Sword of Daybreaker

There are some things that Gawain can calculate clearly in his mind, and of course Bersetia, the Queen of Silver, can also understand. She is very clear that these seemingly top-secret antenna arrays are technologies that are firmly in the hands of Cecil. And mastering these antennas can be regarded as mastering the only portal for dialogue with that "signal" (if it can talk). Gao Wen said that he wants to open this monitoring program with the countries of the entire alliance, but he will open this door. Is the key open too?

Obviously it is impossible. Gawain may be a generous ruler, but he is first of all the leader of the Cecil Empire. It is impossible for him to give his initiative to outsiders without knowing where he will go in the future. .

But even so, Bersetia is willing to accept this "invitation"-since the Cecil Empire has mastered the core technology and "opportunities", it is normal and natural for this monitoring project to be led by them. , But the remaining "right to participate" is equally important, especially for the silver empire, which is also not weak in technical strength. As long as they can participate in this project, the elves are confident that they will get their own from the future technological achievements. reward.

  Of course, what is behind this signal is a blessing or a curse...It depends on how the future develops.

  "When are you going to announce this matter?" After being silent for a while, Bersetia suddenly asked, "I mean...to the whole society...Do you plan to publish this kind of matter to the people?"

Speaking of the end, the silver queen is obviously hesitant. She knows that one of Gao Wen’s current goals is to "promote knowledge to the people and return thinking to the people", and try to "make the people knowledgeable" to reduce All mortals fear and even deify the unknown. She understands the necessity of doing so, but now there is a secret before her eyes. This secret points to an unknown world that mankind has never explored-she suddenly hesitated.

  Those ordinary people who lack knowledge...can they really accept this kind of thing? After they come into contact with such secrets, will they really generate new beliefs in their thinking about the mysterious starry sky?

Gawain understands Bersetia’s concerns very well. This is indeed very complicated, so he also thought about it before breaking the silence: "This may be the first challenge faced by the Theocracy after the establishment of the Council-to be a cutting-edge Technology suddenly touches areas beyond ordinary people's understanding, and even touches areas related to theology, how to explain everything to the public can achieve a smooth transition, and let blind awe land safely on the soil of rational logic.

"This problem must be faced head-on, because as long as our technology is still developing, similar situations will always appear. Today it is a signal from the stars, and tomorrow it may be an explanation of the shadow world or even magic. The original understanding-if we avoid the explanation of them before the public, then it is essentially no different from the past "creating gods". The more and more people have more and more doubts and awe of cutting-edge technology, sooner or later it will be born among the people. The "theological interpretation" that takes new technologies as the goal of awe, and even such things as the mechanical gods and the gods of technology will appear."

  Bersetia raised her eyebrows: "You mean, do you really want to open this signal and a series of explanations around it to the people?"

"It should be open, but we must fully consider the guidance of public opinion and the thinking habits of the public, and carry out a gradual, limited and controlled opening," Gao Wen said in his thoughts. His mind was running quickly. At this moment, he Suddenly realized that the mysterious signal might not only be as simple as an "external greeting". In a sense, it could even become a "practical exercise" after the establishment of the Theocracy Council, although it came as a surprise. , But this kind of "surprise" is one of its values. "We have to face up to the knowledge level of ordinary people and their way of thinking is different from that of real astrologers, so we can’t follow the pattern of communicating with scholars. Ordinary people communicate...

"We should first do a good job of'popularizing interpretation' of professional knowledge, and transform professional terminology into a language that at least 60 to 70% of ordinary people can understand. We need some less serious propaganda platforms and preachers. Explain to the public-or reinterpret those astronomical concepts that became common knowledge in the upper class during the Gondor period. Of course, even if explained in this way, they probably cannot understand the difference between stars and planets, but at least they will understand one thing. The thing, that is, the'world in the sky' is also understandable. They are not out of reach, but are within the sight of mortals.

