Male Succubus Apocalypse

After preparing the dishes and serving them to Aaron and the vampire woman, Xu Heng went to the front hall outside where Clara was waiting, as if she was deliberately avoiding the three people in the restaurant.

"Hello, then please follow me to the other side. My name is Xu Heng, you can call me whatever you want." Xu Heng made a gesture of invitation and walked towards the red gate side by side with Clara.

"I'll call you Boss Heng. My name is Clara, Clara Kalmia." Clara said as she followed.

"In fact, I really want to know why Miss Clara wanted to choose me. If it was because of the misunderstanding this morning, and you have brought your friends to the store to show your appreciation, then I should thank you for that."

Took the first step to test.

"Haha, I was indeed reckless this morning. I am still a little sensitive because there are often conflicts between Roan and the Confederation. Although there are orcs in Roan, they are not common. I admire you for daring to open a store here." Clara first stated the reason, with a hint of suspicion. "I clicked on you. In addition to further expressing my apologies, I really want to talk to you. Regarding the relationship between humans and foreigners..."

What she said later was very probing, and it mentioned "foreigners". If Julie didn't tell Xu Heng that his racial identity had been discovered, he might still foolishly think that Clara was interested in, or hostile to, the cat people or the orcs?

Clara's rhetoric was a kind of cliché that was meant to trick Xu Heng into not knowing enough about the cat people, and even to find out his real intention of opening a store here.

"Okay, I'm honored. Please come with me to a private place." Xu Heng smiled and nodded, trying to relax his body as much as possible without showing any sound.

The important thing is not to hide his purpose, because it is very simple, he just wants to make money, but how to prevent Clara from having other associations and suspicions.

After the morning, Xu Heng felt that this girl was still too sensitive.

Xu Heng brought Clara to the basement level. Passing by doors with name tags, he heard faint laughter. Then he randomly found a door without a name tag and opened it.

The furnishings inside were simple, without any additional style - Xu Heng allowed the male succubi to decorate the rooms themselves, and those without an owner were the most ordinary.

He made another gesture of invitation and asked Clara to sit on the wooden sofa. The table in front had already been set with the dishes she had ordered at the front desk from the only human man in the tavern - two puddings.

Xu Heng went to the shelf by the wall, took out a bottle of red wine, took out two glasses, and gracefully poured a glass for Clara and one for himself.

"I'll buy you a drink. I'm glad that someone is willing to discuss the relationship between different races. This is progressive." As he said this, Xu Heng sat down, but kept a certain distance. He raised his glass, touched Clara's glass which had not been touched yet, and took a sip himself to prove that there was no poison in the wine.

Seeing Xu Heng drink it, Clara was no longer afraid and picked up the wine glass and took a sip.

"I really want to know from you whether there is mutual understanding among races. What is the opportunity that makes you dare to come from afar to do business in the human territory? Including considering whether your cooking skills will be popular, your understanding of human cultural customs, etc..." Clara asked in a riddle.

The subtext is, what do you want to do after coming all the way from the abyss, and what have you prepared for it?

"Actually, I can answer this question from two points of view. I am a rough man and can only answer based on my limited experience." Xu Heng thought for a while and said.

"You're just short of saying that it's impossible for demons and humans to get along perfectly" and "You must have other intentions and you're not here for peaceful purposes" were written all over his face.

That honeypot is ready to go.

"Oh? Those two points?"

"That's the so-called problem of inter-racial cognition and the good of each race. So first of all, let me ask, what is the common cognition between a cow and a human?"

"What is it?"

"When you are hungry, you need to eat. This is the common point of almost all races. Even though the elves have a long lifespan and the orcs have a tradition of martial arts, it is not just about eating. The preciousness of life and the need to die a worthy death are all known to everyone. Maybe everyone has received different education since childhood, but the truth is known to everyone, isn't it? Magical formulas, alchemy formulas, etc..."

"Yes, but it is still too difficult to understand each other. War, recognition of the country..."

This is undoubtedly referring to the orcs' confederation system, and even trying to criticize the demons for not having a common country until now. It is almost a view recognized by the outside world that demons naturally despise each other.

"Then let me ask you, can people truly understand each other? What about brothers? Not necessarily. But what does it depend on? Is it race? Appearance? No, I think it's experience and position. This requires a second point to be discussed."

"Oh? Please continue."

“What determines the standard of good and evil?”

"Well...it's determined by society."

"What is good for society is good, and what is not good for society is evil, right? Then is a baby good or evil? An uneducated primitive life, he will suckle, fight selfishly, cry and ignore others. Is this evil?"

“I don’t think so, because he has no cognition.”

"So, if we do evil without any cognition, does that mean that human nature is evil?"

"This……"

For a moment, Clara was speechless when asked, but she still didn't understand the inevitable connection between these and racial relations. The most important thing was that she didn't realize, and seemed to have forgotten, that her purpose was to spy on Xu Heng.

