Recently, I rewatched one of the episodes of the online drama "Soul Ferry" that left a deep impression on me, and that was the Fifth Young Master.

As the fifth son of the Dragon King, the Fifth Young Master is also the ancient ferocious beast we heard about - Taotie. He has been eating all things in the world from ancient times to the present, and he represents greed. He once gave us humans a name, called Two-legged Sheep. At that time, he used delicious food to attract humans. When he arrived in his territory, he used Tibetan incense to numb humans, and then used our own bodies as ingredients to make delicious food. Let humans eat their own bodies without even realizing it.

When I watched it for the first time, I felt that the character of Fifth Young Master was too cruel, as he let himself eat himself alive. However, one of his words when I read it for the second time made me start to reflect. In order to eat fresh goose paws, we humans drive the goose on a red-hot iron plate. In order to eat fresh donkey meat, we beat a living donkey and eventually kill it, just to make the donkey meat firmer. There was even a dish called "Sanzhi" invented. After hearing this, I couldn't help but feel sick.

When we criticize gluttons for harming humans, we never think of humans harming nature in order to satisfy their appetite and greed. We only think about constantly asking for and destroying nature, but we never thought that nature would also "repay" us humans. SARS in 2003, H1N1 later, and COVID-19 this year. That is not the evil result that we humans planted ourselves.

Human greed often brings us consequences that we cannot imagine, maybe one day. We will all become the meal of the fifth master, and by then, we can only accept the judgment of nature on us.