People are in the moon, The Sims - #132 - Chapter 132

Chapter 462: Prometheus

When Prometheus and Athena ordered the creation of animals and humans, Epimetheus was responsible for giving each animal good instincts. He gave courage to the lion, the ability to run fast to the rabbit, and sensitivity to His eyesight was given to the eagle, thus giving all his good talents to the animals one by one.

But he had only hindsight and failed to take into account all his creations. By the time humans arrived, there was nothing left for them to rely on for survival.

Therefore, humans are neither the bravest nor the fastest in the animal kingdom, nor the strongest and most ferocious.

Therefore, Epimetheus also symbolizes the ignorance of mankind. The early days of human life when they have nothing are extremely difficult. It is precisely because of this that Prometheus decided to use his wisdom to help mankind, which can be regarded as a sacrifice for his younger brother. To atone for certain mistakes and sins.

So when the gods needed faith, Prometheus led humans to make offerings to the gods in exchange for the gods’ gifts and blessings. However, the abilities of humans who relied on the gods were limited after all. Now they offer sacrifices to the gods. of sacrifices. Slight deficiencies have already appeared. If this continues, problems will occur sooner or later.

After all, if humans dedicated all their food to the gods, what would they eat themselves? Although he watched these children grow up, then human beings are equivalent to his children. Parents always dote on their children, unless the child only brings resentment and pain to themselves. Obviously in the eyes of Prometheus, Not so with these humans.

Going to the beach to think is also so as not to affect those cute children, although humans may not be considered cute in the eyes of the gods.

Compared with the humans in the golden age according to rumors, the humans in this era really look a bit ugly.

At this time, Prometheus seemed to see a human being pushed over by the waves on the sea. Isn’t this terrible? Prometheus did not think that this was an artificial god of machines. After all, they were essentially foreign mechanical gods. All gods had a fixed amount, and a new god might be born at will.

At least the gods have not mastered this skill yet. Perhaps before this era passes, the power and omnipotence of the gods are all controlled by the current gods, and new gods can be born.

Those newly created gods are most likely created by the current mystery that split part of its own core and became more proficient in the use of human faith to share its own pressure.

It’s just that he seems to have never seen the human being in front of him. After all, human beings have not yet developed to the city-state era. All human beings live under the nose of this prophet. Prometheus can be sure that the human being in front of him is at least not a bronze one. People of the era.

Are they the remnants of the Silver Age?

If that’s the case, how should the people of the Silver Age, who were like demons, deal with this person?

The young man opened his eyes at the beach, and then slowly climbed up. He had light golden hair, light blue eyes, and his personal temperament was completely different from that of humans in the Silver Age. He looked extremely clear.

Prometheus came to the young man’s side and looked him up and down. He didn’t notice it when he was far away. Now that he was close, why did he feel a familiar aura from the young man in front of him?

“Your name, boy.”

The young man raised his head and looked at the man in front of him. Although he had his own memories in his mind, the young man’s knowledge of this era was almost blank. The only thing he understood was that his body could be regarded as a robot, and his colleagues were in the sea. The first evolution is completed.

Where is this place and how far has the times developed? These all need to be understood slowly.

However, it can be seen that this place should be Europe. Considering his current physical condition, maybe he can be called, “Ion Lus…just call me Ion.”

“Ion?”

Prometheus took off his robe from his body and threw it to the boy in front of him. Asking the young man to cover his body, he continued to ask without leaving any trace, “Where did you come from?”

Ion shook his head gently, “Sorry, I don’t remember it anymore, but this body was indeed born on this land.”

Prometheus wanted to say something profound, but he heard the voice of others calling. He looked at the young man in front of him, but he couldn’t tell the details of this young man, so he should keep him with him for now.

“Master Prophet! Sacrifice to the gods will be carried out tonight! But our sacrifices are still missing a little bit, what should we do?”

Prometheus narrowed his eyes and took a breath. His intelligent brain was spinning rapidly, and then he thought of a solution that was not a solution.

The Titan’s son was determined to use his wisdom to deceive the gods.

He killed a large bull on behalf of his creation and asked the gods to choose the part they liked. He cut the sacrificial bull into pieces and divided them into two piles: one pile was filled with meat, offal and fat, covered with cowhide, and the belly of the cow was placed on top; the other pile was filled with cow bones and wrapped in cow suet. Get up, this pile is bigger than the other pile.

During the night sacrificial ceremony, the two separated piles of beef were placed on the high platform. In addition, there were other animals that were used as sacrifices.

Of course, it was not just this part of Zeus that was dedicated to the gods. Basically, everyone prepared their own sacrifices separately.

When night falls, the flames light up.

