Chapter 1: Pixies
Turn back a little bit of time, back to the time when Dumb and they were trapped in the deepest parts of hell.
"Mr. Hat, are we going to wait like this?" Anne watched Dumb sit in the center of the magic circle before, motionless as if dead, and really didn't know when this long wait would end.
"Actually, it's the first time I've encountered this situation now, you just believe Dumb, he probably knows something, so he chose to sit here and close his eyes to recuperate. "Mr. Hat, like Annie, is as confused as Annie and makes a pointless suggestion.
"Then I'll learn from him too!" Anne saw that the three-headed dog on the side also dozed off, and simply sat cross-legged like Dumb.
Closing her eyes and purifying her mind, Anne found herself in a state of wonder.
"It's actually a great place to rest. Anne's first impression after closing her eyes and meditating was this. "Time here doesn't seem to be the same as the outside world, is time standing still here?" Anne didn't know why some strange thoughts began to arise as she sat here.
"It seems that there is no light here, but why do I close my eyes and seem to see things here? "Anne slowly discovers the wonders of the depths of hell.
"Good little girl, you have discovered the truth of your prayer so quickly!" it seemed to be Mr. Hat's voice, but it didn't feel like it was not.
"The world is very mysterious, just like what God says. It was God who created the world in the first place. For man, it was originally a point of time, but for God, time was also created by Him. God says that when there is time, there is time. The existence of time and space is nothing more than a matter of God's thoughts. The voice continued.
"The deepest part of hell is a place that only divine power can reach. This is the origin of the world, and it is also the starting point of the endless time and space of this world. If the world we lived in before was a false world, then this world here is the most real world. There is no interference from time and space, there is no past and future, there is only endless emptiness. ”
"Meditation here, diluting one's consciousness, returning oneself to nothingness, to the original origin of the world, is the highest state of prayer. Come from God and return to God......"
With that voice, Anne felt like she was in an endless void, without joy and sorrow, without life and death. The world and oneself become one, and there is no longer a distinction between the self and the outside world.
"Babble!" Just when Anne thought she would be forever silent in the feeling of being one with the world, Dumb's voice sounded, awakening Anne's consciousness.
"What a strange feeling!" Anne woke up, as if a long time had passed, as if time had only passed for a moment. "What's going on with this ambivalence?" Anne felt more and more confused, and when she came back to her senses, she found herself in a snowy and icy place.
"This world looks so cold!" Anne sighed as she looked at the snowy scene around her.
"This is the Ice Hell, a place where indifferent people who don't care about others but only care about themselves arrive after death. Mr. Hat explained to Anne.
"Wasn't we in the depths of hell just now, how did we come here now?" Anne realized that she had escaped from the place where she couldn't get out.
"You haven't noticed the change in yourself, have you?" said Mr. Hat, who seemed to be trying to say something, but in the end he didn't say it.
"Change?" Anne didn't feel.
"Let's go, from here we can walk back little by little. "With Dumb, Anne and the three-headed dog walked together in this ice and snow.
"This place is so strange! It looks cold, why don't I feel it at all?" Anne looked at the world around her, as if in a dream, and saw only one image, but the cold touch was not profound.
"Because you are not a member of this world, which only punishes those who are indifferent. Mr. Hat replied, and the group continued on their way.
"Boom!", Anne felt as if she had stepped on a bone or something.
Looking down at her surroundings, Anne noticed a lot of human corpses beneath the surrounding ice.
"Jakes!" Anne shouted in fright, and grabbed Dumb's arm, Dumb glanced at Anne blankly, and then turned his head to look at the three-headed dog, who read something in Dumb's eyes, and obediently came over and let Anne sit on his back.
At this moment, Anne felt a little flattered.
"I told you that this is Ice Hell, and there are a lot of people who will serve their sentences here after they die, so why are you scared like this? Mr. Hat's tone was a little sarcastic, as if he was a little gloating.
"How did I know they were all prisoners?" complained Anne, pouting.
