Is life for happiness or meaning
In a secret private void settlement in the court of Amos.
The former captain McCullough, Clara, stood in front of the huge training barn, thinking about the problem that only a smart man who is impatient and has nothing to do but think wildly would think in the sage state.
And in front of him, it was a mass of flesh and blood that was wriggling.
It's a huge container made entirely of translucent biological crystals. It's filled with a glowing scarlet solution, and in this scarlet solution, there are big, distorted, swollen, and eerie runes of flesh and blood.
It can be seen that on these flesh and blood emitting light of gold, there are blood vessels spreading like roots, and around the blood vessels, there are silver eyeballs. These eyeballs are beautiful and holy, just like the most thrilling and flawless gems. However, they are inlaid in these internal organs and bodies that seem to appear only in nightmares, It looks strange and beautiful.
Suddenly, flesh and blood began to cramp. In the scarlet solution, a large number of bubbles appeared, which could be seen vaguely. The strange runes that had been covered on them began to spread and even went deep into the flesh and blood.
But kleler's eyes were soft as he watched the scene. He operated on one side of the instrument and seemed to add something to the solution. Then he turned his head and said, "how are you, Elma? Do you feel better?"
"I have adjusted the concentration of supernormal barrier solution to 80%. Do you need to continue to increase it?"
"... good, no need." After a while, the strange runes on the flesh and blood began to fade away, and a tired voice communicated with kleler through spiritual communication: "hard work, kleler, you've done a good job. You can learn the operation of the laboratory in a few days... Your talent is really great!"
The strange flesh and blood polymer in the crystal container is the core part of Elma. She said with emotion: "you know, it takes a week or two for a professional Amos to learn, and you can learn all the steps in a few days. It seems that it's not difficult for you to take over my inheritance."
"... maybe." Crayler can't deny it. He can't explain how much he wants to help Elma, and how hard he works. After rubbing his tired eyes, he whispered: "hold on a little longer, Elma, and wait a little longer. Maybe the medicine to solve the extreme virus will be developed? Don't think about inheritance right now, think about things after death. "
"Well, I'll wait."
The obvious change of flesh and blood, issued a rational female voice, she readily agreed, but can't let crayler heart have a little sense of sureness.
They did not speak for a moment, and the whole experimental hall fell into silence, only the undulating sound of the solution in the culture chamber.
"Is it worth it?"
"So self sacrifice, become a monster, or even die... Is it worth it?"
In the silence, staring at the changing flesh and blood in the warehouse, kleler wanted to speak out several times and ask Elma what she thought - he wanted to know whether the woman he knew knew knew her own behavior, whether she knew the meaning of doing so and whether it was worth abandoning her life.
But I can't say it.
Because even crayler knows that Elma's actions when the extreme virus spreads again have saved at least tens of billions of Amos.
——After obtaining the "blocking potion" developed by the natural tutor, Elma used her own blood as an experiment to develop a blocking potion suitable for the Amos. Then she kept on, and by virtue of the relationship that she had just seen Amos the great, she hinted that her actions were behind the Great's back, and she killed extreme creatures with her own, Saved a large number of thinking individual's human feelings, directly linked to the upper level of related industries, began to rapidly produce blocking agents.
With the opening of the transport network, batch after batch of blocking agents are sent to the whole royal court, so that the vast majority of people can stop, at least know the invasion of extreme virus, and then can better treat and isolate. It's not too much to say that Elma's actions have saved tens of billions of people. She can even say that she has saved all the members of the court of Amos of this generation.
In this regard, the great emperor did not say a word. He did not deny or admit the fact that Elma pulled his name. He did not stop or help Elma's action against his will to fight the extreme virus.
He just watched the ants struggling, self sacrificing and realizing their own meaning at the cost of life with great interest, then nodded thoughtfully.That's why CRADLER wanted to ask, is it worth it?
This sentence, did not say, but in the spiritual network of the two connected, thinking is equal to pouring out.
In the face of Elma who seems to want to say something, kleler's thought is open to her.
"I know that for Elma, it's no more cost-effective for you to save tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of Amos at the cost of your own infection with extreme virus. This sacrifice is noble and respectable. There are countless people who pass on your name, accept your favor, and live for the future you give - this spirit, It's a legendary epic destined to be sung to the next era.
However, I am a cold-blooded, heartless, look down on the alien guy, I am a stranger, die in front of it doesn't matter, die miserably, even happy to eat, but familiar people hurt hard, almost their own death, vulgar and selfish villain.
To me, compared with you, tens of billions of Amos who are fanatical and xenophobic are dust, and you are the sun. The sun is willing to go out for dust, which I really can't accept - but I understand that there is nothing worth it or not for you, because you can do it for the Amos who are rebellious against the emperor, Naturally, you will sacrifice your life for the Amos. That's probably what you mean. I feel it. You even feel happy about it. "
——Happiness is both spiritual and material satisfaction.
