"The devil is part of that thing. But a pretty special part."
After saying this, Carlos' aura subsided, the light in his eyes completely faded, and he returned to the comfortable and relaxed look before.
The eldest prince smiled at Yin En and raised the wine bottle: "I'm sorry, I should have scared you just now - in fact, ordinary people will not be scared by me, but because you are too strong among your peers and you are a prophet, I have a keen psychic ability, so I can perceive some extra things that I shouldn’t be aware of... This is my fault, and I will punish myself half a bottle."
After speaking, he actually drank half the bottle of Gudong Gudong in one go - Yin En seriously suspected that he was just looking for an excuse to drink.
"Hey. When I see you, I think of my brother. He is just as cautious and careful as you. He can't let go when he should."
Putting the bottle down, Carlos glanced at Yin En and said, "At this time, shouldn't you criticize me harshly because I just want to drink? Although you don't show any flaws in your demeanor, you don't reveal any expression or emotion. , but can’t I guess what a person like you would be thinking?”
"Brothers and younger brothers need to communicate with each other in this way to enhance their relationship... The same is true between us." He shook his head unhappily: "Don't imitate Mikael. Even if people like him can succeed in the future, they will only be successful. It’s a second grandfather.”
"This is a bit treasonous." Yin En couldn't help complaining: "No wonder His Highness Mikael didn't want to discuss you at all when he was chatting with me."
"I said not to let my brother make the same mistakes and follow my grandfather's old path. What's so treasonous about this?" Carlos looked at Yin En quite strangely. He shook his head and said, "You outsiders always call grandpa some kind of black king and pioneer." The Great Emperor, but to us, he is just a very strong and kind grandfather... Mikael just doesn't regard his grandfather as a grandfather, but regards his grandfather as a... well, a myth and legend? A legendary ancestor? "
"Who is weirder?" He looked up at the ceiling: "Grandpa failed, we must learn the lessons he learned in life."
“First of all, turning more people into our people is the most important thing.”
At this point, Carlos narrowed his eyes. He lowered his head and stared at Yin En seriously. It was only when Yin En felt a little hairy that the prince spoke: "Of course, this is indeed the method I use to collect intelligence. …When I used to travel around various places, I often used this bold and unrestrained appearance to recruit people, guiding those who were cautious or even autistic to reveal their true nature, and then gain a glimpse into their hearts.”
“I would communicate with them, make friends from the heart, and then I would know their wishes, their desires, their ambitions and desires.”
"Over time, when I awakened my spiritual power, I was able to see through the real 'dreams' and 'thoughts' in their hearts."
Carlos openly revealed the truth about his psychic powers, but Yin En actually knew it already.
dream. This is the truth about Carlos' psychic ability. The specific ability is not yet known, but it is probably that it can lead to the limit of a person's power in dreams, and use special emotional bonds or thinking relationships to connect oneself across thousands of miles. His spiritual energy is invested in those who need his spiritual energy to be strengthened.
This is even a semi-automatic psychic energy that can be guided and transmitted spontaneously without the need for Carlos to actively control it.
In other words... if nothing else, Carlos's skills in psychic powers are not simple at all - he can interfere with the mechanism of using his psychic powers and program his own psychic powers!
The person in front of me is a powerful person who can develop the technology of 'divine power transmission'! If I have to say it, Carlos’s current accumulation of skills in the field of gods and spirits is far deeper than that of Yin En!
In fact, the other party's divine power transmission technology was the most important factor that enabled Yin En of the Spiritual Disaster to expand the spiritual god system in the first place and popularize it throughout Terra.
——In another parallel time and space, I must have cooperated with him. Moreover, it is a very in-depth cooperation, and Carlos is indeed a person who can easily attract others to him.
But he's not a 'nice guy' either.
After Yin En really met Carlos, he understood why the Magnetic Light Knight betrayed Marquis Barton and served him, and why there were his secret hands in the Gnosis Academy... This is what should be done. With his status and ability, he should have so many people surrounding him and becoming his 'friends'.
However, like most of the top executives in the world of Terra, Carlos is a figure standing on the top of the mountain.
Not high enough, not low enough.
Therefore, the purity is not enough.
"So, Yin En."
At this moment, while Yin En was silently analyzing Carlos, the eldest prince smiled and raised the bottle of wine to the white-haired boy: "If you have to say it, the dream of ordinary people is to drink wine when they are having fun at a party. When you are ignorant, , what Mi Mi Huhu thinks about, the desire derived from instinct, the idea that slowly takes shape as it grows, gradually deforms under the impact of reality, and becomes what it really is."
