A certain day of a certain year, a certain time and a certain place.
Set, the jackal, walked into a dark room. When the door opened, the light poured in, reflecting on a person at the end of the room.
The tiger man was skinny, covered in blood, and every part of his body was covered with scars from being beaten. Despite this, his eyes radiated with unyielding light, and he did not compromise at all with those who tortured him.
"Look at what you have done, Dima." Seth looked at the miserable young tiger man and said with a smile, "You have come to this point and you still haven't reflected on it?"
"I'm sorry, Father." The other party replied in a low voice, with a hint of stubbornness in his hoarse voice.
"The people on the board of directors told me. Not only did you disobey orders and failed to bring back tangible evidence from the Sphinx that he was Osiris, you even conspired with foreign enemies and fooled around with their people." Sai
Te scolded him sternly and calmly: "Not to mention the stupid things you did in the academy. Just having an affair with a foreign enemy already constitutes a serious violation. Do you have anything to explain?"
"No." The young tiger man named Dima hummed: "The people here are too old-fashioned. They don't know what happiness is. I put some medicine in the drinking water and released it in the exhaust system.
**, all for their amusement. And I only do it once. I don’t think there is any problem with it."
"Asshole!" Seth yelled angrily: "You only did one bad thing on a whim, and you have already caused enough damage in the academy!"
"Listen!" He calmed down his anger slightly and continued: "The reason why they didn't cut you into pieces and reduce you to a ball of meat paste is just because you are the creation of my own hands and my only son."
Maybe it’s also because of your friendship with Nora. But that’s all. If you insist on colluding with the Sphinx people to cause destruction in the academy, then no one can protect you. When I created you, I gave you more than
Everyone has higher intelligence. You are the most intelligent individual among all artificial humans and even all orcs. In order to survive, you are smart and know what you should do. So why do you continue to be stupid?"
"Because I have been smart enough in my life. I have done too many smart things but not enough stupid things." Dima laughed.
"...You're not stupid, you're crazy." Seth groaned.
"Perhaps." The tiger man chuckled: "Let me tell you what happened, Father. I am indeed an intelligent and specialized individual. I am better than the group of scientists with genius minds in the academy.
Be smart. No matter what kind of competition, I have never lost. But this time I lost."
"What? Impossible!"
"I did lose. I lost to a child in card gambling." The tiger man continued: "That little guy didn't have any scheming, didn't know how to cheat, and couldn't even use his brain. But he was absolutely sure on his own
His luck made me lose completely. After losing to him, I couldn't help but think, what is the so-called strategy? I was in vain with the genius mind given by my father. In the face of the opponent's absolute luck, I couldn't help but think.
I am nothing. I am worthless."
Seth frowned: "...You just lost once and you were so crushed? Did the Sphinx people brainwash you?"
"No, they didn't." Dima shook her head: "That kid just took me everywhere to play. He was messing around in the city center, graffitiing on the streets and corners, playing pranks, and picking up girls. But I just... I thought it was very interesting."
It’s far more interesting than this unchanging life in the academy. Just knowing this, I know I can’t come back.”
"You must be kidding me." Seth covered his head: "I tried my best, but the greatest creation turned out to be attracted by such low-level fun as eating, drinking and having fun, and turned into such a waste with no ambitions.
?"
"What is the meaning of life, Father?"
The other party asked unexpectedly.
"Do I have to answer your question?" Seth said coldly.
"What is the meaning of life, Father?" Dima repeated, her tone becoming robotic.
"I think the meaning of life..." Seth answered really seriously: "It is to leave your name in history. Let people remember you. Make yourself famous in history. Become famous. Become great. Become.
eternal."
"Then you are just someone else's servant, and you will always be." Dima shook her head and said, "I have seen my father's memory from that machine. I know that you have witnessed eternity. You have lived longer than anyone else.
He retains great power and is greater than anyone else. But is all this meaningful?
The essence of the universe is void and chaos. As time goes by, everything will disappear. No matter how great you are, no matter how indelible you leave an indelible mark in history, you will eventually be forgotten. Even history
We can also be forgotten. We are just a decimal point in history, so what do we count?"
"The history of the world will not simply disappear, nor will civilization simply perish. All of this will be passed down, and they will always remember my name."
