Original God, but the real world

Chapter 184 183-Realism
The advantage of pragmatists is that if they must die the day after tomorrow, they will still do what they should and can do tomorrow.

Death the day after tomorrow has no absolute relationship with life today or tomorrow.

Similarly, if they have to face things in the future that they are powerless to do, they will not simply give up on what they can do well now.

Most people would think that since everything will be ruined in the future anyway, there is no need to do anything right now.

Anyway...the result is the same.

Dai Yin and Ying are both pragmatic.

They knew clearly that behind the fog there were arrangements and plans that they could not understand at all, but when Halfdan brought the answer to a question right before their eyes, they easily suppressed their worries about the future and immersed themselves in the puzzle before them.

Jiang Qing would think a lot, and then realize that he was temporarily powerless and could only suppress his thoughts.

They skipped many of the intermediate steps, directly put their ideas into practice, and then immersed themselves in other work.

"Wait, why did this person jump down!"

Paimon quickly walked to the edge and found that the corridor was disconnected.

This was not going to another room at all, but jumping directly down from the city.

"That's perfect," Ying estimated the height, "Ganyu and the others are waiting for us down there."

In fact, someone should be left behind to guard the agency at this time.

But Ying thought about it and it seemed unnecessary.

The purpose of this mechanism is unclear. We can't assume that the cult wants to protect it just because they didn't destroy it. Then, we should blow up the mechanism based on the logic that if the enemy wants to protect it, we have to destroy it.

There's no need for that. This is a bit too rude.

The black fog below has dissipated, and Ying can barely see the people below.

So she jumped down and spread her wings of wind in mid-air.

Dain hesitated for a moment and chose not to follow.

"He didn't seem to follow."

Paimon grabbed Ying's sleeve and landed with her.

"People who don't even want to enter the West Wind Church will definitely not want to appear in front of Ganyu."

The nuns of the Church of the West Wind worship a wind god who almost only exists in ancient books. The only way for most nuns to know Barbatos is from the ancient books fabricated by their predecessors.

As for Ying's personal contact with Wendy, she was certain that most of the ancient books were false.

In comparison, Ganyu is a true follower of Morax's immortals. From the beginning of the Demon War to today, her beliefs have not changed.

Ye Lan Jiang Qing doesn’t seem to have any faith, but Gan Yu must have one.

“It doesn’t matter, we’ll just make some contact and then follow Dai Yin.” Ying said softly, “Gan Yu Ye Lan won’t ask any more questions anyway.”

"They are coming down."

Ganyu heard the wind.

She raised her head with a subtle look, "Is there no gain from this?"

"We'll know after asking." Jiang Qing was too lazy to recall. "Let's exchange our findings, and then prepare to look for the key and door lock."

I have the keys in my hand, so I can't say I can't find the door, right?

In the past, it was always Paimon who spoke on behalf of Ying.

The little guy is not eloquent, but he can indeed explain things clearly.

But this time, Paimon did not make use of his external vocal organs.

Dainsleb's identity is really complicated. What needs to be explained depends on Ying.

"Did you gain anything?" Jiang Qing asked first.

"Well, I don't know much about the black fog, but I roughly know why the hillbillies gathered here."

Ying has already prepared her speech.

She had no intention of revealing Dainsleb's identity, as it would be pointless.

The identity of a Kanriya is a problem for everyone... except Jiang Qing.

But for herself, it is a rare clue.

Nothing is more important than her own affairs.

"The influx of the Hillilks is also a special event, but the Seven Stars didn't pay much attention to it before." Ye Lan recalled the intelligence, "Because both the Black Mist and the Fatui are more worthy of vigilance than the Hillilks."

"But I didn't expect that there was something so complicated behind the Hillilchur people."

Ying talked about the curse and the pool.

Gan Yu and Ye Lan all knew that she was hiding something, but they would not ask.

Ye Lan did not show much sympathy. "In hundreds of years, I have never heard of such a special thing in the Layered Rock Abyss."

