dark moon

Chapter 385 Debunking the Identity
"Abandoning ethics and getting rid of the shackles of emotions, perhaps the three of them have truly become the most ideal state in their minds. In order to be more perfect, they even actively choose to give up their individual existence and merge into a more complete consciousness. , they controlled the network, controlled all machines affected by the network, and planned the final mechanical apocalypse."

"You should already know the final result from Delia's mouth. The conservatives retreated to the capital area and the floating city, cutting off all public networks to survive. The neutrals formed a black market to survive in the cracks. The radicals occupied the entire ground. No. He is constantly manufacturing a large number of machines, trying to capture every city in the sky and transform the residents in the city into ideal beings."

"Wait, ideal life?" Xiuer frowned, "Is it like them?"

"No, it's a mistake for you to use them." The president said with a bitter smile, "You should use 'him'. All humans in Sky City captured by machines will have their memory chips taken away by them, and their consciousness will be uploaded as data. Network, and then...become one with him.”

"eaten?"

"Well, it can be regarded as swallowing. In fact, a more accurate description is fusion. In theory, there is no distinction between mutual influence, but because the body of 'him' is too large, the new consciousness has too little influence on him. In the end, it is equivalent to a single The aspects are swallowed up.”

"It turns out that this is the truth." The puzzle in his mind became more and more complete. Shuer said thoughtfully, "The Capital Region really exists?"

"Ah."

"Okay, okay, it's my turn, please."

"How did you come here?" The president admired Xiuer's sense of humor and asked with satisfaction, "How did you come here without being discovered by us?"

"How should I explain this to you?" Xiure scratched his head in distress. In fact, when the president answered the question just now, he had been thinking about it. He was not worrying about what to answer, but how to make the other party understand. "Praise the Lord. The Lord's will is my action. The Lord said that you should appear here, so we appeared here. Hehe, I guess you can't understand it when I say this."

"The way you talk reminds me of those ancient religious people." The president did not think that Shuer was teasing him. He could see that Shuer had at least the most basic sincerity in exchanging information, "But I must Admit it, I don’t understand what you’re saying.”

"An ancient religious person? In other words, there are no religious people in modern times?" Shuer asked thoughtfully, "But I heard that there seems to be a Mechanic Cult that still exists."

"It's just a group of cultists who were frightened mad by the radical mechanical beasts, and it's not a religion at all." The president said disdainfully, "Hundreds of years ago, when we gradually moved into the universe, religion has completely disappeared. Yes. We believe that the gods in religion are just the spiritual sustenance created by people in ancient times to fight against the fear of the unknown. As the unknown becomes less and less, the gods naturally lose the meaning of existence.”

"However, there will only be more and more unknowns, right?" Shuer shook his head slightly and said, "There was a saying in the ancient times of my hometown that the more knowledge you have, the more unknowns you will see."

"It's true to say that, but when we know that the gods are just our own imaginations, we will naturally stop using myths to explain the unknown." The president looked at Xiuer suspiciously, "You mentioned this, you don't mean to persuade I, in fact, the gods really exist, you must be sent by the gods to save us."

"is it not OK?"

"Don't be kidding, there are no gods at all." The president suddenly lost control of his emotions and slammed the table. "If gods really exist, what are they doing when we suffer? When destruction comes, what are they doing? What are you doing? Watching a show?"

The three shadow chasers quickly exchanged glances. The president's reaction was a little bit wrong. If it was just a mechanical doomsday, even though countless people died, it was not in a desperate situation. Come on, what else is he hiding?

"Oh, praise the Holy Spirit, God loves the world." This time, Shuer said this sentence with extra sincerity, "Your Excellency, President, I don't know why you are so excited, but do you really have the right to be excited?"

"You think you are in control of everything, you voluntarily abandoned your belief in the gods, and you thought that you sent the gods into an eternal sleep with your own hands, and then, you blame the Holy Spirit for ignoring your suffering? In fact, don't say if The gods are still awake, so they will never really let you fend for themselves just because you have lost your faith, even if they did, you have no right to complain."

The president opened his mouth and wanted to refute, but could not say a word. Although this did not mean that he was persuaded by Xiure. A person with his status could not be easily influenced by others. , but he really couldn't find a reason to refute it. Shuer was right, he really had no right to complain.

