I have no pheromones, you smelled wrong

In the interstellar era, the influence of traditional religions is as weak as mosquitoes.

In the last days, because of the pain and terror of reality, religious ideas have once again flourished in the human spiritual world. After all, promising a better future is the simplest and most difficult lie to be exposed.

But the influence of faith is vulnerable to money, force, and the chance of survival.

When the Ark Fleet left the earth, they did not bring a few purely religious people with them. After hundreds of years of wandering, when humans landed in their new homeland, there were no professional missionaries.

After the traditional religion was powerless, the interstellar humans made other messy things as a kind of metaphysical comfort.

Lin Xu didn't expect that he would see a church on Haiwen, a planet where more than 95% of the population are scientific researchers.

The church is built using some special material, and there are no gaps on the wall. It is as smooth as white jade, bright and clean, without any dust.

Only the lush rose vines climbing up the oval vertical window from the corner of the wall show the ancientness of the white church.

The white walls and oval windows made Lin Xu feel familiar. He seemed to have seen this scene somewhere, just recently.

Although it is a steeple church with a certain style of ancient earth religion, there is no cross on the roof, neither inside nor outside the church.

Lin Xu suspected that this was another strange thing created by interstellar humans.

Until Godric led Lin Xu into the church from the main entrance familiarly, there were not rows of benches for listening to scriptures in the church like the ancient earth church, but three rows of long tables for people to sit around.

The statues of gods under the huge flower window at the front of the church and in the shrine made Lin Xu more sure of his guess.

This pure white statue has three heads and six arms, each head is full of angry eyes, with black goat horns growing, six arms with teeth and claws, and eight octopus legs on the lower body of the statue, which are carved into the shape of clouds .

Lin Xu thought for a moment that he had returned to the primitive era of witchcraft.

Under the statue, many people dressed like tourists are taking pictures of this magical statue.

Godric noticed Lin Xu's complex expression, and explained: "This is the Church of Whispers, with special permission to avoid all forms of inspection, Dr. Lin, please follow me."

Godric led Lin Xu and Chen Jingshan forward, and when they approached the shrine, they turned and walked towards the corridor close to the corner wall.

Lifting a layer of optical curtain, a small door appeared in front of the eyes, with a relief image on the pure white door.

It is an open eye outlined by simple lines, and there are two vertical lines on both sides of the pupil.

Lin Xu remembered that he had seen this pattern before.

Godric had one of these necklaces, and so did Ika.

Lin Xu asked Ika at that time, and Ika replied that it was a souvenir of Haiwenxing, and asked Lin Xu if he wanted it, and he could give Lin Xu his necklace.

But after coming to Haiwenxing, it was not until here that Lin Xu saw this so-called souvenir pattern for the first time, and there was no trace of it in other places.

And... Lin Xu remembered where he had seen the outer wall of Whispering Church.

When he connected to the video communication with Ika, the background of Ika was the white exterior wall of the church.

Did this kid Ika join some cult|religion|sales organization?

Now Lin Xu himself came in, and he followed behind Godric, he could not help but heighten his vigilance.

Xiao Hei and Xiao Bai, who were held in his arms, felt the muscles in Lin Xu's arms tense up, and they groaned twice.

"Huh."

Godric was in the front for identity verification. After the verification was completed, the white door opened, and the three of them walked into another pure white space.

Rows of benches facing the front are placed in the closed room, and some people are sitting sporadically, giving it the feeling of listening to scriptures in a church.

Someone is holding a necklace on his chest and seems to be praying.

But in front of this room there is only a once white wall, and there are no longer twisted statues.

Godric led the two of them forward, and Lin Xu passed a middle-aged man in a white coat, who should be a researcher.

He didn't pray, but lowered his head and repeatedly revised and scribbled on his optical brain. Lin Xu glanced at it, as if he was doing a calculation.

If he hadn't put the necklace between his lips, Lin Xu would have thought he was more normal.

