What were those experiences like...?

Like standing on a high building.

Looking down, the water at night looked like hard ground.

If I fell like that, I would surely die.

And below were all onlookers.

"Why haven't you jumped yet?!"

"Why aren't you dead yet?!"

"Hurry up, what are you dawdling for? If you have the guts, jump down!"

"That's right!"

"Hurry up and die, we still have things to do after you're dead."

"Go die!"

And so, filled with despair, she leaped.

But just as she jumped, a hand reached out and grabbed her tightly.

Her body swayed, but she was held firmly. In the almost overwhelming malice, only a godlike being offered her a glimmer of hope to live on: "Hold on tight."

"You want to live, don't you?"

………………

The woman who was used as a sacrifice ultimately died voluntarily.

Anyone with a little cultivation and insight could see that clearly at a glance.

Her soul scattered, almost without any chance of reincarnation.

A clean and decisive death.

"Was it suicide out of fear of punishment?"

A Daoist sighed.

In the end, he had no choice but to collect the clues and traces here and take them back to Longhu Mountain. On the third day, a small mound like a grave appeared here. Wei Yuan made a gesture with his fingers around the mound, using his own magic power to draw a circle around it, invisible to ordinary people.

Three incense sticks stood in front of the grave.

Wei Yuan bowed slightly.

"You didn't stop her, nor did you kill her yourself."

Gonggong's voice appeared from the side.

This water god didn't seem to have returned to the East Sea yet.

As idle as a husky that had been rarely let out...

No, even the husky back home that could run a teenager to exhaustion wasn't this energetic.

Wei Yuan muttered inwardly.

What about himself?

He had run the husky to exhaustion back then.

Hearing the question, recalling the despairing emotions the woman had felt before her death, that scene wasn't what had happened back then, but a mixture of the events of that year and the experiences of the past thousand years, a landscape of the heart, Wei Yuan collected his thoughts and sighed as he replied:

"Her actions are pitiable, but her crimes deserve punishment."

"Her crimes deserve punishment, but her actions are also pitiable."

The tall and handsome Gonggong stood beside Wei Yuan, his hands behind his back, and sneered:

"So literary, truly the style of a civil official."

"But it's fine." He said casually:

"I used to work as a civil official under Shao Hao back then, I understand."

"??!"

Wei Yuan turned his head abruptly, looking at Gonggong with a dumbfounded expression. Gonggong frowned and said proudly:

"I was in charge of rites, I was the Grand Master of Ceremonies of the Five Emperors, the greatest civil official, otherwise why do you think I was able to compete with Zhuanxu for the throne?"

"…………"

The God of War Xing Tian was a singer, the Water God Gonggong was in charge of rites.

Even Yu was Yao's Minister of Works.

Very well, it suddenly seems very reasonable.

I gradually understand everything.

The problem isn't me, it's you.

You bunch of oddballs among civil officials, you double agents!

Wei Yuan silently took a step to the side, indicating that he was different from these civil officials, although he communicated with Gonggong, although he used Xing Tian's weapon, although he was quite familiar with King Yu, he was definitely not like these three freaks, he was a proper civil official.

Birds of a feather flock together.

It's better to stay away from them.

But just like when you discover that everyone around you is a double agent, it's best to think about who the double agent really is; and when you discover that everyone around you is a freak, you often have to think about whether it's your own problem.

Gonggong frowned and took a big step to follow Wei Yuan.

This action successfully made Wei Yuan feel awkward and thoughtful, unable to take another step.

Gonggong pondered slightly and suddenly asked:

"In everything you've experienced, who do you think is in the wrong?"

Wei Yuan was surprised and looked at the tall god.

Right and wrong? Wei Yuan wasn't really used to hearing such philosophical propositions from Gonggong.

However, it seemed quite normal.

After all, the Water God was a god, and the civil official was still a civil official.

Although he liked to overturn the table, he would occasionally ask some strange questions.

Wei Yuan looked at the grave where he was standing, which was actually empty, thought for a long time, and finally said:

"I don't know either."

"I just felt the last thoughts in her heart."

"It was too depressing, and Tian Wu's outstretched hand in that despair was clearly of great importance to her."

"Even in this era, similar things will still happen… although it's no longer about offering sacrifices to gods, there will always be things like trampling on other people's lives for the sake of their own Yu the Great, all kinds of reasons, for money, for power, or even just because they're bored."

Gonggong raised an eyebrow: "Bored?"

"Yes, when someone jumped off a building, there were many onlookers shouting for him to jump quickly, even if there were people trying to dissuade him, those words still broke him down and made him jump down in despair, such things still happen even now."

"And the woman who was told to die quickly was told so by her parents, her grandfather, her brother, because their house had been washed away and they had nowhere to live, because her brother wanted to get married, because the farmland had been flooded, because they hadn't caught any fish for days."

