Chapter 2 Self-sacrifice
[Does life exist for "happiness" or for "meaning"?]
Multiple galaxies, bloody battles in the galaxies, in the territory of the Amos royal court, in a hidden private void settlement.m
Former Captain Mycrov, Kreller stood in front of the huge training warehouse in front of him, thinking about this problem that only smart people who are impatient in their lives and have nothing to do except to think randomly can think about in a sage state.
And in front of him was a ball of flesh and blood.
This is a huge container made entirely from translucent biological crystals, soaked with scarlet solution flashing with fluorescent colors. What floats in this scarlet solution are large pieces of distorted and swollen, and the flesh and blood of strange runes flashing all over.
It can be seen that these flesh and blood radiating with a faint golden light have blood vessels that spread like roots, and around the blood vessels are silver eyeballs. These eyeballs are beautiful and holy, like the most thrilling and flawless gems, but they appear strange and beautiful in the inscriptions and bodies that seem to appear only in nightmares.
Suddenly, the flesh and blood began to spasm, and a large amount of foam appeared in the scarlet solution, which could be vaguely seen. The strange runes that originally covered it began to spread again, even penetrated deep into the flesh and blood.
But Kreller looked at the scene, his eyes were very soft. He operated on the instrument beside him, as if something had been added to the solution, and then turned his head and said, "How is it, Elma, do you feel better?"
"I have adjusted the concentration of the extraordinary barrier solution to 80%. Do I need to continue to increase?"
"... Very good, no need." After a while, the strange runes on the flesh and blood began to fade away, and a tired voice communicated with Kreller through his spiritual thoughts: "Thank you for your hard work, Kreller, you did a great job. You can learn the operation of the laboratory well in just a few days... Your talent is really great!"
The weird flesh-and-blood aggregate in this crystal container is Elma or, in other words, the core central part of Elma. She sighed: "You know, even professional Amos people come to study, it will take one or two weeks to get started, and you have learned all the steps in a few days. It seems that it is not difficult to get you to take over my inheritance."
"... Maybe." Kreller couldn't refuse. He couldn't explain how much he wanted to help Elma and how hard he worked. He devoted all his strength to study... After rubbing his tired eyes, he whispered: "Hold on for a while, Elma, wait for a while, maybe the agent to solve the extreme virus will be developed? Don't think about the inheritance now and what will happen after death."
"Well, I'll wait."
The obviously mutated flesh and blood made a rational female voice. She agreed readily, but she couldn't make Krell feel at all at ease.
The two of them didn't speak for a while, and the entire experimental hall fell into silence, with only the sound of the solution fluctuating in the culture bin.
“…Is it worth it?”
"Is it worth it to sacrifice myself like this, become a monster, or even die like this...Is it worth it?"
In this silence, staring at the mutated flesh and blood in the warehouse, Krell wanted to speak out several times, asking Elma's thoughts, he wanted to know whether this woman she was familiar with had any understanding of her behavior, whether she knew what the meaning of doing this was, and whether it was worth abandoning her life.
But, I can't say it.
Because even Kreller knew that Elma's actions when the extreme virus spread again had saved at least tens of billions of Amos people.
After obtaining the "blocking potion" developed by the nature mentor, Elma used her bloodline as the experiment as fast as possible to prepare a blocking potion suitable for the Amos people. Then she kept working hard, relying on her relationship with Emperor Amos, she suggested that her actions were signaled by the Emperor behind her, and she used herself to kill extreme creatures, saving a large number of individuals who thought directly contacted the upper class of the related industries and began to produce blocking potion quickly.
This series of operations is like flowing water, and cannot be faster as the transmission network is opened. batches of blocking agents are sent to the entire royal court, allowing most people to stop it, at least they know the invasion of the extreme virus, which can be better treated and isolated. It is not too much to say that Elma's actions saved tens of billions of people. She can even say that she saved all members of this generation of Amos royal court.
In response, the Emperor did not speak out. He did not deny or acknowledge that Elma had made his name. He did not stop or help Elma's actions against his will and fought against the extreme virus.
He just watched the ant in his palm struggling with interest, striving to sacrifice himself, striving to realize his own meaning at the cost of life, and then nodded thoughtfully.
It was because Kreller knew this that he wanted to ask, is this worth it?
This sentence was not said, but in the spiritual network where the two are connected, thinking is equivalent to confiding.
Facing Elma, who seemed to want to say something, Creer's thoughts made public to her without any concealment.
"I know that for Elma, it is a great deal to save tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of Amos at the cost of infecting the extreme virus. This kind of sacrifice is noble and respectable. There are countless people who spread your name, inherit your favor, and live for the future you gave it to you. This spirit of being destined to be sung to the next era.
However, I am just a cold-blooded, ruthless guy who looks down on the alien race. I am just a stranger who dies in front of me. I can even have a happy meal. But familiar people are hurt and uncomfortable and are almost dying. I am a vulgar and selfish bad guy.
