Overturned Tower

"Perhaps it is."

The man said firmly: "But if there is no miracle, no amount of determination and courage will mean anything. Only in fairy tales, there are miracles where hard work can be rewarded. And you—— are the miracles I have encountered! "

Hearing this, Hua Mingshu paused slightly.

He nodded: "I remember that."

"You are truly remarkable."

the man repeated.

Russell just smiled self-deprecatingly: "Probably. The only people I can save are those who are within reach.

"...other than that, I can't do anything."

During the past few months, Russell walked on the ground in a daze.

The more he absorbed the pain of the people on earth, the more confused he became.It's like coming to the realm of looking at mountains or mountains, but after knowing too much, there is nowhere to start.

In a few months, the number of people he came into contact with has been several times higher than before; the "another kind of suffering" he encountered - another kind of suffering that runs counter to the seven cyber societies on Sky Island , and made him feel a lot.

The worst order is better than an unordered wilderness; the worst civilization is better than a forgotten civilization.

Russell's plan had been to take himself off the island of happiness for a while...to let people see what the world would be like without him.Thereby improving the status and voice of "ultramarine youth".

But now, he suddenly began to doubt—was everything he did too childish and arrogant?

True, he has memories from another world, another civilization.He is more intelligent than any peers in this world, or even any ephemeral species.It was the spark that exploded when two civilizations collided.

——However, would those name-bearing elves be worse than me?

Don't they also have the memory of two or even three civilizations, and even lived for more than 1000 years.Experienced the destruction and rebirth of the world twice, and witnessed the passage of thousands of years.According to the well-informed theory, each of these 84 sages should be wiser and greater than Russell.

But now, the reason why this world has become like this... is precisely because of those 84 people.

It's not that if there is more wisdom, there will be no corruption; there is no eternal holy emperor.Time changes everything, and the easiest thing to change...is the original intention.

——And I have already stepped into the brink of danger.

How can he be sure that he is always right?Why does he acquiesce that the world needs him to save?

Why does he naturally consider himself the eternal "protagonist" of this story, the savior of destiny?Why do you take it for granted that you will always be with this world—see yourself as the god of this world?

Because of his particularity?Is it because he is a "man from another world"?Is it because he bears the name of Twilight?

But he has already rejected the fate of becoming a twilight species, so why did he accept this particularity based on "twilight"?

So Russell suddenly woke up at this time...

It turned out that he had already fallen into the abyss of arrogance and arrogance, and he didn't know it.He let Sky Island fall into chaos, and returned after people felt the pain—the direct purpose of such behavior was to gain leadership; the fundamental purpose was to lead people to save the world.

In other words...

Russell's behavior itself is "sacrificing the few to save the many".

From this point of view, he is no different from those elf directors.

[I, 'Marriage of Opposites' Kamalthe.I swear by the Forerunner, Caretaker and Defender of Mankind...]

The oath that Kamalthe made before dying suddenly echoed in Russell's mind.

Presumably thousands of years ago... when the only 84 survivors of the previous civilization, under the gaze of the giant dragons, made this oath... their hearts were also passionate and surging.

And now, what have they become?

This world does not belong to dragons, nor does it belong to elves.It also shouldn't belong to Russell who has rejected his twilight essence—this is the world of ordinary people, and it shouldn't have a transcendent god emperor to give eternal guidance.

Otherwise, Russell is essentially no different from the Pope, the dragon, or those 84 people.

The world is still looping.

It's just that new gods, new dragons, and new elves are born.

Human beings have the ability to correct history.But if there is an irresistible force in this world, it is possible to eliminate the correction force in a certain direction, and after the accumulation of time, it will eventually deviate from the right track - entering the "punk" world.

...that's what it says.But what should Russell do?

If the dragon is destroyed, only new gods will be born; if the elf director is eliminated, there will only be human directors; if the director is eliminated, there will be something new.What has been done must be done again, and what has been done must be done again.There is nothing new under the sun.

Russell's thinking is stuck here.

If the world truly belongs to everyone, then everyone should be allowed to work together to solve world disasters.But even such a call is impossible to fulfill, because not everyone wants to save the world... Not everyone is full of hope for the future, and some people are not even on the side of mankind.

If you just let it go, I'm afraid the world will just be destroyed.It will only be human beings who will destroy human beings.

But if someone stands up and guides—can he always be right?But if he cannot always be right, when will he know that he is no longer right?True for a moment, is it still true after thousands of years have passed?

No matter how you think about it, how you deduce it.

Russell could only feel hopeless.

If it is said that the world will destroy itself if he leaves him alone—doesn't that mean that it is time for it to perish and change?

The building will fall.

Should he hold a sharp sword and personally lead people to destroy everything that brings despair; should he teach people wisdom and establish a perfect system so that they can overcome disasters by themselves; or should he guard the world from generation to generation and turn himself into Guardian of Civilization?

"--Ah."

The pope who unites the world with his own power and transforms the world with his own ideas; the 84 sages who lead the development direction of the world and sacrifice themselves in the face of invincible disasters to cause miracles; the absolutely objective immortal dragon, whose mission is to protect civilization Intellectual AI with core commands.

The First Men certainly had wisdom.Smart people are not alone.

Just like the human beings on the empty island, they are not all of the "group subconscious".Those who were left on the ground were also human beings—indistinguishable, living beings of the same kind.

After gradually accessing the real sea of ​​group subconsciousness and gradually waking up from the fanatical fate of the savior, Russell truly realized that what he was walking was not the avenue of stars opened up by heaven and earth.

In front of this road, also lie the corpses of the pioneers.This is the tried and true path to failure.

