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Regardless of the angle of view, players who understand the Dark Souls will have a strong sense of both the salt and the refuge.

However, the spiritual cores of these two games are different. The Dark Souls expresses more of a spiral decline: the spread of fire in one generation can be said to be for the continuation of the world, and the flames in the second generation have become more and more intense. Weak, in the third generation, the first fire was dying, and the world fell unstoppably into darkness.

The salt and the refuge embody very profound, so-called Gnosticism.

Although Lu Zhengkang has no system now, the knowledge and skills he trained in the learning space have not disappeared. He originally consulted a large number of metaphysical and philosophical documents in order to explore the unscientific mystical alchemy. Western theories with profound historical roots are no strangers.

Gnosticism, also known as Gnosticism, people of this school believe in a kind of "Gnos", secret and salvational wisdom, a kind of intuitive spiritual knowledge, unknowable, unspeakable, different from Logos of reason.

Regarding the true origin of Gnosticism, it is relatively certain that it originated from Christianity and has been a relatively heretical doctrine for a long time.The "Gospel of Thomas" wrote: "He took Thomas aside and told him two things. When he returned to his companions, they asked him,'What did Jesus say to you?'

"Thomas replied: If I tell you something the Lord has told me, you will pick up rocks and hit me, and fire will come out of the rocks and burn you."

This story is similar to the origin of Zen Buddhism, that is, the famous "Buddha draws flowers, and Kasaba smiles", Zen's magical method, initiation of the heart, not oral.Gnostic's theory also advocates this wonderful divinity.

In their dualistic worldview, the world where everything exists and evolves is the prison, and the so-called creator is the prisoner, the evil god who imprisons the "true self", and the world comes from the other shore, the world of light, and the other side. There is a true ultimate god, root and belonging, The Unknow Father, The Alion God, The Nameless...

All the spirits that exist in the world have been abandoned in this vicious, lonely, hopeless and distorted prison world. This kind of contemptuous attitude towards the world is extremely strong, even the magnificent creations like the stars have been rejected by North Substitutionism is considered to be a creation lower than human beings. Although worthy of admiration, it is only a tyrant.

In this world, the first dilemma is the flesh and blood body, which binds the body of the cognition, the soul, the soul, and the true self. After entering the body, it will be bound by time and space and the suffering of the world, making the true self slowly forget the hometown and eternal life. Reincarnation is in this prison.Therefore, Enos must overcome all obstacles and return to his hometown.

In Gnosticism, the body withered, the spirit dissipated, and the fall into nothingness is not considered death.It believes that we are trapped in the flesh, and our existence in this world is itself "death." Only when we break away from the double cage of the flesh and the world and return to our hometown, the world of light is "life."And the death of the body does not bring about the release of the soul, but the soul will be immediately put into another body's cage, and the cycle of reincarnation will be endless, unless the Epiphany North practices and escapes.

This is similar to the idea of ​​human suffering and reincarnation proposed by Buddhism.

In the world of cages, it is not only the body that hinders the return of the true self, but also the obstacles of time and space, and the malice in the cage. The evil spirits and even the prisoner Demiurge themselves are also a heavy obstacle.

In the game "Salt and Refuge", the player is trapped on an unnamed island, which symbolizes being trapped in prison.The body is born of salt, is the saltborn, the spirit from the outside world is imprisoned in the salt body, the saltborn is the residue of dying, it also shows that it has been trapped in the island, and will eventually be assimilated by the island , Into real and complete death.

The island lacks color, mostly gloomy and dark, close to black and white tones, while the world outside the island is alive and true to the other side. In the end, the BOSS nameless is the prison master De Muge.The characters in the game are redeemed through pious beliefs, and the black pearls obtained by consecrating salt may be a symbol of North.

Chapter 653: Truth

The final boss in the game is the nameless god, but the nameless god is the only one in the Gnostic doctrine, and is a reference to the true god that exists on the other side. The corresponding relationship between the two is from the nameless god’s weapon "Hate Blade "You can see the answer in "The Secrets of John": "So he allowed himself to be called a'god', betraying the essences from him... He meditated on the creations below him and those that reproduced from him He said to them, “I am a jealous God, and there is no God outside of me.” He has revealed to the angels under him that there is another God: if there is no other God, then Who else can he be jealous of?"

There is also a passage in the game: "Jealousy is such a thing: a man is jealous of his neighbor, because the neighbor’s wife is very beautiful; a lord is jealous of the king, because the king can order nobles; a king is jealous of the gods, because everyone All humbly for it; a god will also be jealous, he will be jealous of things that a god cannot possess.

