Chapter 15: The Fall and Redemption of Arthas
(More big chapters, counting yesterday's and today's updates)
The sunset falls on the blue deep sea, the lights on Penglai Island are gradually lit up, one by one the towering tower cranes are like the arms of giants rotating in the brilliant lights, and the engineering vehicles drive down the bridge from the freighters like mountains, loaded with masonry and wood along the road to the island continuously.
The entire Penglai Island is filled with the atmosphere of smoke and dust of the construction site, completely devoid of the otherworldly danger of the past.
Only located on the cliff, "Lutai" is still so smoky, the sky is slightly vast, and Dantai is like a fairyland.
At this moment, the double eaves palace "Xianju Palace" at the top of the "Lutai" is brightly lit, and there are young girls wearing improved cheongsams dancing ballet in the hall of the palace lamp, the girl's eyebrows are picturesque and moving, the tight upper body curves are graceful, the wide satin skirt is elegant and smart, they stretch out their jade arms and wave the fan in their hands, the action is elegant, fresh and sultry, combined with the music of the Chinese style, there is a sense of beauty, there is an intentional meaning, it is really good-looking.
If it weren't for the terrifying horror of the entire wall of heads piled up in the main hall, and the vulgar red dome with deep purple walls, this picture would have been perfect.
Perhaps Dr. Charlie, who is lying on a beach chair with a beer glass and a "No Hero Who Doesn't Go to the Wall" T-shirt and coconut tree beach pants, and another man wearing a mask and a sexy girl floral shirt should be lifted out, and the whole picture is very harmonious.
The girls bowed down and withdrew after dancing, and the man in the flower shirt stared at the girls' swinging waists like wicker, and said in a loud voice: "Charlie, after so many years, you finally have a normal taste once, cheongsam with ballet, come and have a big ......"
"FXXK, I've always had good taste, okay? It's that you people are too vulgar to appreciate. ”
"Lao Tzu is vulgar? When Lao Tzu and Wassily Kandinsky discussed geometry and pure abstraction, and Edgar Degas conceived how to free fruit painting from the traditional confines of the academic school, you were still gold that your father had not secreted. ”
Dr. Charlie put the empty cup on the coffee table, wiped the foam on his mouth casually, and said angrily: "Aren't you just living more than a hundred years longer than me, is it necessary to pretend to be like this?"
"Hmm, Lao Tzu pretends, Lao Tzu needs to pretend? Lao Tzu TM is so awesome. ”
"Alright, alright, know that you are the master, that you are the 'only one in heaven and on earth' Nebuchadnezzar. Dr. Charlie waved his hand, and the maid standing beside him with a modified cheongsam immediately filled both empty beer glasses.
"As an opinion, I think we should make some hollow lines at the waist to add some looming hazy feeling, so as to ensure that the visual experience is better.....," Nebuchadnezzar, who was wearing a sexy girl's floral shirt, said in an ambiguous tone, looking at the handmaid's rounded tunbu.
The maid, who looked exactly like Monica Bellucci when she was young, was not afraid of Nebuchadnezzar's flirtatious gaze, but looked at Nebuchadnezzar with curiosity.
Nebuchadnezzar turned his head a little embarrassed, raised his hand and touched the tip of the metal mask's nose, and sighed in a low voice: " I remembered when I first met her in Perugia in '77, when she was still an ignorant girl, the first time I saw her was in a phone booth on the street, you don't know, I was a little stunned, the Renaissance style of a small Italian town, the red phone booth, she was talking to someone on the phone in a black dress inside, there were people from the Inquisition behind me who were following me, but I stopped there like that, staring at her through the lattice window, she smiled charmingly, not as cold as usual, with a deep sense of resentment, but bright and innocent, unguarded, heyI forgot about the angels of wisdom behind me, as long as I could take a few more looks, I would have no fear of being judged. I adhered to gentlemanly etiquette and did not interrupt her on the phone, but stared at her after the call, before I wanted to know her, at this time, the group of ordinary angels who did not know how to lift arrived, that group of birdmen was really disappointed, ruined my plan to pick up girls, I had to run away first......"
"Oh!oh!" interrupted Nebuchadnezzar, Dr. Charlie, "I'm not interested in your love history, I'm just curious why you went to that small city in Perugia?"
"You're rude, Charlie, how can you casually interrupt an elder to reminisce about the past?" said Nebuchadnezzar, a little annoyed.
"Forget it! You've lived for almost 300 years, and it's not enough to? I'm tired of hearing it!"
