Dragon worshipers.
According to Alice Adar's words, they were a group of survivors who were lucky enough to survive from hell, but instead pursued the disaster.
"I've never heard of anything like this before."
This is not a lie.
Before today, Gongsun Ce had never been in contact with this group.
"Similarly, it is difficult for me to understand their thinking. The dragon phenomenon is only part of the natural disasters. Earthquakes, tsunamis, typhoons, volcanic eruptions...such natural disasters happen every year in corners of the world. According to your logic, we are We can see madmen like the Storm Cult, Lava Lurker, and Earth God Chosen."
Alice gave him a strange look: "Do you think there isn't one?"
"Really?!"
Shocked.
"You are really a typical Imperial man. This kind of mental illness is common in the Kingdom and the United States, right? The day before I came to the Sky Capital, I destroyed a small sect. The leader of that group was a half-started spiritual being. The Prime Minister, with half a bucket of water, brainwashed the middle-aged and elderly people in a community. He said that communication waves were a trick of evil dragons to invade the world. He quickly gave him all the mobile phones, computers, and televisions at home and destroyed them, so that he could survive in 1977. Escaped the cyber apocalypse..."
"My illiterate grandma would not believe such retarded words!"
"But they believed it. Do you know what is the most ridiculous thing?"
The young man spread his hands and said, "I can't think of anything more outrageous than this."
"The leader is a newbie who has just been enlightened. After I destroyed the den, I found out that he had only successfully brainwashed less than ten people. The remaining large group all joined the cult because of simple words, psychological induction and cluster effects."
The world is really wide.
Compared to stars and hunters, this kind of bizarre incident can make young people feel this way more.
The super-powered person leaned weakly on the small sofa, but the female hunter seemed to be very interested: "You can't stand it after just this? Let me tell you, I have seen a lot in the three years since I joined the Wild Hunt. It’s much more outrageous than this. Last month there was a smelly mandarin fish lovers group——”
"Miss Alice, please stop talking and get back to the topic. I'm afraid my common sense won't be able to withstand the next round of attacks."
The fortress called common sense is already crumbling, and one more kick may cause it to shatter into rubble.
Time is urgently needed to recover now.
It takes about 5 minutes based on real time.
"Give me 5 seconds to complete."
"Can you read minds?!"
"You have it written all over your face that I am seriously injured and in urgent need of recovery. How can I talk to you about business like this?" The blue-haired woman crossed her legs, "You should be able to understand human beings through the vivid example I just gave. How fragile - at least a small number of humans - are to easily believe in the supernatural or pseudoscience. Dragon worshipers are also a group similar in nature to these absurd sects. There are two evil things that distinguish them from other similar organizations. .”
She held up the index fingers of both hands.
"Just to be on the safe side, I would like to remind you that poking your cheeks is not cute at your age."
"Now let's fight with all our strength here, or praise Miss Alice for being cute. You have three seconds to choose one of the two."
"Miss Alice...is...very...beautiful."
Can't do it.
It's really impossible to call a woman who can only be described as handsome, cute, so you can only do the opposite and compliment her appearance.
What effect will this curve ball have? Gongsun Ce raised his eyes and looked up.
Miss Alice on the sofa opposite looked like she had seen a ghost in the daytime.
"Oh, it's so scary! You haven't lied yet and you really mean it. Are you a common innocent boy?"
"You get such a reaction when you compliment you on your beauty. Your sad temperament has doubled again. Can you please show some composure of an older person?"
The huntress had a weird smile on her face.
"Guhehe~ My little brother is acting so innocent~ Have you ever been in love before~"
If a handsome strong woman is the top of a mountain, and a sad older single woman is the foot of a low mountain, then the tens of minutes from the first appearance to the present can be said to be Miss Alice riding a high-speed train from the top of the mountain decisively. Down, it hit the ground five seconds ago without any conscious effort to brake, and was about to crash through the ground and into the center of the earth.
