Gowen has always been interested in the huge "disobedience plan" of the ancient Gondor Empire - in a sense, this plan cannot be described as merely as huge, it... can even be described as great.

This is a plan for humans to confirm the existence of gods and, on the basis of the reality that extraordinary powers dominate the world, actively seeking survival by fighting gods. In modern times a thousand years later, human civilization has declined, and all races outside of human beings seem to be trapped in the quagmire. Gao Wen has seen too many rigidity, backwardness, ignorance and decline in this era. However, some sparks that disobey the plan are still continuing in this dark chaos. Even if it is only a little bit, it is proving one thing to Gao Wen:

In this world, humans have factors of resistance and survival in their hearts.

But if you look carefully and think carefully, Gao Wen found that there are too many doubts in the plan of disobedience - this huge plan seems to revolve around the "disobedience god" from beginning to end. Although its ultimate goal seems to be to fight against the demon tide, is it just to make humans survive the demon tide?

The Gondor Empire tried to fight against the gods with such a resolute attitude. Even after the end of the demon tide and the emergence of the new kingdom, disobedients like Ophelia continued to study the old empire. The focus of these research seems to have completely changed to a simple analytical gods, fighting against the demon tide... Instead, it is more like an adjunct to this series of plans.

Even if we put aside these doubts, with the existence of a living disobedient like Ophelia, Gao Wen will inevitably want to find out the ancient secrets from this "party". After all, gossip is one of human nature, and it is the same as becoming a satellite spirit.

"Disobeying the plan...I thought you would discuss these with me at least after the situation is completely stable," Ophelia smiled slightly. "The areas involved in this topic are not something that can be explained clearly in just a few words."

"Just chat casually to satisfy my personal curiosity," Gao Wen said. "You don't have to completely answer my question. If you think there are some secrets that must be kept, we can keep it until we both build more trust - after all, just casual chat."

Ophelia sat on a high-back chair beside Gao Wen's desk. She turned her head slightly, her cheeks seemed to be soaked in a layer of tiny holy light: "Don't worry, I'm happy to tell you about this. Those who disobey never refuse to passers-by. In addition to keeping necessary confidentiality to the public, our career is not something that cannot be seen."

Gao Wen nodded: "That's good - I already know that the disobedient plan is actually divided into many project groups, and the 'God' project carried out by Carmier is actually just one of them. I'm curious about how many projects it has in total, and which part of it is specifically responsible for?"

Ophelia pondered for a moment: "How many specific items...I am afraid I can't tell you this. It's not that I intentionally keep it secret, but... because God may hear it."

Gao Wen frowned: "Will God hear it?"

"I'm not sure if you can understand these overly abstract knowledge. I can only say what I know in its entirety: There are some projects... The disobedient has gone too far and entered the chaotic realm between the mortal world and the gods. There, when you know God, God knows you-we have taken some security measures to ensure that it can mislead the gods' sight and let the gods look elsewhere in our research, but if they are brought up at an inappropriate time, especially through the mouth of the disobedient, these misleading measures may be broken down immediately..."

"Gods possess some conceptual qualities that in certain specific areas, they will attract their attention if they mention relevant knowledge?"

"...You have excellent understanding," Ophelia glanced at Gao Wen with a little surprise, "This is a sincere compliment."

"After experiencing life and death, I have been exposed to some hidden knowledge," Gao Wen said casually, "Since the gods have such qualities, how do you study those projects that cannot even mention?"

"...I can't even mention this," Ophelia shook her head helplessly. This was the first time Gao Wen saw a helpless expression on her face. "The security measures set back then have now expired. I can't discuss any topics related to it with you in the real world. In a sense, these secret projects have been "stuck" on the edge of the boundary of the divine realm. I'm sorry, I haven't found a way to break the deadlock yet."

"...It doesn't matter, you can't force everything," Gao Wen exclaimed, "Then talk about the projects you are responsible for, and choose those that you can say."

"It is my main task to study the nature of God and their laws and try to find loopholes in it," Ophelia nodded. "In addition, I am also responsible for managing several bases of disobedience, including the one you know of."

"Several bases..." Gao Wen suddenly raised his eyelids and looked surprised, "There are many bases like the Disobedience Fortress?"

"How can all projects be put in one place with such a dangerous plan?" Ophelia said lightly, "The Fortress you know is only one of many bases. But as far as I know, the Fortress of Disobedience is indeed the largest and earliest built of all bases - it connects the place where the fall of Amoen of the Julu, and our original project began there, and therefore it is qualified to be called "disobedience."

Gao Wen couldn't help asking: "That other bases of disobedience..."

Ophelia's next answer temporarily dispelled all his thoughts: "In the wasteland of Gondor."

"...Okay," Gao Wen sighed, "This is a goal that we can't solve for the time being."

Ophelia looked at Gao Wen: "What else do you want to know about the disobedience plan?"

Gao Wen thought, and gently tapped the table in front of him with his fingers: "Does the goal of disobeying the plan just want to fight against the demon tide? In order to fight against the demon tide, we must disobey the gods? Or ask a different question... Why must we fight against the gods so that humans can survive? Is it because only by stealing the power of the gods can people resist the demon tide, or is it because it was the gods that triggered the demon tide?"

This is exactly the question that Gao Wen has been thinking about recently: What are the initial reasons and motivation for those who disobey against gods?

As a former atheist, coupled with his thinking habits in his previous life, he did not think that there was anything wrong with this plan when he first knew about the disobedience of the plan. In his opinion, it is a kind of "innate correctness" for mortals to try to break free from the shackles of gods: pursuing freedom, overthrow monsters and monsters, and gods oppressing the world. Isn't that the case?

