Chapter 53: Chaos
Since Gu San fired this shot, he naturally channeled the hostility of everyone around him on himself. But she didn't panic, she just poured all the money out of the bag and threw it out.
"Go get it all, we don't want this building. We don't want this money. β
Gu San picked up Xiao Sui'er, stepped on a pair of small feet, and walked out calmly in front of so many guns, "Who of you like to sit here, the boss, go and rob, we, let's go." β
As she said this, she looked at Murong Yuhua and Zhu Li, who followed her footsteps and walked out. The black-clad thugs who were supposed to stop in front of the door subconsciously made way for them.
The smell of burning corpses spilled into the nose, and the smell of blood and gunpowder lingered in the building for a long time. As Gu San and his party approached the gate of the building step by step, the people behind them finally moved, squatting down one by one to snatch the silver dollars on the ground.
It was already dawn, but when I looked up, it was gray like a layer of gray smoke.
Xiao Sui'er wrapped her arms around Gu San's neck, and her eyes were always looking at the group of people competing with each other, and the child suddenly said coldly, "They look like dogs fighting in the village." β
Murong Yuhua replied, "All of us look like dogs fighting in the village sometimes." β
They left the building and walked back towards the mountain. After climbing the mountain and looking down, the scene of Qingping County can be seen at a glance. Thick smoke continued to rise from the location of the Li family's mansion in the center.
Noisy, fighting. The chaos they created could only be ended by death. Gu San subconsciously looked to the side, she looked at the despair in Murong Yuhua's eyes, and finally didn't say anything, and took the lead in holding Xiao Sui'er and stepping on the mountain road.
Zhu Li stood beside Murong Yuhua, he took off his military jacket, held his gun tightly, his gaze swept from south to north, and then said, "The chaos in Qingping County will not last long, Dong Wan has long wanted to expand his power from Fu'an County to Qingping County. With Li Handong in the past, he was still quite jealous, but now he ...... Sir, you have uprooted the Li family, and I wonder why you didn't take over their army. β
Gu San replied for Murong Yuhua, "Because he doesn't plan to be anyone's leader." β
"But the leaderless soldiers will inevitably become a headache for the common people. They are not 'civilized teachers'. Under this kind of chaos, there will definitely be people who take advantage of the opportunity to cause chaos. β
"So I gave them guns and gave them weapons." Murong Yuhua sighed, "I hope they can come out and defend everything on their own." Defend their homeland. β
Gu San said on the side, "Don't forget, you also brought bandits to them." Qingping County will fall into complete chaos for the next period of time"
In fact, some people have been thinking carefully since a long time, when you give everyone weapons, will the world be a better place? After you give everyone the ability to protect themselves and resist authority, and authority is overthrown, can everyone be completely equal? Will chaotic anarchism ultimately bring peace and freedom, or will it threaten and die?
Murong Yuhua obviously didn't know the answer to this question either, and he seemed guilty for the deaths of those people...... However, I thought that it was instinct for people to pursue freedom, and they were perfectly capable of doing it. I...... I'm sorry, but sometimes I do act like an idiot. β
"You've been through enough, but you've always imagined everyone to be too noble and kind. I really don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. β
"What about you? Since I have known you, I have found that you have never been superfluous in kindness to anyone. What destroys your sense of trust and dependence on others? Murong Yuhua said this and glanced at Xiao Sui'er, "Except for the purest children who can obtain your kindness, it seems that no one can let you compromise for it anymore." β
Gu San shrugged his shoulders, "Chaos and death." β
Obviously, it was the chaos and death that was happening in Qingping Countyβthe same chaos and hope that Gu San was familiar with.
As far as Gu San's life experience is concerned, in the zombie society, the government has completely shut down, all politicians have finally disappeared, people are in their own camps, and there will never be order in such chaos and death.
And the absence of order means that the social rules will always be the same as the primeval jungle, the weak are not guaranteed, and only the strong can continue to survive. A group doesn't need to be held back - but in the peaceful times when her memories have faded, or in the modern world where she lived for three days, it is clear that everyone should have the right to live.
"Chaos and death......" Murong Yuhua read these words lightly, looking at the city surrounded by gunsmoke, he felt that he was a sinner and a coward at the same time, he provoked a war, but there was nothing he could do to stop it, and in the end he could only watch this war continue.
