Yuanshen: The sea of ​​sand at the beginning, straight to the seat of God

Chapter 286 284-Sorry to trouble you

The trip to the sand sea was not smooth, but it was not without too many surprises.

For Rama, he still felt that his mortal status played some role.

Although this identity made Apep reluctant to talk to him, the benefits were also obvious. Apep really had no interest in achieving any purpose by killing an ordinary person.

Whether it was to anger Nasida or for some other purpose, killing a mortal was a bit of a loss for this proud ancient dragon.

Because I didn't like him, I didn't even think about killing him.

Since he won't die, the story can only be regarded as a near miss.

"I'm sorry, I didn't fulfill my promise." Nasida was the first to apologize on the way out.

"You obviously guessed that I did something, so why do you have to apologize?" Rama was helpless, "For things like this, I should be the one to apologize."

In any case, his attempt did ruin Nasida's plan.

According to His thoughts, He was not willing to have any unnecessary contact with Apep.

"Because I was very happy to say those words." There was a smile on the god's face, "I have never tried to speak like this, but now that I think about it, it is really pleasant."

"You don't need to take into account the other party's identity. Think about what kind of words you should say and what kind of things you should be responsible for because of your own identity. You can simply grab the other party's sore feet and keep attacking." He paused, his eyes like crescent moons, "Then It is indeed very happy to see the other party become angry."

"But this won't work," Rama said. "Just grabbing the opponent's sore feet and attacking desperately will not make things better."

"This is just a means used in the attack, but the attack itself is just a means to achieve a purpose."

Rama was slightly worried.

My god won’t get used to having a bad mouth because of this incident, right?

Sin, sin, this is not okay.

"I know, if you continue talking, maybe even Apep won't be able to sit still, right?" Nacida said with a chuckle, "In that case, I will be the one in trouble."

Apep may not be that angry.

His anger mainly came from pain. The too long pain made him lose patience with everything. He only wanted to see all the manifestations of obeying his orders to appease his heart.

The slightest opposition will incur His wrath.

The essence of this kind of anger is actually to vent and express anger. It is caused by incompetence in other places and causes pain. You can only find your dignity where you can be unscrupulous.

Therefore, a person who is gentle to others may have a different look towards his family members.

Because they are sure that their family members will not harm their own interests because of their anger, but there will be a price to pay for losing their temper outside. They don't want to pay this price, so they can only vent their anger towards their own people.

Nacida is not considered one of Apep's friends, but to the Grass Dragon, the God of Grass can basically scold him casually and nothing will happen.

He understands the righteousness well and will not give up what he wants to do just because of a few words of conflict.

The God of Grass understands justice and etiquette, so the Dragon of Grass can be ignorant of reason and unclear. Anyway, no matter how he behaves, the God of Grass will always put the overall situation first.

"Actually, I am also very unhappy." He restrained his smile and said softly, "Actually, what does His matter have to do with me? For thousands of years, I have been patrolling and taking care of this land of Sumeru. For my subjects who believe in me.”

"I did things within the rules, stayed within the rules, and led my subjects to live a stable and happy life."

"But there are always people, there are always some people who don't like to abide by the rules of the world, and crave external power and seek unnecessary variables."

His face suddenly turned cold, "If they can do it, this might not be a good thing, but who among them has ever really done it well?"

"They are all taking risks, and I am the only one who abides by the rules of the world, but in the end they can always cause some messes that they cannot solve, and finally put the trouble in my hands and let me solve the problems they made. mistake."

"Oh, yes, Akhmal died. He died like a hero." Nasida looked at Rama, "He stood up, actively chose to sacrifice himself, and installed himself in Apep's body. Within the body, a complete end to forbidden knowledge.”

This was definitely not approval, so Rama naturally became biased.

"This is not a sacrifice." He shook his head, "He was just making up for his own mistakes, and he didn't even make up for it."

After the Red King realized the infection of forbidden knowledge, he had to die because he carried the forbidden knowledge in his mind.

If He did not die, he, as the source of pollution, would naturally continue to provide forbidden knowledge to corrode the world.

In this case, He chose to use death as the interruption of memory. This should have been the end of the story, because Apep was really conscientious in his duties. He took away all the forbidden knowledge, and He did not die, so these memories Nor will it flow back into the World Tree.

This time, King Daci Shu completed the end of the story at the cost of his power.

However, during the Kanreya period five hundred years ago, Dasi Shuangwuang realized something else.

He can prevent the forbidden knowledge from eroding the world, and even let the World Tree avoid this knowledge, but these are meaningless.

The leyline will spread all knowledge to the World Tree. Either it will take over this part of the memory on behalf of the World Tree, or this part of the memory will inevitably return to the World Tree.

