“And according to the requirements, I will marry a woman of the right age among the descendants of other dead men,”
“And reproduce for the dead. My wife is also the daughter of the dead man.”
“She gave birth to two sons for me, the elder is thirteen years old, and the younger is ten years old.”
Charlie asked again: “Then who will take care of your two sons?”
The man said: “In life, my wife takes care of them,”
“And at other times they are trained by older dead soldiers.”
“After the age of six, they will become the next generation of dead men,”
“And begin to perform tasks for the organization.”
“If they are lucky enough to not die by the age of sixty, they can stay and be the mentors of young people.”
Charlie asked, “Have the dead men thought about resisting?”
“Of course.” The man said: “Every generation of dead men wants to resist,”
“But it doesn’t make any sense. We leave the organization and our life span is only seven days.”
“There were people who didn’t believe in evil in the past,”
“And always felt that they could resist the power in their bodies, but none of them did.”
“The exceptions are all dead.”
Speaking of this, the man added: “The organization still has strict rules,”
“With one person defecting, the whole family sits together, if I want to escape,”
“Let’s not say whether I can live for seven days, my wife and children will be killed.”
“Killed without any second thought, so we are like slaves, fully under control, and have no chance to resist.”
Charlie asked curiously: “You seem to know about the history of slavery, have you learned this?”
“Yes.” The man nodded: ” We had a lot of courses to learn when we were young,”
“And we have a certain cultural foundation.”
Charlie asked him, “Where do you usually live? Which country?”
“I don’t know…” The man shook his head and said, “As far as I know,”
“Since my grandfather’s generation of dead men, we have lived in an underground base.”
“The base is constantly expanding every day. Now the scale is comparable to a small underground city.”
“Every time a task is to be issued, the organization will issue a list of names.”
“And then inject drugs to everyone on the list, after the drug injection,”
“We don’t know anything, and when we wake up again,”
“We are already at the place where we are going to do the task.”
He paused slightly and continued: “Like this time after we injected the drug underground,”
“We woke up and arrived in New York.”
Charlie frowned and asked, “Then how did you perform the mission?”
“Who gave you the mission? Who directed you to the stadium?”
The man blurted out, “It’s the guide.”
“Guide…”
Charlie whispered softly and asked, “Have you met the guide?”
“No.” The man explained: “I don’t know who the guide is,”
“When we arrived in New York when I woke up, I was already in a closed garage.”
“The organization left the equipment and some materials needed for the mission.”
“The materials listed the target, the kinship of the target, and the social relationship.”
“And the situation of the people around them.”
“Because they knew that there would be several high-level fighters,”
FAQ Novel
Q: What is the critical vulnerability of the ‘dead men’ in the organization?
A: The ‘dead men’ are bound by their dependence on a crucial drug, which they must take every seven days to suppress a hidden power within them; without it, they face a gruesome death.
Q: How does the all-powerful organization ensure a continuous supply of ‘dead men’ across generations?
A: The organization enforces a generational cycle by mandating marriage and reproduction for ‘dead men’ at age twenty, with their children beginning training and tasks for the organization from as young as six years old.
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