This is neither aggression, nor resistance, nor revolution. He simply opened the gates of evil with his own hands, and drove all the people who were already numb into madness.
He used his kindness to destroy the entire city.
"What will happen to the elderly and children in this chaos?"
"The old man is the fastest to be sacrificed. Even if there are young people around them who are willing to protect them, their declining ability to act will eventually make them realize that they have become a burden to them. Self-esteem can make them feel guilty of themselves, and no matter how strong their desire to survive is, they will eventually default to the fact that they should be sacrificed. β
"But no one should be sacrificed, young or old, disabled or disabled. Everyone can live a good life, whether they are complete or incomplete, and this is called 'society'. β
"It's a normal society, Murong. Instead of the chaotic 'society' that you see now. As the scramble escalates, the survivors will start ganging up, with one group going to kill another. β
Just like the community she experienced, the survivors who had come together one after another in times of crisis and disaster, like animals, came together just to survive. They are no different from the "lions" and "elephants". There is no civilization, and there is no benevolence, righteousness and morality.
Murong Yuhua asked with some despair, "Isn't there anything they can fight for?" β
"Oh my life. What they fight for is their lives. β
"And what is more important than life?" He asked.
Gu San suddenly let out a sneer, "What else can be more important than life?" β
She looked at the young man's overly clear and even ignorant eyes, eyes that had not experienced real war and despair, eyes that thought they had relieved themselves of all their pain.
She approached the past step by step, and said word by word, "No one can afford to think about these things in a day when the day is not safe. Only people who live well-off think about 'how to live', and for those who don't have enough to eat, all they can think about when they open their eyes every day is 'how to live'. If they could, everyone would want to be a moral model, a noble hero. It's a pity that too many people are just struggling to survive, and they don't even have the opportunity to think about the issue of 'heroes'. β
In a situation of scarcity of resources, in a desperate situation of precariousness, the hero is nothing more than a legend, an ethereal symbol. People are simply trying to achieve their goals by maximizing profits.
Gu San would not directly say that Murong Yuhua's concept was wrong, after all, as far as "justice" was concerned, what he expressed was only the most normal demand.
It's a pity that what he believes in must seem ridiculous and like a joke in that limited resource. The idealism he pursued was nothing but an ethereal illusion in the face of scarce materials, and no one would listen to it, let alone practice it.
"Murong, you're still thinking too simply."
"So......" Murong Yuhua pursed his lips and asked sadly, "I believe in the people, I believe that they will be able to choose the right path, I believe that they will eventually be able to rely on their own ability to find the most suitable social state, instead of being oppressed, deceived and controlled, is this also wrong?" β
Gu San met his gaze, he looked a little on the verge of collapse, in this chaos, fighting, bloodshed, in the face of this ironclad fact, everything he had believed in began to waver.
Wicked people swagger through the streets with guns, weeping girls are dragged into the abyss, children in the ruins weep bitterly after losing their parents, and old people in corners are stiff when they die for a long time.
It's easy and quick to form ideals and slogans in your head, but in reality, there are so many things that need to be balanced.
"There's nothing wrong with what you believe." Gu San sighed, "But none of us can guarantee that everyone is kind and upright." While it is often difficult for people to remain calm and upright when they are instigated, it is very easy to become violent and vicious. β
So the freedom he seeks, the wisdom of the people, the self-choice, all the fact that there should be no exploitation and oppression β these are of no use to rely on a violent revolution like his alone β it requires a longer and longer plan and arrangement.
"But exploitation and oppression must be wrong, that's what I firmly believe." Murong Yuhua looked at the city in the distance, "It's just that after we overthrew an exploiter, the thoughts that were ingrained in people's minds urged them to become the ones to be overthrown. The hatred of being controlled eventually turns into a desire to be the one in control. So what we need to do is to destroy people's minds about exploitation and oppression. β
"Maybe. It's a great feat to change the ingrained beliefs in people's minds. It's just that it's still your idealistic idea, and no one knows whether it's right or wrong until it actually happens. Gu San shrugged her shoulders, and she walked deep into the mountains and forests with Xiao Sui'er in her arms.
Murong Yuhua finally stopped looking at the county town that had been reduced to ruins, and turned his head to keep up with Gu San's footsteps. Gu San didn't know if he had given up or if he still had other plans in his heart, but the road ahead was at his feet, and they could rely on their own feet to slowly find the one that was really right.