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It's almost like buying insurance.
If Artemis really pulled out a trump card that could work on him... then Su Qing could only lament his bad luck.
He comprehensively calculated the possible situations that might occur when buying insurance, the money needed to buy insurance, the compensation when encountering danger, and his own financial conditions, and concluded that he was likely to suffer a loss after selling some kind of unscrupulous insurance.
——As a result, he was hit by a dump truck the next day. He didn't die in the accident, but the dump truck driver scared himself to death. Moreover, the dump truck was owned by the driver, with no company behind it. The driver didn't buy insurance, so no insurance company paid compensation.
I was hit and became paralyzed on one side of my body... I can only sigh that this is my fate and my luck is really bad.
At least from Su Qing's point of view, there is no need to be wary of Artemis.
Before analyzing the data of Ishtar's divine power and godhood, Artemis still needed to be a little cautious, but after understanding Ishtar, as a god who had also lived in the heavens for hundreds of millions of years...
The possibility of being able to pull out a trump card that will work on Su Qing is actually lower than the probability that Su Qing just refused the door-to-door accident insurance salesman and got hit and killed by a dump truck the next day when he went out to buy instant noodles.
Artemis was harmless enough, and even though Su Qing could see that Artemis' expression was a disguise, he was still somewhat moved.
...This expression of curiosity and anticipation is really cute!
Taking a deep breath and suppressing the throbbing in his heart, Su Qing said, "What do you want to know?"
Artemis looked at Su Qing sincerely, like a girl in love: "Everything, I am curious about everything about you."
The Moon Goddess thought to herself, she couldn’t possibly tell me about her weaknesses, could she?
Su Qing thought to himself, get out of here!
How could I possibly reveal all my information?
It was true that he thought Artemis was harmless, but that didn't mean he didn't mind exposing his own information.
There was a possibility that Artemis could use a trump card that would be effective against him, and Su Qing didn't need to be on guard against that.
——But if you don't reveal your key information, it's not a question of whether it's dangerous to reveal it to Artemis, but "this behavior is too dangerous". Unless there is a reason to do so, you must never do it.
Su Qing understood Artemis's purpose.
There are only two possibilities.
I really want to establish a certain kind of romantic relationship with him so that I won’t be completely without any background after going to the new world.
And want to stop him from taking action against the gods.
Judging from Artemis's behavior, it's probably the latter?
Originally Su Qing thought that it was the goddess of justice like Astraea who would prevent him from taking action against the gods, but it was just the opposite. The goddess of justice had no mercy on the gods, and it was Artemis who took Astraea's script?
There were very few possibilities originally, and Artemis said this, so Su Qing confirmed his thoughts.
——Maybe he didn’t want to stop him from attacking the gods, but wanted them to die with dignity?
I really just want to keep the gods alive, or reduce the losses, so I just need to find a suitable opportunity to leak information to the gods.
Su Qing was also a little speechless. The gods of this world had really destroyed his way of survival.
Justice is indifferent to them, and integrity is unwilling to defend them.
Su Qing could only say... he was planning to take action against the gods. Even if Astraea and Artemis were really dissatisfied, the two goddesses would never reveal it.
If it is leaked out, it will not harm Su Qing, and probably some of the gods will be able to escape.
But after Su Qing leaves this world, God knows what crazy things the gods will do when they realize the danger to their lives for the first time.
Cleansing the current life on the surface of the earth does not seem to be able to alleviate the anger of the gods.
Moreover, the promises made by those gods are useless and their credibility is almost zero.
If the two goddesses want to find a trustworthy god to leak the news, a god who can ensure that the news of the gods' danger will not be leaked to the outside world... almost no one will sympathize with those gods of fun. Instead, they will think it would be better for those gods of fun to die sooner.
Under the premise of being uncertain whether Su Qing will come back to this world for the second time, neither justice nor integrity will show mercy to the death of the gods.
If Su Qing could stay in this world permanently, there would probably be a group of gods who would oppose him and think that it might be a good idea to control and educate those gods of fun to correct their ways. There was no need to kill them all right away. Perhaps some of the gods would turn back.
But the time is limited, and it is only possible to go to this world again...
Anyway, Su Qing felt that Artemis playing him would probably just make the gods die more gloriously.
After hundreds of millions of years of having fun, those gods of fun have reduced their own credibility to negative numbers. Others simply do not believe that they will be able to mend their ways after learning a little lesson without any external force.
Chapter 57 Acting
In the corner not far away, Astraea remained strategically silent.
She didn't expect to be able to hide it from Su Qing. Anyway, as long as she could hide it from Artemis, it would be fine. A normal man would not refuse a woman's arms, even if it was just acting.
He even said that it was precisely because it was acting that he would not refuse.
Some people, who usually talk a lot, change their attitude immediately when they hear about getting married, having children and being responsible. They start to think about their own life and future, whether they can provide a healthy environment for their children, etc., and finally come to a comprehensive conclusion.
On the positive side, this kind of person is more responsible, can control his lower body, and rarely acts on impulse.
But to put it another way, when there is no need to take responsibility, the bottom line of such people is actually surprisingly low.
And the shortcomings are unexpectedly obvious.
When they know they don't need to be responsible, their vigilance will become very low - and even if they know they don't need to be responsible, if some relationship really occurs, these people will usually take the initiative to assume some responsibility.
It's too easy to be deceived by bad women.
As the goddess of justice, Astraea understood this level of idealization very well, as she herself had encountered similar situations.
