Volume finale (middle) - La Pucelle
The cold instrument was pressed against the body, and a sharp needle was pierced into the blood vessels, and the brown liquid was slowly injected into the body. Lehman was told that it was something like a real-life agent, but it was much more powerful, and he was told not to try to resist. Resistance would only lead to a larger dose and a stronger means.
The surroundings were filled with people they knew or didn't know. Lehman probably guessed that this was to increase the shame of the inmate, but what he didn't guess was that the first person to come up to interrogate him was not the judge in a robe, but Shasha in black armor. Lehman looked at Shasha with a slightly surprised look and walked towards him:
"It seems that I have implicated you."
Lehman was not stupid enough to think that Shasha had joined these inquisitor groups. He had known these people from human empires that they had high requirements for the purity of human beings. An alien would not be absorbed by them into the organization. So there was basically only one reason why Shasha appeared here--Shasha probably because of his reasons, and she had to prove her own irrelevance.
"No, after all, you saved my life." Shasha stood opposite Lehman with a expressionless face and fiddled with the instrument.
"Then you should know that I don't want you to waste your life meaninglessly." Lehman stared at Shasha and said this sentence. Shasha trembled slightly after hearing it. She was also a smart person with ice and snow. She knew the meaning of Lehman's words--that is what to do later. Don't show any savior's ruthless attitude, it will be fatal.
The struggle with chaos is a life-and-death struggle, without negotiation, without peace, without compassion. These demons born from the emotions and beliefs of living beings cannot be influenced or bought, there is only one channel for bloody battles. In this war, there are no centrists, only friendly forces and enemies--so anyone who deviates from the concept of [friendly forces] will be imprisoned or eliminated.
Lehman learned this through his understanding, and Shasha was the same. It should have been tacit, but Lehman reminded Shasha, but he didn't know that this sentence caused a lot of ripples in Shasha's heart. After the princess of Iskandal came into contact with the multiverse and survived the facilities of the human empire, she had experienced a process of collapse of faith, and at the most painful moment, she endured it by transforming Lehman into a belief in her heart.
Now Lehman hints her like this, basically the same as the devout believer was about to do something, when a true god suddenly appeared in heaven and kindly grabbed her wrist and said, "No, don't do this, this will hurt you". The impact is still very strong.
However, Shasha quickly suppressed her feelings - this is one of the things she learned in the center of the empire. She had to control her feelings anytime and anywhere, because the expression of feelings is dangerous most of the time, and it would become the light for the demon to attack the soul. Only when facing absolutely safe situations can she reveal her feelings.
"Then let's start, please tell me what happened after you are captured." Shasha sorted out her emotions and asked the first question.
Lehman looked around and did not stay on anyone else. He didn't know who was the Chaos spy, or who was close to him, was the Chaos spy. His father did not tell him, nor did the leader of the plan such as the Great Sage of Kaul, that it was too dangerous and not a way to do intelligence work.
But they did tell Lehman something that every word he said during the interrogation would eventually reach the Chaos Demon God, so he had to do his best to make the Chaos Demon God believe that his father was at least very incompatible with the temple. Even if he couldn't do this, at least he could not reveal a big flaw--the harsh beating his father had laid the foundation for him in the early stage. Now he just wanted to follow a safe principle and try his best to perform.
After a quick turn of all the known information in his mind, Lehman began to describe it in a plain but seemingly suppressed tone - he dared not act too dull, because it was abnormal, and few fathers did such a thing, and his son could remain indifferent; but he could not act too magically, because he knew that the chaotic spy was still very familiar with his basic information - in his current memory, his father did not accompany him for too long, so he was not good to perform too much.
Originally, this kind of operation was absolutely impossible, because in theory, the drugs that penetrated Lehman's body would prevent the inmate from exerting any degree of control over his emotions, but Belisarius Kaul had already arranged some means. The great sage of the human empire asked the Chaos spy to first touch these potions, and then a spy changed the column and added a trace amount of some kind of drug to the potion. Now the potion has weakened its strength and has no effect on Lehman.
In this case, Lehman's Zerg body can perfectly control all his expressions and other manifestations, hiding Lehman's real emotions.
Lehman explained to the end, and said, how his father caught him, persuaded him to surrender, and how he could beat him up. After he stopped, a brief silence fell into the hall--all creatures could do those things with the emotions of a father. It was harder for them to imagine that a calculation unit actually had its own set of plans to fight against the temple. This............... It was a bit too unbelievable.