"Wanting wealth and status, wanting to be respected, or even simply wanting to have more women and men in this life - these kinds of things that come from instinctive desires can also be considered dreams."
"And the dream of resentment is the desire to destroy all the wishes that emerge from the depths of the soul when you use alcohol to drown your sorrows, or even to relieve your hatred and paralyze yourself."
"Wine is the realm of virtuality."
The eldest prince knocked on the wine bottle, and the little remaining liquid in the bottle spurted out from the mouth of the bottle, floating in the air and turning into a golden mist, like an ocean-like mist.
"People often say that the virtual realm is a mirror. People's good and evil will be reflected in the mirror and be sublimated. The good ones become angels and the evil ones become demons. This is a legend. We all know that there are no angels in the virtual realm, only angels. Machine gods. But in a sense, machine gods are no different from angels, except that they are not composed of human goodness, but people's desire for order, so they actively use technology, wisdom and axioms to shape spiritual machines. "
"Demon, actually the same thing applies."
Carlos snapped his fingers at the sea of wine mist in front of the two of them. Immediately, the relatively transparent foam in the wine floated and condensed into the appearance of machines.
Each of these Mechas are very different, but they all have a unique sense of beauty. This is obviously not a random creation by Carlos, but a reflection of many Mechas he has seen in the past.
Then soon, the turbid bubbles in the wine mist began to fall, gradually condensing into groups of indescribable things. I don't know whether they are ferocious and terrifying, or chaotic things that are difficult to identify with human geometry.
"Devils actually did not exist originally." The eldest prince stared at those chaotic things and said: "In ancient times, during the pre-epoch civilization, these things were pure imaginations. They were just sporadic evil thoughts that existed in subspace. Some people The ghosts after death, the black mist formed by some cursed dreams... They will pollute the psykers who sneak into the virtual realm, causing these psykers to twist, change their temperament, and be infected with inner demons, so there are legends of demons and devils. Appear. The virtual realm machine gods are the 'cleaners' that sweep away these pollutions. They will sweep away these pollutions from thousands of angles, just like cleaning up the garbage at home."
"But the devil with a specific image did not originally exist."
"But after the Skyfall disaster, demons really appeared. Just like humans created the Mecha, some existence created demons in the virtual realm."
As he said this, Carlos looked solemn: "The virtual world is not a mirror. The virtual world is the sea. Whether it is a machine god or a demon, an angel or a devil, they are all bubbles of human dreams rising from the bottom of the heart and floating on the sea. part of the big bubble."
"But just as humans shape the Mecha, the shaper behind the demon is the most important."
"Yin En, when you seek knowledge about demons, you must pay attention to this...the existence that is the enemy of us humans and Dragon Island is not the shadows, but the real darkness itself hidden behind the shadows."
"……I see."
Yin En also had a solemn look on his face. This was not a disguise, but a sincerity.
And he also understood the true nature of the existence of demons.
——Isn’t this the individual of some kind of extraterrestrial psychic civilization, or the fire creation created by them? !
At the first moment, Yin En thought of Karin's Flower.
Rooted in the imaginary realm of dreams, in the sea of human souls, it absorbs the souls of all living beings and turns them into itself, and is a sacred tree that connects all things. Strictly speaking, the flower of Karin is actually a demon - it is the most evil demon mother tree, a tree that devours people. An extremely evil existence whose soul creates false things.
Likewise, she is also a fire created by a psychic civilization.
And other demons, regardless of type, may have similar origins behind them? Even the machine gods in the virtual realm have begun to derive their own ecology in the virtual realm, turning into a phenomenon and race that can spontaneously arise and evolve...
When demons appeared in the virtual realm of Terra, they completely changed the rules of this virtual realm and became a phenomenon and race in the virtual realm...
A kind of virtual fire that is far easier to 'continue' than physical fire.
Just like the 'Blood River Arms' held by Yin En, it can gradually transform the user into a blood demon during the process of the user's death and resurrection - this is a transformation that is almost a phenomenon, transforming other The resentment and hatred of the creature become the 'virtual realm demon' on its side.
As for the Blood River Arms, Yin En took them with him this time, preparing to use them for his other identity, the Knight of the Valley, Mahdi.
"It seems you understand well."
Carlos was also satisfied.
The reason why he told Yin En so much confidential information was precisely because he had already cooperated with Yin En. His support for Yin En's sect was his investment, so Yin En's sect naturally had to provide him with some help.
The information related to the virtual realm and demons is a necessary part. Yin En will eventually have access to this information. Instead of letting Huai Guang or Shuo Ming come over, it is better for him to sell this favor.
Moreover, it seems that Yin En does not know anything about the virtual realm...
"Is it a fairy?"
