Sword of Dawn

"I also went to visit the 'pyramid' in the center of Dream City, and I was received by an online immortal named Selina Gerfen, but she seemed very nervous about my presence... I guess , she may be one of the 'insiders' behind your 'project'? Ah, no, I'm not dissatisfied, this is a normal arrangement.

"Besides, if there is any interesting experience to tell..."

Enya paused here, as if thinking, and then spoke again with a smile: "In a news report about Tarrond, I actually saw a message vaguely related to me. The person who left the message It seems to know the secret behind the war in Tarrond, and also has a certain degree of understanding of my existence...I guess it is a member of the Theocracy Council? A researcher? Or the administrator of the archives?"

"Is there such a thing?" Gao Wen was listening indifferently, but at this moment he couldn't help frowning, "What's the name of the person who left the message?"

"Highway Buck," Enya said casually, "It's a very peculiar name, and I'm very impressed."

Gao Wen: "..."

"What's wrong? Do you know who that is?"

"No, I'm not sure," Gawain's mouth trembled, seventy or eighty thoughts whizzed through his mind, and he quickly deduced something from the name - after all, looking at the whole world, it is impossible to be with this The existence associated with the name is that one, "But I probably guessed who he is. If everything is correct, I can even introduce you to each other after a while. He is indeed a member of the Theocratic Council. But Then again, it turns out that the old deer's heart is so jumping..."

Enya didn't understand what Gao Wen said to himself in the last sentence, but she vaguely guessed something from the attitude of the other party. After all, although the existence of Amoen and Mirmina is still a secret to the outside public, However, within the Theocratic Council, the relevant information has long been publicly disseminated, and as one of the new technical advisors of the Theocracy Council (mainly responsible for serving as the research object), she also has certain authority to understand those materials.

Perhaps because of being aroused by this topic, Gao Wen suddenly looked at Enyaduo curiously and asked, "By the way, what name did you name yourself in the neural network?"

Immediately there was a voice from the golden giant egg: "Tea egg."

The hatching room fell silent for an instant, and it took a long time before Gao Wen's voice broke the silence: "...huh?"

"Tea Egg," Enya repeated again seriously, "I remember hearing you mention this name once, it should be spelled correctly, right?"

"Are you serious?" Gao Wen's eyes widened in an instant, and the muscles on his face couldn't help but tremble a few times—he never expected that a joke he said that day would now come from Dragon God in this form. He said it in a serious manner, which made him, the stalker, not know how to continue, "I mean...you really take this name as your own..."

"Is this name inappropriate?" Enya was confused by Gao Wen's reaction, "I didn't receive a system alert when I created it. It shouldn't involve blocking words, right?"

"It's not a matter of blocking vocabulary," Gao Wen touched his chin awkwardly, "The main reason is that this name doesn't match your temperament, I thought you would choose a more elegant and noble style... After all, you see, you used to It is the gods of the Dragon Clan..."

"I refer to the habit of dragons naming their names in the Omega network. This free naming method is more suitable for the atmosphere of the anonymous network," Enya said very seriously, "and I hope to use this method to let my character Livelier—I've wanted to try that a long, long time ago."

Gao Wen blinked, feeling that he had finally discovered the unknown side of this dragon god's character - a more real side, but the awkward atmosphere still made him cough lightly, touched the tip of his nose and said : "If you want to be less serious, the first thing is not to make your tone so serious when talking about this kind of topic."

"Am I very serious? I'm sorry, I didn't notice it," Enya listened, and immediately said very seriously, "Understood, I will try to adjust later—very good, I have a direction to work hard again."

Have you been working hard lately?

Gao Wen couldn't help muttering something in his heart, but this time he didn't dare to say what was in his mind - he had roughly figured out the character of this dragon god, and at this time, he was afraid that his casual sentence would be a shock. Let the other party get serious, and then she will find a "direction of hard work" for her future life...these directions are enough.

