Chapter 428: Then... Kill Gods if Gods Appear

On the wide street, people came and went.

Eyun Xiaojie and Heiniu stood side by side, a hint of... strangeness in their eyes.

The streets here... are perhaps a bit too clean.

Although Eyun Xiaojie is a noble deity, she is also very familiar with human cities.

Looking around, almost all human cities have a few characteristics.

Filth, chaos... mixed with all kinds of bloody odors.

A city where there is no conspicuous dog feces on the main street or a drunkard's vomit can already be considered quite civilized.

In some city streets, the stench is overwhelming; whenever it rains and the water rises, anything might float up on the street.

Even in Guangming Zhi Cheng, the main streets are clean as if washed, and there are no brazen Thieves or adventurers causing trouble everywhere.

Yet in the slums, it remains foul-smelling, and from time to time, someone digs up an unknown corpse from a trash heap.

Compared to other cities, this Iron Stone City with its ordinary name is actually very clean.

Moreover, there are no fights breaking out within the city, which is very rare.

"How is Iron Stone City?" Heiniu asked.

The current Iron Stone City is being built toward the dream of their players.

There are many dissatisfactions in reality.

The game world is even more cruel, ignorant, and bloody.

The players all treat Iron Stone City as an ideal city to build.

And when Lin Chao chose the players to enter this world, he also had standards; the players he chose all tended toward the lawful alignment.

Therefore, Iron Stone City is truly heading in the direction of an ideal city.

"Guangming Zhi Cheng, as the number one city in the world, appears bright and beautiful on the surface, full of kindness, fairness, and light everywhere.

However, no one pays attention to the slums in the corners, which are cruelly unbearable.

To protect the city's image, Guangming Zhi Cheng forbids wanderers from appearing on the streets at night, and guards from the Light Temple often capture those homeless people and throw them into the sewers of the slums.

In the bright and beautiful Guangming Zhi Cheng, the sewers of the slums are filled with the corpses of the innocent."

Eyun Xiaojie replied.

Her answer was somewhat long, but in reality, it contained many of her thoughts.

There is nothing perfect in the world; everything has a dirty side.

How much suffering of the homeless is hidden within the decency of Guangming Zhi Cheng?

And those resident believers of Guangming Zhi Cheng can obtain high welfare, born carefree, without worries about food or clothing, needing only to believe in the Light Master.

However, where is their high welfare built upon?

Naturally, it is the Light Temple's oppression and exploitation of others.

Eyun Xiaojie answered this way with another layer of meaning: that what she sees now is merely the bright and beautiful side of Iron Stone City.

Heiniu's eyes held a smile; he understood Eyun Xiaojie's meaning.

But these favorable conditions in Iron Stone City are not built on the blood and sweat of others.

"Iron Stone City... has no slums."

The Manager, as well as these players, naturally would not allow such a deformed thing as a slum to appear.

"How is that possible?" Eyun Xiaojie did not believe it at first.

Then, her divine sense swept over instantly, spreading across the entire Iron Stone City in a flash.

Her expression finally changed slightly: "There really isn't one!"

She could not understand.

Even Guangming Zhi Cheng and Arcane City have slums.

In the eyes of these deities, the existence of nobles, the wealthy, Commoners, the poor, and slaves is the most normal thing.

"Our Iron Stone City also does not easily start disputes.

You might be confused about where our food and wealth come from.

They come from something... called technology."

A hint of pride appeared in Heiniu's eyes.

Although the world's Rules are different in some places, these players still managed to produce electricity.

With electricity, everything became different.

"The pillars on the street are actually streetlights.

At night, the lights will turn on.

The source of the light is not Divine Art, nor is it candles, but something called electricity.

Every household doesn't need to burn wood or boil water at night; they can all take hot showers. This is the benefit of electricity.

There are many things like this.

Technology... has given us powerful productivity.

And our Iron Stone City relies on technology to develop civilization."

