Chapter 962 Echoes

Do you like such an eternal cradle?

Gawain suddenly thought of the young dragon that had just woken up from the hatching sac, the cheerful cry of the other party at him; the thought of those in Xiacheng who were already addicted to synergists and hallucinogens, completely becoming "Inferior citizens" of gods nourishment; think of that confused and crazy arena, those dragons fighting on the arena... It was a dozen icy steel machines fighting, bound and immersed in efficiency enhancement. Brain and ganglia in hallucinations.

The dragons are indeed alive - but Tal Lund is dead.

"It's terrifying," he said suddenly and softly. "Life and death are worthless."

Then he paused and asked again, "Can the Eternal Cradle be broken?"

"That will cost a lot," said Long Shen Jingjing, "but the chances of success are very slim—after all, the cradle itself is the price of failure, and the laws of nature are never tolerant of losers, and any race—even if It is a powerful dragon, and it is difficult to be qualified to fail twice."

Speaking of this, He suddenly raised his eyes and his eyes fell on Gawain's face: "So, do you want to help Tallond break this 'Eternal Cradle'?"

"Me?" Gawain pointed to himself, and couldn't help laughing, "How can I do this?"

"You can even destroy it with a single command," the dragon god smiled faintly. "Why don't you assume that you are also capable of breaking the 'cradle' on this continent?"

This seemed to be a joke, but Gawain couldn't help but think about it seriously. After a few seconds of thinking, he still shook his head: "No, at least I can't now."

"Why?" The Dragon God showed a hint of curiosity, "Don't you think this cradle is terrible?"

"I'm not the savior of the dragon clan - there has never been a savior," Gawain said seriously, "and like you said, breaking the eternal cradle will cost a lot - I can imagine what those costs are, and I can Imagine who pays these costs. No one is qualified to sacrifice other people's things to satisfy their own 'salvation' drama, so I am not qualified to make decisions for the dragons, and I am not qualified to choose to sacrifice or live for them.

"So, whether it is to sink to death in the cradle of eternity, or to fight for the future for the entire race, this is the dragon family's own business, they should make their own decisions, and they have to choose whether or not to pay that price.

"Cecile doesn't get involved in other countries' internal affairs - that's my rule."

After Gawain finished speaking his thoughts,

The god in front of him looked at him up and down with strange eyes for a few seconds, and then he said with a half-smile: "It's incredible to say these words from the mouth of a 'hero' recognized in the human world. I thought you had already He has positioned himself as the 'savior' of the human world, but now it seems that is not the case."

Gawain spread his hands: "I didn't save anyone, all of us are saving ourselves."

"...You seem to have completely regarded yourself as a member of the human race, and regarded yourself as a member of this world, outsider," the Dragon God looked at Gawain curiously, "I suddenly became curious—in the Do people in your hometown also face the same problems as this world? For example... When you encounter huge social changes, when your social groups also encounter huge ideological changes, when your beliefs meet When it comes to the test, when you too have to abandon traditions and dogmas and face the dramatic changes in your environment... how do you deal with all this?

"Ah, or should I check first - do you also have races, societies, beliefs, and nations?"

"Of course we also have concepts such as society and country," Gawain laughed, but soon there were some complex emotions in his smile, "Of course we will also face those...'challenges' you mentioned." Truth be told, when people in my hometown face a shift from tradition, reality, belief, and thinking, they also have turmoil and turmoil, and the whole process of transition is often painful and dangerous, but unlike this world—those traditions It's just tradition, people's ideas are just ideas, they do have huge constraints, but... they will not become any 'entities' with actual deterrence, nor will they produce 'power' that transcends reality ."

Speaking of which, Gawain suddenly realized that these things that people on earth should take for granted may be unbelievable to say in this world, and even a god like Enya finds it difficult to understand, so he had to consider his vocabulary. On the other hand, he explained: "To give a simple example - when a race that has lived in the mountains for generations and regards the mountains as gods decides to move out of the mountains, they only need to face the opposition of the elders in the clan, and don't have to worry about the real Being punished by the mountain god."

