mtl008 Chapter 2910 When Night Falls (28)
Chapter 2910 When Night Falls (28)
Chapter 2910 When Night Falls (Twenty-Eight)
After everyone had eaten and drunk their fill, they continued to talk in the order they had arranged previously, but things got even more disastrous when it came to Jenna.
Jenna and Zan, a brother and sister, are actually aliens. The planet where they were born experienced a great plague, which resulted in the death of their parents and relatives. By chance, they came to Earth on a spaceship, and because they could not understand the language and habits of the Earthlings, they caused a lot of trouble and were finally recruited by the Justice League.
This means one thing, that is, to the people on Earth, both of them are semi-illiterate.
Zan is a bit better. He likes to tinker with machinery on his original planet. After coming to the Justice League, he can help the members repair their equipment. However, Janna studied geography, which is basically useless after coming to Earth.
With the help of the Justice League members, they learned English, but their learning was disjointed. They are currently at the stage where they can communicate fluently, but it is still a bit difficult for them to fully understand the underlying logic of how humans on Earth speak.
Jenna's account of her life over the past few months was even more confusing.
At the beginning, when her brain was still working, she could speak English fairly well, but her blood sugar rose after meals, and her oral diary was not very good, so she became more and more sleepy, and began to speak English words with the grammar of the alien language, and in the end it just became the alien language.
The language of their alien planet sounds a bit like a combination of Russian and French. The expressions are rather verbose, and the tone is flat without any fluctuations, it's just like chanting.
Jenna kept muttering there for two or three hours, and everyone except Batman was knocked down by her muttering.
When she announced that she had finished speaking, everyone woke up as if from a dream. Wonder Woman gave a thumbs up to Batman who remained awake the whole time. Martian Manhunter wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth, but this time he couldn't hold on because he couldn't understand the alien language either.
Although Superman's story was detailed, it was still exciting to listen to his experience of sweeping away all demons and monsters. It was a bit too difficult to ask people like Jenna who couldn't even understand what he was saying to stay focused all the time.
The Flash was so sleepy that he had to be pushed by Superman to wake up. After waking up, he was also looking like "Who am I? Where am I? What should I do?"
"Barry, go ahead and talk." Batman knocked on the table and said, "You're injured. You can lie down for a while after you finish talking."
The Flash gave him a grateful look, because he was indeed a little uncomfortable sitting here, and taking a nap on the recliner next to him would help him recover.
The Flash began to recount his experiences over the past few months.
He is well educated and a bit of a chatterbox. He used to speak very fast, but now he is injured and feels very uncomfortable, so his speech has naturally slowed down.
Precisely because he was injured, it was difficult for others to speak quickly, and coupled with his talkative habit of speaking, he would talk about this thing, then that thing, and after a while he would go back and say that the thing he said before was wrong, or he would add details to something he had said a long time ago. In short, it was all mixed up.
Fortunately, he failed to break Superman's record and only spoke for more than three hours, and it was already early in the morning.
Everyone suggested going to bed and continuing the discussion tomorrow, and Batman had no objection.
There were three lounge chairs in the conference room, originally intended for members to rest, but apparently there were not enough, so the others slept on the floor. God knows where Batman got the quilt from, but everyone was not a pretentious person, so they just chose a place and lay down.
However, considering that there was a mole, no one turned off the lights. They worked in groups of two and took turns to keep watch. The first group was Batman and Martian Manhunter.
They came to another corner of the room and lowered their voices as much as possible. Martian Manhunter said, "This plan is not that simple, is it? At least I didn't see anyone lying during the day. Are you sure the mole will reveal his flaws?"
"Of course. In fact, we have gathered enough information during the day." Batman said, "I believe you can also hear that the expansion of vampires is very strange."
"what do you mean……"
"In theory, if an organization wants to develop on Earth, it needs three factors: people, territory, and resources."
Martian Manhunter nodded, thinking it made sense and it was right to listen to Batman in this regard.
After all, although it was the Big Seven who established the Justice League, in fact a lot of the basic things were created by Batman. The land where the Justice League is located was bought by him, the building was built using the resources at his disposal, the security defense system was designed by him, and many fan activities were also organized by him. He is definitely an authority in this area.
"But vampires seem to only care about the first aspect." Batman pointed out the problem sharply, "They do have an advantage in member conversion. They only need a simple ritual to convert an absolutely loyal member of the organization. But an organization is useless if it only has members."
"First of all, you need a scientific management system to maximize the use of converted members. Loyalty cannot be eaten."
"Leaders must know people and assign them to the right positions. They must find out what each person is good at, and then assign them to the corresponding positions. Those who can fight should be assigned to field work, those who can manage should be assigned to administration, those who are good at speaking should be assigned to diplomacy, and those who are good at nothing should be assigned to logistics and miscellaneous work."
