Chapter 803 - 455: When Faced with the Trolley Problem, the Mimic Venerable King Chooses to Solve the Questioner

The Mimic Venerable King is exhaustively exerting itself to save people.

In fact, this is also the solution after its communication with Xue Dili. Both sides could simultaneously harness the full power of the Beast of the End, but for the Mimic Venerable King, this power of the Beast of the End was utterly dispensable, beneath its notice.

Thus, the power of the Beast of the End was handed over to Xue Dili, while the Mimic Venerable King took on the role of a flexible responder, to see if the apostle on the opposite side would pull some unexpected stunts that the two hadn’t foreseen.

Sure enough, the apostle left the two speechless. It was the first time they’d seen someone stab themselves and then ask if the other side was afraid. So the Mimic Venerable King took the opportunity to assign the task of saving people to itself, allowing Xue Dili to continue pursuing the Seventh Apostle.

Meanwhile, the Mimic Venerable King’s true form had already begun blocking the gateway. Regardless of how the Seventh Apostle tried to escape, it could never slip out of the Mimic Venerable King’s grasp. Once the Mimic Venerable King had the entire subspace in its control, the outcome was inevitable.

Therefore, the primary task at this moment became saving people.

The Seventh Apostle was like a rabid dog, casually discarding the hundreds of thousands under its control here like throwing out trash.

This place was at the borderline between subspace and the reality Cosmos, a zone divorced from the concept of "world", with no air, no pressure, no gravity, and was situated in a zone of extremely low temperature.

Not even a trace of mercy was shown when the Seventh Apostle spat these people out, as if spitting out watermelon seeds.

This led to the death of the vast majority like dumplings boiling in water, a tragic event that even the Mimic Venerable King couldn’t prevent, after all, these people might have died due to low pressure, suffocation, or the Seventh Apostle’s immense power right upon being expelled.

So all the Mimic Venerable King could do is try its best to save those lucky enough to still be alive.

After all, for him, saving lives wasn’t a simple task, his current avatar only equating to a non-apostle Tier Five at most. If it weren’t for completing the "Pseudo Genesis" with Xue Dili and forming the Beast of the End, it wouldn’t even have faced the Seventh Apostle head-on before its true body arrived.

Thus, saving one was better than none.

Though witnessing so many people dying in front of itself evoked anger and sadness within the Mimic Venerable King, it wouldn’t let itself dwindle into helplessness or pointless sentimentality, nor would it blame itself for the ones it couldn’t save.

After all, it had destroyed more than one planet.

Back in the Interstellar Corps days, someone bored came up with a "Savior’s Dilemma", roughly meaning there are two planets simultaneously experiencing apocalyptic disasters, but the Interstellar Corps can only save one. If they choose to save A Star, all people on B Star will perish.

But at the same time, B Star’s population is ten times that of A Star, yet the Interstellar Corps has coordinates for A Star but not for B Star, and A Star sent a distress signal to the Interstellar Corps. The question then is, which planet should be saved?

Should it be B Star, with a larger population, or A Star, with confirmed coordinates?

This question sparked countless debates within the Interstellar Corps. Some said B Star should be saved for the greater population, some argued A Star should be saved for having confirmed coordinates.

The two sides argued fiercely, the Interstellar Corps nearly splitting into two factions over this stupid question; one side believed saving the majority at the expense of a few was the right choice, while the other argued for saving those who could be saved first.

Then this issue was escalated to the Mimic Venerable King, demanding a definitive answer from it.

After a moment of silence, the Mimic Venerable King responded, "This question could serve as a test’s content, but I refuse to answer such a meaningless stupid question."

Naturally, the quarreling factions within the Interstellar Corps weren’t pleased, continuously chirping around its ears until the Mimic Venerable King, thoroughly annoyed, said, "Why choose between these two options? Why not crush the entity that caused the apocalypse or the person who posed this stupid question?"

"If you can’t resolve the problem, can’t you at least deal with the person?"

Both factions fell silent.

"So next time you face such a stupid problem, save as many as you can, don’t worry about who to save, or who shouldn’t be saved, but prioritize dealing with whoever posed the question, understood?" This was the answer given by the Mimic Venerable King at the time.

He recalled that the two factions in the Interstellar Corps reconciled, and then they severely beat up the one who posed the question.

Even now, it maintained the same stance.

Rather than agonize over who to save, it’s better to resolve the one posing these questions.

The Mimic Venerable King’s thinking was very practical; it wouldn’t let the organization it led fall into the trap of Nihilism.

Such pointless discussions over saving a few or many felt like a nihilistic trap to the Mimic Venerable King; those obsessed with this would eventually be ensnared by the Void.

So it saved those it could, while those with low chances of survival, or those too far, it was helpless against. The best it could do was kill the Seventh Apostle, preventing the recurrence of similar tragedies.

As for those deceased, it willingly guided them into the Netherworld of its creation, allowing them to live out the remaining time until their slow fade.

This was the last bit of mercy this True God of the Cosmos, this elder brother of Order Side could offer.