Yuwei politely rejected the "thank you" from the teacher.

Even through the cloak, you can feel the priest's puzzled gaze.

The machine god relies on faith activities, and the fact that the platinum machine god can accept faith means that this is also its driving force.

In that case, why refuse?

But Yuwei didn't explain it to him.

He just looked out of the temple, gazed at the people who were praying incessantly, and slowly spoke:

"This kind of belief is too cruel."

"It's so numb, it's too depressing."

Yuwei said: "This is not good. ”

The priest looked confused, but he still asked Yuwei humbly: "What do you mean?" ”

"If there's anything that can be improved, you can rest assured that the Board will think about it."

Yuwei turned her head and stared at the other party's eyes seriously:

"You have made the whole city ignorant and made them sacrifice, and they have even embraced it."

Yuwei spoke his mind.

He didn't care about faith per se, but the city-state of Gillis turned people into ignorant prayer machines for the purity of faith.

Then, teach these prayer machines to sacrifice and make extreme actions everyday in extreme circumstances.

Such a city-state culture made Yuwei frown.

He frowned at this, but surprised the priest:

"Is this what you care about?"

He looked a little puzzled: "Isn't that what your city-state did?" ”

Yuwei looked at him and didn't speak.

This made the priest even more confused.

He looked at the preacher outside of Yuwei, but the Dawu team shook their heads and looked at Yuwei.

Obviously, they all let Yuwei make a decision.

The priest shook his head, but quietly sent out a signal.

After sending this signal, the priest looked at the hero who suddenly became "unreasonable" and explained seriously:

"We can't help it if we build a city-state like this."

He became very patient, and while asking the crowd to continue praying, he said to Yuwei in detail:

"This city-state is the most chaotic, weak, and dangerous frontier of the Starba Empire."

"It's okay now, but it's countless times worse in the past than it is now." There was a flash of light behind the cloak, revealing a look of remembrance.

"A hundred years ago, there weren't enough people in the city-state of Gillis, and even fewer of them maintained their devout beliefs, and the power of faith that could be provided to the machine gods was very insufficient."

"This thin belief has caused the power of the machine god to weaken, and it is impossible to stop the demonic beast perfectly."

"Whenever a city-state is attacked and many people die, even if a successful crusade against a demonic beast is successful, it often takes a huge sacrifice to burn the devout believers."

Speaking of this, he said with a hint of sadness in his tone:

"As a result, the proportion of faith is decreasing, and thinking that is too complicated will even make people blame the failure of the machine god, and the radical belief will turn into resentment."

"Without faith, the machine god has no strength, and it is powerless to fight against the demonic beasts, and the next attack will only be worse."

"In the end, we have copied a large number of citizens, most of whom have been taught to be pious from birth, and a few have been educated to govern, to think, to manage, and to gather a richer soul."

This is the ordinary citizen, as well as the "Control Bureau" and the guards who maintain order.

He told Yuwei seriously: "Today's city-state has been built through a lot of sacrifice and struggle, and has been sacrificed from generation to generation. ”

Yuwei looked at him seriously, and her gaze seemed to pass through the black robe, and she saw the face hidden below the priest.

He asked, "Containing your own sacrifice?" ”

The priest shook his head, a little surprised: "You see it?" ”

"Now that you can see it, it's probably understandable."

He let out a wry smile: "We are a bunch of old antiques, all products of the old city-state era. ”

"At that time, everyone had not yet lived by dogma, and if they wanted others to sacrifice, they had to at least sacrifice themselves first."

He pointed to himself, and then to the men in black next to him.

The priest lifted his cloak and showed it to Yuwei:

"In desperation, we sacrificed everything."

The so-called "teaching" is nothing more than a fragment.

The high-level "Control Bureau" of the city-state of Gillis is left with only psionic brains, and the priest is not far behind.

Emerging from under the cloak was a machine-like body.

A large amount of gold and iron, pieced together into a broken human form, only the eyes faintly gleamed with the fire of the soul.

The preacher's eyes froze, and he further skimmed over the surface to see the chaotic soul aura on the "priest".

He is not an independent existence at all, more like an existence glued together by a large number of souls.

Yuwei looked at each of his parts seriously.

The first time they met, Yuwei understood what "teaching" was.

He wasn't even called a "human", just a component driven by force.

His existence, like "divine power", is also a product of the soul furnace.

