After communicating with Yashan, Su Hao planned to take action and explore the situation on other planets.
When preparing to take action, Feng Cheng sent a message, “Boss Wei, Zhi Peng wants to see you.”
“Zhi Peng?” Su Hao suddenly remembered. Since the Radiant Association became the world’s administrative organization, he hadn’t seen Zhi Peng for a long time, and all matters were delegated to Yashan and Feng Cheng.
So many years have passed without any major problems, it can be said to be smooth sailing.
Now Su Hao didn’t have any particularly urgent matters, so since Zhi Peng wanted to see him, let’s meet!
“Feng Cheng, bring Zhi Peng to my reception room.” After instructing, Su Hao got up and went to the reception room, preparing tea and waiting.
In no time, Feng Cheng brought Zhi Peng over.
Zhi Peng is now a seventy-year-old man with white hair, a aging face, even the light in his eyes has dispersed quite a bit, only his straight back remained as before.
Upon seeing Su Hao, Zhi Peng immediately saluted and greeted, “Mr. Jia Wei!”
This meeting still came as a shock to the prepared Zhi Pengwhy after so many years, the three of them could still maintain their youthful appearance…
It’s simply unbelievable.
Su Hao pointed to the seat next to him, “Zhi Peng, sit!”
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "64ce79d606107d003c23ea27", id: "pf-5140-1"})Zhi Peng sat down as instructed, carefully observing, and sighed, “Mr. Jia Wei, we haven’t seen each other for so many years, you haven’t changed at all! Me and my old friends have all become old men and old ladies!”
Su Hao smiled, “It’s a natural choice, who can stop the aging of the body? I can’t either! Every moment, my body is also aging, my life is gradually passing away, this is difficult to change.”
Zhi Peng nodded, “Indeed. Mr. Jia Wei, I have always known that you are very busy. Over the years, I haven’t dared to disturb you. But there has always been a doubt in my mind that I wanted to consult with you, just didn’t find the opportunity.
Now that I am also old, I don’t know how long I can live, so I came to find you with a thick skin, just hope not to waste too much of your time.”
Su Hao waved his hand, “I was indeed busy with research for a while and couldn’t free up time. Now my research has come to a conclusion, I happen to have some free time, so whatever it is, we can discuss it slowly.”
At this stage, time is even more precious to Zhi Peng, because his life has entered an unknown countdown, short of ten years, long of thirty years, then it’s over.
With only such a short time left in life, what can be done?
Even if there are things you want to do, at this point, there is more desire than ability.
Zhi Peng showed a smile, apparently Su Hao was willing to listen to him slowly, he was very happy.
Zhi Peng said, “Then I will speak out the doubts in my heart!”
“Mr. Jia Wei, since the establishment of Radiant Association nearly fifty years ago, overall, it has developed very smoothly. Judging from this trend, Radiant Association will lead people to achieve better accomplishments in the future without any doubt.
However, no matter how strict the rules I set, no matter how closely I monitor every moment, the situation I fear still occurred, and not in small numbers.
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "64cc9e79c7059f003e4ad4b0", id: "pf-5109-1"})What I could foresee is that Radiant Association will eventually deteriorate into the appearance of the Eighteen Empire. Perhaps, the degree of decay may even exceed that.
In these decades, I have tried various methods. I have killed many people, even those who only harbored justice and light.
But, all failed, bit by bit, turning into a situation I dare not imagine.
It is like an inescapable curse, constantly cycling and returning to the starting point.
I am thinking, if it is destined to be so, what is the meaning of exterminating all the royal families of the Eighteen Empire, overthrowing their corrupt rule, and building the Radiant Association that took so many years to establish? It would be better to maintain the previous appearance for thousands of years…”
Zhi Peng slowly expressed his doubts in his heart and finally asked, “Mr. Jia Wei, I want to know, who exactly is my enemy? I have fought for many years, but in the end, it was all in vain. I don’t even know who my enemy is!”
