Planetary Museum

238 Negative stimuli of play

For a creature with only one life, death is the most terrifying existence, because death means the disappearance of all possibilities; but for a world that can be reborn infinitely, the so-called "death" is just a new life another chance.

On Earth, this fear of death has given rise to concepts like heaven and hell in every civilization—people are willing to believe that they will enter another world after death, whether it is bad or good, in short, death is not It's not the end, and it must not be the end!

But in Ascension Realm, it is impossible for this kind of culture to appear.

Because the Ascension Realm itself is good enough.People are even willing to believe that they are living in a fairyland, and they are immortals superior to others.

In this fairyland, they enjoy "fighting skills". If they win, they will be honored for the first time, but if they lose, they will just start all over again.

And their attitudes towards life, because of this mechanism, are almost all light-hearted.

This is very much like the mechanics of playing games, if a person knows that the character he controls will come back to life in the base every time he dies, then he will naturally choose some more interesting and risky ways to play the game-even for this reason. It does not hesitate to sacrifice the life of a character a few times.

For people in the Ascension Realm, the so-called "cultivation" is actually just a process of playing games, playing a boring game that can read files infinitely.

No matter how powerful an expert like Daoist Samadhi is, in the eyes of others, he is just a top player in the game. Facing him, other people’s fear is more of a fear of loss—after all, even if he can be reborn, Death also has a price, and that is the cultivation base of this life.

The atmosphere in Ascension Realm has really undergone subtle changes, that is, in the past hundred years, the nine major factions have begun to monopolize the resources of flying swords and spirit stones.For the lowest-level cultivators, this is equivalent to increasing their "leveling cost" after rebirth, and the whole game begins to become a little more difficult.

However, no matter how difficult it is, the essence of the game will not change, because in the Ascension Realm, no matter how miserable it is, everyone can live well.Don't worry about eating and drinking, you can fly freely around the world...

Until Wu Xiaoqing, the search and rescue team, the Soul Eater Array, and finally, the appearance of ***.

*** and *** not only cut off their self-esteem and survival foundation as flying people, but more importantly, after these two things disappeared, it revealed the cold and cruel rules of the game that existed in this world.

In the simplest terms, this kind of rule is that there is no bottom line in the state of survival, and survival itself is not easy.

For flying people, in this game world, killing the enemy is enough. As for the imprisoning - when the enemy can get energy replenishment anytime and anywhere, imprisoning the opponent is undoubtedly a chance for revenge.

So what if you are locked in a cage, you can still charge your batteries when you close your eyes... Not to mention that during this process, you still have hundreds of friends you have made over thousands of years, they will come to save people, they will come to make trouble... …

So in Ascension Realm, captivity was never a good strategy against the enemy, and gradually, this strategy was subconsciously forgotten.

However, when a bomb destroyed the energy source of everyone on this planet, things changed.

A qualitative change has occurred—before this, time was costless to everyone, and it can even be said that the cost was negative—because living itself is already a positive benefit.

Since everyone has an infinite lifespan, it means that the time cost of each fixed period of time is almost zero.Imprisoning a person with a finite life can allow him to live for less time, but it is completely indifferent and meaningless to live for a person with an infinite life.

And now, this cost of time appears—first of all, naturally, there is a serious decline in the quality of life.

Without aura replenishment, they cannot fly... This makes flying people almost lose the possibility of large-scale movement in this world.

Not to mention, only relying on the aura reserve in the body after rebirth, each person can live for half a year at most.

The world began to live in endless freedom, and suddenly became a half-year in extreme hardship, then committed suicide, was reborn three months later, and endured another half-year.

If you don't commit suicide, you won't even be reborn. What's the difference between the whole person and "real death"?

Life suddenly turns from a pleasure to a misery and a struggle...and the struggle has no end in sight.From this point of view, endless life is like endless torture - it can almost be compared to that a person on earth can only have enough food for the first two days of each week, and then starve for five days... Eat for two days... such a day, if you think about it, you will feel terrible.

However, this is not the bottom line.

The most frightening thing is the situation that Sanmai Daoist said.

Put a flying man in a cage, and after he exhausts his aura, put him there like a piece of cargo... without killing or moving...

Theoretically speaking, there is a possibility that this flying man will be resurrected in the future, but when he will be resurrected is completely out of his control—that is to say, the power of life is completely controlled by the person who controls him.

To resist this kind of fate, the only thing that the imprisoned can do is to kill himself before being captured and before he still has the ability-if it is the previous Ascension Realm, this may still be feasible, but now...

After rebirth, without the protection of the Nine Great Sects, would they have any ability to resist in the face of the soul-devouring formation that laid the groundwork?

Their fate has been locked since then, either in the continuous cycle of suicide and rebirth... or, in the end, they will miss, or they will give up on their own initiative, and the control of life will be in the hands of the enemy from then on.

At that time, the other party will live as long as he wants to live, live as long as he wants to live, and live as miserable as he wants to live...

It was a scene worse than hell.

