"...Twilight versus reality?"

Russell repeated.

He frowned: "But this statement is still too abstract... Is it the kind of existence that cannot be described in detail and cannot be recognized?"

"Such a dusk does exist, but 'dream' is not of that type."

Sai Lun shook his head.

She stared at the beer she had finished drinking, but there was a slight look of exhaustion on her face.

Russell sensed that the feelings of "missing" and "sadness" echoed in her heart, so he did not interrupt Sai Lun's memories.

After a while, Sai Lun said quietly: "Once upon a time, we had a glorious civilization that we were proud of.

"Because in the development of civilization, we gradually acquire divine rationality and transcend our own animality.

"Psychic energy maintains and heals the soul, and technology adjusts hormones and nerves, so that we will no longer make mistakes, be impulsive or make mistakes. As long as something can be accomplished in theory, it can be done between spiritual energy and machinery.

Guaranteed 100% completion under revision.

"But as 'dreams' hatched from the sea of ​​collective subconsciousness, we began to 'dream'."

"……Dream?"

Delphinium frowned: "That should be a resting mechanism of the brain for memory."

"However, this was not the case before. After awakening spiritual energy, we could have entered the sea of ​​collective subconsciousness at night... It was a great world opposite to reality, composed of subconsciousness and imagination. There, the laws of physics and reality

There is a huge gap...but that is not an illusion, but a spiritual world common to all people. Originally, everyone shared the same dream. We united in the dream, cultivated feelings, formed bonds, and relieved stress.

"But since the 'Fantasy Dream' awakened, there have been fewer and fewer people in the group dream. Everyone has been cut off from the sea of ​​collective subconsciousness, and instead linked to the fantasy dream... The dream is no longer another world, but

It became an illusion made up of memories.

"...After that, disaster struck."

More than a thousand years have passed.

But Chairman Sai Lun's eyes still reflected fear.

It was the fear of the "twilight" that destroyed the entire old world.

"Ignoring the distance in space, at the same moment, an 'irrational' emotion appeared deep in everyone's hearts.

"The first is 'selfishness' that separates oneself from others. At that time, our civilization was very developed, and everyone could already accept shared labor and then share the products. We had enough productivity to help everyone in need, and when accepting

After helping, it will automatically be given back to society.

"However, at that time, the 'selfish gene' from ancient genes, which had long been eradicated from our hearts, was awakened.

"There is a separation between 'group' and 'individual'... People no longer trust the group wholeheartedly, but try to take advantage of the group's protection for themselves. Almost overnight, trust in each other is completely broken.

"Afterwards, people developed 'arrogance' towards those who were weaker than themselves, and 'jealousy' towards those who were stronger than themselves.

"This emotion actually has no meaning. It is just an animalistic, instinctive, inefficient restraint. It is the instinct that drove beasts to form clusters and maintain the survival of the fittest in ancient societies. And we have long had genes that can modulate genes.

Technology and individual strength are meaningless.

“Yet it further divides us and prevents people from coming together.

"With the further development of the spiritual plague, emotions such as 'laziness', 'anger', 'depression', 'suspiciousness', and 'inferiority' began to appear. Those were the emotions that had been extinct for more than a hundred years in our time."

Negative emotions'. Because only by eradicating all negative emotions without leaving a trace behind, can spiritual energy be transformed into pure white spiritual energy - the power of 'all wishes come true' that can be used in all fields.

"The originally pure spiritual energy that could be used in any situation began to be contaminated by this emotion and became extreme.

"Ultimately, the most powerful psykers are the first to lose control - because they are the most deeply connected to the sea of ​​collective unconsciousness, and therefore the most deeply contaminated.

"As more and more extreme emotions infected their minds, the first symptoms were visual and auditory hallucinations. Then non-existent memories began to appear, and then the brain could not control the body, and the body would be as aimless as an animal.

actions. By the beginning of the mid-term, their rationality completely disappeared.

They lost their ability to communicate and became completely unable to communicate. The result of the brain scan was that their brains had undergone severe pathological distortion. The cerebrospinal fluid turned into a colorful viscous colloid, and the brain produced colorful irregular crystals, completely

Lost the ability to memorize new information and think logically.

"In contrast, the psychic powers of other normal people are declining. But the psychic powers of these madmen are getting stronger and stronger.

"Even ships far away from the earth began to have chaos. Many 'dragons' built with the earth's few resources fell into the starry sky far away from the earth. Only seven dragons barely escaped. Where I am

'Kubler' is also one of them, and he is also the energy provider that supports Happy Island today. He is my most important partner... and my only home.

