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The mud house was still the same mud house, and Cecil was no longer the same Cecil. After listening to Luther's explanation, he fell into deep doubts in his life.

Luther used this opening line: "Before we understand God, we must discuss what civilization is." He raised his voice, "What is civilization?"

Cecil returned to the high school class in a trance for a moment, the summer was hot, the teacher was spitting on the stage, and the students were drowsy listening to it below.However, at this moment, he has no right to be drowsy. Every word Luther said is something he must understand and is eager to understand.

"Civilization is a series of customs and habits formed after human beings live together, for example, the most basic civilization, language, different people have different languages, people in different regions will form completely different customs and habits, for example, living in hot areas People in cold regions value light and breathable clothes, and silk should be as thin as mist, while people in cold regions regard fur as a luxury, such as..."

"Don't make an example, I understand what you mean, but what does these civilizations have to do with gods?" Cecil restrained himself from interrupting Luther's long speech. He doubted that if he didn't stop him, he could talk until dark.

"Civilization is God." Luther gave a concise definition, "Human civilization will form gods. For example, as I said, Ebo on the Luofeng Mountains, their national god is the yak god. They keep Yak, this kind of cattle has long hair and tough meat, and this kind of hair can be woven into extremely comfortable winter clothes, which is their specialty."

Cecil still couldn't understand: "You mean, they met a god who taught them how to raise yaks?"

"It's the opposite. They raise yaks, so there is a yak god." Luther corrected.

Cecil digested for a while, and said in disbelief: "You mean, if I have a habit of drinking tea..."

"What is tea?" Luther asked.

Cecil paused, silently keeping this economic point in mind, and continued: "A beverage, in short, is, for example, I have the habit of drinking tea, and then I let many people drink tea, so there will be tea god."

"Correct."

Cecil pondered for a while: "Then if tea is divided into black tea and green tea, will it be divided into black tea god and green tea god?"

"Ho ho!" Luther let out a weird laugh, "This is nothing unusual. Do you still remember..." He made a tongue-tattling sound that was not at all human-like, slightly like spitting and like Cough, before Cecil could react, he continued, "...Are these two countries? One likes sweet porridge and the other likes salty porridge. They each claim that their porridge method is authentic. Then, 75 years ago, The god of sweet porridge and the god of salty porridge fought, and the two countries dedicated countless manpower and material resources to this end, and finally died together. This is the famous battle of salt and sugar in history."

Fuck it, this is a world that will really give brains to sweet bean curd and salty bean curd!

Cecil's expression was probably too idiotic, and Luther said impatiently, "Are you so serious? Have you even forgotten this foundation?"

"It's not... what are they trying to do?" Cecil didn't understand, "Isn't it enough for everyone to eat their own food?"

"Because they are so similar, they are all porridge, but the taste is different. If one day people who eat sweet porridge find salty porridge delicious and eat salty porridge instead, won't the sweet porridge spirit be weakened?" Luther said naturally , "Divine power is supported by civilization, and gods without civilization will die. So, can you understand why elves create so many languages? Language is the bottom line of a civilization. When a civilization even loses language, then This civilization is dead, so the elves created many languages, because they are afraid that the language will disappear after they die, and the elf civilization will also disappear."

The more Cecil pondered, the more he felt that something was wrong: "If you are afraid of the disappearance of the language, shouldn't you try to promote a language? Let more people use the same language, so that the language will not be lost due to the death of one or two people. I remember the elves being bilingual alone."

"Who told you?" Luther widened his eyes, "Elves have a hundred languages ​​for the adult test, and they will learn hundreds of languages ​​in their long life. It is common for an elf to know thousands of elven languages. .”

Cecil once again lamented that the group of elves were really full.

"Elves are long-lived species, but their fertility is not very good." Luther said calmly, "In short, this is their way of dealing with problems. Human beings are almost like you. Let more people join the same civilization and grow this civilization. Civilization, that's how we humans deal with it."

Cecil has always believed that there are all kinds of strange things in this world, but this, this whole god system is the most incomprehensible to him.

"Then if there is a new technology that is better than the old technology, what will happen to the god of the old technology?" Cecil asked, "Will there be a fight between the gods?"

