Luo Binhan slowly lowered his head and glanced at himself.
"you said I?"
"There's clearly no other possibility here."
"Aren't you kidding me? I don't have any grudge against Lao Mo's brother, so why should I be hostile to him? Isn't it okay to be jealous that he is handsome?"
Luo Binhan sat back down again. He temporarily forgot about Li Li's unusual action just now, and just wanted to figure out where her strange assumption came from.
"I didn't say you were hostile to anyone, sir." Li Li explained, "You were hostile to the role of 'hero'."
"Then what am I? A villain?"
"You don't need to have an identity for yourself in order to look at something else. You're more of an avid spectator of our dilemma."
Luo Binhan curled his lips. But Li Li seemed confident. Still smiling, she said, "Heroes are a complicated question, sir."
"How complicated is it? Beating little monsters?"
"When you say that, you are judging heroes from a certain standpoint, but that is obviously not the only criterion. Sir, 'hero' is a concept with a strong imaginative component, so we must define it before discussing it."
Li Li's back left the wall. She started pacing the room, looking very interested. Luo Binhan followed her with his eyes and saw her reaching out to write in the air. The virtual ink marks formed words that he knew or didn't know.
"Let's consider this matter first from its etymology." Li Li said, "The word 'hero' in some languages originates from 'protect', 'defend', and 'save'. We can easily see its origins." The origin of the definition; in other languages it means 'the enlightened one', which represents some kind of special - we can say god-given - superhuman wisdom; and in your native language, sir, if you simply follow In its literal interpretation, we compare people to the essence of plants and the leaders of animals, which is talking about the talent and courage of heroes."
"Does it have to be a male?" Luo Binhan said deliberately. But Li Li was not led by him at all, she just wagged her fingers casually.
“Let’s skip some of the historical limitations,” she said. “That doesn’t help the current discussion, although it is a useful topic in its own right. The question we are considering now is the combination of the hero’s mission, talent and After their moral character, we still see that they have some... common flaws."
"defect?"
"They're unfinished."
"What the hell?"
"Let us explain it this way," Li Li said, "It is always easy for us to see two kinds of decent characters in stories. One is younger, heroic, and shoulders the unfinished business. The other is older - —It doesn’t have to be an actual age, the real point is that it’s a completed form of a certain state. The two types of people can have many similar qualities, but usually we only see the former as a hero.”
Luo Binhan was a little confused. He still didn't understand what Li Lili told him, but he had not lost interest in the topic.
"So, what's the point of being old?"
"We have many words to describe it: sage, mentor, spirit, god... and if you ask me, I think it's just an idol. I see you laughing, sir. That's obviously what you think of as an 'idol' This word is not serious enough. But if you carefully examine some of our daily vocabulary, you will find that it had a much heavier meaning in the past."
Li Li returned to the original wall. She leaned her back against the wall and looked at a hulking machine in the corner.
"When people use statues made of clay and wood to express sacrifices, it means that they are facing a stable image that will not change significantly, sir." She said, "Usually, it can only be the deceased or gods. , maybe some of their prototypes have been given life, but they are always shaped after that, after their fate is completely ended and finalized. Sometimes in some stories they are resurrected in some form - - God's descent, apocalypse, relics left behind, or an old man living in secret seclusion, but that does not change the fact: the fact is that they are over. There is no journey for them to complete, no difficulty for them to overcome. So they Nor will they be regarded as heroes any more. Sir, if we now turn this thing around, we can easily conclude that heroes are idols of unfinished form. Through the journey of form, they finally solve the external problem. crisis, or their own spiritual dilemma, until their mission is completed. Only then will they be transformed into some kind of idols."
"You make it sound as if this is something you wrote."
"For some 'magic', the mechanism by which they work is closer to creation than reality, sir. Decide where a role will be needed first, and then decide who would fit the slot - but not everyone will fit. .The most important position is always reserved for the 'hero'. It can be neither a mortal nor a god, it always has to be somewhere in between."
Luo Binhan opened his mouth sensitively. But Li Li raised his hand and said: "I know what you are thinking, sir. In some contexts, we emphasize that there are heroes among mortals, and that is usually out of praise for some kind of contribution. But, just in my case My personal point of view is simply based on the needs of the times."
"Can you speak human language?"
"When we don't need an overly prominent hero to appear," Li Li said, "we begin to try our best to promote that mortals are heroes. However, I still want to point out that 'emphasis' itself is an admission of the opposite fact. We It can be seen that Mr. Momolo and his race have many typical heroic qualities, which is undoubtedly the reason why the Alliance is keen to choose them as the prototype of the promotional film. Another advantage of theirs is that the lifespan of the Everlight Tribe depends on Their mental will, and therefore their journeys are always drawn out, which means that they are not 'finished' quickly. From all indications, I think this is something you like about them, sir. Nonetheless I still Let’s just say – the journey will inevitably end.”
Luo Binhan looked at his toes, then looked up at her. He didn't say anything dry and cheap, and Li Li no longer had that confident smile on his face.
"It seems to me that you hate the end, sir." Li Li said lowly and softly, "The end of a hero, living, dying, becoming a saint, or the opposite. I think that may not make any difference to you. You It also doesn’t matter how it’s done – saving the world, completing revenge, or just a pure journey. The only thing you resist is the matter of ‘let the hero be completed’ itself.”
She walked slowly towards Luo Binhan and stretched out a pale hand as if to touch Luo Binhan's face. But she kept this movement in a suspended state, with a few centimeters of distance between.
"Vulgar comedy is a kind of deconstruction of history and myth." She whispered, "Contempt, hostility, disgust... Wrapped in absurd words, the real emotions can disappear, but you know that worship is a kind of The nature of fragile life. This ritual has been ubiquitous since ancient times. Now, Mr. Upsilon is chasing his end, and if you are unable to stop him, how can you hope to stop the bigger roulette wheel? If everything It’s gone, how long can you keep telling jokes?”
She pulled back her hand as if nothing had happened and put it back into her coat pocket.
"This is my answer, sir." She said calmly, "The information you provided is not enough for me to judge Mr. Upsilon's future safety. If you have more information later, I will be happy to help."