——Meaning is the process of realizing and following one's will.
At this moment, Elma, even though she has become a flesh and blood monster because of fighting against the erosion of extreme virus, no one can say that she is not happy now and her life is meaningless.
Because she got the double satisfaction of material and spirit, she realized and followed her own will and carried out her own wishes.
However, the flesh and blood in the culture barn moved slightly and seemed to shake their heads.
"Keller, you can't say that."
The gentle spirit wave seems to be trying to enlighten each other: "for example, when a group of people are playing in the forest, they are suddenly attacked by wild animals. They all run away in a panic, but according to their speed, no one can escape."
"At this time, suddenly, a person left to fight. Maybe she didn't have such a thing as" sacrifice for the Amos ". Maybe she was just angry and unwilling. Why didn't the guardians of the angry crowd fight? Why didn't she want to die like this?"
"So, if he doesn't do it, I'll do it - that man fought, temporarily repelled the wild animals, so that most people could leave, but he was dying... Other people who escaped and watched said that it was noble self sacrifice, but in fact it was not."
A golden tentacle, stretching out from the flesh and blood, seems to want to touch the tearful kleler's face across the crystal wall of the incubator. Elma calmly said: "sacrifice is not so cheap... But sacrifice may be so cheap. After all, we are all selfish lives, as long as it is for our own will and self meaning, Even if it's sacrifice, it's sweet. "
Elma herself is a top scholar in the field of transcendental biology. She can even provide an artificial body that fits the soul from the perspective of soul adaptability for the alien without any consultation.
You know, when CRADLER was in the abyss ball, there was no physical genetic factor, only his soul. But with some brief information, Elma could make his body in 7788 by virtue of the characteristics of CRADLER's soul, which is roughly the same.
After getting the consultation from the nature tutor, who teaches you how to make the blocking agent hand in hand rather than data, it's not difficult for her to quickly make the blocking agent suitable for the Amos according to her own body. Even the most professional experimenter can't be faster than her. Moreover, if she hadn't seen the great emperor frequently, she would be a hero to kill extreme life, Her subsequent series of instructions under the guise of the emperor will not work, let alone mobilize the whole production system so quickly to save so many Amos.
Therefore, Elma knows that the people who do all this have to be themselves. No one else can do it. Only themselves can do it.
"... ah, I'm sorry, Clara, I lied."
After a long silence, suddenly, the flesh and blood in the scarlet solution began to twist, boiling heat came out from it, and the strange Rune spread again. This time, Elma's voice was not so easy. She suppressed the pain and said with a smile: "I underestimated the extreme virus... I thought I could suppress it for a while with my strength, As a result, it's much stronger than I thought... "
Under kleler's astonished gaze, strange flesh and blood began to proliferate in the culture barn, and countless distorted faces began to appear on the golden flesh and blood - those are faces, Elma Amos like faces, Elma human like faces, and all kinds of faces that are completely unknown.These faces are not terrible, or even beautiful. After they appear, they begin to howl and blend with each other. Soon, they are about to merge into a flawless face on the flesh and blood. Although they are not human beings, they will feel beautiful and sublimated. With the appearance of these faces, cocoons begin to appear, It began to wrap in the distorted flesh and blood that had begun to shape gradually and could see a perfect curve.
"I'm going to die."
Until the end, a calm voice came, even with a trace of relief: "this stage seems to be called the death of rebirth? Now I will die, and then an absolutely selfish extreme creature will be born out of me... Ah, it really can't, but I can't accept selfishness. Why can't its core idea be to become stronger, for love, for beauty and harmony? "
"No, hold on a little longer!"
Up to now, kleler doesn't even have the extra heart to shock and grieve. He just gritted his teeth and ran to the control console of the cultivation warehouse, and forced to input the control code to increase the concentration of the extraordinary blocking agent: "there is absolutely hope - wait a little more, wait a little more time!"
"Kill me, the code is" - 0302 · 0101 · 1001 · 0304 · 0502 · 0105 · 0501 · 0902 · 0501 · 0301 · 0102 - "
Elma's tone was very calm. She seemed to have expected what she would do when she died: "this is my own preparation. When I have an abnormal situation, I will destroy all the codes immediately. Even if I become an extreme creature, I can kill it immediately. After all, this is the annihilation array strengthened by a great general."
"Clara, even if you don't press it, it will start automatically later, but I want to die in your hands. As an Amos, please satisfy my wish."
"No!"
With the hammer on the control console, kleler's eyes widened, and his eyes were full of blood from the night's tiredness. He turned his head and yelled at Elma: "pray to marshal Joshua van Radcliffe for this name!"
"As long as you pray to the marshal, there will be a miracle! I don't understand. Why don't you? "
"No." Only in this refusal, Elma's voice became indifferent, but behind the tone, the hidden shame: "absolutely not."
