(This chapter is relatively long, and because it is important, it will not be divided into chapters.) It may be more brain-burning, if there is something you don't understand, please read it again, and in addition, Donner's guess may not be all correct. Today, I changed more than 10,000 words, asking for a wave of monthly passes!)

Here's Downer's guess.

It was a long time ago, at least 10,000 years ago.

An alien civilization has come to the south of the Magic Continent, where the so-called Kingdom of Heaven is located.

At the time of their arrival, humans, dwarves, gnomes, and even elves were mixed, and the whole world was probably still in a period of desolation. It can be speculated that because of the poor terrain and environment, the magical continent at that time would only be more backward than Middle-earth.

From the day it arrived, the alien civilization used its agents (Miko Divine Pastor) to promote religion (the doctrine of the God of Light) among the humans of the Magic Continent, and limited the method of using magic crystal energy (the so-called magic circle), and established the system of the five holy houses.

During this time, in order to drive the dwarves and gnomes to the north to mine the crystals, they may have also spread prejudice or hatred against the dwarves among ordinary humans.

After a period of cultivation, they finally built a clever and covert system of exploitation - the magical continent controlled Middle-earth, and Middle-earth exchanged food for magic crystals mined by the dwarves.

And the vast majority of these magic crystals flowed into the hands of that foreign civilization in the name of religion, that is, the god of light, through their agents, that is, the brainwashed son of God.

As for the knightly class, it should have been far less powerful than it is now before the arrival of that civilization.

This system, built on religion, humanity, and geographical barriers, worked well until 3,000 years ago.

Three thousand years ago, Paladin Reinhardt infiltrated the Magical Continent and discovered the secrets of the Magical Continent's control of Middle-earth, during which time he most likely interacted with the Hermitage of the Chiga Mountains.

After that, there was the Great War of the North, which is known to the whole world.

After the war, by mistake, the magic crystal quota treaty signed between the Magic Continent and the Far North Country exposed the most critical part of this exploitation system to the eyes of a few people.

From that day on, the number of magic crystals flowing out of the Far North Country became well-documented, and some of the humans in the Magic Continent did not realize until this time that most of the magic crystals had flowed into the Church of Light.

This is why the Chiga became a monastic after the Great War three thousand years ago, and secretly fought against the Church of Light. In this way, the reason for the Church's crusade against the Chiga Mountain is obvious.

In the process of successive crusades, among the legendary mages of the Five Holy Courtyards, there may be people who, like the Chiga Mountain Hermitage Society, are dissatisfied with the Church of Light and secretly throw themselves into the Chiga Mountain.

Among them is probably Raphael, the fiery phoenix.

It is precisely because of this that the Seventh Divine Son said to Raphael: "The God of Light has long called you, and you have not heard ......"

For some reason that Donner didn't know, that foreign civilization didn't seem to appear in front of the world except for controlling the Son of God, and even in this high-stakes crusade, it didn't show up.

The reason why the Church of Light finally reached a compromise with the Chiga Mountain was probably because the Chiga Mountain Monastery had mastered spiritual magic, and Master Sandru had become a legendary spiritual mage, as can be guessed from his ability to control the dragon.

Donner speculated that until then, spiritual magic should only be mastered by the Church of Light, and like light magic (including divine grace and divine punishment, etc.), it was an important means for the Church to rule the world.

And in the Whispering Forest, the old witch who has mastered spiritual magic should be from the Hermitage of the Chiga Mountain.

As for how the hermit society cracked the spiritual magic, although Donner didn't know, he could vaguely guess - it was nothing more than peeking into the secret of the church's baptism, and through the spiral element and magic potion, he was promoted to a high-level spiritual mage (just like Donner is doing now), and then used the magic pet contract ball (the magic scroll equivalent to the soul contract) to control a certain priest, or even a god son--according to Donner's speculation, as long as his own spiritual magic level is higher than that of the other party, he can do this.

As for why Chigashan did not overthrow the Church of Light in the end, and why the Church of Light was willing to compromise with Chegashan, according to Donner's speculation, it was mostly because the Church of Light still held other hole cards that could not be easily used.

In order to target this hole card of the Church of Light, Chigashan later established the Inspectorate and promoted the examination of the Five Academies.

Donner still remembers that when he was in the Sacred Court of Fire, the messenger from the Chega Mountains wanted to launch a second war against the Knight Federation, but the Divine Son strongly opposed it, and insisted on reopening the demon hunting examination to weaken the influence of the five academy examinations.

From this information, Donner was almost able to conclude that the Chiga Mountain was at some point, and he was thinking.

It's a surprising, yet plausible idea:

The world is locked in a perfect and gorgeous cage.

