My Post-Apocalyptic Shelter Levels Up Infinitely! - Chapter 1428

[1418. Chapter 1398 Fear, Desire, and the Era of Global Gods!]

Luo You can understand curiosity.

Just like his understanding of foreign languages, that kind of heartfelt pursuit can indeed serve as a driving force.

Even if there are many setbacks and difficulties ahead, we can rely on this driving force to get through them.

But why would the ultimate goal be to find the answer?
Luo You never thought so.

Just like he hates modern utilitarian education, every parent tells their children that as long as they study hard, they will get a degree, and a good degree will get a well-paid job.

He studied foreign languages just because he liked the process of deciphering them and enjoyed the pleasure of gradually understanding a special culture. The final answer was actually just a by-product.

If his goal was to get answers, to destroy the alien races and save the future of mankind, with such a heavy burden on him, he would rather jump off the boat right now.

Therefore, when he couldn’t find the answers or even the questions, he felt that his life was extremely meaningless.

What does it matter if I’m alive? What does it matter if I’m dead?

But now, Su Mo suddenly stood up and told him that everyone was living in pursuit of answers.

His answer was to have no regrets.

Luo You subconsciously wanted to refute, but inexplicably, he didn’t know how to refute.

He does have many regrets.

It’s a pity that I haven’t traveled all over the wasteland to experience this world that is completely different from the Earth.

I regret not having come into contact with more ethnic minorities and not understanding their culture and background stories.

Unfortunately, the route level is not high, and I don’t have the superhuman physiques on the world channel, so I can’t enjoy the pleasure of transcending the limitations of the flesh.

Unfortunately,
he always looked down on Lao Zhang and thought that Lao Zhang was an absolute vulgar person.

But then again, isn’t he also a vulgar person?

But most of the time, due to some contempt chains left in human culture, he didn’t dare to speak out these clichéd goals, always feeling that he would be laughed at and misunderstood by others.

This is why, over time, he subconsciously came to believe that these things were not his regrets or his goals.

Now that Su Mo had exposed his mistake and brought it up so blatantly, Luo You thought about it and said,
“Then do you think it is reasonable to pursue pleasure and some clichéd goals as the ultimate goal of life?”

“What’s unreasonable?”

Su Mo turned around in surprise and leaned against the railing of the deck.

“It would be fine if it was on Earth, but in the wasteland, why do you still feel that your life goals need to be defined by others?”

“What is tacky and what is classy, why do you care so much about what others think?”

“I”

“Lao Zhang, come here.”

Su Mo stretched out his hand and called out to Lao Zhang who was sticking his head out from the stern of the boat.

Old Zhang wiped his hands happily and walked along the aisle of the cabin. He looked at Luo You in surprise, who seemed a little embarrassed, wondering what the two were talking about.

“Mr. Ji, what’s wrong?”

“What do you think if someone thinks your goal of striving just to have a better life is meaningless?”

“That’s not what I meant.” Luo You hurriedly denied it, but was interrupted by Su Mo’s wave of his hand.

“Answer this question.”

“I don’t have any idea.” Lao Zhang spread his hands and said self-deprecatingly: “He thinks it’s meaningless for me to want to live a good life. Then I also think it’s meaningless for the human Su Shen to save the world every day. How tiring it is, you know.”

“Ahem, don’t answer questions with questions.” Su Mo coughed twice. What are you implying here?

“In fact, I think there are indeed many people like Boss Ji now. They have no goals, can’t find the motivation to live, and feel that what they do is meaningless. But this is normal. I have read in history books that after every great change, there will be people who can’t accept the various changes in the new world and choose to commit suicide. Now coming from Earth to the wasteland, the force of this change is unprecedented. If we humans on Earth hadn’t been influenced by the information explosion, I’m afraid at least one-third of people would not be able to accept it.”

“But then again, why do some people accept and embrace change?”

“I tend to think that they have gained clear benefits from this change.”

“The slaves at the bottom stood up. They would no longer remain silent or submit. They overthrew their slave owners and lived the free life they had always dreamed of.”

“The deadlock at the top has finally ended, and those politicians who have weathered the storms and remained resilient finally have a place to show their talents.”