"Sorry, I lost my temper." The old man wiped his sweat. A few simple actions just now made the fat president's clothes almost soaked through. "You mean, you are sent by the gods? "

"We don't belong to this void at all, oh, in your words, it's this universe." Shuer had made up his mind at this time and no longer struggled. He said with a natural expression, "You may have something to do with the endless void in your own world. I understand, but obviously I don’t know anything about the outside world, and I don’t know that there are other worlds outside the world... Huh? What’s wrong with you?" Listening to Shuuer’s words, the face of the black market president suddenly lost all color. , became as pale as paper, and his lips were trembling violently, as if he had recalled some extremely frightening memory. It was hard to imagine that a person who had replaced his body with artificial equipment would still have such drastic emotional changes.

"No, it's nothing." The president waved his hand, and a few very subtle voices sounded in his body, and then his face calmed down, "Don't worry about some bad memories, so you are from another world?"

"Well, with the help of the power of the gods, we can use small loopholes in space to bypass the space barrier, and then build a projection in your world." Shuer obviously lied, "Do you still remember that we suddenly appeared? That was the scene when the projection was generated. , as for your instinct to ignore our specialness, it is also because of the influence of divine power."

"But the information I got, you have entities."

"Oh, President, although our body is still in our own world, under the influence of divine power, the projection of this world can be infinitely close to the boundaries between reality, illusion and reality. Do you really think you can distinguish clearly? ?" Shuer chuckled and picked up the plate on the table, spinning it acrobatically on his fingertips, "Look, we are here because we can interact with everything around us, but we are actually not here because of our nature , it’s just a phantom.”

"What's the evidence?"

"Huh? What do you want to prove?" Shuer raised his eyebrows, "Prove that we are just phantoms?"

"No, that's not important." The president shook his head, "Prove that you don't belong to this world."

"Oh, you just said that you are alone in this void, right." Shuer drew a circle on his chest with a holy look, "Praise the Holy Spirit, the gifts of the gods make our world not lonely, we are very Fortunately, there are many intelligent companions besides our own race.”

"What do you mean?" The president really didn't understand what Xiure wanted to say.

"Alas, the effect is great, but it is also troublesome." Shuer sighed, caressing the soft fur of Moria's deer-shaped back next to him, while avoiding her hoofs that secretly kicked from under the table, " It seems you haven’t noticed yet that two of the three people you meet are not human at all from their appearance.”

ha?are you kidding me?I have observed you for so long just now, but I still can't tell if the appearance is human?Even with the cultivation of the president, he was a little unhappy, but he still observed the two ladies carefully again.

However, after having the preconceived impression, this time he observed that everything was different.

In front of him, a strange creature with the lower body of a deer and the upper body of a humanoid, light green nails, and dancing vines around it. It didn't look like a human in any way. It was holding a piece of fruit taken from the table with a look on its face. Looking back at him innocently, as if silently questioning, what's wrong?What are you looking at me for?
On the other side of Shuuer, although the mountain elf is considered humanoid, its light blue skin and pointed ears are very different from normal humans.

"This... this..." The president subconsciously rubbed his eyes, but nothing in front of him changed. He really couldn't explain it with knowledge. Why didn't he notice such a big difference until now? Was it just an illusion?

No, video, video doesn't lie.

The president no longer cared about being polite, and quickly read the video information played on the wall. In the video, Moria was jumping up and down among the crowd, as if she was making a silent mockery of him.He found that he had even witnessed Moria's transformation from elf form to deer form more than 30 times, but he still knew nothing about it.The scene beyond his comprehension left the president at a loss, and he could only stare blankly at the strange forest elves and mountain elves.

"Oh, Your Excellency, President." Xiure's calm voice brought back the old man's reason, "I didn't mean to scare you, I just used this to prove that we are not creatures that exist in this world. In fact, there are two worlds. The rules are different, and it’s impossible for us to come over.”

"I understand." The president closed his eyes and sighed softly. He felt that his world view was changing, "So..."

"Don't worry, let me ask you a question first." Shuer frowned and asked, "Besides us, do you have any other friends?"

"The meeting will be temporarily suspended." The president immediately understood Seul's subtext, "It seems that people from the city hall have discovered this stronghold."

(End of this chapter)