Overturned Tower

He repeated seriously.

Chapter 15 Cognitive Filters

Although the so-called "werewolves" brought chaos to the always calm Sogo Island...

But Russell sees nothing inherently wrong with the confusion.

The other party's demands are so legitimate, and their motives are so just. Because of this, even though they are kidnappers and murderers, they will get people's solidarity and support on the Internet.

Rather, because the other party's motives were too just and their appeals too legitimate, Russell wondered if there was a bigger conspiracy hidden behind this incident.Because he really didn't think that there could be "awakened people" who were born and bred in Sogo Island but couldn't pass the big data investigation and were caught by the three sages.

Therefore, Russell believes that there must be a driving force behind this incident——

And it should be an old acquaintance.

Can quietly modify the camera records, and make the three sages wandering in the Internet of Chongguang Island, who are like gods, not realize that it has been modified... The only person who can do this kind of thing can only be a monkey face eagle.

And by inputting "self" into the opponent's brain, the monkey-faced eagle can also manipulate the opponent's behavior or erase the opponent's memory.

Coincidentally, the monkey-faced eagle did infiltrate Chongguang Island.It all came together neatly.

In the words of mystery novels, it is "very good, I know the trick now, but what about the evidence and motivation"?

Russell was only bewildered.

The monkey-faced eagle's behavior did him no good at all.

What he hopes is the degradation of society, that people give up thinking and come to integrate with him.Turning the living flesh and blood into puppets, and turning his own rationality into silk threads that carry the puppets...but all this ran counter to what he expected.

Moreover, this behavior is undoubtedly provoking the Three Sages.The monkey-faced eagle is a kind of virus. He exists in the matrix world and the real world at the same time, and has a strong latent and proliferative power... But everything he is doing now is like advocating "All look up to me" Same, full of contradictions.

——What the hell is he planning to do?

Or, did he have any new plug-in upgrades?

And most importantly...why did he come to Sogo Island, which is most resistant to the infection of "monkey-faced eagle virus"?

Among the seven empty islands, only Sogo Island's strong artificial intelligence can defeat the monkey-faced eagle head-on in the matrix world.And other sky islands can only control the spread of software...

He is like an extremely powerful "demon", but it does not exist in the real world, but in the matrix world that only psychic hackers can reach.This also means that if the Special Executive Department wants to fight him, it must use a virtual digital body to enter the monkey-faced eagle's home field in an unsuitable posture, and then use digital psionic power to fight him.

Skilled against unskilled, home against away, many people against few people, repeated rebirth against the extremely fragile "one life" - for the monkey-faced eagle, this is almost a battle that must be won.Even if the "body" coming from outside is eliminated, he only needs to shrink back into the matrix space and disconnect from the exposed infected person, and the opposite side dare not chase in anyway.

Even if all the puppets he controls are wiped out, or the "trojan horses" he implants are all cleared, he can still hang himself on the Internet and wait for a clever person to download himself into the chip.At that time, he can still be reborn with full blood.

Therefore, it can be said that the monkey-faced eagle has countless opportunities.This is also his confidence.

...but only on Chongguang Island, monkey-faced eagles can't do this.

The powerful computing power of the three sages and the supreme power authorized by the dragon allow them to exercise god-like authority in the matrix world.If the monkey-faced eagle really shrank into the matrix world, then he would be easily found and wiped out by the three sages.

He is here, but needs to hide in the real world.Like a portable grandfather, he manipulates or guides the target he chooses to indirectly interfere with the network.As for his host, or the "puppet" controlled by him, as long as there is a slight abnormality in the behavioral logic, the three sages will detect it and send the execution department to arrest it.

Russell could probably guess his purpose.

That is the authority of the Three Sages.

If he can assimilate and eat the three sages...or at least infect one of them, he can get higher authority than the elf director.This also means that he can get an extremely stable "spring water" so that he can "resurrect" here after failing when doing things on other sky islands.

But the question is, how can he assimilate the stronger party with obviously weaker computing power?

Because he was completely uncertain about the thoughts of this old enemy, Russell didn't dare to intervene for a while.I was afraid that my interference would fall into his tricks...

After all, Russell is in the light now, and the monkey-faced eagle is in the dark.He could detect Russell's existence and locate Russell's position, but Russell didn't know where he was hiding now, and what posture he was in.

...And if one ignores the monkey-faced eagle, the very obvious behind-the-scenes promoter.

The "Werewolf" incident will only benefit Sogo Island.

People's accumulated dissatisfaction can finally be vented; their pain immersed in silence can finally be poured out at this time.

Whether it is to carry out a large-scale negotiation to improve the living environment of the people at the bottom, or just to vent some of the backlog of emotions to stabilize the social order of Sogo Island, or even to activate the market through this method——

"I also advise you not to explicitly interfere and arrest the 'werewolf'."

