Chapter 55: Hearing the Truth in the Morning and Questioning It in the Evening

Many people think that talking about money is "vulgar", but few people think that gold is "vulgar".

In fact, those who think something is "vulgar" do so because they themselves are "vulgar" and what they see is "vulgar".

The Golden City, a miraculous city similar to Abyss City, is located in the Eden World Bubble and is the "port" to the Quantum Sea. Its longitude and latitude coordinates are very similar to the geographical location of Abyss City.

The Golden City, as the name suggests, is a private city, a city built by Eden with his personal assets. In name, it is Eden's possession.

To build this city, Eden... did not spend all his personal savings.

Maybe she doesn't even know how rich she is.

Compared with Eden, even Padofelis is a pauper.

The area and scale of Golden City are larger and more magnificent than Haiyuan City. Moreover, the scenery here is very beautiful, and all the buildings are full of the atmosphere of art and money.

However, Golden City is not prosperous, with a population of only more than 50,000, which also results in the houses here being free villas.

Eden is generous.

Anyone who can live in the Golden City has the strength of a D-level Valkyrie at worst.

There are often many jobs in "ports", and 50,000 people are far from enough. Therefore, Golden City has been recruiting talents in various fields with extremely high welfare benefits. Regrettably, the threshold is too high and the talents are too few. Rich people Can't recruit anyone.

As a result, Eden spent money to build many free schools, hoping that the overall quality of human beings would become better and better from generation to generation.

Afternoon,

The port of the Golden City.

Wutong clasped his hands behind his back and looked up at the "ship" parked here with a smile, feeling happy in his heart.

Soon, Kevin and others will "go to sea" for the first time. These ships are the future of human civilization.

Standing on Wutong's shoulder is a "little bird" named Phoenix. She is not big, only the size of a palm, but her tail feathers are very long and have reached Wutong's waist.

The phoenix is ​​very beautiful, with a charming and graceful appearance. Various colors "flow" slowly on her feathers, but they don't look gaudy, because the colors are not "miscellaneous" but full of unique beauty.

Every feather of the phoenix seems to be filled with infinite vitality.

She seems to be a symbol of beauty, and it is almost impossible to describe her with a brush. Even the photos taken by the camera are "simplified" images, lacking the "soul" of beauty.

It can even be said that people who see the Phoenix can improve their aesthetic ability and taste.

However, just look at it for a few times, and don't stare at it for a long time, otherwise the person's mental strength will be affected, ranging from a decrease in "sanity value" to a collapse of consciousness in the worst case.

Although she is small, has little knowledge, and can't even speak human language, Phoenix is ​​very "arrogant" and she is determined not to taste "unpalatable" Honkai energy, especially the kind that smells like "human fireworks" With the Honkai energy, she would not move at all and would rather be hungry.

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This seems to be her instinct to protect herself.

This also made Dr. Mei put aside the idea of ​​​​making a "Phoenix Card" Honkai energy storage device.

The "Moon" brand is very good, not so delicate, so I'd better use the moon.

Moreover, Phoenix not only does not eat Honkai energy that has been "contaminated" by human civilization, she does not seem to want to have too much contact or ties with human civilization.

Wutong taught her to speak human language and taught her cultural knowledge, but she didn't learn it; even if he turned her into a human form and wrote with a pen, she didn't change...

Except for Wutong and Mebius, no one can communicate with her, and no one can understand what she wants to express.

The relationship between Phoenix and Snake is still very bad. They dislike each other and she often attacks Snake.

Her character is very stubborn, autistic, and idiosyncratic, and she is dismissive of things created by humans, as if she were really a baby version of a god.

It's a pity that she has a high spirit but no strength. Her strength is hundreds or thousands of times that of Kevin, but she may not be able to defeat Kevin.

The soft light casts on the quiet and deep seabed, with colorful corals of different shapes and strange benthic creatures crawling slowly at a slow speed.

There are many stunningly beautiful marine creatures, and there are also many ugly ones that are too ugly to look at.

It doesn’t really matter how it looks, as long as it tastes good.

At this time, Kevin jumped off an unmanned ship and walked to Wutong. He seemed to be conducting final inspections on these ships.

Wutong didn't know if he would check, maybe a little, after all, these ships were also weapons.

