Overturned Tower

--dusk.

When Russell heard this, he was slightly shocked.

Not long ago, he just heard this term from Sally Ruth.

The existence that can bring the world to an end is called "Twilight".

The rather mysterious elf director, Russell's graduate tutor, the man suspected of being the man behind sending Russell to this world... This is how she described the word.

Dusk will absorb all the essence of this world and emerge from the ruined world. Its existence itself is a harbinger of the impending destruction of the world.

Instructor Sally Ruth claimed that Russell was that dusk - the fact that his originally pale and empty psychic energy turned into a dim yellow after his awakening was proof.

When Russell initially used the spiritual power of God's Vessel, all he did was "play and imitate." The light he held in his hand was just a little bit of the afterglow leaking from the seal.

——The essence of Russell is the dusk of "Epitaph".

The so-called epitaph is a memorial style that includes the name, place of origin, life story and life evaluation of the deceased. However, describing it in words will tend to be subjective, or not specific enough, or not detailed enough. Because no one knows himself better than himself, everyone will perform a little bit in front of others, and there will be secrets that cannot be told to others.

The dead in the eyes of others will never be—and can never be—the “real dead” themselves.

Russell's talent gives him this possibility.

He can completely store, describe, and represent the deceased... In other words, [the deceased is not dead].

Their existence will continue and become eternal in Russell.

If what the instructor said...twilight refers to the possibility of the destruction of the world, and nutrients can also be obtained from destruction. Then Russell can indeed be called dusk.

As long as Russell wants to, he is invincible - if he does not need to maintain his personality dominance as Russell, he can kill everyone he sees and get the thoughts, talents, appearance, and abilities of each of them. . This cycle goes back and forth, just like an avalanche... No one can stop the will of "human beings". And at the end of the fight, Russell himself was a walking "human epitaph."

From this point of view, he is equivalent to uniting the will of all mankind.

...What the monkey-faced eagle did was actually somewhat similar to Russell's.

The technique of the monkey-faced eagle should be exactly the same as that of the deer-headed statue. She turned herself into an electronic ghost back then, who knows how many years earlier than the monkey-faced eagle.

But why didn't the deer-headed statue become "Twilight"?

Russell soon realized the difference.

——Because the deer head statue does not try to use its own consciousness to integrate with others.

She has a very clear positioning of herself. She is an electronic ghost wandering around the Internet. Although she has long since turned into a virus, lurking in the mind of every member of the Tower of Babel, she uses this method to open any door between the roads that "must be opened by the room she has been to". Because she can indeed be counted as having "been here."

Although she released the virus, she never thought of using it to "make profit."

Her own body was so mutilated that only half of her head was left, and even her limbs were missing. It has been hung on the wall for more than a hundred years, just like a real "deer head statue" hanging on the fireplace.

But even so, she has never had any twisted thoughts about other people's healthy and energetic bodies.

Obviously as long as she wants to - she can easily take away other people's bodies through various means.

The monkey-faced eagle has transcended this taboo wall.

...Think about it too.

When Naraku-7 received the dim yellow psychic energy, it was almost the time when she received the "poisonous electric wave" and her temperament changed drastically.

From that moment on, she was completely integrated with the monkey-faced eagle.

While doing this forbidden act, the world judged him/her as having the possibility of destroying the world, and gave her dim spiritual power.

If he can do it once, he can do it twice or even more times.

As he himself said, the "monkey-faced eagle" that has been uploaded and saved can be copied countless times. In other words, although the monkey-faced eagle downloaded to Naraku-7 has become one with her, it has become an ambiguous state of neither one nor the other, neither day nor night...

But he can still make the "monkey-faced eagle" in cyberspace continue to replicate infinitely and then connect with everyone. Construct countless "monkey-faced eagle version individuals".

By then, if humans really complete mind uploading, they will be completely integrated with the monkey-faced eagle. Become a true electronic ghost...

...Perhaps this is the "god" that the Cyber ​​Church is looking forward to.

"How ironic..."

Russell murmured.

The "God Creation Project" did not create the god who "controls the future destiny of mankind", but by mistake, it created the real god - the "community of human consciousness" believed in by the Cyber ​​Church.

What the monkey-faced eagle did was essentially the same as Russell's.

The only difference is that Russell still has a "real ontology". The monkey-faced eagle has lost its anchor and has become a rootless duckweed floating on the sea of ​​consciousness.

If Russell foreshadows a future in which "all things are unified", carrying all the memories of a civilization on his own and becoming a walking "living tombstone"... then the monkey-faced eagle symbolizes the "annihilation of all things". It is a virus that uses itself to continuously infect organic matter, causing it to assimilate into its own body and become inorganic matter.

"1" symbolizes existence, and "0" symbolizes nothingness.

...No matter how you look at it, the person on the other side looks more like the World-Destroying Demon King.

The dim yellow at the bottom of Russell's pupils lit up slightly.

A sense of crisis in which the essence of his existence was being challenged... made him finally face up to this enemy.

"Dusk...do you know what 'dusk' means?"

Russell narrowed his eyes and asked in a low voice: "What is the 'division between day and night'... It is not that kind of void and ethereal existence."

"Contrary to what you think, I probably know a little bit."

The girl with long black hair sat in a wheelchair, put away the gun and placed it flat on her thigh.

She said flatly: "A long time ago, I went to Sogo Island for exchange and study on behalf of the scholars of Happy Island. From that time on, I realized... Sally Ruth is a monster.

“Beneath her beautiful skin lies the essence of an indescribable monster... just like you.

"That was definitely not a human being, but some kind of alien monster. I just realized it at that time, and my brain felt like a heavy blow, and I fainted directly.

"Perhaps the demon sealed in her body was released from the seal, or the body was taken over by the evil thoughts gathered deep in the dream world... But no matter what, she cannot be a pure human being.

"Because she directly entered my dream and revealed to me the knowledge about [the end of the world]."