Soul of Burning Steel

Starfall 847, November 11.

On a rather lonely day, the world of New Hillaya welcomed the first batch of visitors who were not members of the Moldavian Lord's House.

The slowly flying reconnaissance ship landed on the takeoff and landing platform of No. 0001 residential area, and the five members stepped out of it one after another, looking around this strange world cautiously and curiously.

"Disc-shaped shelter...I didn't expect that this kind of thing that doesn't conform to the laws of physics can really be created..."

The leader of the elite team, Priest Omni, dragged his suitcase, looked up at the sun above his head with emotion, and the huge branches of the world tree like the pillars of the world. There, there are mana armored vehicles and even The roads and rails of the track and train, lowering his head, Priest couldn't help but click his tongue twice: "Living in this world for two weeks, I only need to write a few detailed reports and report my feelings? Such a simple task is really amazing. First time encounter."

"is not that right."

The knight on the side, Clark, was taking out large and small bags from the scout ship. The burly blond man touched his chin, hesitant to speak, and he wanted to speak again. In the end, he only uttered this sigh :"puff."

The cleric Seid, who is using an instrument to detect the average extraordinary power concentration in the local world, seems to have understood what the knight said. He first glanced at the data on the instrument, then nodded, and said to his captain: "The concentration of ether is the concentration of Micro. Thirty-one times the average value of Husband’s, with the support of this concentration of ether, not to mention the shape of a dish, the shape of a bowl, fork, or barbecued pork can be used. Although this dish-shaped world is not physical, it is very magical and very ethereal.”

"It doesn't matter so much, anyway, ether is different from elements and magic power, no matter how thick it is, it will not affect survival." Priest waved his hand and said decisively: "The teacher said that this mission can be regarded as a vacation. Look at it—it’s a pity that it’s a regular mission after all, so you can’t take Sur and Britney with you, otherwise it would be really a vacation.”

"You still want to bring a female companion? Captain, what is your intention?!"

"Rebellion is rebellion, isn't this against him?"

The journey was spent with laughter, and every adventure was extremely dangerous. It was rare for the elite team to get a simple and easy task to relax, but even so, they did not really relax their vigilance. In those huge suitcases and packages, all It's all their armor, weapons and various equipment.

The travel speed of the five men is naturally extremely fast. In less than ten minutes, Priest led the team to find the "Experimental Residence No. 1" house where they were required to stay. This is a three-story white villa. , exactly five houses, with living room, kitchen, balcony, attached hot spring, double-storey plantation that is not too big or small, and even an underground laboratory room, but the internal instruments need to be placed by themselves.

It has to be said that the villa designed by No. 3 has a different sense of flow from the beginning to the end. This style, which Joshua called "the minimalist design of the interstellar era", is very important to everyone in the elite team. , is a future scene that has never been seen before. The thought of living here for half a month made everyone feel happy and couldn't help cheering.

"Wow - this sofa is so comfortable!"

Putting the suitcase aside, the former elf, now a hybrid modified creature, biochemical alchemist Constantine stretched out his hands, slumped on the soft and hard sofa, his comfortable pointed ears trembled, just right, where his head was There is a huge floor-to-ceiling window at the front end of the direction, and the alchemist can look up and see the blood-colored sky of the world of New Hilleye, as well as the huge branches of the world tree, which immediately made him praise: "This world tree is also very kind. Ah, I feel that my elven blood is boiling—I remember this is the seed bestowed by the Master of Nature to Lord Marshal."

"Dear ghost."

On the other side, the spellcaster Wayne, who was testing whether his wand could work well in a high-concentration ether environment, glanced at the disabled alchemist who was slumped on the sofa. He couldn't help but raised his hand and flicked The other party's sharp ears that were constantly trembling, and then said naturally in the other party's glaring eyes: "You also have a bit of an elf in your ears - when we go to investigate next to the World Tree, see if this tree recognizes you. Recognize you as an elf!"

"I am what I am!"

Hearing this, the alchemist rolled back and forth on the sofa in pain when he was caught: "Even though my body is not, my heart is still an elf!"

Pooh.

Priest, the knight, and the clergy who were watching this scene all said a word in unison.

You deserve it too?

Next, the specific process is very simple. The elite team settled in the "Experimental Residential Area No. 1" and carried out a series of follow-up investigations, such as carrying vehicles, going to adjacent industrial areas, breeding areas, and simulating The work process of the residents, for example, destroying some specific areas, testing if the area is attacked, where should be protected first, and where should be repaired first.

There are not many projects to inspect, but there are not many. A total of 17 projects need to be tested in two weeks. Now that the time has passed, there are only four projects left. In addition to the extremely comfortable living environment, the elite team has all All employees felt that they were really on vacation.

