Chapter 961 Story

Finally, Gawain asked the most important and important question he was most concerned about when he came to Tallond.

About the chain that connects mortals and gods.

If he had only some one-sided concepts and general conjectures about this "chain" when he was in Loren continent, then since he came to Tallond, since he saw more and more of this dragon kingdom The "real side" of the chain, his impression of this chain has become more and more clear.

This is an "intraplanetary civilization" that has developed to the extreme. It is a stagnant country that seems to have stopped advancing at all. From the social system to the specific technology tree, Tallond is heavily shackled, and these shackles seem to be completely It's all made by their "people". Thinking of the laws of operation of the gods, it is not difficult for Gawain to imagine that the birth of these "civilization locks" is inseparable from the dragon god.

In the Xiacheng District, he saw what a completely locked civilization would look like, at least part of its truth, and he believed that this was what the Dragon God took the initiative to let him see - it was this "initiative" that made It feels extra weird.

Because he can feel from the details of the dragon god's words and actions, this god does not want to lock his own people - but he has to do so, because there is a supreme rule, a rule that is even more irreversible than gods restraining him.

Gao Wen has tried to analyze and demonstrate this rule with his experts and scholars, and they think that they have at least summed up part of the rule, but there are still some details to be added. Now Gao Wen believes that the "god" in front of him "That's the last piece of the puzzle in those details.

Hearing Gawain's question, the Dragon God fell silent for a while, it seems that even He needs to organize his thoughts and answer carefully before this ultimate question, while Gawain paused for a while and then said: "I actually know that God is also 'Involuntarily'. There is a higher rule that binds you, the thoughts of mortals are affecting your state, and too drastic changes in thoughts will cause the gods to slide toward madness, so I guess you are to prevent yourself from falling into madness. I had to impose heavy restrictions on the dragon race..."

"Outlander, you are only partly right." At this moment, the Dragon God suddenly spoke up, interrupting Gawain's words.

Gawain frowned slightly: "Only part of it?"

"God is indeed involuntary...but you underestimate the extent of our 'independence'," the dragon god said slowly, his voice low, "I really don't want myself to fall into madness, and I am indeed the shackle of the dragon clan. , but all of this... I didn't do it on my own initiative."

The pale golden glow descended from the top of the hall of the temple, as if a hazy halo formed around the "god", and the low roar from outside the temple seemed to have weakened a little, and it became like a faint halo. Wu's hallucination, Gao Wen's face showed a thoughtful look,

But before he opened his mouth to ask, the Dragon God took the initiative to continue: "Do you want to hear the story?"

"Story?" Gawain was stunned for a moment, but then nodded, "Of course—I'm very interested."

The Dragon God smiled and gently shook the delicate cup in his hand: "There are three stories in total.

"The first story is about a mother and her child.

"A long, long time ago, long before the world was uninhabited, a mother and her children lived on the earth. It was an ancient barbaric age, when all knowledge had not been summed up, all wisdom It was still hidden in the children's young minds. At that time, the children were ignorant and ignorant, and even their mothers didn't know much.

"The world at that time was very dangerous, and children were still very fragile. In order to survive in a dangerous world, mothers and children had to live cautiously, be careful in everything, and dare not make mistakes at all. There were fish that bit people in the river. So the mother forbids the children to go to the river, there are man-eating beasts in the woods, so the mother forbids the children to go to the woods, the fire will burn the body, so the mother forbids the children to play with fire, instead, the mother uses her own strength to protect Children, help children do many things...In primitive times, this was enough to keep the whole family alive.

"However, day by day, children will grow up, wisdom will start to burst out of their minds, they will have more and more knowledge, and they will be able to do more and more things. The fish can now be caught with a harpoon, and the man-eating beasts can't beat the sticks in the hands of the children. The grown children need more food, so they start adventures, to the river, to the forest, to make a fire...

"But the mother's thinking is slow, and the children in her eyes are always children. She only felt that those actions were extremely dangerous, so she began to discourage the more and more daring children. She repeated those teachings many years ago - Don't go to the river, don't go to the forest, don't touch the fire...

