The old man you see with your phone is highly suspicious.

"No."

……

Xue Law actually thought the Mimic King's plan was alright. He could replace this ritual with his own and then kill the Seventh Apostle.

Now, all you have to do is prepare to continue listening to this half-elf's story.

In fact, a lot of information can be gleaned from her demeanor. This half-elf is very insecure and deliberately dresses herself up in a dirty manner, while also carrying weapons such as daggers and spikes for self-defense.

Her life was tough, but it also gave her a very strong inner strength. Her so-called breath was just a way to protect herself. Most importantly, even with the double debuff of Xue's Law, she could still rationally perceive that there was something wrong with her body.

This also matches the story she told.

She was born during a war between elves and duchies, the bastard child of some unknown elf and a village girl, and was abandoned in the mountains by her mother shortly after birth.

Fortunately, the half-elf endowed her with strength far exceeding that of a human infant. Even right after birth, she could instinctively seek survival. And, by sheer luck, perhaps because there is always a way out, a doe who had just given birth saw her and began to raise her.

She lived in the mountains for several years, and after the doe died of old age, she left the forest to search for her origins and homeland.

She discovered her past, but her mother had died long ago, supposedly captured by the army, and news of her death soon followed.

The village had been completely abandoned, and she had to find more than a dozen villagers who had survived in other places to piece together her background.

Thus, he hid his half-elf identity in human society, living a life of the lowest caste.

Clean chimneys, unclog sewers, wash stables, or take on jobs hunting wild animals outside the city.

As a half-elf, she lived like this, feeling unable to integrate into human cities, nor able to live alone in the forest like an elf.

As for going to find the elf to recognize her relatives, she guessed that once she saw the elf, she wouldn't be able to resist secretly taking out her sharp awl and thinking of backstabbing the elf.

In short, a girl living in the cracks.

She considers herself human, but she cannot integrate into the human world, nor can she live alone in the forest like an elf.

This sense of identity distortion and discomfort prevented her from becoming either a human or an elf.

So I just lived like that, taking it one day at a time, and when I ran out of money, I would take on jobs. Then, after I had spent most of the money I earned, I would go back to work.

He did all sorts of petty theft, including burglary and grave robbing, but he never caused any major trouble.

“Perhaps to those in higher positions, someone like me who sells his body for work is no different from those prostitutes.” She said, slowly stroking the dagger in her hand, “Both are cheap things that can be bought with a meager amount of money.”

As the half-elf girl slowly recounted her story, Xue Dinglu could only shrug.

It's terrible, but he's numb to it now, and his heart isn't even a little affected.

Xue Dinglu then realized that he had changed a lot. He had seen too many tragedies, so his threshold had become so high that even when he heard such stories, he would only calmly say, "So that's how it is."

Perhaps, after the Seventh Apostle died, it would be better for her to leave her home in the subspace and go to the real universe?

Xue's Law thought so.

The two chatted slowly like this; the baron seemed to be resting, while the noble lady appeared to have fallen asleep leaning against the wall.

The four agreed to take turns keeping watch: Xue Luding and the half-elf would keep watch for the first half of the night, while the others would keep watch for the second half.

Furthermore, Xue's Law states that if anything unusual happens, one should scream loudly. This Holy Light Orb has a sound-sensitive function, and when the sound is loud, it can burst out with even more powerful light, even to the point of throwing an eight-point light wheel into the darkness.

Although it's abstract, Xue's Law is indeed crafting this holy light orb according to the specifications of a defensive tower.

The sound of waves rose behind him. The waves on this island of vengeful spirits were indeed quite large. Before Xue Dinglu even touched the wall, he could feel the powerful roar of the waves behind him.

"Am I the first one to die?" she suddenly asked.

"Don't worry, it won't happen. I said I would protect you." Xue Dinglu said this time with more seriousness.

After all, he came here to kill the Seventh Apostle.

The waves crashed and shattered among the rocks, and the basalt base of the ancient castle, long since eroded into a honeycomb pattern, now groaned sickly with the surging waves.

