Eternal Night

Chapter 678 We are the majority!
"The reason I say you're too harsh is because there's a huge flaw in your theory."

While performing the surgery, Zhi said, "You're treating everyone as a self-aware and rational individual."

Wu Pifu stared blankly at Zhi in the operating room and said seriously, "Perform the surgery carefully!"

Zhi laughed loudly, brandishing the scalpel and saying, "What a joke! This kind of minor surgery is nothing to me... Ah, you've cut a major artery!"

The entire operating room was filled with a mist of blood, and several veins immediately popped out on Wu Pifu's forehead. But he immediately laughed and said, "Just kidding, it's just a blood pack, don't worry."

The surrounding medical staff subconsciously moved half a meter away.

Zhi continued, scalpel in hand, as he spoke: “In your mind, you strictly distinguish between human and non-human beings, and you set an unbreakable bottom line. You treat human beings as equals, as objects to be talked to, cooperated with, or even as adversaries, while you regard all non-human beings as something completely incomprehensible and unnecessary to be understood.”

Wu Pifu continued, expressionless, "Is there a problem?"

Zhi shrugged and said, "I have no intention of judging whether your thoughts are good or bad. These are your own values, and I don't want to interfere with them. After all, you really would slap me to death. I won't do that until I find a way to change your values ​​without any problems... What I want to say now is that your values ​​have good and bad aspects. The good aspects are that they are simple, direct, logically consistent, and don't involve internal conflicts. As long as you don't get confused, there's nothing that can make you doubt yourself."

"But there are downsides too. The biggest problem isn't killing innocent people, since you, as the superbrain, have the ability to judge whether someone is a good person or not. The real problem is efficiency."

Wu Pifu remained silent, then continued, "Let's return to the initial topic. You've assumed everyone is a rational individual, which is a false premise. When facing a single individual, if their life is threatened, then everyone does indeed possess rationality, at most they might be a little dim-witted or mentally challenged. But their mental weakness is merely a form of weak rationality. However, when you're facing a group, you'll encounter irrational followers. The larger and more legitimate the group, the more followers there will be, and these followers have absolutely no rationality whatsoever."

Although Wu Pifu didn't speak, he was also pondering to himself.

Wu Pifu was indeed aware of the herd mentality and herd members long ago; in the 21st century, there were indeed many such people, both online and in real life.

However, he rarely encountered such encounters after entering the dream world.

Whether it's the Song Dynasty Dream World or the Super Soldier Dream World, to be honest, what he's facing are actually individual people, or at most small groups or organizations.

For example, in the Song Dynasty in the Song Dynasty Dream World, it seems that he is facing a country, but in fact, the country at that time is a different concept from the country in the 21st century. The common people and the literati live in two completely different worlds. The oppressor and the oppressed are clearly separated. So when he killed the emperor and the powerful, the entire Song Dynasty knelt down without even a struggle.

When he arrived in the Super Soldier Dream World, he was not facing the unified super soldier dream world, but only one of the large organizations. Before he rose up, they had already caused him some trouble. At that time, a large number of people even besieged him. These were the followers that Zhi mentioned.

Zhi continued, “Before you entered the laboratory, I told you that if you wanted to change this era with your ideas, there were only two ways to do it. The first is to consistently set a bottom line standard and then enforce it for decades or even centuries until everyone treats it as a physical law to follow. I call this path ‘integrating oneself with the Dao.’ The principles you set are a kind of rule of heaven and earth.”

"The second method is to randomly extract and kill two out of every life you want to change, extract and kill two out of every life, extract and kill two out of every life... just kill them all. When only one in a thousand or one in ten thousand people are left, they will naturally unite and work together. This path is to transform the evil of this world into the necessary evil."

"But you can't do either of those things, right?"

Wu Pifu remained silent for a long time, watching as Zhi Jiang implanted a child's head and spine into the cloned body. He suddenly asked, "Then how did you do it? I still don't understand what you did."

Zhi chuckled and surprisingly didn't hide anything: "It's very simple, I made them the majority."

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Wu Pifu looked completely bewildered.

"Didn't we just mention the herd mentality in groups?"

Knowing: "When you entered the underground laboratory, I led the army to raid the homes of all the wealthy and powerful in Star City, exposing all their dark sides. In fact, under the current circumstances, the truly deadly dark side is not cannibalism, blood-drinking, or organ products from the lower classes, but the power and wealth that these wealthy and powerful represent. And the most interesting point is, why do the general public believe that the real wealthy and powerful only devour the flesh and blood of the lower classes and use them as organ collections?"

Wu Pifu was taken aback for a moment and said, "You mean..." "Just what you think."

Zhi continued, "What's the point of power, wealth, status, class, and the like if there's no comparison? Right?"

