"You're welcome. If given the chance, no one wants to be just a clone." Phoenix showed his dimples, his smile soft and childish.
...clone?
Su Mingan understood that Qin Si was indeed the incarnation of the Radiant Goddess Kritsins. It seemed that Qin Si's death was just a trick to escape from Kritsins' control.
Phoenix leaned forward and narrowed his eyes. "Do you want to go further?"
"What?"
"This castle is one of the bases of the Wheel of Fortune." Phoenix said, "Oppose observation, resist fate. This is our creed."
"Resist...fate?" Qins raised his head.
"Qins, what do you think destiny is?"
"The most likely future is determined by the comprehensive calculation of people's current resources, personal temperament, and the world situation. In other words, as long as the former changes, the future can change." Qins said: "Just like a person born in poverty, with average intelligence and EQ, if there are no other opportunities, he will live a mediocre life, this is fate. But if an opportunity comes, it is called 'going against the will of heaven and changing fate', and what is changed is this 'fate'."
"So you think that destiny is something visible and can be changed."
"Yes."
"What if fate cannot be changed?"
"You support determinism?"
"Hehe... Just like you are Kritsins' clone, you can never surpass Him no matter how hard you try. The best outcome is to become an independent individual and live in exile in the universe."
"I don't agree with the future He arranged for me. I was lurking among the top players, waiting for an opportunity to act. But with your intervention, I am no longer subject to His arrangements. I think I have escaped fate."
"Is that enough?" Phoenix smiled innocently, "Did you really escape?"
How could she be sure that Kritchens couldn't take control of her again?
"We want to kill 'Destiny' itself." Phoenix smiled faintly and said, "This brings me to my friend, Su Mingan's companion, Noel Akinni."
"He asked you to help me?"
"Um."
"Why did you listen to him?"
"Because he is 'imperfect'."
"What's the meaning?"
"If, if there is a golden forest," Phoenix said, "in the most 'perfect' future, on one of the roads, should we take this road?"
Qin Si was silent for a long time, then slowly said, "I think so."
"But is it necessary to do this to be perfect and correct? How can we evaluate the so-called 'perfection'? After all, I have never understood the term 'perfect clearance'. What is 'perfection'? Who evaluates it?" Phoenix said: "[Fifty people died out of a hundred] and [Seventy people died out of a hundred], of course the former is more perfect. However, if most of the people who died in the former are criminals, and most of the people who died in the latter are sages, is the former still more perfect?"
He stood up and said, "In other words, which is more important, the lives of the virtuous and the criminals? Which is right and which is wrong, the killing of the good and the evil? If in a bad ending, many people died, but my lover survived, and in a perfect ending, many people survived, but my lover died."
"Then, why? Why in this 'perfect' world, in order for those people to live, my lover must die? Why on the red scale of the universe, the lives of those who [should have died but survived in the perfect ending] are more important than the lives of those who [should have lived but died in the perfect ending]?"
“In the [Book of the Universe], the perfect paragraph is named ‘TE’, so ‘TE’ means perfection.”
"But [Book of the Universe], on what basis does it judge our perfection?"
"Why should we follow a fixed path, leading to a fixed direction of perfection, in order to obey 'perfection'?"
After Phoenix finished speaking, Qin Si vaguely understood the pursuit of the Wheel of Fortune behind him.
Rejection...perfect?
Indeed, "perfection" is an unchangeable destiny. To resist perfection is to resist destiny.
But on the other hand, is it right to let fate run wild?
"You remind me of someone." Qin Si said, "He has a longer-term vision than anyone else. He is more aware than anyone else of the fragility and emptiness of this kind of 'perfection', so he chooses to reject it."
"This must be a remarkable man," Phoenix said. "How is he now?"
"He no longer exists."
"Not exist?"
"Yes, he chose to burn himself under the World Tree, along with the causal lines he found in countless reincarnations. Therefore, I can no longer call out his name, nor can I describe him to you - he has disappeared from the description of the [Book of the Universe], and has escaped the fate of being solidified and limited by 'perfection', and no longer appears on the chessboard." Qins slowly lowered his head, his eyelashes trembling: "He embraced eternal tranquility and death. Disappearance, eternal disappearance."
"He is very wise, but I don't envy him. No matter how many times, I will choose to resist rather than turn a blind eye." Phoenix said: "And Noel Akinni——"
"That arrogant guy, he showed me the possibility of ending it all."
"I want to... pursue that 'freedom without TE' with him."
"I'm sorry, I still don't agree with your ideas. I agree more with Su Mingan's insistence on 'perfection'." Qin Si shook his head: "No flag can stand on a castle in the air. Ideals need to be built on the basis of survival. Rejecting perfection will cost you a painful price, because perfection often represents the best outcome of a civilization and is a way to maximize benefits. And in pursuit of freedom, do you know how many more people will die?"
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