Valendo returned to Gunirdu, and immediately proposed to the Magic Council to convene an emergency meeting at the highest level as a high-ranking councilor, and immediately found the speaker, stating that he hoped that Adras would enter a state of war and launch a national defense system, especially the first thing to implement was to block the spatial teleportation arrays everywhere to prevent the escape of Horuzer and the Aragami Sect. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

He didn't know at this time that the Aragami Sect had already planned for a long time, and had prepared various scenarios that might be encountered at the beginning, and after escaping from the Demon Suppression Prison, he used the teleportation scroll to escape.

And the parliament's reply really disappointed him.

Speaker Fili is a very powerful half-step god, and his prestige is very high in the wizarding world that emphasizes strength, and he realizes the seriousness of the problem, and is very supportive of Valendo's suggestion.

However, politics is not academic, and it is not magical enough to be able to make a decision, and when many magic lords question or even oppose it for various reasons, even Speaker Filip cannot go against the will of the majority, and must go through some hearings to get more people to approve the proposal, and time is wasted.

This made Valendo anxious and resentful, but he was helpless, he knew that many members of the Magic Council did not oppose the proposal out of a mentality against him or Speaker Filip, partly because they were worried that such an abrupt entry into a state of war, blocking domestic and foreign communications, would cause huge losses and cause turmoil in the country, partly because they did not recognize the seriousness of the problem and felt that he was exaggerating, and some were probably pawns of the Aragami Sect, spies in the council.

As Speaker Filip sat on the top floor of the Magic Statue Hall, watching the various images collected by the ruin-searching team playing, Wallendo's heart was in despair.

Speaker Filip on the side was holding a pipe and silently watching the battle between Valendo and the others and Xu Mo and his party in the video, but how keen the divine sense of the half-step god was, he naturally knew Valendo's anxiety at this time.

With a soft sigh, the old speaker finally put down his pipe: "Wallendo, it's really hard for you and others to search for such a dangerous ruin, it's hard. ”

Valendo was stunned, he didn't expect Speaker Filip to suddenly talk to him, but he quickly came back to his senses: "Speaker, although our search for the ruins this time is full of accidents, the rich harvest is enough to make up for it, all of this is nothing, but only the source of the horror, the source of the disaster of the end of the world, cannot be let go." ”

The old speaker exhaled a puff of tobacco mist: "Yes, the danger that can lead to the destruction of the world...... But ah, Vallendo, many times, many things, you don't know how to do it, and if others don't do it with you, you will still only fail in exchange. ”

After snorting his pipe and making the tobacco burn more fully, Speaker Filip continued: "In this world, there are many people who want to do things, but there are very few people who know how to do things, and those who do things are even rarer. ”

Wallendo shook his head, don't look at him as a high-ranking councilor, his status mainly comes from two sources, one is because he inherited one of the most powerful mage territories in the Magic Kingdom of Edras, which can be said to be a legacy of his ancestors, and the other is because he is strong in his own right, and he is one of the strongest mages in the Magic Kingdom.

However, neither the legacy of his ancestors nor his own strength does not mean that Valendo has enough political wisdom, and in parliament, he is actually more like a vase, used to show the public and outsiders that the otaku who practice magic are not all fat and round, and belong to a kind of propaganda strategy.

This is not to say that Valendo is stupid, it is impossible for a fool to become a magician, it is just that Valendo is outside of magic and does not understand people's hearts very well.

"Because life is self-interested," the old speaker shook his head, looking at the crowd in the video hall and sighed: "Whether it is human beings or animals, they all have a selfish side, as intelligent beings, we are no different from animals without wisdom in this regard, the difference is only that we can learn, we can think, and we have humanity and morality." ”

"Animals don't think, it's pure self-interest, even if the mother beast protects the little beast, it only protects her own little beast, and there are few things that protect the little beasts born by other mother beasts, because the mother beast is to pass on her own blood."

"We are different intelligent beings, when we encounter bad things, we will have the psychology of 'empathy', and there will be judgments of good and evil, so although we will still be self-interested, the scope of this 'self' has expanded, expanded to our race, and even other races with whom we are friendly, this is already the opposite of self-interest, altruism."

"Why are those heroes, great men, and wise men celebrated? Of course, there is value-oriented propaganda, but more often than not, because when they are in their own position, in many choices, the final choice they make is not based on their own interests, but on the public interest of the majority of others. ”

"Of course, this kind of altruism is not boundless, it can even be said that the margin is very limited, you will help people you know, you will give to people you don't know out of mercy, but you can't give everything you have to others, unless others do the same, right?"

Valendo nodded.

Speaker Filip took a puff of his cigarette: "It is precisely because of this marginality that altruism must progress with the overall strength and progress of the race...... Well, or the overall progress of civilization, in order to slowly expand the margin of altruism, at least the relevant content in the creator books I have read shows that the creators to achieve the expansion of the altruistic margin, but also after it is strong and rich to a certain extent, it is obvious that we are not as strong and rich as the creators, so our altruistic margin is even narrower, basically just maintained on ourselves, family, relatives and friends, acquaintances, and a small number of strangers, such as the people, etc., If we expand beyond this margin, we will still choose to ignore it. ”

"We have no intention of helping the flood of Grenada, we are indifferent to the war in Balna, and Hildar Longmika has asked us for help in the face of the Wurm Plague, and we have put forward nine conditions before sending a group of magicians to help him quell the chaos...... Essentially, this is because our margin of altruism doesn't include them. ”

Valendo thought about it carefully, and he couldn't help but nod his head.

"It is precisely this finite nature that makes us inevitably suspicious of the intentions of others when we face collective affairs," Speaker Philip pointed to the lawmakers who were in an uproar after seeing the image: "'Why did Valendo make such a proposal?'" 'What good will he get in it, and what damage will I suffer'? 'This guy must have bad intentions, and if I were in a state of war, how much would I be affected'...... These are the direct thoughts of them after you make the proposal, not believing that the crisis you say is approaching. ”

"But when they see the images you bring back, that is, the evidence, they will realize that the danger is likely to really endanger them, and then they will turn to support us, so that we can become people who can achieve things, not people who want to do things but can't do things."

"Of course, this process is bound to be tortuous and long, and it consumes a lot of time and efficiency, but it is helpless because we don't trust each other enough." Speaker Filip said to Wallendo with a wry smile.

Valendo is not young anymore, but he was not involved in too deep politics in the past, and now he understands it as soon as he hears it, and understands that Speaker Filip is comforting him and teaching him.

However, he was still very sad, because he knew that this kind of "helpless" rigid step would inevitably miss the best time to contain the budding crisis, and he could only hope that the Aragami cultists would not leave the power of the Magic Kingdom of Edras until the "unskippable hearing step" of the Magic Council was completed.

This is, of course, a matter of course.

And he didn't know that Xu Mo had already foreseen such a result, so he launched his own actions, and he had already gained a little.