Inside the villa.
Inside the dark and damp underground cage.
When Zhou Hong saw that the light in the room suddenly turned on, he could not help but squint his eyes because of the light. But he immediately looked at the stairs that led from top to bottom. In a trance, he once again saw the old man he once respected.
"Teacher …"
"It's been a few days …" The old man walked down the stairs and came to the iron bars that imprisoned Zhou Hong. He still looked at him kindly as before and said,
"You've suffered too …"
"Have you arranged everything?" Zhou Hong obviously did not care about the suffering he had suffered. Instead, he was more concerned about whether there was trouble outside because of him.
"Illness treatment …" The old man sat on a chair in front of the iron bars with the help of his walking stick. He looked at Zhou Hong, who was inevitably covered in dust, and said,
"You can have as many reasons as you want …"
"I believe that not long after, except for the insiders, no one will care whether you reappear in front of the public or not …"
"That's good …" Zhou Hong smiled.
"Teacher, let me bear the responsibility alone. As for the others … Yes, they are still at the stage of betting that I might succeed. They did not provide any help to me in the incident."
"You lost …" The old man nodded without surprise and said, "I can't find any reason to punish them on the surface."
"You won …"
"They will rush to jump out and express their support …"
"Those old foxes have been doing this for many years. In the face of an old man like me … especially after suffering the consequences of failure before, they naturally don't dare to stand out and express their support for you before the matter is settled."
"But you should also be very clear …"
"Without anyone's help, the probability of you standing in the end is not high, and once you fail … So you chose the stupidest way, to directly threaten me with a pistol alone?"
"You can say that …" Zhou Hong saw the old man sitting on the chair and took a few steps back to sit on the dusty ground again.
"Since there's no time, for the sake of the goal … I have to take a gamble as much as possible."
"But …"
"I didn't expect that you would actually collude with Yinggou. Everything was actually a private plan between you and that monster Yinggou …"
"Privately …" The old man could not help but shake his head.
"If it's truly for everyone's sake, so what if he made a decision on his own? Even if he failed, he would still have to bear the consequences …"
"But if it's not really for everyone's sake, even if you convince most people with your words, who will bear the responsibility for the failure? Do you want to punish everyone who made the decision 'together'? If that's the case, it can only be left unsettled in the end, and it won't leave a deep impression."
"There are some things …"
"Especially when it's a matter of life and death like this, it can't be discussed … Someone has to stand up and bear the consequences of failure."
"Of course …"
"If someone is willing to take responsibility and discuss the details of the problem with the others … This is also the best situation. But are you willing to take responsibility for the failure of the plan?"
Zhou Hong replied without hesitation, "Of course I am …"
"No …" The old man shook his head and interrupted, "You're just giving advice in hindsight. If you had this idea earlier, you wouldn't have come to see me with a gun …"
"Besides …"
"The sacrifices caused by your plan, if it really failed in the end … you can't bear the responsibility."
"…" Zhou Hong.
"Whatever the winner says is right …" The old man continued.
"You can use this reason to refute me, and you can also use it to convince yourself. Yes, it's true, but as your former teacher, I have to tell you personally …"
"Wrong is wrong, and right is right. Even if you can reverse right and wrong in a short period of time, with time … the truth will come out sooner or later."
"If you don't want future generations to criticize you behind your back, people like you and me … must be strict with ourselves. We must know what we should do and what we shouldn't do."
"To put it bluntly …"
"That is, we must distinguish between public and private …"
"So, when faced with major issues, our priority must not be ourselves. We must not even have our own shadow in the decision. This way … no matter what, we can ensure that we have a clear conscience."
At this point.
The old man looked at Zhou Hong with disappointment and said, "These … I've taught you this more than once."
"And you …"
"But when making decisions, the first thing you have to consider is always yourself. The priority must be to ensure the stability of your own path …"
"Do you really think that completely eliminating the Inhumans will successfully solve the problem that has puzzled you for a long time …"
"Do you really have to use the lives of all the Inhumans to make you feel that you can walk more smoothly …"
"Don't tell me that you think you can continue to live with a clear conscience after doing that …" Rhode said coldly.
"The Inhumans are the root of the problem …" Zhou Hong said with incomparable determination.
"It's better to let things go …" Seeing this, the old man couldn't help but clench the crutch in his hand. "If you really want to solve the problem, you should know that a one-size-fits-all approach … will only cause more problems."
"But at least it can ensure that we have more time to breathe for a short period of time," Zhou Hong explained.
"Even if this will cause more problems, as long as we can continue to develop in a stable society for a few more years, I believe … when we face more new problems, we will have more power to solve them, and even more choices."
"And not like today …"
"When faced with the Inhumans problem, we can only retreat. If we don't want problems to arise, we can only continue to delay. Who knows when the problem will completely erupt and how much damage and impact it will cause to society …"
"Or else …"
"Just like you, we have to make a choice. In order to solve the Inhumans problem, we have to choose to sacrifice some ordinary people. But even so … we can't guarantee that we can solve the problem in one go."
"Although my plan will have more sacrifices, at least we can permanently solve the Inhumans problem once and for all. We can also buy time for development before new problems arise …"
"How can you guarantee that the new problems will be smaller than the Inhumans problem, and not be associated with the essence of society …" The old man frowned.
"If those new problems are the same as the problems of the Inhumans and are all problems born from the nature of society, are you going to continue to solve the problems in this way next time and then wait for more new problems to arise?"
"I didn't know that you were colluding with Ying Gou …" Zhou Hong had obviously thought through his problem, but he still insisted that he had not done anything wrong.
"I also didn't know that in your eyes, Ying Gou was not only an opportunity to be used, but also a great help …"
"If I had known about these things, how could I have chosen …"
"You would have …" The old man was even more disappointed when he saw this.
"Because if it were you, you wouldn't have chosen to accept Ying Gou from the beginning, and you wouldn't have treated him as an opportunity and help like me. You would have only done your best to fight to the death with an Inhuman like him …"
As he said that..,
The old man slowly got up from his chair. It was obvious that he had lost interest in talking to Zhou Hong.
Zhou Hong could not help but feel a chill in his heart. "Teacher, you are …"
"Little Zhou …" the old man turned his back to Zhou Hong and said calmly,
"This should also be the last time we're meeting …"
"I am indeed responsible for the reason why you have become like this today …"
"If there is a next life, I hope … that you will not meet an irresponsible teacher like me again."
As soon as he finished speaking..,
Zhou Hong saw the old man walk up the stairs without looking back. Soon after, two guys in white coats walked down..
"Teacher, I'm not wrong … absolutely not!"
Hearing this..,
"Yes …" the old man stopped in front of the stairs, but he still said without looking back.
"Because in your eyes, the one who is really wrong … is me!"
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