What Lin Xu didn't notice was that when Lin Xu walked past this person, he raised his head and glanced at the passerby, his eyes touched Lin Xu's and shook violently, until the figures of Lin Xu and his party disappeared in another door , he finally closed his eyes.

Bow your head and say silently: "God is above, lead me to the path of truth."

After Lin Xu turned into a room, he saw two familiar faces.

One belongs to Ica.

Ika opened her eyes wide and nodded to Lin Xu like an owl: "Hello, Dr. Lin."

The other is a person Lin Xu only met today on Haiwenxing's publicity light screen, and the current chairman of Haiwenxing's Science and Technology Ethics Review Committee, Larvia Blumer.

When he saw Lin Xu, his eyes lit up, and he took a few steps forward. At first, he wanted to reach out to shake Lin Xu's hand, but he thought of something halfway, so he had to take it back, imitating Ika's address: "Hello, Dr. Lin, very nice It's an honor to meet you."

Blumer also wears a necklace with the same pattern.

Godric introduced: "Dr. Lin, Mr. Blumer is also one of your anonymous guarantors."

"Hello, Mr. Brummer." Lin Xu responded indifferently, and then said: "Mr. Chasman said that I can borrow here, thank you for your help, but please allow me to ask a question."

"Please tell me, and we will try our best to answer."

"Who is the god enshrined in the Whispering Church?"

Brummer and Godric froze for a moment at the same time, and then quickly met their eyes, showing hesitation in each other's eyes.

But soon, Godric said: "The statue outside is a joke to scare away tourists, not the god worshiped by Whisperers."

He avoided the important ones, so Lin Xu had no choice but to continue to delve into the question just now: "Don't you worship gods?"

"This……"

"Lingjun." Ika said suddenly, he looked at Lin Xu with clear eyes, "We believe in the Lingjun."

Ika broke the deadlock, but also stopped Brummer and Godric. They discussed how to deal with Lin Xu, but in the end they didn't discuss any results.

After all, Lord Ling didn't know the existence of his followers, and they didn't know what Lin Xu's appearance represented the attitude of Lord Ling.

Immediately afterwards, seeing that Brumer and Godric did not stop him, Ika operated the electronic board a few times, and a projected portrait of three people appeared in the center of the room.

He was dressed in a white robe, with black hair draped softly behind him, with a gentle and divine demeanor.

Moreover, there is a face exactly like Lin Xu's.

"Dr. Lin, this is our Lord Spirit Monarch." Ika said.

Lin Xu looked at Lingjun's projection, and slowly frowned: "Do you regard him as a god?"

The mermaids on Thales also regard the Lord Ling as a special existence. The Lord Ling helped them escape from the ancient earth, build new planets, and give them energy and food. To a certain extent, it is indeed like a god.

The mermaids not only respected Lord Ling, but were also very friendly.

But human beings... Human beings only saw Lord Ling during the time of the Ark Fleet. After hundreds of years, there are still people who worship a civilization as a god.

"God is above all, lead me to the path of truth." Brumer repeated the teachings taught by whispers again. It was the first time he saw Lin Xu in person. After the initial polite cover disappeared, his eyes showed excitement fanaticism.

"What do you take me for?"

Lin Xu realized that there was a bigger problem in front of him.

Ika's free help, Godric's frequent gestures of favor, and now the assistance of Brummer and the entire Whispering Church, were originally given to the Spirit Lord they believed in.

But Lin Xu is not Lingjun.

The most devout believers can become the most ardent destroyers.

As for the Whispering Church, it seemed that they possessed unforeseen huge resources. Chen Jingshan and Godric had previously said that some people in the alliance were looking forward to his visit, but Lin Xu didn't know anyone in the alliance at all.

Could it be that those people also guessed that he was the Lingjun and showed their favor to him?

"You are the embodiment of the crown." Brummer replied.

Lin Xu's heart was sinking, and he even became irritable because everything deviated from his expectations.

According to his original calculation, the secrets of the empire's history in his hands are enough for him to negotiate with the alliance and win the alliance's power.

Now suddenly a group of people who believe in Lingjun as a god and regard him as Lingjun are eager to support him.

