Chapter 18 Persuasion
Luo Ye is facing a problem.
"Drink it." Mei put a bowl of steaming red soup on the table. The color had to make Luo Ye doubt its hygiene. "This is…"
"Beetroot soup, to make you appetizing, I added tomato sauce to it."
Luo Ye dipped his spoon a few times and said, "Where's the food?" "It's sitting at the bottom of the soup. If you want to eat it, I can get you another bowl. ... No, the clear soup is enough!" He picked up the soup, Looking at the bright red soup, I kept thinking in my heart.
This is tomato juice, you can drink it, you can drink it, you can drink it...
"Drink."
Die early and be born early. I hope I'm not in the toilet at this time tomorrow. He put the bowl to his mouth, raised his head, and drank heavily.
"Hiccup~" Luo Ye burped. Huh? Why am I full after just one soup? Also, why is this soup so spicy? "Water..."
"Go to sleep after eating and move around more. By the way, how does this soup taste?" "Not salty, not bland, the taste... is just right. I, I'll go drink some water..."
Mei looked at the scene of Luo Ye sticking out his tongue while pouring water, and waved his left hand helplessly, "If you are so impulsive and easy to get hurt again in the future, who will protect you? I can't protect you forever..."
She felt a little bit about her parents' hard work. What did her father do when he went out every day? "I'll go out for a while. You stay at home and don't be naughty!"
The trees outside the building have long lost all their greenness, and the dead grass on the ground has merged into the earth. Only a few lights on a few tall buildings in the distance are left, showing the world the last vitality of this place. "What a boring, withered world...it's so silencing."
The streets were empty, with no one around. Xiang was walking alone among the broken dead leaves, breathing in the hot air. It was too quiet. Where had everyone gone?
"Don't turn around anymore, there's no one here anymore." An old and familiar voice blocked her feet. She slowly turned back. The man was leaning against the tree. His hair was slightly disheveled, but he was energetic. His figure was slightly old, but he was still strong. "Go home, dad is here to pick you up."
Xiang hesitated for a moment, then slowly walked over. No, she walked a few steps and started running again. No, she rushed over when she ran quickly. She twitched and her clothes were soaked with tears. "Okay, why don't I come now? Let's go home!"
"Wait a minute." Xiang let go of his hand and took a step back. "So, what about the people here?"
"What do you care about people and people? In a few days, this place will be bloodbathed by the army. Go back quickly! It's not too late." "Army, army?" "There is nothing we can do about it. In order to prevent the werewolves from killing us, With its claws pointed elsewhere, the military has no choice but to adopt this bloody tactic." "But, there are still millions of people here..."
"Let them wish for themselves. I believe the army will not be stupid enough to attack indiscriminately. Let's go!" Cheng grabbed her hand, but Xiang broke away from his hand. "We can't abandon the people here! Let's go together!" "Silly girl, the evacuation of millions of people is not as simple as you think. Almost everyone who has walked here in the past two months has Impossible! Let’s go!”
"Dad, do you still remember how you taught me?" "Now is not the time to remember, ah, why are you not as obedient as you were when you were a child."
"When I was a child, I was really obedient. I listened to your words of insisting on the light. I listened to the teacher's words of beauty. I also listened to the lies I made up for myself. Even after I came here, I listened to the advice given to me by my seniors. I gave I made up a fairy tale. But what about the real story? Look, a colleague of mine was driven crazy by his superiors and turned into a werewolf. He died by himself. A senior I respected spent his whole life seeking fame and fortune. I worked so hard for information, and ended up being killed in a car explosion by a group of people in an abandoned factory. Even the child I rescued that night was treated as a scapegoat and abused by others. As of yesterday, he was raped by a group of wild children on campus. Violence, beauty? Light? Where is it? Point it to me!"
Cheng wiped his face with his hands in pain. "Okay, okay, Dad, don't you believe I was wrong? Come home with me first, okay?"
"Go home? We went home, but the people here lost their homes permanently after two months. Will I be able to return to this home safely?
"Xiang!" Cheng knew he was going to be hard. "I am your father! Listen to me and come home with me immediately!"
"You are my father, but people here also have their fathers!" I can't let the old people here with white hair give away the people with black hair!" Xiang resolutely turned around and walked back. "Father, go back and wait for us. Eliminate the werewolves here. I will go wherever you tell me to go. Home, I can't go back now. "
Cheng wanted to say something more, but an ancient female voice made him freeze in place.
