Overturned Tower

The only power that can change the status quo is psionic power.In other words, it is "pure spiritual energy".

It is a powerful energy that only needs to pile up "population" to achieve what you want.Relying on psychic power, they can solve the difficulties they encounter.

If you lose your psionic power, it's just a slow death.

"It seems that you are also aware of it, Minister Delphinium."

Sai Lun's voice is deep but warm, with a relaxing magnetism like that of an emotional radio anchor: "Because of the existence of the 'Phantom Derivatives', we are forced to give up the original soul built by the will of countless ancestors. Sea. But the new sea of ​​psychic power is not unusable... Although the psychic power obtained from it is very weak compared to before, as long as enough time is piled up, more and more psykers will return to the soul after death In the sea of ​​mind, we can still obtain the same powerful sea of ​​mind as before.

"But we quickly realized that there was a problem with the original remodeling surgery.

"People who have undergone transformation will inevitably cause physical distortion, that is, 'spiritual disease'. But the first surgery was only performed on the brain, because we have long studied that the organ we receive spiritual information is actually the brain A section of specialized nerves in the frontal lobe.

"And these people who have undergone surgery, their bodies will release the life limit for unknown reasons, and enter the 'development period' again, and eventually become extraordinarily large, in contrast, their brains will become larger and larger. Hair is animal. Or to put it more clearly...the more they grow, the bigger and more mentally retarded they become.

"Later, they were removed from the human race by us because their intelligence had fallen to animal levels, and we called them 'giants.' That was a race that had been wiped out in the past...and a branch of the old man."

Sai Lun obviously didn't want to say more about the giant.

But Russell always felt that he seemed to have heard this word somewhere.

He asked: "What about these ordinary humans who have awakened their soul relatives?"

Sai Lun looked at Russell, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised, showing a subtle and meaningful smile: "It's just like the synthetic human experiment on Tongshen Island.

"We rewrote the memory of a large number of newborns. Gene edits capable of sensing the 'new psionic network' were injected into the embryos.

"It is impossible to completely isolate the call of 'dream'. Whenever human beings dream, they will enter the realm of 'dream'. Psykers and mages will have deeper contact with him. But in pure human When some animal elements are mixed in the mind, the signal to the "dream" will become blurred. These new lives will continue to improve and maintain the new spiritual energy network as they develop self-awareness...then , the new humans with the characteristics of beasts are resistant to 'demons' and 'dreams'.

"—From this point of view, you are no different from synthetic humans. They are all artificially cultivated. The real 'humans' are us instead."

Sai Lun's words should originally have a certain sense of superiority.

But when she said it, there was only bitterness left.

"... old humans with only 84 people?"

Russell murmured softly.

……No wonder.

The truth of the world shook his heart so much.

Russell remembered that the mentor once mentioned to himself: she was only responsible for opening the door, and it was the world itself that pulled him from the other world.

For Russell himself is the doom of the world.

Together with the monkey-faced eagle, he is a complete twilight embryo.When this world is destroyed, one of them will absorb nutrients and hatch into a new "Twilight".

Then he will wander around along the river of dreams, and then go to destroy other people's worlds and strengthen himself.

...But this is wrong.

The world fell to the bottom in the blink of an eye from its peak moment.What does this have to do with Russell?

As a result, it now appears that... they have been "looted" by another twilight.

Although they tried their best to seal the "fantasy" in the "Tower of the End", they still exhausted the last blood of civilization.And the price of being trapped for one twilight is that this world is on the verge of extinction, and it is about to produce a new twilight.

Russell, who realized the truth of this incident and penetrated the reality of the universe, couldn't help but feel a chill of despair in his heart.

This world... this universe is so cold and hopeless.

The civilized world is destroyed by the twilight, and the destroyed civilization will give birth to a new twilight.

Countless twilights are like swarms of insects, or zombies... nothing more than a zombie film with each world as a "human" individual.

Even if one or two were barely defeated or repelled, it was meaningless.Because they will eventually meet a new twilight, and after the world is destroyed... the number of twilights will increase again.

It was a bottomless abyss with absolutely no hope.

In this way, he understood...why the dragon is so secretive about the world "beyond the sky".

Because they are all refugees and survivors.

They are so afraid of the dusk... They are completely frightened, afraid of these civilization killers.Fear of the vast universe that will be exposed after opening the sky.

In that universe, how many twilights are wandering?Every destroyed civilization means a newborn twilight.In this parallel universe, there are as many twilights as there are extinct civilizations... This is not counting the twilights from other worlds that wandered in from the parallel world.

