Volume 8: Future · Gap 4 · Competitive Games Chapter 117 No
Things suddenly became interesting.
Once again, the problem becomes the trolley problem.
Is it worth sacrificing a few people to save more?
Especially since the few people who sacrificed were children who knew nothing, but the one who saved was the whole world.
From a simple profit perspective, it's worth it.
Only a few are sacrificed; if these few are not sacrificed, everything will perish.
It's just the difference between losing a little and losing everything.
No wonder the old temple keeper chose to betray. After all, in the face of a disaster that would destroy the world, a hundred people dying every year was too insignificant, even if these hundred people were extremely innocent.
It’s just that most humans only care about what’s in front of them. They only see that a hundred children are sacrificed every year. They can’t see until the world is really devastated by a disaster, so they naturally begin to rebel against the mountain god.
Not to mention, most people around the world do not live well, and those who do not live well will naturally wield the knife against those who live well.
This is the original sin of mankind and it is unavoidable.
Moreover, although the temple keepers were assistants to the mountain gods, they had gradually become arrogant as they had long held the power over life and death and even the control of the clouds and rain, and had used their power to collect a great many benefits.
This is also the original sin that humans cannot avoid.
Those who have a little power always want to use it.
This is also a point of conflict, and the situation gradually evolved into what it is now.
The lights were also knowledgeable. He had also seen the previous scene and had an idea in his mind.
He looked up at the sky, which was pitch black. Following the lights, some golden light gradually began to gather.
Then an eye appeared in front of them.
This pair of eyes brought endless pressure, but when this pressure fell on the two of them, it became as gentle and pleasant as spring rain .
This is the God of the Mountain.
His eyes looked at the gourd Taoist and the lights, and then a sound came out along with the vibration of the golden particles next to him.
"Intruders...if you want to save your companions, you can take the weapon on the blood cocoon in the third row."
"But please return it later, otherwise the source of annihilation will leak out and cause more natural disasters."
"Or you can accept my invitation and become my temple priest. My power can also help him return to normal."
"This world is on the verge of destruction. Various sources of annihilation are constantly emerging. I can only seal them with blood cocoons. Even I can only stay here forever and cannot leave even a step."
"I believe you all understand my difficulty. If possible, I am unwilling to sacrifice the lives of so many innocent people, but the blood cocoon must be woven at the cost of relatively pure lives, and the blood cocoon needs to be reinforced every year."
"Sacrificing some people to save more people is the helpless act I have to do."
"And this helpless act has to continue. Please do not do anything destructive."
"Otherwise it will only cause more unrest and more people will be sacrificed."
Taoist Hulu didn't care whether what the other party said was a lie or not. He went to the location the other party said first and saw the magic weapon.
It was a jade ruyi, which emitted a faint golden light with the arrival of the gourd Taoist.
Holding this thing in one hand, Taoist Gourd felt a force flowing through it.
The Ruyi was originally used to scratch itch in ancient times, and then it developed into a handicraft, symbolizing success and happiness.
Holding this thing, Gourd Taoist only felt that whatever he thought or wanted could be driven by the Jade Ruyi to accomplish it.
"This thing is a relic..." There was no expression on the face of Taoist Hulu, but in fact, he was not calm in his heart.
The so-called relics are things that are formed when some people or things gather together in the underworld or the dirty land after death.
Every relic is a natural weapon. You only need to find a support object to make a good item.
Lu Bai also has several good relics in his hands, so he is more aware of the power of the relics.
There are a total of one hundred blood cocoons here, and above each blood cocoon, there is basically one such "magic weapon", which is equivalent to one hundred relics, which is a huge wealth.
Of course, this is all an illusion, so these relics are actually useless.
But it also revealed some clues of what was going on.
The sky sank, the Milky Way flowed back, and the stars fell into the mortal world.
This is the disaster that this dimension suffered, and it was to deal with this disaster that the Mountain God was born.
In that myth, it was clearly stated that someone picked up the stars and used them to create these magical weapons.
So the stars in the myth refer to relics, and the galaxy can’t be referring to the underworld... No, it is more likely to be a preparatory measure similar to the Sea of Nothingness.
Then what happened that year becomes clearer.
"But why is it that after the sky sank, it connected to the underworld?" Taoist Gourd thought to himself as he walked back quickly, determined to rescue the little mustache man first.
Speaking of which, as the crown prince of the underworld, he does not have many privileges except the Eye of the Underworld given by Elodos. It is basically just a title that cannot be told to others.
Therefore, Lu Bai's previous idea of using the Netherworld as a communication channel so that the demons from all dimensions could contact him has never been realized.
At present, Lu Bai's Hanguang Cave is still under repair and debugging. How to connect to the underworld with a dimensional prototype and build a stable channel is still a difficult problem.
After all, the underworld is different from the filthy land. Because of its own characteristics, the filthy land welcomes everyone.
The underworld, however, is more difficult to approach because it is the peaceful side of death.
Therefore, a stable channel has always been difficult to establish.
If this place is really connected to the underworld because of the sinking of the sky, then it may be a good reference object.
Although this is just an illusion, but with the degree of realism of this illusion, it may really simulate some of the situations in that dimension extremely realistically.
As the gourd Taoist went to treat the mustache, the remaining lamp looked at the eyes and asked, "Is there no other way to deal with the source of annihilation you mentioned?"
The current situation is very difficult to deal with. Simply speaking from the perspective of the camp, they can now directly take away most of the magical weapons here and then hand them over to the expeditionary team. Then they can have a big battle with the temple keeper, rush to the top of the mountain and kill the mountain god.
However, I wish everything could be as simple as we think.
Denghuo was sure that if he and others did this, the final score would definitely not be very high.
When faced with the problem of lights, the mountain god gave a direct answer.
"No!"
