People in the sandbox, starting the final trial

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——Not many.

But it really does exist.

The corners of Su Qing’s mouth twitched slightly.

Soon after this was exposed, a certain Yamabuki-style fairy was hanging around his door.

Such as sweeping up fallen leaves, fetching water to water the flowers… In short, they stayed nearby for various reasons.

I don’t know what she was thinking.

Could it be that as a fan, you feel that since your idol is so perfect, it is impossible for anyone to endure it for a whole night?

Besides, if he stayed nearby and was seen by her, what would happen… Was she trying to expose him as someone with ‘evil intentions’?

Su Qing thought, if he really had bad intentions, Loki’s family would have no means of countering.

After thinking it over, Su Qing still couldn’t figure out what this Yamabuki-se fairy wandering around in front of him was trying to do.

You can’t possibly want to join in, right?

But her appearance here meant that at least some of her ideas were correct. Something did happen between Su Qing and Ai Si.

…She is quite strict with herself.

It’s a pity that this couple is so talented and beautiful that it’s not her turn as a witch to object.

Shaking his head slightly, Su Qing looked towards the location of the Tower of Babel.

The gods are still as lame as ever.

For an individual, there is a world of difference between not being able to do something and not wanting to do it.

But for society, there is no essential difference between not being able to do something and not wanting to do something.

The gods are like this. They can clearly see through some traps, but they are still aroused by their curiosity and step into them on their own initiative.

The difference between seeing through the trap but still stepping into it and not seeing through the trap is only for the person involved.

In the eyes of outsiders, he is just a fool.

If we really have to talk about the difference between the two, it is that the person who sees through the trap but steps into it will normally have a way to break the trap, or at least have some confidence.

Also, there are reasons to step into the trap, such as guessing that there is a treasure chest behind the trap.

But for the gods, the reason for stepping into the trap is heroism, and the way to break the trap is to get used to death, because they will not really die anyway.

In the eyes of ordinary people, this makes the gods seem even more stupid.

The gods are like idols. Before fans come into contact with idols, they think they are perfect.

…Moreover, ordinary idols do things that are worthy of worship, but the gods came to the underworld and actually brought a certain peace to the underworld.

It is natural for people in the underworld to worship gods.

But when the gods repeatedly appeared in front of the public, fans and idols got along for a long time, and when the gods showed funny behaviors…

I am increasingly feeling that it is normal that the person in front of me is not worthy of being a fan.

Chapter 84

The status of the gods in the underworld is truly as solid as Mount Tai.

The most crucial factor in whether human beings believe in God or not lies in human beings themselves.

Because of the fear of death, there are hell, heaven, and the underworld. Because of the fear of floods, there are the Dragon King and river gods, and we pray for good weather and good harvests.

The more things humans are powerless to do, the more they will pray to the gods.

By the 21st century, as the living standards of some countries have improved, the number of people who believe in God has naturally decreased, and their level of piety has also become lower and lower.

In ancient times, when there was a severe drought, the level of piety in praying for rain from the gods was obviously not on the same level as going to the temple to worship Guanyin, the Goddess of Childbirth, or worshipping with Conan before an exam in modern times.

The level of development of the Dicuo world can be roughly compared to that of the European Middle Ages, but the degree of piety to the gods in the Dicuo world is far from comparable to that of the European Middle Ages.

In the European Middle Ages on Earth, there were no dungeons or monsters.

Relatively speaking, people in the Dicuo world have a harder life than those on Earth. They encounter more problems and more things that they are powerless to solve, so naturally they believe in gods more.

The gods of the Dicuo world have not only contributed to protecting the peace of the lower world today, but also have a very broad and solid foundation of faith. From that perspective, the disadvantages far outweigh the advantages.

——As long as you don’t consider what they did in heaven, and don’t consider why the soul reincarnation system is in heaven, but the gods find heaven boring and the underworld novel instead.

After hundreds of millions of years, the gods in heaven actually think that the development level of the lower world is novel? Do they think that food stories can attract them?

One can’t help but wonder… What has the heaven been like for hundreds of millions of years? Not even a decent novel or story? Not even a bit of delicious food and wine?

Isn’t the soul reincarnation system in heaven? Logically speaking, there shouldn’t be a shortage of life in heaven?

At least 70% of the gods in heaven are the kind that deserve to be killed without any guilt, but at least the gods in heaven have not gone too far with the lower world for the time being.

As long as we don’t look up old accounts, and look back to the ancestors of the people in the lower world thousands or tens of thousands of generations ago, then the people in the lower world only owe the gods, and the gods absolutely do not owe the people in the lower world anything.

Even if the gods act recklessly and bring disaster to many people’s lives.

– After all, in the ancient times when humans really hoped that gods existed, using living people as sacrifices to pray to gods was abandoned. The biggest reason was not that doing so was too cruel and violated human rights, but that doing so had no effect.

If you use living people as sacrifices, the effect will be immediate, and it will rain if you pray for it. There will be good weather and a good harvest without drought, flood or epidemic…Don’t talk about the ancient times, even in the civilized era, few countries can withstand not worshiping gods.

