1898 The Last Door 2
Suddenly, the gray mist tumbled like boiling water, and the violent fluctuations distorted the outlines that loomed in the mist, and the changes in the foreground and the impact that could be felt made Father Sissen suddenly wake up from his trance of consciousness and thought. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info he didn't feel that he had just wandered, from the later feelings, he also felt that he had been focusing on the area covered by the gray mist, and the efficiency of the brain and hardware made him enough to carry out multiple thinking activities at the same time, even so, he still had a feeling of sudden awakening. The concept of "the last door" left a deep impression on him, but the process of tracing this impression was as vague as recalling a dream.
Father Sissen understood at once that an instinctive fear and intuition were warning him that the "last door" undoubtedly existed, and that the monster isolated by the "last door" also existed. They have always existed, and they operate, interfere, influence, and convey with an inherent law, and the information that comes from the deepest connections between the individual human being and human society has always warned everyone in their own unique way, warning the self-proclaimed most intelligent race on the planet, the "human race".
A monster that is completely different from human beings has been lurking in the depths of the collective subconscious of human beings, it is just too deep and too deep to be detected by the surface consciousness of human beings, and the information that is distorted because of its existence is so incompatible with the original information of human beings, but it is a foreign body that human beings themselves cannot detect and exclude, resulting in human beings from the subconscious level can only choose to adapt and compromise their existence, so the original clear dividing line has become wider, It's like the junction of white and black has changed from a line to a ribbon, and this ribbon is gray -- these gray ambiguous information that comes from the intermingling of human beings and the monster has the most profound impact on human beings.
Maybe...... Perhaps, Fr. Sissen could not help but think that all the people who claimed to have found this "monster in the collective human subconscious" were only aware of the existence of this gray area in the collective human subconscious, and then realized the root cause of the formation of this gray area, and thus came to the conclusion that the "monster in the collective human subconscious" must exist, rather than observing this monster in the real sense.
Whether it is the Doomsday Shinrikyo or the powerful consciousness walkers, the depth of the human collective subconscious, which everyone has tried their best to reach, has not been able to cross the gray area, and the place where the monster in the collective human subconscious is located is deeper than anyone thinks, so even if anyone realizes that it exists, they cannot explore its truth, let alone directly use its power to do something.
However, since it exists, then, one day, there will always be a possibility that it will rise from that depth, I don't know how deep.
The Doomsday Shinrikyo simply has no ability to snatch it out of that deepest place, and the so-called "summoning" of the sacrificial ritual is probably not a compulsory action, but more like luring it, awakening it, and informing it that it is ready to come out. Because it only needs to do such a thing, it is relatively easy and feasible, even if the body of that monster is unknown, no one knows how powerful it is.
There is only one problem that the Doomsday Shinrikyo needs to solve: what kind of bait is needed to attract it, to awaken it, to make it float - a fierce will? Is it the destruction of life? Is it the emotions of the human community in a certain environment? Is it a physical change or a spiritual interweaving? But in any case, since it is a "monster in the collective human subconscious", there is a very clear premise that it is closely related to human beings.
There is no doubt that making a fuss about "people" is the right path. Of these visible choices, the plan from the perspective of "humanity as a whole" should be the most logical and effective, whether it is done in individuals, in many people, and even in the extent that it affects the entire social group of human beings.
The monster's mode of existence, influence, and the existing results that have been caused are all "malignant" aspects of human cognition, and compared with the changes in the human environment, it gives people a sense of mutual promotion and deterioration. So, this monster is very easily and naturally associated with the cruel word "doomsday".
Although this mode of thinking is somewhat simplistic, and can even be described as naïve and ridiculous, the people of the Doomsday Shinrikyo believe it very seriously and do so. It doesn't matter if an idea is complex or simple, whether it really involves essence or superficiality, as long as someone recognizes it and acts on it, it will have a driving force. There may be many people in the Doomsday Shinrikyo who can no longer be regarded as human beings in the narrow sense, but as an intelligent life, their thinking mode is not broad, their thinking is not grandiose, and their cognition is not omniscient and omnipotent, and their perspective on the world and themselves cannot be completely correct, so they do not actually know what this "monster in the collective subconscious of mankind" is.
The way in which these people associate the "monster of the collective human subconscious" with the "doomsday" is empirical, pompous, and theoretical, but it is also one-sided, and therefore ignorant and arrogant, but it doesn't matter anymore, because they also don't have time to search for the essence, and the end is just around the corner - the people of the Doomsday Shinrikyo are more sensitive to the sense of the "doomsday" than anyone else, when others feel that the "doomsday" is a ridiculously distant concept from them, They are already aware that the "end times" are at hand.
So, even if it is empirical, stupid, one-sided, to associate the "monster of the collective human subconscious" with the "doomsday", such thoughts and actions are themselves stupid, they still do it - on the premise that the truth of the end is irresistible, they intend to dig up everything that can be connected with the "doomsday", whether it is really connected or seems to be connected, whether it is an imaginary connection or a theoretical connection, whether it is a known connection or an unknown connection, Present on the surface, observe, touch, try to understand.
It is an experiment in which a limited amount of time, with a wisdom that is too low relative to what is to be understood, tries to present the truth to oneself as if it were swallowing a date.
