I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 583 The Scale of Price

Mo Ling walked up to the pool of mercury and looked at the recording board lying in it.

He understood that once he initiated the teleportation, there was a high chance that it would succeed.

But at this moment, he hesitated, and a strong feeling of uneasiness suddenly appeared in his heart, warning him not to do so.

"If we erase the root cause, then nothing will happen, right? The Black Plague won't spread, and it won't come to the Huasheng Islands."

"The Red Spirit Flower wouldn't have appeared, and I wouldn't have known Xi..."

Thinking of those calls of "senior", Mo Ling suddenly realized how regrettable it would be if all this had never happened.

Mo Ling slowly turned around and looked at the mysterious doctor.

"May I have your name."

"Laddy."

Mo Ling was stunned for a moment, and suddenly remembered that when he was on Senluo Island, he had already seen this elder named "Radi", but that was in the administrator's healing space, and the one he saw was not the real Elder Radi.

I didn't expect that I would meet you again here.

"Elder Ladi, have you used the root healing method many times?"

"Not much. It is only used when encountering very stubborn diseases." Elder Radi answered truthfully.

"Will you remember the timeline before you change it?"

"Of course, the initiator of the root healing method will not forget what happened."

"If we erase this record board, will the disaster on the Huasheng Islands not happen?" Mo Ling asked seriously.

“If the root cause is eliminated, of course everything that follows will not happen.”

"But……"

Mo Ling didn't finish his words. At this moment, his heart was full of confusion.

If the entire Huasheng Islands are to be saved, the Red Spirit Flower must be sacrificed, and Xi will forget his "predecessor", and everything he has experienced on this island will become a non-existent bubble.

"Am I too selfish?" In the face of the safety of the entire Huasheng Islands, this is not an unacceptable sacrifice.

"Some plants that shouldn't exist, and some emotions that aren't that important..."

Hong Linghua's innocent words echoed in his ears. Mo Ling knew clearly what choice he should make, but he just couldn't give up everything.

Looking at Mo Ling who was in a dilemma, Elder Radi slowly walked up to him and stood beside him.

"You are not ready to bear the cost of the root cure," he said calmly.

"cost?"

"Yes, everything in the abyss has a price, doesn't it? Even if the price has tipped to one side, it is still impossible to make a choice. The abyss is always so cruel."

Elder Radi stood beside Mo Ling and slowly recounted his experience of using the root healing method for the first time:

"At that time, we encountered a kind of ideological plague..."

It is a plague that spreads through thoughts. It will occupy all the thoughts of a living thing, infect and replicate in the consciousness of the living thing. It may be a sentence, an image, a word, or a character.

Take a word as an example. In the early stage of infection, the patient will be distracted from time to time and think of this word. Then the patient will gradually lose concentration. When thinking about other things, they will suddenly jump and start to recite this word in their mind. The patient cannot control this situation and will only think more and more. At the end of the infection, this word will completely occupy the patient's brain, and the patient will completely lose the ability to think about other things.

At this time, the ideological plague will begin to spread. The patient will keep repeating this word, allowing this word to infect other patients through language or other media, thus spreading the ideological plague.

At that time, Radi and some of his companions used root healing to limit the plague. They planned to go back in time and erase the source of the plague.

The patients' habitat is on an empty island that is on the verge of collapse. After Radi and his companions returned to the past, they went to the empty island and began to investigate the source of this ideological plague.

Soon, they found the first patient, who was also the origin of the plague.

But what they didn't expect was that the patient was a scientist who had just developed a way to prevent the collapse of Sky Island.

This "method" later became an ideological plague that spread throughout the entire patient community.

Radi and his companions never imagined that a "method" could also become a plague of thought. The scientist excitedly wanted to pass on this method, which could prevent the collapse of Sky Island and save an entire race.

However, if the plague is to be eradicated, the scientist must forget this method in the early stages of infection.

Radi and his companions got into a tangle.

They just wanted to treat the disease, but encountered such a problem:
Let the plague spread, and the affected people's race will soon be destroyed.

If the source of the plague is eliminated, the affected population will also be destroyed due to the collapse of the sky island.

The disease can destroy an entire tribe, and the cost of treating the disease is also to destroy the entire tribe. Radi and his companions have no idea what to choose.

"Let's leave and let them fend for themselves..." some companions suggested.

If the doctors take action, they will become the source of destruction. If they don't want to be stained with blood, the best way is to turn a blind eye.

"But this plague is likely to spread to other races. We are doctors, and it is our responsibility to curb the spread of the plague." Some companions retorted that the purpose of their trip was to cure the disease, and they only needed to cure the disease, and they didn't need to worry about anything else.

"Maybe they will find a new method, and their Sky Island may not collapse. Since that scientist can research one method, he can definitely research other methods."

"What if he just can't figure out another way? An entire tribe is destroyed by your hands. Can you bear such a result?"

The companions were arguing but no conclusion was reached. Doctors' minds were inherently fragile and they were overly kind, so they were even more sensitive and conflicted about such a choice.

No matter what choice they make, they will suffer in their hearts.

Both responsibility and guilt weighed on these doctors. Even if they knew the cause of the disease, they were unable to treat it.

To cure the disease, they had to kill the patient, which conflicted with their long-held beliefs.

“Are we curing illnesses? Or are we saving lives?”

……

At this point, Elder Radi's words trembled in a rare way. After so much time had passed, when he recalled the choice he made at that time, his heart still could not calm down.

Mo Ling couldn't hold back his curiosity and asked, "So what did you do in the end? Did you choose to eliminate the root cause, or turn a blind eye?"

Hearing Mo Ling's question, Elder Radi did not give a positive answer, but just patted Mo Ling's shoulder gently.

"What would you do if it were you?"

(End of this chapter)