"The Amos are the enemies of Madame McCullough - many of you died in that war, and many of us died, and even your body was destroyed in that battle."
"The death of the Amos is good for Madame McCullough - good for you. Just as you said before, you only care about me, not about the Amos... And I, the guy who saved so many enemies of Mrs. McCullough, your marshal, that adult, he may be broad-minded and indifferent, and agreed to your prayer, but I was the first to betray the contract and use Mrs. McCullough's technology, To save the abject Amos
I suffered from the grace of that adult to survive the battle of extreme creatures, to win, to get glory, and to have the chance to save many Amos, but I can't repay, and even do something bad to Mrs. McCullough. I can't stand being so selfish, So I'd rather die than live with shame. "
In the face of Keller who didn't know what to say and could only beat the crystal in the cultivation warehouse, Elma's tone became gentle again: "moreover, don't make my death a tragedy without authorization."
"If I can realize the meaning of my life, I am already very happy. This is my real desire, my real desire‘ The meaning of Elma's birth has been found, even realized. I have created a future for my race, so that they can go further. So even if I die now, I have no regrets. "
"Compared with these," self "and" life "are trivial matters. I am willing to abandon my life to prove my love for the Amos for the sake of my own meaning. I am ashamed of Mrs. McCullough. Even if you feel sad at the sacrifice, I will never agree with you."
"After all, I'm a selfish guy, a selfish Amos man. My sacrifice is just to comfort my own life."
"Damn it, Elma! Do you think you are the only one who is selfish? "
"I can't bear it," he said in a loud voice. "Do you want to sacrifice? I don't want to! Selfish lives are competing for each other - this time, I have to take your life back from your hands! "
"Loading extraordinary plug-in - the gold of shadow!"
[are you ready?]"Wait, CRADLER, what are you doing?" At this time, Elma's voice seemed a little flustered. She did not expect that the other party would make such a move: "you..."
But at this time, kleler didn't have time to listen to each other. He responded loudly: "wear armor!"
The dark shadow, confused by the lightning, shrinks again and turns into a suit of armor with dark gold marks, covering kleler's body.
[the special installation version of Qiao's system starts... Links to the crisis management system, and starts to carry out modular processing... Extraordinary armor · youjinzhiyan is fully opened]
[lurking, raiding, uprooting, we are all in the shadow of the fire!]
"Start up, the shadow of desolation"! Use the blackbody space to swallow the whole cultivation warehouse! " Waiting for the power to penetrate his whole body, I don't know why. CRADLER felt that the power of the armor was much higher than before, but it was a good thing, so he didn't think much: "turn off the damage means, I want to completely suspend all the energy activities, to ensure the stability of life in the black body space!"
——A long time ago, I was a guy whose life was not happy, whose life was meaningless, whose life was better than death.
——However, ever since I met marshal, ever since I became captain, ever since I met Elma, I have understood that my life is for all this.
——For my own happiness, my own meaning, I can give anything, just as you said, compared with all this, life is just a trivial matter.
[hint: if the energy level of phagocytosis target is too high, this operation will cause great load on the loader of crisis management system, which may lead to death. Do you want to proceed? "
"Yes
Crayler didn't hesitate.
So, the shadow space of the movement, so engulfed the shocked Elma and the whole cultivation warehouse.
Outside the settlements.
Two great wills are confronting each other in the void.
"Do you want to stop me from getting back our people and his booty?"
The silver white will of the world is just like the deepest cold steel, hard, stubborn, indestructible and unshakable. His vision sweeps the void and calms the storm of time and space: "Amos, before me, you may be able to stop me, but now I am not."
"Don't exaggerate, Joshua. I can see you're hurt a lot."
Like the Milky way, the whirling will laughs: "ten years later, you still have a little persuasion when you say this sentence. Now you really can't do it."
"Is your noumenon in the abyss, eroding towards the creation vortex? It's really a good way. If you succeed, you can master the lifeblood of the whole world. The takurs can't beat you in terms of individual strength. "
The silver white will of the world regards each other's Refutation as nothing: "but I can, you are far from success, far from reaching the boundary of the saints, but I have touched it, so, Amos, get out of the way
"She's Amos. She's mine."
The spiral galaxy doesn't give in at all. It shakes the void and scatters the light of the magic tide. Moreover, it's really interesting that there is such an individual among the Amos. Is there such a possibility of self sacrifice and life? It's hard to imagine that I can't give her up to you. "
"It may be hard to imagine just life and wild animals, but we are different. We are civilized individuals, so there is always something more important and noble than life. It is because of the incomparable value of life that sacrifice is meaningful."
Silver white world will, gradually revealed a little eager to try, but he still warned: "to fight, Amos? I really don't want to kill a strong man like you before the tide of evil gods comes. "