Everyone had initially assumed that a group of people had discovered a stone pillar capable of creating humans, something incredibly miraculous, and had imagined all sorts of things, conjuring up a god out of thin air.
Wasn't that how religions worked? Behind some stories, the original basis might have been nothing more than ordinary deeds and objects that had been deified.
Who would have thought the instructor would say that such a god truly existed...
So the object worshiped by that group wasn't something nonexistent, but a definite, actual existence.
"No wonder... No wonder they're utterly fearless and fanatical. So they really do have something to believe in."
Everyone was left torn between laughter and tears. Yi Bo's habit of leaving people hanging like that was truly maddening.
"But something doesn't add up. That god not only exists, it's also a Contained Object, and the Blue White Society has contained it... Since they know that, they should be treating this rationally. Why are they still so superstitious about that Contained Object?" You Xin asked.
Access to δ-077 was too highly restricted, and Yi Bo didn't know much about it either, so he didn't elaborate.
Yi Bo merely said, "Just because we think that way doesn't mean everyone does. We view Contained Objects rationally, but some people insist on revering them as divine objects. That's a difference in ideology. Living things are gods, dead things are holy relics. Many organizations that worship Contained Objects are like this, because those things possess power far beyond the mundane world, power humans can never hope to reach."
"In fact, this kind of worship is the natural human response, while we're the minority. That's why we keep the existence of Contained Objects secret from the public. We can't let people wrap them in sugarcoated packaging