The Dragon God listened in surprise, and finally he finally understood what kind of world rules Gawain was describing. The god had a dazed expression on his face, and it wasn't until a few seconds later that he said softly, "It's beautiful. ."

"Actually, it's not easy," Gao Wen couldn't help but want to explain a few more words, "Even if the trend of thought does not form a real force, and rebelling against tradition will not bring direct divine punishment, it is not enough for the people in our place to change a traditional concept. There are still many difficulties, and the ideological resistance created by the old forces is sometimes not as great as…”

He was only halfway through, then hesitantly stopped.

The Dragon God sat opposite him, wrapped in countless black chains, and the "Dragon of Chaos" at the other end of the chain floated over Tallond, like an indefinite time bomb that could destroy the entire dragon civilization at any time. Locked in this deadly balance, the kingdom has been cautiously breathing for millions of years.

"Yeah, it's beautiful," he sighed, "compared to here."

Then he suddenly remembered something, and his eyes fell on the Dragon God: "By the way, there are three stories you told just now, but you only told two - and there is one more story?"

The Dragon God looked at Gawain, and suddenly revealed a hint—Gao Wen didn’t know if he was wrong—with a sly smile: “The third story hasn’t happened yet.”

Gao Wen: "?"

"It's boring to finish telling all the stories, just think I'm trying to get my appetite, let's leave a suspense on the third story," the "god" said calmly, "I'm also very Curious about how the third story will play out - I'll tell you about it in the future if I get the chance."

The faint roaring and whistling outside the temple became weaker and weaker. It seemed that a fast but short-lived storm was gradually subsiding. Gawain glanced at the distant terrace, but only saw that it was not much different from before. Different starlight and night.

"Is there anything else you want to ask?" The voice of the Dragon God came from the opposite side, "It's still early, we can talk more."

Gawain thought for a while, sorted out a few questions that he had thought about before coming to Tallond, and asked: "About the 'revolt against the tide' in the ancient times, and the tower to the northwest of Tallond. , can you talk to me?"

"It depends on what you want to hear," the Dragon God nodded, "I will try my best to answer."

"As far as I know, the Reverse Tide Empire went astray because of the wrong access to the knowledge left by the sailors - according to the clues we have found so far, the main problem at that time was 'attributing knowledge to miracles' Go on. Did the Anti-Tide Empire deify the legacy of the sailor? Is it because of the war between the Dragon Race and the Anti-Tide Empire?"

"It's basically correct," the Dragon God nodded, "The Legacy of the Navigator... that is too advanced for the races still trapped in the earth, especially millions of years ago, a lot of 'legacy' An age of great power. The mortal civilization suddenly gained knowledge and power far beyond their comprehension, and their rulers could not explain the principles behind those things to the people, and their scholars could not reproduce the logic behind the legacy , so it is inevitable to deify it.

"People blame miracles for things far beyond their comprehension, which is an easy trap for many mortal civilizations to fall into.

"The war broke out between the Dragon Clan and the Anti-Tide Empire... It's because their 'deification' behavior is creating new and uncontrollable ideological products, and the war itself... is actually disgraceful for both sides."

"It's disgraceful for both parties?" Gawain instantly smelled the breath of gossip, and leaned forward subconsciously, "What does this mean?"

The Dragon God glanced at Gawain and said unhurriedly: "It's very simple, because the one who first cultivated the Anti-Tide Empire and guided it to contact the Legacy of the Navigator... was the Dragon Clan."

Gawain: "...Dragon Clan himself?!"

"It was an unsuccessful attempt, a reckless and daring 'game-breaking plan'," the Dragon God said lightly, "it happened many, many years ago - at that time, the 'Eternal Cradle' had not been completely stabilized, Tarr said. It has not been long since Lund was chained, many dragons still maintain strong free will and expectations for the future, and driven by this impulse, the dragons began to seek ways to break the game from the outside."

Gawain frowned: "Foster a mortal force independent of Tallond, let them absorb the power left by the Navigator, quickly become stronger, and then break Tallond's... 'cradle'?"

