Chapter 164 Life Above Morality
Similarly, the only way to defeat these two creatures is fire, but burning them to death is not as simple as burning the infected to death.
The Plaguebringer can manipulate insects to kill people at a very long distance, while the Corrupter is huge and its body can resist the erosion of fire for a considerable period of time. Ordinary people will be poisoned to death by the poisonous gas just by getting close to it.
The existence of distance and time makes the Plaguebringers and the Corrupters almost invincible. The only ones who can compete with them are the immortal dreamers.
Except for the person in the dream, the best option for anyone else seeing these two creatures is to run away.
"Are the Plague Messengers and the Corrupters still human?" Su Ming asked.
Sarah immediately shook her head: "How is that possible! Look at them, can they still be considered human beings?"
"What about the infected people?" Su Ming asked again.
This time, Sarah hesitated and shook her head again: "Maybe, he can't be considered a human being."
Su Ming nodded thoughtfully, thinking that Sarah's judgment was not accurate either. At least the infected person must be a human, because the infected person could not see Xia Xiaoyu.
"What is the weakness of the dreamer?"
“As for the weakness… I’m not really sure, but I heard that the person in the dream has a real body, and once the real body is destroyed, he will die immediately.
In addition, there is another definite weakness, which is distance. The dreamer can never leave a certain range. Some dreamers have a range of several thousand meters, and some are even larger, covering the entire town.
The more favored the God of Dreams is, the more powerful the believer's dreamer will be and the wider the scope of their actions will be.
Also, did you two have any strange dreams last night?"
Su Ming and Flora both shook their heads.
Sarah was puzzled and asked again, "You didn't dream of any good dreams or bad dreams?"
"I slept very well last night and didn't remember any dreams when I woke up," said Flora.
"Strange, that's very strange," Sarah murmured to herself.
"What's so strange?"
"Generally speaking, after you outsiders fall asleep, you are controlled by the God of Dreams and dream some bizarre dreams, but you didn't dream of it... However, this should be considered a good thing." Sarah said, and looked at Alice, "Little girl, what about you? Did you dream about anything?"
Alice also shook her head.
Sarah was even more confused, but he didn't say much. Instead, he mentioned the plague messenger from last time:
“Near the village you encountered earlier that was massacred by the Plague Messenger, there are some villages like ours. We are all believers of the God of Hope and we keep in close contact with each other on weekdays. After all, we are too weak in front of the Dreamers and the Plague Believers.
But just yesterday, two villages suddenly lost contact, and the connection has not been restored until now."
"Were those two villages also attacked?" Su Ming asked.
Sarah shook her head and said solemnly:
“It’s not as simple as being attacked. Even if we were attacked, we usually have time to react. Although the Plague Messenger is terrifying, his movement speed is not fast. It’s about the same as the speed of a human running.
The distances between our villages have been carefully calculated in advance. Even if one of the villages is attacked, other surrounding villages can respond quickly. But yesterday two villages lost contact in a row, which is very unreasonable.
The high priest and I discussed yesterday that there might be two plague messengers in this place. If this guess is correct, then... Alas.
Anyway, we can't stay here any longer. The villagers have already started packing up. You should come with us. If we stay together, we can help each other."
"Okay." Su Ming agreed without hesitation, "We don't have anything worth packing, just call us when you set off."
"Jiwazi Senpraiada. (God of hope bless you)."
Sack put his hands together, put them to his forehead, made a prayer gesture, and left the room.
Xia Xiaoyu knew that Su Ming had been thinking about her when he asked whether the other person was a human. If the Plague Messenger and the Corruptor were not human, then she was actually just a special forces soldier with many weapons.
Xia Xiaoyu suddenly felt a little regretful. She regretted entering this white fog. Perhaps her coming here would only hinder Su Ming.
It seemed that the only thing she could do for Su Ming was to eavesdrop on other people's conversations, and she couldn't eavesdrop every time. If the other party was communicating in the local language, she wouldn't understand a word .
"If you face the Plague Messenger now, what are your chances of winning?" Xia Xiaoyu asked.
"If it happens once or twice, the chances of winning should be 100%, but after one or two times, I don't know," said Su Ming.
Flora, who was sitting next to Su Ming, looked at Su Ming with her green eyes lowered, sometimes looking at Su Ming's eyes, sometimes looking at the ground.
