Psychics don't die from gunfire

Chapter 658: The Foundation of the Empire

"Okay." Ai Lu said cheerfully, "What do you want to talk about?"

"After we broke up, I didn't look for any news about you." Song Shi touched his chin and said slowly, "You must have heard about me."

"Yes." Ai Lu nodded: "I heard that you became the world's number one security guard. I also heard, no, I saw you attack the Sky Data Tower."

"Yes, that's it."

Song Shi smiled with satisfaction.

"What do you think?"

"Hey, you're amazing." Ai Lu said sincerely, "You've reached the fourth ring now? I really didn't expect that your breakthrough speed would be so fast."

"Although the speed is a little bit faster, the quality is just as high." Song Shi waved his hand, and the surrounding heat waves instantly collapsed inward, canceling the original purgatory scene: "You are not slow, you have already reached the second ring. I remember you said you were going to the Empire? Why did you come to the Corporate Alliance first?"

Ai Lu knows everything and tells it.

"After we separated in the wasteland, I followed a wanderer tribe for two months. During that time, I dealt with some wasteland warlords, mutant creatures, autonomous machines, bandits, and bad mercenaries. However, there were too many of them, and I couldn't kill them all by myself."

He sighed from the bottom of his heart.

"Later, I decided to go to the Vanpusta Empire to take a look. I spent a lot of effort to sneak into their territory, and it seemed that there was no difference between there and other places." Ai Lu shook his head helplessly: "I killed some more people, but the local government did not approve of my behavior, so they joined forces with some people to kill me."

"There were soldiers, monks, and nobles inside. They drove me out of the country, and I couldn't defeat them." He said, "Later, I tried to sneak in again, but I was discovered and almost killed. I had no choice but to not go to the empire for the time being."

"It's normal to be almost beaten to death." Song Shi nodded: "The empire is still quite powerful, but, in normal circumstances, you wouldn't have to work so hard."

"The conflict between the military nobility and the traditional nobility, the contradiction between the big merchants and the clergy, the struggle between the religious orders, the confrontation between the Inquisition and the local governments, a bunch of people can beat their brains out."

Song Shi thought about it, and suddenly opened his hands. Suddenly, flames jumped out, forming a blurry, cracked picture in mid-air.

"Come on, Ai Lu, let me ask you again, what are you best at?"

"Punish evil and promote good."

"That's not what I meant."

"Punish evil."

".?"

"Hmm." Ai Lu thought for a moment, and then he dug out the most insignificant thing from the corner of a pile of random items: "Assassination."

"Yes, that's it."

Song Shi said with regret: "As a master who specializes in assassination, especially an outsider, do you know how much those nobles and big businessmen are willing to pay to hire you? It's a pure blue ocean market, and the initiative is in your hands."

"As a result, you rushed in headfirst, and when you saw one person, you killed him. When you saw another person, you killed him again. With your equal treatment, who would dare to recruit you? It's like you are going to challenge the entire empire alone."

"Alas." Song Shi sighed: "The risk of this behavior is still a little bit high."

"Song Shi, you are right, but I cannot accept it." Ai Lu's expression remained motionless: "There are only zero times and countless times of compromise."

Song Shi laughed happily.

"So you are the 'Xiezhi'."

Ai Lu said, “Yes.”

"Okay, let's stop here first. Anyway, there will be plenty of time later, so we can talk in detail then." Song Shi took a step forward, stepped firmly into the air, and left the ground: "I still need to communicate with the employees here-" "Song Shi." Ai Lu suddenly asked: "You seem to know a lot about the Vampsta Empire?"

The outstretched flaming wings then folded, Song Shi raised his head, and after a while, he spoke.

"Since you have been in the empire for some time, you should be clear about the nature of those holy spirits and disasters, right?"

"Psychic entity." said Ailu.

"Psychic entity. This answer is certainly not wrong." Song Shi seemed to be thinking about how to explain: "Yenan, Pandong Continental Federation, Corporate Alliance, and those forces that were destroyed in the Seven Lands War. In the past and in the present, psychic energy is everywhere, but the only force with psychic entities of this magnitude within the country is the Vampsta Empire."

"Because." Ailu said the word: "Faith."

"Yeah, faith"

Song Shi put one hand in his pocket: "Faith creates the Holy Spirit, but also creates disasters."

"Whether it's monotheism or dualism, is the world an endless plain or is it like a champagne tower with more than a dozen floors? Are we made of mud or are we planted by a handful of wheat thrown by the gods? No matter how different the settings of various religions and myths are, there is one thing that is almost common."

Ai Lu stood straight and listened patiently.

“—The other side.”

Song Shi raised his index finger without any humility.

"Without shadows, light is meaningless. Only with the existence of hell can the preciousness and attraction of heaven be revealed. Therefore, no matter what kind of myth or religion, there is a 'reverse'. The religions that once existed in the Vampsta Empire are naturally no exception."

Ai Lu moved his eyes and realized what the other party wanted to say.

"Back then, the Vanpusta Empire used all its national strength to integrate all the major churches that were originally just for cultural consensus, spiritual comfort, and to improve stability and cohesion into the [State Religion], and worshiped them as if they were real things—"

Song Shi sneered.

"They really did worship the real thing! It's just that it's the real thing with both positive and negative sides!"

"The false Holy Spirit has a body, and the false disaster also has a body - and then when others ask them why they are careful of these psychic entities, they will reply, because you have no faith in your heart!"

".wrong."

Ai Lu spoke up.

He frowned and looked directly at the young man: "If that's the case, just revise the doctrine and deny the existence of disasters."

"Would you like to think about it again?"

Song Shi raised his eyebrows.

Ai Lu stopped talking, and his brows slowly relaxed.

"Is that so?"

"——If it doesn't exist, why deny it?" Song Shi shook his head slightly: "From the moment the first disaster was born, this has become a problem that the Vampsta Empire cannot solve."

"It's not unsolvable." Ai Lu said slowly.

"Faith is the cornerstone of the empire. This is what the people of the empire love to say the most." Song Shi commented calmly: "This is their consensus and their truth. What else can make these people abandon it? Threats, death, torture. It's too insignificant and too trivial."

"——This is the Vampsta Empire."

(End of this chapter)