The poet nodded and said: "I think so too. The seven deadly sins generally mentioned are all derived from Dante's "Divine Comedy". Since the virtual world draws on various art forms of mankind, then this purgatory is very
It is possible that it is also constructed based on the words in Dante's "Divine Comedy"."
As he spoke, the poet seemed to have remembered something, and suddenly turned his head to look at Dante, the top American master, and said with a smile: "I'm not talking about you! I'm talking about Dante, the famous poet in Italian history."
"I know!" Dante nodded and took over the poet's topic, "I like Dante's poetry very much, so I named it after him. In fact, I also know what you just said. According to "The Divine Comedy·
As mentioned in "Purgatory", the seven deadly sins are pride, jealousy, rage, laziness, greed, and gluttony. However, the form of atonement for "pride" in "The Divine Comedy" is the soul carrying a heavy boulder and bending over.
Loop along the mountain trails of Purgatory Mountain. But it is different here. There are no mountain trails in this city, and these souls are not carrying any huge rocks."
The poet thought for a while and said: "The method of atonement in "The Divine Comedy" corresponds to the sin. Take arrogance as an example. The arrogant person is arrogant, arrogant, high-minded, and arrogant, so the punishment method is
Let them carry boulders on their backs, bend over, and walk humbly. Since our current city is used to atone for the sin of arrogance, it is very likely that it is also atonement based on this concept. We only need to observe these souls and make
Corresponding behavior may solve the mystery."
After listening to the poet and Dante's analysis, everyone suddenly felt that it made sense. They returned to the street outside, stood in the middle of the street, and once again observed the souls coming and going, thinking about the profound meaning of their behavior.
Those souls still walked quietly, passing through their flesh and blood bodies one by one, gradually moving away, like puppets, never stopping and never getting tired.
"Do you feel that when we stand here, it seems... how should I put it? It seems very disharmonious." At this time, Tiandao suddenly touched his chin and said something.
"Of course it's not harmonious. We are flesh and blood, living people. They are souls, dead people. Can we be harmonious when we stand together with them?" The God of Thunder shook his head and smiled, and reached out to pat a person with him.
The woman's butt he passed through, his palm penetrated from that butt without any feeling.
"I'm not referring to this aspect!" Tiandao shook his head, but it seemed that he couldn't clearly describe the feeling in his heart, so he could only murmur: "I am referring to other aspects, it just feels like something is wrong and disharmonious. If
We are walking on a normal street, it shouldn't be like this, but I can't tell where exactly it is."
"I feel the same way!" Suddenly, Huang Yi nodded, walked back to the door of the previous church, and said, "You all come here, stand here, and carefully observe these people on the street."
After listening to his words, everyone left the street and returned to the church door, observing the souls coming and going on the street outside.
After observing for a while, Huang Yi stared at the souls on the street and said, "Have you ever felt that as soon as we evacuated this street, these souls walked on the street by themselves, and they suddenly became more harmonious?"
"Yes, I feel that way too!" The little bad guy immediately nodded his head, then frowned slightly, as if he was thinking of a word to describe it, "It's like, like, how should I put it? It's like..."
"In order!" Suddenly, a word popped out of the mouth of Long Ci, who had always been taciturn!
As soon as he heard this word, the little bad guy's eyes suddenly lit up, and he immediately took Long Ci's arm affectionately, nodded repeatedly, and said: "Yes, yes! That's how it feels! It's orderly!"
While everyone was observing the souls walking back and forth on the street, they used Dragon Thorn's "orderly" expression to describe it, and it suddenly felt very appropriate.
The souls on the street walked one by one in order and seemed very harmonious.
At this time, Pharaoh also nodded with deep feeling, strode to the center of the street, inserted himself into the souls of people coming and going, and said: "If we go to the street and mix with these souls, it will be like a peaceful road."
In the river, several huge rocks were suddenly thrown down, and the originally calm and gentle river was blocked, breaking the peaceful order."
"So, what does this have to do with arrogance?" The Pope frowned and asked thoughtfully.
The little bad guy walked back to the street, staring at the souls that were coming by one after another, and said: "I only know that the expressions of these souls are very arrogant. They all walk struttingly, and their eyes are not straight.
He looked at us with a look of disdain and treated us as if we didn't exist!" At the end of the sentence, the little bad guy wrinkled his nose, stretched out his little hand mischievously, and slapped a soul walking towards him!
