The unveiling ceremony of the hero statue ended, and Feng Qi returned to the Hupo Research Institute.
In the days that followed, he continued to implement the Lord of Mist's "Faith Harvest" plan.
This morning.
After breakfast, Feng Qi went to his office.
As soon as he entered the door, he saw a thick stack of documents on the desk.
When he came to the desk and sat down, he reached for the tea Ye Laoer had just brewed and took a sip.
Putting down the tea cup, he picked up a piece of information and started to read it.
This information was obtained by instructing Ye Laoer to use the authority of Hu Po Research Institute before he went to sleep last night.
The content of the information is related to the beliefs of modern humans.
An in-depth understanding of the belief structure of modern humans will help him launch his subsequent "Belief Harvest" plan.
As I looked through the information, time passed by bit by bit.
During this period, he picked up the teacup and took a sip from time to time.
Through the data content, Feng Qi found that modern human beings have many religious factions, mainly composed of Taoism, Buddhism, Christianity and other mainstream factions.
Each belief sect has its own gods that it respects, and each sect's god system is different.
It can be seen from the data in the data content that modern faith sects have long ceased to thrive in the Cataclysm.
Under the new model of education, modern humans are more willing to worship heroes who fight bloody battles on the front line rather than illusory gods.
The Institute of Antiquity has conducted a social survey on issues related to human faith.
Finally, a more authoritative set of data was obtained.
Devout believers account for less than 6% of the modern human population.
Among them, passerby believers account for about 23%.
The passer-by believers here refer to those who are cautious about the existence of gods and prefer to believe in their existence rather than their non-existence.
They will follow the older generation in their faith, but they are not pious in their hearts and may even be very wavering.
The remaining 71% are made up of atheists and hero believers.
Looking through information related to faith, Feng Qi discovered something strange.
He discovered that in the new era of mankind after the cataclysm, many new schools of faith were actually born.
However, these faith sects are very small in scale and cannot compete with the mainstream sects at all.
This is obviously related to the new era environment.
People living in the post-catastrophic era think about problems from a practical perspective, resulting in a lack of soil for the growth of faith factions.
But one faction is an exception.
The name of this belief sect is "Dark God Cult", which arose in the West District of Old City.
To this day, followers of this sect can be found in the five major cities and many affiliated smaller cities.
The god worshiped by the Dark God Religion is called the "Dark God".
The information also records a detailed introduction about the Dark God, which tells the story of the creation process of the first god born in the darkness, the "Dark God", who brought fire and light to mankind, etc.
At the end of the information, it also states that belief in the Dark God can bring many benefits.
It has nothing to do with reincarnation and rewards in the next life.
Feng Qi scoffed at these descriptions.
The gods described by believers are actually very similar in many ways.
But if belief in gods was useful, cities would not fall and countless scavengers would be homeless.
But he was very curious about the rapid development and growth of this religious sect.
With doubts, he continued to look through the relevant information of the Dark God Cult.
Soon, his expression became solemn.
He discovered that the rapid development of the Dark God Religion was actually closely related to the feedback from believers.
The data records a large number of cases where believers received feedback after believing in the Dark God.
For example, a believer in the West District of Old City.
He was terminally ill before he believed in the Dark God, and the hospital even issued a critical illness notice.
Before his death, this believer also chose to believe in the dark god with the attitude of treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor.
As a result, in just one month, the symptoms miraculously disappeared.
The hospital concluded after testing that his health was no longer serious and was no different from that of a normal person.
This incident caused quite a stir in the West District of Old City at the time.
It also brought a lot of exposure to the Dark God Cult.
As a result, many people choose to believe in the Dark God.
If it weren't for the positive and uplifting purpose of the Dark God Religion, it would probably have been suppressed by the Old City officials at that time.
There are many such cases in the development and expansion of Dark God Religion.
There are hundreds of cases recorded in the data, and there are even more information recorded by other believers. It seems that belief in the Dark God can really heal diseases and bring good things.
After reading the relevant information about the Dark God Cult, Feng Qi couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
Naturally, he did not believe in the existence of the Dark God.
However, the information shows that many believers actually had a similar mentality to him before believing in the Dark God, and did not believe in the existence of the Dark God at all.
Many of them are students who graduated from well-known universities.
Based on their judgment ability, it is obvious that they cannot be easily fooled.
But he felt that things were certainly not that simple.
