124 - twists and turns

"Cause and effect? Is this thing real? ”

Rama was a little nervous.

He gave the Heart of the Grass God directly to the Fatui in exchange for something, and in fact, all of Tartaglia's subsequent tolerance was due to the fact that he took this God Heart.

If you get it, you have to give, and if you get something too precious, in some ways it means that you have to pay a lot for it.

And it was precisely because of the loss of this divine heart that Nahida completely lost the opportunity to fulfill her personal mission.

As the next god of grass arranged by the Great Mercy Tree King, Nahida has had a mission that must be carried out since her birth.

Rama stopped Nahida's efforts, although in the plot Nahida also got two god hearts, she had the opportunity to go to the will space of the Great Mercy Tree King, one god heart, Nahida probably had to give up something to have a chance to complete the mission.

In terms of results alone, Rama was undoubtedly an obstacle to Nahida's mission.

Nahida did not fulfill her mission, so the pollution of the World Tree continued.

And the Great Mercy Tree King manipulated the void and used the dream power of the Sumeru people to suppress the erosion encountered by the World Tree, and naturally there was no time to stop.

The terrible thing is that what is hanging Rama's life now is the dream power of the Sumeru people.

Nahida was snatching the same power from the Great Tree of Mercy to save Rama.

But he couldn't.

Even though the Great Mercy Tree King had been dead for a long time, Nahida still couldn't compete with the Great Mercy Tree King in this regard.

"Isn't this cracking?"

Rama muttered in a low voice.

"Rama, you may not be able to participate in my celebration." Nahida's voice was calm.

"You mean I'm going to hang?"

If it could be saved, it would have been pulled back a long time ago.

It is a fairy tale to wrestle for a long time and then succeed.

Victory or defeat can be decided in a split second, and the rest is a struggle for hope and miracles.

When a miracle comes, the weak defeat the strong.

If the miracle doesn't come, it is to follow the strong and weak relationship that was decided from the beginning.

"It's not." Nahida sighed, "I told them that my birthday was actually today, and then they decided to start the [Flower Season] early. ”

"With the help of the power of the Void, I intend to do something."

Rama was silent for a moment before he tentatively asked, "Dream reincarnation?" ”

"How do you know?" Nahida's words were a little surprised, "Forget it, it's your weird language again, right?" ”

"The trouble now is that I'm too far away, and I'm still too young to grasp the true power of the Grass God."

"You have to rely on the power of other people's dreams to barely hang your life from the darkness."

Nahida sighed, "But I just discovered that the Void has been drawing the dream power of the people of Sumeru. ”

It's not just people from Sumeru.

The dream reincarnation is only activated in Sumeru City, but the Great Cishu King's extraction of the dream is the entire territory of Sumeru.

As long as it's an adult in Sumeru, you won't dream.

It's hard to say exactly how He judged the slightly more complicated concept of Lord Sumeru, but He did it anyway.

"The one who can do this must be the King of the Great Mercy Tree."

"I don't know what the Tree King needs the power of dreams to do, but what he wants to do must be for the sake of this world, and I can't interfere with his plans."

Rama was silent.

The power of the gods gradually grew stronger, and even condensed into an illusion around him.

Nahida smiled and said, "Fortunately, there is not only one way to solve the problem, if the Void must draw a part of the power to do something, I have no way to use this part of the power." ”

"Then, we can try to extract more dream power."

If you must ensure the stability of the diversion, but the demand on your side is relatively large.

Then try to increase the source to make sure that even after the necessary expenditure, the rest can still save lives.

This is where dream reincarnation comes in.

The Great Mercy Tree King had no intention of harming the people, he had transferred the Dream Realm, but it was also to protect the entire Teyvat Continent.

Even for such an important thing, all He did was to extract the dreams of adults, and He also reserved the ability for children to dream.

To the surprise of the Tree King, in the future five hundred years later, the six sages who ruled Sumeru opened 168 dream reincarnations for the so-called god-making project, almost draining the people of Sumeru City.

What He is reluctant to do, even if it is self-sacrificing, the people he wants to protect, they are much more ruthless than He when they do it themselves.

"If you want to make the people of Sumeru City fall into a dream in a short period of time, you need a relatively active atmosphere and environment."

Nahida whispered, "So, Rama, my dependent, you won't be able to make it to my birthday." ”

"Because I need [birthday] to save you."

"Supposedly, my life is almost dead at this point, and I should applaud vigorously." Rama sighed, "But isn't it really against your values to do so?" ”

Dream reincarnation is not a good thing.

Dreaming many times in a short period of time is very exaggerated to the degree of consumption of the human body.

If Rama's estimated time was correct, Nahida would have already begun preparations for the Flower God's Birthday before she disappeared.

Only in this way will Rama's consciousness be able to grasp his will and preserve his knowledge of himself before his consciousness collapses.

"You seem to have a problem saying that, so do you want me to let go of the rope?"

Nahida asked, smiling.

Contrary to the words, His projection reached out and grabbed Rama's palm.

"Don't, don't, you know I'm greedy for life and afraid of death, I'll be afraid."

Rama squeezed the god's hand.

"When you told me at the time why beings like demon gods have no desire for humans at all, but they have to take care of them, I reflected on this matter again."

"Then I discovered that as you said, the gods should be like the Thunderbird [Kapachili] in your story."

"He will bless humanity for its occasional pleasure with Him, and he will destroy everything for humanity because of an unintentional mistake."

Nahida said softly, "I know the answer, but I can't. ”

In fact, the people of Heguan did nothing wrong.

It is certainly not a problem to criticize the blood sacrifice from the perspective of those who come after it.

