Keyboard Immortal - Chapter 2854

Chapter 1367 Cheating!

Zu An hurriedly waved his hand: “Please choose someone else, I might not be suitable.”

He didn’t want to be a breeding machine, especially thinking about Li Zicheng’s appearance that lowered his sanity, and the endless wombs all around him now, which made his scalp tingle.

“It’s not what you think. The so-called reproductive seed is just a rudimentary form of reproductive authority, similar to the death authority you obtained. It doesn’t mean that you will be controlled by the relevant authority after obtaining it. On the contrary, you need to grow, and what form it ultimately takes depends on yourself.” The voice of the propagation, full of divinity, had a strangely penetrating power.

Zu An wasn’t surprised that it knew he had the death authority; he had specifically offered it to it in the last secret realm.

Sensing his hesitation, the propagation continued: “You and the Ancestor of Annihilation seem to be enemies, but with your current cultivation, you are far from being his match. Shouldn’t you cherish every bit of power? You and I are both enemies of the Ancestor of Annihilation, and the enemy of my enemy should unite.”

“I’m almost convinced by you, but I really don’t want to become a breeding machine.” Zu An was extremely distressed.

“Forgive my bluntness, but I do not approve of your method of reproduction. In my view, what you have been doing before is simply unrestrained replication, pursuing power and quantity. But no matter how many followers you reproduce, you are all actually obeying the commands of some being, a brain. What difference is there between that and those lowly ant colonies?”

He was not keen on the idea of reproductive seeds in the first place, so he became bolder and bolder: “Those queen ants reproduce countless worker ants and soldier ants, but the entire colony still only serves the queen. When the queen dies, the entire colony perishes. In a sense, what difference is there between that and the way of order? Order is also established by a supreme being, and all followers must obey the rules.”

The wombs around him stopped wriggling, and reproduction ceased.

Zaun suspected the other party had left in anger, but finally heard Him sigh again: “No wonder I stumbled here just like Order; it turns out our paths have unknowingly become somewhat similar.”

Then the wombs “looked” at Zaun again: “So, what do you think reproduction should be like?”

Zaun thought for a moment and replied, “In my view, reproduction means the birth of life; reproduction is continuation, but also selection. It’s like wild grass in the wilderness, and also like carefully pruned trees in the garden. It’s not about infinite quantity, but about the possibility that every life has the potential to blossom.”

“Then, if you control reproduction, in the event of famine, would you be willing to sacrifice some people to ensure the survival of the whole?” Reproduction seemed to be asking its own questions.

Zaun frowned slightly; it seemed he was unknowingly undergoing a trial.

But he had no need of the other party, so he simply said directly: “Your question deliberately reduces reproduction to a ‘zero-sum distribution of resources,’ presupposing that power must be used for ‘selection’ rather than ‘creation.’

Even if it temporarily ‘saves’ everyone, it will inevitably lead to a deeper disaster: survivors will live in fear, social trust will collapse, and those who control reproduction will gradually become tyrants who ‘treat all things as straw dogs.'”

Reproduction snorted: “All this fancy talk, how can the actual problems be solved?”

Zuan replied seriously:

“Reshape life forms, instead of distributing death, greatly reduce human metabolic needs, and wait for post-disaster recovery; overdraw divine power to give some simple life forms without intelligence, such as algae, rapid reproduction, so that they can provide the energy for humans to barely survive.”

“Famine is a crisis, but it is also an opportunity for evolution; as the saying goes, one is born in hardship and dies in comfort. If humanity never faces any hardship, it will gradually perish. Such a famine is, in a sense, more like an evolutionary trial.”

“Life has its own self-sustaining methods and doesn’t need excessive intervention from deities. It’s about teaching people how to fish, not just giving them fish, even for deities.” After

listening, the propagation expert commented, “That’s too theoretical. My question only focused on humans, but what if we broaden it to all living beings? Like the tiny capelin in the ocean, which comes to the beach every year to lay its eggs. During this process, they face predation from dozens of species across land, sea, and air—whales, dolphins, sea lions, tuna, birds, and mammals. Originally numbering in the billions, only a tiny minority survive to reach the beach and successfully reproduce.”

“If they didn’t expand their population through endless reproduction, they would probably have gone extinct long ago.”

“In your previous statement, their reproduction, which prioritizes quantity over quality, seemed meaningless. But on the contrary, they perpetuate their species, provide food for other creatures, and also perpetuate the species of higher beings.” “

From the perspective of a true god, this is simply sacrificing the lives of the hairy fish to ensure the survival of all living beings. What’s wrong with that?”

Zu An’s heart skipped a beat. As expected of a true god, how could he be persuaded by a few words?

Since he didn’t want to reproduce, he said, “It’s because my knowledge is shallow and my perspective is not high enough that I’m naturally unsuitable for the path of reproduction. So you should choose a more suitable one.”

“No, now I think you are more suitable.” He wondered if it was just his imagination, but there seemed to be a hint of mocking laughter in the voice of the propagator.

Zu An: “???”

Why is he not playing by the rules?

“Why?”

“Although my path of reproduction is logically consistent and has maintained the survival of living beings in all the worlds for so many years, I always feel that this path has reached its end. After listening to your words just now, I have some inspiration. Perhaps you can find a new path.” “

Zu’an felt immense pressure and hurriedly said, ‘As far as I know, the selection of a successor by a true god involves a complex trial. You can set up the trial, and I will help you choose the test subject. I will definitely be able to select a more suitable successor than myself.’ ‘

That was the trial just now.’

‘Huh???’ ‘

Isn’t that a bit too hasty? Shouldn’t obtaining the true god’s inheritance be a trial with a nine-out-of-ten chance of death?’

‘That’s because the God of Death was too stupid back then. Despite being targeted by the other gods, he didn’t think about choosing a successor sooner, but instead made the trial so complicated that other true gods could tamper with it. He waited for billions of years to find you, the chosen one, but even so, he couldn’t give you the complete inheritance of death.’

Zu’an: ‘…’

Thinking about the situation of the inheritance of death, what He said seemed to make some sense.

He wanted to make a final stand: ‘But I didn’t answer your question correctly just now, so I failed the trial…’

Before he could finish, he was interrupted: ‘Who said you failed? I find it quite interesting. Consider it a success.'” “

You’re cheating! I was clearly just making things up.”

“If you can satisfy me with nonsense, then everything must be preordained. Accept my seed of reproduction.”

“…”