Secret: The years I served as a foreign aid for the Aurora Club

Chapter 328 Preaching
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In front of the endless gray fog, two figures were walking quietly, one in front and one behind. Compared with the fog barrier that connected to the sky and had no visible top, they were so small that they were almost invisible.

The sun gradually sank, moved away from the zenith, and gradually approached the distant horizon.

"You actually chose to come here like this." Edward couldn't help but say, "Does this make you feel calm?"

"The feeling of walking on the land is very nostalgic." The True Creator whispered, "A few epochs ago, I also walked in the East Continent like this, looking for traces of humans, looking for the reason why I came here, and what I was going to do. Everything seems like yesterday."

However, the topography of the Eastern Continent had changed greatly. During his wanderings, he discovered that many mountains had disappeared, rivers and lakes had dried up into huge cracks and basins, and the remains of some destroyed towns and villages were hidden in the vegetation, becoming the nests of extraordinary creatures.

After dark, the God-forsaken Land revealed its true face, gradually covering the scene of the Eastern Continent in the distant memory of the real Creator.

"Looking at your reaction, I can't help but wonder what 'human nature' really is."

Edward observed the profile and facial expressions of the real Creator for a while, and then said slowly, "Is this human sociality, human instinct, human virtue, or a way and feeling for people to understand the world when they are themselves?"

"I feel like you're looking for past feelings, and that behavior leads to more feelings."

The true Creator tilted his head:
"You have so many different identities and experiences, and you have imitated humans for so long, but you can't understand human nature?"

“It’s not that I can’t understand it.”

Edward narrowed his eyes and looked into the distance: "It's just that the manifestations of human nature in you vary greatly. Half of the Seven Gods are not human, but you still think they have human nature. This makes me very curious. How did you find the commonality among them and think that this is human nature, rather than something from other races. So human nature is not just human, but also exists in other races? Then how do you judge that this is not instinct, not the sociality of the dragon race, not the sociality of the giant race, but human?"

"It doesn't really matter."

The True Creator replied: "They have now placed themselves in the human social system and participated in the human way of life. Abiding by these rules instead of treating humans according to their own race's original habits is a manifestation of 'possessing humanity'."

Moreover, for most people, it doesn’t matter what God is. A vague impression is enough. It is just a belief and a lifestyle. Praying to God and going to church to confess is like buying lottery tickets. People buy lottery tickets in the hope that something good will come out.

After hearing this answer, Edward frowned and nodded slightly as if he understood something:

"I see. It can be understood this way."

"It's interesting to say that many people think I have humanity, even though they know I'm not even human. Now that you put it that way, I seem to understand a little bit - I participate in human society to a certain extent and abide by the rules, so I seem to have humanity."

“I understand them a little bit now.”

After a brief exchange, there was another long period of silence and trek. No one spoke to each other, and everyone concentrated on doing their own things.

The sky slowly darkened and the outline of the city gradually appeared in front of us.

There seemed to be a shadow moving around. Considering that there was a true god of the demonic path next to him, and there might not even be an angel in the city opposite, it was estimated that the other party's mere presence would cause a lot of negative impact and bring danger to the city. So the True Creator turned his head and glanced at Edward, and found that Edward was also looking at Him.

Edward pointed to the gray fog barrier in the distance.

The True Creator nodded.

They immediately (impatiently) went their separate ways.

The True Creator watched the Outer Gods gradually go away and approach the direction of the gray fog. He lowered his head and stared at the cross in his hand. After a moment of silence, he put the cross away. Through the ability of "audience", his appearance in the eyes of others began to change, and he became an ordinary person wearing a simple priest robe, and it was difficult for people to remember any characteristics after seeing him.

The Fool now has neither a holy emblem nor a symbolic object, only a name, so He has no choice but to leave with nothing.

“Become a missionary again?”

He said in a voice that only he could hear, and then laughed: "It all seems like yesterday..."

Although he had nothing related to the three mysterious paths or Sefirah Castle, it didn't matter. Since Silver City could normally connect to Sefirah Castle through rituals, this city could definitely do the same. Although the spirit world of the Forsaken Land of Gods was almost completely isolated from the outside world, the Supreme Beings in the spirit world were just so unreasonable.

In fact, the missionaries' methods and preaching are all empty. The most important thing is the response from the gods themselves... The real creator tidied his appearance, took out the oil lamp that he had prepared long ago, and slowly approached the torch team moving in the distance.

……

In the hunting team, a man with a strange and disgusting tumor on his head stopped and looked into the darkness in the distance.

The team member walking next to him noticed his reaction and asked nervously:
"Is there something there?"

His mouth was severely tilted to the left and could hardly be closed. He had to wipe the liquid from the corner of his mouth from time to time. He spoke with an uncomfortable accent. In the outside world, a person with such severe deformity would receive pity from everyone, but here, this was already commonplace, and even a milder case - the facial deformity would not affect combat, and his limbs were not incoordinated.

