Merit Book·Xinghai

Dongdong forgot to cry, he opened his big watery eyes and looked at Rong Yuan.

Although he didn't understand a lot of what Rong Yuan said, he still gradually understood what Rong Yuan was going to say.

"Pure bad guys are as rare as pure good guys, and most people have two sides." A half-black and half-white virtual card was flipped in Rong Yuan's hands, and he said: "The black side He may be a selfish thief, a villain who provokes right and wrong, a murderer like a tiger, a thug like a tiger, a profiteer with endless greed, a corrupt official who runs around like a dog, and a cruel official who runs rampant. On this side, you will think that such a person deserves to die ten thousand times... But on Bai's side, he may be a filial son, a loving parent, a conscientious employee, maybe have a great and innocent dream, maybe He will protect the weak in the face of violence, and he may be able to stick to his principles in the face of big right and wrong. He may have some advantages that we have always praised, preached, and learned. If you only look at this side, you will think that such a person should be able to write In the textbook."

"But in fact..."

With a flick of Rong Yuan's finger, the black and white cards turned into countless tiny fragments, which merged into a gray card.

"—Most people are like this, black and white blend, good and evil coexist, no one deserves to die, and no one is innocent, many people have their own way of death, but they also have their own last resort."

"So who do you think ... deserves to die? Who deserves my help?"

"If I do... yes, I can end this quickly, I can kill all the so-called 'bad guys', and I can keep the 'good guys' alive in the usual sense, I can make the people on the ground not No more strife, no more death, no more bad things. Everyone be good and do good, everyone is courteous, kind, kind, generous and helpful.”

"I can do it."

"—but such a world, is it really good?"

"Or, what I think is 'good', is it really good? What I think is 'evil', must it be evil? If everyone in the world only has a white side—and that's what I think The white side—is that kind of world, will it make people feel beautiful, or make people feel terrible?"

Duoduo has been unable to understand since before, and always feels that Rong Yuan is no longer talking to him later, but this sentence is still understandable.He asked inexplicably, "Why do you feel bad in a world full of good people?"

Rong Yuan smiled: "Hey, Duoduo, you like to study, but your brother likes to play games, and your sister likes dolls, right?"

"Ah."

"Learning feels better and more correct than playing a game, doesn't it?"

Duoduo thought for a while, then nodded.

"Then if, one day, your mother says that playing games is not good, your brother is not allowed to play games. He can only study like you or play with dolls like your sister. If he is playing games, you have to lock him up. After eating, you are not allowed to talk to him and beat him... Can you accept it?"

Duoduo immediately shook his head vigorously as if frightened.

"But your mother is also for his own good. Only by learning more knowledge can you become a more playful person, isn't it?"

"But...but this is not good...it can't be like this..." Duoduo said anxiously, as if he was afraid that Rong Yuan and his mother would really prohibit other children from playing games and let them only study.Even Duoduo himself, although not as addicted as others, still likes to play when he is resting.

"So, Duoduo, learning and playing games is the same as the world's good and evil." Rong Yuan said softly: "A world with only 'white' is like a world where everyone can only learn but not play. Same, it’s scary. Children should have the right to like to learn, and also have the right to like to play games, just like people should have the freedom to choose good and evil; they have the freedom to choose to help others, and they also have the freedom to choose not to help The freedom of others; the freedom to choose to work and the freedom to choose to be lazy. It cannot be forcibly stripped from people's choices just because someone thinks it is bad, but by people's own expectations for improving their lives, Driven by the morality and interests of society as a whole, as well as the prohibition of certain evils by laws and policies... These things promote goodness, stop evil, expand whiteness, and reduce blackness, and finally form a group that is formed by the selection and promotion of the entire group. A society that can also be accepted and recognized by the vast majority of people.”