But "divine power" is the light and heat burned by the soul furnace, and he is the residue left of the furnace.

The soul can be burned into ether, only the purest part of faith.

The rest of the scores "self", "memory", and "feelings" will only condense and fall on the edge of the furnace.

These incomplete burning "soul residues", which cannot continue to burn, are just useless impurities.

But the city-state of Gillis was poor, and of course this kind of thing could not be wasted.

What's more, among these dregs, there were the wisest leaders and scholars of the city-state.

They are highly intelligent, so faith does not occupy much in the soul, and can burn a lot of residues, which vaguely contain the wisdom of life.

I don't know which genius had the idea to transform a little bit of gold matter of the machine god, build it into a small robot, and inject these residues into it.

This is the "teaching", the embers that have been burned, mixed with the ashes that have been burned out.

After all, it's just a memory-driven mechanism.

The priest seems to be able to speak and think, but it is only a conditioned reflex based on a residual memory.

If there is an artificial intelligence judgment in this world, it can't help but make people wonder if his dialogue is really an answer? Can his mind really think? Or is it just the reaction of the remnants of memory fragments to the outside world?

But to the priest himself, he would say, "I don't care! ”

Whether you are really a human being or not, what you should do will not change.

Even if it is only a memory-driven mechanism, he is the condensation of countless sages and sages, with a noble mission and existential significance.

As long as you can still move and think, you must move forward for the continuation of the city-state.

Not only him, but also other men in black, who are also the remnants of those "normal-thinking citizens".

In order to survive, they fought everything.

The priest thought, "Even if, by any means! ”

Yuwei looked directly into his burning eyes, and the priest also looked back straight.

He, as well as the countless black-clothed people around him, are all "parts" that continue to dedicate themselves to the city-state after burning their souls.

Strictly speaking, he wasn't even an "individual", just a mass of ashes made from a large amount of soul residue.

But even if it is non-combustible, he believes that he can dedicate himself to the city-state and shine elsewhere.

Therefore, the eyes of the priest are very gentle, and there is a quiet flame flowing from it, but its depths are indestructible.

He said gently:

"Our city-state may not seem good to you."

"But in the midst of suffering, it is the fire that is lit in our bodies that perpetuates hope."

"For the sake of piety, one must be foolish."

"For the sake of posterity, sacrifice must be made."

Maybe it's stupid, maybe it's stupid, but that's what it is here, a "city of fools" built with sacrifice.

"Because of this, the city-state of Gillis has existed for a hundred more years."

His metallic face showed a satisfied smile:

"It's hard, but at least I can survive."

He confronts Yuwei and constantly recounts the hardships of the city-state of Gillis and how the others are trying to keep it alive.

It is not magnificent, and it can even be called "bland" history, but it hides the most thrilling sacrifices.

This history has even touched the preachers from the heavens.

The eyes of the people of Fuyun Dao showed vicissitudes.

Chu You frowned.

Xie Xiaoxian's eyes seemed to be on fire.

The whale's eyes widened as a result.

But the most important listener, Yuwei's eyes slowly closed.

Heaven and man sense, and found some kind of "crisis" in the narration.

However, unlike previous ones, this crisis was expected.

He had expected that the city-state of Gillis would have a different meaning for "Shaya".

Yuwei's closed eyes, the golden eyes showed a bright light, as if he had crossed the space and saw the "underground".

At the time of the "tirade" of teaching, there was a group of people in the underground of the city who were advancing.

Taking advantage of the time gained by the Heroes' Feast, the Control Bureau mobilized a large number of manpower.

As with the "sacrifice" not so long ago, there are countless people marching underground.

But this time, the number is 100 times higher!

Last time, there were only a thousand people walking on this path.

Today, there are hundreds of thousands of people, lined up in a neat line, moving forward one by one.

Countless people in black led hundreds of thousands of people to walk on the edge of the "cliff".

Long before Yuwei and the others landed, the city-state of Gillis urgently mobilized this group of people in accordance with the orders of the priest.

These hundreds of thousands of people, all of them are elderly.

Yuwei didn't see any old people in the square before, because all the old people in the city of Gillis gathered to die.

Every time the machine god destroys the demonic beast, it consumes the old people of the city-state, plus the old age is eroded by the magic element and dies, and now these hundreds of thousands of people are all the old people of the entire city-state.

Usually, they may be someone else's grandfather, someone else's grandmother, someone else's father, or mother, but at this moment, their identity is "sacrifice".