The Dark God is really powerful and can help mankind, why not dispel all the fields and bring real light.
In fact, creatures in many fields can heal minor illnesses and pains.
For example, Le Pingan recovered from a terminal illness with the help of the shadow forces. This was also the main reason why his parents chose to join the darkness.
Therefore, he has reason to suspect that there may be a domain force behind the Dark God Religion.
They may be playing a big game of chess.
He even suspected that this possible latent force had similar abilities to the Miracle Bracelet in his hand, and that the Dark God Cult was established just to gain the power of faith and plan for the future.
Just when Feng Qi was deep in thought, the door of the room was pushed open.
He looked up and found that it was the Lord of the Mist who had arrived.
Looking at the Lord of the Mist, who was still wearing tattered clothes and with a smile on his face, he couldn't help but ask:
"it's over?"
"Being reborn in seclusion, you have achieved great success, and you can look forward to the future."
With that said, the Lord of Mist walked to the desk and sat down.
Hearing these words, Feng Qi couldn't help but roll his eyes.
"What are you studying?" The Lord of Mist turned his attention to the documents placed on his desk.
"Analysis of the current structure of human beliefs."
When the Lord of the Mist heard this, he immediately nodded and said:
"You have to analyze this aspect carefully. We have chosen the belief path of heroes becoming gods, which is essentially in conflict with, and can even be said to be the opposite of, the beliefs of these gods."
"After all, we are starting from a practical perspective, and these gods' beliefs are illusory and spiritual. If you want to gain more faith, you must find ways to destroy these gods' beliefs."
"After all, there is only one piece of cake. If our believers increase, the number of believers of other faiths will decrease."
As he spoke, the Lord of Mist said with a curious expression:
"Have you found anything after looking at the belief structure of modern humans?"
"There is an unexpected discovery." As he said this, Feng Qi handed the information about the Dark God Cult to the Lord of Mist.
After receiving the information, the Lord of Mist began to look through it with doubts.
After a moment, the Lord of Mist looked up at him:
"Do you think there are domain forces behind the Dark God Religion that are gaining the power of faith to plan for the future?"
"Well, my thoughts are the same as yours." He nodded immediately, and then continued: Gu
"But there is one thing that cannot be explained. If there is a domain force behind the Dark God Religion, why the psionic tribe entrenched in the Old City would sit back and ignore it. After all, this is a domain force that has developed on their territory. It is not
Are you worried about the threats this force may bring?"
"Then have you ever thought about a possibility? What if this Dark God Cult is a part of the psionic tribe's future layout plan?"
The Lord of Mist's words made Feng Qi fall into deep thought.
He suddenly remembered something.
This matter is related to the historical identity of "monk".
The monk's identity in the Star City database after 1500 was the "spiritual mentor of mankind". He preached spiritual power everywhere and allowed people to fight against domain invasion from a pragmatic perspective.
To achieve this goal, the monk during this period took the initiative to step down from his position as leader of the Prajna Realm Chapter.
At that time, he still wondered why the monk did this.
As the leader of the Prajna Chapter, he can continue to lead the members of the Chapter to fight on the front line.
Why did he suddenly let go of his burden and become a human spiritual guide?
But he never asked the monk this question.
After all, when he confessed the truth to the monk, the monk had not yet stepped out of school.
By the time he became a spiritual mentor, he had been dead for who knows how many years.
Now it seems that the monk's behavior is very similar to his current goal.
The purpose is to overthrow spiritual belief theory and establish realistic hero worship dominated by human heroes.
A possible guess suddenly came to his mind.
The main battlefield of the Prajna Chapter led by the monk is near the old supply area.
The birthplace of the Dark God Cult, and its main believers come from the Old City.
Perhaps the monk discovered the secrets of the Dark God Cult while leading the Prajna Chapter, but he could not reveal these secrets to the world.
He was afraid that the bloody truth would completely break down the spiritual defenses of all mankind.
So he chose another way to save mankind.
There are only two ways to defeat the Dark God Cult.
Defeat the forces behind the Dark God Religion head-on, or destroy human beings' faith in the Dark God Religion, and make this force's plan empty.
The first method may be limited by the strength of the Prajna Chapter and the impact it may have on the world.
The second way requires people to give up their belief in gods and change their belief in reality.
Judging from the monk's series of behaviors after resigning as group leader, it is obvious that he adopted the second method.