"Ahem," he coughed twice, and finally decided not to continue to develop the current topic in a weird direction, "It's almost time for small talk, in fact, I have business to see you today."

"Business?" Enya said curiously, "What do you mean?"

Gawain collected himself, quickly organized the words in his mind, and at the same time adjusted his emotions back to a serious state, and then broke the silence with a serious face: "There is one thing you should already know, we have a long-term Listening' project, the purpose of this project is to track down a mysterious signal of unknown origin..."

"I know," Enya said immediately, I don't know if it was an illusion, there was some emotion in her tone, as if she had been waiting for this topic for a long time, "before the great war in Tarrond broke out I knew it—it was Melita who brought the news back to Tarrond in the first place."

"Melita?" Gawain was taken aback, but he quickly recalled, "Ah, yes, after I first confirmed the existence of the signal, I confirmed the source of the signal to all parties, including Tarrond... But the Dragon Clan did not give any response at that time."

"They wanted to respond to you," Enya said lightly, "but I stopped them."

"Stopped by you?" Gao Wen's eyes immediately became serious, and his eyes fell on Enya's eggshell, "Why?"

"Because the dragon clan was still in a dangerous state of blockade at that time, and was about to usher in a critical moment of fate, I had to prevent them from paying too much attention to the starry sky, and also to prevent them from telling foreigners about the starry sky—otherwise, under the circumstances at the time Now, I'm likely to lose control early."

"About the starry sky..." Gawain blinked, a strange but expected feeling came out from the depths of his heart, and he slowly took a breath, "So that signal really came from the starry sky? What exactly is it?" Who launched it? How far is it from our planet? How much do you know about its sender?"

"You have too many one-time questions," Enya said calmly, and her gentle and indifferent voice quickly calmed down Gao Wen's slightly agitated mood, "I may know more about the starry sky than you, but I don't know much about it. To the point of being omniscient, so you better tone down your expectations a bit before we move on.

"First of all, regarding your first question, the source of the signal... Yes, as you have already imagined, the signal came from the starry sky, from a star that is extremely far away for mortals today, but not on the scale of the universe. Such a distant planet.

"But I don't know more about the information about that planet and the information about the signal transmitter than you."

"You don't know?" Gawain frowned subconsciously, "As the most powerful god on this planet, can't you see it?"

"Because I am a god on this planet, it is destined that my eyes cannot leave this planet too far," Enya said with a smile, "This is the biggest limitation about gods that you must understand. I believe that you have actually researched to this point, but you always ignore it subconsciously—although God is very powerful, He can only be powerful in His domain. The more specific and intense a mortal’s imagination of God is, The more specific and imprisoned the realm of the gods is.

"Until I fell, the dragons had never stepped out of this planet, so my eyes can only fall on this planet forever, even if I can know everything on this planet, I can't peep Anything beyond this planet... In this regard, I am similar to the huge 'Tree of Thorin', our vision is bound to a certain area.

"It is precisely because of this that a mortal's 'stepping out of the planet' has such a strong impact on the gods. You must understand the reason for all this from the basic principles."

"Gods can only be powerful within their own domain..." Gao Wen said thoughtfully, "This is a very important piece of information, and I've written it down. So back to that signal, what do you think about the source of that signal and its origin? Believers know nothing... so what else do you know? What else can you tell us?"

"Although I can't see the situation on other planets, I have at least witnessed the expedition of the voyagers, and I have also experienced the era of 'the sky is open'," Enya said, "As for you, wanderer outside the territory, you are Come from the starry sky, so we are very clear about one thing: this universe is not silent, and the sentient beings on our planet are by no means the only ones in the starry sky, so the appearance of intelligent voices other than ours in the universe is really a thing. very normal thing.

"And such a normal thing, of course, will not happen just once.

