Chapter 1101 Qualitative
The Queen of Silver said the person who said it was unintentional, and Gao Wen was on the side with the listener. When his heart moved slightly, he felt that this topic seemed strange - let the God of Nature in the past talk to those devout believers who did not want to forget the past? This is a matter... For the Queen of Silver, it is probably just a whimsical idea, but for Gao Wen, it seems to be really feasible physically...
That "god" is still watching "TV" in his backyard. According to the surveillance team, he spent at least twenty hours a day online...
But then again, let Amoen say something to those persistent believers? How can we safely and steadily let a group of elves who have been persistent for three thousand years give up their obsession? Let the God of Nature perform another death on the spot...
Gao Wen shook his head gently and quickly threw away the strange thoughts that suddenly appeared for some reason. He knew that this idea was just to think about it casually. In any case, he did not dare to let Amoen re-connect with mortals outside the world - even if he just said a word to them, it would be absolutely impossible to show his own actions. The risks behind this matter were too huge, and it was very likely that Amoen, who had already left the position of God, had re-established the connection with the divine power, and the benefits of doing so were unpredictable.
He could not easily consume the achievements of the fall of Baixing for three thousand years in such joking behavior.
But...if you change the method...a different idea...
Gao Wen couldn't help but fall into thinking, but his thinking was soon interrupted by the Silver Queen. Belsetia cast a curious look: "What are you thinking?"
"...Nothing, just some trivial matters," Gao Wen woke up from his thoughts. He glanced at Belsetia, and some plans appeared in his mind, but soon he temporarily suppressed these unformed ideas. He raised his head and looked at a mechanical clock not far away. He saw that the pointer on it was gradually reaching the highest square. "The rest time is almost over... Let's go back to the meeting first."
In the promised stone ring, representatives from all parties also returned to their positions one after another. In fact, most of the representatives did not even leave the stone ring at all. During the limited thirty-minute break, they seized time to contact other representatives and grasped as much as possible in order to increase their grasp of the situation. Even those who left were communicating with their teams, seeking advice from think tanks and intelligence assistance - no one would really empty their brains in this short time, because everyone knew that the meeting had come to an end, and it would be best to leave it to the real relaxation until the stone ring opened again.
After confirming that all representatives have returned to their positions and the staff outside the Shihuan are also ready, Belsetia stood up from her position. She quietly glanced at the audience and raised her right hand slightly: "Then, according to the meeting process, the Shihuan is now blocked. In addition to life-threatening situations, the lockdown will continue until the end of this closed-door meeting."
As the Queen of Silver finished speaking, a low buzzing sounded from the edge of the venue. Then layers of magical brilliance suddenly appeared on the surface of the magnificent stone pillars. Countless ancient and difficult runes emerged from the stone walls and spread like petals, connecting each other to a pale green rune curtain wall in the air. Then there was a glorious wandering. The runes quickly filled with light and shadows. In just a few seconds, a lush, endless dense forest rose outside the entire oath stone ring. The original wasteland scene and the distant town scenery were all replaced by the sudden emergence of the dense forest. There was no trace of it.
Outside the Stone Ring of the Oath, the teams waiting in the rest area did not see the "chilling forest". They just watched the huge ancient ritual field be shrouded in a ray of light and disappeared out of thin air in the next second - many people were a little disturbed because of this, but after seeing the elf affairs officers and Tifeng and the working team of Cecil were still resting quietly by the venue, the commotion quickly calmed down.
Within the Stone Ring of the Oath, the Silver Queen ended her "reverse" to the ritual ritual venue. After she sat down again, Gao Wen stood up: "Then let's start this meeting. I believe many people have realized the topic that we always intentionally avoid after so many days of meetings. Then now... it's time to face this biggest trouble: about the gods in our world."
