From star abyss

After saying goodbye to N4, Paulina felt more and more something was wrong.

Although the lady seemed mysterious and had an unclear relationship with the blacksmith, she seemed to have no ill intentions towards him.

Of course, it's not friendly. The feeling is almost a curiosity about wild animals. She fed her some food, hoping to see Paulina eating in a naive manner and take pleasure in it.

She extinguished the bonfire and followed the blacksmith. She was talkative and met the silent blacksmith, but she couldn't open any conversation.

The conversation between the two often goes like this.

"Master blacksmith, why do you always look so bitter and resentful?"

"Because I am really bitter and resentful."

"What did you eat today? What book did you read?"

"Potato, I didn't look at it."

"Master blacksmith, listening to the conversation between you and Ms. N4, are you not from this planet?"

"yes."

The blacksmith always answered all questions and never said a word more.

Even after asking a lot of questions, Paulina's understanding of him was limited to the fact that his name was Leoz.

Nothing else is clear, his hobbies are not clear, and there is no explanation of where his powerful force comes from. He obviously has this level of power, but instead of showing off his skills, he stays in Gufeng Village and works as a blacksmith.

What is he planning?

Being poor, not rich in materials, not socializing with others, having no wife or children, just living alone in this world.

He has almost no desire for the world, and his views on everything are very cold and realistic.

Of course, the blacksmith still has many advantages, such as he values ​​​​commitment and is actually very kind at heart.

Paulina is different from the blacksmith.

Perhaps due to her family background, or perhaps due to her nature, Paulina has a strong curiosity about everything. She is eager to see, see and act.

They walked through the forest and back along the river, which was swollen over the beaches and filled the air with the smell of radioactivity.

The clouds hung high in the purple night sky were squirming like flesh and blood, which was proof of the invasion of the void. The shrubs in the stream were covered with raindrops. They had to walk carefully, check every step carefully, and tuck their clothes to avoid exposing their skin to raindrops.

The river was so strong that it swelled and flooded the basin.

The blacksmith didn't have the bad feudal habit of protecting girls, so he turned on gravity himself and jumped directly over

Fortunately, Polina was also a typical heroine. She did not have the ability of a blacksmith. She knocked down a few big trees by herself, threw the wood into the river, and used it as a pontoon. She jumped several times and managed to escape without any risk. come over.

"Hey! How about it? I'm smart, right?"

Paulina pinched her waist with her hands and said showily,

The blacksmith didn't even look at her and said:

"Privately building a pontoon is considered provoking trouble and will result in a fine."

"Hey! Why?"

"No reason, don't question it, otherwise you'll be next."

The blacksmith's decadent attitude made Paulina puff up her cheeks. She sped up a few steps to catch up with the blacksmith and walked side by side with him:

"I said, Master Blacksmith, how desperate are you for this world to become like this?"

"I took out a loan to work, with a monthly salary of 3,000. I bought a house with a quarter of the shared area, but it turned out to be unfinished. The bank couldn't withdraw the money. I was taught to tell the truth since I was a child, and then I watched the person who told the truth being beaten to death. I was educated. Studying can change your destiny, but you end up unemployed after graduation. You thought that getting married and having children would change your destiny for the next generation, but it turned out that your partner claimed to be an independent woman. After cheating on the bride price, she got divorced and took away half of the family property. She was also complained about not having children. She said a few jokes on the Internet and was scolded for antagonizing men and women. Hot paint was poured on cats who said their poop smelled bad, and children were forced to eat feces and were forced to mediate..."

The blacksmith said calmly:

"Although I have not experienced these sufferings, my ability to empathize still feels it. If they have experienced it, it is equivalent to me experiencing it. Even if I let go of all this, I will still be scolded. 'When you deeply understand this piece of human civilization Salty land, you know his thoughts are worthy of his suffering' - even though I did nothing, my thoughts were worthy of my suffering."

Paulina was silent for a moment and said:

"But there is always good in the world, right?"

"The sun cannot shine into the ditch of a mouse. You have been developing your hobby of skiing and horseback riding since childhood and you sleep ten hours a day. I can only rely on my sweet smile to make up for my humble background as a problem solver in my small town, and I have to be scolded by the catfish boy. "

The blacksmith walked calmly:

"But in the end you will find that all the abuse and noise don't matter, whether you are poor or rich, because only death and tranquility are absolutely fair. All things have only the fate of nothingness in the end."

"But this...isn't it too sad? If everyone is like you, lie down and give up resistance, then won't the void completely destroy everything about us?"

"It's fair."

