The pale red paradoxical evening, the deep and dilapidated dirty alleys, and the crisp and short sound of horses' hooves, slowly from far to near, make this silent community have a little movement.

Geng Jiangyue led Xiaobai, Xiaobai's body, squatting on Brother Meow, the phantom of Ermeow, drilling under Xiaobai's belly, not afraid of being trampled to death at all. Trapped in [My Universe] for a long time, cats, like humans, are about to go crazy.

Although the world in the illusion enchantment is technically just a slightly larger [My Universe], you can't think about the problem so seriously. Otherwise, in this world, there will be problems that cannot be solved and problems that do not need to be solved, as well as problems that have little practical significance in solving, so it will be very problematic for a normal person to live normally.

Geng Jiangyue led the horse to this small bungalow that was at least 20 kilometers away from where he was just now, raised his head and looked at the window on the second floor, and shouted: "Teacher, will you come down to see me, or will I go up to see you?"

After shouting, it was quiet for a few minutes, and the sound of someone coming down the stairs could be heard in the room.

There was a creak and the door opened.

The blood corpse standing in front of Geng Jiangyue smiled at Geng Jiangyue and said, "Long time no see." ”

Geng Jiangyue looked at the bloody corpse and observed it for a long time, reached out and touched its short-sleeved arm, and was amazed: "When I go, the skin is gone, and the surface is still so dry." Wouldn't there be any discomfort if all the muscles were just exposed?"

The blood corpse laughed, sat down on the doorway, and whispered, "I feel okay, but you are running around in the phantom realm alone, and there is no pressure at all?"

"There's definitely pressure. Geng Jiangyue sat down beside the bloody corpse and sighed, "I've been trapped here for more than four years, but fortunately I have a friend with me, otherwise I would have gone crazy." ”

"So amazing?" the Bloody Corpse smiled, "I've only been here for over two years. ”

"Well, it's that magical. Geng Jiangyue said, took out a notebook and a copy of the Great Light Sutra from the ring, handed it to the blood corpse, and said, "I haven't walked much in many places, and I only found these two books." ”

The blood corpse took it, flipped it lightly, and returned it to Geng Jiangyue casually, saying, "It seems that you have also suffered a lot. ”

Geng Jiangyue said: "It's okay, every place is quite friendly to me." ”

The Bloody Corpse asked, "What are you going to do then?"

Geng Jiangyue took the running brother meow into his arms and said slowly: "When you get out of here, you will go home first, and then go to college." The major was chosen by Wang Shenji for me, clinical medicine. When I graduate, I think I'll become a doctor. ”

"Be a doctor...... It's pretty good, too. The bloody corpse nodded, and then asked, "But don't you think it's a pity that you're just a doctor with such skills?"

Geng Jiangyue said with a smile: "Otherwise, it's okay to be idle every day, and come here to kill small animals and play, are you clean?"

The bloody corpse shook his head: "As far as I can observe, it may never be killed." ”

"Alas......" Geng Jiangyue sighed.

A person and a corpse were silent for a long time, and suddenly spoke at the same time.

"How did you become like this?"

"How many points did you score in the college entrance examination?"

Geng Jiangyue and the blood corpse looked at each other and smiled.

The bloody corpse said, "I volunteered, in order to seek the truth. ”

Geng Jiangyue said: "I failed the test, 480 points." ”

The blood corpse smiled: "This force, pretending to be quite fresh and refined." But then again, you have such a strong mental power, you can actually see at a glance that it is me, and the college entrance examination only scored 480 points, which is really not too good, I originally guessed that you could get a full score. ”

Geng Jiangyue grinned and asked again, "What's the matter with your enchantment? What truth are you pursuing here?"

"It's not a university question, but I just want to have a deeper understanding of the concept of 'people'. "Over the years, I have traveled to many places around the world, when I was young, I went to study at the Heber United Nations, from undergraduate to doctoral graduation, eight years, followed my teacher, traveled to 18 countries, each country stayed for a period of time, and studied how these countries came from the starting point of history to the current point.

