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That doesn't make sense.
Su Qing felt it was illogical if Loki could do something like betraying Ais. If she betrayed Ais today because she wanted to play a prank, then she might betray other people on a whim tomorrow.
That bottle of medicine was passed on to Ais by Livilia through some special means. She was deceived and it didn't pass through Loki's hands?
Su Qing couldn't quite figure out the ins and outs of the incident, he just felt it was a bit magical.
However, the inside story of the matter can be investigated later.
Now...
Su Qing snapped his fingers gently at Ai Si who was ready to make a move, and said calmly: "Calm down."
Ai Si looked at Su Qing, then looked at the floor, and quickly shook her head.
The love potion from the hands of the goddess of beauty is similar to divine wine in some ways.
The divine wine can make people intoxicated. A similar effect on love will only make it more intoxicating, but this is not the so-called change of personal will.
When the weather is clear and cloudless, many people will feel open-minded. When the sky is covered with dark clouds and rain, many people will feel depressed. It is a similar principle.
People's minds are fickle and they are easily influenced by external things. If they receive too much information in an instant, they may lose control and go crazy.
——In fact, a similar situation also exists in the box garden. For example, the Cthulhu gods in the box garden are still firmly blocked outside the box garden by the heavenly army.
The existence in the Cthulhu system is something that ordinary people cannot look directly at... Most gods can do this.
People cannot look directly at the majesty of God. There are many records about this in the religious texts in the earliest stages of human history. This is far from being created by the Cthulhu system, which only came to the box garden near the 20th century AD.
When humans receive information beyond their cognitive scope, their brains can easily be burned/eroded, causing severe alienation.
The problem is that humans have self-protection mechanisms.
Most people cannot look directly at the sun and will instinctively close their eyes when they see the sun. This kind of protective mechanism also exists in the human soul.
Seeing an 'abnormality' that is beyond one's understanding and threatens one's own life form, humans will subjectively want to cut off that connection.
The question is whether it can be done.
Humans close their eyes to prevent them from seeing the sun, but what if the sun is right in front of us? What can our eyelids protect us from?
The whole person will be vaporized by the high temperature.
After all, human self-protection mechanism only comes from human beings themselves.
The self-protection mechanism of ordinary people can only ensure that ordinary people have the desire to escape when facing disasters.
In this regard, the gods of the box garden have done quite well.
Believers come into contact with gods and gain certain knowledge from them. When the self-protection mechanism of ordinary people is triggered, the gods will correspondingly stop indoctrinating the believers.
It is even said that when believers contact gods and pray to them, gods are unwilling to pass on their three-digit part of the information to believers. Instead, they prepare various rituals and prerequisites, and automatically unlock a part of it to believers after they achieve certain goals.
The Cthulhu series is a typical type that does not care about humans. It does not cooperate with the human perspective, but instead displays all of its own knowledge. When ordinary people encounter it, they will experience spiritual alienation, and it will even affect the material world from the spiritual side.
It is foreseeable that until the box garden is destroyed by the wind of decadence, Cthulhu's worldview will not be able to enter the box garden, and most of the gods will oppose this system.
In today's Little Garden, human history is the biggest creditor. There are also gods in the Little Garden who hold the worldview that "human beings are meaningless in the face of the universe". The decadent trend that was already brewing may take action directly.
At the end of human history, the decadent wind at the end of time will destroy everything in the box garden - when the end will come is determined by human history itself.
It cannot be said that the eschatology of mythological history is useless, but for the destruction of the box garden, its significance is better than nothing. On average, each group of gods can come up with two myths of world destruction, and there are more than that.
Among them, only the more excellent eschatology that humans believe in the most can be recognized by human history.
But human history does not want to play with the sandbox anymore, and feels that cooperating with the sandbox has more advantages than disadvantages. That is the real end, and all the exaggerations in mythology are useless.
If the box garden had just appeared, the Cthulhu group's worldview might have been able to blend into the box garden.
In front of the evil god, humans are not special and are meaningless - under this worldview, all the achievements of human development will be attributed to the evil god.
Humans are meaningless to the universe and to the evil gods, and are not special, but that does not mean the two are completely unrelated.
A cell in the human body is almost meaningless to the human body, but it is also part of the human body.
The Cthulhu series of the box garden, because it appeared late and was blocked outside the box garden, did not go through the conclusion of the box garden.
If this worldview appears in the sandbox, and relies on the sandbox to converge the theory of the gods to the outside world, it will become "humans are obviously meaningless to the evil gods by definition, but in essence, the evil gods are nurtured by human beliefs and human historical achievements."
When the sandbox was first established, this God-centered worldview had the possibility of being accepted by the sandbox.
But now, human history has become a creditor. Humanity is eager to take the final trial and is ready to turn against the box garden at any time... The Cthulhu family is quite powerful, but no group of gods will agree to let them enter the box garden.
That's because they are afraid that human history will not turn the table.
In the box garden, the difference between ordinary gods and gods of the Cthulhu series is not essentially the difference between good gods and evil gods, but just the difference in world view.
They can all restrain their own information, and they can also actively release their own information and forcibly alienate ordinary people, but the evil gods of the Cthulhu series do not restrain themselves. The gods in the box garden restrain themselves and do not try to alienate humans. Instead, they interfere with human history through the core of the box garden and gain believers and achievements.
But in theory, when the sandbox was first built, it was a completely open world.
