Now that we know that the promoter of "Lycaon's death" is actually the Cyber Church...
Then Russell understands everything.
Why did Lycaon obviously die from cutting his wrists, but his head was missing?
Why was there no trace of decay at all when Lycaon's head was placed in the secret base a few days later, as if it had been refrigerated and sealed immediately after being separated from the body?
Why couldn't the three sages and the cameras all over the island capture what happened...
Lycaon's body was indeed killed by cutting his wrists.
Because there is always a risk in replacing the real life through "righteousness". What's more, Lycaon has no determination to live.
In order to make himself die on a social level, after arranging everything, he gave the command to "cut his wrists" to his body in the bathtub at home.
After the body died, the sheath took away the righteous head - he had returned to the church, and he could indeed do such a thing.
But Lycaon did not expect that the company would investigate the cause of his death for so long. In order to appease his companions, he sheathed the head kept in the church at a time when they would all go to the "secret base"
It was sent back.
"...Those thugs wearing 'werewolf hoods' are actually the righteous leaders under the hoods."
Russell asked softly.
Lycaon nodded tiredly: "Yes."
There was a somewhat sad but pleased smile on his face: "As expected of you...did you guess this?"
"Hmm. There are several reasons for wearing a full-coverage hood. For example, you don't want others to recognize your identity. This is the most superficial answer.
"The deeper answer is that you plan to confuse your existence and make the werewolf hood, an element that can be easily imitated by others, become synonymous with the werewolf, making him the 'werewolf', the symbol of this event. You plan to use this
Behavior to increase the number of werewolves."
This is also the part that Russell guessed before.
But even Russell found that he had underestimated a little.
"But there is a deeper reason - because what you really want to hide is not who you are, because under the hood, it is not anyone's face at all... but a mechanical prosthetic head used to control the body.
.
"That's not a person. It's just nothingness..."
When Russell said this, he paused slightly.
He suddenly thought of himself.
Under his own mask, there is also nothing.
And he is also hiding his identity and resisting the company; he is also using other people's social identities to replace the existence of others; his purpose is also to subvert the company's lies, break the cognitive cage, and awaken people's sense of resistance...
Aside from Russell not wanting the world to become chaotic, he's actually no different from the werewolf.
"I see."
Russell suddenly laughed in relief: "So I am a werewolf."
"……What?"
Instead, Lycaon began to be unable to keep up with Russell's thinking.
"A person wearing wolf's clothing is neither a wolf nor a human, but a werewolf... In the same way, I who exist as others is neither others nor me, but another person between others and me.
exist."
Russell felt fake.
Russell had had this idea long before he dated Delphinium.
At that time, Russell had not yet completed the spiritual transference, had not built that glorious spiritual temple, and was not even aware of the fact that he was not "Russell".
As a result, he questioned himself, began to doubt his own existence, and was saddened by his own emptiness and hypocrisy.
later…
It took a long time for Russell to finally accept his many identities.
These masks are all of him. He is "I", Russell, and anyone he remembers.
And now, he again
It has returned to a state of looking at mountains as mountains.
"Even if you put on a wolf head, you won't become a real wolf; if you control your body through a wolf head, that's not your original, truest self..."
Just as Lycaon was about to say something, Russell chuckled and put his finger in front of his lips, making a silencing gesture.
"Don't worry. I don't mean to deny you, Lycaon. The fixed loss caused by mind uploading will indeed make you no longer the real you...
"——But will it affect anything if we look for a 'pure enough self'?
"I don't think anything will be affected. I will become different every moment...not to mention, my spiritual energy itself is constantly absorbing different lives. I am the least qualified to question whether others' purity
,of.
"So... Lycaon, and His Holiness the Pope. I think there is nothing wrong with your invention, really.
"After the mind is uploaded, it is no longer downloaded, but is only calculated in the cloud and completed in the server... This is indeed an evolutionary direction of human beings. Not only will I not stop it, but I will greatly appreciate it."
Russell said seriously: "The only thing I want to stop is your plan to cause chaos around the world and use the lives of ordinary people to fight against the company."
Having said this, Lycaon's face became blurry again.
The papal "exaltation" emerged from him.
"...You have convinced me, Russell. In this case, I have nothing to hide.
"Then let me make it completely clear... what exactly is the church's 'great fusion' plan."
The old man was very sure and solemnly said: "People need to know the truth. They have the right to die soberly.
"You think the company is too powerful, Russell. The Seven Giants are not seven demons. The so-called head office is like a fish shadow made up of countless sardines. Each of its functions is composed of countless employees.
; his power comes from the 'group'.
"And these employees will obey the company's control because they are living in a field called 'market.' The company, which has complete control over currency, resources and output, controls everyone through magic called 'credit points.
personal life.
"But as long as everyone denies this system - when the 'credit point' is lost, the company's power will only come from the power of the group.
"And if the employees also resist the company's control, then the giant will collapse. We can completely re-establish mankind's own order on the ruins of the head office... currency, army, government. And to do this
, we need to make everyone reject the operating mode of the 'Big Seven'. In this process, bloodshed is inevitable. I am just trying to wake people up... The chaos and even war caused in this process
, the bloodshed of all people is the price that must be paid in order to reach the true ending.
"The world cannot be divided into seven, but should be one; people can no longer squander resources like this, but should accept unified deployment. In order to achieve this goal, 'grand integration' is a necessary step. And the significance of the werewolf plan is to detonate it in advance
The apocalyptic civil war a hundred years later...let people fight for a common purpose while they still have time.
"This civil war may kill about 80% of the population...but 80% will only have the lowest meaning on the social level, because the 'grand integration plan can save the lives of all people with value. In this way, this war will
The purification of the low-end population has been achieved, just like the reenactment of the war of teachings.
"After this war is over, only about 20% of the people will be reborn and gain bodies again. They will gain seven times the living area and the world's resources. Their desires will become adjustable and they will no longer be there."
How many resources need to be consumed? Even a small saving in the use of resources can expand the future that originally only had a few decades to at least three hundred years.
"Moreover, the lifespan of the world does not end there.
"——You told me a lot of secrets before, Russell. Then let me give you one back.
"As I said before, the turmoil caused by the depletion of planetary resources will cause the world to
Sexual panic may usher in war, division, suspicion, hatred... making it impossible for human beings to unite again and accept great integration.
"But you may not have thought that this is the purpose of the dragon itself?"
