Chapter 346 Dialogue

boom!

The world in front of Shi Yan was collapsing for no reason, just because a man and a woman slapped each other.

It makes no sense. Two people slam their hands and the world is about to be destroyed.

The earth was devastated, the city was broken, the walls were shattered, and it was a mess.

There were thunder and lightning in the sky, huge ice cubes and sky fire were falling, it was like a disaster, an apocalypse.

People were panicking and running around.

Some people fell into the cracks in the earth, fell into the magma, and turned into ashes. Some people flew high, but were hit by hail and sank deep into the ground, never to get up again. Some people were burned by the fire from the sky, screaming in pain, and then gradually died in the painful howling. People were fleeing frantically, fleeing from this place in order to survive. But how many people can escape safely? The whole world is collapsing, where can they escape?

A huge floating boat floated by. It was a floating boat of a Daoist practitioner. It was engraved with defensive patterns. Even hail and skyfire could not hurt it. There were people singing and dancing inside. The Daoist practitioners were laughing and drinking. They were extremely happy. Suddenly, a demonic hand struck down, and the floating boat broke into pieces. It fell into the cracks of the earth and turned into ashes.

In the face of disaster, everyone is equal.

On the ground, lost children are crying, people who have survived the disaster are in a daze, and more people are running for their lives. No one will pay attention to them. They are stepping on bodies, and the people under their feet are dead and living, strangers, friends and even relatives. In the face of disaster, everything is just a tool to be used in order to survive.

At this time, Shi Yan knew that the black man was a demon, and the white woman was a fairy. The battle between fairies and demons has always happened since ancient times.

The devil hid in this city-state and was finally discovered by the immortals, who naturally came to kill him, causing a disaster in this area.

The camera turns and the demon is finally killed by the immortal. The immortal has done a great deed and leaves contentedly, leaving behind only a desolate world without people or life.

Suddenly, a voice came to Shi Yan's ears. This voice was ethereal, like the sound of wind, rain, snowflakes falling into the water, and mist hitting a tree. The voice lingered in Shi Yan's ears, "Demons are bloodthirsty by nature. Wherever demons are, countless people are killed and injured. In order to prevent this from happening, immortals eliminate demons and defend the way. However, demons are cunning by nature and often use ordinary people as shields. Immortals have no choice but to sacrifice a small number of people to save the masses. What you saw was a real war ten thousand years ago when demons were not yet extinct. What do you think?"

Shi Yan took a deep breath and cleared all the scenes in his mind. There were scenes of children crying, scenes of cultivators dying tragically, and scenes of people killing people. He cleared them out of his mind one by one. Then he said, "They all deserve to die, whether they are immortals or demons, they all deserve to die!"

"Oh? Why?"

"The number of lives lost at the hands of immortals is no less than that of demons! It may even be more. Don't they deserve to die?" he asked in return.

The voice said, "But, the people who died at the hands of the immortals were not killed directly by the immortals, but were involved because of the desire to kill the demons. Shouldn't they be forgiven?"

"Killing is killing. Why do you need so many reasons? The disappearance of life is disappearance. This is a fact, an indisputable fact. So what if the devil is dead? More people die." Shi Yan's voice was cold.

"Don't you think that sacrificing the lives of a few for the safety of the majority is worth it?"

"Worth it? Death, what's worth it?" Shi Yan's voice was full of disgust. "Your idea is not to regard people as people at all, but as objects that can be discarded at any time, so you have this theory of worth it or not. How can it be worth it to use one person's death in exchange for the life of others? Have you ever asked those who died if they wanted to die? If they die without wanting to die, it's not worth it even if more people die."

"Your idea is very extreme. If I tell you that your answer is wrong and you have lost the chance to step on the ladder to heaven, will you still say that? Little friend, think carefully before you answer."

"What? Is this a test from heaven?" Shi Yan sneered, "Even if it's true, so what? I still have to say this. If you say that letting me suffer for so many years is worthwhile just to make the people of the world happy, then I will definitely say that you are hypocritical. If I am not happy, how can there be happiness in the world? Only when everyone is happy, the world will be happy. If you follow your inference, the number of unhappy people will far exceed the number of happy people!"

The voice was speechless.

"Shi Yan said again, people are not of the fifth grade, and it is impossible to list them all. There is no infinity. If there is, there is. If there is not, there is not. There is no infinity, and there is no fraction of people. Let me ask you, there are 300 people on a ship, and there are only 200 people on another ship. They are on the boundless Dead Sea. There is a huge hole in the ship, and you are the only one who can repair the ship. When you repair one ship, the other ship will definitely sink. Please ask, which ship will you repair?"

The voice replied, "Of course it's the ship with 300 people. It's such a simple choice, anyone would answer it."

Shi Yan asked again in a cold voice: "When you decided to repair the boat of the three hundred people, the two hundred people grabbed you and begged you to repair their boat first, and would not let you leave. Please tell me, what should you do?"

The voice was stunned at first, then turned cold, "I will"

"You will give up those two hundred people, right?" Shi Yan said before he could finish. Although he just said to give up, everyone could feel the murderous aura, even Long Er and others who were outside the illusion could feel the murderous aura that Shi Yan burst out on the ladder!

