Chapter 543: Reason's Worries
This uncle has become more and more hateful recently! He won’t even let me take a nap!
Don’t you know that in this virtual world where time is accelerated, he must ensure ten hours of sleep every day, otherwise his brain will get tired easily!
Oh, yes, he doesn't know.
That's okay.
During lunch break, Yang Ming sat under a parasol, drinking an ice drink, crossing his legs, looking at the bald uncle who was shouting hard in front of him. He stretched himself and lay on the table to take a nap.
Badoli's carefully planned plan to recruit club members in the classroom was declared bankrupt amid the embarrassed smiles of the students.
Uncle Badoli, who was unwilling to give up, took the two of them and started setting up a stall on the road between the training ground and the dormitory.
The uncle's voice slowly floated in front of him:
"Student, do you want to know the truth about the universe?"
"Do you want to look up to the distant starry sky?"
"Are you still worried that you have no topics to talk about with your girlfriend? Do you want to confess your love to your girlfriend with the most romantic ceremony?"
"Follow us, the Universal Truth Investigation Society, and we will take you away... Hey! Why are you so rude, young man? Listen to me before you leave! Take a flyer and go! Oh! Young people are too impatient!"
Yang Ming looked up at Uncle Badoli, who was walking back, scratching his head.
Yang Ming immediately lowered his head and pretended to be asleep, fearing that he would be caught and made to stand on the street.
"The lunch box is here!"
Adwan Kabuba jogged along, followed by a food delivery robot; he and the robot worked for a while and set up a sumptuous lunch on a long table on the roadside.
Boss Yang instantly perked up.
Levi Badoli looked worried: "What should we do? There are only three people in our club. If we can't get five people, we can't start this club."
"Who told you that it must be five people?" Yang Ming asked puzzledly.
Levi Badoli cursed: "Isn't it common sense that the minimum number of people in a club is five? You don't have common sense!"
"Really?" Yang Ming picked up the knife and fork and started to eat.
Levi Badoli laughed and scolded: "No, after you said 'really', shouldn't you have some explanation of your own? You just came here to eat and drink for free? I treated you to this meal today! If you eat my food, you have to work hard for me in the afternoon!"
"I have classes in the afternoon."
"I have a physical training class this afternoon, you two should yell at me in class!"
Levi Badoli hummed:
"As long as we gather five people, five students, we can set up a club. I will be your instructor, and we can organize a variety of campus activities. We can also go out to eat and drink with school funds."
Yang Ming's eyes lit up: "Now that you mention it, there is some necessity to establish this club."
Adwan Kabuba gritted his teeth and cursed: "Don't make it sound like you're embezzling public funds, you bastard!"
"If we want to start this club, we must at least find the meaning of this club first."
Yang Ming said seriously:
"Are you eager to learn about the universe? Our history books say that we were the defeated party and were exiled here, so everyone has a fear of the universe.
"Does looking at the stars give you any power? Obviously not.
"This is a high-level training base. Every awakener sent here for training is an elite in a region. In the future, they will go to various regions to serve as backbones. Everyone has a fulfilling life.
"As a club, we have only three activities that we can offer. The first is stargazing, the second is having dinner together, and the third is sitting together after dinner and bragging.
"What's the attraction for these future elite cadres?"
Adwan Kabuba said: "Now that you put it that way... it seems that the necessity for our society to exist no longer exists?"
"well!"
Levi Badoli sighed: "It's come to this, let's eat first."
Yang Ming and Edwan Kabuba looked at each other and then laughed.
The three of them were eating and drinking on the roadside, which attracted the attention of many passing students and faculty members.
After the three people had their fill, the catering robot, which had been waiting for a long time, stepped forward, took away their leftover lunch boxes, cleaned the table, and then staggered back to the cafeteria.
The gentle breeze brought the fragrance of nearby grass and trees, and the slightly slanted starlight shone on the ankles of the three people.
The three of them lined up and slumped in simple chairs with backrests, each of them sighing comfortably.
"Daru, how long do you have until you take the final test to take up a local post?"
"More than a year, probably. Ours is more flexible."