"Get out! You old lizard who doesn't understand the amorous feelings! Lao Tzu teaches you how to fall in love, and you still don't learn it? You deserve to find a mate right now!"
Dr. Charlie's pupils turned into a narrow diamond shape, the whites of his eyes turned to a rich yellow, and he turned his head to look at Nebuchadnezzar, his eyes shining fiercely and dangerously, his throat fluttering, and he spat out a strange syllable: "FXXK!
"Charlie, don't be an angry young man, he will blow up at the mention of lizards and crosstails, come, cheers!" Nebuchadnezzar didn't seem to care about Dr. Charlie's anger, just raised his beer glass and drank it to himself, "because the Umbrian Jazz Festival, which was one of the best music festivals in the world at the time." ”
"I can't beat you, if I did, I would have made you old bastard into a specimen, a specimen of the head of a monster that has lived for more than two hundred years, it's exciting to think about!" Dr. Charlie muttered, the terrifying dragon pupils disappeared and instantly returned to their normal appearance, he also drank the wine in the glass, and whispered, "I thought you were there for the Book of Wisdom in the Church of the Holy Angels." ”
Nebuchadnezzar ignored Dr. Charlie's complaints and said with a smile, "Of course, that was one of my goals, but I was actually going for the festival, and the Book of Wisdom in the Church of the Holy Angelo Ring was just in passing. Nebuchadnezzar waved his hand and snapped his fingers, "Hey, musicians, some jazz, beer with jazz, what's the deal with waltz?"
Nebuchadnezzar only mentioned the Book of Wisdom and ignored Dr. Charles' curious gaze to change the subject, and the cheerful waltz came to an abrupt end, and a group of musicians dressed in Hanfu looked at each other and discussed in low tones before they began to play abstract jazz under the direction of the conductor.
"Hey, after so many years, why are you still such a stinky problem, you never say the key things, only willing to talk about your affairs......."
Nebuchadnezzar shrugged his shoulders, "What's the point of saying the key thing? The Book of Wisdom belonged to us in the Black Death, and I just got back what was supposed to be ours. ”
Dr. Charlie thought for a moment before squinting his eyes and saying, "I remember that you got involved in Kaiser Willian's club after that, right?"
Nebuchadnezzar nodded, "Yes, what I stole from the Circular Church of Sant'Angelo was not only the Book of Wisdom, but also the original Book of the Law, and some of the contents of these two books say the same thing......" Nebuchadnezzar paused for a moment and said softly, "That is how to unleash skills by establishing a connection between the ontology and the quantum satellite...... That was also the origin of the global tide of paranormal functions, Stargate established the Diversity Psychology Center, which we called the 'Jedi Knights', while the Soviet Union set up Unit 10003, which was called the 'Psychic', and Huaxia established the 777 (real number is 7x9) Research Institute..... At that time, the 'Jedi' spent a lot of money to dismantle a lot of 'Uroboros', developed a chip, and tried to implant the chip into the brain to establish an energy channel, but the ending was very ....."
"Then you must have succeeded with the inspiration of the Book of Wisdom and the Book of the Law?"
Nebuchadnezzar fell silent for the first time, and after a long pause he sighed and said, "How can I say that? ”
"What do you mean?"
"I roughly understood the truth through the Book of Wisdom and the Book of Law, but because of the existence of the 'Crown of Thorns' I had no way to experiment on my own, so I went to the Kaiser William Club and found some gifted children. William's club for more than ten years, there is a Sith, only he can break through the barrier of the brain and use the ontology to establish communication with quantum satellites, as for the others, none of them succeeded. ”
Speaking of the Sith, Dr. Charlie also sighed: "No wonder you have high hopes for the Sith...... But he's dead now. ”
"Actually, there is another person you don't know in the back who is even more successful than the Sith, without injecting the 'God Gene', the body has reached a level capable of intercepting fifty percent of the energy input of the carrier, so much so that it has attracted the attention of the stargate, and unfortunately he also died. Nebuchadnezzar's face showed a sudden pity, and he wandered for a moment before he said lightly, "Maybe there's nothing to regret..... Who won't die? I'll die too......"
