Original God, but the real world

Chapter 186 185-Very Uneasy

Restoration of the country?

Ying couldn't quite understand.

She and Kong are both outsiders in this world. For things like restoring the country, they either need the most loyal ministers of Kanreya or the royal family of Kanreya.

Apart from them, no one else has any reason to restore the country.

These people were the absolute top leaders of Kanreya from the beginning, and the ordinary people had already become the subjects of the Seven Kingdoms. Who would still want to restore the country of five hundred years ago?

At most, you will carry some hatred towards Sky Island, and then die in depression, without ever finding a chance for revenge in your life.

Being weak is a good thing. Ordinary people will be fine when they come into contact with the sun and the moon, but Oropas will break into pieces at the slightest touch.

Being weak is a bad thing, and those who inspire hatred are not even a joke to the gods of Sky Island.

They don't care about the hatred of ants.

In terms of difficulty, revenge is more difficult than restoring the country, but most people would rather remember the hatred than want to restore the country.

But Kong is an outsider!

Why does he want to restore Kanriya?
You are not even a Kanreyan, not even a Teyvatian, and yet you want to help others restore their country here?

The only explanation Ying could think of was that Kong might have received a favor from Kanriya, so it was difficult for him to leave, and he could only find a way to repay the favor.

"It's a bit difficult for me to make this choice." She sighed, "You said the curse cannot be dispelled, but you have been away from the cult for a long time, right? Are you sure the cult has no way to do it?"

"What really affects you is not the right to speak about the curse."

Dain was silent for a moment, then gave an evasive answer.

He was confident that his knowledge of the curse was the most authoritative.

But there is no way to argue about this kind of issue, because Ying has brought up an unknown object to compete with you.

You say you are an authority?

I am bringing up an opponent whose specific situation is unknown to everyone. You don’t even know his situation, so how can you say that you understand curses better than him?

This is something that cannot be contested.

Because no one knows what level the cult is at all.

This comparison is too unfair. It seems to be a safe approach, but in fact it is like "I'm being fair". Ying already has an inclination in her heart, so she rejects Dai Yin's proposal.

Behind the fair words and safe choices is actually the referee's already biased will and judgment.

It wasn't a curse she was fighting.

To put it bluntly, no matter who is right or wrong, it is the Qiuqiu people who bear the price. How much does it have to do with her?
If they succeed, the Hillichuls will be transformed into Kanreyas, and if they fail, it will be a painful death, but death nonetheless.

The results were no different.

The reason why the cult is mentioned is entirely because the master of the cult is Kong.

It doesn’t matter who knows about the curse. What matters is, as the party with the right to choose, who should I trust.

Was it Dainsleb, the stranger she met by chance but who helped her a lot, or was it the cult that she hadn't seen for a long time but was special because it was empty?

The core of the choice is not the right to interpret the curse, but... who should I believe.

Dain noticed it, and naturally believed in Sora.

Even though he said so much about the curse, when Ying realized that it was Sora's direct order to expel the curse, she immediately wavered and wondered whether to help Sora.

The relationship between these two twins is not awkward.

Ying blocked many of the cult's plans, and while she was doing these things, Kong Ge was actually watching beside her.

Ying didn't know that the cult had so many small plans, and they were all related to the earth veins, and they could easily turn into big plans.

But she just happened to run into them, and she didn't want ordinary people to get hurt, so she took action and crushed the cult's Abyss Mage.

This matter is just different.

Because, this is what Kongming card is supposed to do.

Ying wasn't sure if there was time to do anything during the plan to block it. Anyway, she didn't know, so she would just solve it if she ran into it.

But this time, she already knew that it was just a fantasy.

So, should I stand up and stop my brother's plan?

One percent of hope...

"The feasibility is too low." Ying sighed.

From Kong’s description, the so-called one percent is actually an exaggeration.

Obviously, he himself did not hold out for that hope.

The choice Kong made was actually to let them return to the [cycle] as soon as possible and stop bearing these unwarranted sins.

He said he was going to find the Kanriya people, but in fact he didn't expect to save anyone. He just hoped that these unfortunate guys who turned into monsters could die with some dignity.

"You really didn't tell me everything." Dai Yin's expression remained calm.

Oh, it turns out that the cult's research on the curse has not made any progress.

The person who most hopes that the cult will succeed is not Ying, but Dain.

He himself was deeply tormented by the curse, and the hillbillies lying here were all originally Kanreyas.

Of course, Dain hoped that the cult would succeed, but because he knew the nature of the curse too well, he rejected unnecessary hopes.

If a beam of light cannot dispel the darkness, but only flashes briefly in the long night, then this beam of light is guilty.

Giving others impossible hopes and unnecessary persistence are absolute sins.

Dain never entertained such hopes, so he insisted that Sora and the Order would fail.