In the venue, which became much deserted due to the reduction of personnel, many representatives moved their bodies gently in their seats, some people's faces changed slightly, some subconsciously fell into thinking, some clenched their fists and knocked their foreheads, but no one exclaimed in front of this topic. As Gao Wen said, after so many days of meetings, they saw the images left on the battlefield of Tifon-Cecil, and after learning about the disaster in Tallongd, any wise person should guess the content of this closed-door meeting at this moment.
“At this point, I don’t think anyone will question the authenticity of the information we saw at the opening of the conference,” Gao Wen continued after a brief pause, “What I want to say is that the information is far from all—
"As early as a few years ago, Cecil had been exposed to this part of the truth, and Tifeng faced the "dark side of the gods" even earlier than Cecil. Even back to the ancient Gondor era, some prophets and enlightened people faced this dark reality. They were called "disobedients" and spent their entire lives looking for ways to fight fate...
"This is what I want to say: This is not a crisis that suddenly appears before mortals. In fact, this crisis has been with our civilization for thousands of years, and for thousands of years. Many people have faced and tried to fight it over the long years. This is a 'dark river' in the development of our civilization. Most people do not know its existence, but it has always flowed in the depths of our history."
"This sounds too general," the leader of the Northern City-State Consortium stood up, "Is there any more detailed information that can help us quickly grasp the situation?"
"Yes, the information is placed in the secret compartment under your desk," Gao Wen nodded, "You can read it yourself. We explained the situation in the form of conciseness and clarity as possible. If you still have questions during the reading process, you can speak at any time."
Under the banner of the Agule Tribe, Wenna Baizhi quickly found the information Gao Wen mentioned in the grid below the stone table. To her surprise, this was not a high-quality manuscript paper that was widely used in the previous agenda, but a parchment scroll with a slightly shiny surface. The moment she opened the scroll, she saw several shiny runes flashing through the edge of the paper. This distinctive feature made her realize what this thing was:
A magic secret deed. The biggest function of this secret deed is that it cannot be copied in any form, and after being made, it cannot be overwritten or tampered with in any form, it cannot be taken away from a specific area, and it can only be opened once.
Gao Wen's voice came from a distance: "In order to ensure the security of the information, we had to distribute the information in the form of a magic secret deed. This is not to doubt anyone present, but to the gods, and the safety of the process must be taken seriously."
The leaders or ambassadors from various countries had no doubts. They lowered their heads and began to carefully read the information stored in the magic secret. With the blessing of speed reading spells, huge information was transformed into their minds with extremely high efficiency. As the ancient and terrifying truths and modern research results were disclosed one by one, a solemn and solemn atmosphere began to take shape in the oath stone ring.
The expression on everyone's face became serious, and some people had even begun to gently wipe the fine sweat from their foreheads.
After a while, a female leader with long red hair stood up first: "Doesn't the 'countdown' mentioned here still have any accurate measurements? We have no way to calculate it?"
"Sadly, this is beyond what we have at present," Gao Wen shook his head gently. "The gods are in different situations, and the observation of the gods itself will lead to powerful reverse pollution - those who try to calculate the countdown will mutate and die from divine pollution before they can tell the conclusion, which was confirmed by many pioneers who sacrificed for this in the age of Gondor a thousand years ago.
"Of course, now our technology has developed to a certain extent. Cecil is trying various means that can effectively resist divine pollution, and has achieved initial results. If our protection technology is advanced enough, perhaps one day we can directly observe the kingdom of God, or even directly monitor a certain state of gods - but this day will not come."
"…It sounds like a terrible plan to monitor the Kingdom of God and the Gods," another representative couldn't help but whisper, "But..."
"But we must do this," Rosetta broke the silence. The ruler of Tifen looked at the representative with a deep and solemn look. "Tifen has proved with his own blood that the consequences of the gods' out of control - this countdown is tangible, and as long as the mortal civilization is still developing, it will never stop. Even if we only slightly extend the average life span of the people and increase some population, it is increasing the changes in thoughts and increasing the risk of the gods' out of control."