Naturally, on the way, they also inspected the Scarlet World Tree, and forced the elf alchemist to recognize his relatives—there was no doubt that the Scarlet World Tree didn't realize that the other party was an elf, and gave the "kindly intelligent monster" This comment, which made the other four of the team laugh and teary, sparked a small team rebellion on the spot, which was quickly suppressed.

Everything is perfect.

Except for one thing.

"This... is too comfortable."

In Starfall 847, on November 19th, the eighth day of the mission, when the knight who was cooking put a pot of potato goulash on the table, he couldn't help but ask in doubt: "The dish-shaped shelter has enough food, and the breeding cycle Perfect, running at full power, the limit should be able to supply more than 2.5 billion people to survive - this is already almost exceeding the total number of people in the entire Mycroft world, even if it is estimated by our living standards, it can supply more than one billion Humans reproduce safely!"

Today, the total population of Mycroft is close to 3 billion. Due to the opening of detection to encourage births and the improvement of medical standards, according to predictions, the total population of the world in Mycroft should exceed 40 in ten years. five hundred million.

But even so, it's amazing how many people can be housed in a disc world, and the quality of life is so high.

"yes."

Picking a piece of potato, sprinkled a little salt and pepper on the surface, the clergyman stuffed the potato as thick as three fingers into his mouth, chewed it, and said vaguely: "Chew... I mean, Chew, isn't that bad? Chew."

"Yes." The alchemist affirmed the priest's words. He picked out a piece of beef, then opened his mouth full of sharp teeth like a shark, chewed the meat and swallowed it: "I heard that this dish-shaped The world is used to transfer and resettle the people of Mycroft in times of crisis in the future. Of course, it is true to be prepared for danger, but... the living conditions are so good that I can't help but think of the evil god of "weakness" that world."

Having said that, everyone present couldn't help but nodded.

They all lived in the "perfect world" incarnated by the debilitating evil god... They all still remember how those primitive elf tribes continued to decline, kept forgetting their haste, were constantly affected by the evil god, and became weaker and weaker...the living environment was too good , It is the poison that corrodes fighting spirit and will. If we have been living in such a perfect world, how can society and civilization have the motivation to make 'changes'?

The elite team wrote this doubt in the report of the day and sent it to the department of the "Imperial Foreign Exploration Department·Strategic Development Department" that issued this task.

Soon, they got personal answers from one of the few members of the Strategic Development Department, the legendary powerhouse Joshua Radcliffe.

"You guys figured out problems very quickly."

Through the communication circle, the soldier's calm voice sounded: "This is indeed a problem."

Joshua himself is the kind of guy who can't help being lonely even in the absolutely peaceful and prosperous age of Datong. No matter what, he has to sharpen himself and open a martial arts school. Will he have no fighting spirit if he is full of food and drink? In his opinion, it is a good time to fight after eating and drinking. You don't need to worry about the trivial matters of life or the difficult problems of the environment. You just need to concentrate and become stronger.

But even Joshua like this can understand the principle of being born in sorrow and dying in peace.

So, he explained to his students and team members, "But the solution to it is not hard."

Whether the living environment is good or not is not an absolute value, but a relative value. If everyone lives in a thatched hut that is exposed to wind and rain, and only one person can live in a strong and rainproof wooden house, then there is no doubt that People who live in wooden houses are good. But is it absolute? People who live in wooden houses are undoubtedly inferior compared with people who live in brick houses, cement houses, concrete houses, alloy houses, and even various places similar to utopia.

'Good' and 'bad' have always been things that need to be compared to determine, and what Joshua has done is to ensure that everyone can survive and be comfortable, so that everyone can live equally and with peace of mind , In this way, the people who immigrated may feel very comfortable at first, but after a while, they will take it for granted.

Do not suffer from scarcity but inequality, and do not suffer from poverty but anxiety.

Don't worry about lack of things, be careful about the uneven distribution of things, don't worry about living in poverty, but worry about the instability of life.

Taking the meaning in it, Joshua makes everyone's life rich and stable, and everyone's life is guaranteed, but - there will always be someone who lives better, lives more comfortably, and enjoys more resources.

If you want to compare yourself with others, you have to work harder.

"Priest, do you know the game?"

Across the communication facility, Joshua separated a thread to be responsible for the elite team. His tone was indifferent: "Those games in the spiritual terminal, and games like Fairy Cards that require money."

Everyone can experience the full plot of the game and experience the full gameplay of the game. They are also allocated basic cards (houses) for free, and can get free resources (daily tasks and rewards) through free means, no matter what No payment, no money, the game can still be played, and it can even be played very well.