The former is meaningless. He knows that after his death, this part of knowledge will still flow back into the World Tree and continue its own erosion.

So he had no choice but to die and disappear completely in order for the story to have a good ending.

Ahmar, the instigator, just died, but another innocent god had to choose to disappear with his existence to pay for the choices of these people.

"Your unhappiness is legitimate," Rama said. "If you don't like them, we always have a way to fight back."

"But you should have established some kind of contract with Apep, right?" Nacida sighed quietly, "Let Apep live. An ancient dragon like him is always very sensible."

You won't cause any trouble or do anything you shouldn't do.

Therefore, Apep has been able to survive from the time when the ancient dragon fell to the present, and it is obvious that he can continue to live.

"There is no conflict between what I promised and what I helped you with." Rama looked relaxed, "Although I can't tell you, you can trust me."

There is no conflict at all between helping Apep regain the power of the ancient dragon of the Grass Dragon and helping Nacida kill Apep.

The difficulty lies in how to do it, not how to balance it.

"Of course I believe you." The god said with a smile, "But just think of it as a small complaint. In fact, I don't have these memories. I have forgotten all the stories from five hundred years ago, and some of them still need to be reminded by you. "

"If I don't know, I won't have any concrete feeling. I will even doubt whether these efforts and sacrifices can really be counted on me."

Rama's eyelids twitched subconsciously.

Nasida's voice was as soft as a breeze, not intending to leave any traces.

"I have absolutely no memory of five hundred years ago. All I have is the memory of being taken away by the Six Sages as soon as I opened my eyes."

"They are surrounding me, and it is said that they are fanatically asking me for the secrets of knowledge just like in the past."

"This is really a wrong decision."

He shook his head, "Knowledge should be obtained through one's own efforts, not given by gods."

"Perhaps I was not aware of this problem in the past and easily provided answers to all inquirers, but the application of [Void] by the Six Sages proved me wrong."

Rama remained silent.

For a moment, he subconsciously feared an answer, but fortunately the answer waved his hand at him, telling him that he guessed wrong.

[Void] is actually very useful. Objectively speaking, both the Great Merciful Tree King and the Six Sages only used a small part of it.

The application of the Great Mercy Tree King to the Void Terminal is similar to the application of Fukalos to the Cardinal of Oral Judgment. It is mainly used as a tool to extract energy to do their own things. If they have excess energy, they are also willing to do it for the people. Provide some help.

But mainly it has to be for your own work.

The Great Merciful Tree King used dreams to hold on to the World Tree to prevent further erosion of taboo knowledge, waiting for Nasida to delete his existence with his own hands.

Fukalos stores his power to kill himself, destroys the water god throne attached to him, releases the power of the ancient dragon in the throne, and gives Navilette the power to save Fontaine.

As for the application of the void by the Six Sages... in fact, this is a tool that is more suitable for mortals. Coupled with canned knowledge, they can instill the formed knowledge system directly into a person's mind to form a stable memory.

Theoretically, a large number of scholars can be installed in batches through this method - even though these scholars have rigid thinking and old-fashioned ways of doing things, and have no flexible thinking at all.

But to be honest, this is how the world is.

Most people are just responsible for being a screw. A screw does not need too many opinions and ideas of its own. It only needs to do a little normal work in a certain position according to someone's will.

For such a job, the knowledge imparted by Taboo Knowledge is absolutely sufficient.

It would definitely be unrealistic to expect the void to be able to create monsters like Dotore and Reindot, but it would be very simple to mass-produce some tool men to help them in mid- and low-end research.

Sometimes, a person's years of painstaking research is actually just to help a genius save time in a certain afternoon, so that he can have one more afternoon to sleep.

The world needs talented craftsmen to determine the direction and path, but the world also needs a lot of screws to support this path.

"In this matter, the Six Sages did indeed make a mistake."

"But they're not on the wrong track."

Rama chose to deny it.

"Oh, why do you say that?" Nasida asked, "According to Xumi's records, in ancient times, scholars would still think academically, but as the God of Grass spread knowledge, they soon became accustomed to asking directly. .”

There is no need for several sacks of scratch paper to calculate, no need for on-the-spot research and surveys, just follow the crowd and line up, and then ask, the answer has already appeared, and it is an unmistakable answer.

Under such circumstances, few scholars are willing to continue to think independently.

This is really normal. If you are studying a certain axiom in a difficult way, but the scholar next to you has already come up with the answer, you will not be able to help but choose to take a look.

Maybe you are verifying whether your thinking is correct, but when the answer appears, your process is no longer important.

Once is okay, twice is okay. How many times can a person go on this path without "repenting"?

