I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 979 Extra Cost

"Excess cost?"

"Well, extra costs..." Wang Chuan said calmly, "I've said before that backpacks are places where common costs are stored. Everything you see is extra costs, whether it's people or other things. No matter what they look like, they are all stored costs that have not been used yet and are piled up here."

"Then why are they all incomplete?" Mo Ling asked curiously.

"Because they have all been partially used, the remaining part is not needed."

"What do you mean?" Mo Ling didn't quite understand.

Wang Chuan thought for a while and said again: "Let me give you an analogy. If there is a relic that costs 20 grams of fresh soil, and another relic that can be used to build a mud wall to pay for the former relic, how would you pay?"

"Of course, we have to build a mud wall first, and then deduct 20 grams from the mud wall as the price for the previous relic."

"The same is true for the human body. Many relics only require a part of the human body. All you need to do is create a complete 'person' and then remove a part from this 'person' as the price. The extra parts are left here and become redundant."

Listening to Wang Chuan's explanation, Mo Ling suddenly understood, but he still had some doubts: "Why do we need to create a complete 'person'? If it requires hands as a price, then just create hands. If it requires legs as a price, then just create legs. Why do we need so much redundancy?"

He told Wang Chuan about his doubts, and Wang Chuan immediately responded:

"Because there are very few relics of making '20 grams of earth' alone, but there are many relics of making earth walls."

"Similarly, there are very few relics that make 'hands', but there are many relics that make complete human bodies."

"Besides, the cost of the relic is unknown. You don't know whether the 'hand' it requires is above the wrist, above the elbow, or all the way down to the shoulder. If you can't be precise, it may cause problems with the payment of the cost. The best option is to create a complete human body and let the relic 'choose' which part to remove."

"This is a protection for the users of the relics and the most reasonable form of compensation."

Listening to Wang Chuan's explanation, Mo Ling nodded. He looked at the flying human bodies in the white universe, thought for a while, and said, "But this is a bit of a waste..."

He didn't know what words to use to describe this strange scene, and could only describe it as a "waste".

The human body has become consumables, only a small part of it is useful, and the rest is thrown away here carelessly, becoming garbage floating everywhere...

"Waste?" Wang Chuan obviously didn't expect Mo Ling to say that. He paused and slowly explained, "From your perspective, this is indeed a waste, but for the humans in that world, because of the abuse of relics, these are nothing. Resources are endless for them. As long as there are enough relics participating in the inner cycle, all things are inexhaustible. 'People' are just one of the resources."

"It's like turning on a cheat. Once 'unlimited money' is turned on, everything that can be bought with money becomes meaningless. These costs and products, in the process of participating in the cycle, become meaningless numbers. They will gradually become numb and gradually abandon the things they once cherished, which become empty and meaningless."

"The infinity of these resources will destroy their values ​​and everything that humans cherish. You still find these mutilated human bodies strange when you look at them, because you still cherish 'human beings' in your heart."

"If you were in a slaughterhouse, where countless lives are lost in front of you every day, their meat is cut into portions, separated into various parts, neatly threaded with hooks, and transported to distant places on conveyor belts in exchange for money, you would become numb to the blood and flesh after watching such scenes for a long time."

"This is biological nature. If you give too much of the same stimulus, it will no longer have any effect."

"You know what happened next."

"These numb people will go looking for new excitement..."

Wang Chuan stopped talking and didn't continue.

"New stimulation", hearing this word, Mo Ling could also predict what these numb people would do.

Human desires are important factors in maintaining the existence of human society. When money and power, these things that can stimulate people, become meaningless, what will humans pursue?

The pursuit of power, the pursuit of limits, the pursuit of truth, the pursuit of eternity...human beings are no longer down to earth, but instead are pursuing those illusory things.

The result, of course, is chaos and social collapse.

There is no end to power, and limit is just a broad concept. There is no absolute truth, and there is no absolute eternity.

Trying to pursue these non-existent things will only make you more and more bound by distorted desires, unable to obtain them, and gradually lose your judgment of normal things.

It's only a matter of time before they go crazy.

Thinking of this, Mo Ling sighed in his heart.

Human beings are pursuing endless resources, but once they really obtain endless resources, they will fall into endless emptiness and even go crazy.

So what should humans pursue?
Mo Ling was confused.

A human body with half of its body left was floating not far from him, staring into the distance with empty eyes, its arms hanging stiffly on both sides.

Mo Ling now seemed as confused as this empty body.

"What are you thinking?"

Wang Chuan's voice interrupted his thoughts.

"I'm thinking about the meaning of human existence." Mo Ling answered seriously.

"..."

Wang Chuan was silent. He probably didn't expect Mo Ling to give such an answer.

He hesitated for a while and said to Mo Ling:

“The meaning of human existence is to think about the meaning of human existence.”

……

Is that so?
Mo Ling seemed to be enlightened by Wang Chuan, and for a moment he was not so confused anymore.

"What should I do now?"

He decided to stop thinking about it and concentrate on completing his "destruction mission".

"What you can see now is only what's inside the backpack. You need to find a way to see the backpack itself. If I'm not mistaken, your ability needs to be 'seen' before it can be activated, right?"

"Yes." Mo Ling affirmed.

"That's quite troublesome, but there is a solution. You should move towards the direction with the most people first, that is, where there are the most people. We will meet up first."

"it is good."

(End of this chapter)