Magic Technology Research Institute, second underground floor, confidential conference room.
Wearing a dark blue coat, Gawain walked into the room. In this conference room, which was strictly protected and never open to the public, he saw that all the people attending the meeting were waiting here.
Wright and Veronica were talking in a low voice, Pittman was twirling his beard absentmindedly, Kamel was floating beside the conference table, the arcane radiance on his body was calm and blue, Hetty saw Gawain appeared and was the first to stand up and bow to salute: "Ancestor."
Others also stopped their own things and stood up to salute.
Gawain looked around the scene, and his eyes paused on an empty seat next to the long table: "There is no need to be invisible now."
Amber's figure then appeared Emerged: "I'm used to it, I'm used to it..."
Gao Wen shook his head, came to the head of the conference table, and said while sitting down: "There is no need to be formal in internal meetings. Today is mainly about exchanging some information, and ...I need some advice from several professionals on site."
Veronica raised her head and looked at the people present, and she already knew: "It has something to do with the knowledge of gods?"< /p>
"Yes," Gawain nodded and said, "About the recent anomalies in the Eternal Sleeper's spiritual network, Amber should have told you before the meeting, right?"
" "I just said it half an hour ago," Wright replied, "I didn't know that we had penetrated the Eternal Sleep Order to this extent."
"This matter has been kept very secret. Gao, and it has no connection with the church, so it’s normal that you don’t know,” Gao Wen said, his expression becoming serious, “But now things have changed, and part of the information has to be made public.
"In short, according to the information I just received, a secret plan carried out by the Eversleepers in the spiritual network is very likely to accidentally touch the realm of gods, and... they may have come into contact with the secret of the birth of gods. ”
Gawain got straight to the point, and the conference room instantly became quiet. Everyone’s breathing seemed to slow down for half a beat. Even Kamel, who was not breathing, dimmed for a moment. For a few seconds Finally, Pitman twitched the corner of his mouth and broke the silence: "I just said that something big must happen in such an urgent and confidential meeting, but this... is also a bit too exciting. "
As he spoke, he lowered his head and looked at the several beards that he had accidentally pulled off just now with some distress. After hesitating for a long time, he rubbed the beard on his chin again and carefully used the spell. Reconnect.
Gawain didn’t pay attention to Pitman’s mumbling. After seeing that his big news had successfully cheered everyone up, he related his previous experiences in the psychic network. The exploration in that "Phantom Town" was described in detail.
Everyone at the scene listened carefully, even Amber, who always dozed off or wandered around during meetings, this time. He pricked up his ears and listened with special concentration..
"...This is the whole story." After nearly twenty minutes of narration, Gawain exhaled and concluded, "According to my guess, worshiping the 'upper narrator' should The main reason why the sandbox is out of control, and what specifically the "upper-level narrator church" brewed in the dream, whether this "thing" is just a conceptual product in the dream world... will be the key to the problem."
As soon as he finished speaking, Veronica, who was sitting in the second seat on the left, broke the silence: "Are you doubting...the act of belief in the so-called 'upper-level narrator' in No. 1 of the spiritual network? In the sandbox... was a god really created?"
"There is no evidence yet, but I do doubt it," Gawain nodded. "The Eternal Sleeper has not found the God Pollution No. 1 yet. As for the 'path' to the sandbox, there is no evidence or clue to explain which god, how, and when it bypassed the heavy protection of Sandbox No. 1 and entered the inside of the sandbox - we all know that the three major The dark sects are the sects with the deepest understanding of the gods, but even their top researchers cannot find traces of the gods invading the sandbox system... Then we might as well make a bolder assumption: the pollution is not from the outside at all. Invasion..."
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Psychic Network, in the central temple with the highest confidentiality authority, the archbishops sat around a round table depicting various symbols.
All the archbishops participating in the meeting took off their disguises here and used the real appearance of the real world - according to the internal regulations of the order, this means that the confidentiality level of this meeting is extremely high and the specifications are also very high. Extremely high.
Archbishop Yuri, wearing a white robe, stood at the round table with a serious tone: "...According to Archbishop Selina and I's speculation, the contamination...may come from inside the No. 1 sandbox, and the so-called 'God's erosion' should all originate from the sect that worships the 'upper storyteller'." Opposite Yuri, there is a short man wearing a black robe with red hair standing on end. The man with a loud voice stood up and said loudly: "This thing is really incredible. The residents in the dream world suddenly began to doubt the authenticity of their world, and then began to worship a 'superior narrator' they made up. Is there really a god? And this god also caused the No. 1 sandbox to go out of control? Isn't this a reason made up when the cause cannot be found?"
Yuri looked helplessly. The red-haired man opposite - that is Archbishop Magnum, has a fiery temper and is famous for his loud voice, but he also knows that this loud-voiced man's loud questioning here is not malicious, nor is it out of reason. The opinion of a certain person is due to his character - when the idea comes to his mind, he naturally expresses it.
It’s just that this gentleman’s voice is really loud, which is hard to get used to. And then again... in such a spiritual space, can’t he turn down his “volume” a little bit? ?
