Even Russell could not say whether the ideas of the church were good or bad;

Even now, he can't say the words "This is absolutely wrong and sinful" in sonorous and righteous words.

For they do not have any selfish motives or desires.

All struggles for "survival" are good and evil—another moral choice that overrides good and evil, a choice between life and death.

It is true that someone can sacrifice everything, including life, for something greater than themselves. However, there are also people who can pay anything just to survive, just to survive... But that doesn't mean the latter is wrong, and we can't ask others to die for the sake of "something great."

The church has no obligation to believe Russell. The path they pursued, even if it was a strategy, was a path that could be followed. A narrow road is always better than a dead end.

- The so-called "Great Fusion".

As long as the hidden danger of the monkey-faced eagle is eliminated, it is indeed a kind of path: since the base point that will be polluted by dreams is "sensibility", and the damage caused by pollution occurs in the "group", then it is better to abandon the sensibility and the group?

Become a mechanical mind that is completely immune to "dreams", a hive mind with only one voice, and a collection of human intelligence, combined with psionic energy that can reverse reality. This is also a way out for a civilization, and in time, it may be able to become a great civilization of the level of the "Fallen Empire". 1 The only question is—how does the church ensure the exclusion of monkey-faced eagles?

The monkey-faced eagle is a thought, and the mind is immortal. Completely incarnated into the form of information, he can enter someone's mind with a dormant posture, and then decode himself in a certain way after the great fusion, and "decompress" from the hive mind. At that point, they became completely unable to resist the monkey-faced eagle.

It's like in real life, up close to Russell; If humans want to fight against the monkey-faced eagle in the Cyber World Realm, they have no chance of winning at all. The Three Sages are able to fight against the Monkey-Faced Eagle, although there is an element of stronger computing power...... However, the fundamental difference is that the monkey-faced eagle, who possesses the psionic power of "Anima Animus", does not have special attacks against races other than "humans". As the Egg of Dusk, the scope of his infection is far less outrageous than that of Dream. He can only pollute, influence, and devour those races that exist in the subconscious of the group...

On the other hand, the monkey-faced eagle is also the "god of the community" that the church believes.

He is not the first, but he will be the ultimate – he is not an absolutely equal good god, but an absolutely dictatorial evil god.

The only difference between the monkey-faced eagle and the "god" is that he has not yet devoured "everyone". When he fuses everyone into one, then he is even stronger than the "gods" of the First Psionic Network—because the original gods were not purely self-conscious, they were muddled group consciousness itself. He has no interest, no past, no position, he is closer to a "natural phenomenon". But the monkey-faced eagle clearly has a character, a purpose, and a sense of self.

The Church has packaged and stored all people's consciousness, which means completely abandoning the possibility of fighting the Egg of Twilight...

Russell didn't want to destroy the world, so he wouldn't participate, but the monkey-faced eagle didn't have that moral constraint. The two are at the same level. As long as the monkey-faced eagle realizes this and takes some means to bypass the firewall, the moment he enters the "inside" and comes into contact with other human information, it means that he has won. After the infinite expansion of his existence, the first person to be eroded and devoured by him was Russell.

Anima means "soul" and Animus means "spirit".

At the same time, the Anima represents the archetypal image of the feminine being within the man, and the Animus represents the masculine component within the woman. It's like the two fish eyes in the yin and yang fish. Taken together, these two names are the "inner and archetypal" of all human beings... That is, the "group god".

The monkey-faced eagle's psionic ability, "Anima Animus", is the "name of God".

He is the sleeping god who is locked in everyone's hearts, unconscious, undetectable, and hidden in the sea of subconscious.

Because of the god of containers—

No doubt.

By answering Andrew's copy of the Pope's personality, through the other's perspective, Russell has thoroughly understood the essence of the monkey-faced eagle

The "Vessel of the Gods" and the "Ani Bird Animus" are a pair of psionic abilities that are on the surface of each other. Russell is an outsider, a person who does not exist in this world.

He is a genius disguised as a few people, and has been a heterogeneous thing since birth. You can be friends with anyone, and you can be anyone. He is a magical mirror that reflects all external existences, dreams and realities in people's hearts. He represents the "outside", the transcendent shell of God.

The monkey-faced eagle is a native aborigine, and although he is a good researcher, he is only a mortal at heart. He represents the mediocre core of God.

His whole life as a human being has been abandoned, used, and destroyed by people. Because he does not understand anyone's heart, he has no successors, no dreams, no hopes, no friends and fellow believers, and even in the end he loses his offspring and name, and dies completely at the social level.

He was at a point of chance that after Russell had taken the Source of Holy Order, he had finally completely and completely lost everything about himself as he lost his son. Take the initiative to say goodbye to the whole world you have.

He was at that point in time... At the time Russell touched the essence of twilight, he was the only person in the whole world who was the complete opposite of Russell.