Dr. Charlie straightened up from the recliner, turned his head to look at Nebuchadnezzar and said solemnly, "King, I have something to say about the inheritance of the Black Death and the Crown of Thorns. ”
"I know what you're trying to say. ”
"You know I have to say, I know that the 'Lord of the Plague' means a lot to us 'Black Death', but how can you hastily decide your heir with who can take it? To be honest, I'm a little tired of watching these poor clones die in less than twenty years on Penglai Island, and I feel guilty when I think of those test subjects in the Garden of Eden. Maybe it's a good idea to let Asthalo inherit your position, after all, their Asthalo family is also loyal to you, and he is strong enough to rank sixth in the Heavenly Rankings. He also married Baimon's daughter, and with Baimon's help, Milijian's side was ironclad, and it was also good for the whole Black Death. If someone else gets the 'Lord of the Plague', except for Athena, who has the ability to fight against Astalous, even if the others inherit your position, they will not be able to control the Black Death...... Your decision will plunge the Black Death into an irreconcilable divide. ”
"Charlie, do you remember the oath you took when you entered the Black Death?" Nebuchadnezzar asked faintly, turning his head to look at Dr. Charlie.
"Of course I do. Charlie raised his right hand and said with a solemn expression, "I am willing to keep this oath to the best of my own judgment." Whoever teaches me medicine, I should honor him as I respect my own parents. As a lifelong respect and friend, I will definitely help the teacher who gave me medical skills in case of a critical situation. If the children of the teacher are willing to practice medicine, I will teach them unconditionally and without any charge. All the medical skills that I possess, whether verbal or written, are to be passed on to my children, to the children of my teachers, and to the students who have sworn to keep this vow, and not to anyone else, except in these three cases.
I am willing to do the best of my judgment to abide by the moral principles of the good of the sick and to abstain from all depravity and harm. I am not allowed to give harmful drugs to others, nor do I instruct others to take harmful drugs, nor do I agree to other people's requests to use harmful drugs. In particular, abortion procedures are not performed for women. I volunteered to practice medicine all my life in a pure and holy spirit. Since I did not have the expertise to treat stone disease, it was not suitable for this surgery, and if there was a need for treatment, I referred him to a stone treatment specialist.
Wherever I went, and whether the patients to be treated, whether they were men or women, freemen or slaves, I treated them equally, and it was my only purpose to seek their happiness. I have to check my behavior and behavior, and refrain from all kinds of harmful deeds, especially not to seduce a sick woman or her family. In the process of treatment, everything I have seen and heard, whether it is directly related to the practice of medicine or not, I will never disclose any matters that I believe should be kept confidential.
I keep this oath for the purpose of having the gods of medicine, Apollo, Escrebus, and the gods of heaven and earth bestow upon me the supreme glory of life and healing, and if I break my oath, I ask the gods of heaven and earth to give me the most severe punishment!"
"But how did we go from a doctor's organization to such a huge underground organization?"
Dr. Charlie opened his mouth as if to speak, but Nebuchadnezzar smiled and continued: "I know that the original intention of our Black Death was to save lives, and later in order to help more poor people, we developed associations, and then we not only treated the sick and saved people, but also used our status to help the war-torn refugees find homes, help the poor and poor to make money to survive, and then became more and more ........ It doesn't matter how it came to be, the truth is that we've gone astray......."
Dr. Charlie lowered his head and said with some gloom, "Wang...... Is that why you don't want to keep doing it?"
"Charlie, we talked a long time ago about what real 'fairness' was in the 'trolley dilemma', and how did we talk about it at the time?"
"Our 'tram dilemma' has been replaced by the doctor's dilemma, where a patient is immediately brain dead, but his organs happen to be able to save five people, and we have to decide whether to kill the patient who is about to be brain dead, become a murderer and save five patients, or give up saving five patients. ”
"Yes, exactly. Neither I nor you believe in Kant's 'absolute morality', at that time we all thought that it was worthwhile to sacrifice the few to save the majority, which was actually a game of 'consequentialism' and 'absolutism', according to the utilitarian view, the suffering and happiness of each individual and the contribution he can make to mankind can be quantified, so it is of course the right thing to give up the few and save the majority! Therefore, our purpose of the Black Death has always been the same. ”
"Yes, my king, we have borne countless infamy over the years, but we have also saved countless poor people, and this is definitely a feat that cannot be erased. Countless poor refugees struggling in the Middle East and poor people in the Third World who don't even have enough to eat, it is because of us that we did not die, and although you are at the top of the bounty list and countless people regard you as the shameful, hateful and hateful king of hell, you are still the morning star of this dark world......"
"Charlie, don't be cynical here, I know what I've done. Nebuchadnezzar said angrily.
"I don't dare to sneer at you....." Dr. Charlie sighed, "I really can't beat you, if I beat you, I would like to take your head and put a reward, that's an astronomical amount, I really don't know how you offended so many people!"
