No.12 night

Minos' words shocked me.For a long time I didn't think about anything, I tried to grasp those magnificent and treacherous words, just like this took all my mental energy.Perhaps because of the age, his voice has changed a bit.At that time, he was high-spirited, his voice was always rising obliquely, like a real young man; but the Judge Minos I knew was not like this, every word he said was soaked in water, dragging his deep voice The tail sound fell to the ground.The uninterrupted resurrection of the dead has accumulated chips for his actual age, and his aging heart has long been exhausted. Now Minos is just a piece of silver coin that has begun to darken, occasionally shining under the washing of the years.

The consciousness body that information particles can collect is random, and usually it will only read the most impressive memory of the person concerned.The world narrated by Minos is an untouchable place for me, far away but real. Yabofika is a person who once lived in that world. He died before the age of consciousness and can only rely on afterimages in other people’s minds. Sometimes present.Whether out of initial curiosity or his obstinate grip on my consciousness these days, I have a reason to find this man and make his life public; moreover, I have an obligation to tell others the truth about our world, no matter what I will Be sincerely supported or unanimously questioned.

So I concentrated on trying to help Abfika reappear, but my eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of mist, and I couldn't feel him; this kind of behavior reminded me of Minos, who fell to the ground with a look on his face. Pale, I was the one who dragged him off the bed and roughly extracted his memory.

I stood up with difficulty by the window sill, barely stabilized my weak legs, and walked all the way to the door.Minos was in a certain room behind me, and I didn't dare to look at him. At this moment, I just wanted to escape, as far away as possible.

Ballendine was still on the island, and I ran into him without much trouble.After Minos fell ill, Radamandis set up a temporary court, and a group of people including his subordinates maintained the old order without direct instructions from the judge, and the agents could only use paper Archives record data, everything is messy and hard.When I arrived, Ballandine was still trying to separate out the directory of the two districts. Without looking up, he just pointed to his side, signaling me to wait for him to finish his work first.

I told him directly: "Let me see Radamandis."

Ballendine stopped moving, his expression froze, a strand of unruly hair sticking to the bridge of his nose, and he didn't seem to know it.

"Lord Radha refuses to see you. You know who is putting him over the top, and us, look at what I'm doing... He just lost his temper last night. The Mountain is where it is now, all It's because of you, I really can't figure out why you still have the confidence to appear here."

I had already expected that the people in Radha would not be friendly to me, so I changed my request: "Then can you tell me where Babylon is?"

Ballendine didn't want to talk to me any more. He continued to pack the materials in his hand until his fingers were cut by the sharp paper. "He's here, but he can't help you much." He pressed the wound into his pocket, and a circle of blood spots quickly smeared on the fabric, "I beg you to find a place for him, lest he disturb us every now and then work."

By the standards of a subordinate, Babylon is somewhat heartless.He didn't take good care of Radamandis's nerves that were on the verge of collapse. Instead, he took this opportunity to wander around and give advice to his busy colleagues.Therefore, after receiving my commission, he once again confirmed that he was highly respected and outstanding compared with others, which made him eager to show off to me; A ship, headed straight for Athens.

***

Crete, which has lost its barrier, is no different from other places in this world. The crowd quickly dispersed, and people who did not have outlying islands also connected to their own connections. This will further dispel the doubts brought by Sisyphus, and finally Everything is back on track.

Ashmita and Azha Poku had already left, and they hurried back to the east to attend another grand meeting.Dieter and others are still on the island. Counting the Beatrice organization, the number of people I can unite with is actually limited; but I am still willing to try. These people are brave and rebellious, and they are not afraid of unknown fate.I walked into the hall and sat in front of the crowd, just like Yabo Fika many years ago, happy to meet like-minded people.

"We can't get into the core." Regulus scratched his hair, looking a little sad.In order to verify my idea, he made a special trip outside before, and was turned away by Eraklion.

"It's not your problem." I tried to comfort him, "That place doesn't belong to the normal world, and its access conditions are too harsh. I only have one request: before the Divine Consciousness Library has covered Crete, don't Actively connect to the system."

This island is a vacuum zone where Korollos has been absent for a long time. Even so, once there is no protective wall, the spiritual system can still penetrate here.Without the connection, one cannot survive, and Crete is just a tumor growing on the surface of the world, only for short-lived and deformed pleasures.

