and medium-sized forces mentioned earlier that go to surrender to large forces and top forces, they have to bring gifts.

If they don't show their strength, the other party will not agree to protect them.

Because if you can't even provide some basic supplies, then after protecting you in the later stage, where will your monthly tribute come from?

Do you need others to pay you a salary, and then you take part of the salary to return to the other party?

In that case, wouldn't it be like the other party is working for you?

So it's normal to think about it a little bit. Once the fishing rod is gone, the men are killed, and the supplies are robbed.

Then you can only live for a few more days at most, and it can't change the final outcome of death.

It's just that your way of death is more comfortable than being killed by the enemy with a knife.

Or, compared to those air pirates selling you as a slave to others, being tortured to death by others is a little better.

Anyway, the final result is the same, and it's hard to escape death.

Some people may even think that it's better to be killed by the enemy on the spot.

Because at that time you didn't know you would die, and even if you knew, the pain you suffered would be very short, just a moment.

But when you are forced into a desperate situation and learn that you will die in a few days, I believe many people cannot accept this result.

At this time, although they didn't die immediately, I believe they will be more than ten times or a hundred times more afraid of death than before.

At that time, they might not only be afraid, but also feel the torment of living. Many people might not be able to endure it and would choose to jump directly from the sky island.