"HorseArchbishop Gnan," Yuri shook his head slightly, "Everything I said is indeed just a guess, and I also know that this matter is incredible, but don't forget that we are dealing with 'gods', and gods... …it’s incredible in itself. "
A ball of starlight polymer floated above the gorgeous round table, and the sound it made reached the ears of everyone present: "Now is there any evidence to prove the beliefs of the sect born in the dream world? Does the 'Upper Narrator' already possess certain divine qualities? "
"Your Majesty the Pope," Archbishop Yuri immediately lowered his head, "There is no evidence yet. The information we have is too little. At present, we can only confirm that such a person did appear in Sandbox No. 1. The sect, and its activities correspond in time with the loss of control of Sandbox No. 1. "
The starlight polymer expanded, shrunk and flickered in mid-air: "Then as long as there is evidence to prove that the 'upper-level narrator's belief' in the No. 1 sandbox really produced a god, or something similar to a god' Something', all the answers will come to light. "
Yuri frowned: "But... if that thing is really a god, how should we deal with it? "
"We have no way of knowing yet, but isn't this the answer and secret we have been pursuing? "The voice of Pope Megall III echoed gently in everyone's mind, "We have been trying to dig out the secrets of the gods and find out the truth about their birth, and now, we may be infinitely close to the truth... ..."
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"The secret of the birth of the gods...may be hidden in Sandbox No. 1," Gawain said solemnly, "If the 'Upper Narrator Church' If the shadow of the power of gods really appears behind the scenes, then the concept of gods... will be most completely subverted. "
"It was not the gods who created humans, but humans created the gods..." Pitman muttered to himself, his hand suddenly shook, and a few beards were pulled off by him again.
Holding a platinum scepter and surrounded by a faint holy light, Veronica had been silent since just now, seeming to have been deep in thought for a long time. Then she suddenly raised her head: "This...actually It was also one of the assumptions that went against the original plan. "
"Have you ever guessed this direction? Gawain looked at Veronica in surprise, "Have you ever guessed that gods were actually born in the process of human belief?" ”
“We did not speculate so deeply or directly, but we have guessed that human beliefs—or the common thoughts of a large number of mortals—will affect the activities of gods to a certain extent. But this conjecture was too shocking, and could neither be confirmed nor falsified, or the difficulty of verification and falsification was so high that it was almost impossible to achieve, so until the collapse of the Gondor Empire, this conjecture remained just a conjecture. "
"But now the bold attempt of the Eternal Sleeper will probably prove your suspicions back then..." Wright said with a sigh, "It is really unimaginable that the gods who make mortals fear and awe are, in essence, It was actually created by mortalsWhat comes out? "
"Don't draw conclusions because of this, let alone be blindly confident and underestimate the 'gods'," Veronica said gently, "The beliefs of hundreds of millions of living beings are projected into a place where we can't. Becoming gods within the dimension of understanding, the changes that have occurred during this period are beyond our understanding. Perhaps gods really came into existence due to the faith of mortals, but we do not yet have the qualifications and strength to call them our 'creations'... Maybe , we should regard it as a terrifying, out-of-control, but inevitable 'natural phenomenon'. "
"Natural phenomenon..." Gawain couldn't help repeating this word in his mind, thoughtfully.
Then he nodded: "It is indeed like Veronica What it said may be some kind of natural phenomenon, and... it is a natural phenomenon that is bound to happen. ”
Belief and religion can almost be said to be an inevitable stage of social activities.
Civilization will always have a period of weakness and weakness. Mortals come from ignorance and face the In this mysterious, unknown and crisis-ridden world, faced with the incomprehensible and unpredictable nature, as a kind of intelligent and intelligent creatures, they will inevitably have awe of nature, fear or fear of those unexplainable natural phenomena. The psychology of worship.
In the process of moving from the unknown to the known, in the process of trying to understand all things in the world, mortals will definitely try to make sacrifices for those things that awe and fear them. Explanation.
In a period when knowledge is insufficient, power is weak, and civilization is still in its infancy, these explanations... will inevitably point to gods, or other similar concepts.
At that time. In the closed sandbox No. 1, the residents of the man-made world that has been operating for thousands of years must also be facing this question: Where did we come from?
Perhaps some "prophet" accidentally glimpsed the data flow behind the world, or some adventurer accidentally came to the boundary of the sandbox. They were inexplicably frightened by the vast and chaotic sea of souls outside the world. And they saw the scripts running behind the world and the instruction records left by the operators.
So they had an explanation for their world: it was the "upper-level narrator" who created it all.
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Then, there really is the "Upper Narrator"
"The Eternal Sleepers are a group of outstanding soul engineers and excellent researchers, but unfortunately they only focus on the technical field. , but they don’t understand how society operates.” Gao Wen shook his head, with a sigh in his tone, “If they had understood the mechanism of how society operates and understood all aspects of the development of civilization, then even if they could not predict that Sandbox No. 1 would If you lose control, you will at least expect that "religious activities" will appear in the No. 1 sandbox, and you will be vigilant and prepared for this. ”
The conference room was a little quiet for a while.
Although everyone here knew about the rebellious plan, even though everyone here was more or less involved in Gawain’s plan. Those who challenge the gods, "deviant" plan, but the things discussed today still have a great impact on everyone.
Everyone is digesting it carefully, and everyone is repeatedly verifying all aspects of those assumptions.
Pittman put his hand on his chin and said while carefully repairing his beard: "Then if this is really the case, a 'god' was created in Sandbox No. 1... This one I'm afraid things won't end. We can still use artillery fire or the army of sea monsters to deal with the deer, but how should we deal with a god who operates in a dream?"
" There is no need to be so pessimistic," Gawain said calmly, "Even if that thing is really a god or a 'god-like', it has just been born and is still trapped in a dream. As long as we can understand its mechanism, It’s not difficult to deal with—and the Eternal Sleeper will definitely do his best to solve this crisis for his own survival.”
Pitman looked sad and couldn’t help but twist his beard: "Alas...I shouldn't have listened to Amber in the first place. I will never be peaceful in my old age..."
After sighing, the old druid looked down at the beard pulled out of his hand, and his face became even more sad. .
"Just don't answer it," Wright, who was sitting opposite, said with some concern, "I don't think I can answer it."
"...Oh..."