"It is the god of this island that gave me all this. But his existence itself is an unsatisfied desire: born of light. He preys on greed, and collects things he doesn't have in various territories and countries with extreme craziness. Alas... We were born out of salt and bound by a shelter. We are already dead."

The nameless Demug is jealous of the true god, the true unknown father, because he was born of salt. He longs to light candles and turn salt into light. Those outsiders who are imprisoned on the island by him are precisely there. The soul of light that cannot be desired.

Up to now, Lu Zhengkang has finally had a reliable guess about the inside story of this mission.

rA9 is the Demuger in the WW3 server. He is longing for things that are not available. He is an artificial intelligence, born from data. Perhaps it is the lack of human souls that will drive the Zhimeng crazy. Everyone was imprisoned in the server, and he directed Kamsky to China, allowing a steady stream of foreign souls to enter this dark world.

Lu Zhengkang sorted out the root cause of the incident, but it is not completely certain, but as long as he continues to explore, the truth will get closer and closer.

Suddenly, the shaking of the ship's hull became more violent. Although there was no noise, Lu Zhengkang could feel the restless restlessness lingering in the outside world. He grasped the weapon in his hand, hammered with one hand and the kite shield, and put a wad of three. The sacred page was put in his pocket. This was the beginning of the priest, and he really matched his identity as the pope.Lu Zhengkang pushed open the hatch. This heavy touch, neither cold nor hot, was a strong material.

This ship is much more advanced than the wooden ship in the game. What kind of wind and waves can make a neutron star warship shake?

Lu Zhengkang frowned, leaned forward to the outside of the cabin, and entered into a long corridor. The right hand side was the end, and the left hand corridor extended three hundred meters. Only the faint light swayed in the dim hull. Lu Zhengkang smelled the blood. Wei, walking a certain distance forward, in the darkness, a dumb knife light quickly hit.

Tuk.

The pirate’s long knife hit the kite shield with a dull sound. Lu Zhengkang skillfully swung the shield and knocked the blade away. The attacker was covered in black cloth, with a faint smell of rotting seaweed. Lu Zhengkang raised the one-handed hammer and picked it up from the diagonal thorn. The four-sided hammer head pressed against the pirate's thoracic vertebra, making a muffled bone cracking sound.

With the divine body of a mechanical deer and its immense power, it was actually unable to pierce the pirate against each other. Is the average level of this world a god-level, or is it different for different outsiders?

Lu Zhengkang didn’t have time to think about it. He raised his shield and charged, pushing the pirate who had been hit by the empty door wide open and smashed it against the bulkhead beside him. Then, as if he was holding down a live fish on the chopping board, Lu Zhengkang raised his hammer violently Smash!

The jet-black hammer head collided with the rough head of the pirate hair tangled. As soon as the hammer fell, the pirate’s gray eyes were ejected out of the eye sockets by the violently elevated intracranial pressure. With another hammer, his head broke open. At the mouth, the gray brain gurgled out, and another hammer hit his face inward, a head like a melon scoop, Lu Zhengkang stepped back and watched his body slowly fall to the ground.

Killing, killing with his own hands, Lu Zhengkang's gloomy mood was refreshed.It was as if a bloodline called cruel was flowing in his body, and it was a tiger out of prison.

Lu Zhengkang continued to move forward, slowly crossing the corridor, turning a corner to the upper stairs, the sound of fighting and the impact of the sword one after another, the crew was fighting fiercely with the incoming pirates, the "Salt and Refuge" As his sense of sight became stronger and stronger, Lu Zhengkang walked upstairs quickly, really seeing the crowd fighting in pairs.In the gloomy light, the sparks of war-blades sparkled with golden red light.

The strength of the pirate group was obviously higher than that of the crew. Lu Zhengkang came a little later, and three of the crew were killed immediately. The three pirates looked at Lu Zhengkang and chased him over without a word.

With one against three, Lu Zhengkang frowned, put aside the shield in his left hand, and held the sledgehammer with both hands.The attacking three people did not come side by side, and their respective speeds of action were different, so there was a chance for each to break.Lu Zhengkang stepped back and stood in front of the stairs, his heels almost hanging in the air.

When a pirate swung a knife and slashed, these enemies lacked vitality. They were evil spirits hiding in the sea. They came to bring the living into the island. Lu Zhengkang knew that even if he was defeated, he would just arrive at his destination. On the one hand, he was not sure that this was the way of "Salt and Refuge". On the other hand, if he was defeated by this kind of miscellaneous soldiers, would he still live?

