Three Philosophical Questions for Travelers

Isrit swallowed her saliva, and also got into the gap.

The soft skin of the mushroom pressed tightly against her chest and back, which felt slippery, like some kind of cold-blooded animal organ.She was squeezed out of breath.Moreover, the journey was too long. She thought it would be as simple as passing through a door, but she didn't expect that she would squeeze in for more than ten meters without reaching the end.

The deeper it went, the darker, slipperier, and tighter it became, and she suddenly had a thought in her heart: I might be trapped here!

Trapped forever in this dark gap.

This thought scared her so much that she wanted to scream, she couldn't move anymore, and calmed down on the spot.She recited the soul-fixing spell of the academic witch in her heart to calm herself down.

Go on, she thought to herself, there is no reason for the king mushroom to harm me, I shouldn't scare myself.

She moved faster.

After about 2 minutes, she saw a beam of light.

arrive!Isrit squeezed in hard.

Immediately afterwards, various colored lights hit her, and she was so stabbed that she couldn't open her eyes.At this time, there was a burst of laughter, and then a man with a rough voice shouted to her: "Welcome to the "Eight Jin Poisonous Mushroom Tavern", you little bitch!"

ah?What?

Estelle opened her eyes, and saw a big mushroom with a beard looking at her.

ah?ah?ah?

"Welcome, little bitch!" The big mushroom stretched out mycelium to shake hands with her, "It's been a long time since a living person came in, we're bored to death here, ah, by the way, 'bitch' It's just a respectful title for guests, without any derogatory meaning."

Isrit was bewildered.

She looked at the room, and these people.

This should be the inside of King Mushroom. It is very spacious and can accommodate thousands of people.It is full of tables, there is a bar counter, a kitchen, and many mushroom people drink and play cards here. It is obviously a tavern.

These mushroom people look very strange, which is not the same as the legendary mushroom elves - Yisruite can always see a kind of mushroom elves in myths or legends, these mushroom elves have legs underneath, There are eyes on the umbrella cover, which are as big as a kitten, round and cute.

But these guys are not, these mushroom people are as big as a living person!They have two long legs underneath, and some of them have thick leg hair.Then there are mycelium-like tentacles on both sides, wobbly, like an octopus.

The most frightening thing is that there is a human head growing on their canopy.

This head is a human head, with facial features, pores, hair, and beard. This is like inserting a human head into the canopy of a mushroom.

It's weird, it's scary, and it's disgusting!Estelle felt a chill.

"You little bitch, welcome! We have prepared a super luxurious and exciting mushroom masquerade party for you, you must attend!"

At this moment, hundreds of big mushrooms staring at her head looked at her excitedly, and Estherite couldn't help but think:

How about I go?

I don't want this reinforcement!

Marsh Trinity, VII

Marsh Trinity, VII

"What is that! I'm not going to participate!" Estherite screamed, "Stay away from me, Chenelle, where are you?"

"Ah?" Hualong's lazy voice came from behind the mushroom.

Estelle looked there, and saw Hualong sitting in front of the bar, holding a glass bottle and sucking what was inside.There was liquid in the glass bottle, she took a long sip, the glass bottle was bubbling and bubbling, and then she exhaled a big puff of white smoke with a happy face.

Estelle asked her, "What are you doing?"

Hualong leaned on the ladder, and said in a tone like a waste dragon: "Mint-flavored mushroom smoke, not strong, and quite cold, would you like a sip?"

"Now is not the time to eat mushrooms, Lord of All Flowers." Isrit looked at the mushrooms and said, "I have something important to talk about, who is the king of mushrooms?"

A blue mushroom said, "I am!" Then a red mushroom jumped up and said, "I am!" Then a green mushroom hit him, "I am!"

"I am! I am! I am! I am!" The mushrooms started fighting.

Yisruite looked at Hualong helplessly, and said, "You actually call these guys the masters of the swamp?"

Hualong patted his wings and said, "Don't worry, just sit down and take a few sips."

"I only eat the mushrooms I grow myself." Estherite said and sat down beside Hualong.One person and one dragon, watching the room full of mushroom people fight, well, this is also quite interesting.

