Pym's self-deprecation certainly has its own merits, and Lird agrees with it, and now his father has become a god of controllable power in ancient times, but neither this power nor his name will help him through this difficult situation, and it seems that the father is facing this difficult problem that he may not be able to pass.

Pym smiled lightly, "In addition to these, how much news did you learn from the sacrifice?"

Lird shook his head and said, "I don't know much, after all, my mind was messed up at the time... These things..."Pym smiled and nodded, "It's really hard to accept for a while." ”

Lird said, "The priestess told me something about the [power] in you, which she described as a double-edged sword that could hurt you if you weren't careful. ”

Pym teased: "Looking at its cumbersome appearance, it is not a double-edged sword, it feels more like a poisonous thorn vine." ”

Lird pondered for a moment and then said, "I never asked you how your body felt, at the time it was nothing more than pain, but now I am more curious about your body..."

Pym raised an eyebrow and said, "Do you want to know what it's like to be a 'god'?" Lird shrugged his shoulders and followed his father's optimism, "Sort of." ”

Pym pondered for a moment and then said indifferently: "If the god of [thought] lives in heaven or the land of bliss, then the god of peace [power] lives in the darkest hell, because they experience the most painful torment of this world every moment. ”

After that, Pym stretched out his hand, and his dry fingers swiped a few times out of thin air: "This kind of action is nothing in the eyes of ordinary people, but if you feel it carefully, you will also find that it is felt, and the human body itself is a perceptual organ, which will perceive everything in this world, gentle and refreshing." Stuffy, sore, aching... Just the simplest gesture of finger flicking will feel different at different times, but none of this is felt by me. Leard's heart moved when he heard this, but he listened to his father continue.

"Now I don't feel anything at all, or I only have one feeling, and that's nothingness. ”

Seeing Liard's puzzled look, Pym continued: "What I say will also feel very abstract, give you a few examples and you will understand. ”

"When you touch a hot soup bowl, you withdraw your hand because of the burning pain, when your skin is cut open by the blade, when you feel refreshed when you get into the tub and take a hot shower after a tiring day. All these things are people's perceptions of things in this world, and I don't feel any of these things. ”

"I can ignore the temperature of the food, and I don't feel it even when I drink the lava and it burns open my esophagus. The knife stabbed above my body, and I could only watch the blood trickle out of my body, but I felt nothing other than the tension of inertia. I could no longer perceive all the sensations that the outside world gave me, such as temperature, pain, comfort, etc., and all I could do was to imagine the feelings of such things by relying on the habits I had accumulated over the decades. ”

"For example, when I see hot air on food, I habitually blow on it, and when the needle penetrates my body, I habitually frown. When I go out for a walk with you, I watch the sun shine on me, and I habitually squint my eyes and think about that warm feeling, which is my life now, a person who can only perceive life by imagination. Haha, do you think this is an extremely realistic living dead?"

Lird looked at his father with a frown, and although he had been mentally prepared for some things after all the shock, he still felt extremely unacceptable after hearing his father's monologue.

Pym continued: "Of course, my body is now completely in this state of the five senses of nothingness, which is not what it was, but the healing of the sacrifice that has caused my body to perceive nothing, you don't worry, she won't do it unless she is forced to do it." ”

"When the [power] remained in my body that night, my physical condition took a sharp turn for the worse, and all kinds of negative feelings in the human body such as weakness, incomparability, sickness, etc., came one after another, and at that moment I even felt that I had suffered from all the diseases in this world in an instant. ”

"It is not a matter of pride to believe me, it can be said that at that moment I can abandon everything in this world, and give up everything without scruples for only one death, but death is also difficult for me, because I have no way to complete my own death, I can only wail and struggle in this pain, and this is one of the gifts of [strength] to me. ”

"In order to suppress this pain of mine, the choice made by the sacrifice is paralysis, of course, this paralysis is different from the common surgical anesthetics, it uses some unique methods of the Atlantean remnants, as you can see now, I am now in a state of emptiness with paralysis all over my body, but I can still react to normal human actions, I can eat, excrete, think, talk, although many activities are restricted, but at least compared to the dead, I am more like a living person. ”

This time Lird finally understood why neither Jim, nor his father nor the priest said that he could not leave this place and enter a regular medical institution for treatment, and that no medical institution or physician could do this in Lird's knowledge, and that it was unthinkable to protect people's sanity and paralysis.

Pym continued: "Of course, this approach has its limitations and drawbacks, and to a certain extent I prefer to compare it to a painkiller like Demerol, but it is more effective and controllable than Demerol. However, it is also quite similar to the clinical sequelae of Demerol treatment, there will be a strong dependence after a long time, and the duration of each treatment is relatively shorter, although the [force] is not bacteria or viruses, but my body will indeed produce a certain 'resistance' response under long-term grinding. In the beginning, I had to be under constant anesthesia for two or three days, and now, as you know, I need this treatment every day, and I don't know what the reaction will be going to be in the days to come, and when this treatment starts to work on my body, that's the day of my death. ”

...

