Chapter 1101 Qualitative
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The Silver Queen had no intention of speaking, but Gao Wen listened to it with intentions. With a slight movement in his heart, he felt that this topic seemed weird—let the former God of Nature talk to those devout believers who do not want to forget the past in person? This thing is probably just a whimsical idea for the Silver Queen, but it seems to be physically feasible for Gawain...
That "God" is still watching "TV" in his backyard. According to the monitoring team's report, he spends at least twenty hours a day on the Internet...
But then again, what's the point for Amorn and those persistent believers? How can a group of elves who have been obsessed for three thousand years give up their obsession safely and securely? Let the god of nature perform on the spot and die one more...
Gawain shook his head lightly, and quickly shook off the strange idea that suddenly appeared for no reason. He knew that this idea was just a random thought. In any case, he did not dare to let Amoen and the outside world think about it casually. It is absolutely impossible for mortals to re-contact—even if it is just to speak to them or show their deeds once, the risk behind this matter is too great, and it is very likely that Amorn, who has left the position of God, will re-establish connection with the divine right. earnings are unpredictable.
He couldn't casually spend the achievements of Shirahoshi's fall of three thousand years on such a joke.
But... if you change your approach... change your thinking...
Gao Wen couldn't help but fell into thinking, but his thinking was soon interrupted by the Silver Queen. Belsetia cast a curious look: "What are you thinking?"
"...It's nothing, just some trivial matters," Gawain woke up from his thoughts, he glanced at Belsetia, and some plans emerged in his mind, but soon he temporarily suppressed these unformed thoughts, and raised his head. At the beginning, I looked at a mechanical clock not far away, and saw that the pointer on it was gradually reaching the highest mark, "It's almost time for a break... Let's go back to the meeting first."
In the oath stone ring, the representatives of all parties also returned to their positions one after another—in fact, most of the representatives did not even leave the range of the stone ring at all. During the limited 30-minute break, they took the time to contact other representatives , grasp the situation as much as possible, in order to be able to increase the grasp of the situation, even if the people who leave are communicating with their own teams, seeking advice from think tanks and intelligence assistance - no one really will In this short period of time, let your mind clear, because everyone knows that this meeting has come to an end, and the real relaxation is best reserved until the stone ring is opened again.
After confirming that all the representatives had returned to their positions and that the staff outside the stone ring were ready, Belsetia stood up from her position. She glanced at the audience silently, then raised her head slightly. Right hand: "Then, according to the meeting procedure, the Covenant Stone Ring is now sealed off. Except for life-threatening situations, the locked state will continue until the end of this closed-door meeting."
After the Silver Queen's voice fell, a low humming sound had already sounded from the edge of the venue, and then layers of magical brilliance suddenly appeared on the surface of the majestic stone pillars, and countless ancient and difficult runes emerged from the stone walls. And spread out like petals, connecting each other in the air to form a light green rune curtain wall, and then there was brilliance walking, and the diffused light and shadow were quickly filled between those runes-after just a few seconds, the entire oath A luxuriant, boundless and endless dense forest rose outside the stone ring. The original wasteland scene and the distant town scenery were all replaced by this dense forest that suddenly appeared, and there was no trace of it.
But outside the Oath Stone Ring, the various teams waiting in the rest area did not see the "dense forest". They just watched the huge ancient ritual field covered by a ray of light, and disappeared into the wilderness in the next second. ——Many people had a little commotion because of this, but after seeing the work teams of the elf affairs officers and Typhon and Cecil still quietly resting beside the venue,
The commotion soon quieted down.
Inside the oath stone ring, the Silver Queen finished her "reversal" of the ceremony hall. After she sat down again, Gao Wen stood up: "Then let's start this meeting. Presumably many people have gone through so much After the meeting of the day, we have realized the topic that we have always deliberately avoided, so now... it is time to face the biggest trouble: about the gods of our world."
