Overturned Tower

"...Don't talk about sausages," Hang Shake shook his head, "it's not good for people to hear."

"Huh? You mean... there is such a thing?" On the contrary, the inferior was a little surprised.

He was just joking around and didn't take it seriously.

In the end, the strangulation had such a big reaction?

"Well, more than ten years ago. It was quite popular."

Hang Hang sighed, with a complicated expression: "Before I saw you for the first time...the me at that time also threw a living person into it."

Because the uncoded people in Happy Island live in the lower city, that is, the automatic factory area.

And there was a time when the power in the lower city was very chaotic.The number of uncoded people has more or less their own backstage and organization, and no one dares to use their own body to try the other side's backstage.However, there are also special cases where the opponent must be killed, assassinated, or silenced after robbery knowing that this is the case.

At that time, it is necessary to find a way to dispose of the other party's body. It is unreliable to throw it in the garbage area, and it is easy to be dug out to check the traces.In the era when strangled his father and opened an underground boxing ring, some people liked to throw all the corpses into the sausage factory to destroy them... The uncoded people were also happy to disgust the residents of the upper city.Some of the people who were kidnapped in Uptown and had their tickets torn up ended up in the sausage factory—and occasionally sent back a video and a sausage.

It's easy to get in the news.And once it hit the papers, it would act as a deterrent to other Uptown residents whose family members had been kidnapped.

In that era, uncoded people basically followed the contempt chain of "big organizations are dogs for companies", "small organizations are dogs for middlemen", and "one who fights alone is not as good as a dog".Kidnapping is an industry that everyone can do... Some are kidnapping opponents for company executives to fight for business, some are accepting second-hand mercenary orders from unknown party A, and some are simply tinkering with themselves.

"I'm not saying that the current uncoded people have any noble morals..."

Hang Hang shook his head with a complicated expression, and said in a low voice: "But more than ten years ago, it was much more depraved than it is now. At that time, the downtown area just began to become lawless... it was truly disorderly. .”

To be precise, it was the "older generation without a code" who strangled my father, with cruel methods and twisted psychology.When they ruled the lower city, the uncoded people in the lower city would shoot three at a time, and there would definitely be fish that slipped through the net.

Later, the mages appeared.

These young people can communicate and learn in the dream world, and their spells are not like psychics who use too much psychic power and easily lose control.The first thing the young mages do is to kill these "old things".

Later, after the three pillars of discord, malt wine and strangulation, the lower city became a lot cleaner.Since then, most of the dead bodies have been thrown directly into the garbage disposal plant.Of course, it doesn't rule out the fact that the older generation of uncoded people who hate the upper city will throw their bodies in the sausage factory-but it doesn't make sense at all.In fact, it can only disgust them mentally.

Because the sausage factory's extremely complex detection, separation, sterilization, and cooking systems can make any "material" into a sausage with the same texture and taste.Not to mention throwing a corpse in, it's useless even throwing shit in.All unused waste will be automatically separated and discharged.

In fact, before strangling, he didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

——The gentlemen in the upper city don't treat them as people without a code, so there is no need to be polite to them who have no education, no job, and no family.They are completely opposite.

After tying someone up, if it is found that the other party notifies the execution department, then it is reasonable to throw him into the sausage factory, or directly record an 18G video and send it back as punishment and revenge.

...but now, the strangulation has become a little tense.

For some reason, he didn't want Xiaoya to hear such things.The uncoded people on Yongquan Island lived a life that he envied... Even those scaleless people who had been reduced to coolies and slaves were not bitter at all in terms of strangulation.Compared with Happy Island, this place is indeed a paradise on earth.

If the dark jokes of Happy Island were told, it might scare Xiaoya.

The inferior looked at him a little strangely, and sighed in amazement: "In the end, I really... saw an extremely rare scene.

"It turns out that you can also sacrifice for someone you just met. It's amazing. You can't be in love, right?"

"Huh? How is it possible, are you mocking me?"

Hang Kill frowned: "It's my fault that I couldn't find you, and I was saved by you because of my lack of ability. If you want to laugh at me, let's make a long story short."

——There are still some urgent matters.

Mahavira said in a low voice, stretched out his hand and pinched his neckline with some discomfort.

It's ironic... When I wanted to live, I was always cursed and said 'you go to die'.Now they are all ready to die, but people cry and say they want to live.

When Xiaoya yelled his name hoarsely at the end, the voice made Mahavira worry.

...It turns out that he is not dead now.

If she found out about this, would she feel that her feelings were wasted?

Hang Hang looked at the hospital with some hesitation.Want to go in but dare not go in.

—Forget it, let’s go in and have a look.

He still wanted to know what was going on with Xiaoya who was directly thrown in by him.

Before the situation was urgent, he had no time to think about it.But now that the alarm was lifted, Strangling couldn't help but wonder whether Xiaoya would twist her neck when she landed, or simply fall into a faint; whether the prosthetic doctor could deal with this kind of wound, or whether he Not here at all now, just going out?

