Chapter 316: The Plague of Love
I have to say that Shenyi's assumption is quite pertinent.
If the battle between the two races is really won by the Spirit Race, it is absolutely impossible for human beings to appear, thinking about it like this, Zhang Yunxian, as a human being, suddenly felt that he didn't seem to have any position at all to judge what the God Race did.
As Shen Yi said, no matter what, human beings were created by the Protoss, and for this reason, human beings should always be full of gratitude and awe for them.
Since becoming a Sage, Zhang Yunxian's state of mind has rarely fluctuated, but he must admit that Shen Yi's remarks today have really completely shattered his worldview, no, the cosmology and the outlook on life.
The truth is really not as romantic as the story in many cases.
"What is the next thing? Why were the celestial beings destroyed by you?" Zhang Yunxian knew very well in his heart that Shen Yi's words were only half spoken, and there should be many unknown things happening in the future.
"I seem to have told you about this before!" Shen Yi thought for a moment, then said, "The real reason is that the new humans have unexpectedly evolved an emotional function that we Protoss have never had!"
Zhang Yunxian remembered that Shenyi had indeed said this before: "Are you talking about 'love'?"
"Yes!" Shen Yi nodded, "We Protoss, uh...... Anyway, although we also have obvious emotions such as 'like' or 'hate', we don't know anything about 'love'!"
"The new human beings have probably lived uneventfully for more than 2,000 years, and somehow they suddenly and inexplicably evolved the ability of 'love', which is like a rapid plague, and in just a few hundred years, all human beings have been infected!"
"And the celestials who originally had no emotions and emotional factors in their bodies, because they wanted to act as divine messengers to help new humans learn the basic survival civilization, almost got along with humans day and night, it sounds really incredible, even they can't resist the plague of 'love', they are infected one after another, and the emotional genes that don't exist in the body at all have actually revived......"
"The power of love, is it really so magical?"
"Alas! Maybe it's because the soul is dissatisfied with being sealed and deliberately makes trouble, but maybe it's the unwillingness of the human genes, anyway, human beings have evolved 'love' in such a strange way! This is simply an alternative and new way to protest against our Creator's meanness to them! The Strange God Race didn't give them eternal life? Didn't give them the power to turn over rivers and seas? Didn't even give much wisdom?"
"Regardless of whether the human race intends to confront our god race or not, as soon as the 'love' thing comes out, the celestials and people are infected one after another, and the things that we feel are greatly beyond our control!"
"However, because of the actions of other aspects of the new human race, especially the suppression and annihilation of the spirit race, it is too much in line with the expectations of our god race, and we are very reluctant to completely veto the hard-worked plan of the 'new human' just because of the 'love' item!"
"So, we didn't intervene in this very hard way at first. It's just that a circular was issued to all the infected celestials, telling them two choices: one is that they can be willing to be poisoned by 'love', but they must give up the noble identity of 'celestials', and the divine power in their bodies must be withdrawn! Otherwise, if they want to continue to enjoy this identity, they must immediately cut off all emotional entanglements with human beings, return to the 'underworld', and never have any private dealings with human beings again!"
Zhang Yunxian said: "No need to ask, there must be more celestials who choose the first one?"
Because of this scene, it is very similar to those bloody episodes in film and television dramas: a rich second generation inexplicably fell in love with the daughter of a poor family, and his son blocked him on the grounds of 'the door is not the right household', but the more he stopped his son, the more rebellious he became, so his father gave him an ultimatum, either go back honestly and be your rich second generation, or Lao Tzu will freeze all your bank cards and let you live a hard life with that poor girl!
Does this need to be asked?
As long as it is an ending that can be broadcast in TV movies, it must be the rich second generation who gives up his identity as a 'rich man' and chases his love without hesitation.
Shen Yi was not surprised by Zhang Yunxian's attitude at all, and said with a smile: "It's not more, it's almost all! All the celestials who have lived in human society, none of them are willing to give up their 'love'." ”
"The Protoss must have been surprised at the time, right?" asked Zhang Yunxian.
