Chapter 2621 Love Knows No Bounds!
Wu Yingqi's thoughts really turned into bright stars all over the sky, and these stars were eroded into black by his ambition in an instant, pouring into the depths of Li Yao's soul continuously.
Li Yao felt as if he was being electrocuted, like drowning in an abyss, and made the final resistance with great difficulty: "However, your plan will kill many people. In the extreme heaven alone, at least 30 to 50 billion people will die. What are they?" ?”
"They are the wounds cut during surgery, the pains of giving birth to a new life, the fuel for the triumphant advancement of human civilization, and the price we have to pay."
Wu Yingqi's eyes became deep and ancient, as if he could see through the changes of hundreds of millions of years. He said in a tone that was completely inhuman, "In the long run, every one of us is going to die, not just us, Even the Pangu Civilization Alliance, the most powerful of the thirteen carbon-based life races, no, not only Pangu, but also the powerful civilizations that existed in this universe tens of billions of years before Pangu, have all been swallowed by time. Submerged by the universe, wiped out with ashes and smoke, and there is no armor left.
"In the past tens of billions of years, hundreds of extremely powerful ancient civilizations have all been annihilated, and human civilization is about to repeat their mistakes—under such a grand background, the life and death of a few individuals is really so important ?
"It can be seen, Li Yao, that you tend not to sit still and have to rush out to find a way out, then have you ever thought about how dangerous the outer universe is, have you ever thought that even if we can find the final destination, human beings Civilization achieves a certain...'brilliant immortality'. This process is also a march of suffering. Maybe 99% of people will die on the way, and only 1% of people will live to enjoy the victory and become the ancestors of the new human beings?
"There is no way, even though we know we have to sacrifice so many people, we still have to move forward without hesitation, because this is the meaning of life.
"Thinking back billions of years ago, the first fish clumsily climbed onto the land. I believe it was not alone, but had countless companions, but 99% of them dried up and died in the deadly air.
"Similarly, when the ancient ape tremblingly came from the forest to the plain, he must have paid countless sacrifices under the minions of the ferocious beasts of the plain.
"If the fish and the ancient ape are both intelligent, if you are the commander of the fish and the ancient ape, and you can't bear to pay such a little 'small sacrifice', you waver and shrink back, you tell your companions—— It's too dangerous, let's go back, let's go back, let's go back to the warm and safe nest! Yes, the lives of our companions may be preserved temporarily, but the future of civilization will be completely ruined by your womanly benevolence! "
"Please believe that, if possible, I also want to minimize casualties, but this is a war, not only a war between the nobles of the reform party, not just a war between the empire and the Holy League, and of course it is not a war between immortal cultivators and cultivators. War, but—the war between the new humans and the old humans is a war of reforming the old and changing the world! This kind of conflict between the old and the new cannot be as gentle and harmless as you imagine, step by step, easy, and it is destined to set off the ultimate war. Fierce conflicts will crush countless old and conservative interest groups, and will kill people, many people.
"The virtue of a general is not to preserve the life of every soldier under his command, but to make all the soldiers die worthwhile, and to exchange their lives for the greatest results and final victory. In many cases, knowingly leading the battle Or the troops fighting against the attack will be wiped out, and the general will also send the most beloved and elite troops to the pit of fire that will undoubtedly die. Is the general a heinous murderer? No, this is the bounden duty of a commander !"
Li Yao couldn't bear it anymore, and growled, "The soldiers have long been prepared to sacrifice, but what you are going to kill is not the soldiers, but the civilians!"
"Wrong! The so-called division of 'soldiers' and 'civilians' only applies to the civil wars of human civilization. In the great cosmic war we are about to face, in the endless bloody battles of countless civilizations, everyone is a soldier and must fight for the entire civilization. Do your best and give your all!"
Wu Yingqi's voice also became sharper, "Think about it, if one day we really rush out of the big universe and face the full-scale invasion of some kind of 'swarm civilization', will it distinguish between 'soldiers' and 'civilians' among humans?" Different? Or when we face a single civilization, a planet is an extremely powerful existence, and when it rolls over to our world and uses tidal force to tear our planets apart one by one, it will distinguish between 'soldiers' 'Different from 'civilians'? Even, some mysterious power that is higher than the three-dimensional space descends, wants to raise or lower the dimension of our world, and turns us into a strange state that cannot be described in words, what does it care about' Military' and 'civilian'?
"Don't be silly, from the moment we discovered the existence of the big universe, the old moral concepts disappeared, and the entire civilization naturally entered a new era of 'all people are soldiers'. In order to struggle for survival in the dark universe, everyone You can sacrifice, and everyone must sacrifice! Without such a cold and sober understanding, you are not worthy of being the commander of human civilization!"