Perhaps in other worlds such an approach would work—but not here.

Because the planet itself is a cage.

"It's not that we can't complete the hyperdrive, nor is it that some necessary material is missing."

Zhu Rong once said frankly to Russell: "According to our research, it is because the local galaxy bubble where the solar system is located is locked. This is a void with a range of [-] light-years, and time and space cannot be distorted in this area. This should be what the civilization that sealed the 'dream' into the interior of the earth did.

"If a civilization is infected by fantasy, they will not be able to escape for a lifetime. But there must be civilization here, because fantasy dreams can only be kept asleep in this comfortable environment if they are kept in the dreams of intelligent creatures that form a society. .”

"Then what if humans become extinct?"

Russell asked a somewhat extreme question at the time.

And Zhu Rong gave a detailed answer, obviously the giant dragons have discussed this issue long ago: "According to our research, even if you humans die cleanly, the fantasy dream will probably give birth to a new intelligent civilization. Just like it bestows It eliminates the differences between you individuals, and gives human beings the cognition gap between 'self' and 'group'. From this perspective, fantasy is the creator god of this world - it did not create the earth, nor did it create Humans, but it creates the basis of 'society' and 'civilization'.

"And the setting of this planetary belt is to prevent humans from escaping. Those who can escape are no longer humans. In the forest, in order to prevent fires from spreading across the entire mountain, they will be cut down and vacated. Some trees to form a firebreak. And the earth is in this firebreak."

This world is not fair.It is absolutely unfair not only between people, between countries, between races, but even between civilizations and planets.

Fantasy is now gradually waking up.

Everyone is a part of the fantasy... Even the Pope, and Russell, were infected by the fantasy, becoming extreme and arrogant.This kind of change started from the illusion, but even if Russell sealed the illusion, the world would not change for the better immediately.

Just as disease causes damage to the body, the damage remains after the disease dissipates.The body does not recover in tandem with the healing of the disease.

Under what circumstances can humanity unite?

"Hey……"

Russell raised his head, looking at the sky in some confusion.

But at this moment, he suddenly discovered——in a certain direction, an extremely huge ship raised its head and slammed into the dome at high speed!

Russell suddenly opened his eyes wide and looked around in amazement.

At first glance, he could only recognize that it was not Zhu Rong—then he realized that it should be Kübler.

What is she... doing?

Russell doesn't understand her motives, but he sees her actions.

I saw "Kubler" poking out a red laser probe, embedded in the sky.

At that moment, "Grey Dome" briefly revealed its essence.

The sun and gray clouds in the sky are just textures!

When the layers of the sun and clouds dissipate briefly, densely packed electronic units are revealed.They are shrouded in a transparent and solid shell, gradually becoming brighter with the injection of red light.

The sky darkened at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The dark red streamer crackled like lightning above the dome.It was as if in the blink of an eye, time was reversed—in a few minutes, noon turned into night.

The next moment, a crimson stream of light spread across the entire night sky, and then completely disappeared.

The sky turned into complete darkness.

"--warn."

The heaven-penetrating voice came, and it was probably the first time for all mankind to hear the "sky" speak.

It spoke in "Elvish," which Russell could just understand: "Warning, virus injection detected.

"—The imaging unit is limited. The light emitting unit is limited.

"Warning, the Gray Dome system has encountered a fatal error which prevents it from continuing!

"Warning, after the gray dome system is shut down, the surface temperature will drop to zero within 48 days. Please contact the gray dome system administrator Kübler for timely repairs!"

"Warning, the Gray Dome system encountered a fatal error that prevented it from continuing to operate..."

"Grey Dome" kept making loud noises.

The projection inside it completely goes out, like a monitor that's turned off.

But instead of revealing the starry sky outside...it was pitch black.

——The whole world fell into eternal night.

Russell saw the pattern very familiar.That was when Paradise Bird awakened to the Holy Order, and the data light wings protruded from her back and disappeared into the void.

That is the power of the Holy Order!

The power of digital holy order, this is exactly the research of the pope and the sheath!

It was Andrew who drove the "Kubler" and used his authority to directly close the gray dome!

Russell suddenly realized what the Pope was going to do.

He became impatient and aggressive, and when the conflicts in the sky islands began to intensify, he chose to kidnap all human beings!

——Or, accept the incomplete cyber ascension technology, and immediately upload your own consciousness.

——Or, just under the eternal night, accept the doomed, slow death!

Chapter 46 The Sky Is Falling

Fortunately, the chaos, hatred, and death caused by the complete disconnection of the Happy Island network did not last long, or even spread across the island.

Because the deeper and more desperate fear has come suddenly and unexpectedly——

Eternal night has come.

The ominous and profound darkness in the sky was different from the usual nights.It's like the difference between a power outage and a monitor in a black screen.

There are no scattered stars, there is no sky that always looks gloomy and gray, there is no sun that is not dazzling even if you look directly at it, and the gray-white moon at night.

"……what happened?"

In Tianen Park, Xia walked quickly to the floor-to-ceiling windows.

On the walls of the park, there are still red crosses everywhere.They are still locked in the office, and the door cannot be opened without a handle.

Xia looked up at the sky, her pupils contracted suddenly.

"The sky is falling..."

Ah Zhan, who was standing behind her, murmured in a low voice.

"The goddess of joy is holy and beautiful, she shines brightly on the earth.

"With enthusiasm in our hearts, we have come to your sanctuary—"

Those fallen angels wearing crimson halos suddenly put down their weapons neatly.

They sang hymns in unison and cheered to welcome the arrival of eternal night.