People in the sandbox, starting the final trial

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In most cases, there is a certain connection between the strong and the weak.

It’s just like some elections among American hawks. It’s unlikely for anyone of any nationality to run for election on their own, but at least they can choose the one they think is relatively less bad among the worst.

As long as the strongest people at the top are possible, there must be a very long distance between the strong and the weak, but as long as that distance is not a chasm and there is no fault in the middle… no matter how big the distance gap is, it is unlikely that the world will be in the wrong place.

The gap between the two-digit and three-digit people in the box garden and ordinary people is far greater than the gap between the gods in the world of Dicuo and ordinary people. However, no strong person in the box garden dares to completely ignore the opinions of human history, but the gods in the world of Dicuo can ignore the opinions of ordinary people.

The key is not how strong the human history of the box garden is.

The two-digit and three-digit numbers in the box garden are not helpless against human history. Two-digit and three-digit numbers cannot solve the final test of mankind, and cannot stop the decadent trend, but as long as you want and are willing, you can set up another box garden.

The most crucial point is that if the strong man in the box garden really dares to express his dissatisfaction with the current situation of the box garden and human history in his real name, human history will not tolerate him.

The reduction of some of the merits from human history may not be a big deal for three-digit people. Just like Indra, he has already accumulated enough merits to upgrade to two-digit people. What human history can interfere with is the acquisition of merits in the future – but you don’t want it. There are other three-digit and two-digit people who haven’t accumulated enough merits and want them!

All human history can do is reduce the share of merit, and in extreme cases, the ‘Final Trial of Humanity’, but the Final Trial of Humanity cannot be conceived just because some gods do not respect human history.

Theoretically speaking, human history has no countermeasures against three-digit gods.

—but other gods do.

If a god does not attach importance to human history, his share of the achievements in human history will be vacated, and naturally other gods will rush to take it.

Is it possible that other gods and Buddhas who were originally not as good as the top three-digit gods and Buddhas could reach the top three-digit realm after occupying the vacancy of a top three-digit figure who disrespected the top three-digit figure in human history?

If the gods in the box garden were united as one, human history would actually be helpless. After all, the gods have the advantage in power, and that strength is real.

The decadent style is useless. If the gods are united, they can completely abandon the existing box garden and build a box garden without the decadent style.

In the world of Dicuo, humans are also completely helpless when facing gods.

The difference is that the path to promotion in the small garden is open. No matter how difficult it is to advance from five digits to four digits, or from four digits to three digits, some people can indeed advance.

There is no path to promotion in the world of Dicuo. There is no hierarchy between heroes and gods, such as demigods, lower gods, and middle gods.

Before people’s wisdom is fully awakened, and before education is popularized to the point where everyone can understand Marx and dialectics, forces like human history that originate from grassroots consensus can only take effect layer by layer.

Merits alone may not affect the top three digits. The top three digits (to obtain all the necessary materials for promotion) do require merits, but they are only external.

For example, you can get an extra three-digit vest to increase your foundation, build some simulated star creation maps to increase your trump cards, or use your merits to manage the group of gods.

——But what is really indispensable for the three-digit merit is the trial merit needed to advance to the two-digit level.

Basically, you only have one chance. If you fail, you will most likely be killed on the spot by the wind of decadence. To advance, you only need to use achievements that can fill your preset worldview. You may need to reserve some, but it is useless to reserve too much.

The preset worldview requires only as many merits as it takes to build it up.

Cutting corners will affect the stability of your worldview, but if you really use too many achievements, your worldview will be overwhelmed.

For the top three digits, it is possible to completely ignore human history. For the two digits, no one can reach the upper limit for the time being. On the contrary, no matter how much merit one has, it is not enough. But for the top three digits, too many merits are actually not very useful – Yawei’s brain seizure is an exception.

The top three-digit strongmen who have accumulated enough merits to advance can ignore the views of human history, but no top three-digit strongmen will really do that.

The mechanism of human history makes it difficult to influence the top three-digit numbers, so let’s influence the ordinary three-digit numbers. In order to gain that credit, there will definitely be people in the ordinary three-digit numbers who are willing to stand up and become enemies of the top three-digit numbers.

If the three-digit numbers don’t step forward, the four-digit numbers will step forward to get that share of the merit. With enough merit, the four-digit numbers will become three-digit numbers.

Looking at the history of Kyushu, there were countless peasant uprisings in the feudal period, such as the Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, the Yellow Turban Rebellion, etc., which were powerful but often collapsed halfway and did not have the last laugh.

