I proposed to see what the gods believed by the natives of the Blue Star—or to visit their churches would be even better. Hearing this request from the "alien visitor", a group of experts, scholars, leading cadres and receptionists present The personnel are all very happy - well, basically expected, since the world has developed to such a high level of technology and still maintains religious supremacy, even the "scientists" (or should they be called magicians here? ) are all researching spaceships under the guidance of gods, then I have reason to believe that these indigenous people will be very happy to introduce their gods to "outsiders".
Would they even consider preaching to me and Sandora? I thought of this interesting guess, so I looked at Sandora and smiled. It seems that Her Majesty the Queen also thought of it with me.
"We are very glad that you are so interested in our gods, and we are also happy to let more races know the greatness of the gods," an old man sitting a little behind raised his eyebrows and couldn't help saying, "When you appear At the time, we had already held a prayer, but the gods have not responded yet, I think the gods must be very happy to know that their children have taken this crucial step in the evolution of civilization... Oh, you want to see us God, this is of course possible, but it may take a while, I have notified the temple, but a long ceremony is not over yet, I hope the guests can wait."
"This is one of the most respected priests of the god of war on our planet. Ray," someone immediately introduced the beaming old man over there to Sandora and me, "He is dedicated to preaching the teachings of God, and at the same time he is a leader in various spaces. Great supporter of the Probe Project…”
"Oh, oh, hello." I nodded to the high priest called "Lei". After a while of communication just now, I already have a little understanding of the social form of this world. as it appears on the surface. The Blue Star is a civilized civilization developed on the road of magic, or occult technology. The power of magic is applied in all aspects. On this planet, magicians and arcane scholars are probably equivalent to engineers and scholars on Earth. Scientists are a type of people and enjoy high honors. At the same time, the entire world has a unique religion. This religion has no name, and people simply refer to it as the "church". What the church believes in is the god of war. This god has supreme prestige, men, women and children all over the world firmly believe in the existence of the God of War, and they are sure that the God of War protects the whole world, so that they have today's peaceful life. What is very surprising is that the religions of this world not only do not hinder the development of technology, but even the opposite: on the Azure Star, the church is the loyal defender and promoter of various technologies. They claim that the gods sent down a will. Let mortals use their creativity freely, and encourage mortals to pursue the truth in the world. Most of the cutting-edge technologies in this world are actually being promoted by the church with their efforts and money. Even the strange romantic alien lover before, Mr. Joe. He is also a second-level priest himself-well, I really didn't see the last one before.
Azure Star once had a "age of ignorance" with constant disputes and wars, but after one of the forces received the revelation of the God of War and overturned the world within a year, this planet is now under the leadership of a unified regime, leading Azure Star All mankind is a group called "Parliament". This parliament consists of four parts: civilians running for parliament; representatives of science, agriculture, industry, and industry; senior church clergy; traditional party rotation. The above four parts have completely equal voting rights. The supreme speaker of the parliament is concurrently held by the supreme leader of the church: the Pope of War God. This is a relatively common and relatively stable regime structure, and many worlds have similar "theoretical republic" governments. It seems the most unfair part of the whole process that the highest speaker of the parliament is the Pope, but it has won the support of the people all over the world: because they firmly believe that the Pope who directly talks to the God of War will never lie or take sides, no matter what decision , when the pope made decisions as the speaker, he would not deliberately favor the members of the church.
"Yes, the Pope is the only human being who cannot lie and be biased," said the middle-aged man in charge of explaining the local customs to us with an awe-inspiring look on his face. "He needs to hold the God of War scepter in his hand when he announces the parliamentary decision." If you violate the commandments of the gods, you will be punished by the gods on the spot. And this is precisely the 'last line of death' to ensure the political stability of the Azure Star."
The other party did not mention whether it was true that a certain unlucky pope was struck by lightning in public, but judging from the determined expressions on the faces of everyone present, I am afraid that the so-called divine punishment is real. At this moment, Sandora and I couldn't help but look at each other, and we saw the same thing in each other's eyes:
Could it be that the god that this world believes in... is the true god of the star field
"We have been delayed here for a long time, it should be time for us to visit your city, right?" , I finally couldn’t help but speak. This place is a remote landing site. According to the scan, it is hundreds of kilometers away from the nearest city. This arrangement is obviously because the authorities want to temporarily isolate the “alien” in a relatively safe place. It is better to have a buffer time to study whether the extraterrestrial visitors are safe. Sandora and I can understand all these actions, but if the delay is too long, it is still a bit annoying-I have already begun to consider that if the other party is too slow, myself and Sandora will simply flash and run away. Wander around in local clothes by yourself...
Anyway, there is nothing left to do about the alien landing scene, and there is no slice research in the second half, and there is no secret agent vs. little green man—and Sandora and I are still counting on buying a bunch of gadgets locally to give back. The gang of little girls at home will share the movies.
