Chapter 827: Information

Chapter 827: Information

Aliya's beautiful brows furrowed upon hearing Charles' response. Her expression turned to that of reluctance as she muttered, "But—"

Before she could finish, however, Charles stood up and walked toward the elevator shaft in the distance.

"Sparkle, I'll go down and take a look. You keep an eye on the things up here. If anything happens, contact me through the diary," Charles said.

Clad in a white dress, Sparkle nodded gently and landed next to Aliya.

When Sparkle saw the lavish spread of food before her, her eyes lit up. She opened her mouth and devoured the food, including the plates and even the bones.

The members of the engineering team offered a headlight to Charles, but he declined the offer and went straight to the elevator shaft.

Charles looked down and saw a rope ladder that led all the way to the bottom of the shaft, but instead of using the ladder, he kicked off of the ground lightly and jumped straight down.

The hoistway doors on each floor had been forced open, and Charles could see dim light down the corridors. The lights were from the exploration teams that had gone down earlier.

They were all busy searching for Charles' skull and scalp. Everyone was focused on the task at hand. It couldn't be helped, as Charles had offered tempting rewards that no one could resist.

Charles had offered monetary rewards and also some things that money couldn't buy.

A freefall was always faster than a controlled descent, so Charles quickly caught up to the exploration teams that had gone ahead of him. He could already hear explosions nearby. Those explosions were made by the engineering team in their attempts to break through the ice.

The air became colder and colder the deeper he went, and when Charles finally arrived at the furthest hoistway door that the engineering team had cleared, the temperatures had gotten so low that every debris in the corridor was frozen solid.

Charles was in one of the Foundation sites, but he felt like he was in a glacial cavern somewhere in Antarctica. The solid ice was both a bad and a good thing.

If the other places in SITE 6 were frozen solid like this as well, then it'd be safe to assume that there weren't any enemies throughout SITE 6. It was only a matter of time before Charles' skull was found.

The explorers in the distance approached Charles. "Governor."

"What's going on? No issues so far, right?" Charles asked.

"Sadly, we cannot observe them properly nor conduct any experiments on them, and it is all because gods cannot be contained and are extremely dangerous. Most importantly, every time we attempt to observe them, we are brought under their influence through those special whisperings.

(Link to the analysis and attempts to decipher the language of the gods: ████████████)

"If no attempts to isolate oneself from the source of the whispers are made, the whispers will slowly affect your mind; you'll become irritable, suspicious, paranoid, depressed, and finally, you will go crazy.

"On the contrary, the day you've become resilient enough to face a god, or as soon as you begin to comprehend their words, then it means that you're in a more dangerous situation. It means that they have influenced you completely.

"We are unaware of how they are doing it, but we've confirmed that they are using a method that cannot be perceived by human beings.

"Moreover, each god has their own unique abilities, and it is simply impossible for us to know the connections between them or if some of them are related by blood.

"Our knowledge about them is a confused assortment of pieces of information in no particular order. In conclusion, we know very little about gods, and the saddest thing is that we can't observe them for an extended period of time.

"It is highly likely that the more we know about them, the more they know about us as well. There is an extremely serious consequence to that, and this isn't a mere assumption. The DS-level scenario caused by Dr. ███ must serve as a lesson."

Charles stared at the information before him for a long time. Then, he fell into deep contemplation and emerged from it moments later. His fingers danced lightly across the projected keyboard, adding the words "becoming a" to the search bar.

"Becoming a god? What a brazen idea you have there, my friend. I don't know who you are, but I wanted to know the answer to that question as well. Unfortunately, it is definitely impossible.

"The previous generation's Experiment Dawn and Dr. Pede's sacrifice has told us that becoming a god isn't the easiest way for humans to attain eternal life. In fact, it is not even a feasible method.

"Becoming a god or borrowing the power of a god... none of them are a good choice. Doing either of those two means abandoning one's humanity. You will no longer be human by then.

"Your perception, your consciousness, and every aspect of you will cease to become human. If a human being becomes a god, do they still count as a human being?

"To put it simply, can the meager brain cells of human beings truly control so much power? Pour a bowl of wine into the sea, and the sea will still be the sea. Do it the other way around, and the wine is no longer considered wine.

"By then, are you truly controlling that boundless energy, or is the boundless energy controlling you? In the end, we know too little about them; we know too little about the gods.