After fighting for a while, the mushrooms also felt bored, so they all stopped.Then hundreds of mushroom people looked at Yisriette together and said, "We are all fungus kings."

Yisriette asked: "What do you mean? Are there many people in King Fungus?"

An old mushroom with a beard replied: "No, we are all a part of King Fungus, and every mushroom man is an organ of King Fungus. Although we have our own independent will, we still belong to King Fungus. "

Oh, I see.Estherite nodded and said, "Then there must be someone in charge among you, right? Otherwise, who will make the decision when something happens?"

The Mushrooms looked at each other and said, "Shall we go find Barbara?"

"Yes, yes, find Barbara!"

"Look for Barbara!"

Then a large group of mushrooms rushed into the back door noisily, and there was a sound of footsteps on the ceiling above, probably going upstairs.

Yisruite asked Hualong, "Lord of all flowers and colors, who is Barbara?"

"It's the oldest mushroom," said the dragon.

Estelle thought to herself: Could it be an old man with an umbrella?

"No, you'll know when you see it."

After waiting for a while, the mushroom man brought out a baby from the house.

"Barbara, you come and talk to her." The mushroom man handed the baby to Isrit.

"Huh?" Estelle took the child, "This..."

How is it a baby?It doesn't look like a mushroom at all, um... and it looks cute.

At this moment, the baby spoke and said, "Spirit of the Earth Mother, I knew you were coming." The voice was immature, but the tone was very mature.

Isrit was taken aback. She looked at the dragon, then at the mushroom men, and said, "What's going on? Are you the fungus king? Why...why are you a baby?"

"It's a long story, Spirit of the Mother Earth. We have to take our time—put me on the table first."

Isrit put the baby on the table, and she said to the king: "But we don't have time, Your Majesty, I have to tell you one thing first..."

"I know." The baby interrupted her, "My children are all over the land, and I know everything. You want to talk about the Spirit of the Father?"

"Ah."

The baby raised his voice and said angrily: "First of all, I have to tell you, that guy is not the spirit of the heavenly father at all, I am the real spirit of the heavenly father!"

Isrit asked, "What does this mean? Are you the Spirit of the Father?"

"So we still have to start from the beginning, Spirit of the Earth Mother, be patient. After you know the history, maybe you will find a way to fight against the evil god."

"Then I'm all ears."

The baby began to tell the stories of the past to Isrit.

He said: "500 years ago, the Liberal Witch of Truth, Maria Mafa Masante, and the Academic Witch of White Feather, Sela Manroshi, conducted experiments here—do you know these two people? "

Estelle replied: "I know." Of course I know, those are my two ancestors.

The baby continued: "At the beginning, the two witches were at odds over the 'direction of development of civilization and society'. The Witch of Truth believed that no group could form a perfect society. This has nothing to do with the level of wisdom, but with biology Therefore, one must have a strong brain. The academic witches believe that the future civilization must be harmonious, free, and equal. First of all, nobles should not exist and will never There would be slaves. So they created two civilizations, according to their own understanding."

"Huh? Create civilization?" Isrit was stunned.Are my two patriarchs so powerful?Creating civilization, isn't that the same as creating a god?

The baby said: "Yes, create civilization. Maria Mafa Macent created the mushroom civilization, and the White Feather Witch, created the orcs."

"What?" Isrit stared wide-eyed, "You said that the orcs were created by the White Feather Witch 500 years ago? But..." She looked at the totem of the orc ancestors on her body, "But the history recorded by the orcs is more than 500 years ago. Over the years, they have their own gods, ancestors, festivals, beliefs, totems, symbols, words, witchcraft..."

The baby giggled and said, "Oh, spirit of the Earth Mother, these can all be made up. When the White Feather Witch created the orcs, she gave them a set of corresponding services, including everything you mentioned before. So much so that the orcs still think that they are born from heaven and earth, and they are the spirit of beasts."

"Oh..." Isrit suddenly felt a little sad, she felt that all of this was unreal, including her own spirit of the Earth Mother.

