127: Chapter 127: Earth's Recycling Plan

In the living room, on the sofa.

Xiao Yu shook her head, still struggling with the word "experience." "Big Brother, what kind of experience, who is experiencing, and experiencing what?"

Jiang Zhe did not answer the question directly but changed the angle to guide her. "Xiao Yu, if you were locked in a perfectly safe room that you could never leave, even with plenty of food and water, but without windows, sound, or any changes; as time passed, what would you become?"

Xiao Yu replied almost without thinking: "Then I would go crazy! I would try everything to get out, even if it was just to take a look outside!"

Jiang Zhe nodded and asked the key question with a deep expression: "Then..."

"What about Earth?"

Boom—

A silent thunderclap exploded in the minds of countless people!

Xiao Yu's eyes widened instantly, and her cherry mouth opened subconsciously.

What about Earth?

Where was the consciousness of that massive planet, which possessed rivers and mountains and nurtured thousands of lives, restricted?

He was right there, he had always been there!

He could not leave himself; he could not walk like a human, touch, or experience and perceive this complex, vast, and vibrant young world that he himself had constructed from the perspective of a tiny individual!

After a brief moment of enlightenment, the comments section in the live stream exploded.

"Holy crap!"

"Master, I have realized; I have truly realized!"

"So that's it, so that's it, hahahaha!"

"I'm kneeling, I'm really kneeling to our Big Brother's philosophy; this level is too high!"

"..."

Inside the office.

The originally cold air was instantly warmed by these few words.

"Hiss~~" Principal Fu's pupils contracted, and he gasped, "This... is extremely profound; even as an outsider, I can feel the taste of the creation of heaven and earth, and the Tao acting naturally."

Old Wang said with a look of astonishment: "Yes, this thought is probably on par with the ancient sages!"

"Unexpected, truly unexpected!" Teacher Xiao Wang had never admired anyone in his life, but in just this short moment, he was shocked by the height of Jiang Zhe's thoughts, his face full of surprise.

At this moment, even Principal Fu, Professor Chen Runzhi, Professor Liu Guangyi, Professor Guan, Li Mo, Zheng Ming, and even the just-enlightened Celestial Master Zhang felt their scalps tingling, a shiver of realization sweeping through their whole bodies!!

At this moment, in the eyes of many, Jiang Zhe was no longer just a tutor helping Xiao Yu with her studies, but a great master who commanded respect and even enlightenment!

Xiao Yu couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva, her eyes filled with joy and novelty. "Big Brother, I understand, I think I understand."

"We humans touch the world with our hands, see this world with our eyes, hear this world with our ears, taste this world with our tongues; we explore this world with our actions. For us, everything is taken for granted."

"But for Earth, this super-consciousness, he is restricted by himself in the cold Solar System, forever orbiting the sun!"

"And Earth can only watch this world, or rather, he is this world!"

"So he also longs to be like us, to explore, to experience, to feel this world—"

"To feel the tiring nine-to-five, to feel the mechanical numbness of day after day, to feel the comfort of stepping into nature; to feel long-lost joy, to feel accustomed loneliness; to feel the reunion of the whole family; to feel the longing of separation; to feel the vibrant morning, to feel the gloomy dusk... to feel all the joys and sorrows of the human world!"

Jiang Zhe was slightly surprised and nodded in approval.

He didn't expect that after adding some spirit to Xiao Yu, even her words could become somewhat poetic!

"But!" Then confusion washed over her, and Xiao Yu pouted her cherry lips. "He still can't experience it like that. He created us, divided fragments of his soul among us to go and experience... but those experiences and feelings are still our own, not his. How can he experience them?"

This was also a question that countless netizens cared about, but smart netizens already had a look of realization on their faces.

A smile also appeared on Jiang Zhe's face. "Where do we come from?"

"Or rather, where does our consciousness/soul go after we die?"

"!!!"

Xiao Yu's beautiful eyes widened instantly, and she was struck as if by a heavy blow, freezing on the sofa.

The netizens who were just savoring the experience were instantly struck again by Jiang Zhe's words!

"Coming from Earth, returning after death..."

"Holy crap! I actually freaking get it now!"

"My god, so all our feelings, memories, and experiences while alive will eventually be fed back to this Earth like data?"

"Is this Earth's way of experiencing? — By splitting into countless individuals, playing countless roles, to go through and perceive everything in the world, and then when countless roles die, absorb countless experiences, bring them back, and become a part of Earth?"

"Damn! Our Big Brother, this hypothesis and answer, is too freaking philosophical!"

"It's just, super-philosophical, and it's also too grand, too terrifying!"

"..."

Hearing this, Li Mo in the Huaqing University lounge turned his head in a daze, looking at Professor Guan, who was staring intently at the big screen, "This is just too magnificent!"

You know, this scientifically barren world didn't have the grand macro-concepts proposed by Jiang Zhe!

For a world that had long suffered from a lack of Tao, these words from Jiang Zhe were no less than dropping a philosophical mushroom bomb on this planet!

Listening to the gasps of his colleagues in the room, Li Mo just wanted to say something when he was interrupted by Xiao Yu's words.

Xiao Yu stood up abruptly, her eyes shining, "I know, Earth's way of experiencing all things in the world and the warmth and cold of the human world is through us. We are the individuals he dispersed who possess free will; we live, we love, we hate, we succeed, we fail, we feel everything; and all our experiences, when our lives end, our souls return to the source!"

"Finally, it becomes Earth's experience!"