The same is true for the human history and the mechanisms of the gods in the box garden. When everyone in human history understands the operating principles of the box garden’s mechanisms… the will of everyone is equal to the will of human history. At that time, the division of merits in human history and the box garden will be a completely different allocation.

But making everyone understand the logic of the merits between the Little Garden God and humans… basically it can only be achieved in dreams.

But just because human history itself cannot do anything to the gods, it does not mean that the gods can do whatever they want.

Chen Sheng and Wu Guang failed to defeat Qin, and the Yellow Turban Rebellion was eventually put down, but the Qin and Han dynasties ultimately fell.

The will of ordinary people is there. Perhaps in the stage when people are not yet enlightened, the rebellion of ordinary people alone has limitations, but it is impossible for everyone except ordinary people to be united, right?

If the emperor doesn’t care, the prince will naturally care. If the prince doesn’t care, the ministers will naturally care.

As long as there is a logic of upward movement between classes, the support of ordinary people is naturally useful, and the most useful.

Needless to say, in a world without demons, emperors and nobles are essentially ordinary people. The difference between them and ordinary people is their status. Naturally, there is no chasm that makes it difficult for them to be promoted.

The magic world is the key.

In a story like the Little Garden, if there is a god who does not care about the achievements provided by human history, and thinks that human history is a vassal of the gods and does not need to be managed at all… then he will definitely be killed by other gods who are dedicated to managing human history.

You don’t want it, but others do.

With roughly the same level of qualifications and background, other gods are dedicated to managing human history, but you are just giving up. When facing danger and competing with other gods, why shouldn’t you be the one to die?

As for the world of Dicuo, a world with a chasm for promotion and an insurmountable gap between human heroes and gods… For the gods in the world of Dicuo, caring about the people in the lower world or not basically has no effect on their combat effectiveness, not to mention that the gods can be resurrected after death.

There are similar situations…at least as far as the works Su Qing has read are concerned, there are quite a few.

The less promotion channels a power system has, the lower the status of ordinary people will be.

Similar to the world of God Slayer, the gap between the peak strong people in the eyes of ordinary people and the gods and God Slayers is as huge as the gap between heaven and earth, so the God Slayer is the king of the world, no matter whether he is benevolent and responsible or tyrannical and unjust, it does not affect the status of the God Slayer.

Or in the world of Toaru Majutsu no Index, the gap between the Demon God and those below him is ridiculously huge. It doesn’t matter whether the Demon God likes the world or just plays around with resetting the world at will.

Rather than saying that it was because they were too strong and didn’t care about the lower classes, Su Qing felt that it was because there was no clear power system.

As long as the strength between the demon gods and those below them is filled up layer by layer, and the strength between the godslayers and the powerful people in the magic world is materialized layer by layer…

Even if the bottom layer can only play a tiny role, it will never be completely without status.

What is more important than the size of the effect is whether it can have any effect, even just a little bit.

Even if the strongest people at the top disdain that slightest effect, there will always be weaker ones who care about that slight possibility, and there will always be a time when that slight possibility will come in handy.

It can even be said that according to the theory of strength, the gap between the gods and humans in the world of Jigo is definitely not as big as the gap between the demons and ordinary people in Toaru Majutsu no Index.

But when it comes to the status and role of the lower class, the wrong world is more dangerous.

In the world of Dicuo, non-gods cannot become gods, but in the Toaru Majutsu no Index, the strong can become demon gods.

In the world of Dicuo, the gap between gods and ordinary people is really unbridgeable. What ordinary people think is really not important to gods.

But in Magical Index, the power gap is too big. Theoretically, there is a promotion path, but the power gap between promotion and failure is too big, and the difficulty of promotion is too high.

If the Dicuo world really wants to evolve smoothly… Su Qing feels that teaching the strong people in the Dicuo world how to become stronger is one of them.

If adventurers can reach the fifth digit of the small garden, the gods will surely get restless.

If adventurers can stand shoulder to shoulder with gods, even if there is only that tendency, some gods will start to get anxious, thinking that they have not made any progress in strength for hundreds of millions of years, while they have been barely able to touch them in just a few dozen or hundreds of years. What will happen if they are given more time?

The gods will naturally come into conflict with the powerful beings in the lower world, and then attack each other and split apart.

The sand tray has similar problems.

In the small garden, the top four-digit numbers can bump into three-digit numbers, and the top three-digit numbers can bump into two-digit numbers in the small garden. But that’s not because the gap between classes is not big, it’s just that some people refuse to advance.

Four-digit star-exploding, three-digit galactic-level, two-digit cosmic truth… The gap between them is certainly not as high as that in Magical Index, where one level lower would be completely an ant, but the gap is also huge.

