from Xingyuan

Chapter 579 283. Longing for Change
The caramel snail's eyes glowed green, but after flashing for a few seconds, it returned to its original color. His will seemed to overcome some kind of existence, and he asked persistently:

"Why, they are clearly protecting people, but instead make people suffer more?"

Click.

Li Aoz put down the camera, and while waiting for the film to come out, he raised his head and looked back at the caramel snail.

He saw the confusion in the other party's eyes, and he knew very clearly where the doubts in the other party's heart came from.

"Actually, you should know it in your heart."

Lee Oz said:

"Such a world is not a world in which people can live."

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The long trips were a bit too strenuous for a used bike, and problems abounded along the way.

Fortunately, with Igor's ability, she earned a lot of travel expenses along the way, and also learned the ability to maintain.

"You say the church has a good idea? Huh, maybe, but that's not how mortals should live."

Xia Beiluo was repairing the spokes of the bicycle. Hearing what Igor said, he immediately raised his head and asked in confusion:
"Huh? What does that mean?"

Igor Cui leaned against the fence of the road, looked up at the sky, and said lazily:

"Ordinary people have emotions and desires, they have warmth, they grow old and ugly, they are kind and gentle, and they can also be cruel. But the church does not recognize these."

"You have to understand that you live on a planet where you can manipulate the soul and master the skills of the spirit body. If this is the case, then the dead themselves are a kind of resource."

"The church hopes that people will be as clean and blank as ghosts, obediently follow their plans, so that although the world is very boring, the population and the number of spirit bodies must be strictly matched, neither too much nor too little. At the same time, psionic technology You have to make progress slowly.”

"So..." Xia Beiluo seemed to understand a little bit: "So the church is deliberately controlling the population and spirits?"

"You're not too stupid."

Igor put his hands behind his head:
"Guess what, why did the church do this?"

"...because they want people to be better off?"

"Wrong, they think people can live better in this environment. They are like a high-ranking parent who refuses to communicate with you, hoping to use their absolutely correct experience to obliterate your personality and disintegrate your independent will , strangle your imagination, turn you into a so-called 'upright' happy child, live a peaceful life - this is the church."

Igor explained:

"They don't want you to have joys, sorrows, sorrows and joys. They want to turn you into a pure living machine to build their kingdom of gods on earth to please the weird three gods they believe in. But why do the gods in the sky care about these? For gods, Even if our batch of creations are completely destroyed, I’m afraid we won’t be too sad.”

"But didn't the church say...God loves the world?" Xia Beiluo hesitated, "If God didn't love us, why did he create us?"

"Would you love the can, or the meat in the can? Would you love each can carefully as it comes off the assembly line?"

Igor asked back:
"You love the deliciousness of the moment when you enjoy the can, but you definitely don't love the existence of the can."

Xia Beiluo opened her mouth. Igor can always use these magical metaphors to destroy her traditional thinking.

"Igor, since you also know that the existence of the church is necessary," Xia Beiluo asked, "Then why are you spreading rock music?"

"For what? To liberate people from this oppressive world so that they can truly live by their own strength and not by God's handout."

Igor stood up, walked to the bicycle, was silent for a moment, and said:
"You should understand the fact that children will grow up only when they are separated from their parents."

"But I haven't heard that children need to kill their parents to grow up." Xia Beiluo retorted: "You are too extreme, Cui, your ideas are too ideal."

Igor glanced at her and said:

"Isn't that what you are? Without your parents, you will be a mature and sensible girl all of a sudden."

"It's different!" Xia Beiluo bit her lip, "If I have to lose important things in order to grow, then I'd rather stay in swaddling clothes forever."

"It's because of cowardly thinking like you that people keep being trapped in the church birdcage, fuck!"

Igor confronts her:
"You pedantic and unlucky bastards always give up your own power little by little, and are used to relying on the power of the church. You have never thought about how wonderful the outside world is! How romantic the starry sky is! The church said In a word, the universe outside is very dangerous, so you dare not look up."

"Then how do you know that the sky must be beautiful?" Xia Beiluo said bluntly: "The church has various cases, history, and ancient relics telling us that there are dangers everywhere in the universe. One corner, isn't that enough?"

"Of course I know."

Igor Cui took off his sunglasses, pointed to the guitar case beside him, and said:

"Because it came from that star abyss."

"...What?" Xia Beiluo was at a loss. "what does that mean?"