Ashmita had issued similar warnings to them before, but of course the old kinks behind these people were still at work, so it was still difficult to recognize the opposing events.Fortunately, Dieter and the others cherished their friendship with Sisyphus, and they would never agree to make the ex-judge's sacrifice a matter of course.

When I was away, Ashmita also explained to them his understanding of the knowledge bank, and Dijieer recorded all these words in the backup record, so I was able to get a glimpse of it. "History is a totality external to ideas, covering all established events, while records are people's narrow description of history." The emergence of , has changed everything. It can load massive amounts of data in detail, allowing history and records to overlap. In fact, this has built a world for us. Due to our ability to interpret, we cannot mine this rich treasure, but we To be able to approach it, as the pioneers of the past did, to seek development by exploiting the laws of nature whose roots we do not know."

At that time I was still in the attic, furious at Minos's offense; but his monologue provided me with so much information that I can now face Ashmita's words with confidence.It seems impossible to accurately copy nature, but the knowledge library can do simulation; the creation of the world does not require the participation of consciousness, only a continuable axiom, and the maintenance of growth in the years to come.As far as the spiritual consciousness system is concerned, its driving force is the nervous activity of all of us, which combined and fermented in endless collisions, and finally evolved into what it is now.

"Ashmita has no way to convey to us the method of measuring different worlds." Dejere said, "Do you have any good ideas? I mean, we must at least know which time system we belong to."

I do have an inaccurate guess.But at this moment, I was worried, and I had to tell them: "I still need an opportunity. I'm waiting for that person to come back, and I'm waiting for him to bring me the answer."

"who's that person?"

As if responding to their questions, Babylon snapped his fingers at this moment and appeared at the door.

"I think he's talking about me. Speaking of which, don't you all lock the door?" He kicked the door frame. "I forgot to bring my official certificate, so I had a hard time getting on the boat. Leaving the Magic Mountain There are too many people, I have to queue according to the procedure, but it is much easier to come back. The protective wall is broken, and the Athenians call this a catastrophic accident, and they can’t wait to go home early, even if there is no one there.”

His words clearly displeased Kaludia: "Hey, what did you say 'Athens'?"

Babylon is by no means a patient person, a conflict is inevitable, but fortunately Dejere smoothed things over in time. "There's no need to lock the door. If someone happens to pass by here, we'll be happy to share our findings with him." With that, he stemmed the animosity that might have spread throughout the scene.

Babylon was carrying two clumps of plants in his hands, and when crossing the river, he specially washed the leaves with clean water, so they looked extra fresh.After recognizing what they were, Dejere rushed to take them, and carefully placed them in a corner far away from people.

This is what I asked Babylon to do.Minos repeatedly mentioned the red lily of the valley in his memories, and mentioned that they were the descendants of the lily of the valley that poisoned Rugunis. The abrupt lily of the valley.They were ostensibly a dispensation of the Grand Inquisitor to cure Kaludia's sudden ailment, but the romanticism in Minos' core would have driven him to the symbolic act, and he must have taken the opportunity to replant the rose garden lily of the valley.

"Thank you for your trip, Babylon." I thanked this person sincerely for the first time, and then I turned to Dieter: "Next, I will trouble Mr. Forensic. Our Crete lacks laboratory instruments, can you Can't you confirm the traits of these two plants in the easiest way?"

Babylon also brought samples of lily-of-the-valley from the Royal Rose Garden and the North Slope, and noted the growth of other lily-of-the-valleys in the two places, which will eventually confirm my thoughts.It is true that people who access the repository of spiritual consciousness will be subject to the time and space it builds, and then expand to the surrounding things, but Crete is an exception.The plants here do not belong to any information field, they will stay in the old world and part ways with their original origin.As long as enough time is given, the lilies of the valley in Crete will inevitably have different characters from those in the rose garden in Athens. I take the former as a fixed coordinate, and then gradually deduce the time system of each area.

Dieter was quick to identify the difference between the two. "The natural environment of the Magic Mountain is much worse than that of the Royal Garden. The lily of the valley here will gradually become shorter to avoid the sun; compared with the ones in Athens, their colors are more mixed, which can be regarded as a very obvious separation of characters. This will only Emerges after many generations of continuous reproduction."