"Before the signal you received appeared, just in my memory, this planet captured no less than a hundred 'sounds' from the universe. These signals traveling back and forth in the dark are like the endless night of chaos. The fishing lights suddenly lit up in the middle of the sky, they show that this starry sky is far from being as cold as it seems on the surface, under the shelter of many stars, there are many intelligent creatures who can think, observe, and stare at the starry sky like you, and Quite a few of them have developed to an extremely high level, at least...they already know how to make their 'greetings' leave the ground under their feet and span such a long starry sky."

"Not less... a hundred times?!" Gawain finally widened his eyes in astonishment, "Has this planet received so many alien signals?"

"It's not deliberate reception-most of these signals are diffused and released aimlessly, undulating in the universe like ripples, some of them will just 'pass by' here, and my memory spans millions of years, such a long time In the years, it is not surprising to hear some greetings."

Gao Wen couldn't help taking a breath, and asked hesitantly, "Then... what happened to these signals?"

"The vast majority are extinguished, like fireflies."

Chapter 1139 The Creation of the Final Critical Point

The vast majority went out.

Enya's words were like a cold wind, and Gao Wen, who was about to get excited, calmed down instantly from the inside out. His face became calm, and he carefully savored the information revealed behind the "extinguishing", It took a long time to break the silence: "Extinguished... What kind of extinction? Do you mean that they all became extinct for various reasons?"

"Those signals flicker in the distance like lights in the night, perhaps due to technical limitations, the flickering lights can only reveal extremely limited information, and sometimes the information is so simple that it can only convey the meaning of 'I am here', Then at a certain moment, some signals will suddenly disappear, and no new news will come—there are too many secrets and truths buried in the vast cosmic space, and I can’t see anything in the darkness.”

Enya spoke slowly, as if picking up those yellowed pages in the long and vague memory.

"I don't know what happened to them. Just like other minds trapped on this planet, I can only guess the end of those civilizations through speculation on known phenomena, but some of them... I successfully deciphered From the information they sent, it is basically certain that they were either destroyed by natural disasters or died by gods."

Gao Wen subconsciously repeated the last words of the other party: "Death to the gods?"

Enya said softly: "Death to the gods—their own gods. In the very few signals that have been successfully deciphered, I have indeed heard them make their final cry in the wrath of the gods, even if the voice spans far The stars are still so miserable and desperate that it is unbearable to hear."

"So just like we guessed before, if there are intelligent beings on other planets, and if their world follows the natural laws we understand, then they will also face everything we face..." Gao Wen lightly Taking a breath, "After they developed to a certain level, they also triggered the 'final rebellion' ceremony, which led to the loss of control of the gods and the destruction of the world..."

Enya didn't speak, but Gao Wen asked after a pause, "Then what happened to being destroyed by natural disasters? What kind of natural disasters are they?"

"Those signals that are lucky enough to be transmitted across the galaxy are mostly vague, and few can transmit clear and detailed information, especially when the 'natural disaster' breaks out, the civilization that sends the message is often in chaos. It's even more serious, and they can no longer organize manpower to launch orderly 'dying cries' into outer space," Enya said quietly, as if analyzing a dead body in a calm tone, telling Gao Wen about her more than 100 years in the past. Those cruel clues that Wannian has come into contact with, "So, the description of the 'natural disaster' is very messy and broken, but it is this messy and broken state that makes me almost sure that what they encountered was the 'magic tide'. "

Magic tide.

At this moment, Gao Wen's expression didn't change at all. Although strong ripples had already been aroused in his heart, these strong ripples only confirmed the speculation he had had long ago.

Enya's conclusion was within his expectations - the magic tide is not limited to this planet, but a common phenomenon in this universe, they will sweep across the entire starry sky fairly and periodically, and wipe out civilizations in the stars time and time again. records left in .

The golden giant egg in the room remained silent. Enya seemed to be carefully observing Gao Wen's expression. After a moment of silence, she spoke again: "All of this is just my conclusion based on the observed phenomena. I dare not It is guaranteed that they are all accurate, but one thing is certain-this universe is more prosperous than we imagined, but it is also more dead. There are countless flickering candlelights of civilization in the dark and deep starry sky, but under those candlelights, is Many more graves that have long been extinguished and cooled."

