Chapter 188: You damn well are a genius! (Please vote for monthly tickets!!!)

Ah?!

No joke, even Zhao Si was scared by this little Xue!

It's not… you slaughtered the village, I can barely understand, after all the villagers were the direct enemies who made you lose your first blood; from the viewpoint of a web novel protagonist, this instead shows you're decisive in killing, repaying grudges without hesitation.

But how did you come to this extended realization?! Everyone else is an NPC, only you are the protagonist, so the life and death of others means nothing to you……

Zhao Si was accustomed to Jin Bing's early-stage Two Poles Body maneuver, and also knew that this group of immature kids easily went to extremes.

But even at the most abstract stage of Jin Bing, it couldn't reach the depravity of Xue Xiaohei! At the start he buried over thirty villagers alive with a landslide and earthquake, and then from the fact that he could restart, he grasped a life philosophy:

I am in the wrong, but what gives you the right to sentence me to death? You lot of NPCs, things that periodically refresh, also dare to sentence me to death? I'm the protagonist, the world revolves around me!

When I restart, the entire Primordial Wilderness must be reset! What does that show? It shows that essentially I am superior to you!

The law of the jungle is 'survival of the fittest'; now I am both a protagonist innately superior to you by a head, and a powerhouse wielding absolute strength.

In that case, what right do you have to judge me?! After all, this originally fairly normal mindset of Xue Xiaohei directly veered off the path……

However, this change of his is actually quite normal……

Zhao Si's mouth twitched: after all, he wasn't mentally mature to begin with, plus he had died horribly, there was great terror between life and death, this kid, before dying, bit people like a rabid dog, first cursing the village enemies, then cursing officials and emperors, and even cursing landlords and merchants he had no connection with.

Even to the point of cursing the retired heavenly emperors of the Heavenly Court—Xuan Du, Jin Bing, Di Jun—not one escaped, each got a mouthful……

Anyway, it's just wildly expanding the scope of attack! Moreover, this kid started with an atomic bomb; overwhelming power, dark experience, one-sided thinking—three factors combined directly gave birth to Xue Xiaohei's heaven-defying life philosophy.

But, although everyone restarts their lives, what Jiao Ming realized is: the next life is false, this life is true, each lifetime is a different individual.

So he wants to cherish every person in the present; for this he is willing to give up infinite future restarts, even self-sacrifice, just to save as many people of this lifetime as possible.

And you……

Zhao Si couldn't hold back: "Others have grasped the Holy Dao, but you—you've grasped the Demonic Dao!"

Because I'm the protagonist, so you're all NPCs, your life and death mean nothing to me; whoever blocks me, I kill! This…… can only be said that extremists are truly extreme.

As for the answer……

Zhao Si looked at the two extreme options, didn't even think, and said: "Choose A!"

Although he isn't the goody-two-shoes type like Jiao Ming, his values are still upright; facing the protagonist heading down the wrong path, he naturally must pull him back onto the right way! 【Choosing option A is wrong; my life is the same as others', so I should cherish others' lives!】

【You seem to have realized: Exactly! I and others should be equal!】

【Although I possess saintly power capable of destroying the Primordial Wilderness, although I became an immortal in just three days.】

【Although I have 'another self' protecting me in the dark, although I can restart after death, although the world revolves around me, although after restarting all dead people will refresh and revive, although I am the protagonist……】

【But I should be equal to them!】

【You strive hard to convince yourself, but when you see that seven-colored little bird perched on your arm, all arguments for equality are as feeble as ever……】

【Equality?】

【You call this equality?】

【On what basis should I be equal to others?!】

【You can't help but ask your own heart: '……Is this really equality?】

【Your heart tells you: equality, but only a little; you can infinitely restart, so……】

【You suddenly realize: Fine! I'll be equal once!】

【Thus, in a state of extreme 'guilt' and 'self-blame', you chose self-detonation!】

【You died, the wrong choice led to a bad ending…… From your restart divine ability you fully realized: Anyway I can restart, so even if I killed someone, I could just set a save point and then self-detonate and restart, right?】

【Each life is indeed equal, so I still have a second life; as for the first life, let it compensate you dead people……】

【Should time be reversed, returning to a previous life node?】

Zhao Si: ……

You damn…… really are a freaking genius! Zhao Si was dumbfounded; he'd never seen such an operation before:

Life and life are naturally equal; killing warrants death, it's only right.

So I choose self-detonation to pay with my life!

But I can restart, so I still have a second life!

What? Still not equal? Ridiculous, one life for one life—why should my two lives have to compensate yours?

Either you acknowledge life's equality, and I'll die once to offset your life.

Or you think your life is nobler than others', so one of your lives offsets N of mine—but then you'd become an active destroyer of the 'life equality' ideal, a heaven-defying person!

