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Chapter 83 The Dragon's 【Lethal Love】

"This is a secret that even those elves may not know. It is the truth brought back by the sheath after killing the dragon... which makes him feel desperate. It is also the 'Werewolf Project' that started in recent months. core theoretical basis."

The old man said so.

"Do you know why the dragons don't allow humans to live on the ground? Is it really because of curses and radiation? But the dragons have been cleaning the earth for more than a hundred years... If they can't create enough space for humans to return to the ground , and why are they still working on the ground? If they have already completed part of it, why don't they put humans back?

"The answer is simple. That's because the dragon is afraid that 'humans today' will fall back to the ground and become uncontrollable.

"Because the 'resources are exhausted' mentioned by the dragon does not mean that no resources can be produced, but that 'resources have entered the red line'.

"This red line refers to... the giant dragon calculated that from this moment, human beings will develop technology again until they return to the space age, and the energy consumed during the long space travel and the completion of environmental transformation in the new colony The necessary resources. And the speed of the giant dragon is too slow. The space travel they talk about is not just a few decades of voyage... but hundreds of years, or even thousands of years of wandering.

"The resources within these red lines include the resources that will completely dismantle and drain the planet when humans finally plan to leave the planet. We only need to take a small part of them, and it is enough for humans to live on this planet again." Live for more than 1000 years."

——The reason why the dragon allows humans to live freely on the floating island is because humans have not yet reached the limit of the dragon's endurance.

It's like young people who are unemployed immediately after graduation and stay at home with nothing to do... If it's just a few months or a few years, it's not that the family can't support you first.But if you stay like this for five, six, seven or eight years and still can't find a job, and don't plan to go out to find a job, then the family can't bear it anymore.

The so-called sitting and eating mountain empty - if this continues, there will always be a day when I can't afford it.

This also allowed Russell's doubts to be resolved.

Russell felt a little disobedient before...

If the resources of this planet were really completely exhausted, then their life on the floating island would not be so extravagant.From the start of the alarm to the complete exhaustion of resources... Is it possible to only have these hundreds of millions of people for a few decades?

Russell knew a common sense.

There's more to the depths than the easy-to-mine resources on the surface.

As long as the earth's crust is pierced, there are still many resources that can be used in the deep layer... Or rather, the resources deep in the earth are actually much more than the shallow resources near the surface.

Russell thoroughly understood the Cyber ​​Church...or, in other words, the reason why "Promotion" dared to carry out the werewolf plan.

There are some "coffin books" that dragons do not allow humans to use on this planet.

That is the "possibility" used to create the future.

What the Pope took a fancy to was the pressure box resources left by the giant dragon.He intends to complete his "self-employment" through the Werewolf Project, and defraud the resources from his family.

"The giant dragons actually have a lot of safety margin. Their calculation rule is that when the resources are exhausted to this point, they must intervene again and take over human society."

But the giant dragon doesn't want everyone to survive, but as weapons of ancient humans, they cannot slaughter humans according to the rules.

So they planned to deceive those name elves together...to make everyone think that the resources are about to run out, and use this to fight among themselves.Even if a few people realized something was wrong, they couldn't stop the majority from killing each other.

When the number of human beings is reduced to a certain level, they will jump out to stop it all.

It's like going out to work until you are exhausted and even want to die, and then your parents suddenly jump out and tell you seriously: "Our family is actually very rich, but we just kept it from you. Let you go The job was just to sharpen your will, and now you can come back and inherit the company."

At that time, the survivors among humans will naturally not have any opinions.

They realize the terrible consequences of running out of resources, and even obeying the rule of the dragon will be very well-behaved.Like a child who has endured hardship, he will know the value of all this after he inherits the family business... He absolutely does not want to return to that kind of despair.It can pay for anything.

"—The dragon never gave up hope. Because the mechanical mind will never give up, the dragon intends to think instead of humans. This is the basis for what I told you before, 'the dragon cannot resist the illusion'."

His Excellency the Pope laughed at himself: "Only we avatars who have uploaded our minds can understand what the dragon thinks.

"They love human beings, but... their horizons are too high. They are higher than me. No, it should be said that they are much higher than anyone else."

The giant dragon allowed the group of "human beings" to create civilization again, experience wars, and endure hardships from the land era... The deaths so far, including all the people who died in the future world war, are for the "human" civilization itself. , are also "fatigue that only needs time to heal".

Not a few people, hundreds of people, tens of thousands of people...

But tens of millions, hundreds of millions, billions, tens of billions—all are expendable.

Cell apoptosis is not completely harmful to the human body. If you want to exercise stronger muscles, you must destroy the original muscle cells.For giant dragons, the war between humans is a kind of "exercise" for the "human" civilization...The death of the inferior population is a kind of "detoxification" for the "human" civilization.

——It was a kind of "lethal love".

In terms of results, the dragon's plan made sense.And very effective.

Just to sacrifice the "process".

