Chapter 238: Instructor, please guide us!

Originally Yanhuang Guo, Mount Yinzhao.

This place has been designated by the Federal as a holy land for study and exchange.

Amidst the beautiful scenery of mountains and rivers, a grand architectural complex blending classical and futuristic technological styles rises from the ground.

This is the Institute of Truth Practice specially built by the Federal for the Star Sea Divine Church's study and exchange group.

At this moment, the institute's largest auditorium is packed with no empty seats.

Seated below are the Church Leader, Grand Archbishop, Ka En Ti, Holy Word Master of the Star Sea Divine Church, as well as hundreds of the church's most elite core members.

Each of them wears the uniform plain gray trainee uniform,

holding in their hands a book whose cover is the Selected Works.

Sitting upright with devout expressions, they resemble a group of elementary school students about to listen to holy teachings.

And on the podium, there stands only a solitary lectern.

Behind the lectern stands a man wearing a Zhongshan suit, his expression somewhat unnatural.

This is Lei Ge, who has been forced onto the stage.

Lei Ge looks at the fervent, eager gazes below and feels that all of this is utterly absurd.

He mutters to himself.

On the lectern lies a lecture script he wrote after seven days and nights of work, stretching to a hundred thousand characters.

"A Preliminary Exploration of the Practice and Application of 'On Contradiction' in the Field of Interstellar Diplomacy"

This is a suture monster he painstakingly concocted by forcibly combining his lifelong knack for bluffing with the glorious ideas from the Selected Works.

Even he himself doesn't know what kind of thing he has written.

"Cough cough..."

Lei Ge clears his throat, picks up the lecture script, and prepares to begin what is both his first ever lecture and the most outrageous one of his life.

"Comrades, classmates, everyone...... good morning."

As soon as he speaks, he feels his voice is dry and raspy, as if rubbed with sandpaper.

However, the audience below instantly erupts in thunderous applause!

The Church Leader personally leads the way, clapping more enthusiastically than anyone else.

On every handsome or solemn face, there bubbles an inner excitement and joy.

"Today, our first lesson is 'On Contradiction'."

Lei Ge calmly reads from the script.

"Great men teach us that contradictions are everywhere and ever-present; the development of each civilization is driven by the internal motion of contradictions."

"Everyone present here are leaders and elites of the Star Sea Divine Church."

"In the past, in your wars with the Silicon-based Union, you repeatedly fell into a passive position,

"because you failed to clearly and scientifically recognize the primary and secondary contradictions between yourselves and the enemy."

……

Lei Ge begins his 'lecture'.

He combines examples from the Star Sea Divine Church's war with the Silicon-based Union, breaking down and simplifying the points from 'On Contradiction', and explains them to them in the plainest language.

"What is your primary contradiction? It is the irreconcilable conflict between your ever-growing beautiful wish to liberate all civilizations in the universe and the Silicon-based Union—a reactionary, backward, cold, mechanical hegemony!"

"And what about your secondary contradictions? They are the long-standing dogmatism, bureaucratism, and elitism detached from the believers within your church, and so on."

"You have committed a grave error in the past: you used these secondary contradictions to interfere with the resolution of the primary contradiction! On one hand you must fight the powerful enemy,

"on the other hand you still maintain that internal set of theology that has long become rigid and outdated! You are essentially striking your own left hand with your right, increasing internal consumption!"

……

Lei Ge's lecture grows smoother as he goes on.

He discovers that this thing is actually not so difficult.

All it takes is to treat the other side as a student who made a mistake and needs criticism and education.

Meanwhile, that group of 'students' below listens, entranced and intoxicated.

Each person holds a data tablet, frantically recording, afraid to miss a single character.

Ka En Ti keeps noting down while nodding his head repeatedly.

"Indeed! Indeed! In the past, we always emphasized the purity of faith, and for those vassal civilizations with wavering faith, we would readily suppress or even eradicate them."

"Isn't this exactly exacerbating the secondary contradictions and weakening the strength of our united front? Foolish! Utterly foolish!"

The Holy Word Master becomes even more excited, his whole body glowing.

"Seize the primary contradiction! Yes! Our sole overwhelming task now is to overthrow the Silicon-based Union!"

"Everything should make way for this primary contradiction! Whether theological purity or traditional doctrine, they can and must be temporarily set aside in the face of the primary contradiction!"

The lecture lasted a full three hours.

When Lei Ge finished the last word, set down the lecture script, and felt utterly exhausted,

the audience below erupted in applause ten times more fervent than before!

It continued without end!

The Church Leader even personally walked onto the stage, grasped Lei Ge's hand, his eyes full of excitement and gratitude.

"Instructor! Listening to your words is worth more than tens of thousands of years of cultivation!"

His voice choked up a little: "You... you have pointed out the direction for us! We... we finally know what to do!"

"From today onward, our Star Sea Divine Church civilization will undergo a thorough self-revolution!"

"We will overthrow bureaucratism, dogmatism, and all formalism in the theological realm!"

"We will establish a theocratic system that truly represents the interests of the broadest masses of believers and wholeheartedly serves the people!"

We must unite all forces that can be united, and bury the Silicon-based Union completely in the vast ocean of the people's war!

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