Chapter 28 Natural Constants

In the church, the Chosen Ones have a very high status.

Along the way, Chen Fan and the others encountered almost no obstruction - for the Chosen Ones, most areas of the cathedral are undefended.

The biggest surprise was that they were stopped by a passing purple-robed bishop and asked about the progress of the third oracle ceremony.

In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Chen Fan hardly spoke in the face of the bishop's questions, and all the questions were left to Gao Yuan to deal with.

The taciturn Chen Fan did not arouse the bishop's suspicion.

In fact, most of the Chosen Ones have basically this attitude - as people chosen by God, most of them are very arrogant.

The purple-robed bishop did not ask too much, but after a simple understanding of the situation, he respectfully made way for the two.

The purple-robed bishop was like this, not to mention the white-robed deacons and black-robed priests of lower status.

In fact, according to Chen Fan's observation, without tasks and instructions from the top, these grassroots clergy of the church would not even think of getting involved with the Chosen Ones.

They would even avoid the Chosen Ones as much as possible!

After a little thought, Chen Fan understood the reason:

no employee would take a huge risk to show his courtesy to an airborne leader who only served for a few months.

Isn't this a thankless task!

...

In just over ten minutes, Chen Fan followed Gao Yuan to the church's library.

Obviously, the library is an important place for the church.

Several black-robed priests and dozens of guards wearing bright silver armor, holding shields and swords stood meticulously in front of a tightly closed thick metal door, blocking every glance that tried to peek into the mystery.

In Chen Fan's view, this scene was a bit too magical.

The defensive strength of the thick, tightly closed metal door was obviously greater than that of the dozens of guards holding cold weapons.

What is this called?

Using primitive thinking to defend the door of the bank vault?

It can only be said that the church knows how to defend.

As for why so many people were sent to guard a library...

Chen Fan can understand the reason.

For the church, controlling the way knowledge is spread means controlling the thoughts of ordinary people.

This can greatly strengthen the church's ruling position, which is undoubtedly a win-win for the church.

After seeing Gao Yuan, a black-robed priest who was in charge of guarding the library came up to him and said, "Your Excellency the Chosen One."

"We want to go into the library."

Gao Yuan raised his chin calmly and gestured to the closed metal door, and ordered in an unquestionable tone, "Open the door."

The black-robed priest did not show any dissatisfaction with Gao Yuan's condescending attitude.

He raised his head slightly, and the mechanical eyes with a red glow under the hood carefully looked at Gao Yuan and Chen Fan behind him.

In order to allow the Chosen One to learn more theological knowledge, each Chosen One has the right to enter the library to study.

The premise is the Chosen One himself.

Therefore, Chen Fan, who had been silent and "hiding" behind Gao Yuan, naturally became the focus of observation.

"What?"

Gao Yuan's face turned cold: "As a priest of the church, can't you even recognize the Chosen One?"

The black-robed priest didn't say anything, but bowed slightly to apologize to Gao Yuan and Chen Fan.

After confirming the identities of the two, he turned around without hesitation and shouted to the black-robed priest and guards behind him:

"Open the door!"

...

The order was given.

The guards holding shields and swords retreated to both sides, and the extremely heavy metal door was revealed in full view.

As for the black-robed priest, he walked quickly to a metal shrine next to the door.

On the metal shrine was placed an exquisitely crafted statue. Under the light of the hidden wall lamp, a fleeting reflection flashed in the eyes of the statue.

Under Chen Fan's gaze, all the black-robed priests stood in front of the shrine and uttered a prayer that sounded like a chant.

The syllables of the prayer were very vague, and it also adopted a rather strange pronunciation method, which should be to prevent someone from secretly writing down this "entry code".

But...

I'm afraid even the so-called goddess could not have imagined that among her most devout believers, there would be an alien like Chen Fan!

And this alien also had a smart terminal from a higher civilization!

As Chen Fan's mind moved, Yi began to record this complex prayer, and at the same time, relying on its huge computing power, began to analyze the specific meaning and rules of this prayer word by word.

[Got it.]

Before the prayer was finished, Yi had already come to the conclusion: [It is a natural constant.]

Chen Fan was stunned: "What? "

[So far, a total of ten different syllables have appeared in this prayer.]

[This machine tried the exhaustive method and easily found the pattern: each syllable corresponds to a corresponding decimal number. 】

【After translation, a string of irregular and non-repeating numbers was obtained: 2718281828459045...】

【Very familiar, right? 】

'...'

【You don't know the natural constant? It is the base of the natural logarithm function. It plays a very important role in many scientific theories. You don't know it? ! 】

'Is this so? ' Chen Fan responded dryly.

【...Forget it, let's skip this topic for now. 】

Yi's voice was full of helplessness: 【In short, the other party must have developed a basic mathematical system to be able to use this string of numbers as a password. 】

【Mathematics is the foundation of all sciences, which is enough to prove that the other party has...】

'Isn't this nonsense? ' Chen Fan interrupted Yi's muttering, 'Since the so-called God is an alien civilization that has mastered higher technology, how could it be possible that he did not master this basic mathematical knowledge? '

【If...】

Yi's voice sounded faintly: 【This string of passwords was designed by the church itself? 】

'Then...'

Chen Fan suddenly fell silent. At

this moment, he suddenly realized that he seemed to have fallen into a huge misunderstanding before!

From beginning to end, he had not seen any direct evidence of the existence of alien civilizations.

All the information he had observed before could only be regarded as indirect evidence.

Under the "double misleading" of these indirect evidence and the database information provided by Yi, he firmly believed that the gods were just alien civilizations with higher technology!

But if it is really like what Yi said now...

'Then...'

Chen Fan suddenly felt his throat tighten: 'God... may just be a lie used by the church to maintain its own rule? '

In other words, the church itself is the technological civilization that has mastered more advanced technology!

'No, that's not right! '

'This still can't explain the problem of the Chosen Ones. '

Chen Fan retorted in his heart: 'If it is to consolidate its own rule, the church has no reason to frequently select the Chosen Ones! 'Yi

was silent for a while.

[What you said makes sense, this is indeed a doubt. ]

[After all, this is just a possibility calculated by this machine, and the accuracy cannot be guaranteed in the absence of sufficient evidence. ]

(End of this chapter)