Pirates: Your Emperor is Back!

As said before.

Human beings—or the "creatures" that already have a certain social form in this world already have certain characteristics that are separated from the natural ring.

They are "violating" various natural arrangements and turning to pursue more things.

Emotion, morality, order, rules, technology...

Or: money, power, force, desire...

And—unknown.

All kinds of things are proving that nature is being tried to "violate".

Therefore, when something in nature threatens the existence of these "creatures", those "creatures" will rise up and resist in order to pursue the survival and development of the entire social group.

Fear of the night, someone controls the "fire";

Afraid of the flames, someone puts out the fire with water;

Afraid of floods, some people moved soil to divert roads to dredge waterways...

and so on.

...

"We've always been that way, and we've always been that way."

Luo Wen looked at Gage and smiled slowly: "When something in 'nature' threatens us, at least we will not resign ourselves to fate, but try to 'face' it."

Today's Gage is not so much talking with Rowan as the commander of Germa 66, but sitting in front of Rowan as a scientist.

Therefore, his words and deeds seem to be much more relaxed, which is different from usual.

And this is also the state he needs when thinking about the information.

Gage touched his chin, grinned and said:

"If I were a naturalist, I would definitely find your remark just now very arrogant."

...

arrogant?

Of course.

Anyone who has been in school for a while will find what Rowan just said is arrogant.

How can mere human beings go against nature?

If you damage nature recklessly, you will inevitably be backlashed by nature-this is the iron rule that even children will be told.

Do not wantonly destroy the environment, do not act recklessly on the world we live in...

We've been told this from childhood.

Why did all of this seem to be feasible when it came to Ryan Rowan?

...

"Conceit and arrogance...?"

Luo Wen muttered, raised his eyes and asked, "Really? Do you really think so?"

"Of course I—no."

Jia Zhi changed the subject and said with a grin: "As long as it is good for us, so what if it violates nature?"

As Gage said, scientists are like this.

Whether it's Germa 66's human cloning technology, Vegapunk's future pacifist plan, or even [Pandemic] Quinn's virus research, all of them are a kind of "disobedience" to nature!

Among them, the bloodline factor theory has spanned the entire era, and is known as a scientific research achievement that violates the "God's Domain"!

And far more than that, the so-called disobedience to nature is far more than these world's top scientists.

In order to be able to eat a bite of watermelon in the cold Dongdao, the melon farmers in Dongdao invented a greenhouse that can keep warm;

In order to explore the mysterious areas where unknown diseases spread, doctors and scholars have developed drugs and vaccines to protect the human body;

In order to inherit the unknown history, people who lived in ancient times created several "cubes" and engraved ancient characters on them, so that thousands of years could not erode that period of history;

and so on...

All of these are proofs of human disobedience to nature!

And as one of the representatives who put forward the theory of blood factor and "disobedience to nature", Jiazhi certainly thinks so.

In Jiaji's view, the so-called natural rules are just a part of scientific research that can be used and must be paid attention to.

If you want to make a breakthrough in scientific research, it is impossible not to "break" something.

Ethics, morality, rules, frameworks...

Everything that can be broken can be broken.

On the other hand, Luo Wen smiled and shook his head.

"I don't think so."

"Um?"

Jia Zhi was a little surprised, and asked: "The emperor eight hundred years ago, what do you think?"

Rowan smiled and said:

"Do you think that is the so-called conceit and arrogance?"

He paused, then asked himself and answered:

"Yes, that is indeed conceited and arrogant, but so what?"

"Is it only human beings, or human-like races, doing things against nature?"

"Beasts in the jungle will migrate for survival, and will fight for the survival of the race;"

"Plants can be seen all over the world, even on the coldest snow-capped mountains, occasionally a few special grasses can be seen, even in the cracks of hard stones, twisted trees that divide the stone in two may also be seen; "

"It's not just human beings who 'go against nature', and it's not just humanoid races."

"Defying nature, not yielding to fate—this is an instinct."

Rowan's voice echoed on the deck of Germa Kingdom, calm and steady.

"It's an instinct of life."

...

These words were indeed from an angle that Gage had never imagined.

What Gage thinks is actually more on the level of science.

The essence of a scientist is to break the natural rules and rewrite the future.

What Rowan said revolves around "people"—or the "life" itself that lives in this world.

That is actually a very imaginative idea.

"Life is inherently arrogant."

Luo Wen took a sip of the tea in front of him, letting the water in it solidify the gravel that made up the messenger.

If Gage wanted to now, he could really cut off the messenger's head with one shot.

But obviously, the current Gage would not do that.

Luo Wen "swallowed" the tea, and smiled slowly:

"Arrogance allows life to appear in this world."

"We were born that way!"

...

Gage silently drank the tea in his hand.

"Born like this...?"

He does have a different point of view.

"Are you going to challenge nature itself just because you were born this way? Are you going to cut down that tree?"

Gage suddenly leaned over and began to fiddle with the branches of the tree on the sand table with his fingers.

He doesn't have the ability to control the Shasha fruit, so he can only play with the sand table by himself.

Gage raises another possibility.

Or... a kind of "paradox".

"What if what you call 'arrogance' is actually part of nature?"

Gage fiddled with the gravel children, making them gather together, and killed the tree in a mighty way.

As Rowan suggested before, those little gravel guys have to cut down trees too!

But suddenly, the branches of that tree swept across, cutting off countless gravel figures!

And those little gravel people who were killed were turned into nutrients again, absorbed by the big tree, and transformed into new devil fruits.

"Assume first that your inference is correct."

"So, how to ensure that your behavior of 'cutting trees' is not part of this natural cycle?"

"Have you ever thought that you have a result of 'never succeeding'?"

Facing Gage's question, Rowan grinned.

"Actually, there is only one reason for their failure—"

Luo Wen's next sentence made Gage realize what "the arrogance of life" is.

"They're not strong enough."