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But Russell also didn't want to swallow the gathered "human dumpling".In that case, what is the difference between him and the monkey-faced eagle?

After thinking about it, Russell decided to listen to the attitude of promotion first.

——As the initiator of the "Great Fusion", what does he think?

However, the promotion did not give an answer: "I can't answer this question. Because as individual 'we', thinking is always incomplete. Because we can't understand each other, the discussion at this time is like discussing whether the king should use it when he goes to farm. Like a golden hoe.

"Only when the minds of all people are united and fused into the Hive Mind can 'we' know what exactly we need to do."

The old man's voice was clear and resonant, and his eyes were as sharp as a knife without any hesitation: "In the past hundred years, the seven giants have embarked on the wrong path. Or... they have kept hope that they shouldn't have from the very beginning.

"That hope came from their blind worship of 'dragons'. But I was a witness to that war...I can tell you clearly that dragons are far from being as powerful as they think. It's not even enough to start from' Escape safely from the pursuit of Phantasm'.

"We have long given up on this meaningless hope. The only ones that can be saved a little bit now are Chongguang Island and Tongshen Island... because only these two empty islands are still studying the possibility of cyberspace ascension.

"Gene optimization, psychic technology, memory adjustment... Those entertainment technologies developed by other sky islands have no meaning. Just like in the face of an overwhelming, destructive famine that is about to destroy the world, except for the technology to solve the famine , other technologies have no meaning. Without survival, there is no future.

"Now, the time to study entertainment technology should be over. All sky islands should concentrate their efforts to prepare for the great integration, start optimizing the 'monkey-faced eagle' technology, and then popularize it immediately.

"Only in this way can we calmly prepare for the evacuation before the crisis comes - when the crisis really comes, it will be too late.

"The exhaustion of planetary resources is only a precursor to destruction, but this precursor itself is enough to cause turmoil in civilization. If dusk really comes, world-wide panic has already swept across the sky islands... It may even usher in war, division, suspicion, Hate, at that point, people can no longer be united. Human beings can no longer be united.

"Whether it's a dragon or an elf...the immortals all have a fluke mentality. Just like entrepreneurs are weak. Until the situation develops to the last step, they always have undue hopes-they always look forward to falling from the sky. The next savior, let them change nothing but change everything that sucks."

I could be that savior—

...maybe.

Russell opened his mouth.But in the end he didn't say that word.

Because the proposition of the survival of civilization is too heavy.Compared with the church with clear thinking, Russell himself is not sure to what extent he can achieve.

He could only forcefully smile: "Aren't you the church? Even the church itself doesn't believe in the existence of a savior?"

"Because what we sell to people on weekdays is the commodity called 'Savior'...so we know everything best. When the disaster strikes, our church itself is the one who least believes in the existence of a savior."

His Excellency the Pope paused, placing his last bargaining chip.

"Russell, you may not know... not just Lycaon. Even your father 'sheath', he has now returned to the church.

"It is true that he once chose to betray, but 'we' now choose to forgive. In the face of the great fusion, all hatred is meaningless...Our enemies are only the seven giants—to be precise, only those weak elves.

"Come to us, Russell. Your father is here too."

With that said, the old man stretched out his hand towards Russell.

Chapter 68 Reverse poaching

Even for Russell, it is hard to say whether the church's philosophy is good or bad;

Even the current him is unable to utter the words "This is absolutely wrong and sinful" forcefully and righteously.

Because they really have no selfishness and desires.

All struggles for "survival" do not distinguish between good and evil-that is another choice that overrides the moral concept of good and evil, the choice between life and death.

True, one can give everything, including life, for something greater than himself.However, there are also people who just want to live, and they can pay all the price just to survive... But this does not mean that the latter is wrong, let alone ask others to sacrifice their lives for "great things".

The church is not obliged to believe Russell.Even if the path they follow is a bad idea, it is a path that can be followed after all.A narrow road is always better than a dead end.

- The so-called "big fusion".

As long as the hidden danger of the monkey-faced eagle is eliminated, it is indeed a way: since the base point of being polluted by illusions is "sensibility", and the damage caused by the pollution occurs in the "group", then as long as you abandon the sensibility and the group, you will not be in danger. alright?

Become a mechanical mind that is completely immune to "dreams", a hive mind with only one voice, gather all human wisdom, and match it with psychic power that can reverse reality.This is also a way out of civilization... In time, it may become a great civilization at the level of "Fallen Empire".

The only question remains—how can the church ensure that monkey-faced eagles are excluded?

The monkey-faced eagle is a thought, and a thought is immortal.He who has completely transformed into information form can completely enter someone's thinking with a dormant posture, and then decode himself in a certain way after the great fusion, and "unzip" from the hive thinking.At that time, they will become completely unable to resist the monkey-faced eagle.

Just like confronting Russell at close quarters in real life; human beings have no chance of winning against the monkey-faced eagle in the cyber world.The three sages are able to fight the monkey-faced eagle, although there is a factor of stronger computing power... However, the fundamental difference is that the monkey-faced eagle who possesses the spiritual power of "Anima Animus" does not Has a special attack against races other than "human".

