Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

“Colonel Song Guanghe is by no means insane - nor is it possible for the Anglicans to make a mentally ill man a ground commander of a planet of resources. His memory is very clear, his mind is very clear, his logic is perfect, and he remembers everything from the past. ”

Zhuge Jinglan explained to Li Yao, "He remembers his adolescence and youth as an aristocrat in the Empire, his wife and three children, even remembered the whole process of control exercised by the Allies against him, but he was wholeheartedly converted to the best way, and completely split from his past self into a ‘best nation'.

“Talk to him. It's interesting, I'm sure it will give you a clearer idea of the Alliance. ”

Li Yao met this “Colonel Song Guanghe” in the deepest secret cell of the Third Institute.

The Colonel gave Li Yao a pretty good first impression. He was a handsome, well-behaved, clean and simple middle-aged man. He wore a sick uniform that was wrinkled on everyone else, but was penciled like a military uniform. Even the top button was buttoned upright.

Instead of being as ruthless as those of the Allies above, he had a sophisticated and gentle smile, giving a very... warm feeling.

But it's just an illusion.

Zhuge Jinglan told Li Yao that a nurse and a researcher had already been deceived by this warm smile and died in the hands of Colonel Song Guanghe.

No one thought he would hurt the killer - nurses and researchers were not important figures, even if they were killed, he could not escape, and instead of being abused, he was taken care of, and God knows why he killed for no reason.

Since the killing of two innocent people in a row, Colonel Song Guanghe's cell has been completely sealed, even the breathing air has to be filtered through the layer before it can be transferred in. The walls of the cell are unidirectional glass, and the people outside can see nothing, but Colonel Song Guanghe cannot see what is going on outside.

When Li Yao met Colonel Song Guanghe, he was putting the rules of his hands on his knees and watching a soap opera projected by a huge light screen - something that was dedicated to the family woman and the third aunt, full of chatty parents and infantile love and hate tangles, dying and screaming.

He had no choice, and this was part of the study, and Zhuge Jinglun regularly played him these things with strong emotional stimuli every day, hoping to detect abnormalities in his brain waves.

Unfortunately, Colonel Song Guanghe clearly looked focused, but his brain waves did not change at all, like staring at a blank wall.

Next to the bed, there are novels and poems - Zhuge Jinglan doesn't want to expose Colonel Song Guanghe to the crystalline brain, so the novels and poems are very rare paper products, book rolls and ink smells, bringing a few ancient scents to this small cell.

This is also a test.

Unfortunately, although Colonel Song Guanghe read the novels and poems with great interest, he also did not have a waveless heart for his ancient well, causing half a touch.

“Colonel Song, I brought a guest, a real big man. ”

Zhuge Jinglun said to the cell through a message array, "He wants to ask you some questions, and if you can answer that well, maybe I can consider improving your living conditions and helping you switch to a bigger cell. ”

Colonel Song Guanghe continued watching for more than half an hour without turning his eyes until two women with teeth dancing claws in the 3D stereoscopic screen finished a fight, which retracted his eyes, smoothed the wrinkles on his clothes, slowly rose up and affixed his hands to one-way glass.

Though he knew he couldn't see the outside, the clear eyes still seemed to penetrate through the sealed cell and wrapped around Li Yao.

“Dean Zhuge, just call me ‘Song Guanghe'. The name is just a code name, and I haven't been a ‘colonel’ for a long time. ”

Colonel Song Guanghe smiled and said, "I'm happy to answer all your questions, but I don't need to change cells - you won't change cells for me, I just want to see my anger rush.

“Besides, it's good that we humans were just a grain of dust in the vast universe, and this cell is big enough for dust. ”

Zhuge Jinglan and Li Yao glanced at each other with a glance and said, “See, this is how weird the good people are. ”

Li Yao thought about it and opened the door to the Mountain Path: “Hello Colonel Song Guanghe, I am very interested in the Alliance and the Way of the Best, and even want to seek ways other than war to resolve the contradictions between the Empire and the Alliance… thank you for your openness and answer my questions.

