1666 Chapter 1666
βγ06752-Option
Me: "As long as both parties are willing, that's fine." As long as it's not forced, as long as it's all voluntary, it's all good. β
Yang Ye: "The reason why we insist on not obeying the God of Harvest is because we can't accept being forced. When we simply look forward to a good harvest and abundant food and clothing, we have sincerely believed in the God of the harvest, but when God really appears and strongly commands us to suffer bad luck if we do not sincerely believe in Him, we are suspicious. β
Me: "I also hate being forced. Even if it's something you like, if it's forced, your emotions will turn into hate. If it is forced for a long time, it will develop into disgust and even hostility. β
Yang Ye: "That's why I said that as long as we can walk through the magic stone, we are the same kind." No matter how much faithful believers in God wish to infiltrate this little space and assimilate us, their faith in God will cut off their path. β
Yang Ye: "While they despise the magic stone, they can't do anything about the magic stone." In fact, the magic stone can really be regarded as faith, we all believe in these magic stones that protect our last place of survival. This belief also converges into a force against the strength of the harvest god. β
Me: "There are many kinds of faith. Believe in God, believe in immortals, believe in ancestors, believe in money, believe in fame, believe in luck, believe in friends, believe in masters, believe in teachers, believe in beauty, believe in swords, believe in knives, believe in noodles, believe in cats, believe in your own hands...... You can believe in anything, as long as you make yourself happy, as long as you make yourself better. β
Me: "You can trust you, I can trust me, I don't interfere with what you believe, you don't interfere with what I believe." If there is no conflict between what we believe, we can be friends, and if there is a conflict, we will live in the same world without disturbing each other, and we will find friends who do not conflict. β
Me: "Every creature has a choice. We are naturally endowed with the ability and power to think, to have our own ideas. Agree or refuse, as long as it doesn't hurt others, or as long as you can bear the consequences, you can 'think'. β
Yang Ye: "But we can't afford the consequences of the choices of those of us who are rebels, but we really can't convince ourselves to choose the easier option. There is no disguise in this, God can easily see through whether our "faith" comes from the heart, and if we say that we believe in our mouths and do not believe in our hearts, the consequences will only be worse. β
After a pause for a few seconds, Yang Ye smiled again: "If the power is strong, it may not be too bad." The man I mentioned earlier, dressed like you, first came to our world before the God of the Harvest, and he pretended to believe in God, and then he was exposed, and he was punished by God, and finally managed to escape and come to us. β
βγ06753-Priest
Oh, it does sound like something a monk of the Main World could do. When encountering a strong enemy, first strategically surrender to softness, and if you can deceive, you can only escape, then you can run with your life.
- In the case of compulsion, everything nods and agrees, and the signature is not counted. Not to mention that the monks who have always been self-centered do not admit it, and the laws of the mortal world also clearly stipulate that they do not recognize it, and all the creatures of the main world regard it as waste paper and nonsense.
Yang Ye: "Well, that's the library I manage." β
I followed his hand and looked at the two-story building. If this building is used as a home, it may be quite spacious for five or six people from three generations to live in, but if it is used as a library, it can only be regarded as an ordinary elementary school, right?
Yang Ye smiled a little helplessly: "It also includes one of my bedrooms." I was so young, and I didn't have many people to read, so I worked part-time in addition to my main job. β
Maybe you're saying the opposite of your main job and part-time job?
Yang Ye: "When the rebels first fled here, they didn't carry enough books for a box, in fact, at that time, people carried very few things, they were too hurried, and they were too powerless to parry, and they almost couldn't bring anything except a life. β
Yang Ye: "After escaping here, while trying our best to live, we also recorded the methods that we could come up with and the techniques that we couldn't use for the time being but might be able to guide us to live a slightly better life in the future, and left them to future generations as much as possibleβif there were any future generations." β
Yang Ye: "But the reality is that I am the first generation of children born after the rebels fled here, and I directly learned from those first-generation rebels who had seen the outside world, but what I learned ...... It's simply not enough to sustain 'society'. The patchwork of knowledge is too incomplete, and the materials here are too scarce to reproduce a lot of things from the outside world, and there is no condition to re-research a full-featured alternative that suits this place. β
Yang Ye: "When the God of Harvest unified the world, the first thing was to control the high-end talents in various fields, either obey or die, they had no chance to escape at all. Those who can escape are ordinary people who don't have much ability. Escaping is not a threat to theocracy...... Ant. β
Me: "What did your master or teacher, the person or those people who taught you the most knowledge, do you do in the first place?"
Yang Ye: "...... Why do you ask this?"
