Chu Yunlan, who was still imprisoned in a secret prison, met Xiao Qing.
One is a annihilator who inherited her husband's legacy, and the other is the leader of humanity on Gaia.
Logically speaking, there is no need for Xiao Qing to come to see Chu Yunlan in person.
Someone has always been responsible for related work.
But Xiao Qing came anyway.
Perhaps because he "went out for a spin", Chu Yunlan's mental state was much better than before.
Xiao Qing even saw some faint joy on her face.
That's an unsettling emotion.
At least for Xiao Qing...
"What else do you want?" Xiao Qing asked.
Chu Yunlan looked at Xiao Qing silently, and after a long time he said: "Before I answer you, why don't you answer me a question first."
Xiao Qing's eyes flickered, she knew what Chu Yunlan wanted to ask.
"In two years at most, the Central Rappelling will be restarted. By then...you will have no leverage. Do you think I can't afford to wait?"
Chu Yunlan smiled: "Waiting is not a personal matter for you, but a matter for all humans living on Gaia... I don't think you are qualified to negotiate terms with me."
Xiao Qing's eyes changed, and she became angry again, wanting to tear the woman in front of her into pieces.
But she can't do that...
Seeing the anger in Xiao Qing's eyes, Chu Yunlan said, "Are you tired?"
Xiao Qing said nothing.
"Before you, Han Kongwen had already approached me...asking similar questions...You all want to try to understand me, but you are very afraid of the process of understanding..." Chu Yunlan lowered her head. There was a person in front of her.
Cup, but it is not a real cup, it is just a concrete projection constructed by observing her brain: "Actually, you don't have to go to such trouble... Instead of coming to me to find the answer, you might as well ask yourself first... How much time do you have?"
?Even if there is no me in this world...there is no Destroyer...how much time do you have? One hundred years? That was a disaster a long time ago...You don't have to worry about it for a long time...Two hundred years? There seems to be no difference...
…Three hundred years…four hundred years…it doesn’t matter how many years…”
"Three hundred years." Xiao Qing said.
Chu Yunlan was startled. This was the first time she heard an accurate answer from someone of Xiao Qing's level.
"What?"
"The final calculation result... we still have about three hundred years, and then... we are destined to perish." Xiao Qing told the truth.
After hearing this, Chu Yunlan not only did not feel happy, but her application gradually declined...
"It's much shorter than expected..."
"Yes, it only lasted a few generations." Xiao Qing felt relaxed after she said it. She suddenly realized that there was no need to hate Chu Yunlan, even if many innocent people died because of her.
Regardless of their identities, they are just mortals.
For mortals...too much thinking...is just a distraction.
"Then why..." Chu Yunlan suddenly didn't understand. Although Xiao Qing didn't clearly tell her how such calculation results were obtained, she realized a very serious problem.
Since the results are the same?
Why do people like Xiao Qing organize the World Destroyer?
Just for the final happiness?
For a moment, Chu Yunlan seemed not to be so calm anymore.
She looked at Xiao Qing and asked again: "Why?"
Xiao Qing replied quietly: "In your own words...because of fear."
"Afraid? What are you afraid of?"
"The calculation results continuously expand the problem, and then the final answer is given." Xiao Qing explained.
Chu Yunlan understood.
"I want to meet Professor Su again...is that okay?" Chu Yunlan asked.
Xiao Qing: "Okay, but answer the first question I asked first."
Chu Yunlan thought for a moment and then replied: "Quantum mechanics is full of uncertainties... It clarifies objective facts, but it cannot completely deny people's subjective will... I can never find the answer in the spiral of contradictions...
So...I've been waiting..."
"What are you waiting for?"
"Small things such as food, rice, oil and salt are also indispensable things in life for the general public... When we people are trying our best for the so-called ideal, they also don't stop... But... what is the meaning of all this?
?” Chu Yunlan raised his head and looked at Xiao Qing: “The flowers bloom and fall in the uninhabited valley, and no one appreciates them. What is the meaning of its existence? Is it just to embellish the creator’s back garden? Just like us at this moment...
Even if we distinguish winners and losers, what does it mean to sentient beings who have no way of understanding human thought?"
Xiao Qing: "The sense of meaninglessness...is your understanding of the world?"
But Chu Yunlan shook his head again: "No, I still believe that all this is meaningful... It's just that the simple thoughts have turned into a high wall of separation in the process of interweaving... I can never find it in the spiral of contradictions.
Answer……"
"You are such a troubled person." Xiao Qing said.
