Coming out of the School of Physics, you only have to cross a small road to reach the Seminary of Xuhuixing National University.
——Or it cannot be said that it is a separate school of physics and a school of divinity. They are just two separate buildings on a whole lawn, with only a path in between. With these two buildings as the main body, there are also some ancillary facilities and buildings scattered around the lawn. The lawn is surrounded by shrubs with lush flower buds, and a wide road surrounds the outside, forming an overall building complex. In fact, students who come and go here regard it as a unified place. For example, the poster for a previous lecture simply stated the address of the lecture as the South Lawn Physics Building.
Gu Hanhan was deeply shocked by the fact that the School of Physics and the School of Theology were openly placed side by side in a university - this was simply worse than a lighthouse star! At least on Beacon Planet, the temple is the temple, the university is the university, the theological monastery and the university's physics school have always gone their own way. Even the Acropolis can't do something like this that is randomly put together!
But Leos was very disapproving: "What's the point? In many places deep in the galaxy, physics itself is theology. Like Xuhuixing, it is simply put together and can give you the names of physics and theology. It is already very good. Enlightened and open – so open that it’s almost retro.”
"Open? Retro?" This statement made Gu Hanhan confused. He really didn't expect to hear these two words being equated in his lifetime.
"What's all the fuss," Leos said, "you just go out too little, so you don't know much. Physics may have a wider scope in a civilized place like Lighthouse Star, but in the Milky Way, field energy has long dominated the world. era. In such a climate, physics is actually equivalent to energy physics, and when it comes to energy physics, its end is theology. Isn’t this already recognized? Then physics is equivalent to Theology, is there a problem with that?”
No problem at all.
Gu Hanhan couldn't find anything to say to refute, so he had to shut up. After a moment, he couldn't help but laugh at himself and said: "When I was in Lighthouse Star, I always felt that the place was selling sheep's head and dog meat. The so-called light of freedom was actually the darkest place. It was extremely dark. Now that I think of it, Lighthouse Star is still the darkest place. It has become a beacon of freedom and enlightenment..."
"Then what are the seminaries studying in the School of Physics?" she asked, "Miracles? Beliefs? Where does the God who covers the truth come from, and where will it go?"
"The devil knows." Leos muttered, and then said, "In a place like Xuhui Star that is almost an alien world, the Temple Religion Headquarters has never had any actual control. Of course, the God of the Universe is everywhere, and the Temple Religion will definitely be there, but I don’t know how it will be packaged here. But no matter what, there will always be records and images about the gods and religions in this starry sky."
In this way, Gu Hanhan roughly understood why Rios chose Xuhuixing National University as the first place to inspect this place. According to the prevailing political rules of the Temple Era—let’s count Xuhuixing within these prevailing rules—miracles, superpowers, and patrons are the trinity of existences, a religion unified under the belief in the God of the Universe. Then, when you find the object pointed by a local religion and the "messenger" who protects it, it is equivalent to finding the superpower ruler who actually controls this place.
Compared with going straight in and rashly breaking into the temple of unknown power, the university’s seminary is obviously a simpler and safer option. Exploring more here will not arouse too much suspicion, so there will be no need to advance. Get into unnecessary trouble. And if you can't find any clues here, then there are also faculties of liberal arts, faculties of art, and faculties of social studies in the national university. Since "god" is everywhere, the messengers who walk in the world on behalf of gods will always leave clues in these places. .
"Should this place be open to visitors?" she said.
This is of course not a problem. The Seminary of Xuhuixing National University is open to the public for visits. The open parts are basically the same as those of other colleges. The main ones are the library of the college and an exhibition hall used for visits, but it is probably used for daily exchanges and pilgrimages. Due to the large number of people, entering the seminary’s library requires a certificate of identity issued by the church, and visiting the exhibition hall requires an appointment in advance. If the number of people exceeds the limit for that day, you will not be able to enter. In addition, behind the seminary, there is a small church, which was built for teachers and students of the school to meet their religious needs. This is not limited to the number of people and status, and anyone can enter it.
With the simple thinking of a senior academic scumbag, Gu Hanhan decided that unless it was absolutely necessary, he would not go to the library to flip through information. Instead, he could consider visiting the exhibition hall. It should be simple and effortless, but it was difficult to make an appointment. , I don’t know which day I want to go without looking for some other way around. On the contrary, the guide patted his chest and promised that even if there was no reservation, he would be able to get them to take a look today.
So, while Gu Hanhan and Rios were talking, the guide ran off somewhere to exercise. When he came back soon, he already had a small red flag with gold feather lace in his hand.
"The international students sent by each star region of the alliance happened to be scheduled to visit the academy together today. We can go in with them."
As he spoke, the guide took out two badges in the shape of golden feathers and gave them to Gu Hanhan and Rios, asking them to wear them respectively, saying they were the symbols of the church's trainees, and then took them to the exhibition hall.
