"To protect all mankind? They are the only humans on the entire earth. Is what you are doing really protection?" Charles disagreed with the attitude of the man in front of him.
"This is what I told you. They are not real humans. Everything from their genes to their chromosomes has changed. At best, they can be considered subspecies. It is best to eliminate them now while they are at their weakest and replace them with real humans."
"And you should know that they are developing too fast now. It won't be long before they follow the old path of the Foundation. The short-term sacrifices now are for the long-term victory in the future. The death of these subhumans is for a better tomorrow for mankind. I think you will understand this truth."
Hearing K9's words, Charles' mouth corners slightly raised, revealing a smile, "Why do you think I understand? What does the long-term future of mankind have to do with me? I admire your selflessness and persistence in your ideals, but my awareness is not that high. I am a layman."
K9's two black feathered faces showed a surprised expression, "Oh? This is not the same as your previous search for darkness."
"No, no, no, you seem to have made a mistake. I tried my best to find darkness because if the sea water continues to rise, everyone I care about in the Earth Sea will die. This includes my family, my crew, and myself. All I did was just to save myself from the disaster."
"My wife always says I'm a selfish person. I don't refute that. I am indeed selfish. I only care about the people I care about."
Charles spread his hands and shrugged. "You said before that if there is any disaster for mankind, it will probably take a hundred years. By then, I might have died of old age. How can I care so much? I don't care about the flood after I die."
Whether the other party believes it or not, Charles said so.
"What if I bring everyone you care about with me?" K9 suddenly proposed a solution.
Charles smiled and didn't respond. Although they were "good people" in a sense, they didn't do anything that had anything to do with humans.
They had bad intentions towards Shanshan before. If we really bring Shanshan and Anna here, God knows how these guys will treat them.
"Do you really not care about the extinction of our species? Even if it is a biological instinct, when you know that in no more than a hundred years, humans will face extinction, as a human being, do you really intend to do nothing?"
Hearing the other party's words, Charles recalled the despair of the Earthsea illuminated by the light of the God of Light, and the extreme sorrow that welled up in his heart at the extinction of his own species.
He raised his hands and looked at everything on them with a complicated expression, "Human? Am I really a human now?" Then Charles raised his head and looked at the crow monster next to him, "Or are you also considered human now?"
As they were talking, K9 brought Charles to a stop in front of a tall elevator. "Whether it is human or not, I will take you to see something and you will understand."
They did not stay in the depressing elevator room for too long. The elevator door soon opened, and the familiar sea breeze blew in their faces, which lifted Charles' spirits. They returned to the sea again.
As Charles was subconsciously observing his surroundings, he was shocked to see a huge humanoid figure hovering in the air.
It was a huge corpse as big as a small city. The huge body was stopped there strangely, and a part of it was even embedded in the rock layer of the dome. It looked like there was a bug in reality.
The bent limbs were covered with holes of various sizes, and there were three huge black eyes on the melting face.
This strange appearance made Charles recognize at a glance that this was the previous Pad, but the previous Pad was not even as big as a little fingernail of the guy in front of him.
"I'm surprised you weren't affected too much. Has your spirit been strengthened in some way?"
Charles didn't have time to care about these things at this moment. He looked up at the body of the god in the air in surprise. "What is this?"
"He is A2, Dr. Paide. He attempted to integrate the power of the gods collected by the Foundation. In fact, he did succeed. He became a god of level YESOD12. But as you can see, he was unable to control the power that humans could not imagine. In order to prevent a new god from awakening in his body, he committed suicide. His legacy was left here and was collected by us again."
As he was speaking, Piper suddenly appeared above him, swallowing the flesh and blood of the huge corpse in big gulps.
"But even though he became such a powerful being, and even at the final stage he was almost irrational, he still didn't forget the lofty beliefs of the Foundation. Everything is for all mankind. With such determination, can you say he is not a human being?" K9 looked at his dead colleague above his head with respect in his eyes.
The other party's words left Charles speechless. To be honest, he didn't want to stay with these people, because staying with them would make him seem inferior to others in terms of his ideological level.
Charles would rather fight some traditional "bad guys" than go to war with them.
Because in the end, no matter whether you win or lose, the result will not be good.
"Charles, I can feel that you are a little shaken in your heart. You can think slowly and carefully about what is the real choice. The moment you figure it out, the foundation will open its doors to welcome you to join." This was the first time K9 made a request to Charles directly.
"When you join, we will tell you a secret, a secret that you will not regret. You will get A3 privileges in the future. As long as you don't leave, you can browse the entire STIE6 site at will. It can be regarded as familiarizing yourself with the work in advance."
The crow head kept his word, and Charles really didn't have to be locked up in the room anymore. He could walk around freely in the place.
Charles did not wander around this clean and somewhat empty city for too long and returned to his prison before dinner.
While eating the braised pork, Charles thought about what the Crow Head had said before, with determination in his one eye. No matter how fantastic the other party's words were, the price of all this would eventually be the burial of all the people of Earthsea.
Anna, Winky, Bandage, Dipper, James, Lily, Elizabeth, Margaret, faces flashed through his mind. For these people, he was willing to become a sinner of humanity! The Foundation must be completely disrupted! !
"Really? With your ability, it might be difficult to achieve that."
Without any warning, a piece of information suddenly appeared in Charles' mind, and he instantly found that a woman in a black robe and wrapped in bandages had appeared in front of him at some point.
He knew this woman! This girl was the 005 that had appeared in his mind!
(End of this chapter)