"The stars are burning..."
The boy looked up with bated breath.
But I only saw the dark sky, not half a star.
This is a world without stars.
But the young man vaguely imagined that in the dreamland woven by the devil—the world where the Federation, the Empire, and the Holy League were at war, there were billions of stars shining brightly.
The endless brilliance of those stars was deeply engraved in the young man's soul, making him feel suffocated when he saw the dark sky above his head.
"Gods and demons... for what reason are they fighting?" Gus murmured.
"What do mortals fight for?"
Lu Qingchen shrugged his shoulders and said, "Love and hatred, entanglement of interests, survival and destruction are nothing more than these reasons. In the final analysis, the gods and demons in your eyes are mortals in a higher dimension, people and gods, gods and demons. , what's the difference?"
Gus didn't understand.
He could only ask more specifically: "So, you have enmity with the God of Boxing?"
"I don't have any direct enmity with the boxing champion. It's just that in the battle between gods and demons, the boxing champion and my mentor are on one side, and I am on the opposite side of the mentor. We can only die."
Although it was said to be "Immortal", when mentioning his mentor, Lu Qingchen still had a knowing smile on his ugly face.
"Your mentor?"
Gus was taken aback.
It never occurred to him that demons also have mentors.
The mentor of the devil, what should he look like, a big devil with a blue face and fangs, with claws and claws
Gus asked cautiously, "Is your mentor... a badass?"
"No, my mentor, 'Li Yao', is a good man who is number one in Tianzi. I have never seen him so full of courage, passion and sense of justice. He is still full of the heart of a child when he is hundreds of years old. Forget the original intention, a pure and transparent person."
When the name "Li Yao" was mentioned, the smile on the corner of Lu Qingchen's mouth became more intense, even with a hint of indulgence, "I have learned from countless tyrannical beings in the sea of stars, and even devoured the hearts of many powerful people. strength, but the only teacher who can be recognized, respected and loved by me will always be Li Yao, I love my teacher, there is no doubt about it.”
"..."
Gus didn't understand, "Well, since you love your mentor so much, why do you want to fight against him and the champion, and keep 'undead'?"
Gus really wanted to say, "Could it be that you were expelled from the school because you are evil in nature and want to degenerate into a demon with all your heart", but he didn't dare to be so presumptuous in front of the demon.
Moreover, seeing how Lu Qingchen loves Li Yao so sincerely, it doesn't seem like "degeneration" or "betrayal" can be explained.
"Because 99% of the problems in this universe cannot be solved by 'blood', 'courage' or 'justice' alone. In the vast and dangerous universe, the more you insist on blood, courage and justice, the more you The faster he dies, the more my dear mentor Li Yao shines his brilliance, the more he will drag the Federation and even the entire civilization that I love deeply with him to death—Is this truth hard to understand?"
Lu Qingchen thought for a while, and explained with gestures, "For example, you are a six or seven-year-old child who lives in a village surrounded by poisonous snakes. One day you meet a poisonous snake on the road. In your heart Filled with a sense of justice, mustered up a hundred times the courage, brandished a small branch and rushed up, and even killed the poisonous snake, but left unscathed, what do you think is the reason for this?"
Gus froze for a moment, and said: "Unless a child of six or seven years old is a gifted boxing genius, it is difficult to kill a poisonous snake, let alone with a twig, or, I Or, this poisonous snake was already dead, at least it just woke up from hibernation, half dead."
"That's right, if a six or seven-year-old child can kill a poisonous snake, it's either luck, or the snake is already dying. No matter what the reason is, it has nothing to do with his blood, courage, and sense of justice. "
Lu Qingchen said, "However, if you kill a poisonous snake, you mistakenly think that the reason for your victory is blood, courage and justice, or even mistakenly think that as long as you have blood, courage and justice, you can kill more poisonous snakes.
"Then, you carried the snake's dead body triumphantly, went back to the village, showed it to your little friends, and called on all the little friends to muster their blood, courage and justice, and go with you Fighting poisonous snakes on the mountain and clearing the way out of the mountain—do you think your behavior is 'just' or 'evil', and if you are like this, are you considered a 'god' or a 'demon'?"
Gus was speechless.
"Or, 'The Devil of Justice'?"
Lu Qingchen smiled and said the answer, "My mentor Li Yao is such a 'just devil', and what's more frightening is that he is also a very lucky 'just devil'.
"It's still the example just now. Under normal circumstances, even if you can incite two or three friends to go to the mountain with you to fight snakes, soon, you will encounter more poisonous, bigger, and more ferocious snakes, which will bite you to death. Or two or three little friends, then all the losses are just two or three of your children, and more children can stay in the village honestly, but they can save their lives.
"But your luck is so good that you even encountered the second, third, and fourth half-dead poisonous snakes, all of which were easily killed by you.
"Even if a snake bites you, it's still a non-poisonous cauliflower snake because of your bad luck.
"Even because you have a rare physique, most of the snake venom is ineffective against you, or when the snake venom is about to attack, you accidentally bumped into it and ate some kind of herbal medicine that neutralizes the toxin, but you were killed by chance. Absorbed the power of snake venom.
"Now, you are even more imposing. You and your friends returned to the village with dozens of dead snakes in a high-spirited manner, showing off your achievements—now, not to mention the children, even all adults believe it. Blood, courage and justice', you will be immune to all poisons, kill a bloody path among thousands of poisonous snakes, even if you are bitten by a poisonous snake, as long as you insist on justice, the poison can make you upgrade and have more powerful power.
"Well, now everyone in the entire village is encouraged by you, and even demolished the village, and transformed all supplies into weapons, ready to fight to the death with the billions of poisonous snakes in the mountains and mountains outside, Gus, what do you think, What will happen to this village?"
"this… "
Gus was silent for a long time, sighed, and said: "It is impossible for us to be so lucky all the time. If we walk too much on the mountain road, we will see ghosts and encounter more deadly poisonous snakes. In the end, the whole village will die. .”