A long time ago, when Luo You was still a child full of longing for the world, he had seen and heard this sentence more than once from adults or in various extracurricular reading books:
'Human civilization Our progress is always driven by curiosity, with the ultimate goal of finding answers. ’
Curiosity Luo You can understand.
Just like his language for foreigners, that kind of pursuit from the heart can indeed be the driving force.
Even if there are many setbacks and hardships ahead, we can rely on this driving force to get through it.
But why is the ultimate goal to find answers?
Luo You never thought so.
Just like he hates modern utilitarian education, every parent is telling their children that as long as they study hard, they will get a degree, and a good degree will lead to a well-paid job.
When he studies foreign languages, he just enjoys the process of deciphering them, and enjoys the pleasure of gradually understanding a special culture. The final answer is actually an incidental product.
If the goal were to change the answer, to destroy the alien race and save the future of mankind, this kind of burden would weigh on him, and he would rather jump off the ship now.
Therefore, when he could not find answers or even questions, he felt that the meaning of his life was extremely empty.
It doesn’t matter if you are alive, or if you die.
But now, Sumo suddenly stood up and told him that they were all living for the answer.
And his answer is to have no regrets.
Luo You subconsciously wanted to refute, but for some reason, he didn't know how to refute.
He does have a lot of regrets.
It’s a pity that I didn’t travel all over the wasteland and see this world that is completely different from the earth.
It’s a pity that I didn’t have contact with more foreign races and didn’t understand their culture and background stories.
It’s a pity that the route level is not high, I don’t have the superhuman physique like those on the World Channel, and I can’t enjoy the pleasure of transcending the limitations of the physical body.
Regret
He always looked down upon Lao Zhang, thinking that Lao Zhang was an out-and-out common man.
But then again, isn’t he a layman?
It’s just that many times, due to some chains of contempt left in human culture, he doesn’t dare to speak out these clichéd goals, always feeling that he will be ridiculed and incomprehensible by others.
As time passed, he subconsciously believed that these things were not his regrets or his goals.
Now exposed by Sumo and nakedly brought up by Sumo, Luo You thought for a while and said:
"Then do you think it is reasonable to pursue pleasure and take some conventional goals as the ultimate goal of life?"
"What is unreasonable?"
Sumo turned around in surprise. Leaning against the railing of the deck.
“It’s okay if it’s on earth, but in the wasteland, why do you still feel that your life goals need to be defined by others?”
“What is cliche, what is it? Elegant again, why do you care so much about other people’s opinions? ”
"I"
"Lao Zhang, come here."
Sumo stretched out his hand and shouted to Lao Zhang who stuck his head out of the stern of the boat.
Lao Zhang quickly wiped his hands cheerfully and walked along the aisle of the cabin. He glanced at Luo You, who was a little embarrassed, in surprise, wondering what the two of them were talking about.
"Mr. Ji, what's wrong?"
"If someone thinks that the goal of your struggle is just to live a better life, what do you think?"
"I didn't mean that." Luo You denied it quickly, but was interrupted by Sumo waving his hand. .
“Answer this question.”
“I don’t have any ideas.” Lao Zhang spread his hands and laughed at himself: “He thinks it’s pointless for me to want to live a good life, so why should I? I think it’s pointless for human being Su Shen to save the world every day, how tiring you are.”
“Ahem, don’t answer questions with questions.” Su Mo coughed twice, what are you implying here. ?
"Actually, I think there are many people like Mr. Ji who have no goals, can't find the motivation to live, and feel that the things they do are meaningless. But this is normal. I read every huge event in the history books. After the change, some people will not be able to accept the various changes in the new world and choose to commit suicide. Now that they have come from the earth to the wasteland, the intensity of this change is simply unprecedented and huge. If we humans on earth had not been influenced by the information explosion, I am afraid that at least One-third of the people cannot accept it.”
“But then again, why do some people accept and embrace change?”
“I prefer one answer, That is, they have gained clear benefits from this change."
"The slaves at the bottom stood up. They were no longer silent, no longer surrendered, overthrew the slave owners, and lived their dream. A free life.”
“The high-level deadlock is finally over, and those politicians who have endured hardships and perseverance finally have a place to show their talents.”
