Marvel Magic Event Book

Chapter 1720 Cat Communication and Cognitive Bias

Three days had passed since the emperor jumped off the assault transport with a heavy linen canvas travel bag in one hand and a shield in the other. The basalt desert they were in would be called the Black Desert of the Levant in the future. The black basalt scattered across the ancient extinct volcano craters had not yet been completely ground into gravel by the wind and sand, and dense acacia trees grew everywhere.

There lived a group of people who grew rye. Archaeologists in the 20th century would hold the rye bread baked by these people and the residues of brewed beer, and call this group of people Natufians. This rich land has more than a hundred kinds of grains, fruits and other edible plants. Before launching the expedition, the emperor established a supply station here to transport nuts and fruit wine from here to Eridu every six months. Now the supply station here has been converted to military use, to supply cargo ships sailing from the eastern Mediterranean and along the Red Sea coast, and to transport food from here to the army on the Egyptian front.

It is worth mentioning that in order to solve the problem of rats, the Natufians, a fishing and hunting civilization, often sent food to wild African cats. This was the first time that humans domesticated this animal. In order to ensure that the goods were not eaten by rats, many cargo ships from the Eridu civilization would load a few cats on the cargo ships when passing through the Natufian civilization. When there was no rat infestation on the ship, the crew would fish for the cats to eat. After the cargo ship arrived at its destination, some cats would jump off the ship without any nostalgia and come to Egypt in North Africa where their ancestors were born. This led to many Egyptian villages beginning to try to domesticate wild cats in just a few decades, so that a large group of cats were also raised in the temple of Eridu, and there were special people responsible for cleaning the cats and laying collective cat beds.

Inanna summoned several gazelles and asked them to carry the emperor's linen travel bag and herself and Dinah. As for the emperor himself, because the gazelles could not carry a man in armor, he could only walk beside the gazelles. At first, she was a little worried that they would reject the emperor's proposal after finding the immortal, but after a day, she gave up thinking about these issues and devoted herself to the camping activities.

The travel bag contained linen woven by the temple women and a tent made of mild steel produced by the hydraulic steel mill. In addition, there was a small stove and an iron pot. Dinah's backpack was filled with spices and toiletries, which made the journey very comfortable. The emperor never mentioned the destination of this trip again, and Inanna didn't care. She just had to enjoy the journey. Even if they were traveling in a sparsely populated land, the emperor and Dinah still lived like they were in the palace.

When the temperature was too high at noon, the emperor would stop to set up camp, and Dinah would take out the sweet wine she had prepared in advance for the emperor and Inanna to enjoy. When setting up camp at night, Dinah would use the cooking utensils, fats and seasonings brought from Eridu, and add the wild animals hunted by the emperor during his travels and the precious desert iron fez truffles to cook an extremely delicious dinner. Not only that, every time he stopped at a place, the emperor would use mysterious spells to create a huge wooden barrel, summon clean water from the river, heat it with burning wood, and provide it for the three of them to bathe together.

They could wash away the dust and sweat of the journey, and soak the muscles that had accumulated lactic acid with warm water. Inanna was very interested in inviting the emperor to enjoy pleasure with her under the starry sky, which was an experience she had never had before. There were no beds covered with perfume and incense, no maids around the bedroom to record the process, only the sounds of animals accompanied by the breeze from the sea and food with aphrodisiac effects (truffles), and she could hardly suppress her surging desire. Inanna leaned over and kissed Salomon, lying on his chest, breathing the smell of sweat with fascination.

Under the deep black night sky, her beautiful eyes, brighter than Venus, sparkled with amazing psychic brilliance, her sweaty skin reflected the moonlight shining on the acacia forest, and the cool summer night breeze carried the sweet smell of ointment.

"How long do you plan to stay in this era, dear Sky King?" Inanna's voice, with the vibration of the physical universe and the sea of ​​soul, penetrated her chest directly. "Don't try to lie to me. I know your confidentiality rules. You won't say anything until the end. Before this operation, I didn't even know that we would have to go through a camping trip! Of course, I'm not saying that this camping trip is bad, but since you started your own plan, the time we can avoid the Praetorian Guard and enjoy ourselves has become less and less. If Dinah hadn't followed you, I'm afraid Constantine would not agree to this operation."