In the much deserted venue due to the decrease in number of people, many representatives moved slightly in their seats. Some people's faces changed slightly, some people subconsciously fell into thinking, and some people clenched their fists and tapped their foreheads, but no one was in front of this topic. Exclaimed gaffe. As Gawain said, after so many days of meetings, seeing the images left on the Typhon-Cecil battlefield, and learning of the disaster that happened in Tarrond, any wise Everyone should have guessed the content of this closed-door meeting by now.
"So far, I don't think anyone will question the authenticity of the materials we saw at the opening of the meeting," Gao Wen continued after a short pause, "What I want to say is that those materials are far from all--
"As early as a few years ago, Cecil had come into contact with this part of the truth, and Typhon faced the 'dark side of God' even earlier than Cecil. Even dating back to the ancient Gondor era, some prophets Faced with this dark reality, the Illuminati, known as the 'Rebels', spend their entire lives searching for a way to fight against fate...
"Here is what I want to say: this is not a crisis suddenly exposed to mortals, in fact this crisis has been with our civilization for thousands of years, thousands of years, and many people have faced and faced it for a long time. Tried to fight it, this is a 'dark river' in the development of our civilization, the vast majority of people don't know its existence, but it has always been flowing in the depths of our history."
"This sounds too general," the leader of the Northern City-State Federation stood up. "Is there any more detailed information that can help us quickly grasp the situation?"
"Yes, the information is placed in the hidden compartment under your desk," Gao Wen nodded, "You can read it yourself. We have explained the situation in as concise and clear as possible. If you still have questions during the reading process , you can speak at any time."
Under the flag of the Ogure Tribal State, Wenna Baizhi quickly found the information that Gao Wen said in the grid under the stone table-to her surprise, this was not a document that was widely used in the previous agenda. It was not a high-quality manuscript paper, but a roll of parchment paper with an obvious elf style and a slightly shiny surface. The moment she opened the roll, she saw a few shiny runes flashing from the edge of the paper. However, this distinctive feature made her instantly realize what it was:
A magic secret contract, the biggest function of this secret contract is that it cannot be copied in any form, cannot be overwritten or tampered with in any form after it is made, cannot be taken away from a specific area, and can only be opened once.
Gao Wen's voice came from not far away: "In order to ensure the safety of the information, we have to distribute the information in the form of magic secret deeds. This is not to doubt anyone present, but it is related to the gods. Safety must be taken seriously.”
The leaders or plenipotentiaries from various countries did not have any doubts. They lowered their heads and began to carefully read the data stored in the magic secret. As those ancient and terrible truths and modern research results were revealed one by one, a dignified and solemn atmosphere began to take shape in the oath stone ring.
The expressions on everyone's faces became serious, and some people even started to gently wipe the sweat from their foreheads.
After some time, a female leader with fiery red hair was the first to stand up: "Isn't there any accurate measurement of the 'countdown' mentioned here? Nor do we have any way to measure it? "
"Unfortunately, this is beyond our current knowledge," Gawain shook his head lightly, "The situation of the gods is different, and the observation of the gods itself will lead to strong reverse pollution - those who try to calculate the countdown Before the conclusion could be reached, they mutated and died due to divine pollution. This was confirmed by many pioneers who sacrificed for this in the Gondor era a thousand years ago.
"Of course, now that our technology has developed to a certain extent, Cecil is trying various methods that can effectively resist divine pollution, and has achieved preliminary results. If our protection technology is advanced enough, perhaps one day we can To directly observe the Kingdom of God, or even directly monitor the state of a certain god—but I don’t know when that day will come.”
"...Monitoring the Kingdom of God and the gods sounds like a terrible plan," another representative couldn't help but whispered, "But..."
"But we have to do this," Rosetta broke the silence, the ruler of Typhon looked at the representative with deep and solemn eyes, "Typhon has already proved with his own blood the consequences of the gods losing control - this countdown It really exists, and as long as mortal civilization is still developing, it will never stop. Even if we only slightly extend the average life expectancy of the people and increase the population, it will increase the changes in thoughts and increase the out-of-control of gods. risk."
"To stop the countdown, we must stop all developmental behaviors, even considering that the experience and knowledge of intelligent races are passively accumulated, we must consciously destroy the population, destroy knowledge, block technology, and return to ancestral life," Belsetia said. She said suddenly, her voice was soft, but it echoed throughout the oath stone ring with a certain penetrating power, "Who is willing to accept this price?"
