Ledlicky kept kneeling under the statue. He felt desperate and his expression seemed as if the sky was falling.
Yin Shen was amused by his troubles and asked him.
"Why do you want them to see me so much?"
Ledlicky opened his arms and said piously to God Yin on the altar.
“If you can’t see God, how can you believe in God?”
“How to hear God’s will?”
Yin Shen asked again: "Why do you want them to believe in me?"
Ledlicky was suddenly speechless. In his opinion, there was no need for any reason to believe in God.
Yin Shen asked again: "Let's talk about it anyway."
"Do you think it is important for me that they believe in me? Or would I cease to exist if they lose their belief?"
"I'm right here, whether they can see me or not, I'm always here."
"I don't have any decree to give you. As long as you can multiply and create your own civilization."
Lederiki knelt forward and reached Yin Shen's feet: "We believe in you, not because you need us, but because we need you."
"It's like~"
He thought for a long time and couldn't think of a specific adjective.
Until I could see the sea outside and the sun through the pillars of the temple.
"Like!"
"Life needs water just like it needs light."
Yin Shen smiled, as an atheist.
Even if the God who truly created the universe was standing in front of him now, he only regarded him as a powerful higher being.
The concept of God in his mind is completely different from the concept of God in Ledlicky's mind.
His expression was noncommittal and contemptuous of the word God, even though he himself was called God.
Ledlicky below is so determined.
But what Ledlicki said next made Yin Shen moved.
He put his head under the altar and pressed it against Yin Shen's feet, with tears in his eyes.
The tone became deeper and the tone was somewhat sad.
"The God of Insai."
"What I fear most is that if one day I die, who will come to serve you in this temple and who will guard this temple until the end of time."
"How can this continue if my children can't even see you?"
"You are so supreme. You can give wisdom and life to all things. You can change this lonely and lifeless world, but you cannot change your own loneliness."
Yin Shen looked at him.
He originally wanted to say, this is just your own idea.
I don't need anyone to guard this huge tomb, let alone stay in this temple until the end of the years. I will leave one day. What you are guarding is not me, just a stone.
But looking at Ledericki's tears, I don't know why my heart suddenly softened.
"Then what do you want!"
Ledlicki wiped his tears and looked up at Yin Shen.
"I want to create a great civilization, a civilization that will never fade away."
"I want them to worship you forever and surround you under this temple forever."
"I will make an oath that will never be forgotten with all the Sanye people, and let them guard this palace from generation to generation, and they will have their faith in you engraved in their blood."
Yin Shen shook his head at the still naive Lederiki.
"These things only have meaning to you, and have no meaning to me."
"There is no eternal civilization. Even the sun in the sky will eventually go out, and the universe will inevitably perish."
"No matter how great a civilization is, it cannot withstand the passage of time."
"No matter how devout your faith is, it will be forgotten, and no matter how tall and hard your temples and stone statues are, they will eventually collapse and turn into ruins."
Ledlicky couldn't understand what this meant. He only felt that these words ran through the years and eternity, and were mysteries that he could not touch.
Yin Shen stroked the bone helmet on his head, his voice not as calm and hollow as usual.
"But if you are willing to do it, just do it!"
"If these things are what you think the meaning of life is."
Ledlicki finally said: "If one day I die, please God take something from me and leave it with you."
"so!"
"I will be able to accompany God forever."
Yin Shen looked at the back of Lederiki as he left the temple. He finally felt that Lederiki was no longer a bug, but an object he created casually.
He is a living being, a person with feelings.
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They surrounded the high temple and continued to expand their city, guarding the pyramid and temple in the center.
The Sanye people have grown from hundreds at the beginning to thousands now.
This island finally has a hint of civilization and the appearance of a city-state.
The Sanye people understood reverence, and civilization had the distribution of power. They did not dare to call Lederiki's name, called him the King of Wisdom, and called this city the city given by God.
It means that everything is a gift from God.
A palace was built in the valley behind the pyramid, where Ledlicky and his children lived.
Ledlicky used his sons to serve in various positions in the God-given city, including those in charge of construction, those in charge of food, those in charge of warehouses, etc.
They took power and united thousands of Sanye people, and the originally equal Sanye people were also divided into different classes.
This Trileaf people's kingdom or city-state began to have a simple power system.
Lederiki was the king, and his sons were the first generation of Trefoil nobles.
On this day, Ledlicki's second son suddenly ran in and knelt in front of him, his face full of panic.
"Great King of Wisdom, another person was swallowed by the sea."
Ledlicky sat on the cold stone seat and looked at his second son.
"Several people?"
Answer: "The whole team didn't come back."
Ledlicky stood up, a little worried.
What worries me is not just the death of someone, but the crisis hidden behind it.
The so-called people who were swallowed by the sea are those who entered the deep sea and never came back, and most of them will never come back.
This isn't the first time.
As the number of Trilobites increased, the food they produced by catching bugs and soft tongue snails began to become insufficient. Even if they began to think of ways to dry plants on the seabed as food, it would not help.
Compared with this era, they are as big as giants. Thousands of them gathered together are enough to eat up the sea near the island, and there is no food on the land.
Their appearance was too sudden for this world, which was not yet ready to welcome the Trileaf civilization.
Some people in the God-given city began to starve to death, and they had to go to the deep sea, which was far from the peaceful place they imagined.
The ocean can breed life, but it can also swallow life.
Many Sanye people were lost in the deep sea, or were trapped in a dangerous sea area, or encountered unexpected situations and never came back.
Ledlicki knew that the Trifoliate civilization had encountered its first crisis.
If he can't even cross this threshold, let alone establishing a great civilization, I'm afraid he can only stop here.