Li Yao was silent.
Li Jialing's words made sense, leaving him speechless.
Before coming to the True Human Empire, from the perspective of a cultivator of the Star Federation, it was always easy to misunderstand the most acute conflicts within the empire, and regard the oppression and exploitation of the "original people" by the "real people" as the main problem.
After coming to the empire and seeing with his own eyes all aspects of society and conflicts of interest, Li Yao realized that those who were imprisoned in factory assembly lines and industrialized spiritual fields, the most typical "ordinary people who were bullied by immortal cultivators", were not actually the most miserable. of.
Yes, these ordinary people have indeed suffered inhumane treatment, but they often have stable food sources, relatively clean drinking water, safe shelter and even meager wages.
In order to increase their labor enthusiasm, cultivators can learn from them.
Extract more surplus value, and even provide them with a certain degree of spiritual food.
For example, the "Live Broadcast of Killing" in the Wuying world is an anesthetic specifically targeted at these working class people, which can give them spiritual pleasure.
As the saying goes, "It's better to be a peace dog than to leave people in chaos."
In areas where the imperial authorities are able and willing to implement effective rule, they will still provide minimum public services, carry out various infrastructure construction, maintain the orderly operation of society, and In theory, there is a law that can protect the legitimate interests of the vast majority of people.
Even if this law is riddled with holes and is often openly broken through by cultivators, it is still better than nothing.
After all, the government of immortal cultivators is also a government, not a bandit den.
Ten thousand meters underground, in these "forgotten towns" numbered after No. 10,000, the residents here are not even qualified to be enslaved and exploited.
In other words, "if you want to be a slave, you can't."
Naturally, the imperial authorities will not do this at all.
There are only a few public services provided here, and they are completely left to fend for themselves.
In such a dark and silent world, there is no sunlight, very little clean drinking water, very little food, the destructive power of earthquakes is hundreds of times stronger than on the ground, landslides will occur from time to time, and even destructive magma will erupt.
Li Yao didn't know whose life was more miserable, the slave laborers who had been hunched over the assembly line in the magic weapon factory for a lifetime, or these underground abandoned people who had been forgotten by the entire universe?
Long Yangjun's metaphor to Li Jialing mentioned the sea.
Indeed, the world of abandoned people is like a deep sea plain.
No matter how strong the waves are on the sea, and how ferocious and ferocious beasts are competing, nothing will In the eyes of those ocean overlords, these small fish and shrimps struggling to survive in the mud and sand on the seabed do not exist at all.
However, Li Yao can also understand why Long Yangjun brought him and Li Jialing here.
Now that Black Star Emperor Wu Yingqi's plan has been launched, he is very likely to control the entire Jitian Realm and Tianji Star.
No matter they hide, No matter which city you go to, you can't escape the overwhelming and ubiquitous crystal-eye surveillance and lock-down.
Even most of the towns deep underground are within the scope that the authorities can barely control.
They are equipped with a large number of crystal eyes and connected to the wireless spiritual network.
As long as they leave a vague figure in a certain crystal eye, It is possible to attract a large number of pursuers.
Only these forgotten cities numbered after 10,000 do not have the existence of spiritual nets and crystal eyes, and are completely outside the eyes of high-level immortal cultivators.
They are "paradises" where they can safely heal and rest.
Li Yao and Li Jialing came from a world with sunshine, and their natural appearance was slightly different from the almost transparent human race underground.
Their stroll in the town attracted the attention of a large number of underground people.
However, most of the underground people only dared to hide behind the stalagmites and mushrooms, wrapped themselves tightly in thick fog, looked at them carefully, and did not dare to make eye contact with them at all.
Wherever their eyes fell, the underground people would shrink their necks and escape into the mist.
Only the innocent children dared to stare at them intently.
Seeing that they were not malicious or dangerous, a few of the boldest children finally followed them, turned into a string of little tails, and swaggered to imitate their walking.
Li Yao turned around and made a face at these children.
The children first exclaimed and dispersed in a hurry.
After a while, seeing that Li Yao made no other moves, they gathered back and also imitated Li Yao's make-up face.
He also shouted in a weird voice: "Black eyes!
Yellow eyes!"
Children born underground have never seen real sunlight.
Even the lighting array above their heads can only be adjusted to the dimmest level due to lack of energy, barely illuminating the crisscrossing iron cables between stalagmites and stalactites.
The children Perhaps the brightest thing I have ever seen in my life is rolling magma.
Over tens of thousands of years, their eyes have also mutated.
While they have a certain amount of night vision, their pupils are slightly red.
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Li Yao's black eyes and Li Jialing's tawny eyes have become alien.
The children's bell-like laughter attracted the attention of the adults.
Several hands suddenly stretched out from the thick fog, pulling the children back one after another, and covering the laughter in their big rough hands.
Li Yao frowned slightly, weak spiritual energy lingering in his eyes, his sharp eyes penetrated the blurred bacterial mist, clearly seeing those underground people who thought they were well hidden.
He discovered a very strange phenomenon.
As the underground people grew older, their ability to express emotions seemed to become weaker.
Those innocent and carefree children can still cry and laugh, play and express their emotions and feelings freely.
But the tall adult always frowned, his eyes gleamed with vigilance and fear, and he looked like he was always looking for a crack in the stone to hide himself in.
It seemed that the arrival of Li Yao and Li Jialing had disturbed the situation.
