Overturned Tower

"That's the 'Tianen' Group, the origin of the name."

Seeing Russell and Delphinium facing the enemy, Sai Lun was not nervous.

She raised her head again and drank tons of cold beer in one gulp.Her throat can clearly be seen sliding up and down, which is quite a bold gesture.

"Twilight..."

Sai Lun put down the empty wine glass, and sighed helplessly: "This is not the first time this world has come into contact with dusk.

"The last time was more than 1000 years ago."

"... the first year?"

"Hmm. But to us, that's another way of saying it.

"The star calendar is 34 years...or in other words, 2234 AD."

Sai Lun whispered: "At that time, I was just a ship's engineer on the 'Kubler'. The space station we were at was fifteen light years away from the earth."

Russell's pupils dilated slightly.

Although he roughly guessed a part of it...

But as expected, it was the person who told the history in person, which shocked him even more.

Delphinium on the side was completely unable to understand the content of the conversation.She didn't even understand what the "ship" referred to.

Seeing Russell's astonishment and delphinium's bewilderment, Sai Lun couldn't help laughing: "You really understand.

"You do have knowledge that does not belong to this era...

"Sally Ruth didn't lie to us. She did open the door to the other world."

"...Why did you open the door to another world? Why did you drag me into this world?"

Russell was silent for a long time, and then asked slowly.

The first solver who is not a riddleman and is willing to explain everything to himself is right in front of him... If Russell's blue shift had not entered the ninth level, he might lose control of his emotions in an instant.

"I think you should have heard it more or less. The answer is that our home star is polluted by dusk."

Sai Lun crossed his fingers and leaned back on the chair.

The peaceful and gentle smile on her face disappeared in an instant, and in the process of leaning back, a cold, ruthless, fair and just ruler seemed to emerge from her body.

"Has it been attacked by other civilizations?"

"Unfortunately, no. Or rather, fortunately... no. That's our fault."

Sai Lun closed his eyes, and his chest moved with a deep breath.

She was silent for a while, and said softly: "At first, it was because an archaeological team accidentally discovered the ruins from Mars. Through the excavation, we obtained a lost technology - by building an engine, it can open the way to The gate of the 'dream world'.

"That's a brand new jump engine - not moving in the galaxy, but moving in countless parallel worlds. This means that we can obtain endless resources from the mirror earth.

"This kind of engine should be left behind by civilizations from other parallel worlds. For us who cannot realize warp speed engine technology, this is the only way to break the resource dilemma.

"So, through 120 years of building ... we succeeded.

"The gates to the 'dream world' were opened, and Earth was pushed as if a stranded ship in the river of dreams. We were finally able to escape...we were cheering for a moment.

"It wasn't until much later that we discovered that... this wasn't an escape from a desperate situation.

"—On the contrary, we who have already escaped escaped back."

When Sai Lun said this, he looked a little disappointed.

She was silent for a while before looking at Russell: "I had already forgotten about these things. It was only recently that I found out that you were coming... That's why I specially reorganized my memory.

"In the long river of the dream world, there is a terrifying life that transcends dimensions—it may not be called life, or it may only be called 'existence'.

"That's [Twilight].

"Some scholars believe that it is an illusion that the afterimage left by the destroyed world is reflected in the dream river, because the dream river has no concept of time, and those who are born later can also exist in the previous time; Most scholars believe that the world is just an egg shell, civilization is just an illusion in the intermediate period, and the ultimate destiny of every civilization is to hatch the dusk that belongs to their civilization.

"But we can be sure that Dusk is a high-level existence that will inevitably bring the world to an end. Most of them are not violent, but they just exist and will bring the world to its end.

"It's more like 'staining' than 'killing' or 'invading'.

"When they walk in the river of dreams, they will leave traces. And just this kind of traces will kill a world.

"—The dusk that first entered our world is called 'Fantasy Dream'. It is the first dusk we encountered after returning the world to the river of dreams."

Speaking of this, Sai Lun suddenly took a deep look at Delphinium.

This made her a little nervous and a little confused.

She said softly: "Maybe you can't understand. But in fact, our world was once extremely united and friendly.

"Because we have been able to communicate with the sea of ​​group subconscious since we were born. We can easily understand the will of the same race... With this ability, we have developed a very prosperous and prosperous civilization.

"Although there was also a world war, it was more of a dispute over the way. That is, 'whether everyone must be connected to the sea of ​​group subconscious'. Besides, that world did not have the current chaos, Impetuousness, hatred, jealousy.

"Because everyone's heart can be easily healed by more kindness. But even so, we still cannot leave the earth.