"These things...does the Dragon Clan know?" Gao Wen suddenly asked curiously.

"They only know a small part, but no dragon dares to go deeper," Enya said calmly, "In the long time of 1807 million years, there have been dragons who have been watching the movement in the starry sky at the critical point of danger, but I It shields all signals from the outside world and interferes with their perception of the starry sky, as you know, looking up at the starry sky was a taboo thing in Tarrond in the past."

"But the gods of their gods have been paying attention to the voices among the stars, and have even done so much research." Gao Wen looked at the golden giant egg in front of him with a strange expression, "If any dragon can't look up at the starry sky , then how do you..."

"Close your eyes and listen carefully," Enya said, with a smile in her tone, "Do you remember? On the top of the Great Temple of Tarrond, there is the highest observatory. I often stand there and listen Voices from the universe—it is a dangerous thing to actively step into the starry sky, but if those signals have already reached this planet, passive listening will not be so easy to lose control.

"But even so, it's not easy to do so... Every time I stand on the observatory, I have to fight against two forces at the same time, one is my own resistance and fear of the unknown deep space, and the other is my own as a The gods have the urge to destroy the mortal world, so I will carefully control the frequency of my trips to the observatory, and keep myself at the critical point of losing control."

Listening to Enya telling these secrets that no one else has ever known, Gao Wen couldn't help asking curiously: "Why did you do this? Since doing so will cause you so much pressure..."

"Curiosity," Enya said, "aren't you curious?"

"...nature and instinct are inconsistent, right?" Gawain shook his head with a wry smile after a moment of astonishment, "Do you know that the things you described reminded me of a... spread in my hometown?" ' theory."

"Your hometown...the hometown of wanderers outside the territory?" Enya's tone changed, "What kind of theory?"

"The big filter," Gawain sighed softly, and explained patiently, "a filter mechanism that stands in front of all civilizations and determines whether they can be lucky enough to step out of the starry sky—we believe that life comes from nothing and does not exist." The process of gradually developing into an advanced interstellar civilization can be divided into several stages, and at least one of these stages is extremely dangerous and the chance of survival is slim. Some kind of crisis will lead to the extinction of almost all species in this stage, so that they will eventually Unable to step out of one's own planet, and this harsh screening and elimination mechanism is the 'big filter'.

"We can't be sure when and in what form the big filter will appear. Before we actually step into the starry sky, we can't be sure whether a civilization has passed the test of the big filter by luck, or the test is still tomorrow... But in This world seems to have an answer to this problem that plagues scholars."

"Are magic tides and divine disasters the 'big filter' we have to face?" A gentle and calm voice came from the golden dome, "Ah, this is really a novel and interesting theory... Extraterrestrial wanderers, it seems In your world, there are also many scholars with brilliant eyes who are paying attention to the deep mysteries of the world... I really hope to get to know them."

This question has already involved complex areas that are difficult to answer, and Gao Wen cautiously stopped the topic before going deeper—in fact, he has said many things that he would never say to others on weekdays, but he never thought he could. Talking about these topics involving the starry sky, the future, and extraterrestrial civilizations with people in this world, a certain feeling that a confidant is hard to find made him want to continue to discuss more things with Dragon God.

"You just mentioned that you have at least 'listened' to the voices traveling through the universe hundreds of times," he thought of a new question, "and the senders of those signals at least did not encounter divine disasters when they sent out the calls, Does this mean that the very act of constructing interstellar communication does not, in and of itself, cause the gods to run amok?"

This is very critical, because "Where is the final critical point where the gods lose control" has always been the most concerned issue of the Theocratic Council and past disobedients.

At present, scholars have separated the "collective out-of-control phenomenon of all gods in the world" from the "divine disaster" corresponding to a single deity's out-of-control, and named it "the ultimate divine disaster". Before the crisis of the gods out of control, the "ultimate critical point of divine disaster" means the limit of the development of mortal civilization in this world. The more accurately we can grasp this critical point and all related technical limits, the more countries can achieve the ultimate goal. Prepare as much as possible before the real disaster, so that mortal civilization will have a greater chance of survival in the future.