  "We can’t tell them what ‘interstellar communication’ is as soon as we come up. It’s easy for people with ulterior motives to guide it as a divine revelation or some kind of ‘harbinger’...

"In addition to the official caliber, we also need a very large range of non-governmental guidance. We need someone to walk and observe among the public, understand what people discuss in the tavern and the square, and we need to organize a large number of influential and orderly Ordinary people are convinced of'speakers'. These speakers may not be real experts, but in the eyes of the people, what these people say will be more cordial and credible than those scholars who are full of obscure words. We must call this kind of'speakers' To manage it, if it already exists, we must incorporate it; if it does not, we must build it from scratch.

  "The people’s mind is not inherently ignorant, but it is a piece of uncultivated land. If we don’t cultivate it, it will be easily occupied by ignorant and blind thoughts..."

Gawain thought while talking, and occasionally paused. This was to better organize the language and straighten out his thoughts. After he talked a lot of details, Bertila and Bersetia could not help but reveal something. The look of thinking, and at the end, he did not forget to add one point:

"In addition, Bersetia, you must remember that the purpose of all our'propaganda' and'publications' is not to pursue 100% accuracy and detail-too accurate and detailed technical information is difficult for the public to understand. I don’t like to listen. What we want to make sure is that these things have no errors in the general direction and that they conform to the facts in terms of basic concepts. The main purpose of these things is to..."

"In order for ordinary people to think," Bersetia said without waiting for Gao Wen to finish speaking, "Let them not habitually fall into awe and theological interpretation when facing unknown things, but learn to use logic to try. Understand everything-it doesn't matter whether this superficial understanding is correct, the important thing is to let them not treat the signal as the voice of God in the first place."

   "Yes, this is the most important job of the theocracy," Gawain nodded, "It looks like you have understood my theory-this is rare."

Speaking of this, he couldn't help sighing: "Today, even in Cecil, there are many people who think that I want to thoroughly educate the people, hoping that everyone can think rationally, be wise and knowledgeable... In fact, I don’t even dare to think of such a thing."

When Gawain and Bersetia were discussing seriously, Bertila on the side remained silent for a long time. She seemed to be thinking about something. It wasn't until the discussion next to him came to an end that she suddenly said, "Even so. , It is still inevitable that some people will mislead the public around the topic of signals and stars. They may be politicians with ulterior motives, they may be conservative priests who are eager to find loopholes under the pressure of the theocracy, or they may even conspiracy from the beginning. Cultists...maybe better in Cecil, but not all countries can effectively control society. In this situation, the people will become a breeding ground for heretical beliefs."

"When this happens, I'm afraid we will have to activate the theocracy of the council," Bersetia said, looking into Bertila's eyes. "Of course, that's the next step-if it can be widely used. With universal education, common sense literacy, and ideological emancipation to achieve our goals, we don’t have to use violence to solve problems."

Speaking of this, the elf ruler suddenly took a long breath. She smiled under the stars and looked at Gawain next to her: "What you mentioned just now has benefited me a lot-I am in charge. I have been holding the reins of an empire for seven centuries, and sometimes I even think I am a successful ruler, but now it seems...there are many things in the world worthy of me to learn.

  "This knowledge doesn't sound like Uncle Gao Wen can sum up. Are they the teachings of the'extraterritorial wanderer'?"

"Is there a difference?" Gawain smiled, "We are already the same individual, even though the general direction of the things I just said comes from the'outsider', its details are based on Gawain Cecil's The cognition and understanding of this world."

"That's true," Bersetia chuckled slightly, and sighed with emotion. "Then again, the things you just said...it won't happen overnight. It seems that I have it now. I need to go back and consider it carefully."

  She turned around, turned her back to the antenna array behind her, and leaned slightly to Gawain: "It's getting late, so I will leave first-can you continue to take me to visit this magical place tomorrow?"

   "Of course," Gawain smiled and nodded, and said to Bertila beside him, "You can send her back."

