Chapter 36: The Church's Conspiracy
"Now, you're satisfied?"
Horn clasped his hands to his chest and glanced at the ignorance beside him.
Ignorance sighed in satisfaction, lowered his head slightly, and closed his eyes again. "Well, that's fine. Now that her psionic abilities have completed the final breakthrough, she must have really figured it out. Words of self-deception can deceive oneself, but it cannot deceive spiritual power."
Trust in corporations has collapsed, dragons are ready to meddle in the world, conventional "consensus" is completely abandoned, and even the Cyber Church is ready to seize power. Troubled times are coming, no one can stop them, or rather, it has already arrived.
If the situation has developed to the point where it is now, and if we are not aware enough to face it, it is better to withdraw from the increasingly intensified struggle as soon as possible. Compared with "talent", the "determination" that can persist until the end in the gradually rotating heaven and earth mill is a more important quality.
"I don't know what self-deception is..."
After all the notices were given to the delphinium, the Paradise Bird breathed a sigh of relief. She raised her head and looked at Delphinium with some concern: "I'm just worried that Sister Delphinium's spiritual energy is fully awakened, will it hurt the child, and will it hurt herself..."
Paradise Bird doesn't understand those ideals, determinations, flags and other things, those things are too complicated.
She only cares about those she loves and the people who love her. For example, whether Russell's side is in danger, and whether the delphinium side will be too tired.
Ignorance sighed, "I can't help it, but the situation in front of me is not impressive.
"You still don't understand? Let me be clearer then
"In the near future, the rulers of this world will no longer be the Big Seven'. The old order based on wealth, consensus and corporate law will be completely withdrawn from the world stage."
"Isn't that a great thing?"
Paradise Bird was a little puzzled: "The head office is rotten and degenerate, and it has caused so many tragedies. Shouldn't the fall of the Big Seven be a good thing?"
"In fact, it's only going to get worse."
But the trumpet shook his head, "For power cannot be absent forever. As Miss Ale said, if power is not in the hands of those who should have it, those who should not have power will have power. The absence of power is more terrible than the abuse of power."
He has always understood what ignorance is going to do, but he doesn't approve of him in terms of means. Clarion has always believed that ignorance is too radical, and that they have a gentler strategy of changing people's perceptions slowly, from the top down, and trying to keep the shocks of social change to a minimum.
For example, believe in the church.
Judging by the clarion call, the cyber church can be absolutely trusted. Because their ultimate goal, the cyber immortality of abandoning flesh and blood, is unattainable with the current level of technology. Therefore, the church will not conflict with any organization in terms of interests.
It is precisely because any power must respect the church, and they do not directly conflict with the church, and the contradictions between these forces are much greater than the contradictions between them and the church. So the church can act as a powerful mediator to suppress the transformation of the whole society.
Aren't they, the angels, supposed to stand up at this time? Rather than entering a meat grinder-like battlefield, fighting each other meaninglessly with their own kind, and urging social progress through their own authority—this is the future that Clarion Call desires in his heart.
"I still think we should believe in the church."
The horn tapped the skull of the paradise bird with his hand, making a crisp sound.
But instead of looking at the bird of paradise, he looked at the ignorance earnestly: "This world cannot afford a world war of that scale. It has become shaky, and people's rationality has long been at its limit.
"If the world were engulfed in fire, I don't think there would be a new civilization reborn from the fire – I think it would be a war that would destroy everyone. It will only go backwards, it will not be renewed."
"I don't deny that."
Ignorance didn't even look at the horn, he just closed his eyes, curled up in a ball and replied calmly
"I just don't believe in the church.
"I will never trust them when they have squeezed our sleeping fellow citizens into juice and made them into the source of holy order.
"Don't forget, Horn. From the very beginning, we were not subordinate to the Church—the Church could not make all people angels, nor could it be created out of the divine device.
"To become an angel, the first thing we need is a different heart for each of us," and this heart is determined by past life experiences and genes. The other part is the memories and corpses of the saints of previous generations. We are now angels, not gifts from the Church, but a fully equal cooperation with each other.
"We don't become angels to gain power, nor do we want to become human beings. We all wanted to end the catastrophe, to end the war that made everyone miserable, so we accepted the god-descending experiment that was not safely verified.
"And after we became angels, we also took risks and paid the price of our lives to fight on the front line. We never owe anything to the church.
"—In such a situation, what right does the Church have to treat us as their property, subordinates, and tools, and to freeze and seal us at will, to unseal them at will, to slaughter and sell them, or to send them out to work?"
Ignorance's tone was cold and calm. His tone was not angry, nor was his emotions intense.
But the horn could only remain silent, speechless. Because he is not a businessman or a politician, he can't talk nonsense with his eyes open. It was precisely because these words of ignorance were true that he could not say anything.
"-Wait a minute!"
It wasn't long before the atmosphere began to stiffen, and the delphinium hadn't woken up again. Paradise Bird's face suddenly changed: "Something happened over there in the rebuilding mechanism!"
"What?"
Ignorance stabbed lightly: "Is it already wasted to the point where even a group of unarmed civilians can't hold it with loaded guns? It's only been less than ten minutes."
"I might not be able to hold it."
The expression of the paradise bird is complicated.
Ignorance suddenly opened his eyes: "What?"
"Even though I've just informed Peter Pan, he's already starting to destroy the demons."
The expression of the Paradise Bird became extremely complicated: "However, the angels have arrived.
"One by one, and instead of helping the re-creation mechanism destroy the demons, they are attacking the Enforcement Department with an extremely fierce attack, and they don't spare any hands at all. In this case, the reinvention mechanism will not be able to hold it at all!"
"How is that possible?"
Even the horn was shocked: "It takes time to fly from the 'Holy Scripture' to the Island of Happiness!" It took us half a day to get here!"
"—unless the angels arrived at the Isle of Happiness in silence first, and then the mob surrounded the Reinventing Mechanism."
Wuming said coldly.
When he said this, the bird of paradise and the trumpet were silent.
Because they all realize what ignorance means.
- From the very beginning, this was part of the conspiracy of the Church.