Chapter 17 From Green Fields to Flat-topped Mountains

In the past week or so, it has probably been the busiest period since Li Yu joined the new company.

On the one hand, he needed to make a plan for the development of the Order's territory, and this part of the work had already begun a long time ago.

Whether it's wandering around for the purpose of opening a map, collecting information on various flora, fauna and minerals in the green fields, or chatting with all kinds of people near Teacup Castle, learning about the customs and productivity levels of Brattis, in fact, they are doing research for this purpose.

This is also Li Yu's work habit all along.

Only by investigating the problem clearly can we prescribe the right medicine and give the corresponding solution, instead of doing things at the beginning, which seems to be working hard, but the result is often half the effort.

It was precisely because of the good foundation laid before, even if he encountered such an unexpected event as the lizardman migrating out of the swamp and causing him to pick up thousands of believers in vain, Li Yu did not let him hurry, and quickly revised and formulated a new formula.

Let these lizardfolk quickly settle down in the new land and put into production.

Among them, the cooperation of the leader of the lizardmen, Onond, played a big role, but the most important thing was Li Yu's own prophetic identity, which made the lizardmen obey him.

However, the way the lizards worshiped Saturday was the same thing that they had worshiped Sosokus before, only by a different name, and some of the most barbaric and bloody rituals were forbidden by Li Yu.

If Li Yu didn't plan to continue to develop new believers, but just wanted to live by guarding this group of lizardmen, it wouldn't be a big problem.

Anyway, the lizards are still quite realistic, and the faith that should be given is not less than that.

But Li Yu is clearly not satisfied with just a corner of the world, and his goal is to get everyone on the continent to believe in Saturday.

Therefore, he had to create a broader and more advanced religion.

He prepared for this part of the work earlier, and since he joined the company, he has been actively consulting relevant information, and constantly adding and modifying it in combination with the actual situation on the continent of Bratis, and now the basic framework has finally been built.

As for the definition of religion, in fact, the relevant academic circles have not been able to reach a broad understanding until now.

When defining it, because each person's focus is different, it tends to overemphasize its characteristics in a certain aspect.

However, most of the world's religions are made up of four factors.

The first is concepts and thoughts, that is, a set of unique worldviews that are extended by the self-elaboration of religion, which is the cornerstone and core of the entire religious system.

It is also the part that Li Yu has put the most energy into.

A good view of religion should be self-justifying, and a theory can only be credible if it minimizes contradictions.

However, it is a pity that any worldview, even a materialist worldview, must have its historical limitations, and with the development and progress of science and technology, human cognition of the world is bound to change.

This will lead to cracks in the original worldview, and if there are more cracks, it may even collapse completely.

In order to avoid this kind of thing, in addition to the foundation of the theoretical system itself must be good enough, it is necessary for later generations of believers to constantly patch it.

It's like picking any app on your smartphone, and if you want it to work well, you need to keep updating and maintaining it.

The same is true for religion, sometimes the bug is so big that the hot update can't solve it, and you have to iterate on the version and re-install the package.

However, compared to those pioneers in this universe, Li Yu's advantage is that his understanding of the world itself exceeds that of his contemporaries by thousands of years.

This also ensures that the code he wrote will run happily for more than a thousand years without any vicious bugs.

Moreover, the most awesome thing about the worldview created by Li Yu is that a large part of the content is real, but it has undergone some necessary artistic processing.

He ditched the increasingly untenable creationist part of traditional religion and told a classic Japanese RPG-style salvation story.

Among them, Li Yu did not try to blur his identity as an outsider on Saturday, but further strengthened and exploited this.

In his original story, Saturday was a foreign god who lived in a kingdom far away from the continent of Brattis, where everyone lived a life of abundance and happiness, as well as adequate rest and entertainment.

However, the compassionate Saturday noticed that there was a group of people living in misery in the land beyond the kingdom of God, and the compassionate Saturday sent his prophet here to deliver them.

Lead them together to build a kingdom of God on land.

When Li Yu said this, a lizardman believer raised his hand and said, "What is the land kingdom of God?" ”

"That's a good question." Li Yu turned on the projector.

Not far away, a white curtain began to play a promotional video of Pingdingshan's city.

The trailer wasn't long, only about five minutes long, and the lizards couldn't understand what was being said inside, but that didn't stop them from pricking up their ears and staring at the ever-changing images on the screen.

The reason why the city propaganda film of Shanghai was not shown was mainly because Li Yu was worried that it would be too high-end all of a sudden, and the lizard people couldn't digest it, and they couldn't understand what the contents were at all, but it was not as good as the effect of ordinary cities.

Anyway, whether it is Shanghai, or Pingdingshan, even Hegang, which is not very economically, is enough to satisfy the lizard people's imagination of the kingdom of God.

No, it should be said that it is far more than they imagined.

Looking at the high-rise buildings, neat roads, and small iron boxes flowing on the road in the promotional video, the faces of the lizard people are all written with the famous words of director Ang Lee.

- I don't understand, but I'm shocked!

And the aerial view from top to bottom also made them exclaim, not to mention the magical time-lapse photography that looked at it, and some of the lizardmen knelt on the spot.

Coupled with the happy smiles of all the people who appeared in the promotional video, it makes people sincerely believe that the people living in it are really happy.

After a promotional video, the emotions of all the lizardmen were boiling, and they couldn't calm down for a long time.

It took an unknown amount of time before the lizardman spoke, and said in a trembling and excited voice, "Is this the kingdom of God in which my Lord Saturday and the prophet live in you, I ...... Can we live like this? ”

"Of course." Li Yu's tone was very affirmative.

"I said, I was sent here on Saturday to establish the kingdom of God on land, but it is not enough for me to be alone, I need the help of you and other believers in the future, and everyone will work together.

"All those who are willing to join this great cause, regardless of gender, race, identity, and whether they have a grudge against each other before, are our family and comrades-in-arms, and everyone is working towards the same goal."