And in the mage's dream, behind the Tower of the End... it should be the so-called "river of dreams", the possibility of leading to countless parallel worlds.

A lock blocks the way to the universe, and a lock blocks the way to the parallel world.

They would rather be trapped in this world and die slowly than touch the infinite terror called "unknown".

Therefore, the giant dragon is obviously willing to protect the world, but it will only watch the world slowly go to extinction with cold eyes.

Therefore, the original mission of the elves was to protect humans from going to other planets...but they gave up this mission and blocked the sky and technology.

——That's why she went mad after the sheath came into contact with the secret.

He will say that everything the Tower of Babel does is meaningless.

This is the truth of the world.

Chapter 65 Immortals and Deaths

In the past, people on the earth had the same accent and language.

They were so proud, wise, and united that they wanted to unite to build a great city, a tower that would reach heaven.

— because they want to be on high, they want to make a name for themselves.They want to erect a high lighthouse so that wanderers in the distance can see their hometown.

They want to be their own idols, they want to be equal to the gods... Ultimately, they want to surpass God.

After that, "God" confused their accents and made their speech incomprehensible to each other.Then the people were scattered over the earth, and strife arose among them.So the tower that was built but was abandoned was named "Babel".

That is the meaning of "chaos", and also the meaning of "God's Gate".

This is what Russell knows...the legend about the Tower of Babel in another world.

And this is also what the ancient humans in this world have experienced.

After they arrived in the interstellar era, their culture and language have been unified.And it was precisely because they wanted to open the "God's Gate" that they caused disaster.

It is indeed the real "god" who gave them turmoil and destruction - the consciousness that hatched in the sea of ​​group subconsciousness absorbs the psionic energy constructed by all human subconsciousness and regenerates the twilight "dream", it is indeed called Deserves to be God.

Ultimately, humanity is no longer united.They no longer work in one place, but are scattered.

In the age of the earth, that is the many human kingdoms; and in the age of the sky, it is the seven empty islands.

"……how to say."

After a brief silence, Russell and Delphinium looked at each other: "It sounds quite romantic."

Both of them smiled at the same time.

Seeing this, Chairman Sai Lun was a little surprised.

"Your reaction was beyond my expectations.

"The last person who heard the truth of the world has gone crazy...or did you not understand?"

"Why don't you understand this? Isn't it just a simple two-headed problem."

Russell shook his head, picked up the ice coke and took a sip calmly.

Delphinium continued from the side: "If the seal is not lifted, the world will be like a stranded whale, which will gradually die on the beach and slowly run out of resources.

"And if the seal of the dream world is lifted, it is tantamount to resurrecting the 'god'. Although he has been dismembered and sealed by dragons and elves, as long as the seal is released, he will still wake up... On the contrary, we can I escaped into other parallel worlds. The dangers I encountered were the slowly reborn "God" and other twilight species in the dream world.

"If the seal of the sky is lifted, then we can leave this dying planet. On the contrary, there are other civilizations and other twilight species in the universe... right?"

"It sounds like you are very inclined to undo the seal of the sky. It's normal. Before I left the planet for the first time, I was so curious about space."

Sai Lun smiled, and explained patiently: "But I have to add... Don't forget one detail, that is, we have not mastered the superluminal navigation technology at all. Our scholars have confirmed through research that at least on our planet The material cannot support the technology of the warp drive.

"At the same time, we have not mastered the wormhole stabilization technology. Although we have discovered the location of the wormhole, we cannot sail through the wormhole... and the distance between the wormhole and us is still very far away. Our hyperspace engine is completely dependent on The powerful psychic power of the old psychic network - only by it can we leave this planet. Otherwise, we would have left."

"That is to say, as long as you want to leave this planet, no matter what method you use, you must first break the seal of the dream world.

"And if the Tower of the End is left sideways... this planet, no—this civilization itself, will fall into a countdown to destruction."

Hearing this, Russell raised his eyebrows and looked at Chairman Sai Lun meaningfully.

"In that case," he raised his head and asked softly, "why don't you continue to develop technology on this planet?"

"Because it doesn't make sense."

Sai Lun sighed: "I have said it all, our scholars have proved that our civilization cannot carry out normal hyperspace navigation. This means that we are doomed to be trapped and die in the shallows. We will be able to escape this planet one day...but they also know that the speed of the 'dragons' is not enough without all the psychic energy stored in a prosperous planet as a beacon. 20 years after they left this planet , our civilization will be destroyed halfway.