Russell warned: "This is the time when people are excited and excited. Sogo Island's long-term survival pressure must have a vent... You haven't noticed that people who have recently awakened and lost control of their psionic powers have begun to change. Is there too much?"

"Actually, I think all sky islands should be the same."

Dr. Brain Island sighed: "After all, the core of all contradictions is that we can already see a future where resources are exhausted. In this case, in order to prolong the arrival of Doomsday, we can only save resources as much as possible... and release Get rid of excess population.

"And in the process, there is bound to be pain."

"Since we don't need so many people..."

Delphinium was standing aside, and couldn't help asking: "Then why didn't the population be curbed in advance?"

Dr. Insula shook his head slightly and remained silent.

And Russell glanced at her.

He suddenly realized...the "right moment" that he had been waiting for for a long time had finally arrived.

It's time for Delphinium to realize part of the truth about the world...

It is also time for delphiniums to come to the world "this side".

So, Russell's pupils lighted up with a white light, and he replied softly, "They've been doing this all the time."

Russell's voice was tinged with charm.

His slightly hoarse whisper sounded in Delphinium's heart, as if slowly dissolving something.

"—Otherwise, how do you think the war of teachings started? And why did it last so long, until only so many people were left, and the land was destroyed to the point where it was uninhabitable... Huge The dragon finally came to fight?"

Hearing this, Delphinium froze for a moment.

She suddenly realized that she had never thought of such a simple thing.It was as if there was an invisible filter that blocked this cognition from her mind.

Delphinium suddenly felt a chill down her spine.

Chapter No.16 The Sublimation of Delphinium

Now she has learned a small part of the history that has been discovered by them through the "history" stored in the Tower of Babel...

For example, in the first mage war in 868, it swept the world wars and created a brilliant mage civilization—with dragons as kings and emperors, and elves as power ministers and princes, many mage towers rose from the ground .

Before that, scattered all over the world, many different religions also bonded, supported, and united with each other after the war, and established a unity called "church".Only in Sogo Island can we barely see the shadows of those "old religions".

——The old gods are dead, and the "new gods" based on the power of the holy order are born.

At the same time, the long-lived species named "giants" were completely wiped out, and the population was greatly reduced.The whole world has entered a period of brilliant pioneering.Everything became prosperous... The elves born from that time called it the "Golden Age".This is the "earth" they miss, not the land that was broken and decayed during the Islamic war.

Until 300, 1100 years later, the Shari'ah war that lasted for 20 years destroyed everything.

This world has been truly destroyed once.

With the gradual escalation of the war situation, the "spells" reflected from the mage's mind became more vicious, and the technological weapons used by the church became more deadly.

The earth is cracked, vegetation is dried up, resources are depleted, and even clean water has become a luxury.

The city-state collapsed and the kingdom perished.

Commerce and culture were almost completely cut off, and the works of art and money of the old era lost their value.A famous painting is not as safe as a gun, and fresh and clean meat cannot be bought with a handful of gold.

Deserts and destructive hot winds have rendered almost all land-based spaces uninhabitable.All the food grown was destroyed, and the fertile soil became a desert full of radiation or life.

When people stand desperately in front of the cursed blackened lake, they can see their own "reflection" crawling out of the water with a malicious smile and dragging them to the bottom of the lake; the rare clean lake water may sink at the bottom of the lake a radiation source.Anyone who came to drink water may slowly vomit, lose hair, have diarrhea, and eventually die from internal bleeding.

Pieces of radiation areas in the middle of the desert caused terrible distortions to both animals and humans.A man with two heads, a fish with legs, a desert lizard with a human face... People can no longer distinguish whether it is the distortion caused by radiation or the distortion caused by the curse.

The number of people who died directly in the war was less than one-fiftieth of the total population; however, the series of effects caused by the war killed nine-tenths of the world's people in 20 years and wiped out the entire population. The inheritance of the old civilization has been completely destroyed.

"—that's what they've been doing."

Russell's voice sounded in Delphinium's heart, and the wall of nothingness formed by the cognitive barriers collapsed.

Delphinium is also of course aware of a fact:

That is... the people who landed on the empty island, of course, cannot be all the remaining survivors.Because such a dry and barren world, it is impossible to live in groups; and people whose bodies have been deformed are not allowed to enter the sky island again.

Sky Island just lifted off and left after "feeling that it's almost ready".According to the estimate of the Tower of Babel, each empty island should initially accommodate more than 1000 million people.

Today, the population of Sogo Island is only about 2000 million, making it the smallest empty island.The Happy Island has about 4000 million people.

Both Tongshen Island and Sun Island have more populations than Happy Island, while other empty islands have fewer populations than Happy Island.

