Chapter 3835

"Third destiny..."

The doctor thought carefully:

"How about we each say a guess?"

Xia De nodded:

"Of course, then I'll go first—Promise."

The doctor shook his head:

"This should be impossible. I have never promised anything. Everything now is what I am willing to do myself. I think it should be 【Luck】, the destiny held by the unicorn Chosen One you mentioned."

Then he really saw Xia De cast a surprised look. The doctor explained:

"Detective, although my age can't compare to Priest Augustus, I am also over forty this year. From the ambition to study medicine in my youth, to throwing myself into the then-unregulated mental science research for various reasons in my youth, to later accidentally becoming a ring sorcerer, and surviving that accident."

"In the following ten years, I have been chasing various demons. When I was about to give up, I met you, and then in two years, I was close to the Eleventh Ring, and successfully used the hunter's power to balance the demon's power."

He asked Xia De:

"If this doesn't count as luck, then what can be called luck? I have walked all the way here, as if walking on a thin layer of ice on the lake at all times. Looking back now, I am surprised that I could walk so far."

Xia De still thought it was unlikely that the doctor would resonate with 【Luck】. He just thought the doctor was very open-minded and didn't complain about his experience at all.

"Destiny is two-sided. It gave you bad luck, of course, it will give you a life commensurate with bad luck."

He said so, listening to the sound of the waterfall behind him and continuing to move forward:

"Then let's guess Priest Augustus's destiny, shall we? Known to have resonated with 【Death】."

The doctor said with a smile again:

"Then I'm going to cheat—after going back that day, the priest told me that the 【Holiness】 in the hands of that Thirteenth-Ring sorceress with angel blood can also resonate with him."

Xia De nodded:

"Death and Holiness, right? Then I guess the third ring is... Mission."

Xia De had never discussed the priest's affairs with the doctor, but the doctor obviously understood some things now:

"Yes, mission, the mission of blowing the horn."

He shook his head again:

"Forget it, forget it, don't talk about this mood-destroying topic. Let's talk about recent things. You were invited to participate in the card game here under your real identity as Xia De Hamilton. The Church and the Society might not know the truth, but the Academy couldn't have not realized that except for you, the other four card players are all ordinary people.

Will this bring you trouble?"

Xia De shook his head with a smile. He had thought about this problem long ago:

"Don't worry, I have someone in the Academy. With that professor's help, the one who can really correspond my real identity to the Academy student should be Principal Professor Pigman, but I think the principal won't investigate the origin of this matter. After all, sometimes some things can't be made too clear."

"Understand. Then when do you plan to go back? Can you still participate in the group meeting next week?"

"The writer has already gone back to rush the manuscript. I will probably go back in two or three days. The diviner is not sure yet. She said there will be a training session afterward."

The doctor nodded:

"The group meeting has been delayed for two weeks. No matter what, it cannot be canceled next time. Everyone has applied for skipping grades this year, and there are more things in the summer exam week than originally. I don't know if this also counts as the two-sidedness of destiny."

"Everything in this world has two sides. Even the titles of the True Gods, aren't they two-sided?"

Xia De reminded. They were almost at the uphill place.

The doctor agreed very much with Xia De's statement:

"If this topic continues, it will become a discussion of philosophy. But the truth is indeed correct, gaining means losing."

Xia De started a joke:

"For example, someone gets a large sum of money, then he will lose the pain of being poor."

Both laughed. Not long after, passing by the temple door, Xia De turned his head and looked inside. There was no one in the temple today.

"Detective, do you think destiny is fair to everyone?"

The doctor asked again.

"Why suddenly ask such a question? I have always believed that destiny is fair."

Xia De replied, but the doctor walked in the shadow of the cliff wall and continued to ask:

"Since destiny is fair, why is it that some people are born nobles, live a life without worry about food and clothing, do all kinds of evil, but can live to seventy or eighty before dying; while some people are always hungry when they are born, and maybe leave early before they are ten years old."

Xia De didn't know if the doctor was testing himself, or if he was really thinking about this matter, but the outsider had his own answer:

"The unfairness of the starting point is indeed objectively existing. For example, little Beren, for example, little John, a boy I met in the trash alley behind the Green Lake Hotel. As for the examples of nobles who do all kinds of evil but are not punished, there are really too many, so I won't list them. This is the difference endowed by the era and cannot be chosen."

Xia De exhaled. Although there is now a feeling that spring is coming, the temperature on the top of the high mountain is still extremely low:

"What I want to say is that the fairness of acquired choices and actions is the universal right endowed by destiny. Despite different starting points, most people have the freedom to choose how to live, that is, how to use their own conditions, how to face difficulties, and how to accumulate abilities."

The two finally arrived at the slope leading to the cliff. Although there are steps under the thick snow, because no one cleaned them, this place is actually a snow slope.

