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Everyone stared at the boy in the life-sustaining cabin, wishing you all the best.

An intangible ghost flew out of Lu Zhengkang's body, floated away, and finally looked back, his eyes were gentle as water, good luck, my love.

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The dull sound of ocean waves echoed in the ear canal, like a low hum from slowly rubbing a drum. It was soothing, but it was mixed with disturbing beats. I listened too much, but it felt like someone was talking in the waves. Whispering, in the sea where so many lives and stories are buried, there must be some unfinished words left. If you hear a whisper in the sea, or hear a whisper in a conch shell, those are the thoughts of the dead.

Lu Zhengkang's consciousness came back little by little, he felt that he was sticking to the gravel, his cheeks were sorely pressed.

He slowly stood up, clenched his fist, and the vitality of the divine body disappeared. The original excitement of activity, now only dry, jerky, and a little sore.

The shell becomes an aggregation of salt.He has entered the nameless island, and is bound by another layer. What layer is this?The layer of reality and illusion, the layer of time and space, the layer of evil spirits, the layer of the sea, and the layer of the body, five layers.To break free of these and return to the other side, how much North is needed?

Lu Zhengkang didn't have too many thoughts, he only knew that he had a nightmare, and now he wakes up, but he doesn't even remember the scene in the dream.

Looking around, a gloomy beach with deep cold air, the waves are a color similar to frosted glass, rolling, the sea level is not clear, covered with a deep gray mist, blending with the sky, the sea and sky line here Being blurred, there is only one illusion of the sky tilting into the sea.

The coastline is fragmented, and there is a rising hillside in front of it, leading to the depths of the island. Lu Zhengkang searched for the objects on his body. He still held the hammer in his hand, but the surface was pitted, like a piece of cooked Long soft bones.

In addition, he also drew out a fist-sized bright yellow shining pearl from the tunic of the pope's robe. This was the egg of the speechless abyss, and it seemed that the monster was finally killed.

Lu Zhengkang can feel the salt on his back. He is now like a stone covered in moss. At the core is the bright soul of mankind. This soul is wrapped in a layer of solid living salt. That is his body, and the body There was a layer of dead salt outside, which was the body of the silent abyss that was killed by him.

Salt descendants are such people, born of salt, and players like him are different, they fall from light to salt, perhaps a special group of salt descendants.In short, he can collect the salt of these creatures on the island, salt-born, or monsters. He gathers the salt, and then devotes to the faith, allowing the dead salt to penetrate into his body and increase his power.

Lu Zhengkang is now more and more sure that he is in the world of "Salt and Refuge".

He trot and walked along the pale yellow gravel hillside to the depths of the island. Along the way, the air was dead, and there was light fog blocking the line of sight. Lu Zhengkang reached the middle of the hillside, which was higher than the cliff on the coast, and his vision opened up. On the side of the cliff stood a rickety, crutches figure. In the game, he is a guide who will give the player the idol that corresponds to the faith. Lu Zhengkang walked towards there, and as the distance got closer, he could see clearly The man’s face was lost.

White hair and white beard, like a KFC grandfather, is Elijah Kamsky Carnegie, the father of bionics.

"Another fool who was brought to the island," Carnegie sneered. It was not a mockery of Lu Zhengkang, but he smiled without joy. On the contrary, he was familiar with the plot when he watched the mime that was screened countless times. With a sneer, "This island welcomes anyone, but it's not that simple to leave."

Lu Zhengkang asked: "Are you the father of bionics?"

"I can be, but not, what you see is me, just a shadow that stays here, like a picture played by a projector. To be honest, I pity you, young people, tell me, you have faith You can’t live here without faith."

"I can have." Lu Zhengkang replied.

"That's good, may I ask you, do you believe in the original?" He took out a Klein bottle from the inside of the gray old wool cloak on his body.

Lu Zhengkang frowned. He hadn't heard of anything. Originally, this thing did not appear in "Salt and Refuge". It should be the god in "Three Worlds". "Is there any other choice?"

"It's a rude and cruel man to treat faith as a bargainable commodity." Kamsky took back the Klein bottle calmly.

