Chapter 27: Divine Grace

For some historical reasons, Guan Li is very insensitive to things in the direction of religion.

If he was to go to the "Missionary" Foundation, he would be glad.

But this kind of propaganda of a cultural nature has little to do with religion in nature.

It's just that these Amway maniacs who are obsessed with their own world are happy to use the word to show their loyalty and support for a certain culture.

Religion in reality is no fun at all, and the scriptures don't seem as wonderful as their myths.

Guan Li felt that it was better to engage in the virtual religion that existed in the Foundation.

The ones set one by one are fashionable!

For example, the Sarkic cult...... Well, this one seems to be a bit heavy-mouthed.

Another example is the Church of the Broken God, which has split itself up, but it's still there.

The Broken God, also known as the Machine God, is a supreme divine being in the mechanical direction in the Foundation's world setting.

One of SCP-001's several proposals depicts the "Broken God".

And then this "god" is in this document, and it was hammered by the GOC.

GOC, The Global Occult Coalition.

In the worldview of the SCP series, it is the closest organization to the Foundation's organizational structure and overall strength.

However, unlike the Foundation's purpose of "control, containment, and protection", if the GOC has a purpose, it is only three words-

Kill, kill, kill!

This organization has made it a top priority to "identify and eliminate all supernatural threats and ensure the survival of humanity".

As a result, the GOC is mostly more radical than the Foundation in its attitude towards anomalous things.

As a result, they have led to the danger of some security anomalies - such as turning a certain chair that can teleport and help people into a pile of chair fragments that can teleport and move into the human body.

The final pile of debris was contained by the Foundation after killing several GOC agents.

After all, the Foundation is the "protagonist" of the SCP Foundation series, and many authors write about Foundations that are ahead of the GOC in saving the world.

This 001 proposal for "Broken God" is a bit different.

"They all knew that in 1943, in the midst of the apocalypse, the Foundation could only watch the GOC save the world, and could do nothing. ”

— Codename: TwistedGears/Kaktus - Broken God

The GOC saves the world, and the Foundation is watching, which is okay.

The only problem is that the "gods" in this document don't seem to be the real "broken gods"?

But it doesn't matter, the Broken God is a background board that can be pulled out at any time, and the Church of the Broken God is a complete organization with characters and stories.

If you had to choose a letter from the pile of divine beings in the Foundation, Guan Li would definitely choose the God of Brokenness in seconds.

The reason is simple.

In the Foundation supplemental setting, the church suffered a major split in the last century, resulting in the formation of two branch churches with different themes:

The highly centralized Cogwork Orthodox Church, which followed the technical standards of the late Industrial Revolution era and mass-produced simulated steam and clockwork-driven machinery as a form of prayer;

The Church of Maxwellism, which believes that God exists as a different kind of data and appears in the digital age of connected technologies and cultural thoughts, is geared towards modern technology and online beliefs.

The former is not mentioned, the latter uses a slogan that is extremely attractive to modern humans when promoting (luring) and spreading (deception) on the Internet -

"Join Maxwell's Church and get free WiFi. ”

Free, always-full, unlimited WiFi without any external devices!

- Just add something to your brain.

"Eh, I can do that, too. The system caught Guan Li's unhidden thoughts, and interjected to say a word.

Its network is still connected across time and space!

Guan Li: "Can you still divide me into a time-space network hotspot?"

"No, you can't. ”

"Then don't speak. ”

The system stopped talking, but Xia Ningbing didn't plan to let Guan Li go.

She had long since seen that seminary was unpleasant, and she could not understand what could be useful to learn in such a school.

She didn't succeed in stopping it when she first entered the school, and now she has given up, which is good news.

Anyway, this kid originally enrolled a year earlier than his peers, and it wouldn't be much worse if he delayed for another year.

This time, find a serious university and study a more popular major, this is the right way.

Xia Ningbing thought very well, but Guan Li was not prepared to listen to her thoughts at all.

"What am I going to do, I don't need to report it to you, do I?" he said after repeated failed negotiations.

To put it bluntly, the relationship between the two is only cousins.

Even though she has lived in a home since she was a child, it was the previous "Guan Li" who had feelings for her.

For the current Guan Li, Xia Ningbing is just a stranger who does not hesitate.

Strangers by blood.

"You ......" Xia Ningbing was angry, she didn't expect him to say such a thing at all.

Guan Li waited for her next speech with a cold expression.

Looking at this angry look, what will you scold yourself?

I don't know what to do, or is it a white-eyed wolf?

Neither.

Xia Ningbing suppressed her mood and stared at Guan Li's indifferent face for a long time, and finally sighed and stood up by herself.

"You're an adult, and it looks like I can't control you anymore. She took out her mobile phone from her bag, looked at it and put it back, picked up her bag and stood up, "Pay attention to your body, don't stay up late all day, remember to call home when you have time, such a big person doesn't even understand a little bit of human sophistication......"

There was a lot of chatter, and finally it ended with a sentence: "I have left beforehand, and I will come to see you tomorrow." ”

Guan Li didn't keep it, but after the door was closed, he looked at the fruit left by Xia Ningbing, and was a little distracted.

"System, I feel like she's suspicious of me. ”

"Hmm, where did you see that?" the system didn't feel anything wrong at all.

"I can't tell, I feel intuitive. ”

The deliberately familiar tone of the conversation between the two, as well as the rustiness that such a tone could not hide......

Will Xia Ningbing notice it?

The system has a good mentality: "It's okay, it's impossible for her to suspect that you were pierced!"

No normal person would have thought of this possibility.

Such a scientific modern urban world, traversing?

I really think I'm living in a novel!

Guan Li didn't let his guard down too much, "Don't forget, there are other traversers. Even if I hadn't been exposed, they might have been exposed, and by then, many people would have been suspected of being 'traversers'. ”

Just look at the topics on the Internet such as "historical figures who most resemble time-travelers", and human beings will never lack the ability to associate.

"There's no such stupid one in the traverser...... right" Now even the system is not sure.

"There are so many traversers in the multiverse, and there are not a few mentally retarded, do you think this is in heaven?" Guan Li took out an apple from the bag on the coffee table, the color was ruddy, and it was carefully selected at a glance, "Crossing will not add IQ." ”

The system thought of the copyists who were caught and sentenced in the announcement of the Copyright Bureau, and couldn't help but think so.

It is true that crossing does not add IQ.

Not only that, but rebirth, transformation, and system upper body will not add IQ.