After listening to Mr.'s explanation, Zheng Qing was finally able to understand why some people would choose the 'Tao' path of cannibalism.

Because the path to becoming a demon is long and rugged, but it can also be walked, for a long time, far away, so far that many people can't go that far on the path of wizards.

It's not about morality.

It's just the result of the interaction of ruthless reality with cold interests.

"The brave are not afraid. The young public student chewed on these words, and a wry smile appeared on his face: "I who am eaten has the same essence as the person who eats people...... What a big surprise. ”

The gentleman sat on the grass, like a sculpture, and his voice was unusually calm:

"Colmar once told me that she had heard a quote from Satogua before she made her final decision, and I think that sentence is appropriate for you...... 'There are many branches of supernatural power, and we don't have to go all the way down the widest river. Sometimes, narrow and winding curves are our own 'way'. ’”

"A long time ago, one of my students said something similar - there is no good or evil in this world, God is not benevolent, and good and evil are the judgments of society. If there must be a choice, then human nature is evil. It is precisely because of the evil nature that morality is needed and edification. Go with human nature, or go against ethics, but not against the way of heaven. ”

"As long as you don't stop, there's always a road ahead. ”

Zheng Qing stared at a small grass at his feet, and on the blade of grass, an ant was struggling to climb forward. Even for ants, that blade of grass is not big. It quickly climbed to the tip of a blade of grass.

The ant stood at the tip of the blade of grass, its tentacles fluttering gently in the breeze, and after a moment's pause, it rolled over and continued to crawl forward along the back of the blade.

In Zheng Qing's eyes, the ant was crawling around, doing useless work. But in the ant's eyes, it was always crawling forward. Zheng Qing is not an ant, I don't know if there is any point in it climbing forward.

Perhaps moving forward is the whole point of its crawling.

Zheng Qing thought of the hamster he had raised for more than ten years, the bad-tempered administrator of the library, and the wrinkled rat immortal with his chubby face—the rat immortal that Zhu Si had been looking forward to meeting again.

"They...... How did the wizards who deliberately accept the demonic erosion transform themselves in the first place?" the boy asked in a low voice.

"It's very simple, those wizards transplant the flesh and blood of the hunted demons into themselves, and use sigils and spells to control the speed of the spread of demon energy. The magic skills have been sealed by the Alliance, and I can only tell you so much. ”

"Do you know Professor Montella?"

"You know, that's a young man with a lot of ideas. The gentleman smiled: "He felt that he had opened up a new path." didn't know that the weeds on the sheep intestine path were all grown from the seeds sown by the alliance...... It's just that he's not quite on that path. A few old people at the school may have a glimmer of hope for his idea. ”

The ants on the blade of grass crawled down the stalk to the dirt.

It stood on a small white piece of gravel, holding its head high, looking left and right, vaguely revealing a kind of momentum of anticipation. Zheng Qing didn't know if it was his own delusion.

The tentacles moved slightly, and the ant turned its head to look in the other direction.

Soon, it hurried away from the gravel and crawled off into the distance. I don't know if I smelled the smell of carrion, or if I found the direction of home.

"If," the boy hesitated for a moment as he stared at the ant's distant figure, and finally asked softly, "I mean, suppose, I'm bitten by a demon...... How am I going to resist the demonic energy? Of course, I wouldn't have put my arm over for them to bite. ”

With that, he turned his head a little nervously and glanced at his husband.

He was very worried that his husband would think that he wanted to take a shortcut, so he asked this question—perhaps somewhere in the bottom of his heart, Zheng Qing had indeed germinated this idea. But the thought of the pig demon that Seprano's younger brother had turned into made him feel a chill in his heart.

A living person who was talking and laughing with you not long ago has turned into a wild boar with red eyes and only drooling and howling.

Compared with the possible shortcut, Zheng Qing wants to make a plan for the risk of breaking out at any time.

"Faith. ”

To Zheng Qing's surprise, Mr. told him the answer easily, but the answer seemed a little too broad: "Many people want to know this method, in fact, we have told many people...... That's faith. ”

"Looking back at the source, demonization is essentially a kind of spiritual pollution. Just like if you are bitten by a wild dog while walking on the road, a normal person will pick up a stone and smash the wild dog, but the polluted person will lie on the ground and bite back...... He would consider himself a dog too. The dog pulled his IQ to its level. ”

"People's hearts are fickle. In the same way, starting from the same idea, different experiences, the worldview will be very different, and earth-shaking changes will occur. ”

"The stance is not the same as the butt, and the result of looking at the problem is naturally different. ”

"This is the most basic point of resisting demonic erosion. You need to stand firm and have strong convictions. This belief can be the persistence of blood and glory, the pursuit of the unknown and truth, the yearning for victory, or the belief of a rock. Build your siege with these beliefs than repel the corrosive forces with fury and war. ”

Zheng Qing was keenly aware of the faint connection between the schemes mentioned by the gentleman and the four faculties of First University. But he resisted the urge to ask, for the gentleman had not yet finished.

“...... If your siege is breached, and your heartbreak faith deteriorates, your resistance to erosion will be drastically reduced. So low that even a wild demon can transform a top registered wizard. ”

"The so-called Tao is different, and it is not conspiratory. The long road is long, a white expanse, there is a slight deviation under the feet, and thousands of miles away is the gap at the end of the world......"

In the last sentence, Mr.'s tone was full of emotion.

It was not difficult for Zheng Qing to understand the emotion in Mr. 's tone, but it was difficult for him to comprehend the effect of 'faith' on resisting the erosion of demons. There are so many wizards who have been bitten by demons in history, how many of them are amazing and gorgeous, but under the erosion of demons, they have been defeated.

Compared to them, Zheng Qing does not feel that his 'faith' is firmer.

Perhaps Fat Xin has a better chance of surviving after being bitten by a demon - at the very least, his belief in food is unwavering. Zheng Qing smiled bitterly in his heart, floating over the fat man's greasy round face.

The gentleman frowned and glanced at the young wizard.

"The brave are not afraid, not only after you know the truth, you will not be crushed by the weight of the truth, but also because you can bravely face the truth. He admonished, "You have faced many demons, and you should know their dangers...... And what reason do you have to back down in front of them?"

"A true wizard will never lack courage in his heart. ”