Even Russell can't say whether the church's philosophy is good or bad;
Even now, he cannot say such words as "This is absolutely wrong and sinful" with force and righteousness.
Because they really have no selfish motives or desires.
All struggles just for "survival" do not distinguish between good and evil - it is another choice above the moral concept of good and evil, the choice about life and death.
It is true that some people can sacrifice everything, including their lives, for something greater than themselves. However, there are also people who just want to live and will pay all costs just to survive... But this does not mean that the latter is wrong.
, let alone ask others to sacrifice themselves for "great things".
The church has no obligation to believe in Russell. Even if the path they pursue is a last resort, it is still a path that can be walked. A narrow path is always better than a dead end.
——The so-called "great integration".
As long as the hidden danger of the monkey-faced eagle is eliminated, this is indeed a way: since the basic point that can be contaminated by dreams is "perceptual", and the damage caused by the contamination occurs in the "group", then as long as we abandon the perceptual, abandoning the group is not enough
alright?
Becoming a mechanical mind that is completely immune to "dreams", a hive mind with only one voice, gathering the wisdom of all humans, and combining it with spiritual energy that can reverse reality. This is also a way out for civilization... In time, it may become a "fallen empire"
"That level of great civilization.
The only question is - how does the church ensure that the monkey-faced eagle is excluded?
The monkey-faced eagle is a kind of thought, and thought is immortal. Having completely transformed into an information form, he can enter someone's mind through his dormant posture. After the great fusion, he can decode himself in some way and extract information from the hive mind.
"Unzip". By that time, they would become completely unable to resist the monkey-faced eagle.
Just like fighting Russell at close range in real life; humans have no chance of winning if they want to fight against the monkey-faced eagle in the cyber world. The three sages can fight against the monkey-faced eagle, although there are those with stronger computing power.
Factor... However, the fundamental difference is that the monkey-faced eagle possesses the psychic power of "Anima Animus" and does not have special attacks against races other than "humans".
As the Egg of Twilight, his range of infection is far less outrageous than that of Dream. He can only contaminate, influence, and devour those races with collective subconscious...
From another perspective, the monkey-faced eagle is also the "god of the community" believed in by the church.
Although he is not the first, he will be the final - he is not an absolutely equal good god, but an absolutely authoritarian evil god.
The only difference between the monkey-faced eagle and the "god" is that he has not yet devoured "everyone". When he fuses everyone into one, he will even be stronger than the "god" of the first psychic network——
Because the original God did not have pure self-awareness, He was the confused group consciousness itself. He had no interests, no past, and no position. He was closer to a "natural phenomenon."
But the monkey-faced eagle has a clear personality, purpose, and self-awareness.
The church packages and stores everyone's consciousness, which means completely giving up the possibility of fighting against the Twilight Egg...
Russell does not want to destroy the world, so he will not participate; but the monkey-faced eagle has no such moral constraints.
The two people are at the same level. As long as Monkey Faced Eagle realizes this and takes some means to bypass the firewall... the moment he enters the "inside" and comes into contact with other human information, it means that he has already
Victory. After his existence expanded infinitely, the first person to be eroded and devoured by him was Russell.
Anima means "soul" and animus means "spirit".
At the same time, the anima represents the archetypal image of the female existence in the man, and the animus represents the male component in the woman. Just like the two fish eyes in the yin and yang fish. These two names together,
It is the "immanence and prototype" of all human beings...that is, the "group god".
The monkey-faced eagle's spiritual energy "Anima Animus" is exactly the "name of God".
He is the sleeping god who is locked up in everyone's hearts, unable to realize or detect, and hidden in the sea of subconsciousness.
The God Trapped in a Container—
There is no doubt about it.
Through contact with Andrew, he copied the personality of the Pope... Through the other person's perspective, Russell has completely understood the nature of the monkey-faced eagle.
"God's Vessel" and "Anima Animus" are a pair of spiritual powers that are mutually exclusive.
Russell is an outsider, someone who does not exist in this world.
He is a genius disguised as a mortal. He has been alien since birth. He can be friends with anyone and can become anyone. He is a magical mirror that can reflect all external existences and people.
The dreams and reality in the heart. He represents the "outside" and the extraordinary shell of God.
The monkey-faced eagle is a local aborigine. Although he is an excellent researcher, his essence is just a mortal. He represents the mediocre core of God.
As a human being, he has been abandoned, used, and destroyed by people all his life. Because he does not understand anyone's heart, he has no successors, no dreams, no hopes, no friends and comrades, and in the end, even his own descendants and
The name was also lost, and the social aspect was completely dead.
He came to a point of coincidence - after he took the Source of Holy Orders from Russell, and as he lost his son, he finally completely and completely lost everything about himself. He took the initiative to say goodbye to the entire world he owned.
.
He was the only person in the whole world who was completely opposite to Russell at that point in time...when Russell touched the essence of dusk.
Because of this, he formed the Egg of Dusk in his mortal body, becoming the aluminum film behind the mirror and the god in the container.
The reason why a mirror is a mirror rather than a window, and the reason why a container is a container rather than a block is precisely because of the thing that rejects light.
