Chapter 1130

Religion and belief are always irrational, mixed with too many strong emotions and impulses. Coupled with the "herd effect" mentioned in social psychology, even an out and out cult will have a large number of loyal believers.

Moreover, the dark church did not force anyone to donate property for the sake of property. Instead, it provided a daily meal to the poor who could not afford to eat to ensure that they would not starve to death.

In addition, there is a divine support behind the church, and many gifted priests can even get some simple divination.

All the above together quickly formed a terrible group effect. Everyone scrambled to show their loyalty to the gods and churches. At the same time, the social atmosphere became more and more conservative and xenophobic, so that when they saw strangers, they responded with suspicion or hostility.

Feeling the abnormal and morbid enthusiasm of the whole city, Zhang Cheng couldn't help laughing. He even felt that the indigenous people on this planet were no different from the human beings on earth.

Perhaps it is because they are weak that they need to use concepts such as religion, nation, state and class to integrate themselves into a large group and protect themselves with the power of the group.

It may also be because of stupidity. After all, no matter how much advanced knowledge and information ordinary people receive, they can never change their primitive and low-level desires.

Although desire, to some extent, makes them evolve and create brilliant civilization, uncontrolled desire will also bring disaster and destruction.

In this way, as he walked and thought, Zhang Cheng unknowingly passed through the temporarily transformed temple and looked up to see a huge statue standing in the middle of the hall.

A man in a black robe was standing nearby, preaching Scripture to believers kneeling on the ground to pray.

Although these contents are just made up and can't stand scrutiny, the poor who don't know a few big words listen with interest. Do they nod or shout.

Just as he was staring at the line of faith behind the statue connected with the different world, the woman appeared nearby and asked in a low voice, "it's you?! what are you doing here?"

"Why, can't I come? Don't forget, I gave you this statue at the beginning." Zhang Cheng turned his head and showed a smiling expression.

"No! I mean, what's your purpose here?" the woman was on guard with a trace of hostility.

She personally experienced the underground adventure and understood how terrible the seemingly harmless young man was. It was not too much to describe him as a monster in human skin.

Zhang chengminrui sensed the hostility and responded carelessly: "I heard you uttered wild words and wanted to take back everything belonging to yourself from me. Naturally, I want to have a look. Why, are you afraid? Or do you think I will hurt this little church?"

"You won't touch the dark church! Because this is part of your plan! Including me, they are actually your pieces. But don't forget that as long as the time is right, the pieces can also become chess players and the prey can also become hunters." the woman resisted the tension and impulse in her heart, raised her chin and assumed a proud posture.

"Hahaha! I appreciate your courage. I hope you can keep it to the end. You know? In many stories, heroes who resist fate often end up in tragedy. This is not because those heroes are not firm enough, nor because they are too weak, but because the manipulation of fate is too strong. No matter how strong they resist, they will only increase The fun of the process will not change the result. Now, I give you this sentence. I hope you can let me play the game to the end with fierce resistance. "

With that, Zhang Cheng stretched out his right hand and wantonly pinched the woman's cheek. His eyes were full of playfulness and irony.

There is no doubt that he likes chess pieces that can resist. The more intense the resistance is, the more he can experience an inexplicable happiness.

The woman undoubtedly felt the humiliation. The flame of anger flickered in her pupils. It took a full minute to push away the hand holding her cheek: "Pay attention! I am not your servant who has completely lost myself. I am the voter of the great dark god and the patron of the dark forces. I was born to bring true faith to the world. You may be strong, but you never want me to give in."

Zhang Cheng was not angry, smiled and nodded: "of course! I respect your choice, and I won't force you to do anything. Well, that's all for now. I have more important things to talk about. Do you have time now?"

"Do I still have the right to refuse? Come with me, this is not the place to talk." the woman is obviously very calm. No matter how angry she is, she won't joke about business.

They walked through the spacious corridor one after another, and soon came to a closed office.

Because it was rebuilt from the original city hall, the temple retains a large number of original decoration and design, and even some relief sculptures of heroes in ancient myths and legends on the columns.

With the door slamming, the woman returned to her seat and asked bluntly, "come on, what's the matter? Don't tell me, you personally pushed the dark church to the surface and made us enemies with the whole world for our good."

"Oh? Why not?" Zhang Cheng winked innocently.

"Hum! You think I'm a three-year-old child, so easy to cheat? It's you who forced me to a dead end. Once besieged, millions of believers will die and the church will suffer a heavy blow. Without enough believers, you can't have enough faith, and without enough faith, you can't wake up the dark god. Now I begin to doubt what your real purpose is, Do you still want to let the dark god come? "The woman completely didn't hide her resentment and let it out.

"It seems that you don't really understand what is true faith, do you?" Zhang Cheng also sat down in a chair with his hands crossed in front of his chest.

"What do you mean?" the woman frowned subconsciously.

Zhang Cheng put on a good look and explained: "It's very simple! The so-called faith never refers to the number of believers, but the degree of piety. Do you think how much faith can be provided by those pretending guys in the city? Together, they may not be worth a saint. Therefore, faith needs baptism, baptism of blood and death. Only those who are willing to sacrifice their lives for the church and thought they would sacrifice to the gods Only those who give everything can provide pious faith and awaken the God of darkness. All I have done is to accelerate the process, a painful process you must experience... "