When the disaster broke out, plague and destruction raged everywhere, and the entire empire region fell into a storm of destruction. In the face of an equal doomsday, all races, no matter how strong or weak, would end. The former protectors became butchers. The homeland has become a devil's den, the fire of civilization is gradually extinguished, and thousands of worlds are wiped out. Those who have not experienced that disaster in person may not be able to imagine the tragedy and panic when the disaster strikes, even if more historical materials are unearthed in the future Even the ruins are difficult to restore the horror scene.
In the violent wind and waves of the end, except for a small group of lucky ones who managed to escape from the polluted area due to their timely response or the desperate rescue of the empire, most races were wiped out before they had time to resist, but some were still trapped in the empire. The races in the area survived: they happened to fall into the sight of Abyss Xiling, who was not yet completely mad, so this group of guys who didn't know whether they were lucky or unlucky were protected.
It is impossible to send these survivors out of the Empire area, the borders have been closed, all the world gates to the far frontier have been shut down or blown up by the local defenders taking advantage of the last trace of clarity, and the pollution has completely out of control Sending more survivors out of the Empire Zone means that the chances of pollution spreading are also doubling, so Abyss Xiling did the last thing she could do: bring together these surviving remnants of various ethnic groups, They were all sent to the last untouched world in the contaminated area, and then she "buried" this world deeply under the ruins of the old empire. Although the disaster was indestructible, Abyss Xiling was the most intelligent cluster consciousness in the entire empire, and at the end of the disaster, she had completely controlled all resources on the spiritual network, so she successfully built a protective layer. The entire universe was isolated, as if invisible in the void—she won the bet that the abyss did not spread into this sanctuary.
This protective layer is the strange interference that Sandora and I encountered. Facts have proved that the protective layer arranged by Abyss Xiling with the last bit of consciousness is working well, and tens of thousands of years have not done anything to it. Influence.
But just laying out a protective layer is not enough. No matter how tight the defense is, it is easy to be breached from the inside. In addition, no one knows when the unprecedented pollution in the Empire District will dissipate (Abyss Xiling used to I hope that this pollution will dissipate by myself one day), and mortals have a short lifespan, mutated nature, and are especially prone to inheritance and historical distortions after many years of inheritance, so Abyss Xiling specially entrusted the survivors with a medium lifespan before leaving. The three longest-lived species: tree elves, white elves, and high elves, she let these least unshakable long-lived races find ways to control the behavior of other races, in short: hold your breath.
And the three elf races finally carried out this mission by establishing the "Lost God Cult" to this day.
Extinguish the fire of civilization and usher in the severe winter of technology. All races must be silent. They are the last batch of cubs carefully hidden in the deep cave by the mother beast, so they must learn to live in the cave, because even if they only want to Looking outside the cave will 100% kill them, so they put out the fire source, shut their mouths, and even sealed their own intelligence, and then began to dig deeper into the cave - we have not found it in other places in this universe Life, only a few sporadic space facilities have been found. The reason is simple: after many generations of planned natural population decline, these survivors have successfully reduced the total population to a point where they can survive on a planet. The alien colonies once established have all returned to the planet where they first landed.
"The establishment of the Lost God Church has gone through many twists and turns, and it is the plan we finally settled on after trying various methods," Bishop Gale was the oldest person present, and now he is more than 70,000 years old. He is one of the highly respected commanders of the tree elves. He once accepted the mission delivered by Abyss Xiling in front of a data terminal. No one has more say in the history of the Lost God religion than him. At this moment, the old man is full of energy. Tens of thousands of years The long years slowly melted away on that wrinkled old face, and finally solidified into a piece of pride and open-mindedness, "The most extreme plan, but... there is no choice. At first we tried the republic of all ethnic groups for 20 years, but it led to The efficiency of the ruling system is low, and various regulatory measures are redundant but full of loopholes. We can only rely on the people's horrific memories of the catastrophe and let them control their words and deeds on their own. The regulatory measures also seem to be stricter, but what they bring is a depressing and unbearable social atmosphere. Although small groups of people still keep in mind the agreement of 'no touching special technology', they can't help but transfer their dissatisfaction to the maintenance The rulers of this social order are the three tribes of elves; then we tried a federal system, trying to let each tribe maintain its own country, and the head of each country fulfilled its mission as a member of the 'Great Federation', As a result, this attempt almost caused a greater disaster—people’s hearts are unpredictable, and more and more groups that study taboo knowledge for various purposes have popped up one after another. If you don’t misuse it at this time, it will never cause information leakage. Even the three elves have dangerous signals. In addition, the population of some short-lived races has begun to update as a whole, and some have even been updated to the third generation. , the younger the generation, the more despised the warnings about disasters, and even... In short, the federal system has also failed in the end. It can neither solve the problem of inefficient regulatory loopholes, nor can it make the social order slightly better. "
Gaefeng clearly showed a helpless and bitter expression on his face when he mentioned the "Federal Era". The so-called 'revolutionary organization' formed by the third and fourth generation of young people, who were born and raised in absolute safety, but think they are living through the worst 'era of oppression', they have only seen about it from textbooks and videos The abyss and the catastrophe, for the short-lived race, it is almost a thing of the last era, so they lack awe of history. These young people occupy a considerable share of society, and because of federalization, the survivors They develop independently based on ethnicity, and these younger generations have the opportunity to grow and even become the ruling class in their respective federations. These innovative organizations finally openly set off rebellions, saying that they want to 'overthrow the corrupt and dark immortals' and establish 'freedom' A New Age of Breathing', I still remember what their slogan was... 'The world should be saved by fourteen-year-old boys and girls'... Well, in the end they only brought chaos and almost caused the end of the world."
