Chapter Twenty-Four: Human Nature and Animal Nature?

At the same time, in the endless deep sea, the unimaginably huge giant snake lies in the deepest part of the seabed to rest quietly, and the other side watches the girl's crying with interest, feeling all kinds of complex emotions such as remorse, fanaticism, jealousy, resentment, fear, etc. from the girl's heart.

"Interesting. ”

And the serpent who felt all this was very satisfied with the choice he made.

The serpent had no ambition or desire, all he wanted was to satisfy his hunger and sleep, and since he swallowed the sun in his belly, he had indeed been able to stop feeling hunger, and in fact, the infinitely blazing sun, which always radiated endless light and heat, was still in his belly at the moment.

Compared to the food, the stove that made the snake feel extremely comfortable all over his body not only satisfied the snake's never-ending hunger, but also gave him time to think and pay attention to other things that he had neglected.

For example......

The small voices that often echoed in his ears.

Those small sounds appeared not long after the birth of the big snake, but the big snake who had been in a state of extreme hunger and had not eaten the last meal did not have the time and energy to pay attention to the small sounds that were not much louder than the sound of mosquitoes buzzing.

And after the serpent swallowed the sun, such small sounds suddenly became very numerous, and they increased all the time.

But it just so happened that he was in the stage of being full of wine and food, and finally had the leisure to think about what these sounds were, and began to treat these small voices around his ears with great interest.

"Please return the sun......"

"Hope ......"

“......”

Countless murmurs surrounded the serpent's ears, some begging him to return the sun, some worshipping her, some making wishes to him, and some even arrogantly commanding and scolding him.

The voices were owned by scholars, kings, prophets, ambitious usurpers, generals, nobles, pirates......

The serpent was heard by all kinds of voices, and all the voices that mentioned the name of Jörmungård, but after listening to some of the voices' prayers with great interest, the serpent soon lost interest, for there were so many prayers that were the same, nothing more than begging for strength, begging for wealth, or trying to offer him sacrifices of cattle and sheep, and so on.

If it was before the big snake devoured the sun, the big snake might still be very interested in those cattle and sheep sacrifices, after all, it could fill his stomach, but now, the sun that never goes out is in his belly, even if those cattle and sheep are fat and fresh, the big snake has no interest in it.

However, not all prayers and sacrifices are not uninteresting to the serpent, and there are some things that can make the serpent quite interesting, such as......

"A powerful and intelligent being, a lowly mortal who is here to offer you a sacrifice......"

As he fell into a deep sleep, a murmuring prayer reached his ears.

Normally, this kind of sacrifice would not have been cared about by the serpent, and he did the same, but this murmuring prayer was different, and the other party was extremely stubborn and persistent.

If one sacrifice is not enough, it will be twice, and if two sacrifices are not enough, it will be three times.

But just persistence is not enough to move the serpent, if you want to talk about persistence, there is also a king, after listening to the advice of the priests, every day with a hundred large bulls as sacrifices, for more than ten days in a row, just to be able to exchange for the sun, but the serpent directly sneezed, turned into the countless raging tornadoes, and destroyed the entire country under the rule of the wise king, without him, the other party's prayers are too annoying.

And the most important thing is a sacrifice from the other party......

A Norse warrior with only a few pieces of armor on his body, with a battle axe in his hand, fights to the death with a black bear on the opposite side.

The Norse warrior was very brave, and the scars on his body were enough to prove that the other party was indeed a good warrior, but in the middle of the fight, he was finally caught off guard by the black bear, and he was slapped to the ground with a bear paw, and then the black bear directly bit off his throat.

The crowd around was filled with excitement and cheers

And from the sound of prayer, not only the sound of prayer, but also the negative emotions of unwillingness and despair before the warrior died, it was this emotion that made the serpent feel a little interesting.

He knows very well that he has a human memory in his body, or the memory of a human traverser, and he thinks about things according to the human thinking mode, but what puzzles him is that he can't feel the complex human nature when he is a human being, and the roots and ways that drive him to act are still more of the beast's animal nature, rather than the human nature in memory.

For this, he was even a little puzzled, whether he was a traverser named Meng who crossed over to a giant snake, or whether a giant snake gained the memory of a traverser named Meng.

To test this, he decided to experiment with this group of human tribes.