The doctor shook his head:

"Are you trying to say that the embodiment of the relative fairness of destiny is that children in slums can obtain knowledge through diligence, and fallen nobles may also squander their family property due to laziness?

But this is only a possibility. Children in slums will likely die prematurely or continue to be poor, and no matter how fallen nobles are, they rarely have the same life as the poor."

Xia De nodded, touched the cat that poked its head out of his pocket, and put it on his shoulder by the way:

"What I want to say about the fairness of destiny is not that everyone can have the same result, but the self-consistency of cause and effect, that is, what you sow, you reap."

It was snowing again in the sky at this time, and dense snowflakes fell one after another while the two climbed the slope. The top of Fatumonster Snow Mountain will not be affected by seasonal changes. This place is always in a state of ice and snow.

So if the girls want to play in the snow later, they can come here anytime.

Walking past the snow slope, you can see the "Oracle Square" a hundred meters away. The Oracle Square in the snow has not changed much. In fact, even if Xia De didn't say it, the ring sorcerers of the Church, the Academy, and the Diviner Society had never come here again after the Battle of Destiny.

A god once fought here, mortals are in awe of this place, and are also worried about offending the gods, especially since one of them is the god of bad luck, so Xia De and the doctor were the first wave of people to come here after Emilia's coronation ceremony.

Xia De planned to simply block the entrance of the snow slope with "Moon Thorn" when leaving later. This of course couldn't stop people who really wanted to break in, this was just to show the attitude of the "God-Awakener".

"The diligent are likely to be rewarded, the opportunistic will eventually face risks, flipping a coin and getting heads is one-half, teasing an unfamiliar cat has a probability of being scratched on the back of the hand...

These laws of destiny are the same for everyone. This kind of fairness is not egalitarianism, but allowing everyone's behavior to get corresponding feedback."

Xia De explained it this way. The doctor also looked at the "Oracle Square". The square is now covered with a thin layer of snow, and the stone pillars surrounding the square are old and broken. No one can see that a god once descended here, Ellie connected unicorns here, a demigod witch stepped here, and thirteen girls sang to call back the falling moon.

"I almost understand. So you think the fairness of destiny lies in the fact that probability is equal for everyone?"

The doctor asked, and Xia De nodded:

"Yes, that's about what it means. Then what about you, doctor, what is your view on destiny?"

Bill Schneider replied:

"Let's use the sentence you often say to answer—destiny is a double-edged sword. I also believe that destiny is fair. The world is a big net, and every move of each of us is making the web of destiny tremble, and then in some moment in the future, we feel the rebound from destiny."

The two walked past the "Oracle Square" and walked toward the direction of "Saint's Cliff". Xia De thought of those stories of destiny again, thinking of everything he experienced locally:

"The long sword of killing eventually killed itself, the end of seeking secret treasures is voluntary abandonment, the obsession of thirsting for resurrection welcomed a fake, the result of destiny starting to flow is the coming of war, the truth of love is mutual torture, wanting to call back the falling moon is to abandon the qualification of being chosen.

Finally, in the competition of five people, the winner is the sixth person, but the players of the card game still got what they wanted."

Xia De showed a smile:

"The god of destiny 【Mr. Ring】 said it very clearly in the story, all gifts have a price. If you want to gain, you must first lose something, and deliberate pursuit may only welcome an unexpected ending."

"I don't know much about the god of destiny, but listening to your description, the drama that the god of destiny wants to appreciate is indeed interesting. It's just that these great existences can sit on the auditorium, watch the stories on the stage, and judge whether destiny is fair with time as the scale, but we mortals..."

The doctor pointed to himself:

"We usually can only see one side of destiny and years, and cannot see those more magnificent and gorgeous stories of destiny, coupled with the fact that many things are related to people's interests, so most people probably think that there is always that kind of favorite of destiny in the world."

On the road to Saint's Cliff, you can no longer see the traces of the coronation ceremony scene last week. After the ceremony was completed, Emilia turned back time to restore this place to its original state, so the two walked on the snow surface.

"Favorite of destiny~"

Xia De looked at the end of the cliff getting closer and closer in the snow:

"It's the kind of knight in knight stories who can always defeat the enemy no matter what setbacks he faces; the kind of man in court erotic novels who can always climb into a noblewoman's bed no matter what twists and turns he experiences."

"Well... although the second example is a bit vulgar, these are indeed the so-called favorites of destiny. From the perspective of a book or a story, destiny is indeed biased toward them, but if this is something that happens in the real world, and then stretch time toward the past and the future, then what destiny gave them is hard to say."

The doctor finally concluded:

"Or rather, you can ask like this—then, what is the price?"

?? PS: This volume ends in the next chapter. In the evening, besides the main text, there is also a volume-ending side story.