The incubator fell into silence again. Enya had to break the silence. "I know, this answer is against common sense."
"Wait a minute, I need to think about it …" Gwen waved his hand to interrupt her. When he finally sorted out his thoughts and confirmed the information that Enya had described, he slowly looked up. "That is to say, when the Great Demonic Tide came, the world was not affected at all. It was just that all the individuals who could become 'observers' had cognitive deviations. The original normal world became an indescribable, incomprehensible … thing in their eyes. The so-called 'doomsday' was actually an 'illusion' they had?"
"This is not as simple as an illusion. You just need to close your eyes and block your five senses to pretend that nothing happened. However, the 'exile deviation' brought by the Great Demonic Tide can break the boundary between matter and reality. If you mistake ice for fire, then the 'fire' can really burn you. If the sun in your eyes becomes an extinguished black ember, then the whole world will dim and cool around you. It sounds very against common sense, but this is the truth of the world.
"The observers constructed the world they were in through their own cognition. That world overlapped with the real world, but when the Great Mana Tide arrived, that 'overlap' would become misplaced. The observers would be consumed by the chaos in their own eyes, and in their extreme madness and fear, they did everything they could to leave behind a record of how the world was distorted and shattered, and how the Great Mana Tide destroyed all things. However, to those who came after … those records were nothing but the ravings of a madman, illusions that could never be proven by any theory."
Gwen sat on the spacious high-back chair. A cool and clean breeze blew in from the ventilation system. The low humming sound came into his ears, and at this moment, it was extremely illusory and distant. He fell into a long contemplation. After a long time, he woke up from his contemplation. "This … is indeed against common sense. The observation of the observers created an 'observer world' that overlapped with the real world? And this deviation of the observer world will also bring about the self-destruction of the observers … "
"But you don't look as surprised as I thought," Enya said calmly. "I thought you would at least lose your composure for a moment."
"This is because I am not unfamiliar with many of the concepts you mentioned. I just can't believe that all this will happen in the macrocosm," Gwen said with a complicated expression. There was a hint of doubt in his voice as if he was talking to himself. "But if what you said is true … then in our world, where is the boundary between the real universe and the 'cognitive universe'? If the observers will be burned to death by the 'illusory flame' in their cognition, then what's the point of the real world? "
The voice in the golden egg paused for a moment before responding. "It seems that in your hometown, the physical world and the spiritual world are clearly separated."
"At least in the macrocosm, it is so," Gwen said in a low voice. "In our world, reality is reality, and illusion is illusion. The observer effect only works in the microscopic domain."
"Is that so? Unfortunately, in this universe, the boundary of everything seems to be in a changeable state," Enya said. The light golden runes on her eggshell gradually slowed down. She seemed to be helping Gwen to think calmly in this way. "The stable and peaceful world in the eyes of mortals will become an indescribably twisted purgatory after one demonic tide. When there is a deviation between cognition and reality, it will be easy to cross the boundary between reason and madness. So, from a certain point of view, the search for the 'real universe' is meaningless. Even … does the real universe really exist?"
Listening to Enya's last question, which was enough to drive a weak-willed scholar crazy, Gwen somehow calmed down. Suddenly, he thought of the strange 'layered' structure of this world, the Realm of Shadows under the physical world, the Realm of Shadows under the Realm of Shadows, and even the Deep Realm under the Realm of Shadows, as well as the 'deep sea' that only existed in the concept of the gods …
In his mind, an endless sea seemed to emerge from nothingness. That was the real appearance of the universe. Layers of 'boundaries' overlapped in this sea in a way that was incomprehensible to the human mind and carried out a complex mapping between each other. In the deep sea where the sun could not shine, the deepest 'truth' was buried in the darkness that no one could touch. The sea rose and fell, and mortals were just tiny mayflies floating in the shallowest layer of water. The true appearance of the entire sea was far beyond the cognitive boundary of the mayflies.