The eldest prince opened his mouth and swallowed all the wine mist in the air. He put down the wine bottle: "The fairy told you the truth about the virtual realm, right? This is very useful for the development of sects, even those local sects in small countries, and even As for cults, they can cultivate their own virtual realm machine gods based on the dreams and teachings of the human heart... Over there in the Dark Mountains, they seem to be called totem ancestral spirits or something? Anyway, the artificially created original machine gods are not as good as those from previous eras. The legacy of civilization is strong and multiplied, but it has its own spirituality.”
"It is precisely with the power of these virtual realm machine gods that they have the special inheritance and spiritual power unique to the sect. Although the cost is high, it is indeed a way that allows us to better improve our own sublimation methods. road."
"That's what His Highness said."
This is another reminder. Yin En bowed his head seriously and thanked him. Although he had inferred it before, he never expected that the sect relied on its teachings and guidance of people's hearts to create a corresponding virtual realm machine god in the virtual realm.
This kind of process... isn't it just that primitive people used the open source Virtual Realm AI manufacturing program to create a psychic artificial intelligence that serves them!
-That's outrageous, Terra.
Yin En sighed deeply in his heart.
The wine was finished, the time for the private meeting had passed, and the next thing to talk about was business.
"Master Gesai and my nephew will act with you. There is no problem. You have won more explorers for the empire. This is the privilege you deserve - and with Yissen here, it is easier for us to contact each other. , I can help you if there is an accident."
The eldest prince Carlos held the personnel file in his hand and muttered: "Amoknosdir (King of the Mountain) is your protector. She is strong, but she may not be able to beat me, and her speed is certain in the maze. It will slow down. When the time comes, don’t go out and don’t give her face, just call me.”
"of course not."
Yin Endao, he was really curious at this moment: "You seem to have a good relationship with the Mountain King. I remember that the real dragon will not tell other people his real name casually..."
"After all, we have fought side by side for a while, so there is a bit of affection between them."
Carlos smiled: "Speaking of which, you have the second energy level. It will be convenient for Yamo to take you to Dragon Island when the time comes, but don't embarrass us Imperial people in front of the real dragons."
"Aren't there any procedures required?" Yin En raised his eyebrows. He thought he had to report to the empire: "I have been thinking about who to contact when the time comes."
"No need." Carlos waved his hand and said nonchalantly: "A place like Dragon Island is open to all humans and all intelligent creatures... but ordinary people can't get close to it."
"In the final analysis, it is a place in the sky, higher than the top of the mountain."
"I see……"
Yin En nodded thoughtfully. He really wanted to make some insinuations and get the Empire's perspective on the True Dragon camp from the eldest prince, but at the moment, it seemed to be very friendly?
Um. Indeed, if true dragons are really the guardians of civilization and are the creations of the Star God...then they are indeed the friends of all living beings and all civilized creatures.
"Speaking of this."
After discussing the upcoming cooperation procedures and related matters with Yin En, when everything was about to end, Carlos suddenly remembered something before saying goodbye.
He smiled and said to Yin En: "What kind of prediction method is your prophetic ability? Forgive me for being curious. Even I have never met many prophets. I really want to know."
——It seems that you have met other prophets, right?
Yin En silently accepted this information, and then said slowly: "I can see the 'future signs' that may appear when someone targets something."
"Huh? A very specific and loose prophetic power... no wonder the result is just a sign, it's so powerful!"
Carlos obviously knows some standards related to prophetic psychic abilities. Judging from the inference, the more specific the conditions, the looser the results. Indeed, it is consistent with the situation where basically nothing can be seen in the prophetic vision, and everything is a hazy mist. .
Moreover, it was launched for an extremely special emotional stay, with unclear and extremely harsh retrospective vision, but it was as clear as watching a video tape from the past.
"Can you predict me? Regarding this exploration of the Alien Research Institute, I know there may be backlash. If you don't want to, forget it. I'm just curious and don't want you to get really hurt."
This is probably what everyone who meets the prophet, regardless of princes, emperors, scholars or warriors, wants to do. The eldest prince Carlos looked at Yin En curiously, and he pointed at his finger with a smile. Face.
He wanted the prophet to prophesy for him.
"No problem, Your Highness."
Yin En lowered his eyes, he chuckled and said: "The backlash is nothing more than eye pain. It is predicted that bleeding will occur at the fourth and fifth energy levels. For ordinary people, it may be more serious. For a second-level sublimator like me... …It’s just that I felt uncomfortable for ten minutes.”
"What's more, you are the backing of our safety, and you have given me so many pointers today. I have to help you both for public and private reasons."