After graduating from my Ph.D., I went to Donghua again, and the social situation of Donghua and the Heber United Nations is different, but I can't say that there is any substantial difference between them and the people of the Heber United Nations. I see that no matter what kind of civilization background people really pursue, in fact, the essence is the same, it is a very simple thing, and then give it a meaning that can make them feel reasonable, safe and respected, material desires, spiritual pursuits, in fact, very simple, really simple.

But such a simple thing can obviously be obtained in a rational way, but all people, everyone, actively or passively, want to make things complicated, and make the cost of solving problems infinite. This is true at every point in history. Because the power of society can only be realized by making each individual profitable, but to solve the problems of all people, it must be through the self-sacrifice of each individual on his own initiative. But the individual never wants to be the one to be sacrificed, because the individual can only continue to live through acquisition.

The social and natural attributes of human beings are always on opposite sides when it comes to solving problems. Therefore, struggles, crimes, and wars are constantly repeated in the human world every moment. ”

Geng Jiangyue interrupted: "So what?"

So I've been looking for an answer to that question. "I spent three years in Donghua and three years as a researcher at the Faculty of Philosophy and International Political Relations at Tenkyo University, where I made many comparisons between the history of the East and the West. The more I looked, the more I felt that religions, institutions, and even historical and cultural systems, all of which were very profoundly wrapped in words, were actually just a layer of dust floating on top of the real question, and if you wiped away this layer of dust, there must be simpler answers underneath.

So I need a sample for further observation. I quit my job and went back to Sea Lion City, where Eastern and Western cultures, institutions, and religions meet. Like looking at a miniature specimen, I can see the way of life and mindset of people from the bottom to the top, from the bottom to the top.

I first worked as a teacher at Sea Lion University, as a consultant to the Li family, as a diplomat in Sea Lion City, as a deputy chief in the Civic Affairs Bureau, and then in the army, but the time I stayed was short, as long as three months, as short as half a month, and the longest time was to apply to the No. 3 High School in Building 26 as a teacher, about ......"

"Eight months. Geng Jiangyue said.

"Yes, eight months. The Bloody Corpse nodded, "So I watched from the top down, and it wasn't until I observed your living conditions that I gradually caught a thread." But I always feel that there is still a little bit of difference, just a little bit. ”

Geng Jiangyue said: "Then this point, have you found it here?"

"Hmm. The bloody corpse confirmed, "Found it, found a thread." ”

Geng Jiangyue asked, "What is it?"

The bloody corpse said: "It's the flesh." ”

Geng Jiangyue was suddenly confused: "What the hell?"

The bloody corpse continued to issue a series of rhetorical questions: "What is the definition of human beings? Is it physical or conscious, does consciousness alone count? There is no doubt that the core attribute of human beings is social attributes, but what if there are only social attributes and no natural attributes? If there is no drag on material needs, can all problems be solved?"

Geng Jiangyue was quiet for a long time and said, "I think these ideas are quite stupid. ”

The bloody corpse asked rhetorically, "Why?"

Geng Jiangyue said: "Because people are people, if I become like you, I will not define myself as a human, I will call myself a monster, and then ...... Perhaps, like you, go into seclusion. ”

"I'm not in seclusion, I'm just living here temporarily. The Blood Corpse smiled, "But you object to me separating the physical and spiritual so simply, I can understand it, if it were before, I would have scoffed at this set of rhetoric, but at that time I didn't have a choice, because the conditions didn't allow it, but now it's different." ”

The blood corpse looked at Geng Jiangyue, and his eyes became serious: "Classmate Geng Jiangyue, you despise the idea of creating a purely social world without material needs, but I only seriously ask you one question—have you personally experienced and tried such a social form? If you haven't tried it at all, how can you have the courage to criticize the existence of this possibility without any basis?"