Compared with non-urgent matters such as "how did the bad guy escape back" and "why can he talk again", the human life that is right in front of us is more important.He had to make sure that Xiaoya was really being rescued by a doctor.

He didn't want to give up his life to save a life, but ruin it again because of a strange little negligence.

If the doctor is really not there, he must take Xiaoya to another hospital immediately.

"No, I'm serious... I underestimated you. I thought you were a 'scum', a brainless lion."

The inferior man had a cigarette in his mouth, with a complicated expression on his face: "As a result, you actually chose to save other people as a priority over your own life... This is not the ruthless 'strangling' I know.

"Or, I'll just call you Mahavira in the future? The name Mahavira... a great hero? Or should I call you Daxiong?"

"...as you like."

Hang Sha bared his teeth, and the lion's face was terrifying enough: "I'll talk about your long-winded things later... I'll go and see how the situation is."

"Oh, then you go."

The inferior one just stood there motionless, watching Mahavira take some hesitant and cautious steps, and approached in two steps at a time.It seemed that it was not a hospital, but an enemy camp full of ambushes.

tsk...

He took a deep drag on his cigarette and looked at Mahavira's back with a puzzled expression.

The poor also know the details of the strangulation.

Although he doesn't know much about spells, he can also see that the Aphotic Shield activated before the strangulation is definitely fueled by "love"... Only the emotion of "love" can be so bright and stable, able to simultaneously Attached to the two, and with the separation of the two and the sacrifice of strangulation, it becomes violent at the same time.

Is it the love between the victim and the rescued...

...I just left for a day, what is going on?Is it possible that there is a love that is born "one day" in this world?The most unbelievable thing is that it still fell on the bloodless and tearless villain?

Could it be that I have been in a coma for half a day, but for half a month?

The poor are full of doubts.

He felt like he missed a season.

"...Alright. The most powerful thing about love is its influence."

He sighed, and whispered a poem that Russell had read: "'I would rather walk with those who walk than stand still and watch the procession go by'..."

He looked around, intending to find a good door, and quickly told Qunqing about the news.

——That lion has finally come to our side now.

Chapter 79 Russell: I'll Kill You

The pope's "promotion" ultimately did not fully agree to Russell's invitation.

This is quite normal.

Rather... If he defected to Russell's side immediately, Russell would doubt his sincerity.

That was an obsession that lasted for more than a hundred years.

Using the highest-level "God's Descending Device" to brainwash himself, he transformed himself into a digital life similar to a monkey-faced eagle.How can a person who has distorted his life to such an extent believe that Russell has a better solution to everything just because of Russell's words, and immediately put his plan on hold?

Even Russell himself did not expect to make His Excellency the Pope an ally immediately.

What he really wants to do is to tell the other party those secrets...the knowledge about "Egg of Dusk", about "Giant Dragon", and about "Grey Dome".

This is the knowledge that His Excellency the Pope did not know before he determined his "salvation plan".

He knows many secrets, but whether it is "spiritual relatives", "primitive powers", "twilight", "the plans of the elves", he only knows part of them.Precisely because every link was a little bit wrong, after accumulating these mistakes, the feasibility of his plan was even lower than that of the elves.

Russell didn't have to do anything at all.

He doesn't need to beat the other side, and he doesn't need to kidnap for blackmail.There is no need to shout and talk about it... He only needs to calmly and clearly fill in the missing truth of the other party, and he can directly dismantle all the efforts made by "His Holiness the Pope" so far.

Because the truth itself is powerful.

This His Excellency the Pope does have extraordinary self-confidence and courage—he always uses the technology he just completed on himself first, instead of looking for consumables for experiments.Without enough self-confidence and courage, it is absolutely impossible to do so.

And from this behavior alone, Russell can taste the underlying behavioral logic of "promotion" and his character.

——The old Pope should actually be a lonely person.

He first invented the god drop device, not because he wanted to use this technology to fight against mages.It was because he realized that there seemed to be something wrong with the "God" the church believed in.

The "Father Andrew" back then can be said to be quite strong.He wasn't even a bishop at the time, just an ordinary priest.And he even dared to raise the topic of "exploring the essence of the power of the holy order", using the bones and souls of saints as materials to modify human personality and will—

The church at that time was not called the Cyber ​​Church, nor did it have the ultimate goal of "Cyber ​​Eternal Life".They really are old, old-school ecclesiastical blocs.

Andrew's behavior is no longer "touching the taboo" in the ordinary sense.It can even be said that he is already invincible luck if he is not dead.

He can fiddle with this technology alone, which means that he probably has no friends, and even the final test product can only be used by himself.And after this thing was made, he went directly to the Pope at the time... This shows that he has no emotional intelligence to speak of.

This is obviously because Andrew is very simple - he thinks this is the truth about the power of the Holy Order, and feels that his research is completely correct, so he is not even afraid, and he didn't even find a backer or agent.

