Chapter 826: Chapter 71 “Reflection
Xiang Shan, draped in a Camouflage Net, sat at the edge of the beach.
This place was still close to the equator. But now, Xiang Shan no longer felt the scorching pain as if he were entering a blazing house.
His steel body possessed more sensitive temperature asurent ans, yet Xiang Shan perceived these signals as a part of “vision.”
The sea breeze swept across the land, and the waves powerfully crashed onto the shore. This was a beach with fine white sand, though the beach wasn’t entirely continuous, with many reefs mixed in with the white sand, forming an unusual beauty.
Perhaps this place wasn’t enough to beco a famous tourist spot, but three hundred years ago, there should have been a city nearby.
Now, it was very quiet here.
Here, Xiang Shan split himself into three again.
“Final Benchmark” gently asked, “The reflection eting is almost over. Co on, Jiuer, explain what Yawgmoth thought that day.”
Xiang Shan’s “Fervor” sat beside the “Benchmark.” This Phantom looked like Xiang Shan in his early twenties, wearing a black tracksuit he often wore then, holding an imaginary guitar, gently strumming the musical lodies buried deep in mory.
The Xiang Shan of “Benchmark” didn’t urge. The two masks of personality are essentially one entity. The thinking of “Fervor” is the process of system retrieval and Xiang Shan’s own reflection.
After a long ti, “Fervor” sighed, stopping his strumming: “In fact, even Yawgmoth seed puzzled as to why you would expand the managent layer and allow roles with clear international governnt backgrounds to enter the enterprise…”
“We are re mortals.” “Final Benchmark” said, “Like those who slaughter their compatriots, under specific conditions, we too might see ‘killing specific people’ as justice. It’s just that we are fortunate to live in more modern areas, and the ‘conditions’ within our hearts are not easily touched. But those born in that country never had this condition… If placed in that scenario, I might not be kinder than them.”
“I originally planned to destroy Superman Enterprise… After the mission was completed, Superman Enterprise would be dismantled by various countries under the guise of ‘anti-monopoly.’ That was my expectation. And at that mont, I made my resolve firm.”
“So from the result, did you, did we, make the right decision at that step?”
“Not entirely right.”
“Then it was wrong.” “Fervor” nodded, “Yawgmoth’s thoughts aren’t entirely without reason either.”
With that, he plucked a few strings towards the ocean.
“At that ti… “Final Benchmark” shook his head, “ in my twenties, thirties, and after forty, my state of mind is different, isn’t it? In my twenties, I felt the new cold war had begun, and a hot war was just a step away. The world needed a new revolution, and as a technical person, the only offering I could make to the world was a technological revolution.”
“The old flags began to fade when we were born… “Cri” appeared behind the two, “A flag loses color a bit each ti it is defeated. Even my twenty-sothing self didn’t think that a tattered flag could gather any hearts. And the conservative forces were so strong back then. How did we put it in those years? ‘Infiltrate them, steal their property’…”
“Since the market has beco a god, then beco the master of the market, to gather human strength. Use this strength as a key to start a new era — rather, capital and state are so powerful. Without collecting resources drop by drop to our fullest effort, how could we defeat them?”
“Final Benchmark” laughed, “Looking back three hundred years later… ha ha…”
“Put on a skin of paints to disguise as new-born capitalists, creators of the ‘new old order’… “Fervor” also laughed, “Perford too well and it beca real. Wanting more and more… First abolishing the apprentice-style research organization form in the company, looking for more free and advanced organizational forms, then gradually promoting, influencing the entire academic world, and then radiating to wider cultural fields…”
“Tsk tsk, wasn’t it changed back by those brats of the Scientific Knight Order…” “Final Benchmark” shook his head.
These complex emotions… just like when he executed that Research Knight Apprentice nad Zhao years ago.
“Ultimately, a purpose reached by improper ans won’t be a proper purpose.” “Cri” whispered, “Choosing to base on forms of the old era brings the essence of this ans from the old era. Even if you hold the biggest cards… when you are resolutely betraying Superman Enterprise, this monster you’ve raised naturally roars against you.”
“When talking about this matter, it turns to ‘you’ now… “Final Benchmark” shook his head, “Not continuing to erode the powers belonging to the governntal system, is that also ‘betrayal’?”
“It just might be.” “Cri” raised their eyebrows: “At that ti, you, we, constantly reminded ourselves not to anthropomorphize Superman Enterprise, not to project feelings onto tools. But all mbers of Superman Enterprise also ford a group with common interests.”
