Arknights, but Farming Terra Chapter 7

Then, he saw the Colossal Soldiers, which caused his sanity to plummet. They were like Terminators, with red glowing eyes, shouting "Humans!" and chasing after him—

Seriously...

It's unlikely anyone would think these Colossal Soldiers were here to bring them warmth.

Even though Chen Ran had done his best to sculpt the lump of mud into something adorably ugly, this so-called adorably ugly was based on individual size differences.

Just like a kitten, no matter how fiercely it meows and scratches your shoes, you'll only find it cute and feisty.

But if you were to magnify that kitten several times, making it the size of a lion or a tiger, a single meow would likely make you lie down on the spot and beg for a more dignified death.

Not to mention, for survivors like Kal'tsit, those Colossal Soldiers were more than just a few times larger.

So, in the eyes of those survivors—

It was as if the Sea Creatures had first swept through, discovered they hadn't wiped out humanity, and then spawned another wave of troops to finish the job.

Thus, screaming, wailing, and crying, their outward expansion was abruptly halted. All the survivors ran back as if their lives depended on it.

Once they retreated into the bunker, the Colossal Soldiers stopped their pursuit.

This was based on the Colossal Soldiers' underlying logic; Chen Ran had only given them the command to find survivors, not what to do after finding them.

So, after completing their current orders, they began to wander around as if AFK.

But this only made the survivors more convinced that they were absolutely safe as long as they stayed in the bunker.

Go out? They'd rather die.

However, Chen Ran didn't know the reason behind this.

He only saw that he had just finished sculpting a lump of mud and told it to find survivors, and within minutes, the lump of mud was already shouting that it had found a survivor.

Chen Ran heard this, looked closely, and indeed, it was true.

So, he reached out and picked up the survivor surrounded by lumps of mud, intending to bring them closer for a look.

Oh, it was a female.

But it made sense; after all, it was the final bastion, so women and children would naturally be prioritized.

However, before Chen Ran could even get a good look at the survivor's beast ears and tail, or whether they were an operator he recognized—

He saw the survivor, whom he was holding between his fingertips, first widen their eyes dramatically upon seeing him, then convulse all over like they were having an epileptic fit, and finally, their eyes rolled back, and with a gasp, they passed out.

Chen Ran: "???"

Wait, what's with that reaction—

"Oh, look, the poor lady is fortunate enough to witness the appearance of a divine being. How honorable it is."

"She is shocked, she is terrified, she gasps and passes out."

"Unable to comprehend the divine's magnificence, her sanity decreases by 1."

"Sanity -1."

"Sanity -1."

"Sanity -1."

"Ah, alright, alright."

Seeing the "Sanity -1" pop-ups flooding his vision, Chen Ran's mouth twitched. He had no choice but to put the survivor he was holding back into the planet model.

"So, what kind of image do I have in the eyes of these... humans? Some kind of Lovecraftian outer god?"

Although Chen Ran knew that his perspective was different from that of these... native humans.

But was this difference too great?

And why didn't Heart of the Corrupted Skadi react like that when she saw him... Oh, right, Heart of the Corrupted Skadi was also considered Lovecraftian by those native humans.

Never mind then.

So, Chen Ran first turned his head to look at Heart of the Corrupted Skadi, who was sitting on the edge of the desk, dangling her little feet while munching on a biscuit. She seemed to find it a bit dry or perhaps a bit choking, so she took her biscuit to dip it in the fish tank for some water before continuing to hold and eat it—

Only then did Chen Ran turn back to look at the survivor he had just placed back into the planet model...

"Huh? Where did they go? Why can't I see them?"

... ... ...

... ...

The bunker door was shut, and even reinforced with several locks.

But Kal'tsit didn't say anything about it, as this was the consensus reached by almost all the survivors.

Kal'tsit wanted to soothe everyone's emotions, but she was truly powerless.

Because the current turn of events had exceeded her control.

It was like before, when she was diligently working on the front lines, employing all sorts of roundabout methods to save the country. Just as things were finally settling down, she turned around to find that Sargol had stabbed her in the back and started fighting with a robot vacuum cleaner.

This time, it's more serious.

A god... or perhaps God?

Kal'tsit couldn't comprehend such an existence, but that didn't stop everyone in the entire sanctuary from referring to Him this way.

And precisely because she couldn't understand, she could no longer make the decision. So, Kal'tsit subconsciously came here—

Before the Sarcophagus.

When building this final stronghold for humanity, Kal'tsit had managed to transport this Sarcophagus here.

This Sarcophagus maintained the energy supply for the entire bunker, and at the same time, it maintained the Doctor's life.

The Sarcophagus could heal all wounds, but it couldn't eradicate aging.

The Doctor was, after all, human, and didn't have such a long lifespan. So, to extend his life indirectly, the Doctor entered the Sarcophagus more and more often, sleeping for longer and longer periods.

Until now, as long as no major incident occurred, the Doctor would basically not be awakened.

But—

Kal'tsit looked up at the ceiling, as if she could see the god outside the planet through it.

"A god...? Such a situation has never happened, not even in the Pre-Civilization."

"So even if we wake the Doctor, can the Doctor... handle the current situation?"

That's why Kal'tsit was conflicted.

On one hand, she wanted the Doctor to return and take charge of the situation, but on the other hand, she felt that perhaps even the Doctor couldn't cope with the current circumstances, and it would only add to despair and fear.

