Chapter 7: Silent Worship
- If you want to ask what kind of impression Delphinium has of Sogo Island when they first met.
Her answer, then, is "sacred solemnity."
When the delphinium followed Russell out of the private airboat, she was actually mentally prepared to be surrounded by layers of reporters.
This is not an exaggeration. She was even 100% sure that if "the mysterious private airboat from other air islands suddenly landed at the airport" happened on Happiness Island, then at least seven or more newspapers would rush to the airport in their own ways before the airboat landed.
And it doesn't matter which newspaper arrives first...... When the reporters of the Tianen Daily arrived in helicopter gunships, they also had to reluctantly make up enough space around them.
Immediately afterwards, as long as you get off the airboat, you can see the flash light paste face, and then your face will enter the live broadcast room of Tianen Daily; In order to seize the timeliness, a bunch of news people have to watch the live broadcast room of Tianen Daily to extract key information, and at the same time start to make up blindly..... Before the live broadcast ends, news feeds from major media outlets will be directly photographed on the faces of the viewers who are watching the live broadcast.
The coolest part is that the details of the news are not exactly the same in every company. Highlight a hundred flowers blooming.
However, when they left the airship, Delphinium did not see any of the reporters appear in front of them. Accompanied by the melodious and low chant that sounded in the airport, two gray-haired old men with long beards were waiting for them at the door of the airboat with solemn faces.
They all wore helmet-like blindfolds of steel on their faces.
There are three lenses about the position of the eye, two small and one large..... The small one is on the eye, and the big one is on the center of the eyebrow. And these lenses are glowing..... One person's face glows with a bright yellow light, and the other has a red light.
Because they all glow, you can't see their eyes through the light if you look inside from the outside.
They wore long-sleeved white robes that covered their hands and feet, and silk white gloves. On their chests, there was a similar, subtle, symbol of the Sogo group—a pentagram the size of a skull, also shining with the same color as their blindfold. One is bright yellow and the other red..... And as they breathed, the light in their chests flickered and dimmed.
Delphinch's first reaction was: What kind of RGB cultist is this? It also has its own breathing light effect......
Seeing Russell and Delphinium, they bowed their heads at the same time, drew a five-pointed star on their chests along the path of light, and then folded their hands: "May I ask if you two are Mr. Ultramarine and Ms. Delphinium?"
"- Yes, Catholics."
Seeing that the delphinium was still a little flustered, Russell came over from behind the delphinium.
He reached out and touched his eyebrows lightly, then touched the largest lens on their foreheads. Delphinium hesitated.
It looked like some kind of ritual, but Russell didn't tell himself what to do while he was on the road......
Just when she was hesitating whether she wanted to learn from Russell to do it together, she saw Russell reach out and gently support her shoulder. So the delphinium immediately understood that this meant not to move.
Seeing Russell's return gift, the two old men nodded pleasantly.
The "golden" old man introduced himself to Russell, "Offended, parishioners. I can feel your sincere spiritual energy..... May God bless you.
"Introduce yourself, you can call me the prefrontal cortex. This is the 'insula.'" "Two wise men came to me, what's the matter?"
Russell asked softly.
"Nothing, child. Don't be nervous..... The elves asked us to take a look. When the wanderer returns home, we should take care of it."
When Dr. Insula heard this, he uttered a gentle and kind voice—and it was only then that Delphinium realized that the shaved and flat-headed old man was actually an old woman.
"Forehead Cortex" nodded, "I heard you haven't been back in a long time...
... Sogo Island hasn't been peaceful lately."
"What's going on?" Russell asked with some vigilance.
The prefrontal cortex was about to explain, but the insula stopped him. "It's not a big deal."
The old woman said gently, "A group of little dolls are ignorant and just fooling around. Don't worry too much about them. "We've got the car ready...... Please come with us."
Hearing this, Delphinium glanced back at Russell with some confusion. If she remembers correctly......
The reason why she and Russell came to Sogo Island was actually because Russell wanted to take her back to her hometown to see, right? How does it sound as if this is really a task given by the elf directors?
— That doesn't seem right, right? Isn't the chairman Russell himself? So why did the "elves" know they were coming?
Russell shook his head slightly, signaling that this was not the place to speak. But seeing that Russell was not nervous, the delphinium was slightly relieved.
Russell looked at the delphinium and was still a little overwhelmed, so he took the initiative to reach out and hold her hand. After holding Russell's hand steadily, the delphinium relaxed a little.....
After all, it was the first time to leave home. And it's a trip to a place I've never been to before, and it's reasonable that Delphinium will blow up its feathers.
Looking at their small movements, the two old men just whispered a kind and happy laugh. "It's a good relationship."
Dr. Brain Island said happily, "My grandson is about your age..... But no matter how you urge him to find a wife, start a family, he just doesn't move. He would rather take care of someone else's child in a church school than have a child of his own."
