The high platform with dark curtains, the slightly dark room, and the girl with the only beam of light reflected.

Cyril stood under the stage, together with many freshmen, looking at the girl who stepped onto the podium, he didn't know this black-haired girl with blue eyes, which is a bit strange, because Edher Academy is different from other ordinary colleges, and the one who can make the school choose to speak as the freshman representative is either good enough to convince others, or has a deep family background, and many students will not be too dissatisfied.

However, if it is such a student, most of them have a certain reputation before entering the school, although the jade skirt is large, but there are only a small number of people at the top level, he lives in the south district all the year round, it is impossible that he has not even heard of the name.

It's really strange, Cyril shook his head slightly, he didn't care, but others wouldn't think so, this kind of student with no background would suddenly speak on behalf of so many people present, which would cause some people to feel bad.

And now, he can hear the whispered discussion of some classmates around him, it is the young and vigorous age of junior high and high school, and no one will be easily convinced, especially the children of the rich who are mostly pampered.

The reason why he doesn't care about these things is because he has experienced many things that his peers have not encountered when he has grown up, so he will see a lot.

However, just as he was thinking about where to go for lunch with his friends after the ceremony was over, and then go back to the company in the afternoon to continue his affairs, the girl on the stage had already finished saluting and began to make her own speech.

The front is a fixed format, which is basically a self-introduction, followed by a testimonial, and the customary prayer for a new life.

"Entering Edes Academy was something I didn't expect before, and now that I look back, I'm still grateful to the school for giving me this opportunity."

……

"Each student actually has their own thoughts, and it may make some students uncomfortable to just tell them on your behalf, because what they think in their hearts has not been expressed...... but the girl's speech on the stage did not follow the usual conventions.

"In my 16-year-old life, I've seen countless ideas and ideas popular online and in reality, people do their own thing, and we respect the freedom of every point of view, but this kaleidoscopic world is also dazzling."

"Respect was originally used to protect individual freedom, but it was used by all kinds of people with intentions to create and protect their own interests, and all levels of society were thus cut horizontally and vertically, divided into many small pieces."

"The forces are scattered, the hearts of the people are not aligned, each guarding its narrow interests and refusing to let go, and attacking each other, people are tired and anxious about various concepts and topics......"

"You may be immersed in some kind of happiness for a while, but as time goes by, you will inevitably fall into some kind of imitative restlessness, because your happiness and your life are not recognized by most people, and they will deny you, slander you, and make you confused."

"The poor are ridiculed for not working hard enough, so everything that happens to them is taken for granted, and the rich are hated because many people think that the wealth of the rich is obtained by oppression, which is full of blood and tears, so hostility and slander have become the norm."

"Poor people are not respected and can only spit on themselves, and rich people have to live a low-key life, because once they show their luxurious and wasteful side in front of the public, it will attract all kinds of attacks and suspicions,"

"I think everyone must want to be rich, but even if they become rich now, they have to hide themselves all the time, because there is already a lot of resentment among the various classes."

"It seems that all levels of society are separated from each other, and they are united in their hearts and minds to tide over difficulties and move forward together, which seems to have become an extremely distant term."

"What is it that makes us so awkward that we can't live at all?"

"No, even if there are still slums in the Federation, there are few scenes of starving people, and industrially produced starch and protein powder are definitely enough, whether it is compared to the ancient Third Age, or the end of the Fifth Age, which is in chaos and ruins, it is much better."

"I think the answer may be that we have fallen into the inevitable trap of the development of civilization, that is, to evaluate people's lives only by wealth."

"A person's life, is it really simple to measure whether you have money or not, if so, it is too single and sad, like when we go into the forest for a good stone on the side of the road, we have been guarding the side, giving up going deep into the forest to see more animals, trees, and all kinds of flowers."

"Wealth, or money, is a tool created by the social division of labor, allowing us to focus on one thing to get our daily needs, but this original tool has increasingly become a shackle for most people."

"In the past, you were the one who spun the yarn, the next-door neighbor was the carpenter, and the eldest brother in the village was the fisherman on the river, and you each knew a craft, exchanging your own harvest with each other, you gave everyone cloth, the neighbor gave you furniture, the fisherman gave you food, everyone could find their own place, and you were also at ease, because you knew that you were needed by everyone and recognized by everyone."

"But the development of society is that there is a more and more convenient market, faster and faster logistics, even if you don't know anyone, you can buy what you want through money."

"I used to go to a distant mountain to pick a flower, which can be used to express love, but now the same flower can be bought for only 20 federal coins, and it used to be necessary to write a handwritten love letter to express the deep meaning of my heart, but now AI on the Internet can produce tens of thousands of unrepeating love letters every minute."

"Everything is convenient at the same time, everything is also measured by money, and any action we can make to express our hearts will be mistaken for money to buy and spend money to replace."

"The puppets carved with great effort are far less perfect than those carved by machines, and the confessions that are painstakingly prepared may not be as good as finding a temporary arrangement by a professional company, and the actions made with great time may be just a show, and many of the steps have been replaced by AI and others."

"Money can buy any service, but trust between people is also greatly reduced, because fraud is so convenient that even if it is real, it is difficult for us to believe it."

"The criteria for evaluating all kinds of things are becoming more and more single, how much money you can make, how much the gift you give is worth, how much is the price of your heart, and so on......"

"When a person falls from a great height, and there is only one rope holding him, he will definitely be very worried about the condition of this rope, but if there are multiple ropes, or even a grid of multiple ropes, he should be much more at ease, because even if one of them breaks, the other ropes can support it."

"But when the evaluation of reality is single, the rope becomes the only one, and wealth, money, and price become a hurdle that can never be bypassed."

"The poor need money to live on, the middle class needs money to maintain decency, the rich need money to keep their property from declining, and all are anxious about the expansion of wealth."

"In the past, we ridiculed the backward and conservative moral rules, the glory that people upheld together, and the inherited beliefs, believing that the so-called 'law of the jungle' is the truth, which is nothing more than putting a fig leaf on ourselves when bullying others, and justifying our own unrighteous behavior."

"There are many people who are willing to fight to the death for that glory and faith, but how many people are willing to die for money, even if there is, because they want to leave money to their beloved, this is actually another kind of glory and faith."

"Money can solve a lot of superficial problems, but the relationships built on top of it are so fragile that it's anxiety-inducing."

"Society, the country, need a new evaluation system, people need new yardsticks, in order to calm the restless heart, draw a clear scale, connect all classes, and recast the cornerstone."

"This is my vision for the future, and it is also what I hope to achieve in the future, maybe it is still very naïve and naïve, there are still many things that need to be improved and changed, but I really hope to achieve it step by step in the future."

Even many years later, Cyril would always remember that day at the opening ceremony of Eds Academy, he saw the girl with black hair and blue eyes, the softness and strength in that voice, so quiet and so powerful, unshakable.

Perhaps it was also from that day that he decided to follow that figure and embark on a path to change all that.

(End of chapter)