"He uses countless of us to experience this planet that he created but cannot descend upon as a whole!"

"Of course... exactly!" Jiang Zhe grinned, confirming her speculation.

However!

The next moment, as this grand vision and beauty had just passed through the minds of all the netizens, teachers, experts, and professors in front of the screen.

The result was scattered by a few words from Xiao Yu.

"But Big Brother!"

"If that's really the case, if Earth is just trying to experience, then why does he still manipulate us at the microscopic level?"

"Especially the previous [The Devil in the Brain]—it proves that he can indeed fine-tune to manipulate our free will."

"This is not experiencing at all, and it is not simply collecting experiences; this is him guiding some of us individuals to actively seek death when facing choices—it completely violates our free will!"

"This is still the cold and ruthless execution from Earth!!!"

These words from Xiao Yu instantly extinguished the enthusiasm in the hearts of countless netizens!

Jiang Zhe, however, shook his head gently, "No, you are wrong!"

"I'm wrong?"

"Yes." Jiang Zhe nodded gently, "Whether Earth is evil or not is no longer important at this moment."

"What is important is that you understand the deeper meaning behind it."

A smile suddenly appeared on Jiang Zhe's face, "Is there a possibility? Your freedom, my freedom, people's freedom—is it an attribute that was endowed in the first place?"

"Our freedom, is it endowed?"

Xiao Yu thought quickly for a moment. Isn't freedom something humans possess themselves?

Jiang Zhe shook his head gently, "I know what you want to ask, you're wrong; freedom is not something we individuals possess inherently, it is indeed endowed!"

His train of thought shifted, and the words spilled out: "It is Earth that endowed us with free will, endowed us with the desire to explore Earth, and endowed us with the ability to feel happiness and pain."

"Have you ever thought: Why?"

"Why do you feel unprecedented freedom when you are in nature, in the mountains, in the desert, in open places?"

Xiao Yu and countless netizens, teachers, and professors were stunned.

Freedom...

When away from the bustling city, when traveling alone to the countryside, looking at the mountains, listening to the springs, and being in the quiet nature, humans feel unprecedented freedom. That is freedom from the heart, as if all troubles are isolated.

At this moment, many netizens felt what Jiang Zhe meant.

It is indeed so; when alone in nature, humans do feel a sense of tranquility and freedom isolated from the world.

As if...

As if, life should be like this!

"A bit mysterious!" Professor Liu Guangyi tapped the table gently, "Isn't it that the human brain can resonate with nature in nature and feel emotional tranquility, or is there some deeper meaning in it?"

The next moment, Jiang Zhe's voice came from the big screen: "That is because only when we are truly free, truly breaking free from the most basic survival shackles—do we have the energy, the mood, to see a wider landscape; to experience more complex emotions, and to create a richer picture of civilization!"

"Only then can we bring back deeper, more unique, and more diverse experiential emotions for Earth, this [Observer] and [Experience Collector]!"

"This is the [Mission], the mission of the individuals after the human soul disperses from the Earth's soul!"

"The mission is: to experience the warmth and cold of life, and when life is about to end, return all the experiences in the individual soul endowed to you by Earth—back to the main body of Earth—in this way, Earth can also feel the feelings that you, I, and everyone else feel!"

Xiao Yu and the more than six million netizens in the live stream widened their eyes inexplicably, as if they had realized something.

"And when an individual is gradually in a repetitive experience, such as an unchanging nine-to-five job; at that time, the individual's life trajectory has been solidified and no longer produces new [experiences]; when that individual can no longer produce fresh, valuable [emotional experiences]..."

Jiang Zhe paused for a moment, then continued:

"Then, for the individual, the individual's mission has been completed!"

"Earth will begin to randomly adjust the individual's destiny—a sudden bankruptcy of a business, an inexplicable end to a relationship, an inexplicable desire to give up in the middle of the night; or even at some intersection, when traffic is heavy, a sentence comes to mind [Choose A: Rush through]."

"Then..."

Jiang Zhe's expression tightened, his hands gently pulled apart in front of his chest, then slowly closed, and finally, with a soft "pop" sound.

"His journey is over."

He looked at Xiao Yu, his eyes very deep: "So, for those who heard Choose A and uncontrollably walked to the end, is it possible that it is just because their life script for this life has already been written to the final chapter?"

"Earth has reclaimed this record of experience that is already complete."

"And why do some bad people live exceptionally long? Perhaps it is not that good people are suppressed by bad people, but because the life scripts of bad people are full of ups and downs, the bad, evil, wickedness, etc., of bad people; the [experiences] that bad people provide to the Earth's main body are extremely conflicting and have reference value; therefore, Earth believes that the individual still has the need to be observed, so it lets bad people live longer."

"Conversely, the experiences of good people are too few, their lives are plain, their experiences are thin, so Earth reclaims the [life experience] of good people in advance."

Speaking to this, Jiang Zhe shook his head regretfully, with some compassion in his sigh.

"It is a pity that—the huge cage built by modern civilization, the endless pursuit of material things, and the pressure of survival are imprisoning more and more people on a fixed track. Running for life, trapped in a square inch."

"Many people run for life, trapped in a square inch; repeating similar joys and sorrows; this restricted [lack of freedom] may be exactly what has caused many souls to fail to fully exert the [experience script] endowed by Earth, and also made the [experiences] that Earth can recover become single and poor."

These words from Jiang Zhe made countless netizens, teachers, and experts look stunned, as if a certain shackle in their minds had been unlocked.