I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 544 Mercy
"Are you okay?"

"fine."

Xi slowly walked to the fallen horned elephant, squatted down, and stroked the unrecognizable head.

"This is the last one..."

"The meat of the horned elephant is very delicious, and its horns are very hard, making them very suitable for use as materials. However, this creature has a low IQ and will go crazy after being stimulated by sound, so it is hunted by other creatures. Due to overhunting, there is almost no trace of it in the abyss anymore."

"Now, the last one on Senluo Island has died. From now on, this creature may never appear again."

Xi's dry palm slowly stroked the eyes of the horned elephant. The eyeballs of the horned elephant were not replaced by other flesh. Some clear liquid like tears flowed from the corners of the eyes. This huge creature seemed to be experiencing great pain before dying.

His fingertips slid along the tear marks, and Xi squatted silently, not saying anything for a long time.

To him, all the creatures on Senluo Island are of great significance.

These creatures were once "patients" and the compassion of doctors, and were one of the few times they interfered in the fate of other races.

Doctors have always been conflicted. They like to cure diseases, like to help those patients who are suffering from illness recover to health, and they like to save, like to bring back to life creatures in pain.

However, they are also very timid. They dare not interfere with the fate of other races, dare not leave the Huasheng Islands, and are extremely careful in doing everything.

They want to save those patients who are in dire straits, and they know that the abyss is full of rare "diseases", but they dare not do so. They can only hide in the Huasheng Islands, waiting for patients who come to visit them by chance.

They did not dare to leave those intelligent lives behind, so they could only leave some endangered non-intelligent lives on Senluo Island, quietly protecting them, providing a good environment, and interfering with the fragile fate of these creatures.

The power of healing is very strong, and doctors become timid because of this power, but this power also forces them to stick to their duties and uphold the compassion that belongs to doctors.

The question that Xi has been thinking about: What is disease?
In Li Luo's view, this is a question of stance and also a question of how a doctor should position himself.

The doctors have always been confused, which is why Xi has been unable to figure out this problem.

Xi still can't figure out whether it was right or wrong for his companions to leave the Huasheng Islands to rescue the race invaded by parasitic plants?

Xi squatted beside the horned elephant's head for a long time, and the ball of light kept flashing.

"Li Luo, you humans will also protect animals that are about to become extinct, right?"

"Yes." Li Luo walked up to him and answered.

"Why?" Xi asked in return, "These creatures should have been eliminated long ago, right? Their physiological structure is backward, their habits are backward, and their intelligence is backward. It is just a pain for them to stay in this cruel world."

"Because they are weak, they cannot fight the plague, because they are weak, they cannot adapt to the environment, because they are weak, they are invaded by foreign enemies... In nature, weakness is the original sin. We keep these wastes eliminated by nature in captivity, call it protection, give them a comfortable environment, sufficient resources, and build an illusory world for them. Is this right?"

Li Luo thought about it. She didn't seem to have thought so deeply, but after listening to Xi's words, she thought of something familiar...

"Are you talking about the zoo?" Li Luo asked back. Hearing Li Luo's question, Xi was stunned.

"almost……"

"If one day, humans are also eliminated, unable to adapt to the environment, and are protected by another life form and locked in a cage with a comfortable environment and sufficient resources, and humans can still develop according to their own 'ideas', would you be willing? Wouldn't that be very desperate?"

Without waiting for Li Luo to answer, Xiyou continued, "I have been wondering, is there any meaning in protecting these extinct creatures? In fact, we are satisfying our own desire for protection, right? We need weak things for us to pity and protect, so that we can gain a sense of superiority and pride in protecting the weak..."

Listening to Xi's question, Li Luo shook his head: "I don't know, but I was quite happy when I went to the zoo."

When humans first started protecting endangered animals, it was because they were unable to preserve their genes and could only pass these animals on through live breeding. However, with the development of science and technology, genetic technology has been mastered, and cloned species can be created at will based on recorded genes.

Li Luo still remembers that Yuanxin Technology was once punished by the authorities for using complete gene fragments to create cloned pandas. Although the head of the genetic department at the time argued that other genes were added to these pet pandas, the authorities did not recognize it at all, which also shattered the plan of "everyone has a panda."

Although cloning technology is still being regulated, preserving genetic diversity has gradually lost its meaning. Now those rare animals are kept purely out of pity and curiosity.

"It's good that humans can have fun and these backward creatures can linger on. If one day humans are also kept in captivity and used as ornamental objects, we can only sigh that the world is unfair."

"When you are truly weak, despair will have no meaning."

Li Luo told Xi his answer.

Whether in the abyss or on Earth, there is no point in worrying about why species should be protected. Whether it is for scientific research or out of compassion and superiority, as a protector, you don't need to think so much.

These doctors chose to protect only because they had no place to place their compassion.

And now, Xi asked such a question because he began to doubt his own compassion.

The medical community does have a strange compassion that does not discriminate based on one's stance, which is why all kinds of entanglements arise. The more entangled one is, the worse one's healing abilities will be.

"You are just a doctor, not a god. You think too much, Xi."

Li Luo said to Xi seriously:
"Protecting the weak, no matter if it's out of pity or a sense of superiority, no matter what the meaning is to the protected person... you just need to know that you have protected them, and don't think too much about it. "

After hearing Li Luo's advice, Xi pondered for a moment and slowly freed himself from his tangled emotions.

He slowly stood up and looked into the depths of the forest.

Although his heart was still full of confusion, he had one idea that was very firm:

"I have to find out what happened on Senluo Island..."

(End of this chapter)