I'm a god in the infinite game

Chapter 435 Evil God Sacrifice Boat House

After the royal boat left, the cabin returned to silence, except for the occasional frightened sobbing of children and the ignorant barking of cats and dogs.

Cang Tai got a little black cat. He stood quietly behind Bai Liu for a long time before opening his mouth awkwardly and asking in a trembling voice: "Bai Liu, can you see Xiao Kui? She how's it going?"

With the help of the weak light, Bai Liu looked at Xiaokui on the lower bunk. Xiaokui was lying on the bed with disheveled hair, pulling the bandage around her wrist, stroking the one that was assigned to her vigorously one by one. ? The kitten's? head, the voice is hoarse and weak: "Good cat, so good."

"[Xiao Kui] is really good."

When Cang Tai heard Xiaokui's voice, he was silent for a while, almost indescribably looking at the little black cat in his arms, and loosened his hands tremblingly.

The little black cat raised its head in confusion, looked at the boy who didn't hug him tightly, and gave a soft mime.

Cang Tai turned his head cruelly, and he closed his eyes short of breath.

... So this is why these sacrifices get cats.

It is almost every child's dream to have a small animal that has the same name as their own and is very close to them.

But can't? That's right, it's too... painful.

This scares him a hundred times more than letting Cang Tai do coolies.

Seeing those two Xiaokui? When the kitten and the Shiba Inu died? At that time, they huddled on the bed and did not dare to make a sound? Hearing Xiaokui's heart-piercing screams, Cang Tai shivered, covered his ears and dared not Listen again.

The one that screamed so terribly that Cangtai almost thought he was dead? It wasn't the little animal, but Xiaokui herself.

He doesn't want to be the next "Xiaokui", so he'd better not have any feelings for these "pets" that were handed out, and it's best to separate now.

The next wave hit again, the cabin was bumped up, and everyone was hit by the waves and fell to one side. The little black cat's paws couldn't hold things steady, and it was about to slide down the bed in panic. Called twice.

The one who turned his head away? Cang Tai subconsciously turned his head in a panic: "Cang Tai!"

As soon as he stretched out his hand, he took the little black cat into his arms again and hugged it tightly.

When Cang Tai realized what he had done, he stared blankly at the little black cat tightly hugged by both hands, and tears fell down involuntarily.

...why is this happening.

Although it was just the first time they met, he really couldn't help but watch [Cang Tai] die.

In the dark cabin, many children cried and hugged their pets when the waves hit them, sobbing and shouting the same name as their own.

In the vast? sea, in the uncertain?painful journey, these? children? who are about to become sacrifices to evil gods? try to gain some kind of support? warmth from that soft and close? little animal, or be Human beings are domesticated, and love is given to them when they meet for the first time.

"You can't let go of the pets they handed out." The kid lying in front of him, the kid named Bai Liu, spoke flatly, "Before you know it When I call you by the same name, you won't be able to let go."

Cang Tai hugged the little black cat, sobbing and asking: "Why?"

Bai Liu continued calmly: "It's the same as you. It's all used by adults. It's an animal cub. It's all abandoned and sold. It's a single individual floating on the sea. They are all instruments that will be tortured to increase the pain."

"From various perspectives, you all share a common destiny? The same kind."

"In this world, you should have never met someone who is so friendly to your own kind. The kind you have met, or human beings, are all killing you, otherwise? You would not be trafficked to this ship. Under such conditions Now, you have met someone who will definitely like you after being carefully selected? 【Similar】, and you also share the same name. It is hard for you not to empathize with this animal cub. "

Bai Liu turned her head slightly, opened her eyelids and looked at the dazed Cangtai behind him: "—in other words, the cat in your hand is no longer a cat, but another one? Yourself, the other one. "One? Cang Tai."

"You can't watch it die? Just like you can't watch yourself die."

Cang Tai stared blankly at Bai Liu's dark eyes. Suddenly, he remembered those rumors, trembled, and opened his mouth hesitantly, as if he wanted to ask something, but in the end he remained silent. go down.

Bai Liu said calmly: "Do you want to ask now, if people feel empathy for another animal in the same predicament, why [I] in the orphanage will torture and kill animals, yes ?"

After a long time, Mrs. Cang took a hesitant look at the little white cat who was huddled in Bai Liu's arms and sleeping so loudly that her belly turned over. She explained: "Actually, I don't think so. You did it?, but I just don't understand, I mean if, if there's a rumored...someone like you, why would he do it?"

Bai Liu was quiet for a while, and then said: "There is a very important point in empathy judgment, which is empathy."

"First of all, you must feel that the other party has the same emotional relationship with you. For example, when you and the black cat in your arms were in the same predicament, they both had emotions such as pain, fear, and fear. At this time You will feel that it is your kind, and then you will empathize, and then achieve the purpose of empathy."

"However, if a person suffers from any kind of incident, his emotions are different from those of the people around him, even animals. If the emotions are different, he will have no way to empathize, naturally. Impossible too? Empathy."

"If there is no commonality in emotions, he will not feel that he is of the same kind as the people around him. For things that are not of the same kind, people will not feel pain when they harm them."

"He is the same as us. We are all children who grew up in the orphanage." Cang Tai arched towards Bai Liu, and asked in puzzlement from the bottom of his heart, "Why can't he do anything? What kind of emotion? Is it because the brain is different from ours?"

