The old man and the man continued to walk.

The man was silent for a long time.

He is thinking about some of the simplest, but most complex, problems in the world.

Can I trust other people?

He thought so. This question is not a problem for many people at all, but even until death, not someone can give an absolute, 100% answer.

Believe in human conscience and morality, believe in the belief and will of fellow men, and believe that besides oneself, there are also people who can guarantee the survival of the vast majority of people.

It's hard to believe.

A person with conscience and morality may guarantee that he will never take the initiative to betray others, but can he guarantee that everyone else is the same as him?

Apart from Him, do people really want nothing to all living beings, just hope that they can live as much as possible and as well as possible?

Even if it is the innovation... it will make unrealistic demands on its people, causing all living beings to fall into a whirlpool of continuous progress and self-reflection, and it will never be safe...

Can you believe it?

【I can't do it】

The man's backbone suddenly collapsed, he bent down and half kneeled on the ground. The man covered his face and sighed, tears flowing out of his fingers: [I... have seen too many people's repetitions, too many people's hypocriticality]

[I have seen someone who has encountered unfair things and stand up. He just said a fair word, but was regarded as a treacherous person. It was obvious that someone was wronged. He wanted to be fair, but he was slandered that he was a relative of the other party, accepted a bribe, or that the other party had an indescribable relationship with him and had many years of friendship]

[I have seen someone abandon his wife and children for the sake of wealth, betray his friends only because he has money, he can buy new beauties and get new friends]

[I have seen some slaves who do not want freedom when they are enslaved. Instead, they find value from the enslaved life, praise the preferential treatment of their masters, and admire and intoxicate them with being their master's dogs as glory and being their master's joy]

[I can't believe them. Most sentient beings are like this. When they encounter difficulties, they will retreat. When they encounter disasters, they say that there are tall people who fall. Even if some people are unwilling to retreat and stand up, many people complain that they are fools]

[I am willing to be a fool, I will save these people again and again... but will there really be someone else willing?]

He raised his head, and the man in tears still clenched his fists: [How dare I believe them? I have always looked at all living beings with the greatest malicious intention, because I must do everything well and not give them any chance to make mistakes. How can I rest?]

【It’s like...you...] he said, looking at the old man.

【You believe them, how did they treat you?】

The old man also stared at the man, and the two looked at each other silently.

He couldn't remember who the man was, nor did he know what the relationship between the other party and himself. The other party came inexplicably, and in short, everything was a bit bizarre.

However, he felt that... the other party deserves his pride.

Of course, of course.

Of course it is worth pride.

In any case, men have done things that the elderly have never imagined or expected.

[Silly kid]

So he stretched out his hand, grabbed the man's shoulder, and tried hard to pull him up: [What are you saying?]

But it is obvious that he couldn't pull up. The man's weight was far more than he imagined. It seemed to be a universe, several universes, and God knew how many world stars and how many planes and space were piled up.

If such a heavy pressure was a strong man, he would have been crushed or escaped from this duty. For men, the pressure was too heavy and he would have been overwhelmed. However, the man had been holding on to the death and did not say a word to outsiders, but instead continued to add more weight to himself.

Apart from His own wishes, perhaps few people in this universe can pull Him up.

Since it was impossible, the old man didn't force it. He stretched out his hand, bent down, and patted the man on the shoulder: [You have to believe everyone... There is a problem with everyone's moral standards now, and it doesn't mean that the future will be like this forever. If you don't believe everyone, how can you believe you?]

As he said this, the old man spoke in a leisurely tone, and he looked into the infinite grassland in the distance: [If you don’t rest, if you encounter an unprecedented strong enemy in the future, but end up losing because of a lack of cultivation and one move... Wouldn’t that be neither saved nor regretful?]

[However, among the infinite possibilities, I must have persisted, so I can win...]

The man spoke, as if he wanted to refute, but was interrupted by the old man: [No, however]

The old man raised his hand and pointed forward, and the endless green grassland led to the boundless distance.

His tone was quite energetic at this time: [You said the possibility of infinite? I understand this very much. This means that the people you cannot save are infinite, and the people you can save are also infinite]

[If you say that because you rest, the people you cannot save are infinite; then because you rest, the more people you can save are infinite]

The man also raised his head at this moment, and He looked at the infinite grassland with a blank look.

And the old man's words continued: [Did you understand? Silly child]

[Unless you are ‘infinite’, otherwise, no matter how you choose, you will have an infinite future and will not be as good as you wish]

[But if you are ‘infinite’, then no matter how many infinite possibilities there will be in infinite time and space in the infinite future, it will be as you wish]

The old man said: [The most important thing is to believe]

He once again reached out to the man with a smile on his face.

