This question made Uncle Cao think seriously for a long time.

Then he got up and gave Chu Ge half a glass of water.

"Once upon a time, a young man went to see the Zen master and asked a similar question......" Uncle Cao handed half a glass of water to Chu Ge.

“…… And then the Zen master said, the optimist sees that the cup is half full, and the pessimist sees that the cup is half empty? ”

Chu Ge frowned and said, "Uncle Cao, I sincerely ask you for advice, if you pour me these chicken soup for the soul, it will be boring, you don't want me to be an optimist, only look at the light, not the dark, right?" ”

"Young people, don't be so impetuous, listen to the old man's words, do you know the biggest problem of you young people, that is, you see too little, think too much, and like to use your own imagination to replace reality, too idealistic."

Uncle Cao said, "However, this is not to blame you, you were born in the era of Nirvana, and since you were a child, you grew up with the strongest control of the alliance, and it is also the most peaceful and peaceful place on this planet, you naturally think that the alliance should be glorious, righteous, sacred, pure, and spotless, and those who form and defend the alliance are also saints with noble sentiments and lofty ideals, without self-interest, and exclusively for the benefit of others - you think these are not only natural, but always so, It's as if you were born with a glass of clean water, and when you drink it all, there is a steady stream of countless cups of clean water waiting for you.

But in fact, where can there be any natural righteousness, where is there absolute sanctity and justice, from ancient times to the present, where can you find a country that is 100% free of problems, except for laboratories, where can you find a glass of pure water that is 100% free of dirt?

"And as long as there is the slightest problem in the league that exposes the inevitable dark side, a young man like you can't stand it, and feels that he has been greatly deceived, and his mentality is unbalanced, and he collapses completely, and even breaks the jar - so,' Bad people like 'Guide', in fact, like to find young people like you who have grown up in greenhouses since childhood, and are full of unrealistic fantasies about the alliance, because you are the best to deceive, the easiest to go from one extreme to the other, from absolute belief to absolute opposition, from naively believing that the alliance is 100% light, to naively believing that the alliance is 100% dark, and thinking that this is called 'maturity'!

"Whether it's 'Guide' or 'Colonel Ning Lie', does their words make sense? Picking out 1% alone must make sense, and maybe it is full of shining points; In the same way, there must be something wrong with the alliance, and if you pick out 1% alone, maybe it's scary to death, but we can't compare the 1% of the colonels and instructors with the 1% of the league's mistakes, we always have to look at what the other 99% look like, and we also have to look at the trend of development, right? ”

Chu Ge thought deeply and wanted to take a sip of water.

found that Uncle Cao had already brought him half a glass of water and took it back to drink it himself.

"The nonsense of the Instructor and the Colonel can't fool me, because a bad old man like me has struggled all the way from the Calamity Age before the Alliance was born, and we have seen and experienced the period without the Alliance with our own eyes, and we know how bad those chaotic and dark days were."

Uncle Cao continued, "We also know that there has never been a savior, the alliance has never been a splendid and flawless temple from the beginning, and it is not a saint without flaws who established the alliance, and they have not turned a stone into gold and turned a devastation into a paradise in one fell swoop.

"Those who forge alliances are nothing more than survivors scarred by the catastrophe, surviving on each other's vigilance and attacks, like wild dogs that bite each other and are about to die together, and like porcupines that are eager to keep warm, but afraid of being stabbed by each other, maybe yesterday everyone was still backed by the largest nuclear arsenals on this planet, and with just a thought, the traces of human civilization can be completely erased from the vast history, but today, everyone finally realizes that it is not possible to go on like this, so they can only pinch their noses and sit down to negotiate and reconcile, Unification.

"The history of the establishment of the alliance is neither sacred, nor interesting, and not even much justice, but full of intrigues, betrayals, calculations, and mutual calculations - too long, the people of the earth have been working separately and killing each other for too long, and we are not ready to usher in a new system of global unification from physical and psychological to cultural and technological aspects, it is the apocalypse, it is the revival of aura, it is the discovery of immortal civilization and magic civilization, forcing us to cross the road of civilization that should have been completed in thousands of years, The result is a deformed and ugly 'premature baby' - the Earth Alliance!