Storms and lightning blew in the sky, and the shadows of gods slowly fell from the sky. In this era, cattle were very precious human labor tools, and people in this era had not yet fully realized the raising and breeding of animals. , so even Zeus was embarrassed to accept the two bull sacrifices at once.

Zeus would choose the sacrifice that seemed larger.

However, the larger sacrifice actually consisted of unpalatable butter and a pile of bones.

Zeus can allow humans to sacrifice him inadequately due to time and ability issues, at least they have experienced it, and at the same time sincerely request themselves.

But if you’re deceiving…what’s the difference between humans in this era and humans in the Silver Age?

“Prometheus, is this what you taught humans? As a punishment for deceiving the gods, I will take back the fire given to humans and never give it again!”

Chapter 463: Prometheus steals fire

The joyful celebration stopped at this moment because the entire human settlement in the village had fallen into darkness. The eternal fire that had been burning in the middle of the tribe and the flames in every household were all destroyed by this great god. Collect it in the palm of your hand.

Standing among the crowd, Ion Lus also understood what kind of era and what kind of world he had entered. However, this world was still somewhat different from the world he knew. However, the great God Zeus in front of him was like That’s how he remembered it, but it would be wrong to say that the great god in front of him was a complete machine god.

It seems that the gods of this world have been transformed from machines into beings made of faith, like real gods.

The way the gods now exist is almost exactly the same as the way the Egyptian gods existed in my memory. It is even more problematic than the Egyptian gods. After all, they rely on faith. If one day faith is cut off, only the core gods will remain. What’s the difference between dying and dying? If you think about it carefully, Greek mythology is a myth with no ending.

Who knows what happened to the last god in the end?

Calculating the time, in addition to the main god, which gods should be born soon. Before the age of heroes comes, before the bronze humans become extinct, it seems that I can take away a good priesthood. With the addition of the second generation god Titan has been suppressed. This era is a good era of tearing apart faith and authority.

After all, at the very beginning, those mechanical god fans who came from space did not have clergy themselves, just because their own body’s abilities and functions were initially divided into powers under the belief of human beings.

Although it is not clear what exactly faith is in this era? Perhaps it is a special power composed of human consciousness and the magic used by their own subconsciousness, but in short, the emergence of faith definitely gives all kinds of lives the opportunity to challenge the authority of the gods.

This is the Age of Gods, the age of ancient mysteries, and nothing that happens is surprising.

As humans begin to colonize this planet, the alaya consciousness begins to awaken. As one of the inhibitory forces, the alaya consciousness will naturally affect the evolution of the planet itself.

In other words, this fantasy world itself is like this. Such a fantasy world will not affect the development of reality and history. In this way, it does not matter what kind of laws and development the entire fantasy world has. It does not matter if you let yourself go a little bit. relation.

Ion’s thoughts are unknown to others, because everyone at this moment has fallen into the chaos of the flame being withdrawn. This does not mean that it can be solved by drilling wood to make fire after the flame is withdrawn, because Zeus has withdrawn this land. The concept of fire is like placing a curse on this land.

Unless the concept of fire is brought back to this land from Mount Olympus.

Otherwise Bronze Age people would no longer have access to fire.

Flame is often the place where civilization begins. Without the flame, humans in the Bronze Age will not be able to move forward. It is destined to die in the long river of time. A smart god like Prometheus could not have imagined that now How could this god be able to bear the sight of his own child about to perish due to his own reasons?

At this moment, Prometheus had no time to think about the identity of Ion who drifted from the sea. Looking at the panicked humans and the humans who were attacked by wild beasts, Prometheus made a decision.

He’s already bold enough anyway, so it doesn’t matter if he’s a little bolder now.

The fact that he deceived Zeus had already damaged the relationship between himself and Zeus, and this rift did not seem to be repairable.

When one day Zeus can’t stand him, it’s time for him to die or fall into eternal sleep.

If you don’t do it, you won’t stop! He was going to do one more thing that would offend Zeus.

Prometheus tried to remedy this mistake by taking a branch of the woody fennel, walking to the sun chariot, and holding the branch into its flames as it raced across the sky until it burned.

He descended to the earth with this fire and brought it to humans. Immediately the first pillars of jungle fire rose to the sky. Then Zeus was furious and ordered the God of Fire to give Prometheus the severest punishment.

But Hephaestus, the god of fire, admired Prometheus very much and said quietly to him, “As long as you admit your mistake to Zeus and return the fire, I will definitely ask Zeus to forgive you.”

Prometheus shook his head, his expression very firm. As the god of prophets, as the being responsible for calculating the future in the entire fleet, and as the being closest to humans at present, Prometheus does not regard himself as a superior god. , not to mention that while being a god, he was also the great father of mankind in this Bronze Age.

“As a father, what’s wrong with benefiting mankind! I can endure all kinds of pain, but I will never admit my mistakes, let alone return the fire!”

