Chapter 438

Underground bunker.

Reception room.

More than ten Countermeasure Bureau team members surrounded William, but no one felt the excitement of finally catching the enemy leader, only feeling nervous and a trace of fear.

God!

Whether it was the "mental attack" constantly flashing in the system prompts, the glaring deep purple in the magic detection results, or the halo behind the other party's head, all of them pointed to this point.

And in the various magic disaster events encountered by the Countermeasure Bureau, the mortality rate of every god event was almost above 95%. And according to the other party's image and the cultural environment he was in, this one might be the most terrifying and powerful god.

William was calm and composed. Suddenly he raised his head: "Since you are here, why don't you show yourself?"

With his words, the space seemed to expand, and the distance between all things was instantly pulled away by a hundred times. The encirclement that the Countermeasure Bureau members had originally surrounded tightly was suddenly so sparse that dozens of trains could run side by side.

At the same time, a force divided the soldiers into two parts, each retreating to the sides. The ground seemed to be expanding endlessly, and a wide road pushed the tables and chairs to the sides, extending to the door on the opposite side.

The door opened suddenly.

But before the things behind the door could reveal their form, a cold snort suddenly came from the opposite side.

Immediately afterward, the expanded space contracted instantly. In just a blink of an eye, everything returned to its original place, as if nothing had just happened.

"You all go back first." Suddenly, from behind the door, a young and low male voice came.

Everyone was immediately pulled by a force and teleported away.

Only William himself was left in the reception hall.

"Did Moses use that move just now to part the Red Sea?"

With this voice, a mechanical foot of metal stepped in from outside the door. A humanoid machine shining with metallic luster slowly stepped into the room, and every step it took, its body became more refined.

The originally rough steel pipe arm suddenly grew strands of vigorous carbon fiber muscles, the pipelines were buried in the body and became nerves, the massive backpack-like device behind it also gradually shrank, its exterior grew circles of titanium alloy ribs, and that head that originally only had one massive camera was also constantly transforming. The camera shrank and shifted to one side, while another camera grew on the other side. The injection-molded shell became a skull, and even strands of fiber like hair were manifested accompanied by lightning.

In just a few seconds, a lump of iron turned into a bionic robot made of carbonized steel.

The robot was more than two meters tall, like a giant, looking down at William. Its two camera eyeballs shook and stared at the other party: "You want to talk?"

"Amazing, I have never seen that kind of magic just now..." William praised, "You are indeed a very interesting human, Murphy. However, using this puppet body to come here, is it because you are afraid that I will do something to your real body?"

"Heh." The mechanical giant opened its mouth. The words spoken were still Murphy's voice, but with a kind of steel resonance: "You are overestimating yourself too much. You are just a clone here, how can you make me show my real body?"

As he spoke, a steel chair grew in front of the giant, and it sat on it: "If you have anything to say, just say it. If you are any later, you won't have anything to trade with."

William smiled: "Why be an enemy of us, Murphy?"

"I have some ears and eyes, and I heard that you once wanted to become a god?" He said, extending a hand, and infinite light condensed in his palm, then turned into a scepter. Supreme power condensed on it, as if as long as one grasped it, one could dominate the fate of the world immediately.

"You are the most intelligent human I have ever seen, and your magic power is also vast and boundless. Even a true god has no chance of winning in front of you."

"But we don't have to be enemies. There are billions of people in this world. Such a massive population is enough to support two supreme true gods."

"This is the Key of Faith. Take it, and you will be one of the Trinity. We will share supreme power, and you will be omniscient and omnipotent."

"You want to unify humanity and study magic, nothing more than to seek knowledge. This knowledge is also in it."

The giant looked at the shining scepter. Various magic energies flowed on it, representing the various colors of the ultimate mind and spirit, perfectly integrated. It contained all concepts, ideals, and emotions. This was a collection of divine offices, encompassing all the fields of gods such as war, love, death, fertility, agriculture, etc.

"So that's it, have all those ancient gods been swallowed by you?" the giant said.

"Their thoughts still flicker in my divine mind, and their divine power and authority still remain in my divine power. They are not dead, they are just with me."

"Moreover, you are different from them," William said, "You are qualified to stand with me above them. Your soul is unique. I will bestow upon you the authority of the Son, share the Holy Spirit with me, and we will have no distinction in divine power and authority."

"Since that's the case, why don't I be the Father and you be the Son?" the giant laughed.

William still smiled, but his expression turned cold: "Murphy, no one has ever received such favor from God. You must know, my believers are all over the world. They are my resources and my extensions. You might win for a while, but as long as humanity does not perish and faith does not die, if you oppose me, you only have a path to defeat and death."

"Faith does not die?" Murphy sneered, "Perhaps so, but believing in gods is not necessarily so."

"Humans are fond of ease and hate work," the god said, "Laziness is the first evil of humanity. There are always people who hope to gain without working, and the human heart is never satisfied, always having endless desires. This is the lack of the human heart, and we gods dwell in this."

"Ancient gods used protection and blessings to lure them, and used slaughter and evil karma to terrify them, making people feel awe and have to believe and worship. But in the end, it was a lower method. People and gods were just tied by interests. Once there was no profit to be made, gods were also discarded like worn-out shoes."

"Do you not know that the human heart is even more slack, and the human structure is naturally drifting with the tide and muddling along. But the awakening of the heart is like breaking out of a cocoon and being reborn. Its pain is even worse than skinning and bone-dismantling, and its bitterness is even worse than coptis chinensis. Therefore, there are few awakened ones in the world, and all living beings are busy."

"I pass down faith, do not bestow blessings, do not bring disasters, do not promise victory, do not manage various industries, I only soothe the human heart. I tell all the lazy ones, there is no need for that pain of breaking out of the cocoon. I am the ultimate, I am the truth, I am love, I am hope, I am the afterlife, I am meaning, I am everything! Believing in me is awakening, is liberation, is sublimation, is immortality!"

"The end is right in front of your eyes, the fruit is in your hands. Who can refuse this victory that is within reach?"

"As long as humans are still humans, I will not perish, will not die, for thousands of years, ten thousand years, from the distant kalpas, always the same."

The giant looked at him: "So, now you understand why I must be your enemy."

William frowned and fell silent.

"No matter what meaning, no matter what life, no matter what truth, what ultimate, it can only be obtained through trekking, through painful struggle, through denying the negation of negation."

"A butterfly whose cocoon is broken by external force can never fly, because the process of struggle can make it stronger."

"The ending is irrelevant, the process is everything."

"Even if you can immediately tell an ape the theory of everything, what use is it to him?"

"We have long known the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything, but the long questions before that are what we are looking for."

"And you destroyed this process."

"What's more, the result you gave, the answer you gave, is just a hypocritical bubble of self-deception."

"You, and the so-called gods, are just parasites living on the gaps of the human heart, sucking rotten pus and blood, and then using venom to relieve the pain of the host."

"Such maggots, dare to call themselves gods? Dare to clamor about being omniscient and omnipotent?"

"Our paths are completely different."

"You all, I will surely destroy!"

(End of chapter)