The Walking Dead TWD

Chapter 192 Hannah's Thoughts

Rick drove the car to the outside of the prison. There was now a circle of abandoned vehicles outside the prison as a barrier. The gaps under the cars and at the joints were blocked with bricks and cement, making it extremely difficult for zombies to get in.

The land surrounded by abandoned cars is not suitable for cultivation now. It takes a lot of effort to cultivate the land in winter, which is obviously not cost-effective. Everyone decided to consider planting in the spring.

Rick drove to the checkpoint, which had a front door and a back door for double security to prevent zombies from following the vehicle into the prison by mistake.

After making sure that no zombies had sneaked in, Rick drove into the prison.

Both sides of the road were lined with construction sites where foundations were being laid, all thanks to the abundance of bricks available.

With these new buildings, the prison, which had originally reached its capacity, will be able to accommodate more survivors.

The prison area is more than five times larger than before. The real prison wrapped in barbed wire requires Rick to drive for a while to see it.

Rick drove for a while and passed by a big pit. This was the place where the clay, the raw material for making bricks, was excavated. In accordance with Zhou Nan's request, they would concentrate their excavation here.

When they no longer lack bricks, this place will be connected to the river outside, and multiple filtering devices will be installed in the canal to prevent zombies from entering the prison through the water flow.

Then the water brought in by irrigation will completely fill the artificially dug pit. After it is completely filled, channels will be dug through the pit to the farmland to facilitate water extraction for irrigation. After the water resources are fully utilized, they will eventually be discharged to the outside world.

This cycle turns the puddle from stagnant water into running water, where they can raise fish.

And this plan is in progress. Even Philip's fish tank has been fully utilized as a nursery. I believe that it will be completely completed in less than three months.

Then, Rick passed through the winemaking area, which was the territory of the winemaker James.

Fearing that the grapes that had been shipped back earlier would rot, James also began to busy himself with winemaking. Although the current conditions did not allow him to fully utilize the skills and techniques he had mastered, the flavor of the wine was still good.

Finally, Rick arrived at the gate of the prison school with a truckload of goods. As long as he honked the horn, the people in the school who were not working today would help them unload the goods.

This is the rule set by the principal, Hannah. In her eyes, learning knowledge is no different from taking a vacation. It is also a rule to shut up other people who like to gossip.

As long as the transport truck stops at the school gate, the children will be unloaded after class. In this way, no one can say that these children have no contribution to the prison or similar words.

However, there is a large truck in front of Rick waiting to unload. Its driver is T, who was a professional church delivery driver before the disaster day, and now he is back to his old job.

At this time, T opened the car window, sat in the driver's seat with his butt and his legs on the door. He was talking nonstop. Rick looked to his side and saw that Jacqui was sitting in the passenger seat. It seemed that they were a couple.

Lori obviously noticed this scene, and she felt a little uneasy. "Rick, I'm going to go back and see how Carl is doing."

Rick nodded: "Okay, we'll talk about your business later."

After Lori left, Rick didn't have to wait too long. Soon a group of people came out of the school to help Rick and T unload the goods. Looking at the spoils they brought back, everyone was amazed.

Liz and Mika are both students in the school. Mika's favorite course is sewing, while Liz's favorite course is surgery at Macunes.

As they carried the small objects they could move, they kept exclaiming in surprise, with admiration in their eyes.

"The warden is so amazing! He can bring back so many supplies in just one trip! He's much more powerful than the governor!"

Hannah noticed the conversation between the two girls. She moved up behind Liz and Mika without leaving a trace, feeling very confused.

"Who is the warden?"

From the conversation between the two girls, Hannah also understood who the warden they were talking about was.

"So they were talking about Zhou Nan!"

Hannah covered her mouth and almost laughed out loud.

Isn’t the head of the prison the warden? The title Zhou Nan is reasonable.

Hannah strolled among the crowd for a while and noticed that they were not the only two people who used this term. Most people tacitly accepted it.

It's normal to give people nicknames, and usually these nicknames are meant to be sarcastic.