Ying deliberately concealed part of it and only said that Kong wanted to restore his country.

Because she was not a neutral referee from the beginning.

If Dain tried to reason with her, he would definitely lose.

No matter what reasons he used, it was Ying who made the final judgment, just like the script of "Who is kneeling in the audience and why is he suing me", he could never win.

But Dain didn't try to reason with her, instead he saw through her thoughts at a glance.

In addition, Ying herself was aware of what she had concealed, so she was unable to hold on.

Ying sighed.

"My brother himself didn't hold such a hope. I guess he just wanted these people to die with dignity."

"Dignity and pain are opposites. They are already on the verge of death. It would be easier for them to die quietly like this." Dain said sharply, "But if we insist on giving them a human death and forcibly remove the curse, the degree of pain they will suffer is unimaginable."

The point is, it's worthless.

If you can resolve the curse, the pain will be a little less painful. For the sake of a bright and beautiful future, everyone can endure it. At most, you will faint from the pain. The result will be the same anyway.

But you can't remove the curse at all. If you do it forcibly, you will make the other person die in pain, and then you say that this is dignity... Why can't you let people die in peace?

You can't solve the problem and you're not willing to accept your own powerlessness. You insist on letting a group of dying people bear the consequences of your stubbornness, right?
“It’s true that we are powerless, but there should also be an element of experimentation.”

Ying didn't show any expression.

"This is an experiment to try to remove the curse. Since you all think this thing is so difficult, the cult needs to invest more resources if it wants to overcome the curse."

Not every experiment will be successful, but if you don’t try, you won’t make any progress.

However, the cost of this experiment is somewhat cruel.

"Just think of it as a sister's expectation for her brother. I don't think this is just Sora's idea." She frankly expressed her bias, "The Abyss Apostle who follows my brother has been persuading him to do this."

Problems must be solved when they exist, and curses are no exception.

But the level of the curse was too high, and the sect had apparently made no substantial breakthroughs in the past five hundred years.

So they need more attempts, and attempts require human lives as filler, because if the deciphering fails, the experimental subjects will die.

Death is never a reason for them to stay, quite the contrary, the Order continues to try.

This batch of experimental subjects died, so the next batch took over.

That's why there is that device... Purifying the curse is not a sudden idea, but the cult's persistence for five hundred years.

Ying naturally excluded Kong's choice and regarded this as a private action of the apostles.

She may not be unaware of the truth, but the truth is not always valuable.

"Anyway, you've made your choice, right?"

Dai Yin didn't care what Ying thought or saw, he just wanted to know what Ying was going to do.

"We are not actually needed." Ying sighed, "According to what they said, someone should be activating the device by now."

This thing is really useful. Fortunately, I am not alone this time.

"I have to find some adventure partners." Ying looked at Paimon and shook her head slightly.

"What are you looking at?" Little Paimon got furious instantly.

"Paimon is a traveling partner, but not an adventuring partner." Ying looked relaxed. "Like this time, although we knew that the device might have problems, we couldn't spare any manpower to garrison there."

These apostles are not easy to deal with. If ordinary adventurers run into them, they are doomed.

But this time is different.

They have allies.

"Oh!"

Suddenly, there was a sound of explosion from high up, the walls rustled, and rocks fell from the sky.

Ying looked normal, "Sure enough, they have already started."

How outrageous.

The images she saw were at least a few days ago, right?
Have you been accumulating power for such a long time with this rubbish device? Do you have to wait until I come before you start it?
For a moment, Ying couldn't help but wonder whether these Apostles of the Abyss did this on purpose, specifically to report her to Kong.

For example, "Your Highness, although we are working hard for your plan, your blood relatives always block your plan."

How could it be such a coincidence?

I don't know if your garbage device is always storing energy, right? As soon as I came, you were ready to take action, right?
Ying couldn't help but rub her eyebrows, feeling extremely painful.

She would never understand how these people thought.

"Tsk, alright." Ying shook her head and waited quietly for everything to end.

"If you choose to help him, will the outcome change?"

Dain asked suddenly.

"I will make Xiao stop." Ying tucked up the hair beside her ears, looking casual, "The curse will at most affect the Hillichurls. Xiao won't mind the cult's actions this time."

"Can you dissuade him?"

Of course, Dyne could sense Xiao's presence.

The lines in "Shizhi Zatan" are all his. He can even observe gods, so he can naturally observe Xiao.

"Let Jiang Qing help." Ying thought for a moment, "Anyway, Xiao will definitely not be able to refuse Jiang Qing's request this time."

"What if we are lying to you? What if the device not only dispels the curse of the hillbillies, but also kills these Thousand Rocks?"

Dain was silent for a moment, but couldn't help asking.

She was so calm.

Someone told her that the pool water and the device were to deal with the curse, and she really believed it?

She shouldn't be such a simple fool.