"However, what they remember is just a name." The tiger man shook his head: "Wake up, father. You should know better than anyone how meaningless all of this is."
Life is meaningless, everything is empty and in vain.
Even if your name goes down in history forever, people only remember your name. They don’t really know you, they don’t know what kind of person you are, and they don’t know what you really think at this moment.
Thousands, tens of thousands of years later, a group of hypocrites who think they are very smart will say how much they admire you and hope to become a great person like you.
But they actually know nothing. They don’t know the real you, they don’t know who you are, they don’t know your ideas and opinions, and they can’t inherit your will. They imitate your life badly and want to learn from yours.
You may gain some benefits in your trajectory, but they will never be the real you.
You who are recorded in the annals of history, no matter how famous you are, no one really knows you, understands you, knows you. Words, sounds, pictures. The descriptions in the media are so shallow, empty, and bland. It
Nothing can be described at all.
One person can never truly understand another person. One world can never truly understand another world.
After you die, the most important [information] about you has been lost forever."
He paused, slowly raised his head, and looked at the jackal Seth, that god-like man: "So, father, what is the meaning of life? Life is meaningless. Everything is meaningless.
, it’s just a futile struggle.
You are greater than anyone else, but you are just like the rest of us, just living on, struggling in vain in this meaningless life, aimlessly waiting for the moment of the end. Is there anything else you would like to add?"
Seth was speechless.
He has experienced more and knows more than anyone else. He has gone through a long life that no one can understand. Because of this, he is almost omniscient, but there is no way to refute the words spoken by his son.
"truth".
"Who...who taught you to say this?" Seth took a step back: "...Sphinx?"
"No one else. I realized it myself."
"So you are really smart. Too smart." Seth shook his head and said, "When I killed my brother before... what that guy said was almost exactly the same as what you said."
"Is this important?" Dima slowly got up from the ground and wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth: "I'm leaving the academy. You know you can't stop me. With my wisdom, there will always be a way to escape.
here.
So now you have two options:
Or just read my shutdown command and stop me forever. Reduce me to meat paste and create another artificial person who looks just like me. But you know, that one is no longer the real me. The real me.
Already lost forever;
Or, you set me free. I voluntarily become an idiot and live the life I want, like an idiot. And I will live a very happy life."
"It's up to you, Father. No matter what you choose, I won't regret it."
Dima grinned and smiled ferociously at his father: "No matter how you choose, you will lose."
A few days passed after that.
"Then, goodbye. I won't miss you." The young tiger man carried his burden and left the academy with the steps of not recognizing his relatives.
There were almost no one else present. The only ones watching Dima leave were Seth, the jackal, and another middle-aged woman in dignified clothes. I don’t know if it was because of her makeup or her clothes, but she looked younger than she actually was.
"You really let him go like this?" the woman asked, "I watched him grow up, and I know the character of that child. This decision is too crazy, even if it was yours."
"Don't worry, he will come back." Seth said casually: "When he tastes the warmth and coldness of the outside world, he will eventually wake up and realize that the academy is the best. The Sphinx is not worth it. The outside world
Everything is not worth it. Only here is his home."
"If you think so." The woman looked at the young tiger man walking away and hummed.
"You too, Nora." The Jackal also asked: "You actually used surgery to remove the artificial human components from that kid's body. You didn't even put a tracker on him. This is not like you at all."
"I think the same as you, I know he will come back." The woman replied with a smile: "Even if we don't do this, the child is so smart, he will definitely find a way to remove the components on his body and dismantle the tracker."
I won't give him a chance to do this. It must be the academy that does all this. I won't even erase the memory of him entering and leaving the academy. Anyway, he can't get in without the permission of the academy. But I want him to know that the academy does not
Not his enemy. This is a home to which he can return at any time - as long as he bows his head and sincerely pleads."
"You are too naive, Nora." Seth said.
"Let's be together, Seth," Nora said.
Time returns to the present.
Just as the jackal Seth looked at Hiloma with a spine-chilling gaze, quarterback Hiloma also looked at the opponent with the same sharp eyes.
"Long time no see, father." He whispered to himself, "It's such an unlucky fate to meet in this arena." (To be continued)