I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 438 God and Tea

When he heard this question, the alarm in Lao Xu's heart suddenly sounded.

His sense of danger suddenly surged, then plummeted, like a roller coaster, up and down, very strange.

Old Xu had never seen such a strange phenomenon before. The hand holding the teacup began to tremble uncontrollably. He quickly put down the teacup, picked up the towel beside him, and gently wiped the table to hide his inner uneasiness.

He struggled with the wording, various theories kept coming to his mind.

There are discussions about God in various classic ancient books, as well as the contemporary atheism. Lao Xu wanted to quote from the classics and give a good explanation for the strange creature in front of him, but when the words came to his lips, he felt that nothing he said was right.

There's always something missing.

After drinking cup after cup of tea, Old Xu's thoughts gradually became clear.

“Humanity needs God.”

Old Xu blurted out.

When he said this, the sense of danger in his heart reached its peak.

But he suppressed his discomfort and changed the subject:
“But there doesn’t need to be a God who accomplishes everything.”

The danger level has dropped again.

He wiped the sweat off his face and asked the water man in front of him: "Let me give you an example. For example, humans need fire. How do we get fire?"

"We humans have a myth about a god called Prometheus, who stole fire for humans. The fire dispelled darkness, brought cooked food to humans, and introduced humans to the civilized stage."

"It is certainly a good thing to have such a 'fire thief' who can bring light to mankind," said Old Xu seriously.

With his words, the danger level began to rise again.

"But!" Old Xu changed the subject again.

"Humanity does not need a fire thief, and myths do not exist..."

"Initially, humans found fire in forests burned by lightning, and then collected sparks to build the first fire. Fire was not given by God, but it was later discovered by humans that heating flammable materials would cause combustion."

"Drilling wood to start a fire, striking flint to start a fire... these earliest ways of making fire laid the foundation for human civilization and were also the earliest explorations of 'fire' by humans."

"Burning wood, burning coal, boiling water, burning atoms... Human civilization has developed from the exploration of 'fire', and human knowledge has also been gained from studying fire."

"If God exists, humans should just enjoy fire. Why should we study the origin of fire? Of course, if God exists, humans would not have the current level of civilization."

Old Xu spoke more and more fluently, and the danger level in his heart gradually decreased and returned to a normal range.

Seeing this, Lao Xu also began to pursue the victory.

"God only needs to exist as a symbol and provide psychological comfort. He doesn't need to do anything else..."

As Lao Xu continued to output, the danger level slowly dropped to normal. Lao Xu decided not to continue talking, but looked at the water man, looking forward to its response.

"If God is useless, why do we have God?"

"Why does it have to be useful?" Old Xu asked directly, "There are always some things in this world that have no meaning, right?"

Old Xu's words seemed to have hit the water man hard.

"I understand……"

"But, when those humans who are in misery sincerely make wishes to God, shouldn't God fulfill them?" The water man asked Lao Xu this question again, and the danger level increased again.

Old Xu was as if facing a great enemy, and asked cautiously: "What kind of suffering?" "Birth, old age, sickness and death, hunger and thirst, plague, war..." With each word the water man mentioned, the danger level increased by one point.

"Stop!" Old Xu quickly interrupted the water man. His brain was spinning rapidly and he quickly found a suitable way to say it:

"Let me give you an analogy. If there are two people dying of thirst in the desert, one prays to God for a spring of fresh water, and the other prays to God for a handful of money, which one will God satisfy?"

"A clear spring." The water man blurted out.

"That god is unfair," Old Xu commented bluntly.

"If in a brutal war, one side has 10,000 people praying to defeat the other side, and the other side has 20,000 people praying, which side will God satisfy?" Old Xu continued to ask.

"God will compare the strength of the wishes after they are superimposed..." replied the water man.

"God is unfair." Old Xu said again.

"If an old rich man has never prayed to God in his life, but makes a wish at the age of 80, hoping that his family will be safe and sound, at the same time, a five-year-old child makes the same wish in front of the statue of God."

"Not only that, while the child was praying, his father received a report of the child's terminal illness at the hospital and burst into tears. The family had no money, so he could only kidnap the old rich man. For this reason, he prayed to God for the safety of his family."

“Which of these three people will God satisfy?”

After asking this question, Lao Xu found that the risk level was completely fixed and no longer changed.

"Child?"

"The old rich man will die."

"Can't all of them be satisfied?" The water man suddenly began to doubt himself.

"Dad's kidnapping failed, and when he returned to the hospital, he found out that the nurse had actually taken the terminal illness report by mistake, and the child didn't have any disease. This way all three of them had a good ending..." Shui Ren thought for a while and replied.

"The nurse has been working diligently for more than ten years and had just hoped for a promotion and a raise. Now that such a big mistake has happened, she is scolded by her boss and her chances of promotion and a raise are gone," added Old Xu.

The water man thought for a moment and said, "Let's try another method..."

However, before the water man could finish speaking, Lao Xu interrupted him.

"Don't you understand yet? God cannot be fair. If the degree of suffering endured is determined by the degree of wishes fulfilled, it will fall into a cycle that will never end. When someone's wish is fulfilled, others will suffer."

The water man was stunned, staring at the tea. The light tea leaves sank to the bottom, while the tea surface above was extremely clear. The world is inherently uneven, and suffering always falls to the bottom.

It picked up the teacup and shook it. The tea leaves rose along the wall of the cup and floated in the tea. The tea also became turbulent, with the black tea leaves floating everywhere. Some of them stuck to the wall of the cup, and some floated to the surface of the tea.

The water man kept shaking it, trying to distribute the tea leaves evenly, but he couldn't do it.

But it still refused to believe it, and a dazzling golden light emerged from its body, directly covering the teacup in front of it.

Under the effect of the golden light, all the black tea leaves quickly dissolved, but there were still some tiny black particles in the tea that could not be eliminated, so the golden light rushed towards the particles again.

It wants to completely eliminate the differences in the world.

Old Xu sat aside, not saying a word, quietly watching the overflowing golden light.

Finally, thanks to the unremitting efforts of the water man, the tea water finally became extremely clear.

However, the original brown color also disappeared.

There was only one cup of water left in the cup.

(End of this chapter)