The exhibition hall is on the first floor of the seminary. There is a door that opens to the outside on the side of the seminary building and you can enter directly there. At this time, some people had gathered on the steps outside the door. Most of them were young, and none of them were wearing divine robes. They just wore the gold-feather-style badge on their chests. They should be the international students the guide mentioned. They were standing in twos and threes near some people holding red flags, and they didn't seem to be familiar with each other. The guide waved a small flag and brought Gu Hanhan and Leos over. They joined in smoothly without arousing anyone's suspicion.
"Absolutely no problem," the guide explained, "There are nine stars in the Rising Sun Alliance. These foreign students are new here. Who can know each other? Even if they are from the same planet, they are organized by different churches and gods. Recommended by the academy. If there are two more people and two less people, you won’t be able to find it at all.”
Sure enough, after them, several groups of international students wearing golden feathers and waving flags joined them. After a while, a man wearing a deacon's black robe came out and took them into the museum for a tour.
The exhibition hall is circular, surrounded by painted relief murals. Below are booths one by one, with some sacred objects, manuscripts and statues placed on them. The black-robed deacon probably also played the role of college counselor, exhibition hall tour guide and church preacher. He organized the international students to visit and gave explanations based on scriptures. Gu Hanhan was confused among them, and after hearing a general outline, he realized that the name of the Temple Church here was called "Lighting Church".
But there are and only so many. The local accent of the black-robed deacon's common language is too strong, and there are a lot of quotations from scriptures in the explanation, and he uses some unknown ancient Germanic language - the so-called unknown means that what he said may or indeed should be, but the specifics It sounds like I don’t know what kind of bird song it is. Gu Hanhan really didn't know which language teacher the deacon had learned this "church lingua franca" from, or he was simply self-taught. In short, Gu Hanhan couldn't understand a word of his ancient Germanic language.
Fortunately, Leos is a generalist, and his talent in language is more like cheating. He listens to the birdsong as if he is his mother tongue. Gu Hanhan can rest assured and leave this part of the investigation, reasoning and solving the case to him, and As for herself, she can free up her hands to do some work within her ability.
The so-called work that Gu Hanhan can do is to study the murals on the surrounding walls. Compared with the profoundness of artifact science and the innate magical power of bird singing, the threshold for mural painting is much lower. As long as there is human history, there is religion, and as long as there is religious history, there are murals. For the purpose of proselytizing, all religious murals basically follow one principle, which is to have simple meanings and easy to understand. No matter what your aesthetic sentiments are, whether you are illiterate or not, it can be said that anyone with eyes can see. Moreover, Gu Hanhan cannot be regarded as illiterate. She has read the genuine "Sacred Code" and held a banquet under the dome of the Pantheon. Based on this alone, her theological knowledge and vision make everyone here at Xuhuixing No one can match it.
The murals of Xuhuixing Seminary are obviously derived from the "Sacred Code" and are in the same vein as the style of the Temple Cult. The statements in the murals about the God of the Universe coming to the world to protect the world are completely consistent with the basic teachings of the Temple Cult, which is enough to illustrate the branch and main relationship between the Illuminati Sect and the Temple Cult here. But in the Illuminati Sect's true interpretation of the God of the Universe coming to earth, there is obviously a magical modification. Here, the concept of "saint" disappears and is replaced by the new image of "son of light". The Illuminati sect claims that the god of the universe is merciful and saves all living beings, so he spreads the power of light across the galaxy to fight against evil. These powers of light condensed into a fetus, were born in human form, awakened and became the spokesperson of "god" in the world, that is, the son of light.
There is a frame in the seminary mural that clearly depicts this event. The huge eyes of the God of the Universe, which represents absolute power, looked down on the world from the sky. Her sight finally fell on a newly married couple, and then the divine light shone and the light came down and enveloped the couple. They were pregnant. After ten months of pregnancy, the young couple gave birth to a child separately, each giving birth to a divine son, a pair of identical twins. Then, as the Son of God twins grew up, the innate divine power contained in their bodies gradually awakened and grew stronger, and finally broke away from the human body and protected the world as the incarnation of the light power of the God of the Universe.
This is obviously a retrogression, or backwardness, which is equivalent to directly deifying the superpowers who are still "human" in the teachings of the Temple Cult in one step. Here, one receives the blessing of the God of the Universe, reacts to the absolute power that descends upon the universe, and becomes a messenger of God. The person who protects the world on behalf of God is no longer a "human" in his or her own life, but is directly incarnated and conceived by the absolute power. The "Son of God". If it is in the central area close to the star field directly controlled by the Temple Cult headquarters, this interpretation is tantamount to heresy. As for the concept of male childbearing in the murals, around 2,500 years ago, after research confirmed that artificial reproduction blocked the inheritance of superpower genes and awakened them, it was directly heretical in the Temple Cult.
"A variant of the right of the first night, a social custom that once existed widely from the late Galactic Age to the middle and late Imperial Age from 1600 to 2300, and still remains in many places in the Galaxy. For example, the wedding of Xuhuixing still exists today. There is still such a thing, the newlyweds have to spend the first night in the gospel room of the church, and then at noon the next day, there is a celebratory cocktail party.”
Rios walked up to Gu Hanhan at some point and said to her, "Let's go and have a look at the church at the back. You should learn something." 166 Reading Network
