Chapter 1902 Choice
The universe is so quiet that humans who come to the universe for the first time will always look out the window involuntarily, and the Xiongbinglian has the opportunity to come to the deck to "take a breath".
But at this time, Duran was planning something with ill intentions. He wanted to teach the whole universe a lesson, which was a vivid practical lesson.
Dukao asked everyone on the aircraft carrier to come to the hangar. A large screen had been erected in the hangar, and Duran's face occupied the entire screen.
As soon as they saw Duran, all the crew members felt indescribably heavy and complicated. Duran had helped them, but Duran's cynicism scared them.
"Everyone is here." Dukao didn't know what Duran was doing today. He didn't know where he was, but he could still make trouble.
"Ahem, hello everyone, I'm Duran. I'm now broadcasting live to the entire universe at the edge of the distant universe. Today is the 30th day since I proposed the Dark Forest Theory. Let's take a lesson and start from practice. Now demons, humans, Taotie, angels, Tianzha, No Star, Lieyang Star, and Styx have all entered the live broadcast room." Tianzha is the name of a male angel by a female angel, and the scum of an angel is referred to as Tianzha.
On major planets, Duran's signal was forcibly inserted, forcing all civilizations to attend class.
"Today's class is mainly about the chain of suspicion, and our protagonists are the three warships of the Taotie Corps. These three warships started from the Styx civilization. After being interfered by me, they were directly drifted to the corner of the universe due to wormhole failures. That was a dead place, far beyond the cognitive scope of the Taotie Corps. Now let's see what choices the Taotie will make in order to survive."
In order to survive, the five human spaceships in the Three-Body Universe broke out of the chain of suspicion, and finally killed each other and robbed resources, just to keep themselves alive.
Will the Taotie Corps do the same now?
The situation of the three Taotie spaceships will be broadcast live to the entire universe.
The spaceships have been drifting for a while, about fifteen days. They were originally only carrying out short-distance jump support missions, and the resources they brought were not many. Fifteen days is already the limit.
A few days ago, there were voices saying that they would take action to grab resources, but now they have not taken action. However, every Taotie has reached the limit and is almost unable to hold on.
The shortage of resources means that death is approaching, and death or action is a question. The Taotie are also arguing, and their arguments are broadcast live.
Is this a practical class? After figuring out the situation, every audience member only felt a chill on their backs. Duran actually used his life to conduct experiments? Nothing is more inhumane and cruel than this.
However, the audience is just an audience, and they have no ability to interfere with this experiment happening in a corner of the universe. They can only watch the Taotie on the screen arguing endlessly.
Survival or death? Lost in the unknown universe, all means have been tried. They have completely lost contact with the Styx civilization and don’t know how to find a suitable planet to replenish resources. Seeing death approaching, each Taotie had an idea in his mind, that is, if he wanted to survive now, he could only let others die.
If their spaceship wanted to persist, they could only grab the resources of the other two spaceships. Otherwise, all of them would die, immediately.
Now a leader was needed to make a decision, and all the pots had to be taken by the leader, and he would decide whether to do it or not.
The audience's palms were sweating. Although they were not the parties involved, the despair of being lost in the universe was empathetic. Especially humans, they had just entered the universe, but immediately encountered such a cruel choice, which made them realize that the universe was far from as gentle as they imagined. The universe is so vast that it can turn any concept and civilization into nothingness. The sparks of thought that humans are proud of are not worth mentioning in the universe.
The universe is like a dark eye, ruthlessly watching everything. Everything is just a fleeting scenery. No matter how beautiful it is, it is powerless to stay.
What happened in the three spaceships was very similar. After they lost contact with each other, the choice of survival and destruction ran through all their time. Everyone has their own ideas, and everyone has bad ideas.
When a person does not demand himself to be true, kind and beautiful, then he must have slipped into false, ugly and evil. Although this statement is extreme, it sometimes makes sense.
Because sometimes if you do not insist on justice, you have become an accomplice.
At this critical moment of survival, if they do not oppose the preemptive strike in their hearts, then it is equivalent to acquiescence. At this time, only loud opposition can prove their position on their compatriots. Unfortunately, no one stood up to oppose. In order to survive, they are all sliding towards the cruel side. There is no neutrality at this time. It is either opposition or support. Neutrality is nothing more than an accomplice.
Even across the screen, the atmosphere is suffocating. Some viewers can't watch it anymore. It's too cruel. Even if the Taotie is an ugly enemy, they also have wisdom. Seeing that the Taotie has to accept this cruel experiment, the good morality is suffering.
Some people have even seen the ending. The Taotie's eyes tell everything. They will look at the captain resolutely. Whether to take action or not can be decided by pressing a button.
At this time, a determined captain must choose between morality and the survival of the crew. Should we stick to morality and not worry about the future, or should we succumb to reality?
"The other ships must be considering whether to take action now."
This sentence made all the audience feel cold, because in the desperate situation, everyone could not help but choose the cruel option.
At this time, the audience will definitely find it difficult to make a decision if they put themselves in the shoes of the audience. There is a fierce conflict between the concept and the reality. The concept makes them choose kindness and they must not attack, but the reality makes them choose to survive, and attack is the best choice.
When they can't make a choice, the audience will think about what the ancient sages would do when they encounter this situation? Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, Sakyamuni, Qin Shi Huang and Han Wu, Tang Zong and Song Zu, Bodhidharma and Huineng, Jack Ma and Jobs, what would they do when they encounter this choice?
Is it to sacrifice oneself for the sake of benevolence, or is it better to live a miserable life than to die?
I am afraid that different sages have different choices, even Kaisha and Morgana will have different choices.
Unlike the Three-Body Universe, the five human ships in the Three-Body bear the responsibility of the last successors of human civilization. In order to allow human civilization to continue for a longer time, the best way is to preserve the self and let civilization survive. Morality is not worth mentioning in the face of the survival of civilization. If civilization disappears, the derivative morality of civilization will naturally be worthless. To preserve morality, civilization must be preserved first.
But now the Taotie civilization does not have this kind of pressure. Whether to abandon all moral choices and do whatever it takes to survive requires a huge moral pressure.
For example, everyone praises Qu Yuan, not only because he contributed to the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, but also because of his noble character, but he died. Among the many other celebrities who are praised, those who are praised for their noble character generally have a miserable end, while those who are scolded for having problems with their character generally achieve worldly success.
So the facts prove that it is better to live a miserable life than to die a good death, and the idea of sacrificing oneself for the sake of righteousness is praised by people, but it is not so easy to do.
In ancient times, sacrificing oneself for the sake of righteousness was required of scholars and nobles, and it was tailor-made for civilians, but these two contradictory ideas have become requirements for everyone unconsciously.
If it were in ancient times, the captain and leadership of the warship should insist on sacrificing their lives for righteousness, while ordinary crew members should choose to live a miserable life than to die a good death.
Unfortunately, the times are different, and there is no such clear-cut moral division, and everyone has become a chooser at the fork in the road.