Chapter 2 The Hidden Third Option
Zhao Si: …

"What, dead again?"

Zhao Si stared at the screen of his mobile phone, and he almost felt numb. So no matter whether the protagonist was killed or not, he would die, right? Then why did you give me two options?

Destroy it!
At this moment, the familiar message popped up again:
[Can we go back in time and regain the option? ]

"Why go back? Aren't there only two options..."

After muttering a few words, Zhao Si, who was threatened by the supernatural events, reached out and clicked [Yes].

The page refreshed, and this branch was completely erased, revealing two familiar choices... No!
Zhao Si looked at it in surprise, only to see that the two original options of "kill" or "not kill" had disappeared:
[You have experienced two future branch plots in succession, and the results were not satisfactory. Therefore, you realized that extreme thinking will inevitably lead to destruction, and successfully triggered the hidden option. ]

[When faced with the tribe's behavior of slaughtering people in accordance with the imperial edict, please freely enter your choice ()]

Free input?

Zhao Si was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized:
"I see. The multiple-choice questions have become fill-in-the-blank short-answer questions, right?"

Wouldn't it have been better if it had been like this earlier? There were only two options before, and both were extreme choices that made no sense at first glance: either surrender and kneel down to become a demon, or go with the flow and become the King of the West. They were too extreme. Players should have been allowed to write their own strategies a long time ago!

"During the heyday of the demon race, I advocated being a bootlicker for the human race who was born only a few years ago. Regardless of how the human race views me, it would be strange if my cheap father didn't cut ties with me. This is a completely unrealistic way to die."

"If we follow the crowd, we will inevitably invite extreme revenge from the human race in the future. With racial revenge in mind, the human race slaughtered the demon race in a way that went against the will of heaven. They slaughtered 70% of the creatures, and used the main purpose of killing all nine clans. Even the neutral factions opposed the slaughter, and the demon race completely engraved hatred for the human race into their blood. Even the herbivorous animals became spirits and wanted to eat humans..."

After reading the two branches, Zhao Si had a preliminary understanding of the whole massacre incident:
"The cause was that the Demon Court suddenly issued an edict to massacre the human race, which made the human race hate it."

"Then the witch tribe used this incident to denounce the demon tribe for defying heaven and carrying out a massacre, claiming to be righteous, and took the opportunity to become independent from the demon tribe, which angered the demon court and triggered the witch-lich war. The high-level officials of the two tribes were exhausted, giving the human race the opportunity to counterattack."

"In the end, the human race took the opportunity to counterattack, occupied the Heavenly Palace, trampled on the bones of the nobles, burned them into ashes, and ascended to the position of the protagonist of the world. However, they were extremely vengeful and wantonly implicated others, regardless of whether they had killed anyone or not, and only convicted people based on their bloodline. Almost all the demon tribes, big and small, were wiped out, killing the demon tribes in the future. The demon tribes naturally hated the human race, and the descendants of the two tribes repeated the killing cycle countless times..."

"The Six Saints played the role of bystanders in the whole incident. They did not personally intervene to take sides, but for some reason they protected the vulnerable human race, giving the human race time and space to accumulate strength and eventually succeed in rebelling against the heavens and destroying the demons... No, the Six Saints should have intervened, or at least indirectly took sides."

Zhao Si recalled the last few paragraphs of the second branch. The Taoist holding the scroll that the protagonist saw before his death, judging from the black and white fish chasing each other on the scroll, is most likely the innate treasure "Tai Chi Diagram" of the Taiqing Saint, and the identity of the Taoist holding the scroll is about to be revealed:
"Xuandu?"

Among Taiqing's disciples, the only Taoist who is qualified to obtain the Tai Chi diagram, apart from the saint himself, should be him, and Xuandu is probably of human origin, so he has reason to join the war.

In this way, Saint Taiqing not only accepted the human race as his disciple, but also spent a lot of effort to train him into a person with great supernatural powers, and even allowed him to use the Tai Chi diagram. If this is not considered biased, then Zhao Si doesn't understand what biased is.

Since Saint Taiqing indirectly took sides, did the other five saints take action?

They should have participated, especially Nuwa, the biological mother of the human race. Even if she personally went down to help her children kill hundreds of heavenly demon saints, Zhao Si would not find it strange. After all, her biological mother...

The more Zhao Si thought about it, the more confused he became. He felt like he was playing a puzzle game. All the descriptions in the game copy could be used as clues to interpret the answer to the puzzle, and the puzzle that needed to be solved at the moment just happened to be attributed to the cause of the whole incident:
"Then the question is, why does Emperor Jun have such deep hostility towards a race that was born only a few years ago, to the point that he would rather offend the already sage Nuwa, would rather be accused of wantonly slaughtering innocent people, shake the legitimacy of the Heavenly Court's rule, and give the Wu Clan an excuse to become independent, but he is still willing to slaughter people?"

