"After all, I am just a human being with emotions and desires. I can't imagine how a creature without emotions could live."
Noah gently placed the cup back on the table.
"However, I think that if a creature can truly be without emotions, then it is actually pursuing the same goal as normal creatures."
"The same?"
Hera, who had already lost interest, became interested again upon hearing this.
"Mm." Noah nodded slightly.
"We often say that people should be rational. In fact, rationality simply means not being controlled by emotions."
"Generally, what we pursue with reason is our own interests, and ultimately, our own interests are about making our lives better."
"Living better means having a richer spiritual life, financial resources, and power, which can actually explain one thing."
"That means my life is unlikely to be threatened."
"So I think the meaning of every life is actually... just to live."
As he spoke, he looked out the window at the city bathed in the golden light of dusk.
"And for humans, who are social animals, there is another meaning that is just as important as living: keeping the entire group alive."
"This is something that everyone, whether they have feelings or not, wants to achieve."
Hera slumped on the table like a limp rag, half her face buried in her slightly pink arm.
"What you said makes a lot of sense..."
Hera's eyes flashed, as if she had begun to think.
"But I'm already alive, so is there no other meaning to it?"
"Well..."
Noah then looked at the room where his wife and children were, his eyes filled with endless tenderness.
"Strive to live a better life."
"Whether it's oneself or one's community, striving to live better is a meaning that everyone pursues."
Hera buried her face in her hands and began to seriously consider what the man in front of her had said.
"But I am not human, I am just a different species, and I do not consider other different species to be my kind."
Hera slowly poked half of her head out, her mouth still buried in her arm, and said in a muffled voice.
Noah suddenly smiled and said, "Actually, as long as you can live well enough, does meaning really matter that much?"
This stunned Hera.
"To live is to have meaning, and to live is to have no meaning. If you can't find that vague and elusive meaning, then just stop looking for it."
Hera fell silent, slumped over the table, and began to ponder.
As long as we live better lives...
The search for meaning seems to have no meaning at all.
For some reason, Hera suddenly missed her life in the special investigation team.
Every day, we carry out missions with our teammates, eat together, play together, and sleep together in each other's arms at night.
Hera suddenly felt that this was the best life in the world.
Searching for meaning...it's so painful...
...
The setting sun burned the clouds red, and the orange-yellow sunlight shone on Ye Yiqing's face, but he did not feel any warmth.
Instead, seeing the sun gradually disappear behind the mountains, he became increasingly anxious.
"Time flies so fast. I even forgot about time because I was torturing that scumbag."
Ye Yiqing gritted her teeth in frustration and quickened her pace as she walked through the streets.
Suddenly, as if he noticed something, he stopped and frowned as he looked around.
"Something's not right, there are fewer and fewer people on the streets."
Although it wasn't obvious, Ye Yiqing could clearly sense that in America's most bustling city, at this time of year, there couldn't possibly be only this many people.
Moreover, these people all seemed to be in a hurry to get there.
Ye Yiqing immediately took out his phone and called [X].
"[X], immediately call Hera and Rainflow, tell them to be on high alert, we are most likely being targeted by the Night Starers, and report to each other if there are any abnormalities around us and what we are doing now."
A scarlet X flickered faintly on the phone screen, but its brightness was intermittent, as if it were short-circuited.
Upon seeing this, Ye Yiqing frowned slightly, a sense of foreboding arising spontaneously.
“I… [satellite]… he…”
As the last, intermittent sound of "X" rang out, the flashing scarlet X on the screen suddenly went out, and a green smiley face lit up instead.
"Hello, according to the information, your name is Ye Yiqing, a confirmed core member of the Light God Society. I am the advanced artificial intelligence [Satellite]."
"Your entire plan has been exposed, and all your comrades are already dead..."
Sizzle!
Before [Satellite] could finish speaking, Ye Yiqing threw the phone into the air and instantly unleashed countless blades, shattering the phone into pieces.
This scene startled the few pedestrians nearby. After someone shouted, they all rushed in one direction.
Ye Yiqing glanced at this scene and then headed towards the park in City A without stopping.
And the speed kept increasing until it reached Ye Yiqing's maximum speed, and his whole body became a dark purple trail.
If the facts are truly as the satellite claims, then the other party has no reason to tell Ye Yiqing.
Therefore, this must be a lie.
The sole purpose of telling this lie was to disrupt Ye Yiqing's rationality and prevent him from quickly reuniting with his companions.
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