"Now, there may not be beauty or light in this world, but there is people's obsession and efforts for it. Just like in the dark night, people look at the bright moon in the sky, and they always look forward to the sun tomorrow. When the battle comes, some people will fall into a deep sleep, but the light of the sun will always shine on everyone hurt by the darkness and wake up everyone who is sleepy."
Xiang's hair was blown by the autumn wind, which brought Cheng's thoughts back to the days when she was a child: she couldn't walk at that time, so he could only carry her on his back and walk among the autumn leaves in the mountains. She grabbed two handfuls of leaves and kept walking. Stuffing it into her clothes... "Maybe, she has really grown up, although she still has some emotions..."
He didn't tell Xiang that everyone here was called away by the team leader appointed by the parliament.
"Let's go and see what this team leader is up to."
"Hey, what's the name of this ruthless man?" Kerry stood in front of the werewolf corpse on the ground, frowning. "There are still twenty-three people on the list. If we subtract the few corpses here, there are only...eighteen people?"
"Team leader, the results of the investigation are out. These five werewolves were scratched to death by the claws of their own kind. Only the blood stains of these five werewolves were analyzed at the scene, so... they died from internal fighting."
Another team member questioned. "Werewolves are very united, and there is basically no internal fighting. I suspect that humans should have killed them with weapons made from ruthless claws."
Kerry clapped his hands, "Anyway, our enemies have been reduced, which is a good thing for us. As for the hero...it doesn't matter, if he wants to be an unsung hero, let him be." Kerry's communicator rang. . "Hello?"
"Team leader, all the people you want to call are here." "Okay, keep an eye on those special targets. If there is anything unusual, kill them on the spot!"
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"Okay everyone, cheers, we have eliminated all the werewolves here."
The sky was still cloudy, but there were a few thunder rolls occasionally.
"It's not a good day recently. You never took an umbrella when going out on rainy days..." Mei's mother was sitting in a wheelchair, holding Mei's father with one hand and stroking the tree with a few leaves hanging on it with the other hand. Big tree. "In the past, you always loved to bring your daughter here to play.
The autumn wind blew over Father Mei's face that had been eroded by time. He had not seen his daughter's smile for more than ten years.
"I'm back and you are all still alive and well. This is the best."
"You two had a great chat."
Father Mei tightened his grip on his hanging crutch. "There are two types of people I hate the most. One is those who ruin the atmosphere, and the other is those who don't know how to respect the elderly and care for the young. Oh, you may not be human."
"Haha..." A burst of cold laughter came, and a young man who looked feminine and frail but actually had murderous eyes jumped down from the tree and landed just in front of Mei's father. "As expected of a colonel of the Imperial Army, he can Hear who I really am.”
"From the moment I entered the Three Realms, I knew you would come to me, and only you would come to me, because all the top human beings have run away." "Smart." The young man clapped his hands. "Tell me the secret, of course. You can choose to tell it yourself, or you can choose to let me help you!" The young man took advantage of Mei's father not reacting, and turned his right hand into a wolf's claw to stab him fiercely.
"Irritated." Mei's father moved his crutch.
The werewolf's claws, in the young man's expectation, should have penetrated the opponent's abdomen accurately. However, his expectation was shattered - his hand was stuck in the big branch next to him, lifeless at all.
"You can freely control the changing form of the werewolf. It seems that you are wild." Mei's father gently stroked Mei's mother's hand. "Axiang, you go first, their target is not you." "But you..." "You don't have to worry." Mei's father smiled slightly. "I will defeat them."
In the afternoon, Luo Ye returned to school. Quite simply, his injury was healed.
"Sister, we can't go back to school tomorrow... You see, I still need to rest for a while..." "No, everyone else is learning, but if you don't learn, you will be left behind in the future. Also, I don't think you need it now. Rest.”
"Oops, my back hurts..." "Come here, sister, I'll rub it for you..."
"Hey... I'm lonely in this involution world..." Luo Ye rubbed his waist and sat in the waiting room, waiting for the head teacher to pick him up. ——Actually, the teachers all went to the meeting. After all, they thought that the werewolves had been eliminated. Sitting opposite Luo Ye was a classmate who was still memorizing words in a book.
"Brother, which class are you in?" Bored Luo Ye wanted to relieve the embarrassment, but the other person just flicked his glasses and ignored him.
