What Enya said was not difficult for Gao Wen to understand, but he still fell into long-term thinking after listening. During the thinking process, some theories that had been unresolved for a long time were confirmed, and some key nodes that he could not understand were supplemented. Most importantly, he finally confirmed a guess that had existed a long time ago but was still unsure.

God is a kind of "closed system", or the premise for the establishment of a god within a certain civilization system is the "lockdown" of this civilization system in the corresponding knowledge field - when new cognition is no longer generated in a system, when members of this system no longer try to find answers to certain questions from the outside, but point all the explanations of the questions to the inside of the system, the basis for the birth of the god will be formed.

Therefore, once the system becomes open, when external information can become the "solve" of certain problems in the system, the gods born on this system will be immediately impacted and quickly go crazy in the deadly contradiction.

This is some kind of process similar to bugs that can cause crashes, or external pollution injection into the system.

"So, when the final disobedience occurs, the group's thoughts did not change drastically - because there are only a few ‘observer’ individuals who jump out of the system, and the information they see cannot be immediately applied to the entire group," Gao Wen slowly ended his thoughts and said at the golden dome in front of him. "The 'change of thoughts' is not the main reason, or even an effective reason in the process of final disobedience. The real effective reason... is that the gods themselves were denied."

"From my personal experience, this is it," Enya said softly in his voice, as if the things being discussed have nothing to do with himself. "The relationship between thoughts and God is extremely close. The relationship between the two is not just the relationship between the 'hotbed' and 'product'. Even in a sense, the god itself is the manifestation of the tide of thought and the integration - God is the tide of thought. Therefore, as long as a tributary of the tide of thought comes into contact with specific information outside the system, it is equivalent to the god comes into contact with this information. If this information cannot be denied by the system's own logic, then... the collapse of the system will inevitably occur."

Speaking of this, the sound from the golden dome suddenly paused. She seemed to be sorting out her fragmented memories. Gao Wen waited patiently for a few seconds before hearing Enya's voice sound again: "...I still remember what happened at that last moment. When the Dragon Clan spacecraft broke through the atmosphere and stepped into the area that no one had ever touched in the mythical era... Although I could no longer control anything at that time, and even thinking had completely stagnated, that feeling was still deeply imprinted in my memory through the link between divinity and humanity.

"It was a cold and painful feeling of tearing, with a huge panic after being suddenly thrown into a cold and unfamiliar environment from a warm and comfortable environment. It was like a baby born, caught off guard and separated from the mother's body, facing the sinister external environment - my divine part had to admit the existence of the starry sky, admit that there was no heaven above the stars, admit that there was a vast "outside the earth", admit that your great power is just a tiny flash of dust in the universe, admit that you are meaningless in the vast space... In a very short period of time, the myth system built by ordinary people for millions of years was penetrated by the cold laws of reality, the myth could not be established, and the gods could not be established."

Enya's voice stopped, Gao Wen sat opposite her, holding her chin with his hands. After a long period of thinking, he slowly said: "So, if civilization is regarded as a system that is constantly evolving, then as long as this system develops to a certain stage, the 'divine nature' must die - because divinity is destined to be closed-loop, and He does not match the evolution direction of the entire system. At most we can only retain a human part like you."

“This is the obvious conclusion.”

"This is too cruel for the gods," Gao Wen sighed softly, "It seems that everyone is qualified to survive, only God must die - don't you think this is unfair? Just like you, even if your human part is still 'living', you as a god are dead..."

Enya was silent for a few seconds and said softly: "God can die, and this is the greatest fairness."

Gao Wenxin was touched and couldn't help but say: "Although it may be a bit off topic now, many of our technologies are pursuing that mortals can also gain eternal life..."

"I know, but even based on the oldest silver empire in Loren, the history of civilization in this season has only been around for tens of thousands of years. For the time scale of mortals, these tens of thousands of years can be called eternal - the eternal life pursued by mortals is meaningless in the face of astronomical standards, and there is no real eternal immortality in the world," Enya said in a deep voice, "But on the other hand, things that are meaningless in the face of astronomical standards are still meaningful in front of individual mortals, so this is the reason for civilization to move forward... Looking up at the sky, looking down at the feet, never forgetting one, civilization has the opportunity to go further."

"Is the relationship between astronomical scale and mortal scale..." Gao Wen pondered for a moment and suddenly laughed, "We are clearly discussing practical issues such as ultimate divine disaster and ultimate disobedience, but in the end it seems that we are studying philosophy."

While saying that, he shook his head and said after a little bit of his thoughts, "Then we can conclude that the originally closed-loop system of civilization suddenly opened up to the outside world, leading to the occurrence of the "ultimate divine disaster". This "opening" only requires a small but very "exact" hole. Even if it is just one or two individuals in the civilized group break through the system blockade, it is possible to meet the conditions... The essence of this process is not 'people look outward', but 'god look outward'?"

"It can be understood so. It's like using a needle to pierce an airbag. The tip of the needle may be small, but for an airbag that is on the verge of limits, the overall collapse only requires a small hole."

"Then the Institute of the Theocracy Council can finally make a qualification," Gao Wen breathed a sigh of relief. "We have been thinking about the division between the 'divine disaster' caused by the loss of control of a single god and the 'ultimate 'divine disaster' that led to the extinction of civilization. Now it seems... the key to all this lies in what is the specific reason for the collapse of the 'closed-loop system' of gods.

"Under the premise that the closed system is not destroyed, a large number of individuals that constitute civilization produce continuous and extensive changes in thoughts and gradually cross the critical point that the system can withstand, which leads to the gods corresponding to the thoughts being out of control. This creates a "divine disaster", which we may call it "the first type of cross-border".

