Alien Knights

Chapter 584: Good and evil (part 1)

After sending away Cumberland's soul, Todd walked towards the depths of the island along the path paved with moss and stone slabs.

After a short walk, Todd saw his daughter.

Aurora was pulling the tail of the manticore, reluctant to ask the latter to play with her.

An angry and funny Todd walked to Aurora's side, tapped her on the head lightly, and said solemnly, "Let go of it."

Looking back and seeing that it was her father, Aurora instantly narrowed her mouth in grievance, and looked like she was about to cry immediately.

Todd squatted beside Aurora, sighed, and asked softly: "Why are you bullying that poor guy?"

Aurora wiped her eyes with the back of her hand: "I didn't want to bully it, I'm just so bored, I want to find a friend to play with me..."

Todd shook his head helplessly, turned around and took a look.

The manticore that got rid of the young dragon's entanglement was hiding behind a big tree, looking at Aurora with horror, as if seeing a beast that devoured people.

Todd rubbed Aurora's face and asked, "How are you going to make friends with it?"

Aurora sobbed and said, "It has been hiding from me and is unwilling to be with me. I can only catch it and not let it leave me."

Todd touched Aurora's bangs with his fingers, and said softly: "Use strength and intimidation to keep others around. What you get will never be friends, at most just slaves."

Aurora raised her head, widened her eyes and asked, "Then what should I do?"

"You have to show a friendly side and try to help freely so that you can gain friendship." Todd turned his body sideways, motioned Aurora to look at the manticore behind the tree, and whispered: "My daughter, Think about it, what can you do to show kindness to each other?"

Aurora tilted her head and thought for a while, then stretched out her hand to take out some jerky snacks from the cloth bag around her waist, and shook it towards the manticore.

The latter shrugged his nose when he saw the jerky, and quietly stuck his head from behind the tree, but his body was still on guard.

Todd whispered to Aurora, "You're almost done, try harder."

Aurora picked up a piece of jerky, put it in her mouth and chewed, while eating, she used the expression on her face to indicate that the food was delicious.

The manticore cautiously walked out from behind the tree, approached Aurora a little bit, and looked at the food in the latter's hand hesitantly.

Seeing Aurora clinging to the jerky, Todd smiled and said, "Remember my words, in order to get something, you must first learn to give up another thing."

Todd's words made Aurora hesitate for a moment.

Immediately afterwards, she gently placed the cloth bag containing the dried meat on the ground, and took a few steps back.

The manticore who saw this scene hunched forward, watching the girl's movements vigilantly, and stretched his mouth toward the cloth bag.

Slowly, the manticore finally came to the cloth bag. It stretched out its barbed tongue and rolled a piece of dried meat into its mouth. However, after chewing a few mouthfuls, it immediately squinted its eyes comfortably, and its thick and long tail. Shaking non-stop.

Soon after a while, the manticore ate the dried meat in the cloth bag, like a big docile cat. It slowly walked to Aurora's side and kept rubbing his head against the latter. Calf.

The surprised Aurora knelt down and stroked the beast's chin with her fingers. In the comfort of the other party's grunt, she excitedly said to Todd: "Father!"

Todd nodded with satisfaction and said: "Don't bully it anymore, cherish this hard-won friendship..."

While talking, Todd turned and walked forward, his voice getting softer and lighter, almost inaudible.

"After all, the more precious things are, the easier it is to despise, and you will regret it only after you lose it."

Todd walked along the forest path, boulders and trees floated in the sky, and Leviathan's towering tentacles were looming.

Skaha, with purple hair dancing in the wind, held the slate of Genesis in his right hand. While watching the distribution of buildings on the ground, he motioned to the angels around him to arrange them in order.

"Deviate the track of the soul portal in the Hall of Antucci to the northwest, turn the energy base 30 degrees clockwise, and slowly lower it, it's good."

Dozens of angels under the command of Skaha, while waving their wings, worked together to return these floating buildings one by one.

After directing the construction of this area, Skaha saw Todd on his side.

Slowly descending from the air to the ground, Skaha asked Todd: "Did you finish the duny affairs?"

Todd shrugged his shoulders and smiled: "For you, those are just mundane things; but for me, those are the people I care about."

Skaha put away the slate and said quietly: "Kingdom, war, rule, everything is in the past, the focus is on how to continue to multiply for the race and how to avoid extinction."

Todd remembered something and asked to Skaha: "By the way, I have some questions about the angels and demons you created."

"Please say."

"I asked Shields and Mathenas to preside over a soul trial today. They judge things from a very...different angle."

Todd considered his words and said: "Shields' judgment of soul value is more...conservative, while Mathenas is more...radical."

Scarha corrected Todd and said: "Your description may be a little off. Shields is more inclined to maintain order, and Mathenas is more inclined to choose chaos."

Todd was a little puzzled: "I always thought that angels represent lawful goodness, and demons represent chaos and evil."

Before Skaha could speak, a deep voice came from Todd's feet: "Ah, I know this. Thousands of years ago, a group of philosophers divided the value orientation of the soul into four extremes-mutually opposed. Lawfulness and chaos, and opposing good and evil."

Skaha shrugged at Todd: "This is the topic Leviathan is most interested in."

Leviathan's voice came from underground again: "Yes. Todd, do you remember the questions I asked you in the soul space?"

"Which orientation of self-interest or altruism is more suitable for the survival and progress of the race? Should deities with power interfere with the choices of sentient beings?"

"In fact, these problems boil down to the root, which is the opposition between lawfulness and chaos, goodness and evil."

Todd rubbed his temple and said, "Wait a minute, before discussing these issues, what I want to ask is, what is the value orientation of angels and demons?"

Skaha replied: "Shields represents the extreme of lawful order, Mathenas represents the extreme of chaos. The two of them will consider and judge from two different extremes, and finally A consensus was reached during consultation and compromise. This is the reason why I created them at the beginning. I introduced two sets of opposing algorithmic mechanisms to quantify the soul's digital determination, which was finally reflected in the balance."

Todd asked, "So angels are not good, and demons are not evil."

Leviathan said: "Good angels and evil demons are nothing but the words of the world to deceive children. But this topic returns to the focus of our previous discussion. Lawfulness and chaos represent the state of everything, while goodness and evil , It’s just the subjective self-judgment of biology. Can you understand if I say that?"

Todd frowned: "I don't quite understand."

"Let me put it this way, even if all living things are completely extinct, the two-dimensional pair of order and chaos will still exist in the universe, because their existence does not require consciousness as a support; while good and evil are intelligent creatures' influence on language, Subjective judgments of behaviors and phenomena. If living things die, so-called good and evil will naturally not exist."

Todd thoughtfully: "Some understand~lightnovelpub.net~ Leviathan said again: "I will deepen this topic a bit. Good and evil are a false proposition in themselves. They exist and do not exist... "

Todd interrupted Leviathan: "Wait, I'm a little confused."

Skaha shook his head and said: "Leviathan likes to use this kind of philosopher's tone to discuss these issues. Let me put it simply, the appearance of good and evil is often accompanied by subjective assumptions of users. For example, against me and profit. Weitan and Todd, for us, kindness means to stop genocide and let the existence of sentient beings in a virtuous circle."

Todd nodded and said, "Yes, this is correct."

Scarha stared into Todd’s eyes and said softly: “In order to accomplish this perfect goal in our minds, sometimes we have to take some uncomfortable behavior. For example, sometimes we have to deceive Believers, conceal the truth from them; sometimes, we will ask others to give up personal property and pursuits to meet the needs and development of the group; sometimes, we even... even have to sacrifice a person or a race to force them to give up The right to survive..."