Chapter 373 The Day of Harvest Has Arrived
At the other end of the virtual world, the Pope of the Solipsians was kneeling in front of a huge holy stone, praying devoutly before nightfall.
This is a tradition passed down from generation to generation by the Solipsi people.
But to be honest, he actually believed in the power of gold more than the illusory gods. After all, in his memory, the church had never used any mysterious power to accomplish anything, but it had accomplished many things with money.
Although legend has it that the huge stone in front of him once blessed the ancestors living on this land with a good harvest, who has ever seen the true God with their own eyes?
Maybe--
Maybe our ancestors just made a mistake.
After all, the Solipsis are good at farming.
They have many hands and can operate different tools at the same time. They are smart enough to have invented many useful tools long ago.
As long as they work hard, they will be the richest creatures on this earth.
As for how they came into this world and who created them, to be honest... he didn't really care that much.
Of course, deep in his heart, he also had a desire - he wanted to meet the Lord who only existed in legends.
Many prophets claimed to have seen Him, and even painted His appearance on the walls around the holy stone. It was a smooth, tentacle-less face with two lonely eyes hanging on a tube.
To be honest, he felt it was just average, even though many theologians regarded it as a treasure and even claimed that they had comprehended the true meaning of the universe from the star-like deep eyes of the true God!
But no matter what, if that Lord really exists, He may have a way to save the Solipsis who are constantly sliding into the abyss of desire.
Their world is too narrow to satisfy their insatiable ambitions, and sadly, they can't find a way to leave this world.
Perhaps his piety was finally sensed by his "Lord".
Just when his faith was about to completely disappear and he was about to fall asleep in his lengthy prayer, a majestic yet unfamiliar voice suddenly and clearly sounded in his mind:
"The time has come..."
"who?!"
The Pope was startled and looked around in panic, but found that there was no one around and he was the only one in front of the empty holy font.
Because of fear, all the tentacles on his body tensed up instantly and twisted into a ball like a pretzel.
He looked around in panic, but could not see the source of the sound. But soon, the fear that penetrated his bones was replaced by an incomparable ecstasy.
It is the voice of the Lord!
Their Lord God answered their prayers for the first time in five hundred years!
From the whispers in the dark, he vaguely heard a vague pronunciation, which seemed to be the name of the true God -
Looks like Colin?
“My Lord!” He burst into tears, and countless tentacles on his face were trembling violently. “You… You finally responded to your humble servant!”
What made him even more ecstatic was that this time, the sacred gaze did not close due to his call, but instead opened wide!
He could feel that the great will still resided on the holy stone, looking at his soul as humble as dust with loving eyes!
He could even feel His heavy breathing!
He plucked up his courage and tentatively asked the first question in his mind: "Colin... Is this your name, my Lord?"
The musical notes uttered from his mouth were transformed into pure spiritual signals, and through the resonance effect of source power and source power, they were transformed into frequencies that could be understood by the magicians of Xuebang.
This is a groundbreaking study of the Source Law School.
Although they cannot understand the words of people from other worlds, they can hear the whispers from some people with extraordinary inspiration that seem to come from the depths of their souls!
Inside the Corinthian Tower, sensing the mental signals fed back through the magic circle, Luo Yan's lips curled up into a pleasant smile.
Language does not seem to be a barrier to communication.
But that's normal.
They didn't communicate with sound, but with some kind of power that was closer to the origin of the universe than supernatural power.
That is the soul!
Through the magic circle, he delivered a concise and powerful response to the hot and beating soul.
"Yes."
"I allow you to call me by my real name."
After receiving a positive answer, the Pope's body trembled even more violently.
He immediately prostrated himself on the ground, pressed all his tentacles tightly to the cold ground, and began to confess his sins.
"My Lord, the Supreme God, respected Colin, please forgive your servant's greed! As you can see, I have collected gold in your name, but please allow me to defend my sins. Everything I did was not out of selfish desire!"
He paused for a moment and continued to confess without stopping.
"Everything I have done is due to the growing power of the church, which has been running in the endless wilderness like a wild horse. As the leader who manages the secular authority on your behalf, I can only use these worldly wealth to fill the believers' insatiable desires and ambitions! I beg you to forgive my sins, my most pious Lord, and please give guidance to your lost servants!"
Luo Yan did not ask him to do anything, nor did he make any judgment on his behavior. He just bestowed the grace from the gods on his child like a kind and majestic father.
