Third Divine Decree

Time passed bit by bit.

Just as Gao Yuan had guessed, the amount of information contained in the Third Divine Decree far exceeded the previous two Divine Decrees.

The Goddess with the low-quality modeled face not only showed Chen Fan a model of the God Kingdom with texture map quality but also introduced him to the "perfect" life within the God Kingdom with a voice like a broken gong.

One only needed to pray to the Goddess to obtain endless resources.

With no worries about food or drink, the only thing the God Chosen had to do was maintain the normal operation of the God Kingdom for the Goddess.

While it was called maintenance, it wasn't much different from leisure and enjoyment – according to the Goddess with the low-quality modeled face, the God Kingdom would operate spontaneously, and the God Chosen only needed to be responsible for daily supervision.

In short, in Chen Fan's opinion, this was a promotional CG advertising the Goddess and the God Kingdom.

It could pique the God Chosen's interest in the God Kingdom and also dispel their resistance to leaving their hometown and going to the God Kingdom.

Its essence was actually a sophisticated method of brainwashing.

However... this method wasn't very effective on Chen Fan.

Leaving aside whether Chen Fan would believe this obviously fake scam talk, the low-quality texture map quality, which couldn't be any worse, was enough to fail to arouse even a shred of his interest.

Just as Chen Fan was being lulled into drowsiness by the low-quality God Kingdom promotional CG and the Bishop's low chanting prayer, the images and sounds in his mind gradually began to fade.

The promotional CG had ended.

A few minutes later, the prayer chanted by the Bishop also came to an end.

A slightly high-pitched "Praise the Great Goddess" with a strong sense of stiff machinery announced the end of the prayer and also signified the successful conclusion of this Divine Decree ceremony.

The room suddenly fell into silence.

Just as Chen Fan was about to open his eyes, One suddenly spoke up to stop his intention:

[Don't rush, that Bishop seems to be checking the status of each God Chosen.]

As the words fell, a highly realistic holographic image, which in his opinion could rival the real world, appeared in Chen Fan's mind.

In the image, Chen Fan could clearly see the scene around his body.

This was an extremely peculiar angle, somewhat similar to the third-person perspective when controlling a character in some large 3A games.

Slightly different from a game perspective, the range covered by this image was extremely narrow – roughly estimated, it could only see the scene within a radius of three meters.

Sensing Chen Fan's thoughts, One quickly protested:

[This is real-time holographic photography, which is fundamentally different from ordinary camera footage!]

[You don't think this is easy to do, do you?]

[Unlike conventional holographic photography, this unit not only needs to collect a large amount of surrounding footage but also perform a large amount of rendering and stitching work before it can form this holographic image with almost zero delay.]

[Do you know how much computing power this work requires from this unit? No, you don't know, you only care about...]

'Alright, alright, I know you're awesome.'

Chen Fan carefully observed the holographic image, casually interrupting One's words with a perfunctory remark.

Just as One had just prompted, the Bishop who had finished praying was slowly walking towards Gao Yuan, who was off to the side.

Gao Yuan's facial muscles twitched slightly, and the eyeballs under his eyelids were constantly rolling.

He didn't realize that the shiny steel head of the Bishop had already moved close to his face.

'It's like dreaming.'

Looking at Gao Yuan's state, Chen Fan frowned and said in his heart.

[Low-quality Brain-Computer Interfaces are all like this.]

[It cannot project images when the organism is awake, and you should have already experienced the reason for this.]

[Compared to the real world, the image quality mapped by this Brain-Computer Interface is extremely poor and easily seen through.]

[But it's different if the organism is in a dream.]

[The thinking organ of a highly intelligent life form is quite amazing. It has extremely strong self-improvement and detail supplementation capabilities, especially when unconscious and without external interference.]

[In other words, in a dream, this kind of low-quality image will often be self-improved, and at the same time, this process will not be noticed by the organism.]

*'...' *

Chen Fan was silent for a moment, thinking, and then suddenly enlightened: 'Got it, self-brainstorming, self-strategizing, right?!'

[...That's pretty much the idea.]

While the person and the machine were communicating, the Bishop left Gao Yuan's side and walked towards him with dignified steps.

'One?' Chen Fan was startled and quickly asked in his heart: 'Won't he see that something's wrong?'

[Theoretically, no. The method for detecting the projection effect of the Brain-Computer Interface is quite complex, and this unit does not believe he has this technology.]

As he spoke, the Bishop stopped in front of Chen Fan and then observed him silently.

"Hmm?"

Perhaps having discovered something, the Bishop let out a light "hmm," squatted down slightly, and brought his iron head close to Chen Fan's face.

A faint smell of machine oil wafted over.

Chen Fan could even imagine the scene of this Bishop applying machine oil to his steel forehead on a daily basis.

At this moment, his heart was collapsing.

'One! Didn't we agree that the other party wouldn't discover the problem!!'

One couldn't help but fall silent.

[This... theory, do you understand theory?]

One argued confidently,

[Isn't it normal for practical application to differ slightly from theory!]

Chen Fan: '...6.'

Fortunately, the Bishop didn't observe for too long.

After a few careful glances, the Bishop stood up again.

From the third-person perspective provided by One, Chen Fan could clearly see the mechanical features on the Bishop's face shift slightly.

Using a unique identification technique, he discerned the Bishop's mood at this moment.

Joy, satisfaction.

Perhaps it was inappropriate, but four large words uncontrollably popped into Chen Fan's mind—Machine Spirit Greatly Pleased.

Under Chen Fan's gaze, the Bishop nodded his iron head with a look of "satisfaction," waved his purple robe, and walked towards the next God Chosen.

Watching the Bishop disappear from the panoramic view provided by One, Chen Fan still didn't make any rash moves, merely keeping his eyes closed.

It wasn't until more than ten minutes later.

Gao Yuan slowly opened his eyes, looking around with a hint of confusion.

After seeing the environment he was in clearly, a visible look of disappointment appeared on his face.

Clearly, the God Kingdom CG mapped in his mind by the Holy Crown had deeply resonated with him.

Chen Fan also opened his eyes at just the right moment, simultaneously putting on a convincing expression of confusion and disappointment.

"The Third Divine Decree has ended."

The voice of the Purple Robe Bishop came from the front.

At this point, he had already put on the purple hood with gold trim, hiding that shiny iron head.

"Presumably, all God Chosen have heard the Goddess's Divine Decree and personally witnessed the Goddess's God Kingdom."

Hearing this, a hint of longing involuntarily appeared in the eyes of several God Chosen.

Like Gao Yuan, the promotional CG projected by this low-quality Brain-Computer Interface had brought them immense shock!