Chapter 780 "Delete"
The latest website: The conversation with Daniel and others made Gawain have some uncontrolled associations.
Ever since he learned about the concept of "upper narrator" and its related beliefs in Sandbox No. 1, he has been thinking about the nature of the gods in this world and the process of generating various concepts related to gods, and he is most concerned about the Two questions:
First, how did the gods of this world come from? Second, what role does the "precept system" surrounding these gods play in the entire belief system?
In this world, many beliefs and concepts of corresponding gods originate from the "Eternal Slate", and according to Gawain's judgment, the Eternal Slate's role for mortals in the world should only be a kind of "guiding medium", which came from the god-killing fleet of that year. , due to some temporarily unknown reason, it carries the breath of the gods destroyed by it. Ordinary people in this world cannot read the battle report records of the god-killing fleet from those ancient metals like him, but can only sense it. The residual power of those gods—because the power of gods often means knowledge of gods at the same time, so the mortals who first came into contact with the Eternal Slate also indirectly learned the knowledge of gods from it.
The knowledge of the gods has an irresistible erosion and assimilation effect on the minds of mortals.
On this basis, many religious beliefs in the world have been inspired and gradually developed, which is obviously different from the "upper-level narrator beliefs" that were generated from scratch in the No. 1 sandbox.
Gawain has always been puzzled by this—in the real history of this world, the mortal civilization this season was a religion that came into being after contact with the fragments of information left by the ancient gods, and then mortals believed, Worship, and in the process formed a religious system belonging to this season's civilization, and got feedback from the gods. In this process, what position and state are those ancient gods in?
It may be a bold guess: they have been revived in the belief behavior of the new season of civilization - and because the customs, historical trajectories and even the main races of civilizations are very different in each season, these resurrected gods have long since recovered. Become a completely different individual from the gods of the ancient times, but because of the information carried by the eternal slate as the "basic guide", these "resurrection gods" must be inextricably linked with the "primitive gods" of the ancient times contact.
Do the gods themselves know this? Do they care about this themselves?
Leaving fragments of their own information in the Eternal Slate, perhaps it was the means of self-preservation they deliberately left when they were on the verge of extinction? Some way that is not a way, some kind of "resurrection" with huge flaws?
If the above guesses are all true, what is the "precept system" built around the gods and occupying an important position in the behavior of belief?
discipline system,
It can also be regarded as the "dogma" and "clear rules" of various religions. It is the integration of a series of rules used to regulate the daily words and deeds of believers. In this world where gods actually exist, clear rules and precepts are not only a kind of restraint on words and deeds, but also a set of rules and regulations. It also means that the acquisition of divine power, the effect of prayer, and even the "God Punishment" are closely related. Every mortal who believes in a specific god needs to carefully follow the numerous precepts in order to maintain the connection between himself and the god. From this point of view, the precept system seems to be a constraint formed by gods on people.
But if the gods of this world are really born out of belief, or resurrected from belief, then the commandment system...is it really just a "one-way restraint" by God on man?
The Eternal Sleeper team began to explore this phantom town. Led by Selena, Daniel and other archbishops, the ten-member team first began to explore this quiet square. Gawain silently followed behind them, his mind was up and down. .
In the beliefs of the "high-level narrators", there is a "rule" such as "the day when the bell rings, otherwise you will encounter a 'deletion'", which is a very typical "commandment", according to Archbishop Yuri. The clue to the origin of this commandment is most likely because Sandbox 1 runs an early "periodic reset" operation.
An ordinary technical operation, in the closed No. 1 sandbox, has evolved into a part of the rules and regulations in the later period. The residents in the sandbox have completely forgotten the original reason for this "rule", or do not know it at all. The real reason for the rules, but since it's part of the "dogma", they follow it religiously.
Even though the No. 1 sandbox has long since been reset every ten days...
The two priests of the Eternal Sleeper wearing owl masks completed their exploration of the nearby streets and alleys. They returned to Daniel and bowed and saluted: "Nothing has been found, Archbishop - it looks like an ordinary unmanned town now. ."
Daniel nodded, and Archbishop Yuri, who was beside him, said in a voice: "The situation in the nearby houses is the same, everything has returned to 'normal', and this time there is no bell ringing, and no lights that are suddenly turned on."
"Normal..." The red-haired and extraordinarily tall Archbishop of Magnum muttered, "This kind of place, the more normal it is, the weirder it is."
Archbishop Yuri frowned slightly and said as if talking to himself: "I have a feeling that this town seems to have its own mind. This mind tried to influence us last time and tried to break through the blockade, but it failed, so this Once it chose to shut itself off, shut down the deep 'truth' of the town, and no longer reveal any information to us..."
"You mean, this town is 'alive'?" Archbishop Magnum raised his eyelids and suddenly showed a look of interest, "Then if I give it a mental storm, will it jump up?"
Yuri glanced at the grumpy archbishop: "You can try."
Magnum was stunned for a moment, then shrugged: "...It's really boring."
Gawain listened to the conversation of these eternal sleepers, and walked at will to the center of the small square.
This used to be the location of the chapel, but now, the church has disappeared, and there is only a slightly potholed, old slate floor, and a few stagnant water on the ground.