Xu Heng smiled, looked at the honeypot that had retracted into its body, and continued: "If the baby does not fight for it and does not drink milk, it may die. If the baby dies, can the race continue? The answer is no, so his selfishness is indirectly beneficial to the race, isn't it?

In terms of human nature, everyone hates human selfishness and cruelty towards others, but I would say that these traits are good for oneself. If there are no so-called "evil" traits, and everyone is kind, when resources are scarce, five people only have one piece of bread a day, and everyone shares it, the final outcome is that everyone will starve to death. So how to solve this problem?"

"This..." Clara was speechless again, but the answer was obvious.

"That is to kill the extra people, so that the race can continue, right? What is good and what is evil? Is it so absolute? Speaking of the races, aren't the wars between each other just for survival? Who is good and who is evil? Maybe it's because of the different temperaments caused by physiology, but I think that two races that wage war against each other can understand each other the most, understand the cruelty in each other's character, the viciousness in temper, and the selfishness. But let me make it clear in advance that I am against aggression." Xu Heng dragged the conversation into the argumentation of truth and the thinking about the problem in one breath, and immediately confused Clara.

Clara fell into deep thought. Dialectical thinking, rather than cultural and emotional sway, made her think carefully.

"So now, let me ask you, why do orcs wage war most frequently in winter, while the elves usually live in peace with your country? Many things have logic and traces to follow. When you analyze a race, its culture and its system, you will eventually return to its physiology, region and essence. At this point, I have nothing to say. What do you think?" Xu Heng added another blow, completely making the little honey pot shrink back to think.

The slogans we shout, the virtues we talk about, the justice we uphold, in the end, are all for survival, to satisfy desires, to expand, to want more, to be richer and stronger, we are all the same, animals? Actually, there is no difference.

It is not good, nor evil, but benefit.

People are born with a stance and are born with a need for a trap. This is not something to be alarmed about. What is worth being alarmed about is that people have not yet realized all this and their thoughts are imprisoned in the cage of so-called identity.

But if we indulge in this for too long, once the cage is broken, the bird will also be afraid of the sky, which is called: "the sky of thought."

The path of exploring ideas is like dancing on a tightrope. Once you take a wrong step, you will fall into the abyss. Now, Xu Heng has placed the abyss in front of Clara.

This is almost telling Clara that the relationship between races, stripped of its superficial appearance, is a relationship of interests. The difference in races is not as great as the difference in geographical environment. To judge the relationship, one needs to understand the interests and needs of each race.

This caused a great shock to Clara. The human kingdom has always been promoting the bloodlust of orcs, the cruelty of demons, the arrogance of elves, and the rudeness of dwarves, as if there are always irreconcilable contradictions between races.

But maybe, I was wrong. I have never thought deeply about right and wrong. It’s just that my ancestors said so, my parents said so, my teachers said so, the people around me said so, and the written history said so, so I believed it too.

Seeing that the little girl was suddenly silent after what he said, Xu Heng was very happy that she could forget about causing trouble for him. Through his emotional perception, he could tell that Clara was confused.

In other words, it is unacceptable.

This is the impact that modern education and thinking bring to the other world, the dimensional crushing brought by dialectical thinking and seeing the essence through phenomena.

The other world is often heavily infiltrated by theology. Even if chemistry and physics exist, they are still given titles such as alchemists and believers in the mechanical god.

In order to further free Clara's thoughts - to avoid the possibility of causing trouble for herself in the next few days, to go home and think about it carefully, and to fulfill her own curiosity.

Finally, the devil spoke: "Well, Miss Clara, I have a question that I would like to ask you."

"Ah? Oh, you asked." Clara said with hazy eyes, as if she had just woken up from a dream.

"Besides protecting yourself, what else do you do to cultivate and improve your rank? In other words, what is the meaning?"

"Meaning? To repay the education and growth resources given to me by the Roan Empire, and to defend...to defend the country..."

"In other words, it's gratitude, right? But what I want to ask is not the basic meaning of repaying one's parents or country, but what is the meaning of life itself for you? What do you want? What do you really want to become? To be frank, what is the meaning of life?"

"Life... the meaning of life?"

"Then let me ask you further. People will die eventually. You can't even judge what the world will be like after death. Will you be praised? You can't hear it. History has nothing to do with you anymore. Then, what is the meaning of this life? What do you think?"

A heavy hammer hit Clara's head so hard that it hurt. To be honest, she had never thought about this question. Yes, if that's the case, then what's the point of life? To fight for interests? And then die? Everything is meaningless...

A feeling of emptiness arose spontaneously and quickly occupied Clara's whole body. Fear, fear of every word Xu Heng said, began to spread.

