Chapter 2604 Absolute Spirit

The main brain itself does not have distinct personality traits, and its personality always changes with the changes of internal and external factors.

External factors mainly refer to the stimulation of major events and changes in the external environment.

It is precisely because of a traitor like Samael in Odis, the mastermind was negatively stimulated and did not want to see such scandals happen again, so the control of the community was strengthened, and the ruling style changed in a more stringent direction.

On the contrary, if there is no defection of Samael, the mastermind would not have the motivation to reflect, adjust and change, and would remain as gentle and tolerant as ever.

By the same token, assuming there are two mind flayer communities, one living in an extremely resource-poor environment and the other living in a resource-rich area, then the mastermind of the former is often more dedicated and cool than the mastermind of the latter, and the management of the community Also stricter.

This is the direct impact of the environment on the mastermind's ruling style. Masterminds in resource-poor areas must implement iron-fisted rule and make full use of limited resources in order to maximize the survival of the majority of citizens in the community.

On the contrary, in a country with extremely rich material resources, the mastermind does not need to be exhausted, and the mind flayers can live a rich and leisurely life. Of course, the mastermind is happy to be a "hands-off shopkeeper" so as not to waste his brain cells, so it shows Forgiving style.

The internal factors affecting the mastermind's ruling style refer to the ideological tendency of the mind flayers who merged into the brain pool after death.

The flesh and blood of the main brain is composed of the brain tissue of countless mind flayers, and its will is also the spiritual aggregate of all the mind flayers buried in the brain pool in the past.

No matter how homogeneous the mind flayer society is, it is impossible for two individuals to have the same ideas, personalities, and proclivities.

As the saying goes, thousands of people have thousands of faces. Every intelligent creature living in the world will have a different outlook on life, world outlook and values ​​due to the influence of innate inheritance and acquired experience.

When the mind flayer dies and is buried in the brain pool, the three views fixed during his lifetime will also be integrated into the main brain along with the soul, and will have a certain degree of influence on the three views of the main brain.

Compared with the master brain's rich experience and thought accumulation, the thought of a certain mind flayer is like a weak firefly, which is not enough to cause a significant impact on the master brain's three views.

However, if more and more mind flayers adhering to the same ideology merge into the main brain, then the main brain's concept will also shift in the direction of the majority, which will be reflected in the ruling style. change.

So when the mastermind of a mind flayer community turns from tolerance to domineering, if there is no stimulus from environmental changes and emergencies, then the mind flayers can only find the reason on themselves.

It is precisely because most of their predecessors agree with the autocratic iron-fisted style of rule that the masterminds will change.

In this case, there is an implicit contradiction.

In a peaceful mind flayer community, most of the dead are old people who have died of old age, and the old people are generally rigid and conservative in their thinking, tending to follow the old ways, hostile to new things and independent young people.

More and more "antique" brains are integrated into the main brain, which will cause "poison" to the main brain, causing the main brain to become more and more stubborn and conservative, like an old man who has never changed.

It is precisely to alleviate this "chronic virus", mind flayers always frequently launch wars of conquest.

Do you think they waged wars just to satisfy their evil desire for conquest, just to greedily plunder wealth and slaves?

This understanding is only on the surface.

In fact, the mind flayers' war of aggression is also a kind of self-salvation. Only by sacrificing a certain proportion of citizens in the war, especially the young and vigorous citizens, can these young and aggressive brains be integrated into the brain pool to correct the mastermind's increasingly conservative and authoritarian "old man" tendencies.

Why does Joan think that "the evil of the mind flayer" is completely different from the evil of the beholder, and is a hopeless institutional and ideological evil?

The roots are here.

As the "mastermind" of the overall will of the society, its thoughts boil down to the sum of the thoughts of past members of society.

If the sum of the experience of the dead souls in the past is defined as "history", you will find that the influence of history on the main brain is far greater than the opinions of living people. The interests of citizens, isn't this very contradictory?

In order to get rid of this path dependence, the mind flayers were forced to use their war machines to attack all the planes of the multiverse, sacrificing countless young and vigorous compatriots in the war, thus correcting the mastermind's conservative empiricism.

But for those young people who died in the war, their fundamental interest—the right to survive—has not been safeguarded in fact. Isn’t this also contradictory to the mastermind’s mission of safeguarding the interests of its community members?

On the first day Joan came to Odes, he deeply felt the above-mentioned contradictions. The social form of mind flayers seems to be perfect and harmonious, but in fact there are huge hidden dangers.

There is no shortage of insightful people in the mind flayer family. Of course, some people have seen these hidden dangers long ago. However, judging from the memories of Isaac and the Gnostics, no one has given a practical way to salvation so far. They can only continue to use it. The old way, wandering on the verge of death.

You are well aware of the evil of mind flayers, but if you live in Odes, in order to promote the vitality of the community, to maintain the health of the mastermind, and to live a better life for your compatriots and future generations, you can only regard others and yourself Life is worthless unless you don't love your fellow man and the community in which you live.

Samael saw this through, and his love for his people and community cooled in his heart, so he became a lich and left his people and his hometown forever.

Regardless of their ruling style, all masterminds bind their entire community of mind flayers together with great psychic strength.

Take the legendary master brain "Noah" of Odis as an example, its telepathy range is as far as 5 miles, within this range, the master brain can perceive and communicate with all thinking creatures.

As long as there is an enemy trying to invade the mind flayer community, the mastermind can quickly detect the location of the intruder, and dispatch citizens and slave corps to hunt and kill.

In addition, the main brain can also function as a "spiritual message relay station", enabling the mind flayers in this area to maintain a "spiritual connection" with each other.

Joan once saw a legend about the mastermind's final outcome in a document.

The legend claims that joining the Mastermind is not the end of a mind flayer's life, but rather a preparation for a great purpose that will be fulfilled in the "promised hour."

Supporters of this theory believe that a single mastermind is actually equivalent to a nerve cell, and when the total number of masterminds in all planes reaches an unfathomably large number, a sudden flash of psionic light will kill all masterminds in an instant. United by the astral plane into a whole, resulting in a great will that transcends all - what the mind flayers call the "absolute spirit".