Chapter 3 Strange Religion
The Demon King’s Calendar, the end of March 648.
5:30 p.m.
Princess Viola is kneeling down to pray with all her knights.
This thing that looks like a church was originally an audience hall in the castle. The object of their worship did not even have a statue of a god, they just worshiped the empty throne.
Everyone saw the miracle with their own eyes, and the unrivaled power did not belong to the mortal world. Viola knew that her prayers had been heard by the Demon Lord.
In this case, Viola decided to hold on to this life-saving straw, so she came to pray immediately after the war.
She knelt on the ground, reciting prayers praising the Demon King and God Lord in her heart, and repeated the kneeling motion.
After kneeling down, she saw that the clay tablet placed on the throne was dented, and she immediately felt a burst of ecstasy in her heart.
"My guards!"
Viola stood up and raised the clay tablet so that everyone could clearly see the clear handprints on it.
"The existence of the Demon King God has always been just a legend, but from now on it is no longer a legend, He has responded to us!"
The knights of the guard looked up and saw the handprints that did not originally exist on the clay tablet, and they all exclaimed.
"We will use this as a holy symbol to fulfill the will of the Demon King and God. We have His protection! We will be invincible!"
"Ohhhhhh!!!"
Warm cheers immediately erupted in the audience hall, and Viola held up the clay tablet:
"I will serve as the first Archbishop and spread His teachings on Your Majesty's behalf! The forgotten glory of the Demon King will be recast by our hands! The destruction of the despicable invaders is close at hand! Rejoice!"
A strange religion was born suddenly...
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"Boss, bring me a pack of Yuxi."
Li Chengqi, who was behind the cashier, casually took a pack of cigarettes from behind and handed it over. He didn't even notice whether the customer scanned the QR code to pay, and stared at the screen of his laptop.
It's weird, really weird.
Li Chengqi tried deleting the game files last night, but after searching the hard drive, he couldn't find where the game was installed. There seemed to be only an icon on the desktop.
And deleting the icon is useless. Whether it is completely deleted or thrown into the recycle bin, it will reappear the next moment.
The email that sent him to test his qualifications disappeared without a trace. Li Chengqi searched through his QQ mailbox but could not find any clues.
He tried to destroy the laptop, but that didn't work either.
If you throw it into water, it will not short-circuit. If you hit it with a hammer, it will not be damaged. Even if you throw it in the microwave oven twice, it will still be fine when it comes out.
As the saying goes, let's take care of things as they come. Since there was nothing to do, Li Chengqi decided to continue to see what was going on.
There was an alternation of day and night in the game, but it seemed that there was a time difference of a few hours with reality. He watched the two-headed soldiers clean up the corpses outside the city, and also watched the villains on the streets of the city go home one after another. The screen dimmed. At night.
After that...
After that, he couldn't stand the sleepiness and fell asleep. When he got up in the morning to open the store, he moved his notebook to the cashier and stared at it.
"Is this Mr. Li Chengqi? Okay, I have your express delivery."
The mouse that originally came with the laptop has come to an end. Li Chengqi specially ordered a new one last night, and quickly took it out by courier to take it apart and plug it in.
Move the mouse and click on the map icon below. You can see that a large area is black. Only a small circular area in the upper left corner is lit. You can zoom in and out with the mouse wheel to see more details, but the black area is nothing. Out of sight.
Exiting the map, Li Chengqi clicked on the 'Palace Area' again.
At this time, it is already dawn in the game, and you can still see a group of two-headed pixel villains kneeling in a church-like place to pray, and the number seems to be a little more than yesterday.
After watching it all night, Li Chengqi didn't do anything.
He discovered that he could switch screens freely with the mouse, and if he reached out to touch it, he would be sucked in.
If you are sucked in, the 'faith value' on the left side of the screen will be consumed. Originally there were about 500 at the beginning of the game, but now there are only single digits left, and it is rising little by little. When the faith value is insufficient, touching the screen with your hand is a simple touch operation and will not be sucked in.
I don’t know yet how much faith points will be consumed by what I do. Anyway, it’s less than 10 after one night. If I touch the screen now, I won’t be sucked in.
I clicked the little red figure taking the lead with the mouse, and the pop-up picture this time also changed to a princess named Viola kneeling down to pray.
And a dialog box popped up, which said, 'Your Majesty the Demon King, please guide your followers on the way forward, what should we do now'.
Where do I know how to guide you?
Use the mouse to open the map again and click on the black unopened area on the map. Li Chengqi wanted the villain in the game to explore the dark area, but there was no response.
Turning off the map and looking at the dialog box in front of the portrait of Princess Viola, Li Chengqi tried to type on the keyboard.
The result still didn't work, even the input method couldn't pop up.
"Perhaps... you can use the microphone to talk to the NPC inside?"
The NPCs inside all use text to express their dialogues, but Li Chengqi can't type a response, maybe the audio can.
However, Li Chengqi didn't have a microphone at hand. He casually glanced and noticed the small letters 'MIC' written on the side of the laptop.
Then he remembered that his ultrabook also came with a microphone, but he had never used it.
So he said to the side of the screen:
"You sent people to investigate the surrounding area...Gan! The microphone is actually blocked!"
Due to its age, the microphone has long been covered in dust. Li Chengqi had no choice but to take out his mobile phone and place an order from the online shopping platform again.
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After changing out of her armor and wearing loose robe-like clothes, Viola was conducting morning prayers with her knights.
Although it was said that the Church of the Demon King was to be formed, there was no teaching at hand. Moreover, Viola was in a very dangerous situation. She could only hide in a remote territory for a while, but not for the rest of her life.
A carefree princess suddenly lost her father, her brother, and her country and family. Viola was very confused.
So when she prayed, she hoped that the Demon King God could show her a clear path.
As the sun gradually rose, Viola stood up and ended today's morning prayer.
"Your Highness, has the Demon King and God Lord responded to you?"
As soon as she stood up, the surrounding knights immediately surrounded her.
Viola nodded calmly:
"Maybe we are not pious enough, I can't hear the voice of the Demon King clearly, I can only hear part of it clearly."
"What is it?"
With a steady gaze, Viola moved her luck to her Dantian and uttered one word in a deep bass:
"Gan!"
The sound continued to echo in the audience hall, and all the knights looked at each other.
"Your Highness, what... does this mean?"
"I don't know, but since it comes from the mouth of the Demon King and God Lord, I think it must be very profound."
Upon hearing this, all the knights felt that it made sense. After all, God's thoughts were not understandable to mortals.
"So I propose to use Gan! as our prayer."
"Your Highness is right!"
"That's right, we should let more people listen to the holy voice of the Demon King!"
Then the audience hall rang with the everlasting chant of ‘Gan! ’, startling the pigeons that landed on the roof to fly away.
Weird religions just keep getting weirder…
(End of chapter)