"This is also the reason why the Six Sages chose to create gods." Rama said, "They found that their path had reached a bottleneck, but looking back on the past, history has given a standard answer to this kind of problem."

“They don’t believe they can make the path, so they choose the standard answer.”

The path may be right or wrong, but it requires verification.

However, the history of Xumi has a path that does not need to be verified. Find the gods and ask, and the path forward will appear.

Nasita listened quietly to Rama's words.

"But demons and humans are actually two civilization systems." Rama looked into the green eyes of the gods and said seriously, "I don't know if you can understand what I am saying, but let me say this for now."

"We in Teyvat usually put humans and gods together, but in fact, demons and humans are two completely different beings."

"Just like humans keep pets and provide them with shelter, food and water, demon gods prefer humans and therefore provide them with a safe and prosperous life."

Nacida's eyes were filled with confusion, "But I've never heard of such a theory."

Because it takes too long.

Rama shook his head, but did not explain.

It has been at least thousands of years since the god system emerged to this day.

One or two hundred years can be considered as support. After thousands of years, the Teyvat people themselves will think that humans and gods are one.

Just like the declaration of the Seven Stars of Liyue, the people of Liyue have never considered the path after leaving the Emperor Yanwang, because he has been accompanying the people of Liyue for thousands of years.

You can't doubt such a God.

He has the power to destroy you, but He has never used any force against you for thousands of years. Instead, He patiently guides you on the way forward.

In this way, you will doubt the other party's intentions. This can't even be regarded as suspicious. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is crazy.

For individual human beings, a thousand years is too long. With a living god accompanying them for a thousand years, they will not be wary or wary.

But in terms of civilization, a thousand years is not a long time at all.

This is not a choice to doubt God's position, but a simple statement.

Gods and humans are two civilizational systems.

"Higher civilizations accompany and support lower civilizations. There are many flower species in the world. If you plant a seed at random, the shape and size of the flower cannot be determined." Rama said, "But if I collect it from a flower After a flower seed is planted, its future development can be seen."

"Human civilization may have a lot of development. I believe that you in the past also wanted to see them bloom in different flowers, but for scholars like the Six Sages, when you clearly have a path, you will not I want to open up new paths.”

"Because it's so difficult."

It's like when a great mathematician in ancient times was studying some kind of beauty in mathematics, and you gave him the answer, the most he could do was verify his own research based on the answer - could he forget it in the blink of an eye and continue on his own? research and continue your own trial and error?

No, once you have the answer, the process is not important.

This is true of mathematics, and so is civilization.

You have a technology tree that you can rely on, even if all you want at first is to follow the other party's research direction and avoid detours.

But this straight road was so enjoyable that I couldn’t stop.

There are no mistakes on the road of research, and there is no need to invest any extra resources in trial and error. I started researching, and I knew the answer...the process? There is no process.

It’s not me looking for the answer, it’s me looking for the question knowing the answer.

But in this way, the development of the technology tree has already been chosen.

You have chosen the development path for your civilization's technology tree. It will become a branch of the other party's civilization system, rather than a young but brand-new sapling.

As far as civilization itself is concerned, this may be a disaster. After all, it makes a civilization lose everything of its own and become a vassal of another advanced civilization.

But as far as the founders of civilization are concerned, this matter is different.

Researchers can see the future in advance, and ordinary people can enjoy future technologies in advance - which usually means that living standards are rising rather than falling.

Every era has its own problems, but technological progress can... usually help most people live a better life than in the past.

Civilizations and civilized individuals usually achieve mutual success, but this does not mean that their interests are completely equal.

Civilization cannot abandon its constituents, but the positions of the individuals who make up the civilization can change.

"I understand your path." Nasita smiled lightly, "Well, it's very your style of rhetoric."

Rama has always said this, and he has always been a representative of pragmatism.

This topic is actually very simple. The hidden dangers of civilization will not appear for a long time in the future, but the current conveniences are something I can enjoy now.

You ask me why I don’t do it myself, but choose to hold my thigh?

Because this is good for me, the future and the world? Then let the future world consider these.

"Oh, there are obviously many things that I have forgotten, but you can always remind me."

He blinked at Rama, "Well, because of the contract with me, I saw some things in my memory that I had forgotten."

Nasida's smile was full of teasing, and she said warmly: "My sage is really capable."

Rama nodded calmly, "It's all thanks to you."

If everyone understands something, it's better to pretend that no one understands it. There is no need to explain it too clearly.

After a while, Nasita hugged Rama and said, "I'm sorry to trouble you, sage."

His words were unusually gentle, not like the gods he used to be.

(End of this chapter)