"They somehow found a void engine, and although they didn't know what it was, they were determined to try to activate it - because they believed that it was used to open the door to the new world. Killed the young leader," the archbishop sighed, "a sixteen-year-old boy... A whole generation of many races has been destroyed."
"We educate, they say we brainwash, we propagandize, they say we preach, we purge the media, they say we ban breathing, so in the end we decided to do exactly what they said: completely remove modern technology," Gale continued. topic, "After several failed attempts, we have realized something: the mortal race is fragile and changeable, and can never guarantee absolute unity or eliminate selfish desires, even if we long-lived elves are no more than this, no matter how hard the mortal race tries Maybe like the apostles of Xiling, lunatics will always exist, and only a few lunatics are enough to destroy everything. Whether it is a republic, a federal system, or even an imperial system, it is impossible to fundamentally change people's hearts. No matter how strict the system is, it takes time to implement it. But attracting the end of the world may only need to press a button. Under the premise that the "doomsday cost" is so low and the end of the world is triggered so quickly, it is impossible to rely on regulation to protect the world. So instead of trying to restrain people how Proper use of technology, let them identify safe knowledge and taboo knowledge, it is better to simply seal everything up, so that at least the seeds of civilization can survive, no matter how long it is buried deep, it will always have a chance to germinate again."
"We should be thankful that we woke up in time, and didn't wake up until all the races except the three races of the elves were replaced," said a fat bishop who had never spoken with a smile. He kept his eyes closed. The eyes are actually blind. "If it is really delayed until then, I am afraid that there is no way to complete the transformation without going through a world war. Because most races still have reason and can realize the necessity of this decision, so 'knowledge fades' The 'transformation' movement was completed in a relatively stable state, and it took hundreds of years in the middle, but there was nothing wrong with it. After the knowledge faded, the world became like this, because even the three races of the elves could not get too much contact with technology and advanced technology. Magic, so to make sure everything is under surveillance, we have even abandoned the interstellar era, and no higher knowledge is kept within the elves. All math rate equipment and equipment related to void technology are destroyed or sent to the gods Forge—the outer area of that place is simply a large cemetery, and the remaining facilities have become so-called ancient relics. Now tens of thousands of years have passed, except for us old guys, and the old guys who died Except for the little guy who came to inherit the mantle (he turned his head slightly when he said this, and 'looked' at the only young bishop present), no one knows that the depths of the starry sky were once our home."
"Press technology back to the age of animal farming, so that even if revival groups appear, they will have to develop for hundreds of years before they can get in touch with that knowledge again, and we will have time to react," Bishop Gale added, "Instead of trying to find a way It’s better to stop people from detonating bombs than to destroy them, and that’s how we think about it.”
"You not only erased the advanced technology, but also erased the truth about the disaster, and even replaced the real history with religious legends. Most people, including most of the Lost Gods, don't know about the sealing technology. The real meaning, they are just blindly following the orders of the church," I looked at the fat bishop, "Is this necessary? Keeping the truth about the disaster does not conflict with sealing technology, you can let the common people know why sealing technology , This will also provide an extra layer of deterrence, which is much stronger than the current ambiguous legends."
The fat bishop shook his head: "The civilization formed by mortal races is easily distorted by time, and the higher the degree of civilization, the greater the danger. A group of primitive people may just blindly turn to the gods when facing pressure, but a group of people with Civilized human beings with the power of knowledge may overthrow the entire social order in the face of pressure. This has been proved in the federal era. Therefore, the more ignorant the race, the easier it is to maintain stability. Even if a lie lasts for thousands of years, no one will question it. The goal of Lost God religion from the beginning was to make most short-lived races 'ignorant', blunt people's thinking, reduce the knowledge of the people, and let them shift their attention from exploring the truth to eating three meals a day. In this refuge, the more knowledgeable and truth-aware the more dangerous people are. Fortunately, those of us who have experienced everything or have been selected to know the truth, are most afraid of having a half-knowledge of history, and have unprecedented action and self-confidence. Inflated young man."
