Started from practicing sword in the countryside of the second dimension

Then in the end, the original integrated consciousness no longer exists.

Considering that increasing the distance is only a temporary solution and not a fundamental solution, it is impossible for those transformed individuals to have only one true subjective consciousness like all the gods and generals.

Then, all the gods will feel that their research increases the distance between their bodies.

It would be better to study how to make these separate bodies stop thinking after a certain distance, and only reactivate when the original components are nearby.

As long as the body components do not generate new consciousness, the consciousness of the original individual is equivalent to eternal.

"In this case, flesh and blood tissues are not that convenient. Maybe we can replace them with those two identical inorganic bodies... Forget it. If that happens, there won't be much humanity left after a long time."

Once the direction of thinking changed, the general of the gods briefly considered whether it would be better to replace the ordinary body with those two stones? Gems? Life forms.

After all, if it is ordinary flesh and blood, there are too many ways to cause damage to these flesh and blood parts.

Although it can be regenerated as long as there are nutrients, the flesh and blood body is relatively not very resistant to various injuries.

If it is composed of such components, it will be better in terms of long-term survival, impact resistance, and recombination.

But as a conscious subject in that body, it is difficult to maintain the mental state that a human being should have.

After all, such a body will not need to eat, and it will be difficult to produce the pain that a normal body should have when damaged, and the emotions that humans should have will gradually be lost.

Such "human beings" may hardly be called "human beings" after a long time.

On the contrary, as long as the body is still there, the functions that humans should have are still there.

Then no matter how much time passes, at least he can still retain all the emotions that a human being should have.

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'Clatter' 'Clatter'

After an unknown amount of drought, heavy rain finally fell.

The rain was so heavy that it seemed to make up for all the moisture that had been lost over the past few days.

At first, the townspeople were very excited, playing in the rain and saying goodbye to the drought.

But as time passed and the heavy rain showed no sign of stopping, these people began to worry.

So they gathered in the town's largest mobile building to discuss what to do next.

"After a long drought, there is a long period of heavy rain... What the hell is going on with the weather this year!"

"Now is not the time to talk about this kind of thing. The area nearby has already started to suffer from flooding. We can't continue like this."

"Mayor, Mayor Del, something terrible has happened. The cages that hold those lunatics have been destroyed."

Just as these people were discussing, a guy braved the heavy rain outside, pushed open the door, and rushed in, all wet.

"What?! How are those guys doing... No, I have to go and see for myself."

When Del heard the news, his eyelids jumped. He immediately stood up and started moving forward in the heavy rain outside without wearing any rainproof clothing.

There's no way. Although those people are crazy, they are numerous and they are also relatives and friends of other normal people in the town.

The main reason those people felt they were going crazy was because of drought and famine.

Once the situation improves, those people will return to the people they knew.

And now, the temporary cage has been destroyed, which means that all those people may be washed into the sea.

After all, for the convenience of management at the beginning, the cage was built almost on the coast.

'Clatter' 'Clatter'

As soon as Del opened the door, heavy rain and strong winds that seemed to be able to blow people up blew in from outside.

"Tsk, the wind is so strong, what a trouble."

Like everyone else, Del obviously had no intention of killing those so-called lunatics.

He had isolated them before only because the situation forced him to do so.

So at this time, while praying that nothing would happen, he headed against the wind towards the coastline where those people were imprisoned.

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"Strange, there seems to be some sound, did you hear it?"

While moving against the wind, Del heard some strange noises in the wind and rain.

This strange noise attracted Del's attention, and he wondered what exactly made the sound.

It sounded like some kind of singing, but he wasn't quite sure.

"What? Sorry, the wind and rain were so strong that I couldn't hear it... Look, the whole building over there has been rolled up."

The young man who had just come over obviously didn't pay attention to what Del said.

Amid the blast of wind and rain, he pointed to where the building should have been, and then pointed to the wreckage not far away that had been blown into a pile of rubble.

However, to Del's surprise, the rubble looked like it no longer needed any repairs.

But among the rubble, there was no madman who died as a result.

"Strange, where are those people?"

"If you're asking the people inside... they're there."

"Where? Eh!"

Follow the direction that person's finger points.

Badel found that these people, who were considered crazy by the townspeople, were almost all clinging to some exposed rocks on the coastline, half of their bodies immersed in sea water, and no one knew what they were doing.

"It's scary, isn't it? I was almost scared to death when I wanted to come and see what's going on here. What do you think we should do?"

The young man patted his chest, still lamenting that he was still in shock.

"Why are those guys so good at swimming? I remember some of them couldn't swim at all. Why aren't they afraid of falling into the water?"

"So this is scary. Something was wrong when they went crazy before, but this is even more wrong now!"

'Beep~~' 'Beep~~' 'Hmm~~~'

Just as the two were discussing what to do.

