From the end of the world

Chapter 546 The Truth of Doomsday 1
I have heard this idea of ​​attributing the origin of the end of the world to human beings on another occasion.

That happened shortly after defeating Mingzhuo, when he was talking with Gua Tianshi.

With the power of the universe, we can even achieve interstellar travel and extraterrestrial colonization. It is not an impossible challenge to partially restore the ecological environment of the earth on other planets. So I wondered at the time, why can't we move humans to Mars to avoid the end of the world?
It might be a bit difficult to transfer all of humanity there, but as long as a portion of the population can be transferred and the race can be continued, it will be considered as reaching the passing line. First, hold on to this bottom line firmly, and if more people, culture, and technology can be transferred later, then the more the better.

The Gua Tianshi gave me this answer:

"The source of doomsday is closely related to human consciousness activities..." I read.

This answer seems to be different from the answer of number 7. One person said it was "human consciousness activities" and the other said it was "human history". If one of them is not wrong, then there is some commonality between the two.

"Consciousness activity..." No. 7 looked at me deeply, "I don't know where you heard this from, but this may be a correct answer."

"How do you say it?" I asked.

"Let's first explain why the origin of the end of the world is human history, and why the end of the world will first come to the afterlife." No. 7 said, "Death and sleep are like twins. In human culture, death is often regarded as eternal sleep. Occasionally, in some mythological systems, the god of death and the god of sleep are regarded as twins, or combined into one, and regarded as the domain ruled by the same god.

“The nature of the afterlife is similar. The reason why ancient people could occasionally come into contact with the dead in their dreams, or travel to the heavens and temporarily step into the underworld while dreaming, is because the afterlife is essentially a common dream for human beings.

"There is a saying that since the emergence of Homo sapiens, the total number of humans who have died throughout history is about 100 billion to 120 billion. Although I don't know if this statement is reliable, this place of death and sleep has indeed deposited the souls and memories of almost all the dead from the past to the present. In other words, this soul space is not just a symbol of human history. It is human history itself, a collection of all historical information of the human race.

"Although all access routes from the outside have been cut off, it's just that the old access routes are no longer usable due to the drastic changes here. It's not that it has really become irrelevant to humans, otherwise the afterlife wouldn't be able to summon the souls of amnesiacs on its own. This is still a common dreamland for humans, a deep unconscious ocean, recording everything about human consciousness in another form.

“That is why, when a major problem appears in human history, the afterlife, which is equivalent to human history itself, is the first to be affected.”

“I see…” I said.

Now, the answers of Gua Tianshi and No. 7 have been integrated. At the same time, I also understand why Gua Tianshi said that the more people believe in the existence of doomsday, the more it will promote the progress of doomsday.

This is because the root of the great catastrophe of the Doomsday is the huge focus that No. 7 mentioned, and it is deeply entrenched in the common dreams of mankind. As the ordinary people who make up the absolute majority of all mankind, the more they can recognize the Doomsday, the more the pathogenic toxin spreads in the collective consciousness of mankind, and the more serious the disease becomes.

Similarly, once everyone believes that the end of the world is coming, it means that the end of the world has completely invaded human consciousness, and then the end of the world will really flow directly from the afterlife into the world of the living.

On the other hand, as long as no one believes in the existence of doomsday, will doomsday never come?

This shouldn't be the case. If this level of effort could prevent the end of the world, then the great impermanence, including Gua Tianshi, who wanted to prevent the end of the world, would have already started to act. The "huge lesion" that caused the end of the world may expand its scale of infection due to the influence of the subjective level, but tracing back to the source, its essence should still be some kind of objective existence.

"So, what exactly is this 'huge lesion' you mentioned?"

I got to the core of the matter, and at the same time I already had some ideas in mind.

And what No. 7 said next confirmed my hunch.

"I believe you have noticed a long time ago that there are many things in our history that don't make sense," she said. "The monks who wield strange powers and the mortals who do not have such powers both exist in this world at the same time, but human history has been developing on its own without these people.

