"The residents of District 10084 do not have the concept of 'working at sunrise and resting at sunset'.
They have not seen the sun for ten thousand years, so they all adopt a 'three shifts' never-ending work and rest schedule."
Li Jialing said with deep emotion, “Very early every day, they have to get up and fertilize various underground plants, moss and mushrooms.
These crops do not originally grow underground, and even after genetic modification, they are quite delicate. , they need to mix various minerals ground into fine powder in the excrement of rockworms to become fertilizers and growth chemicals, and spread them in different ways to thrive.
If they are not careful, a large area will wither.
That is simply The whole town was destroyed.
"It took a lot of time to wait for the vines, moss and mushrooms to grow, and I risked my life by climbing up the rock wall and entering the crevices to collect them, and then transported them to the cave and cut them into pieces for the rockworms to eat, and the rockworms When eating, they also go to great lengths to give Rockworm massage.
The skin of rockworms is extremely tough.
Even light massage is not enough.
You have to use a lot of strength to activate its flesh and blood.
You have been working non-stop for more than ten hours at a stretch.
There is hardly a moment. seconds without exhaustion.
"After years of trembling and sweating, one rockworm can mature and produce meat.
Hundreds of thousands of rockworms can only be carried to a four-digit town thousands of meters above in exchange for a handful of magic weapons. and energy, and cans of ultra-highly compressed air that would be worthless on the ground.
“Let’s not talk about the issue of whether we have enough to eat or not.
Due to the serious lack of fresh air, the residents here never even dare to get too excited, because whether they cry, laugh or make a fuss, it will increase the consumption of oxygen and bring negative consequences to the town.
The total quota of fresh air has brought unnecessary losses.
Over time, they have become such that their hearts are like dead water, their faces are ashen, and they are unsmiling.
"Only carefree children who are ignorant and don't know the preciousness of fresh air will laugh unscrupulously and consume oxygen that is more precious than crystals.
"This is still the case without any accidents.
If we can barely survive in peace, life is worse than death and miserable, let alone what if savages and monsters from deeper underground invade, or an earthquake causes the entire town to collapse, or The magma shot out, turning everyone into ashes in an instant.
These natural disasters were all sharp blades hanging above their heads.
They might fall down in the next second, bringing them constant and omnipresent mental pressure.
“This is a natural disaster, as well as a man-made disaster, such as the accidental discovery of mineral veins or ancient ruins!
"It should be a good thing to discover mineral veins and ruins, but the residents here are too weak, and the oxygen supply is blocked by the upper towns.
They have no ability to protect themselves.
If the mineral veins and ruins are really discovered, it will easily lead to disaster.
They come from upper-class urban gangs with ulterior motives and unsatisfied desires, or from shallow underground and above-ground cultivators.
"At that time, at least they will be captured to serve as slave labor and cannon fodder for exploring ruins; at worst, they will not even be qualified to be slave labor and cannon fodder.
They will either be driven deeper underground and become savages, or they will be killed directly.
Immortal cultivators naturally have stronger and better-trained slave workers who can take their place.
"Although District 10084 has never encountered such a tragedy, other five-digit towns have encountered it many times.
If a town discovers priceless mineral veins and ruins, it often means destruction. , over time, the vast majority of five-digit towns have learned their lessons, and the old They just stay in their own one-third of an acre of land to grow mushrooms and raise rockworms, and strictly prohibit residents from going out to explore and take risks.
If anyone finds new mineral veins and ruins, or even things that are just suspected of mineral veins and ruins, they often They will also be killed without mercy, leaving their secrets forever in the darkness.
"Brother Yao, from the Star Sea Republic to the True Human Empire, no matter how the political situation and social form on the ground changes, these underground people have always lived this kind of life for thousands of years.
If they really retain strong emotions , that emotion has long been condensed into the word "pain".
If they really have desires, their only desire is to live and continue to live in such despair.
"Brother Yao, you just said that I was deceived by Sister Long.
I have thought about it carefully and do not think that Sister Long's almost brainwashing approach is correct.
I can only say that if there are really many underground residents who are willing to accept Sister Long's Brainwashing and washing away most of their emotions, I understand their approach very well, because what they wash away is only the pain that can never be resolved and the despair that can never be reversed. " Li Yao was silent and lost in thought.
