They all call me an Outer God.

Chapter 245 Seeking Knowledge
"How do you feel now?"

Suddenly, Ria heard someone speaking behind him. He turned around and saw a man with a full head of white hair standing there, wearing a black and blue gradient robe. The man's face was indistinct, and his long hair was tied back with a blue ribbon. Three pairs of large black wings grew from his back.

Angel?

The first word that came to Ria's mind was angel. Compared to the little Swarth the children teased her about, the person in front of her was clearly more in line with the image of an angel in the legends that people had compiled.

Is this another dream?

But the dreams I have now are so strange, even stranger than the ones before.

"Go to the door, and you will see the truth you seek."

"That voice... is it Ivande Charlie?"

No, it doesn't seem like it either.

The person in front of him was completely different from Ivand in both temperament and attitude.

Ria: "Who are you?"

"I am the gatekeeper, and I have nothing more to say."

"..." Ria stopped communicating with the strange angel in front of him. He thought of Ivand's true form, which was being held inside the association. He wondered if it looked like the angel in front of him. Perhaps the one communicating with him now was his mentor's true form.

"Praise be to you—"

Ria took off her hat, praised the angel, and then followed the white figures toward the door.

At first, the door seemed so close, as if it were just a few steps away, but when Ria actually stepped onto the path, she discovered that it had no end at all.

Countless pure white figures fell on this road, or their bodies mutated and they became part of the light particles. The number of people around them became less and less, and Ria discovered that her body was also gradually being stained with white light, and she would soon become like them.

"Imagine God sitting at a control panel, preparing to trigger the Big Bang."

What should I set the speed of light at? How much charge should I give these tiny dots called electrons? What should the value of Planck's constant be...?

"Can we quantitatively understand the quark and gluon confinement and the existence of mass gaps in quantum chromodynamics?"

What is the solution to the black hole information paradox?
What would happen if you threw an Endeleurs Encyclopedia into a black hole? Would the information in that particular book be swallowed up and disappear forever?

"..."

Why does the cosmological constant have its own value? Is it zero? Is it truly constant? Why is it still expanding?

Does it really have an end? And what lies beyond that end?

"The source of the extraordinary is related to protons, so where do these extra protons come from, and what is the basis for biological mutations related to?"

Tell me, tell us...

We thirst for knowledge; please tell us about the omnipotent Lord, the all-knowing and great being.

What is the end of our search, and what is our world anyway?

"It shouldn't be like this. Extraordinary parameters shouldn't exist; they are foreign creations..."

"No, humans are the foreign product."

"Truth, what is truth, and what is it that we should be pursuing!"

"I'm going crazy!"

"This is insane! Hahahaha, this is the truth! We're all fake, this is the truth!" "Someone is watching us! We're all fabricated! Stop the research, stop the pursuit of knowledge, or everyone will die!!!"

Along the road ahead in Ria, countless figures struggled forward, clutching their heads, or vanished in agony. Their forms varied, and it was clear that if the road beneath their feet was a path of seeking knowledge, then these people were those who thirsted for truth.

They may be scientists, physicists, chemists, artists, or even unemployed vagrants seeking answers. The path to knowledge is never short of people, and the gate that has no end or destination symbolizes "truth."

Too many people have fallen on the path of pursuing truth, and some have given up because they thought they had found the truth.

Ria looked at them, then at her own hands, which had turned completely white and glowing.

"This road has no end, there's no need to keep going."

"But some people always have to leave. The road paved with the lives of those who came before must be walked on the bones of those who came before."

A figure stood beside Ria, refuting his words.

"Let's go together. If I die first, I hope you can carry on my last wish and continue exploring towards that door."

"Our paths to knowledge are different. What do you want to know?"

"I want to know how to make bread taste better. What about you? What would you like to know?"

"All."

Lia shook her head and continued walking towards the door. The figure behind her quickly followed: "That's quite an amazing wish. If your wish comes true, can you tell me how to make bread taste even better?"

"can."

"Wow, you're so kind. If I get closer to the door, I'll ask you your wish too."

Ria ignored it and continued walking toward the door. There seemed to be no meaning in space or time here, and he felt no fatigue.

But the figures around him gradually disappeared.

Soon, another person exchanged their wish with Ria. This person wished to know whether the universe was square or round. Not long after, he also disappeared.

People come and go on the road, each carrying their own desires and things they want to know. But as the journey goes on, many give up their pursuit of knowledge and forget their original wishes.

Ria continued forward, leaning on his cane as he walked step by step. Now he had more and more questions to ask, not only for himself but also to help others find the answers to their questions.

"No, walking like this is just standing still."

Ria stopped in his tracks, seemingly talking to someone: "There's no need to waste time here. Just tell me your purpose."

"Wow--"

As soon as he finished speaking, an angel with huge black wings flapped its wings and landed behind him, and the path beneath his feet disappeared, revealing the incredibly heavy and enormous door right in front of him.

From the very beginning, he never took that path; everything he experienced in that fleeting time seemed like an illusion.

"That's not an illusion. Here, time and space don't exist. What you experience may not be what you actually experience."

This sentence was quite complex and mind-bending. Lia didn't want it to affect his thoughts. Facing the door in front of him, he reached out and touched its edge, tentatively pushing it, but the door didn't budge.

"The person who opens the door must clearly state the knowledge they wish to obtain and demonstrate their sincerity."

"Sincerity?"

Ria's gaze gradually changed.

(End of this chapter)