Volume 19 Chapter 143 Ideological Education

After hearing Ling Ti's question, Linglong immediately answered, because we had already talked about a lot of things before, and now her conversation with us has become much more natural.

"Actually, I helped that guy fight you just because of a deal."

"Deal?" I asked in surprise: "You couldn't help him fight in exchange for freedom, right?"

Linglong looked at me in surprise and nodded: "Yes, this is how we trade."

"Isn't it? Are you really doing it?" Xiaochun said pretending to be surprised. Then she glanced at me again and said half-jokingly: "Hey, master, let's make a deal in the future, right? Let's fight once." You have to take me shopping, otherwise I will go on strike."

After Xiao Chun finished speaking, Ling immediately asked: "Linglong, you said you made a deal with your former master, how exactly did you make the deal? As his magic pet, why would he do the same if you negotiated a deal with him?"

"He really wants to quit." Linglong said with some pride: "But he is not my opponent. If he doesn't agree, I will make trouble with him all day long. When he goes to level up, I will kill the boss in the distance. I pulled him over to cause trouble for him. I would cause trouble everywhere when he was in the city, attacking city guards on the streets, burning people's shops, smashing sculptures in temples, and beating clerks. Every time after I finished, he would be killed by the city guards. It was miserable.”

When Linglong said this, even I broke into a cold sweat. Now I'm starting to regret finding such a magic pet. How can I catch a magic pet and come back? This is obviously to invite the Bodhisattva back! Fortunately, I didn't leave her alone before, otherwise if she went out and caused trouble for me, I would be annoyed to death.

"What kind of agreement did you finally sign with the former owner?" I asked curiously.

Linglong tilted her head and glanced at me before saying: "I promised him to help him fight two hundred times. It is up to him to decide whether he needs me to participate in the battle, and only the battles won will be counted. If he loses this battle, it will not count. As long as I complete two hundred victories, he must terminate the magic pet contract and give me my freedom."

"So how many times have you done it so far?"

"One hundred and seventy-four times."

After listening to Linglong say this number, I finally understood why she was so angry when I just captured her. Based on this number, if she had not been captured by us, she would have only needed to complete twenty-six more battles to be free. She had won more than a hundred battles, and she was only twenty-six short of being free. Our appearance at such a critical moment completely ruined her efforts. If it were me, I would have gone crazy.

"Do you know what you have done now?" Linglong looked at me angrily and asked.

I met Linglong's gaze and without blushing, I held out a finger and said: "First, fighting is ruthless. When you agreed to help the guy fight, you should have thought that you might be injured in the battle. Death, or even being permanently sealed, and being captured is just one of the situations. If you agree to that guy's request, you should be prepared to accept these punishments. There is no reason to blame it on me."

After saying the first point, I stretched out a finger and continued: "Second, don't say that you still have twenty-six fights before you can become a free agent. So what if you have been a free agent before? Just ask Ling Xiaochun and Xiaochun, who of them didn’t become my demon pet as a free person? If you look at this matter from another angle, you should even thank me for saving you twenty-six meaningless battles. Because even if you finish In those battles, you may still be caught and turned into a demon pet. That person may be me, or it may be anyone."

Seeing me extending a third finger immediately after I finished speaking, Linglong quickly said: "Okay, okay, I know you can find ten thousand reasons, but this can't change my opinion of you. Without freedom, I'd rather die."

"Hahahaha..." After hearing Linglong's conclusion, Ling and Xiaochun who were present laughed together with me.

Linglong looked disapproving at first, but soon she started to feel hairy because of our laughter. "What are you laughing at?"

"I'm laughing at you." I said, "Do you understand what freedom is? Or let's keep it simple and tell us what you think freedom looks like?"

Linglong wanted to quarrel with me at first, but she soon became quiet again. After a slight hesitation, she said: "Freedom means living as you want. I can go wherever I want, rest when I want, and fight when I want." Just fight, do whatever you want, don't have to listen to other people's orders, don't have to do things you don't want to do. This is my freedom."

"Okay, we think this is the freedom you want. So let me ask you, what does it mean to go wherever you want? Do you want to go to the lava pool? Do you want to go to the killing hell? Do you want to go to the Temple of Hades?"

"Of course not, I don't want to die."

I smiled and said: "That's the problem. If I make a cage to put you in, and then let my demon pets guard the cage, and they will kill you as soon as you come out, do you think that as long as you come out? Doesn’t it count as freedom if you don’t leave the cage?”

"How can you be free if you are locked in a cage?"

"But the outside of the cage is my sphere of influence. Will you die if you come out?"

"I... the cage is too small no matter what."