Li Jialing seemed to be pouring out all the depression that had accumulated for ten days or even more than ten years, and continued: "Brother Yao, I heard that in the Star Sea Republic more than a thousand years ago, in the world of cultivators, there was a kind of The concept of 'humanitarianism' believes that when a person is terminally ill and falls into absolutely inescapable pain, he has the right to end his own life.
This is called 'euthanasia'.
“And in our True Human Empire, we also advocate that when an immortal cultivator can no longer contribute to human civilization, for the dignity and dignity of the immortal cultivator, he should die generously and leave resources to others.
"When I was being prepared by Li Lingfeng and Wu Yinglan to make life worse than death, I never once thought about death.
For me at that time, death was not painful, but a kind of relief.
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"The most precious thing for a person is life.
If we all agree that when faced with overwhelming and unbearable pain, people can choose to give up life voluntarily, then what's wrong with just voluntarily giving up part of their emotions, desires and free will?
Is it necessarily contrary to ethics, completely unacceptable, or even completely incomprehensible?”
"Those are two different things."
Li Yao pondered for a long time and finally said slowly, "I admit that as individuals, you and I have the right to end our own lives when we are suffering from great and irreversible pain.
This is indeed in line with the spirit of humanitarianism.
“But it is one thing for an individual to choose to end his or her own life, and it is quite another for a supreme authority over the masses to end all lives on a large scale.
"Individuals can retreat, give up and surrender in the face of pain, but any responsible and highest authority should never use 'mass euthanasia' to solve problems.
This is not to solve the problem at all, but to solve the problem of the people who have the problem." '!
"To put it simply, if faced with a shortage of resources, Long Yangjun or the highest authority of the Holy Alliance will require individuals to suppress emotions and desires as much as possible and reduce resource consumption to the limit.
This is the same as food shortages that require people to tighten their pants.
What is the difference between the belt and the belt?
If food is scarce, then find a way to get more food.
No matter how tight the belt is, people still have to eat; no matter how strong the seals of the three original laws are, people still need to eat because of their emotions and desires.
Only when it exists can it be called the spirit of all things!
"So, I absolutely cannot agree with this 'resource shortage solution' proposed by Long Yangjun or the Holy League authorities.
This solution is too untechnical, too irresponsible, and cannot solve the fundamental problem at all.
Even if the underground people really wipe out For all their emotions and desires, they still have to eat and breathe fresh air.
At most, they only consume a little less.
So besides delaying the inevitable destruction a little, what's the point?
"Of course, what you just said is not unreasonable.
The tip of the iceberg shown by Long Yangjun has made me understand a little bit why so many people are willing to be branded with the three original laws.
Then, let's continue.
Read on.
"We've seen enough in Area 10084.
Where is Long Yangjun's specific coordinates?
Let's go find her and find out!"
Li Jialing inserted a special chip into Li Yao's wrist crystal, saying that this would connect the wrist crystals of Li Yao and Long Yangjun.
Long Yangjun went deeper underground to mediate the war between the savages and promote her "ruthless and desireless" path.
Naturally, her whereabouts were erratic.
Only this chip could lock her precise coordinates.
Li Yao was moved in his heart and asked Li Jialing very curiously, why are there still large-scale wars in the underground world?
Li Jialing nodded in agreement.
Generally speaking, if it is an organized town with a civilized system, large-scale wars rarely occur between each other.
The main reason is that the fresh air in the underground world is too precious.
Even if it is hard manual labor that sweats like rain, People were careful not to take a big breath, and even if they held themselves in until their lips turned blue, they did not dare to take a deep breath.
And war is the most oxygen-consuming thing.
Just one incendiary bomb, which has little destructive power on the ground, is enough to deplete the oxygen in several tunnels and large underground cavities, not to mention the upgraded thermobaric bomb. and so on.
Therefore, once two five-digit towns go to war, it is often a tragedy in which both sides lose, and no one can get any benefits.
But this does not mean that human beings can completely give up their nature and stop killing each other.
If an extreme natural or man-made disaster occurs, such as an earthquake that crushes most of the town, magma that destroys all the moss, vines, and mushroom plantations, or a sudden plague that kills all the rockworms, once faced with such a disaster, , the survivors had no choice but to go into groups and wage war against neighboring towns like crazy.
This kind of hastily assembled attack will end in a disastrous failure in nine cases out of ten.
The loser has no way to retreat and can only risk going deeper underground into a dark and unnumbered death zone. 99% of them will become a meal for savages and monsters, and the 1% of "lucky ones" will lose their nature, lose their wisdom, and become a new generation of savages before long.