Kevin, but he is a male mother in Xingtie with little Ai Li

At the beginning, this mechanical creature even poured the entire cup of liquid into its mouth in one gulp, as if it was afraid that it would drink a little less. Now it frantically wanted to vomit out the liquid in its body, but sadly found that it did not have this ability at all.

"What a shame, it looks like this contestant's entry has failed."

On the stage, the host turned a blind eye to the miserable state of the mechanical creation. He shook his head silently and picked up the gray-black liquid on the other side.

Yes, the quality of this cup is even worse than the previous one. You can even see some insect limbs left in it... Its creator is a complete amateur in winemaking.

Soon, the horrible liquid was also poured into the mechanical mouth, causing the volume of its cursing voice to rise a few points, and the scene became very joyful for a while.

Unfortunately, the progress of this tragic feast was completely independent of the mood of this mechanical creature. As cup after cup of strange liquid was poured into its mouth, it gradually lost its initial vitality, which was still full of energy a few minutes ago.

Up to this point, only a small half of the hundreds of bottles of freshly brewed wine on the platform had been consumed.

"Hmm... Guys, it seems like brewing alcohol with bugs is a totally wrong decision?"

Looking at the mechanical creature at his feet that had almost collapsed into a ball, with even most of its tongue sticking out, as if it had already lost its life, the host on the podium couldn't help but touch his chin.

Obviously, this poor mechanical creature has completely lost the ability to taste wine. And more than a hundred glasses of failed products, doesn't that mean something is wrong?

You know, the tavern at the end of the world is full of brewing masters! How is it possible that they can't even make a glass of good beer? This must be a problem with the ingredients themselves, it must be like this.

Besides, now that their judges have died heroically, is he going to taste these deadly drinks by himself? Don't be kidding!

"Oh, this is really boring."

The host lowered his head, stamped his toes and began to whisper. He happened to see that the next glass of drink next to him was the one made by Kevin and others. It was a clear green drink that looked so tempting.

But what does it matter? Will he really be fooled and take a sip? What a joke! Who doesn't know that these masked fools love to deceive people? Who knows if this glass of wine that looks the most delicious is the one with the most additives?

No, no, he won't drink it. He absolutely won't drink it.

Just as the host was trying hard to think about how to end the winemaking competition in a perfect way, he was staring at the glass of green wine in deep thought, but suddenly he saw some chaotic ripples in it.

"Everyone, look, what is this! Why does this ripple look so much like a pattern with special meaning!"

He suddenly jumped up from the high platform, pointed at the cup of entries submitted by Kevin and others, and began to exclaim loudly. The originally unclear ripples in it were successfully stamped into a pattern visible to the naked eye by his kick.

At that moment, everyone in the room gathered on the rippling waves. Taking advantage of this moment, the host immediately shouted: "My intuition tells me that there is definitely a mysterious message hidden in these chaotic waves... This is the revelation of the God of Joy!"

The highest level of deceiving people is naturally to completely deceive oneself, so the host immediately started dancing on the podium, as if he was a fortune-teller who truly heard the call of the gods.

"What? Could the revelation from the God of Joy be so simple?"

"No! This is true. I have also received divine inspiration from Lord Aha. When I was taking a bath, the water in front of me suddenly began to ripple like that!"

"Hey, if you say that, I've seen it when I looked in the mirror!"

"Oh my god! I remember now, I saw it when I was in the bathroom!"

"......"

Soon, most of the Masked Fools in the tavern admitted that they had received divine revelations from the God of Pleasure, as if the old man was simply too bored to death and liked to go in whenever there was some fun.

Up to this moment, the only guys who had not admitted it were the two people next to Kevin.

Especially the clown mask, he looks very unhappy.

"Hey! The next cup is obviously our creation, what the hell is this guy doing?!"

"I don't think that was a revelation from the God of Joy, absolutely not!!!"

Chapter 264 You Believe It Must Be Zero Card

"..."

Although Kevin had no idea why this guy was so sure that this matter had absolutely nothing to do with the God of Joy, this did not prevent Kevin from staring at the other person with an extremely strange look.