So far, the "ultimate critical point of divine disaster" deduced by the Theocratic Council is based on the "final disobedience" determined by Tarrond's coming-of-age ceremony, that is, "mortal civilization, by virtue of its own technological accumulation, allows explorers to substantially, physically Detach from the mother star and step into the space environment that civilization has never explored”, scholars have been able to confirm that this behavior will lead to a symbolic “final disobedience”. If it survives, it means the freedom of man and god. It is the death of civilization.

But there are still many uncertainties at this critical point. The biggest question is - will the "ultimate disaster" really erupt at the stage of "final disobedience"?Is the conclusion drawn from the example of the Dragon Race the "standard answer" to the law of the gods?At a certain stage before the final disobedience, is it possible for the ultimate divine disaster to erupt?

If the explorer's substantial, physical separation from the parent star would lead to the ultimate disaster, what about the preparation stage before the spacecraft launch?What about the stage of observing the starry sky on a large scale around the world?What if mortals launched an unmanned probe?If...another interstellar civilization sent greetings to this planet, and the mortals on the surface responded to this voice, what would happen?

Each of these questions is not groundless worry-each of these questions is marking the critical point of the end of the world, marking the survival range of the entire mortal civilization.

Enya obviously knew what Gao Wen was worried about, so she was very cautious when answering this question. After thinking for a long time, the former god broke her silence: "I think it is not the gods who really decide whether the gods will completely lose control. It is not exactly a symbolic 'ultimate disobedience' ceremony, you should consider the meaning behind this ceremony."

Gao Wen frowned: "What is the meaning behind the final disobedience ceremony?"

"Mortals have come into contact with the truth beyond the realm of cognition, and this 'truth' is irrefutable and unshakable," Enya said, "As a god, I don't know how to look at this process from the perspective of mortals The ... meaning that arises, but you can imagine, if there is a person who firmly believes that we live on a flat world and not a planet, who firmly believes that the sun is a ball of light that rises and falls from the edge of the earth, It's not that the planet under our feet is moving around the sun, so how can he break this cognition?

"No voices from outside, because those voices may be lies; no common knowledge, because everyone in the world may be deceived; not even images from space, because the images can be faked...

"No matter how bizarre these explanations are, as long as they can be explained, then the person who believes that the earth is flat can continue to put himself in a closed-loop and 'self-consistent' model, he does not need to pay attention to the real shape of the world, He just needs his own logical barriers not to be breached.

"Unless, let him see it with his own eyes."

Gao Wen listened carefully to what Enya said, and couldn't help frowning: "I understand what you mean, but this is exactly what we haven't understood—even if there are so few observers among mortals, it's difficult Going to space, using their own eyes and experience to personally confirm the appearance of the known world, this only changed their "personal cognition" that's all, how did this individual behavior produce ritual The effect has affected the changes in the entire ideological trend? Why did the gods, the product of the ideological trend, lose control because a few humans suddenly saw the scene outside the world?"

"...This shows that you are still in a misunderstanding," Enya suddenly laughed softly, "The stubborn and poor guy I just said needs to 'see with his own eyes', not any mortal who launched into space, but the gods themselves."

Gao Wen: "You mean..."

"Your understanding of thoughts is a bit one-sided," Enya said, "Gods are indeed born from the thoughts of a large number of mortals. This is a macro process, but this does not mean that the only way to make gods lose control is to make thoughts produce macro Change—sometimes a microscopic tributary creates ripples that can destroy an entire system.

"If the gods are regarded as a huge 'entangled body', then this entangled body includes all the cognitions of all living beings in the world on a certain thinking tendency. Take me as an example, I am the gods of the dragon clan, then my The essence includes all the cognition logic of the dragon clan to the world in the age of mythology. These logics are tightly entwined like a ball of thread. Even if there are thousands of threads, all the threads are included in the ball of thread. In other words - it is closed loop, extremely xenophobic, and rejects the intervention of outside information.