The voice didn't speak.

"According to your thinking, this answer is correct." Shi Yan continued: "Next, the remaining 300 people boarded two new ships to continue sailing. This time, there were 200 people on one ship and 100 people on the other. At this time, the ship had a hole again, waiting for you to repair it. The 100 people had learned from the previous experience, so they trapped you and asked you to repair their ship. What would you do?"

"nature"

"Continue to give up?" Shi Yan sneered, and then said: "Okay, let's stop here for the story. Let's do some calculations. For the majority of people who survived, how many people died?"

"This..." The voice hesitated and paused.

Shi Yan said: "Then let me calculate it for you. At the beginning, in order to let 300 people survive, you killed 200 people. Then, in order to let 200 people survive, you killed another 100 people. According to your basis, you can save the majority at the cost of sacrificing a few people. Then this question can be said to be correct, but there is also a huge problem."

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"Three hundred people died! And only two hundred survived!" Shi Yan's voice gradually turned cold. "Excuse me, is this sacrificing a few so that the majority can survive?"

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"All along, according to your idea, you sacrificed a few people to save the majority. Along the way, there have been mountains of corpses and seas of blood. Excuse me, have you killed fewer people than the demons? The demons become demons by killing people. Excuse me, are you demons?" Shi Yan said: "Just like the picture you showed me just now, the demons may cause mountains of corpses and seas of blood, but may I ask, will they let the people of the entire domain lose their lives? No, they didn't. Instead, it was the immortals who sacrificed the lives of the entire domain in order to eliminate the demons. Excuse me, how can this be called saving the majority?"

"Humans cannot be infinite and cannot be divided into several parts. According to your thinking, all the people in the world will eventually perish." Shi Yan snorted.

The voice said, "So what do you say we should do? Let the demon exist?"

"This is an unsolvable problem. Maybe there is a solution, but it is definitely not your solution."

The voice fell silent again.

"So, sacrificing a few to save the majority is nothing but a lie you made up to cover up your own killings. What I am doing now is just to expose it." Shi Yan paused, "Besides, their entire lives are determined by their own thoughts. They don't need you to do anything for them, and they don't need you to choose for them. They have their own choices. It's their own choice to eliminate the demons or not. They don't need you to interfere."

The voice suddenly asked, "Could it be that leaving the choice to all living beings is the correct answer to this question?"

Shi Yan was stunned. "Yeah, he hadn't thought of this before. If we give the right to choose back to everyone and let everyone choose their own destiny, then, will this question still exist? This question will be solved naturally!"

"Very good, very good!" the voice said excitedly.

Shi Yan was stunned. The voice changed so quickly. It was totally different from before. Now it sounded like a child shouting excitedly after knowing the answer to his long-standing confusion.

Suddenly, the scenery around Shi Yan disappeared without a trace. Shi Yan looked around and found that he was standing in the black space just now, with a brilliant staircase under his feet. Below, the old man was looking at Shi Yan with a smile on his face. And now Shi Yan has stepped onto the tenth step. In other words, the test just now, a test, made him step onto the tenth step.

Shi Yan understood immediately. That is to say, a test represents a certain level. If you pass it successfully, you will reach the corresponding level. Otherwise, you will die like that immortal!

Shi Yan suddenly broke out in a sweat. If the voice just now insisted on its idea, he might have died here.

However, what Shi Yan didn't understand was why the first test was an unsolvable problem. Fortunately, he often thought about such things because of his misfortune, otherwise he would have died here this time. Did the heavens want him to die? Shi Yan didn't understand.

"If this is true, then I really want to meet him that day and ask him why he did that!" Shi Yan said firmly.

In a white world, a young man in white clothes was looking down at a white stone slab. After a while, he looked back with a smile.

Behind him, a man in a black robe was sipping tea. He turned around when he saw the man in white and asked, "How is it?"

The man in white nodded. "Not simple, really not simple."

The man in black frowned slightly, "What do you mean?"

"I said your son is really extraordinary." The man in white said with a smile, "No wonder you said that you couldn't do what I did, but your son can do it. It seems that you are right."

The man in black frowned even deeper and sighed slightly, "Back then, I just wanted to get rid of this boring world, but now, I don't want my son to come into this boring world. I really hope that what I said back then was wrong." He looked at the man in white, "Are you sure I'm right?"

"I am sure! The answer to this question is the same as yours back then, but you only proposed the process of thinking without any result. However, your son gave me the result."

"What's the result?"

"Let people control their own destiny. This is the best answer!"

The man in black chewed over these words silently, and finally sighed and nodded, "Indeed." He looked at the man in white, "So, I hope that when the time comes, you can remember this answer and let people control their own destiny. Let him control his own destiny."

The man in white was stunned, smiled awkwardly, and said, "We'll talk about it when the time comes." Then he sat down cross-legged and stopped talking.

The man in black shook his head helplessly, walked to the white platform, and looked down.

"I didn't expect that even though I blocked all possibilities for you to come here, you still came here. Is this your fate? A fate that you control yourself?"

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