"I'm a businessman, and I don't want to make things so bloody and uncivilized."
Thriller on the screen held the bomb remote control in one hand and made an inviting gesture with the other:
"I just want to ask your Judas to do a small multiple-choice question."
Zizi... Zizi...
The screen switched and the scene turned to a railway track. The track meandered towards the horizon, and the wind blew across the green grass on both sides.
"As you can see, this is a railroad track, constructed in a dream, exactly the same as the one outside."
Bai Ye frowned and shook his wolf tail irritably. Su Yi, who was unable to wake up in his arms, was "trapped in a dream" and was most likely "abducted"!
"Don't be impulsive." The life-saving system reminded in the combat channel, "This guy is broadcasting live!"
Just now, a small Live logo silently appeared in the upper right corner of the screen, and the life-saving system notified all Bai Ye in the combat channel that the situation was urgent!
On the empty screen, comments began to pour in:
[What is this? What's going on?]
[Not sure, the system homepage forcefully recommends this live broadcast room, and I can’t move without clicking it. I’m still in the dungeon, let the child finish the dungeon before doing it!]
[Why download a dungeon at this time? The horror script-killing world is about to be destroyed! I rub my hands together excitedly...]
[How many worthless villains are left hiding behind the scenes? Kill them all!]
The screen was frozen on an empty railway track. I couldn't see what Thriller-000 was like behind the scenes. What was going on? Looking at the comments hoping that he would die soon, I could only hear the thick and rough machine sound:
"If it is convenient, I sincerely hope to see Judas in person."
[So now is the final showdown between the villain behind the scenes and Judas?]
[What do you mean by asking Judas to answer multiple-choice questions? Is it a competition to answer questions? ? ]
There are more and more people in the live broadcast room, and the comments are dense:
[Stop calling him Judas. Have you not read the Bible? This is not a good word. The villain behind the scenes called him Judas, so why are you following suit? He is called Shadow!]
[That’s it?! Shadow is the strongest! I’m really looking forward to seeing Shadow! Will Shadow show up?]
Then the comments started to swipe again, Shadow! Shadow!, in an orderly manner, like a group of legions.
People who have lived in despair and terror for too long finally saw their savior. The mysterious and powerful Shadow man completely met their imagination. He killed three masterminds in a live broadcast in a very short period of time and directly liberated the thought code.
Whenever the audience recalls these events, they become extremely excited and thrilled.
"Be careful!" The life-saving system said in the combat channel, "This guy is deliberately hyping up the audience atmosphere!"
The camera kept focusing on the railroad tracks. 000 behind the scenes did not show his face to the audience, but said:
"It's a pity that Judah doesn't seem to want to personally participate in this interesting live broadcast. However, I am fortunate enough to have invited his fellow passengers on the train to pass on the message to Judah."
These words were spoken politely, without mentioning the threat of using zombie bombs to attack. The life-saving system sneered, and the werewolf Bai Ye held Su Yi in his arms, alert.
Outside the car window, Magician Bai Ye was still fighting against the endless zombie army. The remaining Bai Ye were on high alert in the team channel, ready to receive new orders at any time. They heard the ugly mechanical voice in the live broadcast continue:
"Now, I will select some lucky viewers to participate in this multiple-choice question together."
As soon as he finished speaking, a lot of people suddenly appeared out of nowhere on the empty railway tracks!
Their hands and feet were bound and they were tied to the railroad tracks alive. Their mouths were taped with black tape. Their eyes were wide open with fear, but they could not utter a scream for help.
All of them are lucky viewers who have been selected!
The lively and enthusiastic comments suddenly went silent, like a rooster being strangled by the neck and bled to death, unable to utter a single syllable, its brain being struck by sudden terror and unable to organize words.
000 smiled secretly behind the scenes: "At present, there are 150 lucky viewers lying on this railroad track, and then, a small train came whirring."
Woo——
A long roar pierced the sky, the green grass on the field bent in the wind, the earth shook, and the stones beside the railroad sleepers jumped restlessly.
More than a hundred hostages struggled desperately, twisting their hands and feet but unable to free themselves from the railroad tracks that tied them. They could not make a sound and could only whimper one after another, with tears of hope for life flowing from their terrified eyes.
The screen shows hostages who are extremely frightened, and the screen is filled with comments that everyone is in danger:
[Lucky audience…Have you finished drawing? Are there any more?]