After finishing speaking, Yin En raised his eyes, and a thin water-colored aura flashed around the boy's hole, releasing a light as clear as a stream.
Then he saw it.
The dark mist, like thick rain clouds, surrounded the eldest prince Carlos!
"this……"
At this moment, Yin En was really shocked. He looked at Carlos in disbelief.
The black mist represents certain death - but how is this possible? What on earth is there, what monster, what enemy, that can put Prince Carlos, the Sun Bird's inheritance, into a certain death situation? !
Carlos also noticed the meaning of Yin En's expression, and his expression changed from relaxed to cautious.
"oh?"
He narrowed his eyes, looked at his hands, and murmured: "It seems... it's not a very good ending?"
"Even me, will die?"
He was silent for a while, then smiled: "No. I already know."
"As long as I am prepared, death will not come to me... Will even I fall prey to the art of deception?"
"Yin En."
Carlos raised his head and looked at Yin En with piercing eyes: "Do you still have the strength to look at it again?"
"certainly."
Yin En rubbed his eyes, and he solemnly activated his precognitive vision again and looked at the eldest prince.
But, it is shocking.
The dark mist is changing rapidly.
The black fades, just like the dark night is illuminated by light; the blood fades, just like the shadows retreating in front of the noon sun.
When Carlos was sitting in front of Yin En, like a solemn statue, there was no black mist wrapping around his body... only a little red blood lingering around.
"There is still danger."
Yin En admired from the bottom of his heart: "But like a miracle - death retreated!"
"Scars, damage, maybe bloodshed or defeat... that's all at most. In just an instant, Your Highness, you have gone from the place of death to the place of life!"
Carlos didn't reply. He just stood up, came to Yin En, and hugged the white-haired boy heavily.
"You saved my life, little prophet."
He said sincerely, without the slightest doubt that Yin En was exaggerating and deliberately pretending to be dangerous to deceive: "If I were sister Alegria, I would definitely hug you more and kiss you harder. One mouthful—but I’ll forget it.”
Letting go of his hand, he laughed loudly, patted Yin En on the shoulder, and then walked towards the door of the living room, saying in a daze: "It's really interesting. Sure enough, you can't stay in the imperial capital all the time, people will get rusty. Even I will also die due to various accidents, Terra is such a world!"
——You mean that Princess Alegria will take advantage of me? And testing again!
Yin En's shoulder bone hurt a little from being slapped. Fortunately, he took the initiative to remove most of the defensive essence on his shoulder. Otherwise, the power of the Herald of Steel would have been discovered!
When communicating with these high-energy people, you really can’t be careless at all!
"Yin En, remember!"
Before opening the door, Carlos left one last message: "As long as you are prepared, death will not find you... As a prophet, you must keep this in mind!"
"And, since everyone is here, we will set off the day after tomorrow."
"Isengard will probably prepare to advance to the second level tomorrow. He will catch up with you and guide him well - there are not many nephews I can like."
After speaking, the eldest prince Carlos left. He didn't leave in a hurry, but obviously, knowing the dangers of the exploration trip, he needed to make some preparations immediately.
He didn't ask about Yin En's dream. Maybe he had already seen it clearly. Maybe all prophets have that kind of ambition that doesn't need to be stated but everyone can understand.
Yin En sat where he was lying on the sofa and did not leave immediately.
"Interesting... The eldest prince is really an interesting person. Everything he said in the audience was true or false, and the truth is uncertain... I also understand the reason why Marquis Barton and him can't talk to each other. They are obviously the same kind. They repel each other! I really want to see them sitting at the same table chatting, it will be very interesting."
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The young man murmured to himself, as if he was deliberately speaking to others, but also as if he was just talking to himself: "The art of deception... demons, and dragons. There are countless mists lurking behind history. I have learned a lot this time. This thing is really annoying."
"Even a prophet cannot see through this fog."
"But that's also a good thing - if you know everything and understand everything, there's no fun in exploring."
At this moment, Yin En felt emotional from the bottom of his heart.
It is worthy of being the alien research institute of the civilization of the previous era, the birthplace of the way of sublimation - everything seems to be gathered here.
Danger, death, a major crisis that even the fourth level is almost unable to avoid.
Even the most stupid fool will know that there are mysteries in that place that make it difficult for anyone to find the truth, and there are traps that can trap everyone in a maze.
But that's why.
It's so unbearable.
Standing up, Yin En stretched, shook his head and said, "It's time to go back and make more preparations."
He left the imperial embassy and returned to the Jindeng family mansion on the fourth floor amidst the awe and curiosity of the staff and members of the exploration team.
Just as the eldest prince Carlos said, his best friend Isengard will advance to the second level today.