"I forgive your sins, and I will grant you power over all mortals. You only need to do one thing for me."
The Pope burst into tears of gratitude, and the sticky liquid flowed down his tentacles, soaking his robe and forming a muddy swamp on the holy floor.
"What do you need from me?"
Luo Yan said calmly.
"I don't need anything. I just need you to write a promise about the future in the new covenant after your rebirth from the ashes."
He won't say what he wants.
He wanted them to guess.
Only in this way will they offer their most precious things in anxiety.
Upon hearing that the price of power did not have to be paid immediately, a hint of uncontrollable ecstasy appeared beneath the tentacle-covered face.
The Pope lowered his head and made the promise in an extremely pious voice.
"I do!"
He dared not disobey.
There is no reason to disobey.
Since the gods can bestow grace, they can also bring down punishment.
He would also use the harshest language to write the teachings of the New Testament and use the most vicious threats to coerce his descendants to fulfill the teachings.
Anyway——
He doesn't need to pay for that.
The New Testament written by his own hand will become a new boulder, deeply engraved in the bones of every Solipsian!
After completing the contract, Luo Yan stopped talking with the Pope and turned his gaze to Miller who was standing beside him.
The young assistant teacher was stunned. He had never imagined that the virtual realm could be used in this way!
What he could not have imagined was that this respected His Highness Colin was so skilled that he could make the alien willingly give up everything with just a few words!
Is this really his first time exploring the virtual world? !
"Miller, pass on the most basic concepts of source magic, about how to guide and release it, to our first 'prophet' through spiritual resonance."
Miller suddenly came to his senses and nodded excitedly.
"I understand! Master! It's like if you want to take something, you must first give it, right?"
Luo Yan was slightly stunned, then remembered that he was the one who taught him this, so he said with a smile.
"Yes, go ahead."
Tafu, who was lying on his shoulder, did not move, staring with bated breath and wide eyes, as if she had not yet recovered from the shock of what she saw.
She had played the role of a deity before, but she never expected to play it this way.
"You... are such a devil." She whispered in Luo Yan's ear in dragon language, with a rare hint of fear in her voice.
If she had previously fantasized about finding the way home through the virtual world, now she was a little scared, and even couldn't help but pray in her heart that this guy would not find her hometown.
She had no doubt that those naive people with extremely high moral standards would be fooled by this unscrupulous man!
Although the citizens of the Zeta Empire have extremely high moral cultivation, who doesn't have some selfish desires and urges in their hearts that are inconvenient to express?
for example--
He promised to enable the Zetas to lay eggs.
Of course, she said this not because she thought it was a good thing, nor because she felt it was comfortable or exciting.
This is just an example!
"Thank you for the compliment."
Luo Yan smiled slightly and waited quietly for his assistants to take action.
Communicating with people from other worlds is not a difficult task for the magicians of Xuebang. The difficulty lies only in "how to establish an effective dialogue mechanism" and "what to say during communication".
Coincidentally, the top students of Demon King Academy are best at this, and it is a perfect match for Luo Yan, an outstanding graduate.
The transfer of knowledge began quickly.
Or in other words——
The whispers of the ancient god Colin have begun!
The magician in the hall first activated the source power of the magic circle, causing the flow of time in the two worlds to shift.
This is the basic operation of virtual world research.
Magicians of the Source School do not have to wait for the same story to be repeated day after day behind the virtual world. Instead, they can actively drag the progress bar backwards to make the time on the other side faster relative to the universe outside the "horizon".
Not too fast.
Thirty times is about right.
Every night, Miller and other assistants would repeatedly broadcast the Jade Voice into the head of the Solipsian Pope, instilling magical theories about the source of power.
Although these magic skills seem so primitive to Xuebang, they are just right for the Solipsis people whose spiritual world is barren.
The same is true for this Pope.
Although the whispers that reached deep into his soul tormented him and caused him to suffer from insomnia all night long, the feeling of enlightenment made him feel incomparable physical and mental pleasure.
He can use magic!
At first he was only able to rekindle extinguished candles, but gradually he was able to heal people's wounds and even curse his enemies with illness.
Since the world over there has not produced a systematic theory of magic and the extraordinary people cultivated by the systematic theory, even some simple spells are enough to make this pious Pope the absolute authority in his civilization.
He doesn't have to be very powerful.
It's enough to be just a little bit stronger than ordinary people.
There were no surprises—
With the blessing of divine power, he soon became Colin's "Chosen One", and over time he learned the tricks of controlling extraordinary powers.