The god of fire did not dare to disobey Zeus’s order, so he took Prometheus to the Caucasus Mountains and tied him to a steep cliff with an iron chain that could never be broken, so that he could never sleep, nor could his tired knees. Curved, there was a diamond nail nailed on his undulating chest.

In addition, Zeus sent an eagle to eat Prometheus’s liver every day. The liver was eaten during the day, but it would grow back at night. In this way, the pain suffered by Prometheus would be endless. Despite this, Prometheus did not give in.

Not only that, Prometheus lined up, and Zeus made a prophecy: Build a body with faith. You asked me for my opinion. Before abandoning the original body, I made one last calculation and got many results, but there was one ending that made I find it very interesting. Just like you led the fleet to overthrow the Titan, one day, you will also be overthrown by your children.

It is unknown whether this child refers to the child mentioned in people’s legends and beliefs, or whether he is a god he created later.

It’s not even sure whether this sentence was meant to tease Zeus.

In Ion’s view, after these gods formed their own bodies with faith, the rationality that was originally unique to machine gods was seriously affected. These gods who originally viewed everything rationally became more like humans. For gods, understanding Humanity may not be an entirely good thing.

Chapter 464: Pandora’s Box

In such an era, because the daily life is similar, sometimes in the blink of an eye, you find that so much time has passed. Since Prometheus was locked in the Caucasus Mountains, the original human tribe has It was moved not far from the foot of this mountain to commemorate this human prophet.

It has been decades since human tribes came here to develop.

With the flame regained, human civilization is naturally moving forward steadily. For the small tribes before, now human civilization has shown signs of city-states.

Ion has been staying in this tribe for many years. In the initial stage of the budding civilization, it is a good opportunity to occupy the humanistic side of faith. In order to avoid duplicating the existing gods, Ion thought for a long time and prepared to start from education and growth. Let’s start with this aspect, and let yourself be the first “acquired” god of Olympus.

After starting this simulation, Ion had a hunch that he needed to actively master all kinds of authority as much as possible, and use this mechanical body to create the original power. From this point of view, as long as he wanted to complete With this goal, dealing with the gods is already an avoidable fact.

I have seen the importance of faith to the gods, and that there will definitely be human faith in the future. But after more gods appear, the future of this world will definitely have the theme of faith war. The originally rational spirit Being completely influenced by human beliefs, after entering the human world, the good and evil of humans will affect these gods.

If I remember correctly, it is clearly stated in all Greek myths that when the age of bronze passes, the age of heroes arrives, and finally, the age of black iron is destined to come to the side of humans and gods.

According to legend, this generation of humans is completely depraved, greedy, arrogant, and advocating violence.

The superiors disrespect heaven and the inferiors bully all living beings; fathers are unkind and sons are unfilial; brothers kill each other and friends are dishonest; liars gain power and good people are wronged; human life is full of sins, and God keeps sending new disasters.

Astraea, the goddess of justice, sadly covered her face with a white robe and fled the world forever, turning into a distant constellation of virgins. Only pain and despair, the goddess of revenge, were rampant on the earth, and chaos and disaster dominated this generation. Humanity.

Think about the future historical development of this land… maybe this prediction can be called appropriate?

There is always a malicious side in human nature. Don’t even the gods have gods who can control these negative emotions? Whether it is the goddess of revenge, the goddess of injustice, or the goddess of strife, human beliefs contain such emotions, and after they begin to affect the gods, the gods will also start wars like the kingdoms on the earth.

Ion’s plan went very smoothly. After all, after the prophet god was chained on the cliff, his vision of the future and his memory were not blurred. He is indeed the smartest among humans in this era. .

These years of open classrooms, coupled with the fact that I don’t look aging at all, have indeed made people of this era have a certain belief in themselves, and relying on these beliefs, they can indeed feel that they are beginning to give birth to something other than magic and technology. strength.

For humans, life now can be considered peaceful, but this peace did not last long.

On this day, Epimetheus brought a woman, a very beautiful woman, more beautiful than anyone in the city-state. This beauty was even a bit unreal.

There was also a box that came here with the woman. This box was extremely exquisite and full of high-tech feeling. It seemed that it should be the technology brought by the mechanical gods who came across the star sea. In addition, it also had magical powers. The breath, and that part of oneself has just given birth to the breath of power in the body.

Ion knew who the woman who suddenly appeared was. She was the wife of Epimetheus, the belated person given by the gods, and Pandora, the disaster brought to mankind.

Obviously Prometheus had warned his brother many times not to receive any gifts from the gods, but this guy was still moved the first time he saw this woman.

To punish humans for regaining the flame.

