Nan Feng heard this and did not immediately answer Sea Maiden Douluo's question.
He reached out to pick up the juice on the small table next to him, bit the straw and took a big sip. Then his heterochromatic eyes narrowed slightly and he asked without answering:
"Let me ask you, regarding the things I am doing in Purple Pearl Island now - opening up routes, establishing special zones, recruiting pirates, giving civilians a way to live... What do you Sea God Island senior officials think?"
Sea Maiden Douluo frowned slightly, but still answered truthfully, "The high priest said that the things you have done have improved the lives of the islanders and established a preliminary order for ocean shipping. To be fair, it is naturally a great thing that benefits one party."
"Since it is a great thing to benefit one party, with your Sea God Island's strength and foundation, can you do it?" Nan Feng then asked.
"Senior, what does this mean?"
A hint of arrogance flashed in Sea Maiden Douluo's eyes. "I, Sea God Island, have a profound heritage, and the glory of Lord Sea God protects the world. This level of port construction and force deterrence, as long as I, Sea God Island, am willing, I can naturally do it easily!"
"Okay!" Nan Feng snapped his fingers, "Since you Sea God Island obviously have the ability to do it, and you also admit that this is a great thing! Then why... for hundreds of thousands of years, you Sea God Island have watched these sea people struggle in poverty and the oppression of pirates, and never went out to do it yourself?"
Facing Nan Feng's extremely sharp question with a hint of moral kidnapping, Sea Maiden Douluo was stunned for a moment, and then an extremely serious look appeared on his delicate and pretty face.
Not only was she not overwhelmed by Nan Feng's momentum, but she asked confidently, "Senior's words make no sense. Just because we Sea God Island 'can do it', do we 'must do it'?"
"Sea God Island has Sea God Island's responsibility!"
"The first and only mission of our Sea God Island Soul Master is to protect Sea God Temple and the inheritance of Lord Sea God from generation to generation! Instead of being a savior to save all sentient beings and deal with these trivial matters!"
"Besides, Sea God Island is a place of pure faith shrouded in the light of God!"
Sea Maiden Douluo's tone became a little serious. "If Soul Master of Sea God Island takes the initiative to get involved in these secular commercial developments and establish some kind of trade zone... then he will inevitably fall into worldly interest disputes and intrigues! This will only tarnish the purest faith of Sea God Island!"
"And, senior, have you ever thought about it?"
Sea Maiden Douluo looked at Nan Feng, "When it comes to the distribution of these huge worldly benefits, there is absolutely no so-called 'right or wrong'! By then, in order to compete for routes and gold coins, bloody conflicts will break out among humans. Sea God Island is in the middle of the situation, and where should we stand to decide who is right and who is wrong?"
"More importantly, Sea God Island protects the entire vast sea! Not just the 'human beings' on this sea!"
"In the eyes of Lord Sea God, human beings are just ordinary members of the billions of creatures and thousands of people born in this sea."
"If Sea God Island uses the power of gods to vigorously support the development of human commerce and favor the expansion of human civilization... then when human beings' desires expand infinitely due to navigation and trade, and they hunt and persecute other innocent marine life in order to obtain resources..."
Sea Maiden Douluo asked word for word, "Then what role do we, Sea God Island, play in this ecological imbalance of species? Are we the guardians of the ocean, or are we accomplices in the massacre of other marine life by humans?"
"Lord Sea God will not interfere with this. Because Sea God is the god of all creatures in this sea, not just the god of humans!"
"If the gods rashly intervene in the struggles of mortal beings for survival and interests, then what is right? What is wrong? There is no absolute between good and evil, right and wrong in the face of the natural laws of heaven and earth!"
"Unless it encounters a disaster that can destroy the entire marine ecology and cause all species to be wiped out, gods should not interfere!"
"And Sea God Island, as the watcher of this sea and the implementer of Sea God's will. Therefore, we, Sea God Island, neither should nor can interfere with these worldly developments!"
"..."
Quiet.
The only sound on the beach is the waves crashing against the rocks.
Nan Feng kept leaning forward and listened quietly to Sea Maiden Douluo finishing this long speech.
After listening, Nan Feng's pink and jade-carved little face not only did not show any anger at being rebutted, but instead gradually bloomed an extremely bright, even extremely excited smile!
