Natural Constant

In the Church, the status of a God Chosen is quite high.

Along the way, Chen Fan and Gao Yuan encountered almost no obstacles – for a God Chosen, most areas of the Main Church are undefended.

The biggest unexpected event was being stopped by a passing Purple Robe Bishop who inquired about the progress of the Third Divine Decree ceremony.

To avoid unnecessary trouble, Chen Fan barely spoke when facing the Bishop's questions, leaving all issues to Gao Yuan to handle.

The taciturn Chen Fan did not arouse the Bishop's suspicion.

In fact, most God Chosen basically have this attitude – as people chosen by God, most God Chosen are quite arrogant.

The Purple Robe Bishop did not ask too much, simply understanding the situation briefly before respectfully making way for the two.

If a Purple Robe Bishop was like this, let alone the lower-status White Robe Deacons and Black Robe Priests.

In fact, based on Chen Fan's observation, without tasks or instructions from higher-ups, these grassroots Church clergy members wouldn't even think about getting involved with a God Chosen.

They would even avoid God Chosen as much as possible!

After a little thought, Chen Fan understood the reason:

No employee would take a huge risk to curry favor with a parachuted leader whose term is only a few months.

Isn't this just a thankless task?

In just over ten minutes, Chen Fan followed Gao Yuan to the Church's Library.

Clearly, the Library was a vital area of the Church.

Several Black Robe Priests and dozens of guards wearing bright silver armor, holding shields and swords, stood meticulously in front of a tightly closed, thick metal door, blocking every gaze attempting to peek into its mysteries.

In Chen Fan's opinion, this scene was a bit too fantastical.

The defensive strength of that thick, closed metal door clearly exceeded that of the dozens of guards holding cold weapons.

What was this called?

Using primitive thinking to guard a bank vault door?

One could only say the Church understood defense.

As for why so many people were sent to guard a library...

Chen Fan could understand the reason.

For the Church, controlling the channels of knowledge dissemination meant controlling the thoughts of ordinary people.

This could greatly strengthen the Church's ruling position, which was undoubtedly a highly profitable endeavor for the Church.

Upon seeing Gao Yuan, a Black Robe Priest responsible for guarding the Library braced himself and stepped forward: "God Chosen Esteemed One."

"We need to enter the Library."

Gao Yuan raised his chin indifferently, gesturing towards the closed metal door, and commanded in an unquestionable tone: "Open the door."

The Black Robe Priest did not show any dissatisfaction with Gao Yuan's condescending attitude.

He slightly raised his head, and the red glowing mechanical eyes under his hood carefully scrutinized Gao Yuan and Chen Fan behind him.

To allow the God Chosen to learn more theological knowledge, every God Chosen had permission to enter the Library to study.

Provided it was the God Chosen themselves.

Therefore, Chen Fan, who had been silent and "hiding" behind Gao Yuan, naturally became a key observation target.

"What?"

Gao Yuan's face turned cold: "As a Church Priest, can't you even recognize a God Chosen?"

The Black Robe Priest did not speak, merely bowing slightly to express his apology to Gao Yuan and Chen Fan.

After confirming their identities, he turned without hesitation and shouted to the Black Robe Priests and guards behind him:

"Open the door!"

The command was given.

The guards holding shields and swords retreated to both sides, revealing the full view of the incredibly heavy metal door.

As for the Black Robe Priest, he quickly walked to a Metal Shrine beside the door.

On the shrine made of metal was placed an exquisitely crafted God Statue. Under the light of the concealed wall lamps, a fleeting reflection flashed in the eyes of the God Statue.

Under Chen Fan's gaze, all the Black Robe Priests stood before the shrine and uttered a prayer that sounded like a chant.

The syllables of the prayer were very vague, and a rather strange pronunciation method was used, likely to prevent anyone with ulterior motives from secretly recording this string of "entry password."

But...

Perhaps even the so-called Goddess couldn't have imagined that among Her most devout followers, there would be an anomaly like Chen Fan!

And this anomaly even had an Intelligent Terminal from a higher civilization in his hand!

As Chen Fan's thoughts moved, One had already begun recording this complex prayer, and at the same time, relying on its massive computing power, began analyzing the specific meaning and pattern of this prayer word by word.

"Got it."

Before the prayer finished, One had already reached a conclusion: "It's the natural constant."

Chen Fan was stunned for a moment: What?

"As of now, a total of ten different syllables have appeared in this prayer."

"This unit attempted an exhaustive search and easily found the pattern: each syllable corresponds to a decimal digit."

"After translation, a string of non-repeating, non-cyclic numbers was obtained: 2718281828459045..."

"Very familiar, right?"

...

"You don't know the natural constant? It's the base of the natural logarithm function, and it plays a very important role in many scientific theories. You actually don't know?!"

'Is, is that so?' Chen Fan responded dryly.

"...Forget it, let's skip this topic for now."

One's voice was full of helplessness: "In short, to use this string of numbers as a password, the other party must have developed a basic mathematical system."

"Mathematics is the foundation of all science, which is enough to prove that the other party possesses..."

'Isn't that nonsense?' Chen Fan interrupted One's rambling, 'Since the so-called God is an alien civilization that has mastered higher technology, how could they not have mastered this basic mathematical knowledge?'

"What if..."

One's voice sounded faintly: "This string of passwords was designed by the Church itself?"

'Then...'

Chen Fan suddenly fell silent.

At this moment, he suddenly realized that he seemed to have fallen into a huge misconception earlier!

From beginning to end, he had not seen any direct evidence of the existence of alien civilizations.

All the information he had observed before could only be considered indirect evidence.

Under the "double misleading" of this indirect evidence and the database information provided by One, he firmly believed that God was nothing more than an alien civilization that had mastered higher technology!

But if it was really as One was saying now...

'Then...'

Chen Fan suddenly felt his throat tighten: 'God... could it just be a lie used by the Church to maintain its own rule?'

In other words, the Church itself was the technological civilization that had mastered more advanced technology!

'No, that's not right!'

'This still doesn't explain the problem of the God Chosen.'

Chen Fan argued in his heart: 'If it was to consolidate its own rule, the Church would have no reason to frequently select God Chosen!'

One was silent for a while.

"You have a point, this is indeed a suspicious point."

"After all, this is just a possibility deduced by this unit, and the accuracy cannot be guaranteed without sufficient evidence."