"Oh, it turns out that the cage is smaller. That means a larger space is enough, right? If I designate a forest for you, and then tell you that we will kill you as soon as you come out of the forest, do you think you can stay in the forest? Is it freedom? Or you think the forest is not big enough. If I designate a country or a continent for you as your prison range, do you think that is freedom? "

"I..." Linglong wanted to say yes, but when she thought about it carefully, she felt something was wrong. As a result, she got stuck as soon as she opened her mouth. It took a long time before she suddenly shouted loudly: "The cage just won't work anyway."

"We are chatting, do you need to get so angry?" I said to Linglong first, and then continued: "What you called freedom before is actually a cage, and its range of activities is only what you can enter with your ability. Areas, like the Temple of Hades I mentioned before, you can't get close to at all. Therefore, what you lived in before was just a small area called the world, but in fact many places in it were removed. And I Compared with the cage built for you, this is just a bigger cage. So, what you want is not to escape from the cage, but just a cage that you think is big enough. The places you can't reach outside the cage are not what you really want. You can't go there, but because your strength is absolute, it won't be safe for you to go there. If your strength increases, the cage will also increase. If you are an independent individual, then your cage actually needs to include the vast majority of Part of the human activity area, so when you become my familiar, you actually get a bigger cage without being trapped, because our strength will allow you to reach many areas that you would not dare to enter at all."

Linglong was pondered for a while by what I said, and in the end she could only nod helplessly and admit this. However, she did not give up her spirit of resistance. Instead, she said again: "Although you explained the problem of my activity area, you can't Solve the most fundamental problem, that is, even if I am locked in a small cage, I do not need to accept orders from anyone, but to become your magic pet, I need to do things for you and listen to your orders. This is not me Want freedom.”

"I think an order is an intention imposed on you by others, and you must execute it according to the other person's intention. Can you accept my understanding of the order this way?"

Linglong thought for a moment and said, "That should be what it means."

As soon as Linglong nodded, I immediately said: "Well, since you admit that this means command, do you think that your so-called freedom is not working under the trend of command? When you live in the environment, You will be ordered by the laws of nature, forcing you to forage, fight, defend your territory, and snatch food from enemies you don't want to fight. These are all things you are forced to obey. Also, are you planning to do this? It's definitely impossible for people to live in a place where no one is around. Even if you are a mutant succubus, you are a social creature after all. You can be alone for a short time, but can you bear it for a long time? Of course, you can make friends, but Can you say no to helping your friends when they are in need? Although your friends will not directly order you to do things for them, the end result is that you have to do something because you see your friend in trouble. This is not you You have to do what you want to do. This is a hidden command, it is more euphemistic, but it still requires you to execute it."

"That's different."

"No, that's the same. In fact, there are no truly free people in this world, or everyone is actually free. Freedom itself is a very illusory concept. When your heart is free , then you are free. Even if you are in an iron cage and enslaved by others, you are still free. When your heart feels that it is bound, that freedom will no longer exist. Even if you stand on the top of the world, You have all the power in the world, but you are still bound by the rules you set. This is why many top beings of the Protoss feel that they are not free, because their status requires too many rules to maintain, so the end result is They tied themselves to death."

"What you said seems to make sense, but I won't listen to your excuses. If you follow you, there will be no freedom. I firmly believe this."

Hearing this, I could only shrug helplessly. I just want to play rogue. I have no moves against Linglong like this. My only hope is that Ling and Xiaochun's Infernal Affairs can play some tricks. If I can take her down in one fell swoop, it should be considered as adding another one to me. A huge boost. Of course, I'm not talking about having sex with Linglongooxx. Even if she was willing, I wouldn't dare. Although Rose seems to be very open to me, it is also based on my self-consciousness. Besides, it’s not like everyone doesn’t know the situation of my group of demon pets. Once I start here with Linglong, I don’t know about the other demon pets. Ling will definitely not be able to escape. Even if I force her, she will have to push me back. In order to avoid falling into a women's war in the future, it is best to hold back on this matter. It doesn't matter if a man is lustful, but he must be able to control his lower body. It feels good when he eats it, and the troubles he gets later will definitely let you know what it means to be in dire straits.

After I stopped talking, Ling and Xiaochun immediately took over the chatting to avoid embarrassment. I have always said that it is convenient to have more magic pets. Even when doing ideological work, we can divide labor and cooperate. Ling and Xiaochun's thoughts are completely at two extremes, but this extreme environment makes it easier for people to see the root of the matter. I believe that even if Linglong doesn't interrupt, she can understand a lot of things by listening to the two of them arguing.

Just chatting and flying, we soon arrived at Tianyu City's sphere of influence. Flying directly into the city from the air, without saying hello to anyone else, I wanted to return directly to Essinger from the transnational teleportation array, but before I even reached the teleportation array, I was stopped by someone over there.