The little hand directly penetrated the soul's head, but the soul still walked forward boldly, without even looking at the little bad guy, and directly penetrated her body.
At this moment, a light suddenly flashed in Huang Yi's mind. He stared blankly at the souls passing by the little bad guy one by one, murmuring and repeating the words she just said, his eyes slowly
Lost focus——
"Treat us as if we don't exist... treat us as if we don't exist..."
"What's wrong? God of Death, have you discovered anything?" As if aware of Huang Yi's change, the poet immediately turned his head and asked expectantly.
Countless viewers around the world who are watching the live broadcast are also looking at Huang Yi from the poet's perspective, looking at his expression that is lost in thought, and looking at his eyes that have lost focus.
The rest of the top-notch experts, including the naughty and restless little bad guys on the street, all stopped and turned to look at Huang Yi!
They held their breath, made no sound, and tried their best not to disturb his meditation!
The whole world fell silent, waiting for Huang Yi to think!
The result of his thinking will become the key to the entire world!
After a while, Huang Yi's eyes finally lit up again and became focused again, as if two dead planets suddenly came to life again!
He stared at the little bad guy, shook his head and said: "Actually, it's not that they treat us as if they don't exist, but we treat them as if they don't exist!"
"Why do you say that?" the little bad guy asked with his eyes wide open curiously.
Huang Yi immediately walked to the middle of the street, stretched out his hand to touch the people walking towards him, and said: "Since we entered this city, we have always habitually ignored these souls. It does not mean that we have ignored their existence.
But we have ignored their dignity. It can even be said that we do not regard these souls as human beings at all! In our eyes, only flesh and blood like us are human beings, and they are just some people who have been dead for who knows how long.
It’s just a soul, no different from a mouse, bug, or dog.”
When everyone thought about it, it seemed that this was indeed the case. They actually did not treat these souls as normal people from the bottom of their hearts. These souls were just background elements in a virtual scene, and their flesh and blood bodies were real people.
"Even if this is the case, what does it matter?" Dante asked, leaning against the door of the church with his arms folded on his chest.
"This is the crime of arrogance!" Huang Yi stared at a soul walking directly in front of him and said softly: "Because psychologically, we do not regard these souls as the same people as us, so our actions are inevitable
That’s arrogant. The most obvious thing is that when we walk on the street, we never avoid these souls and directly pass by them, as if they don’t exist!”
At this point, the soul walking towards him happened to pass through him!
Huang Yi looked back at the person who penetrated his soul and said, "And this is why we feel disharmonious when we walk on the street, because if we walk on a normal street and see pedestrians coming from the opposite side,
, will definitely avoid the other party and will not treat them as if they don’t exist!”
Everyone was stunned for a moment, looking at the souls passing by Huang Yi one by one, and began to think about what Huang Yi had just said.
At this time, Huang Yi took steps and walked back to the door of the church.
The Little Bad Guy and the Pharaoh also walked back from the streets, completely giving the streets to those souls, and the streets became orderly again.
Huang Yi stared at the orderly souls on the street and continued: "After we left the street, the reason why the street looked very harmonious and orderly was because they no longer penetrated each other!
Just like being on the real street!”
Everyone looked at the souls coming and going on the street, and they discovered this -
Although those souls glanced at each other, walked in a swaggering manner, and looked arrogant, they could no longer penetrate each other. Each soul walked in an orderly manner and would not interfere with other souls.
This was originally a normal scene, but they didn't pay attention to it before. It wasn't until Huang Yi pointed it out that they finally paid attention to it!
Huang Yi laughed at himself: "We always feel that the expressions of these souls are arrogant and arrogant. In fact, it is us who are truly arrogant. Their arrogance is just their expression, but our arrogance is their behavior!"
Huang Yi's words were like a hammer, hitting everyone's hearts hard!
Yes! They have been treating these souls arrogantly since they entered this city, never avoiding them when walking on the streets, treating them like air!
They always feel that their own behavior is normal, and the behavior of these souls is abnormal!
They don't realize that the truly arrogant ones are not those souls, but themselves!
"Then what should we do?" At this time, the little bad guy asked subconsciously.
"It's very simple!" Huang Yi smiled, "Treat these souls as normal people. When we walk on the street, whenever we encounter souls coming towards us, we must avoid them and don't pass by them.
Just like walking on a normal street. In this way, we should be able to get out of the city!"
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