"'What is your definition of a human being?' When Old Pique and Old Ryan asked you this question yesterday, your answer was 'Have a sense of human identity.' After that, you discovered the flaw in the test, and the question ended——
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Tesla already knew all of Lu Li's performance and answers that day, which was one of the reasons why he had a good impression of Lu Li.
"That's it. That's the literal meaning of that sentence." Lu Li said concisely.
"You mean 'having a human identity'?"
"Um."
"The scope is too big. You need to be more detailed. For example, if a being who becomes a ghost after death can be considered a human being. For example, if an evil god who is resurrected through sacrifice thinks he is a human being, can it be considered a human being? For example.
Can dependents with human memories or thoughts be considered human beings?"
"What are dependents?"
Lu Li never misses an opportunity to miss out on knowledge.
"A descendant or servant of the evil god. You must know that the evil god was born because of certain sacrifices or ritual-like behaviors. People who believe in it and those close to it will uncontrollably transform due to the birth of the evil god. Some of them will remain
Some human beings' wisdom and thinking will degenerate into beasts. It depends on what kind of evil god the envelope is... In short, there are too many such dependent servant races, and I can't give you enough examples."
Tesla buy one get two free.
His answer reminded Lu Li of something, some of the family members he met in the Shadow Swamp.
A family of four, a six-legged savage, and a female corpse that became one with the banyan tree. Did they once live as ordinary humans?
Breaking away from his thoughts, Lu Li nodded to Tesla who was waiting for his answer: "Yes, broadly speaking, I think they are human beings."
"That's great..." Tesla's eyes did not hide his admiration, and he said with emotion: "This is why there is a ghost lady following you."
Lu Li's dark eyes narrowed and he looked around: "Is she following?"
"No, no, not really. I'm just talking about the information we investigated. You have a ghost assistant."
Lu Li nodded and asked, "Do the current exorcists, slayers, investigators, and night watchmen have a bad relationship with ghosts?"
Tesla smiled and said gently: "No need to say so much... you can just collectively call these exorcists. In the future, when you see the above four types of people whose identities are not confirmed, you can just call them exorcists."
"As for your question... yes, most exorcists are very repulsive to ghosts and have complicated emotions towards them. It's the kind of emotion that is deeply disgusting and difficult to deal with. After all, many ghosts have no different thinking from living people except that they are dead.
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"However, it's complicated. When they encounter ghosts, they will still exorcise them mercilessly and avoid any unnecessary communication with ghosts. Only a small number of people have sympathy and compassion for ghosts, and they will selectively let them go.
Some harmless ghosts, and those with malicious intentions towards humans, will be put in prison just like humans."
"In jail?"
This sounds like some kind of joke.
Tesla thought so too, and said with a smile: "It sounds a bit ridiculous, right? This idea is... yes... I'm sorry I forgot the name of this first-generation demon slayer, I only know that his name is very
It’s so long that it can take up an entire line on a page.”
What Tesla said could also take up many lines, but Lu Li needed his chatter. The more Tesla talked, the more he knew.
"This first-generation demon slayer with a long name, like Isaac, focused on studying evil spirits. After discovering that souls could not penetrate a certain kind of special stone dug from the deep sea, he began to think about whether there was a way to remove evil spirits.
The possibility of being imprisoned. And then he did it."
"The final result was of course unsuccessful, otherwise you and I might not be exorcists hundreds of years later. The evil spirits ignored the properties of the stone, but the research was not a complete failure, because he discovered that ghosts and some resentful spirits
He couldn't pass through the stone, and he couldn't hurt the stone. So he changed his research from restraining evil spirits to restraining ghosts."
"The overall situation of the world at that time was still normal. Except for ghosts and a small number of evil gods, the overall situation was that the demon slayers were suppressing the ghosts. At that time, most people felt that it was pointless to prepare a prison for ghosts. A silver-plated bullet
Why bother building a prison when it can be solved?"
"However, the ghost prison was still built, with the help of some ghost-friendly exterminators and politicians. The main reason was that the stone was easy to obtain at the time, and some people even used the stone to build houses. Sorry, I'm biased again.
After that, the demon slayers threw these ghosts into prison one after another, either out of pity or out of fun."
"Won't they attack each other?"
"Yes, but the prison won't let them get together. You can think of it as... a single room."
"Who guards the prison."
"An evil spirit."
"...So it was the first generation of demon slayers who did it again, right?"
Lu Li had almost figured out the idea. The first generation of demon slayers were very good at using and studying ghosts. In other words, they used ghosts as material tools like wood, stone, and water.
"Yes. It was an era full of fantastic ideas."
"They introduced the Devourer of Evil Thoughts, an evil spirit that will appear in places filled with evil thoughts and emotions, into the prison. As long as it is there, the evil thoughts of the ghosts in the prison will be absorbed by it and they will not be able to become stronger."
"What if the bite of evil thoughts leaves?" Lu Li asked.
"That place has been housing hundreds and thousands of ghosts for hundreds of years. Although some of them collapsed due to collapse over such a long time, and the prison has not added new "prisoners" in recent decades, the remaining ones
At least there are about a thousand more. A thousand ghosts are crowded into a prison that only covers an area of two to three hundred meters in circumference. How can it leave?"
Lu Li still didn't think this was a good idea, but fortunately, it had little to do with him.
"I'll tell you something that may surprise you." Tesla said mysteriously: "That prison is in Belfast."
This time Lu Li didn't want to have anything to do with it.
"It sounds like burying yourself on the beach at low tide." Lu Li said expressionlessly.
Tesla pinched a corner of his beard and consoled him: "Don't worry, the prison was built by the first generation of demon slayers. It is very strong and safe."
The uncertainty in Lu Li's heart became even more intense.
I always feel that the ghost prison will expire one day in the near future, and thousands of ghosts will break out and wreak havoc on the city.
It seems that the shelters to be built in the future will be far away from Belfast, and this stone may be considered for construction.
