"Abandoning ethics and morality, getting rid of the shackles of feelings, maybe the three of them have really become the most ideal state in their minds, in order to be more perfect, they even actively choose to give up the existence of the individual, and merge into a more complete consciousness body, they control the network, control all the machines affected by the network, and plan the final mechanical apocalypse. ”

"The final result, you should already know from Delia's mouth, the conservatives retreated to the capital area and the floating city, cut off all public networks to survive, the neutrals formed a black market, survived in the cracks, and the radicals occupied the entire ground, constantly building a large number of machines, trying to capture every sky city and transform the inhabitants of the city into ideal lives. ”

"Wait, ideal life?" said Shure, frowning, "just like themselves?"

"No, it's a mistake for you to use them. The chairman smiled bitterly, "It should be 'he', all the humans in the Sky City that have been attacked by the machine will be seized by them, and their consciousness will be uploaded to the network with data, and then ...... Merge with him. ”

"Eaten?"

"Well, it's devouring, in fact, it's more accurate to describe fusion, theoretically there is no primary or secondary distinction between mutual influences, but because 'he' is too large, the influence of the new consciousness on him is too small, and in the end it is equivalent to unilateral devouring. ”

"It turns out that this is the truth. The puzzle in his mind is getting more and more complete, and Shul said in a deep voice, "Does the capital area really exist?"

"Huh. ”

"Alright, well, it's my turn, excuse me. ”

"How did you get here?" said the president, appreciating Shuer's curiosity, and asked with satisfaction, "how did you get here without being discovered by us?"

"How can I explain this to you?" Shure scratched his head in annoyance, in fact, from the time the president answered the question just now, he was thinking about it, not about what to answer, but about how to make the other party understand, "Praise the Lord, the will of the Lord, that is, for my actions, the Lord said, you should be here, and so we appeared here." Oh, I don't think you can understand that. ”

"The way you speak reminds me of those old religious people. The guild leader didn't think Shul was teasing him, he could see that Shul had at least the most basic sincerity about the exchange of information, "But I must admit that I can't understand your words. ”

"Ancient religious people, that is, there are no religious people in modern times?" asked Shull thoughtfully, "but I heard that there seems to be some kind of mechanical cult that still exists." ”

"It's just a bunch of cultists frightened crazy by radical automatons, not religion at all. "Hundreds of years ago, when we were gradually moving towards the universe, religion had completely disappeared. We believe that the gods in religion are just spiritual sustenance created by people in ancient times in order to fight against the fear of the unknown, and as the unknown becomes less and less, the gods naturally lose the meaning of existence. ”

"But the unknowns only grow, don't they?" Shul shook his head slightly, "There used to be a saying in my hometown from ancient times that the more knowledge you have, the more unknowns you see. ”

This is true, but when we know that the gods are only our own imagination, we will no longer use myths to explain the unknown. The president looked at Shuer suspiciously, "You mentioned this, you don't want to convince me that in fact, the gods really exist, and you were sent by the gods to save us." ”

"Can't you?"

"No kidding, there are no gods. The president suddenly became a little emotionally out of control and slapped the table hard, "If the gods really exist, what are they doing when we are suffering? What are they doing when destruction comes?

The three shadow chasers quickly exchanged glances, the president's reaction was a little wrong, if it was just a mechanical apocalypse, although countless people had died, but they had not yet fallen into a desperate situation, it was not a matter of destruction, let alone so excited, it seemed that he had hidden something.

"Oh, praise the Holy Spirit, God so loved the world. This time, Shuer said very sincerely, "Your Excellency, I don't know why you are so excited, but are you really qualified to be excited?"

"You think you are in control, you have voluntarily abandoned your faith in the gods, you have self-righteously sent the gods into eternal sleep, and then you blame the Holy Spirit for ignoring your suffering? ”

The president opened his mouth and wanted to refute, but he couldn't say a word, although this did not mean that he was moved by Shuer's words, people who think of his status cannot be easily said by others, but he really can't find a reason to refute, Shuer is right, he is indeed not qualified to complain.

"Sorry, I lost my temper. The old man wiped his sweat, and a few simple actions just now made the clothes on the fat president's body almost soaked, "You mean, you were sent by the gods?"