But as he lived in this world for a longer time, the more he felt the dissonance from the local people's worldview:

What is the relationship between gods and mortals? They do control the source of the power of divine arts, control the faith of mortals, and may even create "spirit seals" to ensure mortals' belief in themselves, but in addition, have they really interfered in the operation of the mortal world?

The church performs the responsibility of the gods to supervise the world on behalf of the gods - this is one of the rules of the mortal world. In other words, in fact, those priests composed of mortals are the real exploiters and oppressors, and even the interpreters of divine power. After taking over the Church of Holy Light, Wright also confirmed this point: Although oracles exist, the gods actually issued oracles pitifully few times. In addition to the connections in the realm of divine art, they can be said to be completely free from this world, and the real thing is just priests...

Of course, Gao Wen himself was still full of fear and even a certain degree of hostility towards the gods, but this was determined by his personal experience and worldview.

So what about people other than him? What about the indigenous people who were born and raised in this world? What about the disobedient people in ancient times?

The disobedients must have a more powerful reason to decide to fight against the gods at first. According to the information revealed by Ophelia, the disobedient plan can be said to be a fight against the gods in all aspects, not only stealing their power, but also studying their essence, finding their coordinates, finding their weaknesses, and further... They certainly don't mind killing those gods.

If it is just to allow mortals to survive in the tide of devils, they don’t have to do this. The reason they do this must require deeper reasons, such as...

The gods are an "absolute threat" to the existence of mortals.

Regarding this, Carmier, who is a senior researcher and the head of the group, cannot give Gao Wen the answer, but Ophelia Norton, a member of the old imperial royal family and disobeying the senior manager of the plan, must know something.

Gao Wen’s question may really hit the point. Ophelia’s expression faintly appeared to be a little solemn. After pondering for a long time, she spoke quietly:

"As long as the gods exist, humans will one day be destroyed."

Gao Wen frowned: "...so it turns out they caused the demon tide?"

"On the contrary, gods never triggered a tide of demons. According to our research, in the ancient lost civilization - do you know the ancient lost civilization?"

Gao Wen nodded: "I have contacted the Dragon Clan and know some things about ancient civilizations. It seems that you know these too."

"That's easy to communicate - according to our research, ancient civilizations have also encountered demon tides, and some of them have survived disasters, and not every civilization that has survived disasters depends on their own strength..."

"You mean..." Gao Wen's move to hit the table suddenly stopped, with a serious look in his eyes, "Is it God who helped?"

"It's not just about helping - the darker it is, the more dazzling the light is. The more severe the disasters the mortals encounter, the more the gods will spare no effort to protect the mortals. There is evidence that in ancient times, there may even be gods who come directly to the world to help mortals resist the demon tide. Although not every time can successfully survive civilization, those gods have done this."

Gao Wen thought for a while: "...Is the news reliable?"

"We cannot determine the ancient things, but we have more than one clue, including the experiences and experiences revealed by some ancient races, and some ancient relics we excavated in the central part of the mainland," Ophelia said slowly. "The demon tide was not triggered by gods. Instead, the latter will appear to help humans resist the demon tide. As a pioneer, you should also know that in the era of pioneering, there were many priests who were active on the front line as important combat powers of the pioneering army. Doesn't the divine artifacts in the hands of these priests come from the gods they believe in?"

Gao Wen couldn't help but think in the direction of the conspiracy: "What if it was the gods who triggered the demon tide and increased their faith through miracles from heaven?"

"Does your own believers increase by reducing the population of more than 70%? After the Demon Tide, the number of believers in all churches dropped sharply by half, and many faiths were directly cut off, not to mention that in ancient times there were civilizations that were directly destroyed by the Demon Tide... From this point of view, I think your guess is not valid."

"Well, this seems to be too conspiracy theory," Gao Wen also realized that his guess was not well thought out. "So, since that's the case, what's your reason to fight against the gods?"

Ophelia took a deep breath and said seriously: "In ancient times, more than one civilization survived the demon tide - but where are those civilizations that survived now?"

In just two or three seconds of silence, a concept that Melita Pernia once told him appeared in Gao Wen's mind-

Black trap.

"Is it God who finally destroyed those survivors?"

Ophelia nodded slowly: "I'm afraid it's."

Gao Wen was stunned for a moment, and suddenly spread his hands with a strange expression: "...Is God schizophrenia?"

"We don't know the reason - and we didn't initially find any clues or evidence that would support the 'destruction of the gods'. We just found the records of gods protecting humanity in the tide of demons, and the fact that all civilizations that survived the tide of demons were eventually extinct.

"We didn't know what destroyed the survivors at first, until we adjusted the magic flow of the Deep Blue Well, we accidentally opened a wrong rift, connecting the 'Divine Realm Boundary'. In that distorted and brilliant rift, we witnessed a little bit of phantom in the kingdom of the gods for the first time...

"The Gondor royal family organized a secret exploration team, composed of the most powerful priests and scholars. The purpose of this team is actually very simple, just to go to the opposite side of the rift. If possible, pay tribute to God in the face of God to thank them for their protection of the world - the team will neither really enter the Kingdom of God nor make any offense.

"However, when the "cross-border" behavior occurs, the situation is out of control, and extreme chaos and crazy malicious intentions are emitted in the rift. The brilliant images of the kingdom of heaven instantly become the most terrifying nightmare picture. Under the brilliance, the distorted "knowledge" that makes people's minds collapse and the "truth" that cannot be understood by human minds. The team that crossed the rift is almost completely destroyed in an instant. Only two half-crazy legendary powerful men returned to the world in one breath. They only left two sentences before their death:

“They want to destroy us.

“This is a countdown.”

Ophelia stopped and looked at Gao Wen quietly. After being silent for more than ten seconds, she softly broke the silence:
Chapter completed!