"I must be cautious in revealing any information and try to prevent history from deviating from what I know, because I don't know which known history is created by my plan. All experiments must be restricted. Only in this way can we avoid changing history and causing a large increase in entropy and attracting the attention of the outer dimension." Salomon looked up at the starry sky above his head, catching the light of ancient stars millions of light years away, passing through the long universe, and finally falling into his eye sockets. "The enemy is hiding among these starlights, waiting for us to conquer. But they noticed me. If they find me, all conquests will become foam on the waves and disappear in the sun."

"Then will you stay here forever?"

"No, this plain can only offer me so much."

Inanna blinked and said nothing.

Salomon looked down into Inanna's eyes, as if he was looking at another person. The light of the stars millions of light years away flickered in his eyes, entangled with his psychic power. As a body deeply integrated with the outer dimension and the material universe, his and Inanna's existence alone was enough to change reality and shake the laws of physics. On weekdays, he and Inanna suppressed their power, fearing that they would cause irreparable damage to the Eridu people. Despite this, the number of new psychics in Eridu continued to increase, which was inconsistent with the situation after the psychic wave gradually subsided.

After the gods returned to live on the inner side of the planet, the psychic wave on Earth is gradually subsiding, but humans who are influenced by psychic power and have the gifts from the gods are beginning to awaken on a large scale. The increasing number of psychics and the abuse of psychic magic have seriously affected the barrier between the real plane and the outer dimension, further leading to a vicious cycle of increasing psychics.

In order to deal with the increasing number of psychics in Eridu, the emperor and Inanna started to take action decades ago. In the emperor's future plan, the temple priests will be deeply involved in his and Inanna's experiments to create psychic entities in the outer dimension - the psychics in Eridu are divided according to gender and become temple priests. The emperor teaches all psychics how to recognize the outer dimension and the psychic entities in the outer dimension, control their own power and try to drive these "evil spirits".

The male and female priests received different educations. The male priests mastered the power of fire and lightning, while the female priests taught by Inanna mastered the magic of controlling lust, fertility and war. It was not until he wrote down the plan on the parchment that Salomon realized that he was walking along the established historical trajectory.

Perhaps in the future, the temple priests will use the knowledge they have learned from him to develop outward, constantly absorb members, and eventually worship his experimental products as sacred objects and gods due to the loss of history and knowledge. Long before the journey to the Himalayas, the emperor realized that the origins of the two organizations, the Sage of Light and the Witch of Shadow, might be related to him. The Eye of the World, which was regarded as a god and treasure by these two organizations, might be the product of this recent plan - the plan at this stage is to create an extradimensional entity. The next stage is to combine the extradimensional entity with the physical body of the material plane to reproduce the process of this planet creating him - he doesn't know when he lost control of the temple priests, but as a person who created history, he can't change this reality, otherwise the huge entropy increase caused by the disturbance of human nature will cause the gods in the outer dimension to notice him at the first time, and the ultimate purpose of time travel will completely lose its meaning.

Salomon was not worried about the temple priests getting out of control, because this body had solved this problem when it was still a minor. If there were any problems that could not be solved, he believed that he could easily solve them with his sword. What really confused him was Inanna's role in this process. He recalled Inanna's influence with his own memory and was sure that Inanna would travel with him and travel around the planet after completing this plan.

  When did Inanna disappear, and why does she look exactly like Bayonetta?

Is Bayonetta a derivative or a possession of Inanna?

  Will the disturbance of the soul cause problems for Bayonetta eight thousand years in the future?

He landed in this era from a million years ago. Was it because of the connection between him and Bayonetta or Inanna's soul? The only thing that can be confirmed is that Bayonetta also has the essence of Inanna, which is the mark left by the soul of an intelligent creature in the outer dimension. Otherwise, it is impossible to explain why he was attracted to Bayonetta in the first place. Or maybe he was attracted to Bayonetta first, which led to him landing in this era where Inanna, who is related to Bayonetta, exists?