Nebuchadnezzar smiled "hehe": "If you live longer, you will naturally have more enemies, what's so strange about this." ”
"I always thought you were so jealous because of women...... Nebuchadnezzar replied suddenly, solemnly, "This is definitely one of the most important reasons." ”
Dr. Charlie was speechless, picked up his beer glass, drank half of the "goo-goo-goo-go ”
Nebuchadnezzar said as a matter of course: "Of course you have to be thick-skinned to chase girls, you just don't have enough thick skin to find a female lizardman to mate ......"
Dr. Charlie's face darkened, his joints pinched "click, click, click", and finally he just filled the glass again.
"Don't you really want to find a woman to fall in love with?" Nebuchadnezzar winked at Dr. Charlie.
"I hate humans!" replied Dr. Charlie angrily.
Nebuchadnezzar laughed, "Where did you just talk about it?The moral dilemma of the tram dilemma, you know, after last year's events, I remembered a game called "World of Warcraft", in which there is a character called Arthas, he is a noble human prince, and his girlfriend is Gianna, a childhood sweetheart with both wisdom and beauty, and he also has a super strong mentor, Paladin Uther, the Lightbringer, this kind of person can be described as a standard "X second generation" who is loved by thousands of people, a typical winner in life. Unfortunately, however, the entire kingdom of Lordaeron is in crisis, and a plague is spreading in the north of the kingdom, and humans infected with this plague will become undead Scourge soldiers. When Arthas traces the source of the plague and follows the clues to Stratholme, they discover that it is too late, and the contaminated grain has already been distributed to the citizens. These innocent citizens will be infected with the plague and become the new force of the undead natural disaster. So Arthas thought about it and decided to slaughter the townspeople, lest they become the minions of the natural scourge......."
"You're still playing World of Warcraft at your age?" said Dr. Charlie with a shocked expression.
"My heart is forever eighteen!" said Nebuchadnezzar, triumphantly.
Dr. Charlie sneered, "Oh! you didn't say that when your lover died. ”
"FXXK!" Nebuchadnezzar was stabbed in the soft underbelly for the first time, and opened his mouth to swear, but he breathed a sigh of relief before he continued, "but when Arthas gave the order, his mentor Uther was furious and refused to carry it out, so Arthas immediately pronounced a sentence of treason against the respected Lightbringer. Disheartened, Uther and most of his paladins left the city in a rage. And his girlfriend Gianna couldn't understand him, and left him in extreme disappointment. One detail that I have never forgotten as I read this passage is that as Gianna was about to turn away, Arthas whispered in a very tender, pleading voice: 'Gianna. Gianna stopped, but did not look back: 'I'm sorry, Arthas...... I can't watch you go astray. Said to play Gianna turned and left. Extremely disappointed, Alsace resolutely decided to carry out the task of slaughtering the city alone. The Fear Demon King, the originator of the plague, also led the Scourge to wreak havoc in Stratholme, turning citizens infected with the undead plague into walking dead faster. In order to prevent more undead from appearing to expand the Scourge Legion, a heinous killing race is being waged between Arthas and Melganis......."
Dr. Charlie furrowed his notched brow on his forehead again.
"How's it going? Doesn't this plot sound familiar?"
"Are you...... The Lord of the Plague??" said Dr. Charlie in a deep voice.
Nebuchadnezzar didn't say whether it was or not, he got out of the chaise longue and leaned down with his head on his hands, "Charlie, if you were that prince, would you choose to raise your butcher's knife in the face of the civilians with a heart of stone, or would you wait until it was too late to watch your comrades and other nationals fall in the attack of the undead army one after another?"
"Of course I ......"
"Don't answer so quickly, you'll end up being the lich king that everyone hates. ”
Dr. Charlie pondered for a long time before whispering, "I can't do it, I'll wait for those people to mutate before killing them." ”
Nebuchadnezzar smiled and said lightly, "This will be the decision of the vast majority of people." ”
Dr. Charlie was taken aback, "You...... No..... You want to give the Crown of Thorns to the Lord of the Plague?"
"I'm just curious what Arthas would become if Uther, the mentor of Arthas, was willing to bear the slaughter with Arthas, and his girlfriend was willing to sacrifice her life to atone for her sins......"
Dr. Charlie stood up and said in disbelief, "Wang...... You..... You..... What are you looking for?"
Nebuchadnezzar shook his head and said angrily, "Do you think I instructed the Sith to go to Paris to poison him?"
Dr. Charlie breathed a sigh of relief and touched his head, "Scared me." ”
"But I'm also responsible, because I asked him to go to Paris to find Carona to get the 'God Gene'....."
Dr. Charlie smiled wryly, looking like he didn't know what to say.