I'm afraid that even the Doomsday Shinrikyo itself can't be sure that it can succeed, and others can't really understand what this group of people wants, but they must have some kind of idea in their hearts. It may be inappropriate to say this from Father Sissen, who also believes in the truth of the apocalypse, but it is true that Father Sissen perceives his nominal accomplices in this way: they are simply following their own distorted inner thoughts, carrying out the most methodical action in their one-sided perception, and they themselves are well aware of their one-sidedness, but they think that their approach is the best choice in the imminent process of the end times.
Because, when the end comes, everything will be nothing. That's why I did what I thought was the right thing before everything came to naught. Yes, Fr. Sissen thought, the people of the Doomsday Shinrikyo must think that what they are doing is the most correct thing, which is why they have such a strong power of action, and he is as convinced of his own correctness as those people, and he definitely thinks that his ability to act is also the best among them, however, at the moment, he seems to be a little shaken.
This vacillation comes from the situation I was thinking about at this time, the things I felt, and the monster that I knew through the "last door", which was closer than any time before.
The more you feel, the more you feel fear, and this emotion can theoretically be cut off by regulating the body's physiological hormones and the prosthetic body of the nervous system, which can assist in thinking in the most rational way. This kind of fear is different from the "emotions" that were recognized in the past, which are generated by the physiological system of the living material body, and the "emotions" that are recognized from the level of personality consciousness, so it cannot be eradicated from the root.
Fear comes and accumulates more and more to create a sense of uncertainty about what one has believed in the past, and Father Sissen has experienced and is convinced that fighting against such fear, against the uncertainty that arises from one's own will, must be the battle that one will face at any time in the future - when one perceives this battle, it must permeate one's own life, until the end comes, until the monster is destroyed, until all the unknown is discovered.
This is the longest and most tangled battle in self-knowledge, which is more intense, more precipitous, and more testing of one's heart than the battle of material destruction and consciousness disappearance seen in front of one's eyes. Moreover, this kind of battle will affect one's own other aspects of the battle at any time, it will always interfere with one's heart and will, and directly or indirectly lead to one's own defeat and death.
Father Sissen suddenly felt that he had never been so clear about the battle he was about to face, or the battle he had begun. He felt that he had finally understood in this moment what his enemy really was—that it had been lurking in the depths of his own heart, from his birth to his death, and would continue to exist in the depths of others' hearts after his death.
Father Sissen woke up again, and this time, the greater horror was like the caviar exploding in his mouth, as if he could taste it from his taste buds. Father Sissen was once again sure that he was definitely not in a trance, that he had been staring at the end of the gray mist, watching all the changes that could be felt in the gray mist, but the weight of what he realized in his mind was heavier than the weight of what he saw in his eyes, and the weight of what was in the gray fog analyzed by his brain and hardware, like a more intense and rich taste, overpowering other flavors that also existed.
His own battle had already begun, from earlier, but only now was he so clearly aware and felt the weight of this battle. Father Sissen couldn't ignore the impact of the monster on the other side of the last door in his heart. He felt that he had no choice but to press his body against the door, enduring the knocking from the other side of the door again and again, getting heavier and heavier, each time making him feel as if he was about to hold on, but miraculously he did.
The fear that grows from the heart is precisely because you are aware that you are walking on an extremely dangerous boundary - when you don't realize it, all actions are natural and the most balanced, but once you are aware of it, your behavior will be abnormal.
Abnormal, constantly abnormal, like constantly trying to do something on the tightrope that will make you unbalanced, as if you will fall in the next moment, but always remain at a crumbling juncture.
So terrible, so terrifying, swaying in imbalance.
Father Sissen subconsciously wiped the end of his nose, it was clear that the enemy was not standing in front of him, and there was no material attack, but the prosthetic body had already left a nosebleed. When I realized that I was leaving a nosebleed, I felt a more intense feeling of nausea. As a mystery expert, he has honed his will several times stronger than ordinary people in mysterious events that ordinary people can't experience, and he has become accustomed to things that ordinary people are disgusting, but he can't stop this strong feeling of nausea.
Father Sissen only felt that his strength was draining from his hands and feet, as if it had evaporated with the heat of his body, and it was clear that the body monitoring values given by the brain hardware were normal, but this feeling of weakness and coldness of his hands and feet did not seem like an illusion. Because, I couldn't help but bend down, almost half kneeling on the ground.
Blood, as if the throttle valve had been broken, kept pouring out of the nostrils, and even the eyes and ears began to develop an unnatural feeling of warmth, which made Father Sissen feel that blood was about to flow out of the eyes and ears.
Enemy, enemy......
The terrible enemy, obviously there is no physical contact, obviously separated by an unknown distance, and he can't explore the specific coordinates of the other party at all, let alone see a more detailed figure, but he has already let himself constantly bear the trauma.
In the face of this invisible, visceral attack, Father Sissen could not find a more concrete defense than "firm will". He tried to hypnotize himself, proclaiming his belief in the truth of the end in his heart, and from the depths of his heart, using the power of imagination to strengthen and seal the last door, but those practices that had always had some effect in the mysterious events of the past had little effect at this time.