What are the gods?

Walking in the hall filled with golden mist, Lan Li's mind once again resurfaced this question.

When the prayers stopped, when the statue of the warrior god changed, when a brilliant golden glow completely engulfed him, Lan Li found himself in another place.

In a mist-filled temple with a hard, dark golden ground!

The ground beneath his feet was like a stone, and it was solid to step on, and when he glanced around, a golden mist shrouded all directions, and nothing else could be seen.

It's as if this is a world of fog.

Where is this?

Lan Li was puzzled.

He originally expected to be able to "stimulate" the seven gods with the drowning fire seed, but what he didn't want to stimulate was all this now-

With no one to communicate with, who could he turn to to accomplish his purpose?

So after wandering around here blankly for a while, Lan Li squatted down and looked at the surface.

Everything around him seemed illusory, only the ground under his feet felt quite real, and he had no choice but to observe it.

Then he saw something different.

Looking closely at the surface through the hazy mist, Lan Li found that the surface was not a solid color, and that there were lines of faces carved on it—men, women, old people, and children, whose charm could still be seen at a glance despite the simple carving of the faces.

What are they?

Thinking about the question, he raised his hand and touched one of the young faces.

As a result, hazy pictures appeared in my mind one after another.

The terrible screams in the simple thatched hut, the howling and crying after the croaking of the ground, and the bedwetting again and again in childhood......

When he was less than five years old, he had to go out and pick up ears of wheat behind the buttocks of adults, and when he was seven years old, the cold winter came, there was plenty of dry firewood, food was scarce, and both parents were starved to death, and then he lived alone until he was eleven years old, but one day he woke up and unfortunately contracted a cold and died on a straw bed in his house under the care of a kind neighbor.

……

The North, Mandalay Family Domain, and the pre-Conquistador's Wars, the son of a farmer.

The speed at which the continuous images flickered was so fast that Lan Li couldn't determine the details of the young man's life, but he had already guessed his approximate identity and vaguely understood what this face was.

Soul?

Or rather, the belief in the souls of the seven gods?

In that long and rapid picture of life, Lan Li most often saw the prayers of young people. As a child, he prayed with his parents, prayed alone after his parents died, and at the last moment before his death, he still prayed to the Virgin, longing for himself to be favored by the gods and go to heaven.

That's right, heaven.

In Westeros' belief system of the Seven Gods, there are heavens and hells, or rather, most of the gods in this world have similar existences.

Lan Li hadn't thought much about this before, but since the gods are beings who believe in it, what about heaven and hell?

Most of the people who believe in the Seven Gods believe in Heaven and Hell......

Thinking thoughtfully, he raised his hand to touch the other faces on the ground.

As he expected, some memories of the dead would also emerge after touching them, some died of old age, some were murdered, some died of the plague, and some fell off the cliff......

Different genders, different ages, different looks, the only thing they have in common is that they are all religious.

This is the paradise of the Seven Gods.

Lan Li thought to herself.

But what about the gods in heaven?

There can't be no gods here, right?

With this in mind, he got up and continued to explore the Quartet.

However, not to mention God, he had not seen even a single additional change, except that the fog was the ground, and the faces on the ground.

Lan Li frowned at this.

Strangely arrived at such a mysterious place, he naturally had plenty of patience to explore it all at ordinary times, but now he had no curiosity.

What about the gods?

Where are the gods?

Where is the God of the Seven Faces?

The emotional eagerness made him suddenly have an idea, and he was about to open his mouth to "pray", but then he was stunned to find that he had no ability to speak.

Or rather, he doesn't feel his mouth at all!

What's going on?

The question in his mind surfaced, and then Lan Li suddenly found that he was also handsless!

Not even his hands, but his legs, his chest, his stomach, and even ...... His everything!

Where have I gone?

The thought crossed his mind, and then his narrow perspective suddenly took a strange turn.

His "line of sight" began to spread, from the normal vision of both eyes, to the 365-degree view of everything without blind spots, from the original visibility of less than 50 meters, to hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands......

The rapidly stretched perspective made his whole person seem to be rising rapidly, while the "earth" below quickly contracted and became smaller. The golden mist around him was still pervasive, but gradually, Lan Li could see what the place he was really looking like.

It seemed to be a golden rhinoceros lying on its side, or the earth in the shape of a rhinoceros, with a huge main body and a golden star twinkling around it.

However, the more Lan Li looked at this shape, the more familiar it became, and finally he suddenly remembered a map of Westeros that he had seen in the king's time.

If you leave the north out of the equation and turn the map sideways, Westeros will look pretty much like this!

So what is it?

Faith distribution map?

Or is the paradise of the Seven a reflection of Westeros?

But what about God?

He asked.

Where is God?

The Seven Gods?

Soon after this question appeared, Lan Li's perspective changed again.

He found himself suddenly in a dark, damp basement, where a thinly dressed girl in chains was praying silently.

He came to a village where the old man was quietly listening to the monk's preaching.

He came to a magnificent church where many blue-robed nuns were singing hymns. He came to the castle tower, where the woman was slowly caressing her bulging belly, and he came to the ......

The continuous changes were dazzling, but gradually, a kind of realization came to Lan Li's heart.

What are the gods?

Or rather, what are the seven gods among the gods?

Heavenly Father, Virgin, Warrior, Maiden, Blacksmith, Old Woman, Stranger. Justice and Judgment, Motherhood and Nurturing, Strength and Courage, Innocence and Purity, Craft and Labor, Wisdom and Future, Death and the Unknown......

What are the Seven Gods?

Compared with other gods with distinct images and functions, the seven gods seem to represent a variety of beautiful visions and expectations of human beings.

So...... Are the seven gods human?

Or is it that the Seven Gods are all those who believe in the Seven Gods?

As soon as this thought appeared, Lan Li felt quite strange, because he had learned not long ago that faith is a collection of human will, so in a sense, gods are naturally human.

However, before he could continue to think about it, his perspective began to change again, or rather, back to the original human form when he first arrived!

The instantaneous change of perspective made him a little uncomfortable, and standing in the hall filled with golden mist, he stayed for more than ten seconds before he reacted, and then hurriedly looked down at his body.

It looked exactly the same as normal, but Lan Li suddenly saw that there were no marks on his left wrist.

He was therefore certain that he had not come here in his true body.

Thinking?

The world of thought?

Soul?

Out-of-body?

Speculation unconsciously sprung up, but at this time, Lan Li didn't have the heart to think about it, because he suddenly thought of another question.

If the Seven Gods really refer to all those who believe in the Seven Gods, and if the Seven Gods do not have a specific subjective mind, then who should they go to to talk about the resurrection?

Looking for millions of people in Westeros?

It's a fantasy......

No, it's not!

If the Seven Gods really don't have a Juche mind, then what is it that is "entertaining" themselves now, or changing their perspectives?

This thought flashed, Lan Li suddenly felt the golden mist around him suddenly converge towards him, and when he turned around, he saw a person who was constantly condensing and forming with the golden mist.

The soles of the feet, the legs, the torso, the hands, the neck, the head, the facial features, the hair, ......

The mist seemed to turn into cells, pieces of flesh and blood, converging from the bottom to the top, combining a completed human body.

In the end, when the surrounding fog was no longer turbulent, when the golden light on the person's body dissipated, and when his long black hair was washed away by the surrounding fog, Lan Li was directly stunned on the spot.

This person looks like himself, but he is completely different from himself-

She's a woman!