I became a member of the ancient gods

Chapter 110 Heaven Civilization
Enjihui Jishi Ark Linjiang Base.

"Why so many people?"

When he drove the car to the entrance of the base that was rebuilt from an old train station, Lin couldn't help but ask questions.

He had come to this base to replenish supplies before. At that time, he estimated that there should only be about [-] soldiers stationed in this base, but now it seemed that there were at least [-] people gathered outside.

They lined up neatly in several square formations on both sides of the driveway, looking quite impressive.

There were two officers standing in the middle of the road waiting, and between the two officers stood a tall man with a wheat complexion wearing a dark red monastic uniform. He looked completely different from the soldiers beside him.

But Lin finally felt some unusual majesty from this man. Anyone could tell that this man was now the highest-ranking person in the base.

He had seen many believers wearing monastic uniforms in Enji Forest, but he wore dark red monastic uniforms. Before this man, he had only seen Sister Yi Si.

The man raised his hand to signal Lin Zhong to stop the car, walked forward, smiled at Lin Zhong, and saluted: "I have long admired your name, Mr. Lin Zhong, I am Galahad, the priest of the Enji Society, and the deputy of Sister Yisi. The nun is in trouble and can't escape, so she appointed me to come here to greet you."

"Hello, hello." Lin Zhi opened the car window and returned the greeting, "Is there any special training at the base today?"

He didn't connect the battle in front of him with himself at all.

"We are here specially to greet you." The smile on Galahad's face became meaningful.

Lin was stunned for a moment before he finally realized: "Is it... because of the body I sent over?"

Galahad nodded: "If possible, can you allow me to check the body?"

"Please." Lin finally opened the trunk of the car, got out of the car, and walked around to the back of the car with Galahad and the two officers.

When Galahad put on gloves and opened the bag containing the mummy, Lin Zhong clearly heard the exclamations of the two officers behind him.

"Bring it up." After a brief inspection, Galahad solemnly ordered the officer behind him.

An officer took the order and left. After a while, he came back with four soldiers and a coffin that looked quite strange in shape.

Lin Zhong watched these people carefully place the mummy into the coffin. The priest stood beside the coffin and kept muttering some prayers or scriptures in a low voice. This process lasted for several minutes.

Then, the soldiers carefully lifted the coffin and walked towards the base.

When the coffin passed by the phalanx of soldiers on both sides of the road, a scene that surprised Lin Zhong happened. The soldiers knelt down in order and knelt down towards the coffin with respect.

Also looking puzzled were Fran and Wan Jin.

Wan Jin hesitated for a long time before speaking to Fran: "Sister Fran, what are they doing?"

Lin finally told her that Fran just looked similar to Li Suling, and reminded Wan Jin not to call her aunt if she didn't want to make her angry.

"I don't know, but it feels like it's not an ordinary funeral." Fran replied.

She had only seen funerals held in the previous village, and could not tell how many types of funerals there were in the outside world.But even she could feel that the atmosphere here seemed a bit unusual.

"Guests, please wait a moment." Priest Galahad whispered.

Lin Zhong could only wait silently by the car. He watched the coffin pass through the square formation, and then the soldiers stood up and surrounded the coffin into the base.

"Now, let's go in." After a while, Galahad said to Lin Zhong.

Lin Zhong then sat back in the driver's seat and started the car. Priest Galahad sat in the passenger seat and followed them into the base.

"Was that a funeral just now?" Lin Zhong asked.

"Yes, after all, it is the body of an 'angel'. Believers attach great importance to it, so they naturally have to give it a formal funeral." Galahad replied.

"Angel? You mean the Abyssian?" Lin Zhong asked.

"Yes, that's what some of the followers of the Enzi Order are called." Galahad answered calmly.

"The attitude of the people in the base towards the body...how should I put it, seems to be very respectful." Lin Zhi asked tentatively.

"Paradise Civilization - ah, this is also our internal name. It has left many legacies to mankind. It has left behind the "Destruction" that allows mankind to understand the content of catastrophes, and has left behind relics and artifacts that mankind has not yet been able to fully understand. Technology helps human civilization survive disasters. The Enzi Society takes rebuilding civilization as its own responsibility, and naturally has an attitude of respect and gratitude for that civilization." Galahad explained calmly.

"Are you so grateful that you have to worship me?" Lin Zhong asked.

The soldiers of Enji Society Jishi Ark are all selected from the believers of Enji Society Church, and they are basically the core believers of Enji Society.

To pay such a grand tribute to an unknown corpse, these believers' attitude towards the Abyss civilization is not just as simple as respect, it is simply worship.

"Worship is a spontaneous act within believers, and we think there is nothing wrong with this. Although the paradise civilization has been destroyed, it has left hope for human civilization. This is a kind of transmission of goodwill that transcends time and space. This is consistent with the concept promoted by the Enji Society. That's consistent," Galahad said.

"But the legacy left behind after the destruction of the Abyss civilization is only a passive fact. To directly determine whether this is subjective goodwill is a bit..." Lin Zhong tried to put forward his own opinion.

"This is the same as the reason why human beings were grateful to the sun and the earth in the past. This planet has no consciousness of its own, but it gave birth to human civilization, so human beings are grateful to it, and thus adore the sun and the earth. Paradise It is also a fact that everything left by civilization has helped mankind. You were an abyss hunter and used abyss relics, so you should have a deep understanding of this, don’t you?” Priest Galahad gave a speech.

It's still a little different.Lin Zhong thought to himself.

Humanity's primitive worship of the sun and the earth, in addition to gratitude, also began at the beginning of the development of a civilization because of the primitive fear caused by the inability to control nature.With the development of human civilization, this worship turned to other directions.

The Abyss civilization, which has only relics left, currently poses no threat to mankind. The coalition government's attitude towards the Abyss civilization only regards it as an available resource and research object.

The Enji Society, driven by the doctrine of goodwill, endowed the destroyed Abyss civilization with a benevolent imagination and regarded it as the savior of human civilization.As far as Lin Zhong knew, the only organization that worshiped the Abyss civilization was the Enji Society.

This kind of belief of the Enji Society is hidden very deep and is not exposed to the outside world. It will only appear when it is close to the core.

Even Lin Zhi, who had been in contact with the nuns from the beginning, only now knows that although the Enji Society does not worship a specific god, it worships a civilization that has been destroyed.

Suddenly, a question arose in Lin Zhong's mind.

If there is no one to guide it from within, can this kind of belief take shape on its own in a short period of time?
(End of this chapter)