[Oh my god... This is so scary. If this continues, they will be crushed to death? Ah!]
[Help, my sister is kidnapped! Can Shadow please save her?! ]
[Didn’t we say that we would do some multiple choice questions before? Could this villain be asking for a real version of the trolley problem?]
"That's right!"
A creepy mechanical laugh broke out from the screen: "Congratulations to this lucky viewer!"
The next second, the viewer who sent that barrage was immediately captured by the system, and his limbs were tied up and tied to the railroad tracks. He was still a boy of thirteen or fourteen years old. His screams were blocked by black tape in his throat, and he could only open his eyes helplessly and stare at the clear sky above the railroad tracks.
The 151 kidnapped hostages listened to the roar of trains approaching from afar and felt the cold scythe of death resting on their necks.
The barrage suddenly became clear and no one dared to comment anymore. What villain?
"The trolley problem is the most famous thought experiment in the field of ethics. I believe you have all heard of it."
The mechanical voice spoke in a leisurely tone, completely ignoring the fact that the speeding train was about to crush hundreds of people into flesh and blood.
In the team channel, the 19-year-old god of war Bai Ye was listening to the battle situation carefully while on his way. He felt extremely uneasy. Su Yi fell into a deep sleep, and the enemy was doing some kind of tram experiment on the rails in his dream...
He took a very simple elective course in his freshman year: Life Ethics and Morality. He vaguely remembered that it was about a strange situation that was assumed in the experiment of the trolley problem:
A madman tied five innocent people to the tram track. A runaway tram was coming at high speed and was about to crush them. At this time, you happened to have a lever at hand. You only need to pull it to drive the tram to another track. However, the madman also tied a person to the other track.
The tram is about to arrive, and you have to make a choice in an instant. Should you pull the lever in your hand? Kill 1 person and save 5 people? Or kill 5 people and save 1 person?
From a purely utilitarian point of view, you should pull the lever, saving five people and sacrificing only one. But can life be measured by sheer numbers? Once you pull the lever, you will be fully responsible for the death of another person and become an accomplice to murder.
If you don't pull the lever and allow the tragedy to happen, you can completely stay out of it, but many people think that turning a blind eye is even more indifferent. Being in such a special and critical situation requires you to do something, and your inaction will be equally immoral.
No matter what choice you make, you will end up in an inconsistent dilemma, the so-called trolley problem.
The crazy enemy has tied 151 hostages on one track, so how many hostages are tied on another track?
Swish!
In the live broadcast room, the camera switched and another railway track appeared in the field of view.
The camera was pulled very far away, shooting downward like an eagle in the sky. On both sides were empty fields with rolling green grass waves. A whole winding old-fashioned railway track stretched into the sky, glowing with a bronze light.
Bai Ye stared at the screen, his eyes like the X-rays in a security inspection machine, scanning out all dangers. The camera in the live broadcast room kept moving forward and zooming in. He saw gravel on the rails, weeds growing in the gaps, and old sleepers eroded by time...
Until he saw a person lying on one of the sleepers!
The small figure had a black plastic bag on his head, his hands pressed in front of his body as if handcuffed, and his elf wings folded behind his back. He lay there quietly, not moving at all.
Bai Ye's whole body stiffened and his fingers twitched uncontrollably. At that moment, a kind of uncontrollable anger burned from his fingertips along his arms and through his chest, as if cutting off his heart and throwing it into the frying pan.
...That's Su Yi!
This madman tied Su Yi to the railroad tracks! !
"The train is coming."
000's mechanical voice sounded again:
"Let's take a look at those poor 151 people. Oh! Look at their appearance--"
Swish! The screen of the live broadcast room was split into two halves, one half was showing the track where Su Yi was, and the other half was showing the track where the 151 miserable hostages were.
The locomotive had already appeared on the screen, and was about to crush its first victim: an elderly grandmother, her old face filled with panic that could not be described in words, tears of despair flowing down the wrinkles carved by time at her eyes.
"How pitiful."
000 behind the scenes was watching the comments of grief in the live broadcast room with a smile. These more than one hundred hostages were carefully selected by him. Most of them were old people, children, boys and girls, and the youngest was only eight years old. They were all symbols of the weaker and could arouse human empathy to the greatest extent.
"But there is a way to save these 151 poor people."