However, if someone pays and spends money—someone works hard to cultivate and then achieve results, just like drawing a legendary card from a fairy card, or an extremely attractive character and skin, you will It will become the focus of the crowd. From then on, everyone will want this card, characters and skins. In this way, there will always be people who were unwilling to pay before. For various reasons, they will also start to work hard and start spend money.

——Ladder ranking scores, combat power rankings, arena badges, championship belts for the first place, the thrill of winning or losing when riding an empty group, and a display stand to show off the number of your own characters—the strongest priest professional user of the year , the achievements of 'Light of Holy Glory', the 'Legendary' card master, the title of 'Undefeated', all kinds of 'false names', will always mobilize human 'emotions'.

Of course, this is obviously not necessary, it's just that others have it, so I want it too... It's just the desire in my heart, so the desire is derived and the motivation is full.

Greed, dissatisfaction, pursuit of vanity, attention, and a mentality of showing off—similarly, there is also pursuit, competitiveness, the courage to take the lead in everything, the courage to bear the eyes of everyone, and the confidence to show yourself without timidity.

This is human beings, the power of human emotions, it is this desire, this longing heart, that pushes the tiny intelligent life of human beings forward.

"A good life can ensure that everyone has the same foundation. Everyone will not lose opportunities due to other reasons. Geniuses will not be wiped out because of lack of food when they were young. Ordinary people can also level up their natural talents through an excellent living environment." The talent gap, those are the foundations."

"But greed—human pursuit, there is no end to this kind of thing. As long as this 'emotion' is provoked, even in Utopia, in Paradise, human beings will provoke competition again and again."

On the other side of the communication circle, Joshua raised his hand. In the palm of the warrior, there was an 'emotional spectrum' shining with endless light, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, blue, purple, seven colors, and seven colors mixed with each other. The 'black and white' two colors mixed with each other condensed in his hands.

I can't bear what others have and what I don't have! — Orange Greedy Light.

I can't stand others becoming strong and being weak! ——The red light of anger.

I can't stand others changing myself! —the yellow light of fear.

Can't bear it, can't bear it, absolutely can't bear it, the damn thing that I'm not as good as other people! —The blue light of arrogance.

It's all one condition, one face, two eyes and one mouth, why should he work hard and succeed, but I can't? ! — the purple light of envy.

Likewise, the passion of orange, the courage of red, the flexibility of yellow, the self-confidence of blue and the equal treatment of purple.

Gazing at the spherical core of the spectrum, Joshua laughed softly: "Greed is not wrong, because behind it is the pursuit, and dissatisfaction is not wrong, because behind it is the desire to compete."

Emotion' is like this, one body with two sides, one side gives people strength, and the other side leads people to destruction.

"We can't stay inside the walls of security. We have to get out of the current stable social model and try new possibilities. We can't be constrained by a sense of security, but we have to explore with caution and fear... just like you are being asked to come here now. Try as well - Well done, Priest, you have found the essence of this mission, which is the 'Social Model Experiment'."

"but……"

Another time in the communication circle, listening to his teacher's teachings, Priest opened his mouth, he seemed to want to say something, but in the end he only choked out a sentence: "But, there are always people who don't want to become stronger... …even in games.”

"So what? Everyone has their own way of life."

Joshua's avatar said doubtfully: "The current Mycroft world is not full of superhumans—there will always be people who will stop moving forward because of talent, inborn personal mentality, and various reasons. What does it matter? Those who are unwilling and unbearable can be screened out."

As long as those who want to become stronger become stronger, that's enough.

"In the form of our civilization, there will always be some people who choose to control their own destiny, and similarly, there will always be some people who will hand over their destiny to other people."

Having said that, Joshua's avatar that was specially split against the elite team gradually dissipated, leaving only the shining emotional spectrum shining in the void, slowly turning into streaks of light mixed with life energy and spiritual energy.

In the end, the soldier calmly uttered the last words: "To live up to the fates gathered in your hands is the true meaning of protection, just as you, as the captain, live up to your team members."

"Priest, I think it's time for you to try to challenge the realm of 'Extreme Intention'."

...

The huge silver star is located in the void, as quiet as death.

A thread that was split off specifically for answering questions returns. Joshua's body has not changed, and it is still continuously calculating and observing.

He is calculating the possibilities of the emotional spectrum, looking for a new way of extraordinary power, he is observing the entire void, the entire galaxy, and every place from the big to the small.

Not just Priest, not just the world of New Hilleye, not just the disc-shaped shelter that is regarded as the experimental observation field, through the ubiquitous restoration light beams, Joshua spans the endless and long space, observes There are tens of thousands, many corners of the endless multiverse.

He observes change, he observes reform, he observes battle and flight, he observes 'emotion' and 'civilization'.

So, Joshua saw it at this time.

From the perspective of a true observer, he saw the progress and transformation of the entire Mycroft civilization.

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