Chapter 1866: So-Called Faith

Found it! It's this pile!

At the top floor of the Long An command center, Gao Tian excitedly held up the notebook in his hand and, as if offering a treasure, rushed to Lin An.

As a command center remodeled from the former Linjiang Academy library, the top floor's architectural style still retains the pre-Apocalypse appearance.

Or rather, this floor is essentially the top floor of Chu An's exclusive office area, basically a huge library.

Seeing the entire hall, aside from a desk and several Zhuanxu-linked psionic devices placed by the window corner, a glance reveals rows upon rows of books.

In Lin An's eyes, he could even simulate the scene of Chu An working here before.

(That guy, when he's not doing experiments, does he just keep working here?)

Noticing the large amount of documents on the simple wooden table in the corner, it's clear that Chu An was still handling many matters before the incident.

No one dared to touch what he left behind, and Lin An momentarily felt a sense of loss.

Nodding slightly, Lin An lowered his gaze to the notebook Gao Tian had flipped to, seeing a line of neat small notes on what looked like a manuscript.

Relationship Between State and Faith Evolution-1

Lin Dui! This should be helpful to you! Back when you weren't in Long An, Colonel Chu often gave lectures to me and Zhang Tie!

For a while, Colonel Chu loved to come talk to us about Long An's future! He seemed to always want to do something, but for some reason he'd always say, 'Let's talk after you come back...'

Afterwards, after you came back, that's when he met with misfortune...

Unconsciously speaking of that time, for some reason, as he spoke, Gao Tian's eyes involuntarily drooped, and his originally excited expression also became somewhat lost.

Chu An often used to give lectures to these core members, instructing them on how to act.

It can be said that when Colonel Chu was around, if you asked Chu An, that guy was like an encyclopedia, able to instantly give an answer.

Although Chu An usually spoke about things they didn't understand, Zhang Tie would even fall asleep as soon as 'class' started, and seeing Chu An scared him to death like seeing a ghost.

But now thinking back to that time, it really was reassuring...

It's as if as long as Chu An was there, no problem was unsolvable. Just like with Lin Dui around, the sky wouldn't fall.

Speaking of which.

They really missed that man.

Not having immediately looked through Chu An's notes, Lin An fell silent for a moment, his heart also feeling complex.

Chu An and that little girl AnXia were both taken into the instance by Klein, right?

In the end, there's no sign of them waking up, right?

He asked softly, Gao Tian blinked in surprise, then replied with a bitter smile:

No, Lin Dui.

Because the situation had become increasingly tense, we worried the escapees would attack the core again, so we simply contacted Klein and had him bring Chu An into the instance.

AnXia, Yun Lin and the others also went in. Klein seemed particularly interested in Yun Lin's and some precognitive Awakened Ones' abilities.

But rest assured, we still keep in touch with Klein's side, and food has always been supplied by them.

That's what Klein said: if you return, you should quickly help him find the instance's power source; the reserves at the Black Tower are almost depleted.

He spoke softly, and Lin An nodded after hearing it.

He knew about this.

After knowing, he originally wanted to go to the Amoeba instance right away upon returning, but considering his current strength makes entering the instance troublesome. Opening a channel to bear his power would likely consume the last reserves.

After weighing it, Lin An still planned to finish matters on Earth first before going.

As for the instance's power source, we can obtain it by wiping out all the escapees; there's nothing to worry about there.

"You go ahead first; I'll take a look at what Chu An... left behind."

Suppressing the faint sense of loss in his heart, Lin An let out a light sigh, then straightforwardly walked to the desk where Chu An used to work, preparing to carefully examine Chu An's notes.

To be honest, when Gao Tian just said Chu An had left a manual, he was still quite surprised, thinking that guy had calculated everything again.

But upon noticing that Chu An seemed to have left many various notes, Lin An immediately realized these were merely his thoughts from reading in his spare time.

Given that guy's personality, if he had truly figured things out for today and wanted to leave something for him, he would certainly have explained it clearly.

Rather than Gao Tian suddenly thinking of it and then speaking...

Just like.

That letter.

On the Relationship Between Religious Faith and National Institutions, Discussing Primitive Religion and Early Feudal Dynasties-1

Within the Natural Sect, the Unity of Shamans and Matriarchal Society Leaders-2

Religious Precepts and the Evolutionary Structure of Collective Self-Restraint-3 (The Logic of Life's Evolutionary Essence and the Protoform of Virtual Collective Consciousness)

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Flipping to the first page, Lin An stared, his face stiffening, at the seventeen titles Chu An had written.

It was like a book, a textbook paper. Chu An's mechanically printed font—just seeing the first title made a strange feeling rise in Lin An's heart.

This guy, for studying faith, wouldn't really have written a whole book, would he..

Taking a deep breath, although Lin An had prepared himself to read it seriously, he couldn't help but feel a bit weird for a moment.

He had thought that what Chu An left behind probably wasn't a method to guide him through the crisis; just looking at these titles made his scalp tingle.

'Forget it, just treat it as seeing if we can find some ideas.'

No longer thinking further, Lin An focused and turned to the second page's main text.

Seeing beneath the title on the second page was a large block of densely packed text.

Before Lin An could even think about quickly skimming it to extract useful information for himself, the first sentence of the main text made him suddenly freeze.

The essence of a modern state is merely religious faith disguised as civilization.

State will is divine will, state law is religious commandment, state system is the extension of divinity.

The concept of a state has no tangible existence; essentially, it is no different from fabricated religious faith.

In the early stage, both were concrete products of consensus reached in human fantasy. Therefore, Faith Power is the consensus of thought (ideology). And after ideology is manifested, it becomes a unified spiritual entity whose energy is human thought.

That is.

God.