Chapter 431 A Lower Concentration of Sin

Yang Shuyu had also used Cui Yunqing's power of regret. There were countless people in the world who used the power of regret, but only Cui Yunqing's power of regret was invincible, because her power contained countless sins.

According to his own habit, Yang Shuyu divided the crimes released by Cui Yunqing into seven levels: extremely low concentration, low concentration, lower concentration, medium concentration, higher concentration, high concentration, and extremely high concentration.

Under normal circumstances, Cui Yunqing only released a very low concentration of evil. Because of this, the environment that Yang Shuyu created for Mu Zhengguang also contained an environment with a very low concentration of evil. However, in the third regretful world, the concentration of evil was too high.

According to Yang Shuyu's observation, no more than 2% of people can resist the extremely low concentration of evil that can be "treated with the right medicine", a figure far lower than the proportion of modern people in the population. As for higher concentrations of evil, regardless of whether the right medicine is used, it is not something that ordinary people can resist.

In this world, Cui Yunqing releases a lower concentration of evil. Does she think so highly of Mu Zhengguang?
With Mu Zhengguang's ability in the transitional world, he should be able to resist low-concentration evil. If he grows up a few more years, learns more from Xu, and experiences more things, such as starting a family and raising children, he may be able to resist low-concentration evil, but if he is now asked to face low-difficulty evil, his situation will be very difficult.

Yang Shuyu decided to bring Mu Zhengguang out before he fell into sin, so as to minimize the damage caused by sin to him, and then transfer him from the transitional world to completely eliminate the influence of regret on him. When they meet again in the future, there will be no conflict because of this incident.

Lower concentrations of sin are almost integrated into human daily life, and most people are unaware of it.

There are very few people who can perceive the existence of such evil, but they may not take the initiative to resist such evil. Even if they do, it may not be effective because the environment is like this and everyone around them seems to be like this. In their sobriety and pain, they deeply realize that one person alone cannot fight against the normal life of everyone.

“Efforts may not necessarily lead to gains, but not working hard will definitely lead to no gains.”

Some words sound reasonable and make sense after careful thought. However, people will not live better after listening to these words and understanding these principles.

Some people are trapped by such truths. They hate these words, but when they want to refute them, they find themselves speechless. They have to face a shocking fact: these words seem to be correct.

Yang Shuyu has received help and strength from many people. She can easily mobilize the thinking of thousands of people, copy the ideas she needs from their minds, and use these ideas to refute those harmful ideas.

If you work hard, you may not get anything, but if you don’t work hard, you will definitely get nothing. The original intention of this sentence is obviously to advise everyone to work hard and not be the kind of person who doesn’t work hard and gets nothing.

However, in daily life, people often see examples of getting something for nothing or working hard but getting nothing. Over time, people will doubt the correctness of this statement and whether they have made any effort.

Doubt does not mean that there is no answer, but that you are not sure whether the answer is correct. For some people, no matter how much effort they put in, they dare not make a rash statement before they really get the results, or before they are sure that they cannot get the results.

In fact, humans have the ability to assert their own efforts. As the saying goes, "You know what you have done." However, people who are bound by this saying no longer know what the nature of what they are doing is. Is it a false effort to deceive oneself? Or is it a real effort that has failed to bring about a qualitative change? If it is a real effort, then keep going, but how long will it take to get results and harvest? I don't know.

Negativity, confusion, bewilderment, and pessimism have all arisen. But even if some people are disturbed by this sentence and fall into negativity, they cannot deny the correctness of this sentence, and they don't even have the courage to deny it.

Because that's what everyone says.

Ask your parents, they say this statement is right. Ask your brothers and sisters, they also say this statement is right. Ask your teachers and classmates, they also agree with this statement. Ask successful people, you will get a positive response. Ask unsuccessful people, you will also get the same response.

What's worse, when they are digging deeper, they meet people who share the same pain. They are all hurt by this statement, but they dare not say that this statement is wrong. This is even more troublesome. They have to fight not only their own negativity, but also the negativity of others.

Yang Shuyu remembered that the easiest way to refute this sentence was to deny "certainly" and "not necessarily". In fact, most people chose this method, but because the first half of the sentence was too correct, some people mistakenly thought that the second half was also correct, and lost their courage and confidence.

Considering that the original intention of this sentence is to persuade people to work hard, people who have already worked hard don’t need to read this sentence. The first half of this sentence is just for those who work hard, so we don’t need this half of the sentence, that is, “Efforts may not necessarily bring rewards”. Without the first half of the sentence, the word “but” is meaningless, so we also remove it.

Without hard work, there will be no gain.

Is it difficult to refute this statement? Not difficult. After people have experienced the cruelty of the world and the ups and downs of fate, it is difficult for them to say that "no effort means no gain".

There are far more people who disagree with the second half of the sentence than with the first half. If we gather the opinions of the majority, it will be enough to counter this sentence.

The first half of the sentence and the second half have very different meanings and are used in different scopes. "Efforts may not necessarily bring rewards" seems to be used when persuading or comforting people. "No efforts will definitely bring no rewards" seems to be used when encouraging or blaming people. If you really cannot refute, split the sentence into two parts and use different parts in different situations, and people will be much less disturbed.

When people hear a statement or an opinion, they may agree or disagree. Different attitudes need to be supported by reasons, even if they are ridiculous reasons, such as not liking the person and therefore hating what he says.

Mu Zhengguang didn't like this sentence, and then he hated the person who said it.

