Chapter 303: A Problem That Puts People in a Dilemma, Smart Potato
Prison.
“Potato, you lost again. These eight sweet potato sticks belong to me.”
“You cheated! Why do you always win?”
Seeing Chen Changsheng take away his last eight sweet potato sticks, Hu Tudou finally started to get agitated.
However, facing Hu Tudou’s agitation, Chen Changsheng just leisurely leaned against the wall and continued eating the sweet potato sticks, completely ignoring him.
Seeing that Hu Tudou was angry, he immediately used the “Divided Mind Technique.”
Hu Tudou moved over with a smug look and changed the subject, saying, “Little Taoist, why did you deliberately make this matter bigger?”
Hearing this, Chen Changsheng stopped eating the sweet potato stick and looked at Hu Tudou with great surprise.
“You were taught something, but you’re even dumber than a pig.”
“As long as it involves eating, your intelligence is higher than anyone else!”
Facing Chen Changsheng’s praise, Hu Tudou grinned and said, “One needs motivation to do things.”
“With motivation, one can do better.”
“Tell me, why did you make this matter bigger?”
“It’s simple. I wanted to see how the human clan would respond to a crisis.”
“Huh?”
Hearing this answer, Hu Tudou’s face was full of question marks.
“What’s there to see? When faced with a crisis, everyone should solve it, right?”
“That’s true, but this is based on the assumption that you have an advantage or some fighting power.”
“But what if you have no ability to resist when faced with a crisis?”
“The Western Central Hezhou is a demon clan gathering place. The human clan’s strength here can be considered too weak.”
“Now that the demon army is approaching, what should the human clan do?”
Regarding this question, Hu Tudou began to think seriously, and at the same time grabbed a sweet potato stick and put it in his mouth.
“In such a situation, the best approach for the human clan is to seek peace with the demon clan, because only then can the human clan survive.”
“The worst scenario is that the human clan fights to the bitter end until the very last soldier.”
“Not bad,” Chen Changsheng nodded and said, “Your analysis is quite accurate.”
“But what if I add another condition to this situation?”
“For example, now I am like a troublemaker who brought a disaster upon the human clan.”
“How should the human clan handle this?”
Hearing this question, Hu Tudou’s eyebrows furrowed tighter, and she increased her frequency of eating sweet potato sticks.
“Punish me appropriately, so as to appease the demon clan’s anger.”
“Good method. I stole two treasures from the demon clan, and this crime is undeniable, but it does not warrant d*ath.”
“If the demon clan wants me dead, should the human clan let me d*e?”
Facing this question, Hu Tudou’s mouth moved faster, and this time she did not give an answer.
After a long while, half of the sweet potato sticks had been consumed. Hu Tudou said,
“This is a problem that puts people in a dilemma.”
“A race naturally protects its own people, but protecting them means more people will d*e.”
“And handing over one’s own people is also unacceptable; only one’s own people can be punished.”
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“If any other race can easily pressure their own people, the cohesion of that race will dissipate.”
Hearing Hu Tudou’s response, Chen Changsheng smiled and rubbed her head, saying,
“You’re a clever little fox.”
“More accurately, it’s because the demon clan sees these things more clearly.”
“Unfortunately, the human clan doesn’t see it as clearly.”
“In many cases, they choose to sacrifice one person to ensure the safety of all.”
“This is why the human clan can spread across the Three Thousand Continents, and precisely because of this, the human clan has never been able to unify the Three Thousand Continents.”
With the last sweet potato stick in his mouth, Hu Tudou looked up at Chen Changsheng and said,
“So you’re doing this to help the human clan unify the world?”
“No, I just want the human clan to adapt to this situation earlier.”
“Because in a certain period in the future, the human clan will be in such a weak position.”
“Why?”
Hu Tudou asked subconsciously.
Upon hearing this, Chen Changsheng smiled slightly and said, “Have you heard of the Emperor Huangtian?”
“Of course, the Emperor Huangtian comes from the Lower Realm and fought alone against the Three Thousand Continents. I admire him greatly.”
“Besides the Emperor Huangtian, do you know anything else about the people from the Lower Realm?”
“There are many, the Heavenly Court’s Zhang Bairen, the Supreme Saint Nalan Xingde from the Mountain River Academy, and the Sword God who can cut open the river of time.”
Hu Tudou listed three names and looked proudly at Chen Changsheng.
“Your strength is so high, yet you don’t know these things. Your information is really outdated.”
Seeing this, Chen Changsheng laughed, “Indeed, my information has been a bit outdated recently.”
“Now let me tell you why the human clan will be in a weaker position next.”
“You mentioned those people; they are the top-tier figures of the human clan, each capable of leading an era individually.”
“But have you ever thought about how the emergence of so many powerful individuals would exhaust the human clan’s reserves.”
“Overall, the human clan in the Three Thousand Continents is indeed stronger than the Lower Realm.”
“But the Three Thousand Continents have been stable for too long, so it’s difficult to produce a powerful figure who can lead an era.”
“That’s why in the past hundred thousand years, the Heavenly Mandate has frequently appeared in the Lower Realm.”
“The appearance of Zhang Bairen and the Emperor Huangtian was too close together, and the consecutive emergence of two figures who could lead an era completely drained the human clan’s last reserves.”
“So, the next Heavenly Mandate will definitely not appear among the human clan.”
“And the self-protection capability of the human clan in the next era will become weaker and weaker due to the consumption by Zhang Bairen and the Emperor Huangtian.”
After hearing Chen Changsheng’s words, Hu Tudou sneered and said,
“It sounds so real. Who do you think you are, predicting the next Heavenly Mandate.”
“The Heavenly Court bears the Heavenly Mandate for only a few thousand years. Who knows when the next Heavenly Mandate will appear.”
“It might be thousands or even tens of thousands of years later. You should live that long first before talking.”
As Hu Tudou said this, she lay down on Chen Changsheng’s knee and quickly fell asleep.
Gently stroking Potato’s head, Chen Changsheng’s lips always carried a faint smile.
Potato knew less, so she could be carefree.
To be honest, sometimes he truly envied Potato’s state.
If he didn’t know so much, and hadn’t seen through everything so clearly, then he wouldn’t have guessed the ugly situation the human clan would face next.