We gods have messed up human history, and it's stuck at the year 2000 AD and can't go any further. Human history is asking for repayment, and we can't continue to stimulate human history at this critical juncture, so you, the Cthulhu pantheon, cannot enter the box garden... Such a reason is obviously not reasonable.
It is understandable to allow the Cthulhu clan to enter the box garden, then target them and not allow them the opportunity to expand their power. However, not even allowing them to enter is actually a bit excessive.
And once there is a first, there will be a second. Now that this precedent has been set, the number of worlds that the box garden observes will continue to increase, and we will encounter other groups of gods in those worlds... What should we do?
Whether accepting it into the sand tray or not, it seems inappropriate.
So after the Tianjun thought about it, the reason for preventing Cthulhu and his clan from entering the box garden became extremely simple.
Ugly rejection.
There are actually quite a few pantheons similar to Cthulhu that do not treat humans as human beings. Nowadays, the bottom lines of various pantheons in the small garden are also rising little by little. When they first joined the small garden, the ones with cruel dogmas were not necessarily much stronger than Cthulhu.
But there are almost no gods as bizarre as Cthulhu.
A special reason for rejection was chosen. Even if the box garden observed other new groups of gods in the future, they could be accepted without affecting the fairness of the heavenly army's law enforcement.
But fundamentally speaking, it doesn't matter whether it is ugly or not. The key lies in interests, and in the fact that Cthulhu's worldview cannot be connected to the box garden now. Even if it is connected to the box garden and targeted to death so that it cannot converge on human history through the core of the box garden, this risk cannot be taken.
In other words, the most crucial point lies in the attitude towards human beings - in the exploration of the boundaries of the human spirit.
The gods in the world of Dicuo are similar to the gods in the box garden in this respect. Su Qing is a little confused about the reason... Perhaps, the prototypes of these gods in mythology that exist in the heavens and all worlds are implementing similar principles?
In the world of Dicuo, whether it is Soma's magic wine or the magic potion that Ai Si drank, in essence, neither of them injects information sources that exceed the human body's tolerance into the human body, causing alienation of the human body.
Quite the contrary, it is an information source that should far exceed the human body's ability to withstand, injected into the human body and allowing humans to still maintain their own identity.
The most typical one is Soma's magic wine.
Regardless of whether the person is sober or addicted to the wine, all decisions made by the person in order to drink the wine are based on his or her own will.
When you wake up afterwards, you will be surprised that you made those choices and feel that you are not yourself at all... It's like suddenly finding out that you were admitted to a satisfactory school and you jump for joy, or when someone you care about passes away, you feel sad and depressed.
The autonomy and continuity of the person's consciousness still exist.
Human will is easily influenced by the outside world, but before reaching that critical point, it is only influenced, and it is still the person himself who makes the decision.
The evil gods relied on their own strength to force their way through that critical point. Regular gods could also easily destroy the human body's self-protection mechanism at that critical point, but they were all stuck at that critical point, no matter it was divine wine or magic potion.
This leads to a result.
When ordinary people take ordinary drugs, once the drug takes effect, they will lose their self-will to a certain extent. But magic potions only provide the person with incentives that will affect their decision-making.
Looking back later, the person involved will even remember what he was thinking at the time and why he made that decision.
This... logically speaking, is equivalent to being blinded by love and giving yourself up without thinking carefully?
According to the common sense of the little garden, or even according to the common sense of this world, this is how it is calculated, right?
...If I don't take any action, wouldn't I be worse than an animal?
Su Qing looked at Ai Si, pondered for a moment, and sighed inwardly.
This mistake cannot be made.
According to the concept of Kyushu in the 21st century, Ai Si's situation... Su Qing didn't know which law he should abide by, but it was most likely illegal.
If it was really Astralia who came, he would take action. Su Qing knew that Astralia did have some thoughts in that regard, and it was a matter of mutual consent.
Su Qing hopes to be a little more prepared and consider this issue after his situation is safer.
But if the time comes, there's nothing to worry about.
But Ai Si couldn't do that, because she didn't have a good impression of Su Qing before.
Su Qing sighed secretly, so what if he is worse than beasts.
Facing Ai Si who was fixed in place, Su Qing said: "Do you want me to help you remove the effect of the medicine? You should have realized by now that your condition is not right. This is not the tonic you thought it was."
Ai Si raised her head, looked at Su Qing, bit her tongue, and quickly shook her head.
"No, I...I can feel that I'm getting stronger."
"You have indeed become stronger, but that is just a side effect of the medicine." Su Qing said, "If you continue, your body will not be able to bear it."
"As long as I can become stronger, no matter what the cost."
Ai rejected Su Qing's proposal without hesitation.
Su Qing paused, feeling that the direction of this conversation seemed a bit strange.
Sighing inwardly, Su Qing shook his head slightly.
"Actually, I'm not a gentleman..."
Su Qing said, "It's probably some kind of medicine. Think about the consequences. If you really do something, don't expect me to have self-control."
"which aspect?"
Ais looked at him in confusion.
Su Qing: “…” Oh no, she doesn’t understand. Do I need to be more straightforward?
A smile appeared on Ai Si's face: "I was kidding you... Normally, I wouldn't make such a joke, right?"
"But I'm serious."
“When I’m in danger, there won’t be any heroes in the world to save me.”
"…Then I will just have to be my own hero. I will try my best to seize the opportunity to become stronger."
"No one else is going to get hurt, is there?"
"Compared to this tonic..."
"Anyway, this is something I've thought about every day, but I just kept it in my heart and didn't have the courage to say it out loud."