Interests are cold, but stable and reliable.

Emotionally hot, but easily out of control.

Lin Xu realized that he couldn't let the fantasies of these believers become a time bomb in the future, he had to solve this problem now, immediately, without a single lie.

Lin Xu looked around at the three of them and said, "I'm not Lingjun."

"You are!" Yika shouted, "I have seen Lord Ling, and I have seen you. Maybe you have different forms of existence, but you are Lord Ling."

Lin Xu: "Have you seen Him?"

Ika: "After the 'dark event' in the solar system, Lord Ling appeared beside you, and saw him in the field of Yan's particles and Ye's waves."

"Wait," Godric interrupted the conversation first, and looked at Lin Xu, "Dr. Lin, you...know about the existence of Lord Ling? Do you have memories of everything?"

They always thought that although Lin Xu was the incarnation of Lord Ling, and because Lord Ling wanted to truly experience human life, Lin Xu had no awareness of the past.

"Yes," Lin Xu replied, "I know what Lingjun is and how he was born. He is not a god, he is just a collection of human consciousness existing in the spiritual realm constructed by Yan's particles and Ye's waves.

"3000 years ago, after the Ark Fleet left the ancient earth, the remaining group of humans developed the consciousness uploading technology. activities."

"I," Lin Xu paused, glanced at Chen Jingshan, and said slowly, "I come from the ancient earth 3000 years ago. If there is any similarity between me and Lord Ling, it is only because human beings used my thinking." Templates and shape states serve as the basis for the continuum.

"I left the earth before the Ark Fleet escaped from the ancient earth, and traveled through time and space to reach the Marion Empire. All actions after the birth of the Spirit Lord have nothing to do with me. I am not the Spirit Lord."

"So Lord Ling is you."

Just when Chen Jingshan was in the shock of Lin Xu coming from 3000 years ago, Yika had already asserted that his eyes were fixed on Lin Xu, and no refutation or doubt on Lin Xu's face could shake him .

Lin Xu couldn't understand Ika's persistence, so he could only ask: "Why do you believe in Lord Ling, and what truth can he bring?"

The situation of Whispering Cult is different from that of the mermaids on Thales. For the Mermaids, the power of the Spirit Lord is present and can be seen every day, but what the followers of Whispering Whispers have is just a vague symbol in history .

What can this symbol bring them?

Lord Ling helped the humans on the Ark Fleet, but it was only on a whim. He never promised a bright future or an eternal paradise.

"Dr. Lin, Colonel Chen." Brummer took a step back, let the leather sofa behind him, and asked them to sit down, "Please sit down, there is no need to be so tense between us."

Lin Xu sat down cautiously, his suspicious eyes still following Brumer, he didn't answer Lin Xu's question immediately, then turned around and walked to the window, and pushed open the opaque white glass window to let in the wind and blue sky outside.

Branches of rosebush hung from the window frames.

Feeling the wind and the fragrance of flowers, Xiao Hei and Xiao Bai stood up from Lin Xu's arms, leaned on his shoulder and called out softly.

The light breeze eased the tense atmosphere in the originally enclosed space a lot.

"Dr. Lin, look," Brummer stood by the window, "Havenstar is the frontier of human science and technology, and the Whispering Cult is rooted here. There are also some Whispering Cult members in the alliance, and most of them are scientific researchers."

Beyond the rose branches and lush forests, the architectural outlines of the major laboratories and research institutes in the science and technology park are revealed.

"Dr. Lin, I know, you may regard us as a cult group," Brummer smiled. He was middle-aged, revealing a kind of wisdom and elegance, and because he handled government affairs for Hai Wenxing all the year round, he once A kind of humble superior temperament, "Godric likes to study the myths of the ancient earth period, and also talked to me about some early human...'superstitions'.

"But the Whisperers are different. We don't ask for anything from the Lord Spirit, and we don't expect him to issue a 'miracle'—allow me to use this word for a while. We know that He is a civilization in the universe, not a civilization. A god of mythology.

