"I see."
I don’t know how long it took, it could be just a few minutes, it could be a long time, or even a whole day, but I finally recovered and understood Atalona’s words.
What Twelve Moments wants from beginning to end is not destruction, but salvation. They want to save the earth and Noah and make up for the mistakes made by their creator "Talis". The only choice they have is to destroy Gaia and this "book" that should not appear.
This is not a trolley problem, a multiple-choice question of saving one versus saving five. The only thing that can be done at the twelve moments is to destroy Gaia and the superimposed two-dimensional world, thereby saving the earth and Noah. If they had not chosen this path, there would have been only one ending for these three worlds.
Complete destruction.
So what happens after the destruction?
Twelve moments will not be buried in the world of Gaia. That would be too happy for them. They will become the only survivors of the Gaia world and the culprits in destroying the Gaia world. They will live forever in the torn two-dimensional fragments, staring at the tomb of civilization created by their own hands in the abyss deprived of all senses. Accompanying them will be eternal loneliness, endless time, eternal silence, and the remains of the world they love.
This is the ending they chose for themselves, and it is also their punishment for themselves. Even though they knew that they chose destruction for the sake of more survival, they calmly accepted the torture that even stars could not endure. After that, they will pay the price of eternal loneliness to monitor the fragments of the dimension to prevent the emergence of the second Gaia world, and also to prevent the second tragedy from happening.
The twelve moments correspond to the twelve creation myths. When the last bell of the twelve quarters rang, everything returned to calm, the dead sea swallowed up the world, and the ancient tree of life withered and shattered. The gods lit the torch called civilization and illuminated the final path for the two ignorant worlds. They will atone for their sins, and even if they judge themselves to be unpardonable, they will still choose to be alone in the end.
This isn’t hypocrisy or even guilt. This is just a man who loves the world of Gaia and does what he feels he should do.
Everything done by the Twelve Gods can no longer be judged by pure good and evil. Just as Atalona once said, on the scale of the universe, the three worlds of Earth, Gaia and Noah are nothing but vast. Just three insignificant water drops in the ocean. The twelve moments ignited the water droplets in the middle, leaving only an imperceptible wisp of smoke in the ocean. However, for the world of Gaia, the Twelve Righteous Gods are evil men who destroy the world and are a disaster that destroys a civilization. But in front of Noah and the earth's civilization, the twelve righteous gods were savior-like existences.
"Savior···"
At this time, Yi has learned about the nature of the Twelve Hours, and also learned about the final technology "Savior" created by the Talis civilization, and also understood why the Twelve Hours is more like a program in a sense. In order to save the world, the Talis civilization created a savior just before choosing to exterminate civilization, and gave the seed called "Salvation" to this original "god".
However, Talis's final order to the savior was not to save the world.
"Their last words to the savior were not to save this place."
Looking down at Yi who was kneeling on the ground in front of her, Atalona said calmly: "The last instruction left by the Talis civilization is called [Tilt of the Scales]."
"Save more people."
Slowly leaning down, looking at the horrified Yi in her eyes, Atalona's voice was calm, without any fluctuations, "This is the last order they left us. At twelve o'clock, we learned that the only way to save more people is to When we eliminate the Gaians, we are doomed to madness."
"Do you think, the Talis people, know the consequences of their orders?"
Atalona's words caused a chill to rise in Yi's heart. Creation cannot break through the limitations of the Creator. This is an eternal law. The Talis civilization can create a savior, which means that they can completely control everything about the savior. As an interstellar civilization close to the dimensional level, would Talis not be able to see what is behind the order "save more people"?
No, absolutely impossible.
Even an independent individual can easily see more truth from these five words "save more people". for example···
The Talis civilization has long been aware of the nature of the three-fold problem. They may have realized earlier that in order to be saved, the world of Gaia must be sacrificed.
"The void...the disaster of the void..."
Feeling that her throat was a little dry, she looked at Atalona blankly, her voice trembling, "Void, is it?"
"The first void disaster was the guilt of the Talis people."
Without concealing anything or deceiving, Atalona so calmly told the truth that would shock the world, "Those people {killed} by the void did not die, but their souls and souls were transformed by them. The body was placed on the earth and Noah. At the beginning, our twelve gods really allowed their actions because we also wanted the Gaia civilization to preserve the fire."
"Unfortunately, what they did will make the three-layer problem more serious. When people carrying Gaia information lead to the other two worlds, it will cause the overlap of information and expand the dimensional void. Therefore, we finally prevented the void invasion, Let the brave figure out the variables.”
That makes sense...
Sitting on the ground, a look of confusion appeared in his eyes. She finally understood why the Void Clan was invincible at the beginning and then easily wiped out. She finally knew where those people who were swallowed by the void ended up.
"Atalona..."
After a long time, Yi lowered his head and said, "You have been manipulating Zhou Li, for what purpose?"
"Set the world on fire."
Atalona raised her head, looked around this beautiful and dilapidated world, closed her eyes, and whispered softly: "The God of Death tells us with death that if we want to completely eliminate this world, we must completely destroy human beings, otherwise, they will ignore it." Survive at all costs, even trample on the ghost of death.”
“The death of a literary god reminds us that the human soul is a unique fuel capable of bursting with power far beyond what any of us could have imagined.”
"The death of the God of Emotions reveals the truth. What we want, the fuel that can directly destroy the entire Gaia world at once and in a short period of time, is actually humans themselves. The humans in this world are the existences jointly created by the Noah world and the Earth world. , Therefore, as long as human beings are boiled and human souls are completely burned, the power to collapse the entire Gaia world can be erupted, while avoiding the earth and Noah."
Slowly stretching out her hand, as if grasping something, Atalona floated in the air, with a look of compassion on her holy face like a god.
"And Zhou Li is the trigger of everything."
"He will enlighten the people's wisdom, guide mankind to resist the gods, and teach them to unite as one. Humanity will bask in glory and achieve proud results in battles against the gods again and again, and finally..."
"Meet destruction."
(End of chapter)