……'Freaking genius!' Zhao Si strained for half a day, only able to utter 'Freaking genius!' This Xue Xiaohei, although only eight, already figured out the system's restart function as soon as he started……

Can only say, no wonder he's the protagonist! 'How come Jiao Ming isn't this clever? If Jiao Ming played like this, he'd probably clear the first round without any psychological burden……'

Zhao Si complained, but facing the game's restart notification, he still clicked confirm: 'Yes, time reversal!'

【Time has already been reversed……】

【……You doubt your own existence and others' life value, so you have to ask your 'other self' for answers, hoping to obtain a guiding light; you choose: (?)】

【A: This is wrong; my life is the same as others', so I should cherish others' lives! B: This is correct; I am the protagonist, others are NPCs, whoever blocks me dies!】

……"Choose B。"

Only option B remains; if we kept choosing A, Xue Xiaohei would probably keep self-detonating and restarting until he got a satisfactory answer……

With no other choice, Zhao Si could only watch helplessly as this kid who understood the system walked into extremism: 【Choosing option B is correct; I am the protagonist, others are NPCs, whoever blocks me dies!】

【You laughed heartily, having obtained this answer, you were finally satisfied……】

【Since you already compensated the dead with one death, you now have no psychological burden; regarding the mountain village tragedy below, you didn't even glance, turned and flew away.】

【The night was silent; from now on, no one will ever know that beneath this peaceful yellow earth and stones lies a small village of over thirty people……】

【……】

【From that day on, your mindset completely twisted; the guilt of killing, for you, can be erased by self-detonation and restart, needing no psychological burden.】

【But this doesn't mean you instantly become a wanton killer and arsonist, an ultimate newborn……】

Your definition of yourself is: a person, you can kill, anyone is the same, you can kill anyone! In any case, after killing, just leave a save point; self-destruct and restart.

However, being able to kill doesn't mean you should kill indiscriminately; you think: those who haven't offended you, you cannot kill; those you can kill are only those who have offended you.

Holding this thought, for the first time in your life you actively walked out of the mountain village...

Your first stop is the place where you previously encountered the immortal!

That vicious immortal gave you poisonous pastries, accidentally poisoning your grand-uncle to death; you must avenge this, both for yourself and for the innocent grand-uncle.

Now you have the cultivation of a true immortal, although in the ancient era when the Immortal Dao flourished, even the Heavenly Court's troops required each to be a heavenly immortal on average, and elite units each a mysterious immortal on average—your true immortal cultivation isn't even fit to be cannon fodder...

But, that was then, this is now!

Now the world has changed; you feel your true immortal cultivation is enough to be a local tyrant, so you're quite confident.

You think: it's only been a few days; your parents and younger brother should still have a chance of survival; if you beat that immortal to death, perhaps there's still hope to save them...

Clinging to the last shred of hope, you quickly arrived at the place where that immortal had appeared, and began a careful search, trying to find any clue.

Your search was meaningful; under the powerful divine sense of a true immortal, shortly you found several suspicious targets nearby.

Several people in yellow robes were sitting under a large tree nearby, chatting idly; one of them greatly surprised you, because he was precisely that "immortal"!

However, judging by your current knowledge, how could this be any kind of immortal? Clearly he's just a frail practitioner weaker than a true immortal—so weak it's unbelievable: how could he be this weak?

You have no doubt that a puff of your breath could reduce him to dust in an instant!

And those few others in yellow robes calling themselves "immortals" around him are much the same—pure trash...

Realizing the enemy were nothing but a bunch of weaklings, you didn't hesitate and slapped them on the spot!

But then an accident occurred!

Your intention was merely to capture them for interrogation, but unexpectedly, having just become a true immortal, even though you tried to hold back your strength, you still struck too hard, and with one slap you killed several on the spot...

The remaining person was also severely injured, taking your slap full force, left with only a breath of life!

Their extreme frailty caught you off guard; worried about your family, you immediately administered healing to the still-living person, a surge of immortal energy revived them instantly!

Seeing you had captured him, the sole surviving yellow-robed "immortal" was so frightened his soul almost flew out; without thinking, his knees buckled reflexively, and he slid into a kneel so smooth you yourself were stunned for a moment.

"Exalted immortal above! This lowly one, ignorant of Mount Buzhou, has offended the exalted immortal—deserving death, deserving death! I beg the exalted immortal's punishment; please do not harm your immortal form!"

The "immortal" kept berating himself while apologizing to you, seemingly unaware that you were the one who had just gravely injured him, and also seemingly unable to see the bloody corpses lying beside him.

Of course, it's also possible he saw everything and acted this way just now...

You:...

Seeing this scene for the first time, you couldn't help but stare; faced with that person's fawning smile while kneeling, you couldn't utter a word for a long time...

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(End of chapter)