"Then it only needs to have a thread end out of the order of the thread ball, and the probe jumps out of this closed-loop system, which is equivalent to breaking the basic rules of the thread ball.

"Under normal circumstances, within this closed-loop system, it is almost impossible to have such a 'jumping thread', because the trajectories of all thread ends have been determined, and the thread itself is also preventing the occurrence of cross-border behaviors. The closed-loop system itself cannot generate a "window" for one of its members to leave the system, so in most stages of civilization development, the only way to make the thread ball collapse can only be the gradual overload and chaos of the entire system. The theory I understand is that 'the drastic changes in group thoughts on a macro level led to the loss of control of the gods', that is, the quantitative changes in the thoughts generated by a large number of mortals in this closed-loop system lead to qualitative changes, and finally destroyed the entire system.

"The closest example to you is God of War.

"In another case, information outside the closed-loop system intervenes in this system. This information is completely beyond the control of the 'string'. It only takes a little bit to make a certain thread jump out of the closed loop, which will make the original self-explainable The system suddenly became self-consistent, it—that is, the gods—a 'factor' that violated the rules appeared in the original perfect operating logic, no matter how small the scale of this factor was, it would pollute the entire system.

"The closest example to you is me."

Chapter 1140 The second type of border crossing and exile of observers

It was not difficult for Gao Wen to understand what Enya said, but he still fell into long-term thinking after listening. The key nodes that he understood were supplemented, and most importantly - he finally confirmed a guess that had been made a long time ago, but he was still not sure.

Gods are some kind of "closed system", or in other words, the premise for the establishment of gods in a certain civilization system is the "blocking" of this civilization system in the corresponding field of knowledge-when no new cognition is produced in a system, when Members of this system no longer try to find answers to certain questions from the outside, but point all the explanations of the questions to the inside of the system, and the foundation for the birth of gods will take shape.

Therefore, once the system becomes open, when external information can become the "solution" to certain problems within the system, the gods born on the basis of this system will be immediately impacted, and will quickly go crazy amid fatal contradictions.

This is something like a bug stuck in the process, or an external contamination injected into the system causing a crash.

"So, when the final disobedience happened, the ideological trend of the group did not actually change drastically - because only a few 'observer' individuals jumped out of the system, and the information they saw could not immediately affect the entire group," Gao said. Wen slowly finished his contemplation, looked at the golden dome in front of him and said, "'Thought change' was not the main reason, or even an effective reason, in the final process of rebellion. negative."

"Based on my personal experience, this is the case," Enya said softly, as if what she was talking about had nothing to do with her, "the relationship between thought trends and gods is extremely close, and the relationship between the two is not just a 'hotbed' and The relationship between "products" is so simple, even in a sense, the gods themselves are the realization and integration of thought trends—gods are thought trends, so as long as a certain branch of thought trends comes into contact with specific information outside the system, it is quite Yu Shenshen came into contact with this information, and if this information cannot be denied by the logic of the system itself, then... the collapse of the system will inevitably happen."

Speaking of this, the voice from the golden dome suddenly stopped. She seemed to be sorting out her fragmented memories. Gawain waited patiently for a few seconds before hearing Enya's voice again: "...I I still remember what happened at the last moment, when the spaceship of the Dragon Clan broke through the atmosphere and stepped into the area that no one had touched in the age of mythology... Even though I could no longer control anything at all, and even my thinking had completely stopped, But that feeling is still seared into my memory through the connection between divinity and humanity.

"It was a cold and painful tearing feeling, with the great fear of being suddenly thrown from a warm and comfortable environment into a cold and unfamiliar environment, like a baby born, who escaped from the mother's body unexpectedly and faced the dangerous external environment ——The part of my divinity has to admit the existence of the starry sky, admit that there is no heaven above the stars, admit that there is a vast "extraterritorial land" beyond the stars, and admit that my mighty power is just a speck on a speck of dust in the universe A small flash, admitting that it is meaningless in the vast space... In a very short period of time, the myth system built by mortals for millions of years was broken down by the cold laws of reality. cannot be established."

