Isaac is the master of the tower who is famous for his rationality and calmness. The title "Jade Record" praises his erudition and reason. He has been advancing on the path of exhausting the truth throughout his life.
But he was put on a cognitive filter, doing stupid things like a fool—gradually draining the whole world and sending himself into hell.
Orpheus is a true poet and a sincere singer. In order to be able to sing freely, he was even willing to give up his right to inherit the throne and his life of wealth and arbitrariness.
It can be said that he has almost no desires and needs - yet he was thrown into a silver-gray, temperatureless world.
According to Annan Offei's observation of the world, the mechanical beings in that world do not have any hostility towards organic matter, and can even be called respect and love... similar to the state of "out-of-control servitors" towards organic furnishings.
It is precisely because of this that Ofishi will not fall into complete fear and despair. He is not hunted down, nor will he be attacked. His actions are completely free and without any restrictions.
It was precisely because of this that he was able to sing and walk on the street, looking for his own kind hopefully. Of course, he could not find anything.
If he ordered the robots to listen to his playing, they should also obey the orders. But this would not give Orpheus any feedback at all - it would only give him endless nothingness.
I'm afraid that when he tries to hurt himself or plans to end his life, he will be stopped immediately by those robots.
This is just like the situation he escaped from when he was in Denisaw.
It's just far more serious and extreme than that.
——That is the fear hidden in the heart of Orpheus.
Even if it was death, he was already prepared to face it - the moment he decided to enter this otherworldly nightmare, Ofishi didn't think about being able to come back alive.
I'm not even afraid of death... He won't hang me up and torture me, right?
That's what Orpheus thought.
Then he faced real despair.
He won't be hurt, he can't die, but he will never get a sincere response. No matter how he sings or what actions he takes, he will never hear a reply.
If Ao Feishi really came to such a world, she would probably just give up thinking and live like a zombie.
——But he can't.
Because he came with a mission.
He holds mysterious knowledge that can instantly defeat Ingrid and can be used in otherworldly nightmares. As long as he reads this knowledge in front of Ingrid, she can be destroyed directly.
Then Orpheus must find his teammates, and finally Ingrid.
Because Ao Feishi had no information. He simply didn't know that he and Annan were not actually in the same world...or that they were not on the same map.
Therefore, Orpheus could only search in vain for the companion he could never find.
In this process, Orpheus's fire of courage will gradually extinguish, and his light of will will gradually wear away. His pace of progress will become slower and his faith will become more shaken.
What he once loved gradually becomes boring, and everything he once cherished gradually fades into nothingness. Even his beloved music may become disgusted due to the lack of any response for a long time, and even directly produce physical nausea.
No need to harm his body.
This is an insult to the spirit.
And if we extrapolate back from the situation of Ao Feishi...
Isaac's side should be in a similar situation.
With Isaac's rationality, he will eventually begin to conduct investigation and research. And as his understanding of that world becomes deeper and deeper, the cognitive filter that surrounds him may gradually become weaker.
His good thoughts, words, and deeds have all been distorted and corrupted. Everything he studied has no meaning, and his fighting is only accelerating the demise of this world - if this world did not have him, perhaps it would be a better place.
.
This is a foolish act.
And when he truly realizes what he has done and what he has done... he will face the real test.
Should he continue to stick to what he started with?
Has he killed his companions with his own hands?
Are his actions and his fights meaningful?
Is there "truth" in this world?
"——Although it is meaningless. But I still want to repay something for my son... and Nikolai."
Isaac once said this to Annan at that time.
Of course he knows that he is a hypocrite. He is just a puppet made using part of other people's memories.
——Because his life is meaningless, he will pursue meaning even more persistently.
He hates meaningless fights between people, especially those "fools" who subvert their ends for the sake of means.
After he was assassinated by Nicholas, he gave up resurrecting and seeking revenge just because Nicholas had the qualifications and determination to succeed him. Instead, he chose to give up his power with tolerance.
And this is Isaac.
When you gradually realize the nature of the world and realize that everything you do is just for destruction; when you realize that no matter what you do, it is meaningless...
Can he really hold on?
When he turns on his cognitive filter, he will probably be like a wise king living in a country of madmen. The whole world around him will be incompatible with him.
He will not be accepted by anyone or any force; his research, strategies, and efforts are meaningless. He can do nothing and achieve nothing.
The only thing he can do is to contribute his wisdom to "meaningless cannibalism".
And this happens to be what Isaac fears the most.
——The Wizarding War.
In this way, we can see the similarities between Isaac and Orpheus.
They originally thought that what they were facing was a "test" and a "tribulation".
And when they persisted and reached the end.
Only then can one realize that all this is just to torture them... to kill their spirits and plunge them into true despair.
"This sounds pretty trivial..."
Annan complained.
He raised his head and calmed down slightly.
If he guessed correctly.
Annan himself should be involved. At least he cannot stay out of it.
The dim yellow infinite civil war, the green wild nature, the gray steel city...
Those worlds that end quickly in the middle should be because there is no "protagonist" in them. In other words, no Purifiers enter these worlds. Therefore, they are just simple doomsday disaster movies. You can feel some despair, but it is not profound.
And the purifier who enters it should come to a certain world.
Feeling the despair of "tailor-made".
This world can only be entered a maximum of ten times.
In other words, the world that the person who wrote "Praise to the Name of the Sky Crane" experienced is most likely not the world they have experienced.
Considering that some of the content in that book is fictional.
...Perhaps the last part, the part about "love", is a fictional story. The whole story ended abruptly when the protagonist discovered that he had no talent.
That might be a world with "light" or "white" as the main color, another kind of despair.
Someone happened to have experienced this nightmare once.
And Annan's video tape happened to be missing one.
These apocalyptic broken worlds all have an overwhelming main color.
Just like outside Annan's window, there is also a hallucinatory blood moon, dyeing the whole world blood red.
So, the world he lives in...
It should also be in the "doomsday" of this nightmare, rather than higher than these "worlds in the tape".
The problem now is...
The only missing video tape in this room.
That is, the one whose logo should be [357].
——In the end, it is about "The Name of the Sky Crane", the tape that has been used.
Or does it represent the tapestry of the secret room world where Annan lives now?
If I'm so sleepy that I'm in a coma, I'd better start with one chapter and then get up during the day to catch up...
I have been feeling chest tightness for the past two days, and I also felt a little dizzy in the middle of the night.
I don’t know if it’s a lack of sleep, catching a cold, or air-conditioning disease...
If you don't turn on the air conditioner, you will wake up early from the heat. If you turn on the air conditioner, you will catch a cold or get air conditioning disease. It's so difficult for cats (sad)