In the train, the floating screen emitted tiny particles, which eventually formed a three-dimensional pull rod. 000 encouraged with an emotionless mechanical voice:
"On the other track, there was a friend of Judas lying. If he pulled the lever, the speeding train would turn to that track, sacrificing only one person and saving 151 others.
"I am looking forward to it. What kind of answer can you give me, the powerful and intelligent hero Shadow, that will impress me?"
[Help! Please save that old lady!]
[I counted the twenty-third one, and it seems to be a pregnant woman. If the train runs over her, I can’t imagine what will happen…]
[Oh my god, I saw kids! They are so small! Shadow! Please save them!]
One distress signal after another was sent to the savior Shadow, and the dense barrage of comments in the live broadcast room formed an impenetrable net.
Squeak!
Veins bulged on the orc's strong arms. The werewolf Bai Ye hugged the sleeping Su Yi tightly. His scarlet pupils glowed bloodily. The fangs under the iron bite device almost burst out. He was so enraged that he was about to turn into a beast.
This is a bullshit multiple choice question! Who is on that track? Su Yi! None of them, Bai Ye, would ever pull that lever!
"This is a trap..." The life-saving system quickly carried out a predictive analysis. "If you do nothing and don't pull the lever, the train will soon crush all 151 people to death."
And 000 is to let all the players witness that tragic scene with their own eyes, hundreds of living people were run over by a speeding train, the elderly, children, young boys and girls were all crushed into meat paste, and blood flowed like a river on the railway tracks.
The terrifying scene that strikes the soul directly will be implanted deep in the hearts of every audience.
In the trolley problem, the madman who kidnapped the hostages was the one who caused the dilemma, but everyone's attention was focused on the person who didn't pull the lever at the end. As Judas, Shadow, like the savior, was extremely powerful and mysterious, but he watched the 151 hostages die miserably. Even if this inaction was not a mistake, it was still condemned as immoral in the trolley problem.
The panic and fear of the masses, the calls for help, expectations and anger aroused by them, will not be entirely directed to Thriller-000 hiding behind the scenes, but only to Shadow, whom they believe to be the savior.
If all 151 people really died tragically, it would prove that the so-called powerful Shadow is just that powerful. It would be useless to liberate the thought code, as the world is still full of terrifying power. The totem-like heroic image that Su Yi painstakingly created in the last live broadcast of the first kill show would be completely wasted.
But if you pull the lever...
For Bai Ye, there is no such option at all.
Even if the person lying on the other track was not Su Yi, but really the so-called "companion of Judas", pulling the lever would still fall into 000's trap.
Judas chose to sacrifice a companion to rescue 151 innocent hostages. This seemed to be a heroic decision, but through this live broadcast, 000 was silently telling all players:
If you are an innocent person, you may be rescued by the savior Judas. However, if you choose to join Judas' camp and become the savior's companion, you will be sacrificed by Judas. Who knows, one day you may die tragically under a speeding train like in today's live broadcast.
Su Yi created the hero Shadow in the hope of gaining the greatest possible support from the masses. If the masses had such an idea, it would be completely contrary to his original purpose.
The life-saving system was so angry that its CPU was about to burn out after a thorough analysis. No matter what choice they made, they would fall into the villain's trap and destroy the advantage Su Yi had gained.
"10, 9, 8..."
Tick, tick, a scarlet countdown lights up in the live broadcast room, and the passing second by second indicates that a tragedy is about to happen.
Thriller000 sat leisurely behind the scenes, looking at the lever with a smile.
Regardless of whether Judah pulls the trigger or not, this battle is a foregone conclusion.
000 holds the detonator of the zombie bomb in his hand. Just one press can kill all of Judas's accomplices on the train.
But killing these accomplices is not meaningful enough. Through that live show, Judas established his own heroic force among the majority of players. As long as he waved his hand, many people would follow him.
Even killing Judas himself is far from enough. When people overcome their fear and kill Judas, there will be thousands and millions of people who will follow Judas's example and stand up in the skins of the shadow men to become heroes of resistance.
Killing a person is not only about killing him, but also about killing his spirit.
"Time is running out."
The train was getting closer and closer. 000 rested his chin on his hand and calmly watched the two tracks on the split screen in the live broadcast room:
"Dear Judas, have you decided to pull the lever in your hand?"
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