“...... When Jesus sat at a long table with his twelve disciples, He already knew that someone had a bad idea. He knew it was Judas. But he sat down with him, divided bread for him, and poured wine for him. ”

"It's not kindness, it's not generosity, it's not compassion. ”

"It's faith...... Trust that fate will make a just ruling. Believe that sacrifice will cleanse sins. Believers who believe in Him can be evil as well as good......"

In the early morning, on the shore of Linzhong Lake, an Atlas student in a yellow robe was holding a Bible and preaching loudly on the shore, proclaiming the glory of the Lord to the fishmen.

The red-robed people passing by looked at him with strange eyes.

Zheng Qing is also one of them. He was worried that the yellow-robed man would be stoned to death by the grumpy fishmen in the lake. Because a few pairs of dark yellow and fierce eyes have appeared on the surface of the lake.

But Xiao Xiao let him not worry so much.

"Most fishmen don't think about words that deeply," Xiao Xiao flipped through the school newspaper in his hand and explained casually: "Jesus, kindness, compassion, sin, faith...... I doubt a few fish-people can understand the meaning of these words. ”

"The fish people have sacrifices, and they have beliefs. Zheng Qing disagrees with the doctor's view.

"That's not faith, it's just worship. Ancient totem worship. Xiao Xiao was concentrating on two things, reading the newspaper articles, and at the same time still had the spare energy to have a somewhat difficult dialogue with Zheng Qing: "True faith is divided into two kinds, one is internal, which is the firmness of self-consciousness, and the other is external, which is the firmness of relying on others. The cult of the fish people is not firm and can be easily shaken. Therefore, their sacrifices cannot be called true faith. ”

"Relying on the firmness of others?" Zheng Qing repeated Xiao Xiao's words, raised his head, glanced at the sky, and a thought suddenly popped up in his mind: "If there is no faith, then there is no way for the outer gods to come?"

Xiao Xiao's gaze finally took his eyes off the newspaper.

"It's understandable. His gaze looked through the smooth spectacle lenses, and he seemed to see through what Zheng Qing was thinking in his heart: "The essence of external belief is 'coordinates'. The gods stabilize their existence through coordinates, and the believers anchor their spirits through coordinates...... The true god is a high-dimensional existence beyond time and space, and reality cannot withstand its coming. They are unknowable and unpredictable, and only by relying on the guidance of faith can they cast a shadow on this world and manifest their existence. ”

"Sounds like a hassle. ”

"Why do you think those high-dimensional beings should be projected to lower-dimensional beings?"

"Maybe they need the power of faith?" Zheng Qing guessed.

"Whoever uses faith as food will eventually be poisoned by faith. There are no more stupid gods like that. Xiao Xiao sneered: "They descended the projection, and it was divided into two situations, one was pure pity, like the pity of the rich for the poor, and the other was interested...... They regard everything that happens in the lower dimensional world as their spiritual food - for example, when we read comics, does we have a sense of substitution? That is actually a kind of projection behavior. The projection of a three-dimensional world to a two-dimensional world. ”

Zheng Qing shrugged.

"When you say that, it feels like we're pretty good. He inexplicably remembered Mr. Ah Q.

"That's true. Xiao Xiao lifted his glasses: "Mr. Karl Strauss once said, 'The most interesting life is not a high-dimensional person who is beyond everything, but an invincible existence in a low-dimensional being. Even if a high-dimensional person destroys a low-dimensional world, it can roll around and fall into other low-dimensional worlds'......"

Carl Strauss was the author of The Philosophy of Magic, the only textbook written by a non-professor, and Zheng Qing was impressed by his name.

But he didn't know what Xiao Xiao had just said.

This is normal.

Xiao Xiao concluded: "...... So, just as when we find a cockroach in our home, it means that there are dozens, or even dozens, hundreds of them hiding out of sight, when we realize that a god has descended into this world, it means that his followers have made many secret sacrifices and callings. ”

Zheng Qing thought of the trickster who was invaded by the outer gods on the streets of the North District, and thought of the Satogua who descended in the small world of the secret realm, and the thought in his mind became stronger and stronger.

In other words, they wouldn't come if no one called, right? He asked softly.

"Theoretically, so. Xiao Xiao nodded.

"Do you think that if we change our angle and chase the believers of Sonogurath, will we be able to find Lin Guo's black goat faster?"

"The Trident has a separate division that specializes in 'hunting' those cultists. As far as I know, they are at the bottom of the entire trident in terms of performance every year. Xiao Xiao expressed his opinion euphemistically: "Yousin is a new hunting team, we can't be more professional than them." ”

"It's a new way of thinking. Zheng Qing insisted.

"Yes, it's a new idea. Xiao Xiao smiled perfunctorily and raised the newspaper in his hand: "It's just that compared with this new idea, I think this matter is more worthy of our attention......

"What's the matter?" Zheng Qing's attention finally took his attention away from the new thought he had just had.

The school newspaper reprinted several articles from the "Beta Town Post" and "Ms. Duoduo", as well as comments...... as well as several articles in the school newspaper itself. Xiao Xiao pointed out a few folded footers to Zheng Qing:

"For example, in this article, in the 'Ancient and Modern Strange Tales' section, there are usually stories of 'Ancient Corpses in Mountain Villages', 'Nanyang Witch Gu', 'Loch Ness Monster' and 'Library Ghosts'...... Today, however, it devotes a large part of its article to 'Guardians of the Mirror of the Moon'. It was an ancient being that inhabited the underground cave system of the Goat Grove region of Great Britain, worshipped by an organization that called itself the 'Black Goat Mystic Cult'. According to the article, the so-called 'Guardian of the Mirror of the Moon' is an incarnation of Nikolas. ”

"Another example is this one, in the current affairs commentary section, the commentator talks about the negative impact of cult worship on Atlas Academy, especially emphasizing that those outer gods in the depths of the starry sky will affect the wizard's choice of 'path' and convert them into dependents. Such accusations are rare. Especially the commentator from Alpha Academy......"

"There is also this article, which is a report in the "Beta Town Post" reprinted by the school newspaper, which says, "According to reliable information, there have been several small gatherings of evil god worship in Beta Town", "There is news that some believers are trying to lure their masters", "The impact is obvious, there are a large number of students in the school who are addicted to goat's milk", "Some students have lost their pets", "First University is indifferent to this", ......"

"There is also this, reprinted from an article in "Ms. Duoduo", repeating the old tune of "the black goat of the forest that gives birth to thousands of offspring" to pregnant women...... It is more likely to cause witches to give birth to pranksters...... Wait a minute. ”