Chapter 1412 Return of the Old Days (XI)
"Carcosa... Lake Halli in the Aldebaran system... the dark sun is already high in the sky..."
A deep female voice echoed in the dark space. She looked up at the stars, and then felt a response from the lake.
She thought, maybe this ancient one was really different. That call came from nowhere, maybe it was ringing in her own heart, just like before.
Wearing a robe, Ancient Yi settled his thoughts and pursued the dark voice of the universe until it reached the bottom of his heart. Before the fog dissipated, he took a step towards the deepest part of the spiritual world, and then came to the center of the huge city. above.
Is this Carcosa?
Ancient One stood on the edge of the sky island and looked down. The shadow of the huge city below was both majestic and terrifying like an abyss. The countless spiers protruding from the city were just like the one Ancient One had visited somewhere in the Aldebaran galaxy. The same debris seen on a planet.
Some weird patterns were revealed in the surging mist, which had a kind of Gothic beauty, but it was not exactly the same. Gu Yi did not feel the darkness, sadness and contradiction in it, and there was no Gothic core of mysticism. There is just a kind of peace and serenity.
When the fog gradually thickened, Gu Yi turned around with some feeling and saw the black sun guarded by countless fogs. He hung quietly in the sky without saying a word, and those mysterious patterns and surging particles had told Got all the answers from Ancient One.
Ancient One clasped his hands together and saluted, and said: "I know you will not respond, but as the Supreme Mage, I still want to thank you for warning the earth. Thank you, Ancient One, mankind has taken action, and the old days will not happen again." Pro.”
The Black Sun will never respond. Gu Yi knows this. Maybe he is not a life at all, but more like a machine in human understanding. He only follows certain logical actions, but Gu Yi firmly believes that he has abundant emotions, can understand order, and has like.
In Gu Yi's long life, she has seen many such gods. Not all demon gods are chaotic and crazy. There are many regular existences that truly love their creations, care for them like fathers and mothers, and serve them. Delighted with their progress.
Judging from the experience of Ancient One for many years, the more they can understand order and create order, the more ancient and powerful they are, because there is a price to pay to protect the order they created. If they could not defeat all intruders, let them Self-preservation is no problem at all, and they have no energy left to love their creations.
"We should come and talk about you." Gu Yi still maintained his clasped hands, but raised his head and said, "It shouldn't be a coincidence that you called me. Do you want to make a deal with me?"
The black sun did not respond, still hanging quietly in the sky, like the only darkness condensed in the endless gray. When it is dark enough, it will show that other light-colored places are brighter. It sounds very contradictory. , but it is particularly beautiful when observed.
"What do you want?" Gu Yi asked again, and she patiently listed what she could provide: "Energy, soul, door to the real world, pain and blood, willpower, beautiful character... "
Gu Yi was already very familiar with this process. When she placed her chips on the table, she could judge what kind of existence the other party was based on their choices.
Gods who prefer neutrality prefer things related to the soul, not soul energy, but the meaning of the existence of the soul and the authenticity of life in the universe. They will hope that their contractors will dedicate their souls after completing the contract, but they will not absorb the soul. , I just hope that they will be by their side, which will allow them to listen to the pulse of the universe.
Gods who tend to be kind like the peace and tranquility that comes from some kind of long trial, so they often provide tests to contractors, perhaps to find certain fragments, or to explore certain knowledge. They like the results that contractors produce during their concentration. The power of calm, that's their tranquilizer.
Gods who favor chaos and evil often demand blood, pain and screams. They will drive their followers to destroy, or simply ask powerful beings to open the door for them to invade the real world so that they can kill everyone. kill.
As long as the gods put forward conditions, Gu Yi can see through them and then decide how to deal with them. Of course, she will not stop destroying them just because the gods are kind enough. Everything only depends on her own needs.
The black sun still didn't respond, and seemed to have completely rejected Gu Yi's transaction request, but Gu Yi did not lose patience. She just stood here quietly, like a statue, as if she could spend thousands of years like this.
Suddenly, a gust of wind blew, and the fog became thicker. Gu Yi raised his head, narrowed his eyes slightly, and stared intently at the huge black sun. There was no light or sound, but the flow direction of the sun's particles changed slightly.
The black sun showed a different pattern to Gu Yi, and other knowledge poured into Gu Yi's mind. After gradually understanding these obscure knowledge, Gu Yi showed a slightly confused expression.
emotion?
Gu Yi lowered his head and took a breath, then raised his head to look at the black sun with calm and powerful eyes, and said: "Do you want emotions? What kind of emotions? Joy, pain, peace, confusion ...You want it all? You're too greedy."
