Old days in the box

Chapter 430 Questioning God, Understanding God, Becoming God
"Hey, isn't this always the way it is in our business? Are you just used to it?"

The guy with the crew cut naturally picked up the apple that Zhou Xiao had peeled and continued talking while eating.

"Dreams are dreams, reality is reality, life is hard, brother! It's rare to make a game that is favored by investors. At this time, who cares about whether it is hard work or not? It must be more important to pay the bills!"

"We are just ordinary people who come to big cities to work hard. In the end, what we want is to return home in glory. There are not so many good things in this world that can give us the best of both worlds. Even if there are, they will not fall into the hands of ordinary people like us."

"These days, fuel and electricity prices are rising every day, but wages haven't increased. We're lucky to be able to live like a human being..."

The guy with a crew cut was chewing an apple while expressing his own opinions. Zhou Xiao stood up from the bedside and walked to the window, his eyes wandering in the huge rain curtain of the city.

"Two hours ago, an unnamed typhoon suddenly landed in our city. The Meteorological Observatory has issued a red typhoon warning signal, urging our city to initiate emergency risk avoidance measures. We have not yet learned the cause of the typhoon's formation and its path..."

The abnormal weather that came with him caused chaos in the whole city. The white rain curtain took away the visibility of the entire city. Only the occasional flash of lightning in the distance hung high in the sky, as if the end of the world had come.

What the guy with the buzz cut said is right. For an ordinary person, there is no need to consider such a choice at all.

Between dreams and reality, between beliefs and survival, ordinary people have no choice at all. We are all caught up in the social ladder that we have to climb up, always looking forward to going further and further, and we are not qualified to talk about costs and choices at all.

But, he is no longer an ordinary person.

Zhou Xiao's gaze shuttled through the hazy rain curtain, seeing and hearing everything wherever he passed, like an invisible god hovering above people's heads.

——No ordinary person can possess such super senses, which are enough to capture accurate information thousands of kilometers away, as clear as a live broadcast.

——No ordinary person can exceed Mach 35 speed with his physical body, escape the earth's gravity and survive alone in space.

——No ordinary person would be accompanied by wind and clouds. Wherever they go, they always cause abnormal particle storms, becoming the center of the storm and bringing strict alert to the whole city.

No ordinary man had ever walked the earth like him, like a god walking the earth, all-knowing and all-powerful.

He is no longer an ordinary person, but he only realizes this now.

"Thank you, Mr. Baldwin. I think I have got the answer." Zhou Xiao's voice suddenly rang out in the room, interrupting Mr. Baldwin's nagging.

"Games are just games. After all, they are just virtual things on a screen. If there is a chance to use them to gain greater benefits, what qualifications do ordinary people have to refuse them?"

He turned around, tears sliding down his cheeks from his golden pupils, staring at the guy with a crew cut who was chewing an apple.

"But it turns out that I am no longer an ordinary person!" He smiled bitterly, like a merciful god.

"you……"

Just as the crew cut guy was about to say something, the golden mist formed by the extraordinary power blew towards the entire room in an instant, partially solidifying the space here and freezing everything at this moment. Zhou Xiao retracted his moving fingertips, and the whole person began to hang in the wind, with his feet off the ground floating in the crew cut guy's ward, and his whole body was covered by the golden mist.

"I can hear their voices and their prayers all the time, day and night, countless voices echoing in my ears all the time, becoming clearer and more piercing."

"They are praying for the return of God and the advent of salvation. They are confused, lost, collapsed, and leave. They question why God left them and what sin they had committed to end up in this situation."

He was in the center of the light, and continued to speak slowly to the guy with a crew cut who was temporarily frozen.

It turned out that since the connection was re-established, Zhou Xiao had gradually been able to hear the prayers from the nine realms.

Through the increasingly powerful new natural law, the new channel of "faith" is also constantly being strengthened. All the prayers from his old relatives have gradually been able to be transmitted clearly to his mind, like an indelible shadow.

The golden lines twisted deep in his memory. He saw the Blood King lying on the debris of a planet covered with corpses, nailed to the ground with an obsidian cross piercing his chest; all the creations he designed were burned to ashes, and the corpses of two Godzillas piled up into a mountain, which was occupied by the enemy with flags; the girl he loved knelt on the ground, shedding tears of blood and praying desperately to the statue, while the sky in front of her was completely blocked by countless Kryptonians, bringing the final doomsday...

It was like a stick figure drawing of a god, with decades and centuries of history outlined in golden lines, all presented before him.

"In the past, I kept reminding myself that I must remember that I am a human being, not a god. I will never covet powers that do not belong to me. I must stick to my bottom line as a human being."

"But I don't know when it started, but this slowly became an excuse, a reason to deceive myself. I allowed myself to hide behind this excuse, constantly telling myself 'I'm not a god', trying to avoid the responsibilities I didn't want to take."

The light around him began to grow, and the golden mist formed by the supernatural power penetrated the wall and windows facing the sky, making them penetrable.

"You're right. Humans have no choice in many things, but gods do. This is also the true meaning of gods' existence, because they can make choices for people that they cannot make and take on responsibilities that they cannot bear."

He raised his head, and the golden pupils in his eyes shone like the scorching sun.

"From the moment I stepped out of the box, I was no longer a human being. I was God. I could no longer tolerate myself continuing to escape in the name of humanity, pretending that I couldn't hear the voices of those prayers, pretending that I didn't know that billions of people were dying because of me."

The name of God has never been an honor but a responsibility.

The reason why gods can stand above all people is because they can make decisions that mortals cannot make and can assume responsibilities that mortals cannot assume. This is the original meaning of the birth of gods.

Gods should not enslave mortals. Gods should walk with mortals, facing the future and turning their backs to the common people.

And now, Zhou Xiao has understood this truth.

"Thank you, crew cut. You will always be my best friend." He smiled, and floated into the air through the transparent outer wall, like a golden angel descending on a rainy night.

"I already know where my path is heading, and now, I will do what a god should do and become the true Son of the Old One in their minds."

(End of this chapter)