“I saw you just watching a series of dramas about men and women, emotions, how was it, how did it feel? ”

“Very good, this VIP. ”

Colonel Song Guanghe still smiled, “Very good shot, very interesting. ”

“Interesting? ”

Li Yaoshan said, “How can it be interesting? Can it touch your heart? ”

“For example, we all know that ants can release special substances by waving their tentacles, communicating with each other, forming a tight social system. ”

Colonel Song Guanghe said, “Assuming that we are ants, we can feel a lot of information from this material. I can feel the love and hatred of ants. I can feel the bravery, the bloodbath and the anger of ants. The confrontation between the two colonies is like a war between two nations. There will be countless singable heroes and despicable little men, and there will be countless moving legends and even a magnificent epic poem.

“Unfortunately, we're not ants, we're human beings, so when we see two colonies under a tree, we just find it 'interesting', but impossible to understand, and we don't care about ant hatred, ant heroes and dwarves, ant legends and epics, do we?

“In the same vein, right now I'm watching these so-called seven-long series of emotions, watching these two female humans fight for a male human being, just like you're watching two ants fight, or two female apes fight, 'interesting’, that's all. ”

If they can't hear each other, Li Yao really wants to blow a whistle for Colonel Song Guanghe.

Unlike the Lower Saints, the Philanthropic Nation is very clear and has its own set of logic, which is not so easy to be “corrected” back.

“So...”

Li Yao shrugged for a moment and asked, "These emotional dramas can't bring you half a touch. What about you? Dean Zhuge said that you remember everything from the past very clearly, remember your wife and children, and even they can't touch your heart? How do you see yourself in the past? ”

“Ah, past me. ”

Colonel Song Guanghe had a delicate smile on his face, like some kind of deeply engraved brand, and he shook his head slowly, "It was a really dark period when I was bewitched by the demons, driven by animal instincts, influenced by the madness of the people around me, and immersed in the mud of sin with them.

“At that time, I was greedy with power, obsessed with desire, praying and begging for the strong; racketeering my companions; cruelly squeezing and even killing the weak for no reason.

“I can kill my best friends without blinking my eyes in order to compete for the command of the Family Corps; I can marry a woman I don't know to climb up by any means possible; and even train my own flesh and blood in the most extreme ways for meaningless vanity, so that they can take part in the most dangerous survival trials, resulting in the death of my youngest child.

“I was immersed in the halo of power and the repression of power, completely enslaved by the 'Wanted Heavenly Demon', the most wicked of all, and I even killed 500 innocent villagers, impersonating the Allies to fight for their cause, and I had to do so, because that was what almost all noble officers did on the entire front.

“Sin, that's an infinite sin. When I think of it, it makes people tremble and break their hearts. I really don't know how I used to soak myself in black mud without knowing it, and even feel like fish!

“Fortunately, all the sins have passed, and the Supreme Master has made me aware of the true path, and has given me the opportunity to wash away the sins of the past, so that I finally find my peace.

“This VIP, whatever your identity, wants to be a fairy practitioner, then you must be immersed in the mud of sin without knowing it, just like me in the past. I sincerely wish you an early awareness of your sins, get out of this life of dark mud and find the ultimate peace... that belongs to you.

Li Yao's eyes twitched: “Ultimate calm? Is that why you killed a nurse and a researcher? ”

“Yes, I felt the evil in them. ”

Colonel Song Guanghe faintly said, “More importantly, I see that they are good, struggling in the dark mud, trying to wash away the evil but not knowing how, so I helped them, took them out of the bitter sea, and returned to eternal tranquillity. ”

“Don't you feel compelled to do that? ”

"Even when you were captured by the Allies, you were brainwashed by force," said Li Yao. "What do you think of this method of coercion? Don't you think people should have the right to choose freely which path to follow? ”

“If a man wants to cut his own artery, won't you go up and ‘force' him to kick the knife in his hand? ”

Colonel Song Guanghe asked, "If you see someone hanging, won't you go up and ‘force' him down? If you see someone struggling in a fire pit, do you have to ask him politely before you can rescue him?

“Freedom, what exactly is freedom? Should humankind really have the freedom to harm its own body, the freedom to use drugs, the freedom to waste resources with impunity and to kill each other?

“In the past, I was struggling in an abyss full of flames and venom, waving a blade while addicting drugs, hurting myself, hurting others and hurting the entire universe. The Supreme Master saved me and ‘forced' me out of the abyss, which is of course a form of coercion, but isn't this kind of coercion useful and necessary? ”