Chapter 216 Bad Things

Central, South Street.

This is the resource distribution center of the entire Central Government. All kinds of industrial resources such as coal, iron ore, gasoline, etc. sent from other resource cities will be pulled here first, loaded and unloaded by workers, and finally sent to various research institutes or power plant gas stations.

And here, the lowest group of people in the entire Central Government are gathered.

These people are called hangers-on in the cabinet, and they are not recognized as proletarians like workers and farmers, but a group of ordinary citizens in the Central Government who want to make some extra money in their spare time.

In fact, people working in South Street do have Central Government household registration, but they have no place to live in this city.

Most of these people are special recruits who graduated from colleges and were recruited by major laboratories because of their excellent grades. They worked hard to make money and were taken from their hometowns to the Central Government. They used to be the families of workers and farmers.

But as their only children of special recruits who can have a stable life in the Central Government, they encountered an accident in the subsequent experiments.

Either died or became seriously ill, and became a burden overnight from the mainstay of the family.

Many such families will eventually give up treatment and abandon their children, who were once the pride of the family but have now become family nightmares, in the central government, leaving them to fend for themselves. Others will sell everything they can and return to their hometowns.

Some others are unwilling to watch their children die in such pain. These people want to stay in the central government and use the medical conditions here to treat their children, but the high fees of those hospitals make it difficult for them to afford it.

These people have no status, no jobs, and are not accepted by the city. In the end, they can only find the same hard labor as before in South Street, desperately making money to survive.

And after four or five hours in the dark, those "hangers" in the central government who have been tired for a day will leave their posts exhausted.

Most of these people have no fixed place to live, and almost all the money they earn every day is sent to the hospital. For convenience, they set up a tattered tent in a nearby park and spend night after night.

However, in recent days, the cabinet has begun to inspect various places in order to strictly investigate the situation of people without household registration who are hiding in the central government. The "hangers" are not allowed to live in this park, and they are driven away.

Now, these people covered in sweat can only lean against the wall of the largest warehouse on South Street, waiting for the propaganda to end at night, and then set up tents to sleep.

People are exhausted and don't even have the strength to speak. They just sit in the corner of the wall, and in the shadows, they don't know whether they are watching the happy family of three taking a walk in the evening under the dim street lights, or worrying about tomorrow's medical expenses.

Just as the night gradually deepened and the hangers-on began to set up tents on the wall, two tall people, one old and one young, wearing church pastor robes, walked through the dim street lights and came to this gathering of tents.

Many of the hangers-on who were setting up tents knew the old pastor whose robe was full of patches and whose face was old, but whose waist and back were straight and not bent at all.

"You are here again."

"Thank you so much for last night! I haven't had such a good sleep and such a beautiful dream for many days!"

"I heard today that such things are only enjoyed by those nobles who spend a lot of money in the church? Will it cause trouble for you to use them for us?"

Hearing the questions of those hangers-on, Li Wei also turned his head and looked at Lao Le beside him.

Lao Le just smiled and shook his head.

"Those people don't spend money to buy, but don't donate money. The church will allocate a part of the money they donate to you, so don't worry about anything."

Such an answer made these hangers-on smile, and their words became relaxed. They kept thanking Lao Le, and at the same time they all noticed the young pastor standing next to him.

"Don't worry about him, he is a new member of the church and is temporarily following me for internship."

Lao Le just said casually, and he didn't mean to introduce anything to Li Wei.

Soon, when these hangers-on set up the tent and got in and lay down, Lao Le opened the communicator with the webpage opened in his hand outside and played the melodious pure music on it.

Only after everyone in the tent fell asleep did Lao Le turn off the music and put away the communicator.

"Those people in the central government are afraid." He said calmly, "They are all afraid. I don't know what the church is doing. They all seem to want to study Paradise thoroughly and think there must be some danger there, but in fact, this thing is so simple."

Lao Le patted Levi's shoulder and signaled that they should leave.