Enya's voice stopped, and Gao Wen sat opposite her, propping his chin with his hands. After a long period of thinking, he slowly said: "So, if civilization is regarded as an ever-evolving system, Then as long as the system develops to a certain stage, the 'divinity' must die - because the divinity is doomed to be a closed loop, it does not match the evolution direction of the whole system, and we can only keep the human part like you at most. .”

"That's the obvious conclusion."

"This is too cruel for the gods," Gawain sighed softly. "It seems that everyone is entitled to live, and only gods must die—don't you think this is unfair? Just like you, even if your The human part is still 'alive', and you as a god are also dead..."

Enya was silent for a few seconds, then said softly: "Gods can die, this is the greatest fairness."

Gao Wen's heart was touched, and he couldn't help saying: "Although it may be a bit off topic to say this now, many of our technologies are pursuing the pursuit of immortality for mortals..."

"I know, but even if it is calculated by the oldest silver empire in the Loren continent today, the history of civilization in this season has only gone for tens of thousands of years, and for the time scale of mortals, these tens of thousands of years can be called It can be said to be eternity—the eternal life pursued by mortals is meaningless in front of astronomical scales, and there is no real eternal immortality in the world," Enya said in a deep voice, "but on the other hand, in front of astronomical scales, there is no meaning Things still have meaning in front of mortal individuals, so this is the reason for civilization to move forward...Look up at the sky, look down at your feet, and never forget one, so that civilization has the opportunity to go further."

"The relationship between the astronomical scale and the mortal scale..." Gao Wen pondered for a moment, then suddenly laughed, "We are obviously discussing practical issues such as the ultimate divine disaster and ultimate rebellion, but in the end it seems to be studying philosophy. .”

He shook his head while talking, and said after sorting out his thoughts a bit: "Then we can conclude that the civilization, the originally closed-loop system, suddenly opened to the outside, which led to the occurrence of the 'ultimate divine disaster', and this 'opening 'It only needs a small but 'definite' opening, even if only one or two individuals in the civilized group break through the system blockade, it is possible to meet the conditions... The essence of this process is not 'people look out', But 'God looked out'?"

"It can be understood in this way. This is like using a needle to pierce an airbag. The needle tip may be small, but for an airbag that is on the verge of limit, the overall collapse only needs a small break."

"Then the research institute of the Theocratic Council can finally make a qualitative decision," Gao Wen breathed a sigh of relief, "We have been thinking about the difference between the 'divine disaster' caused by a single god out of control and the 'ultimate divine disaster' that leads to the extinction of civilization." Now it seems that... the key to all of this lies in the specific reasons for the collapse of the "closed-loop system" of the gods.

"Under the premise that the closed system is not destroyed, a large number of individuals that make up the civilization produce continuous and extensive changes in the trend of thought and gradually cross the critical point that the system can bear, thus causing the gods corresponding to the trend of thought to lose control, and what is produced in this way is 'God's disaster', we might call it 'the first type of transgression'.

"Under the premise that the closed system is destroyed, any individual that constitutes civilization—as long as it is an individual within the 'trend of thought', has direct and undeniable contact with information outside the system, and at the same time, the logic within the system cannot deny this contact , then this kind of contact will lead to the collapse of those systems built on the premise of closed loop, and since all gods are built on the premise of closed loop, so the loss of control at the level of gods will inevitably occur at this stage, we should call it ...'Second Class Transgression'."

"Very good summary," Enya's gentle voice came from the golden dome, "so far, in all the known history of this world, except for those lucky ones taken away by the sailors who forcibly broke the game in ancient times, More than one civilization has survived the first type of transgression, and survived the second type of transgression... only Tarrond."