However, the title of warden Zhou Nan is obviously a neutral term. As long as it does not cause any negative impact, Hannah will let them go.

However, when Hannah looked at the group of busy children, a bold idea suddenly came to her mind.

These children are at the age of admiring the strong, and they want to compare themselves with others in everything they encounter. They usually get together to discuss whose father is more powerful and who has stronger fighting ability.

If we subtly instill Zhou Nan's deeds into them at their age, Zhou Nan's strength will be deeply rooted in people's hearts.

Then this group of people will be Zhou Nan’s most powerful support in the future!

Hannah has systematically studied brainwashing. It is not difficult to do, but it is very difficult to achieve it to the extreme.

There are many methods of brainwashing, which can be divided into 12 categories: psychological manipulation, information control, social pressure, environmental control, thought infiltration, behavioral manipulation, psychological suggestion, and manipulation of cognition and decision-making...

Psychological manipulation is easy to achieve. Hannah can repeatedly instill certain ideas or information so that this information becomes dominant in their subconscious.

Or they may exploit emotional weaknesses, such as fear, anger, sympathy, etc., to manipulate their thoughts and behaviors.

Relying on the influence of authoritative individuals or institutions to make people blindly accept their views or instructions.

Information control can also be achieved under certain circumstances.

Hannah can selectively provide information, blocking or distorting information that is not conducive to her purpose, so that everyone can only be exposed to specific views or facts, thus forming a one-sided cognition.

For example, Zhou Nan is very capable, but he likes killing people. Hannah can completely filter the information and only instill in everyone the fact that Zhou Nan is very capable, while deliberately concealing the negative information that Zhou Nan likes killing people.

Or Hannah can bombard people with large amounts of complex information, making them tired and unable to think deeply and make judgments, making them more likely to accept her views or instructions.

Or spread false information or exaggerate to mislead people and cause them to have wrong perceptions and judgments.

However, these two situations are difficult to achieve, and Hannah must have absolute control over the prison to achieve them.

Social pressure is much easier to achieve than the first two.

People in prison can be regarded as a small social group. The power of the group can be used to make a certain person feel isolated and helpless in the group, thus forcing him to give up his own ideas and constantly cater to the group's views, behaviors and methods.

Or by creating public opinion guidance, people are prevented from expressing or insisting on their own opinions under the pressure of public opinion from the entire prison society, and thus gradually accept everyone's opinions or instructions.

It's very simple, let me give you an example.

Everyone in the prison is saying good things about Zhou Nan, so even those who are dissatisfied with Zhou Nan will also think that Zhou Nan is a good person in order to cater to everyone's ideas.

I even had the bizarre thought that my bad behavior towards Zhou Nan was caused by my own faults.

The third method is more basic but equally effective and is often used against prisoners.

Hannah can use threats or intimidation to scare these people into submitting to her demands or opinions.

As long as the ringleader is subdued and made to keep praising Zhou Nan in front of others, then even if two people who have the same opinion about Zhou Nan meet each other, they will only hear words of praise from each other.

In this way, we just need to be careful not to let the majority of people be dissatisfied with Zhou Nan, then the general environment will always be full of praise for Zhou Nan!

Similar methods include isolation and control, environmental creation, subtle influence, cultural infiltration, behavioral manipulation, habit formation, direct suggestion, indirect suggestion, emotional dependence, emotional manipulation, cognitive manipulation, cognitive bias, cognitive reshaping, decision-making intervention, decision-making manipulation, belief shaping, belief manipulation, etc.

[The above plots are all for the plot needs and are pure nonsense. Don't try them recklessly, or you may get beaten! ]

As Hannah watched the busy crowd, this idea became clearer in her mind.

As the number of prison survivors continues to increase, this place will sooner or later become a community of thousands of people. Without effective control measures, Zhou Nan's achievements will stop here.

Hannah realized this, and what she needed to do now was to lay a good foundation for Zhou Nan to avoid any trouble in the future due to too many people.

Hannah knew that if this kind of deceptive behavior was discovered, she would most likely be sent to the stake, so she could only do it secretly.

However, she is willing to do this for Zhou Nan!