[Comprehensive] BE saves the world

Chaldea Extra Story·AveMaria

【Reality.That's another name for "sorrow."Only in fantasy can happiness accompany people.Maybe some people think that they are also very happy in reality, but those people are probably misunderstood.When happy people feel happy in reality, that feeling of happiness exists in their fantasy, or at least has some elements of fantasy, and never exists in reality]

08

The three finally decided to move towards the tower together.

Fujimaru Tachika noticed that Kamikariya's right leg seemed to be somewhat inconvenient, and his protective clothing was also very old. When he got up, he could still hear his slight cough.But since Kamisariya didn't say anything, she couldn't take the liberty to ask about his physical condition.

On the way, Fujimaru Tachika asked questions that he cared about before.

"What will happen to the people in the nutrition cabin?"

Shen Kariya pushed his glasses, his tone was very indifferent.

"Will live forever."

"Eh?"

"The so-called virtual life is that kind of thing. How should I put it... Have you heard the story of 'Zhuang Zhou's dream of a butterfly' in China?"

"Yes, it is."

Because there are many Chinese heroes in Chaldea, Fujimaru Tachika still has some understanding of Chinese culture.She searched in her mind for a while, and found that record with some difficulty.

"Is it the story in "Zhuangzi"? Zhuangzi once dreamed that he turned into a butterfly, and when he woke up, he couldn't tell the story between the dream and the reality, right?"

Did the butterfly dream about Zhuang Zhou, or did Zhuang Zhou dream about the butterfly?

Which one is real, the self in the dream or the real self?

Probably such a story.

"To put it simply, that's probably the principle." Shenshouya said lightly, "As long as you sleep deeply in the nutrition cabin placed by the new god, people's physical aging can be slowed down to the point of almost immortality. In the liquid, neither food nor sleep is needed anymore, people accepted the nourishment of the new gods, abandoned this hopeless reality, and indulged in the virtual life created for them by the new gods."

When he said this, Kamikari lowered his head and looked at his hands. He didn't know what he saw. What Fujimaru Tachika saw was that his hands tensed unconsciously.

"In the virtual world, people can become anyone—no, human beings can become anything. The world becomes infinite here, with infinite possibilities. The so-called family, friendship, class, nation and country all become It is no longer meaningful. In fantasy, people have unlimited freedom. No matter what kind of feelings can be satisfied, the new god does not condemn everything, but allows everything. Since all fantasies happen in the brain, no It will interact with others, so it will not hurt anyone. Whether you want to be a butterfly or Zhuang Zhou in your dream is up to you."

"However, it's impossible for everyone to accept such a life, right?"

The dark-haired boy looked confused.

Hearing his question, Kamikariya pursed his lips tightly, and after a while, he showed a slightly distorted smile.

"Of course." He pushed his slippery glasses, and his tone was very calm, "Whether he said 'this is not God's will' or 'humans should not live like this' or 'even if I die, I will live in the truth Those who refuse to enter the nutrition cabin are dead."

"..."

The boys and girls fell silent.

"The New God didn't kill them, they died from the aftereffects of nuclear radiation." The man's voice became more and more indifferent, "The concentration of nuclear radiation after the war was too high, coupled with the lack of medicine and diet...refusing to eat what the New God provided People who eat food are the first to die. Because of the mass extinction of animals and plants, there is not much food that can be eaten. In addition, water sources including drinking water have been polluted by nuclear weapons. Even if food is grown, it is not enough. Something suitable for eating."

His eyes drifted out of the window, staring at the black tower that connected the sky and the earth, numbly stating the fate of those who rejected the gift of the new god.Even when he was telling those tragedies, the side face with deep lines did not tremble at all, just like a cast iron statue.

"Then those who died were those who were exposed to the outside world despite being fed. Not just because of the radiation, the atmosphere was destroyed, the sun and the air itself became highly poisonous. These people died quickly from radiation sickness. My wife is one of them."

Speaking of this, Kamisari's right hand trembled slightly, but his face was still calm, as quiet as burnt and cold ashes.

"She was pregnant at that time, because the new god's cabin would stop the physical time infinitely, so the fetus could not grow. So she insisted on waiting until the baby was born before entering the new god's nutrition cabin, but she had already got it at that time Very severe radiation sickness...the baby didn't end up being born, and she didn't survive."