"These madmen have almost destroyed the entire civilization on the ground and turned countless settlements into ruins. Just suppressing them will cost a lot of money. More than 90% of the population died in this catastrophe. Fortunately, I came back

They had been suppressed by then. Otherwise, I would have been sent directly to the front line... With my combat capabilities, I'm afraid that would have meant death.

"At that time, we already knew that the problem was with psychic powers, so the government banned psychic powers. But it was still a step too late.

"During that civil war, as the out-of-control psykers were swallowed up by more and more extreme emotions, their bodies were eventually melted by the increasingly frenzied and hot psychic energy; others were killed in the early wars. No matter what

If they die for whatever reason, their souls sink directly into the sea of ​​subconsciousness.

"Only by capturing them alive and cutting off more than 60% of their brains, removing the crystals, and waiting for their spiritual energy to completely dissipate before executing them, can these distorted souls be completely killed. And once they sink into the collective subconscious

In the sea, it can no longer be killed by normal means.

"They became an information parasite that can eat other people's emotions in dreams and feed back contaminated spiritual energy. Because the group dream had been cut off at that time, we could no longer support each other... and in individual dreams, these

Creatures are so powerful that if they are completely unable to resist, they will be contaminated and parasitized by them.

"According to what we said at the time, it was called a 'dream derivative'.

"——That is, what is now called the 'devil'."

Russell's pupils shrank slightly, turning into feline vertical pupils.

Everything is right.

He suddenly understood why these demons all appeared collectively at the same moment, and no new demons were born after that...and why the named elves needed to sacrifice themselves to seal the most powerful demon.

Because these demons were originally the most powerful psychics in that world.

And after they sealed the "Dream" again, new demons would no longer be born.

"...After that, it's 'spiritual marriage', right."

Russell looked at Selon.

Sai Lun nodded: "Because anyone who awakens spiritual energy may be parasitized by demons. And we are completely unable to prevent it, let alone resist it.

"At that time, Pappus proposed a method - that is to inject a special psychic awakening liquid into the brains of chordates to force them to awaken their psychic powers. Because they are not human beings, they will not enter the human group.

In the sea of ​​subconsciousness. By the way, Pappus is the chairman of Ampoule Biomedical... His destiny is to be a 'healer'.

"When their spiritual energy awakens to a certain level, another spiritual energy network is formed that is independent of the 'sea of ​​collective subconsciousness'. It is a new network formed by spiritual beings other than humans and has not been contaminated by dreams.

network.

"Then, the survivors' psychic frequencies are synchronized with it and linked to a new, very weak psychic network."

To put it simply, it means running away.

The psychic network in my hometown has been contaminated by illusions. It is the home of demons. They can come and go at will, making it impossible to prevent them.

So we simply moved in groups...

"...Even so, are you still unwilling to give up your psychic powers?"

Delphinium asked subconsciously: "Knowing that spiritual energy has been contaminated..."

But as soon as she was halfway through speaking, she suddenly reacted, so the second half of her words got stuck.

——Because they have no choice.

Although she couldn't understand concepts like planets and universes, she probably understood them.

These ancient people also faced the dilemma of resource exhaustion.

The only power that can change the current situation is spiritual energy. In other words, it is "pure spiritual energy".

It is a powerful energy source that only needs to accumulate "population" to make all wishes come true. Relying on spiritual energy, they can solve the difficulties they encounter.

If you lose your spiritual power, it's just a slow death.

"It seems you are aware of it, Minister Delphinium."

Sai Lun's voice is low but warm, with a kind of relaxing magnetism like an emotional radio anchor: "Because of the existence of 'dream derivatives', we are forced to give up the original soul built by the will of countless ancestors.

Sea. But the new born spiritual energy

The sea is not unusable... Although the psychic energy obtained from it is very weak compared to before, as long as it is accumulated for enough time and more and more psykers return to the sea of ​​souls after death, we can still obtain it in the end.

The same powerful sea of ​​soul as before.

"But we quickly realized there was something wrong with the original reconstruction surgery.

"People who have undergone transformation will inevitably suffer from physical distortion, which is called 'spiritual disease'. But the initial surgery was only performed on the brain, because we have already studied that the organ that receives psychic information is actually the brain.

A section of specialized nerves in the frontal lobe.

"As for those who have undergone surgery, their bodies will have their lifespan limits lifted for unknown reasons and will enter the 'developmental period' again. Eventually they will become unusually large. In contrast, their brains will become healthier.

Hair has an animal nature. Or to put it more clearly... the more they grow, the bigger they become and the more retarded they become.
To be continued...