"Um..." A parliamentary representative hesitated for a while when he opened his mouth, and just at this moment, two staff members walked in through the door (they should have been communicating with some higher-level leaders before. Reporting to us in real time On-site progress here), the representative of the council nodded after seeing these two people, "Of course, the follow-up reception activities have been prepared, and now we can set off..."
"Don't host events," I said with a frown. "I told you, we just want to take a look around when we come down. You guys are making such troubles. Be careful that you really won't be able to integrate into the interstellar civilization in the future—Rules for the Exchange of Different Civilizations" Six: The more etiquette, the more troublesome, before the two sides fully understand each other's cultural patterns, any etiquette and rules that have nothing to do with direct communication may lead to major misunderstandings."
So a group of experts and scholars were taken aback for a moment, and took out their small notebooks to take notes. Grandpa Qiao raised his head and asked seriously: "Then what are the other five items in front? This knowledge is very important for an immature civilization like ours." It matters!"
I:"… "
Nima, the sixth article is all made up now, where can I find the first five articles for you!
Sandora held back a smile and poked my waist forcefully from behind, but she still had a cold expression on her face. He raised his chin to some surprised politicians—that is, the group other than experts and scholars: “We hope you prepare low-key guides. We are not interested in local military, technology, political and other sensitive factors. You can help us with the specifications of receiving tour groups. If you understand, then do it like this. As for the so-called welcome event and reception, and meeting your politicians... Well, there is no time for now, but if If he is willing to go shopping with us, I don't care."
Everyone at the scene suddenly became more stunned. But in the end, the highly respected Priest of the God of War was more decisive. He patted the shoulder of the person beside him: "Do as we do. We are the children who don't know anything about the current situation."
The expected welcome procession and escort troops were replaced by an unassuming hover vehicle. It seems that it should be a relatively common means of transportation in this world. Under Sandora's direct request and tough attitude, only a few people walked with us, including the excited old man Joe who was like a child—the old man is still studying I can't get rid of dandruff problem. The rest of the big shots had to stay in the wasteland because of the sudden change of mission, waved goodbye to us with exhaust fumes, and waited for the next flight in 20 minutes...
"I guess there will be tons of people following along the way, and they will think that they have not been discovered by us." This kind of suspension car has a lot of space inside, but Sandora still squeezes into the same seat with me, and uses a Leaning on my shoulder in a comfortable position, with an expression of interest on her face, she communicated with me her little mischief through spiritual connection, "You said that if we suddenly lost the space teleportation at this time, they would be in chaos. what kind?"
I glanced at her: "Why don't we think about it? At this time, a few alien conspiracy theorists and staunch human protectionists rushed out to attack this hover vehicle and clamored to take back the planet from aliens. Two groups of people The fight was fierce, and in the end, the Fifth Fleet and the Blue Star had a serious misunderstanding and a big battle broke out. In the last scorched world, a legend was left about the coming of the Great Demon King... "
Speaking of this, I feel that I and Sandora are probably possessed by Qianqian.
At this moment, I noticed that the scene outside had changed. After passing a road entrance similar to a toll booth but without seeing people, the buildings outside the suspended vehicle became dense and became tall, beautiful and neat. It is entering the urban area. A city built by a highly developed (by the standards of earthlings) magic civilization. However, it may be because I have seen too many strange and strange worlds. The unique buildings and urban style here are not too novel to me. The biggest feature of this city is most of the buildings. They are all close to cylindrical—the natives of Azur Star seem to be very fond of "circle" and related geometry. Their single-man flying vehicles are discs, large spaceships are ellipsoids, and buildings are cylinders or hemispheres. It is a smooth parabolic planet, and the symmetry of the buildings is also arranged according to the ring. Compared with the earth, there are no street lights on both sides of the main road of the city, which is a bit abnormally wide. In fact, there are no similar public lighting equipment everywhere. I don’t know how they solve the problem of urban night lighting. Another thing that makes people wonder is that the city is obviously quite large, but we didn't see too many pedestrians along the way, and the streets looked very deserted-I couldn't help but think that maybe the authorities had already evacuated all the people.
Think about it. I looked up at the sky: a big chunk of the roof of the hovering oval was transparent.
In the clear and cloudless dome, gray-white shadows can be seen covering almost the entire sky, indistinct and innumerable, and some shadows are moving rapidly. That was the Fifth Fleet in orbit. Due to its location, the Fifth Fleet blocked part of the sun, but because the fleet had been evacuated. This aggregate, which is more than ten times larger than the Azure Star, did not allow this side of the planet to completely enter the night, but left a large shadow in the sky. These spaceships should be the part closer to the planet, and the spaceships on the other side of the fleet are now out of the range that can be observed by the naked eye on the surface.
