All living beings in hell

Chapter 114 - God of Choice
The lotus lantern at the entrance was lit up, and the firm welcomed seven guests No.60.

Before the guest appeared, the voice had already come in: "My lord, you have two choices, would you choose the former or the latter?"

"I don't choose, you come in first."

The guest at the door laughed twice, opened the door and walked in.A dazzling golden light came in from the crack of the door, it was the light that belonged to the gods alone.

"It's a pleasure to meet you as a writer. My name is Acadia, and I am the god of choice from heaven. I have long heard that there are many anecdotes and anecdotes in hell, so I chose to come to hell to meet you."

It was only when the light on Arcadia's body dimmed a little that I could see his appearance clearly—white hair, white eyes, white eyelashes, and white skin that looked like it was coated with powder.Arcadia does not have the strong and well-developed muscles of the ancient Greek gods. On the contrary, his body is more like that of most humans—a flat male chest, a slightly protruding lower abdomen, and a layer of fat covering the muscles. The skin is a little loose.His pale nose was dotted with small brown freckles and there was a small scar on the brow bone.

"Arcadia, then why are you looking for me today?"

"Want to chat with you about your thoughts on the 'choice' thing."

"'Choice'? This question is too big, and I don't know how to start it. Let's talk about the God of Choice's duty first."

Arcadia grinned, and the inside of his mouth turned out to be blue.

"The responsibility of the god of choice, as the name suggests, lies in the 'choice' itself. I observe people's decision-making moments, give some inspiration and strength appropriately, and help people make 'choices' that will not make them regret later .”

"How do you know they won't regret it later?"

"Everyone has a list in mind, do you believe it?"

"Be specific."

"Maybe some people don't realize it, but as long as there is an emergency, people will always have the first thing to do. For example, escape, such as saving lives. The former is to put yourself at the top of the list, and the latter It's about putting the people who need to be saved first. You can call this a 'priority set' list, every human being has one.

The ordering on this list changes frequently.In fact, if it weren't for long-term special training, the ranking on the list should change all the time. "

"Long-term special training, what exactly do you mean?"

"The sense of faith brought by special types of work. For example, soldiers defend the country, firefighters put out fires, mothers protect children, people's teachers serve students, etc."

"So the sequence has to do with individual beliefs."

"Yes, this sequence has a lot to do with beliefs. Beliefs affect people's choices, whether they are alive or after death. Especially in the bardo stage after death. Many souls who come to hell That is to say, in the bardo stage, people lose their faith and make decisions that they regret. As the god of choice, my duty is to make people less likely to make decisions that they will regret in the future.”

"Why avoid making people regret it?"

"Because of the irreproducibility of time on earth, the emotion of regret does not have a great positive effect. Not only that, regret is also closely related to resentment, exhaustion, despair, anger, etc. In short, if people can avoid regretting If so, other gods can also avoid dealing with many negative emotions generated by other humans. Generally speaking, it is still beneficial to the development of the universe.”

"Wait, why do gods deal with negative emotions generated by humans?"

"Something like emotions exists in the three-dimensional world, and a large part exists in other dimensions. But most of the emotions that humans can feel exist only in the three-dimensional world, which is very limited. This means that in other dimensions The emotions embodied by the dimension will have a certain impact on human beings and the environment.

These influences are the parts that require gods to participate in the conversion process. It is difficult for human beings alone to deal with so many negative emotions. "

Arcadia spread his hands at this point: "I said so much, it doesn't mean that we gods don't have any negative emotions. We also have them, but because we don't have as many humans as humans, we can deal with them ourselves, and we all have negative emotions. The knowledge and the ability to deal with these emotions. And humans, most humans don't have that ability."

"A lot of people with depression, people with bipolar disorder will take some drugs. Is this considered treatment?"

"This can be regarded as the processing of the three-dimensional world. By blocking the nerve conduction of the body to prevent negative emotions from directly attacking the human body itself, its effect is quite limited. But it is still useful when first aid is necessary. After all, the physical body is very difficult for human beings. important."

"How do you generally bring inspiration and strength to human beings?"

Arcadia narrowed his eyes: "This is related to work secrets, I can say a little bit here. For example, helping to adjust the list of 'priority sequence sets' in the subconscious, such as giving the courage to continue to live when you are desperate Wait. The form you see me is not the form I work in, which is scary."

"What is it like?"

"Thousand eyes and thousands of hands, pervasive, omniscient. I receive a large amount of information in a microsecond, process it, and decide which human beings need help and what kind of help they need. Sometimes I call other gods to cooperate."

"It's kind of like the commander of the information department."

"It's the information department, but it's not the commander. We gods are all doing our own work, just like your hell officials. The boundaries of work are clearly defined, and many will not interfere, and we will do our best within a limited range."

"Then why do you want to talk to me about 'choice' today?"

"I'm trying to understand what the selection criteria for all beings are, and from what I've seen, your 'selection' criteria for everything is very different from most of the humans I've come into contact with. I want to know for what?"

"For what? For my own happiness."

