Salt and sanctuary, a world rated as 2D black soul, is a kind of ghost game of demon city. The gloomy painting style is impressive, as well as the core of the "Gnostic world" mentioned by Hongcheng.


    Lu Zhengkang frowned and recalled his own game experience, salt and shelter, which was a broken game. In his last life, he had more than 20 weeks to go through the customs, and the map was more familiar than his own. However, it was in his life that he really understood this game.


    The narration of soul games is obscure, just like the game "soul of darkness", which can be described as: spreading fire. The game of salt and shelter is simply to escape from the deadly island.


    The player plays a member of the escort and relatives team who is attacked by the pirates and sea monsters in the silent abyss at sea, and the ship sinks. Then the protagonist wakes up on the coast of an unknown island. The island is full of resurrected dead. There are buildings from all over the world standing on the Island. All kinds of legends and legendary monsters stay here. What the player has to do is to cut down monsters and upgrade all the way. The experience value in the game is "salt", and the safe house in the game is "refuge".


    All the creatures on the island are made of salt, including the game characters played by the players. Killing the creature will drop the salt, and being killed by the enemy will also lose all the salt on the body, and be picked up by the monster who killed you. Only when you come back to kill the murderer can you get your salt back. This huge punishment mechanism is also one of the "inner tastes" of soul games.


    In the sanctuary, players can offer statues and sacrifice with salt to obtain black pearls. Then they can unlock the skill tree and upgrade the characters'' attributes and skills.


    The skill tree in the game is very complex and has good plasticity. The main occupation can be divided into warrior, priest, mage, thief and hunter.


    Warriors can be divided into: one handed swordsman, big swordsman, one handed hammer warrior, giant hammer warrior, Hand Axe crazy warrior, giant axe warrior and shield warrior.


    Pastor is an auxiliary profession, which can restore life, bless weapons, holy strike, etc.


    Mages are divided into elemental mages and dark mages. Elemental mages, also known as sky fire mages, master the power of thunder and fire. Dark mages use degenerate arcane skills. Although they are powerful, they will extremely weaken their resistance and easily die in the face of enemies.


    The thief''s body is flexible. He uses dagger as weapon and firearm. His output is considerable and his movements are handsome. That is to say, the operation is a little difficult.


    Hunters use whips, crossbows, blunderbuss, bows, etc. they have a very low sense of existence and overlap with thieves, so they have nothing to say.


    According to the match of different occupation branches and different beliefs, many schools can be produced. The most famous one is big sword and giant hammer. After all, this game is also called big sword and golden wine. Reasonable selection of weapons can greatly reduce the difficulty of the game.


    No matter from which point of view, players who understand the spirit of darkness will have a strong sense of both salt and shelter.


    However, the spiritual core of the two games is different. The soul of darkness expresses a spiral decline process: in the first generation, the spread of fire can be said to be for the continuation of the world. In the second generation, the fire has become weaker and weaker. In the third generation, the first fire is dying, and the world will inevitably fall into the darkness.


    And salt and shelter are the embodiment of a very profound, so-called Gnosticism.


    Although Lu Zhengkang has no system now, the knowledge and skills he developed in the learning space have not disappeared. In order to explore the unscientific mystical alchemy, he consulted a large number of metaphysical and philosophical literature. Therefore, he is no stranger to the theory of Gnostics, which has profound historical roots in the West.


    Gnosticism, also known as nustism, people of this school believe in a secret and salvation wisdom called "North", a kind of spiritual intuitive gnosis, unknowable and unspeakable, which is different from rational logos.


    As for the true origin of Gnosticism, it is relatively certain that it originated from Christianity and has been a relatively heretical theory for a long time. The gospel of Thomas says: "he took Thomas to one side and told him two things. When he went back to his companions, they asked him," what did Jesus say to you? "


    " Thomas replied, "if I tell you one thing the Lord told me, you will pick up a stone and hit me, and fire will come out of the stone and burn you up."


    this story and The origin of Zen is similar, that is to say, the famous "Buddha picks flowers and leaves smile". Zen''s magic method is to express heart by heart instead of oral transmission. Gnostics also advocated this wonderful divinity.


    In their dualistic world view, the existence and evolution of all things in this world is the prison, and the so-called creator is the master of the prison, the evil god who imprisons the "true self". The world comes from the other side, the world of light, where there are the real ultimate God, the source and belonging, the unknown father, the Alien God and the unknown （TheNameless）……


    All the spirits in the world are abandoned in this vicious, lonely, hopeless and twisted prison world. This kind of contempt for the world is extremely strong. Even such a grand creation as stars is regarded by Gnosticism as a lower creation than human beings. Although it is worthy of respect, it is just a tyrant.In this world, the first dilemma is the flesh and blood body, the body that binds the soul, the soul and the true self. After entering the body, it will be bound by time and space and the suffering of the world, which makes the true self slowly forget his hometown and reincarnate in this prison forever. Therefore, eNOS should get rid of all obstacles and return to his hometown.


    In Gnosticism, withering of the body, dissipation of the spirit and falling into nothingness are not regarded as death. He thinks that we are trapped in the body, and the existence in this world itself is "death". Only when we get out of the double cage of the body and the world, and return to our hometown, the world of light, is "life". The death of the body does not lead to the release of the soul, but the soul will be immediately put into the cage of another body, and the reincarnation will never end, unless the epiphany of North''s practice breaks away.


    This is similar to the idea of reincarnation in the world.


    In the cage world, it is not only the body that hinders the return of the true self, but also the obstacles of time and space, as well as the malice in the cage. Those evil spirits and even demiurge, the leader of the prison, are also obstacles.


    In the game of salt and shelter, players are trapped on the nameless Island, which symbolizes being imprisoned. The body is born of salt. It''s for the salt people. It''s the spirit from the outside world who is imprisoned in the body of salt. The salt people are all the remains of the dead. It also shows that they are always trapped in the island and will eventually be assimilated by the island and enter the real and complete death.


    The island lacks color. It is mostly gloomy, close to black and white. The world outside the island is fresh and real. In the end, the boss is the leader of the prison. The characters in the game are redeemed through their devout faith and offer salt. The Black Pearl they get may be a symbol of North.