vncnus Chapter 78 Xiao Wu's Double Mask: The Logical Paradox of Love and Killing
Chapter 78 Xiao Wu's Double Mask: The Logical Paradox of Love and Killing
Chapter 78 Xiao Wu's Double Mask: The Logical Paradox of Love and Killing
[Douluo Continent: Top Ten Hypocrites!]
These blood-red characters, like a red-hot branding iron, were fiercely imprinted on the sky.
Shrek Academy.
Tang San's face was deathly pale, and his body swayed precariously.
"Third Brother, stop looking—no matter what Tianmu says, you will always be the best Third Brother in my heart."
Xiao Wu's eyes were red, and her once bright pink eyes were now filled with worry.
She reached out her slender hand and gently wiped the cold sweat from Tang San's forehead, her voice so gentle it seemed to drip with water.
"As long as we're together, there's no obstacle we can't overcome."
Tang San felt the warmth in his palm, and a warm current surged in his heart.
Yes, he still has Xiao Wu, and this lover who is willing to give everything for him.
As long as Xiao Wu is still alive, he has not lost.
However, at this tender moment, the dark red list on the sky began to scroll.
The scene did not feature any world-destroying powerhouses or any sinister and terrifying demons.
A pink figure appeared.
A long scorpion braid hung down her back, swaying gently with her movements; a pair of slender, beautiful legs; and a pair of adorable rabbit ears.
She frolicked among the flowers and combed her hair under the moonlight, looking so pure, harmless, and lovable.
The moment Tang San saw that figure, his pupils contracted to pinpoints, and his heart felt as if it had been gripped tightly by an invisible hand, stopping its beating.
Xiao Wu's hand, which was wiping away sweat, froze in mid-air.
[TOP3 - Xiao Wu, a 100,000-year-old transformed soul beast, the Soft-Boned Charming Rabbit!]
Dead silence.
On the Shrek Academy playground, Flander, Zhao Wuji, Dai Mubai, and the others all stared wide-eyed at the usually lively and adorable Xiao Wu in disbelief.
"Xiao--Xiao Wu?" Oscar's mouth dropped open, his jaw almost dropping to the floor. "How is this possible? How could Xiao Wu be a hypocrite?"
Xiao Wu herself was struck dumb.
She stared blankly at the familiar image of herself on the sky, her signature rabbit ears beginning to tremble uncontrollably—a sign of extreme fear and helplessness.
"No—it wasn't me—how could it be me?" Xiao Wu's voice was choked with sobs, and her body involuntarily retreated, as if the sky were a monster ready to devour anyone.
Immediately afterwards, those merciless words of judgment transformed into lines of blood-red text, appearing beneath her image, each word piercing to the heart!
[Comment: This is racial betrayal, the epitome of double standards.]
As a soul beast who had been reborn as a human after tens of millions of years of cultivation, she hated the Spirit Hall for hunting down her mother and for humanity's greed and slaughter of soul beasts. This hatred was understandable, even worthy of sympathy.
However, when the hunter became her lover Tang San, her stance took a ridiculous twist.
[She not only didn't stop Tang San from hunting other soul beasts, even those of the same age (ten thousand or even one hundred thousand years), to obtain soul rings and soul bones, but actually applauded and even actively assisted him!]
[Logical contradiction: In her worldview, the Spirit Hall's killing of spirit beasts is a "heinous crime" because they are her relatives;]
Tang San killing soul beasts was "perfectly natural," because it was to become stronger in order to protect her.
She categorizes spirit beasts into "my friends" and "walking spirit rings." This self-centered, extreme double standard betrays the principles of her race, and while cloaked in innocence, she is utterly cold-blooded.
This is hypocrisy!
As the text appears, the images begin to shift, countless fragments of the past ruthlessly edited together by the sky, forming the most ironic contrast.
Left side of the screen:
As a child, Xiao Wu held her dead mother, weeping uncontrollably in the Star Dou Great Forest, uttering the most vicious curses towards the Spirit Hall: "Humans deserve to die! You executioners! Give me back my mother's life!!"
Right side of the screen:
The adult Xiao Wu stood beside Tang San.
Beneath his feet lay a human-faced demon spider that Tang San had just killed; its corpse was still twitching, and a purple spirit ring slowly rose.
Xiao Wu showed no pity whatsoever; instead, she looked at Tang San with adoration and exclaimed excitedly, "Third Brother, you're amazing! After absorbing this spirit ring, your strength will increase significantly! You'll be able to protect me even better from now on!"
The scene then shifts:
Deep within the Star Dou Great Forest, Da Ming (Azure Bull Python) and Er Ming (Titan Giant Ape) sacrificed themselves to save them.
Xiao Wu cried her heart out, vehemently denouncing the Spirit Hall's coercion.
However, in a flash, when Tang San went to hunt down other innocent high-level spirit beasts for the spirit ring of the Clear Sky Hammer, Xiao Wu just watched quietly.
