Chapter 60: The Technique of Obstetrics (Socrates' Cross-Examination)

In a slightly dimly lit room, two people sit in front of a chess board full of vicissitudes, the pieces on which flicker in the dim light. A faint woody aroma wafts through the room, creating a serene and focused atmosphere.

"Now for your interview with Tyrannox." Xia Xiu did not hurry to move the chess pieces in his hand towards the common moves.

{e4}

White takes the lead, moving the pawn in front of the king (the pawn used to defend the king) forward two squares.

{e5}

Seeing this, Dissolver responds by moving the opposing pawn forward two squares, achieving a similar goal to White.

"Yes, I think the wise man is right, peace is good for the development of the inner world."

Both sides use an "open opening", as both players choose to open the center through a pawn swap, which usually results in an open and dynamic game. Both sides influence the center of the board as much as possible, allowing them to develop their pieces and strategize more quickly in subsequent moves.

After that, the fierce battle on the chessboard began.

{f4、exf4}

Wang Bing's elephant wings appeared.

Dissolves chooses to use the central pawn to capture White's newly launched pawn, so that White's king side is exposed, but White's central position seems to become more active.

"I also think so, comfort is more important than anything else, and for this comfort, how many people are willing to be slaves and servants."

{Bc4 Qh4+}

White's bishop moves to c4 to put further pressure on Black's f7.

This move shows that the lawyer is willing to sacrifice more pieces to speed up the pace of the attack.

"Yes, comfort is more important than anything else..." Rong Xun stared at the chessboard tightly.

Different from previous battles, this time the lawyer's move made Rong Wei feel deep pressure, and the other party's move became more radical than ever.

The Lawyer starts with the King's infantry opening, and quickly moves into the "King's Pawn Opening" variant, and then chooses to disrupt Black's formation with the Bishop's sacrifice.

"Let's talk about something else, do you think that the policies you have pursued since you became the [king] of Yernia are all out of your own justice?" The blonde youth asked with a smile,

"Yes." The Warped King affirmed.

"Is hypocrisy justice or injustice?" The lawyer asked.

"Injustice." The Warped King replied.

"Is stealing, cheating, enslavement, etc., just or unjust?"

"Injustice."

"Is it justice or injustice for a general to punish and enslave those enemies who have greatly harmed the interests of the country?"

"Justice."

"So not lying, having a debt to pay off is the rough definition of justice?"

"I think so."

Xia Xiu paused, at this time he had already sacrificed a large number of chess pieces, but he didn't care about it, he wanted to ask a very important question at this moment.

"Suppose a friend of yours gives you a weapon when he is sober, but then he goes crazy and comes back to you to ask for the weapon, should you give it back to him?"

His golden eyes were fixed on the Warped King, the final inspection of the observer of civilization.

[One of the elements of the ideal country: virtue (virtue) is knowledge. 】

It is a simple question, but it implies the definition of virtue - "virtue is knowledge".

There are two kinds of knowledge, the first is skill, and the second is judging good and evil.

And the counterpart to "virtue is the element of knowledge" is "ignorance is the source of evil".

The former leads to heaven, and the latter also leads to "heaven", but this "heaven" refers to the head of the stars, the god of blind foolishness.

Few elements would be so unambiguously directed towards the Lord of the Stars, and few would worship the Lord of the Stars, because that would be utter madness.

Anything that leads to the Lord of the Stars will end up with a catastrophe of madness.

In addition to the [King of Philosophers] and [Dark Sun], there are many dangerous variants in the middle of the [Ideal Kingdom], and if any variant appears in human society, it will be a new [crisis sequence].

"... This is a quirky question, and I don't want to answer it."

"Why don't you want to answer." The lawyer was a little disappointed, "You can choose to answer, friends should be good to others, not evil to others." But you answer that you don't know? ”

"Lawyer Tuo, why do you keep asking strange questions today?" Rong Xun looked at the blonde young man with a little irritation, his originally clear compound eyes were dyed with a layer of chaos at some point.

"Since you don't like it, then let's not talk about it." Xia Xiu got the answer he wanted.