The experiment was successful, and when the prophetess was presiding over the sacrifice and was in an ethereal state of mind, he tried to make contact with the other person, and the other person instantly saw part of his form......

Still, it seemed too shocking for a mortal to come into contact with a being so large that she couldn't describe it in words.

The sense of fear and shock instantly made the other party withdraw from that ethereal state.

However, the serpent still left a mark on the depths of her soul, which caused the prophetess to gradually begin to transform into a half-human, half-snake form, and incidentally affected several clans centered on her.

Feverish sacrifices, bloody rituals, and growing worship and faith......

Compared with the consciousness of the big snake, the consciousness of human beings is too humble and small, even if it is just a simple gaze, the will of the big snake under the projection is gradually more and more deeply influencing and distorting the temperament of these mortals, making this group of mortals show more complex personalities and dark sides under the observation of the big snake, and when the big snake watches the conspiracy, betrayal, vendetta and murder between these mortals, When deception and other plots, he was able to gradually correspond the incomplete human memories in his memory with these behaviors, which made Orochi deeply satisfied.

But......

"Sure enough, I still can't substitute for it. ”

Looking at a conspiracy and betrayal between human beings again, the plot is nothing more than two former friends, in this embarrassing situation, one of them took advantage of the other's unpreparedness, strangled to death by the dark path, and the various hesitations, hesitations, and spiritual torture are naturally needless to say, it is really a little sparse and ordinary.

But looking at the world in front of him when he was still a human, enough to make a plot of thirty episodes, the big snake clearly realized that he couldn't get into it at all, although it was also interesting to watch what happened between these humans, but, just like he watched the plot of "Animal World" before, it can't be said that it is not interesting, but no matter what it is, it can't make him feel any empathy.

For the beauty, for the greed for gold and silver, for the desire for power......

All kinds of desires are difficult to find in the big snake, not because the big snake has no desires, but because the desires of the big snake are completely different from the desires of humans.

What the serpent is chasing is to satisfy his hunger, which belongs to the most primitive root desires, but human beings are chasing more and more complex desires.

"Is it because I don't have any sense of identity as a human being? ”

What is the deep-seated reason for this, the big snake can't figure it out, and he doesn't plan to think about it, for him, he won't deny the identity of the human named Meng in the past, but he won't deny the identity of the giant snake now.

Or rather, it's both him, he's he, a serpent with a human mindset and a beastly nature.

He didn't intend to pursue those incomplete human memories, and he didn't mind his past and origins, anyway, they were all in the past, and he didn't bother to pay attention to them.

And after silently comparing the difference between the human emotions he saw with his own eyes and the human emotions in his memory, this group of clans lost their value in the eyes of the big snake.

The only thing that the big snake didn't expect was that there was actually a person who could resist his spiritual infection, so much so that the big snake was quite surprised, and out of curiosity, he did not hesitate to show an illusory incarnation, however, ......

Mortals are still mortals after all, even mortals with some special talents are only mortals after all, just because in a state of near death, when the heart was lost, when he saw the appearance of the big snake, he was instantly defeated all the spiritual defenses......

Completely broken.

Although he was a little disappointed and bored, the serpent generously swallowed the sacrifices that madly worshiped and sang to him, and the girl was not devoured by him, after all, she was not infected and mad by his will at all, and she did not offer him all kinds of crazy and perverted evil desires, which were not sacrifices at all.

Unlike the prophetess's self-righteous understanding, although she was vaguely aware of the serpent's desire to like humans, she did not perceive it......

The serpent did not take the sacrifices placed on the altar as sacrifices at all, but the real sacrifices were always the people who frantically sacrificed to him.

The evil, distorted, and depraved souls and deeds between them are the sacrifices that the serpent is really interested in and wants.

There is always only one real sacrificial ceremony.

A group of degenerate and twisted human beings who are gradually going crazy, this is the real ritual and sacrifice.

"Since they want the sun, then I will give it to them...... Let's be with the sun forever. ”

The big snake is still relatively generous, as long as the sacrifice is successful, the mortal wish the big snake is still happy to be satisfied, and will not break the contract.

However, in addition to this, the snake is actually thinking about another thing......

"I ...... Jörmungard?"

"Thor, Odin, I traveled back in time to Norse mythology?"

After a long time, the serpent finally realized from the prayers of his prayers that he was in Norse mythology.