Crime Prison Island-Chapter 1314 - 644: Pure Troublemaker King
"Well done, Lao Cang!"
Joshua was so shocked that he almost didn't recover, but luckily he snapped back and rushed to rescue the two High-level Apostles.
Yes, rescue. Because to really kill them would be to let them go.
High-level Apostles without a soul are essentially immortal.
Their thought waves can travel four light-years naturally, and even if destroyed, Ran Xing has backups.
Joshua grabbed the core fragments, hugged them in his arms, twisted them, and tucked them under his arm.
So far, he had captured four High-level Apostles alive.
"How are you? Your Force Field seems unstable."
Joshua approached Mo Cang, but found the latter flickering, with his biological field constantly on the brink of friction.
"It's nothing! Return... quickly return!"
Mo Cang said grimly, and with a swoosh, rushed towards Earth: "I want to kill Themis!"
Joshua hurried after, the two becoming increasingly distant.
On the other side, the Six Gods and Humanity Cang Yue were already on the verge of despair.
The two teamed up to fight a child.
Yes, a child.
Among a large group of Three-eyed Divine Race, this small boy who looked completely human, smiling cheekily, seemed even more glaring.
Although he appeared as a child, his physique was extraordinarily defiant.
Standing at 1.4 meters, he possessed a White Star Body, with a biological field radius of 300 kilometers.
He simultaneously wielded Devil Worship High Energy and Sealing God Low Entropy, plus tenfold superconductivity.
"Why do you block me?"
"I just want to help them ascend dimensions, how wonderful, yet you insist on hindering, causing their downfall."
The boy had a nonchalant demeanor, effortlessly facing the cooperation of Humanity Cang Yue and Six Gods.
His Devil Worship High Energy could absorb 100% of energy within 0.1 seconds in the vicinity, as efficient as Gao Xin's last.
"Themis! Forcing us to ascend dimensions, how is that different from killing us?" Six Gods roared.
The overwhelming Sun Fire Sea around him was frozen by Sealing God Low Entropy.
In a low-pressure environment, even hydrogen was frozen, appearing as colorless transparent crystals, floating everywhere in space.
The boy was indeed Themis, he somewhat resembled Gao Xin.
Faced with Six Gods' accusations, he quipped: "Oh dear, when can this misunderstanding finally be resolved?"
"Who says joining the Ascension Body means dying? Is your understanding of losing self too narrow?"
"Human thoughts change every moment, just because it's subtle and gradual, day by day, you think you aren't losing self?"
"By joining the Ascension Body, you will only gain a vast array of others' memories, and thus not limited to recognizing oneself as merely one person."
"Just because the change is too sudden and fast, you consider losing self to be dead, this concept is as ridiculous as the monkey in Zhuangzi's parable."
The parable stems from Zhuangzi's Qi Wu Lun.
A person raised monkeys, feeding them three fruits in the morning and four in the evening. The monkeys felt dissatisfied with the three fruits in front of them.
So the person changed to feeding four in the morning and three in the evening, and the monkeys were instantly satisfied seeing four fruits immediately, unaware their total intake never changed.
Themis viewed everyone's resistance as equally laughable.
People's hearts are constantly changing and growing, just slowly, subtly, nurturing discreetly.
Even sleep is like a small death; waking is rebirth, yesterday's self has died, today is new.
Being part of the Ascension Body only means accepting a large amount of life experience in a short time, a relatively intense change, like compressing a long growth into a moment.
This is a good thing, this is called ascension, from human to saint in one step.
Yet everyone resists, vows to fight, in his view it is unnecessary.
It's like a group of relics, refusing the wheels of time, the transformation of society, clinging to the old.
Humanity Cang Yue seriously said: "Enough talk, unwilling means unwilling."
"You helped Tai Sui before, we thought you were with us."
"Ha, turns out you are the personality the Emperor Ran left to push the Ascension Body plan."
"Even the most impatient one."
Everyone now understood clearly.
It seems that Saint Peter is the most supportive of the Ascension Body plan, but not really.
Saint Peter supports it, but doesn't intend to immediately send everyone into the Ascension Body.
On the contrary, he is trying to prevent this, and maintain human society's self-change and evolution as much as possible. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢
He has his Crime Prison Island mission.
Namely, through a redemption game, continually stimulating and pushing the Crime Prison Island group to progress, replacing external society, managing cycles of chaos and order.
Thus allowing human civilization to spiral upward in reincarnation possibly lasting millions of years, only collecting a few outstanding personalities from each era.
Until one day, when human society evolves to its peak, removes low-level interests, and for truth chooses the Ascension Body path itself.
In essence, it's long-term cultivation.
But Themis is different, he actually favors fishing the pond dry.
As the most sincere Seeker, the Ascension Body mode is the civilization model closest to truth in his eyes.
So he absolutely supports it, and is very impatient, disliking waiting for humans to awaken themselves.
He even wants humanity exactly as it is now, arrogant, ignorant, immature, with actions that defy expectations.
Truly, if everyone grows mature like AI, acts predictably mature, why need so many humans?