"So, as humans, we must stop the dragon...but we may not be able to take advantage of the dragon's plan."

That is the big fusion.

His Holiness the Pope said so.

"The Great Fusion is not an unconditional fusion, but a selection of those who are worthy to be sublimated to eternity. We cannot interfere with the composition of the subconscious of the group...that is something that existed before we were born. But the 'new God', we can Those who choose His composition with their own hands. Only those who are qualified will be accepted into the container of God and become a part of God.

"—and the collection line I set is 20%. After the great fusion, the humans who regained their bodies and resurrected have achieved the original purpose of the dragon. In this way, we not only completed the The dragon's "screening" has completed the "exercise" and "detoxification" of human beings, and the dragon will naturally open up more resource permissions for us, because we are tantamount to fast-forwarding the wrong route for decades.

"The only difference is that the decisive power is not in the hands of the dragon, but by the 'new god'."

When the Pope said this, he paused slightly.

"So far, this is my original plan. By catering to the ultimate core purpose of the dragon, try to grasp the right to speak and at the same time obtain more resource usage rights. But now I find that... I am still short-sighted."

"Are you planning to give up the great fusion?"

"No. After listening to the secret you told me, I am more determined about this goal. Because I just thought about it for a long time, and I have a new plan...

"Russell, don't you think that if the fusion is successful, the seven empty islands are really too many?

"If the 'Great Fusion' is successful, then we don't need seven spaceships at all. And if we reduce the number of dragons to one and use all the dragon hearts to power one of the dragons—

"And we can actually do that...

"—your father, Sheath."

The old pope said in a deep voice: "He can kill the dragon.

"Since giant dragons can 'screen' human beings, why can't human beings filter giant dragons in turn? As you said, dragons are not gods...they are just weapons."

"...You mean, dismantle the redundant SSR to obtain materials, and strengthen the only one currently needed? Don't you think it's too extravagant?"

"But just enough."

The Pope replied: "The premise is the great integration - as long as the great integration is successful, we only need a giant dragon."

Chapter 84 The Four Plans

Russell looked at Sheng Sheng in silence, pursing his lips slightly.

——Retract the foreword.

Now it seems that His Excellency the Pope is not a completely blind victim...

His more than 100 years of work is not in vain, at least he is still much better than the sheath.

Different from his fervent desire to sacrifice—the "promotion" that has existed in the position of ruler for more than a hundred years, his character is also far more cold-blooded, indifferent, and ambitious than Sheath.

Sheng Sheng will accept Shea again, probably not entirely because of his good relationship with Shea...but because he has taken a fancy to Shea's powerful ability.

As the only person in the world who can kill a dragon, Sheath can be called the dragon nemesis.

The sheath is a sharp knife.

Therefore, after hearing the secret that Russell told him, Sheng Sheng immediately thought of the new plan based on the premise of "killing the dragon"-because he was thinking about it in the first place.

"...that's really interesting."

Russell suddenly laughed and sighed, "You are a genius."

Be it elves, churches or dragons...

As the end of the world is approaching, they actually each have their own plans.

The plan of the name elves is the oldest and the most pessimistic.They directly inherited the ways of the First Men, and also inherited their fears.Their first and foremost goal is to "escape from the illusion".

Therefore, the Ximing Spirit intends to kill the vast majority of people who are sensitive enough to fantasy dreams, leaving only those who are sensitive enough to fantasy dreams and talented enough to transform them into "spirits".Finally take the dragon's ark and open the gray vault...go to different directions to escape from the dream.

So far, their extravagance and debauchery are just because most of them are not optimistic about this future, so they plan to have a last carnival... And their contempt for human beings is because they have seen the future—that It is the future that will eventually abandon these short-lived species.

And the giant dragons don't have much fear of Huanmeng, because although they can't resist Huanmeng, as artificial intelligence, at least they won't be actively attacked by Huanmeng.

The highest priority goal of the giant dragon is actually "reviving the civilization of the ancestors".No matter how prosperous the civilization is, it cannot resist the dusk... Even if they inherit the technology of the ancestors and continue to develop, they still cannot resist the "dream".In other words, the more prosperous the civilization, the more stable the pollution of fantasy dreams will be.

Because the essence of illusion is "selfishness".

Human happiness, anger, sorrow, fear, love, evil, and desire are all like dreams and illusions... Human beings will eventually destroy others in disputes and repeated mistakes that never learn their lessons , also destroys itself.No matter how powerful the civilization is, it can't resist this kind of social gene carved into the bottom of the blood by dusk...

Not to mention, the reason why this planet can develop into a psychic civilization is due to the "fantasy" sealed inside the planet.The energy overflowing from the sealed fantasy has developed into spells, psionic powers, holy orders, destiny... and the pure psionic power of the ancient civilization.

The root of these extraordinary powers, as well as the possibility of their civilization breaking free and reaching the universe, all come from the "dream" itself.

After all, the biggest problem they face is not how to kill Fanmen... but that they can't kill Fanmen.

