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

Chapter 446 The truth won’t make people happy

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The high priest in front of him smiled joyfully and kindly, but this smile made Klein feel uncontrollably sad in his heart.

He quietly opened his spiritual vision and saw that the spiritual threads of High Priest Nim and the small group of people he brought were all suspended normally in the air, without being controlled or turned into secret puppets.

He looked into the distance again and used his spiritual vision to observe the surroundings. He did not feel anything abnormal. Hermes and Medici both shook their heads at him. They were now deep in the East Continent, close to the seal. The Chernobyl ruins that Klein didn't know about were not very far away. Amon would not pay attention to them all the time. For Him, there were more important things to do in the outside world.

That was Pales Zoroast.

Thinking that there was an old man named Pales outside who could help share his attention, Klein felt a warm current in his heart, just like Zaratul who had lived and died with him and never gave up on him. Perhaps this was the beautiful friendship between the elders and the younger generations of the Three Mysterious Paths.

I don’t know how Zaratul is doing now.

As a fellow sequence who had lived and died together, Klein still missed this old "fortune teller" who spoke in a mysterious way.

If the other party has been resurrected, then when I am promoted to Sequence Two, I can pay him a visit, chat about family matters, talk about acting, and thank Zaratul for taking care of Benson and Melissa.

It turned out that having Leonard approach the Church of the God of Thunder in time was effective, and no bad news has been received yet.

Now that Amon had obtained Sefirah Castle, his primary goal must have been to quickly gather his three copies of Sequence One, and then find a way to prepare a deification ceremony. He didn't know what the deification ceremony of the "thief" was... Although he once owned Sefirah Castle and understood how impossible it was to hide it, as long as there was still a chance, he would definitely find a way to sabotage it.

Klein was still very moral and thanked the God of Thunder in his heart, and prayed for Leonard and Pales for a while.

He then turned his gaze and attention back to the high priest and the team before him.

Hermes did not use psychology to become invisible and leave. Instead, he stood there, ready to listen to the conversation between Klein and them. But in his eyes, the fact that this high priest had not reached Sequence 3 and did not have a honorific name, and was able to find them so quickly, was also worthy of vigilance.

Klein noticed this, too.

——From the time they left the base to the time they reached the Gray Seal, a total of about five hours had passed.

During this period of time, if the team in the base can rush back to Yuecheng in time to inform the "God's Messenger", it will still be in time.

Klein thought about it, pretended to be nonchalant, looked into the high priest's eyes and asked:

"You call us 'honored guests'?"

The high priest still had a genuine smile of joy on his face: "Yes."

Hermes shook his head at Klein in a veiled manner. He had already gone to the other party's mental island to observe and confirmed that the high priest did not lie or deceive them. He seemed to really not know what happened at the Moon City exploration point before, and the "God's Messenger" spreading miracles. He just saw someone approaching the gray fog seal, so he hurried over to check.

"He is indeed parasitic, I can see that."

Hermes sighed and said, "But he doesn't know it..."

I see. Klein couldn't show his frustration and could only face the old man in front of him with an expressionless face.

He inexplicably recalled some ancient legends, which said that some people did not know they were dead when they died, and their souls were still alive as before - but as long as they were told "you are dead", they would immediately remember everything and then turn to ashes.

Three thousand seven hundred and twenty-two years... As expected, he was sent here when the ancient sun god was still alive... Klein had the Silver City holding out in the darkness for more than two thousand years as a reference, and he could easily verify the words of Moon City High Priest Nim.

Moon City was sent here exactly one thousand years earlier than Silver City.

He nodded slightly and asked:
"Are you guarding this fog to prevent it from mutating?"

The High Priest of Moon City, Nim, who was wrapped in dark brown animal skin, shook his head:

"The oracle the Lord gave us was to keep watch every day to see if anyone came out of the mist."

Walking out of the fog... Did the ancient sun god foresee that a person would walk out of the fog? If the fog, or the other side of the fog, is really the "Western Continent", does this mean that there may be life and civilization in it?

Klein felt an indescribable throbbing in his heart when he heard this. He couldn't help but think of a strange dream he had a long time ago. In the dream, he saw a world that seemed to be from the Republic of China period, and he saw the life of a person. This person studied and lived normally. When he grew up, his teacher opened the door and never came back. Many years later, he also entered that door. He succeeded and became a string of data, becoming the "Hidden Sage"!
The Hidden Sage could understand my Chinese and tried to communicate with me more than once... Was he really from there? How did he come to our side? Are there others? He could not help but feel his blood flow speed up, but he deeply realized a fact:
Amon's father, the second generation creator, was unable to clear the gray fog and had to send people here to guard it!

But the Red Angel said that God can also open the seal here... That is to say, even in the heyday of the ancient sun god who fought against many ancient gods in history, he was still not as powerful as the God incarnated in the "Chaos Sea"!

