After thinking about it repeatedly, Todd's mind became more and more confused.

The Battle of the Chosen One in Jingsu's mouth is like a fog that can't see the truth at all, hiding the truth behind it.

Shaking his head vigorously, Todd said to Huggins, "The investigation of the abilities of the Sea Race can be continued, but it must not have any conflict with them. ”

Huggins opened his mouth at first, but finally gave up on persuasion, and he hung his head and said, "Do the holy will." ”

Watching Huggins leave the room, Todd closed his eyes, entered the soul space, and went straight to Richel.

Richel, who wears glasses and regular clothes, looks surprised by Todd's summons.

"Urgent?"

Todd looked at Richel's outfit and asked, "Are you in the Twilight Library?"

"Yes. ”

"Or are you researching beacon towers and time travel?"

"Yes, I believe I've got some eyebrows. Rachel took off her glasses: "There is some information, and the more you dig into it, the more interesting it is." ”

Todd beckoned a freezer, took out a can of Coke, and took two sips, "That's what I want to discuss with you." ”

Rachel rummaged through the freezer, found a bucket of ice cream, and ate it to herself.

"You know what? It's already sold in the city. ”

Todd didn't react for a moment: "What?"

Rachel shook the ice cream in her hand: "There are xenos in the city who have opened a shop, and after using the ability to accelerate aging, freezing, and coagulation, they can process eggs, milk, and sugar to get a similar product. However, the taste is fishy and it tastes hard. ”

Todd looked a little crying and laughing, "Richel, can we put the food aside and talk about something more important?"

"Food has always been the most important thing. Rachel smiled and said, "It represents the first and purest desire of all living beings." ”

Looking at Todd's depressed face, Rachel put down the spoon in his hand: "I won't tease you." ”

Todd said, "Do you remember everything about the Chosen War?"

"Yes, it was a competition led by the Crystal Su, and the winner could gain the power of the gods. ”

"Have you ever thought about it? What's the point of this competition?"

"Meaning?"

Todd thought for a moment and said, "What is the reason for Jingsu to go through so much trouble?"

"To elect a god?"

"The god chosen through this contest of turf, power, and followers is nothing more than a victor who worships force, is ambitious, and demagogues, and can this kind of person really achieve the purpose of what Jingsu calls 'racial optimization'?"

Rachel looked a little confused: "I'm a little out of your train of thought. ”

Todd sighed and said slowly, "I'll go through my thoughts from the beginning. ”

"In this world, Jingsu selects some people with extraordinary abilities and gives them enlightenment. Jingsu told these people that by expanding their territory, becoming the strongest, and grabbing believers, they could become gods of this world and gain infinite power. ”

But these three paths to victory, if you think about it, actually all have one thing in common. ”

Rachel frowned and asked, "What commonality?"

"To expand one's territory, one needs to start wars between nations as a ruler, to become the strongest, one needs to slaughter other powerful creatures to ensure that oneself is at the pinnacle of power, and to seize believers provokes religious confrontation and conflicts between believers. ”

Rachel somewhat understood: "These three paths to victory are actually full of fighting and slaughter. In other words, in order to win, it is necessary to physically and mentally destroy the other opponents. ”

Todd nodded, "Jingsu once told me that the purpose of the Chosen War is to select races, eliminate those backward races, and leave those excellent races. But according to Skaha's history, many eras in this world have ended in destruction, with all civilizations reduced to zero and no living creatures left. ”

"What is the significance of this kind of ending to Jingsu? This is tantamount to doing failed experiments again and again, but not learning the lessons, and continuing to go further and further down the wrong old path. ”

"You're right," said Richel, "every attempt at Crystal will end with the end of the world, and everything will return to the beginning. If his purpose is to select races, to create a perfect race, then these repeated failed attempts are really meaningless. ”

Todd mused, "So, I decided to look at the Chosen War from a different perspective. What if the fundamental purpose of everything Jingsu is to encourage war between races?"

Rachel was taken aback: "You mean, Jingsu wants to see war, wants to see genocide?"

Todd continued, "The end of the world and the extinction of the race are inevitable consequences for Jingsu. He doesn't care about the outcome, it's about something that comes out of the process. ”

Rachel asked, "I don't understand what you said, what is the value of destroying everything you have created with your own hands?"

Todd understands Reichell's thoughts, and the other party has been analyzing the Chosen War with the body of a person in the game, but to truly understand the value behind this war, he must raise his vision to the perspective of Jingsu.

Todd explains: "Rachel, I'll give you an example, when I was in the institute, I used to do sample-referenced experiments. ”

"I will explain what a sample-referenced experiment is, by observing the interaction between different microorganisms, culture mediums, hormones and catalysts in a petri dish to record and analyze the properties of these constants, and by adding multi-level variables, to find possible variations and evolutionary pathways in the experiments. ”

Rachel took a deep breath, "I need you to explain it in a more straightforward way. ”

"The world we live in is what I call a petri dish," Todd said. Humans, animals, plants, microorganisms, and even those undead are the test subjects; natural factors such as the ocean, sky, and earth are the culture fluids; causal events are the corromones; and the battle of the chosen is the catalyst. ”

"Put these substances together, observe how they react, and draw the final experimental conclusions. At the end of one experiment, remove the entire dish and observe it again using the same experimental material. ”

Todd said to Rachel, "That's exactly what Crystal Suck did, first by using the War of the Chosen to cause the races to fight, then by forbidding the Precursors from interfering in the experiment, and finally by using the end of Ragnarok to end the experiment. When everything returns to nothingness, a new era will begin, a new experiment. ”

Rachel froze completely.

After a long time, she said softly, "Is this really the truth of the world?

Todd sat down dejectedly: "It's all my guess, but this is what I think is the most plausible explanation. ”

Rachel looked at Todd, "Regarding the assumption you just made, you just mentioned something. ”

"What?"

"When you mentioned a sample-referenced experiment, you mentioned the addition of multi-level variables, so what is that?"

Todd thought back for a while and explained: "When conducting experiments, in addition to preparing constant experimental materials such as microorganisms, culture mediums, hormones and catalysts, we will generally prepare a variable experimental material, which is generally a substance taken from the outside world to observe the influence of different external substances on the experiment. Each time the experiment is conducted, the material for this variable is changed......"

Todd's eyes widened, staring at Rachel, unable to utter a word.

Rachel looked at him with a smile, "You realize it, too, that variable is you." ”