370. The Union splits
"It's a very old organization." "From the information I have, the League was formed at least in the ancient Babylonian period around 1,600 B.C. Judging from the underwater ruins found in the South Pacific expedition, it is likely that the alliance existed in the earlier Sumerian civilization and ancient Egypt. ”
"What is this alliance for?" Petru asked with great concern.
Su Huilan said: "I said that the purpose of the alliance's existence is to prevent the world from falling into a lower dimension and let humanity return to the next level of dreams. ”
Aoki felt that it was inappropriate to equate dreams with dimensions, so he said, "But what I have learned is different from what you say. I've heard that the Alliance was formed to prevent people like you and me from using their mental powers to do anything wrong, and that there are a lot of rules to limit the abuse of mental power by the Awakened. ”
Su Huilan said: "That's right, the alliance did evolve into what you said, and even most of the alliance members didn't know the original meaning of the alliance. ”
"And how do you know?"
"That's another story......" Su Huilan took a deep breath, but didn't say any more.
"Looks like I've messed with a bunch of guys I shouldn't mess with!" Petru rolled his eyes, "Ms. Su can't be from the alliance too, right?" ”
Su Huilan smiled: "If you have to count, you can also say that I am a member of the alliance, but I am not in the same group as them. ”
"Are you different parties within yourself?"
"No, not a partisan, but an enemy!"
"Enemies?" Petru and Aoki asked at the same time.
"Yes." Su Huilan said, "In fact, the Alliance of the Awakened has long since disbanded. ”
"Disbanded? When? Why? So who are they? Petrul asked a barrage of questions.
Su Huilan said: "In the history of mankind, there has never been an organization that has been able to maintain internal stability and ideological unity after it has grown, and the League of the Awakened is no different. Since ancient times, alliances have been quarreling over different ideas and different interests, forming many different factions, just like the parties you are talking about. However, in each period, the alliance has one or a few very powerful people with high prestige who preside over the situation. ”
"It's like the Pope of the Vatican!" Petru interjected.
"And the Red Beard of the Gulf of Aden!" Su Huilan joked.
"I don't count." Petru pouted, "Pirates only care about money, not thoughts. ”
"But you unified them." Su Huilan said, "I don't know how many times the alliance has split in history, but in the end, they all survived the catastrophe until the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, when there was a global explosion of spiritual power. ”
"Can this erupt too?" Aoki suddenly thought of Mei Yiqiu's hairstyle and laughed unconsciously.
Su Huilan said: "The sun can also erupt into flares, why can't spiritual power?" It's just that I can't figure out what the reason for the explosion of mental power is. The most reliable speculation is that a powerful cosmic consciousness has descended on the earth, but this contradicts the theory of spiritual origin, because if the universe itself is our consciousness, then where does this consciousness come from? This made the people of the Alliance more convinced that we were in a dream, and that this power came from outside the dream. ”
"But no matter what, there was a lot of genius in that period. If you think about it, you will see that although the progress of human civilization has been accelerating, it was only the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that it was truly revolutionary. Quantum theory and the theory of relativity were both proposed at that time, Einstein, Planck, Bohr, Dirac...... The emergence of a group of great scientific geniuses changed the course of civilization throughout the twentieth century. In addition, he has also been a brilliant scholar in the fields of philosophy, literature, art, and engineering. To this day, mankind is still enjoying the dividends of this wave of theoretical ideas. ”
"People don't know what's going on, they think it's an ordinary phenomenon of social change. Only the awakened can feel the all-pervading spiritual energy. The appearance of many genius awakened people made the alliance look like a cloud for a while, so powerful that everyone thought that they could climb up collectively. ”
"What do you mean by climbing up?" Petru asked.
"I guess it's a breakthrough to the next level of dreams, those guys think they're living in a dream, whoa!" The crow couldn't help but interject.
"Yes, that's it." Su Huilan nodded, "However, people have ignored one truth - social change has always had two sides, and the progress of civilization will inevitably be accompanied by the danger of destruction. The alliance that has received a spiritual outburst is like a sudden expansion of the nouveau riche, many hidden contradictions are slowly revealed, careerists have stepped onto the stage, and a global catastrophe unprecedented in human history has quietly begun to ......"
"You mean World War II?" Aoki remembers that Dewar told him that the alliance was dissolved during World War II, and that Szeto said that World War II was a dream, and what happened in it.
Su Huilan said: "It was just the climax of the disaster, and I don't know exactly when it started. What I do know is that in World War II, the alliance was already deeply divided, many people were drawn into the war, and mental power played a vital role on the battlefield, even decisive in many battles. ”
Her face showed a gloomy expression, as if she had witnessed the era of artillery fire and unbearable to look back on.
"Countless people died on the battlefield, and the saddest thing is those ordinary young soldiers who don't know anything but have a lot of blood. They don't know that in addition to the smoke of gunpowder, there is also a spiritual cloud that envelops the battlefield, and sometimes, the attack of the spirit is more desperate than the whistling bullet. ”
Aoki remembered the pig cage cave, as if he saw the death squads who had been hypnotized by Kitano Matake, rushing to the bridgehead fortress spitting fire snakes one after another.
He can imagine the scene of a large number of spiritual masters participating in the battle, from ancient times to the present, a very important factor in determining the victory or defeat of the war is morale, and morale is a very spiritual thing, if one side has a strong spiritual suppression force, it is easy to cause the defeat of the other side.
Although he could imagine the scene Su Huilan said, apart from the lack of evidence, he couldn't find anything wrong, but it was still a bit difficult to believe that these were facts. Moreover, Aoki will not easily believe everything she says, after all, this is not a subliminal conversation. Why didn't Su Huilan say it in the dream-like state of the space box at the beginning?
"How do you know these things?" He asked.
Su Huilan said quietly: "My father went through that era, and he passed on some of his memories to me. When I was very young, I saw everything in his dreams. My father followed Master Nanke all his life in the hope of ending the war, but they failed. After the war, he lived in seclusion in San Francisco's Chinatown, where he drank all day before dying of depression. ”
Aoki was surprised: "But didn't you enter the era of peace later?" Why didn't your father rebuild the Union? ”
Su Huilan shook her head and said, "This is also something I have never figured out. My father's last words were mysterious, he said, 'It's too late, the ark is in the abyss, and God will give up the sinking of humanity'. I was too young to understand what it meant. I kept thinking about it until I figured out the relationship between dreams and the world. I guess what he meant was that the world had fallen into a deeper dream, and that he couldn't bring humanity back with his powers. ”
Aoki scalped and suddenly asked, "Do you know Situ?" ”