A great scientist of him said such things, making Lu Zhengkang quite awkward to listen.

"So, do you believe in the holy?" Kamsky slowly took out a black and red slender abstract humanoid sculpture from his arms.

Lu Zhengkang frowned, "What is this again?"

The father of the bionic man was very angry, but he was very dedicated. He angrily took back the most holy idol, muttering: "The most holy is the only true god in the world. He once controlled the double tree of time and space together with the original. The beliefs of the creatures in countless cosmic ruins outside the island are very common.

"What other god?" Lu Zhengkang is now curious about Kamsky's cloak. He is like a sneaky seller of pirated CDs. He is afraid that when he lifts his clothes and reveals his pockets of idols, he shouted, "My friend wants Don't you want it?"

Kamsky was not that tasteless. He took out a furoshiki from his pocket and spread it on the ground. Then he took out the idols in his arms one by one. After a while, he put out sixty or seventy, full of them, not like selling them. It's on the plate, like a small vendor selling vegetables.

"Come on, you pick it yourself."

Chapter 659: The Little Pope Who Chooses Faith

Lu Zhengkang never thought that one day he could say one thing to all kinds of idols: it was so dazzling.

It's not that he has never heard of mixing and matching religious jokes, such as the Great Lama of the Saint Mary Church of the Shaolin Temple in Wudang Mountain, but he has personally experienced that it doesn't feel too funny, it just feels weird.

It's really weird.

In the game of "Salt and Refuge", choose one of the three beliefs at the beginning. Although there are a total of seven beliefs in the game, the guide only gives the player three options, namely the Goddess of Light and the Three Sages. Having the iron will also represents the three beliefs of polytheism, monotheism and atheism.

In fact, Lu Zhengkang is not surprised by the huge number of beliefs displayed before him, because belief in this thing, from the historical timeline and the direction of the evolution of civilization, is divided into several stages, and these stages are diverse. God.

The seven beliefs in "Salt and Refuge" are actually very representative.

First of all, early human beliefs are naturally animism, in the game it is the root of the rock, and there are shamanism in reality. Believing in natural phenomena, giving them mystery, gaining enlightenment and protection, etc., are all early human civilizations. A manifestation of weak power. At that time, humans, like other animals, survived in nature and had not yet begun to transform nature.

Then, as civilization evolved, polytheism evolved, and in this process, a new belief was born, called Bacchus belief, in the game it is the Golden Religion, belief in Bacchus and phantom gods, or called Fools and prophets, the people of this sect insist that the body will decay in the end and the gold will last forever.The Golden Sect has a deep relationship with the root of the rock, and it can be said that the root of the rock evolved.The prototype of this belief is Dionysus, the god of Bacchus believed by the Thracians, which was later incorporated into Greek mythology.

The emergence of polytheism can be regarded as an end point in the development of animism. The clergy of nature is well allocated, the divine system is formed, and the relationship between man and god is very close. This can be seen from the old Greek mythology Zeus. This is also man and nature. A result of deep entanglement is the footnote of civilization.In the game, nature is the goddess of light. The twelve old gods headed by her unite the entire natural god system to form a pantheon.

Dewara, the goddess of light, is considered a special existence in "Salt and Refuge", because it is the goddess of light, it is very redeeming at the first hearing, and it is very much on the other side. It is probably the object of the prisoner’s hatred, but in the game background Here, Dewara’s faith has disappeared and was replaced by the Three Saints, which symbolizes monotheism.

The emergence of monotheism should be regarded as a monument to the evolution of civilization. This represents the rise of human wisdom and the improvement of strength. Originally, animism was hunting in the woods, and it had to be blessed by the mountain gods. , Everyone's views on the world are very vague.During the polytheistic period, it was shoveling food in the ground. Agriculture develops, and when you are full, you will have a leisurely mind to think about life and the universe, including the belief in Dionysus. Wine is made of grain, and wine is made only when there is surplus grain, which also represents life. Become rich.