"Under the premise that the closed system is destroyed, any individual that constitutes civilization - as long as it is an individual within the 'thought', makes direct and undeniable contacts on information outside the system, and at the same time, the logic within the system cannot deny this contact, then this contact will lead to the collapse of the system built on the premise of closed loop. Since all gods are built on the premise of closed loop, the level of the gods will inevitably occur at this stage, and we should call it...'The second type of cross-border'."

"A good summary," said Enya's gentle voice from the golden dome. "So far, except for those lucky ones taken away by the forcibly breaking the deadlock by the sailors in ancient times, in all the known history of this world, more than one civilization has survived the first type of cross-border and survived, but has survived after the second type of cross-border... Only Tallond."

Gao Wen looked at the golden dome in front of him, and after a long time, he said solemnly: "Yes, so far."

"I'm glad to see you not being deterred by this cold fact, although I knew from the beginning that people like you would never stop in the face of such difficulties," Enya's voice seemed to have a smile, mixed with feelings of appreciation and comfort. "So can confirm the margin of 'second type of crossing the line' help in your next plan?"

"It's a huge help," Gao Wen nodded immediately, "At least, now we can confirm that launching an unmanned detector into space will not cause a 'system collapse' - cross-border behavior can only be accomplished by intelligent individuals in thought. In other words, only rational individuals are qualified to become 'observers', which allows us to do something boldly, but..."

He frowned and his expression became a little weird: "Maybe I'm stubborn, but I'm curious about one thing now-even if there is really an 'observer' as the god's eyes jumped out of the closed system and actually contacted information outside the system, is this contact really undeniable? The 'divine nature' of the god can still think that everything the observer sees is false, that it is a large-scale hallucination and scam, that there is some force that tampers with all the observer's senses and cognition, and fundamentally denies that 'bounce out of the system' has happened..."

"You mean... 'quibbling'?" Enya was not surprised by Gao Wen's tricky problem, which was almost nonsense. It seemed that she had thought about it herself, "It turned a blind eye to the facts like burying her head in the soil, and refused to admit the information injected from the outside of the system by deceiving herself, so as to maintain the self-cognition and logic of divineness?"

Gao Wen looked serious: "Isn't this possible?"

"For individuals among mortals, 'self-deception' is a very effective means of escape. Sometimes it can even make people survive in desperate situations, but to the gods..." Enya chuckled, as if with a strong self-deprecating, "The gods cannot deceive themselves. We are a huge logical system, and everything we have is based on the process of 'cognition-explanation-feedback', which means that when an information stimulus appears, even if our self-will denies it, the feedback triggered by this stimulus has already happened."

Gao Wen looked at Enya: "An uncontrollable natural reaction?"

A certain voice came from the golden dome: "An uncontrollable natural reaction."

"So I'm very curious - will you still be subject to this uncontrollable natural reaction now?" Gao Wen asked suddenly and seriously, "Is there still some stimulation that will suddenly lose control of your will and make your instinct deviate from your nature again?"

"If my human part has not gained true freedom, I wouldn't talk to you about these topics that can cause self-destruction," Enya said in a plain voice. "I know what you are worried about, please rest assured - you are facing the freedom that the Tallond dragon has earned at the cost of millions of years of tolerance and the fate of the clan. If even such a hard blow cannot break free from the fate of darkness, then the world will not need to pursue any hope."

Gao Wen pondered for a moment and nodded slightly: "...you are right."

Then he exhaled and brought the topic back to the beginning: "I remember we were discussing the signals that suddenly went out in the starry sky. We talked about two 'filter factors' that caused our supposedly extra prosperous universe to become empty, leaving the stars without seeing other civilizations breaking through the constraints of the planet except the setter. One of them was the out of control of the gods, and the other... the demon tide.

“Now let’s talk about the magic tide.

"What is the essence of the demon tide? How did it sweep and reshape the world? What is the difference between the disaster that the Gondor Empire encountered seven hundred years ago and the 'big demon tide' that can truly destroy the world?"

"Can you tell these questions now?"

The incubation room was in silence for a while, and Enya seemed to be seriously considering what she was going to say next. The slight buzzing sound of low-power operation of the ventilation device and magic equipment became obvious in this silence, surrounding it like a breeze in a summer afternoon - until Enya finally broke the silence.

"I know you have realized that the tide of demons and the real tide that the Gondor Empire encountered in the past are actually two different things. You call the former "little tide" and the latter "big tide". But in fact, the difference between the two is even greater than you think, so that the former cannot be regarded as a tide at all - it is indeed related to the tide, but in essence, it is actually just a 'fore tide' that has not been formed.

"And I have one thing to correct about your understanding of the demon tide: You think that the demon tide will change the basic nature of all things in the world, which is wrong.

"The real demon tide... is the 'big demon tide' you call it. In fact, it will not change the material world at all - in fact, it will not even interact with any physical matter. It is just an invisible wind blowing through the entire astral body."

Gao Wen's eyes widened for a moment, and the huge shock even made him lose his usual calmness: "What did you say?! You said the 'big demon tide' would not actually affect the material world at all? How is this possible?!"

“That’s true.”

"What is the impact of that great demon tide? What are the real ends of the world?"

"It affects not the macro world, but the 'observer' itself," Enya's voice calmly came from the eggshell, carrying a cold and tranquilizer that has gone through 1.87 million years. "It shifts all the information contact between the observer and the material world, causing the observer's mind and the real world to interact in a disorderly manner. Its essence is not a storm with physical destructive nature, but a celestial exile...group exile.
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