As the Egg of Dusk, his scope of infection is far less outrageous than that of Huanmeng.He can only pollute, influence, and devour those races with group subconsciousness...

From another perspective, the monkey-faced eagle is also the "god of the group" believed by the church.

Although he is not the original, but he will be the ultimate - he is not an absolutely equal good god, but an absolute dictatorial evil god.

The only difference between the monkey-faced eagle and the "god" is that he has not devoured "everyone".When he integrates everyone into one, he will be even stronger than the "god" of the first psionic network—because the original god didn't have pure self-awareness, he was the muddled group consciousness itself.He has no interest, no past, and no position. He is closer to a "natural phenomenon".

But the monkey-faced eagle has a clear personality, purpose, and self-awareness.

The Church packs and stores everyone's consciousness, which means completely giving up the possibility of fighting against the Dusk Egg...

Russell doesn't want to destroy the world, so he won't participate; monkey-faced eagle has no such moral constraints.

The ranks of the two are at the same level.As long as the monkey-faced eagle realizes this and takes a certain method to bypass the firewall... the moment he enters the "inside" and comes into contact with other human information, it means that he has already won.After his existence expanded infinitely, Russell was the first to be eroded and devoured by him.

Anima means "soul" and animus means "spirit".

At the same time, the anima represents the archetypal image of the feminine being within a man, and the animus represents the masculine element within a woman.Just like the two fish eyes in the yin-yang fish.The combination of these two names is the "inner and archetype" of all human beings...that is, the "group god".

The monkey-faced eagle's spiritual power "Anima Animus" is exactly "the name of God".

He is the sleeping god who is locked in everyone's heart, unable to realize or perceive, and hidden in the sea of ​​subconsciousness.

The god imprisoned in the vessel—

no doubt.

By getting in touch with Andrew and copying the character of the Pope... Through the perspective of the other party, Russell has completely understood the essence of the monkey-faced eagle.

"Container of God" and "Anima Animus" are just a pair of spiritual powers that are the exterior and interior of each other.

Russell is an outsider, someone who does not exist in this world.

He is a genius masquerading as a mortal, alien from birth.Can be friends with anyone, can be anyone.He is a mirror with magic power, which can reflect all the existence outside, and reflect the dream and reality in people's hearts.He represents the "outside", the transcendent shell of God.

The monkey-faced eagle is a local aborigine. Although he is an excellent researcher, his essence is just a mortal.He represents the mediocre God Core.

His whole life as a human being has been abandoned, used, and destroyed by people.Because he doesn't understand anyone's heart, he has no successor, no dream, no hope, and no friends or comrades. In the end, he even lost his offspring and name together, and died completely at the social level.

He was at a point of coincidence—after Russell took the source of the holy order, as he lost his son, he finally completely and completely lost everything about himself.Take the initiative to say goodbye to the whole world you own.

He was the only person in the entire world who was completely opposite to Russell at that point in time... when Russell touched the essence of Twilight.

Because of this, he formed the Egg of Dusk in a mortal body, became the aluminum film behind the mirror, the god in the container.

The reason why the mirror is a mirror instead of a window, and the reason why the container is a container instead of a block is precisely because of the object that rejects light.

If Russell represents the dusk of the "tombstone", the monkey-faced eagle is the "grave".Without the tomb, the tombstone is just a stone slab, which only has meaning without any substance; without the tombstone, the tomb is just a bag of earth, empty of content but meaningless.

That's why they became twin dusks.

If Russell gets the monkey-faced eagle's ability, he doesn't need to devour anyone to become a god-only relying on Russell's "imitation" to provide fuel and burn through the monkey-faced eagle's engine, he can grow slowly... … Gradually gain the power of "God" and become a god without paying any price;

And if the monkey-faced eagle gets Russell's body, he can immediately reach the present world from nothingness with an immortal body, omniscient and omnipotent mind.

As twin dusks, if they don't eat each other, the battle will never end.

Compared with Russell, who tends to be lawful and good, the chaotic and evil "monkey-faced eagle" is more suitable to be Twilight.Because morality restrains Russell, preventing him from devouring other people and other civilizations.This also means that it is only an embryo at best, unable to grow up due to malnutrition.

If there is a general consciousness similar to the consciousness of the abyss in the birth of all the twilight species, then it must be more inclined to let the monkey-faced eagle devour Russell, swallow the entire civilization and then hatch in a healthy way, and then wander in the multiverse like his predecessors , to devour other civilizations.

Therefore, Russell is only the shell and the nourishment—like the things in the grave, which are always more important than the tombstone.It was only because the monkey-faced eagle was too mediocre compared to Russell that it had to go through this ritual of hunting and devouring Russell to overtake it.

Compared with the distant "fantasy", the monkey-faced eagle that is close at hand is a disaster worth guarding against;

Compared with the giant dragon who does not communicate with ordinary people at all and is completely isolated from the bottom society, compared with those elves who are cowardly because they have too much, and who are proud because they have lived too long... will eventually become an absolute dictator "tyrant", The "end-producer" who controls all values, the monkey-faced eagle should also be hated by people.