Is this the power of the "Source Incarnation"?
Klein, who had learned a lot of secret knowledge, felt deeply horrified.

The Creator is like this, what will he do in the future? Sure enough, there is no such thing as "replacement". Relying on "anchors" to barely maintain oneself is not a long-term solution. Is the only fate for people like them to be accommodated and replaced by the "source incarnation"?

Klein temporarily shook this gloomy conjecture out of his mind.

He felt as if there was a small voice in his heart telling him, "That's it. This is your ending. There is no such thing as what the real Creator told you"... But Klein gritted his teeth and threw this voice away.

At this point, it may not be so stupid to think about these things.

Hadn't he already decided to gain power? Only power could allow him to do what he wanted to do and protect the people he wanted to protect. The price of gaining power wouldn't be too high, it was just his own self!

Klein quickly adjusted his mindset as if he had given up everything, and then focused on the seal in front of him.

To open this, do I need to rely on my status or brute force? Or is there a specific way to pass through this invisible barrier? But none of this has anything to do with me yet. If there are still people and civilization in the "Western Continent", then I must go and take a look... Klein looked at the Moon City High Priest with obvious wrinkles on his face and said calmly:

"I guess I haven't introduced myself yet."

"I am the messenger of the Fool. I have seen the exploration team from Moon City before and helped them heal their deformities."

Upon hearing these words, Moon City High Priest Nim suddenly found it difficult to remain calm. His eyes, which were the same color as his long hair, showed obvious joy and anticipation, but he also seemed a little worried. He did not take the initiative to speak and waited for Klein to continue.

"No need to doubt it."

Klein nodded. He wanted to speak directly, but he felt that he needed to be more serious when speaking to the high priest.

So he recalled the appearance of the Aurora Society's messengers when they were preaching, and then used the "Clown" potion to control his subtle facial expressions. He selectively learned from those messengers and said in a very serious, slightly fanatical and proud tone:

"I came here to fulfill my Lord's promise, to pass on the light of the Fool, and to lead you out of here."

"leave here……"

The high priest was shocked. He never expected that salvation would come so quickly!

Only a little over a hundred days and nights had passed since the day he mustered up the courage to pray to The Fool!

It happened too fast, absolutely too fast - the newly born children could not only see the sun and eat clean food, but they could also go to the outside world so soon and live in a paradise-like world without monsters and pain?

Compared to the Creator who does not respond to prayers and is indifferent to the suffering of Moon City, this being who always keeps his word is more like a god!

The high priest's hands were shaking slightly.

But after a few seconds, he regained his composure and nodded. His throat was a little dry, and his eyes were brighter than ever before:
"Praise the Great 'Fool'!"

"Thank you for your kindness, thank you for your generosity, thank you for sending the honorable messenger of God again to give us the direction for the future..."

But after he finished speaking, the high priest's expression became more serious. He couldn't tell the depth of the other two, but he had already determined that the young man in strange clothes and with a stern face was the real messenger of God, so he said to Gehrman Sparrow in a serious tone:

"Honorable God's Envoy, there is something I think I need to tell you in advance." Klein certainly would not refuse: "What is it?"

“The Creator is us. The faith passed down from generation to generation has surpassed the meaning of faith itself. Even though He has never responded to us or helped us, the great Lord is still the bond that brings us together.”

While the high priest was weighing his words, he was carefully observing the expression of the Fool's messenger.

Klein looked at the high priest in silence. As the former Fool, he had seen such a humble look on his face too many times.

"In Moon City, are there still people who have not converted to the Fool?"

For the sake of his people, the high priest said, "Many of us feel that our current life is like heaven. We are unwilling to convert and leave the place where our ancestors lived... Honorable messenger of God, are you coming here to save your believers, or everyone?"

After hearing these words, Klein couldn't help but think about it.

"Excuse me, Your Excellency the High Priest."

"No, no," Nim said quickly.

Klein was stunned by the other party's caution and enthusiasm. After a second, he returned to his topic: "The mushrooms provided by Mr. Fool are used to purify the water source and remove the toxins in the monsters in Moon City, right?"

"……Yes."

"Those mushrooms cannot be cultivated in the East Continent. They can only be sent in by Mr. Fool."

Klein has tried his best to make his tone less strange, but combined with the content of his words, it still sounds like he is accusing someone: "Mr. Fool wants to provide you with a better environment. There is plenty of safe food to eat in the outside world, and there is no need for these mushrooms... If that part of the people still want to stay here, do they hope that Mr. Fool will continue to send mushrooms to sustain their lives?"

The high priest was almost breaking out in a cold sweat.

Not many people wanted to stay in the East Continent. People now trusted the new god "The Fool" from outside the continent and were willing to follow the footsteps of this god to a bigger and better world. Besides, without the magical mushrooms provided by the "Fool", these people would continue to eat monster meat, and the toxins would accumulate again, and they would die soon.

