Three days later, the Second Kingdom Plenary Session was convened on time.

Fortunately, the sun began to clear today, and the sun broke through the gaps in the clouds, casting diffuse beams of light in the royal city, and the warm sunlight sprinkled from the skylight at the top of the synagogue, illuminating the venue with light and darkness, full of spirit.

At the second meeting, Bolton was absent.

No, not so much in absence, but more precisely, he was grounded by Percius and was reflecting behind closed doors in the mansion.

After all, the impact of roaring the synagogue and insulting the councillors was too bad, and if he could still be allowed to participate in the meeting, it would undoubtedly be a breach of order, and Perseus would not allow such a thing to happen.

At this time, the parliamentarians at all levels have taken their seats, and the meeting has officially begun.

It can be seen that Perseus was in a very bad mood today, probably angry at the thought of Boton, he glanced around the hall, and said with a blank face: "All councillors, if you have anything to say about the state of the first meeting, you can add it now. ”

The members of the parliament are nominally independent, but in fact they all follow their own families, and the head of the family does not take a stand, and they do not spontaneously jump out to speak—unless they are entrusted by the leader in advance, and the people below need to take the lead in saying something that is not suitable for the head to speak.

Now the leaders are not speaking, and the parliamentarians are not speaking.

Seeing that everyone was silent, Perseus was just about to say something when an unexpected voice sounded: "Your Majesty." ”

Perseus frowned and looked at the judgment seat where the voice came.

Chino looked at the stage, his amber eyes as deep as the sea, full of mysterious smile: "May I say a few words?" ”

Perseus's frowning brows slowly loosened, and he asked lightly, "I kept my head shut at the first meeting and didn't say anything, but I have something to say today?" ”

"People change." I don't know if Chino was referring to himself, or to someone who had changed their attitude during a secret meeting.

Edward took a sip of his tea and slowly put it down, not knowing what was going on in his mind.

Persius raised his chin at Chino and motioned to continue.

"Thank you, Your Majesty. First of all, I was shocked – not by my own situation, but by the attitude you have towards it. Chino turned back to look at the various councillors representing the royal family and the royal family, with a pretended puzzled expression, "Everyone should know that in addition to the disasters brought by the invasion of the extraterrestrial visitors, they also brought another thing - an endless stream of weapons, and all of them were weapons made with extraterrestrial technology. Don't you have any interest in that? ”

Pertheus's expression slowly turned cold, and he said in a sarcastic tone, "So, you now admit that you are a visitor from outside the world?" Want to trade your weapons with us for a chance to live? ”

Chino raised his hand, motioned for Perseus to stop, and said with a smile: "Sorry to interrupt, you seem to have misunderstood, Your Majesty, I do want to trade with you with the weapons of the Visitor from Heaven to keep myself alive, but those weapons do not come from me." ”

Someone in the synagogue began to whisper, not understanding what Chino meant.

Pertheus: "To the point. ”

Chino: "The point is, in the current situation, the chain of suspicion has been created, I can't prove my innocence, and you don't have the evidence to convict me, and the two sides are deadlocked. In this case, why don't we broaden our thinking, temporarily glance aside at the verification, and consider the benefits and losses? ”

"In the eyes of many, visitors from the sky are an abomination of blasphemous, and I think so from the bottom of my heart. But in my eyes, in addition to being blasphemous, they have another label - mobile loot. ”

"As long as I'm alive, and visitors from outside the world keep invading this world, and I keep killing them, I can keep hunting weapons and items with magical effects from them, and then contribute them to the kingdom to greatly increase the power of the kingdom - and if I die, that opportunity will disappear with me."

"Are you really willing to let go of such an opportunity to make the kingdom stronger?"

"Hahaha, exaggerated." The first to stand up was none other than the Horned Heron, his wrinkled face filled with contempt, "The loot you hunted from the visitors from the heavens before, we have not studied. Except for the kind of ring that can store items out of thin air, which seems to me to be amazing, everything else is just a mortal product under another technological system. ”

Chino: "Really? Then I would like to ask Lord Horned Heron, with the current rune and alchemy technology of the kingdom, can you create a weapon that can sprinkle the scorching fire of the sky and incinerate thousands of miles? ”

This sentence stopped the horned heron, because, obviously, the answer is no.