In order to prevent someone from interfering with it or stealing his own research, Andrew didn't even stay behind, and went directly to the highest-level person in charge.

That is to say, the pope of that generation was enlightened enough, and coupled with the pressure given by the mages at that time, Andrew would never have survived.

And then, after the Pope's death, Andrew, who was a hero, became the Pope.But after more than 100 years, he has never let go—this is not because he has a strong enough desire for power, but because he does not allow the church to have the slightest distortion.

It is very normal to change the pope, and the change of attitude and operational strategy after the change of the pope is also very reasonable.

Because the Cyber ​​Church is always an organization... As an organization, it is normal for it to constantly adjust to the changes of the times.Even when he was the pope, it was very normal for his personality and methods to change with the passage of time.

However, Andrew did not allow anything to change.

He even used the god drop device he invented to brainwash himself to maintain the purity of his position and keep the Cyber ​​Church unchanged for a hundred years.

He has an urgent desire to change the world, and he has enough superior talent... But he didn't use this ability to climb up to become an elf, but carried out long experiments and research alone.And after finally getting the results, there is still no one around him.

This is precisely because of his paranoia.

He doesn't believe anyone else can inherit the Cyber ​​Church and make it better.After all, a person who has only lived for a few decades is definitely not as wise and experienced as a person who has lived for more than 100 years.

And this kind of arrogance and self-confidence is actually not fundamentally different from an elf... It's just that his body is not an elf.

He is like an ascetic.

Wearing thin linen, walking barefoot in the desert where the hot wind is blowing.It is a joy to watch the skin and flesh all over his body tear open and dry, and he regards this as a perfect sublimation of himself.He regards his pain as sacred.

Just as he has ruled the highest-level organization on the Seven Islands for more than a hundred years, he has not been corrupted at all... The serious work for more than a hundred years without a day off belongs to his penance.

The torment of himself made his self stronger, and he was unwilling to look for the "deeper truth".

His self-esteem and suspicion made him unwilling to cooperate with anyone, so he didn't have any comrades in arms.

"—From this perspective, rather than saying that you are pursuing the way of salvation, it is better to say that you just 'want to walk on the way of salvation'."

After talking about those secrets, while the Pope was silently thinking, Russell revealed all his psychoanalysis of the Pope: "Because you don't want to think too much. You just want to do it...you will sacrifice Consider the austerity itself a reward.

"You don't want the 'best' outcome for everyone. You just want to complete a holy self-sacrifice... From this point of view, you are not a qualified Pope from the very beginning. You are still The 'Father Andrew' back then was the saint who practiced the way of salvation and wore the crown of 'Savior' on his head."

"...You may be right."

After a long silence, "Zhengsheng" nodded slowly.

He frowned, with a solemn expression: "But I have to verify whether what you said is correct... [Egg of Dusk]. Even if everything you said is correct, it doesn't mean that there is nothing in your words. hide.

"Sometimes, it doesn't take a lie to lie. It's just that the truth is more deceitful without certain key information. Not to mention...your identity prevents me from fully trusting you."

There was strong hesitation in the words of the Pope.

But when Russell heard it, he just smiled.

Because he knew... His Excellency the Pope has been shaken.

He didn't even hide his plan, but said it all frankly: "You can say that, it means that you will come to our side eventually.

"Because what you are looking for is the sacred path of self-sacrifice. You have also sought the truth, but you stopped after this step...Why? Because when you get here, you only need to complete the 'sacrifice' Save the world so you don't need other truths.

“[Cyber ​​Immortality] plan—put all human spirits into machines, digitize them, let people lose their bodies, and thus lose their emotions and personalities, so that the 'fantasy' can no longer be tracked; and gather the spirits of all human beings Can, to reassemble the "god of the world", to obtain the original spiritual power like a perpetual motion machine, and push the dragon boat to the universe.

"But have you considered it? After digitization, are the 'human souls' stored in the disk really immune to the influence of illusions? After everyone's dreams are offline, are the ancient gods who are sealed in the dream world polluted? Will be reborn?

"Have the elves really not considered your plan? Even after the twilight crisis, how can you ensure that humans can find and reach new planets safely? Even if they reach new planets, how can we rebuild our homes and revive civilization? ?After leaving the earth, are we really safe? Will there be a new crisis in the universe? Will the elves fall? Will there be wars among the elves? Will the disks storing human spirits go wrong? Is the New God controlled? Will it also be polluted by illusions?"

Russell said so many loopholes in one breath, and then looked at the old man.

He said calmly: "You may have considered it, but you ignored it.

"—Because you are afraid. You are afraid that if you continue to search for the truth, you will only be in despair after finding the whole truth. Because you are afraid that you cannot change all mistakes and overcome all crises with your own strength. But you are not Willing to believe in others... so your pace of seeking the truth suddenly stops at this moment.

"This is not bravery, His Excellency. It is cowardice.

"This is an escape—the great wisdom gained from penance cannot purify the world. You just use external pain to cover up your inner confusion."