He looked a little weird when he said this, because he and the Dragon God both knew what "breaking the cradle" meant. However, the expression on the Dragon God's face was more indifferent than Gawain's, so this weird topic continued. .

"It doesn't seem like a mature plan now, but they still implemented it with hope," said the Dragon God, shaking his head, "Back then, the Anti-Tide Empire was still very weak, so weak that any adult The extent to which giant dragons can easily guide their development, so the dragons have lost their prudence... They think that everything can be controlled, at least for a long time, everything can be controlled in the hands of the dragons.

"And you should be very easy to imagine what happened after that - arrogance is the greatest original sin, and the Dragon Clan believes that 'everything is under control', the Anti-Tide Empire was not willing to become a tool of another race from the very beginning, the intervention and guidance of the Dragon Clan On the contrary, it intensified their spirit of resistance and rebelliousness, and caused the situation to deteriorate far faster than expected. The tide went out of control, they were secretly developing many technologies and secretly developing many sects, they cracked the secret arsenal left by the sailors on the earth, Get stronger by leaps and bounds.

"Before Tallond reacted, the 'counter tide' completed its transformation, and they quickly became an extremely xenophobic, dragon-phobic, and powerful empire, and most importantly, they were a 'theocracy'.

"The over-reliance on the Legacy of the Navigator and the deified behavior directly led to the uncontrollable theocraticization of the entire Anti-Tide Empire. Even if a few insightful people among them were aware of the danger, they could not stop this process. The Anti-Tide Empire set sail with The believers of the fighters consider themselves the dragons of Tallond as 'heretics' who betray and steal the Legacy of the Navigator, and all of this... is completely contrary to Tallond's original plan.

"So that war against the tide broke out."

Gao Wen opened his mouth, and after a few seconds, he organized the language: "...You acquiesced to all this?"

"you can say it this way."

"Why?" Gawain couldn't help but ask, "Didn't you find the risks involved?"

The Dragon God's voice was low: "The dragons of Tallond didn't find it, so I didn't find it--and even if I found the risk, as long as the dragons' behavior of cultivating the Empire Against the Tide itself did not violate Tallond's 'traditions' I can't stop this without triggering 'crossing the line'."

Gawain thought of the "two stories" that the Dragon God had just told him - at this moment, he had a deeper understanding of the rules behind those two stories.

"That war destroyed the entire Anti-Tide Empire, ended a season of civilization before the advent of the magic tide, and severely hit Tallond," the Dragon God continued, "The losses caused by the war are not terrible in themselves. What was terrifying was the blow to confidence and belief—the entire Tal Londe society was shaken, and this shake was reflected almost immediately in the 'groupthink' of the dragons..."

Gawain reacted quickly and widened his eyes: "This also forms a new 'lock'?!"

"In a normal civilization, this short-lived, lack of accumulation of mass emotions is really nothing, but the gods of the dragon have become one, and the mutual influence between the gods and humans is unprecedentedly strengthened, so that any strong The mental fluctuations of the group will quickly produce a wide range of reverberations in the ideological trend, and then - the reverberation will become a new lock.

"In the more than one million years since then, the giant dragon has never interfered with the world outside Tallond, and even the number of dragons who leave Tallond every year is strictly limited.

"They can't reveal too much information about the war against the tide to other civilizations, and they can't reveal the secrets of the sailors at will. When other civilizations come into contact with the heritage of the sailors, they must try to recover those 'dangerous objects' as soon as possible... These are all in the The 'reflection echoes' produced by the dragon group after the rebellion of the year, these echoes have become mandatory 'locks', and any dragon must unconditionally abide by the constraints brought by them, even after 10,000 years, 100,000 years. , a million years... Even if the legacy of the sailor is all erased by time, even if no one remembers what the 'counter-tide empire' refers to, the dragon clan must continue to abide by it forever."

Gawain listened in astonishment, and suddenly couldn't help but say: "But when Melita mentioned to me that some dangerous objects need to be recovered or certain information to be blocked, she just said that it was an order from a superior, a 'corporate regulation'... …”

"That way, at least it sounds better."

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