Chapter 326 They don’t treat us as human beings at all!

The next morning.

Grandma Cheng got up early as usual.

Although I don’t need to work in the planting area today, I still need to prepare breakfast for the canteen.

In the past, she only needed to serve meals, but today she had nothing to do anyway, so she simply came to the kitchen to help.

As soon as I entered the kitchen, I saw a dozen kitchen helpers gathered around the stove.

"Morning, boys."

Grandma Cheng greeted warmly, but received no response.

This made her curious, so she slowly walked towards the crowd to check.

"What are you talking about? You're so focused?"

The helpers realized that the person coming was Grandma Cheng, so they greeted her:

"It's grandma. I was so engrossed in reading the news that I didn't notice..."

"Grandma, what are your plans? Do you want to leave the shelter and hide for a while?"

"Hey, it's too late to leave the shelter now. There are less than 12 hours left until 5 noon. Where can we hide?"

"That's true, but leaving is better than staying in the shelter and waiting to die..."

Everyone was chattering away, leaving Grandma Cheng completely confused:

"What are you talking about? What are you talking about? Hiding, leaving the shelter? I don't understand a word you say..."

"Grandma, didn't you read the news on the public channel?" One of the yellow-haired young men casually clicked twice on the data panel, which appeared in front of Grandma Cheng:

"Since midnight yesterday, people have been sending out messages saying that the rift eruption will begin at 12 noon today."

"Public channel?" Grandma Cheng's eyes were filled with confusion.

She naturally knew the various functions of the data panel and had sent several messages on the public channel.

But later, because the messages were updated too quickly, and she was old, her eyes would become blurry after reading for a long time, so she rarely opened it after that.

For this old woman, the data panel is used to contact her granddaughter, and has no other use.

Judging from the performance of these helpers, she seemed to have missed something very important?

"Young man, tell grandma what happened?"

The yellow-haired young man looked nonchalant, but he was not indifferent to the old woman's request for help.

In just a few words, he summarized the content on the public chat channel.

I thought Grandma Cheng would be as panicked as they were.

Unexpectedly, after hearing this, the old woman laughed without any worry and said:

"Didn't the head of the Lin family come to the cafeteria to tell you about this news during dinner last night? Look how panicked you are."

Seeing that the old woman had not yet realized the seriousness of the matter, Huangmao immediately explained:

"Grandma, the Lin family announced the news of the rift eruption last night."

"But Lin Tianxia didn't say that when the rift erupts, the more players there are in the shelter, the more monsters will be attracted!"

"The chat channel released news yesterday that other shelters are trying to disperse the population as much as possible to relieve the pressure."

"But our shelter gathers all the civilian players together!"

"Oh, just for this?" Grandma Cheng still smiled:

"Each shelter has its own response methods. The Lin family gathered us all together to better protect us."

"Oh my grandma!" Upon hearing this, the other helpers also joined in explaining:

"What are you protecting? Does the Lin family have the strength to do so?"

"Which of the other shelters doesn't have high walls with heavy machine guns mounted on top of them?"

"Our shelter is surrounded by a circle of broken barbed wire!"

"Not to mention that it can't withstand the charge of those monsters when the rift erupts, even a level 1 player like me can make a big hole in it with my bare hands..."

"This..." Grandma Cheng was speechless for a moment, and the smile on her face gradually faded:

"Aren't there still the Lin family members... They are at a very high level and have a lot of powerful items. It shouldn't be a problem for them to hold off those monsters, right?"

"What are you trying to do? They can't do it!" Another fat man said wheezingly, and it seemed that he had some minor breathing problems:

"As far as I know, the Lin family is just a 'human-level' family, and their strength is not strong at all!"

"I estimate that they may not even be able to withstand the first few waves of insect swarms before the rift erupts!"

"What is a 'human-level' family?" Grandma Cheng looked confused again.

"Oh, that's it..." The fat man looked around and finally picked up a boning knife and a small colander.

He held the small colander in front of the old woman:

"This is the Lin family, a 'human-level' family."

Seeing the old woman nod, he raised the bone-chopping steel knife in his hand again:

"This is the 'Earth Level' which is ten times stronger than the 'Human Level'!"

After the old woman nodded again, the fat man put the colander on the chopping board, raised the steel knife and chopped it hard!

The already fragile colander was instantly broken into two halves and fell to the ground with a clang.

In the slightly horrified eyes of the old woman, the fat man gasped and explained:

"The 'Earth Level' families, which are tens of thousands of times stronger than the 'Human Level' families, have made adequate preparations for this rift outbreak."

"They dispersed the population of the shelter, mobilized a large number of high-powered players to assist in the defense, built high walls, and deployed heavy firepower machine guns..."

"But what about the Lin family?"

"Until the day before the rift erupted, they still asked us to farm together!"

Grandma Cheng's face was wrinkled deeply as she murmured, "Are you trying to say... that the Lin family was totally unprepared for this rift outbreak?"

"It's not like we're unprepared." The yellow-haired young man said with a wry smile:

"At least the Lin family brought us useless civilian players together."

"That's right, I said the Lin family must have a way..." Grandma Cheng smiled again.

But when he saw that none of the helpers around him were smiling, he immediately realized that something was wrong.

"The Lin family used us as bait!" the fat man panted.

"The entire central shelter, with so many civilian players, can attract a large number of monsters!"

"Once those monsters are full, they will no longer pose a threat to the Lin family."

"For the Lin family, the only loss is us useless civilian players."

“They don’t treat us as human beings at all!”

The more Grandma Cheng listened, the more she felt something was wrong. She couldn't help but frown and asked:

"These...are all your own deductions?"

The fat man was originally very emotional, but was suddenly interrupted by the old woman, and subconsciously told the truth:

"I don't have such a smart brain. It's Teacher Yang who lives with me."

"He and other teachers stayed up all night, and only then did they discover the Lin family's conspiracy based on clues!"

"Teacher..." Grandma Cheng was very surprised and still didn't quite believe it.

“Perhaps the Lin family really has a way to withstand the monsters produced by the rift explosion, and this is all just a misunderstanding?”

The fat man waved his fat hand, very confidently:

"Impossible! Compared to the Lin family, I trust the teachers' analysis more!"

"They are all smart people. Smart people's judgment cannot be wrong!"

At this point, Grandma Cheng finally wavered in her stance and asked with some concern:

"If what you said is true, what should we do next?"

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