"Why not?"
The mental devil asked back. "Not just detonating thousands of habitable planets, it is not necessarily 'immoral' to destroy the three thousand Sectors and the entire civilization of mankind!"
Li Yao was dazed. After a long daze, he asked in surprise, "How do you explain that?"
"If you want to brainstorm, you should open your mind and not let the narrow rules restrict your imagination."
The mental devil smiled solemnly. "You know that 'suicide' exists in every human society, don't you? Even in the Xing Yao Federation, which claims to be bright and moral, there is a rather stable 'suicide rate'.
"Do the people who choose to commit suicide not love their lives? That was not necessarily the case. Most people just could not bear the endless pain in life. Death was not the most terrifying thing in the world. It was entirely possible for life to become tens of thousands of times more terrifying than death, causing people to 'beg for death but not be able to die'.
"The ignorant do not understand that logic. They always talk nonsense like 'a bad life is better than a good death'. What's the point of that? Those who should commit suicide will still commit suicide. Even if the people who are persuaded back from the brink of death are still 'beg for life' like ants, what's the point of that?
"The wise men can view the problem from a higher level. At least, they partially admit that a sane adult has the right to decide how to deal with and even end their own life, especially when they encounter unbearable and insoluble excruciating pain.
"Although euthanasia is not completely legal in the Xing Yao Federation, other people can more or less understand why somebody chooses to end their own life. In other words, modern people already have a healthier, more or less universal outlook on life.
"Then, if a person can commit suicide, can a civilization do the same?
"When a civilization foresees that they will suffer pain that far exceeds their limits in the eternal future, living a life where they can neither live nor die, and there is absolutely no way to change it, they will choose to end their civilization voluntarily and commit 'suicide'. Is that immoral?
"Take the example just now for example. If the alien species that invades the three thousand Sectors does have thousands of maternal brains as you said, it is absolutely impossible for the civilization of mankind to resist them. Also, once they are conquered, human beings will be caged as their food and playthings. In the millions of years to come, human beings will forget their history and glory in the past and degenerate into animals such as domestic pigs and pet dogs. Even their so-called 'training' will become how to make themselves more tender and delicious so that their masters can enjoy themselves more comfortably and have more fun.
"Let me ask you, if 'Wuying Qi' foresaw such a future, or if the 'maternal brain' showed him such a future and ensured the authenticity and inevitability of the future, and 'Wuying Qi' grasped the ways to destroy the entire civilization of mankind and did it, would it be 'moral' or 'immoral'?"
Staring at the mental devil deeply, Li Yao shuddered and mumbled, "Are you really the dark side in my heart? Why do the dark side in my heart have so many bizarre ideas?"
The mental devil grimaced. "Justice is always the same, but evil comes in many forms and forms. Why? Can't you answer the question?"
Thinking carefully, Li Yao said firmly, "I'm not qualified to say whether such 'Wuying Qi' is moral or immoral, but if it were me, I wouldn't have done it at all. I would've told the whole thing to the parliament and then fought side by side with all human beings to resist the evil civilization of the 'maternal brain'!
"Even if we are indeed destroyed in the end, it will be everybody who dies valiantly in battle, not a single person or a small group of people who decide whether or not to 'commit suicide' on the entire civilization."
"Whether or not they died valiantly in battle or 'committed suicide' without knowing it is all a matter of details. All in all, you admitted that even if the civilization of mankind was destroyed, it might not be an evil act. Then, what's the big deal about destroying Earth?"
The mental devil said with a smile, "Imagine such a scenario. In the higher dimension above the three-dimensional universe, there exists an omnipotent being who can destroy the three thousand Sectors and the entire civilization of mankind with a telepathic thought. Of course, that includes Earth. However, as long as we choose to 'sacrifice' Earth, it is guaranteed that it will not destroy us. It can even help the civilization of mankind grow stronger and advance our civilization by a thousand years or even ten thousand years.
"Look. We can either sacrifice Earth to preserve and improve the entire civilization of mankind, or we can watch the civilization of mankind being destroyed. Naturally, Earth will not be saved.
"In such a scenario, the option of 'destroying Earth' is not so unacceptable, is it?"
"That's bullsh * t."