If Russell represents the dusk of the "tombstone", the monkey-faced eagle is the "grave". Without the tomb, the tombstone is just a stone slab, which only has meaning without any substance; without the tombstone, the tomb is just a piece of earth.
Empty content but meaningless.
That's why they become Twin Twilight.
If Russell gets the monkey-faced eagle's ability, he doesn't need to devour anyone to become a god - just relying on Russell's "imitation" to provide fuel, and burning it through the monkey-faced eagle's engine, he can slowly grow...
...Gradually gain the power of "god" and become a god without paying any price;
And if the monkey-faced eagle obtains Russell's body, he can immediately reach the real world from nothingness with his immortal divine body and omniscient and omnipotent mind.
As twins, if they don't eat each other, their fight will never end.
Compared to Russell, who tends to be lawful and good, the chaotic evil "monkey-faced eagle" is more suitable to become Dusk. Because morality restrains Russell and prevents him from devouring other people and other civilizations. This means that it is at best just
The embryo cannot grow due to malnutrition.
If there is a general consciousness similar to the abyss consciousness in the birth of all dusk species, then he must be more inclined to let the monkey-faced eagle devour Russell, swallow the entire civilization, hatch it healthily, and then wander around the multiverse like his predecessors
, to devour other civilizations.
Therefore, Russell is just a shell and nourishment - just like the things in the tomb, it is always more important than the tombstone. It is only because the monkey-faced eagle is too mediocre compared to Russell that it must go through this ritual of hunting and devouring Russell.
to catch up with the opponent.
Compared with the distant "dream", the monkey-faced eagle that is very close at hand is a disaster worth guarding against;
Compared with the dragons who do not communicate with ordinary people at all and are completely isolated from the lower class society, compared with those elves who are cowardly because they have too much and are proud because they live too long... they will eventually become absolute dictatorial "tyrants".
The "finalist" who controls all values, the monkey-faced eagle should be even more hostile to people.
No matter how bad the order is, it is still order, and it is better than complete extinction and chaos.
Russell believes that Your Excellency "Zhang Sheng" will definitely understand this possibility.
So he stretched out his hand and held it to the century-old pope in front of him, the "similar" of the monkey-faced eagle, the forerunner who uploaded his consciousness to cyberspace——
"terribly sorry."
Looking at the other party's expectant and gratified eyes, Russell held the old man's hand and calmly replied: "I refuse."
"...Is it because of the conflict with Sheath?"
The old man frowned: "If it's because of that..."
"It has nothing to do with that. Compared with the life and death of the world, my personal grudges are nothing."
He values love more than hatred. If he has to cooperate with the other party, he will not get angry and leave just because of the sheath - not to mention, he doesn't have that much hatred in the first place. He is more disappointed than hate, and that's not it either
Not hatred, but disgust.
"I shake hands with you, naturally hoping that we can reach cooperation."
Russell said word for word: "What I hate most are those 'prophets' and 'sages' who keep telling riddles even though they know a lot. If you want to communicate, you must speak clearly; if you want to communicate
Misunderstandings and ambiguities must be eliminated. Any cognitive bias may cause unnecessary conflicts...
"You do know a lot of things. You know the Twilight Seeds, you know the First Psionic Network, you know the plans of the elves, you know the spiritual relatives. I also know that you are all enemies within the church, and you are all opponents wherever you look. You want to
We want to use the 'Werewolf' plan to shake the rule of the Seven Giants and cause chaos... I know you must be painful in your heart, but this is just a necessary evil. If people are not allowed to question the Seven Giants, the church will not be able to implement the great integration plan.
.
"Yes, you must think so. Because I [know] what you think."
There was a little magic in Russell's voice.
The surrounding "dreams" were modified by Russell's will - the Pope was forcibly dragged into a strange world by Russell.
It was a huge "art gallery".
On both sides are towering golden walls that stretch to the sky, with countless moving and talking portraits hanging on them, like the portraits in Harry Potter.
"Zhang Sheng" looked at everything around him in shock - he understood what was here in an instant.
That was not his personal enlightenment, but Russell instilled some knowledge into him from his subconscious.
"...But I think you must not know the secret knowledge about the 'Twilight Egg', about the 'Dragon', about the 'Grey Dome'... about 'another possibility of saving the world'."
The corners of Russell's mouth raised slightly, and he clenched his hands a little harder.
Looking at the old man, he slowly replied: "I can tell you these things and these secrets. I can also save the world, fight against the dusk, and protect everyone. It is not necessary to revive the world again and bring it back to life.
Totally impossible.
"We unite, we unite. But it's not that I want to join you...
"——But you want to join us."
This is the update on the 18th. Today there is only one update of 3,400 words, and it is not two in one...
Because if you work perfectly this month, you will definitely die! There is no need to keep time and continue to live!
Because the cat is really yang (sad)
Now on the first day, it is 37.4°. My throat is dry and sore, the tip of my tongue hurts, my whole body hurts, but I feel cold and dizzy, and this temperature is not suitable for taking antipyretics. This is the most uncomfortable thing...
I wrote a chapter because I couldn't sleep. This is the first day! I'll see if I can update normally when I get up tomorrow. If I can, I will update. If not, I will have to take leave...