My breathing was almost stagnant: "You mean—?"

"The lilies of the valley on both sides have the same characteristics, and almost certainly have diverged from the same ancestor. But the ones on the Magic Mountain are older, I mean they are at least 40 years older than the lily of the valley in the Rose Garden, which is very strange, just It's like a daughter giving birth to a mother."

Kaludia exclaimed: "How is this possible? They were transplanted after Minos became a judge, and it will not exceed five years anyway..."

"Caludia." I turned to him, staring into his eyes, "Do you know what you've been through?—You live in a cyclical world, where you and your companions go round and round Re-emerged, and your disease is just the result of a poor imitation of the original you by the Divine Consciousness Bank."

I was greatly encouraged by Detere's argument.It is true that Minos took some lilies of the valley from the rose garden on the grounds of healing.It happened many years ago. At that time, Kaludia was suffering from heart disease, and his friend Dejere turned to Minos for help. From this, these lilies of the valley grew silently on the north slope for decades. , while those who stayed in the Rose Garden stopped diverging in more directions due to the influence of the Athens area.The safflower lily of the valley is an unexpected breakthrough, and once the time system of Athens is finalized through this, many mysteries will be easily solved.

"The weak cycle of the world will not repeat exactly what has happened, but it has an inner force that will pull people to form the same interpersonal relationship again and again. I call this 'karma'." I explained, " Before I went to find Minos, I talked with Huihuo. Huihuo is a person with unique ideas. He believes in the so-called karma, and believes that he and his dead brother were also brothers who depended on each other in the previous life. He inspired me. Ashmi Da said that the events in the reincarnation world will not happen again meticulously, but people are drawn by karma, and at an appropriate time, they may say the same thing, do the same thing, and make the same friends. Opened Minos The person who transplanted the motivation is not the current Kaludia, but his karma has remained, and it has been engraved into the bone marrow of the person involved as part of the memory."

Ajavako said that the chronicles of ancient India lacked a time dimension; and a truly cyclical world made the absence of time a reality.Whether it is the group of people in front of them, the former Sisyphus and El Cid, or even the all-powerful Bai Li brothers, they all came from that world without exception, continuing the social bonds that existed before.Unfortunately, I was born in the Minoan area and they belong to two different worlds.I don't feel any karma connected to me, and I've remained strangely alone during the short course of my life; I hide behind my connection, have no friends or relatives, and no one has ever mentioned the Mountain to me.There is no doubt that I am a person who only travels in one direction.

Speaking of Bai Li, I have another question.The data in the kernel shows that he took office as a judge 51 years ago, but the data of Rugnis tells me that he served in the court long before that.People who died before the Age of Consciousness will not participate in the cycle. Lugonis is the most accurate positioning mark. These 51 years are the 51 years that have really moved forward. Minos built a new court in that year, and Abbey Card will also pass away shortly after.

Kaludia and the others still retain the memory of the two brothers governing together, but in fact the Divine Consciousness Library has taken over everything, and there is no such thing as a so-called dual-judge setup.The only explanation I can think of is that the Justice of Athens has always been Bai Li, and he used the same appearance of the two brothers to let Sage replace him in the office.He and Aspros were the earliest developers of Korolus. For the glory of the Athens court, they deliberately made the system regulator and the judge system overlap.Therefore, Bai Li was appointed as a judge, and Sage was appointed as a judge. Both of them could be successfully incorporated into the new system at the beginning; and then they will start to expand the team and promote Korollos to the outside world.The developed information network has already connected the world into one piece. As long as one region is connected to the knowledge base, then like a virus chain, other places will gradually fall.

The Bai Li brothers would not have thought about the issue of successors. Of course, they hoped that the founders would directly recommend a new judge, but no one expected that soon afterward, Kairos's sense of law would be produced, which conflicted with Ke Luoluos's sense of consciousness. , the old referral channel was closed, and from then on, Korolos could only choose the judges himself.In Minos' narration, Aspros is a mystery. He probably did not connect to the Athens system, but strayed into the linear world, and finally disappeared quietly.As a twin brother, Deftolos was able to stay in Athens to be reborn, so he could not help resenting Sisyphus, and with the karma with his elder brother, the two were inseparable.