We can't let this sad girl go off topic any longer.
The superpower stopped him with words: "Now that we are talking about business, please be more serious."
"What are you talking about? You obviously started it first! Closer to home, the evil nature of the dragon worshipers that distinguishes them from other groups lies in their extremely twisted psychology and the actual existence of the dragon entity."
"Extremely distorted psychology refers to... having experienced a dragon disaster in person, leading to a complete breakdown of the mind, and ultimately worshiping the dragon as a god, as a pillar of the soul."
The blue-haired woman put away her ungrateful look.
"You understand quickly. That's it. Compared with conventional methods such as coaxing or brainwashing, it is almost impossible to convince admirers who rely solely on their own initiative to convince themselves. The world in their eyes, what they firmly believe in their hearts The concept is different from that of ordinary people. To the admirers, the performance of ordinary people is actually abnormal.
"What's even more troublesome is the second point. The evil dragon actually exists. It's visible, visible, and touchable... What's the difference between intangible and real? Think about the battle with the desolate angel just now. You You should be able to understand.”
He thought of the red eyeless snake.
Snake through space.
A strange creature that cannot be interfered with by any matter or energy other than the target.
Although that thing was not an invisible creation like the young man's ability, the hunter wanted to remind him that this was not the appearance.
Thinking from the perspective of intangibility and reality, it cannot be interfered by the outside world, nor can it touch the snake in the outside world. Even if it has a visible entity, it is no different from the phantom conceived in the mind. No one can prove the existence of a "brightly colored air snake" except eyewitnesses who saw the snake.
The untouchable snake is invisible.
For Gongsun Ce and Xingren, as for the target and controller of the Sky-Piercing Snake, the situation becomes different.
In the eyes of these two people, the red snake is a visible and touchable entity. Gongsun Ce's fist can hit the snake's body, and the red snake's fangs can bite into his flesh.
Thinking of this, he understood.
"Real dragons are different from invisible natural disasters. They can be recognized and can influence people. This is another reason for dragon worshipers to pursue dragon disasters. It is also the reason why the star just now has strange abilities. .”
"That's right! The giant dragon at the top of the abnormality distorts their minds, and humans with fragile minds are particularly susceptible to the influence of abnormalities." The hunter snapped his fingers, "The weaker the strength of the mind, the easier it is to be interfered with, and the more vulnerable it is to interference. The intensity of interference with the mind becomes weaker, and ordinary people's minds are distorted and mutated in an infinite vicious circle, and they even gain forbidden knowledge in resonance with the dragon. This is how the impermanent envoy with the most abnormal mind is born."
The huntress casually dished out a lot of information again.
How confident is she in her ability to accept?
Ordinary people would have been confused by hearing too many strange terms in a short period of time.
The young man tried to chew these words, break them into pieces, grind them into powder, mold them into a suitable form, and insert them into the difficult logical chain running in his mind.
The dragon worshiper's mind was distorted by the dragon disaster, and he gained knowledge due to his resonance with the dragon. As a result, he gained wonderful abilities and became what she called an "impermanent magician"...
What’s the next question to ask?
Alice's intuition seems to be very sharp.
To avoid trouble, he chose his words carefully.
"This is enough to give a general understanding of the situation. The next question is, what is the purpose of the dragon worshipers -"
"Isn't that right, young man?"
He was interrupted before he finished speaking.
"I've been feeling a little strange since I met you, and the sense of inconsistency was aggravated little by little during the conversation just now, so that I had to ask questions." Alice Adar turned her fingertips Holding a black short arrow: "You don't seem to be too surprised by the spells used by me and the cockscomb head. In the question just now, the dragon worshipers were used as the entry point. Why is this? From my understanding, no, with Thinking about it from a general perspective, the concept of impermanence is the one you are most curious about."
The blue-haired woman looked directly into his eyes.