Russell interjected, "If he is so attentive, he should have been commended by the district bishop, right?"
"Yes, he just received his second commendation this year, and he will be promoted to bishop for a third time in about two or three years. My grandson, though he does not seek a wife, does not listen to me. But his teaching level and attitude are very good..... "
The old grandmother babbled and said, "Although he always annoys me, he is also very filial. Come back to see me often. That kid is hard-mouthed and soft-hearted..... He was even occasionally bullied by his students. However, he is also popular among students, and every year on Holy Doge's Day, he can accept paper flower baskets made by children."
「.... Is he an elementary school teacher?" Delphinium whispered.
She is not a person of many words, and the sudden speech at this time is precisely to relieve her tension.
The delphinium could clearly feel that the heart in her chest was pounding uneasily—a tension so rare and clear that it seemed strange to herself. If it weren't for the presence of a stranger, she would have grabbed Russell's hand and put it on her chest, making him feel the pounding of her heart.
"If you're in a church school, you can't be called an elementary school teacher." It was not the two of them who gave the explanation, but Russell beside the delphinch. He whispered, "Then it should be called a priest."
"Priest?"
"Hmm. One level higher, it's 'bishop.'" Russell replied.
In Sogo..... Is the relationship between the Cyber Church and the Sogo Group so close? Delphinium was vaguely aware of something.
Those two "doctors", if nothing else, should be high-level researchers belonging to the Sogo Group. The grandmother's grandson is working as a "priest" in a church school and as a primary school teacher.....
On Happiness Island, the status of the profession "teacher" – specifically "teacher" before university – is quite low.
Because the best teachers have all been hired as tutors for the rich. If they are a little better, they will be directly "bought out" by the rich people who pay several times more money, that is, they will not be asked to teach other students at the same time. In this way, it is also possible to minimize the difficulty of admission to some Tianen University.
Only teachers who no one wants will enter primary and secondary schools to teach. Their purpose is to teach those ordinary "wage slaves".
No matter how good and attentive the teacher is, yes
There is no point in the student's further education.
—Because the knowledge required to be admitted to Tian'en University in Happiness Island is not taught in middle school at all.
The "college entrance examination" of Happiness Island is that you need to first pass the unified examination within the high school to obtain the "application quota", and then go to the university to do the questions written by the university lecturers - and the difficulty of these questions is equivalent to the level of the final exam of the first semester of the sophomore year in a first-tier university; The entrance exam questions of first-tier universities are equivalent to the difficulty of the final exam of the second semester of the second semester of the second-tier university.
In this case, the vast majority of ordinary students can only go on to second-tier universities. Because the knowledge required for further promotion has been completely monopolized.
In any case, it is not possible to acquire such a depth of knowledge through self-study. If you can pass the "cram school" and pass the Tianen University exam, then you are already a genius.
By the time they enter their freshman year, they already have half of the knowledge they have completed in the average university – and this even requires taking some of the drugs produced by Ampoule Biomedical to develop their brains to this extent. And this is when they also need to pass the general college entrance examination to get a place in the exam. In other words, they can't fall behind in the knowledge they have in class.
Of course, strictly speaking, nothing is actually taught in class.
Students start school at 9 a.m., have a two-hour nap at noon, start at 3 p.m. and end at 3:45 p.m. – yes, there are only three classes a day at the middle and primary schools on Happiness Island. This is the new style of teaching that was recently introduced by a human director..... Before he made the change, there was actually only one more class in the afternoon.
In the name of "students need naps for better physical development", the director simultaneously cut one-fifth of the curriculum content of secondary schools on the island. However, everyone knows that this is just to make it easier to get into Tianen University.
Because of the time freed up, you can learn more "university knowledge" and do more questions and test papers.
From this point of view, the students of Tianen University are also four years old. But they have a foundation of two to three years of professional courses before they go to school.
Therefore, it is only natural that they can become excellent talents after graduation and directly enter Tianen Group to become corporate executives..... Graduate students from first-tier and second-tier universities are not as valuable as their undergraduate graduates. When they were sophomores, they were already learning the content of other people's seniors or even freshmen. There are no "basic university courses" at all, and they are advanced professional courses, and the class hours are directly full.
Because of this, the status of the profession of "teacher" on Happiness Island can be said to be extremely low. It's not even as good as an online anchor or a street singer, and it's about the same level as a restaurant waiter—the same low difficulty of finding a job, and the same mixed way of working.
Not to mention the so-called "church schools".
That's from the welfare agencies of the Cyber Church, which are not even paid. Unless it is a rich young master and a young lady who is not worried about life, she usually enters a church school after retirement..... Or there are social service workers who are like volunteers, who can spend extra time doing good deeds in church schools after they have done their work.
It's not a job at all.