Hao Ren took a deep breath and pulled his mind away from the imaginary 'sea'. He whispered as if his mind had wandered off. "I'm suddenly curious now … When the demonic tide comes, what does the world look like in the eyes of those 'exiled'?"
He had seen the catastrophe 700 years ago in Gwen Cecil's memory. He saw the scorched earth curled up, the weather was horrifying, the chaotic demonic energy swept across the land, and countless monsters came from all directions. It was almost the most terrifying 'doomsday' that mortals could imagine. Even Gwen himself once thought that it was the end of the world. But at this moment, he suddenly found that his imagination was not enough in the face of the real appearance of the world.
"Even if you are an extraterrestrial wanderer who can fight against the gods, the horror of the demonic tide on the minds of mortals is not something you want to face." En Ya's voice came from the golden giant egg. "To be honest, I can't answer your question accurately because no one can communicate with the victims who have lost their minds and have lost the focus of their senses in the real universe. It is also difficult to summarize what they have seen from their chaotic and deranged words and even noises. I can only guess, from the traces of madness left by the civilizations that failed to survive the demonic tide —
"The sun will die out in their eyes, or expand into a giant ball of flesh, or a black mass falling from the sky. The earth will melt, and endless teeth and giant eyes will grow out. The ocean will boil, and a vortex will be formed that reaches the center of the planet. The stars will fall into the earth, and they will turn into cold flames that spurt out from the rocks and clouds. They may see that they are thrown into the starry sky, and the universe will open its mouth, filled with indescribable brilliance and colossal objects. They may also see that everything in the universe will be peeled away, turning into crazy shadows and continuous noises. At the last moment of destruction, they will become the victims of the madness, becoming one of them.
"This is the world in the eyes of the crazy observers. In the intricate mapping of everything in the universe, they have lost the focus of their sense of self and lost everything. In this case, they may see anything."
Gwen did not speak for a long time. After more than a minute, he could not help but shake his head with a complicated expression. "Your description is really vivid. The scene is enough to make any sane person shudder."
"Thank you for your compliment," Enya said calmly. Her usual calm and gentle tone was very calming and soothing at this time. "But don't take what I said as reliable research material. After all, it's just my speculation. After all, even God can't touch those exiled minds."
Gwen was silent for a moment before he suddenly said, "The sirens first told me about the reshaping of everything in the world caused by the great demonic tide. I believe that they did not lie to me on this matter. So the only explanation is that they did 'see' the reshaping of the world in their eyes, which means that they are 'observers' under the influence of the demonic tide. But why are they fine? They seem to have just seen some phenomena, but they survived the demonic tide again and again. "
"Sirens …" Enya chuckled as if she had a sense of helplessness. "They may be the only race in the world that I can't understand. Although I personally witnessed them falling from space to this planet, and have also observed the kingdom they established in the distant sea from afar, I have always tried my best to prevent the dragon race from establishing communication with those space visitors. Do you know why? "
"Because the sirens come from space. Their interstellar knowledge and spaceships are likely to cause the Dragons to turn their attention to the universe and accelerate your loss of control?" Gwen guessed, but he had realized that the problem was not so simple. Otherwise, Enya would not have deliberately asked him at this moment.
"What you said is indeed part of the answer, but more importantly … the sirens are a kind of 'toxic observer' to me.
"The way they perceive this world is different from any other race in the world. It is as if they are not from this planet or even this universe. They have a distinct … abnormality. It is a kind of 'estrangement' that is incompatible with our world. This estrangement prevents the demonic tide from completely affecting them. They will see some deviated phenomena when the demonic tide arrives, but it only takes a short time for their self-perception to correct this' error. 'This correction even makes me … fearful because I find that not only will they' correct 'themselves, but they will also affect other intelligent creatures, slowly changing the perception of other races, and even spreading this influence to the gods behind other races through ideology.