Su Hao looked at his troubled appearance and lightly smiled, “This is something that has long been anticipated. The ‘relative purity’ that your Radiant Association has been able to maintain for so many years is quite remarkable.”
Zhi Peng laughed and said, “Mr. Jia Wei, you are too kind. If it weren’t for me still being alive, my friends giving me some face, I’m afraid I would be out of control by now.”
Su Hao said, “In my view, before the social productive forces reach a certain level, this is an unsolvable dead end loop, just a matter of time. The Radiant Association, like a newborn life, appears vibrant now because this is its growth period, but you must understand, as long as it is life, there will always be ‘birth, aging, sickness, and death’. Just like you now, you are already old!”
Zhi Peng keenly grasped the key point, “So, as long as the social productive forces reach a very high level, this dead end loop can be broken?”
Su Hao shook his head and said, “Not really! Although achieving a high level of productive forces is necessary, the most important thing is human nature.”
Zhi Peng furrowed his brows and muttered, “Human nature?”
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "663633fa8ebf7442f0652b33", id: "pf-8817-1"})Su Hao continued, “Specifically, it is the ‘elite among elites’! Most people want to be the elite among elites, they want to step on others through hard work, to prove their superiority over others… even ‘living a good life’ is not what they are pursuing, what they want is to ‘live better than others’.
This is a characteristic imprinted in human genes, difficult to eradicate.”
“Elite among elites…” Zhi Peng’s eyes suddenly lit up, as if he had figured everything out. His enemy was the ‘elite among elites’ in people’s hearts!
But soon, the light in his eyes faded, and he helplessly said, “Mr. Jia Wei, is there really no solution? In the end, it is the ordinary people who suffer…”
Su Hao shook his head, “At least, I do not know of any way to solve this problem because you cannot permanently eliminate the attachment in people’s hearts.
Moreover, this characteristic rooted in human genes may not be bad, the strong desire of humanity may not be bad.
Don’t you want a human society without desire, motivation, or vitality? That would be a disaster for humanity.”
Receiving Su Hao’s clear answer, Zhi Peng seemed to lose all color, dim and heavy all over.
Su Hao rarely comforted, “Zhi Peng, you don’t really need to care too much about whether Radiant Association will corrupt or question the meaning of what you are doing.
Even if Radiant Association will be corrupted in the future? The future belongs to the people, what kind of life they want, they will explore and find it themselves, it has nothing to do with you, Zhi Peng, your era has ended.
If one day, people do not like their world anymore, do not like Radiant Association anymore, they will overthrow it themselves and rebuild a world they like. It’s that simple.”
You place Peng, isn’t it because you don’t like the previous world and then founded the Radiant Association?
The cycle you mentioned is not wrong, but you should notice that during the cycle, society is evolving. One day, it will evolve into the way you want, as long as you leave behind the “cycle tool.”
However, in the process of evolution, countless people will encounter disasters for this!
But what does it matter? Every person in this world is experiencing disasters, even you, Peng, are experiencing disasters. Soon, you will die because of it, right?
Death itself is the most normal thing. You cannot condemn death as unforgivable because of fear!
Let go! You have done well. Over these decades, people have enjoyed the beautiful life created by you, Peng.
Everything you have done is meaningful to you.”
Peng was successfully persuaded by Su Hao because Su Hao clearly told him that his era has ended, and everything he has done is meaningful.
For Peng, this is enough!
“And, Mr. Jia Wei is right. Let the future things be the concern of the future people! They can transform the world as they wish.”
…
After Peng left, Su Hao remained in the living room, silently pondering the questions Peng asked, and finally laughed, “Superior to others? Superior to others!”
In the depths of his heart, isn’t he also like this?
Today, bidding farewell to Peng is probably a permanent farewell.
The conversation today can be considered as giving a complete ending to the “Radiant Association” that he helped to establish.
As for the future, as he said, it is up to the people to decide.
After all, he doesn’t need much assistance from the Radiant Association and the Mage Association anymore.