After a long silence, Kal'tsit seemed to give up and turned to leave.

It wasn't time for despair yet, at least not now.

Kal'tsit wanted to comfort everyone, but when she arrived at the conference room, she found that in the short time she had gone to see the Doctor by the Sarcophagus, things had already started to spiral out of control like a runaway husky.

"He is a god! He is God!"

"I saw it with my own eyes, I was fortunate enough to witness the greatness of the god!"

"The Sea Creature god is confined in a fish tank by the Lord God, and even we! This land of ours is merely a beautiful glass bead in the hands of the Lord God!"

"He is so great! He is eliminating humans only for humanity to evolve better!"

"Let us praise! Let us cheer! Let us pray to our great Lord God!"

A female survivor stood on the table in the conference room, shouting loudly about the Lord God she spoke of, as if her sanity had dropped to zero, like a fanatic.

Kal'tsit, who arrived late and knew nothing of the cause and effect: "... ...?"

011. Your follower count +1, you have gained Faith Power

In times of natural disasters, after the apocalypse, when science is dead and God has appeared, the rise and prosperity of religion are inevitable.

Not to mention that before the apocalypse, religion was already prevalent on this land.

Whether it was the Laterano Church, the Yergland Church, or the Abyssal Church, all kinds of religions flourished.

Although during the extinction event by the Sea Creatures, the host that gave those angels their halos—the "Heaven's Point"—crashed the moment it was invaded by the Great Swarm, causing all Sarkaz to go offline.

But ordinary people didn't know the inside story.

So whether it was to escape reality, to seek spiritual solace, or even just a means for the superiors to control people's hearts, the rise of religion was inevitable.

But the problem is, isn't the speed of this rise a little too fast?

Kal'tsit was quite sure that she had only gone to see the Doctor, and it hadn't even been an hour.

And now, not only has a religion been established, but it has even started proselytizing?

Even the experienced Kal'tsit couldn't help but feel a little lost.

Because in Kal'tsit's understanding, the shock brought by the appearance of a god would definitely be more fear than surprise.

So why are you acting like a complete reversal, instead of picking up the shattered pieces of the scientific worldview first...

Having no other choice, Kal'tsit had to ask the people around her.

Through their jumbled explanations, Kal'tsit was able to piece together the whole story:

The fanatic standing on the conference room table was the unlucky person who had been chased all over the place by the Colossal Soldiers.

This unlucky person was so scared that they passed out. Although they didn't know why they weren't killed, after waking up and running back to the bunker, they started preaching frantically.

"Everything I said is true! I really witnessed the greatness of that Lord God with my own eyes!"

"That Sea Creature god is really being kept in a fish tank by the Lord God, and the plan to eliminate humans was made by the Lord God!"

"I'm not lying! Everything I said is true! Really!"

It's true.

Chen Ran could attest to that.

But unfortunately, even if everything this fanatical believer said was true, her frenzied and fanatical appearance, combined with her previous experience of being chased by those Colossal Soldiers...

At least in the eyes of most people, this fanatical believer had simply gone mad from fright, and the talk about the Sea Creature god being kept in a fish tank was just her babbling nonsense.

Although Kal'tsit didn't make a hasty decision to believe or disbelieve, she couldn't help but speak up after glancing at the growing crowd around her and the increasingly fervent believer:

"Take her away first."

"Find her a psychiatrist and calm her down."

Kal'tsit wasn't worried about the rise of religion; she was worried that overly fanatical believers might resort to human sacrifices.

This matter was also recorded in the scriptures of Yergland.

Therefore, this matter had to be suppressed for now.

Fortunately, Kal'tsit's prestige remained, so a few medical operators quickly rushed forward, grabbed the fanatical believer, and dragged her away.

But even as she was being dragged away, the fanatical believer continued to shout, "Everything I said is true! It's all true! Turning humans into Sea Creatures, the Sea Creatures ascending to return to the embrace of Lord God, so this is the correct path—mmph mmph mmph—"

As the believer's mouth was covered and she was dragged away, the fanatical and deranged voice finally disappeared.

But the people left in the conference room remained in dead silence.

Because no matter how unwilling they were to believe it, the appearance of a deity was a fact.

It made it easy for them to fall into wild speculation: perhaps the Sea Creatures, like how that deity casually molded Colossal Soldiers from mud, were created by that deity? In that case, could the Sea Creatures' world-ending actions be instigated by that deity?

Although Kal'tsit knew clearly that the Sea Creatures were creations of the Pre-Civilization and had absolutely no relation to that so-called deity.

However, Kal'tsit's mind was also in a mess at the moment, so she could only say, "Even if that being is truly a so-called deity, we cannot rashly assume that deity is full of malice."

"So far, besides the one who was just taken away, we have suffered no casualties."

"It's like passing an anthill; perhaps the other party was merely curious and stopped to watch for a while, but we mistakenly believed we were facing an apocalyptic disaster and lost our composure."

"We cannot fathom the thoughts of that deity, nor can we judge the deity's good or evil, but at least, we are still alive now, aren't we?"

Even if, as that fanatical believer had said, the plan to eliminate humanity was formulated by Lord God, with the purpose of human evolution, then the survivors were the chosen lucky ones—Kal'tsit didn't say this last part aloud because it carried too much religious implication.

Kal'tsit knew she couldn't be cryptic now, so she was speaking in plain language.