Chapter 3

Thinking about the reason for the slaughter of the human race, Zhao Si also opened the input board, pondered the wording slightly, and then seriously wrote down his strategy:

Faced with the Heavenly Court's edict to slaughter humans, you decide (first find someone to ask why they are slaughtering humans)

After entering a short sentence, he then clicked confirm.

The phone screen flickered a few times, as if the system was parsing and simulating his decision; Zhao Si anxiously waited two or three seconds, and the new information finally refreshed:

You, in a vague way, grasped the crux of the problem, really wanting to satisfy your curiosity, but you dared not offend your father king face-to-face, so you privately asked a few familiar brothers and sisters; seeing you young and ignorant, Brother No. 250 earnestly answered your doubts……

Brother No. 250: It should be because the human race is extremely barbaric!

Barbaric?

Speaking of this, Brother No. 250 wore a look of disgust and said: 'I've heard that humans often relieve themselves upstream of rivers, yet drink downstream; their living quarters are often filthy with waste, mixing food and filth, truly barbaric……'

On the contrary, at this moment the demon race is the only high-quality species in the wilderness……

I am the youngest son of the East Sea Golden Flood Dragon King; today I am honored to write you a letter, because of your order concerning the slaughter of the human race……

Having understood this, you made up your mind and decided to submit a memorial in your private name to the Heavenly Emperor to admonish him; after all, you are still young, as long as you do not publicly utter heretical statements, with the Heavenly Court's 'Minor Demon Protection Law' in place, the Heavenly Emperor will not punish you.

Zhao Si: ……

You failed, but you also saw that your father actually did not want to start the slaughter; this shows that the enthusiasm of all demon races for this edict is likewise low, merely compelled by the Heavenly Emperor's edict, so they dare not oppose.

As it turns out, all demon races under heaven are ancient peoples that have multiplied since the opening of heaven and earth; over the long ages, each lineage that has survived to the present has created its own civilization.

Upon seeing the new information, Zhao Si, who was still pondering the human race matter, hurriedly intervened:

Answer: One should tolerate the human race; the Heavenly Dao possesses the virtue of cherishing life—how could one, because of a momentary barbarism, crudely decide the life and death of a race?

"This isn't just like a savage, is it… No, this actually really is a savage."

Forget it, forget it; a person under the eaves must bow his head—what else can I do? Of course I must comply!

Under the dual effect of personal safety and gaming curiosity, Zhao Si could only suppress his impatience, first recalling the feeling of his senior year of high school when his knowledge peaked, then taking a deep breath, and began writing an electronic essay on the handwriting screen in his best state:

《A Letter to the Heavenly Emperor Grandfather》

Having heard this astonishing news, you instinctively formed an extremely poor impression of the human race you had never met; such barbarians useless to the demon race might as well be slaughtered……

The more you thought, the more you felt that the way to commence slaughter was wrong; thus you went to see your father, the Golden Flood Dragon King, face to face, explained this principle to him, hoping he could advise the Heavenly Court against its slaughter order.

So what do you choose? ()

This can certainly be explained by Nüwa inputting the ability of innate knowledge when she molded humans, but a paradox arises: if the human race is born knowing everything, with every person a sage from the womb, then what need is there for the later Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors?

Isn't the function of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors precisely to gradually raise the human race's level of civilization? If you already know everything from birth, what use is this? In that case, humans would have reached the interstellar hegemony era eighty thousand years ago……

In short, the Heavenly Court has deep foundations, having created a splendid civilization over countless eons, thus it proclaims itself highly civilized!

And what about the human race?

Recalling other versions of the human race, basically they are pinched into existence already knowing everything—understanding ethics and morality, as well as language and writing; each individual speaks of civilization and sets new trends, with extremely high average quality, even higher than modern people in real society.

As for whether he can persuade Di Jun, Zhao Si dares not guarantee it; anyway, he has already done his best, and if it really fails, he can only start over……

Brother No. 250: I've heard that the human race was created by the goddess Nüwa with great supernatural powers, having no foundation, little education, not knowing why they are born nor why they die, muddled and confused, like wild beasts.

After the Heavenly Court established its cauldron, Di Jun further came to command all myriad demons of the wilderness, holding the Hetu and Luoshu to have the various heavenly officials oversee the celestial phenomena, ordering all kinds of earth deities to arrange the mountains and rivers, Taiyi then presides over the Eastern Emperor Bell, regulating the measurement of years, meetings, and fortunes; when the bell rings, time begins, and the Kunpeng then creates the demon script, making the writing of all demons unobstructed……

After all, they are a race pinched out of thin air by Nüwa, a genuine 'genetically cloned barbaric person,' possessing no civilizational foundation whatsoever.

Zhao Si felt he was about to use all the writing techniques he had learned as a child; if graded, he would surely give himself full marks, a pity this thing is not under his control.

"At first it was multiple choice, then fill-in-the-blank short answer, and now we finally have an essay, right?"

For example, the dragon race, titled the leader of the water tribe, once in ancient times held dominion over a third of the wilderness, created dragon script, established canons, understood ethics, could forge weapons and concoct medicines, could discern celestial phenomena, and transmitted various schools of doctrine in an orderly manner.

Written with sincere feeling and solid reasoning, fully expressing his immature view from the perspective of a kind little demon not deeply versed in worldly affairs, the whole piece brims with 'benevolence,' 'kindness,' 'universal love,' various truths, goodness, and beauty, striving to match the character setting.

"Please write an essay entitled 'A Letter to the Heavenly Emperor Grandfather,' requiring no deviation from the topic, reasonable arguments, logical coherence, and over eight hundred characters; the system will automatically convert it into the common demon script: ()"

So, if the wilderness still needs to discuss some logic, then the setting for the newborn human race must pay attention to this—namely, the quality of this group of humans should not be much higher than that of southern archaic humans, and is even more absurd than the 'Third Brother,' 'Black Brother,' and 'Cannibal Brother' of modern underdeveloped regions.

"Respected Heavenly Emperor Grandfather, greetings:"

Zhao Si: Ah?

Zhao Si almost didn't react in time:

After clicking to upload the strategy, the phone screen flickered a few more times, then displayed new text:

At this moment, the wilderness is certainly not a scene of 'you eat me, I eat you' barbarism; the civilization and order of the wilderness are also absolutely not created by the human race, this 'genetically cloned organism' only recently molded by Nüwa.

Such is the background of the wilderness; at least in the wilderness setting, the human race ought not to be the light of civilization, and compared to the demon race Heavenly Court that has developed over hundreds or thousands of eons, primitive humans better fit the label of 'barbarians,' indeed they could be called a 'civilization black hole.'

"You:?!?!?"

"How absurd?!"

Dumbfounded, Zhao Si could hardly imagine that the early human race in this version of the wilderness was actually so heaven-defying!

Playing a game, I still have to review the entire college entrance exam, specially writing an essay; if it weren't……

"Your father king was astonished that you, so young, actually possessed such clear-headed thoughts, but he shook his head and rebuked you: 'You're not the eldest crown prince; it's not your turn to worry!'"

"Illiterate, inarticulate, merely howling like a high ape; when hungry they seize food, when thirsty they seize drink; if a female demon passes by, they shout loudly and even attempt to gang up to seize female demons for open-air mating……"

"Hope Di Jun can find time to glance at it; otherwise I would have written all these words in vain—I've been out of school five years and still haven't written an essay!"

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(End of chapter)