Chapter 375 The sun illuminates itself!

[The advice from the monkey made you, who was originally full of enthusiasm and thought that your future was bright, suddenly fall into silence...]

【"I……"】

[You opened your mouth and asked your own question with a complicated mood: Why? ]

[You don't understand, what's wrong with your current achievements? According to your idea, you have found a way out. As long as the mortals can be self-reliant, then even if you can't find a perfect way to pass the level in the future, it will be enough to create an acceptable ending... What's wrong with this? ]

[“The master said.”]

[The monkey saw that you were distraught, so he paused, trying not to irritate you: "This is because the ancient times are real, and anything that contradicts the ancient times is naturally false."]

[“In the ancient times, the sun was made of the essence of the sun transformed from Pangu’s left eye, but the sun you replaced is a strange thing without any divine power or Taoism... It is seriously contrary to the ancient times and is the most false product!”]

【false?】

[“As long as it goes against the ancient times, it is fake?”]

[You frowned: "It's the truth I got from outside the domain... It can't be fake!"]

[At this point, you are very confident: the structural theory of this new sun that is constantly gushing out light and heat comes from the world of "another self", which is so real that it cannot be more real, even more real than the prehistoric world! ]

[How could this be fake! ]

【But the monkey's answer makes you fall into deep thought: "I know your truth, benefactor, but the dream world is ultimately a dream of the sage of the prehistoric world, so its authenticity is based on the prehistoric world. The more similar it is to the prehistoric world, the more real it is, and vice versa, the more fake it is... This will never change."】

[“Now that my benefactor has brought the great way from outside the realm to the sentient beings in the dreamland, the dreamland is becoming less and less like the prehistoric world. The difference between the two worlds will become greater and greater until it has nothing to do with the prehistoric world!”]

[“By then, even if the dream world that has deviated from the primitive times can still exist, the ancestors’ wonderful cultivation methods will no longer be of any use…”]

[The monkey explained helplessly.]

[“It’s just changing the sun, how can it be so scary!”]

[You gritted your teeth. Although you agree with the monkey's theory of truth and falsehood, you still don't believe it, and you don't want to believe that the change of the sun can cause such a huge impact! ]

[But the monkey shook his head: "It's not just the sun... You educate sentient beings to think that the sun is just an ordinary substance, which is of course nothing."]

[“But the so-called “Elements” course you taught them is extremely harmful and can shake the foundation of the world!”]

[“You said that the world is made up of various elements, and you also explained the specific properties and structures of these elements. Then when all living beings unanimously believed this, the world really became like this... But the dream world is not originally made up of elements..."]

[It sighed, "What you have done is no less than a complete transformation of the heaven and earth... Changing the sun and the moon is just foreplay. In the future, if all living beings are united, they will even really change the heaven and earth!"]

[“You are truly controlling all living beings, allowing them to dare to change the sun and the moon into a new sky…”]

[After these words came out, you were stunned and said: "Didn't you say before that only the patches made of the power of the sun and the moon would be changed by the power of the thoughts of all living beings? Why are you saying now that the entire world will be changed?"]

[Aren’t these words contradictory?! ]

[The monkey spread his hands and said helplessly: "The sun and the moon are indeed patches made of divine power, but the heaven and earth themselves are not real matter... After all, this is a dream, so everything in the dream is made up of the will of the saint."]

[“In essence, the world is a huge divine creation... In the past, the thoughts of sentient beings could only affect patches, but after you completely shook the foundation of the world, the authority of sentient beings has become infinitely close to that of the original ancestors. Their thoughts can naturally affect everything between heaven and earth..."]

[“As long as there are enough people, then the words will follow the law and the mind will be more important than things, and it will no longer be empty words.”]

[“In other words, as the continuation of the will of the saint, all living beings have regained the power and authority that should have belonged to them, and can rewrite the world at will like the saint!”]

[This series of thunderous information shocked you for a long time.]

[But the monkey didn't stop, and worriedly told you the most fatal news...]

[“The most important thing is, benefactor…”]

[It said sadly: "When all living beings really use their mind power to change the current dream world into a material world, and there is no trace of divine power in the world, then myths and legends will all disappear."]

[“People will no longer be able to offer incense and offerings, monks will no longer be able to become gods, and even true gods will no longer be immortal... By then, you will really die of old age!”]

[“Once you die, the Great Desolation and the Dream World will naturally perish as well…”]

[It pleads.]

[“My benefactor, please save the wilderness! Save the dreamland! Save all living beings! Save yourself…”]

【…】

[You are in a state of confusion you have never experienced before. ]

[“Am I destroying the world?”]

【You mutter to yourself.】

[Of course you don't want to believe this, but the words of Bodhi Patriarch relayed by the monkey are indeed clear and logical and can withstand scrutiny.]

[If you really continue to do it according to the original plan, then these problems and speculations will sooner or later become reality and be placed coldly in front of you! ]

[So... do you want to continue? ]

[You can’t find the answer in your confused heart...]

