Chapter 703: Contested Wills
If it is said that the fighting spirit plays a decisive role in the fight between two opponents of equal strength, then the determination and motivation to persist in the fight by extending the fight indefinitely plays a decisive role, and it is the goal to achieve that affects the determination and motivation.
Fest never believed that he could fail, let alone lose to someone.
In his more than 8,000 years of life, even in the face of the Advent, he has never been afraid, and no one has ever let him taste failure.
For someone who has never failed, failure is something that is hard to imagine.
In fact, it is also an extremely long process.
Feist and Chu Tianjiang are both qualitative people, and the wormhole space they are in is full of qualitative bodies, so the loss caused by the fight can be replenished at any time. For the two of them, what determines the battle is not how many qualities and energy bodies are lost, but the will to persevere.
Fighting will cause losses, and the losses need to be replenished, so it is necessary to use mental power to control the new mass and energy body, and spiritual power is derived from will.
If the previous confrontation was a contest of will, then this fight has made the competition even more intense.
How long it lasted, Feist has forgotten.
The contest of wills is actually a contest with the self.
When his will is shaken, Feist asks himself what is the reason for persevering. Initially, Fest didn't need a reason at all. Gradually, Feist found that he needed a reason to keep going, and he made up a reason to keep going. Then, these fabricated reasons became untenable, and Feist's will began to waver. Eventually, when he felt that nothing mattered, the will collapsed. This is like a person who runs a long distance, at first he does not need to persevere, and when his physical strength begins to decrease, he will try to encourage himself, for example, the finish line is in front of him, and he will reach it soon; After the physical strength exceeds the limit, it will begin to waver, and begin to suspect that there is no end at all; Until the physical strength is completely exhausted, doubt finally crushes the will to persevere.
Fest stopped, his will crumbling.
Looking at Chu Tianjiang, who was still high-spirited, Feist couldn't understand how this guy persevered and where he got such a tenacious will.
Of course, the result of the failure was very tragic.
Chu Tianjiang mastered the method of controlling the mass energy body, and he was able to use the consciousness controlled mass energy body to deal with Feister, so that Feister had nowhere to escape.
When Feister stopped, the mass energy bodies around him were immediately controlled by Chu Tianjiang.
For Feister, there is only one ending, that is, his consciousness is compressed into a part of the mass energy body, and then completely erased by Chu Tianjiang.
"How did you do that?"
"I've told you that I have a purpose for me to keep going."
"Just for one purpose?"
"It's not a mere purpose, because you've never loved someone, so you don't know at all what you can do for someone you love after you've really fallen in love with someone. You don't know how much strength this kind of selfless affection can give you. ”
"Just for loved ones?"
"That's enough."
"Don't you have lofty ideals?" Fester didn't understand that loving someone could produce so much energy.
"Feist, you still don't understand." Chu Tianjiang felt that Feist was very pitiful. "Yes, I also have lofty ideals, such as saving human civilization. However, these ideals are all based on the basic world outlook and sense of responsibility, and belong to a relatively advanced understanding. Although this understanding is more noble, it is a pity that if the basic view of the world collapses, then these understandings will disappear. In contrast, love is the instinct of life, and this instinct does not need to be strengthened, and it is not affected by external factors. No matter how much my understanding of this world has changed, for the people I love, that feeling will never change. ”
"So, you stuck with it?"
"Exactly. The simplest and most innocent feelings are actually the most powerful motivation. ”
Feist was silent, he really couldn't feel the love that Chu Tianjiang said, because he hadn't loved anyone, but the truth was in front of him. In the case of completely equal strength, he lost to Chu Tianjiang, and the reason for the failure was that he lost the reason to persevere.
"Feist, it's time for this to end."
Fest didn't say anything more, he knew that he had failed, and that he had failed completely. Chu Tianjiang had already disappeared from front of him and merged into the nearby mass energy body, blocking the mass energy body from the outside world, wrapping Feister and isolating Feist.
The last blow came quickly, and Fest did not resist.
He's been fighting for a long time, years, decades, hundreds, thousands, even tens of thousands, maybe longer, and he's tired of fighting.
At this time, Fester just wanted to be liberated, liberated in the true sense of the word.
