16. In the Name of God (10)
Osiris looked up at the thing.
The statue of a beautiful woman with wings, with her arms outstretched and six pairs of rainbow wings, poses as if she embraces the world, and her calm and gentle eyes look at the visitor, showing a beautiful elegance befitting the identity of a work of art.
Statue of the Mother Goddess.
Occupying the highest and most conspicuous position, even the statues of the 12 dragons around them had to bow their heads to highlight the supremacy of the Almighty God.
Since ancient times, wherever the gathering place of intelligent life has been a statue of the mother goddess with the theme of zài, and all kinds of ethnic groups have poured their time, money, and skills into it.
However, this is not culture, but faith.
Culture is neither controllable nor has a clear direction, it is the result of changes in time and the world. There are many benefits, but sometimes even the past is destroyed. In the final analysis, it is just that people call this phenomenon without purpose and direction as "culture".
In contrast, from the very beginning, faith has had a definite direction, through the accumulation of wills, leading the self and the collective to the path of the gods.
Correspondingly, the Almighty Mother Goddess also bestows infinite love on all beings.
-- and control zhì.
Unlike the intelligent species, which were strictly blocked from information, the ancient species knew from the beginning that the world was under control, and even the methods were roughly known.
After all, they were created in the first place as part of the management system, so it's not surprising to know some of the details. For this reason, the elders of the dragon clan also have a better understanding of the existence of the "divine will agent" than any other race.
To put it simply. It's like a shepherd dog managing a flock.
Monitor whether the various races are maintained in the state set by the Mother Goddess, and if anyone is found to be derailed, immediately correct it, and if it is not possible, eliminate the derailer before the danger spreads. As long as they exist, it is impossible for intelligent life to break away from the carefully woven fence, let alone develop civilization and culture freely. Combined with the power of the Church, it is possible to go one step further and use indirect means to interfere in the economy and politics of various countries.
Over thousands of years of operation, the system has proven its effectiveness. Until decades ago. Divine Will Agent Linardo Dalk until he was out of the system.
At that time, the Dragon Clan Elders had already begun to discuss if the Mother Goddess issued a decree and ordered the Dragon Clan to form a crusade force to wipe out Li Nadu. It's time for a strategy. But unexpectedly. Linardo was killed. Killed by a new generation of Divine Will Agents.
Transcendental species - Siegfried Otto Lilin.
Thinking back to the past few days, the contact with the mother goddess's agent in the world, a trace of haze churned in his heart.
"Your Excellency the Great Elder. ”
A respectful greeting came from behind. Turning his thoughts back to reality, Osiris let out a soft "um" and turned around.
"Alfheim's flying ship has been detached from the identification zone, and the barrier has been closed again. ”
The second-ranked elder, Naga, reported the situation in the same flat tone as usual, but Osiris's heard discordant notes in the seemingly calm tone.
The subtle sound of scales rubbing.
Only the extremely unhappy dragons will send such a dangerous signal.
Naga, who has always been known for his calmness, will have this kind of reaction, which is unprecedented, but Osiris himself is not in a good mood, so he does not blame, but comforts lightly.
"Don't be like this, the other party is a transcendent species, a being of the Mother Goddess and the law above us. ”
"I'm not questioning God's arrangement. ”
Still calm, but Naga raised his voice.
"But that guy made me so uncomfortable and honestly, I wanted to throw up. ”
Without any concealment, his expression did reveal the message that he wanted to rinse his mouth and clear his mouth.
Osiris smiled wryly, and let the straightforward Naga take charge of the pick-up and drop-off work against his will, and the result would definitely be like this. The second elder does not shirk the responsibilities entrusted to him, but he also does not hide his true thoughts very much.
Osiris was no less pleasant, and he certainly couldn't have been in a good mood to stay with a guy who had a suave posture and described his evil plans in polite terms.
Speaking of which, there are not a few people who do this kind of thing, human kings, politicians, generals, lawyers, and money lenders are all like this, with black minds, who don't care about the lives of others, and use others as cannon fodder without guilt. There is no morality, no humanity, the only thing that cares is their interests. Just condemning Li Lin seems a bit unfair.
However, Osiris didn't think there was anything wrong with that.
That's right, those people are not nobler than Li Lin, but it is easier to classify them as "scum", "bastards" and the like, compared to them, Li Lin at least brings benefits to more people, and he is not acting for his own interests.
He has no selfish intentions, just adhering to God's will, faithfully fulfilling his mission, and running for the stability and happiness of the world.
Literally, Li Lin can be included in the list of "great men" and "great good men", but Osiris's is even more disgusted by this kind of "selfless" behavior.
Quite simply, those who act for their own interests, no matter how despicable and shameless and dirty they are, they still have the bottom line of "their own interests", so he can judge the movements of these people and determine the process of cooperating with them. But with a selfless person like Li Lin, the situation is completely different.
Anything that develops to the extreme becomes a danger, and the same is true of selflessness, when a person is completely selfless, it means that the person does not have what can be called a "bottom line". More brazen and ruthless than those who pursue profit.
Li Lin is like this, and in the past few days, whenever he hears and sees that innocent young face smiling and talking about the plans that send thousands of people to hell, a strong sense of disobedience will emerge.