The heavy air here made them extremely uncomfortable.
The old underground man, who is older and has wrinkles all over his face, even the glimmer in the depths of his eyes has disappeared.
He is like a statue carved from stalactites, squatting motionless next to a stalagmite for a long time. , as if integrated with the underground world.
Li Yao also saw some people wearing gray cloaks.
Their expressions were the same as the girl who had just brought them food.
They were both peaceful and ethereal.
They were sitting around randomly in the underground town, sitting or lying down.
Their breathing was extremely weak, as if they were entering the city.
Weird hibernation state.
Li Yao narrowed his eyes and asked in a deep voice: "Have all the people here been brainwashed by Long Yangjun, and their emotions and desires have been washed away?"
He originally thought that the truth must be like this, but Li Jialing hesitated for a moment, shook his head and said: "I also asked Sister Long, but she said no, the people here are originally like this lifeless, ancient well.
"Sister Long said that the so-called strong emotions and desires are based on a rich material foundation and a developed information interaction network.
As the so-called 'full and warm thoughts **', you can't even eat enough, and your basic survival security is in jeopardy.
There is no guarantee, and you have to be hungry every day, and you have no time to worry about 'emotions', 'desires' and 'free will'.
"Sister Long said that we modern people live in a highly developed post-industrial society and the information age.
We can find 10,000 kinds of food everywhere to stimulate our appetite, and 10,000 ways of entertainment to stimulate our strong emotions and satisfy our desires. and emotions are aroused to the limit.
Over time, we take such high levels of desire and emotion for granted.
"But in many worlds where material is extremely scarce, such as the ancient cultivation world and the underground world before us, food scarcity is the norm, safety is not guaranteed, and there are not many entertainment methods.
The divine world is extremely empty and lacking.
The people here, How is it possible to have strong emotions and desires like those on the ground?
"Imagine if a baby was born here and has never seen the sun or the singing of birds and the fragrance of flowers.
He doesn't know what forests and oceans are, let alone what singers, movie stars, and big stars are.
There are no novels, games, or virtual dating platforms.
The only meaning of life is Survive and reproduce, and have to worry about food scarcity, earthquakes and magma flows every second.
Over time, how can we not become numb and indifferent, like these underground residents in front of us?
"Sister Long said that when she first came to the underground world a few years ago, the adult residents here were like this.
They were as silent as stubborn stones for many years because there was nothing else to do in life and no resources to support them. emotions and desires.
"Yes, she taught these underground people some methods of suppressing pain, curbing desires, and calming the mind, but she only added fuel to the flames.
If the resources here are rich enough, there are wine pools, meat forests, and the best spiritual network games to enjoy.
You can play it, only an idiot would follow her to practice the inhumane method!
"Sister Long also said that not only here, but even in the territory of the Holy Alliance, she estimates that the situation is similar.
There are meat buns to eat.
Who wants to eat white steamed buns?
Who wants to go hungry when there are white steamed buns to eat?
If the Holy League's The land itself is extremely rich in material, so rich that it can satisfy everyone's emotions and desires.
Who is willing to give up the best thing in life?
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Where are the things?
The problem is that there is no such thing!
Many worlds under the Holy Alliance are originally barren.
It is estimated that in the past ten thousand years of chaotic and bloody wars, the few resources that were originally available have been almost exhausted.
People cannot survive.
I have to give up my emotions and desires and invest all my remaining resources into the only important thing, the continuation of my life.
"Sister Long also said" "Enough!"
Li Yao interrupted Li Jialing's eloquence, "I find that the stance of your fellow Taoist is very problematic.
Why is it that 'Sister Long says' all day long?
Even if you don't stand with Brother Yao and I, the cultivator From a standpoint, at least you are still an immortal cultivator , should support emotions, desires and free will, right?
I have been with Brother Yao for half a year and I haven’t learned much from you.
How come you have been fooled by Long Yangjun for only ten days?
No, I still have to practice!”
—— When I saw a question, a friend asked me, Lao Niu, are you writing a contradiction?
In the flying star world, you could hollow out planets to refine super-giant starships.
How come you can't even drill through the mantle of the earth in the middle of the star sea?
Lao Niu said, this is not contradictory.
The one who refined the planetary battleship in the Flying Star Realm earlier was a very small planet similar to "Pluto".
The difference in size between the large and small planets can be thousands of times!
In Lao Niu's view, a "habitable planet" must at least have a thick atmosphere and a stable solid structure.
Then it cannot be much smaller than the earth, and it must not be an asteroid like Pluto, right?
Another thing, refining planetary battleships does not say that the planet must be completely hollowed out.
This is not necessary at all.
How did you do "The Wandering Earth", one of Liu Cixin's masterpieces?
To put it simply, just install tens of thousands of engines on the surface of the earth and launch them into orbit.
The so-called "planetary battleship" is nothing more than adding more forts, hangars, military bases, etc. on the basis of engines.
All these things can be done within the confines of the earth's crust, which is economical, affordable and convenient to fight.
There is really no need to hollow out the entire planet!
No matter what, Pangu Nuwa and humans are both life forms that originated on the surface of the planet.
No matter how developed they are, as long as they still retain the flesh and blood of carbon-based life, the mantle layer tens of thousands of meters below the ground cannot be comfortable.
Unless it is absolutely necessary, it is really not possible to completely hollow out a planet and live in it, right?
Dear readers, what do you think?