Hearing what Tian Yuanli said.
The person on the other end of the line did not give a direct answer.
Instead, he just laughed.
It was like hearing a joke.
After a long while, he replied:
"Not really?"
"No, no, no, if he can really surpass us, then starting a world war is actually a very reasonable thing."
“What does a person usually base his or her actions on?”
"Morality is secondary, the most important thing is to base it on one's own ability!"
"A person without any talent usually only does ordinary work."
"A capable person usually does things that have an impact."
"The main difference is what they can do and what they can't do."
"It's about what they can and can't do, not what they want to do and don't want to do."
“Like many people, although they seem to be good and ordinary people, are they really willing to be good and ordinary people?”
"uncertain!"
"It is very likely that they are incapable of doing bad things and know that they will be caught if they do bad things, so they choose to be good people and ordinary people."
"If they think that even if they rob and kill people, the police still can't catch them or find out about them, what will happen to their behavior?"
"For example, those seemingly simple civilians."
"The reason why many people seem simple is simply because they have no choice. The harsh reality makes them simple, and the lack of choice in life makes them abide by the rules."
"Given just a little chance, perhaps they will become arrogant and spoiled on the spot."
"Everyone has their own ideas and concepts, but at the same time, their own thoughts on whether they can realize them will make them choose whether to realize those ideas. This is human nature and reality!"
"Dirty, realistic, noble, stupid, cunning, smart... good and bad all mixed together, that's human nature!"
"So, when a person possesses extremely strong power, so strong that they feel that nothing in the world can resist their power and they can try all their ideas, what will they do?"
"It's nothing more than a few things, unifying the world to establish a grand unified empire or fully experimenting with one's own ideals in human society."
"Throughout history, all the major disturbances in human history were almost all caused in this way... Some extremely powerful awakened people wanted to do something great that they felt they could accomplish, and then those guys really had enough ability to influence the entire world and implement their true ideas!"
"And the more self-centered they are, the more likely they are to not see anything wrong with what they do."
"Because they just feel they can do it and they are willing to do it, and then they really do it."
"From what you said before, I could clearly sense a strong sense of self in that little girl named Xi Shenlian. It was a feeling of wanting to do what she likes to do and intending to do what she wants to do..."
"Because I am willing and I want, I will do it."
"When such people have strong enough power, you can't expect them to stay in one corner. They will inevitably become tides and tsunamis, doing things that ordinary people can't do or even understand. They may not necessarily do it for interests or gains and losses, but may just be because of pure willingness and ideals. However, those things are often too involved and may go against the ideas and interests of many people!"
"At that time, with the interweaving of various conflicts and ideals, the so-called world war will naturally occur!"
At this point, the person on the other end of the phone asked Tian Yuanli a question:
"Do you know what caused the world war more than 200 years ago?"
Tian Yuanli said somewhat uncertainly:
"Because some Awakened being wants to rule the world?"
The person on the other end of the phone immediately denied it:
"wrong!"
"Although it was indeed caused by an awakened person, he did not want to rule the world."
"In fact... the other party is not doing this for their own benefit at all."
"I have had close contact with him, and I can deeply feel that he is a saint-like fellow. He is not interested in pleasure, has no concern for luxury, and is indifferent to power. The reason why he started a world war is simply because he feels that there are too many injustices in human society."
"He thought that human beings should be more equal, and that they should completely eliminate war, hunger, poverty, disease, ignorance, and rigid classes. However, human inequality is based on all aspects of social structure, so in order to make human beings more equal and harmonious, he must eliminate many existing things, and those things will undoubtedly cause resentment and dissatisfaction among countless dignitaries and even ordinary people, so the world war was triggered."
Tian Yuanli was slightly puzzled:
“Will civilians also be dissatisfied?”
Eliminated class.
She could understand that the powerful would be dissatisfied.
But she didn't quite understand the dissatisfaction of the common people.
The person on the other end of the phone replied affirmatively:
"Of course I'll be dissatisfied!"
“And he is very dissatisfied!”
"According to that guy's idea, he plans to provide universal housing, food, medical care, and education... so that everyone can live without stress."
"This move is undoubtedly a godsend for those who have nothing."
"But for those who have struggled for decades to climb up from the bottom and finally be able to hold their heads high and live, what does it mean?"
"I'm sorry, but your efforts were in vain? We can actually pick it up for free?"
"Do you think they can accept it?"
"This kind of thing is like a denial to many ordinary people!"
"A strong denial of my life's efforts and struggles!!"
"Getting up early and going to bed late every day, working tirelessly, studying and working day and night, racking your brains to climb up, and then in the end you are treated the same as those who have nothing but food and waiting to die?"
"It makes them look like a bunch of ridiculous clowns."
"So, naturally, there are countless civilians who are capable, ambitious, and have made countless efforts to achieve this, and they hate that guy."
"To the point that their hatred is stronger than that of many powerful people."
"I hate that guy for not showing up earlier! I hate that guy for making my life's efforts go to waste!"
"But... in the end, that guy still failed and failed to change the social form of human civilization..."
In the final sigh.
Tian Yuanli heard a lot of things, including admiration and regret, and it was very complicated.
Obviously, her ancestors also had an indescribable admiration for that person.
Thinking of the previous world war in the textbook, which ended in a rather anticlimactic manner and was one-sided in the later stages, she asked:
"Who killed the other party?"
But her ancestors denied it again:
"Kill?"
"You seem to have misunderstood something. That guy's strength is undisputedly number one in the world!"
"Even if several other guys of the same level joined forces, they could only barely win or lose. No one could kill him."
"His failure was simply because he found that his ideals were impossible to achieve at that time."
"In the beginning, he gathered a large group of like-minded people and tried to change the entire human civilization. In order to prevent his own organization from being corrupted from within and becoming a new solidified class, he also formulated a series of very complete rules."
"But later, as things changed, he found that as his ideals continued to advance, even with various rules and even self-inspection agencies, those once like-minded companions and even the self-inspection agencies themselves began to be corrupted by power. Even those companions who were not corrupted, their relatives and friends still could not stop the changes in their mentality and behavior..."
"Power needs people to manage it, and the people who manage power and even their relatives will inevitably come into contact with all kinds of extravagance, and among them there will definitely be those who are greedy for enjoyment..."
"Even if there are people who can sacrifice their own relatives for the greater good, the vast majority of people obviously cannot do that. Moreover, power is something that can be inherited and often passed down from generation to generation. Even if those in power deliberately prevent their offspring from coming into contact with power, all kinds of people who try to curry their favor will still drag them into the vortex and taint them with all kinds of colors..."
"If this continues, due to the complexity of human nature, corruption will be almost inevitable, and then the wheel of history will move forward again, and the dynasty will change again."
"So, when failure was already obvious, and the organization was gradually corrupted by power before it could succeed, that person cleaned up all the internal problems on his own, forced the world war to stop, and found a desolate place to think about life..."
"He didn't lose in terms of strength."
"From the beginning to the end, his strength has always been undoubtedly the strongest in the world!"
"According to estimates, even if we include all the strong men recorded in the history books of human civilization with a history of 100,000 years, he can still easily squeeze into the top five, and even be qualified to compete for the first place."
"He simply lost to human nature which cannot be controlled."