Chapter 2981 Saoirse's Letter

Two days after receiving the last letter from Metatron, in the evening, Joan was studying spells in the study when he heard a knock on the door.

"Father, may I bother you?"

The timid voice of the adopted daughter came from outside the door.

"Come in, Inanna." Joan put down the pen, got up and stretched.

The door opened slowly, and Inanna, who had transformed into a girl, walked in with light steps.

Qiao An looked at her adoptive daughter's pretty face and noticed a haze in her eyes, so she asked her if she was worried.

"Father, have you received any news from Udinos recently?" Inanna inquired round and round.

Joan shook her head and asked her, "Inanna, tell me the truth, are you homesick?"

"That's not true!" Inanna firmly denied, "This is my home! I don't want to go back to the dark underground world in my life!"

"So, do you miss Udinos' compatriots, such as Lady Saoirse, and your biological mother, Her Majesty Ishtar?" Joan asked calmly.

Inanna shook her head first, hesitated for a moment, and added with some embarrassment: "The two you mentioned, I really haven't thought about it, but I occasionally think of the people in the territory, such as the housekeeper Lawen, who has always taken good care of me. There are Tisitea and Valak."

"Since this is the case, I can invite them to come to Cloudsdale as guests." Joan thought and said, "It is actually more convenient for us to go back and visit them, but I promised the Supreme that as long as she is still in Udinos, we will I won’t go back, it’s not easy to go back on my word.”

"My lord father, I came to you today to tell you... His Majesty has left." Inanna lowered her head, her voice revealing the complicated emotions in her heart.

"Gone?" Joan was taken aback for a moment, not sure whether the words about the adoptive daughter were literal or implied that Ishtar was no longer alive.

"This morning, I received a letter from Lady Saoirse. She said that the Supreme left Udinos ten days ago, to be precise, without saying goodbye." Inanna sighed.

"So she ran away from home!" Joan breathed a sigh of relief, "I was shocked, I thought she passed away suddenly! By the way, did Saoirse tell you where the Supreme went and when did she plan to come back? "

Inanna shook her head lightly with a sad expression.

"The Supreme will not come back again. Her departure... is actually no different from asking for death."

Joan frowned, feeling a little depressed.

"Lord Saoirse discovered that Supreme was missing, it was already the next day, and she still found a letter for herself in Supreme's bedroom."

Inanna whispered about the events of Udinos.

"His Majesty said in this farewell letter to His Excellency the Prime Minister that she had had enough of a false life and vowed to stay away from her hometown, try to find an audience who examines herself from a higher dimension, and ask each of them face to face, how Can they be sure that they themselves are not living in a book, not a product of fiction?"

"If those high-dimensional creatures can't give her a satisfactory answer, she will kill them, and then continue to look for the next target, continue to pursue the answer to this question, until she gets a satisfactory result, or die on the way to pursue."

"How is she going to find the so-called higher-dimensional 'audience' that doesn't exist at all and is completely imagined by herself?"

Joan couldn't help asking.

"Who knows?" Inanna spread her hands and smiled wryly, "We all know that the Supreme is crazy, but we didn't expect her mental symptoms to deteriorate so quickly and so severely that she has completely lost her mind, and even suspects that she is a fictional character in a novel. The characters that come out have been living in the stories made up by others, like a brain that has been soaked in a petri dish and keeps dreaming."

The adoptive daughter's unintentional words touched Joan's heartstrings, and the original words that criticized Ishtar's fantasy were swallowed back on his lips.

Inanna's talk of the "brain in a vat" dream was just an analogy to highlight how ridiculous Ishtar's crazy thoughts were, but Joann didn't think so.

He had really seen a "brain in a vat", and had personally experienced the dream of a "brain in a vat" in Metatron's laboratory.

Think about it in your own shoes, if your own brain is taken out, stored in a vat, and artificially induced to indulge in endless dreams, how can you judge whether your life is real or not?

Ishtar suspects that she is a fictional character living in a book or a play, like a "brain in a vat" realizing that she is dreaming. Is she a lunatic or a prophet?

If Joann hadn't walked into Metatron's laboratory and witnessed how the spiritual princess manipulated and played with the victim's brain and dreams, he would have regarded Ishtar as an unreasonable lunatic like Inanna , It can also explain the history of mental illness inherited from generations of beholders from the perspective of anatomy and brain neuroscience, so as to provide a reasonable interpretation for Ishtar's madness, and prove that her madness is not surprising with impeccable arguments.

Yet the more one knows, the more one realizes one's ignorance.

Regarding the views that cannot be falsified for the time being, even Ishtar's seemingly absurd ideas, Joan dare not easily assert that she must be wrong.

Looking at Ishtar's delusions of persecution from another angle, and retreating from the field of medicine to the field of philosophy, Joan realized a kind of desolation deeper than mental illness.

The farewell letter Ishtar left to Saoirse ended with this question: "You are alive, you think you are alive, but are you really alive?"

Before a person thinks about how to live, shouldn't he try to make sure that he is really alive, living in the real world, and not a figment of someone else's writing?

Joan admits that this is a thought-provoking question, but unfortunately he is also in this mountain and cannot give an answer that satisfies Ishtar and himself.

Also in this farewell letter, Ishtar made arrangements for his funeral:

"If there must be a new queen in the Hive of the Eye, write to Inanna and ask her and Mitra to come back."

"Anyway, I'm not here anymore, and Mitra's original promise can be voided. Both she and Inanna can go home. Let them discuss who will inherit the throne!"

"His Majesty left such an entrustment in the letter, and Lady Saoirse also acted in full accordance with His Majesty's entrustment. At the council of Udinos, he read His Majesty's farewell letter to all the warlords and nobles."

Having said that, Inanna hesitated to speak.