The mother and the wife fell into the river at the same time, there was an innocent child and a large group of mischievous children standing on both sides of the track, your beloved relatives were tied up on the torture instruments, and the sarcastic and contemptuous words of Huai Cao Shi at this time Words are the most common problems in the world. These problems may cause many people to struggle, from the inside to the outside, from the roots to the toes. However, for Xu Le, these problems are just some bastards and boring to the extreme. Suppose.
"Don't be in a hurry to refute me with those specious logics. For moralists, morality is only useful when it does not harm their core interests. Once your core interests are threatened, you will not hesitate to Begin to play the cry of the victim's family, unwilling to give up a shred of meat, but also to seize the moral high ground."
Huaicao Shi waved her hand indifferently, holding the life of the slum woman in her hand and asking Xu Le to kill herself. In her opinion, it was originally a joke, but this kind of joke was a bit vicious and pointed directly at the roots of those moral mongers. Heart.
Xu Le listened quietly, and then slowly replied as usual: "No, of course I won't commit suicide, but I'm not the kind of person you said. I don't explain this..."
His eyes were bright and scorching, without any emotion, he stared at Huaicao Shi under the dark and broken wall on the opposite side, and said, "Anyone who tries to hurt an innocent aunt, including you, the only response I can make is to use up all my energy. Use all means and strength to cull each other and then save them."
Cull? Kill yourself like a beast and the steel machinery of the empire? Huai Cao Shi narrowed her eyes and laughed lightly.
"I know what you are laughing at, laughing at my self-control, laughing at my whimsy." Xu Le replied hoarsely: "That's because you don't know what kind of person I am, you really drive me crazy. , I will turn into a dog, one drooling viciously, staring at your calf bone, at all costs, I will pounce on it and take a few bites, you will be bitten all over your body, oozing pus, and spreading my virus to you on the body."
"Don't force me."
"I'm really going to be a dog, a mad dog."
"Are you threatening me? What capital do you have to threaten me now?" Huaicaoshi frowned and said with a hint of elusive emotion.
Her Highness's emotion came from Xu Le's self-report. She did not expect that the young man on the opposite side, who was known for his composure and forbearance in the Federation, could so calmly describe the birth of a mad dog, and... it really made her feel a little chill.
Obviously this man is already in a desperate situation, why does he dare to threaten himself
"If that woman named Susan dies, what can you do? Even if you escape, what can you do?"
"In this universe, apart from Your Majesty, I don't really care about anyone. No matter how much you kill, you won't make me feel any sadness or regret."
"Or you're going to keep killing people on the Empire soil? Like a tyrannical and stupid terrorist who keeps assassinating nobles or officers?"
"Maybe."
Xu Le's eyes looking at the opposite wall were still bright and even hot.
The warm courtyard in the slum, the mother and son who treated them with the greatest kindness in the world, were in an unprecedented crisis at the moment. If Susan's mother and son really had an accident, he couldn't accept it.
"It's not maybe, it's definitely."
"If anything goes wrong with the aunt, mother and son, and I escape this time, I will spend the rest of my life killing the imperial nobles I can find at any cost. In those decades, on your land, There will be a mad dog who is calm and forbearing enough, I bet you can't catch me again, in fact, if there is no beautiful middle-aged man outside, you can't catch me this time."
"If you can't catch me, Tianjingxing will stop bleeding."
"The execution of a pair of mother and son without any danger because of anger, thus forcing me to become a mad dog, should not do you any good, to your emperor, or to your empire."
After saying this, Xu Le stopped his words, and the dark cell returned to silence, except for the long and steady breathing of the two people, which sounded one after another.
"Even if the people you want to kill are innocent from a common moral judgment, you will kill them?"
"good."
"It's not in your morals."
Xu Le was silent.
Huai Cao Shi was also silent.
"Although I don't think you can escape, I don't know why, I'm willing to agree to your request and let your aunty go once." Huaicao Shi said with a blank expression: "According to the previous statement, you have to promise me A condition, of course, that has nothing to do with the war between you and us."
"Okay." Xu Le replied very quickly, the sweat on his back had already soaked through his body, and the wound was stinging and stinging.
"I have read your files many times and know what role you played in the federation. You are not a violent soldier born with bloodthirsty, but more like a boring young man who puts morality on his head... This time For the sake of the two people of the empire, you would actually go against your own rules of life... It seems that you are really afraid."