In fact, Kevin knows a lot of things. Most scientists are not as knowledgeable as him. Moreover, all the theoretical knowledge he has learned has been practiced by him.

"Why are you here?" Kevin's voice was still so cold.

"I can go wherever I want. Stay away from me. Don't you know you're cold?" Wutong said disgustedly.

The expressionless Kevin took another step closer to Wutong.

The majestic little Phoenix raised his head, closed his eyes, and turned a blind eye to Kevin, with a very proud attitude.

People who deserve to be spanked also have pets that deserve to be spanked.

"I have a question for you." Kevin said.

"Hold it in."

Kevin didn't seem to hear these two words,

He said to himself: "Do you think it is possible for me to become stronger?"

It can be said that Kevin's martial arts represents the pinnacle of humankind. Logically speaking, as a human being, he has almost no possibility of continuing to grow.

"What you want to ask me is, how can you become stronger?"

"No, I will continue to get stronger. I'm just asking for your opinion." Kevin said harshly.

"You should ask Mei what she thinks. She can let you continue to grow."

Kevin shook his head. He thought that even if Mei had a way, she would not be willing to let his power continue to grow. Otherwise, Mei would have asked him to cooperate with the experiment.

Wutong chuckled softly and said: "Oh, you don't think Mei is feeling sorry for you, right? Hey~ you are so narcissistic. In order to defeat Honkai, Mei is willing to sacrifice everything, including you. She is a vicious person at heart. 'Black Widow'."

"Only those without morals would impose an unpleasant nickname on others." Kevin said coldly, "I know everything you said, but Mei is not sure, so she won't do it."

"I'm not sure either. I'm very busy. Don't come looking for me." Wutong waved his hand, signaling him to get out of here.

The title of "number one" that can be recognized by other heroes is not so bearable. Kevin is burdened with too many things, and his physical condition is in danger every moment.

Whether Kevin's current state becomes stronger or weaker, it may cause his body to "collapse", and this possibility is very high.

"Where are you busy? You don't even have a job." Kevin said.

Wutong has long resigned from the position of "Emperor of Heaven". Now, on the surface, he is an idler, relying on the very generous "abdication salary" given to him by Heavenly Court, Destiny and the World Serpent to support his family and family every day. Eating, drinking and having fun, seemingly not caring about anything.

That's right, not only was Heavenly Court offering him a salary, Wutong, who was very shameless, also submitted an "application" to Tianming, World Snake and Fire Chasing Moth to obtain abdication salary. His "application" Dr. May did not agree, but Otto and Gray Snake agreed.

Wutong's carefree life has also attracted more hatred than before. More and more people dislike him and want to beat him up.

"Busy to play." Wutong said matter-of-factly.

Really deserves a beating.

"..."

Kevin originally wanted to turn around and leave, ignoring the grandson, but Wutong's words stopped him again.

"Hey, since you are so stupid, I will give you a few words of advice."

Wutong clasped his hands behind his back, looked at the distant scenery, and said with a smile: "Through these two days of playing games, I realized something useless.

“The process of pursuing power is also the pursuit of truth, and vice versa.

"I roughly divide the 'power system' of this world into five levels, just like playing a game. You can also understand it as five realms.

"From low to high, they are: being a good person, beyond human cognition, the realm of God, beyond the realm of God, and essence."

Wutong named these five levels very casually, but easy to understand.

"What is my current level...?" Kevin asked.

"We haven't broken through one yet," Wutong said, "but you have already touched two."

"What's the end?"

"three."

"how about you?"

"It's one, it's two, it's three."

The five realms divided by Wutong do not have to be "upgraded" level by level, from low to high. They are not so rigid. For example: while "being a human being", you can also explore things beyond human cognition. , you can even touch the "realm of God".

"Among humans, is there anyone higher than you?"

"Mebius is the same as me, most likely higher than me."

"But she is much weaker than you."

Wutong smiled and said: "Haha, high level does not mean strong force, low level does not necessarily mean weak, everything has its own exception.

"Also, who gave you the illusion that Mebius is weak? She is much stronger than you and Dr. Mei imagined.

"Don't forget, her mark is 'infinity', and she has lived for a long time.

