Those who face the wall, but are in the Nascent Soul stage.

Chapter 156 Chao Wen Dao

The risk remover stood on the altar of truth, neither too far nor too near, and everyone could see his featureless face.

Scientists have already almost completely surrounded the altar of truth.

But the heads of state are still making a final effort.

Luo Qing leaned against the only entrance, chatting casually with the risk-taker.

"Do you know how angry people are?" Luo Qing pointed to the endless crowd below the stage, which probably numbered a million or even more.

Risk Defender: "As civilization develops, the number of human individuals with similar thinking to scientists will increase. People cannot understand them now, but more and more people will understand them in the future."

Luo Qing asked, "You mean the masses are ignorant, right?"

Risk Remover: "Ignorance is not a derogatory term. At our level, many individuals from other civilizations consider us risk removers to be ignorant, to be like trying to fill a basket with water."

Luo Qing: "Are there higher levels of civilization above those who eliminate risks?"

Risk taker: "There are almost none left. We are the earliest civilization in this universe."

Luo Qing: "Almost?"

Risk taker: "There might be an exception, but that's just speculation."

"What guess?" Luo Qing asked, intrigued.

“You can come in and ask,” the risk remover said, pointing to the ground.

Luo Qing glanced at the silent altar of death and calmly asked, "How would you kill them?"

The risk-taker said, "In a way you can understand, I will instantly burn the human body to plasma, which will not cause any sensory pain."

Luo Qing: "What about me?"

Risk Taker: "Based on your quantum superposition properties, I will engulf you with my physical body."

Luo Qing: "Ideal black body?"

The risk-taker nodded.

A black body that moves at the speed of light, ignores all attacks, absorbs all electromagnetic waves, and engulfs everything... it is indeed impossible to deal with.

Moves at the speed of light, cannot be targeted, immune to attacks, and death is certain upon contact.

These four characteristics are quite extraordinary even in the world of cultivation.

But it's not like we can't fight.

Luo Qing was eager to try.

"What if you can't answer that?"

The risk-taker pointed in another direction from the Altar of Truth: "The door is over there."

"Alright then." Luo Qing sighed, stopped chatting with him, and started thinking about her own problems.

During this final preparation period, three people came to the risk-relief team one after another.

They are the President of Russia, the President of France, and the Pope, respectively.

The Russian president said: "Mr. Risk Remover, allow me to address you as such. I know that in your eyes, scientists who dedicate themselves to the pursuit of truth are noble. This nobility is not misunderstood by the people. More than a century ago, our country also had 30 million noble people who gave their lives for their ideals."

But those sacrifices were meaningful. You are leading scientists to make pointless sacrifices; their deaths bring no value, and the truths they discover will not help human civilization in any way. I sincerely beg you here: remove the altar of truth, leave Earth. You have already taken Einstein's equatorial particle accelerator; don't take the souls of our scientists as well.

The French president said, "Sir, give me three months. There is a good place in our country, the town of Barbizon, a French countryside with a distinctive national character and beautiful scenery."

Over the past four centuries, many artists who believe in returning to nature have come here to explore the beauty of nature. I think I can take them with me to regain their confidence in life.

Corot, Rousseau, Millet are waiting for them. I think this natural beauty will negate the false ideals brought about by knowledge. It is a place that can give birth to Impressionism, a place that can negate the colors of reality. I can pull them out of the self-righteous martyrdom ritual.

Compared to the efforts of the two heads of state, the Pope appeared to be more sincere.

The Pope smiled wryly: “Great hazard breaker, you are indeed no different from the God we believe in, but do you know that God never needs truth paid for with blood? In my eyes, scientists are no different from the children in the Garden of Eden who ate the forbidden fruit. If you may, I would like to invite you to come with me into the Sistine Chapel, where Michelangelo’s *The Creation of Adam* is located. *The Creation of Adam* does not depict any absolute truth; the core of that painting lies in the glimmer of light that transcends eternity when fingertips touch. You have blinded the world with your so-called truth—that glimmer of light is what humanity should spend its entire life pursuing.”

Luo Qing turned her head away, unable to bear it.

These three people went to debate scriptures with the risk-taker? They're really getting more and more confused as they get older.

Haven't you seen some countries that have already started urging their scientists to hurry up and die? The more the government urges scientists to die, the more they hesitate. After a lot of back and forth, the number of scientists in that country is actually the smallest, except for that hothead Ding Yi.

In contrast to the previous country, Japan has the highest proportion of scientists, with a number reaching almost several hundred.

Japanese politicians rushed in, shouting about friends, family, and bonds, but the more they shouted, the more people died.

The suicide squad, which originally consisted of more than 200 people, has now grown to more than 600.

In this massive suicide mission, leveraging human nature to minimize losses is more feasible than trying to persuade those who risk their lives.

Look over in America, the US president has somehow acquired a bunch of promiscuous, big-breasted women and, using the small-head theory, is forcing American scientists to stare at them.

Pragmatism, pragmatism indeed.

Even the most idealistic humans are still mortal beings, so why not start from this point?
As expected, the risk-taker's words came one after another, and its rebuttal began.

The risk-taker replied to the Russian president: "The significance of the 3000 million sacrifices was given by external circumstances, while the significance of the thousands who are about to sacrifice themselves is driven by their own inner motivations. Neither is superior to the other. As for being irresponsible to human civilization? You don't need to worry about that."

The deaths of a few scientists will not shake the scientific and technological development of human civilization; a new batch of elites will soon take their place. Appropriate changes in leadership can even contribute to the development of civilization. I think you should remember the accidental death of the old astronaut 60 years ago.

The risk-taker replied to the French president: "Human civilization is far from reaching the level of pursuing true art; that's an interest that only civilization at my stage needs to consider."

Whether it's the Barbizon School or the Florence School, these various art movements, interwoven with historical backgrounds and contemporary factors, are not pure art. You'll understand when you meet the true artists of this universe.

Art is simply art; it shouldn't contain any additional meaning. Art is beauty itself. Your design for a resort town like Barbizon will only strengthen the scientists' resolve to commit martyrdom.

The risk-taker replied to the Pope: "Your Holiness, God does not exist. No civilization at our stage desires God's existence more than civilizations at this stage. From the perspective of civilization itself, these scientists, harboring strong idealism, are the real terrorists. In our billions of years of risk-taker work, we have discovered many civilizations that were accidentally destroyed by vacuum decay."

These civilizations were all unfortunate victims dragged down with them. After civilizations reached a certain stage of development, a few members would inevitably initiate dangerous experiments in pursuit of ultimate truth, disregarding the safety of their civilization and the universe for their own desires. The answers they obtained and enjoyed for a fleeting moment, however brief, ultimately led to the destruction of their entire civilization.

"Your Holiness, you should thank me if you want more people to experience that glimmer of light touched by a finger, to experience the process of life rather than its end. Then you should support me. Once these scientists with dangerous ideas are dead, you will be safe, albeit only temporarily."

He couldn't win the argument.

The two presidents and the pope left, looking embarrassed.

Luo Qing had already anticipated this outcome and shook his head helplessly.

"Time's up, who wants to go first?"

The voices of those who risked the incident echoed throughout the venue.

(End of this chapter)