Gu Yi didn't seem to have heard this request, but she still breathed out, looked at the black sun and said: "The passionate emotions in my youth have long gone away from me. After I achieved the perfection of my state of mind, I rarely There are emotional swings.”
"But you came at the right time, or I came at the right time. Not long ago, I did feel regret for some of my habitual behaviors. Can this satisfy your requirements?"
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The black sun did not respond, and the solar particles continued to surge silently according to the previous rules, but Gu Yi knew that this was a gesture of accepting everything, and she had another question that must be explored.
"So, what can you give me?"
The answer appeared in Gu Yi's mind, still without sound or picture, just a concept, like Gu Yi's sudden idea, but she knew that was a response.
Knowledge and truth.
"What kind of knowledge? What kind of truth?"
Then Gu Yi got the answer again, frowning and gently reading the answer: "...all?"
Gu Yi showed a tangled look. The other party did not seem to be the kind of arrogant demon god with a burnt brain, but Gu Yi really didn't know how he was going to give all the knowledge and truth.
Gu Yi decided to take a risk, just because this black sun was unlike any life she had ever seen. It just quietly hung in the sky, majestic, terrifying and magnificent, like another level of nature.
"I will tell you my story first, and then you will tell yours. I will open my heart completely and tell you my happiness, pain and confusion. I don't ask for much. You should answer my questions and tell me what you are and what is in the depths of the stars..."
After Gu Yi finished speaking, without any hesitation, her eyebrows slightly frowned, she fell into memories and began to tell her story with Jennifer.
"After I arrived at that universe, I began to patrol until I saw a little girl in the backyard of a house who was completely different from other monsters..."
"... Then, Jennifer began to tremble constantly, and I realized what a big mistake I had made. My empiricism was about to kill her..."
"This was an accident, but I prefer to think that it was a human error, a mistake I made. I took the little girl away as a savior, but I failed to truly fulfill the savior's duties..."
"Every Supreme Sorcerer must firmly believe that he is invulnerable. Once their doubts are shaken, they may The world is dragged into disaster..."
"Yes, you are right. This extremely arrogant idea is constantly taming our spirit and personality, but I don't feel pain. A sense of responsibility is the greatest meaning of existence that humans can find..."
"No, I don't think it has anything to do with whether it can be made up. I have made many irreparable mistakes, but none of them frustrate me as much as this time..."
Gu Yi stared at the changing patterns of the black sun and felt the thoughts that kept pouring out of her heart. What surprised her was that this ancient god was telling her his understanding of her in this way. He was analyzing her emotions and explaining their sources.
He was providing another kind of knowledge, a kind of knowledge that Gu Yi rarely paid attention to, which acted on the abstract aspects of intelligent creatures.
Gu Yi began to speak out the knowledge provided by the black sun so that he could better understand them in an orderly way.
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"I have always been balancing my own humanity and divinity. When I was the Supreme Mage, divinity prevailed. My responsibility to all mankind forced me to become a god and make one choice after another that was beneficial to the majority of people."
"Perhaps the change came when I had a qualified successor, and the responsibility on my shoulders was no longer so heavy, so humanity gradually returned. I began to no longer be trapped in gains and losses, and no longer had to worry about which side to save, so I began to become greedy, hoping that even the smallest rescue would not go wrong."
"Once, my tolerance for sacrifice was always high. In addition to being willing to sacrifice myself, I was not afraid to sacrifice some people in my tribe. I would not feel guilty or frustrated about this, just because divinity suppressed everything, I did my best to save what I could save, so I could have a clear conscience."
"But when humanity prevails, I hope there will be no more Sacrifice, not Jennifer, nor all of humanity, and if I fail to do so, I will feel the sadness that I rarely felt when I sacrificed my own kind... The pursuit of perfection comes from the compassion in human nature, and also from the greed in human nature. "
After the voice of the Ancient One fell, she was silent for a long time, and then she clasped her hands together again, her robes floating slightly, and she said: "I have always regarded human emotions as mysterious things, and sometimes I even feel that demons are easier to understand than humans."
"But I would say, yes, Your Majesty, this is indeed a wonderful knowledge, another way to observe the world. If this is your reward to me, I can accept it without any additional knowledge. I think it is enough. "
But soon, the Ancient One felt that other knowledge turned into pages of books and floated into her heart. The Ancient One observed intently and found that it recorded the secrets of the stars.
"Azathoth, Nameless Mist, Shub-Niggurath, Yog-Sothoth, Nyarlathotep, Cthulhu..."
Ancient One read out the names on each page of the book and was shocked by the hugeness and terror of this mysterious pantheon hidden deep in the stars.
She looked down at the gradually taking shape of the notebook cover, which had a black sun and the words "Book of the Dead" written in cursive on it.
And she finally saw a very clear message, or a warning, on the huge black sun - "Do not circulate".