And what plan involves Lehman? Why is everything a test? Is Lehman's separation from the cosmic computer system related to Lehman's father's big plan? What kind of big plan is that?
All creatures were confused, but the truth was that Lehman's father had a nonsense plan. All of this was thrown smoke bombs. For a demon like Tsengchi who made a living by tricks and conspiracies, it was not good to be too open-minded. Appropriate conspiracy would lead Tsengchi into the ditch. This is the rule summarized by the multiverse in the fight against Tsengchi. What Lehman needs to do now is to dig a hole for Tsengchi.
Shasha naturally asked what kind of plan this is, what is the purpose of Lei Yingfu, why does this plan require the captive of Lehman, etc. - and Lehman also answered all the answers according to the plan. According to this routine, Shasha had to punish Lehman-Lehman cooperated and let out a scream. The posture looked even worse than the heroes who were tortured in Zhazidong of the bald principal. After such torture, when some heroes, including Optimus Prime, could not see it and Knight was about to be rational and out of control, Lehman spoke:
"He...he said that creatures are not worthy of redemption... only rule... so he only told me this, not about specific plans, only a bunch of reasons..."
"Repeat what he said!" It was of great importance, and the judge directly intervened to ask the question.
Lehman nodded and began to repeat the words that did not exist:
[Living creatures are not worthy of redemption. Countless creatures, like countless cells, form a new "set". In this collection, every stupid individual will gain a powerful illusion because they become one of the plural members, making them lose their sense of responsibility and making them evil]
[They are infected with each other in the collective, both emotions and behaviors will be transmitted, and every creature is very likely to accept various hints. They are like a pile of sand and let the wind stir at will. They are prone to blood boiling as dangerous as they are prone to sin.
[They are impulsive, they are violent, they believe, they can easily obey the bewitching, take all kinds of hallucinations as real and go to extremes, they reject dissidents, they are useless]
[Even if you go far on the road of civilization, the cluster of creatures have always been mastered by fantasy. Whoever can create fantasy will build temples and statues for whom, whether it is religion or philosophy. The dominant power of this fantasy was discovered at the peak of all civilizations]
Lehman said this, the judge of the Human Empire's face was already quite bad, but Lehman continued:
[Everything cannot escape fantasy. Although creatures occasionally overturn fantasy at the cost of terrifying turmoil, fantasy will always rise again. All false shadows drive the creatures forward. Whether they are their philosophers or their artists, those who are foolishly respected as sages are actually all pursuers of fantasy]
[Without fantasy, creatures cannot exist, whether they are gods, heroes, or anything else. Science, science is great, but science cannot satisfy creatures. Why?]
[Because science won't lie!]
[The cold scientific power will not sympathize with the weak, and the group of creatures cannot be supported without mercy. The science created by stupid creatures never provides the ideal that creatures believe in. Only fantasy makes the creatures follow like insects facing the light, meaningless and unconsciously!]
[In order to pursue fantasy, creatures move from barbarism to civilization, and then they will break their own fantasy with their own hands, make them lose their value, and then go to decline and demise. This is the ultimate destiny of all creatures. Such creatures are not worth my struggle for!]
Everyone fell into silence. Shasha witnessed the Gamyras who regarded the Iskandars as gods walked on this path. The Gamyras were indeed ruled by the Iskandar myth they created in their early years. Later, they broke their fantasies but reshaped the Iskandar myths. In the cold universe, as Lehman said...
The judges and clergy of the human empire were also speechless. Although the emperor's spiritual projection was enhanced by human prayers, the emperor was able to block the subspace pipelines and preserve the human empire, why did they also go out of fantasy, break the fantasy, go to decline, and then establish a new fantasy again in a new era.
Optimus Prime recalled Cyborg's original creation myth. Lina-Bass remembered the golden demon king with her, and even Fujiwara Meihong, who was standing there, remembered the mystery of being forced to hide in the fantasy country--they are already extraordinary creatures, struggling for the billions of ordinary creatures in the mortal world, but in their hearts, they also knew the bad nature of creatures...