The real answer is unknown. The outer dimension itself is a place beyond common sense. Things affected by the outer dimension cannot be understood by the logic of human cognition of the world. Anti-common sense and anti-logic are the norm of the outer dimension. The relationship between Inanna and Bayonetta is different from what he imagined. Many questions have not been answered, but he has 21 years to slowly explore the answers. Time has given him room for error, and he is no longer as nervous as he was in the st century.

"You have to come with me. We are going to travel around the world." Salomon raised his hand and stroked Inanna's long hair. He had already planned a travel route, and the last stop on Earth would be the Himalayas. When Agamotto completed his mission and was promoted to one of the Vishantis, he would forge the first foundation of the future Kamar-Taj there, lay the first brick and stone, and complete the task entrusted to him by fate. "When the war here is over, we will go to another continent. Maybe people in the future will call us by other names. Our destinies are already intertwined, and mortals' concept of time scale will not be able to measure the length of our companionship."

Several gazelles followed the footsteps of humans and moved slowly under Inanna's command, against their nature. The emperor stepped on the desertified Levantine Black Desert on the Mediterranean coast and finally stopped in front of a stone brick house that looked nothing like a local house. "The owner here is not at home, we can wait." Salomon said, "It is said that the Kree's scientific research base on Uranus was occupied by these immortals. After losing the nearest hyperspace channel in the solar system, the process of the Kree coming here was very long. It can be said that if there were no immortals, it would be impossible for us to fight against the Kree with an army of 2000 people." "In other words, we should thank them?" Inanna raised her eyebrows and asked with interest. She knew that the emperor had no good feelings for these people, and the sudden praise meant that he would do something cruel. "You said before that these immortals are creatures created by the Celestials using tens of thousands of humans, and their essence is the same as ours."

"We are the natural combination of the sea of ​​souls and the material universe. They are part of the samples used by the Celestials to test the genetic possibilities of humans. The other part is a mutant byproduct of the experiment and is hidden away. They do not share the glory with their brother tribes. This group of people who claim to be eternal are both experimental subjects and servants. They possess the technology and knowledge given by the Celestials and regard themselves as gods."

"My people and I don't think so. In fact, this is the reason for the first split. We believe that we should not actively interfere with humans, but Uranus and his followers don't think so, so they went to that planet - I heard that you named that hidden planet - and now we have accepted the descendants of that planet again, at least some of the new Eternals who agree with our ideas." At some point, a man wearing a gray linen cloak stood in front of the stone brick hut. "In addition, our relationship with the Deviants is not as friendly as you said. The wars and sacrifices we have made to protect humans and Deviants are beyond your imagination." Obviously, the emperor's words made him very dissatisfied. He retorted in a stiff tone, "We are not completely servants of the gods. We have free will."

"The orders written deep in the genetic code cannot be resisted. When the gods come, you cannot resist their orders, but I can raise the sword against them. This is the difference between us."

"Although I did not participate in that war, I saw your image in the database of the gods. I know what you did. Your hands are stained with the blood of my people. What Odin, the butcher, did is not even one percent of what you did." The man stared at the emperor fiercely. "Two years ago, your messenger gave me your letter. I don't think you came here to talk about these boring things."

"Tell me where is Knoros' son Alas?" the emperor asked. "I heard that he plans to use the technology and equipment of the Celestials to mass-produce Eternals and expand your race."

"Look up, on the satellite next to the largest planet." The man said, "I am against the creation of that kind of derivative, so they accepted most of the Uranian Eternals. By the way, I don't think Alas's experiment was successful. He just created a degraded version of the Eternals. Alas named them Titans, just like the creatures that walked on this land before the birth of Homo erectus. If we continue according to Alas's idea, the Eternals will multiply on the earth in large numbers like the Deviants, faster than hares."

"Who are you?" Inanna jumped off the gazelle and looked at the man curiously. He looked exhausted and had not taken good care of his appearance. The only recognizable feature was the golden hair extending from under his hood. "Are you the Immortal?"