[Ding! Facing this cold and terrible future, you are trapped in the most difficult and struggling you have ever experienced in three lives... What should you choose? If you choose to keep going, you will die. If you choose to stop at the brink, you will still die. And your death is not just your own business, but a major event for the whole world. 】【Standing at this point, you can't see the way forward, nor the way back. There is no bright spot in front, behind, left, right, up, or down... Struggling with the dilemma, you finally handed this crucial decision to "another self". 】

[You are mentally prepared to face everything in silence. No matter what the "other self" chooses, you will accept it... and you can only accept it. ]

[After all, you know very well that even Zhao Si can't make any constructive suggestions to you. There are only two roads, and they both lead to death. Now handing the decision of death to him is a way for you to escape, and even more a cowardice...]

【Your choice: (?) Please answer freely! 】

It’s a choice that will lead to death, and you ask me?

Zhao Si was stunned:

"What...what should I do?"

Lin Liu's evasive question left Zhao Si at a loss as to what to do.

What else can I do? No matter which way I go, it's a dead end!
"If we continue to push the materialization of the dream world, we will deviate further from the basic setting of the primitive world, and thus become more and more false. There will no longer be the possibility of refining the false into the true and transcending to the primitive world... What's more terrible is that in the pure material world without the existence of divine power, there will be no immortality, and Lin Liu is no exception..."

“And if the materialization of heaven and earth is stopped, then there will still be no possibility of communication between the dream world and the prehistoric world. No matter how long Lin Liu is stuck, it will be useless… and if materialization is actively denied, it will be tantamount to going backwards. In the end, we won’t even be able to provide reliable solar energy, and there will be no way for the human world to be self-reliant…”

With such a hellish situation, it is no wonder that Lin Liu chose to escape.

"If you can't make up your mind, let me do it...Okay!"

Zhao Si muttered a few words and began to think of a strategy. After all, he was not the person involved. No matter what choice he made or what result he got, he, as a game player, would not suffer any substantial loss.

However, Zhao Si still cared about the physical and mental health of the simulated protagonist to some extent, and planned to give him a strategy that was easier for him to accept:

"First of all, the arrow is on the string and has to be shot. All the previous efforts have brought us the material sun today. If we choose to go backwards, not to mention the time and energy, just how to go backwards is a big problem!"

The sun has been materialized, and the sun god has been killed by Pangu's power. No divine power is left. It is impossible to reverse the car.

"Secondly, even if Lin Liu drove the car back, what would happen? Without a stable material sun, will we have to repeat the same mistakes in the future and create a Shinto civilization?"

"Finally, if Lin Liu drove the car back, how would he explain this to others? Say that he had been lying before? Say that the world made of elements was just a scam? Say that everyone should continue to maintain the low-productivity life of ancient times in the future?"

If Lin Liu really did this, Li Ziliang, who had worked in vain, would definitely turn against him, and the billions of people who had wasted several generations and hundreds of years would also criticize him as a fool. No matter how great the favor was, it would not be able to maintain loyalty...

"So, you must never drive in reverse!"

Zhao Si frowned:
"But there is no way to go further..."

If we keep moving forward, won’t the future still be death?

Zhao Si thought carefully for a long time, and suddenly he had an idea:
"No... this is not the right question!"

Could it be that Lin Liu couldn't understand such a simple truth?

Following this line of thought, Zhao Si gradually realized:

"Lin Liu's question wasn't really asking me... He already had his own answer in his heart!"

This is a dead end no matter how you choose. With Lin Liu's knowledge and decision-making in government over the years, there is no good choice at all:

Compared to going backwards and ending up in disgrace, alienation, and death in the end, Lin Liu would definitely prefer to die in a blaze of glory.

Besides, he has died many times, so it is unreasonable for him to be afraid of death.

"Moreover, in the description of this question, Lin Liu's mentality is described as [escape], rather than confusion..."

He was not confused and indecisive, he was just avoiding it. And avoiding it proved that he actually had the answer in his heart, but he did not dare to choose or face it.

So much so that he handed the choice to other people...

"So, what I should do is not to help him choose, but to give him the courage to choose for himself..."

A student who is stuck with multiple-choice questions in the exam often does not know the answer, but rather that he does not have the courage to stick to the answer he has already chosen. He ends up changing it left and right, and the more he changes, the more vague his answer becomes, until he gives up the original answer.

When the test papers were handed out, the answer to this question was exactly his original choice...

Zhao Si suddenly realized something:
"Then I probably know how to write the answer for him."

"Tell him that Patriarch Bodhi is nothing in front of me. All his words are meaningless to me, so I am the solid backer of Lin Laoliu!"

"Moreover, just as you have always wanted the mortals under your rule to walk out of the embrace of the gods and embark on an independent path, now I also want you to walk an independent path."

"You said that there is no eternal sun in the world. After you leave, everyone will be his own sun. Then this principle also applies to you and me. You don't need to ask for my opinion on everything, because you are also your own sun."

"You have been the sun to illuminate the way for countless people. Now you should also illuminate this path for yourself, the path you have chosen!"

"You believe in me, and I believe in you... Besides, no matter what choice you make or what the result is, I can let you start over, so don't be afraid of going down the wrong path."

"As the sun that shines and guides others throughout your life, it's time to shine for yourself!"

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(End of this chapter)