After Murray walked into the Church of Eternal Night, his first impression of this well-known church in New York was that it was ordinary, so ordinary that it couldn't be more ordinary.
The Ailin family was renowned in the United States, with outstanding children in various fields. As a member of this family, Murray naturally had a broad vision and had seen many magnificent churches.
But what he never expected was that this famous Eternal Night Church in New York was so poor and shabby, giving Morey the feeling of being in a small country church.
It's not that Mori looks down on the countryside, it's just that the appearance of the Eternal Night Church is not worthy of its reputation.
After following George into the church, he saw from a distance a figure standing in front of the statue, praying devoutly.
"That's His Excellency Saint Apted."
George pointed at the figure standing in front of the statue with a forced smile and said slowly, "You will have to walk the rest of the way on your own. The gentleman doesn't want anyone following him around."
George's words were full of sarcasm, just like an old hermaphrodite.
As a young man who could attend Stanford, Murray could still see that there seemed to be some contradictions between His Excellency St. George and Bishop St. Epps...
Mori smiled bitterly and could only perform the common etiquette of the Church of Eternal Night to George. He placed his left hand on his right chest, his right hand behind his back, bowed slightly, stood up and walked towards where Aped was.
George looked at Murray's back, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise, he snapped his fingers, and his figure disappeared here.
It's a pity that Morey had his back to George and didn't see this amazing scene.
Murray took one step at a time, neither hurried nor slow, and the distance between each step seemed to be almost the same.
Soon, the New York governor's most outstanding grandson came to Aped.
"Hello, Your Excellency Saint Apted, I am..."
Before Mori could finish, Aped interrupted him: "I know, Mori, Mori of the Arlin family."
"What do you think of the Church of Eternal Night?"
This sudden question caught Mori off guard. After thinking for a second, he remembered his grandfather's instructions and said firmly, "I believe that the Church of Eternal Night is the savior of mankind, it is..."
"Tell me what you really think. What your grandfather taught you doesn't work here." Aped still had his back to Murray.
"I..."
Murray's lips trembled up and down, a little hesitant.
He had no impression of the Church of Eternal Night. He only knew that it was a church with truly extraordinary powers, and that the true God they believed in had defeated the monsters and saved New York last night.
After all, he just identified with the Lord of Eternal Night in his heart and did not establish any faith.
"Your heart is filled with doubts."
Aped slowly turned around. To Mori's surprise, the Bishop Aped, who had been passed down by word of mouth, turned out to be an old man with a scruffy beard. "Don't be nervous. Eternal Night is above. The Lord will resolve all your inner confusion and relax your mind..."
Murray felt that what Aped said made sense, and he gradually opened his heart, basking in the sunshine, listening to Aped's teachings, and felt that his heart was filled with knowledge.
This feeling is difficult for Morey to describe in words, everything is self-explanatory.
Not far from the Eternal Night Church, George and Aped stood side by side. Looking at Mori, whose eyes were tightly closed and his face was intoxicated, George glanced at Aped and said, "Psychological suggestion combined with illusion—aren't you too cruel? And you just got this new ability this afternoon, and you're so confident in using it on Mori? Remember, he's the grandson of that old fox, Jetek."
From the moment Mori arrived at the Church of Eternal Night, everything he experienced was an illusion, and every person he had met before was an illusion created by George and Aped.
Their ability has little effect on extraordinary people, and even ordinary people find it difficult to deal with them if they are on guard.
But for mortals who are completely unprepared, this ability is simply a powerful weapon!
"Since we've decided to use Morey as a gateway for outward expansion, we naturally have to be a bit ruthless."
Aped spoke with an expressionless face, as if everything had nothing to do with him.
George looked at Aped and had a clearer understanding of him. He sighed and said slowly, "I will go to San Francisco with Murray. No matter how loyal Murray is, he is just a mortal. San Francisco needs me to be in charge."
He could not compete with Aped. Instead of staying in New York and competing with Aped, he might as well go to a new and vast world.
"Excuse me, Your Excellency Saint George."
Aped nodded seriously, glanced at Mori who was trapped in the illusion, and said, "It's almost time, let's go and let Mori out."
George nodded and looked at Murray with pity.
This child may never know in his life that the first time he came to the Church of Eternal Night, he was forced by the Bishop and the Sword Bearer to experience a wave of VR games.
It was a sunny afternoon and Mori officially joined the Church of Eternal Night.
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Thanks to the efforts of the government and the propaganda of the Church of Eternal Night, New York has now basically stabilized. However, gun shops and stores are still crowded with customers. The only advantage is that there are fewer believers of the gods parading.
It won't be long before New York returns to its original appearance and becomes an international metropolis again.
As night falls in New York City, in some abandoned corners of the streets filled with garbage, some finger-sized worms crawl out of the trash cans and begin to look for food.
They emitted a light red glow all over their bodies, as dazzling as fireflies in the dark night. If it weren't for the recent accident that caused few people to come here at night, they would have been discovered long ago.
On the other side of the city, in the New York city sewer, a corpse that looked to have been rotting for a long time lurked on the surface of the sewage, with dirty water flowing.
Cockroaches, rats, bedbugs, flies...
Countless sewer regulars lingered around the corpse, and suddenly, the corpse's fingers trembled.
Then, the corpse slowly stood up, and all the cockroaches, rats, flies and others were startled and fled in all directions.
Part of the corpse had already shown signs of skeletalization, and the flesh on the entire left half of the face had fallen off, revealing the white bones.
The clothes worn by the corpse seem to be those of the National Guard.
After the corpse stood up, it was visibly stunned for a moment, then raised its hands and looked at them in disbelief. Its vocal cords were hoarse due to the decay of its throat, and it uttered a sentence with great difficulty: "I... am resurrected?"
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PS: There was a big problem in the previous chapter. Stanford University is near San Francisco and belongs to the city of Stanford. I wrote it as near Los Angeles, which has now been revised.
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