At this point, Lird finally understood his father's illness and the healing methods of Atlantis sacrifice for his father, and the question that had plagued Lird for a long time was finally answered, and Lird breathed a sigh of relief, and his thoughts became more complicated while feeling relieved.

Obviously, there is no conventional medical treatment for my father's injury, but can only be treated with a relatively sideways method, and this treatment method can only be regarded as a "no cure for the symptoms" control therapy, the arrival of the disease will be delayed as much as possible, but the reality will not not come under the delay, but it will break out in the belated "face" of more cruel and crazy.

After telling all this, Pym calmed down, he had told his son all his secrets, and he would continue to ask the next questions.

After pondering for a long time, Lird said, "You said that the hellish pain and torture was one of the gifts that [strength] gave you, so what are the other gifts?"

Pym laughed at this, apparently the little language trap he had left behind had been spotted by Lird, much to Pym's relief, who did not know that his question had inadvertently touched on the most central issue of all the events.

Pym said: "Everything is like a double-edged sword, there are disadvantages and natural advantages, the [power] in my body does not blindly exist only to attack the body, and it is forgotten that it also has its most essential things. ”

Strength!

The essence of power is power!

Lird's mind snapped through as his pupils constricted in an instant, thinking he had realized something more important.

At this time, his father, Pym, had given the answer with a faint smile.

"Since I am counted as a 'god', some of the power of 'god' can be used after all. ”

Lird looked at his father in astonishment, as if he were looking at a monster.

Pym said: "But unfortunately I can't show you this power, just as the sacrifice said, the [power] in my body is an ordinary double-edged sword, and only when it is stable can it minimize the damage to me." And the paralysis treatment he performed on me was not to inject me with anesthetics, but to use some methods to inhibit the activity of [power] in my body, to put it bluntly, only when the [power] in my body is in a state of silent sleep, the impact of force on me will be smaller, and at the same time cut off the nerve perception in my body, so that I can reach the current state. ”

Pym's statement was simple, but to Lird's ears, it was no less complex than a delicate surgical procedure. Obviously, to achieve this level not only requires some secret means, but also has enough knowledge and understanding of the [power] itself, and judging from this kind of performance, the maiden sacrifice that seems to be more worldly has been achieved.

In an instant, his image in Liard's mind not only adds a few points of mystery.

Pym continued: "It is possible to manipulate this [power] with my subjective consciousness, of course, this is just some of my personal intuition, and I have not tried to do so since when time could have started, because to invoke such a power would activate the sleeping power, and I don't want to experience that pain. ”

It can be manipulated by subjective consciousness, and this statement shocked Lird again, and he really couldn't imagine what it would be like for a person to manipulate a situation with an invisible force that could affect everything.

Pym turned his head to look around and said, "I think it's the same power as I was playing chess that day, and I can lift any object in this tent without touching it if I want, even myself." With that, Pym had a slight childlike smile on his face.

Hearing this, Liard's voice was a little hoarse and said, "Really... Can you do that?"

Pym replied in the affirmative, apparently confident in his own judgment, but then Pym also gave his own other advice.

"However, it seems to me that this incredible [power] is not the most powerful being, but its most powerful or terrifying existence should be its [thought]. ”

As soon as his father's words were transferred to Lird, he was a little confused, and Pym quickly added, "Do you remember the scene when I first came into contact with this [power]?"

"Play chess!" Lird blurted out.

Pym said with a slight smile, "That's right. Lird reacted instantly, and he finally understood what his father was talking about, and the thought that his father was talking about at this moment was not the religious thought that the so-called modern gods led people to have, but the [power] of the ancient gods carried some kind of thought.

Previously, Lird was largely confused by his appearance, and the power that instantly wiped out the entire British military town left too deep a mark on his heart, but he forgot that he had played a few games with his father, and he did not use his strength to "conquer" his father, but also obeyed the rules of chess to defeat his father, although his father had no intention of playing at that time, but still should not underestimate the wisdom of that thought.

Compared to this force, the daunting flash floods, volcanoes and even typhoons can be said to be insignificant.

Pym said, "I and the [power] in my body I've been coexisting for a while, and I've been keeping the treatment method to suppress it during this time, but I've had some contact with it in between treatments, of course, this contact is not deep, and I don't know anything about it, but my intuition tells me that the power that exists in my body is very simple, like a simple dark chaotic body, circulating and expanding in my body, but there is no kind of thought in it, and this is what needs to be discovered and found. ”

At this point, Pym's emotions became a little agitated, but he tried very hard to control his emotions, and then said to Lird, "Son, have you not always been curious about something, and that is why I have summoned you from all the way to America in a dangerous situation, and now I will tell you my purpose." ”

Liard's breath was choking as he heard this.

Pym lowered his voice and said: "The only people I trust the most in this world are you and your grandmother, but I can only entrust you to complete this matter, and that is to gain the trust of this tribe, and then get in touch with that deeper secret, master it, and use it to change the world!"