"Can we go together?"
Adwan Kabuba said with some concern:
"I asked the seniors who were in love at the training base, and most of them broke up in the end."
Yang Ming frowned slightly.
Levi Badoli: "That sounds a bit strange. Are you two finally together?"
"roll!"
Yang Ming and Edwang turned around and cursed at the same time.
The bald uncle smiled with a hint of satisfaction.
Yang Ming was also puzzled and asked: "Why are you asking this?"
"I want to hang out with you, keep clinging to your thighs," said Edwan Kabuba with a smile, "Although the situations are different, our demands are the same, that is, we should try our best to be assigned to the same area."
Levi Badoli on the side said with a smile:
“Don’t you know yet?
"After graduating from the advanced training base, there is not only the option of being assigned to a place to do defense work, and of course, it is not just about staying at the advanced training base or going to other training bases to be coaches and mentors.
"There is another way."
Adwan Kabuba suddenly became interested: "What?"
"Become the legendary Cloud Guardian."
Levi Badoli pointed at the white clouds in the sky and said slowly:
“You should have seen it before, when that smoke giant appeared, you two delayed for a long time, and then those powerful awakeners fell from the sky.
"They are the Cloud Guards, each of them is a powerful awakener above Lv50, and they were all selected from the Advanced Training Base.
"Do you want to go to Yunzhongwei? I have a way."
Adwan Kabuba wondered, "Is the Cloud Guard a rapid reaction force composed of high-level awakeners?"
“Well, you could say that.”
Levi Badoli smiled and said:
“As far as I know, the Cloud Guards are the best among the awakened ones. Their number ranges from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands. Look at these clouds in the sky, many of them are covering their spaceships.
"In addition to dealing with possible mutants that may appear on the surface, they also have a mission, which is to protect the core area underground."
Yang Ming also seemed to be interested: "Core area?"
"I don't know the details," Levi Badoli said, "I'm just familiar with several instructors at Yunzhongwei. I also worked there for a while... Let's talk about the club. What Daru said just now is right. We need to have a program and let others know what our club does."
Adwan Kabuba smiled and said, "Can I ask you, uncle, why do you want to set up this club?"
"I?"
Levi Badoli's gaze became somewhat distant:
"We have failed, you know, our ancestors of the Ket people, lost to our enemies long ago.
"Then we lost the sky and the ability to build spacecraft.
"We have already developed this planet to its full potential. If we want to move forward, we can only move out of here... There is no more space. Do you understand what I mean?"
Yang Ming and Edwan Kabuba nodded at the same time.
"well!"
Levi Badoli said in a deep voice:
"But most of us just keep our heads down and live our own lives, constantly striving for the so-called life and sense of superiority. No one cares whether we can gain the ability to travel in space.
“Yes, whether or not we can get out seems to have nothing to do with individuals in this society, but one day, when the world is overwhelmed, how can we feed so many people?
“This is the importance of resource reserves and future resource planning.
“Only by going out to explore new planets and find new homes can we maximize the survival capacity of our civilization.”
Adwan Kabuba asked, “But are those enemies watching us?”
"The enemy is always watching us."
Levi Badoli glanced at Yang Ming and continued:
“After we were defeated by the enemy, they never gave up monitoring us. They will keep a close eye on our technological development, and once we are on the right path, they will hinder us and destroy us.
“We have no chance to live in peace with them because they are the first movers, they have a huge advantage, and they control everything about us from every angle.
"As long as we don't touch space technology and can't leap into wider space, they won't impose any restrictions on us. But as long as we want to upgrade ourselves and complete the leap of civilization, they will do everything they can to strangle us."
Yang Ming said: "This is almost a dead end."
Adwan Kabuba asked: "Did the Kate people, that is, us, also want to challenge that powerful civilization back then, and that's why we failed?"
"Yes, you have no access to this history. I have only heard about it from some of my drinking buddies who study history."
Levi Badoli sighed:
“Actually, from my perspective, I can understand our enemy, which is the powerful civilization that once defeated our ancestors.