A burst of unprecedented and extremely interesting scorching light burst out from his pair of heterochromatic eyes!
"Interesting... so interesting!"
Nan Feng couldn't help but clapped his hands, and crisp applause sounded on the beach.
He pointed to the empty luxury recliner next to him. The coldness and arrogance on his face disappeared, and even a hint of warmth came on his face. "Come on, come on, sit down and talk, lie down and talk. How tiring it is to stand."
Sea Maiden Douluo was not polite when he saw this.
As Sea Witch Clan, she was born with the extremely rare talent of "Mind Reading" and can keenly discern the good and evil of people's hearts.
Although the aura of the Demon God Douluo in front of her was extremely strange, as if shrouded in a fog, her Mind Reading was completely unable to read any substantive pictures or thoughts from the other person's mind.
However, the most basic hostility radar is still effective. She can really feel that after she said these words, the other party not only completely dropped all guard and hostility, but even developed an extremely strong "sense of identification" and "favor" towards her!
Sea Maiden Douluo walked over and lay down on the lounge chair very relaxedly. He even took a grape from the table and stuffed it into his mouth.
"I'm curious."
Nan Feng turned his head and looked at her with a stern gaze. "The absolutely macro-neutral logic about 'gods do not interfere with the mortal world' and 'human beings are equal to other living things'... Who taught you these things that are full of philosophy and cold rationality?"
"Oh, these."
Sea Maiden Douluo swallowed the grapes and replied very naturally, "This is what the high priest told me personally."
"The high priest said that these are the oracles and instructions given by Lord Sea God himself during the inheritance assessment."
Sea Maiden Douluo recalled the teachings of Bo Saixi, with a flash of reverence in his eyes. "The high priest told me that in fact, when she was young and just took over the position of high priest, she once had the same confusion and impulse as you."
"The high priest at that time also felt that since Sea God Island has such powerful power, why not take the initiative to interfere in the development of the ocean? Why not use thunder to eradicate those pirates and help the weak sea people struggling in the storm and poverty?"
"But later, Lord Sea God used the principles just mentioned in his mind to personally teach her and untie her knot."
Sea Maiden Douluo stuck out his tongue in embarrassment. "When I was more playful and ignorant, I asked similar questions, so the high priest took out this oracle again and taught me it exactly."
After saying that, Sea Maiden Douluo looked at Nan Feng with some confusion. "What's wrong, senior? Do you think there is anything wrong with the teachings of the high priest... or Lord Sea God?"
"Is there a problem? No! How can there be a problem!"
Nan Feng shook his head, "Not only do I not think there is a problem, I even agree with it! I appreciate it very much!"
Nan Feng leaned on the recliner, looked at the blue sky and white clouds above his head, and let out an extremely comfortable sigh:
"You have no idea that for so many years, in this continent that talks so much about 'holy glory' and 'justice and evil', and is full of extreme double standards and hypocritical moral kidnapping..."
Nan Feng turned his head, looked at Sea Maiden Douluo, and said word by word, "This is the first time I have heard such pure, high-level objective logic that is so appealing to me!"
"How can I describe that feeling..."
Nan Feng looked at the blue sky and exhaled a long breath, "It's as if you were trapped in a bandit's den that only knows how to wave your fists and use violence to solve everything for a long time, surrounded by a group of barbarians."
"And just when you are about to get bored to the extreme, you suddenly meet someone who is not only willing to reason, but can also explain the truth clearly and thoroughly."
"Since I came into this world..."
Nan Feng's voice gradually became darker, and a trace of undisguised disgust flashed through his heterochromatic eyes, "What I see and hear is always the vulgar 'the jungle of the jungle'. It's always the one with the bigger fist who has the final say. It's always the extreme double standards and gangster logic of 'you are guilty of what you do, and I'm justified if I do'."
"All kinds of changing concepts, all kinds of abandoning facts, looking at those things, I couldn't help but feel sick, and I even had the idea of destroying it all more than once."
Listening to Nan Feng's radical remarks that revealed a desire for destruction, Sea Maiden Douluo stopped eating grapes. His blue eyes widened slightly, and he looked at Little Monster in front of him with some fear.
At first, she thought that the title "Devil" did not match this pretty little lolita, but now it seems...
True to its name!