"I, I can't do it!"
Li Yao covered his head and said in great pain, "I can't use so many living individuals as 'fuel', I can't accept the death of tens of billions of people lightly, I can't look at the problem from the perspective of billions of years, No matter what, I just can't do it!"
"Yeah, 99% of people can't do it. They can't separate themselves from the perspective of an individual and look at problems from the perspective of the entire civilization. Therefore, Li Yao, a cultivator, no matter how powerful you are , even if you are a hundred times stronger, you are doomed not to be a competent leader, if human civilization is led by a benevolent and timid fellow like you, it will perish within a few hundred years!"
Wu Yingqi smiled lightly, "However, it doesn't matter, you can't do it, but I can, so I am the most perfect commander of human civilization, and you just need to assist me.
"Your reason clearly knows that what I say and do is right, but your feelings can't accept it for a while. You can't be the commander yourself, but you want to prevent me from being the commander. What's the reason? Human civilization always needs a The commander who is absolutely sane and thus absolutely cruel, not me, who else? Would it be possible to change to a commander who is as 'kind, vulnerable, and compassionate' as you, who will cry or shout some completely useless passionate slogans when things come to an end? will be better?"
Li Yao's eyes widened and he was speechless for a while.
"Your kindness limited to personal emotions and life and death in front of you is just a 'small kindness' or even a 'hypocrisy'. You only see the life and death of tens of billions of people in front of you, but you don't think about the life and death of hundreds of billions of people in the entire empire. !"
Wu Yingqi's voice had just softened a little, before suddenly becoming harsh again, "Don't you understand, these tens of billions of people in the extreme sky are doomed to die—if I don't launch the 'Tomorrow Plan', the ace fleet of the four major families It will occupy the Celestial Pole Star, slaughter wantonly, and people who died from massacres, famine and plague will still be indispensable!
"What's worse, with the loose wine bags and rice bags of the four major families, they can't resist the main fleet of the Holy League at all, and the empire will definitely collapse under the surprise attack of the Holy League!
"At that time, not only will the number of dead people be an order of magnitude higher than 'tens of billions', reaching hundreds of billions or even hundreds of billions, and the survivors will inevitably be brainwashed by the Holy League—brainwashed in the worst way!
"Look, your 'kindness' can't change anything at all, it will only make things worse. If hundreds of billions of people really died in the massacre of the four major families and the invasion of the Holy League, they will all be Those you killed were all killed by your hypocrisy, all by your ridiculous sense of justice and moral cleanliness!"
Li Yao was dumbfounded and speechless.
Even if he just wanted to delay time at first, "pretending" to be brainwashed by Wu Yingqi.
But now, his Dao heart was really being eroded bit by bit, and countless cold and dark things were injected.
"Things have developed to this point, there will always be countless people who will die, and there will always be countless people who will be brainwashed. Neither you nor I can stop it."
Wu Yingqi sighed and said, "I can only use the deaths of tens of billions of people to prevent the deaths of hundreds of billions of people, and I can only use bright and righteous brainwashing to stop the pale and evil brainwashing of the Holy League. Let countless individual sacrifices be exchanged for the greatest value, so that they can "deserve their death"! Even if doing so will make me infamous forever, but as long as it is beneficial to the future of human civilization, I will never look back. I will kill a million people today Innocent women and children, but tomorrow there will be 10 billion innocent women and children who can live because of my deeds. This is great kindness, great justice, and "great love without boundaries"!
"Cultivator Li Yao, I really appreciate that you are a talent, that's why you speak so earnestly. Are you still obsessed? If you still insist on your own ideas, then come up with a solid truth that can refute me, and how to fight without bloodshed Find a way to solve the four major families and even the Covenant Alliance!"
Li Yao was stunned for a long time, and his voice became weaker and weaker: "But, but if you do this, you will destroy the entire Extreme Heaven Realm! The heart of the empire has been destroyed, so how can we still have the strength to deal with the Holy League?"
"Haha, hahahaha, it seems that you have accepted my proposition in principle, but the details still need to be discussed. This is a trivial matter, and it is easy to solve!"
Wu Yingqi laughed loudly, and waved his hand, "In this matter, you have made the same mistake again, that is, looking at the new world with old eyes—the so-called 'imperial capital' is just a planetary civilization. A real interstellar civilization does not need and should not have an imperial capital at all. Instead of being the heart of the empire, it is simply a tumor of the empire, the biggest burden of the empire!
"In other words, even if an interstellar civilization really needs a political center, it should not be fixed on a certain planet, but should be mobile, so that the power of the political center can be deployed in a timely manner."