At the command of Zeus, the gods each gave a gift to a doll: Aphrodite showered her with beauty that drove men crazy; Hera gave her curiosity, the goddess Athena gave her ignorance, He also taught women to weave and create beautiful clothes of various colors, making women look more colorful and charming; Hermes, the messenger of God, taught her the talent of language, that is, the talent of lying; Zeus gave this female a name.

Zeus gave Pandora a sealed box filled with disasters, disasters, plagues, etc., and asked her to give it to the man who married her.

Pandora’s biggest shortcoming is curiosity. Ever since she got married, she has been constantly trying to open the little boxes sent by the gods, but Epimetheus has to beware of her curiosity at all times.

Ion held the clay tablet book in his hand and saw that all the children were going crazy because of this woman. He couldn’t help but shook his head and sighed in a low voice, “Cherish the life you have now, otherwise disaster will come.” Here, if you are involved in the disaster… you can only become a dead soul in the underworld.”

Because if I remember correctly, in the legend, Zeus finally asked the sea god Poseidon to cause a great flood, which submerged everything on the ground. Only Deucalion and his wife survived, and then they used stones and soil as bones. Meat, a new human being was born, and then the age of heroes began.

Whether these children remember what they said, whether they can maintain their conscience in the coming disaster, and whether they can survive the flood later is not their own business.

One day, Pandora’s curiosity got the better of everything. After she waited for her husband to go out, she opened the box. As a result, a cloud of smoke rushed out, releasing all the bad gifts. The panicked Pandora immediately closed the box, which also locked the last words of the gods against the people of the Bronze Age. Kindness, that is hope.

If hope is also released, in this world of plague, war and chaos, perhaps people can still find a glimmer of a bright future, which is what Athena, who created mankind in this era, hopes to see.

From this point of view, Pandora is truly a disaster to mankind.

Seeing the black mysterious substance floating into the sky today, Ion stopped lecturing in the classroom and said, “That’s it for today’s class. Remember, you must stick to your heart.”

Chapter 465: Ice, Snow, Frost and the Power of Winter

Standing on the coast, Ion looked at the gloomy sky and the surging waves, and gently shook his head. This day has finally come.

From the day Pandora released the disaster, Ion chose to leave and began to travel this land. He began to communicate with the elves born in this land and learned about the special features of this land and this world. In the process, Ion also saw The humans who have arrived in many other areas are all tribes that migrated from the original city-state of Prometheus.

At the same time, I also saw those gods secretly protecting some human beings. On the one hand, these people can give them faith, and on the other hand, when the heroic age comes in the past Bronze Age, they can also speed up the recovery of human civilization and provide them with more information as soon as possible. Much power of faith. It can also save you a few steps in the battle for faith in the future.

After all, going from 1 to 2 is much easier than going from 0 to 1. The former can be achieved by just advancing time, while the latter requires a process of starting from scratch.

Looking at it this way, the future flood that destroyed the Bronze Age was more like giving the gods a similar starting line, thus forcibly ending the unhappy game round that had already offended them.

During this period, conflicts and wars between humans began to become more and more frequent. Even a small village may be divided into several small groups that are constantly at odds with each other. Diseases have also caused many weak people to There is nothing wrong with saying that this is a dark age when people are sick.

It was heard that Deucalion had begun building ships under the command of his father, and others were laughing at this young man who collected food and built ships.

If it weren’t for the fact that humans still remember some of Prometheus’ kindness, I am afraid that the food collected by Deucalion would also become the fuse of the dispute.

At this beach, the sky has been cloudy for several days. Compared with before, the sea water has risen to an incredible level in a short period of time today. The big flood that will clean the game field and chessboard is coming, but I am. He is not too afraid of the big flood that submerges the land. What his body gained when he first evolved was the adaptability of the sea.

Let alone a flood, I can move freely even in the depths of the ocean abyss.

As for why you are here? It was because Ion was prepared to take this opportunity to gain a power for himself, a power and priesthood that had never been obtained by anyone throughout Greek mythology.

If you want to achieve the goal that you vaguely feel in your heart, you cannot choose to give in from the beginning.

Above the sea, the god holding a trident slowly flew up from the raging waves. On the body and the trident in his hand, you could still see some shadows of technology that transcended the times. With the waving of the trident, the raging waves finally moved towards The land is quickly eroding away.

Following the valley and the road opened by people, the sea instantly covered the land and flooded the town. The people who had been in conflict over some trivial matters could only scream in the raging flood, and for some who had long ago because of For people who are tortured by illness and whose life is worse than death, this may be a relief.

The sea climbed towards the mountains as if it violated the rules. All the mountain peaks were swallowed up by the sea water, leaving only the top of the towering Caucasus Mountains. Prometheus watched Pandora release the disaster and let Prometheus watch. Michus watched as the flood flooded the palace’s heart, and his move could be considered an attack on the heart, and it was considered cruel.