"We don't belong to this void at all, oh, in your words, this universe. Shuer had already made up his mind at this time, and he was no longer entangled, and said with a natural expression, "You may know something about the endless void of your own world, but you obviously don't know anything about the outside world, and you don't know that there are other worlds outside the world...... Huh, what's wrong with you?"

Listening to Shuer's words, the face of the black market leader suddenly lost its blood, became pale as paper, and his lips trembled violently, as if he remembered some extremely frightening memory, it was hard to imagine that a person who replaced his body with artificial devices would have such a drastic emotional change.

"No, nothing. The president waved his hand, and a few very small sounds sounded in his body, and then his face calmed down as usual, "There are no good memories, don't care, so, you are from another world?"

"Well, with the power of the gods, use the small loopholes in space to bypass the spatial barrier, and then establish a projection in your world. Shul was obviously lying, "Remember when we suddenly appeared? That's when the projection was generated, and as for your instinctive ignorance of our peculiarity, it's also because of the influence of divine power. ”

"But the information I have received, you have a substance. ”

"Oh, Lord Grow, although our essence is still in our own world, under the influence of divine power, the projection of this world can infinitely approach the boundary between reality, illusion and reality, do you really think you can tell the difference?" Shul chuckled and picked up the plate on the table, holding it to his fingertips and spinning it like an acrobatic, "Look, we are here because we can interact with everything around us, but we are not actually here, because our essence is just a phantom. ”

"What evidence?"

"Hmm, what do you want to prove?" Shure raised an eyebrow, "prove that we are just phantoms?"

"No, it doesn't matter. The president shook his head and said, "Prove that you don't belong to this world." ”

"Heh, you just said that you are alone in this void, right? Shure drew a circle on his chest with a holy face, "Praise the Holy Spirit, the gifts of the gods have made our world not lonely, and we are fortunate because in addition to our own race, there are many wise companions." ”

"What do you mean?" the president really didn't understand what Shul was trying to say.

"Alas, it's too good and it's a problem. Shul sighed, caressing the soft fur on Mauria's deer-shaped back beside him, while dodging her hooves that had been kicked from under the table, "It seems that you haven't noticed yet, but two of the three people in front of you can actually tell from their appearance that they are not human at all. ”

Huh? Are you kidding me? I've been observing you for so long just now, and I can't tell if you're human or not? Even with the chairman's cultivation, he was a little unhappy, but he still carefully observed the two ladies again.

However, after having a preconceived impression, this time he observed, he found that everything was different.

In front of him, a strange creature with a lower body of a deer, a human shape on the upper body, pale green nails, and vines dancing around him, did not look like a human being, and was holding a fruit taken from the table, looking back at him with an innocent face, as if asking silently, what is the matter?

On the other side of Shuer, although the mountain elf is humanoid, its pale cyan skin and pointed ears are also very different from normal humans.

"This ...... This ......" the president subconsciously rubbed his eyes, but everything in front of him did not change, he really couldn't explain it with knowledge, obviously such a big difference, why didn't he notice it until now, is it just an illusion?

No, the video, the video doesn't lie.

The president was no longer polite, and quickly read the video playing on the wall, in which Moria, who was jumping up and down in the crowd, seemed to be silently mocking him. He had discovered that he had even witnessed Moria's transformation from elven form to deer form more than thirty times, but he had never known anything about it. A scene beyond his comprehension made the chairman dazed, and he only looked at the strange forest spirits and mountain elves blankly.

"Oh, Your Excellency, President. Xiu'er's indifferent voice recalled the old man's senses, "I didn't mean to scare you, just to prove that we are not creatures that exist in this world, in fact, the rules of the two worlds are different, and it is impossible for us to come over." ”

"I see. The president closed his eyes and sighed softly, he felt that his worldview was changing, "So ......"

"Don't worry, I'll ask you a question first. Shul frowned and asked, "Do you have any friends other than us?"

"The meeting is going to be suspended for the time being. The guild leader immediately understood Shure's subtext, "It seems that the people at the town hall have discovered this stronghold. ”