Del heard the strange sound again, but this time it seemed that because of the close distance, he was sure that the sound seemed to come from the front.

Looking in the direction of the sound, Del saw that at the end of the horizon, at the end of a field of vision where the sky and the earth were connected by rain, some creature jumped, revealing half of the body of the mermaid.

And that unknown life, when it jumped to the highest point and was about to fall, met Del's eyes.

Chapter 295 Undersea Dwellers

"See that thing?!"

"Yes, but how is it possible? It must be a mermaid. I have only heard of such things in stories."

“…So those people were attracted by the mermaids?”

"Yes, it should, but how can mermaids exist? Why do they exist?"

The mermaid on the sea surface only appeared for a short time, but the figure was seen clearly by the two people.

Del already knew that there were some special things here. Although he was surprised, he was not too panicked.

The young man who came with him was different. Although some people in the town had started to go crazy recently, he just thought it was affected by the recent environment.

After seeing the mermaid, my first reaction was the word-of-mouth rumor that mermaids would attract humans.

Although it is different from the description in the story, if they were attracted by mermaids, it would not be unreasonable for so many people in the town to start acting strangely.

"Don't think about it. I told you not to think about those things. Let's go back first. Although it's a bit regrettable, we should give up looking for those people."

Seeing that the young man was still in a trance, Del shook him a few times, and seeing that he had no reaction, he slapped him in the face to bring him back to his senses.

"Oh, yes, go back, go back now."

Feeling the burning pain on his face, the young man shuddered and began to retreat following Del.

"what?"

"What's wrong?"

However, just as the two were about to leave completely, Del suddenly saw a surprising sight in the distance.

I don’t know if it’s because of the heavy rain, the strong wind, or both.

When a big wave surged past, he saw that there seemed to be some strange things under the water where the mermaid had just been.

Unfortunately, he only saw something underwater over there, but couldn't really tell what it was.

Therefore, he just put this doubt in his heart and followed the young man back to the town.

"Mermaid?! Isn't that a fairy tale?"

"But the mayor and I really saw it. It was in the middle of the sea. The upper body of a man was underneath the lower body of a fish. Those crazy people must have been bewitched by that mermaid!"

"What should we do? What should we do...If it really is a mermaid, do we have to run away?"

"Don't talk nonsense. How can we escape in this situation? Where can we escape to?!"

"Then what do you say we should do? If that mermaid lives there, we may not be able to escape unscathed in the future!"

"It would be the same if I left, or even more miserable."

"Well, maybe not."

"If you want to leave, go on your own!"

Most of the townspeople are concerned about the so-called mermaid.

But now the town’s population has increased by more than half compared to six months ago, and almost all of them have come here because of this year’s famine.

If it weren't for the large amount of food they could get from the sea, most of them would have died in the first half of the year.

Therefore, even if people hear that there are mermaids in the sea, most people don’t want to escape from here.

After all, there are only a few guys who have turned into crazy people so far, accounting for a very small part of the total.

But if this place is abandoned, the number of people who will die will be far more than this.

After all, the rainstorm has just fallen, and the food crisis will by no means be alleviated by this rainstorm. On the contrary, due to excessive rain, many improperly stored foods may become moldy after the rain.

To alleviate the current food crisis, it will take at least a few years of good weather and harvests.

So in the past few years, they have absolutely no way to leave this place.

After some discussion, everyone understood the current situation and the fact that they could not leave the town.

Even though they were afraid of the mermaids in the sea, someone still had to stay close to the sea and go to the coast regularly to get food.

Naturally, the few people who had been going to the coast to throw cages to get fish began to resist in the current environment.

"In that case, let's draw lots. This way, no one will complain."

Although no one wants to do this job, food needs to be consumed every day.

At the mayor's suggestion, this became a chore that was rotated every week, with the people who went there each time being randomly selected by drawing lots from the able-bodied townspeople.

And then it was settled.

From that day on, out of fear for the mermaids in the sea, the townspeople chose to drop cages some distance from the coast.

Then they realized that the catch entering the cages began to decrease, which caused panic among the townspeople.

But after a few adventures, he returned to the original location to cast his fish and harvested the same amount of fish as before.

The townspeople finally understood that the reason they could always get a full load of fish every time they cast their nets was not only because of the unknown statue, but also because they had to fish in a certain range of waters.

Considering that the areas with the largest harvests have mermaids living in them, some ordinary people will suddenly go crazy.

So they speculated that the catches that allowed them to survive were most likely given by the mermaid, which was why people were constantly taken away by the mermaid.

But in order to survive, the people in the town began to assume that those crazy people who went into the sea were sacrifices to the mermaids.

Days like this lasted for quite a long time.

Then they discovered that the guys they thought were crazy and left the town didn't seem to be dead.