Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 1165, First Scene

Shangguan Yan smiled slightly and began to explain:

"Because many people encounter the trolley problem when carrying out their missions, but due to seriousness and secular moral standards, it is not appropriate to discuss it with others."

Because making choices is difficult for people, but criticizing from a moral high ground is easy, the control bureau will keep the tasks assigned to the parties involved confidential, and the parties involved will not bring up such sensitive events on their own initiative.

But these kinds of things always become a thorn in everyone's side. Everyone wants to know if they made a mistake, and how others will choose. So someone invented this game, allowing everyone to bring up things that aren't suitable for discussion, and discuss them as a new hypothesis.

"That sounds really interesting!" Su Weiyu's eyes lit up immediately.

"That seems interesting."

"I want to play."

Following that, everyone expressed their opinions one by one. Although others suggested playing standard party games like Truth or Dare and King's Game, Shangguan Yan's suggestion ultimately received the majority's approval.

Shangguan Yan organized everyone to start brainstorming hypothetical scenarios. After receiving all the settings, they eliminated a few one by one, and then began the selection process directly.

"The first problem is: if you have a brother who goes missing during a dangerous mission, and your superiors and the organization do not allow you to continue looking for him."

Now that you have a life you're happy with, would you give up searching for that person and settle down, or would you disregard your superiors' objections, risk disrupting your own life, and continue searching for them, determined to search for a lifetime?

After Shangguan Yan finished reading, the crowd booed, and several people even rolled their eyes at Huangfu Zuoren.

Shangguan Yan shrugged: "Huangfu, be a little more serious. This is a topic that's not controversial and is obviously yours, so what's there to discuss?"

The game is popular because it satisfies everyone's penchant for prying into others' minds; this kind of uninteresting scenario hardly inspires any desire for discussion.

"It's my fault. I couldn't think of a good topic or situation for the time being. I'm so sorry." Huangfu Zuoren begged for forgiveness in shame.

"Alright, consider this an appetizer. I'll add a condition: if someone recognizes you as the designer of this scenario, you must immediately punish yourself with three glasses of baijiu, or one thousand yuan per glass, as a prize pool reward for the person with the fewest total penalty drinks in the end."

If you feel your design is not good, you can take it back and redesign it, and start over.

"But as for Huangfu... let's discuss that first. Also, you should have a drink," Shangguan Yan said.

Huangfu Zuoren wisely punished himself by drinking three cups, and then the others wrote down what they thought was the right thing to do.

Finally, when everyone announced the results, it was found that the number of people who gave up searching far exceeded the number who supported searching.

“Tell me your reasons one by one. Shirakawa, you chose to give up, so go ahead.”

Baihe: "Searching for a lifetime is too time-consuming. At most, it will take a few years. Everyone knows that searching for someone has a diminishing return. Just like solving a case in the secular world, if you can't lock down the murderer with the initial clues, it will become more and more difficult later on."

The same applies to finding someone. At the beginning, you'll definitely have the most clues, but as time goes by, the clues will become fewer and fewer, and in the end, you'll be like a headless fly, wasting your whole life on this. It's too foolish.

People should always look forward.

"Wow~ You need to look forward. Your nephew has had a big influence on you." Shangguan Yan teased, and Bai He shrugged.

"And what about you, Goro? Why did you give up?"

"I'm a ninja, do you even need to ask? That's what the ninja code says." Goro said matter-of-factly. "Then why did Sayo and the others choose to spend their lives searching for someone? Aren't you all ninjas?" Shangguan Yan looked at the three members of the Ninja Wind Squad with interest.

Kurosawa Yoshigoro rolled his eyes, shook his head, and said to Kurosawa Hima beside him, "Brother, you tell him."

"Although the title assumes a happy daily life, as a ninja, it's not a big deal to accept that daily life is disturbed. You can't search for someone your whole life with one mind, but you won't give up either."

Our idiot captain probably only read the table of contents and not the details. It's not a big deal if a ninja in the village dies, but a disappearance will definitely be taken seriously because... many people in the village will pretend to be missing in an attempt to escape the village.

Of course, this happened many years ago, but at least the ninja manual was written according to the circumstances at that time, so Captain Fatty's basis is completely wrong; he was just lazy, evil, and disloyal.

"You! Rihua, what did you say! You fell off a cliff during our genin exams..."

"Alright, alright, it's quite clear now. You can argue about it later. I feel your discussion will be the most interesting topic of this round of hypotheticals." Shangguan Yan smiled slightly, then turned to ask the next person:
"Kehen should be self-explanatory. He didn't look for it because he was confident in his abilities and thought that if he couldn't find it at first, he wouldn't be able to find it later, right?"

What about Mo Ying? Why did she choose to search for him?

Mo Ying: "Because... it's quite romantic. I don't really like a monotonous and stable life. And if I can find someone in the end, it would be a beautiful story. Even if I can't find someone, I'd still be admired by some people."

"Is it about artists' pragmatism? Then why were you able to search for it your whole life, Xia?"

"I don't think the point is about a lifetime. This lifetime is just a hypothetical statement of determination, but it's possible that you'll soon find out that the other person is dead, or that you've found them again."

To think from the beginning that this is the price of my entire life is too negative. It's better to have a balanced life. Anyway, if any of you go missing, I will definitely look for you.

"Because nobody's looking for you, I feel sorry for you," Xia Shou joked.

"Wow, Natsumori-senpai is really arrogant, but he's much better than the irresponsible Goro-senpai."

Why do you guys keep bringing me up!

"If I don't mention you, who should I mention? There's no one here more despicable than you, you gambling addict!" Kurosawa Yoru rebuked righteously.

Just as the situation was about to spiral out of control, Jiang Wengao raised his hand and interjected, "Isn't anyone curious about the minister's answer?"

Shangguan Yan held up the small piece of paper in his hand, which read "Will find it".

Baihe's eyes flashed with surprise: "This is unexpected. I didn't even notice it just now. I thought the minister would definitely choose to give up."

"I can't imagine that the minister would be someone who would search for someone his whole life," Kehen said sincerely.

Shangguan Yan chuckled and said casually, "Actually, this problem isn't as difficult to solve as you might think, because I've already tried."

Moreover... at that time, I wasn't looking for a missing person, but a dead person.

And in the end, I did indeed find it.

Although there were many twists and turns in the process, once you make up your mind about something, the concept of time becomes very blurry in your perception. In the process of searching, a day and a night feels like a nap, while a year may feel like a day.

Even if I gamble my whole life, it won't be very painful.

(End of this chapter)