This cage is more sophisticated and hidden than the caste system, more sophisticated than the shadow killer, and these means of control.

Donner kept saying this before he stopped, probably because what he was about to say next was so amazing.

However, even if it was just what he had just said, Wesley was already dumbfounded. He frowned and pondered for a long time before he slowly asked, "What is this perfect cage you are talking about?"

Donner took a long breath and told another story: "Let's imagine that. If you have a large group of dogs, keep them in a house where no one can be seen, and feed them regularly every day, with one exception - when a dog beats a drum in the house, it will be fed once more. After doing this for a while, you continue to improve, and if a dog can beat a certain rhythm, you put in the best beef......"

"I see what you mean," Wesley said, "and over time, those dogs will feel that they have food when they beat the drum, and that the dogs who are good at beating the drum will have more and more status." ”

"That's right," Donner nodded, "If the dog doesn't see people all the time during this process, he will think that the connection between the beating of the drum and the food is inevitable and natural...... You say, if this is maintained for thousands of years, these dogs will not want to do anything but study drumming. ”

"What do you want to say......" Wesley asked in a deep voice.

Donner stretched out his hand, and a blue fireball appeared above his palm: "I just beat the drum once......"

"You mean......" Wesley was horrified, "we're all dogs in captivity, and magic is just beating drums?"

"It's easy to beat a drum, it's complicated to magic, but the truth is probably the same, don't you think those magic models look like some kind of password or key, and the magicians of the whole world are figuring out how to make the most elaborate key, and no one has ever thought of that lock?" asked Donner.

"But...... If that's the case, then why hasn't anyone thought of that?" Wesley still couldn't believe it.

"Because this key is complex enough to seem like it contains all the secrets of the world, and the power it can bring is great enough......" Donner replied.

Wesley still shook his head slowly, Donner's speech was completely beyond his imagination.

"Remember your uncle's hobby?" said Donner, slowly, "he was a naturalist, he was interested in exploring the secrets of the world, he felt that magic was not everything, but as a result, everyone laughed at him and thought he was not doing his job. And the so-called naturalist association in the Hulse continent is even less popular...... I was given honorary board membership, but I didn't even know where it was. ”

Donner looked at Wesley's thoughtful appearance and continued: "In the Magic Continent, even if there is a Qiga Mountain to establish the Inspectorate Society, there are still very few people who are willing to join, and even in the end, even the Governor Society feels that the Inspectorate exists in name only, and gradually gives up financial support, and the members of the Society can only rely on their enthusiasm and side income to maintain their research ......."

"Knight to the north, mage to the south, why? Is it true that the farther south, the stronger the magic element?" Donner said, staring at Wesley's expression, "Could it be because that dog cage happens to extend out of the so-called heavenly kingdom?"

"What you're saying makes a lot of sense, and everything makes a lot of sense, but I still have a few questions. Wesley finally spoke.

Donner looked at him, waiting for his question.

"Since those people are so powerful, isn't it more efficient and easier for them to collect magic crystals by themselves, why do they need to make it so complicated?" Wesley asked.

"I don't know, but I can guess," Donner replied, "Maybe they can't withstand the gravity of the north, or maybe they just think it's more convenient to do this now, or maybe there are too many places waiting for them to collect magic crystals, and they don't have enough manpower, so this method is the easiest way to do it now...... Or, they have other purposes besides collecting magic crystals......"

"Hmm......" Wesley nodded slightly, accepting Donner's answer, and asked a second question: "Maintaining such a cage, that is, the lock you mentioned, also requires magic crystal energy, isn't it too wasteful to do so......"

"The magic array only uses one series of magical energy, where are the other four systems?" Donner asked rhetorically.

"You're saying that this cage may be maintained by ourselves?" Wesley exclaimed.

"Is this possible?" Donner didn't say his other guess - where was the lightning in the sky that should have been, could it have been absorbed by this invisible cage?

It took a moment for Wesley to fully digest this possible fact, and then he frowned, "One last question...... How could you possibly think of this? It's unbelievable. ”

After a moment of silence, Donner stood up, walked a few steps around the room, and sat down in his chair again.

"We're friends, aren't we?" he asked.

"What nonsense?" Wesley glared at him.

Donner smiled and nodded: "What I'm going to say next may be more ridiculous than the previous ones, but please trust me, it's not a joke." ”

"You say ......," Wesley said with a serious expression.

"I ...... Not the people of this world. Donner stared at the ground, not looking at Wesley's expression this time.

"You go on, I'm listening......" Wesley's voice trembled a little, he was not so shocked even after hearing so many amazing things just now.