The meeting hall fell silent instantly, and the representatives looked at each other in blank dismay. Obviously, no one was willing to accept such a terrible result.
What's more... Even if such an extreme method is really used to stop the crazy countdown of the gods, there is more than one crisis in this world. What about the demon tide? What about dangerous natural environments? How to deal with the surrounding crisis after the decline of national power? Those who can sit here are not stupid people, and no one would choose to have their limbs amputated in order to avoid falling.
What the Silver Queen mentioned was obviously an unacceptable choice from the very beginning.
"Then we have the most basic consensus," Gao Wen broke the silence at this moment, his voice was steady and powerful, "The development and progress of civilization is necessary for survival, we cannot stagnate, let alone accept retrogression--the resulting Changes in the trend of thought are also inevitable. Problems will not disappear out of thin air, and we can only find ways to solve them, which is the premise of everything.”
No one objected to this, because everything was obvious, but after a brief silence, a leader from the southwestern region of the mainland couldn't help standing up: "Then, must we regard the gods as enemies?"
"That's the first thing we're going to do in this meeting—determining the gods," Gao Wen glanced at the representative quietly, then he retracted his gaze and calmed his expression, and said in a deep voice, "Thousands of years Even for tens of thousands of years, belief has always been an important part of the life of all ethnic groups in Loren. In any case, we must recognize its positive role in the development of civilization, and this positive role is still in effect today. On the other hand However, there is no real "country of unbelievers" in the member states of the alliance. All of our countries have their own Holy See forces, and religious activities are closely related to our people. It is impossible for us to violently and directly remove religion from our This is true.
"Under the above two premises, is the 'God' really our enemy?
"The disobedients a thousand years ago were indeed characterized in this way. They believed that the gods were indeed the enemy of civilization. If not now, they would be sooner or later-the pioneers are respectable, but unfortunately, as we know Progress, we also have to question the original views of the pioneers.
"More and more evidence shows that the gods have no subjective malice towards civilization from the beginning to the end. In fact, due to the influence of the trend of thought, their goodwill towards civilization is the mainstream; secondly, the 'countdown' to the madness of the gods itself is also It is not the subjective will of any party, this is the result of the operation of the laws of nature, unfortunately, no god can be responsible for this law; in the end, the gods will indeed cause devastating damage to civilization after they become crazy, but they are They have not actively caused any damage before, and even the opposite—as long as conditions permit, the gods will actually take the initiative to curb this crazy tendency, and they will take some kind of self-help behavior.
"With regard to this 'self-help behavior', we can't disclose too detailed information for the time being, but I can guarantee that Cecil has observed enough evidence to prove that there are signs of the gods actively breaking the 'shackles'."
Speaking of this, Gawain deliberately paused, and then continued: "Therefore, I don't think we should regard the gods as enemies or potential enemies-they, like us, are subject to the natural law of 'shackles of thoughts'." As for the victim, even if an extreme situation such as the Battle of the God of Winterhold occurs, even if a certain god will stand on the opposite side of civilization one day in the future, we must have a clear understanding and determination of this.”
After finishing speaking, Gao Wen finally breathed a sigh of relief, as if part of the burden in his heart had been let go.
After going through so many ups and downs, collecting so much information, and conducting countless demonstrations, he finally completed the characterization of the relationship between God and man in the ruthless "laws" of this world—only for him In itself, the significance of this matter is actually no less than the establishment of the Community Alliance.
Only when everything is fixed can it have a clear direction.
While breathing a sigh of relief, he also noticed the changes in the expressions on the faces of each representative under the stone pillars.
Nearly one-third of the representatives were obviously relieved, their expressions were still serious, but their faces were no longer so tense, and some kind of inexplicable light even lit up from their eyes...
Gao Wen sighed softly in his heart.
In this world, too many people cannot really "give up" their gods after all. Even if it is the kingship that is naturally opposed to theocracy, what they are opposing is only the power of secular priests, not the gods who protect the world .