Eternal Nightmare: The Long Night
Chapter 711

We Are the Majority!

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"The reason I say you're too crude is because there's a huge flaw in your theory."

Zhi spoke as he operated. "You treat every person as an individual with independent rationality."

Wu Pifu watched Zhi in the operating room expressionlessly and said sternly, "Focus on the surgery!"

Zhi burst out laughing and waved the scalpel. "What are you talking about? A minor operation like this is nothing to me... Ah, I cut the aorta!"

A cloud of blood instantly filled the operating room. Veins bulged on Wu Pifu's forehead, but Zhi immediately laughed and said, "Just kidding. It's only a blood pack. Relax, relax."

The several medical staff nearby instinctively stepped farther away.

Zhi continued speaking as he worked the scalpel. "In your mind, you draw a strict line between the lives you encounter: humans and non-humans. You've also set an unbreakable bottom line. You communicate with humans as equals, take them seriously, and treat them as beings you can talk to, cooperate with, or oppose. But every non-human is something you consider completely incomprehensible—and not worth understanding."

Wu Pifu continued to ask expressionlessly, "What's wrong with that?"

Zhi shrugged. "I have no intention of judging whether your beliefs are good or bad. They're your own worldview, and I don't want to interfere with it. Besides, you really would slap me to death. Until I find a way to change your worldview without consequences, I won't try it... What I'm saying now is that your worldview has both strengths and weaknesses. Its strength is that it's simple, direct, logically consistent, and doesn't cause internal friction. As long as you don't lose yourself in Delusion, nothing can make you doubt yourself."

"But naturally, it has weaknesses too. The greatest problem isn't that you might kill a good person by mistake. As

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