"Fourteen years ago, I came from another world and suddenly came here, into the body of a six-year-old...... "Donner said it was a little ridiculous—even if it was something that happened to him.

"What do you mean?" Wesley was completely confused.

"That is, you wake up and find that you have become a different person, the soul is yours, but the body is his, and not only that, but the world is completely different from the one you knew......" Downer explained.

"It's kind of like a psychic magic ......," Wesley muttered.

"You can understand it that way first. Donner shrugged.

Wesley was silent for a while, then asked, "So they said you were dumb because you didn't speak the language of the world at that time?"

"It's not just because of that, I haven't spoken for ten years, it's because I feel like the world is fake...... The ...... will disappear at any time It didn't fade until much later......" Donner said with a wry smile.

Wesley didn't speak, knowing that Donner would explain why.

"You know what? When I first came here, I thought it was probably my dream, and then for a while, I thought it was probably a dream...... But both worlds are all too real...... For about a decade, I felt that the world was a game or a prank that was created and suddenly disappeared if I touched a mechanism. Until now, Donner is still a little embarrassed when he talks about his crossing.

"I'm afraid I'm not going to go away easily......" Wesley presumably comforted Donner.

"Do you believe what I just said?" asked Donner with a smile, feeling a little more relaxed about telling his biggest secret to his probably only friend.

"You have no reason to lie to me, and your previous speculations are reasonable enough not to be said by a madman," Wesley shrugged helplessly, "Say, why do you think this world is fake? There should be a reason, right?"

Donner lowered his head and began to say silently: "A minute has sixty seconds, an hour has sixty minutes, a day is twenty-four hours, a month is thirty-one days, and a month is twenty-eight days...... There will be an extra month every five years...... A kilometer is a kilometer......"

"Because of this?" Wesley wondered.

"Yes," Donner nodded slowly, "because in the world I came over, except for the Moon of Doom, everything is the same......"

"Incredible...... Wesley shook his head slowly.

"yes, it's incredible, when I first learned about this, I was almost sure that it was a game, a game designed by someone from my world, and I was just in it. At that time, I felt that everything here was of no value to me, it was all fake...... Except for the same ......"

"Except for what?" asked Wesley.

"I'm an orphan in another world, and I've never seen my parents......," Downer sighed, and now it seems like hundreds of centuries have passed since I talked about these things.

"I remember, you once told a story about the orphanage, and it was your own story when you were in Dorne, right?"

Donner smiled wryly and nodded, "Yes, it's the story that happened to me. So, when I came here, even though I knew it was fake -- I mean, I thought it was fake -- I enjoyed having a father and a younger brother...... I think maybe this is a reward or compensation for me from the person who designed this prank. ”

"No wonder when I first met you, I thought you didn't care about anything, you thought everything was fake...... Wesley shook his head.

"Now I've confirmed that the world is real...... It's not because you look real, and it's not because Reicor looks real......" Donner's face was pained.

"Why?" Wesley looked up at him.

"Because of the whole set of exploitation methods I mentioned earlier, using religion, taking advantage of human nature, taking advantage of geographical barriers, and setting up a cage that restricts the development of the other side...... I am all too familiar with these methods and tricks. Donner covered his face with his hands: "Yes, that foreign civilization should be the place where I came from...... That's why there are almost the same calendars, and almost the same units, which are all traces of what they left in this world......"

Wesley looked at Donner in amazement, he finally knew why Donner could see through this, and why he was so convinced.

Actually, about some details, Donner did not expand.

For example, the length of a day in this world is definitely not exactly the same as that of Earth, so the same minute seems to be slightly longer in this world, which is just a vague feeling for Donner, and he can't confirm it.

In addition, given the slight differences between matter and elements, Downer felt that this might be some parallel space different from the Earth.

Wesley paused for a moment and suddenly asked, "Since you are also from that world, it shouldn't be difficult for you to unlock this cage disguised as magic, right?"

Donner shook his head: "If my guess is correct, then those who invaded here have far more advanced technology than the world I came from......"

Seeing Wesley's puzzled expression, Donner explained: "Maybe many, many years have passed in the process of coming to this world, and it is also possible that the world I am in is actually enslaved by this civilization. So, I only know a few vague principles about how they did this, and how they did it was completely unclear. ”

"Then can you talk to them, after all, you are from the same place, so it should be easier to talk. Wesley seemed to believe Donner's entire story, even if it sounded so bizarre.

Donner still shook his head: "Believe me, it's useless, I'm worthless compared to the magic crystal or whatever other resources they need, don't forget what I just said, it's likely that the place I came from was also controlled and enslaved by them." ”

"Then we don't have a chance at all, since they are already strong enough to this extent......" Wesley frowned.