“The frustrated entrepreneurs were not swallowed up by the shadow of failure. Instead, they seized the opportunity to rise and found the opportunity to create a century-old enterprise.”

“The lost artists found light in the darkness, and countless works were finally seen by the world, shining with unprecedented artistic brilliance.”

It was hard to imagine that these were words spoken by Lao Zhang. Even Luo You, who always looked down on Lao Zhang, was stunned.

He looked up blankly at the middle-aged man with a beard, as if he had met a new person all over again.

“Isn’t that weird? I used to be a high school history teacher, but you never asked me.”

Lao Zhang scratched his head in a simple and honest way: “In addition to the types of people I just mentioned, there are many other examples that I won’t mention one by one. In short, in my opinion, people who feel that their lives are meaningless are often the ones who find that their income has not only not increased, but has shrunk significantly after the change.”

“Like Boss Luo, he was a well-known entrepreneur on Earth, he had no worries about food and drink, he had two children, and he had a wife who loved him, but after coming to the wasteland, what kind of life is he living now?”

“Then do you think I don’t want to live because I can’t stand the hardship?” Luo You stood up angrily.

It is said that intellectuals are really cruel when they curse others. Old Zhang, who usually keeps silent, can use a powerful move when he strikes.

Luo You always satirized Lao Zhang for being a vulgar person, but now people turn around and say that he doesn’t want to live because the gap in living standards is too big. He is a remnant of the old era and is not worthy of boarding the ship of the new era.

“Boss Luo, I didn’t say that.” Lao Zhang shook his head again and again: “I only said one possibility, aren’t there other possibilities?”

“Then tell me, what else is possible?”

“Uh” Lao Zhang looked at Su Mo for help. He felt that if he said something wrong again, Luo You might fight with him.

“You tell me, we are dealing with the matter, not the person. Luo You, don’t be so quick to take it personally.”

Su Mo took a step forward, pressed on Luo You’s shoulders and forced him to sit down.

Seeing this, Lao Zhang felt relieved and continued, “There are many possibilities. For example, the development pattern of the old era has been fixed, and we only need to move forward step by step without thinking too much about other things. However, in the new era, all the patterns have been broken and reshaped, so naturally some people will be confused and unable to find the direction to move forward.”

“Also, the development dividends of the old era may be targeted at people in their 30s and 40s, but the development dividends of the new era are targeted at people in their 20s and 30s. So people in their 40s will feel that they have been abandoned by the times and have lost their goal in life.”

“.”

Old Zhang mentioned seven or eight kinds of things in a row, which not only made Luo You’s temper disappear, but even Su Mo’s eyes changed a little.

Who would have thought that just finding a guide in the wasteland would actually lead to the discovery of treasure?
Lao Zhang’s awareness and speaking ability would be considered an alternative talent even if he were brought to the Tianyuan territory.

Especially for those confused newcomers, there is absolutely no problem in letting Lao Zhang be a psychological instructor.

“So which type do you think Luo You is?”

Su Mo thought about it, then pointed at Luo You and said directly: “You don’t have to be afraid of saying the wrong thing. I promise that Luo You won’t have any complaints about the answer you give.”

“Boss Luo, he.”

Lao Zhang hesitated for a moment, and immediately realized that now was his best chance to show his ability.

And now these days on the ship are his only chance to show his value.

“In my opinion, Boss Luo has lost confidence.”

After organizing his words, Lao Zhang uttered this sentence.

The confidence he was talking about was naturally not the confidence to accomplish something, but the confidence to control the power.

“The emergence of supernatural forces has caused too many people to lose confidence, especially those on Earth who were already very conceited. The current situation is completely beyond their control and ability.”

“They can no longer regain their confidence in controlling this power. They are only afraid of the consequences of this power. As the saying goes, once bitten by a snake, one will be afraid of ropes for ten years!”

“Boss Luo, if I’m not mistaken, all of your recent thoughts came after you had your leg bitten off by the frogman, right?”

After saying that, they both looked at Luo You at the same time.

The latter first pondered for a moment, a slightly conflicted expression appeared on his face, and then he nodded silently.

“In fact, your current state is the same as Luo Xiang’s. You two, father and son, really have exactly the same ideas.”