"Technology?" Eyun Xiaojie is a deity after all; hearing Heiniu's words, she looked over and instantly discovered the anomaly of the streetlights, as well as the strange wiring in those inns.

How could this be?

Eyun Xiaojie felt it was inconceivable.

Although she is not an omniscient and omnipotent deity, having lived for so long, her knowledge is naturally not something an Ordinary person can compare to.

There are truly very few things she does not know, or rather... does not understand at all.

This mysterious electricity before her... she had no clue about it whatsoever.

It lacks the essence of a Divine Art.

Yet it is capable of erupting with effects comparable to a Divine Art.

Her eyes shone, and she was quite stirred within: "Technology... could this be a... previously undiscovered Rule of Heaven and Earth?"

As a deity, she understood the Rules of Heaven and Earth best.

It could be said that the divine office of every deity is a Rule of Heaven and Earth that they govern.

What Eyun Xiaojie governs is misfortune.

However, divine offices have varying strengths, just as the Rules of Heaven and Earth have distinctions of superiority and inferiority.

Different paths of divine offices all have moments where their potential is exhausted.

Just like the misfortune divine office, its end point is Strong Divine Power.

Yet this is the end point, and Eyun Xiaojie cannot reach the end point either.

Of course, Eyun Xiaojie is already luckier than the vast majority of deities; for many deities, their end point is their starting point: Weak Divine Power.

Medium Divine Power is also considered quite good.

Those who possess divine offices with the potential for Strong Divine Power will receive invitations from deities of different factions.

This technology, in Eyun Xiaojie's view, is a previously undiscovered Rule of Heaven and Earth.

If anyone were to obtain and govern it, transforming it into a divine office, Eyun Xiaojie could imagine that the other party would inevitably be able to become a powerful deity.

Moreover, she had a premonition that the path of technology had potential far exceeding misfortune, and she even vaguely felt that it could clash with a divine office—or rather, a Rule of Heaven and Earth—of the level of Light.

"A Rule of Heaven and Earth? That could also be said." Heiniu acknowledged Eyun Xiaojie's words, "However, technology... is not that simple.

Using scientific means to explore this world, mastering the laws, and ultimately transforming them into technology.

Eyun, your name contains the two characters for misfortune.

And when science is taken to its depths, one can even discover and unearth the truth of misfortune."

Heiniu was also a half-baked amateur who did not know much, casually bluffing Eyun Xiaojie.

Upon hearing Heiniu's words, Eyun Xiaojie was even more shocked.

Technology... in her eyes, it was absolutely a powerful Rule of Heaven and Earth.

If it could be transformed into a divine office... Eyun Xiaojie dared not imagine it.

She instantly thought that Iron Stone City was the territory of the new Song God's son.

That newly ascended Song God was already stunning, and his son was even more stunning.

Compared to his son, the Song God was not even worth a fart.

That was the discovery of a new Great Dao, and not an ordinary Great Dao at that.

"Can I meet the Nine Prince?" Eyun Xiaojie felt an impulse.

She wanted to pull the Nine Prince into their faction.

"Sorry, the Nine Prince is not in Iron Stone City at this time." Heiniu answered truthfully.

He had long since learned this news from others through the chat page.

An urgent look appeared in Eyun Xiaojie's eyes, which then turned into worry: "That you are able to discover technology... is truly beyond expectations.

However... such a powerful Rule of Heaven and Earth is not something everyone can govern.

If some deities were to discover it, I fear... Iron Stone City would eventually be reduced to ruins.

There is an old saying in the East: holding a jade ring brings a crime upon oneself.

Regarding the matter of technology, I think you should keep it secret, rather than casually telling others.

Otherwise... it will certainly attract the covetousness of deities.

Arcane City is an example right before your eyes."

Hearing this, a sharp look flashed in Heiniu's eyes: "Then... if a god comes, we kill the god."

Iron Stone City has the ability to protect itself.

(End of this chapter)