"Believe me, Daoist brother," Sanmai Daoist saw the trembling appearance of Taoist Budao, approached a little distance, and lowered his voice, "If I didn't want to understand these principles, why should I stand by your side today?" In front of you, do such things that you look down upon?"

"As you said, the big deal is to die... What a simple sentence... But once you die, can you really end it?"

In Yijianmen, Taoist Bufao has always been known for his quick-witted and decisive decisions—if not, how could he be the commander of the Nine Great Sects with his not-so-great cultivation.

In the 40 minutes before this, he even used all kinds of methods in the meeting, even at the expense of threatening the elites of the nine factions under his command, forcing several elders in Yijianmen to hand over their Void Transformation Stones , and fully controlled by him, to negotiate on behalf of the Nine Great Factions.

Among them, as long as there is a mistake in judgment, or if you can't figure out those elders, you will be ruined.

I thought that by relying on these six Void Transformation Stones, not only would it scare the Sanmai Daoist away, but at least it would make him have some scruples.But I didn't expect that after the meeting, they were just a few words—the other party didn't even say a single threatening word.You must know that the strength of Daoist Sanmai itself is a huge deterrent to the Nine Great Schools.

But the other party only said a few words, and the Taoist already felt that the current situation had really reached the time when he had to surrender.

In terms of military confrontation, they have made various attempts before, but in the face of an increasingly tight and deep encirclement, the actions of the nine major factions are nothing but waste of energy and damage to disciples, and have no effect on the opponent at all. Loss.

The loss mentioned here naturally does not refer to killing—because people can be reborn, and for the rebels, the cheapest thing is human life.

The loss refers to those soul-devouring formations—but judging from the fact that the number of the opponent's soul-devouring formations is not only large, but more and more dense, and more and more exquisite, it is difficult to destroy them. It is obviously impossible to stop all the soldiers—and this is precisely the most likely weak link of the rebels that the Taoists believed before.

In the thinking of Taoist Budao, the more exquisite magic weapons in Ascension to Heaven, the fewer the number—until they were surrounded, most of the Nine Great Sects still preferred to find these magic weapons from the forbidden area. , and then shipped out.

Although the forbidden area is large, it is limited overall, and the number of soul-devouring formations they have seen and destroyed so far is tens of thousands—as long as they keep destroying them, they will naturally not be able to destroy them after the soul-devouring formations gradually become rare. Threat again.

The Magical Artifact of the Soul Devouring Formation is not like the Qianyang Finger. Top masters, such as Sanmai Daoist, can run across the entire Ascension Realm with a single Qianyang Finger.The Soul Devouring Formation is a magic weapon that relies entirely on quantity to form a strategic deterrent - if it cannot be connected into a piece, and then connected into a network, to the masters of the nine schools, this kind of magic weapon itself is insignificant.

But they don't think that in their minds, the things that are so precious that they are destroyed are standard industrial products produced in batches on the industrial assembly line on the earth.

Even the latest model of guns costs only one or two hundred, as long as you have enough money, you can have as much as you want.The factory's assembly line was running at full capacity, and the three-day production was enough to consume three months of war in the Ascension Realm.

Qinglan Consulting considers the most possible changes, and the amount of each batch invested before is limited, just for continuous optimization during use.Finally, after deciding on a decisive battle and determining the final model, an order of 10,000+ pieces was placed almost in one go—this is why the price of Lingshi began to drop on Lingshi Island.

Of course, Taoists who don't fall can't see the assembly line. Here, on the battlefield, what they can feel is that the rebels are investing more and more power in compressing the encirclement network.

At the beginning, there might be hundreds of people in each direction, and a dozen or so soul-devouring formations would be the most for one attack... But now, the number of soul-devouring formations invested in each attack even exceeds the number of people!

It turned out that the rebels were using cheap human lives to cover the advance of the Soul Eater Formation—but now, they turned it around and made it clear that the Soul Eater Formation absorbed the firepower, and more people were hiding behind the Soul Eater Formation , responsible for transporting more Soul Eater Arrays to the battlefield.

At first, destroying a Soul Devouring Formation only required a precise blow from the flying sword, but now, even the top masters in the sect, it is difficult to be sure that they can completely destroy it with a single strike.

The bulletproof-grade armor of the Soul Eater Formation was designed by Shen Changwen, a material expert, specially looking for colleagues in related fields—the anti-slashing performance has been specifically strengthened and optimized.The excellent soft armor can almost completely absorb the chopping kinetic energy of the flying sword...

Because of the spiritless area, after the battle, almost every attack was to use flying swords to replace the Soul Eater Formation—not 1 for 1, but 2 for 1, 3 for 1...

How come there are so many flying swords on the Lingling Island?Obviously, these were captured on the battlefield.Most of the rebels, in this kind of attack, collect spoils and exchange batteries to the rear, as the energy source for their continued survival.

The heads of the sects may not be clear, but Taoist as the commander-in-chief, naturally knows this clearly-the nine major sects are now at the end of their strength.Many things that were thought up before the war have undergone tremendous changes now—I thought that aura was the key, but who would have thought that there are still so many auras after the war, but the flying sword is no longer enough!

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