From 1120 to 1203... 83 years have passed since the establishment of the seven sky islands.In just over 80 years, seven completely different civilizations have been formed.

The population of Happy Island has nearly quadrupled compared to the beginning.From this, we can see what a beautiful "paradise" she thought the degenerate and decayed Sky Island was for those who fled from the ground at that time.

Delphinium can't even imagine, dare not imagine at all - the terrestrial survivors who "arrived too late" when they realize that the only ark that rescued them from the doomsday has left forever with a full load. What resentment and despair.

It was only after she saw the sheath that she realized...it turned out that the land full of curses and radiation, which was considered "impossible to survive" by all Sky Islanders, still stubbornly survived human civilization.

All Sky Islanders believed that the "punishment of exile" was actually equivalent to the death penalty.Because people can't survive on that land for a long time, this is actually equivalent to throwing people into the sea and politely giving each other a board.Rather than giving the other party hope of survival, it is better to say that he is using that hope to torture him to death.

After understanding the "history", Delphinium realizes how vicious and just this "exile" is.

The punishment of the giant dragon is also so reasonable and terrifying.It is not just a disguised form of death penalty, but a punishment that is far more painful and meaningful than the death penalty.

There is no need for torture, just let them survive to death in the "doomsday civilization" on the ground.In this way, those sinners can be shocked to realize that the world they hate so much is already a paradise that others can't ask for.

At that time, what kind of pain, what kind of regret, what kind of enlightenment, and what kind of hysteria they will have... are all predictable results.

The delphinium at that time felt that the dragon was so wise and just.They must have a high enough perspective and have a rational and loving heart towards human beings to make this weird but just punishment.Not the parents, but the mentors—teachers who are either gentle or stern.

But now, delphinium only understands from Russell's words... what he has overlooked.

--yes.

If war is so painful, why didn't the dragon stop it in the first place, but wait until the world has been destroyed before finally striking out?

Now Delphinium finally has the answer she didn't want to realize.

The short 300 years of the golden age was the last gift of the dragon to "human beings".

It's like a mentor showing mercy and allowing students to have a last night of fun and fun before preparing for exams.After that, it is necessary to give up all entertainment to pay off the debt.

Yes, dragons don't see individuals who exist in a certain era as people who need to be watched.Their loving and gentle eyes have been on the group of "human beings" throughout history.

Just like the players of "Civilization" or "Stellaris" or other games of this type, love and take care of your own civilization.

But precisely because of their rationality and fraternity, they can instead adopt cold-blooded and ruthless strategies.

——It is precisely because the religious war has reduced enough population that the giant dragon can use its own heart to power the floating city, so that the old civilization in the golden age will not really fall into self-destruction in an instant In the apocalypse...but by sacrificing these 20 years, civilization can continue for another 160 years.

For the giant dragon, this is an extremely cost-effective deal.

But now the population has increased, so they are planning another "release".

From this perspective, the human directors and some of the elf directors seem so merciful——

What an irony.The power holders who oppressed the people and made human beings feel pain suddenly "woke up" in a decent manner at this moment, and became the guardians of individual human beings.The "compromise and reform to maintain stability" they carry out is precisely to delay this pressure... to end the event that has been determined by the giant dragon, which can destroy the vast majority of people and bring a very few people back to life "War" comes as postponed as possible.

Just like these two Dr. Zanbai...they are so jealous and terrified of the "werewolf".

They are not afraid of this villain who does not know his true identity, but are afraid of the great revenge thought trend caused by the "werewolf".Fearing what this trend of thought will bring... [War] that they have suppressed for a long time.

Human beings may hold different ideas and walk on different paths.One day, they will fight each other for their respective dreams.

But as the real manager of this world, the giant dragon who can understand everything from the highest level of "data", but only hopes to "reduce the population a little bit more", the world is about to be unable to bear it.

They don't care what humans are going to do.

Church and Mages.Citizens and the Uncoded.Companies and mercenaries.Directors and Salaried Slaves.

People live for the imminent pressure, struggle for reality, and sacrifice everything including their lives for their "love".People are independent of each other, love each other, hate each other, unite with each other, and kill each other.

And the high dragon is so cold and just.And everything they did was so correct...and ruthless.

"...And this may not be a kind of 'love'."

Delphinium lost consciousness and muttered in a low voice: "A love that cannot be understood, a love that cannot be recognized...

"A love that kills what it loves, really..."

— lethal love.

At that moment, the huge mental shock caused delphinium's perspective to suddenly rise infinitely—she seemed to have become a giant dragon for a moment, overlooking the earth.

For the first time, she completely detached herself from her position and realized the great, selfless, ruthless love of "Mother World" for every small person in the arms of the world.

Only then did Delphinium finally understand what is called "lethal love".