He seriously suspected that the reason why this guy said such a thing was simply because his carefully prepared entry was skipped before the test even began.

But then again, as a believer of the God of Joy, isn't this guy's respect for the old man "Joy" a little too shallow? Well... maybe all believers of "Joy" are like this.

After all, it has only been less than a few minutes, and thousands of Masked Fools in the entire tavern have admitted the fact that they have been favored by the God of Pleasure. The examples they listed are even more bizarre. Is there anything more unreliable in the world than this?

"According to this calculation, this Joy is indeed the most leisurely person in the universe."

Kevin, who was standing in a corner with his arms folded, looked at the tavern that was becoming increasingly chaotic due to the exchanges and quarrels between the Masked Fools and suddenly made a comment that was unclear whether it was good or bad.

Of course, this evaluation seems to be quite appropriate when used in the current scenario?

"It doesn't matter. I don't care about these things."

Like Kevin, he crossed his arms over his chest, but leaned against the wall with his back, looking even more indulgent, and Qianjie suddenly added.

He always wears a mask no matter where he is, enjoys fighting for fun, and even loves to laugh... Is there anyone in the world more suitable to be the Masked Fool than Qianjie?

It's a pity that you, a born masked fool, don't seem to have much respect for your old leader either.

"Hey! How can you say that? This is not a good habit!"

The masked clown beside them glanced at them in dissatisfaction, and then quickly turned his attention to the masked fools who were arguing over different ideas, and sighed in a low voice: "I really envy them for having such an open-minded star god, otherwise they wouldn't be like this now... Yeah, I'm serious."

He said this as if he himself was not some masked fool.

But in fact, the Masked Fool's evaluation of "joy" is indeed very high. They say that even the "Masked Fool" will seriously sing praises to the Star God they follow - because He will never give up on you, never let you down, never abandon you, never let you cry, never say goodbye to you, and never hurt you with lies.

From this perspective, that Joy is indeed a "good Star God" that is hard to find even with a lantern. But judging from Kevin's two encounters with Him, this description is probably quite exaggerated.

Kevin admitted that he gambled a lot, but not much.

However, it is understandable that believers would praise the gods they believe in. This at least proves that the reputation of "Joy" is indeed good. In any case, it is much better than "Destruction" which is the enemy of the whole world, and "Abundance" which is hated by everyone.

Soon, the noisy discussions of the Masked Fools around gradually turned into a series of quarrels one after another - these guys now all believed that they were the chosen ones of the God of Joy, and of course, the people who knew the God of Joy best.

Therefore, almost every one of them has a very unique opinion about the patterns in the cup: some think that this is the God of Joy's remembrance of them; some think that this is the God of Joy encouraging hybridization experiments with insects; some even say that this is asking them to use insects to develop more novel foods... Well, the Masked Fool who made this suggestion was finally kicked out by everyone.

After about dozens of seconds, Kevin began to clearly feel that the time around him had a familiar sense of acceleration again - the ups and downs of the quarrels began to be as faint as the buzzing of insects in his ears, and even the movements in his eyes gradually became blurred.

To some extent, this is probably because the simulated universe cannot accurately infer the original situation, so it is treated so vaguely?

Of course, these meaningless arguments are not that important.

As a replacement, the familiar subtitle scene soon appeared in front of Kevin -

[As the insect tide swept through the tavern at the end of the world, the Masked Fools were obsessed with researching how to make wine with insects, which was an unimaginable pioneering feat...]

[Just as the competition gradually entered a white-hot stage, chaotic ripples suddenly appeared in the wine glass. The fools argued about the pattern for three days and three nights, and finally believed that this was Aha's revelation: Stop drinking and go help the gods! ]

[But was that really Aha's revelation? You have no way of knowing, and it is probably not; but Aha later admitted this and gave dozens of ways to help the gods! The masked fools immediately took action. They stole the gondola of the mourning actor and accidentally took away a group of unknown guests hiding at the bottom of the ship. The voyage was not smooth, and there were constant infighting: your team checked the routes one by one, and tried their best not to be fooled by Aha - when you realized it, the ship was already filled with enthusiastic people from various worlds and factions, and the fools were gone. ]

[The Masked Fools did a good deed that saved the world! They will sing about it in taverns for thousands of years!]

