My Weekly Refreshing Mentor Spirit-Chapter 273 - 257: There Are Still People in Your World Who Need You

At the dining table, the atmosphere was unusually strange.

Xue Dili could see a pathetic thick barrier between Fafnir and the Silver Princess, with their auras clashing billions of times in this moment, as terrifying as the Abyss, even erasing the great path.

So is this like two cats each feeling the other has invaded their territory and then hissing at each other?

Xue Dili instantly understood the reason.

Like two cats protecting their territory, today they saw a new cat entering their domain, and couldn't wait to show their aggression.

As for what they believed their territory to be, Xue Dili didn't even need to think.

He just felt speechless.

It was like two arguing over who's the master of America, while the headless Indians pass by silently.

You two can hiss as much as you want.

Xue Dili looked at the Little Dragon Lady who silently shrank towards his direction, and then at the excited Siamese and White Crow, these kids were beyond his control.

Even the serious Siamese Cat Lady hadn't hissed once, while these two kept hissing at each other. The two Beast-eared Maiden little girls were just a bit wild, and Xue Dili could understand why the world became wild.

After living thousands of years on a bitter cold land, combined with the daily exposure to the Dragon Race's culture filled with depression and melancholy, they were always in a philosophical stage of contemplating life.

In such an atmosphere, almost everyone became a nihilist, living one day at a time, preferring to live poorly rather than die well, constantly pondering the meaning of life and the suffering land.

And the Old Demon Emperor used a very ingenious method.

With so many nihilists, how to deal with them?

Give them hope, visible hope, like if labor in the real world visibly leads to wealth, people would naturally work hard.

So the Old Demon Emperor used a clever "purity" of fighting spirit to replace it. Having fighting spirit could beat tiredness and laziness, provided immense subjective initiative, tightly grasping visible hope, so fighting spirit filled the nihilist hearts.

This is why the Beast-eared Maiden world easily accepted this setup, visibly wild.

With too many nihilists, once filled with something else, they become wild, don't they?

Thinking of this, Xue Dili had an idea.

Now that angel had lost all hope, like a lifeless puppet, could it be possible to use a similar method to at least restore her to normal?

Not with fighting spirit, since she was not a warrior, and Xue Dili didn't want her to become wild, so best to fill the puppet's empty heart with:

Revenge!

...

"Alright, dinner's ready." Aunt served several homemade dishes on the table, then brought out a large pot of rib soup.

The little girls' attention shifted instantly from the impending battle to the aroma of the rib soup, stopping their hissing and visibly full of anticipation.

Turns out they're just little girls.

Thought Xue Dili.

"Teacher, eat more." Fafnir placed a piece of rib in Xue Dili's bowl.

Xue Dili: "???"

"Sir, you've worked hard." The Silver Princess Rabi was unwilling to lag behind, immediately placing a rib in as well.

Xue Dili: "????"

Looking at the bowl filled with ribs, Xue Dili, with dead fish eyes, glanced at the Little Dragon Lady eating voraciously, and transferred all the meat to her bowl.

The little girl excitedly gnawed the ribs nonstop, the more you gave, the more she ate, seemingly without getting full, just eating and eating.

The two little girls were stunned, feeling all their affection had been fed to the Little Dragon Lady. If it all ended up in her stomach, why not place the meat in her bowl directly?

So, the two girls started placing meat piece by piece into the Little Dragon Lady's bowl. She refused nothing, and if not for the bones being slow to eat, she would have finished them all too.

The child's eyes were untainted by knowledge, only a pure yearning for food remained.

Thus, Xue Dili, who was at the vortex center, smoothly extricated himself, bowl in hand, approaching Aunt.

Aunt gave him a dead fish eye look, and Xue Dili returned it in kind.

"How will you solve this later?" Aunt asked directly.

"However they want." Xue Dili immediately offered his solution.

Aunt: "..."

Watching the two competing children, she felt they were truly blinded by immediate gains and losses.

Forget it, in this situation, simply talking can't convince anyone. They'll understand naturally after hitting a wall, as this method can't achieve any result.

"I'm going back to my room first; I'll leave this to you, aunt." Xue Dili said immediately.

...

Gaining a life goal through revenge for a person with an empty heart is indeed a viable option.

