LRAB Chapter 61 What I Want
Chapter 61 What I Want
The golden-red sun rose slowly from the east, the darkness gradually receded, and a ray of warm sunlight shone on Li Yuan.
Li Yuan, who had been sitting motionless in the chair as if frozen, suddenly became lively in his eyes and stood up as if waking from a dream.
With this action, the dragon throne he sat on, which had seemed intact, instantly turned into a cloud of ashes.
The last remaining items of the Taiji Hall eventually vanished along with the palace.
Li Yuan glanced around and left the ruins without a second thought. After a few flashes, he arrived at Xingqing Palace.
The vast palace was empty, without a single eunuch or maid. Only Fan Xian stood quietly in the main hall, as if he had been waiting for a while.
He was not surprised at all, after all, this was something that had been conveyed through Wu Zhu yesterday.
Upon seeing the figure that suddenly appeared before him, Fan Xian's body tensed up at first, but after recognizing Li Yuan, he relaxed slightly. After bowing, before he could figure out how to speak, Li Yuan waved his hand.
"No need to worry about those formalities." Li Yuan sat down as if nothing had happened. "Well, you should know about your mother's matter and the temple's matter by now, right?"
"I know everything. After Uncle Wuzhu remembered everything, he told me everything he knew." Fan Xian nodded with a slightly strange expression.
Upon hearing this, Li Yuan wore an expression of "I knew it," as if he had expected it.
After undergoing the disassembly and replacement of the power furnace, Wuzhu's internal system underwent a thorough self-inspection and repair, recovering many previously temporarily lost memories.
Li Yuan had already learned about the operating rules of the intelligent system within Wu Zhu's body from the temple, which is why he asked the question earlier.
"Since that's the case," his expression turned serious, his gaze fixed intently on Fan Xian, "are you willing to carry on the unfinished work of your mother, Ye Qingmei, and dedicate your life to it without wavering?"
At this moment, Li Yuan did not use any true energy, nor did he release any powerful aura, but the bright light in his eyes made Fan Xian not dare to look directly at him.
Under Li Yuan's gaze, he lowered his head and looked at the ground, remaining silent for a long while, as if he had finally confirmed his truest thoughts.
His throat bobbed up and down several times, his fists clenched and unclenched, his jaw clenched and released repeatedly, and he even took several deep breaths before finally mentally preparing himself and figuring out how to start the conversation.
After exhaling a slow and long breath, Fan Xian raised his head with difficulty, but as soon as his gaze met Li Yuan's, he immediately looked away, as if afraid of being burned by that light.
After repeating this several times, he finally opened his mouth, and said in a soft and strained voice, as if his throat were stuck:
"I...can't do it."
After saying this, he lowered his head again as if he dared not look at Li Yuan, and suddenly he seemed to be exhausted, with a lot of sweat seeping out of his body.
Even with his ninth-rank martial arts cultivation, he was now somewhat unsteady on his feet.
Upon hearing Fan Xian's reply, Li Yuan remained calm, showing no emotion, though the light in his eyes gradually dimmed.
He closed his eyes briefly, then opened them again, and said calmly, "In that case, let's hear what I have to say."
Fan Xian raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, his throat bobbing as he swallowed hard before straightening his neck and looking up at Li Yuan.
Li Yuan sighed softly, seemingly considering his words briefly, before slowly saying:
"Since ancient times, the problem that has always plagued humankind is the question of survival."
"The problem of survival can be divided into two issues: living and existing."
"Simply put, it's about how to get enough to eat and whether you can survive in your environment."
He looked at Fan Xian: "To live, a person needs to consume enough energy to sustain life."
"But often, due to natural disasters or man-made calamities, even these most basic physiological needs are denied to some people, even if..."
"Let's talk about the environment, whether it's the natural environment, the cultural environment, or the social environment, and so on."
"There are always places that are suitable for some people, and places that are not suitable for others."
"Human beings have existed for so many years, yet there are still people who cannot survive."
"In particular, there will always be people who want to live better lives, so correspondingly, there will inevitably be people who don't live well."
"To live a good and comfortable life, at least someone needs to cook for you, right? Someone needs to clean the toilet, right?"
"If those who want a good life don't want to do these things, then who will?"
At this point, Li Yuan glanced at Fan Xian's slightly changed expression, giving him no chance to speak, and coldly snorted:
"I know what you're trying to say. You're trying to say that as long as technology is advanced enough, we don't need people to do it ourselves; we can leave it to machines and artificial intelligence."
His voice suddenly became higher:
"Can machines really be 100% reliable?"
"Can't artificial intelligence also strive for a better life?"
"Have you seen Terminator? How was Skynet created in it?"
"You think that's fake? What about the temple? What about Wuzhu?"
"If everything in the temple were normal, do you think human civilization would be what it is now? Would your mother, Ye Qingmei, have been so easily assassinated?"
"If Wu Zhu were perfectly normal, do you think he would have escaped from the temple with your mother in the first place?"
"Nobody wants to live a miserable life forever; neither do humans, nor does artificial intelligence!"
"However! Throughout human history, at every moment, there have always been people who are doing better, and there have always been people who are doing worse!"
"The saying 'When a dynasty prospers, the people suffer; when a dynasty falls, the people suffer' perfectly illustrates this point!"
Looking at Li Yuan's impassioned expression and listening to his resounding words, Fan Xian stood there, stunned, not knowing how to respond.
Li Yuan didn't even consider asking him to answer, and continued speaking to himself:
"So, let's go back to the origin of the problem."
How can humanity finally escape the problem of survival?
"First, there's the question of how to get enough to eat."
"What if humans could survive not only by eating conventional food, but also by eating rocks, soil, air, nuclear radiation, and even directly 'eating' cosmic rays!"
"So, is it easy to get enough to eat now?"
"And then there's the environmental issue!"
"If humans could not only stay on the ground and in the air, but also in flames, underwater, and even leave Earth to survive in space, wouldn't we be able to break free from environmental limitations?"
Li Yuan's eyes shone brightly, and he seemed to be bathed in a sacred light. His voice, like a grand and resounding bell, echoed throughout the Xingqing Palace:
"And this is what I want... everyone can be a dragon!"