For blood sacrifice is indeed a cruel and immoral act.

But for the Heguan people at that time, this was all they knew.

You are a god and we can't resist it, and if you like something, then of course we will do our best to offer it to you.

Blood sacrifices, human sacrifices······ These are their greatest sincerity.

From the standpoint of the Tsurukan people, they obviously dedicated their greatest sincerity to the gods, but the gods seemed to completely ignore their piety and chose to destroy everything they had, which was also incomprehensible to them.

But this is the gods.

They don't need the understanding of mortals, mortals only need to be responsible for currying favor with them.

What if you fail to please the gods?

Then one can only pray that the gods will ignore their existence.

Nahida accepted Rama's description and thought that Kapachili's actions were indeed freer and more logical.

So, why would He, a god who has been imprisoned since birth and has never been worshipped by the people of Sumeru, want to shelter this group of people?

Nahida was aware of the problem, but He couldn't solve it.

But He can get around it.

"Let's think differently, if we have to fight for the people of Sumeru, then we can think like this."

"The value of people and people is not equal, I believe that Rama can lead Sumeru to a better future, so for the sake of this future, I can choose to sacrifice some of the people of Sumeru."

The god's voice teased, "It's for Sumeru, too, isn't it?" ”

"Dream reincarnation is not even a sacrifice, not long ago we have completed the popularization of alchemy potions for all people of the right age, their physical fitness has been improved, as long as they avoid those patients and keep the number of reincarnations at a relatively low number, it will not cause them any damage."

Rama tentatively asked, "What do you think of this lower count?" ”

"Hundreds of times, it's all for Sumeru." Nahida said softly, "You're important, so a small sacrifice doesn't matter. ”

He seemed to really believe that his choice was solely for Sumeru.

You're not going to hypnotize yourself, are you?

A somewhat ridiculous thought flashed through Rama's mind.

Nahida's approach is somewhat similar to Thor's.

Although in most people's final judgments, the [Lockdown Order] and [Eye Hunting Order] chosen by Lei Movie based on [Eternity] are actually ridiculous, but Lei Movie himself recognized this logic, and the general also recognized this logic, and then the two of them just dared to do it.

These two decrees obviously caused very serious damage to the Inazuma people as well, but the logic of "as long as the final result is favorable to Inazuma, then the sacrifice in the middle is worth it, and it is all for Inazuma and Inazuma people" is smooth.

You can say that there is something wrong with what they are doing, but they themselves think that such a sacrifice is the right thing for the better situation.

The principles and logic they have identified can be implemented immediately.

Even if they find out that this doesn't seem to work in the end, but the thing has been done, what can Ray Movie do?

He didn't have the power to change time, and the Inazuma people could only accept this result.

The logic of gods loving people may be stable, but what is a lover?

For example, I felt that people were suffering from short lives and hard work, so I brought them into the world of dreams and permanently drowned in dreams.

Long life, all-powerful power······ In another world, they can get everything they would never get.

Is this considered a lover?

Of course, others think that this is a madman and a psychopath, but his own logic is very stable, and I just sympathize with their toil and short life, and hope that they can enjoy more things that they can't enjoy.

What? You say they don't want to?

I think it's good for them to do this, and their disagreement is just a fool's short-sightedness, what does it have to do with me doing it?

This is a "necessary sacrifice", and they "will surely understand in the end."

"Take a break, and I'll take care of the rest."

The four-leaf seal in Nahida's eyes became brighter and brighter, "After that, you have to repay Sumeru well, they have done a lot to save you." ”

Although it is forced to pay.

With the power of dreams, the young god finally showed the majesty of the god.

The dream power around Nahida's body lit up almost the entire starry sky.

Rama then got a glimpse of the truth of the Golden Dreamland.

However, instead of looking at the Golden Dreamland, he looked at the sky, assuming it was the sky.

A tall ancient tree loomed, its drooping branches glowing gently.

"World Tree?" Nahida's gaze was also on the ancient tree, "It seems that there is a force calling me closer. ”

"The world... Forget me······"

Rama also heard a gentle voice.

He even knows the true meaning of this sentence, and makes the world, completely forget me.

This is the natural mission left by the Great Tree King to Nahida, and it is also the obligation that Nahida must fulfill after her birth.

The gentle god's last thought before he died was to completely purge the influence of forbidden knowledge, even if it came at the cost of not being present in Teyvat's history.

Rama had no time to sigh at the dedication of the Great Tree King.

At this time, it is not a good thing to be able to hear the voice of the Great Mercy Tree King.

No, you won't, right?

You're here to do this?

"Rama!"

Nahida completely instilled the divine power in her body into Rama's body, "I can't resist this call, the Dao Marker will not disappear for the time being, and then it's up to you!" ”

As in the case of Rama's capture, Nahida was powerless to resist the call.

This is his innate calling, and once he reaches a certain level of strength, he will naturally understand what to do.

Amplified by the power of the overabundance of dreams, Nahida was recognized.

This place was already very close to the World Tree, and as the reincarnation of the pure branches of the World Tree, Nahida was completely powerless to resist the call from the World Tree.

This ancient tree can't wait for Him to fulfill its mission to cleanse itself of the erosion and disturbances it has suffered for five hundred years.

Rama only had time to raise his middle finger at the ancient tree, and then all the divine power was gone.

The invisible weight reattached to Rama's body like an appendage.

The power of the gods still radiates light, but it is rapidly depleted, without any pause.

Rama didn't have time to hesitate, he tightened his grip on the rope and climbed towards the other end of the rope.

(End of chapter)