Chapter 191 - 178: The Reborn’s Kindness Paradox

Chapter 191: Chapter 178: The Reborn’s Kindness Paradox

"Is someone automatically a good person just because they’ve been reborn?"

"Won’t they use their foreknowledge to do evil? To scheme for their own benefit? To plot and eliminate dissenters? To kill anyone who ever opposed them?"

"Let me ask you all. If you were given a chance to be reborn, what would you do? Make money? Chase women? Blackmail? Extort? Murder and arson? Or... what, go on a diet?"

"A reborn person is still just a person. They don’t automatically become noble just because they were reborn. We can never prove they were a good person in their past life. Everything they do is based on their own judgment and values. They kill someone because they deem them an enemy."

"If you could go back in time and kill Hitler, would that make you a good person or a bad person? It all depends on your perspective."

"Who here can possibly know if they were one of Yu Dong’s enemies in his past life? How can any of us know if we’ve been marked by him as ’someone who deserves to die’?"

"I call this collection of unprovable phenomena: The Reborn Goodness Paradox."

"The reason we trust Yu Dong now is because he has earned our trust. His actions and his vision have proven to be noble and forward-thinking. We don’t trust him simply because he’s been reborn, blindly believing everything he does is for the good of the team. Does... everyone understand?"

In that moment, everyone’s minds were reeling.

He was right.

How could you prove a reborn person was good?

Just because he’s been reborn, should you automatically trust him?

How do you know he hasn’t come back to blackmail you, extort you, or even kill you?

Yin Shuangyang could certainly speak to that. He provoked a reborn person for no good reason, got blackmailed, and then ended up dead.

And what about the man in the surveillance room? Could he, while watching a zombie movie, ever imagine he had already been placed on Yu Dong’s kill list?

Doesn’t everyone have a dark thought or two?

"So, Yu Dong, this gets back to a question you asked me before. If you managed to contact the top leadership before the apocalypse, how would you convince them you were reborn? The answer to that question lies within this very paradox."

"Even if you could prove you were reborn, you’d never win the trust of people that clever. If I can figure this out, they certainly can, too. You can’t prove you weren’t a traitor in your past life. Even if you showed up with nuclear launch codes, it would only prove you had obtained them through some means, not that you’re some ’benevolent reborn person.’ At best, you might prompt the leadership to investigate your claims. They would never authorize some massive, unconventional action just because you say you’re from the future."

"If... if you really get to be reborn again, please, don’t bet everything on that single approach. You might waste your chance. I believe everything in this world has a price; you just haven’t discovered it yet." ℴℴ𝘮

"Your life can’t be infinite."

At that moment, Yu Dong broke out in a cold sweat. He had, in fact, considered doing just that after being reborn... But when he saw that not even Qiao Yunliang’s own niece could persuade him, he realized how incredibly difficult his task would be.

After Wang Dingbei finished speaking, he took a deep breath.

"I’m not saying all this to question Yu Dong’s leadership. I’m saying it because I’m genuinely concerned about this issue... We can’t establish a kangaroo court based on Yu Dong’s ’predictions’."

"I’m 99% sure Yu Dong’s latest prediction is correct. I’ve seen the guy—he’s got a scheming mind, just pretending to be some simple, honest man... He’s most likely a bad seed."

"But we can’t kill him just because of a ’prediction.’ If this ability of Yu Dong’s goes unchecked... he could turn anyone into the next Lin Xiaojun, deciding life and death with a single sentence. If it comes to that... this team we’ve worked so hard to build will be completely destroyed."

"Convicting someone with evidence is complicated and troublesome, but it will prevent Yu Dong from going down the path of relying on verbal accusations, and it will uphold the integrity of our three-person leadership..."

"This Lin Xiaojun is a small fry. Yu Dong, if you think an old cop like me is going to be played by him... you’re seriously underestimating me."

"This is our turf. If he’s a dragon, he’ll coil. If he’s a tiger, he’ll lie down."

"If he wants to test that, he’s welcome to try."

At that moment, Wang Dingbei’s eyes were filled with contempt for the likes of Lin Xiaojun.