You know, according to historical records, in the "Battle of the Eclipse" 2,700 years ago, the weapons of the visitors from the sky changed the terrain of the entire continent.

And in the Dogurand army, there is no legion equipped with such weapons, with the power of ballistas, the striking surface can reach more than ten meters.

Chino didn't look at the horned heron anymore, but looked at the councillors who had the same opinion as the horned heron, and continued: "You look down on the items from beyond the sky in your hands, the reason is very simple - the alien visitors who invaded before were all weak, and the items they carried on them were naturally mortal. ”

"It's like the elite regular army in the royal city and the militia in the village, can the two be equally well-equipped? The extraterrestrial items you see and possess now are just the tip of the iceberg. As for how powerful the weapons of the visitors are, the history books have already told us the answer. ”

"Imagine if one day you get better guns from visitors from outside the sky, and you can kill the enemy thousands of meters away. If you catch the Iron Bird, you can soar through the sky like an ancient dragon. Even get those weapons that can sprinkle the scorching fire, and have the power to burn thousands of miles... At that time, did you still think that the weapons of the visitors were mortal? ”

"This is sophistry with strong words!" The Horned Heron's face darkened obviously, and he directly tried to occupy the moral high ground, "What about the blasphemous things of visitors from the sky, which are extremely powerful?" Using them is disrespectful to the gods! It is a blasphemy of faith! ”

Chino looked at the horned heron, and the smile on his face was like a mask that would never be removed: "Offended, Lord Horned Heron, your concept may not be representative of everyone. ”

Hearing this, the horned heron subconsciously looked at everyone, and his expression quickly became gloomy.

Although the expressions of the leaders and councillors did not change much, judging from those uncertain eyes, it was obvious that Chino had aroused some thoughts.

What is Faith?

Faith has two sides – a pious and firm will to something and something, and an instrument to conquer and dominate the mind.

In a kingdom that fears the gods, the most devout are often the ignorant at the bottom, ignorant but fanatical, who are extremely determined to face the faith, but they cannot see the essence behind the faith, like a wave in the waves, pushed by ups and downs.

And those who are knowledgeable and high-ranking people, you can't say that they are not religious, they are probably more firm in their faith than others, and they are in awe of the gods.

But the knowledge of those in high positions is destined to see precisely the nature of faith, and its relationship to the rule of power, and to worship God in itself, both as a will of its own will and as a necessary political means.

Once faith and power are intertwined, it means that it is not immutable, and it can change its original appearance at any time for the sake of domination, because the power to interpret faith is always in the hands of those in high positions, and they say that what practices are godly is godly, and what practices are blasphemous is blasphemous.

Therefore, the view of the horned heron must be untenable, and it is ungodly to use the weapon of a blasphemer? Is it blasphemy against the faith? Will the alchemists of Star Castle who participated in Barrett's research kill themselves on the spot?

Even if it is now widely accepted that the use of blasphemous weapons is equivalent to blasphemy, it would be a big deal to make a law that allows this behavior at the official level, reinterprets the definition of blasphemy and godliness, and removes "the use of blasphemous weapons" from the scope of "blasphemy".

Whether you want to do this or not depends on whether the high-ranking person wants to do it or not.

And now, most people think about it.

After all, it's a foreigner's weapon! The Visitors killed the Sun King, and how powerful their weapons were, anyone who knows anything about the history of the Eclipse War will not be unaware.

If you can get those top-notch weapons from the Visitors, even if it's just one, it's enough to turn the entire power pattern upside down, and Game of Thrones is likely to reshuffle the cards as a result.

In this situation, you want to talk about faith? Sorry, no one wants to talk.

For a moment, there was silence in the synagogue, as if a turbulent undercurrent was tumbling, swallowing up all the light.

Now, like the serpent in the Garden of Eden tossing an apple, the smiling demon has laid the bait just to be swallowed.