"You usually think so, right? It's a weirdo with delusional thoughts or another accident where a person with abilities went berserk, but you didn't even ask us what kind of abilities we used, or which research institute or school the people with abilities escaped from."
"Even if you are a weirdo who can accept all these abnormal situations calmly, this is very strange, too strange. Could it be that...you already knew something about the law of impermanence before today?"
The young man's face was vaguely reflected in the brown eyes.
He noticed a trace of embarrassment on his face.
Only then will he feel envious of Qin Qianbai. The expressionless iron face is the best barrier against inner exploration.
But Gongsun Ce couldn't control his face like that girl, nor could he control his emotions like Shigure Reiichi.
He has the same mood swings as ordinary people. He will be happy, angry, sad, and happy based on the actions of others. He will also yell like an idiot with his friends.
Of course, even though he is not an expert, he cannot perfectly hide the expression on his face.
"I haven't seen that before..."
"lie."
A merciless declaration.
He wasn't given any room to turn.
The young man sighed in his heart. Sure enough, Alice's intuition was very sharp.
"It is indeed a lie. As you guessed, I have seen people using this technology in the past. Although her performance is not similar to any of you, I think it should be the ability under the same system."
Alice frowned: "Then why did you..."
"Dragon-slaying technique, impermanent method. The so-called impermanent method is a technique specially developed for slaying giant dragons and can only be used by humans."
Unconsciously, and even beyond his control, the young man spoke faster.
"But that's all. I only know of its existence, but I don't know much about it."
He is wearing glasses now, and the world in front of him is clear, and there should be no unnecessary associations. But as the words were told, the memories hidden in the heart surfaced again.
He seemed to see mist.
The gray-white, hazy existence wants to gently erode the two people sitting opposite each other in this room, drag them away from the stable daily life, and throw them into the hell of dreams again.
Gongsun Ce took off his glasses and closed his eyes.
"I met the Impermanent Magistrate three years ago in the capital of the kingdom. Can we end this topic?"
He couldn't see Alice's expression, but could only hear her apology in her low voice.
"I didn't expect...I'm sorry."
This is not surprising.
Anyone who survived Superbia three years ago must have witnessed the unspeakable tragedy with their own eyes.
At that time, humans melted in the mist.
The living body either disappeared bit by bit out of thin air, or literally turned into a pile of mud. Almost all the lucky survivors witnessed the entire process of the disappearance of people around them.
The fragmented testimonies narrated by the survivors after they were rescued even caused many members of the rescue team to vomit.
That is a hell that is more cruel than what is recorded in ancient books, and has descended on modern times.
"I'm just thinking about my faults in the past. You don't have any need to apologize."
The young man rubbed his eyebrows and put on his glasses.
A long time has passed since then, and time has healed the wounds, allowing him to mention the accident with relative ease in his daily life. But once he recalled the details and recalled specific events, the powerlessness and panic in his memory would still come over him as before, making him feel like he was falling into the abyss.
The symptoms of this disease, called post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), are very similar, but he knows better than anyone that this is not a purely pathological symptom.
It's not just a simple illness, this would be more appropriate.
The superpower laughed at himself and spoke again: "Don't worry about me. Please continue to explain your purpose, the law of impermanence, and the reason why you gave up hunting and sat here to kill time with me."
"You recover so quickly!"
"Then what else? Should I cover my face with my hands and sob a few times, and finally wait for you to come over to comfort me before continuing the topic? Although I'm not an expert, I still want to lose face."
"I'm beginning to think you have a weird self-abuse mentality." Miss Alice nodded, "My purpose has just been mentioned, it is to protect you - don't look at me like that, I really want to protect you I just put you in handcuffs. The dragon worshiper is the worst kind of impermanent lawman. You, a layman, had a serious fight with him! Who knows whether you will be in a second or a few minutes? With a roar, you went crazy and rushed towards me with your mouth wide open. In that case, it is reasonable to restrict your movements first, okay?"
The superpower raised his hands like claws.
"Ouch."