As soon as Gawain’s voice fell, I heard a rustling sound from the depths of the sea of ​​leaves nearby, and then a large swath of flower vines suddenly bloomed and spread from the layers of leaves. While the vines were squirming, there was another Bertila. The avatar came out from there, and came to the Silver Queen briskly and silently: "I will take you to a resting place-Elaine has been waiting for you for a long time."

  The Silver Queen looked at the two Bertila in surprise, then showed a decent smile, followed the second avatar that appeared, and turned and left the platform where the antenna array was located.

  Until the opponent’s figure disappeared, and only Gawain and Bertila remained on the top of the tree under the night, Gawain glanced at the latter: "You can still create and control two avatars at the same time?"

  Bertila smiled slightly, with a trace of triumph and sly on her face: "I have a lot of brains."

   Gao Wen: "..."

Some crazy images of San were flashed in his mind. Gawain almost shivered in this warm summer night, and then he shook his head quickly, threw the mental pollution associations out of his mind, and then fell into Think about it.

  After a brief consideration, he looked at Bertila and said solemnly: "I remember you said that your current body can continue to grow... and there is a lot of room for subsequent growth?"

"Theoretically... if only'growth' is considered, the growth potential of the giant Thorin tree is far from reaching the limit, and even I don't even know how big this limit can be," Bertila thought carefully and said carefully. "But in fact, there are many things to consider-firstly, whether such a large amount of nutrient supply can be ensured, and secondly, how to ensure the stability of an overly large structure. These two points are actually considered to be resolved. I can consciously adjust the freshman Branch and root system to ensure the structural strength and nutrient supply of giant trees...

"Then also consider the environmental carrying capacity. My tree canopy has now affected the entire Sorin Plain ecosystem. Under conscious control, this impact has reached a beneficial balance. But if the canopy continues to spread, I will The entire ecological system of the Holy Spirit Plain must also be included in the calculation, which will lead to too many unpredictable parts...

   "The last and most important point-my ability to think."

  Bertila pointed to his forehead, but this was just a symbolic gesture: Gawain and she knew that there was only wood in this head.

  What she is referring to is her ability to think.

"You mean... the scale of the giant tree of Thorin is too large. If it continues to expand, it will affect your thinking," Gao Wen frowned. "Even your spirit will not be able to command such a huge body, causing some areas of the giant tree to lose control. ?"

"That's it," Bertila nodded, "Although now I have...'transformed' into this form, even my own spirit seems to have undergone a certain degree of variation, capable of directing such a plant to become a plant. My body, but my spirit has its limits after all. As the giant tree expands indefinitely, I will eventually lose the ability to perceive and control part of the body."

  Gowen's tone became serious: "If the Thorin tree partly loses control, what will happen?"

"Don't be so nervous, those branches that are out of control won't turn into monsters and jump from the canopy." Bertila looked at Gawain with a serious expression and couldn't help laughing, "It's like those disconnected Like the vine's'Bertila Doll', the branches that are out of control will probably only become ordinary branches, at most they will die and fall off, just like..."

  For some reason, Gao Wen suddenly came up with a word: "Hair loss?"

  Working overtime can cause hair loss.jpg.

  Bertila: "...Although your description is very subtle, how do I feel offended?"

  Gao Wen quickly gave a dry cough: "Ahem, I didn't say you, what I said... Forget it, just assume that I didn't say anything."

Bertila glanced suspiciously at Gawain, and after a while he retracted his gaze: "Well, it's roughly the same as you said, those giant tree structures that are out of control will fall off like... hair. Anyway, you Why are you asking me this all of a sudden? Didn't you say that the expansion of the Thorin tree has reached a sufficient scale, and it is better not to continue to expand?"

   Gao Wen was silent for a moment, and silently raised his head to look at the night sky.

  The distant Frostsky constellation is shining quietly in the night sky. In that direction, there may be a star on a pair of eyes, looking at the same universe, quietly thinking about issues related to fate.

   "I just suddenly felt some urgency." He whispered to break the silence.