Martian Hunter nodded again. Although this is a very simple truth, it is still very difficult to actually do it. Throughout history, all those who can live up to the saying "knowing people and assigning them to the right positions" are wise rulers.
"After the personnel are arranged, of course we have to find a territory." Batman continued: "This is what makes me feel strange. The vampires have been expanding for so long, and the number of members is not small, but they still don't have a main base."
"Maybe they hid the base?" Martian Hunter suggested a possibility.
Batman shook his head and said, "Their members are not dozens or hundreds of people, but hundreds of thousands. Even if a base that can accommodate so many members can be hidden from the Flash and Wonder Woman, it can't be hidden from me and Superman."
"You've heard what Superman said before. He has been dealing with scattered incidents and has never had a decisive battle. He has flown all over the world but has not found a large base with more than a thousand people. If the vampires were able to hide it from him, they wouldn't have to hide."
Martian Manhunter felt that what Batman said made sense. Even if Batman's investigation had omissions, Superman's ability to obtain information was unreasonable. He could hear the voice of every person on Earth while flying in the universe. Hundreds of thousands of vampires gathered together could not possibly hide anything from Superman's ears.
"Even if they hide the base, what about the resources?" Batman said, "For ordinary people, how many resource production lines are needed to support hundreds of thousands of people?"
Martian Hunter thought for a moment, then said, "Humanity has long passed this stage. Now is the era of globalization. The daily necessities of a city of hundreds of thousands of people may come from all over the world."
"That's right. Even though vampires don't need any weapons or equipment, they still need to build a whole new industrial chain from beginning to end just to solve the problem of food."
Martian Manhunter shuddered and said, "You mean they're going to do human ranching?"
"The problem is that they should have done it, but they didn't." Batman shook his head and said, "From what I know, vampires can suck all the blood out of a person at once, and they need to eat at least once a day, which means they eat one person at a time."
"Assuming that the Vampire King has 100,000 vampires, 50,000 of them are scattered around the world and can hunt on their own, and the remaining 50,000 are engaged in training and production tasks in the main base. To feed these 50,000 vampires, 50,000 humans must be consumed every day."
"We can't catch so many from outside, so we have to farm them. Humans are omnivores, and even to maintain the minimum survival needs, we have to consume about 50 tons of food a day."
The Martian Hunter took a deep breath. For modern agriculture, 50 tons is not a particularly large number. Basically, to acres of farmland can solve the problem. Using agricultural machinery for large-scale farming, one person can finish the work in a short time.
But you want vampires to farm? I can only say that the sun might not agree. Although it is not impossible to farm at night, Martian Hunter really can't imagine vampires driving a farming machine to plow the fields.
"The key is the problem of reproduction." Batman shook his head and said, "Humans reach sexual maturity too late. They can only reproduce after more than ten years. They can only give birth to one child at a time, and the probability of a difficult birth is very high. Then, it takes another ten years for an infant to reach adulthood where he or she can donate blood."
"If there are 10 vampires in the world, they will consume 10 living people every day, which means 10 million people in 100 days, and nearly 4000 million people a year. The two countries with the highest fertility rates combined only add this much population each year."
Martian Manhunter suddenly realized what Batman was saying - the vampire's current strategy of madly transforming its members is actually self-destruction.
Even if they can go to heaven and earth and are omnipotent, and all countries on earth cannot do anything to them, if they continue like this, the biggest enemy they will face is not humans, but famine.
Humans cannot reproduce at the rate that vampires can.
If they could eat once every five days, or even once every three days, there would still be room for recovery.
But they eat one person a day. 10 vampires eat 10 people a day. If they expand to 20, they will eat 20 people a day. Now all the humans on the earth can only give birth to 30 to 40 people a day. If they continue to multiply like this, no one can afford it.
"I'm afraid that the so-called vampire king hasn't even thought about this issue." Batman said, "With one order from him, all vampires began to transform members wantonly."
"But their transformation ritual is very simple. It takes less than ten minutes to transform one person. It is not a problem for a vampire to transform 20 to 30 people a day. This is completely exponential growth."
"Even if their base number is only a few thousand, after so many months of conversion, no one knows how many there are. I'm afraid some villages and towns with small populations have already started to suffer from famine."
Martian Manhunter finally figured it all out. He said, "I think the vampire king may not even know how many of them there are now. If he knew, he would be shocked."
"And because the transformed must completely obey the transformer, this will further urge vampires to continue transforming humans. Who doesn't want to have countless slaves? Transforming dozens of people a day is a conservative estimate." Batman said worriedly.
"We can't go on like this." Martian Manhunter said, "If we continue at this rate, humanity will be extinct sooner or later."
"The extinction of mankind is no longer the biggest problem now." Batman sighed and said, "What do you think will happen if all humans are transformed into vampires?"
Martian Hunter was stunned. He had never thought about this question.