The deformities of the people in Yuecheng are often reflected on their faces, because children with deformed limbs have difficulty surviving.

"Something is approaching here..."

The man with the large tumor on his head stared fixedly into the distance. He subconsciously reached out and scratched his hair. The small bump on his head burst immediately, oozing pus and blood, and dyeing his messy blond hair a dirty color that was difficult to look at.

But the people around him, including himself, had no extra expression, as they were already accustomed to it.

The hunting team suddenly became nervous. They formed a battle formation. The leader coughed twice, his eyes became deep, and he said in a mellow and pleasant voice that was completely different from his ugly appearance: "Be alert."

His words had a calming power. The team leader asked the first member of the team who felt it, "What's the matter?"

"How do you feel? What type of monster is this time?"

This low-level priest in his team was not good at fighting, but he had an unusually high level of inspiration and the ability to purify. With the help of an extraordinary item of the "fate" path allocated by Moon City, he was able to foresee many dangers. With his ability, the hunting team was able to avoid many fatal crises and even successfully escaped before the arrival of a strange wolf-shaped extraordinary creature that was too powerful to be understood.

"..."

The priest with the power of purification hesitated for a moment, his voice trembling slightly, but with doubt in his tone:

"Very powerful, very powerful, just like that terrifying wolf..."

"...But I didn't feel any danger...I felt warm. Could it be that they weren't monsters, but people from other cities...?"

Hearing these words, the faces of these people with deformed faces all showed the same doubt as the priest. They looked at each other. In the more than a thousand years of exploration after the catastrophe, Yuecheng had never seen people from foreign countries. The priest's perception of danger and powerful things was only used to avoid monsters and dangerous areas, and had never been used to find humans.

Foreigner? People outside Moon City?

Does it really exist? Everyone had a secret expectation in their hearts.

But at the same time, they were prepared for the worst, and their expectations were dashed almost the moment they appeared.

Except for the newly born and uneducated children, everyone in Moon City knew that in this land without miracles, no one except humans could use fire in the dark to create light. Even the monsters that were good at controlling flames would lurk in the dark environment before launching an attack. As for other humans, all the city-states discovered by Moon City so far had long been destroyed and turned into ruins, with no survivors.

But before the priest could give further instructions, everyone heard steady footsteps approaching.

Along with it, there was a faint light approaching. The team immediately took up a defensive formation, staring at the approaching light with nervous anticipation.

It is a two-legged creature... The interval between its steps is similar to that of humans... Its weight is similar to that of humans... The team leader did not let down his guard at all. He clasped his hands together, placed them in front of his lips, and hummed a lullaby that has been popular in Moon City for many years. A quiet power permeated the surroundings.

The footsteps did not slow down.

The team leader stopped humming and gave a look to the team members behind him. The team members struggled for a few seconds and then began to retreat slowly and orderly.

According to the team leader's estimation of himself and his team members, the fastest "Wind-loving One" in the team might still have a chance to escape with the help of the Sealed Object, and he himself has been leaving traces along the way to make it easier for Yuecheng to recycle their extraordinary characteristics in the future.

The fire gradually approached and the team members had retreated ten meters away.

In the warm dim flame, first a pair of hands walked out of the shadows, and then a middle-aged man with black hair and blue eyes appeared in the darkness. He had an ordinary appearance and made people subconsciously focus their attention.

He was ordinary, but he didn't have clusters of tumors on his head and body, he didn't have a missing nose, ears or other body parts, he didn't have crooked eyes or a crooked mouth, and he didn't wear a tattered leather coat.

Even the captain, who had a strong psychological quality, was stunned. Although a monster no matter how much it looked like a human was still a monster, he had a moment of doubt about what the other party was - was it an illusion? An illusion of the "normal appearance" of humans?
Then, he subconsciously reached out and touched his crooked and twisted cheek in astonishment. The bulging bones on one side squeezed his eyes. He looked very much like the humans in ancient books who had not yet developed deformities. He was even more normal and healthier than some people who were lucky enough not to have many mutations.

Despite his thoughts, the captain still reacted immediately. He immediately summoned the spirit sealed in him, but all his resistance disappeared without a trace the moment he looked into the other party's blue eyes, and the spirits were forced back one after another before they appeared. A sense of ease and comfort suddenly rose in the captain's heart, as if he was lying on the roof in the daytime, basking in the sun, soaking his whole body in warm water, and his spirit and body were wrapped in joy, making him not nervous at all.

In this state, it was difficult for him to even think of being "alert".

"Which city-state are you from?"

The True Creator asked preemptively, His eyes sweeping over these twisted and deformed faces and bodies one by one. Even though He was mentally prepared, He still had the urge to close His eyes.