"All of this has been calculated by artificial intelligence. The calculation results of the seven-headed giant dragon are exactly the same... The answer is that we can't reach the finish line. 20 years is too short. Even with superluminal technology, It may not be possible to find a new habitable place; and even if a new habitable place is found, it will only prolong the death period.

"'Fantasy' has been brought into this universe by us, and we have caused a catastrophe. Sooner or later, this universe will be swallowed up by it..."

The chairman of Tianen Group was full of fear in his words.

On her face was a static look of despair and sadness mixed with some determination and regret.

It's like knowing that you are terminally ill, giving up treatment after grief, and starting to arrange funeral arrangements in an orderly manner.

"This is a horror that only elves and dragons can understand. You cannot understand why we do this unless you have seen the despair. But it is only that you are too young.

"If people are given hope, it is more likely to lead to despair on the day when hope is shattered. Since the day of destruction is already doomed, all we have done is to extend the limits of civilization as much as possible...

"—Then, of course, we will choose to escape here in two ways when this planet has completely fallen into the countdown to extinction, and there is no way out, nor any luck.

"One giant dragon escaped into the dream world, and the six giant dragons headed in six different directions. Although according to calculations, we normally cannot reach the next habitable planet before the 'fantasy dream' is revived and the plague of the mind breaks out...but If we can meet a well-meaning civilization, maybe we can take us in and leave the fire of civilization for us. Or, after we are completely destroyed... the 'tombstone' that records everything about our civilization will also float among the stars.

"If you happen to encounter a civilization that is more advanced than ours, you can leave them as a commemoration and proof; and if the tombstone falls into the land of the new civilization, it will also be of some help to them."

Chairman Sai Lun never mentioned the possibility of civilization being able to survive.

Maybe they don't believe it, and they don't want to believe it.

If you don't hope, you won't be disappointed.

Russell shook his head in disappointment.

He sighed lightly, with sarcasm in his words: "I used to think that the elves might be the guardians of the fallen, and the dragons are the gods who protect civilization.

"Now it looks like it's just a group of survivors and their little AI assistants ... playing house with a group of animal companions in a shelter."

"...You're right if you think so."

Chairman Sai Lun did not object to Russell's words.

Highlight a "don't say it, I ordered" free and easy and indifferent.

"Anyway, I've done everything I can to the best of my ability."

She shrugged her shoulders, her body leaned back and her legs were raised. That natural posture lacked the nobility and elegance that originally belonged to the highest-ranking figures: "Why does Happy Island maintain that illusory 'happiness'? Or, what is this standard? what is it

"The answer is simple. The farther away from the 'dream', the higher the happiness; when the happiness is low to a certain level, it means that their spirit has been eroded by the dream. Our standard for transforming elves is also related to this— — It is not enough just to be talented, you must also be insensitive to "fantasy". The less you can sense the fantasy dream, the later you will be caught up by him.

"In this way, when the giant dragon takes off in the end, it will save you the trouble of distinguishing 'people who should be saved'; I isolate them just so that the rest of the people will not be infected by this spiritual plague... The material of the mind protection chip is limited. We have to prepare for the interstellar voyage later, and they may also prolong the moment of being caught up.

"I've seen you struggle for a long time, Thrall. You really want to give them human rights... then it's up to you."

Chairman Sai Lun is very tolerant to Russell.

She had known for a long time that Russell wanted to unite those uncoded, and wanted to establish a new authority in Sky Island—but so what?

"It will be more than 50 years before the resources are exhausted. At that time, we will break the seal and make a last-ditch effort... And at that time, we may still be able to persist for 20 years. The 70-year-old king, you Just do it if you want."

Having said that, Sai Lun took a deep look at Russell: "But I hope you don't forget... your father in blood, what did that guy in the scabbard do?"

"Did he really kill a dragon?"

"If it's true, it's the giant dragon that belongs to the Holy Blood Island. That's the one that was originally responsible for guarding the ampoule's biological medicine."

Sai Lun's voice was full of sarcasm: "His name is Maria... He is the gentlest of the seven-headed dragons and the gentlest to humans.

"Probably because of this, she was killed by the sheath."

"...Then why didn't the Holy Blood Island fall?"

"The only thing that powers Sky Island is the heart of the dragon. It is the engine that draws energy from the 'parallel world'."

"The perpetual motion machine?"

Russell's heart moved: "Isn't that..."

"Don't touch the dragon's mind."

Sai Lun's face was serious, and she warned: "Yes, if the hearts of giant dragons are gathered together, it can barely provide for about 800 million people to survive. But human beings cannot stay on the order of 800 million forever.