Inspired by God's will, he walked into the cities and countryside of the Solipes with a passion for preaching, and preached the grace of the true God Colin in the industrial areas lined with chimneys.
His words were like flames, easily igniting the people's desire for the blessings bestowed by the old true God, and leading them to miss the days when the true God favored them in the past, and the "good old days" when farmlands and pastures had not yet been swallowed up by factories.
Regardless of whether the old days were truly beautiful, at least the pain they are experiencing now is visible to their naked eyes.
Especially his "magic", which is an irrefutable miracle, has made countless believers prostrate themselves at his feet, shouting his name and praying.
An organization called the "Holy Light Society" rose like a prairie fire from the lowest workshops and the poorest alleys, and then swept towards the magnificent streets.
A new flame is burning in the ashes!
While the Pope was doing his best to spread the gospel of the true God, Luo Yan, who was standing on the other side of the virtual realm, did not stop.
In order to quickly observe the long-term effects of this intervention, he continued to issue his second instruction to Miller and his team - to increase the output power of the magic circle, to deviate the time axis on both sides of the virtual channel to a greater extent, and to further speed up the flow of time behind the virtual world!
Normally, thirty times the speed of time is already very fast. In order to avoid missing important details and to avoid running out of the precious communication time between the two worlds in advance, the magicians of Xuebang usually do not use a higher speed to drag the "progress bar" of the virtual world.
The two worlds do not always intersect in the void that is more vast and boundless than the universe. Perhaps in tens of millions of years, there will only be one or two times when they look back and happen to meet.
No one knows how much progress is left for the two civilizations. Maybe if you miss it this time, you will never meet again.
However, Luo Yan was not worried at all, not only because he got this virtual realm for free, but also because he had enough confidence in his research decisions!
When the magicians of Xuebang were studying the virtual world, their viewpoints were either on windmills, rotten stones, or the crown of some lord.
But he is different.
He planted the "perspective" of his research directly into the depths of the Solipsian soul!
From the moment Colin's name became the symbol of the ancient god, he firmly grasped the soul of this civilization!
As long as the Solepsi people and their history do not disappear in the long river of time, they will definitely meet again in the future!
At most, just change someone.
Under Luo Yan's command, the entire research team devoted themselves to their work with unprecedented enthusiasm.
They continued to inject surging magic power into the magic circle, and the image in the virtual lens began to flow rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The alternation of sun and moon, and the cycle of the four seasons, seem to be compressed into an instant!
The speed of thirty times was accelerated to three hundred times!
They no longer focused on those trivial details, nor coveted those seemingly tempting but useless tributes, but focused their energy on more worthy areas -
They want to play the role of the gods of creation!
Let the Solipsi people, who are already speeding up, continue running at an even faster speed!
The first year passed quickly and time came to the second year.
This torrent of pure faith has overflowed the dilapidated and desolate streets and alleys, and officially launched an attack on those greedy old priests!
The old rulers were shocked that their pope had initiated this massive change, but it was too late to stop him.
What's more, this time even the gods stood by his side, supporting him in bringing down divine punishment on the order dominated by the Old Testament!
The temple built on gold and lies soon collapsed.
It was not destroyed by the roaring siege cannons, but by the believers who embraced the Holy Light and called for the truth.
The old priest class was overthrown, and the "Holy Light Society" naturally became the new ruler of the entire world.
They identified the name of the ancient god who "brought down miracles of abundance to the Solipsians when they were in trouble, and brought down divine punishment when they were arrogant", and rewrote new doctrines.
In the third year, the new order was completely established.
The Solepsites created a new calendar, with the "day of the miracle" as the first year of the new era.
The rune symbolizing "Colin" was branded on every newly manufactured steam engine, hung on the lintel of every newly built factory, and engraved on the dome of every new temple.
The entire civilization began a new evolution around this great god and entered a new historical cycle.
From then on, the true God "Colin" was no longer just a religious symbol, but a cultural symbol that was passed down forever.
Also passed down was the reformed "New Testament" doctrine.
The Pope kept his promise and wrote the commitment to the true God in the most prominent place in the New Testament and emphasized it three times.
At this moment, his mission was finally accomplished.
Perhaps he realized his destiny in the process. After completing everything, he quietly retreated behind the scenes with his disciples and returned the secular world to the people.
They didn't disappear.
He just no longer appears in front of people as a ruler, but hides in the shadows of history as a mysterious researcher.