"That's all?"

"Arcadia, the questions you ask are quite difficult to answer." I lightly touched the temple with the end of the quill. "As the god of choice, did you deliberately choose such difficult questions?"

Arcadia smiled: "Testing your sensitivity to the question is also one of my choices. It seems that you are very careful in answering the question."

"I'm afraid that I used the words improperly, causing misunderstanding."

"Let's put it this way, after I read your life before I came to see you, I probably understood some of your code of conduct, and some of the seemingly unreasonable decisions dragged you into some kind of vortex But you don't seem to care about being in the whirlpool, a little too much. I want to ask you, don't you have any regrets?"

"The whirlpool? What whirlpool? What do I regret?"

"You were living well in the world, why did you throw yourself into the huge vortex of hell? What kind of work will you do after writing? These are all things I am curious about, and I want to know your 'priority' What exactly is the 'sequence set' standard?"

"Is it important to you to know mine?"

"Important, because there are some human beings in the world who are similar to you. I often don't understand them, so I can't give timely guidance."

"I see. You want to find a 'commonality' in me. This 'commonality' may help you better understand some of the choices made by other human beings and the reasons behind them."

"exactly."

"Individuals are very different, and what I say may not be representative at all," I put down the quill, feeling a little helpless, "If you make me a representative of some kind of 'commonality', this kind of thing will be a headache to think about." For example, I am an official of hell, but I cannot represent the thoughts of all hell officials. Po Meng likes to go out and go shopping in the street, but I have no interest in it. I only like receiving guests and writing. This does not explain hell All officials like to walk the streets, or are all workaholics, aren't they?"

"But the accumulation of big data is very important to me, especially for the gods in charge of selection. As long as a certain amount of data is accumulated, the law can be discovered."

"The data should be changing all the time...or evolving. Maybe there are very general rules, but they can't be accurate to individuals."

"Yes and no, anyway, now I'm interested in your data." Arcadia's voice became domineering.

"Then I've already said that I do things according to whether I'm happy or not. I do it when I'm happy, and I don't do it if I'm not. It's very capricious."

"Then how do you know if you're happy? A sense of accomplishment? A reward? Money?"

"When I was in the world, I had all three."

"now what?"

"I don't know now, the mood is generally calmer now."

Arcadia was silent for a while, he looked dissatisfied: "So you don't plan to say it."

"I'm done."

"I don't understand what you said. Generally, it is because A causes B, and B achieves C, so this person has to do C, in order to get A, such a formula. How can someone do A for A? possible things."

"I don't understand what you're saying now, can you give an example."

Arcadia's voice became serious, like a college professor: "For example, someone wants love (A), so they want to date (B), and in order to fall in love (B), they go to a boyfriend (C). Now the addition of CBA is the formula of boyfriend + dating = love, which is a complete logical formula.

How can someone not fall in love with a boyfriend for the sake of love, thinking that love is enough?

There are many steps skipped in the middle, which is unreasonable.If there is only A, there will be no framework, no regulations, and no stable formula support.This is a motivational choice that defies human logic. "

"Oh, I understand your logic. First of all, there are a few points that I disagree with. The formula of C+B = A you mentioned is indeed a complete formula, and it has given certain frameworks and regulations to abide by, but this The formula is just logical.

Logic is used for calculus and reasoning, but logic cannot determine whether the existence of a thing is reasonable or not.

There are many people who fall in love for the sake of falling in love, and there are also many people who find a partner for the sake of having a partner.Not everyone is in a relationship or looking for a partner for love, is it?The motives of human beings are all kinds of strange things. If we only follow formulas, it is too unfree. "

"The one I said is just an example. What I don't understand is why, as a human being, I am doing A for A instead of CB."

"Look, how can you just say so hastily that I don't want CB?"

"So you, the writer, also want CB? Then why did you abandon everything so coolly and go to hell?"

"How many C and B that are truly compatible can bring A? There are only a handful of them, so let it go. You said that when I abandoned my physical body, it was not because I didn't care about CB, but because I didn't have a choice. The god of choice Look, I was already like that at the time, do I have any other better choices?"

"You can go to heaven, at least you don't have to stay in this cold hell."

"That's a personal preference, I'm someone who likes to get things done."

"So it's your 'priority set' to really get one thing in order?"

"As you said, things that require a good death often change. There are also some things that don't change, and the existence of some things doesn't change."

"What are those things?"

"A itself exists."

Arcadia repeated: "Yes, A itself exists."

I stretched and felt a little tired: "Okay, it's almost time today."

"Chatting with you is a pleasure!" Arcadia stood up and clapped his hands, "I finally know why Lucifer likes to chat with you."

"Oh? Lucifer?"

Arcadia spread the huge wings on its back, like the wings of a pterosaur, with a thin layer of skin membrane covering its skeleton structure.

"The relationship between our gods and demons may be better than human imagination."

"Goodbye, then," I said.

"Make your choice well."

The skylight opened, and Arcadia spread its giant wings and took off from the skylight.

(End of this chapter)