"Her blocks are useful, occasionally slowing down the kids a little bit, but overall it's useless because the kids are getting stronger and they...have to survive.

"In the beginning, this sluggish mother was barely able to keep up. She was gradually able to accept the growth of her children, and she was able to let go of her hands and feet a little bit to adapt to the new changes in the family order, but... as the number of children increased The more she got, the more she couldn't keep up. The children changed day by day. It used to take them many years to master the fishing skills, but slowly, they only needed a few days to tame new beasts and step on On new lands, they even began to create various languages, and even the communication between siblings changed rapidly.

"Mother was at a loss - she tried to keep fit, but her dull mind finally couldn't keep up.

"She can only repeat the dogma that is too old over and over again, continue to restrain the children's actions, prohibit them from leaving their homes too far, and prohibit them from contacting dangerous new things. In her eyes, children are far from growing up. Very early - but in fact, her restraint can no longer play a protective role for the children, but only makes them restless and restless, and even gradually becomes a shackle that threatens their survival - the children try to resist, but they resist in vain, because as they grow up, their mothers are getting stronger and stronger.

"Now that the mother has put up a fence around the house, she can't tell what the children are growing up to anymore, she just circles everything and shuts out everything she considers 'dangerous' , even if those things are actually the food the children desperately need - the fence is finished, it is covered with mother's teachings, it is covered with all kinds of things that are not allowed to touch, not allowed to try, and the children... starved to death. Inside this little fence."

Gawain showed a thoughtful expression. He felt that he could easily understand this simple and straightforward story. The meanings of mother and child in it were also obvious, but the details revealed in it were worth thinking about.

But when he wanted to ask something, the next story had already begun——

"The second story is about a prophet.

"It was also a long, long time ago, when the world was wild, a prophet appeared in an ancient kingdom. This prophet has no specific name, and no one knows where he came from. People only know the prophet. Full of wisdom, as if he knew all the knowledge in the world, he taught many things to the local people and was loved and respected by all.

"In those ancient times, the world was still very dangerous for people, and the power of the world was very weak in the face of nature - so weak that even the most common diseases could easily kill people. At that time The world does not know much, neither how to cure disease nor how to relieve danger, so when the prophet came, he used his wisdom to formulate many rules for people to live safely.

"You can't eat wild beasts that live near swamps, because most of the meat of these beasts is poisonous; you can't drink water from a certain mountain, because it can cause stomach infections; you can't cross a certain river, because There are poisonous weeds on the opposite side of the river, and human beings can't make antidote ointment...

"After leaving these admonitions, the Prophet rested and returned to his seclusion, while the world gratefully accepted the Prophet's wise teachings and began to plan their lives according to these admonitions.

"Soon, people benefited from these admonitions. They found that their relatives and friends were no longer easily sick and died. They found that these admonitions really helped everyone avoid disasters, so they followed the rules in the admonitions more carefully. And things... have gradually changed.

"People pay more and more attention to these admonitions, and even regard them as precepts that are more important than the law. Generation after generation, people have even forgotten the original purpose of these admonitions, but they are still carefully obeying them. Therefore, admonitions It has become a dogma; people have become more and more revered for the prophets who left the precepts, and even feel that they are the existences who have spied the truth of the world and have supreme wisdom, and even began to build statues for the prophets-with their imaginations. , radiant and perfect image of the prophet.

"After so many years, the Prophet returned to this land, and he saw that the originally poor and weak kingdom had become prosperous, the people on the earth were many, many times more numerous than before, and the people had become wiser and more prosperous. More knowledgeable and stronger, and the land and mountains of the whole kingdom have undergone tremendous changes over the long years.

"Everything has changed, and it has become more prosperous and beautiful than the once barren world.

"So the Prophet was very happy, he observed people's way of life again, and ran to the street and told everyone in a loud voice that the beasts living near the swamp are also edible, as long as they are cooked in a suitable cooking method; The water on a certain mountain is drinkable because it is no longer poisonous; the land on the other side of the river is safe, and it is now full of fertile soil..."

