Abnormality control bureau.
Marn slowly walked to the containment room where the spider was. It was standing obediently on the floor. It looked no different from a normal creature - except that it was a perfect sphere when curled up.
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Anomalous Entity: Titan Relic-Spider
Abnormal strength: IV-4
Danger level: IV-5
describe:
An unnatural creature that looks like a spider on the outside, but has traces of mechanical and biotechnological modifications inside, and possesses a variety of complex and abnormal properties.
characteristic:
Titan Creation-Spider III-3
An orderly composition of multiple complex abnormal characteristics, which can be effective in conjunction with its own non-abnormal functions, and is designed to have no actual effect when used alone, and can only be used to restore the functions of the same kind of creature that has lost its abnormal characteristics.
When this characteristic is applied to an anomalous entity, it will give it a variety of anomalous properties, including but not limited to:
Psychic communication, psychic interference, invisibility, biological detection, electronic information access.
Sleep of God IV-4 (1/1)
It can put gods whose weakness is equal to or lower than IV-1 into a deep sleep. During this process, the personality and memory of the god will be reshaped (death). The estimated recovery time is between six months and three hundred years, depending on this concept. The deity himself receives nourishment.
This effect consumes its own energy and cannot be recharged.
Tip: Some information comes from the active cooperation of abnormal entities.
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Its first feature doesn't accomplish anything on its own.
It's as if the creator of this thing thought about the possibility of the spider's technology being cracked and copied, and encrypted it. Maybe the abnormal characteristics include a lot of functions for normal cracking, and this kind of separated encryption is his own face. The right last line of defense.
It seems like the makers take technology seriously, but that's the problem.
Spider's most important function "God's Sleep" is not protected by this mechanism. It is possible that they have no way to implement this encryption method on it, but Man prefers that they don't care about others obtaining this kind of encryption. technology.
The function of this thing is to make the gods sleep, and it will not be a bad thing for the Titans whoever uses it.
No wonder the Sons of Flame would pursue this relic regardless of danger. Even if the conditions are very harsh, everyone would want to hold a weapon that can put gods into sleep and kill their current personalities.
When it saw Ma En, the black spider moved its appendages slightly, as if seeing its owner's pet.
It wants to communicate.
After ensuring that he had adequate safety measures, Ma En raised his hand and opened the door of the containment room.
"Suitable for human detected, per Project Titan 'Final Slumber' treaty, attempting to play voice."
The language that rang in his mind was a language that Marn had not learned but could understand without any difficulty.
Suddenly a young female voice sounded in his mind:
"Test, hello, can you hear me?"
A pause of several seconds.
"Wait, how do you delete the previous voice?
"Forget it, let's start like this, I am Lei, the seventh generation Titan.
"If we had achieved a complete victory, you would not have had the chance to hear this recording, but I guess you would not have suffered any harm, otherwise this passage might have become a joke to the gods.
"Let me assume that everything goes well. 'Desolate Land' and 'Sword of Reason' have succeeded, so now the gods should be in the weakest state ever, and it is also our most likely chance to completely eliminate these bastards. By the way, I almost forgot, they might be covering up the truth...
"The things we are fighting are called gods, and there is a phenomenon we call 'nature worship' that exists universally in the consciousness of all humans.
“Nature worship refers to when all human beings have sufficiently similar views and cognitions on certain concepts, it will lead to the existence of supernatural entities that are highly consistent with this cognition—the so-called gods.
“I would like to explain here that it is not our imagination that creates them.
"They are our imagination, and the idea of nature in your and my mind is their entire body.
"The gods are not the things they represent. For example, the sun god has nothing to do with the star hanging in outer space. He is just a collection of our irrational imagination of the sun. Its strength only depends on our understanding of the sun. His opinion.
“Gods are just our imagination, so that sounds pretty good, right?
“But you have to understand that these gods can outshine even the things they represent if we are numerous enough, and some gods are almost impossible to kill.
“And after they already rule the world, defeating them is even more impossible.
"Before we could master the language, they had already appeared. The fear when we saw the flames, the shock when we looked at the ocean, the terror when thunder ripped through the sky, and the two planets that will always exist in our world...
“These feelings shaped their initial form, but the gods at that time were still very close to the laws of nature themselves, posing little threat to our existence and having no idea of dominion over us.
"Although there is continuity in their personalities and memories now, this quality is also formed by our imagination. The early myths we passed down orally gave them a continuous and unified personality, and we also feel that the masters of natural phenomena should be stronger than us. .
“After the advent of language and the earliest stories, the darkest times came.
“Our ancestors naturally named the sun and moon and then personified these natural phenomena in myths and stories.
“That’s when we gave them humanity — one of the worst gifts in the world.
"Then, a group of powerful and incredibly intelligent entities appeared in our world, and they would instinctively make mortals worship them - just like what is described in mythology.
“And this kind of behavior will make them continue to become stronger, and stronger power will allow them to gain more worship.
"The earliest gods and their followers appeared here. They gave their worshipers power and allowed them to spread their beliefs. This is of course one of the descriptions of them in mythology.
“When you create the word God to refer to something, your view of that thing will only continue to be exaggerated.
“Eventually, at some unrecorded time long, long before we were born, the gods reached their peak.
"At that time, all human beings had a limit on the number of gods they could worship. Several gods had to be worshiped at the lowest level. Unbelief was the most vicious word at the time. All humans over the age of sixteen had to start reproducing, and they had to continue to breed. The fertile age produces a minimum number of children, and then humans must instill in their offspring the great deeds of the gods. This is our most important role.