"To stop the countdown, we must stop all development behaviors, even considering that the empirical knowledge of the intelligent race itself is passively accumulated, we must consciously eliminate the population, destroy knowledge, block technology, and return to the ancestors," Belsetia said suddenly, her voice softly, but with some penetration echoed throughout the entire Stone Ring of the Oath, "Who is willing to accept this price?"
The conference hall suddenly became quiet, and the delegates looked at each other, obviously no one was willing to accept such a terrible result.
What's more...even if the gods are really stopped in such an extreme way, there are more than one crisis in this world. What should I do if the demon tide is? What should I do if the dangerous natural environment? What should I do if the surrounding crisis after the national strength declines? No one can sit here. No one will choose to break his limbs to avoid falling.
What the Silver Queen mentioned was obviously an unacceptable choice from the beginning.
"Then we have the most basic consensus," Gao Wen broke the silence at this moment. His voice was calm and powerful. "The development and progress of civilization is necessary for survival. We cannot stagnate, let alone accept regression. The changes in thoughts caused by this are also inevitable. The problem will not disappear out of thin air, we can only find a way to solve it. This is the premise of everything."
No one objected to this, because everything was obvious, and only after a brief silence, a leader from the southwest of the mainland could not help but stand up: "So, do we have to regard the gods as enemies?"
"This is the first thing we have to do in this meeting - to characterize the gods," Gao Wen glanced at the representative quietly, and then he withdrew his gaze and said in a deep voice, "For thousands or even tens of thousands of years, faith has always been an important part of the lives of the various ethnic groups of Loren. In any case, we must recognize its positive role in the development of civilization, and this positive role is still in effect today. On the other hand, there is no real "nation of the unbeliever" among the member states of the Alliance. All of our countries have their own Holy See power, and religious activities are closely related to our people. It is impossible for us to violently and directly separate religion from our social activities. This is a fact.
“Under the above two premises, is the ‘god’ really our enemy?
"The disobedients a thousand years ago did indeed determine this. They believed that God was clearly the enemy of civilization, even if not now, sooner or later - the pioneers are respectable, but unfortunately, as our cognition progresses, we have to question the pioneers' views at the time.
"More and more evidence shows that the gods have no subjective malice towards civilization from beginning to end. In fact, due to the influence of thought, their kindness towards civilization is the mainstream. Secondly, the "countdown" of the gods' crazy "counterattack" itself is not the subjective will of any party. This is the result of the operation of natural laws. Unfortunately, no god can be responsible for this law. Finally, after the crazy gods become gods, they will indeed cause devastating damage to civilization, but they have not actively caused any damage before, or even on the contrary - as long as conditions allow, gods will actually actively curb this crazy tendency, and they will take some kind of self-help behavior.
"We cannot disclose too detailed information about this 'self-rescue behavior', but I can guarantee that Cecil has observed enough evidence to prove that there are signs of actively breaking away from the 'shackles' in the gods."
Speaking of this, Gao Wen deliberately paused for a moment before continuing: "So, I think we should not regard gods as enemies or potential enemies - they are like us, and they are also the victims of the natural law of 'shackles of thought'. Even if extreme situations such as the Battle of the Winter Castle God Hunting, even if a certain god will stand on the opposite side of civilization one day in the future, we must have a clear understanding and characterization of this."
After saying that, Gao Wen finally breathed a sigh of relief, as if he had let go of part of the burden in his heart.
After so many twists and turns, so much information collected, and countless arguments, he finally completed the characterization of the relationship between God and man in the cruel and ruthless "laws" of this world - for him alone, the significance of this matter is actually no less than the establishment of the Community Alliance.
Only when everything is determined can there be a clear direction.
While breathing a sigh of relief, he also noticed the changes in expressions on the faces of each representative under the stone pillars.
Nearly one-third of the representatives were obviously relieved. Their expressions were still serious, but their faces were no longer so tight, and some inexplicable glow even lit up from their eyes...
Gao Wen sighed softly in his heart.
Chapter completed!