Xu Heng finally understood why Clara's soul image was a honey badger, brave, fearless, but at the same time reckless. She decided too early what she wanted to do for the rest of her life, and she was fearless and held on to it without much thought.

"It's okay. You can take your time to think about it. It's a pleasure to communicate with you. Eat pudding first. You can't go without a meal." Xu Heng picked up a plate of pudding and started eating.

Philosophy cannot produce direct benefits, but it can bring individual strength to people. It is impossible for a person to not encounter confusing things in his life. Philosophy will always be the fire that the moths wandering in the darkness will rush towards.

……

In the restaurant, Soma was waiting for Clara anxiously. She was well aware of Clara's recklessness.

Thinking back to the time when I first met her, Clara found out that I was a vampire and she came to fight me. I still remember her fearless and fearless look. It can be said that we got to know each other through fighting.

She has restrained herself a lot now, Soma admires Clara's attitude of not fearing any darkness, and being sincere, which is invisible in the abyss, and she has a clear distinction between love and hate, and after knowing that he is just a businessman and has helped the Ron Empire, Clara apologized naturally.

She still likes this energetic, strong-minded and potential girl.

Now I am afraid that she will cause trouble again. After all, that demon is very likely Aaron's man. Lu Yong has both advantages and disadvantages.

Just like the honey badger can always defeat opponents that are much stronger than itself, but if it dares to provoke a dragon, it will die miserably.

Aaron was also anxious, fearing that the famous female barbarian might do something to Xu Heng. He wanted to contact Vivian, but the bodyguard he brought with him was only level seven and was afraid that he could not deal with Soma.

But when Vivian arrives, the situation is bound to escalate. Clara is also the daughter of a hero, and Aaron doesn't want anything to happen to either party.

When the two people who seemed like parents were feeling nervous, the doorbell rang and Clara walked into the restaurant, but her eyes were lifeless and she looked a little dazed, like a wooden man.

Xu Heng then walked in.

When Soma saw that something was wrong with Clara, he became anxious and all the blood-red energy in his body burst out. A pair of black bat wings spread out from behind him and pounced towards Clara with murderous intent towards Xu Heng.

"Soma, what are you doing! Stop it!" Clara was suddenly awakened by Soma's breath. She quickly stood in front of Xu Heng and scolded Soma.

The man in black next to Aaron was faster. He rushed over the moment Soma spread his wings, threw Xu Heng to the side, then took out a long sword from his space ring and protected him behind him.

"Um... Clara, are you okay?" Soma braked quickly, his eyes were bloodshot because he had entered the vampire combat state, and he was at a loss.

"It's okay. How could it be a problem? I had a misunderstanding with someone this morning. If you continue like this, we won't be able to come next time." Clara smiled, a little stiffly, obviously trying to comfort Soma, and her tone turned playful.

Soma subconsciously cast a detection spell, which obviously showed that Clara was fine. Then he folded his wings awkwardly and landed.

"It's okay. You can come and keep coming. I'm very happy to chat with Miss Clara. Aaron, as a descendant of a general, you are not only skilled in martial arts, but also in both civil and military affairs!" Xu Heng's voice came from behind the black-clad bodyguard, funny and relaxed.

Aaron, who had already stood up with a sullen face and looking very angry, was about to say something but was interrupted by Xu Heng's words.

Xu Heng didn't want Aaron to say anything harsh and make the situation awkward.

"Yes, I admire Mr. Xu Heng's wisdom. Not only am I fine, but I have also gained a lot." Clara agreed, and quickly pulled Soma up, intending to leave. "It's getting late, so Mr. Xu Heng, I won't bother you anymore. I've already put the money at the front desk. See you later."

And so, Clara took Soma and slipped out of the tavern in a hurry.

"Are you okay, Mr. Heng?" Aaron watched the two girls go away and hurried to check on Xu Heng's condition.

"It's okay, it's okay. I was just a little impulsive. Please don't have any opinions. I'm sorry to bother you."

"No, no, since you are fine, I won't have any opinion. Sigh, young people nowadays..."

Xu Heng found it funny to see Aaron's grief-stricken look.

Finally, after exchanging a few polite words with him and getting his assurance that he would not get hurt, he persuaded the old scholar, who was afraid of dying young, to leave - he even wanted to keep his bodyguard.

But he didn't know that Vivian had arranged a powerful mercury slime for him. Even if he faced Soma just now, he had his background, and at least he could hold on until calling Vivian - but that was the worst outcome.

Just from that time at the guild hall, Vivian was about to kill someone, and just thinking about her coming made me feel like something terrible was going to happen.

After a while, the other four girls came out, wondering where their captain had gone—he had left them behind!

A night of drama.

Xu Heng thought, I have to hold a summary meeting for the male succubi later, and then it’s time to practice!

"Julie, are you still there? Why haven't you said anything for so long?"

"I...I'm wondering about the meaning of life..."