"So she had to die."

"And at that time, Tian Wu was the only one who acknowledged that she could live, like the last light in the darkness, people would go crazy for that last bit of hope, if I had experienced all that, would I have done better than her? Maybe not..."

Gonggong looked at him with interest: "An interesting evaluation."

Wei Yuan replied: "My evaluation of things is very simple, if I couldn't have done better, then I don't have the right to draw a conclusion, the people standing on the shore, looking at the people drowning in the water, say, look, how pathetic; the people eating meat and bread think that the people who can only eat bark don't pay attention to environmental protection."

"These guys should be strung up on lampposts."

Gonggong was puzzled: "Strung up on lampposts?"

Wei Yuan pondered, then explained: "According to the theory of cultivators, it's probably equivalent to the deterrent power of 'This monk is sending you to the Western Paradise'."

"Hmm, or, to put it in more ancient terms, sending him back to the furnace to see the Goddess Nüwa."

"Oh, interesting..."

Gonggong asked him with interest:

"If you were the one drowning, what would you do?"

Wei Yuan pondered: "Climb up."

"Then kick that guy into the water and let him feel the iron fist of the Water God."

Gonggong laughed loudly.

He heavily patted Wei Yuan on the shoulder.

With a *pa* sound, Wei Yuan's shoulder shook, and a circle of white air waves exploded from the place where Gonggong's palm landed. With his martial cultivator's physique, half of his body was numb. The corners of Wei Yuan's mouth twitched, and after Gonggong finished laughing, he looked at the river in front of him and said, "Not bad, I don't think she was wrong either."

His smile faded slightly, and a trace of the bearing of a god appeared in a wonderful way as he sighed:

"No one is wrong either."

"Tian Wu interacted with humans, recognized these short-lived beings as his friends, so he was willing to leave the *Shan Hai Jing*, weakening his own power, and coexisting with humans. From my point of view, that's not wrong either."

"Saving that woman as a god is even less wrong."

"And the woman who was abandoned by humans and saved by a non-human being, when she discovered that Tian Wu was getting weaker and weaker, tried her best to save him. That's not wrong. She was originally abandoned and killed by people, it would be strange if she didn't have hatred."

"The snake demon who restrained her own demon power and wanted to repay her kindness by coming to West Lake is not wrong."

"The doctor who worked hard to live and provided free medical treatment to the poor people is even less wrong."

"The monks who hoped that the great demons would stay away from human cities are not wrong either."

"Everyone is not wrong, all living beings are running with all their might for their own lives, weaving their own destinies, but they are met with such an ending. Don't you think that this matter itself is wrong and absurd?"

Gonggong said calmly:

"For thousands of years, on this vast land, how many living beings have clearly tried their best to live, but have met with one tragedy after another. This is because everyone doesn't know their own destiny and pursuit, doesn't know if they will conflict with others, so in the end there will be an outcome that no one wants to see."

"It's like weaving a roll of fabric, but the threads crash into each other, turning into dazzling, cluttered, and extremely ugly patterns. This is the human world. Even a god like Tian Wu, when involved in it, will only end up falling."

"What you have experienced will definitely happen again in the future."

"This is the problem with human governance."

Gonggong looked at Wei Yuan and said calmly, "Divine governance is different."

"I can guarantee it."

"If the gods were to govern the human world, then there would be no such tragedies."

"With the power of the gods, holding the position of emperor, it would be enough to see and interfere with the fate of all living beings. Those who love each other will be together, the earth will always be fertile, there will be no sacrifice, and there will be no forgetting. Everyone will have the most perfect destiny."

"Parents will be loving, they will grow up from childhood, and everything they see will be beautiful and correct."

"A fulfilling childhood, learning the knowledge that best suits their talents, taking on the job that best suits them, getting married at the most appropriate time, having the best life, meeting the best superiors, having friends who fit their personality best, and throughout their life, there will be no conflicts or contradictions."

"The fate of all people, under the weaving of the gods, will move along the correct trajectory. In the end, these five thousand years, and the next five thousand years, will weave the most correct and most beautiful patterns, a strong and beautiful history that no one will deny. Wei Yuan, I ask you, having personally seen and experienced such a thing, do you still think that human governance is better?"

The Water God Gonggong looked at him, the corners of his mouth hooked up.

"Why don't you come to my side?"

"Xing Tian is a special case."

"The god of war of humans cannot live forever..."

ps: Today's first update... 3000 words

It's a pity that yesterday's update still had various omissions and shortcomings.

After all, it was just a story seen by Wei Yuan, and interspersing it with memories seemed a bit too redundant.

Reflect on growth, absorb experience, there will be progress——

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