"Remember the 'closed system' we discussed in the previous topic when the gods lost control? In the eyes of the gods, the sirens are like a group of 'corrosive toxins' that can actively destroy the closed system. They are mobile, aggressive external information. Do you understand what I mean? "
Gao Wen blinked. He immediately thought of a line he had once jokingly said, "That's right.
The gods and the sirens met face to face, and they passed each other.
Then the gods went crazy.
This unintentional joke … turned out to be true.
The existence of the sirens could contaminate the gods! If there was a 'priority' for their perception and self-correction, then this' priority 'was even higher than the demonic tide?!
Thinking of this, his eyes suddenly changed, and he said in an unusually serious tone, "Then we are now establishing more and more extensive communication with the sirens, isn't it …"
"I think, by the time I 'fall,' the 'toxic observer' race should have lost their toxicity." Enya knew what Gwen was suddenly worried about. She said gently, "The barrier between them and this world is almost completely gone, and the inherent pollution will also disappear. For the gods in the future, the sirens are no longer a threat from this civilization."
Gwen was startled. "Why?"
"I don't know. There are too many mysteries about this race." The golden runes on the surface of Enya's eggshell paused for a moment, and then slowly flowed. "I can only be sure of one thing, that is, before I fall, I finally succeeded in observing the ripples caused by the sirens' thinking in the deep layer of this world. This means that after such a long time, this race, which is incompatible with the world, has finally integrated into our world."
"Integrated …" Gwen frowned, thinking about every word mentioned by Enya. He was trying to understand the strange state of the 'extraterrestrial visitors' that had crashed on this planet. Even the oldest gods on this planet had been afraid of them for more than a million years, and this fear had only just been lifted today. At the same time, he was also guessing how the 'integration' of the sirens happened, and he had already come up with a few plausible guesses in his mind.
But at least at this stage, these guesses could not be confirmed. Perhaps even the sirens themselves could not figure out the process.
The only thing that could be confirmed now was the final conclusion: the sirens were like a mass of insoluble foreign matter that had fallen on this world for 1.87 million years before their shell gradually melted and they were no longer a bug that could block the system. This may be a good thing for the races that had established communication with them, but for the sirens themselves … Was it a good thing?
He could not help but ask, "Since they have integrated into this world, does this mean that from now on, the demonic tide will also take effect on them?"
"Maybe, maybe not. I know it's a bit irresponsible to answer this, but there are too many mysteries about them. Even if one of them is solved, there are countless more waiting in front," Enya said helplessly. "The biggest problem is that their life essence is still a kind of elemental creature … an elemental creature that can survive stably in the main material world, and elemental creatures themselves can be reborn after the demonic tide. This may mean that even if they are destroyed by the demonic tide in the future like other mortals, they will be reborn after the demonic tide is over.
"Of course, the situation may be the opposite, but who can say for sure? These things have never happened before, and even the gods can't predict them. "
"Maybe I should talk to them about this when I have the chance," Gwen said with a frown. Then he suddenly thought of something. "Wait a minute, we just talked about the big demonic tide not affecting the physical body of the 'real universe.' What about the small demonic tide?
"I mean, when the Kingdom of Gondor was swallowed by the small demonic tide after the big explosion of the Deep Blue Well, the pioneers saw with their own eyes how the chaotic demonic energy affected the environment. After that, we also mined a new kind of ore in the Gloom Mountain Range, which has been identified as a product of the demonic tide. Is this the result of some kind of 'reshaping' phenomenon?"
"This is also a misunderstanding," Enya said faintly. "There has never been a reshaping of everything in the world, whether it is the big demonic tide or the so-called small demonic tide. The big explosion in the Kingdom of Gondor has confused your judgment of the demonic tide. In fact, what you faced at that time was only the shockwave of the Deep Blue Well. The new ores and the mutated environment were just natural reactions caused by the erosion of the high concentration of magic energy. If you don't believe me, you can reproduce this result in the laboratory."
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