Crow's Paradise

After the shadow that formed his body gradually stabilized, Yao Yan began to move, looking for the stars that made him feel closest to him.

However, during this process, he felt familiar——

Among the stars reflected in this starry sky, there are abilities that he is familiar with.

However, after feeling it carefully, he found that it was not consistent.

After carefully planning his route, he began to capture the reflections of the stars.

As stars were fished out one after another, he

After decades of living in this world, the results should be considered "good"?

one two three four

He tries his best to choose stars that are big and make him feel "close".

When he fished for the fourth one, his body was already very close to the water.

Originally, his judgment was that he should be able to fish out this one, but when he got here, he realized that his judgment was wrong.

There is only one target left.

His claws reached out to the reflection of another star next to him that was half smaller.

Failure to maximize returns.

At this time, he should have a "pity" judgment, right?

As he sank into the water, he couldn't help but think.

Gray, countless chaotic but "similar" street scenes emerge in the field of vision.

As soon as he regains consciousness, he will use the transformation ability of [Rumor] to transform his appearance into the posture of a black and white strange crow.

However, it was at this time that he discovered that his appearance had changed slightly.

reason?

The ability of the core ability [Rumor] allows him to change the appearance of the ability crow to the appearance of other ability crows.

To be precise, the process is "referring to a certain part of the body and transforming the shape of another part."

If something goes wrong now, then is there something wrong with my ability?

It shouldn't be because he was almost wiped out by the will of the world.

When he was on the water in the starry sky, there was nothing unusual about the body he reconstructed.

Is it the shadow of the stars that was fished out?

However, at this moment, a figure appeared in his field of vision.

In the distance, under the shadow of the street corner, a standing rat looked at him.

Lao Jia.

At this moment, the other party was standing there, watching him quietly.

After flapping his wings, he flew in front of the other party.

Looking at his appearance, Lao Jia quickly withdrew his gaze. At the same time, he stretched out his hand and handed out a fruit:

"You'll need it."

However, this time, Yao Yan did not take the fruit. He looked at the other party and asked aloud:

"Why?"

Lao Jia said nothing.

"Did I not speak clearly enough?"

Yao Yan will continue to speak out.

However, at this moment, Lao Jia answered the question:

"You have no target to exploit."

"oh."

Yao Yan nodded, this reason was in line with his judgment.

When Lao Jia saw his reaction, he seemed to confirm something:

"Sure enough, you have no goal."

"No goal? This judgment is incorrect. I have a goal."

The crow's wings flapped, and Yao Yan questioned this judgment:

"I want to understand the history of what happened during the years I was asleep."

After hearing this, Lao Jia just turned around and started walking along the shadows of the street:

"History? Are you sure what you want to know is history? Do you 'think'?"

His voice reached Yao Yan's ears.

Yao Yan flapped his wings and flew behind him:

"When you say 'want', you mean 'will', right?"

"You can understand that."

"Then I really have no intention of doing this actively."

After his answer, Lao Jia stopped.

The rat-like eyes looked at Yao Yan, and the somewhat cloudy eyes looked at him like this:

"You have no goals, no desires, or even consciousness to speak of."

"So, what am I doing now? Why am I talking to you?"

Lao Jia was silent for a moment:

"With gravity crashing into a container made of memories, it doesn't mean there is a self."

Yao Yan could understand what the other person was saying.

If the memories of Yao Yan during his lifetime are compared to rivers and a body of water, then the current "Yao Yan" is aimlessly moving with the current in this river of memory.

The flow of water is "logic" and water is "memory".

Lao Jia believed that he just followed the "memory of Yao Yan" and the "logic of Yao Yan" and drifted with the trend.

Yao Yan's memory and logic have stopped.

"Yao Yan" is dead.

However, he had no idea or reason to refute this point.

Being denied or even killed could not touch his emotions.

Whether it is Yao Yan or not is not important to him, or even meaningless.

"According to the logic in my memory, I should be angry at this time."

"According to the logic in my memory, you should be angry at this time."

Before Yao Yan was about to speak, Lao Jia was the first to speak up.

Looking at him, Yao Yan said:

“Do you have the ability to read what other people are thinking?”

