Chapter 2526: Old Business
Yeager stared at Duran dumbfounded, feeling that Duran was too ruthless.
But Duran said calmly: "Freedom, you all want freedom. You want your children to have the freedom to ride on airships, and you also want your children to have the freedom to run wild. But do you know what your biggest problem is? ? That is to attribute all the unsatisfactory results to the giant, to the bloodline. ""So that you can no longer see clearly what freedom is really needed. You have lived in both countries, let me ask you, in Before the wall was broken, before the main conflict became human survival and the invasion of giants, what was the difference between the two countries?"
Yeager thought for a moment: "Marai's technology is more advanced..." Then he couldn't think of anything else. Apart from technology, it was difficult for him to find a fundamental difference. Malai's products must be better than Eldia's. Rich, but that's not a big difference. In the end, he discovered that there was actually no difference between the two countries. The culture, language, customs, systems, and even ideas were similar.
"You see you have discovered the problem. In the past hundred years, except for the two months when the wall was destroyed, the main contradictions of mankind have nothing to do with giants. For a whole hundred years, giants have not been the main contradiction, then Do you know why humans still yearn for freedom and why they are still dissatisfied with their current situation?”
Yeager shook his head.
"How can you sweep the world if you don't sweep one house? How can you rule the world if you don't rule one country?" Duran said: "Whether it's Marais or Eldia, they only regard giants as a point of deflection. As long as there are giants, the top management will You can use almighty shields to conceal the country's flaws, your own shamelessness, and the incompetence of the system. For a hundred years, when the giant was not the main conflict, the governance of the two countries was in a mess, and they were both so backward. It means that these two countries are losers, destined to be surpassed by other countries, and destined to be swept into the corner filled with garbage. So can you understand what freedom you have been pursuing?”
What is freedom?
The Eldians have always believed that defeating the Titans will lead to freedom. In fact, this is not the case. Defeating the Titans only transfers the conflicts within the wall. It does not give people freedom.
The Honorable Marais thought that by destroying the Eldians, they would be free, but unfortunately that was not the case. If the Eldians are wiped out and the Eldians are wiped out, the honorable Marais will become the ones to bear the burden of the conflict, and the end will only be worse.
The Marais believe that by destroying more enemies and then occupying more resources, they can gain freedom. Obviously it is impossible. After the enemy is eliminated, there will still be enemies. Until there are no enemies left, their conflicts cannot even be transferred and can only explode in place.
So they didn't understand what freedom they were pursuing, and they transferred their dissatisfaction to other goals. Their path is not to solve the fundamental contradiction, but to transfer it.
The Giants are a prime target to take the blame.
Duran spoke slowly, telling Yeager that the freedom they needed lay not in destroying the giants, but in self-innovation.
"So we have to transcend blood and unite everyone?" Yeager now understands, and his thinking has been completely opened up: "Overthrowing decadent backwardness and establishing new progress will inevitably involve sacrifices in this process."
"Although there will inevitably be sacrifices, we must also control the attack area. We must unite forces that can be united. We cannot kill everyone with one stick like you did before."
Yeager understood, but unfortunately he had made up his mind: "It's a pity that I don't have time anymore. Thank you for telling me this, I'm leaving." He wanted to find his son, and then pass on the power of the giant to his son.
Duran looked at Yeager's back and thought that it would be a pity if Yeager died like this. After all, he was a man who had lived in two countries, and he still had his own value in existence.
Yeager found his son who was living in an asylum through an 'old friend' from the Survey Corps. The conditions in the shelter were not good. A large group of people slept on the floor with only thin sheets to keep them warm.
Ten-year-old Allen cried like a child when he saw his father. He told his father that his mother had been eaten. In fact, Yeager knew that, otherwise he would not have gone to the Reyes family. Now he will pass on all his power to his son. He knows that his son is the person who changes the world.
Turn his son into an Innocent Titan, and then let his son eat him. In this way, the power of the giant will be transferred to Allen.
After becoming an Innocent Titan, it was like having a nightmare. People are muddle-headed and don't know human emotions at all. Even if you eat your father, you won't feel any pressure.
It's just that Allen ate half of Yeager's body and took all the spinal fluid into his stomach. Allen returned to normal, but his memory was confused. He only remembered that his father gave him a key and asked him to go to the basement.
When Allen woke up again, his father had disappeared. He had returned to the shelter, accompanied by two friends. They said that an uncle from the Survey Corps had brought him back.
Yeager was dead at this time, but Duran resurrected him.
Yeager was confused, because the last memory he had was the moment when his skull was chewed to pieces. He should have been eaten by his own son. How could he come back to life?
"Isn't this normal? I have talked to you so much this afternoon, am I chatting with dead people? I never like talking to dead people." Dulan's saliva was not in vain: "Stand up, let's There is still much to do.”
"Who are you?" Yeager said dumbfounded, "Why can I survive?"
"These questions are not important at all. Come on." Duran didn't waste words.
Yeager could only follow in a daze.
Duran took Yeager back to the escort agency: "You will work here and do your old job in the future. Although studying medicine cannot save the world, please continue to be a doctor and treat the injuries of refugees. Then let's discuss what true freedom is and how to truly save the world." "Discuss the main contradiction between human survival and the invasion of giants, the main contradiction between human yearning for a better life and the backwardness of reality. Discuss the development history of this world. You should know that the people of Ymir in the Eldia Empire have been brainwashed, and history is rubbish, so they need to be taught. Only by understanding history can we better understand the contradictions, understand the problems, and work hard to solve the problems, instead of blaming the giants when things go wrong. No matter how many mistakes you make, you are not wrong."
Yeager nodded and felt that it made sense. He had led the restorationists in Marley. Although he was betrayed by his son, he was still very capable. He was hardworking and talented, and teaching others was a piece of cake.
In the past, he often took classes with the Honorary Marleyans to learn the history of the Eldian Empire, but this history obviously did not directly raise the contradiction.
In those history books, the ancestors of Eldia recorded that the Founding Titan controlled the Titans to build roads and bridges, open up wasteland, and bring peace to the entire continent. Titans are not only not demons, but also the main labor force. But obviously this history is not standard, because if it is really so good, the Marley Empire would not be so afraid of Eldia. Obviously, the fruits of the Titans' labor are only a privilege enjoyed by a small number of people, and most Eldian civilians and Marleyans cannot enjoy this privilege.