Xue Dili doesn't see anything wrong with revenge occupying one's life entirely. Often, there's this strange perspective to make the avenger give up revenge, not letting the emptiness of revenge consume everything.

To let them let go of hatred, find a new life, and other such meaningless words.

This viewpoint has confused the basic cause and effect; it's not the revenge that causes the inner emptiness but the people with empty hearts merely needing a strong motivation to fill their already dead hearts.

Revenge, however, is just one of the most powerful primal motivations.

When a person shows void and confusion, and even pain after revenge, it is not the pain brought by revenge but only the aimlessness of having no goal to live for, creating a state of confusion and void about the life future, unrelated to revenge.

It's like a leaky water pipe with water flowing out, and revenge is the hot glue that can block the hole so the pipe can continue to function.

And now you say this hot glue doesn't last long and will soon fail, and then you let others give up revenge and remove that glue...

The result is that the pipe is still gushing water, with no change.

The correct approach is to let them find something else that can also block the hole on their road to revenge, and when the revenge is over, besides hatred, have other motivations to keep them alive, then consider the subsequent matters.

Instead of forcibly giving up hatred like a lunatic.

Thinking of this, Xue Dili has roughly understood how to get along with that Angel.

He took a sip of the rib soup in the bowl, showing a satisfied expression, Xue Dili remembered the taste, then manifested an identical rib soup through a Modifier, and then entered the Consciousness Space.

The entire Consciousness Space was frighteningly quiet; Xue Dili could only hear the sound from the video playing on the phone.

The phone was touched.

Xue Dili's lips slightly curved up; he knew that this Angel had touched the phone.

Previously, the phone showed the tokusatsu series played at 2x speed, and judging by the time from noon to now, only about 30 episodes should have passed.

But now, listening to the sound from the phone, he knew it had reached around 45 episodes.

No choice; lately, the travelers, except for the Old Demon Emperor, are some problematic Old Dengs, Xue Dili has almost memorized the episodes of Ultraman Tiga.

"Have something to eat. Letting your body collapse just after revival is not a good choice." Xue Dili placed the rib soup and a portion of rice in front of her.

The Angel looked up and squeezed out a fake and forced smile.

Xue Dili simply said calmly, "If you want your world's people to continue being the enemies' wombs, completely turning into breeding tools, living like livestock raised in pens giving birth several times a year, with newborns hung on trees every moment, then keep being confused."

The calm yet cold words came from Xue Dili's mouth.

He didn't say much more but materialized some other food beside him.

"Your world still has people needing you."

With that, Xue Dili then left the Consciousness Space.

For a long time, there was no movement here, and the corrupted Angel seemed like a wind-up doll that hadn't been wound up, motionless.

But then, she suddenly reached out and stuffed the rice and bread on the ground into her mouth, swallowing without thinking, regardless of whether the rib soup was scalding, pouring it directly into her mouth.

Like a madwoman, as if using a way to torture herself to make herself feel alive.

...

He was also meeting such a traveler for the first time.

Previous travelers, even the most difficult Old Undead, were normal people as long as they didn't discuss his granddaughter and Da Gu. They could communicate normally with Xue Dili, give advice, discuss, provide information, etc.

But now, this Angel seems to have completely shut her inner world or as if she had fallen into complete madness.

Filling one's heart with revenge still requires the individual to have primal motivation to be effective. Without primal motivation, this method doesn't work either, and Xue Dili can only head over there without much support.

It can only rely on the support of the Interstellar Corps, but he feels even if the Interstellar Corps comes with a few people, it's ineffectual because the world has totally fallen, and the World Consciousness has been stripped away.

The Interstellar Corps might truly consider directly destroying the whole planet.

Xue Dili took a deep breath.

Even though this Angel has been stripped of authority, she is still in the position of the world's Guardian, equivalent to an administrator identity that cannot be removed. If she can help, Xue Dili is merely using an administrator identity to oppose a host.

Otherwise, it's like a regular member knocking against host privileges. If even the Interstellar Corps, acting like external hackers, can't solve it smoothly, they might really consider remotely eradicating the planet.

The Great Sage's home planet was like this; after everyone was polluted by the Insect Race, they could only detonate the entire planet.