"Is that so? It seems that because of my dissuasion, many innocent people died..." Ying tilted her head, "Oh, that's terrible. It seems that I killed many people who shouldn't have died because of my unintentional dissuasion?"

"I feel guilty and uneasy. I feel like I am a sinner with a myriad of crimes."

Ying's eyes were filled with guilt, as if she could shed tears at any time.

In a way, she is also a good actor.

The long journey made her accustomed to calmness, because most of the dangers and unknowns had actually been safely experienced in her memory.

But she was not without other emotions.

"And then? I'm in pain, but it wasn't me who did it. What else can I do except apologize and admit my mistake?"

"How about you kill me and let me atone for my sins?"

"Well, I'll go join the cult."

"As for whether it's a trick to make up for the crime or really running away to join Kong, it depends on my mood."

During the long journey, Ying resolved many conflicts.

The so-called leveling actually means putting yourself at a higher position than the opposing parties, regarding your own ideas as the standard for weighing right and wrong, and then judging the right and wrong of both parties according to your own will, and then attacking the wrong ones and supporting the right ones.

Pluto reasoned with the protagonists, and then beat Huolinfei and the others to pieces, because leveling itself is such an act.

The standard of right and wrong is myself.

If someone has tried to mediate the conflict, and has not accepted the interests of one party, intending to take sides, and simply used his own will to mediate the conflict between the two parties.

Then she sees herself as a god, or at least a higher being that is superior to both parties.

But the party you think is wrong may not be willing to accept your adjustment.

So at this time, you have to use a little force to let them know that what they think is right or wrong doesn’t matter, and what you think is right is right.

So, how many enemies she thought were wrong had she killed with her own hands before she could make these people accept her truth?

This is a number that does not need to be recalled.

Kindness and softness are never the same thing, she doesn't like ordinary people to get into trouble, so she will choose to help these people.

But this does not mean that she cannot bear the death of ordinary people, or even feel pain because of their death.

Human emotions come from two aspects: natural tenderness and substantial contact with a person.

The former is innate. Some people are born sentimental, while others are more rational and objective.

The latter is simpler. The life and death of friends and relatives are always more important than those of strangers.

In any case, to expect an immortal species that travels between worlds to always maintain a high degree of tolerance towards mortals, or even to unilaterally believe that the other party is unwilling to accept the death of ordinary people and will cry bitterly and feel inexplicably sad because of the death of mortals... This kind of rhetoric is very arrogant.

Because it regards human beings as an absolutely special kind of life.

But between the worlds and between civilizations, human beings are not special.

The humans of Teyvat are special, and currently almost all special lives love the humans of this world.

But Ying is not included.

Her compassion for people comes from her own high morals, and morality is the practice that people use to restrain themselves.

She can be a saint or she can throw morality aside. It is her own business and the margin of freedom she has due to the power she possesses.

A special and powerful person always has more choices than ordinary people and is more tolerated by the world.

To put it bluntly...if you die, you die.

"Why are we discussing something that won't happen?" Ying pointed to the sky, "Xiao has organized the other party to open the mechanism. Now that it's over, we shouldn't pay attention to things that are impossible to happen."

Regardless of the true function of the mechanism, the person who opened the mechanism has been nailed to death by Xiao, so there is naturally no need to make any assumptions about what will happen after the mechanism is opened.

Things that haven't happened are not worth wasting too much emotion on.

"That's good." Dain nodded.

The destined Gemini will indeed treat each other as the most precious thing.

Without involving the other party, both of them can make a calm judgment.

But once it comes to the other party, it is difficult for them to remain calm, let alone make any "fair" or "kind" choices.

Right.

The brother and sister have been traveling together for so long, it really doesn't make sense for them to consider others when it comes to the other's choice.

"Fortunately he said the possibility was very slim, otherwise you would definitely choose to help him..."

Dain was stunned for a moment.

No, not possible.

Sora probably didn't know about this kind of memory created by Inteivat, so he said this unintentionally.

But this sentence is too special.

Only after he said that would Ying consider stopping it.

If he didn't say it, Ying would naturally favor Kong, and she would definitely choose to help Kong try instead of stopping the cult's plan.

He didn't know about the situation, but what if he knew that Ying would see this scene?

He wants Ying to stop the cult's plan?
"You told me not to think about things I can't do anything about." Ying's expression was calm.

Dainsleb's sudden pause did not affect her. The blonde girl seemed not to notice anything, let alone any further association.

"Indeed." Dainsleb nodded. "Then, farewell, [Employer]."

"I still have other things to investigate. I hope that next time we meet, you and I can still be allies instead of standing on opposing sides."

"If it was an enemy, I would definitely kill you, Mr. Dain." Ying showed a row of neat white teeth and smiled brightly, "You are too mysterious. Girls are always uneasy about things they can't understand."

(End of this chapter)