"On the road of civilization development, they walked earlier and went further, so their oppression of us latecomers became justified and full of justice, because they made the rules. When we want to seek some benefits for our own development, they will accuse us of violating the rules that are already beneficial to them.
“Yes, the universe is vast, but even more vast is the brilliant civilization created by life forms. As long as it is given a certain amount of time and its population continues to grow, this civilization can continue to expand outward.
“So I dare to assert that in the era of interstellar navigation, the right to development is the most important and fundamental right of a civilization.
"If another civilization unreasonably... note that I said unreasonably, deprives this civilization of its right to develop, then we can characterize that other civilization as being unjust."
Yang Ming suddenly laughed: "So what if it's an unjust act? There is no ruler who is above all civilizations to punish the violent civilization."
"Yes, this is the cruelest part of civilization."
Levi Badoli's gaze is far-reaching and firm:
"You two must remember this. Of course, it's useless for you to remember this. I just habitually use the tone of a teacher to teach my students.
“The right to civilized development is the most basic right of civilization.
“From a civilization’s perspective, if a war can allow a civilization to gain the right to develop, then it is acceptable for that civilization to lose 30% or even more of its population.
"The population can be restored. As long as the self-awareness of the civilization does not collapse and the spirit and culture are continuously passed on, the civilization that has obtained the right to develop will soon be able to restore its population and continue to develop outward."
Adwan Kabuba said slowly: "I don't quite agree with your point of view, teacher. Although it is correct from the perspective of civilization, from the perspective of individuals, we should also pay attention to the right of survival of every life."
"Yes, you are right."
Levi Badoli smiled and said:
"I am just talking about an ideal environment where the collective respects the individual and the individual supports the collective. This is the basis for the development of civilization.
“But sometimes, if we are facing an unbeatable enemy, we must become more ruthless than the enemy in order to meet the challenge.
“I think that in the age of interstellar exploration, the disappearance and dissolution of civilizations should be a common phenomenon.
"You have to look at the problem from the perspective of the entire civilization in order to have a chance of defeating enemies who have developed many years ahead of us."
"But," Edwan Kabuba asked, "if we don't even respect individual demands, won't such a civilization be more likely to go to extremes? Isn't the premise of collective existence that every individual maintains a full personality, and isn't it the interweaving of personalities that gives birth to the collective? Individuals sacrifice for the collective because the collective is worth sacrificing, not because they have to sacrifice for the collective."
"That's true," Levi Badoli fell into thought.
Adwan Kabuba laughed and said slowly, "I'm just talking nonsense. Uncle, don't take it seriously. I don't know anything about this."
Yang Ming laughed and said, "You are actually talking about two things, and then you confuse the two things."
"Why?"
"Why two things?"
"Of course it's two things."
Yang Ming said calmly:
"Uncle is talking about how civilization can survive better, and Kabu is discussing the relationship between the collective and the individual. Both of your views are correct.
"Contradictions exist everywhere in the universe, so these two issues are not absolutely opposite.
“A ruler, a civilized governor, must first think about these two issues.
“First, how can our civilization survive and continue to develop in the brutal competition among civilizations?
“Second, how to ensure the sanctity and purity of society within civilization.
“Respect individual personality, respect individual demands, respect individual freedom, and allow individuals to participate in collective decision-making to a certain extent. It is meaningful for individuals to sacrifice for the collective on their own initiative. The collective requires individuals to die, which is just a manifestation of hegemony. Some privileged individuals who exert hegemony are destined to collapse due to the internal shear force of the entire civilization.
“Therefore, the consul should be cruel to the outside world and tolerant and loving to the inside world.
"But, I think we've strayed from the topic. Aren't we supposed to be discussing how to recruit new members? Talking about the starry sky, civilization, etc., is just pure idle talk."
"belch!"
Levi Badoli burped.
The three of them looked at each other, laughed, and continued to lie under the parasol on the roadside, waiting for the bell to start the afternoon physical training class.
…
Above the clouds, inside an invisible spaceship.
Li looked at the three of them quietly, with a hint of thought in his eyes.
This is not an ideal situation.
