Crimson Embers Chapter 27: The Esel Method is highly effective in any situation
The Doujie should be a beautiful place, but now Mason's eyes see it is barren. The mountains look like they were bitten by a giant beast, leaving a super ugly crack. In the place where it was opened up, you can see obvious asymmetrical traces of splicing, as if two completely different things were combined together in a very awkward way.
The Mason family moved forward in the direction indicated by Rorschach. On the way to the forging workshop of the End Star, they passed by various landforms. Sometimes, completely different plants grew on the two sides of the land just across a line.
These are the "construction marks" left when the fighting world was pieced together, just like a torn body being sewn back together by a crazy doctor to create the monster Frankenstein.
According to the principle of the existence of the fighting world, the traces of the stitching of this world should have been well covered up, but Doom obviously no longer had the mind to "beautify" the place where he was, so he could only let it be abandoned.
"He must be very anxious."
Mason whispered to the people around him:
"This kind of letting go is not Doom's habit. He has put all his energy into the casting of the Apocalypse Star."
“But it’s a planet.”
The engineer who was hovering in Tyrant Armor said:
"The Doujie is a special space formed by the broken earth. There is no room for a planet here unless he uses some kind of location technology or magic to open up a larger space."
"That's why the world in your eyes is so broken!"
The old hat on Mason's head formed a vague human face, and he explained to the others:
“The energy that should have been used in the fighting world was extracted and gathered at the end of our journey, where it was shaped and preserved as an extended space, just like the special testing ground in the Utopia that accommodates the remains of the world.
Even Doom, who is omnipotent in the fighting world, cannot create energy out of thin air to support a planet hidden here. His fighting world is like being infected by a parasite, pouring all his strength and vitality into that thing. This is not only the forging place of the Star of the End, but also its'cradle'.
When it sets sail, the entire world will be torn apart.
But if Mason's judgment just now is accurate, if this is really the starting point and end point of an endless cycle, then at the moment the fighting world is broken, it will reappear and continue its mission of nurturing the Star of the End.
Well, this is also a glorious achievement that has truly achieved a perpetual motion machine in a sense."
"That stuff is a lie."
The engineer countered:
"Anyone who tells you he can build a perpetual motion machine deserves a wrench on his head, so it follows that this place is nothing more than a fake."
His words were immediately recognized by a group of Mason brothers. They discussed noisily the relationship between the Fighting World and the End Star, but Mason himself did not participate in the discussion. He looked back at Rorschach, who had been treated and fed a large amount of potion before regaining his ability to move. This guy followed everyone but was unusually silent.
"what's on your mind?"
The captain asked, and Rorschach, who was immersed in his thoughts, was awakened. His face, which was covered by a strange mask, moved and looked around. After a few seconds of silence, he said in a hoarse voice:
“Think about what you just said, about integrating the world and the plane, the future and hope, the seventeen years in the outside world and the few minutes I have here, and so on.
I thought it was all for nothing.”
He said:
"At least when I set out on this journey, I never expected that someone would read those diaries and follow me like you did. When I crossed that door, I made an accurate judgment of my own destiny.
I will die here.
I had no confidence that I could stop all that. After all, what I did was not even an obstacle to them. But now you suddenly appear and tell me that everything is moving in a good direction.
It makes me feel like I'm in a dream.
It's hard to describe the feeling I had at that moment, but I felt a surge of excitement when I realized that I could drown these rats, who survived by devouring corpses, in their sewers.
Ah, justice..."
He shook his head, tied his bloodstained gloves tightly, flexed his fingers, and said:
"It will never disappoint its stubborn pursuers. Your presence has given my death a real meaning after seventeen years.
Not just for Rorschach's justice.
There is also the resistance and salvation that once existed only in fantasy.
But even now, there are still some things I can’t understand.”
This stubborn street hero put his hands in the pockets of his khaki windbreaker, which was always tied tightly. He looked at the tall black building that was getting closer and closer, as if it was hanging upside down in the valley, and said:
"If there really is a cycle of disaster, then I am probably one of the first people to look for the truth, because the wonderful cycle of time makes the ten minutes I spend here equivalent to endless time in the outside world. If they have really been reincarnated many times, then why in this cycle when you appear, they still do the same stupid things that I saw at the beginning?