"Our original plan was to store a large number of 'brains'. Make these brains into a 'brain in a vat' to maintain the activity of psionic energy.

"And when enough brains are gathered together, these brains can be combined to generate a kind of thrust...thus pushing the spacecraft to an extremely long distance. This is a very inefficient non-working fluid engine.

"Later, after we reconnected to the river of dreams. We quickly got a new technology. Through this technology, we can draw power from the parallel world to give the spacecraft a perpetual motion machine.

"That's how 'Dragon' was born.

"The reason why they are called giant dragons is because this technology is obtained from a creature called a 'giant dragon' in the parallel world. This is a kind of commemoration and a kind of...show off."

Sai Lun said softly: "But we soon realized...fortunately, we didn't implement the original plan.

"Because our spiritual power is not innate at all - it comes from the planet under our feet. When we fly far enough away from the planet, our spiritual power will weaken.

"This planet is a corpse of a dead Twilight. Our world was originally a kind of seal. It was our ancestors who gave up the chance to live and sealed it up.

"But after we pushed it back into the Dream River, it was nourished again...and began to wake up.

"This consciousness hatched from the sea of ​​group subconsciousness gradually began to talk to us, and gradually gained nourishment to learn and grow... Finally, it was enshrined as a 'god' by some people.

"Its name is [Dream], the dusk that is opposite to reality. In countless parallel worlds, the existence of every person who 'escaped from reality' is calling for its return."

Chapter 64 The Truth of Everything

"...the dusk that is opposite to reality?"

Russell repeated.

He frowned: "But this kind of statement is still too abstract... Is it the kind of existence that cannot be described specifically, nor recognized?"

"That kind of dusk does exist, but 'Dream' is not that type."

Sai Lun shook his head.

She stared at the beer she drank, but her face showed a slight tired look.

Russell felt that the feelings of "nostalgia" and "sadness" reverberated in her heart, so he did not interrupt Sai Lun's memory.

After a while, Sai Lun said quietly: "Once upon a time, we had a splendid civilization that we were proud of.

"Because in the development of civilization, we have gradually acquired a divine rationality, transcending our own animality.

"Psychic energy maintains and heals the soul, and technology adjusts hormones and nerves, so that we will no longer make mistakes, and will no longer be impulsive or make mistakes. As long as one thing can be done theoretically, it can be achieved in a spiritual and mechanical way." Guaranteed [-]% completion under correction.

"But as the 'dream' hatches from the sea of ​​the group unconscious, we start to 'dream.'"

"……Dream?"

Delphinium frowned: "It should be a mechanism for the brain to rest the memory."

"However, this was not the case. After awakening the psychic power, we could have entered the sea of ​​group subconsciousness at night... That is a great world opposite to reality, composed of subconsciousness and imagination. There, the laws of physics and reality There is a huge gap... But that is not an illusion, but a common spiritual world for everyone. Originally, everyone shared the same dream. In the dream, we united, cultivated feelings, formed bonds, and relieved stress.

"But since the awakening of the 'Fantasy Dream', there have been fewer and fewer people in the group dream. Everyone has been cut off from the sea of ​​subconscious minds of the group, and instead linked to the fantasy dream... The dream is no longer another world, but It has become an illusion made up of memories.

"...After that, disaster struck."

More than 1000 years have passed.

But Chairman Sai Lun's pupils still reflected fear.

It was the fear of the "twilight" that destroyed the entire old world.

"Regardless of the distance of space, at the same moment, an 'irrational' emotion appeared in the depths of everyone's hearts.

"The first is the 'selfishness' that separates the self from others. At that time, our civilization was so advanced that it was acceptable for everyone to share labor and then share the products. We were productive enough to help anyone in need, and we were After helping, it will automatically give back to the society.

"However, at that time, the 'selfish gene' from the ancient genes that we had long ago eradicated from our minds was awakened.

"There was a split between the 'group' and the 'individual'...People no longer trusted the group wholeheartedly, but instead tried to take advantage of the group for their own protection. Almost overnight, the trust in each other was completely shattered.

"Afterwards, people have 'arrogance' towards those who are weaker than themselves; and 'jealousy' towards those who are stronger than themselves.

"This kind of emotion actually has no meaning. It is just a kind of animalistic, instinctive, and inefficient constraint. It is the instinct in ancient society that drives beasts to form groups and maintain the survival of the fittest. And we have long been able to regulate genes. Technology, individual strength is meaningless.

"Yet it further divides us and keeps people from being united.