"The name of this guitar is 'Soul Casino'. It is a social institution. It is a handicraft made from the body fragments of monsters and beasts who fought with the gods."

Igor Cui directed Xia Beiluo to step forward and touched the guitar case:

"This guitar comes from an existence named [Outland Society] Percale. It can not only play exciting music, but most importantly, it can bring wealth and good luck."

"What? This, is this impossible?" Xia Beiluo asked in surprise.

"There is a price." Igor said lightly: "Every time you play, it will consume your soul, and the way to bring wealth is to take out part of your soul and use it as a bargaining chip for gambling."

"The better the result of gambling, the better your fortune, and the worse the result, the worse your fortune will be."

"But even so, this is a creation beyond the imagination of the church. This is the power of [society], and the power of each [society] is different."

"...According to what the church said, in the star world, the gods and [society] are still fighting." Xia Beiluo raised his head and looked at Igor: "Doesn't that mean that such a treasure has the power of the gods?" trace……"

"Well, it's almost as you think." Igor nodded: "You can guess it with your toes-there are many wonderful places in the universe. If you just stay on this planet, because you are afraid of those gods If you are stagnant with society, then you are destined to be abandoned."

"Igor, I seem to understand your purpose..."

Xia Beiluo stood up and said in a deep voice:

"I'm afraid there are many, many aliens with such power. If we don't work hard to step into the star realm, then one day we will definitely be smashed by the powerful star realm."

"But what if, if we go out into space and find ourselves surrounded by enemies?"

"I do not know."

Igor said frankly:

"I can only say: what I am after is not war, what the future holds—oh, only God knows."

"But even so... do you still want to rebel against the Church?"

"No, you are wrong. I am not against the church. This is a world that uses divinity to kidnap humanity."

Igor said:

"I have witnessed the soldiers of the church blocking the barren sea, and their corpses piled up in mountains - and I have also crawled out of those piles of clothes. I understand their ideals, and then the church uses this name to expand their power everywhere .”

"After a while, I retired from the Salvation Army and was assigned to boil water in the boiler room. The work was repetitive and monotonous, just like in this world, everyone performed their own duties, and was assigned a fixed position and a predetermined destiny— —I couldn’t help thinking, what’s the point of living like this for the rest of your life?”

"So I went to the Church District again, where it was orderly, peaceful and peaceful, but even in such a well-planned church city, you can see poor homeless people, and you can also see pets eating steaks Dogs—God loves the world, but some people are more favored. In this world, there is no such thing as equality. If you want to rise, you can only follow the path they gave you, and fight and fight monotonously."

Xia Beiluo calmed down, listening to Igor's story.But when Igor said this, he suddenly changed the topic and asked:

"Do you know how the rules of the church come about?"

Before Xia Beiluo could speak, Igor explained:
"Let me give you an example - in the beginning, the church banned you from drinking unboiled water because of the low level of education of the people. The reason may be to prevent parasites, but later it became a religious taboo. .”

"Hundreds of years later, they viewed drinking raw water as a sign of being possessed by a demon."

"Later, they even criticized all the people who drank raw water, and even launched a battle! Call them demons and bad species? Is this what the gods want to see? Is this the goal of the church at the beginning of its existence? "

"From the spiritual realm to the secular world. The church is always adhering to the bottom line, but it is only the bottom line-if it is always stagnant, how will people fight when a disaster strikes from the sky one day? By then, they will have been tamed by the church to be obedient People who don’t post can only be reduced to a group of lambs waiting to be slaughtered.”

"Let me tell you why I am fighting—the church has changed from an organization that educates the people to a tool that serves the few. personnel."

"They betrayed their original noble ideals and became slaves to desire and pleasure. This is not a church. I want to liberate people from such a church and let them return to their original path."

"Xia Beiluo, what I'm fighting against is not the church itself, I'm declaring war on rigidity and backwardness, this world must be huge, not only our planet exists alone - yes, we need the spirit of resistance."

"That's what fucking rock'n'roll is for - if you can, I hope you guys never need rock'n'roll someday."

"When I plucked the strings, a fire went up in my chest, and everywhere I sang, the same cry came from people - 'Change' I remember vividly, that was the voice they told me. "

"Remember, girl, never compromise with the world."

　Scarlet Queen lv.5 (Survive)

"If you don't code, you can't survive."

I, Deep Crimson, reproduce!

　
(End of this chapter)