Shouldn't we learn from our failures and choose the right way to advance salvation at the end of the world when the next cycle begins?
Or is it that it is simply time that cycles without any setbacks or lessons?
Then what is the meaning of such reincarnation?
Why do they choose to make the same mistakes over and over again in reincarnation?"
This is a question that goes straight to the heart of the matter.
Mason already had . He replaced the bullets in the Destiny Pistol in his hand, letting it continuously switch special effects to enter the full state of six special effects, while answering:
“Don’t think too much. The cycle in the outside world shouldn’t have started yet. They haven’t had the chance to make the same mistake again. When I executed Tony Zero, he told me that they messed up.
So I guess the time cycle they wanted to create was designed wrong from the beginning, and Tony Zero has been trying to prevent it from happening, and he realized that it couldn't bring any good results.
Their plans are good, but they simply don’t lead to the future they want to achieve.
I guess the cycle they imagine is to try different options again and again and find the most suitable one, giving themselves countless opportunities to choose to verify the perfect result.
But this is just a sad illusion, a futile attempt to do the same thing in the hope of getting a different result.
From a psychological perspective, the person who made this decision is crazy.
Once the loop starts and everyone is pulled in, going crazy is the only way we can end up... They closed the door, it seems they knew we were coming."
Mason stared at the closed door leading to the inverted tower in the valley. He looked back at the sky and saw dark clouds, lightning and thunder at the end of his sight.
That was a sign that the Thundergod Legion, which was responsible for maintaining order in the Fighting World, was gathering and moving out. As far as he knew, there was more than one garrison legion in the Fighting World. Doom was calling for people, and if they didn't hurry up, they would soon be surrounded.
"You stay here!"
Mason waved his finger and five people, the jeweler, the enchanter, the inscriber, the collector and the forger, were left here. Kevin, the slime monster carrying a big gourd, was also left behind. It would be of little use in what happened next.
The others also threw various war supplies on the ground. The captain pointed to the sky behind him and said:
"It buys us time to defeat Doom. I guess they will definitely take advantage of the space-time disturbance caused by the fifth impact of the outside world to launch the Star of Doom. We will not allow that to happen, so the battle here is truly the last battle.
So hold on, guys.
After this battle we can go back home."
"Bah, bah, bah, you crow's mouth, can you please say something nice?"
The jeweler put on mechanical gloves suitable for disposable infinite gems on both his hands, and said to Mason with glaring eyes:
"Leave a Supreme Arsenal here. We'll need it to recover our health when we can't hold on. Then you can go in. Hurry up."
"Tsk, luckily we made a trial version to verify the technical route before the official version, so it's barely enough for you to use."
The engineer dropped a black supreme arsenal device behind the defense line, and scattered a large number of automatic turrets to the ground, and released twenty Thunder Hammer combat mechas with modified AI from portable armor storage tanks, so that a super defense line was arranged, and Kevin turned into Superman and stood behind and gave Mason a standard military salute.
This means that the slime will definitely fulfill the mission assigned to it.
“Break the door!”
At Mason's command, the engineers detonated all the explosives placed on the gate. The explosion of proton bombs and antimatter grenades formed a collapsing energy implosion on the spot, blasting a gap in the door that seemed to separate the two worlds.
There was no time to say goodbye, and the captain led the remaining people into the black building hanging upside down in the valley.
What came into their eyes was an oversized mechanical workshop, which looked like a busy factory. Eight constantly operating conveying devices were sending various purified inorganic substances into the rotating tunnel in front, just like sending nutrients into an insatiable stomach.
At the end of the mechanical laboratory is a vertical light curtain.
It is very similar to the crystal wall that Black Strange used to isolate himself from the outside world in the SHIELD world. Through the crystal wall that refracts light, one can vaguely see the huge star on the other side floating in the starry space.
It is much larger than the ordinary earth, and its shape is quite strange, like building blocks of different colors randomly pieced together. The emerald green forest stands on the surface, but next to it is an endless desert, and in the sea of sand there are lakes connected to the waters that lead directly to the ocean on the other side.
The mountains stand tall, and lava is emitting black smoke amid the falling snow.