Chu Yunlan laughed when he heard this: "Once upon a time, we trusted the standards of external objects and believed in the meaning and form of existence given to us by God... But later, science told us that there is a gap between the objective existence of the world and the subjective identification of self-awareness.
They were concluded by each other, so overnight, many standards collapsed...Freedom...is the most noble ideal!"
Xiao Qing remained silent. She knew that no matter how much she disliked Chu Yunlan's lecture-style speech, she had to listen... because prejudiced ridicule would make her blind.
"Previous stories always revolved around generals, heroes, princes and princesses... They were the protagonists of the world, and other ordinary soldiers who died for the general's will were just insignificant scenery... used to highlight the general's tallness.
Great! But now... when we hear that a general sacrificed tens of thousands of his soldiers to capture a city, as ordinary people, we suddenly feel an inexplicable feeling of sadness... Just like in the story on both sides of the river...
...The person who picked up the gun first had a sense of compassion, but the other person used practical actions to tell all living beings... We are just mortals who obey orders..." Chu Yunlan's tone gradually calmed down as she said this, and she looked at Xiao Qing
: "Do you believe that there is some kind of advanced civilization with compassion above us?"
Xiao Qing said nothing. She looked at Chu Yunlan quietly. She knew that Chu Yunlan hadn't finished speaking yet.
"The heart of compassion...everyone has it...but when it is linked to the instinctive desires of mortals...the heart of compassion becomes a shackle...it's like...we feel that killing is cruel, and not just for people."
The killing of the same kind... also includes the killing of all life... So some of us began to call for vegetarianism... But it is precisely because the essence of vegetarianism is still the deprivation of one life from another life, so those non-vegetarians
Call these vegetarians the overflow of 'Mother's Heart'! Haha...the overflow of Mary's Heart..." The cup in front of Chu Yunlan turned into a plate, and the plate was filled with fresh flesh and blood.
"Are you a vegetarian?" Xiao Qing asked.
Chu Yunlan shook his head: "No, I quite enjoy the satisfaction that meat products bring me...especially fried chicken. It would be better if it is paired with beer."
Xiao Qing smiled dryly.
"Does what you said have anything to do with your purpose?"
Chu Yunlan paused after hearing this, and then looked at Xiao Qing with some disappointment. She asked, "Do you think these are boring and meaningless things?"
Xiao Qing shook her head: "No, I know all these questions. The world is changing every moment. Personal thoughts, social thoughts, and the overall thoughts of mankind are all changing, but what can this prove?"
Chu Yunlan's disappointment increased, and she whispered: "All these seemingly subtle changes actually require serious thinking and observation... Those things may seem to have nothing to do with science, but in fact we still need science to help us make progress...
... Just like the compassion I mentioned... People can't give up the need for meat products because their bodies can't give up, so realistic people accept the arrangements of reality and are truly grateful for the world's generosity to them, and those 'Mothers', their
Existence seems unreasonable and should be despised... But if we no longer need to satisfy our desire for meat products in the future... Can this kind of thinking help us make progress?... In a good direction...
A direction different from limited reality?”
Xiao Qing was silent after hearing this. After a while, she asked: "Do you really think so?"
Chu Yunlan: "Desire is like a factor. Existence is the essence of contradiction. Desire can make us crazy and release the original instinct... Desire also catalyzes social progress, making people long for life and happiness... But we seem to be very
Think less about how to make desire itself progress..."
"Let desire itself progress..."
"Yes...Buddhism connects desire with illusion and warns us that we should set up precepts for life. This outlook on life aims to reduce desire, or even deny desire, in order to achieve relative spiritual satisfaction, and from it, we can understand that 'emptiness is form and form is emptiness'
The truth..."
"Empty is form and form is emptiness?" Xiao Qing suddenly felt that this Chu Yunlan was really interesting... He even quoted Buddhist principles.
"You have to admit that it is only our bodies that are always controlled, and our thoughts have long been transcended..." Chu Yunlan said lightly.
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In the end, Xiao Qing was not able to get a complete and definite answer from Chu Yunlan.
But this uncertain answer... is just like the sentence she quoted from the "Heart Sutra" "Emptiness is form and form is emptiness"... The floating phenomena are both a definite reality and an illusion in the hearts of all living beings...
If civilization really exists like this.
So what is the state beyond transcendence?
Xiao Qing couldn't see it, couldn't guess it...but she understood a truth.
Progress based on reality should not be subject to the limitations of reality...perhaps the real path to transcendence lies within.