"Not long ago, the daytime hemisphere of the entire planet fell into a twilight-like scene, which caused a lot of panic, and then we knew that a fleet appeared in space," Mr. Joe noticed my sight. He also looked up to the sky, "Some people think that the invaders are coming. But I despise the imagination of those guys - using a fleet of this size to invade a planet the size of a stone? It's almost like sending a hundred thousand troops to attack a planet on a fasting day. It's ridiculous to be a single man who eats meat. I calculated that melting the entire Azure Star into a **** would not be enough to bathe the fleet, so I thought you should not be the invading army, so I led my own people to check the situation. Hey, it's exactly what the old man thinks, you are quite easy to talk to, I didn't even expect you to agree to transfer the spaceship out of the star system so readily—I thought it would be very difficult to negotiate."
So before you set off, did you bring the alien communication manual you studied
"There are a lot of people gathered in front!" Sandora suddenly pointed out the car window and whispered. It interrupted my cranky thoughts, and I just noticed. After an uncharacteristically deserted neighborhood, we finally encountered the bustling side of the city — bustling too much!
Crowds of ordinary citizens gathered in the broad streets and roadside squares. Everyone was wearing weird clothes and holding huge and eye-catching signs in their hands. I struggled for a long time to open the window of the suspension car, and suddenly a burst of noise almost choked me out. The sound of the boiling outside was like a storm Same. There are many high platforms on the side of the road—perhaps they were temporarily built—most of them stand one or a group of characters who seem to be very provocative. On the high platform closest to us stands an old man wearing a magician's robe and white beard. This The old magician who was even more Gandalf than Gandalf waved his staff high and shouted loudly, "In the name of magic! Aliens exist!"
Then a group of mages who seemed to have come out of Dalaran raised their arms and shouted: "Citizens have the right to know the truth! All communications with aliens must be made public!"
And on the other side of the table far away from each other stood a group of young magicians who also used arcane lightning to attract the attention of the public. They held up strange little green man models in their hands, and each of them spoke louder than each other. Da: "Communication with aliens must be cautious! And it is a matter for all human beings! We call for this process to be made public!"
The citizens below have all kinds of slogans:
"We should report to God of War immediately! We need God's instructions to act now!"
"This is the test God gave us to verify whether human civilization can leave the cradle planet! We must solve everything independently to satisfy God!"
"I was abducted by aliens 10 years ago, and there are a lot of people with the same fate gathered around me! We have been neglected for many years, and now we are asking for a way to openly experience it first-hand, and at the same time welcome more people with the same fate. Compatriots join the team, our contact information is... ”
"The astrological psychic organization is here to appeal! All those who have the special ability to communicate directly with aliens through radio waves should unite. We should be the key bridge to communicate with aliens - trust us, we can understand them The language... I quickly poked Mr. Joe: "That sentence just now feels like the alien language you studied? "
Mr. Qiao blushed: "I actively promote my research, and it seems that there is finally a folk version..."
I was speechless looking at the sky, this strange old man is really harmful...
The scene outside really made me feel uneasy, a slot stuck in my throat could not go up and down, you said that it might be okay to see such a public gathering in an American science fiction blockbuster, but now there is a man wearing a mage robe outside Grandpa Gandalf is raising his arms and shouting "Aliens exist", once again I am deeply aware of the strong trend of mystery and technology eventually leading to grand unification, and I inevitably think of the gang in Shadow City riding heavy The blood elves racing party of motorcycle street racing, as well as the tauren machine gunners and the death metal rock band of the undercity...
When I think of Shadow City, I finally can't help but cover my head: what kind of world did I create...
Mr. Joe and the Priest of the God of War named "Ray" apologized to Sandora and me embarrassingly. They felt that it was a shameful thing for the aliens to see the people of the Azure Star so gawkishly, and it seemed that Mr. Lei I am ready to order the evacuation of the people here, but Sandora and I immediately expressed our indifference and understanding attitude towards this matter-in fact, this is a normal phenomenon in many cases, there is no need to make a fuss, and Sandora and I will not Any dissatisfaction.
And after hearing my explanation, Mr. Joe fell into deep thinking: "It seems that the place called Hollywood does often have contact with aliens, but they have been in contact so many times, and now they still treat the president every time. Stuffed in a bomb shelter?"
Me: "Hehe...hehehe..."
At this moment, our hover car rounded a street corner, and a large and quiet open space suddenly appeared in front of us.
Although less than a few dozen meters away is the scene of the citizens' assembly, which is as lively as a war, but there is no one here who dares to make a loud noise. The whole area is shrouded in a peaceful and peaceful atmosphere, even as if the sound It was filtered, leaving only the standard ambient sound of 40 decibels—the two areas are very different, as if there is an invisible wall blocking the two sides.
For in the middle of this clearing there is a statue, sacred to the locals, who would rather die than offend: their supreme god of war stands here.
I leaned out of the window and stared at the ten-meter-high, lifelike stone statue. After thinking for a long time, there is only one sentence that can describe the agitation in my heart at the moment:
Your uncle's 123!
(Sure enough, it was guessed by many people... When it comes to God of War, everyone thinks of who it is.) RQ