Even when Tang San was absorbing the spirit ring, she protected him, her eyes filled only with concern for her lover, without a trace of sorrow for the loss of her kind.
"boom--!"
These scenes were like resounding slaps to Xiao Wu's face, and also to Tang San's heart.
The entire Douluo Continent was in an uproar.
Starry Sky Forest.
Countless intelligent soul beasts looked up at the sky, their eyes filled with anger and disappointment.
"traitor----"
"She is our queen—yet she helps humans kill us—"
"Why? Why is only her life considered a life, but ours isn't?"
Deep, guttural roars echoed through the forest, the fury of betrayal.
The Spirit Hall, the Papal Palace.
Bibi Dong was stunned for a moment when she saw this scene, and then burst into a mocking laugh.
"Hahaha! Good! Well said!!"
Bibi Dong laughed until tears streamed down her face. She pointed at Xiao Wu on the sky, her eyes full of contempt.
"Is this what you call purity? Is this what you call true love? Xiao Wu, you hate me for killing your mother, but look at yourself. How much of your own kind's blood have you spilled on your hands for that man?"
"I, Bibi Dong, kill soul beasts for power; I admit it's for ambition. But what about you? You're a soul beast yourself, yet you help humans kill them, and you call it 'for love'? It's utterly disgusting hypocrisy!"
Shrek Academy.
Looking at the evaluation on the sky, Tang San's mental defenses, which were already on the verge of collapse, were now pushed to the edge of a precipice.
"No—that's not how it is—" Tang San's lips trembled as he tried to refute and defend Xiao Wu, but looking at Xiao Wu cheering over the corpse of the soul beast in the scene, his throat felt blocked, and he couldn't make a sound.
Logic — Where is logic?
He kept telling himself that he was righteous and the Spirit Hall was evil because the Spirit Hall indiscriminately killed innocent people.
But did all the soul beasts he killed deserve to die?
If those soul beasts didn't deserve to die, then what about Xiao Wu, who supported his killing spree?
"ah--!!"
Xiao Wu suddenly screamed, then squatted down abruptly, clutching her head tightly with both hands. Her rabbit ears drooped limply as her body trembled violently.
"That's not true! I'm not like that!!"
She shook her head frantically, tears streaming down her face like broken beads, wetting the dust on the ground.
"I did not betray you—I did not—"
Xiao Wu raised her head, her swollen, red eyes filled with panic and an almost obsessive self-protection. She looked at Tang San, as if looking at the whole world through him, and shouted, "I let Tang San hunt spirit beasts so he could increase his strength! This world is a dog-eat-dog world. If he doesn't get stronger, how can he protect me? How can he avenge my mother?!"
As if grasping at a last straw, her voice became sharp and urgent, attempting to defy the judgment of the heavens with her own logic: "And—and those soul beasts killed by Xiao San, they—they were all evil! The Human-Faced Demon Spider was so wicked, it wanted to eat us, it deserved to die! And those soul beasts blocking our way, if they hadn't attacked us, Xiao San wouldn't have killed them!"
"Yes! That's right! Bad spirit beasts deserve to die! My Da Ming and Er Ming are good, my mother is good, so the Spirit Hall was wrong to kill them! But Xiao San killed only the bad ones! It was for justice!!"
Xiao Wu's voice grew louder and louder, as if as long as her voice was loud enough, she could cover up the huge flaws in her logic.
However, her words seemed so pale and powerless, even somewhat ridiculous, in the face of the cold words "racial betrayal" in the sky.
The Shrek Seven Devils members around them all fell silent.
Dai Mubai opened his mouth as if to say something, but in the end he sighed.
Ma Hongjun scratched his head and muttered softly, "But—the cave spider that Third Brother killed, it seems like it was just passing by and didn't intend to attack us, right?"
Although the words were spoken softly, they sounded particularly jarring in the deathly silence of the playground.
Xiao Wu's body suddenly stiffened.
Tang San was struck dumb, spitting out a mouthful of blood and staggering backward, nearly falling to the ground.
"puff--!"
"Third Brother!!" Xiao Wu cried out in alarm, trying to help him up.
But Tang San subconsciously withdrew his hand.
It was an extremely subtle movement, yet it was like a sharp knife, piercing Xiao Wu's heart.
She froze, staring at her hand hanging in mid-air, at Tang San's evasive eyes filled with pain and self-doubt.
Even my third brother thinks I'm a hypocrite?
The sky did not stop because of their suffering. The dark red light continued to flicker, as if silently mocking the self-pity of this "star-crossed lovers."
Amid Xiao Wu's devastating sobs, the second-ranked hypocrite on the list—a name that was even more significant and unexpected—was revealed.
It is slowly brewing in the darkness, preparing to bring a new wave of shock and collapse to the already riddled Douluo Continent.
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