The worst order is still order, and it is better than complete extinction and chaos.

Russell believes that Your Excellency "Promoted" must be able to understand such a possibility.

So he stretched out his hand and shook it towards the century-old pope, the "similar" monkey-faced eagle, the pioneer who uploaded his consciousness to cyberspace——

"terribly sorry."

Looking at the expectant and gratified eyes of the other party, Russell held the old man's hand and replied calmly: "I refuse."

"...Is it because of the conflict with the sheath?"

The old man frowned: "If it's because of that..."

"It has nothing to do with that. Compared with the life and death of the world, my personal grievances are not worth mentioning."

Value love more than hatred.If he had to cooperate with the other party, he would not throw a tantrum and leave because of the sheath-not to mention, he didn't have that much hatred in the first place.Compared with hatred, it is more disappointment, which is not hatred, but disgust.

"I shake hands with you, naturally I hope we can reach a cooperation."

Russell said word by word: "What I hate the most are those 'prophets' and 'sages' who know a lot but keep telling riddles. Since you want to communicate, you must speak clearly; if you want to communicate It is necessary to eliminate misunderstandings and ambiguities. Any cognitive deviation may cause unnecessary contradictions...

"You do know a lot of things. You know the Twilight Seed, you know the first psionic network, you know the plans of the elves, and you know the relatives. I also know that you are all enemies within the church, and you are opponents everywhere you look. Do you think To use the 'Werewolf' plan to shake the rule of the Seven Giants and cause chaos... I know you must feel pain in your heart, but this is only a necessary evil. If people do not question the Seven Giants, the church cannot carry out the Great Integration Plan .

"Yes, you must think so. Because I [know] what you think."

There was a little magic in Russell's voice.

The surrounding "dreams" were modified by Russell's will - the pope was dragged into a strange world by Russell.

It was a huge "art gallery".

On both sides are sky-high towering golden walls, on which are hung countless moving and talking portraits like the portraits in Harry Potter.

"Zhengsheng" looked at everything around him in shock - he understood what was here in an instant.

It was not his personal enlightenment, but Russell infused him with some kind of knowledge from his subconscious.

"...But I think, you must not know the secret knowledge about 'Egg of Dusk', about 'Giant Dragon', about 'Ash Dome'... about 'Another Possibility to Save the World'."

The corners of Russell's mouth rose slightly, and his clenched hands tightened slightly.

Staring at the old man, he slowly replied: "I can tell you these things and these secrets. I can also save this world, fight against the dusk, and protect everyone. It is not necessary to revive this world and bring it back to life. Totally impossible.

"We unite, we unite. But it's not that I join you...

"—It's you, you want to join us."

Chapter 69 Doctor: Hurry up

Strangling dreams of those pasts again.

Those cold pasts, mixed with shadows, blood, vomit, and broken limbs.

He dreamed that he hanged that man again, dreamed that he screamed with blood on his face in the boxing ring, dreamed that he used jujitsu to wring the fool who provoked him until his whole body was shattered.

He dreamed of the handmade luxurious cake that he wanted to eat that day but failed.

It was his birthday, the anniversary of his mother's death.

Strangled has never had a birthday cake since then.It was the first time he was interested in the culture of the upper city... trying to learn from the people in the upper city and buy himself a birthday cake as a celebration.

Since then, strangulation has not had its cake and eats it.He has become strong, has power, and no longer has the pressure to survive.He had countless chances to eat cakes...but when he saw the packaged cakes again, it would only make him irritable and flustered—it reminded him of the worst day, and even made him have nightmares at night.

Because of this, there is no "material picture" of what he will see when he "opens the cake box" in his mind.

So, when he opened the cake box in his dream.But he only saw a bloody head—that was the most "gift" he had ever seen in his life.When many people begged him to do something, they would bring a head for him... from someone who had offended the strangulation.

Not that man's.Nor was it his mother's.

But "Xiaoya".

"--Well."

The next moment, Hang Sha woke up suddenly.

But he found that it was very difficult for him to open his eyes now.

After a while, as the strangled consciousness gradually returned and the paralyzed thinking gradually became clear, he realized that he was lying on the operating chair.

It was not a comfortable experience—it was definitely not the feeling of falling asleep when you massage or soak in a hot spring, but it was closer to the shallow dream that you enter when you have a high fever to the point of fainting, and faintly lose consciousness.

But his body is still not very bright.The tactile sensations of each part seem to no longer belong to me...

"woke up?"

A man's dull voice came.

Hanging looked along the light and saw a man wearing a respirator and goggles sitting on his right.The man only had hair on one side, braided, and a subcutaneous implant on the other.The circuit board and cooling holes visible to the naked eye are on his face, like a cyber-style tattoo totem.

He glanced at Hang Sha, the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

"It seems that you are quite resistant to anesthesia, and you woke up more than an hour earlier.