Demon Lord 3

Chapter 1941 The Disappeared Person

Later I learned that those people had been swallowed up out of thin air; those who disappeared would never return. After hearing this, my mind went blank. I never imagined that such things could actually happen in broad daylight, that murder could occur. But those people volunteered to complete the mission. Since it was made public, there must be a certain degree of danger. Many people take the risk because they see high pay or low risk levels. However, the level of danger is unrelated to a person's failure rate or mortality rate; it only indicates the possibility or impossibility of encountering such a person. It has little to do with whether one will actually encounter it. Here's a selection... When it comes to an individual, everything is 100%. No one can control such things. We probably resent those old guys in the big world who treat these people's lives so casually. But then again, everyone who has reached this point, who hasn't risked their life to get to the highest level? Who is just sitting back and reaping the rewards? It seems that none of those so-called people who rose to power through family influence actually relied on a combination of luck and real strength. The fact that these things can happen means that many people have a need for them. Many missions have a 99.9% chance of failure and death, but many people are still willing to take them. They believe themselves to be one in a million. Such people may not be a minority, but rather a majority. This is a classic gambler's mentality, yet they are willing to gamble. After all, their very existence in this world is a gamble on their lives. Many couldn't survive in the Great World. To defy fate, they had to go to a new world, a new beginning. After achieving success, they would return to the Great World, hoping to impress everyone. But this would come at a price—the possibility of death or injury. They weren't afraid of that. What they feared was having no meaning in this world, endlessly cultivating and sacrificing for it in exchange for an elixir of immortality. And this elixir, capable of extending lifespan, truly tempted them... The rest of their lives are spent striving and struggling. If this striving and struggling had a time limit, at least everyone would have some hope. But this is endless and without end. And the moment you obtain the elixir, it means you have to keep paying for it for the next few years. Otherwise, when the elixir stops, your lifespan will end. If you are a cultivator, you are willing to bear all the consequences because you are willing to contribute to this world and are willing to achieve enlightenment. But many people are greedy. They don't know the meaning of this world, nor do they know their purpose in coming here. They only know how to strive to live. But even they need to have some hope in life, at least to believe that they won't have to strive anymore, or that their efforts are not so aimless, endless, and meaningless. If all of life... Things are all proceeding meaninglessly. Perhaps many people don't want to continue living. There are many old folks who don't do much every day, yet they've lived for many years. But thinking about it carefully, these old folks I know aren't living a life of leisure; they've paid many times more effort than ordinary people to earn that longevity. And longevity isn't what they truly pursue; what they truly pursue is enabling more people to live better lives. If they themselves didn't want to live anymore, that wouldn't be the hardest thing for them. The hardest thing is for those below them, those who pray to gods and Buddhas, hoping they can live well, be the pillars of this world. Pillars—that's a term that can also be considered the world's support system, as if a pillar connects heaven and earth. This pillar may seem illusory, but... These pillars truly exist. Without them, the sky would truly collapse. Father, Master Chen, and Daoist Fang are all elites in their respective fields, yet they have lived for so many years without ever having the thought of giving up. I used to think it was because of their high positions that they were enjoying life, but upon reflection, it seems they are not so much enjoying themselves, but rather wanting to repair this world. At the beginning of the pseudo-world's establishment, it was actually because the resources of the great world were gradually becoming insufficient, and many people were wasting resources instead of truly consuming them. Once this situation occurs on a large scale, it will become increasingly uncontrollable. This improved mechanism can greatly alleviate the current pressure. Those people were sent there and did not know about the existence of the rifts. Many missions were created because of the rifts.