"Classmate?" Luo Ye was a little doubtful whether he was a disabled compatriot.
"Please don't disturb my study." The classmate's voice was colder than the words in the textbook.
"No, buddy, you're still taking the exam now, are you still going to let us ordinary class people live?"
"No, I'm also in the regular class."
"You're still doing this in the regular class?!" Luo Ye was a little angry. In every class there was that kind of guy who could only do exams and nothing else. Although his grades were good, his personality was unacceptable. "Classmate, have you just been discharged from the hospital? Take care of yourself."
"No, I had a fever. I went home and lay down all morning. I have important things to talk about in the afternoon. Anyway, my temperature has gone down a bit now and it doesn't affect my condition anymore. I'm back. Also, the hospital is closed."
Luo Ye didn't hear the second half of the sentence, but he heard the first half clearly. "Isn't it? If I were you, I could stay in bed for another day. By the way, why are you curled up like this?"
"Getting into a good high school." "What is the purpose of getting into a good high school?" "Getting into a good university." "What is the purpose of getting into a good university?" "Finding a good job, finding a good wife, income Fight well." "Doing the above will make your life happy?" "Isn't it true?"
Luo Ye couldn't help but laugh. "Okay! Now I'll give you a good diploma, give you 100 million, and give you a beautiful wife, and let you enjoy it for three seconds and then die. Are you willing?" "Why only give me three seconds?" Seconds?" A look of anger appeared on the classmate's face. "Isn't that what life is like? How many years do you think you can enjoy the ideal life you are pursuing? When you complete these so-called goals, you will find that your eyes are empty because you have lost your direction."
“What does this have to do with my efforts to involute?”
"Oh, look, you are involuntarily involved and why are you studying? I have a good job, a high income, and a good wife. When you complete these, you will think that you don't need to study anymore. In other words, you have lost the internal motivation to learn. You will make two choices. One is to enjoy everything you have and enjoy this wonderful life. Then there will be a sudden change or disaster in the outside world, and you will collapse and fall. The other is to fall into decline. Mediocrity, becoming a slave to the pressure of life, and then losing oneself and losing direction."
"That's enough. Stop talking. It's all nonsense."
"No, everything that happens in life has fully confirmed what I just said. How many people start to degenerate and waste their lives after going to college, immersed in games? How many people forget about themselves while getting good jobs and working overtime? The original dream? You, your junior high school papers, high school papers, and college papers were all wasted or returned. After entering the society and starting to work, you forgot everything that belonged to you, dreams, meanings, hobbies, love..."
"Shut up! Do you mean that I don't need to take the roll anymore and play every day like you social losers? I roll the roll. Do you think I want to take the roll? No one wants to endure hardship, but the pressure from the outside world always makes them betray their true intentions. ! As long as those rich people can order fewer seats in good schools every year, as long as our three areas can have a triple-A quality university, as long as the eleven and six areas around us can attract less of our resources, and can absorb less of the outside world Give us more talents evenly, so that our three areas can be more developed, people from the outside world can be less involved, and the pressure from the outside world can be less..." The classmate's voice became softer and softer, and in the end he started to cry, with tears. It soaked his collar.
For some reason, every time he saw a crying person, Luo Ye would think of his old self, that poor, fragile, vulnerable person who still had a glimmer of hope for something.
"You still haven't jumped out of that circle, classmate, think about it, is studying really for grades? Is studying really for you to make more money? Break out of the circle of fame and fortune. Learning is not a tool for fame and fortune."
"If I don't study hard here, how will I survive in the future? The full score in the college entrance examination is 750. If I don't get 600, I won't be able to get a good place! If I go to a better place, I will need more than 700. If my family has a million-dollar fortune, what will I do? Are you working so hard here? You think, ordinary people like us, in such an ordinary land, if we don't learn, what path can we take?"
"What is the university exam used for? To select talents; What is the university used for? To cultivate talents; Why do people above pay attention to it? They need talents. So, as long as you become a useful talent to society, you will be successful You have passed the college entrance examination, 360 lines, and you can find talents. There are many paths you can take. Do you only have the path that parents and teachers always talk about? There are countless unknown paths in the world, and every path has its own path. Everyone has unknown challenges and achievements. Sadly, human beings have many followers who follow the path that has been taken by their predecessors, but there are few pioneers who dare to explore new roads and new worlds. You have your own way to go. You have countless possibilities at every point in your life. Life is an exploration game with no final outcome.