As the game progresses backwards, the Tunist chooses to sacrifice some of the main pieces (two rooks and one queen) with pawns in order to gain a strong attack on Black's king.

Each sacrifice seemed to make it more difficult for Melt's defense, and ultimately gave White a decisive advantage.

It was clear that the lawyer had sacrificed a great deal of material, but these sacrifices forced the dissolved king to be exposed in a position that was more conducive to White's attack.

"You've become irrational, dissolve."

In the 23rd move, Xia Xiu used the remaining pieces in his hand to confine the Black King in the corner, and his remaining pieces had already constructed a flawless killing net, and Rong Xun had no chance to resist at the moment.

"I lost..." The Twisted King clenched the King in his hand hard, and under his grip, the chess pieces made an overwhelming shattering sound.

Xia Xiu silently looked at the dissolution in front of him, the other party was not deep in thaumaturgy and aetherology, so the other party did not know the danger to face if he projected his spirit to the [Aether Ocean], at this moment, what was reflected in his eyes was no longer Yernia's dissolution, and the figure reflected in his eyes now was the most terrifying existence among the stars.

In the abyssal void of the universe, an indescribably terrifying being is immersed in an endless chaos.

This infinite existence, although it has no definite form, is full of indescribable terror and despair, and the light of the surrounding stars seems to be swallowed up in this black hole-like chaotic existence, eternal and unfathomable.

Stars and galaxies twisted and danced around it, as if pulled by an unknowable force, and all light was absorbed by it, and even time itself seemed to distort shape in this boundless darkness.

The reverberating drums, mixed with unrecognizable murmurs and screams, echoed in every corner of the universe, as if the entire universe was paying homage to this supreme being.

"Praise be to you, blind ■■■■! You exist in the boundless chaos, eternal and never fade.

You are the source of ignorance, the beginning of chaos, you let the stars flow, you let the universe expand, your ignorance gives meaning to all existence.

The source of primordial chaos, the great light hidden in eternal darkness, He does not need eyes, because He witnesses the creation and destruction of all things, He does not need wisdom, because it is itself the embodiment of the truth of all things.

Countless lives breathe in His shadow and dissipate in His maelstrom. ”

This is not a being that can be described in words, it is beyond all our perception and understanding.

His "form"—if we may call Him that—is a pure chaos, a swirling vortex of nothingness, filled with a distorted aura and uncertain matter.

Disgusting tentacles, countless eyes, or other, more uncanny forms emerge from the chaos, then disappear in the next instant. But in any case, all these observations are contradictory and confusing, and no one can accurately describe the essence of this existence.

His form frantically beats the invisible drum, blows the flute that produces only a disgusting, monotonous sound, and everything around him howls frantically and whispers blasphemous, impure words.

Xia Xiu only felt a slight pain in his eyes, and [Perfect Prosthetic Eye] decisively blocked out too much meaningless [Disordered Myth Factor] and [Element Impact], but the amount of refresh of the other party was too terrifying, nearly 10 billion times of ether floating-point operations per second, almost comparable to Eden in full power, and this is just the operation of his normal state, if he goes crazy, the thaumaturgists below [Miracle] will have to go crazy with him.

Xia Xiu decisively withdrew his eyes, he knew that through his one-pass operation, he had finally played one of the variant endings of the [Ideal Country] in the Inner Civilization - [Civilization Reverse Actor/Distorted King].

Since he became the fourth sword-wielder in the Heavenly Kingdom, he has been able to read many times more information about the Heavenly Database than in his previous life, and there are many heavyweight secrets in it, and after the Ethics Committee made him a civilization observer, the open information has exploded even more.

Xia Xiu found that sometimes although the ethics committee is mother-in-law, they are sometimes ruthless and do things much more fiercely than the judges of the court.

The Warped King, this is a secret of the first level of authority blocked by Eden, and Xia Xiu easily obtained this information by virtue of the second-in-command of the Authority, in this information, a detailed description of a group of peculiar zergs who believe in the Lord of the Stars, the Zerg has a high degree of technology, but has a cruel temperament, and is also a fanatical admirer of the Lord of the Stars, building many pyramid-shaped temples to worship him, these temples are also a kind of space facilities that can teleport.