..... But the situation seems to be completely different in Sogo.
The children of these high-level researchers will even be sent to church schools .... And both seem to think there's nothing wrong with that.
Sure enough, it's completely different......
Delphinium thought to herself, and followed the two into the floating car.
The style of this floating car is also completely different from that of Happiness Island - the floating car of Happiness Island pays attention to the sense of technology and speed. Its case is like a jewel, and its head is so sharp that it looks like a terminal or a disc.
And the floating car of Sogo Island ......
.. How to put it, it's like a huge floating coffin. Its interior height is at least twice as high as that of the floating car on Happiness Island, and it can even stand up directly from the inside. The two old men didn't even sit down, they stood directly in the carriage in front of them.
Pure white floating car with special paint on the surface
It has made a "woody feeling" and it is covered with gold around the edges. Before you get into the car, you can see the curved curved decoration inlaid in the front and rear of the car, which looks like golden vines wrapped around a pure white coffin...
Of course, there is no coffin on Happiness Island. However, Taoyuan Island has ...... The delphinium knew what a "coffin" was because her mother had told her these stories.
But it at least has one place for the delphinium to breathe a sigh of relief..... That is, it was divided into several blocks, separating Russell from the delphinium and the two old men, and it was very soundproof. Once inside, the looming chant outside was completely cut off.
But after sitting down, the delphinium found that after entering the floating car, looking from the inside out, it was actually completely transparent!
Not transparent on all sides, but transparent on six sides.
She could even see the sky and the earth clearly! ...... How is it transparent?!"
When the float began to take off, the delphinium subconsciously caged her skirt and tightened her legs. "Wait, it's not going to be ....."
Without waiting for Russell to explain, the delphinium reacted on its own...... It can't be completely transparent.
Because no matter how transparent the floating car is, it will also have an engine, an energy storage room and a floating device. But the delphinium couldn't see them at all, not even the two old men.
All she could see was herself and Russell sitting in the sky—a gold and white lotus seat beneath them.
"It's a real-time reflective screen. The shell of the floating car is a huge camera...... The scene it collects from the outside is mapped to the inside, and then the AI completes the picture. In this way, we will be able to realize the ultimate human dream of standing in the sky."
Russell still held the delphinch's hand and explained softly to the delphinch, "And, it can be like this..."
Before Russell could finish speaking, a gentle young female voice came from inside the "flying coffin": "May I ask you what instructions do you have?"
"Cast the simulated wind."
Russell commanded, "Medium intensity."
The next moment, the delphinium's hair whistled and flew away.
Her long white hair fluttered wildly behind her, and she subconsciously reached out to grab it, but she could only catch the cold air. It's like she's really flying in the sky.
Her eyes widened suddenly, feeling the extreme refreshment that accompanied the feeling of suffocation when facing the strong wind, and the horror of being blown by the wind to stagger, and the possibility of falling at any moment—
"What is this—"
She subconsciously shouted at the top of her voice, as if she couldn't get the sound to Russell's ears through the hunting wind.
The delphinium clenched her hands, gulping and breathing violently, her cheeks slightly red from the inability to breathe smoothly and steadily, her ears stood up, and she looked down and out of the window with excitement and fear. All she could feel was the tingling of her fingertips and a slight dizziness.
Her chip immediately alerted her to the risk of aerobic poisoning.
At this moment, Russell suddenly came over, hugged the delphinium and kissed her, and took a few breaths. The delphinium was pacified almost instantly.
She felt like she was suddenly learning to breathe again...... Or maybe you have forgotten to breathe altogether. And when she calmed down completely, the red alarm prompt disappeared.
"Let's change it to a breeze."
Russell touched the slightly reddened face of the delphinium and said with a smile.
At this point, all that remains is the warm breeze of early summer. The delphinium was finally able to breathe steadily. Her eyes widened, realizing that she was in heaven.
The Tower of Light, which reached to the sky, was not far from him, and three curved altars were like open hands, separated by 120 degrees, serving beside it.
Countless huge statues of gods, incomparably embedded in the city:
The strange and sacred Thousand-Armed Bodhisattva stretched out thousands of arms and stood at the entrance of the subway, the shirtless boy with nine eyes, three heads and six arms stood on the top of the tall building on the other side with six weapons, and the one-eyed old man in a white robe fell
Suspended in the bell tower......
The river of light flowed through the air like a tortuous and soft white line, and if you looked closely, you could see the forged ribbon of countless glowing threads, linked to the different temples.
As the clock tower struck silently at two o'clock in the afternoon, the temples were filled with light. The people on the road raised their heads and bowed silently.
The myriad of giant idols driven by the mechanism also moved slightly, all of them in a different posture than they had been in the previous hour.
The noise was kept out by the good soundproofing of the floating car, and all the delphinium could see was the silent worship.
It was a wordless, shocking sacredness.
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