"My own... road?"
"What are you good at? What do you like? What is your dream? Think about it, oh, I'm not completely negative about education, I just think people's route is a little crooked."
"Those top academics..."
"People are not perfect, nor can they be perfect. Everyone has what they are good at and what they are not good at. They just happen to be good at studying for exams or something. Learning from each other's strengths is just a manifestation of people's stupidity. Exploiting strengths and avoiding weaknesses is the route that geniuses must take." Luo Ye A game came to mind. "Would you want a hero with all B's? One with no S's or A's."
"Thank you." The classmate wiped his tears and bowed to him. "My dream is to become an e-sports king."
"Wait a minute, it's better to have a long-term dream. If you realize it too early, your life won't have much meaning. Playing e-sports... is like retiring after you are twenty."
"That's right." A familiar voice sounded next to him. "You don't have to look, only the two of us can hear it."
"Guardian? Just right. Please tell me how to become stronger."
"Yes, I'm more awake than before. By the way, there's news about your grandfather." "What?" Luo Ye shouted excitedly, but the classmates opposite him didn't react at all. "He asked me to tell you not to try to go back before reaching the planet level. I think he should be targeted by a certain force."
"What does planet level mean?"
"It's very simple. Your grandfather forcibly absorbed all the power of the twelve priests, and he reached the half-step peak from the ordinary level to the planet level in one fell swoop. Now the priesthood has also awakened inexplicably. You can try it. Oh, this method given to you may be There will be some side effects, you have to ask your grandpa for details."
"What's your strength?" "On par with your grandfather." "Then you are the strongest on this planet?" "No, there is still a... boss who is here to recuperate temporarily... Although, she treats you very badly. no offence…"
"Huh? Why are you silent? Hello? Hello? Guardian, did you forget to pay the Internet fee again? You run away every time you say half a sentence!"
"Ahem...classmate, aren't you feeling a little uncomfortable?"
"It's okay, I just remembered a happy thing." "Actually... I still have a question, what is education... for?"
Luo Ye thought for a moment, stood up, and clenched his hands into fists. "First, in order to make us better, in order to make us more powerful when chasing our dreams; second, in order to serve the country, everything we eat and so on comes from the country. The country has trained us. After we become talented, , naturally we must repay the country and make its future brighter; third, let our hearts move from childishness to maturity, and let our nature move from barbarism to civilization. When there are many such "beasts" in human beings, it is education. Failure; 4. The most important thing to you is to make yourself more valuable."
"Everyone, what do you think about the current situation of Yiyu?"
"The chief of the first region has declared independence, and the regional troops have been sent to defend the three regions, as well as the imperial army. Therefore, based on the current shortage of troops, I think we can put forward some conditions first and adopt a slow strategy. etc. Just counterattack when we have enough troops."
"I would like to second my opinion. Currently, there is no regular army in a region, and it is impossible for the chief of a region to be secure. We might as well wait for them to fight among themselves, and then solve the problem after the final winner emerges."
"I don't agree. We still have 50,000 troops in hand. With our strength, we are enough to defeat all enemies who stand in our way! I think we should take military action now. This can also enhance our prestige. Don't you even look at it? What do the outside world think of us now!"
"Public credibility, what is that? Our free continent has changed its parliament so many times, which parliament has credibility? Public opinion is not influenced by brains and personal reputation, but by money!"
"Everyone, I think you have all forgotten about the mob in the first area? People from the Intelligence Department just came to report to me. Those guys have captured many factories."
"Hmph, this is enough to show that the chief of a domain is a useless person. He can't even solve a small parade."
"Okay." "Speaker..." "I would like to ask your rank, how many troops are stationed outside the three regions?"
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"I didn't expect to win this big factory so smoothly. Pioneer, you are really amazing!" A worker wearing a ragged hat and slightly ragged clothes excitedly pulled the young man in the suit, but the other person shook his head. shook his head. "We are actually not that powerful. There is another force that is more powerful than any other force in the world." "What force?"
The young man pointed to a group of workers in the distance. "Look, there. Yes, it is the power of the common people united. It can break any iron chain imprisoned on the lower class people, and can make all the thorny classes in the world feel frightened and flee. They, Only then can we be considered powerful. We are just their vanguard."
"Then, can I... join you?"
The young man smiled and handed a red pamphlet to the worker. "Study seriously. You can't achieve great things if you just act recklessly without studying theory."