"President, President."

When I heard the cry below, I looked down and saw that several people were waving at me desperately, and there was another guy running towards the gryphon in the distance, as if he was planning to fly up and chase me. Seeing that they seemed to be in a hurry, I didn't wait for them to come up. I pointed directly down and dropped down with Ling and the others.

"What do you want from me?" I asked aloud when I saw several people running towards me.

A guild player on the opposite side ran to me and stood in front of me. He looked at Linglong in confusion, and then said: "That's it, the Dark Temple headquarters just sent an envoy over to say that they have something to talk to you about. We are looking for you." I was going to inform the God of War to contact you, but unexpectedly you just flew over."

"Where is the messenger?"

"over there."

"Come with me and have a look." I said hello to Linglong and walked towards the envoy.

The person Ditans sent this time was obviously a high-level undead. From a distance, I could feel the aura of death on that guy's body that was so thick that it couldn't be dispelled.

"I've seen the Great Lord Purple Sun." When he saw me walking over with a group of people, the undead man, who was completely covered in black robes, immediately put his hands up and down in front of him, and then bowed forward. Thirty degree bow.

Seeing that the other party actually used such a formal understanding, I had no choice but to return to the etiquette of a lord meeting his subjects. Speaking of which, the one that places the most emphasis on etiquette and systems in "Zero" is actually not China, which is known as the land of etiquette. Of course, it is not the Temple of Light, which shouts that order is my life every day. In fact, the ones who pay the most attention to order in "Zero" should actually be the undead. The system of these guys is so perfect that it's outrageous. If I wasn't accompanied by Ling, who was also a goddess in the Dark Temple, these complicated etiquette would definitely make me faint.

After seeing me returning the gift, the other party immediately said: "Dear Lord, Lord Ditans hopes that you can go to the Lord of Darkness Temple as soon as possible. There is a very big business that I hope you can take over."

"Business?" I was stunned for a moment and asked, "Do you know what business it is? I don't have much time now!"

The messenger on the other side heard my words and immediately asked: "Can you let me come closer to speak?"

I hesitated for a moment and then nodded in agreement. Anyway, Ditans is unlikely to find someone to assassinate me, and besides, I'm not that easy to kill. Leaning forward slightly, the messenger immediately walked up to me, put his mouth to my ear and whispered a word, and my eyes widened instantly. He turned around, grabbed the other person's wrist and asked. : "Is everything you said true?"

"That's what Lord Ditans said. I'm just a messenger. What I can guarantee is that what I'm telling you is what Lord Ditans told me personally. As for what the Lord God thinks, I can't guarantee it. "

After hearing his words, I let go of him directly, then pulled out the crystal communicator and shouted: "Military God, I'm going to see Ditans. I won't go back to Essinger. Oh, by the way, I'm here. There is also something that is suspected to be the Book of the World. I will have someone send it back later, and you ask them to hurry up and study it."

"Is that all?"

"That's all." I cut off the communication and took back the communicator. I immediately said to Ling, Xiaochun and Linglong: "Let's go to the Dark Temple."

Ling smiled and said: "It's been a long time since I went back to the Dark Temple!"

Xiao Chun sneered disdainfully and said, "I don't care about that kind of smelly place!"

What surprised me was that Linglong actually said, "Can we really enter the Dark Temple? It's a first-level restricted area!"

"Yes for you, but not for me." I said and said to the messenger: "Shall we set off now? Don't keep Ditans waiting."

The messenger was obviously well prepared. He actually took a scroll directly from his body and said: "The Lord God knew that you would be in a hurry after hearing those words, so he asked me to prepare this."

I took the scroll and took a look and realized that this thing was actually a fixed-point teleportation scroll. Its function is to teleport all the people within a certain range around it to the hall of the Dark Temple at the moment the scroll is activated. With this thing, we save time on the road and tear up the scroll directly. After a few seconds, we appeared in the hall of the Dark Temple.

"Eh? Did you just renovate this place?" I discovered the difference in the Dark Temple as soon as the teleportation ended. This place has changed tremendously from the last time I came here. The hall that was originally only as big as four basketball courts was somehow expanded into a huge hall comparable to *** Square, and the weird thing is that The big house doesn't even have any pillars. It is estimated that not only space magic is used here, but also structural strengthening magic. Otherwise, such a big house does not need external force, and the super-large-span ceiling alone has to be used because of Zhongli collapsed.

Before the messenger who brought me here had time to answer my words, a group of people walked out of the door opposite. After seeing the three people walking in the front, I was so shocked that I almost dislocated my jaw. "Ditans, Philindil, Marilyn? How did you three get together?"