Chapter 69: The Existential Paradox

The four teenagers grinned and drank Sir Columbus's peculiar drink, and their hearts were stimulated, this kind of high-strength coffee, it is difficult for ordinary people to enjoy, where is the cappuccino, it is simply a highly effective stimulant.

Sir Christ Columbus sunk his huge fat body in a bouncy pit and, while tasting his own masterpieces, spoke of the "customs" of the Red Crow Gathering Place.

As he said at the beginning, this custom was not left by the ancestors, but a helpless measure taken in response to the ultra-low fertility level of the Chiwu people. This method began to be implemented seventy years ago, because at that time, a large number of men and women of appropriate age were suddenly taken away by the chosen chariot of God, and the Chiwu people were mixed about it, happy that the tribe had received more favor from the beast gods, and worried that the descendants withered and were difficult to pass on to the next generation.

As a result, the nursery area with technical support from R57 came into being, which became the only hope for the Chiwu people to continue their descendants. It's just that in the central hive delivery room, there is no mother, but a test-tube baby breeding ground, where there are only cold containers and machinery, as well as sperm banks and freeze-dried egg banks that are classified and marked in detail with the source.

After the 40s of the Falling Moon Era, most of the Chiwu people do not know who their biological parents are, but at the age of 18, they will take the initiative to go to the nursery area to retain their cell genes.

Over the past few decades, the existence of the nursery area has become a custom, and all the tribes believe that this way of continuing the offspring is the most reasonable, and even to the generation of the Oolong, they think that the whole biological world should be reproduced in this way.

"But isn't there a woman who gets pregnant and gives birth?" said Locke Dorjee, blushing slightly, and asked the most common question in biology,

"You should notice that there are very few women and old people in the Chiwu tribe, that is because every time God chooses, there will be more women than men, and the women of school age who have not been taken away by God's chosen chariot are either in poor health or have a short lifespan, so it is difficult to have a real mother, and even if someone is pregnant, the clan's proposition is not to "Columbus sighed deeply, "Because the children born like that have too obvious genetic defects are often directly abandoned" He said, he casually glanced at the black forehead.

"Oh my God" Locke Duoji couldn't help but sigh, what kind of fate is this a nation!

"Why didn't anyone resist? They snatched all the women away, and you big men were indifferent?" Leon's tone couldn't help but carry a little contempt,

"In the hearts of the Chiwu people, these women were chosen by the beast god and went directly to the kingdom of God at the corner of the sky! The people who know the secret of God's choice will never exceed five in the entire gathering place, that is, the elders of the five districts in the Dragon Valley, this time with the addition of Oolong, a little ghost who loves to eavesdrop, there are only six!" Sir Columbus smiled bitterly, "Let's not say whether the clansmen will believe the words of these five people, even if they all believe it, do you think it is better to let these two million people know this secret, and they will all die in chaos?" Or is it better to sacrifice a small number of people and save the lives of the majority, and live happily for the rest of their lives?"

Leon opened his mouth, this level of question is a question that he can't answer at all now, it's too profound, it's about the value of survival, about the belief in conformity, about the paradox between the dignity of survival and the minimum survival, not to mention Leon, even if he quickly looks for the wise brain of Locke Dorjee, he can't find the answer at all, from the philosophers of ancient Greece to the jurists of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, from the revolutionaries who sacrificed their lives for human freedom in all races, to countless treacherous traitors for thousands of years, Traitor, no one can answer this question.

You say, do you want two million people to die, or do you want two hundred thousand people to die?

"But what if the uprising succeeds?" asked Locke Dorjee in a low voice, a large amount of information still lingering in his mind at the moment, history proves that there are still oppressed people who have successfully resisted,

"Even if it succeeds, this Dragon Valley will be paralyzed, where can the Chiwu people have the ability to find so much energy? Only relying on those warriors on the periphery to perform tasks to earn energy tubes to maintain, Dragon Valley can't function normally at all, without the support of war ashes, aren't all ordinary people in Dragon Valley still dead?"

"But they ......," Leon rose from his leather nest and walked to the transparent wall, and watched the people outside the hive come and go, hurrying with joy. This one-way transparent material allows the people in the room to adjust the entire wall to be transparent at any time, and the inside of the hive can never be seen from the outside, just like the truth of this gathering place, everyone does not know those secrets, and they do not know that their every move is watched by others.

Leon shuddered at the thought, at this moment, could there be someone somewhere, secretly watching them, measuring which part of their body is better, what organs can be used, or, injecting some kind of toxin into their body......

That's terrible.

"Perhaps, they still don't know anything, it's better to live like this" Leon continued to look at the Chiwu people walking around outside, those happy men, many of them holding or leading a few children, it was the time to bask in ultraviolet rays. They look happy.

"But now it is impossible to even live like this" Columbus's face became gloomy, and he raised his eyes to look at the oolong, and then said without scruples:

"That stinky old man of Uday announced at the elders' meeting three months ago that War Ash would implement more efficient genetic management!"

"What does that mean?" Locke Dorjee asked strangely, and Oolong opened his mouth on the side, as if trying to explain something, but in the end he didn't speak,

"It means that now the base of the Chiwu people is too large, they live too long, and the energy input of the war ashes is disproportionate to the income, so it is necessary to adjust the genetic sequence and shorten the life span of the Chiwu people to less than 50 years old!" Sir Columbus's bare brain began to redden, and his blood was obviously angry, and even the spiral beast pattern on the top of his head turned purple, "Uday is the executioner of the war ashes!

"Grandpa, he's not!" Oolong couldn't help it, and screamed, the same wide nose as Uday, rapidly expanding and contracting, excited, but after screaming, he didn't continue, just bit his lip vigorously, almost bleeding.

"That's right, Uday is not the executioner you say, and in his eyes, you are the executioner," Leon turned suddenly, and said very bluntly, completely ignoring Columbus's reddening face, and then, he walked back and forth between the narrow gaps in the instruments, and said nonchalantly while inspecting the strange instruments and liquids:

"Uday said that your father, Columbus the Elder, was the one who discovered the formula for 'divine water', and in his eyes, 'divine water' was the culprit, so you and your father were both executioners. In fact, in the eyes of those of us outsiders, the attitude of stealing a life is the most fundamental reason for the tragic fate, it can be said that all the elders of the Chiwu clan are executioners, and they are the most hypocritical executioners" Leon said this, raising his eyes to look outside the hive, but the still calm and peaceful atmosphere made him frown slightly,

"Fuck it!" Columbus burst out completely, "Uday's stinky guy, without him persuading everyone to endure again and again......"

"The Red Crow Gathering Place has long been wiped out!" With a loud roar, the sliding door of the hive was violently pulled open, and with the inertia violently hitting the edge of the wall, there was a louder bang, and Uday jumped in with a furious face.

"You've finally appeared," Leon smirked. He had already discovered that Uday's figure was sneaking around outside the hive, and it was estimated that there was still any device that could hear the discussion of everyone in the hive at this moment, so Leon simply provoked Columbus's anger and said it bluntly and ugly, which really made the hot-tempered Uday unable to bear it and jumped in.