"As an ordinary person with no cultivation potential, you're destined to never attain immortality through cultivation. If you're given five hundred years of lifespan as the price, you'll never be able to have any offspring. Will you agree or reject it?"
A link to a question circulated rapidly on the internet. Every minute, every second, someone clicked on it and cast a vote under two different options.
The number of votes for and against changed every second.
In a city on the west coast of the United States, on the top floor of a skyscraper, room 314.
The room was lavishly decorated. There was a huge floor-to-ceiling screen with numbers jumping rapidly on it.
A young man with long hair down to his shoulders leaned back on a tiger-skinned sofa. He looked at the screen in front of him with a playful smile on his lips.
"That's all a mortal's desire can do."
"Haha, Young Master Yun, these voters are mostly mediocre people. They don't deserve to enjoy the blessing of vitality. Keeping them alive is a waste of cultivation resources." An old man in an ancient robe chimed in from the side.
"The heavens have the virtue of cherishing life. It's better to let them go extinct voluntarily." The young man shook his head. "It's not the way of Daoism to fight recklessly."
Ling Yunzi sneered to himself when he heard that. What a hypocrite. They clearly had the same opinion as he did. They didn't want those mediocre people to continue living and wasting cultivation resources. Yet, they still had to put on a dignified front.
Naturally, he would not show it. Instead, he echoed, "Young Master Yun is truly benevolent. You're so considerate of these mediocre people. It's just that this five hundred years of lifespan can be given to ten or a hundred people. However, if it's given to billions of people, I'm afraid it's not easy to achieve. "
"Haha, Taoist Ling Yunzi, do you know what the nature of time is?" Young Master Yun smiled.
"Uh, like the hourglass to measure time, the moving of the stars, the rising of the sun and setting of the moon … These are all time, right?" Although Ling Yunzi said so, he was calculating in his mind.
"Haha, Taoist Master's words are a little off. The people here can see it clearly … There's no such thing as time in this world. There's only matter and movement. Time is just something that humans produce for convenience in their lives. In other words, it's closely related to people's feelings. With your aptitude, I believe you should understand, right? "Young Master Yun smiled again.
"Oh …" Ling Yunzi was stunned when he heard this. Then, he came to a sudden realization and immediately praised, "As expected of the Heaven's favored one, to actually have such methods. This old Taoist admires you!"
"Haha, well said, well said. This Young Master has just arrived here, and there are many things that I still need to rely on you, a senior of the Dao Sect."
"That's my wish. I wouldn't dare to ask you." Ling Yunzi nodded heavily.
But in his heart, he thought, in this way, if you don't go against that person, I'll write my surname backwards.
Young Master Yun smiled and stood up. He walked to the floor-to-ceiling window and bent down to look down. He saw the endless flow of people and carriages below.
He shook his head with a compassionate look on his face. "Sigh, most of the living beings in this world are suffering. If we can be freed earlier, it will be beneficial for everyone."
"That's right. In this way, they can be considered to have contributed to the future generations. In the future, everyone will remember them." Ling Yunzi also smiled.
…
"The Alliance of Justice and Order has sent an urgent notice. It said that in North America, a large number of people have committed suicide. Their bodies are intact, and there are no internal or external injuries, but they died suddenly. The common point of their deaths is that they all clicked on a certain option through a website when they were alive … "Zheng Dao was nervously reporting to Fang Ning.
"It sounds like the evil spirits are doing evil? This kind of thing seems very rare. "Fang Ning listened and said to the System.
"Yes, when I first started my career, I often encountered these strange things. As my reputation grew, these things became fewer and fewer. This is all my credit for cleaning up the world, but no one paid me a penny more. It really makes the System's heart ache! "Sir System said miserably.
"Cut it out. You've never missed a single Good Samaritan's reward. Even overseas, you let Zheng Dao go through the procedures. "Fang Ning was speechless.
"Uh, is that so? Then I'll take it as me exaggerating a little. But compared to my work, the reward is still too little. "
"How many times have I told you, don't just focus on money. You won't be able to earn money that way." Fang Ning lectured again. "The problem now is to quickly find the source of this matter."
"That's easy. Just call Yellow Dog here." Sir System said disdainfully.
"Yellow Dog is preparing for the Scientific Academy for Vitality. That's more important." Fang Ning rejected. "I think this matter is very strange. We need to find an expert to do it."
"Aren't you an expert?" Sir System said plausibly.
"Uh, I, I can't." Fang Ning was scared to death watching horror movies. Asking him to investigate the source of these strange things, would he not be asking for his life?
He immediately refused. "What if I fall for it too? Wouldn't that be bad luck? We need to find someone who is immune to this kind of thing and has a specialty in investigation. "
"Then there's someone to choose. Isn't Radish Big the right person?" Sir System had an idea and took out a moldy Character Card from its pocket.
"Hehe, he's really suitable. Since he's from the Special Affairs Investigation Bureau, familiar with the local environment, and has Morality to protect him, he's perfect. Sure enough, even a fool will come up with a good idea. "Fang Ning sighed.
"You're secretly scolding me again …" Sir System was very displeased.
"You can actually hear it?" Fang Ning felt guilty and quickly changed the topic. "Call Robert immediately and ask him where he is."
…
Robert and his former partner, Jim, were investigating this sudden and terrible accident.
Jim had stabbed him in the ribs in the past, which confirmed the Chinese proverb … "If you're a good friend, you should be willing to sacrifice yourself". However, he still chose to forgive him.
Because Jim was only following orders. Now, they had a common goal, which was to fight for the rise of the USA.
This was tolerance.
"This seems to be a form of euthanasia? Their brains send out a self-death signal, and then their bodies really die. "Jim hugged a crystal ball and was in a villa, looking at the corpses on the ground.
In the past, such a massacre would definitely cause a stir in the country, or even the world.
However, now, it could only grab headlines in the local tabloids.
Because there were too many.
Robert squatted down and closed the eyelids of a white woman on the ground.
The woman's dilated pupils seemed to want to say something. There was some regret, happiness, and a little disbelief in her eyes.
"I've already investigated. Before they died, they all logged into this mysterious website and submitted a positive answer to this question."
"Damn it, it seems like this is another evil thing that uses the Internet as a medium to spread supernatural powers," Jim said fiercely.
A family of five was gone just like that. Their cold corpses reminded everyone:
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