Her brows were tightly furrowed and her lips moved slightly, as if she wanted to say something.
"Su Ming." Flora called.
" What's wrong?"
"I want to tell you something."
"What's up?"
“I have already made a plan for Milo to return to Dongyang Island.
Because of my naivety, Lance told the family all my previous plans, so the Osborn family will no longer assist me.
But I have figured out a solution. I captured Lance and took him as a hostage. I used him to negotiate with the Osborn family and asked them to send Milo over.
I think they will agree, after all, Milo is nothing compared to Lance.
Sylvie also knows my plan. She is the one helping me to watch over Lance outside. As soon as I go out, I will immediately negotiate with the Osborn family. When Milo comes to Dongyang Island, you will treat him. "
"But," Flora looked up at Su Ming, "If I die, I can only ask you for help... I'm really sorry. From the time I met you until now, I have always caused you trouble."
"Why do you say that suddenly? Why don't we go out together?"
"I know your strength, you are very strong, much stronger than me.
If I'm in danger in the next battle, don't worry about me, just protect yourself.
I will also do my best to protect you, as long as you can get out, Milo might be able to survive." Flora said.
"Why are you so pessimistic? We can go out together." Su Ming said.
"I want to live, too." Flora sneered self-deprecatingly, "You don't understand me, you don't know how much I fear death. If I tell you what I'm still hiding, you will definitely think I'm a shameless and despicable person, but..."
"Stop talking." Su Ming interrupted the other person abruptly, "All those words you said to belittle yourself are useless. That's just your own opinion of yourself, not other people's opinion of you. I think you are very pitiful, Flora. In my eyes, you are a very kind person.
In fact, until yesterday, besides thinking you were kind, I also thought you were weak and didn’t have a firm stand.
But I have changed my mind now... Flora, you have done well enough... much better than me."
Flora stared at Su Ming blankly, stunned.
"Why do you say that? There's no comparison between you and me... I've always just been using others desperately and never helped anyone."
"Right and wrong, and morality, cannot exist independently of reality. This is something I just understood yesterday.
The minister was right. I should have killed those children in the Black Gate. Although the result was perfect this time, killing the children was the right choice at that time.
Just like now, I have to kill that fire-type mutant. Morality is difficult to abide by in the cruel reality unless it costs life.
My judgment is that morality cannot override life. If I need to abandon morality in order to survive, then I will abandon morality, just like I will kill that fire-type mutant later, also in order to survive, or even just to increase the chance of survival.
Flora, you are much better than me, because you always know what you want... Your choices are always right, you can remain steadfast in such a terrible reality, and you can also regret what you have done. "
Flora stared at Su Ming blankly with a shocked expression.
"I'm far worse than you...After I figured it out last night, the guilt I felt about killing an innocent person has disappeared."
After saying that, Su Ming looked away again: "To do bad things in order to protect something important to oneself, and not change one's own moral judgment standards, this is not something that everyone can do."
"Thank you." Flora's eyes were slightly red. She looked at Su Ming, and her expression inexplicably seemed a little more relaxed.
"What are you thanking me for? I'm just telling you the truth. This is not a consolation. In fact, it would be nice if you could become like me. Although it would feel like you've become a bad person, you would really feel more comfortable." Su Ming said.
Flora smiled and seemed happier, but Su Ming didn't know what she was happy about.
He turned his head to look at Xia Xiaoyu, who was sitting with her legs crossed and staring at him, and asked, "Why have you been staring at me since just now?"
"I don't know either. I was just thinking about what you said just now... I wonder if one day, Su Ming, you will become a murderer?"
Xia Xiaoyu rubbed her lips with her fingers, as if she was thinking about something. It was obvious that she was thinking about this problem seriously.
Su Ming laughed and joked, "If one day, I become a murderer, will you still be by my side? I remember when we first met, you said that if I became a murderer, you would hand me a knife."
"I don't know." Xia Xiaoyu murmured.
Su Ming was stunned for a moment. He thought Xia Xiaoyu would say without hesitation that she would hand him the knife, but she actually said she didn't know.
“That’s exactly what I thought when we first met because no one could ever see me, but I see it differently now.
Oh, right! I didn’t tell you about my past, did I?
When I traveled around the world, I encountered demons, and I... was a companion of demons."