"If you don't kill, hatred will never end. If you don't steal, what difference is there between the strong and the weak? If you don't commit adultery, all sentient beings are sinful. If you don't lie, dreams and illusions are empty... If the lower classes have become objects abandoned by the Azure Government, already tacitly accepted by society as 'resources' to be used as consumables, then what stimulation is there for the powerful and wealthy? So naturally, during the confiscation of their assets, many legal citizens of Star City were found, those missing middle-class people, understand? For these powerful and wealthy, what they enjoy is never real human flesh and human organs, but the taboo feeling of violating the law, violating human rights, violating life, and yet not being punished at all!"

Wu Pifu suddenly realized, and couldn't help but think of the dream world of the Song Dynasty.

The Song Dynasty Dream World is set in the ancient feudal era. In that era, the powerful and wealthy not only exploited tenant farmers and ordinary people to obtain a superior material enjoyment, but they also enjoyed the sense of privilege of stepping on the heads of ordinary people.

As Zhi Xian said, these non-humans enjoy the forbidden pleasure of trampling on human dignity and life; otherwise, their "nobility" would not be apparent!

"...Exposing all of this sparked the first flame, and naturally distinguished friend from foe. So when I led the army to execute these powerful families, no citizens spoke up for them. Some citizens whose relatives had been abused and played with stood up and began to cheer for our actions. But that was not enough, far from enough."

Zhi Bian swung the scalpel rapidly, his mouth constantly talking, but his fingers were as steady as the most precise instrument.

"Then they keep exposing all sorts of experiments, secret meeting recordings, and internal documents of the Azure Government. You know, some internal secrets can't be exposed because these internal documents and meetings don't actually serve as a real policy agenda. Often, they're just factions within the government gossiping and vying for power. But the citizens, the middle class, don't know that once these secrets are exposed, the effects will be tremendous. For example... the End-of-Life Project, except for a few leaders and high-ranking officials, will subject all the lower and middle classes, and even most of the upper classes, to informational absorption, which is to say, a de facto information dimensional reduction, turning them into NPCs in a game, so that they will never rebel and will always obey the leader's orders. An eternal, perfect, utopian world will then appear. What do you think these citizens will do?"

Wu Pifu paused for a few seconds and said, "They will be suspicious, because it's impossible for any government to be so crazy."

"Bingo, that's right."

Zhi laughed loudly: "So I simultaneously released this information to Earth, the Moon, Mars, the asteroid belt... and all the human colonies on the network. Guess what happened?"

Wu Pifu hesitated for a moment and said, "Did the Azure government hold a press conference to clarify?"

Zhi ripped off his mask, revealing a half-manic grin to Wu Pifu: "They actually cut off all network communications, and the three major fleets of Earth and Moon have started setting sail from Earth's spaceports, heading towards all the colonies in the solar system! Hahaha, they actually believed it? Hahaha~~~"

Wu Pifu was stunned and incredulous. He truly hadn't expected the Azure Government to react this way, but he quickly recovered and asked, "You mean... the ultimate producer?"

Zhi put on a mask and buried herself in surgery: "Of course! Otherwise, do you think I made up the End-Producer Plan? I just didn't release it all; I only released a part of it. Now, with the scandals of the powerful, the various secret meetings of the Azure Government, internal documents, the contents of the End-Producer Plan, plus the emergency departure of the three major fleets of Earth and Moon, the sudden disconnection of the entire solar system network... guess who's in the minority and who's in the majority under this barrage of information?"

Wu Pifu was speechless, but he kept talking: "From now on, everything has been completely overturned and reversed. You are no longer a madman who slaughters all mankind. On the contrary, you are the savior of all mankind, the hero who saw through the corrupt Blue Government, the first martyr to stand up and fight, the one who sounded the horn, and the hope of all mankind!"

With one hand continuing the nerve reconnection surgery, he pointed at Wu Pifu with the other and said, "And you, no, it should be, and us... plus all the people outside, we are the majority, we are human. Those powerful people, the high-ranking government officials, including most of the eleven families, they are the non-humans! You see, the result is out."

"Non-humans are a minority. Anyone who continues to purge the lower classes is a lackey of non-humans, and is also non-human. Humans are the majority; they will help us tear those non-humans apart. And now your task is very simple~"

Shocked, Wu Pifu couldn't help but ask, "What?"

At that moment, a dozen researchers and soldiers ran in from the operating room corridor. The middle-aged researcher in the lead said as he ran, "Sir, sir, the assembly is complete! The design drawings you left behind have been assembled!"

Without turning his head, he said, "Go use the Dragon Rider System, and then..."

"In front of all humans and non-humans in the entire solar system, annihilate the Earth-Moon Third Fleet!"

(End of this chapter)