Geng Jiangyue thought for a while and said, "You continue." ”

The Blood Corpse showed a smile and said slowly: "The Phantom Realm, which is a pure, world built by spiritual power, is an excellent testing ground for answering my question. I want to bring back the answer to this question that has puzzled all mankind for thousands of years. Can we solve the problem without the constraints of material needs?"

Geng Jiangyue asked, "What if it can be solved?"

The eyes of the blood corpse showed a happy look: "If you can, of course you have to choose." You can choose to give up the original way of being, or not to give up the original way of being, and everything is fine. However, I believe that once the problem can be solved, the social system and the form of human existence will gradually be unified after all. ”

Geng Jiangyue asked again: "Then what if you can't?"

"If you can't...... Of course, it is also a very valuable answer. "At least in my opinion, war and struggle are no longer social phenomena, but should be classified as natural phenomena." Because no matter how hard we try subjectively, even if everyone in the world is trying, we can never avoid these things from happening. So...... It's time for humanity to rethink the way we treat ourselves, others, society and the world.

Whether it is after my death that the flood is monstrous, or whether there is a righteous breath in my heart, even if it is white and clean in the end, it is nothing more than a personal choice. Whether it is an individual or a larger social organization, the way of action can also become very simple, which is nothing more than to make a choice according to one's own understanding, and then go on with determination. It doesn't matter if you fail, because the result itself may not have anything to do with your course of action at all.

Some outcomes, what happened just happened, and what didn't happen just didn't happen.

On the contrary, this process becomes even more important for individuals and for the organization as a whole. Because the process itself is already the result that the vast majority of people need to accept. And those lucky ones who happen to reach the end of the process, they reap the results of nothing more than two possibilities, either a gift of success or a failure answer. ”

Speaking of this, the blood corpse patted Geng Jiangyue on the shoulder as he had done in school before, and asked, "Little friend, do you have any ideas?" ”

Geng Jiangyue thought for a moment and said slowly: "Teacher, in the past half month, I have lived alone in my own realm world for almost ten years. I can't think of all of humanity like you, but I'm sure I've figured out what I'm going to do myself.

If my understanding is correct, I should be the person you say has been freed from material needs. In this world, there is almost nothing that can kill me, I don't even need to eat to live, I can also kill all creatures below the duke-level demon spirit in seconds, as long as I am willing, I can be admired by thousands of people in a minute. But I've not had a good time in the past ten years.

I miss my mom, I miss my friends, I miss those days when I had someone to talk to. But I believe that when I come home and see my mother, I should spray with her or the same, and after I finish spraying, I will cook her a meal, and let her praise me again.

Although I'm no longer afraid of death, but I also think it's very boring to kill and kill, although I can live without eating, but I still hope that the first thing I wake up every morning is to eat breakfast, and after breakfast, it's best to be lazy, don't have to work in a hurry, don't have to study hard, do whatever you want, but I just don't want to go out and farm monsters. Even if I am invincible in the world, I still don't want to give up my human body or my pursuit of material life, and this is my answer.

Material problems should be solved by material methods, social problems should be solved by changing society, problems that cannot be solved in the present will be solved later, and problems that cannot be solved by this generation will be left to the next generation to solve.

You can try any route or method, and you don't have to worry about making mistakes, as long as someone can keep the state of trying all the time, if it doesn't work, change it, and continue if it works, is it difficult? And there will be different problems in different eras. Problems are always emerging, you can't always think about it once and for all, this academic attitude is very unscientific!"

The blood corpse was stunned by Geng Jiangyue's words for more than ten seconds, and suddenly laughed.

"Interesting, interesting!"

Its body gradually released light, one by one, peeling off, slowly revealing his original appearance.

A bookish middle-aged man, ******, with a burred glow around his body.

If you look at it, you know that you are no longer alive......

"Wow...... Did I say I was dead?" Geng Jiangyue stretched out his hand and penetrated through Ma Zhongying's body.