Nebuchadnezzar also stood up, looked down at the scarlet carpet under his feet, and whispered, "Actually, I haven't thought about this issue until now, and what is the right thing to do in the face of the tram dilemma when it is impossible to have the best of both worlds." Perhaps there is no one standard answer to fairness, equality, and justice for us as a human race. The society of human beings is too complex and diverse, so diverse that there is no optimal solution to a social problem that affects many people. Compared to our complex world, all the theories put forward by the sages and philosophers to transform this world are too simple. The masters of all factions, who have tried their best to generate wisdom, can only answer a very small aspect of our society, or an abstract and static aspect, once faced with this real world where the butterfly effect ripples all over the world, all theoretical brilliance will be eclipsed. The universe is too big, and we are too small, and we are too helpless. ”
Dr. Charlie sighed under his breath.
Nebuchadnezzar patted Dr. Charlie on the shoulder and said indifferently, "We can't find the answers anymore, we should leave these questions to the young people, I believe they can do better." Nebuchadnezzar closed his eyes and began to sway to the music, "As for us, just dance." ”
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Seeing the demon god Beret wearing the white robe of the Greek sage walking towards him, Cheng Mo knew that something was wrong, he was sure that his true body was not revealed in Hydra headquarters Hydra, and he appeared in front of Ayala as "Abdul" all the time, so it was impossible for "Ayala" to know his true identity, which had been proved when he got off the subway just now.
Unless the "Demon God Beret" has permission to view his details through the "Black Death APP", this is still the second layer of insurance, because the information registered by Cheng Mo in the "Black Death" is the name of "Jingquan" plus the fingerprints and appearance of the carrier "Lin Zhinuo".
In any case, the "Jingquan" in the "Black Death APP" cannot be connected with his own ontology "Cheng Mo", so the only answer is that his sloppy makeup technique did not work, and the other party recognized him as "Cheng Mo", so he came over so resolutely.
Cheng Mo scolded "Jingquan" 10,000 times in his heart, but his mind was thinking about who the other party was, logically speaking, neither the "shadow network" nor the "table network" exposed his information, so there should be no "Black Death" people who know him.
The suspicious person is most likely at the dinner at the Palace of Fontainebleau that Napoleon VII invited him and Xie Minyun to attend, and everyone present that day saw him and Xie Minyun appear together, so who will this person be in front of him?
Cheng Mo immediately remembered the face of "No. 7" that was exactly the same as Athena Onassis, but he felt that a normal woman should not be able to make a robot based on herself, that is, the probability that the other party was an admirer of "Athena" was relatively high.
All kinds of thoughts flashed through Cheng Mo's mind, and as the familiar golden mask of the demon god Beret got closer and closer, Cheng Mo stopped thinking and prepared to deal with the terrible situation that he might face next.
The white ghostly shadow of the demon god Beret stood not far in front of Cheng Mo, and the guards bowed their heads to the demon god Beret, and the respectful call echoed in the empty subway station again.
The demon god Beret completely ignored the group of pious guards, and behind the narrow slit in the mask, there were a pair of bright and abnormal eyes staring at Cheng Mo.
Cheng Mo couldn't see the whole picture of the other party, but with the enhanced light, he vaguely saw the contraction of the other party's pupils, and the incredible and amazing details showed in Cheng Mo's mind, as if he saw a retracted flame disappear into a red crack, and the red crack that stood in the blue eyes of the lake had an amazing coldness.
Cheng Mo immediately remembered the pair of eyes that looked like snake pupils in Jing Xing, the other party's eyes were more bewitching and more powerful, like a giant dragon.
"Who are you?"
The sound of metal, as sharp as a craggy rock, rang out again, like waves rattling a metal reef.
Cheng Mo took a deep breath, and said in a trembling voice with a hint of dazed appearance in panic: "I..... I'm here to heal. ”
"I'm asking..... Who are you?"
"Well.... Well.... Izumi...."
"Wellsprings?"
Cheng Mo rolled his throat, "Well... Izumi's friend, I.... My name is Lin Zhinuo..."
The demon god Beret let out an indifferent sneer, condescendingly looked down at Cheng Mo who was pressed against the railing, and asked in a cold voice, "What disease did you come to Hydra to treat?"
Cheng Mo closed his eyes and replied with a gloomy face: "Amnesia caused by brain injury....."
"Amnesia?"
Cheng Mo smiled bitterly and said, "Yes, amnesia....."
The demon god Beret turned his head to look at Ayala, "Search out his Black Death phone and take it away first." ”
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