The blacksmith said:

"I didn't lead the way to the void, which is already my greatest love for the kingdom."

Paulina fell silent. She always felt strange, but she just couldn't put it into words.

"Well, uncle, I have a question."

Paulina said:

"If everything is destined to be void, what if void is defeated one day?"

"It doesn't matter, I have already disappeared by then. If everything disappears, then there is no meaning. Even nothingness has no meaning. If nothingness fails, then let it fail."

The blacksmith's words were hollow. To Paulina, it sounded like he didn't even want to have an independent soul, as if just living in the world was a kind of deep suffering and torture for him.

He turned a cold shoulder to prosperity and had no need for material or spiritual things. His lofty knowledge and vision, as well as his rich experience, gave him a vision beyond this era, and he could see everything at a glance.

Deconstruct, keep deconstructing.

The so-called friendship means mutual benefit and complementary emotional value.

Marriage is just a contract for the merger of property, and love is just for reproduction.

Groups are only for division of labor and cooperation. If there are leaders, there will be others who will pick the shit. As long as there are groups, there will be others.

The blacksmith's cold worldview made Paulina feel chilled. Those thoughts and spirits endowed with humanistic value and great significance were only criticized by the blacksmith with the coldest reality.

History is meaningless, because no matter who comes to power, it will distort history, and the historians will always write in spring and autumn style, mixed with subjectivity. It is even more meaningless for robots to rule human beings, because robots disdain to manage waste like human beings.

Continuous denial, denial, and nothingness turn the castles on the ground into cold stone piles. The glory of civilization is just a deformed flower rooted in suffering and blood. Any grand narrative is a hypocritical and meaningless accident. Loving specific people is even more meaningless. , because that’s just for emotional value…

Paulina, who originally wanted to comfort the blacksmith, was instead taught nihilism by the blacksmith. I almost don't know what to do.

The blacksmith is numb to everything. Li Ozi's memory and knowledge will not move him in any way. Even his self has been taken away by the void, and he no longer has any enthusiasm and faith.

After combining with Li Ozi's realism, he, who originally embraced the void, now has clear logic and beliefs. The more Paulina communicates with him, the more she understands the blacksmith's void.

The village is getting closer.

Until the end, Polina didn't know what to do. She kicked the stones on the roadside, and her emotions finally broke out. She couldn't help but complain:

"Okay, okay! Everything is meaningless - in that case, then uncle blacksmith, why don't you die now?"

Snap.

The blacksmith stopped, and Paulina almost bumped into his broad back. She said "Hey" and raised her head to look at him in confusion:

The blacksmith stretched out his hand and touched the air.

The purple sky is crawling like flesh and blood, the void is breathing, and the inherent time domain has gradually expanded to completion.

If we follow what Li Ozi said in his memory, then when the inherent time domain is formed, the entire Dragon Satellite will be incorporated into the territory of the void.

Here they enjoy the same sun rising as the Void Lords and Lords in Zhou Yuan, but they will never be able to step out of here and become a part of the Void Path forever.

Just like the presidential vote, for the whole grand narrative of nihilism, live forever.

Narrative civilization never exploits individuals, it only limits your actions and beliefs. Your existence is its most precious value. The same is true for void as the sixth narrative.

If you do nothing, you are just a living firewood.

If you are gifted, then when you die, you will be incorporated into the grand narrative and become the fundamental force for the expansion of the inherent time domain.

[Use one's life to turn into pen and ink to continue to write the glory of the grand narrative. 】

——This is the secret of narrative civilization revealed through research by Life Commune.

Narrative civilization, in this respect, is no different from [society].

Li Ozi deliberately forgets those things because Li Ozi's ambition makes him eager to establish his own grand narrative.

The blacksmith is tired of all this. He hates the struggle and the endless involution, and only the void can bring an end to all this.

Everything is meaningless, even the void is meaningless.

But when Paulina asked why he was still alive despite everything being meaningless, the blacksmith was stunned.

He just stretched out his hand and touched the sky. Fragments of memories came to mind.

"……moon."

The blacksmith murmured:

"I promised a person that I would take her to see the moon."

"moon?"

Polena blinked:

"The moon...what is it?"

"I haven't seen it. Although I know what it looks like, I don't know... how to see it. As you can see, this planet has no moon."

The blacksmith lowered his head, his eyes dim.

Paulina noticed the 'she' in his words and immediately said in an insinuating way:

"Uncle Blacksmith, you are really a man of your word."

"I'm not, I just...want to leave with nothing, that's all."

"In that case, the person who made the agreement with you must be very important to you, right?"

"Dead." The blacksmith said calmly.