On the highest terrace, shadows writhed, and ghosts formed from seawater danced a swirling dance, their bodies growing human limbs with each wave's reshaping. When lightning cleaved the clouds, the chests of these transparent figures were clearly visible, each adorned with the same rusted iron plates as the castle's coat of arms.

[Upon seeing this stele, the courtesans felt as if they were wandering towards the Yellow Springs.]

The waves seemed to still be behind them, but in the next instant, the half-elf was horrified to find himself being gripped tightly by countless hands reaching out from the seawater. They were supposed to be in the castle, so why was there suddenly water...?

Even more strangely, why are there countless hands in the water?

She tried to make a sound, but as soon as she opened her mouth, a sudden surge of water pressure nearly pierced her lungs.

Several veterans watching from afar smiled and said, "It's finally begun. Our ultimate mission, the mission that will allow us to return to our original world..."

"The first to die was a courtesan!"

They tore up the identity plaque that represented the prostitute and threw it into the water, where it slowly sank.

Chapter 451 The Seven Beasts of Human Evil, Part Two – Lilith of Desire

Mimicry King once asked Xue Law: If you need to kill someone in order to save more people, would you kill someone?

This is actually not a very clever question; in fact, it's quite a stupid one.

When the Mimic King first asked, he asked, "Under what circumstances would you kill someone?"

"They probably think that guys who cross the line deserve to be killed," Xue Dinglu said.

What is your bottom line?

Xue Lude scratched his head. This thing was actually quite abstract, but in the end, he still gave an ambiguous answer: "I don't think I'm a good person. I kill, commit arson, modify human bodies, and manipulate souls. I'll stop at nothing to achieve my goals, and if necessary, I'm even capable of destroying the world..."

"But if it's someone who makes even a rotten person like me feel physically nauseous, or someone whose presence would make the world go rot if I let him go, then maybe that's my bottom line."

Although it did not provide a definitive answer, it essentially addressed the question of the mimicry of the king, albeit with a very abstract one.

But this still doesn't answer another question.

If sometimes sacrificing a few innocent people could save more people, or even the whole world, would you kill that innocent person?

Xue Dinglu scratched his head; he couldn't answer this kind of multiple-choice question, especially one that seemed utterly stupid.

He would never allow such a thing to happen. If there is a situation where it is necessary to sacrifice innocent people to achieve a goal, Xue's Law will definitely not allow such a thing to happen.

If this happens, it only proves that you are not good enough and that you are incompetent, which is why you cannot achieve the best of both worlds.

“Actually, this trolley problem is really stupid, but if I really encounter a situation where I have to sacrifice innocent people because of my lack of ability, then I’ll be the sacrifice,” Xue said. “I have no right to make others die, but I have the right to make myself die.”

"That's just cheating," the Mimic King could only retort. "Let me change the premise: what if you're not qualified? You don't even have the right to die."

"I think you're just being dishonest. If it really comes down to sacrificing innocent people... well, I'm an apostle now, why would I be considering such a stupid question? I'll just use the power of immortality to connect to my brain, use the wheelchair concept to replace thinking, perform a Reanimation Jutsu, and then pull out a red ball..."

"Just say, 'Universe Superman, open your eyes, I've brought a brand new life!' Even someone like my aunt whose soul has reached its end, I can use immortality to transform her into an eternal, immortal being like a lich, wouldn't that solve everything?" Xue Luding stated his attitude.

"Thinking about this thing is as abstract as that mad god-king thinking about how to tear his daughter in half."

"Then why don't you just use the power of immortality to save your loved ones?" the Mimic King retorted.

"Because I don't know what the side effects of this thing will be..." Xue Dinglu said.

……

Although the previous conversation ended unhappily, Xue Law felt that the Mimicry King Guang asked some bizarre questions.

Mimicry King believes that Xue's law has been avoiding the difficult points.

And today, it seems that the same trolley problem is now before us.

