Mecha Star Wars

After the people who came to rescue confirmed that they were fine, they quickly returned the same way they came.

Shen Xiuyuan looked at the villagers still kneeling on the ground and sighed softly.

Tell them that the abnormality has been resolved and that it will rain for half a day tomorrow morning to solve the current drought and water shortage problem. Let them prepare early and wait with peace of mind.

The news, which should have made people ecstatic, did not make the villagers happy at the moment.

Most people's water containers were damaged after the battle in the morning.

What made them even more uneasy was that the government would soon learn about their offense against the immortals. Even if there was no more water shortage in the future, they still had a pair of shackles hanging over their heads, and no one knew what their future fate would be.

But at this time, no one dared to say anything more to the immortal, for fear that something they said accidentally would offend him and cause even greater trouble.

Shen Xiuyuan couldn't help feeling strange as he watched the villagers with sad faces quietly retreating.

"Why are they all unhappy?" he murmured in confusion.

"Brother..." Du Xingyu sighed and squatted on the highest step of the ancestral hall. "Once the government gets involved, these people will be skinned alive in order to please us. How can you let them not worry?"

"..." How could Shen Xiuyuan know this? He was stunned for a moment, "But the government..."

He originally wanted to say, "Don't the government handle things impartially?" But when the words came to his mouth, he realized that he was taking it for granted and was speechless for a moment.

"What should we do then?" Although Mu Jingjing didn't know what would happen exactly, she frowned when she saw the expressions of Shen Xiuyuan and Du Xingyu.

"Ask him." Du Xingyu snorted coldly at Yu Sinian, "I already said I had already given him a small punishment and a severe warning, so it's okay, but he insisted on mentioning this. Humph!"

Yu Sinian remained unmoved as he slowly fanned himself, saying calmly, "The dignity of the Immortal Sect cannot be violated."

"But haven't you already punished them?!" Du Xingyu stood up and said loudly, "These farmers make a living by farming. Their life span is only a few decades, just like ants. Why bother with them? Can't you accumulate more virtue for yourself?"

Yu Sinian turned his head and looked back at Du Xingyu without giving in: "Have you ever thought about what would happen to Jin Tong if we hadn't arrived in time today?"

Du Xingyu choked, glanced at Jin Tong, swayed his body back, and said with a guilty conscience: "But isn't she okay?"

"She's fine. She's lucky," Yu Sinian said in a calm but cold voice, "but it can't erase what those people did to her. Du Xingyu, you're naive again."

"You!" Du Xingyu was a little angry, but when he caught a glimpse of Jin Tong's figure from the corner of his eye, he subconsciously felt guilty and turned to others for support. "But Jin Tong is fine after all. Do we need so many people to sacrifice their lives to compensate for her shock?"

"Ruin my life?!" Mu Jingjing was shocked.

"It's not to compensate her for the shock she suffered," Yu Sinian continued to refute slowly, "It's the dignity of our Changtian Sect. This move is to warn everyone that the dignity of our Changtian Sect cannot be underestimated."

Shen Xiuyuan looked at Du Xingyu, then at Yu Sinian, and felt that what they both said made sense, and he didn't know how to make a decision.

"Junior Sister Lin," Mu Jingjing remembered her master's words and went to Lin Fan if she couldn't handle it. "Say something too!"

Everyone's eyes suddenly focused on Lin Fan's face.

interesting.

Du Xingyu, who came from an aristocratic family, was dedicated to speaking for the lower class, while Yu Sinian, who came from a lower class family, was the complete opposite. He seemed to not care about his own background at all, and every word he said was merciless.

Lin Fan walked to the steps and sat down calmly: "What answer do you want to hear from me?"

"I think..." Mu Jingjing paused.

She naturally wanted Lin Fan to stand by her side and lend a helping hand to those poor innocent people. But from Lin Fan's look, it seemed that he would not do as she wished.

"Lin Fan, what's wrong with you..." Du Xingyu always thought that Lin Fan was just indifferent on the surface, and he would still help when it came to an emergency.

Just like when he saved Yu Sinian and Erya before... He was clearly someone who would not stand idly by and watch strangers he had never met, so why did he suddenly change now?

Mu Jingjing was disappointed and Du Xingyu was puzzled.

Lin Fan looked towards the darkness in the distance and thought of the girl with fiery red hair.

"I have a friend who once saved a girl who fell into the water..." She spoke slowly, recounting Ivana's story with some deletions.

"In the end, the girl died, and the child she cared about so much also died. Many people died..."

Everyone listened quietly, and it was hard not to put themselves in Lin Fan's shoes.

The pitiful past of that person who was trapped in a small mountain village, working hard all year round, and then a thunderstorm struck, burning everything down, and all the villagers died... It seemed that under Lin Fan's statement, there was a new explanation.

"Although there are not many, there are still some." Shen Xiuyuan replied, "The demons we are talking about are not only the demons themselves, but also the cultivators from all sides who have fallen because of their inner demons. If our sect disciples encounter them, we must uphold the righteousness and ward off evil, and protect the righteous path. We must not be bewitched by them, you have seen the consequences, right? It will harm others and ourselves!"

Jintong nodded repeatedly.

"Your friend..." Du Xingyu sighed with a melancholy look, "She must have felt very uncomfortable knowing that the person she saved did so many evil things later, right?"

When Lin Fan thought back to when he first discovered Ivana's identity, what was his feeling?

"It's more than just uncomfortable." Yu Sinian gently patted the front of his clothes with his fan, leaned against the pillar and looked up at the lanterns above, "She chased the little white rabbit she wanted to save all the way, but in the end it turned out to be a big bad wolf that killed countless people... After such an extreme contrast, I guess it must be the pain of extreme guilt. Such a kind-hearted person would even take all the lives of those who died on herself. She must have a restless life, right?"

Yes. If it weren't for the evil resentment that allowed Lin Fan to enter the quasi-god stage and transcend from emotions, the overwhelming guilt and regret would have become the soil that buried her.

So Lin Fan thought that giving up feelings was also good, although others did not think so.

"What happened to Senior Sister's friend?" Jin Tong asked, and then suddenly thought, "Is it Senior Sister Guan and Senior Sister Wu?"

later?

Lin Fan shook his head and said nothing.

She felt as if she had died once, but now she was clearly alive again. She couldn't explain the details and could only remain silent.

Everyone else knew that Guan Ying and Wu Yi were the only people from Lin Fan's hometown left. Lin Fan shook her head, which meant that her friend had also died in the disaster caused by the person she had saved, and she couldn't help but sigh in her heart.

"Junior Sister Lin wants to tell me," Mu Jingjing looked at Lin Fan solemnly, "Isn't everyone worth saving?"

"Junior Sister Lin wants to tell us through her friend's story," Yu Sinian continued, "No one can be sure what evil the person they rescued will do. And these evils will eventually backfire on the rescuer, becoming karma that people with good intentions cannot overcome. Not everyone can bear such consequences."

Mu Jingjing lowered her head and thought for a while, clenching her fists tightly, and whispered: "But I think, we can't stop saving people just because we are worried that the people we save may do evil in the future, right? How many people can predict the future and judge whether a person should be saved at the moment of saving him? The people who really do evil are still a minority, so shouldn't the remaining good people be saved?"