"At first glance, you don't know much about "God Says". Mr. Hat said in a somewhat mocking tone: "When a person dies, he will come to this world to atone for his sins, and when his sin is cleansed, he can return to the creator God." Mr. Hat patiently explained.
"The creator God, that is, the real God!, where is he, and can we meet him?" said Anne.
"How can I explain this to you, the creator God is everywhere, omniscient and omnipotent, but he is not here. "Mr. Hat's words are incomprehensible.
"You said these people were back to the God of Creation, but aren't their bodies still here?" said Anne, feeling that she didn't quite understand what Mr. Hat meant.
"Then let me put it simply, the creator God exists in this world in a form that we ordinary people cannot understand. Because he is not limited by time and space, and his form is different from the things in our world, it is difficult for us to perceive his existence. The more Mr. Hat explained, the more Anne felt she couldn't understand.
"If the creator God is as powerful as you say, and almost no one can perceive it, then why do we know of His existence?" Anne felt like she was discussing a theological issue with someone for the first time to such an extent.
"Speaking of which, you have to admire the power of our first Pope of the Celestial God Sect. After traveling, doing penance, and helping others, he suddenly had an epiphany one day and made contact with the creator god. "What Mr. Hat said sounded more and more like a myth to Anne, but after all, Mr. Hat had seen the first Pope, so it was probably not a lie.
"After the old one had an epiphany, he gained the power from God. Although he was not the first person to reach this realm, he was definitely the strongest person to reach this realm. Mr. Hat thought for a moment and said jokingly, "If human beings are children of God, the older one is the eldest son of God." ”
"I really don't understand your analogy. Anne became more and more puzzled.
The so-called eldest son of God means that mankind itself is a large family, and in this family there is a patriarch, the eldest one. If God is the head of mankind, but he does not directly govern human beings, he has hired the elder one as an agent. Mr. Hat thought he explained the situation very clearly. So the elder one later founded the Celestial God Cult to guide people to live under the order of the gods. ”
"It's so hard to understand, I'll understand it later!" said Anne, who became more and more dizzy at Mr. Hat's words.
"Babble!" Dumb's voice rang out, alerting Anne and Mr. Hat to their surroundings.
"This place makes me feel a little weird, but I can't say what weirdness is. Mr. Hat lowered his voice to remind Anne that the three-headed dog was crawling on the ground, and that he should be careful here.
"La-la!" a light female voice rang out, echoing all around. The sound was like the joyful dance of bells in the wind, and the joyful cry of a nightingale.
"La-la!" the female voice sounded again, and it seemed that there was a happy girl singing selflessly.
"Who are you, are you here to help us?" said Anne when she heard the voice, feeling that the other person could not be a bad person, and asked aloud.
"Huh!" was a voice full of surprise, and the girl seemed to have just discovered Anne's presence.
"You can see me!" A group of small golden stars gathered, and a little girl with big eyes and strange wings appeared on the spot.
"Who are you, what are you doing here?" said Anne, who did not expect such a lovely little girl to come out and greet her.
"I'm an angel!" the little girl looked proud when asked who it was.
"Angel!" Anne was stunned, she didn't expect to see the creature described in "God Says".
"Little girls love to joke!" said Mr. Hat, in a tepid tone.
"Who is the little girl, but they have lived for more than two thousand years!" the little girl pursed her mouth at Mr. Hat's words.
"I said the wrong thing, it's not a little girl, it's an old monster!" Mr. Hat laughed and teased the little girl.
"Why do you talk like that, ignoring you!" the little girl pouted and turned away.
After a few seconds, she seemed to notice something again, and turned to stare at Mr. Hat and Dumb carefully.
"What are you doing, old monster, staring at me all the time, making me so uncomfortable. Mr. Hat laughed and choked the little girl.
"So you're a monster!" the little girl's eyes widened, and her big round eyes became even more cute.
"I'm not as good as you, I've lived for more than two thousand years. At that time, humans were still running bare-chested in the forest!" Mr. Hat said in a slightly more serious tone, "Do you think so, elf?" ”