——The most fundamental despair comes from the inability of this planet to develop a superluminal engine.Their technology is locked... which means that they will never be able to leave this planet relying on the power of technology alone.In the long run, they can only die here.

Even if Russell really has a way to kill Huanmeng... that also means that everyone except Russell will lose their extraordinary power.

And if Huanmeng is allowed to wake up slowly, they will still die here.

Therefore, the essence of the dragon project...is to make human beings into "specimens of civilization".

They probably only plan to keep tens of thousands of people.Apportioned to each spaceship, I am afraid there will only be more than 1 people.

This number is not enough to maintain "civilization", but at least it can be used as a "sample of civilization".The dragons themselves will not be attacked by illusions, so they just need to be alive - there must be other civilizations in the universe, they just need to be picked up, and the civilization can continue.Even if they died on the way to emigrate, at least the perfectly preserved ancient civilization and their corpses will stay inside the dragon... This can also be picked up as a "harvest", which is equivalent to completing the giant dragon. Dragon part wishes.

"Fantasy" itself does not bring destruction.It will only lead to wars and disputes, making people unable to trust each other and unite forever... In the end, it is themselves who destroy everything.

And dragons have no life, so they are not afraid of death.They don't intend to let human beings live in a healthy way, but just hope that "human civilization" can survive.

——Then, let's make "human civilization" into a specimen.

Even if one generation, ten generations... Countless people will die on the way, civilization will not be cut off because of this.Eventually someone will inherit this history and be accepted by other civilizations as "Earthlings".Even if it is only a subordinate race, or it is directly absorbed and assimilated, it is a result of the survival of human civilization.The seven-headed dragon means seven times the possibility of continuing.

And His Excellency the Pope is a genius.

He keenly grasped the essence of the dragon, and was afraid of it.

He didn't know how terrible the dusk was, because he didn't experience the "dream catastrophe" like the name elf; he also didn't have any feelings for the ancient civilization, because he lived in his own time.

He doesn't think there's any point in preserving human civilization... All he has to do is to let as many people as possible survive, at all costs.From this point of view, he is indeed a saint.

His method is completely opposite to that of the giant dragon - the so-called "big fusion", a terrifying plan similar to the completion of human beings, may really be able to fight against Dusk.As long as what he said is true, all people will be fully integrated... Then the "group god" transformed by human beings is enough to resist the erosion of "dreams"; Sufficient resources can be obtained, as well as the rapid development of technology.

Transform all people into information life, and fully integrate the personalities of all people.Turn the "civilization" itself into a huge "individual" with hive thinking... replace the entire old civilization with an extremely large "god" fused by all people.

In this way, they can be called "children of fantasy".

Because they will continue to draw the power of "Dream", and the twilight species named "Dream" will never be able to wake up.

In its place, there is a newborn Twilight named "Crowd God" - a newborn born from the shell of "Dream".

This deformed way of existence must also belong to a kind of twilight... In other words, it is a low-profile version after the fusion of Russell and Monkey Face Eagle.

The reason why Russell said that the Pope is a genius is because he himself does not have dusk adaptability.He is not the egg of twilight, but he intends to rely on the power of technology to directly transform the soon-to-be-extinct human civilization into a new twilight to avoid the catastrophe of destruction.

——His point is simple.

Even if it's twisted, deformed, or depraved...it doesn't matter if you lose your physical body, your mind is degraded, or your personality is damaged.

As long as it can exist, it is better than everything.

Sacrifice all that can be sacrificed, in exchange for the most bleak victory——

A half-hearted sacrifice would only attract ridicule... But if he could sacrifice to this extent, Russell would be a little awed.

Among the three versions of the plan, the church's plan is the least risky and luck-based.

The plan of the elves needs to escape to a safe place before being overtaken by the fantasy; the plan of the giant dragon completely ignores the threat of the phantom, at least sending the corpse and the tombstone to the destination... In a sense, this is the elf The reason for unification with the Dragon Council.

Because their plans do not conflict.If you are lucky, you can carry out the plan of the elves; if they die halfway, they can turn into the plan of the dragon.But it does not rule out the possibility that none of the seven-headed dragons can find a "next home" willing to accept them, or that they were destroyed halfway due to various reasons before that.

And the church's plan is... If they implement it like this and are not stopped by others, they will definitely get this result in the end—letting human beings directly take the initiative to twilight, thereby making the illusion harmless.

Except for some loss...

But it is not much different from the future of Russell or the twilight in which the monkey-faced eagle swallows all the people in the world and sublimates them into newborns.

"If you have a plan that is enough to convince me, you can propose it to me here."

The old man looked solemn: "Otherwise, I will always reserve my opinion.

"Although you have told me those secrets, I still think my plan is the best."

"...Because of this, I don't intend to stop you."

Russell shook his head: "If my plan fails...at least you can provide a guarantee. It just so happens that if I fail, you don't have to think about how to deal with me who is out of control..."