The Strange Place

Chen Fan suddenly raised his head, looking at the God Statue on the table with a look of disbelief.

The God Statue spoke!

But that wasn't the most shocking part.

Frankly, considering his current circumstances, Chen Fan felt he could accept the God Statue speaking or the God manifesting.

After all, who could say for sure about things in another world? What if Gods really existed in this world?

What Chen Fan truly couldn't accept was a God Statue emitting a stiff, electronic synthesized voice, and even using extremely scientific methods to explain the superstitious claims he made!

Listen to that, does that make sense?

Completely different from Chen Fan's reaction, his mother beside him was already beaming with joy, prostrating herself before the God Statue, muttering words of gratitude to the God.

Theology and science, intertwined in a bizarre way, were presented before Chen Fan.

Worshiping Electronic Gods, praying for cyber wishes?

At this moment, Chen Fan felt his already shaky worldview was shaken like never before.

"Xiao Fan!"

His mother's urging voice came, "What are you standing there for? Hurry and thank the God for the teachings?!"

Saying this, the middle-aged woman, fearing she might anger the God, looked anxious and gently slapped Chen Fan's shoulder.

"Slap!"

The crisp sound interrupted Chen Fan's thoughts and pulled him back to reality.

Seeing his mother's obvious anxiety and the faint fear hidden deep in her eyes, Chen Fan was startled and subconsciously followed his mother in bowing before the God Statue.

"Lord..."

As his mother's murmur came from beside him, Chen Fan, who had recovered, felt an inexplicable chill run down his spine.

Taking advantage of the moment he stood up, he quickly raised his head and glanced at the God Statue on the table.

Whether it was psychological factors or the effect of light and shadow, in his eyes, the faint smile on the God Statue's face began to turn eerie.

After worshiping the God Statue, it was dinner time.

Chen Fan, whose worldview had just been shattered, was clearly not very interested in the dishes on the table.

But considering he needed to maintain his persona and avoid causing more disputes, he ate the food in front of him listlessly under his mother's watchful eye.

Chen Fan struggled to swallow the unknown vegetable in his mouth, which seemed to be the root of some plant.

Feeling the faint astringent taste spreading from the back of his tongue, the details of worshiping the God Statue just now appeared one by one in his mind, and he began to carefully analyze the hidden information within.

Although his mother hid it well, he still noticed the deep-seated fear his mother had when worshiping the God Statue.

It was conceivable that his mother's respectful attitude towards the God Statue was largely due to this inexplicable fear.

This could not be explained by simple religious belief – under normal circumstances, a God would not bring fear to its followers.

Creatures seek advantages and avoid harm, and humans are the same.

If a God only brought negative emotions to its followers, that belief was destined not to last long.

Unless...

This God truly existed in the world!

Perhaps only a truly existing God could firmly control its followers with bone-chilling fear!

Thinking of this, Chen Fan suddenly felt a fine layer of goosebumps spread all over his body.

He subconsciously shoveled a couple of mouthfuls of rice and vegetables from his bowl, using the action of chewing and swallowing to hide the shock in his heart.

"Xiao Fan?"

His mother looked at Chen Fan sitting opposite her with concern, hesitating to speak, "You..."

On one hand, she was indeed very worried about her child's mental state.

Since coming out of the room, Chen Fan's behavior had always felt strange to her, as if he had become a different person.

On the other hand, she didn't want, or rather, didn't dare to investigate further.

She didn't want Chen Fan to lock himself in his room again because of her doubts, and besides... Chen Fan, who had just become a God Chosen, had a status far higher than hers.

"I'm fine."

Chen Fan came back to his senses, met his mother's gaze, then quickly looked away, shoveled a mouthful of rice and vegetables from his bowl, and pretended to ask casually, "Mom, don't you think the God Statue's voice was a bit strange today?"

"The voice was a bit strange?" His mother immediately frowned, seemingly recalling something.

After a while, she shook her head, "No."

"The God has always had this voice." His mother repeated with a definite tone, "You must have misheard!"

This sentence directly stirred up a storm in Chen Fan's heart!

Always this voice!

This meant that whether the God Statue spoke or the stiff electronic synthesized voice, in his mother's eyes, it was all perfectly normal!

Chen Fan tried his best to keep his facial expression calm, but the shock and doubt in his heart inevitably showed in his eyes.

This hint of emotion naturally didn't escape his mother's gaze.

She frowned, as if deep in thought.

For a moment, the living room fell into an eerie silence. Chen Fan also subconsciously sped up his movements of shoveling food into his mouth.

There was clearly a big problem with this world!

To safely obtain information about this world, he could only place his hopes on the writings in his room!

His mother let out a long sigh, breaking the silence that had lasted for several minutes.

"Phew..."

She looked at Chen Fan with gentle eyes: "Xiao Fan."

"It's normal to feel stressed after just becoming a God Chosen."

"There's still plenty of time until the next God Chosen Ceremony, you can slowly adjust your state and relax."

His mother's voice paused slightly, and after a moment of hesitation, she spoke again: "Those words just now..."

"I'll pretend I didn't hear them, and you should also forget those words that defied the God."

"Otherwise..."

His mother sighed, not continuing to speak.

Chen Fan's expression became serious.

Although he didn't know what the God Chosen Ceremony his mother mentioned was, considering the strange scenes from before, he felt deep down that it wouldn't be a good thing.

While nodding in agreement, the sense of crisis in Chen Fan's heart also climbed significantly again.

After dinner, Chen Fan walked back into his room under his mother's watchful eyes.

The wooden door slowly closed, blocking his mother's worried gaze and also blocking some of the eerie aura from the God Statue in the living room.

The room was pitch black. Chen Fan took a few deep breaths, and his previously tense nerves seemed to relax.

He raised his slightly trembling hands, lowered his eyelids, and imitated his mother's movements to pray: "Lord, please bestow light upon the world..."

A faint yellow light burst forth from above, tearing through the darkness in the room with an unstoppable momentum.

Heh, it was still voice-activated.

Chen Fan pulled at the corner of his mouth weakly, sighing in his heart with a touch of bitter amusement.

Humans yearn for light, there was no doubt about that.

But this light didn't bring Chen Fan any comfort or warmth.

On the contrary, as the incandescent light turned on, the sense of crisis and oppression that had slightly receded swept over him again!

Chen Fan suddenly held his breath—directly in front of him, the God was looking down at him from above!