"What do I think we should do? We have to find a way to let them survive, right?"
"Okay, then let's not save the world. From now on, we will help these people find a place far enough away to build a village and teach them how to farm and raise pigs."
"What do you mean?"
"Yanghua, this is what I want to tell you. Don't think that saving people is a simple matter. It is very, very troublesome to be a good person. These people survived, and then what? Where should they go? You are here
Have you ever thought about it before? People have various needs while they are alive, and if they cannot be solved, life will be worse than death. So, if the problem of a harsh environment cannot be solved, it is better to die happily than to suffer while living."
"But! But..."
"So what we should do now is to save the world. Only when the world gets better can all people survive."
"But we obviously have the ability to help them..."
"They may not be able to help themselves."
"They can't survive."
"They died of illness and were massacred by the Knights. We have saved them twice."
"We can save them a third time..."
"Then, guard them until the world is destroyed?"
"Just once, for the last time, please Amy, I really can't live with my conscience..."
Baiyanghua held my hand and begged. If it were normal, I would be soft-hearted and agree to her. But I don’t know why, today I am as cold as a stone. Neither the villagers nor Baiyanghua can inspire me in the slightest.
Sympathy. This feeling is very strange and not normal at all. I used to have a glassy heart and would feel sorry for NPCs and enemies even when playing games. Now I don’t feel it when facing real people? It’s so abnormal and unreasonable.
, what is wrong with my brain?
"I'll go ask Sister Saiyi and see how she arranges it."
I was hesitant and unable to make a decision, so I could only kick the ball to Sister Seyi.
"Then please! We must convince her to help!"
"I try my best."
I led the little animal to find Sister Saiyi who was busy working. This child never said a word and would only give a simple response unless I took the initiative to ask. There must be something wrong with this child's mental state, and I must find a way to solve it later.
"Sister, what are you going to do with these people?"
"We are asking them to pack up their useful things and then leave."
"Leave? Where are you going?"
"Go to where we are going next. It is about a hundred kilometers away from here. There is enough land to re-establish a stronghold."
"So close? Then wouldn't the plague still come within two days of their arrival?"
"No, there is no biological transmission. The spread of plague in a pure natural environment is actually very slow. The concentration of plague in the air is very low, and the concentration in rivers is actually not too high. The organisms in this area are basically
All of them are dead, so there are no longer conditions for rapid spread. If they could spread quickly over a large area by relying only on wind and running water, then this planet would have become a dead place. If there were no accidents, one hundred kilometers would be enough for them to carry a
Years or so."
"It's been so long~ So how did the plague spread before? How could it be like this just by relying on survivors running around?"
"Of course it's humans and animals, mainly humans. Before the church prohibited people from moving freely, traveling merchants, slave traders, and some nobles were all intermediate hosts. At that time, the incubation period of the plague was still long enough to wait for the intermediate host to complete the journey.
After a large-scale outbreak, the plague mutated into what it is now, with rapid onset of disease and rapid death."
"It sounds like it was designed to be like this..."
"maybe."
"What do you mean maybe...continue to give me some spoilers?"
"no."
"Okay...then can they get there safely? One hundred kilometers is still quite far for people in this era, right?"
"If nothing else happens, it will be no problem. I have quietly increased the amount of remaining food and water, which is enough for them to consume on the road."
"Ah~~~So that's it, then I have nothing to worry about."
My mental burden suddenly became much lighter.
"Amy, if I didn't arrange it this way, what would you do?"
Sister Sai suddenly asked.
"I...I don't know, I can't think of it. It might be uncomfortable if you don't save them, and it might be uncomfortable if you save them and leave them alone, but solving their problems will delay saving the world, which will kill more people.
The human world is always full of choices that cannot be made, so I hate being a weak ordinary person..."
"Then if you have to make a choice, do you choose to save him or not."
"...It's better to save them. Even if they are saved and left to fend for themselves, it is better than being slaughtered directly. As long as people are alive, they have possibilities. No matter how small the possibility is, it is better than being dead."
"Humanity may not be useful, but it is indispensable. People without humanity are no longer human at all."
Sister Saiyi replied with an irrelevant sentence.
"Ah? Sister, why do you suddenly say this?"
"Just a reminder, don't let yourself become a cold logical computing machine."
"I'm bad at logic and calculations, sister?"
"Pack your things and get ready to leave. I'll chase them away, otherwise these people won't be willing to leave their hometown."
Sister Sai did not answer me anymore, and went to drive away the villagers who were still reluctant to leave here. I stared at her figure for a long time, thinking about what she wanted to express. Is it because I have been too cold recently? Because
Is my thinking deviating from that of human beings? Thinking about it carefully, I have indeed become a lot colder during the few years in Baiyanghua's world, and I am even used to losing limbs and arms, because that's what I did...
I can no longer be considered a normal person, but a superior god who can destroy mortals at will. Although I did those things to eliminate gangs and eliminate evil, if I simply discuss that kind of solution, I can only use cruel and inhumane words.
To describe it, killing a person is far more merciful than leaving his life worse than death. My behavior of amputating hands and feet does not seem to kill anyone, but it is actually far worse than killing someone. Alas... I don’t know myself either.
Why did it become like this? I hope that the lower-level goddess who took over that world can give the people who were tortured by me a good end. Even if they are put on prosthetic limbs and thrown into labor camps, it is better than being used as a human stick...
"Amy, what do you say?"
"Sister Sai will drive them away, secretly give them enough water and food, and let them go a hundred kilometers away to avoid the limelight."
"Can it be avoided?"
"If nothing unexpected happens, the ability of the plague to spread is not as exaggerated as we thought. All the people and animals in this area have died, so it will take about a year to spread. Maybe we will have saved the world by then.
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"Oh...that's great..."
"You don't look happy."
"No, I just think these things are a bit heavy... Oh, let's forget it. It would be best if they have somewhere to go."
"Yeah~~~If you hadn't reminded me, I wouldn't have discovered that I had become so callous and heartless."
"You have really changed..."
"Well, I didn't realize it myself, but you have made a meritorious service."