Measuring effort by gains will make people paranoid. Those who have gained can use this sentence to boast about their efforts and deny the efforts of others. And those who have not gained can only feel inferior to others, as if not gaining is a shame. In their minds, they have already said this sentence the other way around, "No gain must be due to lack of effort." Although few people dare to say this blatantly, under the cover of "no effort means no gain", what they want to express is undoubtedly the opposite meaning.

Even if people use this sentence without malice, not to praise themselves or to belittle others, it is still not advisable because there is no direct correlation between gains and efforts.

People believe that if you work hard you will definitely get something in return. This is wishful thinking, as if the gain is hard-earned and you have to pay something for it, otherwise you will feel uneasy, uneasy, and unwilling to accept the result.

It is wishful thinking to think that there will be no gain without hard work. To put it more bluntly, we cannot accept the existence of people or things that "get something for nothing".

But how many things in the world can be obtained only through human efforts? The sun, the moon, the stars, the soil, the water, the air... People who work hard breathe the air, and people who don't work hard also breathe the air.

Compared with this vast world, the interests that humans fight for are insignificant. What humans get through hard work is also insignificant. But it is these insignificant things that make people overwhelmed.

“No effort, no gain” sounds reasonable and fair, but the fairness that people imagine and want is too narrow and too hypocritical.

If we use fairness as the standard, we can distinguish injustice; if we use justice as the standard, we can distinguish unjustice.

When the crosshairs appear, the outcome is decided.

Cui Yunqing did not have high expectations for the saying "Efforts may not necessarily bring rewards, but no efforts will definitely bring no rewards". She used this saying mainly because there are no asymptotes and asymptotic regions in this regretful world. She wanted to know what evidence Mu Zhengguang would come up with to refute this saying after removing these most significant factors of gaining something without effort.

Cui Yunqing saw Mu Zhengguang's answer. He completely denied this sentence from the bottom of his heart. Before he knew this sentence, he would not say it, and after he knew it, he would not say it even more. Because he did not need it, did not like it, and because he could see through the malice contained in this sentence and actively refused to use malice.

“Good people are often bullied, and the kinder people are, the easier it is for them to get hurt.”

As soon as Yang Shuyu heard this, he thought it was wrong: "Darkness" covers the whole world, giving people asymptotic lines and asymptotic domains. The people who are most likely to be bullied and hurt are not the weakest, but those who are weak but ambitious. From another perspective, those who are extremely evil have not received the strongest power. Without the support of power, how can they bully others?
However, Mu Zhengguang in the third regretful world was brought from the second transitional world. He did not have asymptotes and asymptotic domains, and he lost the most powerful evidence. Without asymptotes and asymptotic domains, would he still be able to refute it?
Yang Shuyu's worries were unnecessary.

Mu Zhengguang felt sick after hearing the first five words: Is it true that good people are bullied? There are billions of people in this world, who is not bullied? Good people are bullied, and evil people are also bullied. Whether a person is bullied has nothing to do with good or evil. Whether a person is bullied is high or low, and it has nothing to do with good or evil.

Just like some people who keep saying "throw away your conscience and you can make more money", this is actually wishful thinking. There are countless people who throw away their conscience, but not many who actually make money. They regard their conscience as worthless and are ready to throw it away at any time, but they expect to exchange this conscience that does not exist for a high reward. This ugly fantasy is born from an ugly heart!

“Good people are often bullied” is certainly not an ugly fantasy, but the harm it brings to people should not be underestimated. Attributing one’s suffering to goodness is a thought that has deviated from the essence of goodness.

The sentence "The kinder a person is, the more likely he or she will get hurt" is even more wrong, because it clearly points out the relationship between "kindness" and "hurt". Does the person who said this want to guide others not to be kind? Doesn't it mean that if you are not kind, you won't get hurt? Impossible!
Moreover, in certain special contexts, this sentence has another meaning: the more vulnerable people are, the kinder they are. Just like "no gain must be due to lack of effort", people usually don't say this sentence directly, but what they want to express and what they want others to understand is this.

A problem that Yang Shuyu thought was difficult to solve was not considered a problem by Mu Zhengguang.

Mu Zhengguang recalled the past. He had been hurt before, even because of his kindness. But everyone in the world will be hurt. It is better to be hurt for kindness than for evil.

Cui Yunqing did not have high expectations for kindness and injury: Mu Zhengguang's family was not poor, his academic performance was not bad, and he was of good height and appearance. In such an environment, the injuries he suffered were not enough to crush his yearning for kindness.

If there was anything missing from his upbringing, it was probably the lack of his parents, but that wasn't a big deal. He didn't get any impressive help from them, nor did he get too obvious harm from them, which was above average.

Xu gave Mu Zhengguang a lot of impressive help. In his life, there are too many beautiful things that ordinary people dare not dream of.

Although ordinary people would miss out on these beautiful things if they were placed in his environment, because Xu was very difficult to get along with in the first year of junior high school, if they didn't have enough patience and tolerance, but fought with him, the two would never become friends. But no matter what, Mu Zhengguang's choice was correct, and he received extraordinary love.

So, can we use the "correct choice" as bait to test him again?
"If you bloom, butterflies will come."

At the beginning, when he had not yet "bloomed", although Xu came to him and they were deskmates, the space between them was very close, but their hearts were far apart. It was not until later that he showed tolerance and released kindness that they became friends.

From friends to lovers, it is a long process. During this period, there is a particularly critical external factor that affects the relationship between the two people: grades. Because the scores are high enough, they can be together and can be admitted to the same university.

Isn't it obvious that things work out because he works hard, because he "blooms"? Maybe this will make him feel a little proud and take all the credit for himself?

(End of this chapter)