Chapter 1200 A New Doomsday
"Do I represent the doomsday?" Zhang Heng frowned, "I am just a mortal, why would I be related to the doomsday? And speaking of the doomsday, the Twilight of the Gods is probably related to you."
"The Twilight of the Gods is just the end of the Nordic gods," Loki said. "I have to admit, well, from the perspective of more than two thousand years ago, that battle was quite majestic. The bards sang about it, and many Famous guys wrote a lot of beautiful poems, mourning the fall of the gods, praising the fighting prowess of Thor and Odin, and the bravery and unyieldingness of the gods of Asgard... Those things that don't pull or pull, by the way, condemn me. , but unfortunately, they are too old.”
"What's the meaning?"
"I'm not targeting those guys. Really, I quite like some of them. I even collected some of their skeletons and made some furniture as a souvenir. But with the productivity of that era, you can imagine The craziest thing is a strong, drunkard with red hair, a big beard, and a head full of muscles, holding a big hammer from east to west, and what is his mount? - Two goats pulling it chariot, two ridiculous and funny goats!”
Loki repeated again, "Do you understand what I mean? This was the limit of the imagination that people had at that time. But now if you pick anyone casually, he can name a hundred ways that look better than this." Cooler and more stylish things, such as Ferrari, Long March 5, not to mention the Helicarrier... But we can't blame them. Their material conditions limit their imagination. Those poor guys have done their best. At full strength.
"Whether it is the Twilight of the Gods or the Doomsday Judgment, all these doomsday stories, these elegant poems, they...how should I put it, are like a peerless beauty, unable to resist the erosion of time, and now they are no longer what they once were. The reputation doesn’t live up to its reputation, just like us old guys.”
As he spoke, Loki took out another bottle of champagne that he found somewhere, opened the cap, and said to Zhang Heng, "Want a glass?"
Zhang Heng shook his head, "I need to stay awake before I kill you. I don't plan to drink."
"Okay, then I'll drink a small glass myself, and put the rest here, and I'll drink it after you finish me off." Loki seemed very reasonable. He poured himself a glass, drank it in one gulp, and raised his glass. , “A tribute to the good old days.”
Zhang Heng was indifferent.
"Having said that, some of us should be grateful to television, comics, online novels, or more specifically Marvel, Netflix, Sony... After being reprocessed by modern creators, some old stories have been revitalized. I I am also the beneficiary of this. Although I don’t want to have any cp with that fool with the hammer. By the way, in Norse mythology, I am actually Odin’s brother, not Thor’s, but I guess no one cares. This kind of thing.
"In short, I have recovered a lot of strength. This is a good thing. It shows that human beings are still unable to escape lies and deception." Loki said, "But most of the old gods did not live a very good life. To describe them, they are living on the last breath. It's not too much to say that in order to gain a believer, they have to exert all their strength, but like I said, no one these days thinks that a guy riding two goats is more handsome than a guy driving a Lamborghini and waving money. In contrast, there is the rise of a group of new gods, who are young and powerful.
"The god of media, the god of luxury goods, the god of two dimensions, the god of air conditioning... Sometimes I don't understand human beings. Some of them believe that air conditioning is the greatest invention of mankind every summer. It is air conditioning that saved the world." Their shitty lives, compared to us, the new gods absorb faith in a more flexible way, eliminating the need for prayers and sacrifices, and don’t even care whether their believers respect them. This was unimaginable in the past. Yes, those old antiques would punish those who blasphemed for some trivial things, but now, who would still think of the God of Air Conditioning in winter, and at the same time, the rituals are constantly being simplified.
"Many old guys have complained to me that the threshold has been lowered. Some time ago, I met a guy on the road. He controls several popular websites. One of them seems to be called P Station. His followers are everywhere. There are all kinds of people all over the world, and his method of obtaining faith is also very simple and crude. The old gods can't even imagine it. You only need to watch the short videos he provides online to complete the ritual.
"He is simply Einstein among the gods, a complete genius. From the day he was born, his followers have been growing rapidly, and his followers are extremely sticky. Basically, as long as you log on to his website Once you become his believer, you can no longer leave him. You can only continuously provide him with faith. This thing is more effective than the most stringent blood oath.
"However, the new gods also have their troubles. Most of them have powerful divine power, but have lost the killing and fighting nature of the old gods. Taking the gods of Asgard as an example, we are born At the beginning, we faced all kinds of enemies. We had our sworn enemies, the giants, and a civil war broke out among the gods. We were on the verge of extinction. After that, we all really died in the Ragnarok... We basically It has never been truly stable. Every period of time is full of blood, either fighting against powerful enemies or fighting each other. If you can't fight, you will be killed.
"But the new gods in modern society are not like this. Except for a few who have combat capabilities, most of them are the guys who open the website I mentioned above. They are very good at collecting beliefs, but they don't know how to do it at all. How to fight? In addition, many old gods believe that they only have faith in their eyes and have abandoned the dignity and honor that gods should have. Moreover, their various behaviors have seriously disrupted the market, so many old gods regard them as cancer in the industry.
"But as I said before, there are also some aliens among the New Gods. Here I must say that humans have never let me down in seeking death. This time, they have tried to commit suicide again. A new trick - fear, has always been the most primitive and pure instinct of human beings. They have also developed many entertainment methods to deal with fear, but most of them are small-scale, until they set their sights on the end of the world. As I said before, whether it is Apocalypse or Ragnarok, they are all outdated antiques and cannot keep up with the trend of the times. Humanity has long lost its understanding of the picture of hell painted by the poor imagination of its predecessors. Fear, they want to create new fears, the exciting and magnificent new doomsday of the 22nd century!"