"Only the sacrifice of four people is needed to bring forth the Seventh Apostle, thus saving countless people tormented by the Seventh Apostle in the Warp. Isn't that a good ending?" The words of the Mimic King came, even carrying a hint of provocation.

"Don't talk. If you weren't so bad at computing power, I wouldn't have encountered such an idiotic choice on my end," Xue Dinglu retorted irritably.

After all, it's just a fragment. If we compare the Mimic King to Sun Wukong, then the Mimic King fragment on his body is at most just a clone created from a monkey hair.

It doesn't even qualify as one of the six senses of the Great Sage; it's just a single monkey hair.

For those below the Apostle level, or even other Tier 5 enemies, this monkey hair can be quite effective. However, against creatures like the Green Ox Demon, Lion Camel Ridge, or Yellow Eyebrows, this monkey hair can only play a supporting role.

Now, Xue feels like a pig with a monkey hair attached, about to steal the gourd with gold and silver horns.

That's really difficult...

Moreover, the path of sacrificing the minority to save the majority is not feasible. This is not a problem of numbers, but a problem of mindset. When you are thinking about how to sacrifice the minority to save the majority, you fall into the trap of nihilism and completely alienate your own humanity.

This has actually become a breeding ground for nothingness, and the nothingness monsters, who have only recently had their fill, are likely to start rioting again.

When you're willing to sacrifice the minority to save the majority, what if that minority were scientists who had the opportunity to create technological inventions that could save billions of people? Their value alone would be greater than that of the majority combined. So, what would you choose?

What if the minority are all ordinary people, but the majority are all gang members, and prostitutes controlled by gangs that even God couldn't stop? Their value is negative. In that case, what would you choose?

So once you start considering your choices, you've already lost; you've already become a complete monster corrupted by nothingness.

This guy is the kind of guy who'd be thrown into a masquerade ball and run around naked.

Perhaps most people at the masquerade ball were affected by this kind of nihilism.

Moreover, Xue's Law does not suggest that this needs to be chosen.

“She’s not a prostitute, she told me. Despite living at the very bottom of society and having a very difficult life, she’s not a prostitute,” Xue Dinglu said. “On the contrary, she’s a half-elf with a very chivalrous personality. If it weren’t for her awkward identity, she could have done very well anywhere.”

“Killing her would not have been worthwhile.”

"What if she really was a prostitute?" the Mimic King continued to press, for some reason, he actually quite enjoyed these kinds of philosophical questions.

“It’s very simple, I brought a brand new life!” Xue Dinglu said. “You’re the kind of stupid person who thinks you’ve made a mistake. Only an idiot would think about something like this.”

Then he stepped out into the sea. The morning sun had just peeked over the horizon and was rising above him. The fiery red sky looked like a burning flame.

……

In fact, they developed many corresponding strategies to deal with the prophecy.

For example, they take turns keeping watch, and instead of acting alone, the four of them gather together in the castle hall, ensuring they can see each other directly.

But she stopped acting and was directly teleported to the black tide-like sea. Countless vengeful spirits in the sea dragged her body like madmen, trying to pull her into an abyss.

However, in the Divine Purification Demon Eye, those vengeful spirits are merely pure energy, not souls, and have no consciousness. What the naked eye perceives as vengeful spirits is perhaps simply a deception of the eye.

The seawater squeezed my lungs, as if trying to expel the last bit of air from them.

"Am I going to die..." the half-elf Rhythm thought to himself.

To die without any value, like garbage, just as one is born and discarded like garbage...

Bubbles escaped from his lips, silvery water droplets rolled and rose, light flickered overhead like a candle flame about to go out, his limbs grew heavier and heavier, and his paddling motions turned into meaningless spasms.

Arms, like tentacles from the deep sea, seemed to want to entwine her. Just as her consciousness was about to fade, she suddenly remembered that when she was a child, she often played games like holding her breath. She would hold her breath and slowly immerse herself in the river, feeling the rhythm of the water flow and her heartbeat.