#788 - Chapter 788: Empty Valley Becomes a River, Full of Insects and No Mercy

“Actually, I just want to know one thing: whose orders are you following?” Dongfang Chen asked.

“It seems you know quite a bit.” The leader didn't deny it.

Dongfang Chen didn't know if there was someone controlling the Mani Sect from behind; it was just his personal guess.

But now that he knew that humanity's enemies weren't just the remnants of Sirius, the existence of the Mani Sect seemed a bit untenable. The most obvious example was the five scriptures passed down by the Mani Sect, which were definitely not given by the remnants of Sirius.

Dongfang Chen didn't believe in the existence of metaphysics. Behind these scriptures, there must be a technological path he didn't understand, completely different from the current human technological path.

And this different technological path corresponded to different forms of civilization.

He was now eager to know this because he vaguely felt that his current understanding might have been led astray.

All the historical intelligence he currently knew basically came from the Fire Seed Space Station and the Dragon Country Mars Base.

And a very small portion came from the oral accounts of Qin Lao and a group of cultivators.

The oral accounts were basically not referential because they existed for a relatively short time and were also in a state of distress. Some of the content, perhaps, even they themselves couldn't figure out.

The most comprehensive intelligence about the past came from the description of Long San, the virtual human at the Dragon Country Mars Base.

But the information he described was not comprehensive and avoided some questions under the pretext of partial data damage at the base.

Later, because Dongfang Chen wanted to build a super artificial intelligence, he repaired the damaged data in the base, but the information was still not comprehensive.

That is to say, Dongfang Chen only knew the content that the other party wanted him to know.

This was a problem.

Why did Dragon Country want to hide a part of the truth?

Where exactly did the advanced civilization in the Earth's core come from?

Why wouldn't Dragon Country know about this?

This simply didn't make sense.

He was now completely unclear whether the Nata civilization's space station had any other purpose. However, the purpose of the Dragon Country Mars Base was definitely not simple.

The plan to cultivate humanity might not be a complete plan.

“Then tell me about it,” Dongfang Chen said.

“That's right, the affairs of the sect are not up to me, or rather, in most cases, I am just acting on orders,” the leader admitted.

“On whose orders?”

“The orders of God,” the leader replied.

“There is no God in this world,” Dongfang Chen didn't believe it.

“You're right, there is no God in this world. But what about other worlds?” the leader retorted.

“? You mean to say that other worlds exist?” Dongfang Chen asked.

Although small worlds are also worlds.

But strictly speaking, these small worlds still belong to the same world.

“That's what God said,” the leader nodded.

“How does he issue orders to you?”

“On the altar of the main sect, there is a stone tablet. Whenever there is a new order, words will appear on the stone tablet,” the leader replied.

When Dongfang Chen attacked Modo City, he never found the altar from beginning to end.

The runes were all engraved on huge stones.

“Continue,”

“Including who will serve as the leader and who will inherit the positions in the various Elder Halls, it is all determined by that stone tablet.”

“How do you know that it is God?”

“Perhaps you have some prejudice or misunderstanding about God. In our view, God does not refer to immortals, but to something that transcends the world and is omniscient.”

“Since it is omniscient, when we attacked Modo City, didn't your so-called God tell you how that battle should be fought?” Dongfang Chen simply didn't believe that anyone could be omniscient.

“It did,” the leader nodded.

“Oh? What did it say?”

“The day before the sacrificial ceremony, words appeared on the stone tablet: Abandon resistance and surrender with everyone,” the leader replied.

“Surrender?” Dongfang Chen's mind wasn't working properly.

“That's right.”

“Heh heh, what a load of bullsh*t God. Before the war even started, it told me to surrender!” The leader smiled self-deprecatingly.

He probably felt very pathetic that he was taking orders from such an incompetent God.

Dongfang Chen also understood why the leader could discuss their God so unreservedly.

Everything had a reason.

“Why did it tell you to surrender?” Dongfang Chen asked.

“It said: 'Empty valleys become rivers, overflowing greed is unforgivable',” the leader replied.

“'Empty valleys become rivers, overflowing greed is unforgivable'? What does that mean?” Dongfang Chen didn't understand.

“This sentence comes from our Holy Scripture. It means that everything has become a foregone conclusion, and if it is not carried out, the entire world will become a purgatory.”

“Hiss~” Dongfang Chen gasped.

If that's really what it meant, then this so-called “God” really had some tricks up its sleeve.

Wasn't Dongfang Chen's biggest concern now the destruction of the Blue Star that might be caused by volcanic eruptions?

And he also felt that the decision to stop the sacrificial ceremony in Modo City and destroy the Mani Sect might have been wrong.