Zhao Si is also a big fan of the Honghuang online novel. He has been reading the novel since he was a child. He knows the basic plot and settings of Honghuang by heart. As for the question of why the demons slaughtered people, the answers given in different versions of Honghuang settings are different:

Some say that it is because the human race is dominated by natural treasures, which attracts the coveted monsters, so they start slaughtering. Others say that it is because the human race is weak, and the monsters are all socialists, so the weak do not deserve to live.

Others say that it is because destiny cannot be violated, and the human race is destined to be born, and they must slaughter a lot in order to become the protagonist...

Anyway, Zhao Si felt that none of the above reasons were right, because the Heavenly Court was originally a symbol of the demon race’s establishment of a high level of civilization and order. It was a class power institution, and with the demon race as its basic population, it meant that it had no racial or ethnic attributes at all, because "demon" was not a specific race.

For example, wolf demons are members of the demon clan, and sheep demons are also members of the demon clan. It is well known that it is natural for wolves to eat sheep, but will the Heavenly Court allow wolf demons to eat sheep demons at will? Obviously not, because they are both "demons", belong to the demon clan, and are the basic base of the Heavenly Court. Demons eating demons is like people eating people. No matter what the Heavenly Law stipulates, this is impossible to be allowed, at least not on the surface.

Wolves and sheep are completely different from dragons and birds, but they can all be classified as monsters. So what about humans? Do humans also meet the definition of monsters? The answer is yes. Humans and other beast monsters are essentially monsters, so humans are also a kind of "monster". To think that humans are not monsters or are superior to monsters is actually a mistake of human supremacy.

So, apart from the slight possibility that Di Jun slaughtered people because he had cerebral palsy, there was no reason for the Heavenly Court to slaughter the newly born human race, unless...

"Unless there is some reason that caused Emperor Jun to expel the human race from the list of demons, classify the human race as non-citizens, and believe that the human race is a great threat to the Heavenly Court and all demons, and therefore ordered the massacre of the human race."

Zhao Si thought:

"The regime itself is not racial, and will not target a certain group simply because of race. Generally speaking, only when the interests of that group conflict with the interests of the regime's base will the ruling party or the public deliberately target them."

For example, the massacre of the Junggar by the Qing Dynasty was also due to the fact that the Junggar had repeatedly launched military invasions against the Qing Dynasty, which conflicted with the Qing Dynasty's established strategy of unifying Tibet and Xinjiang, and it had angered Emperor Qianlong himself many times.

Of course, the above does not include the truly idiotic. After all, there are indeed leaders and regimes who enjoy killing people...

However, as the founder of the Heavenly Court, Di Jun also classified all races as demons. As the basic foundation of the Heavenly Court, this is obviously not the pattern that a cerebral palsy should have. At least the basic social order can be guaranteed in the prehistoric world under his governance.

Because the human race was created by natural resources and treasures, or because the human race is weak, should we start slaughtering them?
This reason may not be sufficient for Di Jun.

Similarly, there is no reason for Emperor Jun to be intolerant of the witch clan. Some prehistoric versions of the universe portray witches and monsters as naturally opposed to each other, which is actually a form of racism.

Because when Emperor Jun treated all races equally, the Wu Clan still insisted on opposing him. This could only prove that the Twelve Ancestral Witches were ambitious and rebellious people who were plotting rebellion, or that the common people of the Wu Clan were the "superior people" with their nostrils longer than their heads. They were not happy when someone was willing to treat them equally, so they wanted to bully everyone else.

Then, it would be too righteous for the Heavenly Court to wipe out the "Witch Clan's anti-living bandits" who are splitting up, separatist, and oppressing all living beings. The war between witches and demons will directly become a war to suppress the rebellion with the right time, place, and people all in the hands of the demons...

Therefore, Zhao Si is very satisfied with the setting of this version of prehistoric world: "The witches rebelled against heaven because the human race was massacred for no reason, and then the war between witches and demons broke out." This makes sense!

In this way, the classic old version of the prehistoric setting that "the demons slaughtered humans in order to refine the witch-killing sword" has lost its rationality, because the witches rebelled because the humans were slaughtered.

"So, why the massacre?"

The more he thought about it, the more interested Zhao Si became. He really wanted to unravel the reason behind the setting of this "Honghuang Simulator" game. This was not only because of the personal threat from the supernatural events, but also out of his curiosity.

He admitted that he really enjoyed playing this small game that he downloaded casually.

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(End of this chapter)