"If the pool was the key to all this, it doesn't make sense that it hasn't been working until today."

"That device, even if it is not destroyed, should at least be monitored."

Her words paused.

Ye Lan thought about what the Demon-Subduing Great Sage, who had not appeared yet, was doing.

Ying nodded, "Xiao is handling this matter."

Whether this mechanism was activated naturally, has always been a part of the city, or was arranged by the Order, it is still very special.

Since it is special, it is worth spending some time to pay attention to it.

"My sudden appearance should not be within their expectations."

"Now I'll just find something to do. The cult should be unable to hold back and start taking action."

They all guessed that this was arranged by the sect.

If so, then the cult will definitely be preparing for action, and Xiao will be waiting on the sidelines to fish.

And if not, it's just a waste of time.

"You said this was a creation of an earlier civilization." Jiang Qing thought, "But the curse appeared five hundred years ago. Something older can suppress new creations."

interesting.

This means that this curse may have already appeared in history, and it appeared in the era of pools and cities.

So the pool can alleviate the suppressing curse.

Because this is one of the purposes for which it was created.

Defense always lags behind attack. People first acquire the weapons for attack and then begin to study how to defend against this attack.

In other words, this pool of water has some of the flavor of "Breaking All Laws". It is not specifically aimed at curses, but it can suppress and alleviate them.

A panacea or a cure-all... No matter how you understand it, it means that the unknown civilization that built the city stood at a sufficient height.

Kanriya was not a weakling, but in the face of the curse, he was still pinned to the ground and could not resist at all.

The status of Sky Island is too high. So far, we have only seen it destroy the rest of the existence, and no resistance has been seen.

It fully demonstrates the ability of "What does it have to do with you if I destroy you?"

And this unknown civilization can suppress the curse from Sky Island.

This means that it should be more powerful than Kanreya.

"You really know." Ying got the answer to a question.

Building an upside-down city under the abyss of rock is obviously not something the Seven Kingdoms would do.

If Liyue can't do it itself, it makes no sense for other countries to do it.

But this wouldn't be done by the Kanreyans either.

Kanreya's technical ability is extraordinary, but Dain has already stated that this will not be Kanreya's work, that is, there is another country.

Both the Seven Kingdoms of Midgard and Kanrea can trace their origins back to the time of the Daedric Wars.

If there was a civilization that surpassed them, it could only have been before the war between demons and gods.

The seven dragons and the dragon lizard, the original and the one He loves.

Jiang Qing knew this.

"I have no interest in history," Jiang Qing did not respond. "Even if it is really a creation of ancient civilization, it has nothing to do with us."

Like a thousand-layer cake.

Civilization and pre-civilization... Tsk, are you so good at playing?

Morax is over 6,000 years old. Even if he is not the oldest demon god, he is at least one of them.

In other words, the devil walked the earth at most seven thousand years ago.

And even earlier than 7,000 years ago, there was obviously civilization on this land.

The corridors and portals within the inverted city are clearly built to fit the human body.

This also shows that this more ancient civilization, even if it is not human, should at least be a humanoid life form.

Of course, there is no humanoid civilization in Teyvat, so it should still be human.

There is a very obvious gap between the ancient civilization and the modern civilization supported by the devil.

According to the records of Snow Mountain, that civilization should be a special civilization that was born in the era when Sky Island was still supporting humans.

From this perspective, the demon is actually a life form that suddenly appeared.

Sky Island supported humans, but Sky Island gave up, and the Demon God appeared and established the Seven Kingdoms of the Earth.

To find out the more complicated truth, we need to pry something out of history.

Unfortunately, Jiang Qing didn't know.

"This pool of water... have you tried to take some of it down?"

Jiang Qing is really not interested in history.

This was beyond his ability. Not only was it not explained in the plot, but he also did not find any records anywhere else.

The only thing he could hope for was to obtain relevant records from Xumi.

The Congregational Decrees should be quite logical and systematic in the area of ​​archaeology.