Soon, this group of old people will have to die for the city-state.

But their faces were fanatical, pious, and proud, without fear or resentment.

In the dogma of the polis, this is the highest devotion, the noble devotion to the beloved.

What's more, this sacrifice was different from the usual and had a more noble purpose.

The man in black next to the crowd turned around and received a message from the priest.

The man in black looked delighted and smiled: "Okay! ”

Then, staring deeply at hundreds of thousands of people, he made a loud noise:

"Shaya, the machine god, has accepted our faith!"

The glowing giant god flashed in his eyes, and he could feel that the "kingdom of God" in the giant god's body had opened.

This means that faith is connected and has an anchor that allows the believer's offering to be accepted.

So, the man in black shouted:

"Offer your souls to the new gods!"

"In your heart you want to defend your loved ones, to defend your beloved city-state!"

"Your will, in accordance with your devout faith, will influence the will of the gods, so that they will be willing to protect us!"

"Glory! Your sacrifice is expected to be the last! ”

Hearing the shout, all the old men couldn't help but light up their eyes and spoke reverently:

"Holy Mekhan!" ”

The man in black looked at Human Rights and smiled on his metal face.

That smile belongs to people who are "looking forward to the future".

What they want to do, it's very simple.

Yuwei used the Mixed Hole to destroy the demonic beasts, which not only shocked them, but also made them see opportunities.

If these machine gods can be used by them, then the city-state of Gillis will no longer have to sacrifice!

The mind of the machine god will be influenced by the sacrificer, and with the faith will come only the purest thoughts.

If hundreds of thousands of emotions poured in at once, it might be able to influence the will of the machine god and make it willing to shelter the city-state of Gillis.

And the resonance between the Mekhan's piloting and the Mekhani will also be affected by this.

If the Platinum Titans are willing to help, the city-state of Gillis may have a better future.

This machine god, which does not need to be sacrificed to transform divine power, may be able to change all the predicament of the city-state.

In the dim underground, the Soul Forge glows and illuminates countless faces.

Every face is full of hope.

They didn't hesitate to move forward, even though there was an abyss in front of them and a huge furnace burning their souls below.

But a bright future is just around the corner.

That little sacrifice is well worth it.

They want to impress the platinum machine god with sacrifice in exchange for protection.

Then, this immediately touched Yuwei's senses.

He looked into the void and could almost see what the people of the city-state were doing.

They were calculating Yuwei, but Yuwei was not angry.

He just sighed.

Yuwei couldn't help but silently stare at the "dogma" outside the temple:

"Only foolishness shapes piety, only pain, keeping the faith, only sacrifice in exchange for salvation."

He asked the priest:

"The wisdom of such a fool is only for survival?"

The priest is waiting for the success of the "sacrifice", and is responsible for dragging Yuwei and the others, because he is not in a hurry, and he must answer all questions:

"yes."

His metallic face smiled, "That's enough." ”

"Our efforts and sacrifices have not been in vain, and we have created what we have achieved until now, and we will continue to carry on into the future as a new hope."

Thinking of what was going to happen next, the priest was even more confident, and said with a smile: "Isn't this good. ”

He looked at Yuwei, and the boy seemed to be persuaded by him and didn't ask any more questions.

Yuwei fell silent, her eyes looking at the people who were praying incessantly.

Tens of millions of people, turned into an endless sea of people, all showed piety on their faces at this moment, praying to "him".

If he only looked at the surface, he would see that the people of the city-state of Gillis were full of happiness.

In this world, there is food, drink, prayer, safe living, and even a noble meaning worthy of dedication, isn't it enough to be happy?

Everyone's prayers are heartfelt, pure, and flawless.

Even this purity, such satisfaction, there are reasons why priests and others keep preaching, and there are reasons why they deliberately suppress all thoughts and constantly purify their beliefs.

But it must not be said that this is false.

Because he is also real, it comes from the depths of the human heart, reaches the will of the soul, and even when the soul burns, it can shine the brightest light.

It's like the group of old people who are about to sacrifice themselves, full of pride and fanaticism.

For them, this is already "enough", it is already "common sense".

But Yuwei was silent for a while, and when she spoke again, she was still serious:

"This kind of world is too miserable."

"It's not right."

He pursed his lips with an unhappy expression.

The white-haired boy seemed to see the story he didn't like, and frowned in disgust:

"The world shouldn't be like this."