"The frustrated entrepreneurs were not swallowed by the shadow of failure. They seized the opportunity to rise and found the opportunity to create a century-old enterprise."
"The lost artists found the light in the darkness , countless works have finally been seen by the world, blooming with unprecedented artistic light. "
It is hard to imagine that this is what Lao Zhang said, and even Luo You, who has always looked down on Lao Zhang, was shocked.
He raised his head blankly and looked at the bearded middle-aged man, as if he had met a new person again.
“Isn’t it strange? I used to be a high school history teacher, but you never asked me”
Lao Zhang scratched his head honestly: "In addition to the types of people I just mentioned, there are many other examples that I won't mention one by one. In short, in my opinion, people who feel that their lives are meaningless are often in the process of change. People who later found that their income not only did not increase, but also shrank significantly.”
“Just like Mr. Luo, he is a well-known entrepreneur on earth, who has no worries about food, drink, children, and a lover. My wife, what kind of life is she living now after coming to the wasteland? "
"Then you think I don't want to live because I can't bear the pain?" Luo You looked angry. Stand up.
It is said that educated people are really cruel when it comes to scolding others. Lao Zhang, who is usually silent, is very aggressive when he takes action.
Luo You always ridiculed Lao Zhang for being a common man, but now people directly said that he didn't want to live because the gap in living standards was too big, that he was a remnant of the old era and was not worthy of being on the ship of the new era.
"Boss Luo, I didn't say that." Lao Zhang shook his head repeatedly: "I'm just talking about one of the possibilities. Aren't there other possibilities?"
"Then tell me, there are other possibilities. What's possible? "
"Uh" Lao Zhang looked at Su Mo with a pleading look. He felt that if he said something wrong again, Luo You might have sex with him.
"Tell me, we are not dealing with each other, Luo You, don't rush to sit down."
Sumo stepped forward, pressed Luo You's shoulders and forced him to sit down. .
Seeing this, Lao Zhang continued confidently: "There are many possibilities. For example, the development context of the old era has been fixed. We only need to move forward step by step without thinking too much about other things. However, all the context of the new era has been fixed." Breaking and reshaping will naturally cause some people to be confused and unable to find the way forward.”
“Also, the development dividends of the old era may be targeted at those in their thirties and forties, but the development dividends of the new era are not. At the age of twenty or thirty, people at the age of forty will feel abandoned by the times and lose their upward goals in life."
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Lao Zhang continued. He said seven or eight things, not only Luo You's temper was gone, but Su Mo's eyes also changed.
Unexpectedly, I just found a guide in the wasteland and found a treasure?
Even if Lao Zhang's awareness and speech ability are brought to Tianyuan territory, he can be regarded as a different kind of talent.
Especially for those confused newcomers, there is absolutely no problem in letting Lao Zhang be a psychological instructor.
"Then which kind of Luo You do you think he is?"
Sumo thought for a while, then pointed at Luo You and said directly: "You don't have to be afraid of saying the wrong thing, I promise Luo You I won’t have any complaints about the answer you gave me.”
“Boss Luo.”
Lao Zhang hesitated and immediately realized that now was his best chance to perform. Especially after two days of contact, he knew very well that once he went to Somo's territory, given his identity and ability, it would be difficult to have such a alone conversation with Somo again.
And these days on the ship are the only opportunities for him to show his value.
"In my opinion, Mr. Luo has lost his confidence."
After organizing his words, Lao Zhang said this sentence.
The confidence he talks about is naturally not the confidence to accomplish something, but the confidence in the power to control it.
“The emergence of supernatural forces has caused too many people to lose confidence, especially those who were already very conceited on the earth. The current situation is completely beyond their control and ability.”
"They can no longer rekindle their confidence in controlling this power. They will only be afraid of the consequences of this power. As the saying goes, once bitten by a snake, you will be afraid of the well rope for ten years!"< br>
"Boss Luo, if I'm not wrong, these thoughts you have recently only appeared after your leg was bitten off by a frogman, right?"
After saying this, the two of them looked at each other at the same time. Xiang Luoyou.
I saw the latter thinking slightly at first, with a slightly tangled expression on his face, and then nodded silently.