"I personally don't think so." Bai Liu said lightly, "Because many people with normal minds can empathize before they have the ability to exploit others."

"Just like Mr. Mifune just now, he should be the magistrate of Luming County that Xiaokui said. He sounded like a good person before, right? Xiaokui should be good, but now he completely lacks empathy for Xiaokui , did not treat Xiaokui as a living person at all, but as a sacrifice."

Cang Tai was stunned? He asked lightly: "...Really? Ah, why is this happening?"

"I think it's because of desire." Bai Liu continued to explain in a flat tone, "When a person desires too much and sees any living creature, the first thing he feels is not a sense of similarity, but a sense of exploitation."

"Extreme desires will make people imagine that they are in a huge social food chain, and other people are also in the food chain with them, then they will only have two judgments on the people around them, and they can exploit them Their?, and what they can exploit."

"The things they can exploit are low-level animals like kittens and dogs, and the things that can exploit them are the supreme gods."

"In their world, the weak eat the strong, the fittest survive, and human nature is inherently evil. People are born to cannibalize the same kind below the food chain to increase their assets and value. They take it for granted that empathy is a sign of weakness. Because beasts don't empathize with their prey."

Cang Tai asked weakly: "But we are humans, we are not beasts."

Bai Liu paused: "If a person stays in the food chain of self-desire for a long time, will he turn from a human into a beast, or even a monster?"

"Only desires? Humans can eat people?"

Cang Tai fell into a creepy sluggishness, he suddenly repeated Bai Liu's words: "Cannibal...?"

From the lower berth came Xiaokui's nervousness? She chuckled absentmindedly twice, and she murmured: "Xiaokui, Maomao, you are so good."

The wind and waves on the sea finally stopped, and the large ship carrying a boat of sacrifices from Bai Liu and the others docked at the port of Luming County on a sunny afternoon.

The imperial boat stood neatly at the port, holding a stick made of bamboo in his hand, looking down at the sacrifices who lined up from the cabin with their heads lowered, their feet weak, and their faces weak.

The sacrificial offerings are all under 15 years old? Children, just sensible? Still a little ignorant? State, is Luming County's favorite? Sacrifice age.

Bai Liu is considered big inside, almost seventeen, normally there shouldn't be such a big sacrifice, because it's not easy to train, but he is thin and small, and his face looks like he's only fifteen Left and right, that's why it was successfully sold here.

These "sacrifices" who have experienced the storm are all clinging to the "little animals" in their arms. Some "children" are still very weak, but they don't care, and they just throw themselves into their arms. on animals.

They repeatedly checked the paws of the puppies and kittens, put their faces on their bellies, and felt whether they were breathing up and down. While checking, they burst into tears, but they dared not say a word. She didn't dare to ask the people around her for help, she just lowered her head and cried silently.

Yufune looked at the tearful sacrifices and nodded in satisfaction, then nodded once: "Go and help them heal their pets and send them to their houseboat."

Bai Liu took a look out of the corner of his eye. He saw that many children were afraid of this Mifune even because of what happened to Xiaokui before, but also because of Mifune's command. It lights up once.

How many more? The child said in a low voice: "Thank you, Mifune-sama."

15 years old is the age when the concept of right and wrong has not yet formed. Many children seem to have grown up in a cramped and abnormal environment. It is estimated that they have insufficient knowledge of the world.

It's too easy to deceive.

Yufuan slowed down his expression: "You children are all good children, love animals, love relatives and friends, and have rich emotions. I am very satisfied."

"I know you were very scared when you saw me teaching Xiaokui a lesson on the boat, but what I have to say here is that Xiaokui is a bad boy!"

Yufune's expression suddenly sank, he held his cane and slammed it on the ground: "She doesn't like small animals, she failed the priest inspection several years ago, and even beat and injured her attendants and The dog got away from us, a ? very bad? girl!"

"We will naturally not be very friendly to such a bad child. I hope everyone will not learn from Xiaokui and strive to be a good child. We will treat you very well."

All the children turned their heads to look at Xiao Kui standing motionlessly among the offerings. She didn't seem to notice this. The children looked at her and became repellent and vigilant. They still hugged the cat numbly. stand there.

Mifune withdrew his eyes from Xiaokui, and then fell on the group of sacrificial children who were looking up at him:

"The place where you live is called the houseboat. It's on a coast not far from here. You can see the sea every day when you wake up. It's a very beautiful place."

"But before you get to the houseboat, there is one small thing you need to do."

Mifune said: "I need you two to become good friends, and then one of them will be the other's attendant, and the other will be the sacrificial offering."

His eyes became dark:

"Children who have become sacrifices, you can enjoy the best? Everything in Luming County, food, clothing, travel, education, and even your? Pets can enjoy the best? Treatment, and then No one dares to harm them."

"We will choose for you the most famous? People from the big family in Luming County to be your adoptive parents. You are the most noble? Beings in Luming County, above all ordinary people, and if you Can you successfully provide the pain of a round of sacrifice at the evil god sacrifice, after that, you will enjoy all of this forever."

All the children's eyes couldn't help showing longing.

"But the child who became a servant." Mifune's tone became pity, "It's just a servant."

"—It's the same as your previous life. You are just a servant who will be abandoned at any time."

"If your good friends don't like you or don't need you someday." Mifune smiled kindly, "We will send you back."

"But leave your pets here."