The "Charging Field" on the 61st and 62nd floors is the designated dining venue beyond the Temple, and does not provide any delivery service, so Ash and others can only come to the Charging Field to eat.

Although he has been here for two days, Ash still finds it hard to accept this dining environment - the uniform sounds of eating, and no free noise in the air. Sitting among them, Ash is like a social idler who wants to find an Internet cafe to play games all night, but when he sits down, he finds that the people around him are workers from nearby companies who have come here to work overtime all night due to a power outage.

The atmosphere was so serious that Ash didn't dare to take Igula's food for the past two days.

Besides this, there was one thing that was hard for Ash to accept: they were really charging.

It is necessary to describe the appearance of the Transcendent Believers here - unlike the ascetic monk style of the Catastrophe Fire Believers, the Transcendent Believers are very futuristic, with silver-white metal colonies on the back of the neck, ears, lumbar spine, elbows, and many other parts of the body. There are also breathing lights with flowing lines on the colonies, plus they wear neatly-dressed blue and white uniforms, with lightning patterns on their skin, and they look like future warriors who have traveled back to the end of the world.

These colonial outfits certainly have their uses, but they also consume electricity on a daily basis. Therefore, meal time for the believers is also charging time. There are many charging cables under the dining table. As soon as they sit down, they will automatically charge, and electricity will flow through their bodies - this is even more important than eating.

People like Ash who only eat without charging their computers are like going to an internet cafe to eat instant noodles without turning on their computers.

Compared to Ash's fidgeting, Igula and Harvey seemed very natural.

Needless to say, the Trickster could still laugh and talk even if he was thrown into hell, so this little scene was not worth mentioning; even more so Harvey, as a ruthless man who could sleep and eat among piles of corpses, Ash really couldn't think of any scene in this world that could affect the appetite of the Necromancer.

As they were eating, a middle-aged woman next to them suddenly said, "Three passengers, your stay period is 29 hours and 43 minutes. Please leave as soon as possible within the period, otherwise you will be forcibly expelled. If you want to join the Beyond Temple, please report to the new students on the 32nd floor before 17:00."

Ash and the others were no longer surprised that any believer could become the person in charge. Igula asked, "Can we first visit the interior of the Transcendent Temple or its achievements before deciding whether to formally follow the Dafa?"

The middle-aged woman immediately shook her head and was silent for a moment before she said, "No, if you want to obtain the protection of the Transcendental Temple, you must attend the worship service that night and complete the following ceremony, and fight for transcendental consciousness with us. Otherwise, you will still be treated as an outsider."

"Understood." The trickster said, "We will seriously consider it in the remaining time. By the way, do you have any needs? If we want to continue trading, we may be able to get you the supplies you want."

At this time, the middle-aged woman seemed not to hear them talking and lowered her head to continue eating.

A few dozen seconds later, a man entered the cafeteria and handed a document to Igula, then left quickly without looking back.

Igula took a look and saw a material demand list with pictures and texts. In addition to common resources, it also included magic spirits, heritage creations, mechanical parts, and even alien populations. He raised his eyebrows. Just from this demand list, he could analyze what high-value items there were in the Senluo Wasteland.

"I'm done." Harvey picked up the plate and said, "I'm going to go smoke a pack of cigarettes before I come back."

Igulla: "There are smoke alarms everywhere here. You can't even smoke in the bathroom, right?"

"I found a place without an alarm, and it also has sunlight from the landmark." The necromancer said something that was not in line with his status: "I want to take Alice to bask in the sun. We are both a little calcium deficient."

"I'm going too!" Ash quickly swallowed the remaining food.

"Are you going to smoke too?" Igula frowned and looked at Ash.

"I want to go out and bask in the sun, too!" Ash said, "I'll leave it to you to bring Tamashi food!"

"It was me last time and the time before that. You just don't want to bring food..."

Tamashi was reluctant to come to the dining hall to eat, not because he couldn't stand the atmosphere here, but for religious reasons - he said that believers of the Yashajin sect could not eat with others.

He didn't explain too much, but Ash and the others had already come up with many reasons: 'Refusing to interact with pagans can enhance the internal cohesion of the sect', 'It will reveal flaws when eating', 'The original Crow Killer was an autistic social phobia'... Anyway, it's not an intolerable shortcoming, and Ash and the others are willing to take care of Tamashi's religious beliefs.

However, the charging station does not provide delivery service, so they have to bring their own lunch boxes. Ash always refuses to bring his own lunch, not only because he is lazy, but also because he wants to see the fraudster carefully put the food in the lunch box and arrange it on the plate, which is very neat and beautiful.

For some reason, this scene always made Ash feel very funny. He actually wanted Igula to bring food, but the trickster obviously would not indulge the cult leader's little willfulness.

Ash and Harvey left the cafeteria and took the elevator. They happened to catch a train filled with believers in uniform. They stood in silence and Harvey pressed the button for the 95th floor.

A few minutes later, when Ash came out of the elevator, he immediately leaned against the wall and gasped for air. Harvey looked at him strangely and asked in confusion, "Did someone fart in there just now?"

"No, I'm not holding my breath." Ash waved his hand and said, "But don't you feel depressed? Staying in a narrow elevator with them... If it was just a few seconds, I could hold on, but this time it took several minutes, I really can't stand it."

"Depressed?" Harvey walked in front and motioned him to follow, saying, "What's there to be depressed about? Can't you just treat them as a bunch of corpses?"