This bait can be said to perfectly capture the psychology of everyone.

Yes, the weapons of these visitors are not enough to make much attraction, and those guns and cannons have substitutes under the transcendent system.

And potions such as phoenix serum, there are also various heavenly treasures, or alchemy potions that can be replaced, and the effect is even better.

But what about later?

Visitors from outside the sky are stronger than one wave, and the same is true of the weapons they carry, they can be said to be walking treasure chests, kill them, you can get the rewards in the treasure chests.

Now the weapons in the "treasure chest" are not tempting, you don't grab them, you can.

But when those weapons are strong enough to subvert the world pattern, will you grab them?

You don't rob, some people rob.

If you don't grab it, when someone else grabs it, you're the one who is trampled underfoot.

Unless you are willing to lose the power and status you have now and go to the mountains and forests alone, you can only join the ranks of robbery.

Everyone else is in the same situation as you - you can only grab.

Everyone can only grab.

This is the classic "group prisoner's dilemma", where individual rationality sometimes leads to collective irrationality, and everyone is forced to make irrational choices, eventually reaching a "Nash equilibrium" but not a "Pareto optimality".

Although there is no explicitly written "Game Theory" in this world, the same imperial power trick is actually understood by all the high-ranking people here, and most people can also see that this is a bait thrown by Chino, in order to disintegrate the relationship between various families from the inside, so that they cannot form a united front.

However, the beauty of the game is here, you understand all the truths in it, you know that there is a hole there, but in a group game, the Nash equilibrium will force you to step on it, and everyone else will step on it, and everyone else can only step on it.

There is only one possibility to get out of this game dilemma - all the people who are involved in the game, regardless of family, politics, or each other, believe in each other unconditionally, unite tightly, and change the game from a "non-cooperative game" to a "cooperative game".

For example, all the families have reached a consensus - we don't want the weapons of the aliens. I don't even look at it, I don't even want it to be brought to me. You too, don't think anything about the alien's weapons. No one should have crooked thoughts, and no one would betray each other.

In this way, the dilemma set by Chino has indeed collapsed.

But the question is, can this kind of perfect cooperation really be achieved in a superstructure with fierce power struggles?

...

"Hahaha, that's a cunning little guy." Lan Xian smiled at Percius, although he didn't get a response, he still stood up, pressed his hands weakly, stopped everyone's whispering, and then looked at Chino with a smile, "Chino administrator, you used seductive words to push everyone into a situation where there is no choice, forcing everyone to take an interest in the weapons of the visitors from the sky, whoever falls behind in this competition may be replaced by others." I'll admit, it's a beautiful trick. ”

"But." Lan Xian used only two words to make everyone in the audience concentrate and keep their eyes on it, "You seem to have forgotten one thing - we don't need to be suspicious or competitive with each other, we can end this game at any time." ”

"How? Quite simply, as long as your life disappears and you die in this world, the extraterrestrial visitors will never appear again, and everyone will lose the opportunity to obtain extraterrestrial weapons, and this game will not exist. The world will continue to develop according to its original trajectory, and will no longer be disturbed by any external forces. ”

"Really?" Chino's smile was full of treachery, like a fox with a successful plot, "Then I would like to ask Lord Lan Xian, who told you that as long as I die, visitors from outside the world will never appear again?" ”

This question made the hall fall silent again, including Lan Xian.

Yes, everyone seems to have tacitly agreed that as long as Chino dies and the visitors have no target, they will not appear - including the visitor who "revealed" Chino's identity before, and said: "If Chino doesn't die, our invasion will not stop." ”

But the question is, has anyone really confirmed this tacit thing?

This is an obvious paradox.

As long as Chino doesn't die, this matter can't be verified.

And once Chino is dead, they lose their chance to recover.

Is killing Chino now to break the game dilemma and get the situation back on track?

Or is it the "anti-intrigue" of a visitor from outside the sky, doing a thing that hurts the relatives and makes the enemies happy?

This unverifiable, unanswered question seems to have blurred the situation again...