These zergs are referred to in the records as - [Xia Gai].

According to the records, a group of [Xiagai Zerg] once ran from outside the stars to Terra, and when they arrived, they brought down the Lord of the Stars' Mimu.

And according to the first of the three laws of thaumaturgy: like begets like kind.

Terra's native Zerg creatures with the same structure as the [Xiagai Zerg], after the arrival of the [Xiagai Zerg], also began to serve the incarnation of the Lord of the Stars called [Xiagai Zerg God],

Here's the interesting thing, when the Celestial Kingdom was trying to banish the largest group of Zerg creatures attached to the Terra Nexus.

After the Kingdom of Heaven discovered the [Xiagai Zerg], they did not immediately use force, but secretly created a Zerg queen who unified the entire Terra Zerg hub biological space through a series of means, and then, when the time was ripe, they let the [Xiagai Zerg] meet with the Zerg Queen.

This encounter was like dry wood touching a blazing fire, and it burned at the touch of it.

The Zerg Queen was successfully polluted by the Lord of the Stars, and then, she began to perverse the entire Zerg civilization, and she tried to use a one-year construction period to complete the great leap of the Zerg society that may not be completed in a hundred years or even a thousand years.

[Xin Liezhi] even smelled the smell and added a fire to this desperate Zerg.

The entire Terra Zerg creatures, led by the runaway Zerg Queen, are basically living in dire straits - either at war or on the way to war.

Their final result is naturally self-evident, and Heaven will not let them out of the Zerg hub alive.

And the pollution on the [Xiagai Zerg] was finally listed by Eden as a variant factor that could lead to the destruction of the [Ideal Kingdom], so they were finally killed by the hard-liner angels of the Heavenly Kingdom, and all of them were killed.

However, even without the [Xiagai Zerg], the [Twisted King] has appeared in human society more than once.

The Daevite and Oretin are among the best, their emperors always make people feel scared from the bone marrow when they create the ideal country in their eyes, and the pursuit and obsession of these times and the extraordinary double giants for the ideal society always bring great natural disasters to mankind.

Moreover, according to Eden's detection, the pollution of the Lord of the Stars has poured into Terra's [Mother Ocean], and it cannot be eradicated at all.

When Xia Xiu first saw the content of this information, he read it with great relish.

When he came to the Inner World, discovered Yernia, a highly intelligent species of zergs with both animal and plant characteristics, and after learning about their civilization background and assessing their danger, he decided to replicate the [Civilization Inverter] experiment.

Don't say it, history is always strikingly similar.

[Xin Liezhi] smelled the smell and came over, and the pollution of the Lord of the Stars was unexpectedly directly wrapped around the Twisted King of Yernia.

Xia Xiu's question just now is in the form of a dialectic of interrogation called [obstetric technique/rational midwifery] to determine whether the other party is polluted.

Obstetrics, which is a form of philosophical inquiry. There are usually two people in a conversation, one of whom leads the discussion, and the other makes some assumptions because he agrees or denies the other.

This method often has a tendency to indoctrinate and is prone to sophistry.

And this is also one of Xia Xiu's favorite dialectics, both in the past and now, he often uses [obstetric technique] to complete part of his thought output. And dissolution is the object he has been outputting.

This was the last time Xia Xiu would use [Obstetric Technique] on Rong Wei because his goal had been accomplished.

The pollution of the Lord of the Stars is different from other pollution, his pollution is intangible and substantial, and generally as long as it is favored by the Lord of the Stars, it means that the person's IQ will inevitably begin to decline exponentially, such as the current dissolution.

The opponent did not notice the decline in his chess strength and the collapse of his sanity.

"Melt, this is the last time we'll see each other, and I wish you a comfortable negotiation with Tyrannox."

As he was leaving, the Fourth Sword-Bearer of Heaven sent a sincere blessing to the King of Twists.