clown game

Chapter 375 The Ascetic

Antarctica, polar research area.

The working environment here is similar to that of the Pacific Division. One is at the bottom of the deep sea and the other is under the frozen soil. Everyone is the kind of cat who stays in the base all year round, but the working atmosphere of the two places is quite different.

In the Pacific Division, most of the contained objects are extremely dangerous, so even if there is a water pressure limit, you cannot relax a little bit. First, the remedial measures after containment failure are too expensive, and secondly, every time the contained objects are removed from the deep sea Before it was retracted... the contents were already dead.

Hmm... Although you may not believe it, for the Foundation, the death of these extremely dangerous anomalous creatures is actually a great loss.This is like suddenly finding a living dinosaur. Although it is very cruel and dangerous, it can kill three or four people in the street after running out for 20 minutes, but even if it really swallows your second uncle alive, No matter how much you indignantly complain, it is impossible for it to pay you with its life. You can only watch it eat and drink in the cage every day, being taken care of more comfortably than your own father.Therefore, the employees in the Pacific Division are a group of breeders who must ensure the health of the dinosaur at all times and ensure that it will not run out to mess around.

Of course, the Foundation will not keep everything brainless, dare to raise dinosaurs, it is because dinosaurs can be kept in cages, and for abnormal items that cannot be kept in cages, such as "dinosaurs that can penetrate walls" ", naturally execute the procedure of "destroy" directly.

Then the polar research area is a place to deal with things that are even more difficult than "destruction".

That's something you can't shut down, and you can't kill it!For example, a "cracking dinosaur that can pass through walls and is immune to magic and avoids all damage" or the like.

Then someone has to ask, since the invincible mode has been turned on, what should I do?

In fact, the foundation has mastered the technology of man-made wormholes a long time ago. However, they are not sure whether this thing is a "wormhole". A space, or another world, that is unknown.But it is precisely because of this uncertainty that the use of "artificial wormholes" still carries a huge risk. It is fine if the opposite space is another space, as long as those things do not harm your own world, then they will destroy other worlds. The Foundation doesn't care what it looks like, it's afraid of some collateral reactions, such as whether the turmoil in other worlds will affect this side, or simply that the wormhole leads to a point in time many years later, when those who deal with it If all the things that can't be done come out all at once, then it's really finished.

So, about 110 years ago, this artificial wormhole was destroyed.

The reason is that the Foundation has found a safer and less worry-free solution to contain these "unhandleable" abnormal items.In other words, this method took the initiative to find the Foundation.

That day, a skinny monk came to a certain outlying Foundation residence. He was wearing a shabby robe that was too worn out, his feet were bare, and his face was completely covered by his hair and beard. If he makes a familiar monk gesture, everyone will think that he is a tramp, or the most miserable kind. Of course, even so, most people think that he is just pretending to believe in order to beg.

Since what he found was only a small branch of the foundation, which was disguised with a "water conservancy project" building on the outskirts of the city, no one came in and out at all, and people also followed the principle that more things are worse than less things, and they ignored them from the beginning to the end. He passed this monk, and he stood like this on the river dam on the outskirts of the city, maintaining that movement, motionless.

Finally, after a week, a staff member finally realized that this person had been standing for nearly 200 hours without eating or drinking. At this point, this person was finally escorted into the Foundation by several guards.

Penance.People who are not pious enough can't try it at all, and even can't understand the behavior. Those monks deliberately tortured themselves with unbearable pain.According to legend, the practice of kneeling and prostrating every few steps, walking from the bottom of the temple mountain to the inside of the temple, is at most considered a ritual act, and the real austerity is much more cruel than this.Even its difficulty lies not in 'suffering', but in 'action'.

Because, the ultimate goal of the ascetic is to go on, throw away the obsession in the heart after a long time, and use it to comprehend the problems that they don't know what they are.Long-term fasting and water deprivation, lying on a bed full of nails, walking on hot charcoal, and enduring extreme heat and cold to exercise endurance and libido. These behaviors that sound extremely terrifying are superficial physical stimulation. With the passage of time, this kind of thing will eventually become pale and powerless, and the ultimate problem faced by a true ascetic is often how to continue to live and continue to walk.

As an ordinary person, the thoughts or beliefs in it cannot and are not qualified to describe, but we should be able to imagine that there will be enlightenment and sublimation during this period, and that monk seems to be thousands of people. Over the past few years, the one who really realized something.

So he found the foundation. He was the first person to take the initiative to find the foundation. Although he didn't know the existence of the "Order Foundation" at the time, he knew somewhere that there would be people when he walked. An end point, because I have found a starting point.

In the second year after entering the foundation's sight, he became a member of the Supreme Council!
Although it sounds absurd, if there is really one person in this world who thinks about other human beings, it can only be him.And he also has the ability to say the words "protect humanity".Oh, by the way, he is the one who abolished the "artificial wormhole".

Ascetic, this is what he calls himself. During the long journey, he has long forgotten his name, and he has also realized an ability during these hundreds of years. He called it "nothing".

The things imprisoned by him will enter a state of "nothing", they will be frozen at one point, they will not eat, drink, move, breathe, or think, they will become a kind of completely out of this world, and A state of nothingness in which time does not pass.

And because time is also "nothing", this state... will last forever.

(End of this chapter)