Me: "Because aside from your business, I think you're more like a priest." The nature of managing the door to another world is similar. β
βγ06754 - First of all, you need to ensure survival
Yang Ye: "There is only one teacher of mine, he is indeed a priest, the priest of the god of harvest, and he used to be one of the most pious priests, so that when he decided to turn his back on the god of harvest and chose to run away with the rebels, the god of harvest and its messengers and believers did not guard against him, and still regarded him as his own, and when he reacted that something was wrong with him, my teacher had already saved many rebels." β
Yang Ye: "My father didn't escape into the magic stone cage, and my mother barely survived here while pregnant, but she died after giving birth to me, and I was brought up by the teacher, who taught me all his knowledge. β
Yang Ye: "It may be strange to say, but although the teacher firmly stood on the position of protecting the rebels at that time, and found a way to open the magic stone gate, and was the first to step into the magic stone gate and enter the magic stone cage, he still considered himself to be a devout believer in the god of harvest until his death. β
Yang Ye: "The teacher said that he never deviated from his beliefs for a moment, and he said that everything he did followed his beliefs. β
Yang Ye: "But he also said, 'The God of Harvest is wrong. Those believers who, in the name of God, forcibly make creatures bow down to the god of the harvest and die if they don't kneel are wrong.' β
Me: "Faith doesn't mean not questioning. A mistake is a mistake, and a mistake should be corrected. Keep correcting your mistakes in order to keep making yourself better. Beliefs also need to evolve, and doctrines need to change over time, and those that remain unchanged will only decay. Questioning is not to overthrow, but to develop better. β
Yang Ye: "Teacher, he didn't explain in such detail. Although he insisted that he had never deviated from his faith, he rarely mentioned the god of harvest after coming to the magic stone cage, and he was not very willing to discuss the faith with others, except for me, the student, to say a little more. β
Yang Ye: "Or, he doesn't have time to talk about this in detail. At that time, everyone needed to focus on survival. You need to live in a place where there is no soil, no plants, and water is scarce and poisonous. This is a place abandoned by the god of harvest, and the god of harvest will not bless the harvest of those who rebel against the gods, so the teacher exchanged himself for bringing the basic conditions for feeding creatures here with flesh and blood. β
Yang Ye pointed to a fenced area: "It's our only plantation, and the plants we raise can be eaten, but they must not be taken to the outside world alive, otherwise they will be assimilated by the believers' plants and attack us." β
Yang Ye: "Weapons made from plantation plants can cause damage to Believer Plants, but we must be careful when using them, and we must not let these weapons come into contact with Believer Plants for too long, otherwise the dead wood will come back to life and become a weapon for Believer Plants to attack us." β
βγ06755 - There is indeed a blessing
Yang Ye: "The soil of the plantation was watered by the teacher who spent twenty years dominated by his flesh and blood, plus the blood donated by all the residents here. β
Me: "Isn't it okay to tell me so much detail? This should be your secret?"
Yang Ye: "Is it a secret that everyone knows and is involved in?"
Me: "What's the difference between inside and outside? You know everything on the inside, but you don't know anything on the outside?"
Yang Ye: "God knows everything. We are still breathing because God is gracious enough to give us room to breathe. God is waiting for us to repent, and if we truly repent, God will forgive us for our mistakes and accept us again. β
Yang Ye: "That's what the believers propagandize. β
Yang Ye: "The teacher said that he believed it, but the teacher also said that he did not regret it. Believing in the god of harvest, he has no regrets, and he has no regrets in leading everyone to survive in the magic stone cage. When the teacher died, he melted into the magic stone and continued to guard this space, but he said that he didn't know how this space could last like this, he only knew that he was unwilling to return to the ground, and he also wanted to help people who were also unwilling or unable to go back to stay here a little more, but he couldn't see hope for what would happen in the future. β
Yang Ye: "I'll take over his work and continue to live here with the creatures who are willing to stay, and try to make everyone happy." Nearly 100 years later, we are still alive, but we still don't see where the future leads. β
Me: "Nearly a hundred years?" I looked at Yang Ye's twenty or thirty-year-old face, and I didn't know if I should express my doubts as a monk whose appearance did not reflect his actual age.
Yang Ye: "Devout believers in the God of Harvest can not only get a good harvest materially, but also get more lifespan. If it weren't for the fact that my teacher had spent a lot of effort on improving the basic conditions since he came here, he would not have died before he was 200 years old, and the knowledge he taught me contained the power of faith. Although I am at odds with the God of the harvest, I do not hate God and believe that God does have the power to bring His followers to a good harvest. Probably because of this relatively peaceful state of mind, my lifespan is approaching that of God's priesthood, right?"
Yang Ye: "After seeing my example, other people here are also willing to let go of their hatred of God and live as relaxed as possible. β
Yang Ye: "Although everyone was forced here by the God of Harvest and his followers, it may be because of the process of coming here and the beginning of taking root here, my teacher and priest of the God of Harvest have irrefutable merits, so everyone is not completely negative about the God of Harvest. In particular, before that expulsion, our ancestors did enjoy the blessing of the harvest god for generations. β
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