He wasn't cruel, he wasn't a pathopath who could get pleasure from bloody scenes, and he wasn't as keen on all sorts of bad tastes as he appeared.
He just treats everyone equally. It is regarded as statistics without any distinction and is calculated and used. So he can kill people or design people as if nothing happened.
"For those who act as agents of divine will, this excellent talent is very suitable for ......"
"May I interrupt, you say 'excellent talent'?"
Naga's eyebrows were raised, and he asked:
"I don't think ruthlessness is a talent, much less something that should be present in the Mother Goddess as a human agent. ”
In fact, it is a necessary talent for the agent of God's will. ”
Osiris clasped his hands together and let out a sigh on his belly.
There have been many divine will agents in the history of the dragon clan, and Osiris has seen different agents in his life so far. He knows very well that beneath the enviable appearance and title. What kind of pressure are the agents under.
No matter what kind of happiness comes at the cost of a certain sacrifice, for the safety and happiness of the majority, the sacrifice of the few has to be tolerated.
As God's agent over the world, it is the job of the vicarious to constantly remove foreign matter from the system. Keeping the "world" system in just the right balance can continue to function. Prevent the system from falling into an anomaly that incurs a mass death of the life that lives in the system.
The so-called exclusion. Nature is killing.
Regardless of whether they are high or low, young or old, as long as they are identified as foreign objects that pose a threat to the maintenance of the status quo, they will be immediately erased.
Kill others at the same time. He also kills his own heart, and eventually becomes a part of the system - he does not expect anything, does not think for himself, but only obeys the will of God and carries out the orders that are delivered, until one day it breaks down, or it cannot stand this qiē, and it is detached from the system and obliterated by new replacement parts.
This is the true portrayal of the agents of the divine will.
"No matter how hard-hearted it is, flesh and blood continue to do that kind of thing, and most of the end ends up like this. But Li Lin is different. ”
He was the first to date to position himself as a manager from the start.
"His real purpose is not to rule, but to manage. Just as the keeper of the pond does not care how the fish swim and reproduce in the pond, as long as it does not cause the fish to perish or the entire pond to collapse, he is not interested in the struggle between the various forces. ”
This is true of the Mother Goddess, and so is her Substitute.
Regardless of which faction is supported or weakened, the fundamental purpose is not to benefit the elven camp, but only that the world order dominated by the elven camp is the most suitable for the requirements of the mother god, and the human camp and the orc camp are just the obstacle to achieving this goal, so they must be eliminated, nothing more.
"This is a very large and highly complex plan, which cannot be done without clever strategy and skill, and that kind of 'selflessness', and Li Lin happens to have these things. ”
So he is the best agent of divine will. Not only in the past and present, but probably in the distant future, there will be no better than him.
It's just-
"Great Elder Osiris, you just used the fish in the pond as a metaphor for the beings in the world, and the Mother Goddess and Li Lin are the administrators, right?"
"That's right. ”
"But in this way, all this qiē will become ......"
“......”
Naga stopped talking, but finally his shoulders slackened and he was silent, and Osiris looked at him and said nothing.
It's all just work, and there's no room for emotional involvement.
Mother Goddess or her agents do not love all living beings in the world.
-- The conclusion of this deduction made them feel terrified from the bottom of their hearts.
Turning his head to the side, he saw a huge hollow.
A few days ago, after the Council of Elders discussed the proposal for Tongguò and Yalfheim to work together, some younger generations expressed strong dissatisfaction and opposition to it.
Rather than having a negative view of the bill itself, they could not accept that they were going to obey the orders of a weak imp, and they did not swallow it, and in order to preserve their self-esteem, they acted unwisely but justifiably - to express dissent.
Li Lin understood this, and gave all the young dragons a chance to understand the situation.
"It's too troublesome to come one by one, let's go together if you have opinions. ”
It only took 5 minutes for all the dragons to understand what a transcendent species is and what a transcendent species is.
"I confess that as a substitute for the divine will, absolute power and authority are necessary and can be ......"
Elder Naga's words came to an abrupt end, and a cold wind blew through the half-ruined arena, and through the gap, a sea of white ice floe could be seen.
In that direction, it was originally a small island with a total area of more than 40,000 square kilometers, and Li Lin wiped that island from the world with just one blow.
The huge black shadow of the nine heads oppressed like a nightmare again, and his grandson was in the midst of the troublesome young generation, when he saw the black alien suppressing the young dragons like small worms, the emotions surging in his heart were not anger and hatred, but bottomless, abyss-like despair.
Even the power of the dragon clan is as insignificant and ridiculous as an ant mayfly in front of the transcendent species, and as long as it is necessary, he can even wipe out all the creatures in the world in one day.
Such absolute power can only be called divine power—the power exercised by a god who does not know mercy, and who mercilessly compels the disobedient to submit.
"Under his influence, where will the world go—"
"That's not something we can know. The Lord is the one who exercises the power of God in the name of God - it is enough to know this. ”
Turning sideways again, looking up at the statue of the Mother Goddess who had shown mercy to the world, Osiris's answer was mixed with the distress of having believed in the Mother Goddess for many years. (To be continued......)