Chapter 40: Faith
"I mean, you just had a nightmare."
"Well, so to speak. Are we really right? He didn't mutter, but in his tone, "All the soldiers who followed him were left there forever, and only a few of us escaped, is this really good?" He remembered that after the "hostage exchange" with Numa Seka, according to Numa Seka's arrangement, he had not escaped with Angel and the others in the last wave of siege, and all the remaining soldiers would be buried there.
"So what's the solution?" Shu walked over to a floor-to-ceiling window next to the bed and sat down, with his back to the room, and the silver-white moonlight filled the room, "And the responsibility is on me, the commander, as a non-commissioned officer under me, you should not be too implicated." There was also some ridicule in his tone, as if he didn't pay attention to these things at all, "And the most important thing in the empire now is people, there are people everywhere who want to squeeze into the army, and the lost soldiers can be replenished immediately...... Besides, if you take a little money to bribe the high-level executives, there will really be nothing to do, at most a few downgrades. "So many people died, as if it was none of his business.
I didn't open my eyes wide, I couldn't believe what I was hearing, in the army, everything I did met the standards of a good general, I loved my soldiers, and I charged at the forefront every time...... Everything was perfect, but the image of perfection was completely overturned by his words, "Suddenly... Suddenly it felt like we were so far apart. I didn't think about it silently in my heart, thinking of the scene in my dream, "But... But won't it be scolded by the people? Does it really matter at all? β
"No, under the oppressive rule of the empire, the so-called people are just a group of ants living at the bottom of society, they dare not have the slightest resistance, even if their relatives and friends die on the battlefield, in order to protect themselves, they will try to restrain their feelings...... However, this backlog of feelings, slowly, in the end, only the purest numbness remains, the numbness of everything in the world, and it becomes a machine that lives only for the sake of living, repeating a flesh-and-blood machine of human life. Su said a long time, still in that indifferent tone, but it was like a bomb dropped on his heart, "Such a powerless and cowardly people, such a numb person, only deserve to be treated like this, it is not the environment that created them, but that they chose this environment." β
Thinking about it carefully, what I said is indeed very reasonable, I don't suddenly feel that I am still too simple, I only see the surface of what I see, but I always think that I have seen it thoroughly, which is really naΓ―ve. What about the simple destruction of empires? Without the oppressors, this group of people at the bottom of society will feel uncomfortable, and willingly elect new oppressors, the servility hidden in their bones has accompanied them all their lives, and it is indeed difficult to completely eradicate them.
"Well, let's not talk about such a heavy topic." Seeing that he had not been silent for a long time, Su suddenly said jokingly, and also turned around, "Don't you have any wishes?" β
"Wish?" But in his own opinion, this topic is more heavy, and it is true that he has had many wishes, but slowly, everything that happens around him, and a deeper understanding of the world make him understand that many are impossible, for example, he once fantasized about staying in the assassination force forever, staying with that group of people forever, and always being with Red Hitomi, but now it seems that it is a ridiculous wish to buy more. Red pupils have been bewitched by Gozqi, forever sleeping in the empire is always right, the ruler is always right, what they do is always right, just like the marionettes controlled by Gozqi, as a tool for the empire to kill, but they no longer understand that the empire has reached the end of the crossbow, unable to resist the attack of the revolutionary army and foreign peoples, the red pupils and they continue to help and abuse will only harm themselves, maybe one day they will find out the truth, but by then, they have become victims of the empire, Their hands are stained with the blood of too many innocent people, and even if they are forgiven by the world, their hearts will never be able to forgive themselves, and they will live forever in guilt.
It is no longer the desire to stop him before this terrible thing becomes a reality, and the most direct way is of course to destroy the empire and destroy the faith of the red pupils.
"Don't you want to say it? Yes, the question I asked was a bit abrupt. Su laughed.
"Not anymore." "If I had to say that, my wish would be to change the present. β
Shu's eyes suddenly brightened, as if he had seen a baby, and his voice seemed to become a little excited, but he was still extremely depressed, a little nondescript, "Change? A very esoteric word. What do you want to change? β
"I want to change the empire, either let him reorganize it as he wishes, or let him be completely destroyed!" He has not spoken, full of pride and ambition.
"It's very domineering. But what exactly is your will? β
"It's not clear yet, but it's definitely not like this!"
"But then you won't create a second empire? Aren't you going to become a second empire? Su said solemnly.
"Absolutely not, because I understand that the country in my heart is absolutely right, because I am right!" It has become very serious, this is no longer a small talk between two people, it has become a debate between two people's ideas.
"It's overbearing. So, what exactly is right? What exactly is the right and wrong criterion? β
"......" has not said anything, and there is no right and wrong rule in his mind, and everything that is not good for his friends and partners should be wrong.
"If there are several other aspects, there are right and wrong things about the empire, what is right is that he rang the bell of attack for the establishment of a new and more sound regime, and what is wrong is that he oppresses the people, and different angles will get different results. In every sense of the word, this can be a good thing or a bad thing, because ...... There is no norm of good and evil in this world. It's like a big tree, when he is verdant, there will be moments when he withers, nothing can be kept forever, and it is like life and death......" talked eloquently, one by one, and said that he didn't feel a little dizzy.
But I still understand a lot, in my own opinion, what I did was right, but if what I did was wrong, then, why do I still do it? Is there any need for him to exist?
When you think about it, you find that your faith is about to be shaken.
"The most easily shaken thing is faith, which will change in a given environment. So......" Su didn't know when he had stood in front of him and stretched out a hand, "Please join me in changing this empire." β