"……sorry."

The dark-haired teenager subconsciously apologized, feeling guilty from the bottom of his heart for bringing up this sad topic.

Fujimaru Tatsuka also lowered her head, and said "Please forgive me".

But Kagami... no, Kagari Masataka's expression is still indifferent.He closed his eyes, and his eyes fell into the void. For some reason, his expression fell on Fujimaru Tatsuka and the others' eyes, but it was dead silent, so peaceful that it made them feel terrified.

"Sorrow... At first, I was really sad. It is said that the pain was to the point of madness. Not only did I stab myself with bruises all over my body, I even stabbed my parents. If it wasn't for the messenger sent by the new god to stop me , maybe even my parents will be stabbed to death by me who has completely lost my mind."

His voice, too, is so steady as he recounts that period of time, to the point of creepiness.

"However, after the envoy of the New God forcefully stuffed me into the nutrition cabin at the request of my parents... Those feelings were consumed as the price for repairing my body. Although I told you before, the human Emotions can be regenerated. However, my feelings for Shixian cannot be regenerated. As the grief fades away, so does the love. After a long time, when I think back to Shixian, I will only be imitated A vague touch."

Kagari Masataka... No, Kagami leaned back, as if he thought it was funny, he moved the corner of his mouth slightly, and it froze into an arc that didn't have much smile.

"If our God and our hope are nothing more than scientific phenomena, can our love also be based only on science?" The man lowered his eyes as he read the famous quote from "Future Eve", "So in Before my love for Shixian was exhausted, I left the nutrition cabin and embarked on a journey alone. Ah... Sorry, I was obviously answering your questions, but it turned into talking about my own affairs. I'm really sorry. "

"It's okay!" Fujimaru Tatsuka shook his head quickly, with a more apologetic expression on his face, "We are the ones who want to say sorry. Asking these questions reminded Mr. Kamikari of bad memories."

"Is it a bad memory... It's not all bad things." Kami Kariya's tone was a little tired, and he looked in the direction of the tower again, "I haven't talked about Shixian with anyone for a long time... also I haven't thought of her for a long time. I don't know why I can talk about her again, but I always feel a little nostalgic."

"..."

Fujimaru Tachika fell silent.

Sure enough, although the survivors of this world are very happy in a sense, but, sure enough... this is not the right thing.

Even the feelings towards the one I love are getting blurred day by day... This kind of life is really not real happiness, is it?

"People who have accepted the blessings provided by the new gods will continue to live forever in dreams."

Kamisariya said indifferently, there was no jealousy, no contempt, and no distortion in those words.It's just a rational and objective statement from the perspective of a pure bystander.

"The dreams provided by the new gods are eternal. People who dream, after they trade the emotions they get from the dreams to the new gods, they can live in that cabin for a long time. Happy, sad , Anger... All emotions will be converted into energy and provided to the system to continue to operate, and the system will use this energy to continue to feed their bodies, so that they can continue to dream in the virtual world... It's like a perpetual motion machine Ideal device."

However, because of this, the world has no future.

This world will no longer develop any possibility, and the people of this world will no longer create anything.

This is nothing but a dream of nothingness that goes on endlessly, a never-ending Möbius loop.

At this moment, Fujimaru Tachika finally understood what the so-called "human history that has come to a dead end" represented.

And she also realized a huge doubt that cannot be ignored in the narration of Shenshouya.

"Mr. Kamikami..." She hesitated and said, "Do you hate Shinshin?"

Rather, from the first time he announced his name to them, she felt that vague sense of disobedience.

Think about it carefully, doesn't the name "God Hunting House" itself mean "the person who hunts the gods"?

"Do you hate it... If I still have love for Shixian, I will probably hate the new god."

Shenshouya said indifferently, but there was no fluctuation on his face.

"However, I just want to go to the tower and see the form of that god with my own eyes."

"……form?"

"When I was locked in the nutrition cabin, I seemed to have lost consciousness due to excessive blood loss. Perhaps because of that, when I was dying, I saw the new god."

There was a faint smile on the lips of Kami Kariya, this was the closest they had seen him smiling so far, but it was more chilling than any previous arc without a smile.

"It was a black woman. When I slipped into the abyss of death, she stretched out her hand and held me. Because the consciousness at that time was too vague, so there are not many remaining memories...'The Madonna of Darkness', That is the vague impression I have left... Maybe it is just an illusion caused by my blood loss. However, I still want to seek a truth."