"With the further development of the plague of the mind, emotions such as 'laziness', 'rage', 'depression', 'suspiciousness', and 'inferiority' began to appear. They were in our era and had been extinct for more than a hundred years." Negative emotions'. Because only by eradicating all negative emotions, leaving nothing behind, psionic energy can be transformed into pure white psionic energy - the power of 'whatever you want' that can be used in all fields.

"Psychic energy, which was originally pure and can be used in any occasion, began to be polluted by this emotion and became extreme.

"Ultimately, the most powerful psykers are the first to lose control - because they are the most connected to the sea of ​​subconscious minds of the group, and therefore the most polluted.

"As more and more extreme emotions infect their minds, the first symptoms are hallucinations and auditory hallucinations. Then memories that do not exist begin to appear, and then the brain cannot control the body, and the body will be aimless like an animal At the beginning of the middle period, their rationality completely disappeared and they became completely unable to communicate. The results of the brain scans showed that their brains had undergone serious distortions to a pathological level, and the cerebrospinal fluid had become a colorful and viscous colloid , the brain produced colorful irregular crystals, and completely lost the ability to remember new information and logical thinking.

"In contrast, the spiritual power of other normal people is declining. However, the spiritual power of these lunatics is getting stronger.

"Even in the ships far away from the earth, chaos began to appear. Many 'dragons' built with the few resources on the earth fell to the far side of the starry sky far away from the earth. Only seven giant dragons barely escaped. Where I am My 'Kubler' is also one of them, and he is also the energy provider that supports the island of happiness. It is my most important partner... and my only home.

"These lunatics have almost destroyed the entire civilization on the ground, turning countless settlements into ruins. Just suppressing them will cost a lot, and more than [-]% of the population died in this catastrophe. Fortunately, I came back They had already been suppressed by the time. Otherwise, I would have been sent directly to the front line... With my combat power, I am afraid that would mean death.

"We already knew that the problem was with psionic powers, so the government banned psionic powers. But it was too late.

"During that civil war, as the out-of-control psykers were swallowed by increasingly extreme emotions, their bodies were finally melted by increasingly frenzied and scorching psychic energy; the other part was killed in the early war. No matter When they died for whatever reason, their souls sank directly into the sea of ​​subconsciousness.

"Only by capturing them alive, cutting off more than [-]% of their brains, removing the crystals, and waiting for their spiritual energy to completely dissipate before they are executed, can these deformed souls be completely killed. And once they sink into the group subconscious In the sea, it is no longer possible to kill through normal means.

"They became informational parasites that devoured the emotions of others in their dreams, feeding back tainted psychic energy. Since the group dream had been cut off at that time, we could no longer support each other...in the individual dream, these Organisms are so powerful that it is completely irresistible to be polluted and parasitized by them.

"According to what we said at the time, it was called a 'dream derivative'.

"—that is, the so-called 'demon' nowadays."

Russell's pupils contracted slightly, turning into vertical pupils of cats.

Everything is right.

He suddenly understood why these demons appeared collectively at the same time, and no new demons were born after that...and why the name-calling elves need to sacrifice themselves to seal the most powerful demons.

Because these demons were originally the most powerful psykers in that world.

And after they sealed the "Fantasy Dream" again, no new demons would be born again.

"...After that, it will be 'spiritual relatives', right?"

Russell looked at Sai Lun.

Sai Lun nodded: "Because anyone who has awakened psychic powers may be parasitized by demons. And we can't prevent it, let alone resist it.

"At that time, Papus proposed a method—that is, to inject a special psionic awakening liquid into the brains of chordates, forcing them to awaken psionics. Because they are not humans, they will not enter the human group In the sea of ​​subconsciousness. By the way, Papus is the chairman of Ampoule Biomedical... His destiny is to be a 'healer'.

"When their psychic energy awakens to a certain level, they form another psychic energy network independent of the 'sea of ​​group subconscious'. That is, a new psychic energy network formed by psychic creatures other than humans that has not been polluted by illusions. network.

"Then, the survivor's psionic frequency was attuned to it and linked into a new, very weak psionic network."

Simply put, it's running away.

The psionic network in my hometown has been polluted by illusions. It is the home field of demons, and they can come in and out at will, making it hard to guard against.

So simply move in groups...

"...Even so, are you still unwilling to give up psionic power?"

Delphinium questioned subconsciously: "Knowing that psionic energy has been polluted..."

But when she was halfway through speaking, she suddenly reacted, so the second half of the sentence was directly stuck.

—Because they couldn't help it.

Although she couldn't understand concepts such as planets and universes, she probably understood.

These ancient people also faced the dilemma of resource depletion.