"Yes." Paimon took out a water bag, "But we can't see anything special about the water in the pool."

As adventurers, they have a habit of collecting special things when they see them.

"It doesn't matter. We have a very outstanding alchemy master here." Jiang Qing didn't take it. "Albedo should be very interested. Try to exchange a good bargaining chip with him."

The pool water may be special, but it won't fetch a good price.

Because there is too much of it.

But if he wasn't told, he wouldn't go to the Upside-Down City to collect them by himself.

Albedo also has to take care of Klee, so he won't have time to collect materials.

"You're not going to tell him these things?" Ying raised her eyebrows and understood what Jiang Qing meant.

"I can't make a decision." Jiang Qing was a little surprised. "You seem to think I'm the one who can make the decision?"

“In fact, the person with the highest status here is Ganyu, and the one who is qualified to make the decision is Ye Lan, and I am just a knife that kills this time.”

If it was Jiang Qing, he had no intention of telling Albedo.

Albedo's secret can only be linked to Kanriya, but Jiang Qing lacks sympathy and doesn't care about the truth.

If you don't care about the truth, there is no need to have any expectations of Albedo.

But Ye Lan might care.

She is an intelligence officer with seven stars behind her.

The Seven Stars must be curious about Kanreya, after all, it is a country without gods but capable of rejecting gods.

The belief in gods in the Seven Earthly Kingdoms is very solid, a status established by the continuous spread of faith over thousands of years.

But even though people respect the Seven Gods so much, there must be people who want to have the power to reject the gods.

Including the Seven Stars.

"That's fine," Ying thought for a moment, "I can ask Klee for some alchemical bombs, maybe it can work wonders."

"Bomb?" Jiang Qing was stunned for a moment.

What expansion is this?

"We are watching you destroy the black fog from up there," Paimon said with excitement. "You don't know, many mechanisms are actually very annoying, but if you want to get the truth and the treasure, you have to follow their arrangements."

"But just now, Ying and I suddenly felt that there should be a simpler way."

Bombing the House of Faith?
Jiang Qing fell silent.

"As long as you are happy." He shook off the strange ideas that popped up in his mind, "We have to continue to the next place. We have got the key, and the next step is to find the door."

The subtext is that we are leaving, do you have any plans?

"There's something I really care about that I need to spend some time looking for." Ying understood, "Just leave a mark for me."

I hope that knight named Halfdan can bring some surprises.

Although the world beneath the Abyss is somewhat strange, not much useful information was found.

"Goodbye."

Ying's figure quickly disappeared in the distance.

"You didn't follow?"

Jiang Qing looked at Ye Lan who was leaning against the rock wall, "I thought you were very curious about these."

"Curiosity kills the cat," she stretched out her hand to adjust the shawl in her hand, "The intelligence officers collected intelligence from more than a dozen years ago at most, but you guys can easily go back hundreds of years. I don't even know where to start my curiosity."

The intelligence collected more than ten years ago is actually a bit difficult to describe.

Normally, a battle of wits and courage with the Fatui would at best mean studying the other party's arrangements made a few years ago.

Ye Lan really had no interest in talking about things like this that suddenly went back hundreds of years.

It was very interesting to have her sit in, just like listening to a story.

Let her dig... Never mind.

"What a coincidence, I thought so too." Jiang Qing sighed, "But some people don't think so."

The history of an entire continent will either move closer to Kanreia five hundred years ago, or to the era of Sky Island and humans.

As for these unfortunate folks in modern times, most of them are dealing with attacks from the past.

It’s really hard to do.

The Kanreyans have their own difficulties, and so do the Fatui.

In short, everyone has their reasons for doing this, but as for what the reasons are... I can’t tell you.

Theoretically, when facing a major crisis, everyone should be more honest and exchange information, but the Fatui chose not to tell you, and I will use tough measures to force you to follow my plan.

It is really a big crisis. In reality, we probably can't expect others to cooperate.

It's quite realistic.

(End of this chapter)