[Child, although I have forgotten it for a long time, it is precisely because of my belief that I can travel through this endless years]

He said: [I believe that there is a person who has not forgotten me. I believe that he also believes in me. Because of my belief, I seem to be alone on this plain of reincarnation, walking for countless years, but I have never felt lonely]

[Because of believing, ‘people’ will intersect, parallel lines will intersect, and infinite cause and effect will be derived... All causes, including correctness, are all because of firm belief]

[You can be disappointed, looked down on, and even hate the capriciousness of sentient beings, and cannot be taught... These are all your strength]

[But you can't help but believe them because you came out of such sentient beings, right? How can you not believe them]

The old man stretched out his hand with gratitude, joy, and appreciation: [Even if you don’t believe in sentient beings... children, you must be silent to the Lord]

[Your existence itself is my belief]

The man stretched out his hand silently, and he took the old man's hand and stood up.

He stretched out his hand and pressed the center of his chest. There was a knife wound. The knife wound was burning and painful. This heat could only be created by the purest young people. The person who created this knife wound must have never seen the evil of sentient beings for billions of years, and it would have been pure and hot.

[All sentient beings will lie and deceive, be arrogant and hypocritical, greedy, laziness and irritability]

He stood up, closed his eyes, and murmured to himself: [All living beings are sad and lamentable, ignorant and confused, longing for survival, and will hurt others for their own survival]

[A powerful existence, as long as it appears, it is evil. If they have success in their cultivation, they will become natural classes, and will naturally oppress and naturally draw different ravines from others]

[I know that this is infinite evil. Unless all living beings ‘love’ each other, the strong love the weak, and the weak love the strong, otherwise mutual invasion and harm will never end]

【I thought this would be saved】

[What a joke] The old man said: [You don’t believe they can do it, so why do you force them to do it? You are not crazy]

[If you believe it, you won't force it, right?]

The knife wound on the chest became hotter and hotter.

The man suddenly realized at this moment that it was not because the person who stabbed this knife was so innate that he could be so hot. The true heat was to burn endless evil thoughts to achieve it. He must have witnessed many evils and many pure ugliness.

Many illusions flashed in front of the man's eyes. He saw that there were emperors who survived purely for themselves, for better living, and for their own selfish desires to kill billions of people under their rule. There were national teachers who helped the evil and used the blood of sentient beings as a resource to nourish their own path.

He saw that there were sentient beings and gods who were suspicious of each other because they could not believe and because they were difficult to communicate, so they used killing as words and murder as exchanges, and they fought for the opportunity to survive in the next era and the endless vitality of the next era.

He also saw that there were pure evil people who trampled on the wishes of others for their own wishes. Some wicked people were rampant on the planet, walking and fearing, creating their own ladder to heaven, and some evil demons called in the deep space, just to make the eyes of sentient beings focus on themselves, and they killed a lot.

There are too many illusions.

In order to truly peace and reshape a new world, the seven wish holders fought each other, causing innocent people to bleed, and also wanted to create their own future. If they wanted to prove their value, they were no longer the king of pets of immortals and gods, but instead turned into demons, seized the future of their people, and turned their lives into playthings in their palms.

Too many, too many, for freedom, we trampled on the Dharma; for the sake of justice, we trampled on the freedom.

Because I hope that sentient beings will no longer cry, the great wish for a perfect ending has created the bitter fruit of overturning generations of immortals and gods; because of the existence of nothingness, it is unbearable that they would rather destroy the universe of sentient beings than prove whether the meaning of survival exists or not.

Until the end, the sun subsides in dusk, and the faint twilight of nothingness overturns everything.

But there is a light of dawn, and the sky and the earth are brightly lit.

The man knew silently that the evil-devouring demon lord had swallowed all the malicious intentions before finally igniting a flame and turning into the current heat.

Are the person who stabbed this knife disappointed?

Every time he was unsheathed, he was disappointed.

Angry?

He was very angry every time he took action to kill the enemy.

Did he take action?

Every time he encounters ugliness, he takes action without hesitation and vows to save him.

What is different from him?

【…】

After a long silence, the man opened his mouth.

He said softly: [He believes]

[He believed that if he did this, sentient beings could become better, and sentient beings could definitely become better... just like himself]

【So bless them, give them strength and possibility】

So what if you are disappointed?

If you are not disappointed, you don’t need to teach. If you are not disappointed, you don’t need to save it. If you are not disappointed, you won’t teach it, you won’t save it, you won’t transcend all things in the sea of ​​suffering and save all sentient beings.

“Disappointment is just the beginning, not the result.”
To be continued...