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Chapter 368: Us vs. Them


All social animals have a common trait, which is internal solidarity and external hatred.In many cases, people even deliberately hate the outside world in order to maintain internal unity.This is the so-called "those who are not of my race will have different hearts"!

However, unlike other social animals, there is no objective and immutable criterion for humans to find a social organization.In general, people habitually find various reasons to distinguish between "us" and "them".This behavior is not determined by human nature, but in many cases, by the circumstances of the time.Sharif in the West once organized a research team that carefully selected 22 local boys, all about 11 years old, all white, all Christian, and all with average IQs.Sharif's team also paid special attention to the fact that none of these children wore glasses, none were particularly fat, none had any troubles, none had a different accent, and none were from other places.These children have a lot in common, and there is no special difference.The researchers then told the children that they were going to a three-week summer camp in Robles Cave National Park in Oklahoma.The children were divided into two groups, but each group had no prior knowledge that there was another group.The buses take the children to the boy scout camp in Robles Cave National Park, where their lives are no different from normal summer camp life, except that their counselors are actually researchers, who quietly record the children's words and actions.During the first week, the main task of the children is to set up camp, and the first children live in a dormitory with a court, auditorium and canteen next to it.The next day, the second group of children also arrived, and they lived in another dormitory a few miles away.Each group of children thought they were the only ones in the camp.The children in the same group quickly got acquainted and created their own "tribal culture".There was a group of boys who called their squad "Rattlesnakes".Another group of boys called themselves "eagles".They have their own "tribal totems" printed on their hats and T-shirts.There was an Eagles boy who jumped naked into the river to swim, and this became a "tradition" for the Eagles.One of the Rattlesnake boys sprained his toe, but he kept silent, so stoic became a core value for the Rattlesnakes.Children who do not want to be part of the group will be left out in the cold.One of the Rattlesnake boys was initially reluctant to wear a T-shirt with a snake pattern, and the other kids said, "If you don't wear it, don't play with us." ”To wear or not to wear?

Of course I wore it.People are social creatures, and no one wants to be isolated or treated as something else.A week passed like this, and by the second week, the researchers had deliberately let the children know that there was another group of children in the camp.As in a typical summer camp, the researchers organized children to play games and baseball together, with prizes for the winners.When the children in both groups meet, they both see each other as competitors and are hostile to each other.The first time they arrived at the baseball field, they started yelling at each other.Before the game began, the Sidewinders hung their flag on the baseball field, believing the stadium to be theirs.The Sidewinders won the first game, and when it was time for lunch, the boys from the Eagles said, let's not sit with them and eat because we get annoyed when we see them.The next day was a tug-of-war, and the Sidewinders won again, and the Eagles quit, and they ripped off the Sidewinders flag and burned it.After another day, the Eagles finally won the game, but when they returned to camp after dinner, they found that the camp had been attacked by the Sidewinders.The Rattlesnakes overturned the Eagles' beds, tore their mosquito nets, and grabbed something, making a new flag out of a pair of jeans they had stolen.The Eagles were so angry that they later attacked the Sidewinders' camp as well.The war between the boys escalated, and the children on both sides began to actively prepare for the war.They filled their socks with stones, buckets with stones as cannonballs, and went out with sticks and bats.By the third week, the researchers began to design new scenes.They blocked the valves in the camp's water pipes and told the children that there was a third party outside besides them.So a strange phenomenon appeared.The two groups of children, who were originally hostile to each other, began to unite in the face of an unknown third-party force.The quarrel at the dinner table gradually faded, and an armistice was reached between the two teams, and they became more and more harmonious, and began to share food generously with each other.This is similar to the situation of Xiao Li and the previous three sects.There are no eternal enemies in the world, only eternal interests, this sentence may be impersonal, but the world is so realistic.In order to turn the previous three sects into "us", it is necessary to choose a target as "them", that is, the common enemy.And this "they" are no more suitable than the Wuhun Palace.In fact, the existence of the Martial Spirit Hall was a mixed bag for the Heaven Dou Empire and the Upper Three Sects.Because of the strength of the Martial Spirit Palace, it is very uncomfortable to oppress the three sects.But on the other hand, it was precisely because of the existence of the Martial Spirit Hall that the Heaven Dou Empire would not be annexed by the Star Luo Empire.In terms of national strength and military strength, the Star Luo Empire is far above the Heaven Dou Empire.Although there were also several kingdoms within the Star Luo Empire, they were not as scattered as the Heaven Dou Empire.This stems from the special way of competition of the royal family of the Star Luo Empire.In the Star Luo Empire, the competition between princes was very cruel, but every generation of emperors who grew up in this way was outstanding.This is not something that the Heaven Dou Empire can compare.The only advantage of the Heaven Dou Empire is that it has the upper three sects in its territory.However, among the last three sects, the Blue Electric Tyrannosaurus Rex family and the Haotian Sect never participated in political struggles, and only the Seven Treasure Liuli Sect always supported the royal family of the Heaven Dou Empire.If the two empires were to go to war, it would inevitably be the Heaven Dou Empire that would be defeated in the end, if it weren't for the fact that there was a Martial Spirit Hall in the middle between the two empires, the Heaven Dou Empire would have been annexed by the Star Luo Empire long ago.At that time, the three cases will inevitably be implicated.It is precisely because of the total factor that even if the upper three sects have the strength to resist the Martial Spirit Hall together, they have always been unable to bear it.And from the standpoint of the Wuhun Palace, it is most beneficial for the two empires to maintain a balance.Although the Soul Hall has the largest number of soul masters on the Douluo Continent, if the two empires merge into one and become a unified and powerful empire, the Soul Hall will have no place after all.After all, no centralized imperial power would allow such an organization to exist.This is clear to both Chido-ryu and Chihiro.Even if it was the Extreme Douluo Thousand Dao Stream, it was not absolutely invincible.Because he was always a man, not a god!

Therefore, the Wuhun Hall will try its best to balance the strength of the two empires, and at the same time continue to grow its own strength.People's hearts are the most complicated, the Wuhun Hall has the vast majority of the soul masters in the Douluo Continent, but it is only a preliminary control, these soul masters are from the two empires, although the Wuhun Hall can command them to a certain extent, but it cannot make them betray their country.Now that Xiao Li is taking the lead in attacking the Martial Spirit Palace, it will inevitably have a huge impact on the situation in the Douluo Continent.Is it good or bad?

Ning Que, Tang Hao's brothers, Prince Xueye and others are not sure, it may be a glorious era, but it may also bring disaster.So much so that while they are excited, they also have hidden worries in their hearts!

But they are all coerced by the general trend promoted by Xiao Li, and even if they want to withdraw now, it is too late.Once it now means detachment, then it will change from "we" to "them".At that time, they will be the first to be liquidated!

At this point, it has become imperative to push it to the Wuhun Palace, and it must be thorough, so that it will never turn over.At this point, the upper three sects were even more urgent than Xiao Li, because they were afraid that they would not die if they beat the snake, but would be bitten by the snake.As a result, a vigorous battle for the Wuhun Hall officially began.()