However, after hearing this sentence, Lao Jia's eyes became more gloomy:

"It's really straightforward, but it also proves that you don't care about memory and the content of memory. Even if someone modifies your memory, it doesn't matter to you, right?"

indeed.

It doesn't matter if you lose your memory, it doesn't matter if you lose anything.

He doesn't have any "self-motivation".

There is no desire to let others drive you.

He will not feel fear or rejection of stopping activities because of biological instincts and the physiological judgment that "stopping activities = death".

If I have to say it, it should be called:

"According to the logic in my memory, I would think so."

Oh, by the way, there’s a good analogy.

An "observer".

An observer who silently observes everything happening.

Even if someone wants to kill him, he won't feel any touch.

It was just the memory and logic of his "body" that input this reaction and came to a conclusion of "resistance".

Even if it is "thinking", this behavior is because he has "memory" and "logic", because "memory" and "logic" are the process of going through the program.

To be precise, if he were given a different set of memories and logic, he would just go with the flow.

He has no drive.

And this means that he can act in any way.

Even if it means "denying yourself", that's okay.

The subject of his thinking can be "I", "you", "him" or anything.

It doesn't matter whether it is "Yao Yan" or not.

"Oh, indeed, such a thing is very dangerous for you, right?"

Through memory and logic, Yao Yan's "thinking" came to a conclusion.

After hearing these words, Lao Jia looked at him deeply:

"Yes, so you have no target and can be used. If I say that I want to modify your memory and let you do things for me, how will you react?"

"If you can do it, then do it. However, the answer is the same to everyone."

After hearing this sentence, Lao Jia's eyes changed slightly:

"Are you really at the effect level?"

ps: To put it figuratively, the protagonist is like an electric current that can be used to use any machine.

When poured into a "rice cooker", the protagonist and the rice cooker are integrated, and can also be regarded as a part of the rice cooker.

Pour it into other electrical appliances, and the protagonist will have the same attitude.

Strictly speaking, the protagonist has no "subject" at all.

I really want to write this kind of protagonist, but with my ability, I can’t write it.

Therefore, the protagonist is put into the shell of "Yao Yan" and described by letting him observe and "control" the actions of this "shell" from a third-person "God's perspective".

Well, this idea was also a "follow-up" that came about because the "third person" setting was not implemented well when I was writing Silver Crow.

Speaking of which, this perspective is actually quite "divine"?

A state between "there" and "nothing".

Oh, don’t tell me Descartes, my philosophical thinking is different from his, don’t try to convince me.

Different people have different experiences.

This is my point of view -

Everything you say is right.

Oh, it’s not a yin and yang thing, but my point of view is “anything goes”.

It can be understood as "it doesn't matter how you interpret consciousness" and "it doesn't matter what shape or structure consciousness has."

It's a pity that I can't be like the protagonist described in the book, who can't be affected by the body, nor can I ignore the concept of "I" and ignore my own subjectivity.

Even the reason why I have this idea may be due to the influence of curiosity and desire for knowledge, or a sense of superiority formed by grand narratives, coupled with effects such as self-interest and bias, including current self-analysis, or it may be based on a The pleasure that comes from "I am cleaning up the cause of my disease."

My ability is limited and I cannot fully analyze the reasons.

I have to say what I said before. For those who see this, if you are not interested in philosophy, you can skip it directly.

If you are interested in understanding philosophy, please understand it in full, listen to other people's retellings, and if you are able, look for the original version. No one is sure how much deviation there will be in this retelling and reinterpretation.

However, I may have been overly worried. The theme of this book is "rumors." If you have read this, you should be on guard against rumors.

But that’s not necessarily the case. After all, memories can become blurry, and forgetting is also a very dangerous point.

When making a "judgment", it is best to confirm whether your memory is correct.

Although the meme "Whoever keeps a serious person keeps a diary" is widely circulated.

However, because I am worried about memory errors, I will record my experiences and some thoughts.

In my experience, the truth is, my memory makes mistakes.

However, it is also a very tiring and tedious task to repeatedly confirm memories. Based on the human instinct to "save trouble" and save energy, people will subconsciously resist.

Every time I think of this, I want to sigh.

The advantages and disadvantages brought by "simplifying" this physiological mechanism are really loved and hated.

That's a lot to say, sorry.