Hasse squatted down beside Amatura's last words and gently stroked the indentations made by the knife. There was a faint glow on his fingertips. Through the demon hunter's unique method of identification, Hao Ren confirmed that the words carried the will of Amatura and not a forgery.
The bald, dark-skinned, African-looking demon hunter was walking by. When he noticed Amatura's body, he stopped with a serious look on his face. "Sure enough, Elder Amatura also died here."
"Teuton," Hasse said as he got to his feet and nodded to the dark-skinned demon hunter. "Take out the letters."
Teuton was stunned. "Here?"
"Right here," Hasse said faintly. "Countess Ancestor is a respectable elder. She has taken the initiative to show her sincerity, and we should respond in kind."
Teuton did not say anything more. He quickly walked away and came back with a small box that looked important. Hasse put the box on the only intact long table nearby. He swept away the debris on the table and took out a lot of letters and notes from the box and spread them in front of Vivian.
"This is …" Vivian picked up a few pieces of paper and looked at them. "Amatura's diary?"
"We found the clues from these things. White Flame should have mentioned it to you." Hasse nodded gently. "These are the documents and diaries left by Amatura and the other two elders, including their research on the innate hostility phenomenon."
Vivian and Hao Ren immediately checked the documents with great importance. These documents had been sorted out by the demon hunters. Not only were they labeled by date, but they also indicated who wrote them. Hao Ren skimmed through the documents and found that Elder Amatura's research on the innate hostility phenomenon was far more in-depth than he had imagined. In these documents, Amatura described in detail the innate hostility between the otherworldlings and the demon hunters' killing instinct toward the otherworldlings. He clearly believed that these two phenomena were actually the same thing. He summarized and sorted out the information about every supernatural race that had ever existed from ancient times to the present and other information related to the innate hostility, including the degree of hostility of each race, the distribution of each race, the degree of force, the beginning and end of each race's history, and their respective forms of civilization. He used his own standards to divide the innate hostility into ten levels and used the form of charts to roughly describe the average degree of influence of the innate hostility phenomenon on each race from 10,000 years ago to the present.
In his chart, the influence of the innate hostility phenomenon was incredibly high in the beginning. It almost completely replaced the rational part of each race and was classified as' beyond thinking. 'Around the end of the Mythological Era, the influence of the innate hostility phenomenon on each race had declined to the level of' rational controllability. 'In modern times, it had declined significantly and quickly slipped to the level of' controllable ordinary hostility. ' At the end of the chart, the curve dropped to almost zero at an alarming rate. Amtura wrote at the end of the curve, "It's about to disappear?"
There were also research materials and letters of the other two demon hunters, but Amatura's information accounted for nearly 80% of the total. Hao Ren was more and more surprised. He realized that these results were definitely not recent. It had only been a few months since the innate hostility phenomenon began to fade among the younger generation of the various races, and Amatura had obviously been studying it for a long time before that.
Vivian found a letter in which Amatura mentioned some of his research results to a friend. "I have long since discovered that the differences between the various supernatural races on Earth are so great, not only in terms of culture, but also in their physiological structure and soul. No sane person would believe that these races were naturally born on the same planet. I have checked the books that I have collected, and it is clear that some intelligent people of other races have also realized this.
"The otherworldlings and the demon hunters, all of these races undoubtedly came from outside this planet, and not from the same planet, but from many planets. We all have different origins, there is no doubt about it. "
In another letter, Amatura brought up the topic again. "… My friend, shouldn't we be suspicious? We have been hunting other otherworldlings for thousands of years, and those otherworldlings are also fighting each other. But why has no one ever doubted it? As you and I both know, every supernatural race should come from different places. We have different physiological structures, different forms of power, different cultural traditions, and even different souls. Under normal circumstances, there is almost no chance of contact between races that are so different. Just like fish in the deep sea and monkeys in the mountains, there is no intersection, let alone hatred. But we are thrown on the same planet by some force, fighting for the sake of fighting. Every time I think about it, I feel very uneasy.
"We are driven by something that is not of our own will. It lurks in the depths of our souls. Yes, we are like crickets and fighting cocks in a cage, eyes fixed on the 'enemy' in front of us. No one has ever been curious about the cage around them, and no one has ever thought about how we were sent to this cage. Now, this force that drives us is gradually weakening, and I am increasingly worried that this may be a sign of something worse: if there is an audience outside the 'cage,' then he has probably lost interest in the fight. "
Amatura's letters were mostly about this issue with his friends. His main points were three: the supernatural races on Earth came from different 'outlands'; the various supernatural races were collected from all over the universe and placed on Earth to fight continuously; and the phenomenon of innate hostility was a shackle and controller that ensured the continuous fight between the supernatural races.
These three points could be summed up into one: it was all a conspiracy.
Amatura, limited by his vision on Earth, naturally could not come to the correct conclusion. But his conspiracy theory was still a big step forward compared to the other demon hunters and otherworldlings who had never doubted it. At least he clearly realized that the 'killing instinct' of the demon hunters had nothing to do with justice and mission, but something extremely suspicious and came from a third party.
But these ideas of his were undoubtedly deviant behavior among the demon hunters.
"I didn't expect a demon hunter to think of this …" Vivian could not help but say to herself. Hasse nodded gently. "Amatura is the most bizarre one among the elders. Many of his ideas can even be called heretical in our view. He was the bravest warrior in the first half of his life, enthusiastically immersed in the hunting of the otherworldlings. But in the second half of his life, he suddenly began to be obsessed with these theories. "
Vivian held up a letter and shook it. "Isn't he afraid of being tied to firewood by the Council of Elders for his research?"
Hasse shook his head. "His research has not lowered his status in the demon hunter organization because his' results' are always the best. He is still a powerful demon hunter, but … his ideas are a little weird."
The corner of Vivian's mouth rose slightly. "He has obviously realized that something is wrong, but he still didn't stop fighting."
Hasse did not answer.
Hao Ren wanted to hear the demon hunter's thoughts on these 'heretical theories'. "Hasse, what do you think of his research?"
Unexpectedly, after a brief silence, Hasse nodded. "It makes sense."
Vivian raised her eyebrows. "I thought you would reprimand him with righteous indignation."
"Elder Amatura's theory is not a secret. Do you think the demon hunters are really fighting maniacs who only know how to show off their strength? We are more focused on learning and research than most otherworldlings. But these theories of Amatura can't change anything. The killing instinct has a greater impact on us than you think, and the war from the Mythological Era to the present can't be reversed by such a theory. At least until today, "Hasse said.
Hao Ren did not comment on this. He just glanced at the documents, and a line of words jumped out at him:
"… In conclusion, our killing instinct is not a natural product of our soul. It was implanted by someone. It is evidence of human manipulation. Perhaps there is a purpose …"
Somehow, Hao Ren thought of Amatura's dying words: "They are right, we are wrong."
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