The rift valley is rugged, and the earth and sea connect the two poles through a large cavity.
This is not a weird ecosystem that could have evolved from a naturally occurring world at all. Instead, it's more like the plasticine that a naughty child molded using his imagination.
Not beautiful at all.
On the contrary, it is hideous and evil. If converted into a living being, it would be a complete patchwork monster, an alien freak compiled from the most essential areas extracted from the wreckage of other worlds.
The existence of this thing fully proves that randomly combining all beautiful things will not make anything more beautiful, just like mixing different flavors of candy together will not make the taste better, and it is more likely to cause the taste to cross and make the whole bag of candy lose its sweetness.
No matter how strong your taste buds are, they wouldn't mix masala candy with cow dung-flavored chocolate, right?
"Just as ugly as I imagined."
Mason said with disgust on his face, and the others nodded, thinking that the captain was right.
“This will be the first cycle. We have no experience and may only act according to instinct and rough plans. But we are confident about this, not only because of the failure experience we have gained from 17 years of efforts, but also because we have seen how to move forward on the right path.”
The voice of Lord God Doom came from above the mechanical laboratory.
The mysterious figure in white robes appeared in the light and spoke to the uninvited visitors in a calm voice:
“Even if our first attempt ends in failure, we will have more opportunities to prepare for a perfect future, just like a child who, after falling, stays away from the ditch on the ground when he musters up the courage to stumble forward again.
The purpose of the sea's existence is not just to test captains and sailors!
As long as we don’t give up and as long as we have confidence, we will eventually reach the perfect future that we expect and hope to see.”
Doom's figure slowly descended to the ground, his eyes under the iron mask staring at Mason. He walked forward with his white cloak fluttering, and his voice echoed throughout the empty laboratory.
He said:
"You think we are just dreaming, Mason... I see disgust and hostility in your eyes. You think we are risking everything. But you don't really think that with the size of Utopia, it can advance the theory of world fusion and the black technology of magnetic field generator to such a perfect level in just a dozen years, right?
No!
That is the precious result accumulated after seven cycles lasting more than ten years in my fighting world. We have completed the verification of all theoretical aspects of the End Star in this constantly circulating world.
It's not just your fusion theory that you used to save the stars..."
Doom stood on the steps in front of Mason and the others. He looked at them without any fear or anything else in his eyes. He said:
"The 'Pocket Universe' proposed by the Fantastic Four, the 'World Dimension Upgrade Quantum State' plan completed by Hank Pym, the 'Doomsday Survivor' enhancement system promoted by Bruce Banner, the 'New Gods' experiment that simulated the fourth dimension where Apokolips is located to avoid impact... All the salvation plans formulated in the Fox Nest are in our hands, but why don't we use them?
The answer is we have tried it!
Those were the salvation plans we adopted during the sixth, seventh, eighth, and tenth cycles of simulating the impact process in the fighting world.
But unfortunately, the simulation results showed that they all failed.
Through continuous cycles and continuous attempts , this Doomsday Star was continuously pushed to perfection, but at that time we still couldn't find the method we wanted.
We were very desperate and pessimistic. We thought that we could only use the Doomsday Star as an ark to survive until the next era. "
The Lord of God paused, he let out a long breath, spread his hands and said to Mason:
"We don't want to survive! We are not that pathetic. What we want is a perfect solution, a hearty and complete victory.
And you, Mason, you brought what we longed for to us with your own hands.
This is your victory.
But it will soon become our victory, and in this sense, you are indeed the savior, and we should all thank you. This is the first cycle that is about to begin in the entire universe , and it will also be the last!
That will be the final chapter of the Age of Disaster, an era of integration.
us!
We who have never bowed to disaster and doomsday, we will go back to the beginning and do it again, to create a new world for everyone!"
Mason narrowed his eyes, and while the others were still shocked by the truth revealed by Doom, he asked:
"Perhaps everyone alive today hopes that you can create a better world for them? Instead of starting all over again, why do we have to pursue perfection and risk everything we have on a gamble that you can't control.
And, how many cycles of fighting world is this now? "
"The thirteenth time."
Doom shrugged his shoulders and said:
"Thirteen represents death, the end, and rebirth. It's a very meaningful number, isn't it?"