The baby persuaded her, "Don't be sad, spirit of the Earth Mother, you have to know that the whole world is false, and we were also created by something. Didn't your master teach you about this?"

"No."

"You'll understand later."

The tavern was very noisy, but Estherite's mind was blank—if the orcs are just experiments for witches, then what am I?

At this moment, the baby continued: "Then the two witches turned against each other, and the White Feather Witch gave up the experiment and went to the south to become a duke.

Later, the Liberal Witch of Truth hated these orcs. In order to make fun of them, she created two gods for the orcs to believe in. These two gods who fooled the orcs were the spirit of the heavenly father and the spirit of the earth mother.The spirit of the Heavenly Father is me, and the spirit of the Earth Mother is one of her apprentices—it can be anyone, as long as it is a suitable liberal witch, when it arrives on this land, it will fulfill Mary's spell and become a new witch. The spirit of the Earth Mother. "

"Spirit of the Earth Mother, if I'm not mistaken, you are also a liberal witch?"

"Well, I am." Isrit had mixed feelings in her heart.

Swamp Trinity, VIII

Swamp Trinity, VIII

It turns out that this is the case, and all the puzzles have answers.

In the past, Isrit always thought of these things when looking at the orcs: Where did the orcs come from?Who are the Heavenly Father and Earthly Mother?Now, she finally has the answer.

But this answer is too shocking.Before that, Isrit always believed that only the great nature could create life.She didn't expect that two witches could also create gods and give birth to civilization.

If humans can also create life, what is the difference between humans and nature?

Do people still need to be in awe of nature?

She couldn't help asking: "Great fungus king, if witches can create civilization, does that mean that human beings can become the masters of everything one day? If so, do we still need to be in awe of thousands of gods?"

Zhuwanggu said to her: "First of all, you are already a demigod."

Estherite nodded and said, "I am a picked demigod."

"It's about the same—oh, pass me the milk," he said.

The mushroom man at the bar made a glass of strawberry milk and poured the milk into the bottle.

Estelle took the bottle and said, "How do you want to drink this?"

The baby waved his small hand and said in an old man's tone: "Spirit of the Mother Earth, can you please feed me?"

"Of course." Isrit is a mother herself, and she is good at this.

She finds the right angle and inserts the bottle into the baby's mouth.After the baby drank a few sips, he spit out some milk, and Estherite quickly wiped him clean and helped him burp.When all this was done, the baby said to her:

"You are a good mother."

"Thank you, but... I want to ask, why are you a baby?"

"The witch of truth left after creating me. It is said that she went to the dream world to find the truth of the world. However, her experiment is flawed. My spirit is growing, but my body is not. So I... as you can see .”

Estelle blinked and said, "Then what will you look like when you grow up?"

"Just be like them." The baby pointed to those mushroom people.

It's better not to grow up, Isrit thought to herself.

"Where did you just say that?" the baby asked.

Isrit said: "I ask you, is it necessary for human beings to be in awe of nature?"

"I can't answer you. I can only tell you that our world was also created by something."

"Creator God?"

"Maybe it's something else, but it doesn't matter. My mother, the Witch of Truth, Maria Mafa Massente, once said to me that if reverence for something protects you, or is good for you, Then you should fear him; if fear is meaningless, then you should fight him bravely."

My patriarch was a wonderful person, Isrit thought, she must be a woman of great learning, high moral character, beauty and intelligence.It will definitely not be the same as the current liberal witches.

"I have already figured out the matter of Heavenly Father and Earthly Mother, Your Majesty the King of Fungus, now we should talk about that matter."

"Yes." The baby said, "but we can't talk about this matter here, let's go to the sky—Lord of all flowers and colors, let me use your back."

"Ah?" Hua Long let out a stupid groan.Estelle looked at her, and saw that she had a thin tube of mushroom smoke in her mouth, her neck was tilted, and her eyes were full of little stars.

This is obviously a big draw!

Yisruite quickly pinched her mushroom smoke and said, "You useless dragon! We didn't come here to smash mushrooms!"

"I...know...know...ah..." Long shook his head, "but...I...want...hey...get up...come..."