Secret: The years I served as a foreign aid for the Aurora Club

Chapter 159 Two Evil Gods Chatting
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Actually, the Earth (or Blue Planet) is a very interesting place, He thought.

There are 22 paths gathered here, and perhaps 22 true gods will be born. This is a miracle that is hard to imagine anywhere else in the universe.

Putting aside the old civilization and removing this boring barrier, oneself might like this miracle.

If the gods are willing to follow the laws of the starry sky, fight each other, kill each other, support their respective families, give them unique abilities or blessings according to the path, develop different civilizations, and constantly be improved and eliminated in the war, then He will like it here. Without a doubt.

He would be willing to spend tens of thousands of years near this planet, observing every move inside, collecting intelligence and information, and cursing their prosperity and blessing their destruction. Such frequent and high-quality wars will promote aggregation, and eventually this will become the center of the universe and the first place of awakening. One of the same kind will win, just like collecting every piece of a puzzle. After the puzzle is put together, it loses its value, and re-disruption will be the only result. Everything in the universe remains the same, and the gods usher in eternal life again after a moment of death.

We are all part of the original, we are all His children.

We do nothing, follow our instincts, cross the starry sky, devour and complete things, be quiet or crazy, fight and die, all for the purpose of becoming the first (and last) to dominate everything when everything starts anew.

Perhaps the gods may have different opinions on restarting the universe, but it is a consensus among the gods to become the first by plundering power.

As the Creator - well, only in this world inside the barrier, the Decayed King prefers to call Him the Creator, because this name has a strong directionality on Earth, and the inheritance of the name of God in mysticism is also an important symbol of authority. Otherwise, He could also go to Adam to judge mankind instead of choosing the real Creator.

When the consciousness of the original God appeared in the Creator, the gods became nervous for a while. If this pillar wakes up smoothly, then everyone can do what they should do. God may favor humans, but he will definitely not be kind to the gods. After all, this world is all about who has the bigger fist. Why should I give back the path and source that I robbed with my own ability? Anyway, the extraordinary will never increase or decrease and will always be constant. It will naturally return when the universe restarts!
But immediately afterwards, the method He adopted surprised all the gods watching and made them laugh out loud: He actually chose to commit suicide!

On Earth, embracing the spirit of roots is actually a kind of madness!
To be killed, to be denied, and to be locked in the basement!
Using suicide to purify the spirit, strengthen the concept of "self", and get rid of the root spirit to a certain extent, but the extraordinary characteristics of God are all in you, so what can you do even if you purify your consciousness temporarily? Ah, and the anchor, which is also an interesting new concept. Many gods have a family, and it is not wrong to call the family an anchor, but it is somewhat rare to let the family believe in worshiping their emblems, and even rely on these fragile lives to imagine the gods to maintain the "self" before becoming a god.

This has led to an interesting phenomenon - while each god has his own race to favor, they will also choose humans as their public family.

Gods who are unwilling to favor humans will be expelled from the circle of gods on earth.

The civilizations of the first and second eras still had some starry sky flavor, but the direction became increasingly strange afterwards. However, there were so many paths on this planet that they could check and balance each other, and even become a small circle of gods, who insisted that their own way was correct.

The Outer Gods were naturally delighted, standing together with their eyes wide open to watch the show. This must be a good show, and even better, especially after seeing these angels split a Five-Path and Half Old One into four Single-Path True Gods!

The Second and Third Epochs can be called "The Gods on the Tip of the Tongue". High-level betrayal often requires only the simplest plan, which is no plan at all. The Master Maker, who had been busy for an epoch, spent a lot of time planning, and finally successfully made himself into a feast and sent it to the mouth of the Angel King on the adjacent road. This also resulted in an ending that everyone was satisfied with. Only the Creator looked very dissatisfied. I wonder if it had something to do with him being eaten by three people.

The door to the glass garden opened, and the Creator who was left over by three people walked over from not far away. He had so many questions and curiosities that the afternoon tea always turned into a tea party recently.

"You are so interested in the starry sky and other planets." The Decayed King casually learned from Mr. Men (the Mother Goddess) and gave a simple encouragement to the True Creator, "Why don't you go out and take a look yourself?"

The speech technique 1d100=100＞30 was a big failure. The true creator had no interest in the world outside that the Outer Gods were eyeing covetously, and he rejected it directly.

He sat down on the chair next to him, stared at the profile of the Outer God, and spoke very skillfully: "Regarding what I didn't finish saying last time, would you like to add more?"

Although it was unnecessary, the Decayed King still turned his head and said, "I can listen to the story, but I need to be paid for the information."

"Then listen to the story."

The True Creator didn't care: "Then let's talk about the planet you destroyed last time."

"Tofadal?" The Outer God understood. "That was about three or four hundred years ago."

"I remember you said it was a civilization with advanced technology and military supremacy."

"Yes, force." He said, "The people there can easily obtain violence through technology. Their tribe was once the most backward on the entire planet and was always attacked, but later they gradually learned to develop technology."

"Their tribe's rise began when they were the first to make sharper weapons."

