Ultra: Heroes Don't Ask Where They Come From

"Did you deliver food to that top student from the Ecole Normale Supérieure last time?"

"A top student from the Ecole Normale Supérieure?"

"Don't you know? It's the boy who pursued the Simon girl. He has been squatting in the suburbs for the third day. Even I know that there is such a persistent person."

"Oh." Xia Long agreed, "There is such a thing, but I didn't know he was from the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, but he will probably achieve something in the future."

"An achievement? Do you think so?"

"I see in him the shadow of someone who has accomplished great things. Although he may not be a particularly great person, he should be able to leave his name in history."

Blaise scratched his head at how Xia Long could give such a high evaluation to Leonard Lennon, and even wondered if he should meet that man. Finally, he shook his head at himself in his heart and said;

"Beauvoir is a unique person. Although Mrs. Simon is a devout believer, I can see that as a daughter, she only comes to church to pray for her mother. How can I say that she is relatively independent and has more advanced ideas... Although I heard that the boy who is looking for her doesn't seem to be handsome or tall, at least he is not black. I don't think she will care about her parents' opposition and go find that boy."

At least he's not black, what does this sentence mean?

Although the orbits of Ultra World are usually different from those of Sharon's World, they are basically similar yet different worlds, and the dilemmas faced by France in this world are basically the same.

One of the dangerous and embarrassing dilemmas of France is that as an Aryan country, its skin color is slowly turning darker.

In the social life that was previously centered on whites, more and more blacks are mixed in. This is because France itself has a shortage of labor, and in order to promote social development, policies such as encouraging immigration have attracted more and more people from the third world. In this way, the proportion of blacks in France has gradually increased.

The cause of this was the first and second wars, the largest in scale in human history. In World War I, as we all know, a whole generation of French people died. In World War II, France surrendered quickly. Charles de Gaulle took the lead in this situation and raised the flag of Free France. At that time, among the 40 French troops fighting in France, 30 were Africans.

After the war, France had to rely on these Africans to revive post-war France. At present, the theory of human origin from Africa is indeed convincing, so the ancestors of the French can be both Gauls and Africans.

The ancestors of all mankind are in Africa.

France in this world is much the same, because this was also the price France paid for its colonial system in earlier times.

"Since it's a two-way journey, let's bless them. Give young people some options."

Xia Long said this, but Blaise could see that he was a little absent-minded.

You clearly went to deliver food to that boy yourself, but in the end you didn't really care about him?

Blaise was puzzled by this idea and felt that he could not figure out what Xia Long was thinking no matter what.

Xia Long wasn’t actually thinking about anything. For him, this was a place to rest, and he didn’t have anything he wanted to do.

No, it's not that he doesn't have it, but he's not suitable to do it. Because he is no longer a part of the human race, he is now more inclined to watch humans walk their own path in the group's confrontation. Although it doesn't mean that he will just let it go, but until the last moment, when it is irreversible, he will not intervene in a special group crisis.

As for individuals, depending on the situation, he does not have the energy to solve everyone's problems. He has neither the ability nor the idea.

Even if everyone's wishes are equally sad and true, when gathered together they become a noisy cacophony. Humans imagine that there is an omnipotent god in the world who can listen to their sufferings and, in response to their prayers, is prepared to solve the many problems before them.

But there is no such God in the world. An omnipotent and omniscient God, a kind God, a God who helps people, a God who does not ask for anything in return, is just a tool deprived of personality, a "divine" tool made by people for their own future.

Getting help without asking for anything in return and without communicating with others, what can such an existence be called? Isn’t it just a mechanism to provide “salvation”?

And if such a god really exists, what value does human beings have?

Under God's guidance, everyone can find a path of hope, everyone can find their own belonging, family, love, friendship, and passion. Everyone longs for their wishes to be fulfilled, and everyone longs for a supernatural and mysterious power to rescue them when they encounter difficulties - wouldn't that be just playing house?

Of course, it is not impossible to do so, and let the actions of the human race and the reproduction of thousands of years become the gods' play house. After all, humans can be happy because of this. But that is different.

"Blaise, who do you think is more noble, angels or humans?"

"Hey, who is more noble, comparing angels to humans...?"

"That's right?"

"...Angels are noble. They are beings that are not tainted by filth, and they live in the paradise of God. They have never fallen and have never sinned. They are kind beings. No matter how noble humans are, they can never compare to them."

"I'm different. I think humans are more noble."

"..."

"Angels are born good, but that is a fixed innate choice, determined by the Creator. They do not have the power to choose their nature. Human morality is limited. They chose to be good among many choices. That was achieved after struggle and confusion. Their goodness is more important."

"That is to say, unlike angels who are born noble, humans have a sinful nature, but in the end they choose to become noble. This is why they are nobler than angels. Their judgment of good and evil comes from their understanding of the meaning of life."

Xia Long said calmly;

"God will not save angels, but God will save humans, because humans do their best. If a person is not believed, others will not choose to help him, right? This is a meaning."

"What if humans, in the end, choose a less noble and worse path?"

"Before making that choice, as long as humans don't give up all hope, there is still a chance of a miracle. On the contrary, if they end up going down that path with no hope of recovery, they will naturally have to accept the consequences of that choice."