Chapter 2605 Odis Trap

"Absolute Spirit" is the ideal way of salvation for mind flayers.

When that day comes, all the masterminds in the multiverse and their community members will be freed from the shackles of their bodies, and their souls will be integrated into one. From then on, there will be no distinction between past, present, and future, and they will become eternal, co-existing on all timelines. The immortal "absolute spirit".

This statement... Joan can only use one word to evaluate-theology!

This is not science, but theology.

As a scholar, he could not accept this kind of theory, which is almost religious myth, until he got conclusive evidence.

But Joan also knew that there were many mind flayers who believed in this theology!

The wisdom and rationality of the mind flayers are far above that of humans, but so what?

Faced with the ultimate problem that plagues the soul, the wisdom and rationality of mind flayers are no more detached than human nature. In the end, most individuals have to kneel under the banner of religious theology, seek spiritual comfort from faith, and find the meaning of life.

In Joan's view, the mastermind is actually a tangible "brood will", and the mind flayer community built around the mastermind is equivalent to a cluster of supernatural creatures.

Qiao An has done some research on the topic of "swarms". From past experience, individuals who can form "brood will" are mostly insects with low intelligence.

Like mind flayers, individuals with high intelligence, have developed a highly developed spiritual civilization, have a well-ordered society, and can form a "brood will (mastermind)", which is really a rare research object.

The social form of mind flayers reminds Joan of human society, and there are many similarities between the two.

The young mage couldn't help but imagine that one day in the future, when the civilization of human society has also developed to the stage of mind flayers, will there be a tangible or intangible "brood will" similar to the "Master Brain"? Will it also form a spiritual community?

If this possibility exists, how can the future human society get rid of empiricism and path dependence, how can it unload the historical burden on its shoulders, and then jump out of the "Edys" that the mind flayers are currently sinking deeper and deeper into? trap"?

Where is the way of salvation for the future human society?

Can human beings find their own "absolute spirit"?

Before these difficult questions are answered, Joan feels that it is necessary for people to retain the backup option of "religious belief".

Joan still remembered that Conti, Rebecca, Audrey, Mrs. Josephine and Moriarty had all said the same thing to herself.

"A person like you should not study arcane arts, but is more suitable to become a priest."

Joan also knew in his heart that no one needed religious salvation more than him, but he was not a religious person.

This road to salvation was so easy that he couldn't help wondering whether he could really be saved through faith.

When doubt arises in the heart, piety ceases to exist.

He doesn't know anyone else in this world who has experienced the pain and contradiction of being unable to believe in a certain god devoutly just because he longs for faith too much.

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A force field barrier enveloped the "Tower of the Master Brain", emitting a warning red light, blocking Joan's way and waking him up from his contemplation.

Joan stopped, and according to Isaac and Gnostic's memories, raised a tentacle and lightly touched the force field barrier opposite.

At the same time, he felt a pair of invisible eyes watching him, and his scalp couldn't help but feel slightly numb.

This shows that the main brain has noticed his actions, and sent out a mental wave from the depths of the brain pool to scan his thoughts and detect his identity and purpose of coming.

Joan took a deep breath and tried to keep calm. The "mythical disguise" and "mythical alert" blessed in advance provided him with double insurance. The former allowed him to perfectly simulate the personality and thoughts of the Gnostics, while the latter monitored the mastermind in reverse. If the mastermind becomes hostile towards him, it will issue a warning immediately.

Fortunately, the mastermind didn't find out that "Gnostic" had been transferred, and soon ended the mental scan and removed the mind monitoring imposed on Joan.

Joan secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

At this time, the force field barrier on the opposite side changed from red to green, indicating that he could pass through safely.

Joan went straight through the barrier, entered the interior of the giant tower, descended along the spiral stone steps, and gradually approached the water surface of the brain pool.

This huge "bathtub" filled with seawater is like an artificial lake, covering an area of ​​100 mu.

The surface of the open pool was calm and waveless, floating a thick layer of gelatinous spheres, the outer shell was transparent, and the inside was filled with slightly wriggling purple-red spots—this was the egg sac of the mind flayer.

Mind flayers are known to be hermaphroditic, self-reproducing aberrations, laying an average of two eggs in their lifetime.

The oocysts produced by mind flayers are spherical, about half a foot in diameter, and each oocyst contains thousands of eggs, which are glued together by transparent secretions.

The mind flayers put the oocysts they laid in the brain pool, and the floating oocysts densely covered the surface of the pool.

A month later, when the eggs hatch, many small purple-red tadpole-like larvae will emerge from the egg sacs and swim around the bottom of the pool filled with salty water.

This is the larval stage of the mind flayer - it looks like a tadpole, breathes with gills, and presents the characteristics of a typical amphibious creature.

Initially, these tadpole-like larvae have not yet grown a tail, and the mouth is just a crude V-shaped mouthpart located under the body.

When it grows a little longer, the mind flayer tadpole develops a round beak with smooth edges; at the same time, four translucent tiny tentacles grow around the mouth, which function as the tail and fins of the larvae.

The tadpole stage of a mind flayer lasts at least 10 years, during which time the hatchlings continue to grow and evolve, consuming large amounts of nutrients.

Like adult mind flayers, these hatchlings feed on the brains of sentient beings.

There is a professional team in the city of Odis, which collects a large number of fresh brains every month and puts them in the pond to raise the larvae, providing them with the nutrients they need for growth and development.

During these long ten years, the mind flayer tadpoles in the juvenile stage did not have complete self-awareness, and their bodies were very fragile. A little disturbance in the pond was enough to cause them to die young.

In fact, the vast majority of tadpoles that hatch from the egg sacs do not survive to adulthood, with only one in a thousand chances of surviving.

Those tadpoles who unfortunately died young would not be wasted, and would eventually be swallowed by the mastermind living in the depths of the pool.

The main brain relies on sucking these immature larvae to supplement nutrition and psionic energy, just as the main brain continuously devours and fuses dead mind flayers to enrich experience.

The mind flayers firmly believe that those tadpoles that have survived the long development period and finally survived have proved that they are the elite in the egg sac and are qualified to become new members of the community. An important stage - metamorphosis!

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