Chapter 541: Take the Essence and Discard the Dregs

"Create a new god?" Niu Gandang looked confused: "What do you mean?"

Annan: "It's about replacing the old with the new, the alternation of the old and the new. After all, people like the new and hate the old."

"I know what all these idioms mean..." Niu Gandang pouted, "But I don't understand what you mean."

Song Guoqiang explained: "Miss An wants to invent a new god to replace the God of Light and Confucius in the hearts of the citizens. Then it will be easy to get rid of him."

Annan nodded.

Niu Gan Dang said, "Tsk, isn't that still superstition? Why don't we just expose his scam?"

"Because it doesn't work." Annan glanced at Song Guoqiang: "Right?"

Song Guoqiang nodded: "Yes. I have tried many ways to expose him before, but all failed."

This was within Annan's expectations: "The survivors were deeply poisoned by him. Even if you get substantial evidence of his conspiracy and deception, people will say it is a misunderstanding, or even think that the evidence is fabricated by you."

Song Guoqiang smiled bitterly: "Yes, people only believe what they want to believe. In their eyes, all our efforts are attempts to prevent them from becoming immortals."

Niu Gandang slapped his thigh and said: "This is really ignorant of right and wrong!"

Annan shook his head: "The deception of the Church of Light is not only due to Kong Shenghui's brainwashing ability and eloquence, but most importantly, people in a natural disaster environment really need a belief."

"If they were like the people in other cities, living without hope and like zombies, that would be fine. But Kong Shenghui's lies have made them full of hope for the future."

Seeing that Niu Gan Dang still didn't understand, she simply gave an example:

"It's like someone told you that you won a 100 million lottery. You've picked out villas and luxury cars, made a travel guide for the world, blocked calls from your boss, and even had TV stations come to interview you...

Then suddenly someone comes out and tells you that your lottery ticket is fake and you should throw it away immediately."

Annan looked him in the eyes: "Will you believe this second person?"

Niu Gandang thought about it carefully and said, "No. I can't accept it. I would think he must be jealous of me."

Annan nodded and asked, "And then? What will you do?"

Niu Gandang thought for a while and said, "I should claim the prize as soon as possible. I will feel relieved after claiming the prize. If I really can't claim it, I will believe that this lottery ticket is fake."

Annan smiled and said, "If you really can't redeem it, you won't believe it right away. You will wonder if there is some conspiracy here, if some big shot wants to set up a trap to take away your bonus, and bribed the staff to deceive you."

Niu Gandang smacked his lips and said, "Don't tell me! I might actually think so."

Annan: "This is the human instinct to seek benefits and avoid harm. No matter what you say, those survivors must wait until they die to see if they can ascend to heaven and become gods. Before that, they will not believe anything you say."

"Their only hope in life now is to escape natural disasters and live a wonderful life as gods in heaven. Anyone who denies this will cut off their escape route."

"And Confucius said that those who doubt and betray the God of Light will go to hell. Which believer would dare to take the risk and think deeply about your words that exposed the scam?"

Niu Gandang smacked his lips and said, "This is really an unsolvable dead end."

He frowned and glanced at his brother-in-law: "No wonder Guoqiang can't do anything to him."

Annan: "Since faith cannot be eliminated, let's change it for us..."

At this point, she changed her words: "Change to another belief that is more beneficial to the authorities and the survivors themselves. This way they will not lose hope for the future, and they will be able to distinguish Confucius Shenghui's lies."

"Anyway, for Brother Song, the most urgent task is to bring down the Kong guy first."

Niu Gandang nodded to show that he understood, but he still hesitated and said:

"But in that case, wouldn't we have created a new cult?"

At this time, Song Guoqiang spoke up to correct them: "If it only gives people hope and encourages them to be good, without cheating them of money or sex, and without harming their lives, health and property safety, then it is not a cult, but just a new religion."

Annan nodded: "That's right. Take the essence and discard the dross."

Song Guoqiang turned to look at her: "That's the truth, what are you going to do?"

Then he reminded me, “I have thought of this method before, but it didn’t work. Not everyone has the brainwashing ability of making up stories like Kong Shenghui.

And since he was ahead and had the upper hand, it would be even more difficult for him to catch up later."

Annan looked at him and suddenly smiled: "You can't do it, maybe because you are too educated."

Song Guoqiang was stunned for a moment: "Ah?"

Annan asked him, "Brother Song, did you watch short videos and live broadcasts before?"

Song Guoqiang was a little confused. What does this have to do with the previous topic?

But I still answered truthfully: "No. Unless it's work-related."

Niu Gan Dang, who was standing by, interrupted: "In fact, he watched it at first, because my wife and I had created an account when we were traveling before! But Guo Qiang said that short videos are too addictive, and he unknowingly wasted a lot of time, so he uninstalled it later."

Song Guoqiang explained: "I think that kind of fragmented information and rapid feedback mechanism will make people lose concentration and patience. It will gradually become difficult to calm down and read a book properly. Even when watching a movie, I don't have the patience to fast forward and turn it upside down..."

"I stopped smoking after I realized it was affecting my work and passion for life."

Annan nodded.

She had never thought about these things before. What the elder brother said did make sense, but this was not what she wanted to express.

Annan brought the topic back to the topic: "I wanted to say that I know this Kong Dazhuan..."

Before he could finish, Niu Gandang shouted in surprise: "What? Aren't you from Wuyue City?!"

Annan glanced at him. This guy really didn't get the point. Did he think that what she had just asked about the short video was just nonsense?

Then he finished his words to Song Guoqiang: "I know him from the short video platform. He is an Internet celebrity, and his real name is Kong Dachui."

"Internet celebrity?!"

"Kong... Big Hammer?!"

Both of them had the same reaction as Gu Zhiyu had before, which was full of disbelief.

Niu Gan Dang was even more scathing: "With his appearance that's scarier than a pig, how can he be an internet celebrity?"

Annan nodded and told them the story of Kong Dazhui.