Chapter 807 The Chosen One

"Why did the darkness choose us? Why didn't it affect other members of the same race, but only the two of us?"

"I told you not to think about it, but does it make sense? Even if the darkness tells you, you can't hear it. You are too far away from the darkness. The darkness talks to you, just like you talk to ants. No one can understand each other."

"But ants can at least hear my voice, right?" he retorted stubbornly.

"Then you hear the sounds around you now. Do you think it is the darkness talking to you?"

...

The madman told him that the voice of darkness has always been there.

The various sounds felt by their hearts actually carry the information that darkness wants to tell them.

The sound of flowing sand, the calls of animals, the sound of wind, the sound of water, the sound of footsteps...These sounds are the rhythm of darkness, which conveys information to them in the simplest way:

"It's safe here."

"It's dangerous here."

"There is food here."

"Don't get close."

"..."

The darkness told them the surrounding situation completely, allowing them to survive freely in the darkness.

However, most of the dark races do not think that it is the darkness that is talking to them, but just think that it is their natural "perception".

They use their hearts to feel everything around them, thinking that it is their ability, using a certain organ to transform various factors in the environment into understandable information.

It is obviously the information coming from the darkness, coming from the darkness, and they are also in the darkness, but they completely separate the individual from the environment. Under the influence of cognition, they set their perspective on themselves and ignore the ubiquitous darkness.

The darkness has been talking, and they have been listening.

"It is not the individual who perceives the environment, but the environment that transmits information to the individual."

The deviation of perspective has kept most of the dark races away from the darkness. Only the Quiet Night Tribe slowly realized this while contacting the darkness.

This is very counterintuitive. It is difficult for creatures with self to change their perspective and put the subject on the surrounding things.

If the subject is placed on "self", it will not feel that it is the darkness that is talking to oneself, but will feel that "self" feels the ubiquitous information.

When self-awareness is excessive, the individual is far away from the environment.

They will naturally not talk to the environment.

The Jingye tribe has always been regarded as a psychopath by other tribes because they have been trying to confuse the boundaries between individuals and the environment and trying to blend into the darkness. Such behavior is difficult for individuals with self-awareness to understand.

Integrating oneself into the environment is an act of erasing self-awareness.

When the subjective perspective shifts from the individual to the environment, you will no longer feel that "oneself" is anything.

We are all part of the darkness, and blending into the darkness is just a change of form.

Making them into weapons is also part of the darkness, and turning them into unconscious shadows is also part of the darkness. There is no difference from being a "creature", and it doesn't matter.

After having such an understanding, the Jingye tribe has no resistance to being made into weapons.

Anyway, being made into a weapon is also darkness, and it can play a better role, so why not?

They don't mind their tribe being labeled as "psychotic".

Because the infighting between the darkness is meaningless, and there is no meaning in exclusion and closeness.

Therefore, they gave up competing with the Hanye tribe for the leadership of the tribe.

The so-called "leadership" is only meaningful when individuals exist.

There are no individuals anymore, the darkness has merged, what "leader" is needed?

The closer they are to the darkness, the more they understand the darkness, the more serious their concept of "dark unity" becomes, until they completely abandon themselves and completely integrate into the darkness...

"So, idiot, do you understand? In fact, the darkness has been talking to you."

"But if it has been talking to me, why doesn't it answer when I ask it?"

"You are too far away from it, of course it won't answer."

The madman explained to him helplessly, and then advised him to give up and stop torturing himself.

But he still didn't want to be confused like this, so he asked the madman: "Can you help me ask the darkness why it chose us?"

"I asked." The madman's answer surprised him.

"What did it say?"

"It said it was randomly selected, just randomly caught a few ants from a group of ants."

"..."

Hearing the madman's explanation, he was stunned again.

"Random?" He asked in disbelief.

"Well, it's random. To it, we are all the same ants. There is no difference."

"Isn't it because of some characteristics of us?" He still didn't want to believe it.

"What are the characteristics of ants? Stronger? Fatter? Or bigger heads?" the madman asked back.

Hearing the madman's question, he thought about it seriously, as if they really didn't have anything special.

"Indeed, they are just two ordinary "ants"..."

Thinking of this, he suddenly felt that there was no need to ask any more questions, and turned around and walked towards the unfinished pyramid.

"What are you going to do?" the madman asked behind him.

"Keep building, finish the temple." He said softly.

"Don't let your imagination run wild?" Seeing that he accepted it so quickly, the madman also felt a little incredible.

"I don't want to anymore. As you said, just be an idiot."

It's not that he doesn't want to think anymore, it's just that he is too tired to continue struggling like this.

It would be easier to just lay those stone bricks one by one, without having to use your brain.

While thinking about it, he picked up a stone brick and walked towards the stairs.

Walking up the steps, he felt a little dazed. Unknowingly, had the tower already been built so high?

Unknowingly, has he done so much for the darkness?

No, it wasn't him who did these things for the darkness.

He was originally a member of the darkness. It should be said that he did these things for himself, but what was the point?

After wandering around for a long time, he came back to "meaning"... Realizing that he was starting to have random thoughts again, he quickly put down the stone brick and hit it on his shoulder, using the pain to free himself from the messy thoughts.

The stone bricks were placed in the appropriate place, and he walked down the stairs again, looking for the next stone brick.

After slowly calming down, only the unfinished tasks remained in his mind:

"Build the side walls of the temple..."

"Seal the top..."

"Cut out the stone wall inside..."

"Get a nice statue outside..."

"..."

The ant climbed down the ladder, lifted the heavy object, climbed up the ladder again, and placed the heavy object in the appropriate place.

As the madman said, it seems that the darkness needs...

Just an "ant".