"We just need such an existence to prove to us the future of science and the ultimate truth. What Lingjun left to the Ark Fleet has been enough for mankind for thousands of years. Let us know that we are walking in the right direction, not An abyss that will crush your bones."

"If it's what you said, why did you come to me?" Lin Xu asked.

"I can't help it." Brummer said, "It's really not a rational decision to contact you, please forgive me, and please don't worry, we don't need you to do anything, if we can help you, it is our luck .”

Brummer arranged a room for Lin Xu and Chen Jingshan in the Whispering Church. He has no contact with the alliance, and Godric will take over the next thing.

Blumer said that the Whispering Church did everything they could to provide Lin Xu with their resources.

Lin Xu realized that telling the truth would not change the minds of this group of people.

Because Ika and Lin Xu were more familiar, Blumer asked him to introduce the internal structure of the Whispering Church to Lin Xu.

But suddenly learning of Ika's other identity made Lin Xu silent all the way.

Yika himself was not good at finding topics to chat with, so he just stared at the bunny in Lin Xu's arms along the way.

"Ika," when Lin Xu was sent to the door of the room by Ika, and there were only the two of them left in the empty space, Lin Xu stopped and turned to face Ika, "You regard me as a spirit king, but I am not Him, you should understand this logic."

Ika is different from Brummer and Godric, two old fritters who are able to do a job with ease. He is extremely intelligent, but also extremely simple. He has always been straightforward in dealing with people.

Lin Xu believed what he said even more.

"Well," Ika nodded like a woodpecker, "but Lingjun is you."

Lin Xu was speechless for a while because of his stubbornness.

Yika blinked: "Dr. Lin, the way of thinking is far more important than the technology itself. What we got from you and Lingjun is this, not anything else."

He picked up the necklace on his chest and showed it to Lin Xu: "Look, this necklace is called the Way of Truth."

Ika imitated the necklace again, stretched out his index finger to touch the closed eyes on both sides twice, and then opened his eyes again to look at Lin Xu.

"The important thing is not to see what you see with your eyes, but to close your eyes, and what still flows in your soul is not a concrete formula, but the proof of the existence of truth and the consciousness itself that seeks truth."

Ika spoke very seriously.

The Whisperers used a figure and fantasy in history to create a statue for themselves, believed in it devoutly, and explained everything with it.

Science itself does not provide teleology, nor does it provide guarantees for the future, and even value is suspended.

Whispering believers looked for the purpose of science in this statue, discarded morality or practical effect, and used the existence of the spirit king to testify to the meaning of science.

It has nothing to do with the truth from the beginning, and naturally it cannot be broken by real history.

Lin Xu gave up, it was impossible for him to change the Whispering Teaching.

But at least for now, these Whisperers have their own jobs and lives, and the danger is not high, and the resources they provide can be used cautiously.

"Dr. Lin."

"Huh?" Lin Xu looked at Ika again.

Ika said, "May I pet your bunny cat?"

A bright light woke up Arnold from his coma. His vision was still a little hazy at the beginning, and he could only see many dark figures walking in front of him.

His throat was burning with pain.

Gradually, he could hear someone talking, vulgar and with a strong accent.

Arnold's consciousness gradually became clear. He remembered that he was attacked by a mercenary gang before he fell into a coma. He drove the mecha with Yuanxiao's eggs and wanted to rush out of the encirclement, but the strong explosion made him lose consciousness instantly.

He... is not dead.

Where is he now! ?

After the explosion, what about the Lantern Festival?

Arnold sat up all of a sudden, and the violent movement seemed to pull a bunch of cables, jumping the people around him, and they all let out a hoot.

Motor oil, disinfectant, blood, Alpha's chaotic pheromones and hormones mixed in the space, stimulating Arnold's nerves.

This is definitely not the Legion.

"Who are you? Where are my eggs? Where are my eggs!"

A loud laugh broke out beside Arnold: "Haha, why did you ask the egg as soon as you woke up? Your leg is only amputated to the thigh, and the egg is fine!"

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