As people become fuller and have nothing to do with wars and create wonders, people's spirit is relatively empty at this time, so further research on philosophical topics such as deeper metaphysics and life and death is started.Before the emergence of rational thoughts, the methodology of human thinking about the world was religious theology, so the emergence of monotheism represented a leap in civilization. Here, it specifically refers to the Western world outside the Confucian cultural circle, mainly Europa and Egypt.

In the game, the Pantheon is replaced by the Three Saints, namely the trinity of king, knight, and judge. The king carries power, the knight punishes foreign enemies, and the judge governs the country."The Pantheon" records: "The new gods, also called the three holy spirits, are the products of dynasty and royal power. Dewara recognized the two royal families from Ascaria and gave them the godhead: king and knight, yes The sacred incarnations of the Askarians."

In the theory of the Three Saints, Dewara became a judge, and his personality was the same as that of kings and knights. But in fact, this was their self-sticking gold on their faces, and their missions depended on violent conquest instead of gentle return. The kings and knights are just mortals, and the beliefs they accept cannot help them.When the Three Sages wandered on the nameless island in unknown ways and were imprisoned in the cemetery of the gods, their bodies rotted into monsters, and those beliefs were captured by the prisoner.

The Three Saints are a scam, the vest of the Unknown God, the lord of the prison.

This can actually explain something. Lu Zhengkang guessed in his heart that rA9 was the word of an unnamed god, so the beliefs provided by Kamsky definitely have rA9 vests. For example, what is the most holy, it feels suspicious.

The development from monotheism to atheism is naturally another leap.

There are many types of atheism. Like the Confucian clan system, it was actually atheism from the beginning. There is also a man who declared that God is dead: Nietzsche.

He believes that the sympathy, compassion, and abstinence advocated by Christianity are all "crimes against life." He has unprecedented respect for human power, especially the power of will, and has a fanatical belief in Spartan discipline.

The atheists in "Salt" are the blacksmiths in the mountains. They believe in the will of steel, man can conquer the sky, and they reject magic very much, declaring that personality is better than god, and they are worthy of worship.Tiejiao has its own belief system, its own school, pastor, classics and hymns.All is to praise the will of man.Obviously, they came in accordance with Nietzsche's proposition.

The Feimian Sect, where Lu Zhengkang and Su Xiangli belong, is also atheistic, satirizing religious mysticism.

In addition to these beliefs, there is another kind of more peculiar belief, that is the myth of Cthulhu.This belief advocates infinite limits, and people can never understand God.

There are countless decimals between the numbers 0 and 1, and there are countless decimals between the numbers 0 and 2. But the "infinity" from 0 to 2 is larger than the "infinity" from 0 to 1. This is Cthulhu The core of mythology is that God is beyond the limits of human understanding, indescribable, and inaccessible. This idea actually existed in monotheism, and the true face of God cannot be looked at directly, and even angels cannot be looked at. In fact, it is mysticism. It's just that the mysticism of Cthulhu mythology is very high-end, very wonderful, and its magical nature makes people unable to help but curious. This is its unique charm.

Kamsky’s idol booth contained beliefs similar to the Cthulhu myth, and Lu Zhengkang did not plan to choose them.

At the stall, he saw the statue of his own Fei Noodle Church, a delicious mound of noodles, and he grabbed it in his hand, "I choose this one."

Kamsky collected the furoshiki and hid it in his four-dimensional cloak. "This noodle was brought in by an outsider. Those who believed in him probably disappeared in the mass extinction long ago. This island On the other hand, there are a few beliefs in Him. Maybe it can bring you some help. You can go to the front shelter to enshrine the gods, outsiders, good luck, and look forward to the day when you discover the truth."

Lu Zhengkang took his flying face god into the coat and waved goodbye to Kamsky, who was like a KFC master. He moved on along the low slope. After a while, he looked back and found that there was no Kamsky in the misty depths. The figure of Ji.

Chapter 660 Coastal Refuge

Lu Zhengkang walked along the hillside, and there was a faint fire light in the fog ahead. He walked two steps quickly and saw a broken bonfire on the hillside. This is just an ordinary bonfire, not the archive point in "Dark Soul". There were also two living corpses in rotten clothes beside the pile, one holding a long sword in one hand, and another holding a giant axe. This was a grand welcome ceremony.