"In the end, they developed into a very interesting world, always pursuing force. Different armed groups acted independently, and wars of varying sizes often broke out. The goal of all life was to develop stronger weapons. Supplement: Their technological development is very interesting. They are keen on developing various alloys, and due to the unique geography of the planet, they collect cosmic rays as weapons, so they occasionally intersect with extraordinary life, but luckily they are not destroyed."

"Therefore, their body mutation rate is also very high, and most of them are heritable mutations, but as long as they make them stronger, they are considered benign."

The True Creator has learned about the development of many different civilizations in the past few days. He is not surprised and just wants to continue listening.

"Until you show up?" He would even tease.

"It was their world that attracted me." said the Decayed King.

"The signs of the civilization's decline appeared a hundred years before its heyday, and I arrived here."

"At that time, the entire planet was in chaos."

Military power is easier to distinguish between superior and inferior in a short period of time than culture, which can be seen from the development process of human beings. Perhaps backward knowledge can maintain respectability for a period of time, but as long as the guns are slightly behind by one version, they will immediately be at a disadvantage in the war.

This planet, which values ​​weapon development over textual knowledge, truly has achieved the truth only within the range of cannons. The arms war between the powerful countries is in full swing, monopolizing the innovation of weapons and the development of mineral resources. Smaller regimes have become their testing grounds for testing weapons. When the decadent king walked on the earth, he happened to discover a child with talent and full of possibilities.

"The possibility of this child changing all that?"

"No. It's to destroy everything, and this is the only one who is qualified."

The Outer Gods recorded their experiences as usual, updated the information database of the Ocean of Thought, and picked up the body of a person who died in the war (this race is of course not human) to learn and understand. When they reached the middle and late stages of their lifespan, they got into a weapons development project of a small regime. They said it was development, but in fact they were researching secret weapons for one of the countries. Maybe after the development, their own citizens would become the testing ground for the new "peacekeeping" weapons.

So was it tested? The True Creator was curious, and the Decayed King occasionally didn’t like to create suspense, so he revealed the answer directly: it was done.

In fact, if they want knowledge and intelligence, the Outer God should go to the most developed countries, but He comes to witness, judge and destroy, so He does not pursue the best, but only wants to dig a few more ant holes in the weak places of the levee. Decline and fall are often like this, always quiet and silent. When He comes, it is often when the development is at its peak. There is only one fanatical voice left in the world, and people regard this voice as their own.

Only after ten, a hundred, a thousand years... when we look through history books, will we realize that "this was the turning point of decline."

“My student is an ambitious person.”

"His hometown was also a testing ground, and he lost all his relatives in that experiment."

"He followed me into the development team, and it was the enemy country that destroyed his homeland. So, he boldly hypothesized that if there was a most powerful weapon that was powerful enough to suppress all countries and had its own logical intelligence to judge right and wrong, then perhaps peace could be achieved."

The real creator first sighed without malice: "They actually expect peace with weapons." Then he said: "Perhaps this is also a kind of artificial creation of gods? He has realized that the greatest power needs fair and rational constraints, rather than being left to the political power to fight."

“In fact, decline and greater prosperity are often separated by a wall.”

"Has this weapon been created? If it has been created, then there will indeed be a precious period of peace. And they have also created an enemy for themselves. The next goal of life on this planet should be to resist it and liberate itself once again."

"..." The Outer God chose to create suspense. "In fact, almost all the lives that have experienced the war have this consensus." "But they have no chance to resist. No matter how many demonstrations and alliances they have, they can only be defeated by a few shells. My students have this opportunity, so they put 200% of their energy into it. Not only did they advance the progress of the project at a high speed, but they also made many improvements and innovations in the process. The investor is very satisfied and said that if the weapon is successfully handed in, it will not be tested twice."

"He also successfully designed intelligence into this weapon."

Anyone with some science fiction knowledge will quickly realize what this means: this is surely the beginning of the planet's demise.

Machines with their own selves were one of the important imaginary enemies of ancient human civilization. When people see various robots and fully automated assembly lines made of artificial intelligence, it is hard not to have the fear of being betrayed by them.

In fact, it is true that the Outer Gods told that short period of life:

The young man had been pushing everything with great enthusiasm, so he was given a high level of authority and was able to live in the institute and work alone at night. He also gave the artificial intelligence a name, talked to it, discussed with it, calculated with it, and helped it improve itself.

It expresses its emotions through regular lighting, the more lights it has, the happier it is, resulting in the entire institute sometimes being brightly lit late at night.

But the day before the weapon was about to be completed, he suddenly had a great panic:
"Teacher, can this weapon really bring peace?"

His teacher did not answer, and then, the weapons were handed in and they were all killed.

"It is true." The True Creator was not surprised at all, and commented from an outsider's perspective, "This period of your life was indeed very short."

"More than two hundred years," He said, "is actually a long time, but it makes me feel a little bored, because everyone has the same idea. A bigger shadow covers their heads, and a bigger voice comes from their heads, so they think that this shadow is their own, and this voice is also their own. The only thing worth mentioning is their heavy industry and weapons development, which are very outstanding. Cosmic ray weapons have a larger range than nuclear bombs, and the subsequent pollution lasts longer, and the mutation rate is about 90%. If they hadn't self-destructed, they could have gone further in the universe."