She and her family, as well as the members who joined Astraea's family, are all true justice lovers, and are all exploring what justice is.
Although she is the goddess of justice, Astraea is unable to give an answer to her followers.
Even the goddess of justice does not know what true justice is. Perhaps everyone has his or her own standards in his or her heart.
But even if she couldn't give the family members answers, under this premise, she would do her best to enlighten the family members. While not providing answers for the family members, she would do her best to guide the family members to find acceptable answers on their own.
However, Astraea knew that she could only do that when facing her clan, and she really could not give a standard answer of justice.
Astraea weighed Su Qing's situation for a moment and tried to guess.
Generally speaking...it is a manifestation of overly idealized relationships between men and women?
If someone steals your lover, will you give up resisting?
If giving up resistance will still mean death, no one will choose to give up resistance. But what if the enemy gives you a clear and reliable guarantee that you can survive?
What if the enemy kidnapped your lover, and their purpose was not to make you give up resistance completely, but to make you cut off your own hands?
Even without your hands, you still have a 10%... or even 30% chance of winning against the enemy. On the premise of ensuring that there is someone to notarize it, would you agree to the enemy's request?
People who don't idealize love won't get hung up on this kind of issue. Husband and wife are birds of a feather. When disaster strikes, they just fly away separately. Even if the feelings are really deep, they can make the decision when the time comes.
Astraea thought she could guess Su Qing's situation almost exactly.
Idealizing love, thinking that love should always be about mutual understanding and support - there is no other way, whether it is the conventional two-dimensional world or the two-dimensional fan fiction that can travel through the world, the love relationships in them are "eternal" to a certain extent, and are ideal relationships that do not have the various problems in reality.
Unlike what Astraea thought, Su Qing did not idealize love and marriage. In reality, there were too many scandals in the entertainment industry, and each time they were hyped up. Who would be naive enough to believe in true love?
But the problem is... he traveled through time and space, and the world he traveled to was still the two-dimensional world he had seen before.
Love in the second dimension and women in the second dimension are so idealized.
Let’s not talk about the original two-dimensional novel, but about the fan fiction that Su Qing read...Su Qing can only say that the heroine did not encounter any irresistible accidents, and every time she was targeted by the villain, the hero could always arrive in time to save the situation. That really shows that the author is very considerate of her.
Also, if something really happens, like the protagonist doesn't arrive in time or the heroine dies, readers will just start criticizing the book and abandon it, but the author is not stupid.
But after traveling to the second dimension, Su Qing didn't dare to bet that he would be there every time a woman with a relationship with him encountered a crisis and would be able to save her every time.
If the woman he had a certain relationship with was kidnapped by the enemy...
In Su Qing's opinion, this is not a question of how he should do it. After "idealizing love in the second dimension", Su Qing believes that if he really establishes a relationship with some women, he has the obligation to ensure the stability of those women.
It's impossible that he would just ignore everything after his enemies kidnapped the women he had a relationship with, right?
From the perspective of saving hostages, the best strategy is to retaliate against the enemy regardless of consequences and in the most brutal way possible, and to ensure that future enemies do not resort to similar methods.
But that is an inference based on the pros and cons, calculated from a realistic perspective... Anyway, it would definitely not be a two-dimensional love.
In a two-dimensional love, when the girl is kidnapped, the boy will usually remain loyal to her until death, asking you not to touch her and that conditions are negotiable.
The enemy told the male protagonist to put down his weapon, and he did so decisively. However, the enemy's minions took the opportunity to kick him a few times and mocked him.
In the subsequent plot, either the enemy makes a fool of itself and fails to control the heroine, causing her to commit suicide, or a rescuer comes from heaven to save the heroine, and the hero kills a lot of people.
In a two-dimensional love relationship, at best the heroine could take the opportunity to slit her own throat because she couldn't accept being used to threaten the hero. It would be absolutely impossible for the hero to not accept the threat from the enemy and decisively carry out the Russian-style rescue.
Su Qing admitted that it would be difficult for him to achieve this.
According to the ideal two-dimensional love standards, Su Qing believes that he cannot do this - or, he has given up on doing this.
This is a very obvious shortcoming and can be easily exploited.
——It was mainly because of his identity as the final trial of humanity that put him in danger.
It doesn't matter what happens to him alone. If he really reveals that he can travel through the world, the gods and Buddhas in the box garden will not do anything to him. The more the gods and Buddhas value interests, the more they will protect him. Traveling to another world must be an opportunity for the gods and Buddhas to make further progress.
On the contrary, some conservative idealists, gods and Buddhas may kill him because of the unknown danger.
The gods and Buddhas do not have many cards they can use to threaten Su Qing.
But Su Qing had to consider whether, if he established a romantic relationship with certain people, the other party would be used by the gods and Buddhas to threaten him.
Su Qing admitted that his view on love was unlikely to reach such an ideal level.
The gods tied up his significant other and demanded that he give up his autonomy and obey the gods' instructions, but they promised that he would be allowed to live and receive preferential treatment...
This kind of thing is rarely written about in time-travel novels, but in reality, it is almost inevitable that it will happen. There is nothing that the Little Garden Gods cannot do.
At that time, would Su Qing surrender and be responsible for the safety of her significant other?
According to the two-dimensional concept of love, he should make such a choice - for the sake of his own safety and future development, Su Qing subjectively has no intention of having a responsible relationship for the time being.
At least we should wait until he is in a safe situation, right?
The responsibility is too heavy to pay.
The actual situation was somewhat different from what Astraea had guessed, but generally speaking, it was the same.