“Ultimately, the great montum constructed painstakingly over a decade, countless grand plans and projects spanning twenty or thirty years.” “Fervor” continued: “Choosing the form of the old era ans bearing its limitations. Want to tear it down? That would an fighting against yourself when you created it and endless subsequent human elites.”
“Cri” nodded: “Humanity wasn’t as intent on self-destruction as we initially thought either. Did ‘Superman Enterprise’ go a bit too far…”
At this ti, “Fervor” looked lancholically at the azure ocean: “Are you sure it didn’t?”
“Final Benchmark” sighed: “We’re discussing Yawgmoth, no need to stab ourselves.”
“Fervor” shook his head: “Nothing much to talk about, actually Yawgmoth’s mories of that day are equally ambiguous. He only chose based on his hot-bloodedness and impulse.”
“Final Benchmark” lowered his head, whispering, “I see.”
“Of course, you might have forgotten one thing…” “Fervor” continued, “Rember the day Haya beca an adult? Yawgmoth was very happy, planned to take him out sea fishing. The two set sail in a boat, without anyone else.”
“Final Benchmark” sighed, “The rescue team in the surrounding waters had been notified in advance, and was ready for action.”
“After sailing into international waters, Yawgmoth handed Haya a gun and several tapes. The tapes contained his pre-recorded wills.” “Fervor” said calmly.
In that instant, Xiang Shan felt a sense of “disorientation.”
Three hundred years ago, during the Sheluke Midom incident, he found a deserted corner and threw a punch at Yawgmoth’s face.
Half because Yawgmoth had hired a group of rcenaries. At that mont, canceling the order was already too late.
The other half was because…
After doing this, Yawgmoth planned to adopt Haya.
Yawgmoth said, since Kanhara had fished Haya out of the swamp, they couldn’t let him slip back down.
Xiang Shan said at that ti…
“You just sent a group of his forr teammates to Hell.”
Xiang Shan didn’t know what kind of feelings the boy nad “Haya” had towards those forr comrades.
The seeds of hatred can burrow deep.
“Cri” shook his head, “Honestly, I’ve almost forgotten about it.”
“Haya himself has nearly forgotten. To him, things before the age of ten really seem like ‘a past life.'” “Fervor” said, “When he got the gun, he felt lost. And Yawgmoth went on about what he did that year.”
“Just as he ordered rcenaries to kill without any legal consequences. That place was in international waters. And he had left behind several wills proving it was suicide. If Haya acted here, sinking the body into the sea, it would be hard for the law to punish him.”
“Final Benchmark” shook his head, “Absurd. Nonsense. Didn’t he think that if Haya really acted, then the years he lived in the Republic would have been wasted? Kanhara… and the efforts of other partners, wouldn’t they all be wasted?”
“Cri” almost laughed.
Anyway, from mory, Haya Veight didn’t act.
“Fervor” was speechless for a while, “So that’s how it is. After Yawgmoth explained what happened that year, he turned his back. He felt the human Benchmark process was the historical trend, and his historical mission had been completed. He genuinely didn’t care. Haya hesitated for a mont, then fired a shot into the sky, hugged Yawgmoth, and said ‘I don’t bla you,’ ‘let that mistake be buried in the past.’
“Hah.” “Cri” sneered, “Yawgmoth, that guy, must have spouted so foolish words again in such a situation, right?”
“Yawgmoth punched Haya’s head, not lightly nor heavily. He said Haya ‘didn’t have the right to forgive him on behalf of others,’ then said ‘Haya just doesn’t want revenge anymore’… He simply thought that among the people he knew from Sheluke Midom, Haya had the standing to judge, right.”
“Final Benchmark” shook his head, “For one person to judge another… ridiculous.”
Based on mory, it seems this father and son must have buried this matter in their hearts.
Xiang Shan didn’t know about this incident either.
“Fervor” self-mocked, “If I didn’t have both perspectives simultaneously, I wouldn’t view those years in this way.”
“But Yawgmoth eventually considered that what he did was problematic.” “Cri” said, “My insight into this matter was ‘we are all human,’ and thus ca to ‘if they were given the conditions I have, they could be like us’…”
“Yawgmoth probably realized he and those guys are all human too.” “Fervor” spread his hands.
“Cri” shook his head, “Who knows if Yawgmoth looked at our mories, whether he’d be influenced at all.”
“I think you might be misunderstanding sothing.” “Fervor” shook his head, “Xiang Shan can’t have any impact on the current Yawgmoth.”
“Why?”
“‘A banner that loses once will fade a bit.'” “Fervor” stated flatly, “Who made Xiang Shan lose?”
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