Paladins of Asgard

"Before the resources are exhausted, we take the initiative to eliminate part of the population." Thanos said.

"What!" Many people were shocked.

One person even stood up and scolded: "Slaughtering your own people, Thanos, are you kidding me?"

Thanos looked at him: "So what do you have in mind? If we don't take the initiative to reduce the population, we will be extinct within a hundred years, and not only some but all will die."

The man was not to be outdone: "In any case, we can't swing the butcher's knife at our own people!"

"So you don't have any ideas?" Thanos said.

The man froze.

Thanoston snorted coldly: "Hmph, don't criticize without advice, otherwise it will only make you look stupid."

"You call me stupid?" the man asked angrily.

"Yes," Thanos admitted flatly, staring at him coldly.

"you!"

Kronos knocked on the table: "Silence."

The hall finally recovered a bit of silence, but someone still said: "I don't agree with such a proposal, it's ridiculous."

Kronos also said: "Thanos, your proposal just now is really ill-considered..."

"Does this need to be considered?" Thanos asked reluctantly, "Total extinction and partial extinction, does anyone want to choose the former?"

He looked around and said, "Of course you can refute my proposal, but you should do so with a better proposal than childish, worthless complaints like 'this is cruel' and 'it's absurd' . "

One said hesitantly: "We can limit the use of resources..."

"We are already very restrained." Thanos looked at him, "Of course everyone sitting here doesn't feel it, but the lives of most tribes have long been hovering around the line of food and clothing."

"No matter how economical the current situation is, it won't help. If the Eternal Protoss wants to avoid extinction, they can only destroy a part of the population first."

Kronos looked at him: "Which part of the tribe are you going to destroy?"

"Random." Thanos said, "I designed a plan that can ensure the fairness of the entire process, and everyone decides life and death with an equal probability."

"...The people chosen by death can pass away peacefully by taking medicine, instead of being brutally killed by famine and war in the future, our ethnic group can also continue, this is the best solution and the only solution other than extinction ."

Dozens of people looked at each other, but did not speak.

Thanos looked at Kronos: "Grandfather?"

Kronos was silent for a moment, but finally shook his head: "Let's control resources first... From today, everyone in the entire clan will distribute living materials according to the minimum standards."

"Okay, everyone, go back."

After that, he got up first and left the hall, and then everyone dispersed, only Thanos was left.

Thanos sat alone in the room, silent for a long time, until the evening, and finally could only leave silently.

The hall is still splendid, but as soon as you come out, you can't go far, and you can see all kinds of desolate scenes.

The buildings in disrepair, the dilapidated roads and bridges...and the dark sky that underpins it all are almost apocalyptic.

In the distant horizon, a red sun slowly set, making the sky darker and darker.

"Thanos."

Thanos turned his head when he heard the sound, and then showed a rare smile: "Sehira, long time no see."

Behind him was a beautiful woman with short black hair. She came over and asked with a smile, "Did you just go to the meeting, what did you talk about?"

Thanos sighed: "No, nothing to talk about, no progress, they rejected my plan."

"What's your plan?" Cecila asked.

Thanos said slowly: "In another one or two hundred years at most, the resources of Titan will be exhausted. The only thing we can do now is to avoid the worst outcome and eliminate part of the population in advance to ensure that the Eternal Protoss will not become extinct. That's exactly my plan."

Cehira was silent.

Thanos waited for a few seconds, and then couldn't help looking directly at her face, but saw a look similar to that of most people in the hall before.

This made him clench his fists, deeply disappointed and a little angry: "Don't you agree with my plan?"

"This... it's too cruel." Sehira lowered her head and said.

These words of hers made Thanos' face turn upside down for a while, and it took a long time for him to calm down.

Thanos took a deep breath: "There is a similar problem circulating in the vast majority of civilizations in the universe, commonly known as the "trolley problem." "

"The trolley problem, what do you mean?" Sehira obviously hadn't heard of it.

Thanos continued: "There was a tram that was running along the track and its controls failed so it could only steer, not stop."

"At this time, there are two tracks in front of this tram, five people on one track, and only one person on the other track, as a driver, will you choose to hit those five people, or will you choose to hit that one? one person?"

Sehira frowned when she heard the words and fell into thought.

Thanos replied for her: "There is no doubt that everyone will choose to sacrifice that one person to save those five people... Isn't this the plan I proposed?"

"No." Cecila shook her head.

Thanos stopped and looked at her in confusion.

Sehira also stopped, only to hear her say: "It seems like this, but what if it was a different scenario?"

Thanos: "What's the situation?"

"There are five dying patients in the ward, one needs a heart transplant, one needs a lung transplant, one needs a liver transplant, one needs a kidney transplant, and one needs a spleen transplant," Sehira said.

"Just at this time~www.NovelMTL.com~ a healthy person passed by the ward. If you were a doctor, would you choose to sacrifice all of this person's organs to save the five people in the ward?"

Thanos was stunned, lowered his head and thought for a few seconds, but his brows did not stretch, but rather panicked: "No, no, Sehira, you must have secretly changed some concepts, let me think about it..."

Sehira didn't give him time to think, and then said: "Thanos, you have admirable courage and wisdom. You used to be my idol, but I have to say that there are some things you don't understand."

Thanos looked at her and opened his mouth as if to say something, but he was speechless for a long time, like petrified.

"I still have something to do, I'll go first." Sehira said goodbye to him immediately, turned and left in a hurry, disappearing into the night.

Looking at her disappearing back, Thanos clenched his fists and roared.

"Boom!" A stone pillar beside him was destroyed by him, and the gravel splashed.

"This is the only solution!"