He stopped beside one of the ponds, his eyes swept randomly, and landed on the pond.
The water surface reflected what seemed to be business as usual: the empty square, the extinguished street lights, the dark dwellings, and Gawain's own calm and indifferent face.
The "mirror" in the dream world often has a special meaning, so Gawain was also a little curious about the reflection that might appear in the water surface, but he watched for a few seconds, but he didn't see anything such as the strange blinking of himself in the reflection, "Classic" visions such as extra silhouettes appear.
This made him shake his head with a smile, only to feel that he was thinking too much, and the supernatural things he had seen in his previous life entered his mind.
But just when he was about to look away, the reflection in the water actually changed——
In the town in the reflection, the street lights suddenly started to light up, and warm and soft lights suddenly appeared in those dark dwellings!
Gawain was slightly stunned, and almost at the same time that the town reflected in the water surface changed, he heard a melodious bell that seemed to come from the sky suddenly ringing in the town!
The sudden sound of the bell made him subconsciously look up and look around, and Daniel and the others near him also reacted the same way at almost the same time-obviously, Gawain was not the only one who heard the bell.
"It's the bell..." Selena frowned, and the light from the lantern in her hand was faintly brighter, "I still don't know where it came from..."
"I said just now that there were no bells," Yuri said with a hint of self-deprecation and a hint of confusion at the same time, "but there are only bells and no lights, which is different from last time."
As he said, in the quiet and uninhabited town, only the strange and melodious bells rang, but the street lamps and the door of the residential houses did not have the warm and soft lights like last time.
However, Gawain's eyes swept across the stagnant water on the square, and he clearly saw that in the town in the reflection, the lights were coming on one by one, and they were rapidly spreading towards this side!
Suddenly, he seemed to have guessed what the malicious minds hidden in this town wanted to do, but before he could remind him, he saw Archbishop Yuri, who was still talking, disappear in front of him out of thin air.
Immediately after disappearing, those high-ranking priests wearing owl masks who didn't seem to react yet, followed by Daniel and Archbishop Magnum, who had just reacted and were trying to cast a spell to protect their minds, finally raised their voices. The lantern seems to want to dispel the darkness and illuminate the nearby hidden mind of Selena Gerfen.
Everyone disappeared in front of Gawain in just an instant, as if they were "deleted".
They were deleted for violating the commandment "Don't stay in the streets on days when the bells ring", and the "rules of the gods" believed in by the "High Narrator" sect!
Gawain stood quietly in the center of the square, looking at the still empty Phantom Town with a calm expression.
I was actually a little nervous.
He himself didn't seem to be affected, but... he wasn't sure if he was also "deleted".
After all, he still doesn't know the essence of this "deletion", and he can't find an additional observer to confirm his current state.
However, these changes in Xu's mentality did not affect Gawain's next actions. He quickly calmed down his mind, first weakened the "strength" of his access to the spiritual network in a sober and calm state, and confirmed that he was still in a state of being able to Disconnect from the network at any time and return to the real world state.
This seems to indicate that he is not affected by the strange power of the town, and his mind is still free to come and go in the network.
Then, he began to try to sense Daniel's mental frequency, trying to use a "hidden port" to establish a connection with the other party.
Daniel disappeared along with the other priests, but Gawain didn't think that this weird town could simply "kill" so many powerful superhumans. It has some strange powers, and it should be limited.
As early as when they secretly transformed the mind network, Gawain and Daniel thought about what to do in the event of an unexpected situation and the main ports of the network were blocked or blocked. A monitored "dark wire" is used for emergency contact.
It's just that Gawain originally envisaged the unexpected situation that the Pope of the Eternal Sleeper and the Supreme Bishops' Council detected the invasion of "extraterritorial wanderers" and blocked the network, but did not expect that these hidden links would come in handy in the current situation.
Consciousness was precipitated, spirit was condensed, and a hidden spiritual connection was established in an instant. Gawain quickly sensed the familiar fluctuations from the depths of his consciousness, and heard Daniel's voice ringing in his mind: "My lord, how is your situation over there? ?"
Gao Wen breathed a sigh of relief.
"I'm not affected," Gawain said in a deep voice after calming down for a while, "Where are you now?"
Hearing that Gawain was unaffected, Daniel didn't seem to be surprised at all, as if he felt that this was the behavior of a foreigner, and then he reported the situation around him: "My lord, I don't know where this is. ——It was dark all around me, and all I could see was the churning mist, which seemed to block my senses and block my mind."
Gawain frowned slightly. From Daniel's description, he couldn't tell what state the other party was in.
But one thing he can be sure of - he really doesn't seem to be affected by the strange power of this phantom town.
Daniel is currently in a dim and hazy environment, surrounded by fog that blocks perception, while Gawain's line of sight is a normal phantom town. different.
Why are you not affected?
Because Sandbox No. 1 can't recognize the soul of the "extraterritorial wanderer"? Or is it because he did not use the standard port of the Eternal Sleeper to access the Soul Network, but the "vulnerable port"?
Gawain briefly analyzed it, but now was not the time to be entangled in this matter. He could only temporarily put aside his doubts and start thinking about ways to help Daniel get out of trouble.