Klein didn't say anything. Of course, he had his own selfish motives.

Although it is not difficult to continue to send some mushrooms to those who want to stay in the God-Forsaken Land, he also hopes that these people who have never seen the real world can live a normal life - in addition, his selfish wish is that these people can become believers of the "Fool".

Even though he had realized that victory and replacement were impossible, he was still unwilling to just wait to be killed.

"I will go and persuade them again."

The high priest sighed, and then he asked the question he wanted to know the most: "Honorable messenger of God, since the sun has risen now, does it prove that... the Lord of our faith, the great Sun God, is also in the outside world?"

"Yes and no."

Klein felt that explaining to them the evolutionary relationship between the "Ancient Sun God," "True Creator," and "God" was a bit complicated, so he used a charlatan's tone to briefly introduce it:
"The kings betrayed that being, and blood, anger, filth, and shadow began to flow across the land, ushering in a great disaster."

Nim's pupils dilated slightly, as if to absorb more light in order to see the world clearly.

He asked with difficulty, trying to suppress something:
"You mean, the Lord fell because of this?"

"Not only did they fall, but their flesh and blood were also eaten by the betrayers. This land is cursed because of this." Klein said this boldly, relying on the fact that he was in the God-forsaken Land.

He did not deliberately distinguish between the Amon brothers and the other six Angel Kings, intending to make the residents of Moon City believe that all Angel Kings were traitors, so that they would not be deceived by Amon in the future.

"But..." High Priest Nim still couldn't believe it, "The sun has risen again! We also heard the Lord's oracle!"

“He has indeed returned.”

Klein looked at him deeply, then cruelly dispelled the last glimmer of hope in the heart of this devout believer: "But the one who has returned is no longer the Creator you are familiar with."

"It is His final wish to entrust you to my Lord, The Fool."

Klein could have briefly explained "God" and told them that it was an even more ancient being that occupied the body of the Creator, but the behaviors of God and the Creator were too similar. After reading the ancient records left by the Aurora Society, even Klein himself sometimes couldn't tell whether some of his fellow countryman's behaviors were from the heart or were influenced by others.

Therefore, he didn't say much, using the shortest words to arouse the most imagination.

Upon hearing what Gehrman Sparrow said, Moon City High Priest Nim's body shook slightly, and his wrinkled face instantly turned pale.

The faces of the extraordinary people behind him also changed, as if they had suffered a very serious blow, and some even showed signs of losing control.

Seeing this, Klein reached out again and dragged out the "Staff of Life" from the void, letting it fly out under the propulsion of the air and accurately touch the target.

The signs of the Extraordinary being losing control disappeared immediately, and sweat dripped from his forehead, as if he had just recovered from a serious illness.

As Klein lifted the maintenance of the historical projection, the "Staff of Life" faded rapidly, and the Beyonders of Moon City finally broke free from the "bad news" just now. Some were full of doubt and unwilling to believe it, some cried softly, and some cast confused eyes on Gehrman Sparrow, as if this was their last hope.

High Priest Nim had closed his eyes at some point. After two or three seconds, he opened them again and looked at Gehrman Sparrow and said:
"Do you have any other questions?"

In less than a minute, he seemed to have aged ten or twenty years, and his body exuded a sense of decay and decadence, but he was not completely hopeless. It was like a rotten tree that began to give birth to new hope and new life.

Klein turned his head to look at the eternal gray mist behind him, then looked at the high priest and asked softly:

"Will you tell the people of Moon City the truth?"

The high priest nodded dejectedly and said with a bitter smile: "Honorable envoy of God, your words are the best persuasion for them to convert."

"Before this, we were all still dreaming."

"I dreamed that after I got to the outside world, I could once again bathe in the glory of the great sun god, the creator of everything..."

At this moment, High Priest Nim felt that this truth was the biggest blow to them.

He seemed to have forgotten that the person in front of him was the messenger of the Fool, and he said in such a treasonous way, "I thought I could change my faith when I got outside." Although the Fool brought salvation, they believed in it with a grateful attitude, but they still couldn't break away from the faith and spiritual symbols passed down by their ancestors in such a short time.

Believing in two gods at the same time was the best solution they could think of.

Klein pursed his lips. He looked at the devout believer of the Creator in front of him. He seemed to understand why Amon wanted to parasitize him first and then let him continue to live without knowing anything.

"The tolerance of mythical creatures..."

He had mixed feelings for some reason, but he did not approve of Amon's behavior.

Because, if it were him, he would never do such a thing as parasitizing or even killing all those who converted to Islam in order to survive.

TBC
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The second day of trying not to meet the deadline.

I had an injection yesterday and my fever went down, but it relapsed today and I have to get another injection tomorrow. Damn it.

(End of this chapter)