"the truth?"

"Yes, the truth."

In the man's eyes, there was a bottomless darkness and madness.

"Is the so-called new god a pure concept, or is it someone who really exists?"

"..."

At that moment, Fujimaru Tachika felt a great chill crawling up his back.

If, if the new god is a person, what will Mr. Kamikariya do?

09

"Because I doubted God, I went to find the truth about the new God."

On the roaring steam train, the aborigine named Kamisariya said so, and opened the note in his hand.

On the big booklet, this and that kind of newspaper clippings, books and photos are pasted.For things that seem too old-fashioned in this era, Kamikariya just explained with the sentence "I am not used to using electronic products, and paper is much easier to save than electronic files these days".

Although wars have destroyed human civilization, books have been burned, history has been weathered, singers have lost their singing voices, and poets no longer write poems that mark the times...but something remains.Or something hasn't been destroyed so completely.

"I have traveled all over the world before I found these materials." Shenshouya said, "The war has destroyed too many things. These materials may not be credible, and they will inevitably be biased... However, I can still learn from them. part of the truth."

He flattened the edge of an old newspaper clipping with his fingers, motioning Fujimaru Tachika and the others to look over.

[Is it a miracle or a hoax of the century?She was able to bring a severed arm back to life! 】

"..."

This news, which looked like a scam copy at first glance, left the two Fujimaru Tachika speechless for a while.

It's too fake!Not me!This is too fake!

"The Shinshin Sect was originally just a shelter for people who were tolerant and intolerant. At that time, it was still a branch of the Shingon Esoteric Buddhism Tachikawa, a small sect called Yongtianliu. However, from a certain day, the leader suddenly declared She was inspired by the true God, and changed this small sect to a new god—neither Buddha, nor God, nor any other god of any existing religion—but the new age. , the omnipotent new god."

Kamikari pressed his fingers on the blurred printed photo, staring at the layered curtains on the photo and the woman in black in front of the curtains, his voice lowered slightly.

"Since the leader made such a declaration, he was naturally expelled and hostile by all other sects. However, since then, the new gods have really shown 'miracles'. Even the broken hands and feet, after the blessing of the new gods It will also return to the way it was in the past. In addition to being unable to bring the dead back to life, the new gods can achieve almost all miracles that science cannot achieve."

"what……"

Fujimaru Tachika couldn't help but gasped.

As for Kamikariya, he turned over a page of his notes, and in the center of countless incomplete newspaper clippings and book pages was a magazine photo that could almost win the Pulitzer Prize for Photography.

On that photo, the monk and nun in black is lowering his head and hugging an old man whose hands and feet were blown up in the flames of war. I saw the statue itself.

"The New God Sect, which created miracles that can only be manifested by divine power, was naturally rejected by other sects. Soon, they lost their foothold in their original place and were forced to leave their hometown. So, the leader took the devout believers to the frontier area of ​​the war, and provided protection for the local suffering people. They did not promote their own teachings, nor forced anyone to join the religion, but only for the suffering People provided a shelter where they could be safe."

Having said that, the man's lips tightened a little, and he shook his head as if consciously making a slip of the tongue.

"It shouldn't be said 'just'... For ordinary people during the war, a safe shelter means everything in itself. What's more, Xinshen even shot down the missiles that hit the city, and protected them from the rain of bullets. Those poor people. On the scorched earth that has been washed by shells, only the Church of the New God stands unscathed. As a result, more and more believers in the New God will naturally follow."

Fujimaru Tatsuka opened his mouth: "The new god..."

As if knowing what she wanted to ask, the man shook his head.

"The New God has never asked for any offerings of property, nor coveted the flesh of male and female believers, nor forced them to break with their pagan relatives and friends, nor has they shown hostility to any other beliefs. The New God only protects the believers, Answer prayers."

"..."

"In this way, New God Religion developed at an extraordinary speed. Countless believers joined the New God Religion, and this new religion prospered like this."

Having said that, Kamisari House paused for a moment before turning a new page.

"However, the New God religion has developed too fast."

In the following materials, there are more and more crazy attacks and more and more intense attacks.

In contrast, there are increasingly irrational defenses and increasingly fanatical words of defense.

