Chapter 74: Preparations for War and Demons
"Chu Xuan, it's so boring now... Is there anything else for me to do?"
In a house, Zheng Zha was sitting on a chair and staring at a flying fly, as if he was interested in the fly, which was enough to see how bored he was. △ Beside him, Chu Xuan was sitting in front of a table, holding a quill pen and constantly flipping through some documents and maps, and occasionally making some annotations.
Several days have passed since the Middle East eliminated Soren's clone. Dinaser woke up the next day, but his body and spirit have been greatly damaged. So during this period, the messes of Minas Tiris were handled by both Boromo and Ferramo who rushed back. Now they almost don't touch the ground and sit at the desk all day long.
Except for Chu Xuan, the members of the Zhongzhou team were basically idle, while Chu Xuan was responsible for helping Boromo and the other people handled some less important documents, so the rest of them were naturally idle. In fact, Yang Yun and others were fine, but Zheng Zha couldn't hold it in, so today he took the opportunity to ask Chu Xuan.
"What do you want to do?" Chu Xuan's pen that was annotating in his hand did not stop for a moment, but said lightly: "I still have some work here. Gondor's current population is only one million. Even if we solve Minas Tiris' internal troubles in advance, recruiting troops is still a very troublesome move. Do you want to recruit soldiers?"
“…Is there any other job?”
"Yes, most of the newly recruited soldiers are mobs, and some farmers and fishermen even make up the numbers." Chu Xuan put a document next to him: "If you want them to become actual combat power, then training is definitely needed. Cheng Xiao and Wang Xia are not here. Do you want to be this instructor?"
“…can’t I let me do something more interesting?”
"Then what do you want to do?"
"For example... let me cut down some orcs or something." Zheng Zha thought for a while and said, "Really speaking, the orc army of Mordor should be on the way to this place. Why not let me intercept it first? Minas Tiris is very big. If something goes wrong when defending the city, I can't take care of every place. Instead of being passively beaten, it's better to reduce the number of enemies first. I think this is better, right?"
“…”
Hearing this, Chu Xuan didn't say anything. He just stopped the movements in his hand and looked at Zheng Zha with his emotionless gaze, which made Zheng Zha feel a chill on his back.
"What's wrong? Why look at me with my eyes? Is there something on my face? Or did I say something strange?" Zheng Zha first touched his face, and then found that there was no strange thing, then he shouted with confidence.
"It's nothing, it's just a little strange. Why did you say that suddenly?" Chu Xuan shook his head and asked back.
“…Is there anything wrong with what I said?”
Zheng Zha thought carefully again about what he had just said. After confirming that there was nothing strange, he asked with a strange face: "Chu Xuan, you are very strange today. What you say is always covered in fog."
"It's something wrong." Chu Xuan replied with a serious face: "If anyone in the team said that just now, I wouldn't feel strange, but it's a bit strange if you say it."
"I said something strange...?"
Zheng Zha was about to ask again, but Chu Xuan lowered his head again and said, "This shouldn't be what I said. You should understand it yourself. As your strength improves, what changes have happened to you... This is the basic situation, above."
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"Yang Yun, I have something to ask you...what are you doing?"
Since Chu Xuan was unwilling to say it, Zheng Zha had to go to Yang Yun to answer the questions. But what surprised him was that he could not find Yang Yun anywhere. Finally, when he passed by the atrium and planned to ask Zhan Lan for help, he was surprised to find that Yang Yun had actually moved a chair and sat next to the withered white tree in the atrium with his eyes closed.
Hearing Zheng Zha's surprised voice, Yang Yun opened his eyes, waved his hand and smiled, "It's nothing, are you doing something to me?"
"Oh, that's it..." Zheng Zha didn't think much about it. He said the conversation between him and Chu Xuan in the original form, and finally said, "Yang Yun, what do you think? Do you think there are any changes in me?"
"I think Chu Xuan is probably talking about your personality."
Yang Yun thought for a while and said, "Chu Xuan is right. It would be better if someone else said this, but you are the one who said this now. Although it is a bit bad, you usually give people the feeling that you are a good person. Not to mention being kind-hearted, but you are still kind when dealing with ordinary people who are not hostile, which means you are unwilling to let your hands be stained with blood too much."