"Don't be so pessimistic," Donner struggled to squeeze out a smile: "First of all, they may have already left after setting up this system, otherwise the Church of Light would not have compromised with the Chega Mountain, and secondly, our current enemy is only the Magic Continent for the time being, as long as the strength of Middle-earth reaches the level of the Magic Continent, and then find a way to weaken people's belief in the God of Light - just like the interests that the Chiga Mountain strives for, we can also help Middle-earth win it, right?"

"It's not going to solve the problem completely...... Wesley was a little frustrated.

"Take your time, there's always a way to think of it, and ......" Donner seemed to think of something, pausing slightly.

"And what?" asked Wesley, anxiously.

"Besides, there will come a time when the magic crystal will be dug up, and when we get back to Middle-earth, ask the dwarves how long the magic crystal can be mined. Maybe when the magic crystals are gone, the alien civilization will be no longer interested here...... That's also a way to do it. Donner smiled wryly.

"Okay...... That's a way to do it. Wesley shook his head helplessly.

After a while, he suddenly asked, "How far away do you say the kingdom of heaven is from here?"

Downer thought for a moment: "It's a little difficult to answer this question. ”

"You try......" Wesley didn't give up.

Donner looked around and saw a fruit basket on the sideboard at the door of the room, and although he rarely entered the living room, the maid still put fresh fruit here every day.

Donner shook his head self-deprecatingly and walked over to pick up an apple.

Then, it took him a long time to borrow the apple and explain gravity to Wesley.

"Okay...... Wesley sighed, "even if you're right...... And then what. ”

"Wait a minute," Donner picked up the knife from the basket and slipped a circle of flesh from the center of the apple, then moved the blade up slightly and cut it again, this time deeper than before.

It didn't take long for the whole apple to be cut into two symmetrical steps from top to bottom, and from the side, the whole outline looked like an olive.

"Remember what I just said?" asked Donner, "the closer you are to the center," he pointed to the top and bottom of the apple with the tip of his fruit knife, "the greater the gravity." ”

"The farther away from the center," Donner circled along the center of the apple, the only place where the peel remained, "the less gravity ......"

"Wait," Wesley said in surprise, "you don't mean to say that we all live on this flattened apple, do you?"

Donner nodded, and then pointed to the second staircase above the middle circle of the apple (equator) with the tip of his knife: "We're probably here now......"

Then, gradually moving the tip of his knife upwards, he gestured to the flat apple: "This is the Sea of Oblivion, this is Middle-earth, this is the ...... of the Knights' Federation"

"Wait, wait," Wesley interrupted, "so you say, we keep going east, or keep going west, and we'll be back where we were?"

"Theoretically, yes, but the apple is too big, and the unknown places may be swamps or deserts. Downer replied, "I guess it's possible to go back to square one along the Sea of Oblivion all the way east and west, but it may take a long time, maybe years, or even a dozen years...... It's unrealistic to not get supplies along the way......"

Wesley frowned and took the apple from Donner's hand, "Where is the Kingdom of Heaven?"

"If I'm not mistaken, it's where there's still the peel. Donner replied.

"This circle?" said Wesley, gesturing along the lap of the apple that should be at the equator.

"Yes, gravity is minimal, rotation speed is maximum, and the spacecraft needs less energy to take off and land," he knew Wesley would not understand, and waved his hand, "but who knows? Maybe they don't care about the energy ......"

Wesley looked at Donner dumbfounded, and shook his head violently as if he had woken up, as if Donner hadn't just explained why Heaven was at the equator, but had used some kind of psychic magic on him.

"No, how did they get past the Dragondweller?" muttered Wesley.

"Those dragons may be the ones they raised...... Donner replied casually.

"Okay......" Wesley sighed, then pointed to the top of the apple, where the flesh had been peeled the most, "Is the Far North here?"

"No, the Far North can't get there," Donner shook his head, "If it's really in the shape of this apple, the gravity is too great there, and no one can go there......"

"I see, it's hell ......," Wesleygu nodded to himself.

"Don't you don't believe in the god of light, how can you believe that there is a ...... hell?" asked Donner.

"I don't know what to believe now...... All that I heard tonight, so ...... It's unbelievable...... Wesley exclaimed.

"I've been talking too much at once," Donner smiled apologetically, "probably because I've been holding back too long and I've never had a chance to talk to anyone about these ......"

"I still have one of the most important questions," Wesley suddenly became serious, "this is really the last one......

"Say it......" Donner also looked serious.

"Is my painting really valuable?" Wesley asked.

Donner couldn't help but laugh and talked all night, and at the end of the day, Wesley felt that this was the most important thing.

"Don't worry, it's worth it!" he replied. (To be continued.) )