1912 The Horrors of the Night of Valpurgis
What Sha felt, even though she was far away from humans, was still able to produce a synaesthesia that made her completely unnecessary to readjust to her body, her new life form, made her feel that everything she was now was as if she had been born. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
So, she doesn't need to see with her eyes, she doesn't need to smell with her nose, and her skin doesn't have tactile nerves, but she gets a similar experience through other perceptions. No, to be precise, not only does it have a sensory experience that is similar to the past and does not need to be re-adapted, but it also expands the scope of application of this sensory experience. The only flaw is that sometimes you can't tell whether what you perceive is delusion or reality, and of course, this flaw is no different from when you were a human being.
The expansion of the scope of sensory experience does not solve all the problems, and the ability to perceive and experience things that have never been perceived and experienced in the past does not solve all the mysteries, on the contrary, those things that are beyond one's own sensory experience seem to become more and more numerous. And for that transcendent thing, I also feel it more deeply.
Sha felt herself immersed in icy water, and the biting "cold" — which she could only describe as cold, and for which she could not find a better word for it — seemed to be her own fear.
And what triggers this fear, of course, is what can be felt through an extraordinary way of experiencing it - it can only be referred to as "it", which is not a human being, not an individual, not a group, and does not give Sha any sense of reality, but makes her feel that "it" is real. There is no evidence that it exists, but all the senses speak of it. It seems to be intangible, but sometimes it feels like it should have a fixed form, and sometimes, rather than using words like "existence" to describe it, it is better to say that this "it" is just an illusion.
When it appears in Sha's perceptual experience, one can't help but have a thought that suddenly appears in Sha's mind like a ghost: its very existence is a kind of truth, and even if you don't admit that it is truth, you will naturally feel that it embodies a part of the truth. It's everywhere, but it's not really anywhere and, therefore, it's elusive.
-- But maybe you can put it or part of it in some mysterious container and make it out, just as water is formless, but if you pour water into a balloon, it will take on a spherical outline, and if you let it freeze, it will become an ice ball.
When such a thought was born in Sha's heart, she could not help tingling in her heart, because she remembered what Father Sissen had said to her, about the ultimate purpose of those outsiders to assist physical life—that they wanted to summon into this world some kind of monster that was elusive, indescribable, that had existed in the depths of people's collective subconscious since some unknown time, and give it an entity in order to bring about a conceivable and orderly apocalypse.
It is precisely because that monster is like water, like air, that it is a thing that has no form or real sense, that it must be allowed to gain substance. It makes sense to have it material, whether for observation or research, for rebellion or obedience. On the other hand, in a sense, when something that has no substance can be substantial, the invisible becomes tangible, so that it can be more truly known and felt, the doomsday truths of the Doomsday Shinrikyo are like being put on their tables - no, it should be said that the Doomsday Shinrikyo people think so, and in the eyes of Father Sissen, it is also an ignorant and narrow delusion and prejudice.
Of course, when Father Sissen described it like this, Sha only felt that he was also a member of the Doomsday Shinrikyo Church, and there were some differences in religious concepts with other believers, so he would denigrate the other side, but everything she felt now seemed to prove that Father Sissen did not have no purpose.
All in all, Sha has learned from her own perversion, from her own feelings, that the indescribable thing she feels is probably what the Doomsday Shinrikyo called "the monster in the collective subconscious of mankind". What a terrible operation the Doomsday Shinrikyo is doing, and the things they are trying to summon are just as terrible. Even if it hasn't happened yet, you can already imagine what terrible the consequences would be when that discorporeal and nameless monster really gained a physical form and appeared in this world. No, I didn't quite imagine it, I just felt that I couldn't let that happen.
Both the Primal Life and the Doomsday Shinrikyo are enemies, and what is even more terrifying is that the Primal Life, which has become a great disaster for the aborigines, has also been used by the Doomsday Shinrikyo. Even if the physical life is annihilated, it is not the end of everything, I am afraid that it is just a switch to the deeper depths of hell, and you have no choice.
Sha began to feel that it was the root of all the disasters. And this accusation is unfounded, because it has never actually appeared in front of people, including herself, including Father Sissen and others who told her these things, including those who have never confronted the Doomsday Shinrikyo religion. When everyone tries to prove that this monster that exists in the collective human subconscious is the source of some kind of catastrophe, the embodiment of the end times, a key turning point or the end point in this chain of events that affects everyone, people have not even found concrete proof of whether it really exists. It's like what everyone thinks, what they feel, everything about "it" is nothing more than some kind of delusion about people themselves, a paranoid idea that binds people to the wrong track, and at the same time a certain neurotic hysteria to find a cathartic alternative.
Does it really exist? Sha couldn't help but think. And her heart answered: maybe it was not a question of whether it really existed, but that people longed for it to exist here, and under a pathological arrogant and wanton self-destructive tendency, they constructed such a wandering illusion for themselves and others like themselves. Then, this illusion spreads through the commonality between human beings, in people's deep and malicious subconscious.
Maybe, maybe...... It's really always in people's collective subconscious, but it's not completely unrelated to human beings. Just as people have created the idea of gods for themselves, this "monster of the collective human subconscious" has been created with the intellectual sins and malice of those who make it.