"It's not just surprise! More than that, it's fear! Because we have never seen such a thing as 'love', we have been exhausting all our energy on the issue of war and survival since the moment the universe was born, and it is precisely because of this experience that we feel that there is nothing more attractive to people than a powerful force! Whether we want to defeat our opponents or want to get more resources for survival, everything must be decided by strength!"
"But now these celestial people, because they are infected with the plague of 'love', one by one, as if they have lost their minds, they are all willing to give up their endless lifespan and divine power in their bodies, just in exchange for those few decades!"
Shen Yi said very calmly, but Zhang Yun thought that he must have been shocked in his heart at that time!
Perhaps it was because he met Chang'e himself later that he was able to have a deep understanding of the thoughts of the celestials.
"Gradually, because of this anger and incomprehension, the Protoss has divided into two diametrically opposed factions in their attitude towards this issue! One faction is very resolute that it is necessary to stifle this uncontrollable sprout as soon as possible, and it is necessary to push all the human civilization at that time to start all over again! The other faction felt that the human race at that time had nothing to fear at all, and only needed to take back the power of the celestial and human beings, anyway, as long as the human race could not control the power, there would be no threat to the Protoss at all!"
Later, they unanimously decided to send me, a neutral person, out of the 'underworld' and into the human race, to study the plague of 'love' and whether there is any way to cure it!"
"As a result, instead of finding a solution to the problem, you have become a member of the 'love' infection?" Zhang Yunxian sighed.
"They obviously did it on purpose!" Shen Yi said with a wry smile, "Because Lingxiao was sealed in my body before, I know that my identity is sensitive, so I rarely express my attitude and position on such major matters, for fear of leaving some words for the people of the same clan, you know, if Lingxiao is not included in the 'underworld' for a day, they will not be at peace for a day, and although I have made great achievements, I am also very worried that they will target me because of Lingxiao!"
"But it turns out that no matter how deliberately I try to keep a low profile and not be in the limelight, they won't give me this chance......!
"I was thinking later, even if I hadn't fallen in love with Chang'e at that time and successfully solved the human plague of 'love', I'm afraid they would still have come up with other excuses to deliberately make things difficult for me, right?
Shenyi's mood was a little sad, and Zhang Yunxian wanted to comfort and comfort him, but after searching his stomach and thinking about it for a long time, he didn't find a suitable word.
"It's been tens of thousands of years, hasn't it!" he said weakly.
Shen Yi sighed: "Now that I think about it, the most wrong thing I did at that time was to help the Protoss recover the divine power of those celestials! That was the first task I completed in a big way after I arrived in the human world!"
"If I hadn't done that at the time, and when I was chased all over the world by the Protoss, there were celestial beings who fought against them together, I wouldn't have ended up in such an embarrassing and tragic end!
Zhang Yunxian couldn't help but ask: "Back then...... What exactly is going on? What are the stories that happened between you and Chang'e, the Celestials, and the Protoss?"
There are only two popular folk myths about Hou Yi and Chang'e, one is "Hou Yi shoots the sun", and the other is "Chang'e runs to the moon".
The characters are real, but what is the true face of the story?
Shen Yi continued: "I am wandering in the human society as a practitioner, and I warn all human beings to believe in the gods, to break off love, and to know that they are lost, otherwise they will cause the wrath of the gods and send monstrous disasters on the world!"
Zhang Yun said speechlessly: "...... Aren't you a cultist?"
"I'm not a cultist, I really will show 'miracles' to mankind! If I want to say it, I still have to thank those heavenly people, if it weren't for their tireless instillation of the supreme concept of 'gods' in the minds of human beings for more than 2,000 years, it would not be so easy for people to accept my words!"
“…… Does it really work?"
"At first, it did work well! It's ridiculous that I was still complacent about it, love is not as terrible as we imagined!"
"It's a pity that we haven't even used it for a year and a half, and the human beings who swear to worship the gods on the surface have already begun to sprout in a solid state again secretly...... I reported this situation truthfully, but it was a coincidence that there was an accident within the Protoss at that time, and they didn't have time to take care of me......!