For me though, the initial excitement has worn off.After confirming my own time system, I felt unprecedented loneliness, and only Minos, who was in the same world as me, could bring me comfort.I hold my pulse, I can't wait to see him, if there is another fight.

***

When I returned to that room, the bed was empty.In the hall not far from here, Minos dressed himself neatly and was sitting by the window drinking tea with a book in his hand.

"Radamandis is very busy. He led his subordinates to take care of your work. If you are not sick, you should go and see him."

Minos put down his book, but didn't look at me: "You are very considerate of him, but unfortunately he doesn't want to appreciate it."

I thought of Ballendyne's complaint. "I am responsible for your illness, but if you were willing to tell me the truth earlier, nothing will happen after this."

He leaned against the wall and tilted his head back: "Did you know? Biak is in the chaotic time system. After he was released from prison, he went to the Iberian Peninsula, where almost all the students of Hypnos were. Means Discord, I rarely see him once, and may never see him again."

Minos still looked arrogant, but I felt a little lonely from it.I thought I should give him some reassurance, so I said, "I understand what you're trying to say. You're looking forward to meeting Jabofika the way you met Biack. That's why you became a judge. He who left early cannot participate in reincarnation. Therefore, I agree with you to leave his image in my consciousness, so that you can still see him when you are free; besides, I also have a little selfishness, I want to see See what he looks like."

Minos was stunned, and suddenly he laughed, and then pointed at me with a particularly rampant attitude: "If you really want to see him, the fastest way is to get a mirror."

I suppressed my anger, and gave him a sneer: "I never knew that a mere mirror could shape consciousness."

"Fool," he said, "why don't you put it in your own face? You're just as hopeless as he is."

Things were going in a weird direction, and my suggestion seemed to bring back less pleasant memories for him. "You'd better not provoke me again." I raised my fist, "Speak clearly, what is it about me that makes you feel so annoying?"

"Then I'm sorry to say—everything about you. You act recklessly again and again, you are full of self-righteousness; the color of your hair reminds me of the lake where people have drowned, and the lifeless seed under your left eye Moles, are all disgusting existences, no matter how many times you appear in front of me, it will not change—"How could you fuck? Cutting an apple in half will not be worse than these two people Similarity.’ I would like to ask our world, how it can evenly copy the same beauty into different individuals, and then release double the evil.”

Now I was in a daze, the corners of my eyes trembled slightly, and the surrounding air suddenly became dry. "You arrested me, my honorable judge, you threw me on this small island, and I have no relatives..."

"I have to do this." Minos interrupted me, just like Jabofika, he crossed one leg, "Why don't you ask yourself why you can't see his face clearly? It's just because of your consciousness I made a veto for you first, after all, it is not a good experience to see a person with the same appearance as you wandering in front of you. Faced with too absurd things, the subconscious always likes to do things for you.”

I shook my head, disbelieving everything he said. "Judge Minos, the person you can't forget died many years ago. You implanted him in my mind, forced me to admit him, and now you still want me to be him. Don't you think it's ridiculous for you to deceive yourself?"

"I didn't do anything to your thoughts. Everything happened naturally, you just saw him under the effect of 'karma'. With the help of Kairos, you can clearly realize that it was not a dream." He tilted his head, looking innocent.

"You're spying on me," I yelled at him. "Besides, you cut me off and brought me here by force. Is this natural?"

"Then let me tell you—here, the Magic Mountain of Crete," he stomped the floor, "it's what you're here for."

Minos simply drank the tea in his hand, closed his eyes, and there was no contempt on his face anymore.Finally he spoke again, in a long and languid tone, as if telling an irrelevant story.

"I think you already know from the mouth of the oriental man what is the division of the world. The separatism of this era is rampant, and different regions form a very different time system. Then they begin to estrange and inevitably move towards isolation. The earliest realization Yabo was responsible for the consequences, but he couldn't do anything about it; until I took his seat and lobbied repeatedly to unite some of the judges. No one wants a future that is more and more fragmented. To deal with this situation, We used Kairos to encode a system that connects the consciousness of multiple worlds, thereby maintaining the normal interaction between the worlds."

"This central hub is Eraklion?"