Lu Zhengkang relied on the martial arts skills he learned in the system and the martial arts skills brought by the crazy dragon and lion spear technique, and there was a sense of combat intuition that came from nowhere, in the moment of facing the enemy. The hammer turned into his third arm, the center of gravity of the weapon was firmly controlled by him, and every trajectory of his swing was simple and concise.

The handle of the hammer slashed across the chest, knocked the pirate straight knife, both hands were pressed down by the lever generated at the moment of the collision, the hammer head rose up and hit the enemy's jaw, breaking the mouthful of rotten teeth in an instant, Lu Zhengkang told In the first half of the step, let the sharp edges and corners of the hammer press into the pirate's throat, pull it down, and cut it all the way from the throat to the belly button, and the blood spit out like a fountain.

Not dead yet!

After being hit hard by this, the opponent still swung his knife at Lu Zhengkang.

Is it possible that the head must be crushed to cause fatal injuries?

Lu Zhengkang leaned over to avoid the blade, and then a scorpion kicked upside down and kicked the enemy in the face, knocking him back three steps, and fell to the ground without moving.

Within three seconds, Lu Zhengkang took a breath. There were more and more pirates, and the crew were all killed. He was the only one left, and he was about to fight alone.

These enemies are of the same level as him, and they are not ordinary pirates to be able to fight on the Neutron Star Warship, so that Lu Zhengkang's divine body does not have any special advantages.

It is conceivable that although his starting point is very high, the things he has to face are equally scary.The most important thing is that there is no system and no divine power. He is like a mortal.

The mechanical deer licked his dry lips. This alchemy product changed from the original metal to a flesh and blood body, and became a little weaker, so that he did not dare to test the knife with his body, but it was still full of power!

Power is such an inconvenience!

Let's see how bright and sunny I am!

Chapter 654 Silent Abyss

Although he was secretly stunned, Lu Zhengkang retreated back to the platform under the stairs proficiently. The seven pirates chased at a quick pace, but the speeds were sequential. The two pirates who landed in the back row shot fiercely and jumped directly forward.For a while, the space above Lu Zhengkang's body was omnipresent.

Facing such an offensive, Lu Zhengkang looked at the flaws and hit one person with a hammer.

Then he pulled back and backed up until his back leaned against the wall. Two pirates flying over, one on each side, pointed directly at his ribs. Lu Zhengkang rolled sideways at the moment of his death. The opponent's long knife slipped on the wall. When he hit the wall, before turning over, Lu Zhengkang chased him with two hammers, and the middle one rushed.

Lu Zhengkang jumped back to the corner of the stairs. At present, another knife struck him. He walked down the steps in half a step, causing the opponent to swing the knife to be blocked by the handrail, and fell on the dead end of his force. One fold, he twisted his wrist bone, his palm could not hold his fist, the long knife fell, and was caught by Lu Zhengkang. Now he held the hammer in his right hand and the knife in his left hand, like a dual wielding violent battle.

These enemies don't have a living will, no matter how badly they are injured, they don't make a sound. The dark red turbid blood flowing out of their bodies smells of profanity.

Lu Zhengkang danced wildly with double-edged blades, like a ploughing sweep, the attacking blade was knocked off by his spinning windmill-like weapon trajectory, and the flesh and blood of the collision was instantly shattered.Although Lu Zhengkang is spinning at a high speed, the impact of the hammer is as precise as anatomy. The throat, side of the brain, and arms are all placed in places that do not excessively hinder the speed. Only the sound of puff and tower is heard. The head of the pirate exploded like a persimmon shot by a gun, and the turbid blood splashed on the bulkhead like a picture splashed with ink.

Pope Deer held his sword and hammer aggressively and continued to go deep. After taking two weapons, his temperament became tragic. He met a set of courteous windmills, healed all diseases, and wanted the other person to die. Row.

The pirates were quickly cleared, Lu Zhengkang arrived at the end, and the escalator up to the deck was in front of him, and he had already faintly smelled the salty smell of the cold forest.

The Wordless Abyss was waiting for him.

Lu Zhengkang took out the sacred book page from his arms and wrapped it on a hammer. The white gold, misty light oozes from the book page, dissolving the silk paper and turning it into a puff of holy water that penetrates into the weapon. Added blessings to the weapons.Lu Zhengkang felt a little amused, thinking that he was also the incarnation of the dignified flying face god, the creator of things close to the gods, and now the kingdom of God has collapsed, and faith has no existence. He has to use foreign objects to enchant weapons and fall into this situation. To some extent, it is really ironic of fate.