"It is obvious that if anyone randomly walked out of the former, he could easily surpass those religious leaders who only knew how to play tricks and deceive people, and become a god, saint, or immortal in the eyes of the world; and if this person had a certain degree of power, he could also rely on individual violence to break through the army of any ancient dynasty and become the supreme emperor, or the ultimate military general who would be remembered for thousands of years... "But in the end, this did not happen. Throughout history, whether in China or abroad, there is not even a single such case. Do you think this could be a reasonable thing?"

I said deliberately, "But... doesn't all this have an explanation? Because a long time ago, a man made a wish to the divine seal, and he separated the common sense world and the weird world, so that they would not interfere with each other."

"Such a far-fetched reason... does it really make sense?" Number Seven asked back.

Of course that doesn't make sense.

In the past, I could accept such a reason, but as my power grew and my perspective became more profound, I increasingly felt that there was a huge flaw in this reason.

“I want to hear your opinion,” I said.

"My view is very simple. It is impossible for the weird world and the common sense world to really keep their distance from each other." No. 7 said, "Take Luoshan for example. While the human history of the common sense world is developing normally, Luoshan is not completely static. On the contrary, in the past thousands of years, Luoshan has been continuously expanding its territory.

"Wherever the Central Plains dynasty and its culture in the common sense world radiate, Luoshan's territory of influence will radiate...but this territory of influence will not shrink as the dynasty's ruling area shrinks, and even if the dynasty's ruling area has not expanded, Luoshan will try to expand.

"Now Luo Shan has ruled all of Asia, and even parts of Europe, Africa, North America, and Oceania are covered by its sphere of influence. How much war and bloodshed has occurred during this expansion of power? Although there is no record of related events in the human history of the common sense world, the weird world also has its own long history of conflict... How could this not affect the common sense world?
"Let's not talk about other things. In the history of Luoshan alone, there have been dozens of Great Impermanence, each of whom is a true god who possesses great power that reaches the heavens and the earth. To describe them as 'walking nuclear bombs' is an insult to the power they possess.

"They are all powerful gods and demons who can physically destroy the surface of this planet and cause the sixth mass extinction of life. This is the same for you, Zhuang Cheng...

"Although the end of the world sounds like an unimaginable catastrophe, it's not the case for you, right? As the God of Fire, you can bring about the end of the world with your own hands if you want to.

"In ancient myths and legends, you should have long ago ascended to heaven or the realm of gods, places that would not interfere with mortals. But the reality is that so many monsters like you live crowded on this small earth. What kind of joke is this?
"Let's not talk about whether the human history of the common sense world has been interfered with by you. The first question we should examine is why this 'fragile' world has not been accidentally destroyed by the gods until now... right?"

Her words hit the nail on the head.

In fact, there have been relevant explanations about the impact that Great Impermanence has had on the world in history.

For example, many demon hunters believe that the current ecological environment of the earth is largely driven by the laws of the heavens and the earth of the Great Impermanence. The Little Ice Age of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, which was recorded in the history of the common sense world, is also believed to be caused by the activities or absence of a certain Great Impermanence.

Although the rise in global temperature and the greenhouse effect are considered to be the consequences of human industrial activities and carbon emissions in the common sense world, there is also a saying that the source is the great impermanence. In other words, the reason why humans are so actively carrying out industrial activities and carbon emissions is that the existence of the great impermanence has a mysterious impact on the collective consciousness of mankind. This impact is expected to intensify in the future. Because there is an additional "fire god" like me, the greenhouse effect is bound to continue to rise.

But... such a "lukewarm" influence alone is far from enough to explain the questions raised by No. 7.

The existence of gods and the impact of the strange world on the human history of the common sense world should be far more than this.

Then, No. 7 said the next sentence, which further shattered my previous understanding of past history.

"Separating the world of common sense from the world of weirdness...such an incident has never happened in the first place," she said.

(End of this chapter)