"If they were corpses, I wouldn't mind," Ash sighed, "but the problem is, they are human, it's just..."

"It's just that they don't want to be human anymore." Harvey couldn't wait to take out a cat grass cigarette and put it in his mouth, saying in a serious tone.

Although the Four Pillars of the Gods, Crow Killer, and Fire of the Tribulation religions all had their inhumane aspects, they were generally understandable, so Ash quickly integrated into this land of Senluo. It was not until he met the Temple of Transcendence that he realized that he would always be an outsider.

As the main sect of the Qinri Alliance, the Temple of Transcendence is already considered a very lawful and good force. It can be seen from the fact that it has special rules and regulations for receiving traveling merchants that they have gained the trust of many forces. It must be mentioned here that the Temple of Robbery Fire actually belonged to the evil camp in the past, specializing in robbing traveling merchants, and no one was willing to trade with them.

However, this lawful force recognized by everyone has an extremely radical concept of transcending the Temple: transcending consciousness.

What does this mean? Transcendent Dafa believes that wisdom and consciousness are not linked. Consciousness is actually a constraint on intelligent creatures. If they want to evolve into a more advanced species, they must transcend consciousness and shed their ego.

At first it sounds like nonsense, but they have a self-consistent logic system: when a magician learns any skill, he must rely on consciousness to actively learn and digest it, but when the magician has completely mastered the skill, he needs to abandon consciousness to better display the skill. In the field of art, a musician will not think about what note to play next, but will play it based on feelings; in the field of combat, a swordsman will not think about where to attack next. In the instant confrontation where there is no room for error, the swordsman's thinking process has ended before the consciousness has any idea.

The Transcendentalists believe that consciousness is like a guide for new players in a game, a baby's walker, or the instructions for using a product. It is a stage that intelligent creatures must go through, but it is only a stage.

Consciousness can lead to wisdom, but wisdom does not need consciousness. After the initial development of wisdom, consciousness becomes a burden. Those distracting thoughts, desires, cravings, and emotions are all obstacles that prevent intelligent creatures from continuing to improve.

The ideal of the Transcendental sect is for all people to shed their egos, transcend consciousness, and evolve into more intelligent beings.

Although the ideals of this sect are outrageous, there have been many outrageous ideals in the world of Senluo, so it does not owe it this one.

It stands to reason that this ideal that is three steps ahead of the times will soon be drowned in the fiercely competitive wasteland, but the Transcendence Sect has found their best utopia - the intact Gray Fox God Era Building.

There is also an intelligent computing center in this building. As long as the consciousness is connected to the center, people can directly convey their meanings to each other accurately without the need for verbal communication; and no matter what you encounter, you can ask for help from the center, and the center will immediately provide you with a solution.

Ash and his friends speculated that this building may have been a service industry in the past, perhaps a hotel or apartment, and the intelligent computing center may be a butler system. But in the wasteland era, the intelligent computing center has become a great container for transcending consciousness.

The idea of ​​the Transcendental Sect is not complicated: they connect all believers to the intelligent computing center, gradually reduce the influence of self-consciousness, and leave all actions to the intelligent center until the self is completely dissolved. Then, even if they are not connected to the computing center, they can transcend the constraints of consciousness and raise their intelligence to a new level.

In order to achieve this goal, they equip themselves with peripherals and engrave lightning patterns on themselves, just to allow the computing center to control themselves more thoroughly - in theory, the computing center is not allowed to control living people, but they are not "legal citizens" at all, and this disadvantage has become a loophole for them to bypass security restrictions.

That's why Ash felt the cafeteria and the elevator were so depressing, because although the Transcendental Believers looked like humans, felt like humans, and were humans inside, they were gradually becoming non-human.

Because of this, all Transcendent believers can be considered as one, and everyone they meet can become a spokesperson for the sect, and the canteen lady is also qualified to discuss big business worth thousands of gold coins with them. Believers are just carriers of the intelligence center, and all important actions are decided by the intelligence center.

However, the intelligence center also became a shackle for the Transcendental Temple. After all, all believers had to stay in the building to access the center. They could not leave the building at all. Invisibly, the sect was also locked in the building. Unless the first evolver really appeared, the Transcendental Sect was nothing more than a fantasy of a dozen generations.

Suddenly, Ash squinted his eyes and found himself in an indoor grassland, with a scorching... sun above his head?

"The sun is fake." Harvey lit up a cat grass cigarette, took out the coffin from the space card and called Alice to get up: "But the sunlight is real. It seems to be reflected from the surface of the earth. It may also be a miracle of light... I don't understand these things."

Ash took a deep breath of refreshing air, looked at the green grass in front of him, felt the gentle sunlight kissing his face, and said excitedly: "I'll go down and find Igula and Tamashi to come over!"

"Why?"

"There's no why... You should have told us about this great place earlier, but you wanted to eat it all by yourself without telling us!"

"What I think is good may not be good for you." Harvey sat in the shade of the tree. Alice picked up her skirt and sat next to him. "What they think is good may not be good for you."

Ash blinked. "Beating around the bush isn't your style. Have you learned bad things from Igula?"

"Do I still need to learn from him?" Harvey exhaled a round of smoke rings: "On the contrary, you, have you learned bad things from him?"

"What on earth do you want to say?"

"Do you trust Igula?" the necromancer asked seriously, "Who is he to you?"