There is One New Rule Every Month Globally

Chapter 356: Chapter 306: “But this world forces us with no other way.”_2

At the start of the leveling up game, they encountered a map that tested their vocabulary of idioms.

It was only after that he began to cram knowledge in subjects such as Chinese, math, geography, and history.

In case they entered a map that required this knowledge later, they wouldn’t be completely in the dark.

So, it’s being put to use now?

All the historical events and poetry he had memorized back then were being called upon, but the problem was he hadn’t used Memory Paper to memorize them—it was all done in his mind, and now he had begun to forget…

About a minute passed.

He still couldn’t remember.

“No more.”

Chen Yi looked out of the window with an expressionless face, without a single ripple of emotion, “This is a eulogy composed by Su Shi to mourn his first wife, Wang Fu.”

“After writing the first two lines, Su Shi was overcome with such sorrow that he jumped into the river to join his wife in the hereafter.”

“However, it is said that there are a few more lines to this poem, supposedly left by Su Shi before he jumped into the river, but they have never been revealed. Since then, this poem has become an unfinished piece, as well as the last poem Su Shi wrote in his life.”

“Just as Su Shi himself said, no one’s life could be perfect.”

“The life of the otherwise perfect Su Shi ended with an unfinished verse.”

“Later, to commemorate Su Shi, people specifically established a festival for him, named the Dragon Boat Festival.”

“On this day, people are supposed to wrap zongzi and throw them into the river so that the shrimp soldiers and crab generals within the water would consume them rather than desecrate the body of Mr. Su Shi.”

“This festival continues to this day.”

Having said this, Chen Yi couldn’t help but twitch the corners of his mouth slightly.

Teacher Su Shi, if you have a spirit in the sky.

Forgive me.

It’s not malicious fabrication on my part.

It’s just that I wasn’t familiar with it at the time. After this is over, I will definitely review your life story and make sure to recite this poem fluently.

At this moment, he realized what was meant by “books are invaluable at the moment of need.”

Isn’t the Dragon Boat Festival meant to commemorate Su Shi?

Dammit.

I will definitely catch up on it when I get back.

…

“Uh…”

At this time, a Blue Star player who was watching the live stream looked bewilderedly at Chen Yi, who was speaking eloquently. It took the player a long while before he turned his puzzled gaze to his friend.

“Is the Dragon Boat Festival really in commemoration of Su Shi?”

“It seems so.”

The player beside him also felt strange, “Although it doesn’t feel right, since Yi says it is, it must be so. Yi wouldn’t be wrong.”

“But I thought the Dragon Boat Festival was to commemorate Qu Yuan?”

“Are you suggesting Yi is wrong?”

“No, no, that’s not what I meant at all. What I mean is, the history books might have recorded it wrong. Clearly it commemorates Su Shi, but the history books have it all mixed up.”

“Exactly, those who compile textbooks should do more proper research.”

…

“No one’s life is perfect…”

The woman standing in the office, upon hearing Chen Yi’s words, felt as though struck by a heavy hammer, and she staggered in place, seemingly slipping into some sort of trance.

All her problems, worries, and concerns over the years were solved in the face of these words.

Indeed.

Why overthink it all?

So what if she had made mistakes?

So what if things weren’t right?

Why insist on a perfect life? Why force every single thing she does to be correct? No one’s life is perfect. Even Su Shi, who created such an exquisite verse, left an unfinished poem before his death, making his life not so perfect.

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Why should her life be perfect?

After a long while.

The woman wiped the tears from her eyes, her face streaked with tear marks as she looked toward Chen Yi’s silhouette at the window, her voice clear and forceful, brimming with an energy she had never had before as she declared, “Teacher, I’ve realized.”

“You’re right, we come to this world to atone, this world should not be filled with slaughter, it should not be a place where everyone turns to evil.”

“Just like you said, Teacher, Judgment Day is about to come, and if we want to return to our own world, we must pass the test, but I don’t know what the test is.”

“I have already told you.”

Chen Yi, leaning on his cane with one hand, slowly turned and faced the woman behind him, calmly saying, “World peace, only through world peace will your gods believe you’ve truly cleansed yourselves of sin, and I will also offer my suggestions to the gods.”

“As a spokesperson for the gods, I’m willing to help you, but the condition is that you truly need to let go of the slaughter in your hearts and pursue peace.”@@novelbin@@

“… This.”

The woman hesitated for a moment before speaking weakly, “Teacher, world peace is too hard. I’ve heard what you said, I’ve realized, but others haven’t heard it, and it’s really difficult for everyone to let down their guard.”

“Just one person like me is too insignificant when it comes to world peace.”

“Come.”

Chen Yi waved his hand, signaling the woman to step forward, then he picked up a piece of white paper from the table, spread it out, and dropped a speck of ink onto it.

The black ink on the white paper was striking.

“Do you see it?”

“Teacher, does that mean that even if our actions are like a drop of water in a bucket, we should still do it?”

“No.”

Chen Yi slowly shook his head, his internal voice tinged with speechlessness as he said, “What I mean is, in a world full of slaughter, no matter how insignificant we are, we still stand out.”

“As long as we stand up.”

“There will be people who follow us.”

“Remember one thing forever, the world is always lacking those who dare to stand out, followed next by those who dare to be the first to follow.”

“Since others haven’t heard our words, then let them listen.”

“Besides, you’re not just one person.”

“There’s also me.”

Wang Zhongyi, who had been standing to the side with tears brimming in his eyes, stepped forward with his voice full of sorrow and trembling, raised his right arm and roared, “I’m sick of this world full of slaughter, I’m sick of sitting on the toilet worrying about whether there’s a bomb hidden inside.”

“I’m sick of living life on tenterhooks.”

“I’m sick of a life where people can’t truly open up to one another.”

“I don’t want to go whoring, nor do I want to abduct a woman to bear my children; I want to experience a love as depicted in history books, mutual and consensual, not just lust, I want a woman who can truly love me and whom I can truly love in return.”

“I want world peace, I want to return to our own world as soon as possible and enjoy a real life.”

With his eyes full of tears, Wang Zhongyi stood in the twilight, his right arm raised high, resembling a fervent believer.

“And me.”

The seemingly inconspicuous vice president of the ‘Red Skull,’ removed his gas mask, revealing his pockmarked and worm-infested cheeks that looked terrifying and said with a cry in his tremulous voice.

“Starting at age 3, my dad taught me to chop people.”

“I was timid by nature, afraid to take action.”

“Until I was 7, when someone suddenly burst into our home with a gun, killed my whole family, leaving only me alive, my face ruined by a bomb, but sparing my life like a dog’s. We had no acquaintance with that man, no grudges.”

“Later when I grew up and found him, I learned he had only planned a big heist, but since he had never done it before and was somewhat uncertain, he thought our family was an easy target to practice on.”

“I realized then, in this damned world, you have to kill. If you don’t kill others, they will kill you.”

“I don’t cherish such a world at all.”

“I want peace.”

The usually mellow vice president also raised his right hand high.

“Us too.”

The eight fully armed subordinates standing behind the woman, who at first had been cold, now all had red eyes and hoarsely said, “Actually, we also don’t like killing, we don’t enjoy putting on such a cold front.”

“But this world forces us to.”

“If possible, we too want peace, and I know there are many more brothers who really want the world to be peaceful, just like us. They just need someone to lead.”

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