"At the beginning of the birth of the alliance, no one was optimistic about this seemingly ridiculous organization, everyone felt that there were so many nationalities, so many beliefs, so many ideologies and pride in the bloodline, so uneven levels of economic development, and so many stubborn interest groups left over from the old era...... In every way, there are contradictions, no force can complete the integration, and in a few years, this circus-like organization will fall apart.

"No one could have imagined that in a few decades, we would have eliminated the barriers between at least half of the nationalities, beliefs, ideologies and economic interests, eliminated the possibility of large-scale internal nuclear war, restored production and construction and social order in most parts of the world, and made more and more people deeply believe that we belong to a 'community with a shared future for mankind'!

"It's not easy, if it weren't for the people who have personally experienced everything and accompanied the alliance step by step to get to where they are today, it is absolutely hard to imagine what a miracle this is, even an out-and-out 'miracle'!

"And all this, not because of how big our ideals and ambitions are, nor how noble our moral sentiments are, let alone 100% light and justice, but simply three words, 'live', we all want to live, the alliance can help us live, and we can live better, that's all."

"Live?" Chu Ge was thoughtful and chewed on these three words.

"That's the biggest difference between me and you, the bad old man and the young man."

Uncle Cao said, "I have experienced the dark ages without alliances, and I also know what the virtues of those who established the alliance are, and how many interest groups are fighting and balancing, and even, when I myself fought for the alliance, I didn't have any noble and sacred thoughts in my heart, I just wanted to live."

"So, I can tolerate the imperfections of the Alliance, not make a fuss about the dark side, and not expect any kind of magic to build the Earth Alliance into a brilliant and flawless ideal tomorrow.

"The alliance is here for me, starting from scratch, growing little by little, dotting white on a piece of black paper, slowly drowning the black with white - if it still looks 1% dark, or even 49% dark, then what's so strange, you know, in the past, this paper was 100% black!

"Let's just say General Govorski and Director Belkin, you think their behavior is excessive, and the glorious image of the Union partially collapses in your heart, don't you?

"But you know, now with the alliance, they can only secretly engage in these things of stealing and illegally trading strategic resources, we have channels for exposure and investigation, and once the evidence is conclusive, they will accept an open, fair and fair trial.

"What about the dark ages of a few decades ago without alliances? In their capacity, it is likely that the warlords, gangs, and private mining group owners who occupy the mountains and occupy one side of the separatist side, once they find some kind of resource on their own territory, of course, 100% of it is their own, who can supervise and sanction them?

"In that world where the law of the jungle eats the jungle and counters violence with violence, I am afraid that only those who have more violence than them can sanction them, and then, will things get better, impossible, those tyrants who are stronger than them will not leak a little resource out of their fingers!

"So, from calamity to nirvana, isn't the birth of the Earth Alliance a kind of progress? Since today is better than yesterday, what reason not to believe that tomorrow will be better than today? Isn't today, which is better than yesterday and will lead to a better tomorrow, worth all our efforts to defend? ”

Uncle Cao's words were like bombshells, smashing the splendid and too ideal, fragile palace in Chu Ge's mind.

On top of the ruined walls, the fragmented masonry and rubble slowly condensed into a new, unsightly, but more solid palace.

Uncle Cao drank it all and handed the empty water cup to Chu Ge.

Chu Ge looked at him inexplicably.

"Are you thirsty, do you want to drink water?" Uncle Cao asked kindly.

"Yes, but the cup is empty." Chu Ge said honestly.

"Nonsense, if you want to drink water, pour it yourself, and if you feel that the alliance is not good enough, do your best to build it better with your own hands, instead of sitting here holding a pillow and drilling the tip of the horns, waiting for an ideal country of absolute light and justice to fall from the sky for you - all twenty-year-old, such a simple truth, do you still want the old man to say?" Uncle Cao glared at him and said in a rough voice.