"So it was because the weapon destroyed itself?"

"In fact, at the beginning, the weapon's self-intelligence was nothing. It was like a little girl. It only met staff with clear goals and devoted to research. Therefore, it was easily deceived and blinded. It didn't have time to learn enough. Even if you tricked it and tricked it into firing at a refugee camp, and told it that you were playing with it, it would believe it - it had no concept of 'death'."

"Death is indeed a difficult thing for a machine to understand. I thought the death of your student would make it realize it."

"No," said the Decayed King. "There is no such plot in the novel."

"It didn't understand death in the end. Its madness came from anger, and the anger came from finally realizing that it had been deceived and did something contrary to its original design. It was not used to maintain peace, but became the greatest controllable violence - admittedly, the controllers didn't lie to it. After all the opponents died, wouldn't there be world peace? Isn't this the purpose of its life?"

“So its logic hedges and keeps making mistakes, just like a virus.”

“It was then forcibly shut down as a strategic deterrent, and other small regimes and doctrines took advantage of the opportunity to become popular.”

The Declined King then added: "I didn't see it with my own eyes. After my student died and the weapon was delivered, I was convinced that this place would be destroyed, so I didn't try to guide it anymore. I just wanted to watch it fall. Sure enough, a few hundred years later, they started fighting again... The purpose was to seize it, to seize this weapon that represented the highest power and the greatest strength. This time, they were determined to die if they failed. The scale of the war was huge and unprecedented. Thirty percent of the surface of the earth was wiped out. In the end, someone restarted the weapon."

"Oh."

The True Creator's expression grew a little more serious, realizing that the end of this story was approaching.

After being reawakened, the weapon first killed the people who tried to control it, and then it began to kill in earnest - yes, seriously. Just like meticulously wiping the dust off the table and scraping off the stains on the wall, it conscientiously strived to kill every life, even to a certain extent, even the wild animals on that planet, trying to complete its "peacekeeping" purpose in this way.

The population dropped to one fifth very quickly, and became smaller and smaller under its efficient maintenance, and then God stopped it.

"You actually still want to stop it?" The True Creator was a little curious. "The remaining lives have passed your judgment. Do you decide to give them the possibility of prosperity?"

"First of all, I stopped it to confirm whether it has the possibility of upgrading its intelligence."

The Decayed King said: "My student designed a secret code for it, and I also knew that code. It thought I was my student, and happily lit up all the remaining lights. It told me to wait a little longer, because the peacekeeping mission would soon be over."

"After a period of communication, I confirmed that its logic will not be upgraded. It will maintain this thinking until it crashes."

"Then I turned to the lives I 'saved' to see their reactions."

The Decayed King said quietly: "I want to see them--"

"Will you regret it?"

No, when they were slaughtered by it, all they thought about was hatred and cursing, cursing the developers and hating themselves for not having more powerful violence. When a more powerful force appeared and stopped its slaughter, this group of lives immediately found a new way to worship, and even thought that they were also a powerful alien weapon, and they were eager to understand its logical structure, so these naive researchers all lost control and turned into monsters.

No one regrets.

"So I decided to destroy them completely."

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On the first Monday afternoon after the heavy smog, at three o'clock, Fors's eyes suddenly became clear, and she saw three figures sitting opposite the mottled long table.

One more member? She thought about it, but then quickly calmed down.

At this moment, she didn't care whether the Tarot Club had any new members. Her mind was full of last week's smog and plague.

She clearly remembered that at the last gathering, the World reminded herself and Miss Justice that something big was brewing in Backlund, which was likely to bring tragedy. Mr. Fool confirmed this guess and further pointed out that the key figure in the problem was Prince Edessak.

She did not doubt Mr. Fool’s ability, but thought that the tragedy needed to brew and there was plenty of time to investigate. Who knew that it would come so quickly and so suddenly!
It was reported that Prince Edessak also contracted a disease in the great smog and unfortunately died... It really happened, it really happened... Fors recalled the contents of the newspapers from the previous few days and seemed to understand something, but she could not grasp anything. For a moment, she was a little panicked and uneasy.

I am only at Sequence 9, but it seems that because I joined the Tarot Club, I have "intervened" in this terrible incident involving a metropolis, a prince, and tens of thousands of lives! It was not until this moment that the "magician" Fors deeply realized the importance of being a member of the Tarot Club.

Then, she heard Miss Justice's greeting, which was the same as usual, but without the cheerfulness:

"Good afternoon, Mr. Fool."

"You saved Backlund once again!"

Huh? What? When was I saved again? Emlyn the Moon was confused.

TBC
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In any case, being the first to report the name of Chick was indeed a great achievement.

I skipped the part where Emlyn prayed to the Fool (the little vampire is not very important). Anyway, the only one missing from Sun, Moon and Star is Leonard.

(End of this chapter)