"Let's put ourselves in Mebius's shoes, and one of humanity's top assassins, Sakura, wants to take your life. Even if you are powerful and the best in the world, how long can you hold on? ?Perhaps within a hundred years, I will be able to collect your body.

"Haha~

"But Mebius has survived until now and got me."

After saying that, Wutong passed by Kevin and left the port before him.

Kevin stood there without moving for a long time. In fact, even Wutong didn't know what Kevin would understand. What he just said was completely nonsense.

Different people have different views and understandings of the same thing.

at dusk,

City Lord's Mansion, in the study.

There was a small piece of Honkai energy crystal on the desk in front of Wutong, and he was trying to open Phoenix's beak.

Little Phoenix closed her mouth tightly and refused to open it. She had just been tricked by Wutong into eating a piece of Honkai Energy crystal. It was so unpalatable that her stomach felt uncomfortable after eating it.

Little Phoenix didn't understand why the master's behavior was a little different from the human beings she knew.

Are there such "bad" humans?

On the side, Eden, who was wearing a maid outfit and polishing a goblet, couldn't stand it. She liked Wu.

Tong's little bird, the phoenix, is the most beautiful creature she has ever seen.

Since the Phoenix appeared, Eden has been spending more and more time with Wutong. The existence of such "art" can bring a lot of fun and creative inspiration to Eden.

However, Eden, who is loved by almost everyone, is not favored by Little Phoenix.

Although Phoenix knows not to hurt humans, she just doesn't like humans.

She treats everyone except her master as the same.

Eden put the crystal goblet back in its place and asked slowly: "Do you have any deep meaning in letting the Phoenix be contaminated by human civilization?"

Even though he liked Little Phoenix very much in his heart, Eden didn't tell Wutong not to do this.

"It doesn't mean anything."

"Then what are you...?"

"It's fun." Wutong said, "I like to tease birds."

"You are not teasing, you are torturing, my friend." Eden corrected.

Wutong scratched the feathers on the little Phoenix's neck and said with a smile: "Those who keep birds in cages and tame them so that they have no ability to survive in the wild, aren't they also a form of torture? Follow me. Behavior makes no difference.”

"Some animals like freedom, but some animals prefer to have food and clothing without worries." Eden said, "With the protection of humans, the pressure of survival as a pet will be less."

"You're right, but that doesn't mean that pets don't yearn for freedom. When a puppy is put on a chain by its owner for the first time, it will bite the chain and feel uncomfortable for a long time until it gives up and accepts and habits.”

Eden thought thoughtfully and said: "You mean... human beings are 'pets' kept in 'cages' by 'trees' and 'sea'? If they don't resist, they will become numb. Tamed?"

"No, you are overthinking it. Many of my words are just words without much meaning. The appearance of many things is actually their essence."

Wutong put away the Honkai energy crystals, ruffled the feathers of two little phoenixes, and said: "Moreover, for pets, the real cage comes from their own weakness and cowardly compromise.

“Because we are weak, we cannot break free from the chains; because we are weak, we are kept by the strong; because we are weak, we become pets without freedom.

“With power, you can have dignity.

"When humans are stronger than gods, then humans will become the masters of gods."

…

The city under the deep sea seems mysterious, but you can't see the moon and stars, nor the dangers and unknowns.

In the laboratory.

"Teacher, what is the nature and truth of this world?" Little Planck, who was only 8 years old, asked.

"It's boredom. For humans, it's probably despair."

Mebius pushed aside the homework in front of him and said casually: "Don't give me such boring homework next time, just give it to Klein directly."

"knew."

Plank nodded obediently, thought for a moment, and said, "I don't quite understand, teacher."

"You don't need to understand, because what I say may not be right."

Mebius stretched out, slumped down on the chair in an imageless and seductive manner, and said lazily: "If you want to understand the nature of the universe, you need to explore and feel it yourself.

"No one's words are completely correct, and nothing is necessarily right, including mine and Wutong's, including your own, because what we say and what we say is only our current understanding. You have to learn to question.

“With different realms, the understanding of the essence is also different.

“Gods and humans face the ‘truth’ of the universe at the same time, and their feelings must be different.

“We must constantly question who we were and test the truth and essence of who we were and what we were.

"In this way, we can get a little closer to the truth."

"Question and test? Including what you are saying now?" Plank asked.

"Yes, including what I just said."