Even by the time outside the wormhole, Feist has existed in this world for thousands of years, and if measured by his personal time standards, it has existed for millions of years. For this long life, and the waiting in that long life, Feist was completely tired of it.
Sadly, he has eternal life.
For him, the only way to be free was death.
Strictly speaking, it is just the collapse of consciousness, or the information that constitutes consciousness is completely disrupted and becomes some meaningless mess.
In the process, Feist did not feel pain, and all he got was relief.
When all this happened, Feist even had a strange feeling, a feeling of lightness and pleasure that he had never experienced.
It was a feeling of letting go of all the burdens.
Of course, Chu Tianjiang did not show mercy to his subordinates.
According to the standards of human time, this battle lasted for 10 million years, maybe longer, and Chu Tianjiang was only slightly stronger than Feister.
He too wavered, even doubted.
If there was another similar battle, Chu Tianjiang couldn't be sure if he would be able to hold out until the other party fell, so he didn't dare to face Feist again.
It can be said that Feist is the most terrifying opponent that Chu Tianjiang has encountered.
Chu Tianjiang was able to defeat Feister, not by strength, nor by surprising tactics, but by persistence, the most primitive strength.
In a sense, Chu Tianjiang did not defeat Feister because he was not stronger than Feister.
It was time, or rather himself, that beat Feist, because he lacked the goal of beating time and allowing himself to stick to it in the long run of time.
If Feist had such a goal, even if he couldn't defeat Chu Tianjiang, he wouldn't be defeated.
The result is obvious, the two of them will be consumed in the wormhole space forever, maybe forever.
In the end, the infinite time in this wonderful space will completely swallow the two of them, making them completely lose themselves and lose their way.
Defeating Fester was different.
This is not a victory in the ordinary sense, and fundamentally speaking, it is impossible for Chu Tianjiang to completely eliminate Feister, even if it is just Feister's consciousness. All he can do is to control the mass energy body that makes up Feister through consciousness, to be precise, store the mass energy body of Feister's consciousness, and then completely disrupt the information that makes up Feister's consciousness, erase Feister's subjective consciousness, and save other things, such as Feister's memory. Of course, this certainly includes knowledge of Fest, especially in relation to the invaders.
Strictly speaking, Chu Tianjiang did not kill Feister.
In this confined space, information will never disappear, but will only be transformed between various forms, and in the process of transformation, it will become disorganized, losing its integrity and unity. Because the information related to Feister had always existed, Chu Tianjiang did not kill him.
Of course, Chu Tianjiang needed Feist's memory.
The key is that Chu Tianjiang didn't know how to reach the opposite world realm through the singularity of the wormhole. Before that, those who did all this were the intelligent individuals of the great civilization.
What Chu Tianjiang has is just his personal feelings when he passes through the singularity.
If it weren't for Feister's memory, that is, the knowledge related to the wormhole, Chu Tianjiang would definitely not be able to find a way out of the wormhole.
Of course, even with this knowledge, Chu Tianjiang may not be able to leave the wormhole.
Fortunately, the million-year-long confrontation and tens of millions of years of fighting gave Chu Tianjiang enough time to think about ways to get out of the wormhole.
Actually, it's not that difficult.
The key is how to recognize the singularity.
In Feist's view, the singularity is the scaleless point in the middle of the wormhole space.
In fact, this is also recognized by almost all scientists.
While this understanding is not wrong, it is incomplete.
The singularity is indeed a point without scale, but the wormhole space, that is, the escape range, is a projection of the singularity, an infinitely magnified projection. Due to the size of the wormhole, the projection space of the singularity is limited, so the escape range is also limited.
Obviously, in the wormhole space, it is in the singularity.
The so-called passing through the singularity is actually leaving the wormhole space. If the form of leaving the wormhole space is exactly the opposite of the form of entering, then you have reached the world realm opposite the singularity.
The key is how to get out of the wormhole space in the exact opposite way.
The wormhole releases the Plasma, so Feister enters the wormhole space under the pressure generated by the wormhole when it releases the Plasma. In other words, Feist is not sucked into the wormhole space, but presses himself into the wormhole space. Then, the opposite way is to use your own strength to leave the wormhole space. To put it simply, to reach another world through the wormhole space, what you have to resist is the gravitational pull from the wormhole space.