Chapter 169: Fate
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"Whether death is the ultimate means of relief from suffering, or a way of escaping problems,." Ling Shucheng shook his head with his left hand on his eyebrows.
"It really looks like you'd say it." The corners of Kong Zhongsi's mouth curled mechanically, but there was no smile in his eyes, "I know that you are essentially a person who is very confident in your three views - this is exactly the same as your father, you two have always been used to putting yourself on the moral high ground, condescendingly picking at the unbearability of others, and you can calmly say such shameless and beautiful words as 'I have never done anything wrong' anytime and anywhere, as if you are really a saint." โ
"I'm going to waste time talking to you right now, not to childishly argue with you about right and wrong. I can't convince you, you can't shake me, and psychological tactics shouldn't mean much to people like us who have been trained since childhood. โ
"Nothing makes sense? Not necessarily. Kong Zhongsi looked at him quietly, "You're just curious about how a person like me, who has been crazy from the bottom of his bones, persuaded people, including Jiang Bonan, to join the plan, right?" โ
Ling Shucheng was noncommittal, but his right hand continued to rub the uneven lines on the handle of the knife in the cuff.
"Well, answer me a question." Kong Zhongsi's posture was always very relaxed, and he even opened a can of coffee and took a sip before he said slowly, "Since you like the girl next to you so much now, will you be able to watch Yuan Sui accept the same fate as your mother in the future?" โ
Ling Shucheng's pupils constricted suddenly, looking like some kind of fierce beast about to burst into the hands of his opponent, and like a silent and gloomy hill hidden in the mist.
"You don't want to, there's no doubt about it." Kong Zhongsi tilted his head and continued to stare at him, "Then if those people tell you that you must continue your bloodline and continue to let the next generation become the pillars of the ship, so that you can benefit more people through your own sacrifices...... Will you waver? โ
Without giving Ling Shucheng a chance to answer, his face was full of contrived pity, and while making a "tsk" sound on his lips, he shook his head slowly, and then said: "Because they deliberately educated you to be this kind of person. โ
"I won't." Ling Shucheng took a deep breath and kept warning himself in his heart not to be provoked by this simple technique, "Don't say that you seem to know me very well." โ
"Of course I know you well." Kong Zhongsi laughed sarcastically, "You have never stepped out of the framework they set up before you were born, from, come, no, there is." Because you're essentially a docile person. As soon as the conversation turned, his eyebrows drooped ridiculously, like a clown who had removed his makeup, "But I'm not." So no matter how hard and soft Miao begged me for so many years, I would not sign the pregnancy application. โ
"What do you mean?" Ling Shucheng had a rare experience tonight of having difficulty capturing the other party's train of thought.
"That saidโwe're all the same at this point." Kong Zhongsi patted his chest, and then pointed at Ling Shucheng, "It's okay for you, it's okay for me, and it's okay for the others in Pangu...... As long as you are living in a 'water city', it is the same. That's why your father, who was born with a backbone, finally accepted his fate with ease. โ
As if suffering a slight electric shock, Ling Shucheng trembled, and suddenly remembered the last few words that Min Shu said to him.
"Yuche is the same as us." For the first time, his dark eyes flickered with great falterness, and he muttered in disbelief, "I see...... That's what it means. Flash."
"No one is the master of the city. The reason why the city provides shelter to us monsters is because each of us has given enough blood to it from life to death. The white light of the flashlight hit Kong Zhongsi's face from left to right, which made his smile at this time both illusory and terrifying, "Have you ever thought about why there is such a thing as a 'pregnancy application' that goes against human nature, and why do you let soldiers have priority in this regard?" The answer couldn't be simpler, the rules inside the ship are essentially designed to delay the demise of our monsters. Obviously, they are all essentially the same thing, why are there fewer and fewer 'gifted people' on land? Did you really never doubt it? โ
"A third. Whether on board or on land, this is the average probability that talent will be passed on to the next generation. We are no 'superior' than our counterparts on land, and if we were not artificially selected, we so-called 'new humans' created by radiation would have perished naturally. Kong Zhongsi stretched out three fingers and shook them, "But we don't." Even if you look at the entire ship, how many people have you seen who are incompetent? Guess why? โ
"People who are not gifted...... were all 'culled' in advance. Ling Shucheng's voice was a little hoarse, as if it was forcibly squeezed out of his throat word by word, "...... Like the undead who overlooked me, there were many people in the ship...... Originally, there were supposed to be siblings. โ
The clammy clothes seemed to suck up all the heat from him. Ling Shucheng's body shook involuntarily, disbelief and conviction, quickly intertwined on his pale face.