The difference with him is.
He wants to defeat belief in gods so that he can gain more sources of belief.
But the monk's behavior is purely to save all mankind and become a tool for the growth of the domain's power.
This also explains a series of confusing behaviors of monks in historical data.
Outsiders may not take notice of the monk's changes.
But based on his understanding of monks, he would never do such a thankless thing unless it was of great significance.
He had no way of knowing what the specific truth was. This was just a guess based on the available information.
At this time, the Lord of Mist interrupted his thinking:
"Perhaps we can learn more about the Dark God Cult. The content recorded in the data is limited after all... But no matter what, the Dark God Cult will be your enemy on the way to gain faith."
Hearing these words, Feng Qi couldn't help but nod.
There are currently only two speculations about the Dark God Religion.
First, there is no support from domain forces behind this force, and the growth of this faith sect is purely a coincidence.
Second, there are domain forces behind this force that are gaining faith power to plan for the future.
The specific answer remains to be investigated.
While discussing the situation related to the Dark God Religion, time passed by unconsciously.
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Noon the next day.
After lunch, Feng Qi changed into casual clothes and left the Tiger Soul headquarters with the Lord of Mist.
The purpose of their trip was the Dark God Cult branch in the East District of Star City.
Decided to go there in person to find out.
Perhaps the truth can be found in the branch of the Dark God Cult.
A few hours later, the Tiger Army military vehicle stopped on the side of the road one kilometer away from the Dark God Sect branch.
Feng Qi and the Lord of Mist got out of the car at this time.
To keep a low profile, they moved forward on foot.
They walked for a while along the route leading to the Star City branch of the Dark God Cult, and the branch building of the Dark God Cult appeared in their sight.
The architecture of the Dark God Cult is very distinctive.
The top of the building is inlaid with a red crystal made of unknown material, which reflects brilliant colors in the sunlight.
"It's quite cool." The Lord of Mist grinned at this moment.
"Is there something wrong with this crystal?"
"There are no spiritual energy fluctuations on it. It is just polished from ordinary crystals in the field."
After hearing the explanation from the Lord of Mist, Feng Qi nodded.
Following the steps to the building of the Dark God Cult, they stepped into the building.
Ahead is a long and narrow corridor with murals on both sides.
There are eighteen murals in total.
It tells the story of the Dark God's birth, creation, creation, creation of humans, dissemination of knowledge, and other processes.
Continuing walking inside, there is a grassy garden full of green plants.
Flowers of different colors are planted around the green grassland, and eight ferocious statues are placed in the center of the grassland.
At this time, many believers knelt down in front of the eight statues and worshiped devoutly.
As for the origins of these eight statues, Feng Qi has learned about them through the information.
According to the information, these eight statues are the first series of gods created by the Dark God himself, and are called the Eight Evil Gods.
Although they are called evil gods, they have never actually done anything evil. Their duty is to maintain the balance of the world and achieve a state of perfection.
In fact, the Dark God Cult can be successfully established and promoted.
It has nothing to do with the teachings of this sect.
At least the doctrine always promotes positive things, always reminding believers to maintain a kind heart, face life with a positive and optimistic attitude, etc.
It is precisely because of this that the Dark God Cult can be promoted in other cities without hindrance.
If it is a sect with distorted ideas, there is no soil for them to grow in major cities.
But Feng Qi has reason to believe that there may be a conspiracy behind this.
Just like "Flesh and Blood Sacrifice", it has a glamorous appearance and is even hailed as a super skill that changed human cultivation.
But this super skill is essentially just a means for the Lord of Mist to harvest all mankind and a large number of domain forces.
Perhaps there is a group of guys behind the Dark God Religion who are manipulating it in order to extract the power of human faith to grow.
With doubts, they continued walking along the marble path in the garden.
After walking out of the garden, the view ahead suddenly opened up.
This is a circular square, which is paved with cobblestones. At this time, dozens of believers are kneeling on the ground and worshiping the statue more than ten meters high in the center of the square.
This statue is none other than the Dark God.
At this time, seeing the statue of the Dark God with his own eyes, Feng Qi felt very familiar for some reason.
I seem to have seen it somewhere.
As he looked carefully, he suddenly remembered where he had seen it.
Although the features of the statue were slightly different, he still recognized it.
Isn’t this the statue god worshiped by the sheep-headed demon?