But He could not show too many abilities related to the "Sun", so He only made some subtle influences.

In the team more than ten meters away, the Sun Priest, like all his companions, was attracted by the face of the True Creator and answered subconsciously:
"We are from..."

The team member next to him nudged him hard with his elbow, interrupting his answer and speaking loudly:
"Are you human? What are you?"

"where u from?"

Let’s get to the point. The True Creator thought that the cross should be raised at this time, but unfortunately the symbol of the “Fool” himself had not yet been made up by the Fool himself, and there was not even a gesture, so He could only hold the lamp, motionless, and answered in a calm tone:
"I come from a world beyond this land."

He paused: "...I bring salvation to the 'Fools'."

After hearing this answer, all members of the hunting team felt dazed, wondering if they were too expectant and thus had hallucinations.

The captain was the first to react. He finally used the power of tranquility to get rid of the comfort that made him feel depressed. He struggled to ask, "Fool?"

"Yes."

The True Creator tried to tell some of the glorious deeds of the "Fool", but found that the other party had no scriptures and no propaganda. The most important of the glorious deeds was probably preventing his own coming. So the True Creator began to recall the imagination of the Aurora Society about the "Fool":

"The Fool is the ruler of the spirit world, the ancient creator, and the friend of the sun god."

"He is the Ancient One, the Sleeper, the Great One, who awakened in the present era, replaced his old friend, and brought salvation to the God-forsaken Land."

The hunting team of Moon City listened to these words in a daze, looking at each other, and the team leader asked again:

"Long ago, the word of the Lord came down from heaven, saying that we no longer need to believe in Him. Has the Lord really abandoned us? Why did the Lord abandon us? Why did He let His friends send us to be saved, but turned a blind eye to His believers? Are we not pious enough?"

The true Creator is already very calm in the face of such questions, and He already has the corresponding answer in His heart.

"You have not been abandoned, but have been handed over by the Creator to more trustworthy gods."

The team members hurriedly said: "But we are against the Lord..."

“People of the God-forsaken Land.” Sweeping the majestic gaze of the True Creator, they subconsciously fell silent. “…You have been walking alone in the darkness for thousands of years, never seeing hope or the sun. You have no normal food and are forced to eat the meat of monsters. Toxins accumulate from generation to generation. Not only do you suffer, but you also have to reproduce in such pain, hoping that your offspring can escape…”

The True Creator pursed his lips and asked the question he wanted to know the most:
"If all this suffering is caused by the Creator, wouldn't you, for even a moment, hate Him?"

"Followers of a foreign god, what are you talking about?!"

One of the hunting team immediately roared at Him angrily: "We will not be hostile to you just because of different beliefs, but even if you call your god a friend of the Lord, you should not insult the Lord and our faith and piety with such words!"

"But what if He is the one who created all this?"

The true Creator did not hesitate because of the other party's words. Instead, he questioned in a calmer tone: "What if He really acquiesced to the catastrophe that destroyed everything, and acquiesced to this place from a paradise for mankind to a place abandoned by God? What if He really did not consider saving you? What if He really turned a blind eye to your suffering and was even indifferent... Don't you want to convert?"

Why don't the souls of the East Continent hate Him? Why are the people of the God-forsaken Land still unwilling to convert?

You had no choice in the past, but now you have a choice. He would rather the people of the East Continent convert to the "Fool" happily after obtaining food. After all, what qualifications does the fallen Creator have to gain these devout believers when he condones the destruction and personally slaughters his own believers?

The voice roared again, but lost its context.

After a long silence, the Sun Priest slowly spoke.

"So, this is the Lord's answer to us?" He looked at the True Creator. "The Lord felt that we suffered too much because of Him, so He found a god who might be kinder and more merciful to save us?"

This shouldn't be the correct approach, but the only other way is to add the "Fool" content to the ceremony, but I may not be able to defeat "God", and rashly adding it will only cause Klein to suffer unimaginable effects... The True Creator answered in silence.

"I will accept it if that is the Lord's answer."

Just when he felt that he might have messed up his missionary work and was considering whether to use the power of the "audience" to start over again, the Sun Priest spoke again. He seemed to have aged dozens of years in an instant, and his tone was full of deep fatigue.

"Praise the Lord, your will is the direction I am heading. Praise the Fool, may you grant us salvation."

The Sun Priest made the sign of the cross on his chest for the last time, then lowered his arms to his sides. Others watched his movements, and his deformed face showed many different expressions, including sadness, hesitation, struggle, and anger.

The True Creator remained silent for a moment, took a few steps back, held the lamp, closed his eyes, and began to recite the name of “The Fool”.

"The 'Fool' who does not belong to this era..."

TBC
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I've had a good rest! I'll resume updating at 12:30 tomorrow!

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