"Not only other sects, but even the upper echelons of various countries have noticed this rapidly growing emerging sect. After failing to win over, they once again began to suppress the new god religion. However, the new sect that already has countless believers The Divine Religion, this time, did not sit still."

The next page is the epitome of countless conflicts.

"Countries that attack the New Theology are also attacked by other countries under the pretext of defending the New Theology. The long-term confrontation and attacks between countries, nations and nations have caused hatred to accumulate. In this way, disputes have become more and more serious. More and more intense, and then — a national dignitary was assassinated by populists in another country while traveling, and the powder keg that had been building up for a long time finally exploded.”

Countless reports and photos of the war were flipped through the pages of the notebook, so fast that Tatsuka Fujimaru felt that he was watching a cruel and real silent film.The bloody death and the heavy darkness came to her in front of her with gunpowder smoke, forcing her to look away.

However, the narration of Kami Kariya is still going on.Indifferent, steady, without a trace of emotional fluctuations in the narration.

"In the mid-term of the war, it has nothing to do with the New God. All countries with relevant interests have been pulled in, and the war itself has become a huge whirlpool, stirring the whole world into it. No country, no one People can stay out of it, and the original excuse is no longer meaningful at this time, and what drives them to continue the war are only interests and desires."

Kamisariya's fingers stopped on a page. On that page, the monks and nuns in black were still running in the flames of war. This one was giving a speech to a tired crowd, and the other one was in a hospital full of wounded people. Relief, and in the next picture, she is distributing her own food to the children around her... In every picture, the woman has a loving and compassionate smile, like a god, watching everyone tenderly.

"But the new gods have been helping people in war. They are not allied with any country, nor are they enemies with any country. They just try their best to protect every believer who falls under their sect. Even if they are not devout, they have no Even if you are too poor to donate even a single coin, the New God will provide protection.”

The notebook has been turned over halfway, and Kamikariya's fingers stopped.He stared at the fragile page for a long time before speaking.

"And my wife was cast under the sect of the New God at that time."

His voice was very faint.

"Shixian had a very serious heart disease since she was a child. Although she had a heart transplant, the effect was not satisfactory. When we were dating, she was even told by the doctor that she would not live for a year. In such a desperate situation, she saved Hers is the new god. The new god cured Shixian's disease and gave her a healthy body like a normal person. Although...she died of radiation sickness in the end."

So when his wife died, the messenger of the new god came to their house, and then prevented Mr. Kamikari from harming himself and his family?

Fujimaru Tachika thought.

Kamikariya hurriedly turned another page as if wanting to end this topic.

"...When the war entered the middle and late stages, the leader of the new god was assassinated. All this almost destroyed the new sect, and almost destroyed the believers of the new god."

His voice stopped for a long time before he could continue talking.

Tell about this almost hopeless follow-up.

"The new gods also disappeared at that time. The new gods declined. And the war became more intense. By this time, people were suspicious of each other and attacked each other. So... everything became irreparable .”

The last chance of self-saving was also missed by human beings.

Desperate people can only choose to pray to God.

"In the desperate situation, the new god once again responded to the people's request."

The man said lightly.

Thus, the new god came again.

On the ruins of the nuclear war, an indestructible kingdom of ruins was built.

The author has something to say: The chapter summary is from "Luxury and Poverty" by Mori Mori.

Kamisariya's wife Unobe Shizuru, the soul of the "Mermaid Princess" part of "Broken Chapter Grimm's Fairy Tales".As for what she did to Kamikariya before she died to drive him crazy... Well, let me post the original text of the suicide note she left under the curry stew plate before she committed suicide.

"Reading this letter means the stew has been eaten.

I emerged from the tank called the hospital as a dead mermaid.Although I was hooked by you, I don't seem to be able to become a Yabaichuni, at least let me become a mermaid.

Please live forever with me.

[The meat in the stew is me]. "

Experience it for yourself.

Especially scary.I nearly jumped out of my chair the first time I saw it.What evil did Masakashi Kakari do to pick up such a ghost.It's too spooky.Can't blame him for being completely crazy, who the hell can stand up to this [. 】

PS: Let me state again, this chapter does not allude to any reality, I just wrote it blindly!Make it up!Any similarity is purely coincidental!Please never substitute reality! ! !This is fiction!imaginary! ! !Made it up for Drama! ! !