Uchiha Madara asked, looking at Shi as if she wanted to say something.
"Old man, we've known each other for a while. You know I'm a scientist. Some things, it's better if I don't say them, lest I anger you to death, an old man with one foot in the grave."
Shi forcibly suppressed the urge to mock Uchiha Madara. Only an idiot from the Uchiha Clan would be fooled by a stone tablet into believing that Genjutsu could bring peace.
"Do you think the Infinite Tsukuyomi cannot bring peace?"
Uchiha Madara asked, frowning.
"Old man, let me ask you, how long can people caught in the Infinite Tsukuyomi live without eating or drinking? People need to consume nutrients to live."
Shi extended a finger, posing a crucial question.
"…"
Uchiha Madara fell silent.
"If you successfully cast the Infinite Tsukuyomi and brought peace to the world, how long would that peace last before everyone died? What would this world become in the end? Everyone starving to death because they couldn't get nutrients—is that the peace you want?"
Shi asked again.
"The Infinite Tsukuyomi can bring peace to the Ninja World. This is what the Six Paths Sage left on the stone tablet passed down through generations of the Uchiha Clan. It cannot be wrong!"
Uchiha Madara firmly believed he was right, but his words seemed to lack conviction. The questions Shi raised were ones he had never considered, only thinking about them after she brought them up.
"Alright, suppose you cast the Infinite Tsukuyomi, and everyone could get nutrients and survive. The average human lifespan is between 60-70 years. After spending so many years in a peaceful Genjutsu world, everyone in the world would die of old age."
Stop! Don't say any more!
Black Zetsu couldn't stand it. If Shi kept talking, it would be disastrous!
However, he was so anxious he couldn't rush out.
If it were Senju Hashirama refuting Uchiha Madara, he would stop him and wouldn't talk about what would happen after the Infinite Tsukuyomi was cast. Because of this, Black Zetsu believed that what Shi said might shake Uchiha Madara.
"So, old man, do you think there would still be living people in this world by then? Is the peace you bring to this world a peace that makes humanity disappear?"
"If what you want to bring is this kind of peace, then your so-called Infinite Tsukuyomi can indeed bring peace to the world. Not only the Ninja World but also the world where ordinary people live would be peaceful. If everyone is dead, how can it not be peaceful?"
This was why Shi found the Infinite Tsukuyomi's claim to bring peace to be the most unreliable. Anyone with common sense wouldn't believe that Genjutsu could bring true peace, yet some people actually believed it.
In her opinion, if there were more normal people in the Uchiha Clan, Black Zetsu's plan to revive his mother would have died in its infancy long ago.
Also, was Uchiha Madara too blindly trusting of the stone tablet left by the Six Paths Sage?
He had never met the Six Paths Sage, so why did he so firmly believe that the Infinite Tsukuyomi could bring peace to the world?
Could it be the influence of Indra's Chakra?
Or was Uchiha Madara, at his old age, still fantasizing in a chuunibyou way that he was the savior of the world?
"…"
Uchiha Madara was silenced by Shi's series of soul-searching questions.
Madara, say something!
You are the savior of the Ninja World in my script!
You weren't persuaded by her few words, were you?
Madara! Say something!
Black Zetsu watched the silent Uchiha Madara and instantly panicked.
It's over, it's over, it's over. This old man isn't going to give up on the great yet idiotic Eye of the Moon Plan, is he?
Shi looked at the silent Uchiha Madara and also panicked a little. If he sent the Gedo Statue back and took the Rinnegan with him when he died, what would happen to her test subject and White Zetsu Cells?!
"Shi, that's just the answer you got based on your so-called science. The Infinite Tsukuyomi won't have such flaws. The Infinite Tsukuyomi is the ultimate Genjutsu that can bring peace to the world!"
After a brief moment of wavering, Uchiha Madara reaffirmed his belief, thinking that the Infinite Tsukuyomi, passed down by the Six Paths Sage and recorded on the stone tablet passed down through generations of the Uchiha Clan, would definitely bring peace to the Ninja World.
Ah, yes, yes, yes, you're right. The Infinite Tsukuyomi is a perfect ultimate Genjutsu. That's exactly what you should think!
Shi breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this, deciding not to say anything more, lest Uchiha Madara abandon the Eye of the Moon Plan and send the Gedo Statue back to the moon. Then she would have nowhere to cry.
Good, good, Madara didn't give up.
Black Zetsu also breathed a sigh of relief. He had thought his plan would have to start over.
This woman is too dangerous. Her ideas are even more dangerous. If she stays by Madara's side for too long, she will definitely influence him!
Black Zetsu pondered how to make Shi disappear quietly, lest she become an obstacle to his plan.
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