Minos showed an approving expression: "Your intelligence is one of the rare places I can praise you. If there was no Magic Mountain, you would not have seen those guys in Athens as early as ten years ago-this decade Compared to the world within my jurisdiction, it will only flow in one direction."

"I'm a single person." I lowered my eyes, "Like you, I'm in linear time, and I lack connections like Dejere and the others—"

"He's alone, too," Minos said. "I mean Jabofika—you get the point. The Mountain doesn't just heal rifts, it creates new kinks, which could theoretically benefit those living in People before the Age of Consciousness; but unfortunately, even judges cannot bring it to the world of Kololos. The core belongs to the system of legal consciousness, and it can only be related to judges, so I played a trick, I extended the meaning of 'law' to people who can have a legal connection with the judge - maybe you guessed it, that is the prisoner. Only those who are defined as prisoners by Kairos are eligible to enter the magic mountain, so you must You have to be a criminal first. At the beginning, it will be a little troublesome to convict you. I dug up the files many years ago, and used the data to prove that you cooperated with the enemy and bought and sold information from hackers. Therefore, Yabofika, the person who has been dead for many years, naturally became me. The first criminal. I built a database in the kernel, and then used them to piece together your information bit by bit. This will faithfully copy your appearance. The side effect is that you will lose your original bond with the world, they It will not leave any impression about you, and your xinxing will also deviate from the original Yabo Fika."

I broke off my knuckles.If Minos' words are true, then I have been resurrected countless times before; my world is different from anyone else's, which is the root cause of my lack of social connections. "It's going to be easier later on," he said, "I just have to arrest you every time I see you, even though you can't remember who you are - it's not a problem, you're always at the beginning He was aggressive, but in the end he was able to find out the truth by himself."

"Why do you do this?" I looked up at him. "Entering the core means losing yourself. You know that I am no longer Yabo. Doing this kind of thing will not be good for you. I can feel it, you are going down in circles Arrest warrant, it seems that I am not tired of it, but I am already tired of this show."

Minos laughed, and he made himself as relaxed as possible: "If you don't establish a relationship with the core in this world, you won't be reborn; of course, I want more than that, I'm keeping my promise with you. You see, You once asked me to take on the role of the adjudicator and walk with Korollos, and I did it; as for you asking me to use you as an experimental subject to discover the world, I think, at least I should regard you as someone who can fight side by side , rather than a mere experimental product.”

"So those who were wronged because of you in the past—"

"It's all you." Minos replied simply.In addition, he also told me: "Rada doesn't like you. From the first moment he saw you, he thought you would be my biggest threat. In a sense, he was right, but I was never as good as he thought. Please, I don't regret it."

Radamandis must have seen me at various times, and witnessed the many evils I had done to Minos. "It's just one more time than the last time." The explanation Biak gave me and Rada's unexplained gesture echoed in my mind, as if arranged by fate.

"Alba is the root of the Latin word for 'white' and your name is associated with the Latin word for 'red', do you take it for granted? Rub, it's not some kind of plant you're imagining, it's nothing else - it's from the red flower lily of the valley."

I fell silent, and Minos' behavior made it impossible for me to judge.He may not be without a little selfishness, but such selfishness will never be satisfied, I can't get back the original memory, and he can only survive in the mode of eternal reincarnation.The damage to the barrier of Crete was not an accident, it indicated that the world would be broken again; the magic mountain system born by Cairos could not continue to maintain the connection, and people at various time points could no longer enter other areas.At that time, Minos can only stay in the world where he will never meet Jabofika, or worse, he will cycle alone as a judge, losing all relatives, acquaintances, and enemy.

I am afraid this is what my rebirth means.Even if I can't change the direction of the world, at least I can give him some comfort before I disappear completely.I don't know if that was the case with Minos, maybe he was just fulfilling a command given to him long ago, and I deserve the consequences for such a command--however, even if there is a hint of inheritance, now Can I say that I have a similar identity to Jabofika?

Of course not.Like the ship of Theseus in the fable, he was stripped of his skin, his bones were taken away, he was decomposed into piles of unrecognizable debris, dissolved in a long time, and completely lost his name.Then Minos picked them up and tried again and again to restore the image of that person, and finally he made me out of these things.

The ship was still there, and it no longer belonged to Theseus.