Ma Zhongying smiled without mind: "I've been dead for many years, and I've always lived in this state." ”

Geng Jiangyue withdrew his hand and asked, "Then where are you going next?"

"You have a point, but I'm not done yet, and I'm not going to give up so easily. You can try any route and method, the key is to keep trying like this, isn't it?" Ma Zhongying stood up and smiled at Geng Jiangyue, "But before I go, I'll give you a small gift." ”

He raised his hand and touched Geng Jiangyue's eyebrows.

In Geng Jiangyue's consciousness, such a thing immediately jumped out-

[Purification]: Absorbs and clears all elemental and spiritual damage, consuming 1 spiritual power.

Geng Jiangyue couldn't help asking, "What's the use of this?"

Ma Zhongying smiled: "When you go to college, you will know the benefits of this." ”

Geng Jiangyue spread his hands with a greeting face.

Ma Zhongying pointed to Xiaobai, who had been standing obediently in place and did not move, and said: "Your little pet is a thunder attribute, Xuanke says that the five elements belong to gold, you yourself are the ice attribute, the five elements belong to water, and the relationship between Shengke and Ke, understand." ”

He poked his forehead, signaled for Geng Jiangyue to use his brain, and after speaking, he didn't look back, and quickly floated into the sky.

Geng Jiangyue looked up, and suddenly saw a pure black armor flying from all directions, enveloping every inch of Ma Zhongying's body with an earth-shattering momentum, Ma Zhongying turned into a black light and quickly disappeared into the air.

On the big stone slab of the Demon King Hall of the Phantom Hell Realm, Ma Zhongying's name appeared above Augustine.

Geng Jiangyue stood in place and was stunned for a long time, suddenly his eyes lit up, he turned over and rode on Xiaobai's back, and said to Xiaobai with a happy face: "Dude!

Xiao Bai remembered the picture of Geng Jiangyue threatening it with a dagger, and couldn't help but hesitate a little.

Geng Jiangyue laughed and touched its head, and said loudly: "Don't worry!

Only then did Xiaobai spread his wings, and clouds appeared under his feet. It flapped its wings twice and slowly rose into the air, and Brother Meow and Er Meow immediately turned into two rays of green and blue light, wrapping around Geng Jiangyue's side.

Flying into the sky in minutes, Xiaobai hissed, and the sharp corners on his forehead condensed a powerful electric light and shot into the distance.

The small dagger in Geng Jiangyue's hand instantly appeared, and at the same time, a [Ice River Burst Slash] was fired.

The arc wrapped around the blade of ice, slamming into the air of the Land of Blood Corpses.

In front of Geng Jiangyue, the red sky cracked a little bit, like a wall skin, and quickly fell off.

On the periphery of the illusion barrier, the bloody corpses that could speak human words disappeared like shadows that had lost their light. In the second layer of the illusion barrier, the huge church collapsed with a bang. The third layer of the illusion enchantment, the continuous low-rise bungalows, became even more dilapidated, and countless bloody corpses, which came out of nowhere, quickly filled Geng Jiangyue's sight.

Through the thick fog, Geng Jiangyue saw the huge and incomparably large picture of the entire Blood Corpse Township. Farther beyond the dense fog, there was actually a green forest, and it seemed that Xiaobai flew over there, and I don't know if it was good luck or bad luck......

With a thought in his mind, Geng Jiangyue instantly returned to [My Universe].

Then without waiting for Boss Yun to come up and ask what the result was, he immediately opened any door and stepped out.

Outside the entrance to the Land of Blood Corpses, above the coordinate imprint, there was a spatial distortion.

Geng Jiangyue withdrew the mark, stood in place, casually dealt with the monsters that surrounded him, and raised his hand to look at the time.

At 8:21 p.m. on October 29, 2022, it's time for the Carnival Moon fireworks show in Sea Lion City to begin......

Say nothing!Escape! Go home!