For me, compared with you, the hundreds of billions of Amos who are fanatical xenophobic are simply dust particles, and you are the sun. The sun is willing to extinguish for the dust. I really can't accept it, but I understand that there is nothing worth it or not for you, because you can do this. You who are willing to rebel against the Emperor for the Amos will naturally sacrifice your life for the Amos. This is probably your meaning. I feel that you are even happy about it."
Happiness is a dual satisfaction of "spiritual" and "material".
Meaning is the process of "realizing" and "following" one's own will.
At this moment, even though Elma was degenerated into a flesh-and-blood monster because of fighting against the erosion of the extreme virus, no one could say that she was not happy now and her life was meaningless.
Because she has received both material and spiritual satisfaction, she realizes and follows her own will and implements her always wishes.
However, the flesh and blood in the culture warehouse squirmed slightly, as if shaking his head.
"Creer, I can't say that."
A gentle mental fluctuation came, as if he wanted to enlighten the other party: "For example, when a group of people were playing in the forest, they were suddenly attacked by wild beasts, and everyone fled in panic, but at their speed, it was basically impossible for anyone to escape."
"And at this moment, there was a person who stayed and chose to fight in her heart. Maybe there was no such thing as 'sacrificing for the Amos'. She might just be just angry and unwilling to accept it. Why didn't the guardians in the crowd take action? Why was her destiny like this?"
"So, if he didn't take action, I would take the fight to the man, temporarily repelling the beast, allowing most people to leave, but I was almost dead... Others who escaped and those who were watching on the side were moved to say that this was a noble self-sacrifice, but in fact it was not."
A golden tentacle stretched out from the flesh and blood. It seemed to want to touch the face of Kreller, who was already in tears, with tears in his face. Elma said calmly: "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 the meaning of our own, even if it is sacrificed."
Elma herself is a top scholar in the field of extraordinary biology. She can even introduce a soul-friendly body for aliens without any consultation.
You know, when Krell was in the Soul Abyss Ball, there was no genetic factor, only his soul. However, with some simple information, Elma was able to make his body roughly the same with the characteristics of Krell's soul.
After getting a natural tutor rather than information, it is better to say that she teaches you how to make blocking agents step by step. It is not difficult for her to quickly create blocking agents suitable for Amos based on her body. Even the most professional experimental personnel cannot be faster than her. Moreover, if she had not seen the Emperor diligently and was a hero who killed the extreme life, her subsequent series of instructions from the Emperor would not take effect, let alone mobilizing the entire production system so quickly to save so many Amos.
So, Elma knew that the person who did all this was himself, and others could not do it, only himself, this was something that only he could do.
"…Ahhh, sorry, Kreller, I'm lying."
After a long silence, suddenly, the flesh and blood in the scarlet solution began to twist, boiling heat came out from it, and strange runes spread again. This time, Elma's voice was not so relaxed. She suppressed the pain and said with a smile: "I underestimated the extreme virus... I originally thought that with my strength, I could suppress it for a while, but it turned out to be much stronger than I thought..."
Under Krell's shocked gaze, strange flesh and blood began to proliferate in the culture warehouse, and countless distorted faces began to appear on the golden flesh and blood. They were faces, faces in the style of Elma Amos, faces in the style of Elma humans, faces in the style of Elma humans, and various faces, which were completely unspeakable.
These faces are not terrifying, and they can even be called beautiful. After they appear, they begin to howl and merge with each other. Soon, they are about to merge into the flesh and blood. Although they are not humans, humans will still feel beautiful and sublimated faces. As the face appears, cocoons begin to appear, and begin to be wrapped around the distorted flesh and blood that has begun to gradually shape and can be seen with a perfect curve.
"I'm going to die."
Until the end, a very calm and calm voice came, even with a hint of ease and relief: "This stage seems to be called the death of new life? Now I will die, and then from the 'me', a limitless creature that is absolutely selfish... Ah, it's true, I can't accept selfishness. Why can't its core idea be stronger, for love, for beauty and harmony?"
"No, hold on for a while!"
At this point, Kreller didn't even have any extra heart to be shocked and sad. He just gritted his teeth and hurried to the control panel of the cultivation warehouse, and used force to input the control code to increase the concentration of the extraordinary barrier agent: "There is definitely hope that it will be more time to wait a little longer!"
"Kill me, the password is '-0302·0101·1001·0304·0502·0105·0501·0902·0501·0301·0102-'."
Elma's tone was very calm. She seemed to have long imagined what to do when she died: "This is what I prepared myself. If I encounter an abnormal situation, I will immediately destroy all the passwords. Even if I become an extreme creature, I can kill them immediately. After all, this is an annihilation array that I have invited a general to strengthen."
"Creer, 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 rage hammer on the console, Kreller opened his eyes wide, his eyes full of exhausted bloodshed after taking care of him overnight. He turned his head and shouted at Elma: "Pray to Marshal Joshua Van Radcliffe, please this name!"
"As long as you pray to the Marshal, a miracle will definitely happen! I don't understand, why are you just unwilling to do it?!"
