A week later, Priestess and the others came back.

But this time everyone's expressions looked gloomy and ugly.

"What's wrong? Everyone's faces are so long?"

Sitting behind the desk, looking at the angry girls with bulging cheeks, Fang Zheng chuckled.

"Could it be that the mission failed?"

"No, Lord Knight, that... mission was successful, but..."

Priestess was hesitant to speak, but she was hesitant to speak. She looked at Emilia who was not far away. At this moment, Emilia lowered her head and looked at the ground without saying a word. And Parker was also rare.

Beside Emilia, there was no word.

"You come and report."

Fang Zheng nodded to the Priestess, and the Priestess hurriedly stood up and explained the entire situation to Fang Zheng.

According to what the Priestess said, the mission they took on to clear out the goblins this time was at the junction of the border of the Kingdom of Lugnica and the gathering place of elves, because goblins were harassing the elven tribe there, so

The Elf Tribe asked for help, but due to Lugnika's serious xenophobic tendencies and the fact that Lugnika now has no king, they finally decided to find adventurers to resolve the situation - this is why the Elf Archers came here.

, and after the next mission, the other party also joined in.

It went smoothly at first. For Felt and Emilia, after witnessing the atrocities of goblins, they also experienced a series of baptisms from shock to anger. Then the group went deep into the ruins.

, not only eliminated the Goblins entrenched in the ruins, rescued the captives abused by the Goblins, but also found the ruler of the Goblins - a troll from the Demon King's army!

Facing the troll, everyone had a hard fight at first, but then the idiot troll made a mistake.

It actually started chanting the fireball technique...

Then she was knocked over by Megumin's explosion magic, which was a big hit in the middle class.

It can be said that the entire plan to encircle and suppress the goblins was completely successful in the end, but the problem came after that.

After wiping out the trolls, Priestess and her team habitually began to search for the little goblin's lair and completely clean up these evil creatures. But what they didn't expect was that when Ais planned to kill a little goblin,

When he was walking in the forest, Emilia saw him, and then Emilia actually stopped him.

She wants to save this little goblin!

Priestess and Ais were naturally reluctant to this. They had surrounded and suppressed so many goblin lairs, so they naturally knew how dangerous it was to let these little goblins survive. However, Emilia believed that goblins were not

You are so bad by nature, what you are doing is simply massacre!

The two sides quarreled, and at this moment, the little goblin who was being protected by Emilia actually picked up a stone and tried to attack Emilia, but was stabbed to death by Ace, who had quick eyes and quick hands. Everyone originally thought that

Emilia should have recognized the nature of those goblins, but to her surprise, Emilia said that we wanted to kill it first, so it was natural for the little goblin to fight back...

Now even Felt felt that Emilia was unreasonable.

So after that, the two sides had a big quarrel. Priestess and the others insisted that goblins were evil existences and would only bring disaster if they stayed. Emilia, on the other hand, said that it was completely unreasonable to infer good or bad based on race.

, this kind of thing should not be done at all!

Because of this, the atmosphere in the team was quite tense on the way back. No one expected that a simple mission would end up like this...

But Fang Zheng had already expected it.

Otherwise, why would he arrange for Emilia to kill goblins?

"Okay, I understand the general situation."

After listening to Priestess's report, Fang Zheng nodded, and then looked at Emilia.

"So Emilia, what do you want to say?"

"I... My mind has not changed. I think those little goblins should not be killed... It makes no sense to kill them just because they are goblins!"

"But didn't I say that if we don't kill them, these goblins will attack other villages and people!"

Hearing this, Megumin couldn't help but retort, but Emilia obviously had her own insistence.

"If you hadn't killed so many goblins, they wouldn't have been reduced to attacking the village!"

"Is this our fault? If these goblins hadn't attacked the village, why would we have to destroy them?"

Watching the argument between Megumin and Emilia, I always felt that things were developing towards "Which came first in the world, the chicken or the egg"... No wonder they didn't come to a conclusion all the way.

It would be damned if the results come out.

"Okay, stop arguing."

Fang Zheng was too lazy to listen to such a low-level quarrel and directly waved his hand to signal the two of them to stop.

"I have heard the reasons for both of you, and I also understand your thoughts. So now, let me tell you what I think."

