Stellaris: Earth Alliance

Chapter 158 The Tram Problem
The starship docks at the Sirius Space Station transport hub.

A huge circular corridor extends from the space station and docks with the starship's hatch.

The crowd filed out, and after coming out of the narrow corridor, there was a spacious and huge transfer point.

Qin Xu and Chen Xiaomeng pretended to be a traveling couple and dragged their suitcases to the center of the hall.

"There are a lot of people staring here, so don't look around."

Qin Xu pulled Chen Xiaomeng to a bench. As if checking something, he opened the suitcase and rummaged around for something.

Chen Xiaomeng was startled by Qin Xu's words.

The mood that was originally out of curiosity as to why the investigators who came here refused to go back suddenly calmed down a little.

He also squatted down next to Qin Xu, pretending to help Qin Xu find something.

While Qin Xu was looking for something, he used his peripheral vision to pay attention to the sneaky people hiding behind the crowd of heads.

"The previous investigators should have been targeted here. It was right to bring you here. The previous agents have not escaped the other party's detection, which proves that the other party also has people who are proficient in this area."

"but."

As he said that, Qin Xu closed the suitcase, pretended to have checked the things, and took Chen Xiaomeng's hand and walked out.

"The other party didn't seem to notice that a couple like us, a man and a woman, could also be lurking agents."

"never mind?"

Chen Xiaomeng asked.

"It's okay, the other party didn't notice us. After all, most of the people who come to travel are either a family, a couple, or a group of people. It's rarely just one person or a few grown men together. If I were alone and... In the name of tourism, the other party may have already locked us up.”

Qin Xu pulled the suitcase in front, and Chen Xiaomeng followed behind.

"Why does it feel like we have entered the enemy's rear area? Isn't this our place? Or is the opponent so powerful that they have spies on the space station?"

"Who knows."

Qin Xu was noncommittal.

Judging from the information transmitted above, it is very possible to start a war with one of our own people, but I don’t know what the reason is.

After passing the transportation hub, it can be regarded as passing the place where the opponent has the most eyes. You can breathe a sigh of relief for the time being.

Like a couple on a normal trip, the two went to the hotel to book a room, and then started taking photos everywhere.

It's just that they finally came to travel together, Chen Xiaomeng let go, and took Qin Xu to take pictures along the way, but Qin Xu seemed not in the mood all the time.

His face was always gloomy.

"Didn't you say you want to act similarly?"

Chen Xiaomeng's interest was mostly gone.

"Now the other party no longer pays attention to us, so it doesn't matter anymore."

"Then why are you still acting like this? Be happy and just treat it as a vacation. I have been busy with the embassy affairs every day and walking around with the officials from Quillac. I am exhausted. I just took the opportunity to come out and have some fun."

"Xiao Meng, what do you think of the tram problem?"

"Why do you ask this all of a sudden?"

Chen Xiaomeng followed Qin Xu and found a chair near the park to sit down.

"Just tell me."

"When I think about it, it means that there are two railway tracks, one person is tied to one and five people are tied to the other. If you do nothing, the tram will kill those five people. At this time, you can choose to pull the lever and let the tram You can change lanes and take the track with only one person on it, or you can do nothing and just watch the tram hit and kill those five people, and then it’s a question of what to choose, right?"

"Yes." Qin Xu looked at Chen Xiaomeng, "So, if you were faced with this problem, what would you do?"

"If it were me, I would probably stop the tram."

"..."

"Okay, I'm joking."

Chen Xiaomeng looked at Qin Xu's confused face, smiled, and continued: "Pull the lever to change the tram's lane and save those five people."

"But that person didn't have to die because you pulled the lever and he died."

Qin Xu said doubtfully.

"Everyone knows that this is a question with no right answer. Maybe the right answer is to do nothing and watch from the sidelines. Whatever happens has nothing to do with you. But if you have the ability to do it and do nothing, then it is nothing to do with you. If you do it, what’s the difference?”

"When bad guys commit violence, the silent masses themselves are accomplices. So whether you pull the lever or not, it is actually an active behavior. In the case of active behavior, the question also stipulates that you must kill, then it is There’s no need to worry about killing one person or five people, right?”

Chen Xiaomeng smiled and continued, "If you are still struggling, then stop the tram. After all, this is the final solution to the problem."

At this point, Qin Xu also understood.

He took a deep breath and said, "Okay, I understand. I pulled the lever down, let the tram go to the track where there was only one person, and then tried to stop the tram."

To be honest, Qin Xu wasn't too sure about this matter, but in any case, it was definitely "right" to pull the lever first to change the lane of the tram.

The future that Qin Xu can predict has a length of time. Although he pretends in front of 550C that he can see for 1 years, in fact, he can predict for one hour.

Just now in the precognitive world, he chose countless possibilities in an instant and walked out of countless parallel universes.

Each of these parallel universes only lasts for one hour. After one hour, it will collapse because his spirit cannot support it.

During these countless hours, he made a fuss everywhere on Sirius, and finally knew the truth of everything and the person behind it all.

He was silent.

So I asked Chen Xiaomeng the classic trolley problem.

For Qin Xu, there was no reason not to pull the lever.

Because you don’t pull, it’s essentially because you want not to pull.

For those who are capable, even if they do nothing, they have already done everything.

Qin Xu took out his mobile phone and dialed the number of the MI[-] headquarters. Qi Zhengxi gave it to him and asked him to call this number instead of the original one when reporting on missions in the future.

"Qin Xu."

After hearing Qi Zhengxi's voice, Qin Xu was speechless, "Isn't this still your phone number?"

"Yes, you have been calling my personal phone before, but now this is my work phone."

Qi Zhengxi said matter-of-factly.

"..."

Qin Xu said after a while: "The giant Nicholas World company has been closed down."

"Now? In what name?"

Qi Zhengxi didn't ask if there was any evidence, evidence?
Whoever tells him the evidence, he will send anyone to see the people on Fateer and Alpha.

"Now. The huge amount of drug trafficking should be enough to kill people for hundreds of years."

(End of this chapter)