In the situation of the Earthly World, the cost of having one’s life destroyed because of the gods’ wanton behavior is really ridiculously small for the underworld as a whole.

After all, humans and gods have different time scales.

For gods with life spans of over 100 million years, any consensus showing goodwill may only last for a short period of time for the gods, but for the people in the underworld, it will last for thousands of years, and many people will never see the end in their entire lives.

If we can’t see it in our lifetime, then isn’t that eternity for humans?

It is actually too difficult to educate people in the lower world about the unreliability of gods. Who would believe that someone who has helped him all his life would harm him?

Even if someone believes it, how many will there be?

Humans are bound by their experiences.

But it doesn’t really matter whether you believe it or not, because the gods from the world of Dicuo have descended to the mortal world.

If the gods do not enter the scene, they will always be perfect. No one can defeat a non-existent object. Believers will have all kinds of strange brain circuits to convince themselves to continue to believe in the gods they already believe in.

Even if they are manipulated by various lies of foreign gods, believers can still convince themselves that it is not because their own gods are inferior to humans, but because the great gods do not bother to bother with such scum.

But for the gods who have descended to the mortal world, there is no so-called golden body. They only have physical entities, but as long as the physical entities lose their style, the number of believers will naturally decrease.

As for human beings, especially in the world of Earth, a world where compulsory education is far from universal, an indisputable fact is… many people are actually not that grateful.

The coming of the gods ushered in the Age of Adventurers and brought peace to the underworld, which was something almost everyone in the underworld knew.

But I just know it.

People in the lower world believe in gods, so they will exaggerate the gods’ achievements in their hearts without limit. They think that it is all because of the gods, and that the human heroes who have sacrificed their lives to maintain peace over the past thousands of years only had that opportunity because of the existence of gods.

But if the people in the underworld do not believe in gods… many people will convince themselves in their hearts that there is no need to be grateful for the coming of gods.

The gods only provided grace to the people in the lower world, and the people in the lower world were responsible for providing for the gods. This was already a complete transaction. The subsequent peace that humans were able to obtain was entirely because the adventurers worked hard enough.

There is no dialectics in this wrong world. Given the almost non-existent level of education in this wrong world, it is normal to whitewash the other person’s shortcomings if you love them, and to whitewash the other person’s shortcomings if you hate them.

However, this is actually a lot more convenient.

Su Qing thought to himself, if everyone in the world of Dicuo had an educational level of high school graduation, then he wouldn’t have to think about attacking the gods.

Once the people in the Earthly World know that it was him who committed the crime against the gods, they will probably regard him as their mortal enemy. Even after three or five generations, there will still be people who will continue to discredit him and miss the time when gods existed.

Any belief that is well-founded and logically supported is difficult to shake.

However, with the current average education level in the world, most people first decide to pray and believe in gods, and then find a basis for their beliefs in reality… This kind of belief relationship seems firm, but it is actually fragile.

The gods are naturally indebted to the underworld. Without the gods’ help, the underworld would not be what it is today, and would not even have the level of development it has in the Middle Ages.

It’s about the level of the tribal era.

In ancient times, humans in the world without demons faced wild beasts, but in the world with demons like Dicuo, after humans mastered various powers, they faced monsters that were far more powerful than wild beasts.

But people in the wrong world may not care about the grace of gods.

When humans believe in gods, it is a blessing; when faith is broken, it is nothing.

In Su Qing’s opinion, the biggest disharmony in the world of Dicuo lies in the so-called “non-interference in the underworld” of the gods.

It is said that God’s grace only guides human potential, but in fact, without the renewal of the divine spirit, no matter how humans train, their potential will be locked by God’s grace.

They clearly built the Tower of Babel and created God’s grace, but they still say that they, the gods, are just spectators and that the affairs of the underworld should be left to those in the underworld.

You have arranged the general framework and game rules, and yet you still boast that we, the game organizers, will not interfere and that the results depend entirely on the efforts of you, the contestants.

…With the framework of the game rules set, can we still call it non-interference? Can we also call it that what kind of results the people in the lower world can achieve depends entirely on their own efforts?

The gods in the world of Dicuo are used to living a muddled life. While they are believed in, they have never tried to manage faith in the underworld.

The cause of the past is the result of today.

When gods manage faith, believers’ faith will be relatively unbreakable.

Gods do not care about faith. Even though there are still a group of believers who are grateful to God, that kind of faith… is useless at the critical moment.

……

In the wrong world, the gods have a high status in terms of the definition of the world.

During this time, a strange feeling emerged in the hearts of the gods.

In the world of Dicuo, whether it is the world itself or simply looking at the core of the heaven, there is no subjective consciousness.

These are also different from the sandbox. There is no subjective consciousness in the sandbox, but the sandbox is a universe created by God after all. It is similar to artificial intelligence and can make the most basic judgments about outsiders like Su Qing.

In a world like the Earth Wrong World, there is no such judgment and response mechanism.

Having said that, it is natural that the world will have some reaction because of Su Qing’s time travel.

The most unavoidable thing is the exclusion of two world views.

The difference between the final trial spirit in Su Qing’s body that comes from the box garden and the world parameters of the earthly world.