Hearing this, everyone turned their attention to Fang Zheng, and Fang Zheng scanned the crowd.

"Here, I won't tell you right away who is right or wrong. The first thing we have to do is to think scientifically and look at the problem rationally, and then we can solve the problem."

“……………???”

"The first thing I want to say to you is, the definition of good and bad, what is good and what is bad? What do you think determines this?"

"this……………"

Facing Fang Zheng's inquiry, the group was speechless.

"What's good for the race, the ethnic group, and our development is a good thing. On the contrary, it's a bad thing. For example, why can't we kill people casually? Because killing people casually will cause social chaos and make a country dilapidated. And in this way

As a result, the citizens of this country cannot live with peace of mind, thus reducing their quality of life. In order to allow the citizens to live and work with more peace of mind, there is a law that strictly prohibits random killing."

Fang Zheng stretched out his finger and tapped the table.

"Why do we advocate helping the weak and helping each other? Because only by uniting in this way can we develop and grow. Human beings are very fragile. In the wild, their physical fitness is not as good as that of wild animals, and they cannot spit venom. They will die if they get sick. They

Unlike wolves, and not as vital as dragons and dragons, if we did not unite, humankind would have perished long ago. Therefore, we advocate unity and oppose isolation."

Facing Fang Zheng's words, the girls nodded blankly. Although they could not particularly understand what Fang Zheng said, they did understand the general meaning.

"Therefore, kindness and justice, good and bad are always subjective definitions. Values ​​that are applicable to one ethnic group do not mean that they are also applicable to another ethnic group."

After saying this, Fang Zheng looked at Emilia.

"Emilia, your idea is good, but it's a pity that it lacks a prerequisite."

"premise?"

"Yes, that is, you must reach a consensus with the goblins and believe that everything they do is wrong."

"This... is there any need to ask?"

Emilia was stunned and didn't know what to say. Attacking the village and abusing the girl must be wrong!

"Of course, it is a matter of course for you, but it may not be the case for other races. For example... do you think eating people is a good thing or a bad thing?"

"Of course it's a bad thing!"

"But on the small island in the south, there is a race called cannibals. They will dig out the hearts of defeated enemies and swallow them alive... What do you think?"

"Wow...really?"

"I definitely don't want to go to that island...and I don't want to meet cannibals..."

Hearing Fang Zheng's words, the girls all showed expressions that they couldn't bear to look at, while Emilia frowned and started thinking.

But then Felt spoke.

"Do you still need to consider this? Those guys must be madmen! Madmen!"

"Really? Then if I want to tell you, in their culture, eating the enemy's heart means gaining the enemy's powerful power... In other words, they only eat the heart when they recognize this powerful enemy.

Cut out his heart. For the cannibals, this is not a bad thing, let alone a sin, but an honor... So when facing these cannibals, how do you convince them that eating people is a bad thing?

?”

"this……………"

This time, Emilia didn't know how to answer.

"The same goes for goblins. You may think that goblins are evil and crazy, and you want to seek justice. But no matter how you use words to modify it, the essence of hunting goblins will not change - that is the nature of goblins.

Their existence threatens the safety of human life, so we will destroy the goblins."

After saying this, Fang Zheng spread his hands.

"Look, it's that simple. There's no point in worrying about good and bad. We have to look at the essence through the phenomenon. The Goblin's way of life is robbing and plundering, and Goblins don't have females, so they can only plunder other people.

Women of a certain race are forced to give birth and reproduce. This is an objective reality and cannot be changed by subjective will."

As he spoke, Fang Zheng chuckled.

"The same goes for the demons. Do you think the demons are evil and destroy everywhere? But they just want to destroy the world and then reunite with their mother. How about it? Doesn't it sound pitiful and sad?

All they do is to see their mother, so in order to pity these demons, should we simply let them destroy the world?"

"……………………"

"If one day, a mysterious race suddenly appears and launches an attack on humans, the reason is, 'You humans actually wantonly kill other life forms and devour their flesh and blood to maintain your own existence. This is really evil! You must be eliminated!'

, what should you do? Should you listen to them and stop eating and starve to death? Or should you rise up and resist?"
To be continued...