【At this time on the gondola, each party has its own opinion on how to help the gods. You are constantly pulling and entangled on the road, constantly trying to win over each other and betraying each other! You always tamper with the next day's travel plan at night, and you never stop doing it! 】

[Finally one day, you suddenly realize that such behavior is meaningless. Dozens of factions from different beliefs on the gondola hold their own opinions, but none of them actually know where the gods are. ]

[You try to get away from this gondola, but sadly find that you are just a digital life constructed by simple words. This attempt is meaningless.]

[Knowing the truth of the world, you began to hide yourself, until a certain voyage brought you into the Memory Gallery, and a strange girl gave you a Memory Bubble, and you felt a strange curiosity about her. ]

[...You struggled for a while, and finally...couldn't help it...and licked it! The bubble was cold, gelatinous, and tasteless. Your tongue left a light impression on it, and soon it returned to its original shape...Your curiosity was satisfied.]

【But you believe it must be zero calories. 】

Chapter 265 "Night outside the fire"

"..."

Looking at the characters in front of him and the constantly changing scenes around him, Kevin inevitably fell into a long silence.

He would never believe or admit that he would really do something like this. He probably thought that the Black Tower had already set up fixed scenes in the simulated universe, so the scene before him appeared.

If you want to deduce a story that is complete and as close to reality as possible, then in addition to the inevitable cause and effect relationship, you naturally have to fill it with a reasonable process, so that the structure of this story can gradually be complete.

Of course, Kevin still felt that there was no need to taste the memory bubble, because he would never do such a thing - the only way to use this thing was not to swallow it.

Well...but he's also probably curious about what's lurking within.

But soon, Kevin no longer had time to daydream, because the subtitles in front of him had already reached the critical point after several changes -

[...After the episode, you returned to your daily routine. Until you fell into delirium after encountering the wing powder of stinging insects. In the chaos, an unknown guest accidentally somersaulted and accidentally pressed the button to go to the Elidishina star field.]

[Afterwards, when people asked him about it, Wumingke always answered: That was the greatest decision he had ever made in his life for development.]

[After sailing for several Amber Ages, the earliest crew members have died, and their descendants have grown old. Guided by the ripples in the wine glass, the gondola finally arrived at the end of the voyage: the Ilaidishina star field.]

[However, during these several Amber Age voyages, the initial memories had long been lost, and the complicated factions made it impossible for them to distinguish one from another - in short, they never discovered that there was an existence that had not changed at all from the beginning to the end.]

[...You got off the boat. ]

The blurred boundary gradually disappeared, and the surrounding images began to flicker. When Kevin was finally able to perceive his surroundings clearly again, he found himself standing on a piece of reddish-brown scorched earth.

A few hundred years was not enough to completely erase all traces of a civilization - so Kevin could still see countless barren iron sheets sticking out of the ground. Perhaps they were once extremely tall and glorious, but now they were just proof of their existence.

At the same time, the simulated universe also thoughtfully simulated the huge gondola and dozens of factions living on it for Kevin. When they realized the desolation of the planet, they began endless accusations and quarrels.

Honestly, this situation looked really boring. And Kevin couldn't find either Qianjie or the Joker Mask. I guess, just as the subtitle said, all the Masked Fools had disappeared long ago.

Just when Kevin was about to use his senses to search for any living creatures on the planet, he suddenly realized that there was a human with a twisted ankle in front of him...?

He just lay on a tall piece of iron sheet, staring blankly at the sky with his empty eyes, as if he was staring at something.

But when Kevin looked up, he could only see a dark sky - it was obvious that such an action was meaningless.

It was as if...his presence here was meaningless, and his life was also meaningless.

Wait, why did he suddenly have such an idea? Kevin never thought that anyone's life was meaningless, right? !

"Don't pay too much attention to him. He is a 'self-destructor'. Be careful not to be too influenced by him. This may cause some trauma to your mental state."