This time, Li Yao shook his head hard without any hesitation for half a second. "A long time ago, when we heard the bewilderment of the Immortal Cultivators for the first time, we discussed that no responsible government would negotiate with kidnappers and terrorists. Besides, if such a god-like being beyond the three-dimensional universe does exist, we do not have the ability to make it keep its promise at all.
"Since we do not have the ability to force it to keep its promise, its promise is just a fart that does not even smell. Today, it can threaten us to sacrifice Earth to save the entire universe. After we do sacrifice Earth, it can ask us to sacrifice the Tian Yuan Realm to save the rest of the universe. The day after tomorrow, it will be the Flying Star Sector. The day after tomorrow, it will be the Blood Demon Sector. In the end, it will ask us to cut ourselves into pieces like sausages and deliver them to its mouth so that it will swallow us up without any trouble. This is exactly what they mean by insatiable greed.
"More importantly, if it is truly an omniscient, omnipotent, and invincible being above the three-dimensional universe that can destroy the civilization of mankind with a yawn, what is a tiny Earth to it? Why does it want us to sacrifice Earth? If it wants to destroy Earth, it can do it on its own by simply moving its fingers. Why does it have to borrow the hands of an insignificant mortal like me?
"If that is the case, it means that 'Earth' is of paramount significance and is even the key to threatening and destroying it. Then, it is even less likely that I will destroy Earth for no good reason.
"I'll say the same thing again. If it's just this situation, then I'll definitely not destroy Earth. I'll only stand with the six billion Earthlings, and then let the six billion Earthlings stand with all the humans in the trichiliocosm. We'll fight side by side and fight against this higher-level existence together.
"Although we may be destroyed by it, we will never be defeated by it. The civilization of mankind, including Earth, will never compromise or bend. We will fight until the last breath!"
"Aya. You are indeed a man who is about to enter the Divinity Transformation Stage. Your level is indeed different from when you were on Kunlun years ago!"
The mental devil exclaimed in shock. Then, it chuckled and said, "In that case, we can only change our hypothesis. What if Earth itself is a dark and evil existence that contains countless secrets, and all the earthlings are the incarnations of devils who may threaten the entire civilization of mankind and even the entire universe?
"Destroying Earth means destroying the nest of devils, and killing the earthlings means slaying the devils. Then, it won't be in conflict with your belief, will it?"
Li Yao thought carefully again and shook his head slowly. "In the uncanny dreams, despite the internal conflicts among the earthlings and the existence of a lot of tyrants and dictators, it was still a rather peaceful world in the scale of the entire universe. Not to mention the expedition to the extraterrestrial lands, they did not even have the capability to invade Mars or the moon, which was the closest to them. They were almost 'harmless'. How could they be devils that threaten the entire universe?"
"Chances are that everything you saw was an illusion," the mental devil analyzed solemnly.
The mental devil analyzed solemnly. "Didn't you once visit a desolate world in a trance, where a female Cultivator said 'welcome to Earth' to you?
"Didn't you see Earth burning furiously and withering instantly into a rotten apple core?
"Chances are that the blue Earth in your uncanny dreams and the peaceful life were all illusions, and the burning, withered, and rotten apple core was the real Earth!"
"That's quite possible."
Li Yao nodded quickly and said, "If the blue Earth does exist, it doesn't seem to be 'too dark and too powerful' at all. I don't know if it is dark or not, but the nuclear arsenal of the earthlings, which can burn the surface of the Earth to the ground at best and can't even destroy the moon, is enough to suppress Earth brutally. Not that I'm bragging, but as long as we know where it is, the Federation right now will send an expedition army, followed by thirty Yuanying, and almost ten Colossi. It will be more than enough to suppress Earth brutally. It won't be a problem at all!
"Is it necessary to describe such an Earth in such a horrible and exaggerated way?"
"That's the concept of the 'external and internal worlds'," the mental devil said.
The mental devil said, "There are two Earths. The Earth on the surface is the blue planet where countless creatures and six billion people live together. They live a peaceful, tranquil, peaceful, and ignorant life.
"But in fact, there is another 'Inner Earth'. That is the real Earth, and it is very likely to be the most evil, dark, and powerful nest of devils. It is very likely that they will threaten the entire universe and destroy the civilization of mankind.
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