"They are also using ideas to strengthen themselves and their fellow humans, as if we were their domesticated pigs.
"But the personalities of the so-called gods have also become more complex. Remember the gifts we gave them?
“When we became their slaves, they were reshaped by our imaginations in pain.
"Arrogance, greed, desire, and madness are enough to start the most tragic war."
"On the eve of our era, the First War of the Gods broke out, and the kingdom of the gods that ruled all mankind fell apart. This also caused the most powerful gods to be severely damaged and fell into pieces that did not belong to them. s position.
“They returned to their primeval intensity, the Sixth Level, and many of the gods forcibly created by enslaving humans were never seen again.
"There are also some powerful gods who were temporarily killed by some special method and reshaped into new personalities, including the God of Thunder, God of the Sea, God of the Sky, and God of the Earth in our current era. They are no longer what they used to be. By myself.
“Then comes our time.
"Chaos was ended by the great human king, and a great empire rose from the ground. We marched loudly while the gods slept quietly. When they woke up, what they saw was no longer a slave race that could be manipulated at will.
“They will remember this lesson and never make the same mistake again.
"But for us, one chance is enough.
"The gods took a gentler approach to promote their beliefs. They established churches, and then affected by their actions, many new gods were born - gods that met human expectations.
“The god of justice and justice, the god of kindness, the god of light, the god of thieves, the god of merchants…
"But the gods who have become human are still unable to accept the current situation. They once ascended to the highest position, and the power in their memories haunts them like honey. They want us to return to the dark ages of the past... …
“That’s where the second war started, and that’s the war that I’m fighting in right now.
"In a special way, we secretly transformed the bodies of thirteen heroes who voluntarily sacrificed themselves into concepts and entities, so that they can also accept the influence of the 'nature worship' phenomenon and declare to the civilians that they are the ones we should worship. The gods eventually succeeded in shaping a total of nine human gods-the original Titans.
“The word means someone who challenges the gods, and slowly it evolved into fighting the gods themselves.
"However, at the beginning of the war, 80% of the civilians in the entire empire had moderate beliefs, and the proportion of believers among nobles and officials was even higher. We also conducted several purge operations because of this, but in this case it was also very difficult. Difficult to complete successfully.
"At the time of my recording, there were only two of the original Titans left. Although they were powerful enough, due to the difficult production conditions and their inability to effectively destroy the gods, they were still not strong enough to fight the gods alone.
"But they bought enough time."
"During this period of time, we continued to advance the Titan Project. In the process, we also learned more and more about the nature of the gods. Then, we found a few gods who were willing to implant the concept of 'Death of Gods', allowing them to become capable The price of killing gods is that they can also be killed.
"The God of Justice, the God of Light, and the God of Kindness became the second generation of Titans, and they also achieved outstanding results.
"God's Coming"
“The only second-generation Titan alive now is the God of Justice.
"Then came the third, fourth, and fifth generations, and now there are thirteen generations of Titans. Our record with the gods is almost equal, and with the execution of various plans, it is now time for the decisive battle.
"There are several possibilities before us. The gods are completely controlled, we survive, civilization will continue to exist, and our descendants will remember and adhere to the duty of guarding the gods and drive them out of our world completely. .
"Or even though several major plans were successful, and the gods fell into a deep sleep and were imprisoned in the desolate land, their counterattack also destroyed us and the subsequent guarding plan.
“This is actually a secondary goal of the gods, because as long as we can no longer guard them, they are destined to revive.
"If we no longer remember what the gods are, they will grow back in your minds and try to control all mortals to achieve greater power.
"So we prepared the 'Second Sleep' plan.
"For example, we have left behind certain relics that will appear at a specific time. The knowledge inside will guide humans at that time to establish a knowledge system that relies on rational cognitive methods and is based on testability. I don't know what you will use in the future. words, but we now call it 'Manageton'."
These few syllables formed a familiar word in Ma En's mind - science.
“We predict that under this knowledge system, future humans will deny and criticize the existence of gods before their resurrection, so the time it takes for the gods to revive will be extended dozens of times.
“Then what I’m doing now is part of that plan.
"We have prepared 20,000 sleeping spiders and 30 factories. If the gods haven't woken up yet, you can use these to keep them asleep. With luck, they will never wake up again.
"When you see it, there should be thousands of sleeping spiders in your society, and the factory will also receive the signal to go to the surface. Then you just need to make good use of our gifts, and then continue to do what we failed to accomplish. Enough.
“The final possibility is that we lose completely.
"But since you can get it, it proves that the gods have shown a flaw again, so I want you to know that other humans have fought before you, and we are very close to success.
"The rest is up to you."
pause.
"Okay, I'm going to perform my duties. I hope this thing's ultimate fate is to be placed in a museum. Maybe I can take my children to recall my youth.
"Wish me luck."
As the brisk words stopped, the black spider also lay on the ground.
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Special control measures have been resolved
Anomalous Entities: Gods
Special control measures: Implant the idea that this god has been contained by the Abnormality Control Bureau into the consciousness of 90% of the affected humans, and keep its total volume higher than 30% of its body.
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Judging from mankind's current understanding of Titan, that civilization should have declined during the war at that time, and she should have died not long after the recording.
But they seemed to have won. The gods were far inferior to before, and they were still trapped in the Southern Federation. Their plan should have achieved excellent results. It was only at this moment that the gods began to try to escape from here.
Now it's their turn.