However, at this thought, Sha immediately extinguished her own thoughts, because such an explanation did not fully support her feelings about "it". Isn't the biggest flaw in my own form at this time? Sha doesn't feel that she is still human, so this "monster in the collective human subconscious" should not have such an attraction to herself. Anything is wrong with it, or he is still "human", and even if he becomes what he is now, he still lies in a broad concept of humanity; Or maybe it's not just the collective human subconscious.
The definition of "monster in the collective human unconscious" has a huge limitation that makes it impossible to truly understand its scope. Even so, when Sha felt its presence, even if she was completely confused by the theory, she couldn't ignore its presence.
Sha didn't know how to deal with such a monster, and her own people didn't even know what it was, did they? Luckily, you probably don't need to confront it right away. As long as the plan to destroy the Doomsday Shinrikyo before it is revealed, it may not be present. Even if it does exist, as long as it always exists only in the collective human subconscious, then there is no need to find a way to deal with it - Sha knows that her own idea is actually very naïve, and the collective human subconscious itself cannot be regarded as its "cage", and all things that can have a huge impact from the conscious level will eventually spread to the material level.
The shrill sound of the flute, the hallucinations of symbols that constantly disillusioned her mind, faded away as Sha struggled to break free from the dying hallucination. The "it" she felt was like a bubble, quickly leaving her feelings.
There is only a kind of dark consciousness that reminds Sha that "it" has not actually left, and it does not matter if it leaves, "it" is always here, hidden behind every thought and feeling, always staring at everything in this world, ruthless and cold, it may not have malice, but its existence itself is already the greatest malice.
Sha's body structure is rapidly merging with this vast underground pipeline complex in the expansion and transformation of the construction machine. And the aborigines and those important resources, many of them stay in her "body". She couldn't move, but she was sure that the enemy would come to her door.
By this time, Sha was able to perceive and recognize Father Edward's presence at this time. Of course, at this time, the basis of the human being who represents "Father Edward" has been completely adjusted and turned into a complete outlier. Those anomalous flesh and blood organizations are not active, well-intentioned, and reasonable, and no one knows what happened to Father Edward, who is closely related to these things.
The mechanical limbs began to fill Sha's body with more things, the most important of which were two types of full-body covered power armor, part of Sha's mind was immersed in thinking about that "it", about herself, about others, and about the world, while the other parts were tracking the traces of Father Xi and Father Sissen in a way that ordinary people couldn't reach - without Sha's help, unless they encountered force majeure, Sha didn't feel that the two of them had a chance to get out of those node areas, even if the contact was interrupted at this time, but as long as the scope was determined, There will be a chance to find it.
The necro soldiers released by Sha swept the boundary between the territory of the Primal Life and the territory controlled by Sha like an avalanche, and through the sensory sharing device of these Necro soldiers, Sha could even operate a Necro Soldier to make up for her own inability to move freely. It was precisely because of the great momentum of the dead soldiers that those things that were hiding and hiding quickly launched an attack on these dead soldiers.
More enemies popped up, as if the previous unsized enemy was just an illusion, and in Sha's perception, at least hundreds of primal beings and nearly a thousand Doomsday Shinrikyo wizards were trying to annihilate the sudden tide of dead soldiers, and it was natural that these large number of dead soldiers, who were extremely difficult even in the eyes of occult experts, even if they gathered and made quite a lot of plans tactically, failed to gain the upper hand in this battle, let alone make the enemy break their bones.
In addition, even though Sha had observed so many Elemental Beings and the wizards of the Doomsday Shinrito from a broad perspective, she had never felt that these numbers accounted for a large proportion of the enemy's total. Rather, from the information provided by Fr. Sissen, the disadvantages faced by his side are comprehensive. Not only in terms of average to individual combat capabilities, but also in absolute numerical inferiority.
Father Sissen had promised that he could bring many times more people than the natives, but he broke his promise. Sha knew very well what was going on, the super weapon unique to the outsiders called the "repeater" collided, and in an instant, it sank 99% of the people in the world where these outsiders were located, and the total number was about billions - billions of people lost consciousness or became insane, and they were completely unusable, and most of the people with extremely high combat abilities except for ordinary people were not spared in this disaster.
As a result, although the enemy was dragged down by using excellent strategies and temporarily made up for the disadvantage in the number of combat strength, this gap was not really filled. This is also the case in the Governing Bureau area. Sha has calculated that the number of people who can fight on his side is dozens of times less than the number of enemies.
Before the help of outsiders, there were probably thousands of primordial beings, and the number of wizards of the Doomsday Shinrikyo was said to be 20,000 - a number that had been maintained for a long time, but it was not the final number. In Father Sissen's investigation, this amount is a relatively constant standard that outsiders can pay attention to, and no one knows how much wizards there are outside the scope of inattention.
It seems possible to outnumber the enemy by producing them over and over again, but the enemy is not stupid and not without similar technology. The production line of the Dead Soldier can be destroyed, invaded, and adjusted, and the advantage that you have for the time being may become their advantage at any time with the extraordinary technical ability of the Body.
So...... In this particular form, Sha feels that she has a very important advantage: she will be able to transfer those production lines into her body, or rely on existing templates to build new ones in her body. This inhuman, vast territory, and constantly becoming vast, gradually eroding the body of the ruling area, is the largest base, the strongest barrier.