"Now, Zhongwu Star is in such a critical period of transformation. In the past few hundred years, the imbalance between the strength and weakness of foreign humans and local alien races has resulted in either alien races enslaving humans, or humans oppressing alien races. This relationship is deformed. , They hate each other and have many conflicts. No matter which side has the upper hand, it will make the other race's life worse than death. But now, human beings have the advantage in technology and wisdom, and the individual qualities and abilities of different races are more distinctive. It already has the conditions to form a certain balance and mutual restraint. Especially in the past few decades, the development of science and technology has driven the progress of the overall civilization of society, and abundant social resources have relieved the pressure brought by people's survival, so There will be more people willing to think about issues about human nature, justice, and equality. Especially among the middle and lower class civilians, there are more and more humans and aliens who are willing to understand each other and help each other. This is a good start, but it is also a very fragile embryo. At this time, although war will bring death, it is also the most powerful catalyst. In the face of life and death, people are often able to abandon some irrelevant trivial issues, see to the purest, core issues."

"In this war, there will be no real winners or complete losers. They will all experience painful casualties, but it is also a precious baptism. Many people can re-understand the world and themselves from this war , and then there will be many capable people who will start to seek a way for both sides to coexist peacefully. This process will not be easy, but it will transform this place into a better world. This is brought about by technological progress and the development of civilization. It's an inevitable trend."

Not everyone in the Star Alliance recognized the phrase "smart races are born equal" at the beginning. They have also experienced very dark and even bloody times in the past, and countless races have disappeared because of this, but in the end, the needs of survival It will still force them to sit down and form a set of peaceful solutions that everyone can roughly accept, and then slowly evolve it into common sense and be accepted from the bottom of their hearts.

Of course, the development of Zhongwu Star may not be so smooth in the first place. After all, a civilization always advances in a spiral, and sometimes runs backwards for a while.If some cruel and hateful people take power in this war, it may cause tragedies such as genocide, and there are actually many such people in Zhongwu Planet.But since You Rongyuan has been watching, it is doomed that once such people show up, they will soon die in an "accident".

After all, Duoduo is still a child, and children are always easily persuaded by adults when they face things they don’t understand, so although he doesn’t quite understand what Rong Yuan said, he still holds that “Mr. Makes sense and is correct" and left.But for a long time after he left, Rong Yuan just sat in the shadows without speaking.

Silence and depression spread in the air, Pea quietly got out of Rong Yuan's pocket and sat beside him.

What Rong Yuan said just now made it feel very strange.

In the past, Rong Yuan was the child who would quietly pick up small fish struggling in the puddle and put them back into the sea without letting others know; but now he stands indifferently by the sea, letting other fish Seeing how the small fish in those puddles struggled to be sunburned to death in pain, and then firmly remembered this lesson, and never dared to cross that line again.

The former is man, the latter is God.

It’s hard to say which way is more correct, because after all, it’s impossible for the child to stand by the puddle every time to save the fish that are about to die in the sun, but how many people can watch their own kind struggle on the verge of death without doing anything?Such indifference can even be said to be superior and distant, which makes Pea feel strange.

But at this time, his long silence made Pea feel her heart throbbing.

Rong Yuan seldom speaks in such a lengthy manner.He said so much, rather than explaining to Duoduo, he was convincing himself.

When he was young, Rong Yuan was indifferent on the surface, but gentle and kind in his heart, even he had no resentment or revenge towards his parents who once abandoned him.Those who hate him, blame him, and dislike him, he will also reject them from his heart, only care about those who love him, and do his best to treat them well.

——So now, even if he has gone through the years and the vicissitudes of life, can he watch others cry and die indifferently?It's just that he knows what is the most correct, and then he has enough tenacity to allow him to be consistent.But Rong Yuan also knows that for those victims who have been run over by the wheel of history, the insiders who choose to stand by and do nothing are as guilty as the perpetrators.Looking at the bloodshed and tragedy on Zhongwu Star every day, what kind of pressure does he bear in his heart?

Pea couldn't imagine it, because to it, those strange humans on the ground were like meaningless symbols, only the person beside him was real.All it can do is stay by his side so that he won't be alone until the end of time.