blueteamnovel Chapter 137: Probably Safe
Chapter 137: Probably Safe
Chapter 137: Probably Safe
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 mean, its not like they have streetlights out here. What gets me is how subtle the change was. I think I just subconsciously I thought this world just brighter nights or something.
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 come across a common theme.
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 come across a conundrum.
Is it enough to just heal people, letting them fall back into the same 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 menaces.
Even if I was willing to do that which Im unsure of, what would the ramifications be of something like that?
I would have to scan each person to give a fair judgement.
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 something like that would be over time 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.
Which is something called geographic profiling, which works by determining the most probable area of an offenders base of activities through an analysis of his or her crime 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 methods.
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 some ways, even giving the impression that it is someone 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 me is if I partially automate this process with my scan.
If I dont automate this somewhat, I will be constantly distracted by the different situations the rats are encountering. If Im consistently distracted at the same time as something is happening they will be able to determine its me.
I wish that was a hypothetical, but with the cultivation methods out there and spiritual scans, they can catch miniscule changes like that. While they wouldnt assume its me, theyd likely believe Im involved or getting information. Which means 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 judgement 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 tamed 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 time, but its at least partially necessary that I make personal lines on what is worth death or other measures.
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 time. 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.