The Dragon God stopped and looked at Gawain with a half-smile, "Guess what happened?"

Gawain took a light breath: "...The Prophet is going to be unlucky."

"Yeah, the Prophet is going to be out of luck - angry crowds rushed from all directions, they shouted slogans of crusade against heretics, because someone insulted their holy springs, holy mountains, and tried to convince civilians to set foot on the 'holy place' on the other side of the river. , they surrounded the Prophet and beat the Prophet to death with clubs.

"That's the second story."

Gao Wen frowned a little.

He thought at first that he had seen through the morals of the two stories, but now, he suddenly had a little doubt in his heart - he found that he might have thought too simply.

He raised his head and looked at the opposite: "Mothers and prophets do not only refer to gods, and children and commoners are not necessarily mortals... are they?"

"I'm glad you can think so deeply," the dragon god smiled, and seemed very happy, "if many people hear this story, I'm afraid they will think like this at the first time: mothers and prophets refer to gods, children and commoners refer to It is people, but throughout the story, the identities of these characters are far from simple.

"Everyone - and all gods, are just insignificant characters in the story, and the real protagonist of the story... is the invisible but indefensible rule. The mother will definitely build the fence, which is in accordance with her personal will. It doesn't matter, the Prophet will definitely be killed, and it has nothing to do with his will, and those children and civilians who are victims and perpetrators... They are only part of the rules from beginning to end.

"Maybe you think it's not difficult to break the tragedy in the story, as long as the mother can change her way of thinking in time, as long as the prophet can become a little more tactful, as long as people become a little wiser and more rational, everything can end peacefully, You don't have to go to that extreme... but unfortunately it's not going to be that simple."

The voice of the Dragon God became ethereal, and his gaze seemed to have landed on a distant and ancient time and space, and in his gradually low and ethereal narration, Gao Wen suddenly remembered the scene he saw in the deepest part of the eternal storm.

In that static battlefield, the two sides of the war were so ruthless and merciless, as if they contained deep hatred, as if only life and death could bring everything to an end - but think about it carefully, the two sides on the battlefield are really Did you get to that situation because of "hatred"?

Enya's voice sounded calmly: "...the trend of thought of a group is a powerful and inertial force. When a race has abide by a set of rules for thousands of years, and this set of rules points to religion and gods, then this kind of power It will become... powerful. In many cases, you cannot change the concept accumulated by ten generations in one generation, and this concept hedge will directly affect the trend of thought and set off a stormy wave, which you call 'God' madness'—but God wasn't actually mad.

"God is just 'correcting' your 'dangerous behavior' according to the 'tradition' of mortals for thousands of years - even if He doesn't actually want to do it, He has to do it."

Gawain looked at the other party: "God's 'personal will' is separated from the 'operational law' that God must fulfill. In the eyes of mortals, schizophrenia is madness."

"Indeed, from a mortal's point of view... When the gods choose to destroy all living beings, it makes no difference whether the behavior is 'corrective' or 'insanity'."

Gao Wen was silent for a long time, and said in a deep voice: "From the perspective of the development law of civilization, in a healthy and sustainable society, the birth rate of new things and new ideas will always be faster and faster - in the time of a generation It is a necessity to change the concept of accumulation of ten generations, because the productive forces must be developed unless..."

Gawain paused hesitantly when he said this, although he knew that what he said was the truth, but here, under the current situation, he always felt that he continued to speak as if he was carrying some kind of sophistry, or with " The selfishness of mortals", but Enya went on for him--

"Unless you fall into the 'cradle of eternity'."

His expression was flat.

"The dragons have failed, the gods have merged into one, and the chains on the mind have directly trapped all members of the civilization, so I had to turn Tallond into such a cradle, and let everything stop to make sure I don't Will kill them all by mistake, and as you've seen - they're alive, but only alive, Tal Londe is dead, the machines are running in this land, the lifeless steel and stone Contaminated with some debris that was once called 'Dragon'... Keeping these debris is all I can do for them.

"So, extraterritorial wanderer, do you like this 'Eternal Cradle'?"

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