An organization called "The Shadow Society" was born.
The Pope gradually realized that the whispers from the unknown were not a good thing, and His plot might be more terrible than he imagined.
The price of the contract is probably something his descendants cannot afford.
He was powerless to resist His will, and the Solipsis could not afford the cost of resisting Him, but he could sow the seeds of resistance for future counterattacks at the moment the deal was completed.
The Pope, who once thought, "I don't care what happens after I die," ultimately did not leave everything to his ignorant descendants to deal with.
He decided to spend the rest of his life doing this last thing——
Find out what the whispers in the dark are!
The world behind the virtual realm has undergone earth-shaking changes, but on the continent of Os, only three days have passed!
Just as Miller and his team were excited about this miraculous research progress and were preparing to record more data, an accident happened again -
The virtual scene, which had been extremely stable, suddenly began to ripple violently, like the surface of a lake wrinkled by the wind.
Everything was just like the accident a few days ago. The azure light that bloomed on the mirror disappeared into thin air again.
The connection... was interrupted again.
But this time, no one was depressed, and no one was desperate. Instead, every face had an excited expression.
"Teacher!" Miller walked quickly to Colin's side and suggested excitedly, "This is definitely a groundbreaking discovery! We...we have found a way to stably interfere with and guide the evolution of civilization in the virtual realm! I suggest that you immediately publish this result in the Sage's Newspaper within the academy! I bet that this result is definitely enough to shock the entire Great Sage Tower!"
Luo Yan smiled and readily agreed to the proposal.
He patted Miller on the shoulder and said, "Very good, this is a good idea. As for the specific writing of the paper, I will leave it to you, Miller."
Preaching, teaching and answering questions can both gain the power of faith, so he certainly would not refuse such a thing.
This is definitely not for show.
"Leave it to me?!" Miller was flattered and almost jumped up with excitement.
He could almost foresee that this paper, led by His Royal Highness the Prince and bearing his own name, would become the most important resume in his academic career!
Especially considering the academic achievements they were about to present, he had no doubt that this paper would be enough to smoothly propel his future academic career!
"That's right. I'll leave it to you. Do you have the confidence to complete it?" Looking at Miller who was so excited that he forgot himself, Luo Yan teased with a smile.
"Yes! I must!" Miller nodded excitedly and swore solemnly, "I am willing to swear to Saint Sis! I will do my best to complete the task you assign to me!"
Luo Yan nodded to show that he understood, and left the matter to him.
According to convention, as a supervisor, his name will be the first to be signed on the paper, and he does not need to worry about these minor details personally.
The smart people in Xuebang are best at these things.
After the excitement wore off, Miller quickly asked the question he was most curious about.
"By the way, Master, you haven't told me how you granted the Solipsi people a good harvest. I never thought that source power could be used in this way. Your spells... seem to be more useful than the magic of the School of Life."
Hearing this, Luo Yan's expression changed subtly.
He certainly couldn't explain the existence of "Godhead" and how using the power of faith was as easy for him as breathing.
He pondered for a moment and answered in an unfathomable tone.
"This... I'm actually still in the exploratory stage. I'll publish it once I figure out how to express it theoretically. Is this important?"
"No, it's not that important!"
Miller immediately shook his head like a rattle, fearing that His Highness would not publish the paper this time out of academic rigor.
His Highness Colin may not mind being in the spotlight, but he really needs this opportunity to improve himself!
After a pause, he chuckled and said.
"Compared to this, our research results on the evolution of the virtual world itself are already amazing enough! I'm just worried that other professors will be curious about this. Writing it in the paper can save us the time of replying to each letter one by one..."
"I see. Let them be curious for now," Luo Yan smiled faintly and said casually, "As for the use of source power, I'll talk about it after I think it through. Just publish your research results on the evolution of the virtual realm first."
He paused and stated his real purpose.
"Also, remember to include the name of my laboratory, 'Magic Science Laboratory', as the cooperating unit of the paper. Can you do that?"
For the "scientific" school he had just founded, this was undoubtedly a great opportunity to stand out in front of the entire academic world.
Regardless of whether this has anything to do with science, if he says it does, then it must have.
Anyway, the final right of interpretation belongs to him alone.
How could Miller not understand his mentor's intention? He immediately nodded attentively, a smile as bright as the sun blooming on his face.
"No problem! Just leave this little thing to me, don't worry, I understand everything!"
(End of this chapter)
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