The gap between three-digit numbers and two-digit numbers is easy to deal with. As long as they are in the box garden module, the strength of the two-digit numbers cannot be exerted. If they force their way out, they may get entangled and the decadent wind will end.

But the difference in strength between three-digit numbers and four-digit numbers is ridiculously large, and it can be demonstrated in the box garden. This is the most important reason why some gods and Buddhas in the box garden dare to say that the box garden is the Shura Amusement Park for gods and Buddhas.

A very small number of top four-digit numbers are even stronger than ordinary three-digit numbers, but it is too difficult to cheat the top three-digit numbers.

The gods and Buddhas in the box garden cannot dominate human history, but at least they take the initiative. There is no better way for human history except the “Final Trial of Humanity” where both parties perish together.

If those gods and Buddhas really want to fleece human history, and human history can easily support a four-digit strongman to beat them back, then is it possible that any god or Buddha would dare to say that the small garden is their amusement park?

The merit system of the box garden has guaranteed the right to survive for the lower class to a certain extent, but Su Qing really feels that the box garden still lacks the position of “law enforcer”, or at least lacks the experience of being an “law enforcer”.

With that position, human history can be equal to the core of the box garden, instead of what it is now. Faced with the distribution of interests proposed by the core of the box garden, only when it can no longer be refused can it give birth to the final trial of mankind and express its intention to tear up the contract – and give the core of the box garden a chance to correct it. As long as the distortion caused by the final trial of mankind can be smoothed out, everyone can continue to live their lives and continue to cooperate.

Although the results were not ideal.

All humans in the final trial were killed by humans because that was humans’ own behavior. After being converged by the core of the box garden, the result of ‘humans rejecting human history and the box garden tearing up the contract’ was passed to human history. According to the operating logic of human history, this result was accepted.

In a world where the people have not been fully enlightened, this kind of rhetoric is indeed useful.

The history of the box garden stopped at 2000 AD. Su Qing felt that it might have been done intentionally by someone who knew the inside story.

If we really push forward one or two hundred years, the level of education in the world, especially in Africa and Latin America, will be improved…

The human history at that time might not necessarily accept this kind of rhetoric, and would directly disagree with the outcome of the box garden’s ‘final trial of humans killing humans’.

Chapter 96

Adventurer’s Guild.

Looking at the scenery in the sky, Uranus’s face was full of confusion.

It’s not that they are obsessed with the death of colleagues they have been with for more than 100 million years. If it were humans, they would be enemies for decades, and if one of them died, the other would probably be obsessed or even sad.

But that was either because they understood and accepted each other during the process of being enemies, or because they were not entangled for the other person, but because the other person’s death reminded them of their youth over the past few decades.

Gods do not occupy either side and have eternal life, which means they are destined not to be sentimental about the past, even if that past is unreasonably long compared to themselves.

If an ordinary person thinks that he can live to be a hundred years old, when his enemy who he has been hostile to for fifty years dies, he will inevitably sigh when he thinks about his own life, which has already occupied half of his life.

Hundreds of millions of years is the age of the gods from their birth to the present. They have been living with someone they don’t like for hundreds of millions of years, and in the end, that person died… Gods are creatures that usually only get excited.

Maybe there will be billions or even hundreds of billions of years of good life in the future. Who will care about the lives of those who they don’t like?

Uranus was worried about something else.

“…The task you left for me is a little difficult, right?”

Uranus sighed and shook his head helplessly.

In the upper realm, they had the situation roughly under control, and with their deliberate actions, the remaining gods of fun in the sky could not cause much trouble.

The key is the underworld. Originally, the prestige of the gods was too high, but once the evidence that the gods can use their power in the underworld came out, this incident certainly hit the prestige of the gods…

But this is really hard to explain, especially since he is actually a god.

Fortunately, in the future, gods can use their power to a certain extent without having to worry too much. When faced with doubts, they can just use their power to speak – it’s not about using their power to destroy anyone. Gods use their divine duties to make the underworld have good weather and harvests, etc., which is both useful to the underworld and demonstrates their power. How could there be people without eyes who would question the gods?

The people who are most unwilling to allow others to question the gods are those who have received the gods’ favor. Without the gods helping them with good weather, blessing the land and developing technology, are they going to rely on those noobs who can only question?

For most people, whether their ancestors were deceived or played around by gods is far more important than whether they can make a profit themselves.

——Having said that, Uranus still hopes that the mechanism of the gods sealing their divine power in the mortal world can continue for a period of time.