Chapter 11: Selfishness
Except for one time a few days ago, when Wood closed the door, there was no movement, as if it had nothing to do with them.
Of course, Wood would not be naΓ―ve to think that they didn't care about this, and were probably secretly discussing what to do with him, but he had no other way to deal with it, but he could only cover it up.
As for the soldiers coming to block ......
Wood just wants to say, in a harmonious society, let's use our mouths to speak.
Can procrastinate as much as possible.
Rumors of Wood's stupidity, ignorance, and self-dying, about Wood's establishment of a gathering place for the Cursed Sons have quietly spread in Osaka City.
As the news spread, the pressure suddenly increased, and there was even a move by the extremists who were ready to throw grenades containing splice fragmentation into the compound, but fortunately, there were bats in advance, and Wood stepped in to drive them away.
Although what they did, even if they killed them, there was nothing wrong with it.
But it's okay to do this kind of thing in secret, but killing people on the surface will make ordinary people even more crazy, and blaming all their resentment on the cursed son will make their situation even more difficult when the time comes.
But this behavior also made Wood angry, and he yelled a few times every day when he was idle...... As the only vampire in the world, he called almost all the bats in Osaka Ward.
Moreover, it has been often reported in the news on TV lately...... Outside the monument, there are intestinal creatures with bat genes wandering outside, and Wood once wondered if he should bring these intestinal creatures in to serve as his bodyguards.
But Wood was afraid......
Who knows if these bodyguards will fight with themselves.
The overwhelming number of bats served as a deterrent, and Wood only gave them one order to pounce and bite anyone within two kilometers of the compound.
In this way, there is also a lot less trouble, dense bats, sheltering the clouds and the moon in the dark night, making the compound area extremely gloomy, just looking at it from two kilometers away, it is creepy.
When it was decided that as long as you didn't enter the two kilometers, it was fine, and almost everyone walked around the area.
Wood didn't feel anything scared, but the little girls were a little scared at first, but over time they became intimate with these bats, and almost everyone was accompanied by one.
Wood always had a sense of seeing Harry Potter, even though the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry was all about owls......
At night, Wood would release a blood mist to feed the bats, perhaps because of the vampire physique, and these ugly little things made Wood particularly cute.
It is also by relying on them to become a line of defense that gives the compound a sense of isolation.
And it's not without benefit that the news gets out, at least there's no need for Wood to run out and drill into the sewers one by one, and those cursed sons have begun to take the initiative to find them recently, which has also led to the expansion of the compound has not stopped.
Although the tattered walls, crooked houses, and some dirty work every day in addition to studying, every little girl has a happy smile on her face.
Because, this is a family, a group!
Looking at those smiling faces, Wood sometimes really felt that this was probably what he had done in the first half of his life...... The only thing that makes sense.
It's a crazy move, though.
It is also a move that he would never make in the past.
With the advent of the traversal system, the experience of the world of Iron City has really changed a lot.
If the first world had come here, Wood would not hesitate to live in the center and live a plain and safe life.
Because that's the choice he'll make.
Cowardice or selfishness.
Once upon a time, Wood never thought about anything else but himself.
Or rather, even if he was a newcomer to this place, after that experience, he had thought so.
But listening to the voice of 'big brother and little boss', looking at the smiling faces, Wood hesitated again and again, and finally his head was hot...... Inexplicably, this situation has been created.
This made Wood have to sigh that there is indeed such an emotion as 'sensibility' in human beings, not to mention that he not only empathizes, but truly understands the situation of the cursed son, which is more real and darker......
And not just in the cold screen of understanding.
Lately, Wood has been wondering if this system is just a system that God has sent to correct him when he doesn't like him.
Shaking his head, Wood walked into the largest building with the blackboard on his back.
Looking at the dense little head below, Wood himself didn't realize how soft the smile on his face was now, which was probably the expression on his face that he would never have seen in the past.
The number of cursed children in the compound has reached thousands, and it is still growing, and it is impossible for Wood to teach it himself, so recently, the children who are the first to learn will continue to teach what they have learned.
Wood, on the other hand, educates these little teachers, but still finds time each week to call all the students together, not to teach, but to give them the knowledge of human beings.
"Those with good eyesight and genes sit back, and those with insect genes look at their respective species, find a position where they can hear, and those with good hearing genes sit back today, and I don't write anything......"
Once in the classroom, Wood began to change the seats for the imps.
Say it's a classroom...... In fact, it was a huge empty space, except for the blackboard that Wood hung up, there were not even seats underneath, and the little girls were huddled together, sitting on the hay, looking at Wood expectantly.
Wood didn't talk nonsense either, but wrote two big words directly on the blackboard behind his back.
- Selfishness!
Two big characters occupy the entire blackboard, and even the little girl at the back can see it clearly.
"Who's going to tell me what these two read?" Wood tapped the blackboard with a stick.
"I know that the first word is 'self' self."
"That's yourself!"
"It's selfish."
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Wood pressed his hand down, and there was a sudden silence below.
"Someone is right, these two words are selfish."
Wood turned around, his expression becoming cold, "Maybe you don't understand what I'm saying today, but I hope you can write it down." β
"Yes."
"What do you mean by selfishness?"
"I don't know!"
ββ¦β¦ I didn't let you answer, I'm asking questions, don't interject me! The corners of Wood's mouth twitched, and what he was about to say was directly choked back by this neat answer.
The collapsed face almost didn't collapse......
"Hmm...... What is selfishness? In a narrow sense, it is self-centered, while in a broad sense, it is an act and reaction based on the needs of self-interest. β
"For example, Xiaoya, she has a hundred apples there, and she can't eat them by herself, and you want to eat them; But even if it's rotten, Xiaoya won't give it to you, which is called selfishness. β
"Brother Wood, I'll get out." Xiaoya stood up directly.
ββ¦β¦ Sit down, this is an example, I don't care if you will be separated, interjecting and standing and listening to the lecture. β
Wood rubbed his faintly aching forehead, and sure enough, ...... These little girls are really annoying sometimes.
"This kind of behavior may make you angry, and it may make you feel petty, but what I want to tell you now is...... There is nothing wrong with this behavior, this is the reality. β
"In the same way, I'm just going to leave it to you realistically, although I don't want to say it, but you're different from other kids your age. I will not try to coax you like a real teacher, teach you naΓ―ve fantasies, I will only tell you the dark reality. β
"And today we are going to talk about selfishness, according to a man named Wilson: one grass competes with another grass for nourishment, birds eat insects, cats eat mice, one dog fights with another dog for bones, people eat pork, eat grain, this is all a manifestation of 'selfishness'.
Although Wilson also admits that genes are neither conscious nor emotional. In fact, Wilson refers to the 'objective behavior' of any organism that benefits itself at the expense of other organisms as 'selfishness'. β
"I'm speaking from a businessman's point of view today."
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