Huai Cao Shi squinted his eyes and said indifferently, "It's rare for a guy who is never afraid of death to be so afraid of it."
Xu Le was silent. Since he was sure that Aunt Susan might die at any time, the unprecedented sense of fear took over his body. Because of this unprecedented fear, he became unprecedentedly crazy, and this extreme madness was hidden. In the extreme calm, it was clearly conveyed to Huai Cao Shi's mind.
It was precisely because of this madness that Huaicao Shi made the final decision.
"I don't like so-called tragedies of fate, those are shit, shit written by Schiller." He bowed his head wearily and replied, "My life may not be a comedy, but a good man should always have a joy or a A peaceful ending."
He raised his head, looked directly at the dark wall and the vague figure, and said, "Actually, you are wrong, and many people in the federation also misread me, including my closest friends. "
"I am afraid of death, and there is no one in this world who is not afraid of death. When I was four years old, I was lying in my bedroom, staring at the sometimes gray, sometimes red sky in a daze. I was sick that day, I was very sad, and I found the scenery around me. It will not change, but we will get sick. Of course, it will be uncomfortable when you are sick, I don’t care, but the problem is that when you are seriously ill, you will die, and people will die when they get old.
He raised the only left arm that he could barely lift, wiped the sweat from his forehead, lowered his head and said with a smile: "What is death, what is death, there is nothing, those little metal toys, beautifully shining like diamonds in the mines Slag, and my little sister who can't speak with a face as cute as an apple, I can't see it, I can't touch it, I can't feel anything."
"Only darkness and silence."
"No, not even darkness and silence."
"I don't know if I ever existed or what I've done. There's no trace of me showing up. Maybe someone cares when I disappear, but I can't feel their care."
"Because there isn't even... I... in death."
"This is scary."
"terrible."
Xu Le raised his head and said very seriously: "How can you not be afraid of such a terrible thing? People who are not afraid are idiots, or they don't realize how precious self-awareness is."
"But the question is that the worst of it is inevitable, so what do we do?"
"Continue." Huaicao Shi's eyes narrowed in a strange arc, and a rare smile hung on the corners of his lips, looking at the federal man who was very different from usual and talked freely.
Xu Le's eyes narrowed, as if recalling the past, combing himself, subconsciously waving his hand, as if to drive away those terrible prospects, and continued: "Since it is unavoidable, then of course it is more comfortable to be alive. Some."
"It's probably the reason why you have to enjoy your life while you're alive."
"What kind of joy?" He shrugged his shoulders like his cynical subordinates, moved his wounds, frowned, then quickly dispersed, and said with a smile: "The educational rules of human society are too powerful, and they have penetrated deeply into them. In our consciousness, respect for the old and love for the young, loyalty and integrity, these moral views are like a whip. If you touch it, your heart will be slapped. Some people can bear it in exchange for money and power. But I don’t understand why I have to endure it, so I will do things according to the methods required by human morality, not be whipped all my life, and live with peace of mind, isn’t that happiness?”
"This whip is actually fire, a fire in my heart. When I see those unfair and disgusting things, I can't help but want to burn it. After burning those things, I feel calm in my eyes and in my mood. joy."
"To live like this is not necessarily a strong heart, but it is comfortable enough."
"I'm afraid of death, and I'm not a messenger of justice or a young man of four. I'm just a guy who lives according to his own likes and dislikes and the whip of morality in order to seek happiness in life."
"But if the whip of morality is pulled in the wrong place one day and I find it unbearable, then I will no longer believe in this placebo of life and become a monster I don't know what it will be like."
"This state of existence, all the hidden starting points, are just to make one's own life more enjoyable, and it is the restraint of human civilization itself on each individual individual."
"Back to the whip again."
"Well, what I'm actually trying to say is that it's not selflessness but the greatest selfishness."
Xu Le's bright eyes flickered, and he spread out his hands and said, "As a result... I deceived the entire universe. In fact, sometimes I feel a little embarrassed."
The cell was quiet for a long time, and Huaicao Shi's voice full of emotion rang out: "If this kind of selfishness is more, it would not be a bad thing."
At this moment, another voice sounded in the quiet room.
"So it seems that our whole family is a big selfish person?"