Chapter 2010

It casually moved the tentacles behind it, and also didn't want to put too much pressure on Lin An.

Other faith systems fear their followers dying, fear exposing their own "incompetence".

But for Lin An, his followers, when faced with desperation, can actively choose to die! The more they die, the firmer their belief, directly entering a fanatic state, triggering a berserk.

"It's very special.."

Hearing the praise from the big-eyed one, Lin An smiled modestly, feeling a mix of emotions inside.

Strictly speaking, his faith system was not established by him, but by Chu An.

If he had followed his original idea and walked the path of faith, he estimates he wouldn't even be able to condense a prototype now. Even if he barely managed to condense one, his eventual fate would be similar to those mentioned by No. 77.

Followers will produce erroneous cognition; this is unavoidable.

Without exaggeration, that notebook's help to him is comparable to the Causal Sequence back then. No, it's even stronger than the Causal Sequence!

Suppressing his thoughts, Lin An noticed that when No. 77 praised him, it mentioned his cognition.

To be honest, having experienced the skull ghost, Lin An clearly felt he knew too little, his cognition insufficient. Like when the trolls talk about their experiences, he hardly has any similar experience.

"Overseer, my cognition..."

Lin An hesitated and asked, he couldn't quite understand this point.

"Are you trying to say you actually know too little? Whether it's understanding the apocalypse, or various rules, or understanding the world?"

"Are you still worried about the upcoming mission, that you can't even look at it and understand? Especially the Rule System, you've realized that civilization level will greatly affect one's perception of the world?"

Like the roundworms in one's stomach.

Lin An nodded heavily; he had already realized this problem during the Stellar Battlefield.

His understanding of the rules is truly too shallow...

No way, Earth's technology level is too low; many things and phenomena cannot be understood.

However, unexpectedly to Lin An, No. 77 blinked, and gave a meaningful smile from the depths of its eyes:

"No, Lin An. You're underestimating yourself, or rather, you haven't realized how special the environment you're in is..."

"Earth, that's a Shura field..."

"A Shura field?"

Lin An froze.

What kind of Shura field is Earth? Not to mention the apocalypse difficulty, just Earth's civilization system is ten levels weaker than even the lowest Hai Yao.

He hasn't forgotten those Fifth Stage beings he devoured during the Stellar times; not to mention higher civilizations, the cognition level of rules on the strong magnetic planet where Lilier resides far surpasses Earth!

Seeing Lin An's surprise, No. 77 smiled, extended its tentacle, and pointed toward the distant starry sky.

"You know Earth is an experimental field, right? Especially those wastes, um, called the Creator Alliance? They told you Earth is even more a trash heap, a place they abandoned."

"So you also think Earth is very trashy, especially technologically, it's practically no different from monkeys."

Coming to his senses, Lin An gave a wry smile and nodded.

That's right, although Qing Kai calls them monkeys, he doesn't mind that at all. But frankly, the difference is quite large; otherwise he wouldn't have snatched that ship, even leaving a few escapees behind.

"Isn't that so?"

Lin An asked doubtfully, he could sense from the big-eyed one a certain inexplicable disdain for the Creator Alliance.

"Of course not."

"Earth is indeed an experimental field, and also abandoned. Later, the Creators even used it for experiments; calling it a trash heap is barely accurate."

"But it depends whose trash heap it is; even a trash pile can contain treasures."

While speaking, No. 77 casually drew a circle:

"Lin An, haven't you noticed there's too much leftover stuff on your planet? You've been to an alien species world, right? There they don't have so many messy memes and supernatural incidents."

"Moreover, your former faith systems were chaotic, with godly images so numerous almost everyone had one. Gods warred, various systems, supernatural phenomena, memes, concepts—more than can be counted."

"Such a situation is rare even when looking across the entire star cluster."

"Normally, a civilization establishes a sole true god early on; even without taking the religious route, it quickly unifies thought, integrates the planet's power to look outward. Especially under apocalyptic catastrophe, there is basically no chance for 'splitting'."

"And the three major events usually appear only as Fifth Stage missions. For you to encounter them at First Stage, placed in other civilizations it's simply unimaginable."

Lin An was stunned, scenes flashing instantly in his mind.

It seemed like that.

He had noticed that the civilizations behind figures like Hei Di were almost all unified; not unified later, but already unified from the start.

Moreover, many Fifth Stage beings' experiences facing the three major events, Lin An felt were still less than Zhang Tie's...

It only got better from the Star-Destroying onward, but those were also encountered later.

"Is the problem of too many gods and religions not due to the escapees? And aren't the three major events also deliberately spread by them?"

"Besides, I heard from the Creators that they also left many experiments there, polluting the place. For example, monsters similar to Sunwalkers."

"Escapees? Creators?"

No. 77 snorted coldly and spoke:

"How could these wastes possibly leave such a great influence."

"Never mind whether those so-called Creators are genuine; their predecessors might have left a bit, but only a little. That group of escapees merely imitates earlier history."

"Lin An, think back carefully; most of the supernatural records on Earth come from which period."

"From your ancient times, even before you yourselves appeared, there were already records!"

As the words fell, Lin An instantly realized, realizing he had actually overlooked this point!

Exactly!

Humanity's own myth records are quite strange.

Many records are narrated from a non-human perspective; upon reflection, this simply doesn't make sense.

(Human history, essentially, is a history of slaying gods...)

In an instant, Lin An suddenly saw in his mind the sentence Chu An had left in his notes. Some things he had grown accustomed to, but if viewed from the perspective of other civilizations, humans are indeed strange.

"Are we really that special..."

"You said the Creator has a predecessor? What do you mean?"

Lin An suppressed the surprise in his heart and couldn't help asking Number 77. Reacting extremely quickly, he keenly realized that a large amount of information was hidden in those few sentences of Number 77.

"As for the Creator, if you're interested, you can go make contact yourself."

"Their civilization's predecessor is still somewhat interesting, but they basically played themselves to death. If you have a chance to find what they left behind, it might help you a bit. But it's not important either."

Number 77 blinked indifferently; in his view, the Creator's predecessor wasn't worth wasting his breath on.

Lin An was interested; he would just go explore it himself.

"As for me saying you're special..."

After a slight pause, Number 77 thought for a moment and then spoke slowly:

"Earth is located at the edge of the Milky Way; to outsiders it's a barren land, but in the past, for some reasons I don't even know, many special beings conducted experiments there and left information."

"Perhaps a superbeing first appeared there, then gradually attracted other powerful beings out of curiosity. Slowly, the information left on Earth increased, eventually becoming a polluted land."

"A large amount, or high-level, or profound, or erroneous, or distorted cognitions mixed together and integrated into you."

"These cognitions and changes have both good and bad aspects. The good is that there are treasures in the trash; you can always find a few words and phrases, cognitions belonging only to the extremely strong. The bad is that you're about to be played to death; each individual is like a time bomb, and no one knows when they will 'mutate'."

Saying this, Number 77 couldn't help shaking his head.

"Lin An, haven't you noticed? The Awakened Ones on Earth have all kinds of bizarre abilities, every sort of weird thing."

"For example, those companions you brought this time—none of them are normal."

"And you, you're even more special, to the point of being called a deformity. If you die, there's a high probability you'll turn into three major events, becoming a new disaster."