Richard was never a good man, there's no doubt about that.
He is like the complete opposite of Lu Li - as sane as Lu Li is, he is as crazy as he is.
Calmness is Lu Li's weapon, and madness is Richard's weapon.
So when the theme of the test becomes redemption, how should arrogant people respond?
Richard opened the fourth door in front of him, and the motto on the wall appeared dazzlingly in his eyes.
[At the bottom of the abyss, your destination is waiting]
Richard rarely cursed under his breath and sat silently on the wooden chair.
The fourth believer is Jonah Peters. He claims that his brother is Al Peters, a gut-cutter who brutally killed many people. He loves his brother very much, but he doesn’t know if he is brave enough to stand up and stop him.
Lu Li, who was standing next to Richard, knew what the truth was.
Richard was on the chessboard. He wrote "Go to the police station and report your brother", just like Lu Li had done. However, the piece of paper was not handed out, but gradually clenched into wrinkles in his hand.
The first three defeats made Richard realize that it couldn't be that simple behind the fourth door.
At least the answer cannot be in the question.
Jonah Peters outside the confessional has a problem.
By luck or something, Richard really got a glimpse of the truth——
Usually people don't overcomplicate things. There are always traces of the development of things. This is logical thinking. But Richard is different from ordinary people. Richard, who cannot be described as crazy or paranoid, has the same madness.
and paranoid divergent thinking.
【Don't deceive a god, He knows everything】
Jonah Peters grabbed the paper outside the confession room. The hollow wooden wall blocked the sight of peeping out and in.
"I don't know who you are, some magician or a liar." After a long silence, Jonah Peters left his seat and whispered. "But you shouldn't play with my feelings. My brother Al and I are...
"
"Brother!"
Jonah Peters walked to the side of the confessional and suddenly opened the wooden door, and was stunned by what he saw.
The confessional was empty.
"How is this possible..."
Jonah Peters, with a gloomy look on his face, looked doubtfully at the narrow confessional, which made it impossible to hide anyone.
Returning to the front, he saw a piece of paper falling from the wide hole and reached out to catch it.
【Do you believe it now?】
Jonah Peters sat down silently: "What do you want to do?"
Ordinary people without faith may still doubt it, but Jonah Peters opposite is a believer and also a lunatic.
【Your meaning】
"Don't you know everything?"
[A sincere relationship with God and God’s attitude towards you]
For a moment, Jonah Peters told Richard the truth.
Jonah Peters accidentally met the daughter of Viscount Reeves. She was licked on the face by a bear when she was a child, and she lost her face, one eye, and one of her legs.
Despite this, Jonah Peters, who had the ability to see into human hearts since childhood, fell in love with her because of her beautiful soul and thought she should not be like this - he imagined being next to Princess Salina in "The Dragon Princess"
The Dark Knight took on the pain and sin for her. So Jonah Peters used sacrifices to the evil gods in an attempt to restore the girl's appearance and limbs.
And sacrifice is nothing more than murder.
Lu Li had learned about this from a side perspective, but the description of the person involved completed some of the information.
"I don't know if you are the God I understand, but now that I have told you everything, what do you want to do?" Jonah Peters said, and it was difficult to judge his emotions from his tone.
【Just protecting one person makes you satisfied? And is this really called protecting?】
Richard wrote the content with sarcasm.
"Why do you say that?"
[The girl has recovered her body, but she is still an ordinary person. Any crisis may kill her. Your so-called protection is just rescuing the injured girl repeatedly? Wrong. The real protection is the powerful self. Any crisis that may harm you protects you.
Everyone’s existence will be wiped out by you in an instant]
Jonah Peters outside the confessional was stunned. This was a path he had never imagined.
Lu Li was also thinking. When Richard wrote these words, he looked excited. He almost used all his strength to press the tip of the quill onto the paper. If it weren't for the quill that wouldn't be damaged, he would have nothing to write with.
This means that the content on the paper is also Richard's inner emotions.
That's what he thought.
Richard acquired the body of an ancient god just for the sake of power. If it was for protection...who did Richard want to protect?
The relative you found? Your favorite lover?
The confession room was quiet for a long time, and then a dry voice slowly sounded: "...will you make me stronger?"
[I can't tell you how to do it. No one can do it except me...but I think you, who have the ability to restore other people's injuries, also have the ability to become stronger]
Richard wrote the first half of the sentence with confidence.
Of course Jonah Peters has it, but he just doesn’t want to get involved too deeply, but he has already received the teachings, from the mouth of “God”...
"Why are you telling me this?" Jonah Peters asked. The "god" in front of him was completely different from the god he understood to be aloof and whose mouth was full of proverbs.
[Just someone who wants to protect something like you]
The quill pen stopped mid-air, and the writing of the word changed from human to divine. Finally, I moved the pen tip away without writing the noun to call myself.
"You also want to protect someone?"
【It's everyone】
As he was writing this sentence, Lu Li saw Richard clamping his legs together and shaking excitedly. This is the look of a person who has been suppressed for too long to vent his inner emotions.
These words hit Lu Li's heart, and the meaning of Richard's doing these things fully emerged.
He wants to occupy the ancient god's body and protect mankind!
This sounds unbelievable, but this is undoubtedly Richard's purpose, but this purpose is implemented by Richard in a radical, bloody, and unscrupulous way.
Their conversation continued, completely verifying Lu Li's guess - Richard wanted to become a savior, a new god, to protect the surviving humans after the disaster.
He started out as a gangster on the street. He offended the wrong people and was beaten into a lunatic. He was imprisoned in a lunatic asylum. He accidentally discovered the body of an ancient god and entered the first test.
Richard's rough experience makes it difficult to associate him with the lofty ideal of "protecting the world", but at the same time it makes people feel that the crazy and paranoid Richard would really think and do this.
A lunatic will do things that are unreasonable, laughable, and incomprehensible to ordinary people.
The content of the subsequent test had lost its meaning in Lu Li's eyes. It was nothing more than Richard using actions to prove his inner philosophy.
The answer Lu Li submitted was about redemption and persistence.
Richard surrendered his conviction.
The illusion disappeared and darkness returned to the surroundings.
Lu Li quietly waited for the true appearance of the next third test.