"I am Ikaros, one of the Eternals," the man said. "The one standing before me is the butcher of the Eternals. He has killed at least twenty of my people. Along with their immortal essences, he has killed them forever."

"I am honored to receive this title. The blood of my enemies will always be my crown." The Emperor waved his hand. At that time, the Eternals stood together with the Celestials, trying to convince the Celestials that the situation on Earth was good enough, and trying to prevent other forces from resisting the Celestials, believing that this matter could be resolved peacefully. For such a fool, the Emperor chose the simplest way to deal with it, which was complete destruction. The Eternals killed by him would not even have their souls left, and they would never be resurrected.

"You never knew the purpose of the Celestials creating the Eternals, did you? You always thought that the Celestials created you to protect humanity and this planet, so why did the Celestials conduct the same experiment on different planets in the universe? Including the Kree, they are actually derivatives of the products of the Celestials' experiments, just like the Titans created by you Eternals, except that the technology used to create the Kree is even worse."

For the first time, Ikaros did not refute the emperor's story. He stood there, frowning.

"You are a race created based on human genes, Ikaros. The gods created you to demonstrate the potential of human genes. At least in the gods' plan, you will be the most perfect sample of the human race, and you will be used to fight against real threats."

"What threat?" Ikaros asked.

"First, we must synchronize our cognitive biases. This question is very simple, that is, how many times did the gods come to Earth?"

"Four times. The gods tested the Eternals, Deviants, and humans four times. The first time, the gods created the Eternals and Deviants. The second time, the gods triggered the Cataclysm and destroyed the Deviants' homes. The third and fourth times took place at the same time, which was the war you participated in." Ikaros answered without hesitation, "This is common sense that any Eternal knows. Every time they descend, the gods will judge whether humans should continue to exist. Our mission is to maintain this world and ensure that the gods' judgment is in favor of humans and this planet."

This statement is correct, but Kamar-Taj uses the purpose of the gods' coming as a method of dividing the number of comings. As of the war mentioned by Ikaros, the Kamar-Taj library collectively calls it the Second Coming. Except for the first coming, the purpose of the gods coming to Earth was to check the results of their own experiments. No matter what they did, they essentially used the Earth as a test field.

"In fact, the gods came to Earth once more than you know, long before they created you." Inanna knew what the emperor was going to say next. Thirty years ago, she was so surprised that she could hardly speak when she first heard the truth. Now she felt sorry for Ikaros. She didn't know if he could bear such a dark truth. "That was the real first coming. The gods didn't come to Earth to conduct experiments, but to avoid the enemy. But He failed, and He died on this planet. His contaminated and corrupt blood affected the entire ecosystem, including humans. The first coming you know is actually the second. The original purpose of the gods coming to this planet was just to recycle the bodies of their companions."

"Do the gods have enemies in this universe? And the gods don't have blood. They are purely inorganic creatures." Ikaros laughed. "If you say such stupid things again, I won't invite you into the house to enjoy beer."

"Of course not in the physical universe, but enemies do not only exist in the physical universe, and the gods of the physical universe are not incorruptible. Haven't you realized, Ikaros, that you have a power that the gods cannot have. Your soul can contact the outer dimensions, and you have psionic power, which you call the secret power of the universe. The gods calmed the violent waves of the sea of ​​souls through the psychic device of the Earth Machine, allowing you to use this power calmly, but no matter what name you give it, the essence of this power will not change."

"What does it mean?"

"Humans, intelligent creatures that possess the combined power of the Celestials and the Extradimensionals, have the ultimate potential to fight against the Extradimensionals. You are just insects released into the fields to prey on pests." The emperor said, "The real crop is humans, or more precisely, the psychic potential of the human race. You think you are protecting humans, but in fact you are only protecting the food of the Celestials."

I've been a little obsessed with writing a Harry Potter fantasy story recently. My group friends urged me to update it and I realized that I have written over 4000 words of this chapter but it has not been published yet. After thinking about it, I wrote a little more.