"Now you have proposed to take the initiative to kill half-orcs. If you were the ones you used to, you would never be so proactive. It seems that although you can maintain your will to unlock the fourth-level gene lock, the inner demon still affects your personality to a certain extent. Zheng Zha, you have not survived the inner demon, right?"
Zheng Zha touched his head and said, "After you said this, I thought about it, it's true. It seems that this inner demon needs to be overcome as soon as possible, and the longer it drags on, the more unfavorable it will be. But how do you want to survive? I'm completely confused."
“Um…”
Yang Yun couldn't answer Zheng Zha with certainty. The inner demon is different from the person. If the Zheng Zha in the original work, he knew that the inner demon is nothing more than his own replica, but the spiritual light of Zheng Zha is a mysterious dragon change. The Zheng Zha in front of him is obviously different from the Zheng Zha in infinite terror. The spiritual light of Zheng Zha is Bai Yan, which is opposite to the replica Zheng Zha's Li Yan... Who can guarantee that his inner demon or the replica Zheng Zha?
And the most important point is, will Zheng Zha really lose to the replica of Resident Evil 2 Middle School? Can he still use suicide to survive his inner demon?
Seeing that Yang Yun pondered for a long time and didn't speak, Zheng Zha smiled. He patted Yang Yun on the shoulder and said, "Forget it, it doesn't matter. I will solve my own affairs by myself. This shouldn't be something you worry about."
"You can see it..." Yang Yun smiled bitterly, "Forget it, I really can't help you with too much about the inner demon, but it's okay to guess and explain it roughly. After all, I have also been included in the inner demon."
"First of all, those who enter the inner demon will fall into a state of tyranny. Although the state of the inner demon is of various, in fact, the human head is full of extremely violent consciousness, and it is impossible to distinguish between one's own people and enemies. All people around you will be attacked by them. This tyrannical consciousness also suppresses the individual's original consciousness, so unless you see through your own inner demon, the person who falls into the inner demon will only fall deeper and deeper, just like when you first entered the inner demon, you almost cut all of us."
"Uh..." Zheng Zha obviously remembered what he did when he unlocked the fourth-level gene lock and smiled embarrassedly.
"According to my guess, the inner demon should refer to the 'self', that is, the extreme amplification of all ** and unlimited amplification." Yang Yun organized the language slightly and said: "The so-called id, self, and superego do not refer to three human states. The id refers to the human self, the driving force for all progress; while the elbow is a state of rational thinking, which will deny bad feelings and behaviors about oneself; as for the superego, it can be considered as a person's kindest, most moral, adhere to beliefs and hopes, and a person is divided into these three parts: the id, self, and superego."
"Zheng Zha, I think that if you want to overcome the inner demon, you must first strengthen the path in your heart, guard yourself, and not be distorted by your own id."
"That's it... By the way, when the Star River Team fought against the guy who borrowed the body of the captain of the Neptune Team, I remembered that I forced the inner demon to suppress it with my strength. Could this be a way to overcome the inner demon?" Zheng Zha suddenly lit up and said.
"Forcibly suppress the inner demon with your strength? Is your strength already this level?" Yang Yun was stunned for a moment and said.
"I don't know either, but I subconsciously feel that using force to suppress is feasible." Zheng Zha thought for a while: "In addition, while using force to suppress, I also feel that my mood is constantly stabilizing... It seems that either way of both is possible?"
Yang Yun thought carefully, and then said, "I don't know much, but this method is unexpectedly suitable for you. In short, you can't find a clue now, so why not walk on this road and take a look? Ren Wanqian's martial arts and Ren Wunu's skills, what is really fighting for is still power... There has never been only power that is not enough, and there is no way that cannot be proved."
"Use force to suppress and make up for spiritual loopholes; these two methods have their own advantages. You can choose one method or combine the two methods into one. I'm afraid this is why Chu Xuan lets you experience it yourself... Zheng Zha, come on, if it were you, I believe I can do it!"
Chapter completed!