Chapter 30: The Nightmare Threat (Ask for Recommendations)
In Luo Zixuan's view, cruelty is no problem.
There are so many threats in the universe that it is not easy to survive.
As long as this ensures the big picture, it is entirely possible to sacrifice any unimportant individuals.
As long as this is rewarded with enough usefulness, there is no need to hesitate to give an order to torture innocent individuals to death.
The real problem is "unnecessary".
Being able to be used as test subjects means that they also have their own personalities and thoughts, otherwise they would not have been born with the Nightmare Factor.
What's the point of creating them on purpose, and then having them replace the felons and captives who are clearly in stock.
It's just plain brutality and oppression. It is not necessary and does not play a positive role.
It is justice and material use to let the prisoners who have committed cruel crimes and the members of the enemy army who have been captured and have lost any use to them be consumed in the experiment. It can also vent the hatred and anger of the citizens under his command. It's a triple win.
These three virtues refer to the fact that they can no longer bear the resources that support these people, that they can extract the nightmare factor, and that they will not let the executive and the public have too much psychological burden.
All in all, after weighing the pros and cons, Luo Zixuan thought that the importance of these substances was very low, and the current strength of our side was too weak to take risks, so he just scanned everything around him to roughly collect some data that could be obtained and compared it with the nightmare creations of the old universe.
At the same time, it was decided to abandon the recovery of any corpses, pieces of meat.
Neil asks the god of machines what to do with the corpses of fallen soldiers.
He was told that the corpses of the corrupted Sain soldiers could not be taken away, but were to be burned on the spot.
As for the fallen soldiers who have not been corrupted, they can take the corpses away and bring them back to the Theon Divine Domain to arrange for their families to claim them and bury them immediately. The traditional burials of Sain must not be used, and must be burned and ensured to be reduced to ashes so that the interior is not secretly corroded.
In the face of the ancient gods, Luo Zixuan was unwilling to have any unstable factors.
The threat they pose is too great.
One mistake can lead to a complete loss.
At a time when the level of science and technology of believers has not yet reached a certain level, it is simply impossible to fight against corruption, rational attacks, and spiritual pollution, which have never appeared in the new universe.
Therefore, no matter what the cost, it is necessary to stop the corruption from spreading in the Divine Domain.
The ancient gods have a strong ability to hide from the heavens and seas.
Therefore, if Luo Zixuan did not pay enough attention and ask the disciples to remain vigilant, it could cause corruption to spread silently throughout the Divine Domain.
By the time it erupts on the bright side, it's too late.
There are already too many cases of this kind in the old universe.
Luo Zixuan would do his best to prevent the same tragic situation from breaking out in his own divine domain.
He suspected that there were more artifacts of the Old Gods hidden in the nezumi mine.
It's the same with the Divine Domain of Sain.
If the corrupt are hiding underground, there is no need to provoke them for the time being.
After all, it's not clear where else they might be hiding.
It's impossible to dig every inch of ground to find out where they are.
It's just useless work.
I can't afford to delay that much time now.
Luo Zixuan issued an oracle to Neil, asking him to arrange for everyone to pay attention to the existence of these ancient god creations and possible dependents.
This time, he revealed the identity of the old god - Nightmare.
Nightmares can corrupt any living creature, hiding in any dark and unnoticed corner.
Even, a pet dog can be corrupted without any anomalous appearance, and when the owner hugs it, it can suddenly crack its body and bite off the owner's head.
Corrupted creatures, while their appearance may not be different, but their personalities will inevitably change.
There may be inexplicable agitation, irritability, madness, silence, etc., which are different for each individual, so there is no uniform standard for screening. In short, pay attention to whether its recent behavior is inconsistent with normal or strange.
The ancient gods have a strong ability to penetrate, so they must be guarded against.
Moreover, the Old Gods may also corrupt people's minds and try to convert them into their own followers. The mental state of the believer may not have changed much, making it more difficult to check out. Keep an eye out for secret gatherings in Thane, who may be Nightmare Cultists.
The biggest threat posed by the Old Gods is suspicion.
Therefore, it is necessary to grasp the degree of publicizing the harm of the ancient gods and comforting the people's emotions. The two should be balanced and not over-oriented to one side.
In general, it is sufficient to keep people's lives as normal as possible under the premise of being vigilant.
Both the Sain and the Nezumi will have to get used to this feeling in the future.
Because the threat posed by the Old Gods will not be just a year or two.
Until the mechanical gods find a way to kill or seal them, people will always be threatened by them.
Either live in fear or die of liberation.
The task that Luo Zixuan had to give Neil was to ensure that the vast majority of people chose the former, and that they would not be overwhelmed by endless suspicion and the oppression of the atmosphere. Belief in the gods of machines and science and technology is effective in dispelling their fears.
As long as you believe from the bottom of your heart that the mechanical god will eventually become more and more powerful, and believe in the power of technology and its endless potential, there will always be hope.
And this hope, unlike the mutated rat king, will not dissipate.
Because the exploration of technology never ends.
The glory of the god of machines lives on.
Luo Zixuan told Neil that people would inevitably panic after hearing the news, but due to the extremely strong infiltration ability and high danger of the ancient gods, the situation was special, and it was necessary to make it public to ensure that everyone understood his horror, but could believe that everyone could work together under the leadership of the machine god to tide over the difficulties.
It's definitely going to be a tough time, so it's good to get used to it.
When the time comes, as long as you fight with the Legion of the Ancient Gods again and achieve a great victory, the shadow that haunts everyone's hearts will naturally dissipate greatly.
Because they will eventually understand that nothing is invincible.
There is only a difference whether the time is ripe or not.
Neil understood what the mechanical god meant. He swore that he would do his best.
Luo Zixuan believes in Neil's ability.
In Neil's data, the value of eloquence is already relatively high, and now that he is the Chosen Mechanical Ascender and has obtained the title of High Priest, his words are naturally more powerful.
As a result, Luo Zixuan turned his attention to other aspects, and began to process a large amount of data from the scans while falling into deep thought.
What he was thinking about was whether the other gods had also been corrupted?