"Is this the technology revivalist?" Sandora said suddenly.
"Technology Revivalism is one of them. It emerged in this millennium. Similar situations have occurred more than once in the past tens of thousands of years." The fat bishop frowned slightly. "Actually, we also feel guilty towards these organizations. In order to protect this refuge Therefore, the short-lived species sacrificed a lot. Most people in the technological revivalist group should have become the leaders of civilization and the pillars of the ethnic group in a normal world, but in this world, they can only be suppressed. But the road has been If we decide, we have to keep going. We reached a consensus with the leaders of those short-lived races tens of thousands of years ago: they voluntarily shed knowledge and ensure the safety of the shelter at the cost of ignorance for future generations. Our task is to Try to live long enough to maintain this order as the only informed guardian."
"If I'm not mistaken... the members of the Technological Revival Sect will eventually be absorbed into the church again by you," Sandora Ball suddenly said in a rather profound tone, "I scanned every corner of the city and found Some really interesting... places."
Bishop Gale laughed: "Indeed, the Technological Renaissance faction has appeared more than once, and there are more than one technological revival organizations in the world. Some of them have been successfully suppressed. We try to capture the members of these organizations alive. If they If your will is firm enough, tell them the truth. Those who can bear the truth will become a group of special monks in the church. The outside world calls them "The Masked Ones". They are execution troops who wear masks all their lives. After knowing the history "The monks will take the initiative to deal with other revival organizations, and they are more enthusiastic than ordinary monks. This is not a bright method, but sometimes it takes some shadows to protect the world. And regardless of whether you can become a masked person or not, a member of the revival organization who knows the truth They will all be strictly controlled by the church. Those who convert will be monitored, and those who cannot bear the truth will be under house arrest for life and will not be allowed to leave the city for half a step—we try to avoid killing these people, because everyone is out of helplessness. Everyone is guilty of sin, including us."
"The revivalists are fearless because of ignorance. They think they are saving the world, so they are full of motivation, but after knowing the truth, they have to deal with their former counterparts without hesitation, and they can't reveal the reason why they 'betrayed the organization'," Sandora said. The voice sighed quite a bit, "You should cover up the truth about the abyss to prevent a big collapse."
"Ignorance is bliss," the fat bishop sighed. "The truth of this world is not very beautiful. It is a kind of extreme despair. The entire universe may be wiped out at any time. All of us can live for a second because of luck. Mortals have no way to resist, not even to escape. Those legends we make up at least make people believe that civilization will slowly recover, people believe that the gods of technology and magic will slowly forgive humans, and they have nothing to fear So many things, but what if the people knew the truth? They would realize that civilization is impossible to revive. There is no god of technology and god of magic. As long as civilization progresses, it will be destroyed immediately. Our future is hopeless, in any direction Going forward is a dead end - most people will not accept this fact, we have a lot of hard evidence to prove it. Only the most determined people can become the shroud, and most revivalists will either go crazy or go crazy after learning the truth of the world. To be even more extreme, they can only be imprisoned in mountain caves for a lifetime, because they always want to rush out to tell everyone the truth, let everyone suffer the same pain as them or simply drag the world to destruction. The members of these revival organizations are already strong people who are different from ordinary people, and if they are so, what about ordinary people? Not everyone can accept this hopeless world."
"Rather than dying in despair, it is better to live ignorantly, so that at least you can enter the coffin with an illusory hope. Before the end comes, one more day is one day," Lie Feng's old and hoarse voice expressed the hearts of everyone, "We The old guy has experienced big winds and waves, just let us hold on, and the others...just pretend nothing happened, and living in peace is worse than anything else."
I suddenly realized that this world is a huge cage, as the elf warning said: the cage will also be turned into a barrier. In fact, it should be understood in reverse: the barrier is the cage. Everyone is trapped in a prison with no way out, but this prison is big enough, so most of them don't realize the railings standing in the distance, and the three clans of elves are the first prisoners to come in. They are in the middle of the prison. He built a small home as delicate as building blocks in a small piece of land, and then told other prisoners: This is the whole world!
The Lost God religion used "ignorance" and "ignorance" to create invisible shackles, making the prisoners unable to walk to the end of the cage, and created a false sky with religious legends, so that the prisoners would not see the dark top of the cage when they looked up. As long as the railings are out of sight, there are no prisons—and so the majority of the world thrives in peace, generation after generation, never doubting their "whole world."
But now, the cage is finally about to be opened. RS