"The believers of the old technology are decreasing, and the believers of the new technology are increasing. What do you think will happen? The old god is dead, and the new god should be established." Luther said frankly, "If it is a matter within a country, this evolution may It will be more peaceful, but some believers in the old technology are very stubborn. They would rather leave the country and become savages than maintain the old technology. It's just a matter of time."

Cecil stared at Luther and asked, "So that's how you left the country?"

"There is another way to leave the country. His country perished, or his civilization perished." Luther said without changing his face, "Because of the fact that civilization is god, and god is power, if you want to destroy It is not enough for a country to destroy their cities and tear down their walls, but also to destroy their civilization. Change their mother tongue, change their meals, and change their clothes. Everything in this civilization is not allowed to appear. When the last believer in this civilization disappears Finally, when the country dies, the god dies, and this civilization really dies. The survivors become wild people and cannot revive civilization, they just linger on, because many civilizations cannot be reproduced. For example, the former quantum civilization, who I don't know what quantum is, and I don't know what their technology is like. It's just such a term and a legend. It is said that their abilities are extremely powerful, omnipotent in heaven and earth, and even penetrated into different worlds. However, they Some of the resources they relied on were destroyed, the key technology could no longer be used, their gods weakened rapidly and died soon, and then the quantum civilization also perished, and the age of magic came."

Cecil was silent for a moment, then sighed: "It's too cruel."

"It's an inevitable choice." Luther didn't feel too sad, "Switching gods with technology is relatively mild, and destroying a civilization is the most thorough way to destroy gods. After all, new technologies are not so easy to emerge. On the contrary Well, your so-called "prayer" is actually calling a god of civilization that you believe in. There is a big difference. Summoning a god of civilization believed by only 200 people is completely different from a god of civilization believed by 2000 people. "

Cecil silently doubted life for a while, digesting the knowledge, and then he realized some problems: "Then what if it is a god of food and a god of weapons?"

Luther shrugged his shoulders: "There is no difference. The number of people and time are the only criteria to distinguish the strength of a god."

Cecil was stunned for a moment, and said, "As far as you know, how old is the oldest living god?"

"It's more than 200 years old." Luther said, "Because once a civilization is conquered, the victor will always wipe out the old civilization. There is no civilization that is always victorious."

"More than 200 years?" Cecil was dumbfounded. "If I told you that there is a civilization that lasts for 5000 years and has more than a billion believers..."

"Hahahahaha!" Luther patted his thigh and laughed loudly, "Then let any god out and conquer the world!"

conquer the world……

Conquer the world...

conquer……

levy...

Cecil sat for a while with a dull expression, and his mind was filled with two words: Sent.

Luther is still tirelessly talking about messy things, such as a certain civilization being annexed by other civilizations, a certain civilization that never repents and persists until the last person, a certain civilization has merged after three dynasties and more than a dozen generations, all kinds of historical stories It comes in handy, quite like a street master who points out the world.

Cecil is still full of "fat", this is a layman.

After the initial excitement, Cecil still had to face up to the reality: this "prayer" required a sacrifice, and it was a sacrifice of one's own organs.

"Do you know the magic of 'prayer'?"

"Of course I know, who doesn't know? In fact, from the perspective of orthodox magic, this is not magic. It should be a kind of sacrifice, and it is also the most stupid human sacrifice." Luther said with disdain, "Magic that cannot be reused is not good. Magic, especially this kind of magic that sacrifices itself, even necromancers don't like it, after all, if you sacrifice too much, if the soul is incomplete, there is no way to become a good skeleton."

I knew the original Cecil wouldn't leave me with anything good!

After slandering, Cecil said cheekily: "Then can you teach me some other spells for summoning gods?"

"No." Luther rolled his eyes even wider. "You still have the Holy Light without magic. How about taking away the magic of a wild man like this? Lord Knight."

Isn’t Holy Light a kind of belief in God?What kind of god is this god?

Before Cecil could figure it out, Luther started nagging again: "'Pray to God' is not a good magic, I advise you to use it less, after all, you are a knight, even if you can't use magic, you can still consider Holy Light. And, 'Praying to the gods' is related to the civilization you believe in. If you have a strong civilization, your normal life is to believe in your gods. There is no need to sacrifice. If your civilization is weak, then it is okay to sacrifice significance."

Cecil asked cautiously, "Does this belief refer to the body or the soul?"

"Nonsense, of course it's the soul!" Luther scolded, "What the hell is a body?!"

Cecil's spirit lifted: that's all!