Vegapunk and Luffy are both sentimental and righteous people. One puts his hope in the Nika Fruit, while the other believes that the sentimental will win and the ruthless will lose.
They all have something to believe in. In despair, they always need to believe in something. Otherwise, they won't be able to survive at all. Maybe they can't wait for victory, but they will not give up their faith.
Vegapunk saw that Luffy still did not give up at this time, and suddenly felt the fighting spirit burst out in his old body. He stared at the Five Old Stars and said: "We have something to believe in, but you, you don't even trust your family, and you don't even trust your family.
What do you believe in?”
Dulan thought that the Five Old Stars believed in naval justice and were willing to sacrifice their lives for naval justice. What they believed in was the eight hundred years of order. Just like Confucius believed in Zhou Rites, Mencius believed in the well-field system, and Xunzi believed in the natural gentleman.
After all, you have to believe in something, otherwise you will not be able to face the miserable life.
The Five Old Stars also have beliefs, similar to Confucius. They believe that the order and culture of the Celestial Dragons is the best. It has been running for eight hundred years and will continue to run for even longer in the future.
"Eight hundred years of inheritance and culture are what we believe in," Duran said.
The scientist had to deny this belief and said: "Everything changes with the changes of the times. The order of the Celestial Dragons is outdated. The Celestial Dragons are already the enemies of the world."
"Some things have indeed changed, but some things have not changed." Duran said: "For example, trust, the object of trust will change, but the behavior of trust will not change. Anyway, now I am thinking about your suggestions and using you
brain in exchange for the safety of their hometown. You'd better not anger me anymore, because every word you say will devalue your brain."
The scientist immediately shut up, hoping to protect the hometown of Luffy and others.
This feeling is very hopeless. Luffy remembered the time when he fought the bear. At that time, he and his teammates could not escape. It was the same now. Although he was not in danger, his hometown was in crisis. There was nothing he could do.
, we can only wait for external rescue.
Dulan thought for a moment and said: "No, in the final analysis, your cooperation with the Navy is not just about you using your brain to help the Navy, but also the Navy helping you with money. We are originally helping each other and are equal to each other. You are not qualified at all.
Make an offer, if I let their folks go for your brain, it seems like the Navy needs your brain, but you don’t need the Navy’s funds.”
"If you agree, I don't have to help the pirates. Not only the navy is rich now, but the pirates are also rich." The scientist continued to threaten.
"The pirates don't need your brain. They have a mechanical island, and they are no worse than you. You were originally a scientist in the navy, but if you join the pirates, they won't trust you. And the speed at which you spend money is not something ordinary people can do."
Bear it. Vegapunk, your value is far less than you think. Well, I can accept your deal, but the condition is not to protect all the islands, but that half of the islands can be safe, and the other side will still be destroyed.
You help them decide whose island should be attacked and whose island can be saved."
Everyone looked at Wulaoxing in shock, feeling that the evil aura had spewed out from them. What an evil approach this was. It was originally a good thing to save people, but in the end it would be hated by others.
Rather than worrying about scarcity, we worry about inequality. If it is true that only half of the island can be saved, and the remaining half will be destroyed by the Demon-Slaying Order, what is the standard? How to make people whose hometown has disappeared accept the standard?
Will there not be a fight? Why can their hometown survive but their own hometown will perish?
If they all perish, everyone may still be able to share the same hatred, but once there is hope, conflicts will break out.
Just like a group of dogs, they can live peacefully without bones. Once there are bones, everyone will bite them to snatch the bones.
It's like converting rice to mulberry. There is no additional profit of 500,000 pieces of silk, and everyone is fine. Once there is a huge profit of 500,000 pieces, all parties will fight to get a piece of it.
Therefore, it is not wrong to worry about inequality rather than scarcity. If the distribution is not appropriate, then everyone would rather flip the table than develop. If it is difficult to handle, then don’t do it.
Now that Dulan proposed this idea, everyone was immediately stunned. Do you want to believe it? But if you believe it, how to distribute it? The meaning of hometown to everyone is the same, and no one will be happy to see their hometown being destroyed.
destroy.
However, the scientist's brain can only replace half of the island, which causes cracks in the originally united team.
"My sister is still in the village." Nami couldn't hold back at first, because she had sacrificed too much for her hometown and could not let her hometown be destroyed.
Usopp doesn't have any relatives at home, but he has watched those children grow up. The children in Usopp's pirate team are innocent, and he cannot give up.
Even Sanji doesn't want his family to be destroyed. After all, his wish is to make a table of delicious food that his family can eat with joy. This wish has not yet been realized, and his family has not yet tasted his craftsmanship.
Chopper's master and Zoro's master are also on the island.
Luffy glared at the Five Old Stars. This time he really felt desperate. To be honest, he didn't feel so uncomfortable when all the islands were destroyed. But now half of them can be saved, so whose island should be saved and whose island should be destroyed?
Everyone has a reason to save their own island.
"What qualifications do you have to decide who can die and who can live?" Luffy said angrily: "Each island has a reason to live. Originally, they all lived a stable life, but you want to eliminate them. Now you have put your original
As a reward, give them their right to live, and give them back what belongs to them. Do you still want us to thank you?! All islands should live, and no one can deprive them of their right to live."
"That makes sense, but it's a pity that humans have made rules. Just like playing mahjong, four people need to determine the rules before they can continue playing. These rules are made by humans and determine rewards and punishments. Among these rules, someone will be deprived
Right to exist.”
"What law did they break?" Luffy asked angrily.
"They didn't break the law, but they are related to you pirates, that is, they are together." Dulan said: "When you go to sea to become pirates, you should know that you may implicate your hometown folks. Make a decision quickly, three hours are about to pass.
, whose island can survive must be decided as soon as possible, otherwise all islands will die."
Nami said: "My island must survive."
"I also want to protect my hometown." Usopp said.
The others did not speak, but they did not give up and hoped that their island could survive.
"Everyone's island is the same." Luffy said seriously: "We can't be fooled by the enemy, and we can't have internal strife."
The scientist also said: "Yes, the Five Old Stars did it on purpose. You must not be fooled. This is a conspiracy of the enemy. It is to make you doubt each other. Calm down."
Nami can't calm down anymore. If everyone's island was destroyed in the beginning, she could calm down with everyone. But now that there is a glimmer of hope, she can't calm down. She can't calm down even if she wants to. She must do her best to save the island, no matter the cost.
It is stepping on other people's islands.
Everyone can understand Nami's appearance, but her panic cannot solve the problem at all. The main conflict now is not which island will be destroyed and which island will survive, but the conflict between the advanced pirates and the backward navy.
Dulan used a small trick to make the advanced pirates fall behind.
This is the test of human nature, and it all has preconditions. If you put human nature in an environment with controllable costs and benefits, some things in human nature will be revealed.
Nami's cost is to let her teammates support her, and the benefit is that the island can exist. The benefits are greater than the costs, and the selfish side of human nature is naturally reflected.
In the past, the pirates were very advanced and moved forward in the name of fighting against the Celestial Dragons and defeating the backward navy. But now the selfishness in their human nature has been exposed.
But where there is selfishness, there is also selflessness. Zoro said nothing and did not want to participate in the fight. Moreover, there are selfless people like Akainu in the navy.
So what is advanced is not people. People have always been like this, including selfishness and selflessness. What is advanced is technology, systems, and culture, which force people to improve productivity.