"You said before that I don't have the power to decide the life and death of others, so now, what do you think your father ...... Or the so-called 'countermeasure team' and 'laboratory' on the ship, do they have it? Kong Zhongsi smiled at the corners of his eyebrows and eyes, and leisurely clasped his hands, as if he was enjoying a comedy with "stupidity" as a selling point, "First of all, they eliminated all people with genetic and physiological defects. โ
Ling Shucheng gasped hard, took a few steps back, and barely stood firm until he leaned against the wall.
"Have you ever seen a disabled person on board? Oh, except, of course, for servicemen with missing arms and legs. Not to mention the blind or deaf-mute, the symptoms are milder, congenital heart disease? How many fingers do you have? Harelip? Have you ever seen one? Kong Zhongsi shook his head at him with a pout, as if looking at a hopeless patient, "It's better to be like those of us who have been in contact with the outside world...... Most of the people on board probably don't even know what a 'disability' is. Actually, I think this is quite understandable, after all, for the inside of the ship, which can barely guarantee even the food by everyone working overtime and hard work, it is troublesome to have an extra burden. Is kindness and humanity a meal? Obviously, it can't, so these bad embryos become the first target of extermination. โ
"Now that we've eliminated the biggest burden, what's next? Oh yes, it's 'ordinary people'. They are not able to participate in the actual defense of the ship, nor can they be the 'parents' of the good next generation, and the labor force may be able to provide a little...... But compared to us who are born with divine power, or can work for several days and nights in a row, the production efficiency is still too far behind. If the disabled are 'substandard', then the non-gifted are 'defective'. The hospital is the most important 'production line' in the ship, the laboratory is the 'quarantine officer', and the countermeasure team is the setter of the 'production standard'. Everyone has cooperated perfectly for decades, and these people who will never have the opportunity to touch these secrets because their ancestral talents are not strong enough are perfectly kept in captivity, and they are all grateful to Dade. Touching his chin, Kong Zhongsi pretended to sigh, "Fortunately, we haven't had any head-on conflict with the 'Six Fingers' now." Otherwise, sooner or later, they will gradually eliminate people whose talents are useless, so as not to waste resources, right? โ
"No wonder......" Ling Shucheng covered his eyes, his voice was extremely weak, "When Jiang Bonan learned that he had a younger sister, he felt more sorry...... She felt that it was because of her injuries that more tragedies were happening in the shadows...... That's why it's fundamentally impossible for her to accept Han Yue, who has a complex background...... What about Han Yue? Does Han Yue know these things? โ
"Of course, the people sent to your side will not know so much information." Kong Zhongsi laughed strangely, as if he was pleased by the way he looked now, "After all, your father wants to desperately maintain your 'purity'...... But the two of you are also really interesting, one knows it but doesn't say it, and the other clearly feels something but cooperates without asking. This is the tacit understanding between father and son? Ha, seriously, it's kind of disgusting. โ
"That's why you're doing everything?" Ling Shucheng beat his spirit, "What do you really want?" โ
"Got? No, now that even Miao Miao is dead, what will become of this world in the future has nothing to do with me. Kong Zhongsi replied without thinking, "I once discussed with an interesting junior, and I planned to do my best together to completely destroy this ridiculous order...... But he is still a little different from me, he wants the girl he likes to live freely and dignifiedly, and I just want to hurry up and clean up this disgusting mess on the table. โ
"'Thoroughly.'" Ling Shucheng repeated, "What else do you want to do?" โ
"You'll find out soon." Kong Zhongsi glanced at the time again, "Do you know what your father went out for this meeting?" โ
"What?" Ling Shucheng could only follow the other party's words and parrot them now.
"The ship's secrets will soon be unkept." Kong Zhongsi clapped his hands, "Didn't you come into contact with a six-fingered scholar who specializes in studying the inheritance pattern of our talent not long ago?" It seems to be called ...... Say it. โ