Before entering the church, Chen Fan had imagined all kinds of scenes within it and prepared himself mentally.
But the moment he passed through the metal archway and entered the Main Church, he still could not help sharply drawing in a breath!
There was no other reason.
Before him, a Goddess dozens of meters tall stood silently at the center of the Main Church, clad in sacred robes.
She wore a mysterious smile, looking down loftily upon everyone within the Main Church.
Under Chen Fan's gaze, she slowly spread her arms, as though calling upon the world to throw itself into her embrace.
At his side, the Black Robe Priest softly chanted the glory of the Lord, lending the scene an even more sacred air!
The scene before him violently overturned Chen Fan's understanding of the world.
Could gods truly exist?
With his mind shaken, this thought inevitably surfaced in Chen Fan's head.
But the next second, he tossed it aside. Before his eyes, the Goddess slowly drew her arms back in, then spread them open again a few seconds later...
Damn it, it was just an animated wallpaper!
Once the filter in his mind had been shattered, Chen Fan quickly noticed even more issues:
There was severe aliasing around the Goddess; her movements and posture were somewhat stiff; while the three-dimensional effect was decent, there were extremely serious overlapping afterimages around her legs...
Most importantly—
He noticed that the black circular base beneath the Goddess was projecting beams of differently colored laser light upward, along with enormous panes of glass arranged at angles above the base.
What a cheap Holographic Projection.
Before Chen Fan could speak, Yi had already mocked it in his mind. They have the nerve to use such an immature Holographic Projection to fool people?
Honestly, they would be better off letting me handle it.
Chen Fan silently agreed.
With a Level 9 Civilization at his back, they expected him to believe in electronic gods?
What kind of nonsense was that?!
As he copied the Black Robe Priest's movements, he cautiously studied the Main Church's interior decorations and layout.
There were no sacred, imposing Goddess statues, no magnificent divine murals, and no grand architectural ornaments.
There were only cold walls gleaming with silvery-white metallic luster.
The vast Main Church was enclosed by thick, frigid metal walls. Concealed wall lamps and ceiling lights emitted bright white light, while complex mechanical devices of unknown purpose were scattered seemingly at random throughout the church, looking like interior decorations.
Rows of concealed spotlights were installed on the ceiling. Their differently colored beams shone upon the icy metal walls, forming clearly visible three-dimensional images.
Chen Fan's eye twitched as he looked at the scene before him.
Fuck.
What electronic murals!
Just as Chen Fan was preparing to carefully inspect the content of those electronic murals on the walls, a hoarse voice with a heavy metallic quality came from beside him.
"God Chosen Esteemed One, please follow me."
After speaking, Quinton started walking again, heading toward a small door at the side of the Main Church hall.
The Main Church's internal structure was extremely complicated.
A maze of crisscrossing passageways was enough to trap to death anyone who wandered in rashly.
But that was not the important part.
What mattered was that Chen Fan spotted quite a few familiar electronic devices in those passageways.
Although their appearances and designs differed considerably, Chen Fan could still determine their functions from the surrounding facilities.
For example...
Surveillance devices disguised as small god statues and hung high on the walls.
Small consoles disguised as shrines, used to control the automatic gates within the passageways...
There were countless electronic devices like these.
If not for the large number of mysterious patterns engraved on the metal walls and the surfaces of the various electronic devices, Chen Fan might have thought he had returned to modern society!
Led by Quinton, Chen Fan arrived at a spacious empty room.
Like the church hall, this room was tightly enclosed by cold metal walls.
It was like a prison cell for holding criminals!
More than a dozen strangely designed chairs were arranged in the center of the room—straps were tied to the armrests of the wooden chairs, helmet-like devices were installed at the headrests, and from afar, there seemed to be electrode-like components inside those helmets.
Chen Fan instinctively frowned.
Those strangely designed chairs gave him a bad feeling.
"Where are the other God Chosen?"
Unable to suppress the unease in his heart, Chen Fan finally asked.
"They will meet you very soon."
Quinton's hoarse voice came from the doorway.
Without Chen Fan noticing, he had quietly returned to the room's entrance.
There was no doubt that this further intensified Chen Fan's unease!
"The Third Divine Decree is about to begin."
"Please wait patiently for a moment."
After saying that, Quinton took half a step back and completely exited the room. At the same time, he extended his mechanical hand and shut the heavy metal door.
"Bang."
The sound of the metal door closing echoed through the room, and Chen Fan's expression instantly turned grim.
This was bad!
Had his identity been exposed?
What exactly were those chairs in the room for? And what was this so-called divine decree?!
Countless questions rose in Chen Fan's mind, followed by a suffocating sense of urgency.
It was not that he was overly suspicious. Anyone placed in this situation would probably develop some negative feelings!
Chen Fan lightly clenched his right hand. Feeling the Intelligent Terminal against his hand, he calmed down slightly.
Yi, help me scan these chairs first.
As he spoke, he walked over to one of the wooden chairs and gently placed his right hand on it.
An invisible ripple spread from his right palm and swept over the chair.
Almost at the same instant, an extremely clear structural diagram of the chair's interior appeared before Chen Fan's eyes.
There were numerous circuits inside the chair, most of them concentrated in the helmet at the top.
I have just conducted a basic simulated analysis of this helmet's structure.
Chen Fan removed his right hand from the chair and deliberately tilted his head up, glancing around as though he did not care.
When he saw several miniature god statues hanging high on the walls, his heart sank. He hurriedly urged, Just tell me the result.
This room appears to be under comprehensive surveillance.
Yi also knew that this was not the time for jokes. Its tone was far more serious than usual:
A biological brainwave interference and detection device.
Chen Fan's heart jolted, and he instinctively held his breath. ...What?!
Although its workmanship is rather crude, I can confirm that this helmet already possesses rudimentary brainwave interference capabilities.
At the same time, it can monitor real-time changes in the wearer's brainwaves.
Simply put, you can think of it as a head-mounted Brain-Computer Interface.
Chen Fan was somewhat dazed and fell into a long silence.
A Brain-Computer Interface!
Even on the Blue Planet from his previous life, this thing had only been a conceptual product!
Who could have imagined that he would see a product capable of ushering in a new era on a dilapidated old wooden chair?!
"Creak..."
The sound of the heavy iron door opening came from nearby.
Immediately afterward, an excited cry rang out from the direction of the door:
"Chen Fan!"
"You brat, you're finally back!!"
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