Lao Zhang smiled with emotion and pondered for a moment. Perhaps he did not expect that what he said next would become wise words sung by countless people and countless gods.

Even after hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of years, it still doesn’t stop.

“When your awe and fear of power is greater than your desire, you will lose the confidence to fight.”

“What we need to do is not to reduce fear, but to amplify desire!”

Like the morning bell suddenly ringing in a quiet valley, the clear and deep sound penetrates the mist.

Luo You was stunned.

Su Mo was also stunned.

“If you have nothing else, I’ll go back first. I’ll boil another pot of hot water for you. Your tea is getting cold.”

Noticing that Luo You and Su Mo had not spoken for a long time and both of them lowered their heads in thought, Lao Zhang left the deck with a smile.

Even after he left the two people’s sight, his heart was still pounding as if it was about to explode.

He felt that what he had just said seemed to have touched something, completely breaking and disrupting some existing things.

It was a very special feeling, as if he had accomplished some historical mission that was destined to weigh on him.

It can’t be explained clearly.

Anyway, it’s magical, exciting, terrifying, and inexplicable.

“Instead of reducing fear, it amplifies desire”

Luo You murmured, this was actually completely unrelated to the question he asked in the first place.

Lao Zhang did not directly answer the question of what the meaning of living is. Instead, he raised a new point of view and a new question, believing that he lost the confidence to live because he was too afraid of power.

In other words, Lao Zhang has already answered the question, but he only answered the solution.

Luo You needs to find the final answer by himself.

This is probably the correct way to solve the problem.

Use the method given by Lao Zhang to find your own line segment, and then complete the whole journey, you will get the final answer.

“Yes, I have never dared to face my own fears, and I have never dared to face my own answers!”

Luo You suddenly stood up. He was a little excited and finally began to understand what Su Mo meant before, and also understood the deeper meaning that Lao Zhang wanted to express.

He studied frogmen, but he was not simply interested in their culture and language.

But he never dared to admit that he longed for the power of aliens and longed for that kind of extraordinary superpowers.

This is because subconsciously, he was very afraid of that kind of power. Perhaps the seed of fear was planted from the moment the false god Tengu appeared.

This fear is far greater than the desire to control this power.

He was in pain, suffering from the inability to satisfy his desires but also the inability to change.

The subconscious mind is also in pain, suffering from the inability to reduce the fear brought by the Tengu false god.

Especially after being bitten by a frogman some time ago, the torture brought by this double pain reached its extreme, to the point that he was about to lose the confidence to live.

But after realizing this, Luo You became confused again.

Lao Zhang didn’t explain it clearly just now. If you don’t reduce your fear, how can you magnify your desires?

Do we have to set a desire to become a god? But this completely unrealistic desire seems to be meaningless.

It has to be something that you believe in and think you can get one day, to be considered a desire, right?
“Lord Ji”

“Luo You.”

They both said in unison, and stopped to think at the same time.

“You speak first.”

“you say.”

They all said in unison again. Su Mo didn’t hesitate and said directly:

“Let’s make an assumption. If all scenarios are possible, what kind of future do you think is the most attractive for the wasteland?”

“Of course, we have to return to Earth, or restore order, stop the disaster, and make this place our second home.”

Luo You said without thinking, but he stopped on his own before he finished speaking.

“Assuming all possible scenarios?”

Whether it is returning to Earth or turning the wasteland into a second Earth, this is what the human survivors of the wasteland thought at the beginning of the year.

But today, there are indeed many people who do not want to return to that blue planet.

Here they discovered new strength, new goals, and found a new meaning in life.

“Yes, you can fantasize freely and don’t be bound by the current situation.”

“If you just want to fantasize, then I think we should not go back to Earth. We should stay in this damn wasteland. We can decipher the secrets of the alien races and study those strange powers, so that every human can have the opportunity to become a god. Not to mention the disaster, we can even kill the game.”

“This kind of future may be the most attractive.”

Luo You smiled and no longer concealed his true desires and thoughts.

“If something like the Tengu false god appears in front of me again, I can kill him with just one slap.”

“You mean the Global Age of Gods?”

(End of this chapter)