Levi took a last look at those who had fallen asleep in the tent. He followed Lao Le's pace and asked puzzledly.

"So Paradise is actually a simple hypnotist. Its only function is to let everyone see their own desires?"

"These so-called hangers-on have basically the same dreams in Paradise." Lao Le took Levi to the road where the street lights were on. "In the dream, their family is not broken, the family is reunited, and everyone lives together in good health. Is this their desire?"

Levi shook his head.

"Hope is also a desire. The word desire may be derogatory, but it has nothing to do with good or bad."

"Do you think that human nature is bad or good when it is born?" Lao Le suddenly asked.

He seemed to be quite casual, and he would talk to Li Wei about whatever he thought of.

The theory of human nature being evil or good, this is a topic that has been debated since ancient times, but after the rise of a series of humanities such as sociology in modern times, this issue is actually no longer necessary to debate.

Li Wei said.

"Whether human nature is good or evil is defined by people themselves, and people themselves are social creatures and cannot exist without groups. Sociality is a manifestation of the consciousness of social animals. It makes the survival ability of individuals within the society far greater than that of individuals separated from the society. It also includes altruism, cooperation, dependence, and more advanced self-consciousness. "

"These characteristics cannot be said to be good or bad, but are defined by other individuals themselves. Generally, those that benefit others are often defined as good, while those that harm others and benefit themselves are defined as bad. These criteria will change according to the development of society."

Li Wei looked into Lao Le's eyes.

"So there is no standard answer to judging whether a new individual is good or bad, but we need to analyze it from the social level."

Lao Le looked at him with a strange look.

"Have you read books about philosophy or sociology before?"

Levi shrugged, not caring about some of the things he exposed.

"You won't report me and let the criminal department arrest me, right? These are all banned books banned by the central government."

Lao Le laughed.

"The more they fear something, the more they prohibit it. You are right. People are social, so when most people in this world have problems, the problem is not with the individual, but with the whole society."

"But people living in society rarely realize that the real problem is with this society. Those high-ranking people think that everything should be like this, and they deserve their enjoyment. But the mediocre masses at the bottom have no knowledge and have no energy to think because of the huge labor. Many people only think that their lives have become like this because they are not working hard enough and are not motivated enough."

Lao Le took Li Wei away from South Street. They came to the largest hospital staff apartment near South Street. When they walked through here, they could vaguely hear the melodious pure music coming out of every room in front of almost every apartment.

Lao Le sneered.

"Did you hear that? No matter how much those who fear that the church has bad intentions try to stop and ban it, it will be useless. As long as one person tries and enters the paradise, it will spread uncontrollably like a virus. No matter how affluent their lives are, as long as there are levels above the levels, they will have fantasies and desires. Reality cannot realize this desire, but in the paradise, everything can be achieved as you wish."

Levi understood it now. He looked at Lao Le, who was mocking someone, and realized that the church's paradise plan was simply an open conspiracy!

The top leaders of the central government knew that the church could not suddenly make a 180-degree turn in its attitude towards the powerful, so they would be wary of this plan.

But people's desires cannot be guarded against. Those who have experienced the paradise will always communicate with others, show off, and recommend it.

As time went by, many people found that those who had entered the park did not encounter any accidents or show any differences. Even the church's own clergy would enter the park to help the lower-level hangers-on use the park for public welfare to relax. Even if they were still wary, they would join the park plan with the mentality that everyone around them had already experienced it, and even if there was a problem, it was everyone's problem.

Now, it has only been three days since the launch of the park plan, and the first batch of people who have experienced it have just passed.

The entire central government has been fascinated by the perfect world that only exists in dreams, and entering the park at night will not only not affect people's normal life operations, but will make them feel more comfortable and satisfied than before when they wake up the next morning.

It's like this is a plan with all benefits and no harm.

"But is it really not bad at all?" Levi turned to Lao Le and asked.

Lao Le calmly gave Levi the answer.

"If it is bad to let everyone recognize that there is a problem in this society, then the park is indeed a bad thing."