"Crazy!!! This is totally crazy!!! That guy is crazy!!!" The judge in charge of the interrogation made a heart-wrenching cry, which woke everyone up--the judge began to pray to the emperor desperately to strengthen his faith, and the onlookers, including a Chaos spy who was observing everything through one of the onlookers, believed in one thing---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Great Sage of Kaul touched his big axe with his hand, thinking that Lei Yingfu was doing well and prepared such a big set of rhetoric. If he hadn't known that Lei Yingfu had no chance of rebellion, he would have believed it!
Just as he was thinking, Shasha's clear female voice interrupted the contemplation of all creatures:
"What about you, do you believe what he said? Where is your position? Why are you fighting?"
All the creatures present instantly focused on Lehman's body, and Kaul tightened his body again. He started well before, and if he didn't mess up this step, this matter would be done at this stage!
"Me," Lehman thought for a while and replied, "Indeed, intelligent creatures cannot survive without fantasy. Machinery also has life. The universe is too cruel. If there is no fantasy, it may be too painful... And without fantasy, we cannot make progress like this now. For example, without fantasy, no one will fly up......"
Speaking of this, Lehman saw Fujiwara Mei Hong and Optimus nodding at him, Lehman's heart trembled and continued:
"But when you say the collapse of fantasy, I have a different view from my father. I still have the fantasy I believe, and I believe that on the day my fantasy is realized, it will be a truly beautiful new world."
"What is that?" Shasha asked softly.
"That is the philosophers and scientists who use history and knowledge as containers, and the best expectations as fuel, and lit the unfulfilled torch. It is not a morality, not a religion, and does not rely on any spiritual means to influence living beings. It is rational and eliminates all religious opium, because it hopes to establish a fantasy kingdom of God in our world."
"This is a torch born from countless dead fantasy wrecks. We do not hope for fantasy, but swear to work hard for that glorious future. We will serve all living beings, and all living beings will serve all living beings. Each living being can build its own happiness on the basis of making others enjoy happiness."
"Every creature will be the savior of every creature, and I am willing to fight for this for a lifetime. Just as the past religion tells the glory of God, the ultimate form of this creature will surely tell the glory of countless creatures. Under the stars of the universe, the glory of creatures will last forever--I have always believed this."
"For this, I will fight for it during the day and learn more knowledge at night. Maybe one day my life will end, maybe my destiny will suddenly draw a rest on one day, maybe the moment I dream of in my life will not come at that moment, but if that time comes, I will definitely ignite the last flame of my life--dedicate my body and fight to death for that glorious future!"
"So, I will never agree with my father's path!"
Lehman said the last sentence firmly, and then silently thanked the political class teacher who forced him to recite hard in middle school - he couldn't fabricate such profound ideas. This was all memorized by middle school politics. It was nothing more than using the anime lines of middle school in my memory, and so on... Why are they all looking at me?
Lehman was muttering in his heart, and suddenly he found that the surroundings were silent. All creatures were looking at him with a strange look. The hall was shrouded in silence. This scene made Lehman look furious--but what he didn't know was that somewhere far away, the Great Sage of Kaul, who was observing everything, almost raised his hands and rubbed his eyes, because in an instant, Kaul even felt that he had seen the illusion of a great figure during the Great Expedition.
After a long time, the judge suddenly paused the floor with something like a scepter in his hand and said:
"This trial is over, and I will take it back and wait for the verdict."
Then he took the lead and left without saying a word. The combat nun and other clergy followed closely. Shasha, who was walking at the end, walked to the side of Lehman who was still bound before leaving. There was an inexplicable flame in his eyes, as if responding to the torch burning in a distant place. He lowered his head and gently kissed Lehman's forehead:
"You are indeed someone worthy of my followers."
After saying that, he floated away. Under Knight's unhappy gaze, Optimus Prime bent down and stretched out a finger to untie Lehman's confinement. The leader of Cybertron said to Lehman in a low voice:
"This is a very sacred mission, and I hope you can really always be true to your ideals and never give up."
Lina Inbas gave Lehman a thumbs up, Fujiwara Mei Hong nodded slightly at Lehman. All the people watching greeted Lehman more or less in various ways, gradually leaving, leaving only Lehman and Knight. Knight came over and patted Lehman's wrist:
"You can always surprise me, I really don't know what else in your mind."
"Nine years of compulsory education!"
Lehman stretched out his thumb at Knight, grinned and gave him a big white teeth, which gave Knight a big white eye.
Chapter completed!