Phantom Thief and King of Isekai

67 Hope

The night was very quiet. In this quiet night, everyone fell asleep.

    Jiang Zitong hasn't slept yet. He is the person in charge of the night watch. Of course he can't sleep. At least he can't sleep until someone gets up. Although the vigil is a very difficult task, for Jiang Zitong, it is not a difficult task. After all, his willpower cannot be estimated by ordinary people's standards.

    And because Yueling taught him how to use the TV, he is not boring now. Although there are no good programs late at night on TV, for people like Jiang Zitong who have just been exposed to TV, even a Advertising is enough to arouse his deep interest.

    While Jiang Zitong was enjoying the happiness that the television brought him with great interest, he did not relax his vigilance, but was always vigilant for abnormal movements in the dark. Once there is a little something abnormal, he will easily find out.

    Jiang Zitong watched TV and thought: "There are so many good things in this era! It seems that people in this era are very happy!"

    Although Jiang Zitong thinks so now, his former master-Sheng Lingyun-although he only came to this world three or four days longer than him, Sheng Lingyun has already seen the world clearly-but he doesn't think so at all. Sheng Lingyun felt that not only did people in this world look happier than people in their world and era, they were a bit more unhappy.

    Why is this so?

    I'm afraid Jiang Zitong will never think of this reason.

    However, Sheng Lingyun had already seen all this clearly.

    The reason for this situation is actually only one source-that is human desire.

    Because of human desires, people will have troubles. It can be said that the root of all troubles is actually human desire. If people can abandon all their desires, of course there will be no worries—because if they don’t want anything, what can be bothering them?

    ——This is what the Buddhists call "abandon the seven emotions and six desires" and "all things are empty", right?

    If all people in this world were followers of Shakyamuni, then there would be no sin in this world.

    However, if it reaches that point, not only will there be no evil in this world, but the meaning of human being as a "human" will also be denied.

    Since "everything is empty", is there any difference between the existence and absence of everything in the world? That being the case, then what is the point of survival in this world? If it gets to that point, I am afraid that even the world will stop developing, right?

    Although the Buddhist teachings can delay the destruction of this world, it only slows down the journey towards destruction, and cannot prevent the destruction of this world.

    As for the peace and obedience advocated by Islam and the fraternity and hope advocated by Christianity, none of them can prevent the destruction of the world.

    So, how can this world be saved?

    Sheng Lingyun thought about this question all his life, but he did not find an answer.

    At the beginning, Sheng Lingyun believed that as long as there was hope, the world could be saved. In his early battles, no matter how powerful opponents he faced, he was able to maintain the indelible hope in his heart. Only if the candlelight of hope is not extinguished, everything will not end. Sheng Lingyun relied on this hope in his heart to achieve countless victories, but never failed once.

    In those days, facing the menacing army of 300,000 overlord empires, Sheng Lingyun successfully defended the capital of the male empire with only 20,000 defenders. And when several countries in the whole world united to attack the Xiong Empire, Sheng Lingyun was never afraid-facing the 200,000 Qi Empire army, 300,000 original Empire army, 350,000 Chu Empire army and With the 600,000 overlord empire, Sheng Lingyun was completely unafraid. At that time, the male empire could use only less than 400,000 troops. Compared with the coalition forces of the four empires, the ratio was about 2:7. Facing an opponent almost four times his own, Sheng Lingyun was not afraid at all. Instead, he said to the officials with confidence: "After this battle, the world is in my pocket!"

    In the end, Sheng Lingyun's words came to fruition. He won the war and put the world in his pocket.

    Jiang Zitong has always regarded Sheng Lingyun as his belief, as have the rest of the Daxiong Empire. They all regard Sheng Lingyun as the hope of saving themselves and everything. As long as there is Sheng Lingyun in one day, they will have infinite confidence. Even in this world, they can easily win this kind of words like a lunatic. For Nobita at that time For the people of the empire, it was not a crazy word, but a very possible thing.

    Jiang Zitong, Sheng Lingyun, and other people in the Nobita Empire understood deeply that the Nobita Empire was an empire full of hope. At that time, in their hearts, hope was the key to saving the world.

    But for them now, the key to saving the world, they don't know where.

    Because even Sheng Lingyun has no hope now.

    Before, Sheng Lingyun always had hope and the way forward in his heart. But now, not only has he lost his way, he also lost hope.

    Everything is so sudden.

    He is just a dead man now. Nothing can be done with the dead. He is just an undead that hasn't been wiped out yet, maybe he will disappear in smoke at some point.

    The body that Sheng Lingyun occupies was originally Bei Chenye's, so since he can occupy Bei Chenye's body, it means that he may also lose ownership of this body someday.

    Sheng Lingyun is like this, and so is Jiang Zitong.

    Although the body currently occupied by Jiang Zitong no longer has his own independent consciousness, he is still a living person after all. All the indicators of his body are normal. And Jiang Zitong, like Sheng Lingyun, is just a parasitic spirit.

    Jiang Zitong looked at the night sky outside the window. In the night sky, a bright moon hung in the dark sky. Through the window lattice, Jiang Zitong seemed to see the bright moon with his own hometown, his own homeland, and my own......

    Everything is in that bright moon.

    Jiang Zitong and Sheng Lingyun, the two souls who left their world and came to this completely strange world. Their future is very slim. They have no idea what they will become in the future.

    Their hopes, everything they used to be, are buried in that world. And in this world, do they go toward destruction, or create hope and stories that belong to them in this world?