"No." Only in this rejection, Elma's voice became cold, but it could be heard that behind the tone, there was a hidden shame: "Absolutely not."
"The Amos are the enemies of Madame Mycroo. In that war, many of you died, and many of us died. It can even be said that your ** was destroyed in that battle."
"The death of the Amos is a good thing for you. As you said before, you only care about me, not the Amos... And I, the guy who saved so many of the enemies of Mrs. Mycroo, your marshal, may not care about his broad mind, and he agreed to your prayers, but I am the despicable man who was the first to betray the contract and use Mrs. Mycroo's skills to save the Amos...
I was blessed by the great man, and I survived the battle of the extreme creatures, and gained victory, and glory, and then had the opportunity to save many Amos, but I could not repay them, and even did something bad for Mrs. Mycroo. I could not stand this selfish thing, so I would rather die than live with shame."
Facing Krelle, who had no idea what to say at all and could only beat Cultivation Crystal, Elma's tone became gentle again: "And don't decide my death as a tragedy without authorization."
"I am already very happy to be able to realize the meaning of my life. This is my true wish and my true desire. The meaning of the birth of the 'Ermachi people' has been found and even realized. I have created the future for my race and allowed them to 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 for the sake of my meaning of myself to prove my love for the Amos. My shame for Mrs. My sacrifice will make you sad, I will never agree."
"After all, I am a selfish guy, a selfish Amos, and my sacrifice is just to comfort my own life."
"Damn, Elma! Do you think you are the only one who is selfish?!"
I couldn't bear it anymore, Krell roared and stretched out his hand, pressing it on the golden belt around his waist, and he shouted: "Do you want to sacrifice? But I don't want to! Selfish lives are fighting for each other this time, and I have to take back your life from your hands!"
"Load the extraordinary plugin Shadow Gold!"
【Closed areyouready?】
"Wait, Krelle, what are you doing?!" At this time, Elma's voice seemed a little panicked. She didn't expect the other party to do such a move: "You..."
But at this time, Krell had no time to listen to the other party. He replied loudly: "Pretty armor!"
The deep shadow was lost in lightning, and then shrank again, turning into a set of dark gold marks armor covering Krell's body.
[The special installation version of Qiao's system is started... Link to the crisis processing system, and start modular processing... The full state of the extraordinary armored gold flame is turned on]
[Landing, raiding, cutting weeds and roots, we are all in the shadows!]
"Activate, 'Shadow Desolation'! Use the bold space to swallow the entire cultivation warehouse!" Waiting for the power to penetrate his whole body, for some reason, Krell felt that the power of this armor was inexplicably higher than before, but this was a good thing, so he didn't think much about it: "Switch off the damage method, I will completely pause all the energy activities in it to ensure the stability of the life state in the bold space!"
A long time ago, I was a guy who was unhappy in life, meaningless in life, and living was worse than dying.
However, since I met the Marshal, since I became the captain, and since I met you, Elma, I have understood that my life has existed for all this.
For my own happiness and my own meaning, I can give anything. As you said, compared to all this, life is just a trivial matter.
[Tip: The energy level of the devouring target is too high. This operation will cause a huge load on the loader of the crisis handling system and may cause death. Will it be carried out?]
"yes!"
Kreller had no hesitation.
So, the moving shadow space swallowed the shocked Elma and the entire cultivation warehouse.
And outside the settlement.
Two huge wills are confronting in the void.
"Do you want to stop me from retrieving our Madame Mycrore's people and his spoils?"
The silver-white will of the world is like the deepest cold steel, hard, stubborn, indestructible, and unshakable. His eyes swept across the void, calming the storm of time and space: "Amos, you may be able to stop me before, but you can't do it now."
"Don't magnify, Joshua, I can see that you are very hurt."
Like a galaxy, the spiral rotating will sneered: "You are still a little convincing to say this ten years later. Now you are really not able to do it."
"Your body is in the abyss, eroding towards the great vortex of creation? It is indeed a good road. If you succeed, you can completely grasp the lifeline of the entire world's galaxy. The Thakurs are indeed not as good as you in terms of individual strength."
The silver-white world will regard the other party's rebuttal as nothing: "But I can. You are far from successful now, and you are far from reaching the boundary of the saint, but I have already touched it, so, Amos, get out of it."
"She is from Amos, mine."
The spiral galaxy did not give in at all. He shook the void, causing the light of the demon tide to scatter: Moreover, among the Amos people, is it really interesting to have such an individual sacrifice? There is such a possibility for life? It is really hard to imagine that I cannot give her to you."
"It may be unimaginable if it is just life and beasts, but we are different. We are civilized individuals, so there is always something more important and nobler than life. It is precisely because life is extremely valuable that sacrifice seems to be of significance."
The silver-white world will gradually reveal a hint of desire to try, but he still warned: "Do you want to fight, Amos? I really don't want to kill a strong man like you before the tide of the evil gods comes."
Chapter completed!