In response to Charles' question, the Pope did not answer, "Son, we have shown our sincerity, now it is our turn to ask you."
Seeing that the Pope did not answer his question, Charles began to think, "Even if he didn't say it, the Pope should have gone over the solution in his mind, right? As long as he goes over it once, the printer can scan it out."
"Charles, speak up, what are you thinking about?"
The Pope's words disrupted Charles' thoughts. He sighed helplessly and scratched his hair with his hands. "Ask."
"What did you do on the surface before?"
"Nothing much, just an ordinary person. I eat ordinary food, sleep ordinary, go to school ordinary, and I will probably have an ordinary job in the future."
"Oh, so it seems that Governor Charles' life up there isn't as exciting as down there."
"I'd rather not have all this excitement, I just want to go back..." Charles stopped talking when he said this, and after a long pause, he spoke again: "I just want to go back and take a look now."
The Pope nodded without further investigating the question. He began again, "Next question, when you were on the surface, have you ever seen a sky with stars at night? Show it to me."
Charles was stunned, "What? How do you display this thing?"
"Close your eyes and recall the position of the stars you have seen. I can touch the pictures in your mind directly." As the Pope said this, his hand touched Charles' head directly.
Charles hadn't looked at the starry sky for a long time before he came down. The light pollution in the city was too serious and he could hardly see any stars.
He probably only saw some of them when he went back to his grandfather's house in the countryside for summer vacation when he was a child. Then, the scene of counting stars with his grandfather when he was a child flashed quickly through his mind.
"The starry sky? What exactly are you learning about?" Charles thought the other party would ask more details about the surface, but he didn't expect him to ask this question.
"Just as the Book of Revelation says, when our God returns to freedom, He will lead His believers to a bright land without pain and torture. We need to make sure that the place outside is not a larger prison on Earth and Sea."
What is the relationship between the Land of Light and the starry sky? ? Does the God of Light want to leave the Earth
At this moment, the Pope's face showed extreme solemnity, and his hands suddenly clamped Charles' head like a pair of pliers.
"What are you doing!" Charles wanted to open him with his hands, but he didn't expect the Pope to let go of him himself.
"Very good, I saw some images of the starry sky. I will write them down as soon as possible and we will talk about it next time." The Pope muttered and turned away.
Charles followed him out quickly, and after seeing the Pope floating back to the giant ship, he immediately rushed to the captain's room with a serious expression.
"Why did this fellow Charles ask me to come to his ship? What's his purpose?" This was the first line on the printer.
The mind printer worked on the Pope! Charles suppressed his accelerated heartbeat and continued to look down.
"This kid is still so suspicious that he insisted on exchanging information with me. In fact, the more you know about some things, the less safe you are."
"Charles actually compared those things in the sea with the God of Light. This is simply a blasphemy against the God of Light."
"Dawn-1? It's just an activated nuclear fusion power station."
The more Charles looked, the more his brows furrowed. What the Pope was thinking was exactly the same as what he said, as if he could only tell the truth.
At this moment, Charles was stunned. He suddenly thought of something and quickly flipped through the papers in his hand until he came to the discussion about Lily.
"God, why did you say before that you would save a mouse when you came out? Look, this kid doesn't believe us at all."
"The mouse's soul belongs to the god Futan? God, what should I say now? What? You have captured its soul? Then how should I explain it to him? Wait, why should I explain it to him? Now it's my turn to ask questions."
"Boom~Boom~Boom~!" The heartbeat like tinnitus rang in Charles' ears, and his trembling right hand reached out for Lily's portrait on the table next to him.
There is still hope for Lily! As long as we find the exit to the surface!! Let the God of Light escape, and He will be able to save Lily!!
"Praise the God of Light!! Hahaha!! Praise the God of Light! Praise the light—"
Charles' words suddenly stopped, and his mood turned cold as if a bucket of cold water was poured on him. A terrible guess sounded in Charles' mind.
"How could it be so smooth, as if it was well-rehearsed? Did the Pope know that I was using the mind printer to test him?"
Charles picked up the paper in his hand and looked down to the bottom, when the Pope asked him to think back to the starry sky.
"There's something in this guy's head that's hindering my temptations, God, I need your help,"
"God, what did you see in the starry sky scene in his memory? That's good. When we get out, we will leave here and go somewhere else. The farther the better."
Looking at these records, Charles had a lot of thoughts in his mind.
"Compared to what the Pope said before, if this is true, then the God of Light does not want to do anything to the surface of the earth. It seems that it only wants to leave the Earthsea and leave the solar system."
"What a wonderful God, but why don't I believe in him? Is there such a good thing in this hopeless sea? If the God of Light wants to go out and occupy the surface, then what I am doing now is not helping the evil?"
Charles, who had calmed down, also discovered a suspicious point. Lily's soul belonged to the god Futan? Why could the god of light get it? This was obviously illogical.
"If He is just deceiving me and tying Lily's life to the surface exit so that I can work hard to find the surface exit, this seems to be more logical than the previous conjecture."
Charles slowly lowered his waving hands, his eyes silently looking at Lily on the drawing paper.
"But what if? What if what's written on this piece of paper is true?"
All kinds of suspicions appeared and disappeared in Charles' mind. He didn't know what to believe at this time.
He had thought that the mind printer could help him understand the truth of the matter, but now his mind was even more confused.
With a creaky sound, the door was pushed open and a fishman's head popped in from the crack in the door.
"Captain, it's time for inspection. Are you busy? If you are, I will help you with the inspection."
Charles took a deep breath, put the papers in his hand together with Lily's portrait, and put them back on the table. "I'll be there right away."
Just now, Charles made a decision in his heart.
As long as the God of Light has no solid evidence that he intends to invade the surface, he must continue searching.
Whether for Lily's glimmer of hope or his own obsession with the surface, he must find an exit from the surface.
He has been searching for so long and is just one step away from finding it. Giving up now would mean that all the efforts of the previous twelve years would be wasted.
(End of this chapter)