Suddenly, Black Tower's voice echoed in Kevin's ears, and before he could even ask, he continued, "As for what the 'self-annihilators' are...most of them are extremists who have been affected by 'nothingness'. Think about it, they have already understood the ultimate secrets of the universe, so why would they still care about so many things?"

It is obvious that Ms. Heita's last sentence is completely ironic.

Kevin certainly knew about the existence of the Star God of Nothingness, but he had never figured out what the meaning of such an existence was - even if the Star God was limited to the philosophical concepts known to humans, Nothingness was obviously not an object that could be easily understood like destruction and hunting.

So what does the so-called "nothingness" represent? In the thousands of years of continuous exploration in modern civilization, Kevin has indeed heard such a saying in Buddhist Zen: All appearances are false; if you see all appearances as non-appearances, you will see the Tathagata.

For most materialists, or those who do not believe in these religious beliefs, these so-called holy books are just tricks used by the ruling class to make money. But Kevin, who saw those people with his own eyes, understood that these were indeed masterpieces that surpassed the civilization and knowledge of the time.

Just like the Zen concept it represents, if you use slightly simpler words to describe it, you can erase the fixed ideas in your mind from everything you see.

For example, the wilderness that Kevin is looking at at this moment, it was so prosperous in his eyes hundreds of years ago, but now it has turned into a wasteland in Kevin's eyes - theoretically speaking, it is still the same as it has never changed, but it is still no longer the same thing, and those who have witnessed its prosperity have never thought that it will one day turn into such a desert.

Just like Kevin once believed that the reason why humans and life are "alive" is because they have undefined freedom and future. In this Zen, the changes it sees are not only in life, but in everything in the world.

If we understand it from this perspective, then isn't everything we see, experience and experience at this moment just a fleeting moment and meaningless?

As for the earliest civilized humans, they had no idea that what they saw and heard came from the world, so they created an eternal God, a sun that hides during the day and rises at night, and various rules and regulations for the operation of the world, and thus lit a fire called reason on the boat to illuminate the surrounding night.

So people who came later forgot the world outside the fire. They thought that the rationality within the fire was the whole world. They thought that rationality could measure the entire world, but they forgot that all this was just an illusion they had created.

The so-called "nothingness" is the night outside the fire...

Chapter 266 Perhaps "Joy" is the opposite of "Nothingness"

All things in the world are imprisoned in the cage of "existence", imprisoned by the flesh, coerced by thoughts, and blinded by the appearance of the world. Even creatures with extremely high intelligence find it difficult to understand that on the opposite side of all "reality" such as matter, order, logic, life, there is isentropic "nothingness". The two are precisely combined and check and balance each other to build a complete universe.

For Kevin, who has witnessed the entire development process of modern civilization, he seems to understand similar concepts better - the sages of ancient Greece, the prophets of Israel, the Buddha of India, and the various schools of thought in various countries... These prophets of the human spiritual field appeared in various parts of the world at the same time without knowing each other, thus generating unimaginable impetus for the development of human civilization as a whole.

When humans finally experienced the horror of the world and their own weakness, similar concepts came into being.

When civilization developed to a similar stage, humans finally had some strength to explore the world, but sadly found that they were completely unable to grasp the ever-changing state of the objective world - birth, aging, illness and death, natural disasters, changes of dynasties, and all things in the world that are constantly changing...

All these actions are because humans are hoping to find unchanging laws among all things that are constantly changing.

In order to face the uncertainty of the world, humans need to find something that can be determined. Just like a boat in the water must drop an anchor to stay still, and humans drop the anchor with their own spirit, which is called "existence".

The so-called "nothingness" is everything outside of this "anchor of existence" - or if you think about it the other way around, you can also define this "anchor of existence" as "nothingness", because these defined things are meaningless to the universe.

But no matter how to explore the meaning of "nothingness", Kevin always believes that the more important thing is how to fight against the existence of "nothingness", rather than becoming a "self-destructor" who thinks everything in the world is meaningless like the dull and lifeless guy in front of him.