Because of this, he formed the Egg of Dusk with the drive of mortals, and became the god behind the aluminum film behind the mirror, in the container.

The reason why a mirror is a mirror and not a window, and why a container is a container and not a square, is precisely because of the thing that repels light.

If Russell is the dusk that represents the "tombstone", the monkey-faced eagle is the "grave". Without the tomb, the tombstone is just a stone slab, with only meaning and no substance, and without the tombstone, the tomb is just a bag of earth, empty with content but without meaning.

That's why they become twin twilight,

If Russell gets the power of the monkey-faced eagle, he doesn't need to devour anyone to become a god - just rely on Russell's "imitation" to provide fuel and burn through the monkey-faced eagle's engine, he can slowly grow up and gradually gain the power of "god", and he can become a god without paying any price.

And if the monkey-faced eagle obtains Russell's body, he will be able to immediately reach the present realm from nothingness with an immortal and immortal body, an all-knowing and all-powerful mind.

They are twins, and if they don't eat each other, it means that the fight will never end. Compared to Russell, who tends to be orderly and kind, the chaotic and evil "Monkey-faced Eagle" is more suitable to be twilight. Because morality binds Russell, so that he cannot devour other people, other civilizations. This means that it is at best an embryo and cannot grow because of malnutrition.

If there is a total consciousness similar to the abyssal consciousness in the birth of all the Twilight Species, then he must be more inclined to let the monkey-faced eagle devour Russell, devour the entire civilization and hatch it healthily, and then wander the multiverse like his predecessors to devour other civilizations.

Thus, Russell is merely a shell, a nourishment—like what is inside a grave, more important than a tombstone. It's just because the monkey-faced eagle is too mediocre compared to Russell that it has to catch up with the other party through this ritual of hunting down Russell and devouring Russell.

Compared with the distant "dream", the monkey-faced eagle that is close at hand is a disaster worth guarding against, compared to the dragon that does not communicate with ordinary people at all and is completely isolated from the bottom society, compared to those elves who are cowardly because they have too much, and arrogant because they have lived too long... In the end, he will become an absolute dictatorial "tyrant" and a "final producer" who controls all values, and the monkey-faced eagle should be even more hostile to people.

No matter how bad order is, it is still order, and it is better than complete extinction and chaos.

Russell believes that Your Excellency will understand this possibility.

So he stretched out his hand and shook it in front of him, the hundred-year-old pope, the "kind" of the monkey-faced eagle, the forerunner who uploaded his consciousness to the cyberspace-

"I'm so sorry."

Looking at the other party's expectant and relieved gaze, Russell held the old man's hand and calmly replied, "I refuse."

「… Is it because of the contradiction with the sheath?"

The old man frowned, "If that's because of that."

"It has nothing to do with that. Compared to the life and death of the world, my personal enmity is not worth mentioning." More emphasis is placed on love than hatred. If he had to work with the other party, he wouldn't have lost his temper and leave because of the sheath - not to mention, he didn't have that much hatred in the first place. More than hate, it is disappointment, and that is not hatred, but disgust.

"When I shake your hand, I naturally hope that we can work together."

Russell said word for word, "The 'prophets and sages' who know a lot and still tell riddles all the most. If you want to communicate, you must make it clear, and if you want to communicate, you must eliminate misunderstandings and ambiguities. Any cognitive bias may cause unnecessary contradictions

"You do know a lot of things. You know the Twilight Seed, you know the First Psionic Network, you know the plans of the Elves, you know the Spirits. I also know that you are all enemies in the church, and you are opponents everywhere. You want to use the 'Werewolf' project to shake the rule of the Big Seven and cause chaos, I know you must be in pain, but it is only a necessary evil. Without people questioning the Big Seven, the church will not be able to carry out the grand integration plan.

"Yes, you must think so. Because I [know] what you think.

There was a hint of magic in Russell's voice.

The surrounding "dreams" were modified by Russell's will—the Pope was dragged into a strange world by him, Russell.

It was a huge "art museum".

It is flanked by towering golden walls that are hung with countless moving and speaking portraits that resemble portraits from Harry Potter.

"Sheng" looked at everything around him in shock, and he instantly understood what this place was. The well was not his personal enlightenment, but Rore's subconscious instilled some kind of knowledge into him

".....But I don't think you know the secret knowledge of the 'Egg of Twilight,' the Dragon's knowledge of Greybend's other possibility of saving the world."

The corners of Russell's mouth rose slightly, and his clenched hand was slightly harder.

Looking at the old man, he slowly replied, "I can tell you these things, these secrets. I can save the world and protect everyone against the twilight. It is not entirely impossible to revive the world and bring it back to life.

"We are united, we are united. But it's not like I'm going to join you.....

"—but you, to join us."