chsdbacks Chapter 431 Artificial Anchors
Chapter 431 Artificial Anchors
Chapter 431 Artificial Anchors
What is considered mysterious is no longer so mysterious once it is analyzed by those who strive for perfection.
The so-called anchor is somewhat similar to the morality, etiquette, and culture that have settled in the collective unconscious of humankind.
This kind of social concept, value system, unspoken rules, and universally accepted and recognized sense of right and wrong, moral standards, which are based on the collective unconscious of mankind, are capable of resisting that desire and that heartfelt cry. In essence, it is about building a sense of racial identity.
Human nature is no longer a fixed essence, but has become an operating system or interactive system that can be uninstalled and installed. The hardware is the body; the person does not change, but the software that runs determines their behavior patterns.
The process of losing one's humanity is like that of a wild animal, actively or passively stripping oneself from social norms, unloading the operating system of being human.
Once the anchor refills and reloads these perceptions, internalizing the human interaction system—such as morality, etiquette, and law—self-awareness and behavioral norms will immediately be restored.
This is the method the hermit deconstructed, using a more scientific, or at least somewhat logical, approach to define somewhat ethereal beliefs and anchors. Once he could easily realize this, the existence of faith became somewhat... dispensable for the hermit.
Why was Amun able to use his army as an anchor?
Because Amon uses Amons, these incarnations, to emphasize to himself that he is Amon.
Therefore, He was able to use Himself as an anchor, which can be considered a "divine being born of nature and nurtured by the earth," a "god child without race" who adapted to Himself and forged a path.
But the hermit, he couldn't do that... Amon.
However, he was already able to make his own anchors. An anchor is nothing more than an information-based operating system used for interaction. The hermit could even store these operating systems on different USB drives. When humanity faded, he could simply reclaim one USB drive and restart the system.
If the virus on your computer isn't that powerful, but if it's so powerful that even a newly reinstalled system crashes quickly, then you can only rush to update and upgrade your firewall. If that's not possible, then you'll have to physically destroy the hardware, specifically the computer itself.
Mercury Serpent's save file is not the same as the Hermit's save file. The former saves the hardware status, and the rewind is based on the internal operating system, returning to before the error command and the system blue screen. The latter saves a real interactive system that can reinstall the machine, which is a [anchor] that is most suitable for him.
These are things that Klein was unaware of.
He was shocked by the contents of Russell's diary.
"Damn it, the Thief's Path might even be able to steal the [Anchor], otherwise how could this guy know so much about this ability..."
Klein could see that Roselle's strokes were a bit messy at the end, as if he wanted to write something but didn't know how to express it. Just looking at the description, Klein felt a deep sense of dread. What if Jacob really did steal the Emperor's anchor when the Emperor was at his worst?
After going mad, Roselle, who lost his humanity, could only be called a monster, right?
As far as the emperor himself was concerned, he was already dead.
"These thieves... are truly frightening."
Russell seemed to have a feeling that he wasn't afraid of being robbed, but rather afraid of being targeted by thieves.
"Now I think I understand a little better why we need to establish churches, why we need to spread the faith, and why we need to write chapters for the saints of our own power and leave legends for the corresponding angels —"
"This is, to some extent, to prevent thieves, and there are other similar situations."
"Only when the number of anchors is large enough, and when faith is as vast as mountains and seas, intimately connected with the workings of this world and human society, will the anchors not suffer structural collapse. This will also greatly increase the difficulty for thieves like Jacob to steal the sky and change the sun."
"But why do the seven great gods not have human forms, but are merely symbols?"
"I don't understand."
"Perhaps we can only ask Mr. Men. After all, he knows a great deal and is much more honest than Jacob. He can gloss over what he doesn't know or doesn't want to say, unlike Jacob, whose words are a mix of truth and falsehood. You have no idea which are true and which are false."
"He actually said that the reason for using symbolic representations instead of human figures was that there were too many statues of gods built in various churches at the time, which caused a series of minor problems. The gods found it troublesome, the churches found it troublesome to maintain and care for them, and they couldn't get angry, so they replaced them all."
"Ha, how ridiculous. There must be some deeper meaning here. Jacob must be fooling me. I don't believe that the true God would make such a major decision over such a trivial matter."
"Would these statues be bothered by the pigeons in the square? These statues are said to possess divine power!"
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Klein almost burst out laughing when he saw what Rosell said.
Because he had actually seen the statues of the true gods, he simply couldn't connect them with the gods, Buddhas, and the Statue of Liberty that he knew before. Moreover, regarding divine power... Klein recalled the scene when he saw those statues of the true gods, and it seemed that not all statues could be consecrated.
"However, Rosell is right. The real reason could not have been so hasty. There must be some important reasons that we are unaware of."
Klein patiently continued reading the diary.
"On September 29th, in order to regain more humanity, I started to reread yesterday's diary, including the previous ones, from the beginning to the present. I thought of the rituals corresponding to my Sequence 4, Sequence 3, and Sequence 2 respectively. These rituals all seemed to be burning something to temporarily bring warmth and guidance."
"As I thought about Jacob's words, the compassion and self-mockery that had been in my heart gradually disappeared."
Is the path of sequence hopeless?
"And this is the only path for humanity to obtain extraordinary power."
"This seems to be a fundamental theorem of the universe. Yes, it's the same in every universe: entropy increases and entropy decreases. I should have known this long ago, but I was not as quick as Jacob."
"Do we strive to save ourselves only to destroy ourselves more completely and thoroughly? Or, as James says, is it a romance and a miracle of life?"
The diary is still going on.
"December 25th, another blood moon, and I contacted Mr. 'Door' again."
"This time, I asked him questions as before and delayed his request. He knew it, but he didn't seem to care. Judging from his appearance, he didn't seem like a prisoner. He wasn't in a hurry or anxious to return to reality."
"But I still want to win his favor. At least Mr. Men doesn't like Jacob. When Jacob is mentioned, Mr. Men never hesitates to tell me more about him."
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