"Actually, your current state is the same as Luo Xiang's. You two, father and son, have exactly the same idea."
Old Zhang smiled with emotion and pondered for a moment, maybe he also Unexpectedly, the words he spoke next would become words of wisdom sung by countless people and gods.
Even after hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of years, it still hasn’t stopped.
“If the awe and fear of power are greater than desire, you will lose the confidence to fight.”
"What we have to do is not to reduce fear, but to amplify desire!"
Like a morning bell suddenly ringing in a quiet valley, the clear and deep sound penetrated the mist.
Luo You was stunned.
Sumo was also stunned.
"If there's nothing else, I'll go back first and boil a pot of hot water for you. The tea has gone cold."
Realizing that Luo You and Su Mo had not spoken for a long time, both of them lowered their heads in deep thought. Lao Zhang smiled and left the deck.
Until he left the sight of the two of them, his heart was still beating hard, as if it was about to explode.
He secretly felt that his words seemed to have touched something, completely breaking and confusing some of the original things.
It was a very special feeling, as if he had completed some historical mission that was destined to weigh on him.
It can’t be explained, the way is unclear.
Anyway, it’s magical, exciting, scary, and inexplicable.
“It’s not about reducing fear, but about amplifying desire.”
Luo You murmured, but this actually had nothing to do with the question he asked in the first place.
Lao Zhang did not answer directly what the meaning of living was. Instead, he put forward a new point of view and a new question, thinking that he lost the confidence to live because he was too afraid of power.
In other words, Lao Zhang has already answered the question, but what he answered was the solution.
The final answer needs to be found by Luo You himself.
And this is probably the correct way to solve the problem.
Use the method given by Lao Zhang to find your own line segment, and then walk the entire distance to get the final answer.
"Yes, I have never dared to face my fears or my own answers!"
Luo You suddenly stood up, he was a little excited, and finally started I understood what Su Mo meant before, and also understood the profound meaning that Lao Zhang wanted to express.
When he studied frogmen, he was not just interested in their culture or their language.
But he never dared to admit that he longed for the power of aliens and the kind of otherworldly superpowers.
This is because subconsciously, he is very afraid of that kind of power. Perhaps the seeds of fear were planted from the moment the false god Tengu appeared.
This fear is far greater than the desire to control this power.
He was in pain, suffering because he couldn't satisfy his desires but couldn't change them.
The subconscious is also suffering, suffering from the inability to shrink the fear caused by the false god Tengu.
Especially after being bitten by a frogman some time ago, the torture caused by this double pain has reached the extreme, so much so that he has lost confidence in living.
But after thinking about this, Luo You was a little confused again.
Lao Zhang didn’t make it clear just now. If you don’t reduce your fear, how can you amplify your desires?
Should we set a desire to become a god, but this completely unrealistic desire seems to have no meaning.
It has to be something that you believe in and feel that you can get it one day, in order to be counted as a desire, right?
"Lord Ji"
"Luo You."
The two spoke in unison and stopped thinking at the same time.
“You say it first.”
"Say."
They all said in unison again. Sumo was no longer polite and simply said directly:
"Let's make an assumption. If all situations are possible, what do you think of the wasteland? What kind of future is the most attractive? "
"Of course it is to return to the earth, or restore order, the disaster stops, and this becomes our second place"
Luo You said without thinking, but Before he finished speaking, he stopped on his own initiative.
"Assume all scenarios are possible?"
Whether it's returning to Earth or turning the Wasteland into a second Earth, these are the thoughts of the human survivors at the beginning of the first year of the Wasteland.
But today, there are indeed many people who do not want to return to that blue planet.
Here they discovered new strength, new goals, and found a new meaning in life.
“Yes, you can fantasize as much as you want, don’t stick to the current situation.”
"If you want to fantasize, then I think it's better not to go back to Earth, just stay in this damn wasteland. Let's decipher the secrets of alien races, study those strange powers, and give every human being a chance to become a god, let alone a disaster. Even the game is capable of killing it.”
“This future may be the most attractive.”
Luo You smiled, no longer hiding his true desires and desires. idea.
“If something like the Tengu false god appears in front of me again, I can kill him with a slap.”
“You mean the era of global gods?”
(End of this chapter)