Gamers Are Fierce-Chapter 593 - 591: Dinosaur
"5G base stations?"
The mule’s face showed a bewildered expression.
Li Ang raised his eyebrows. He could vaguely feel the abnormal energy fluctuations at the horizon’s end. Was that... Divine Power?
Ferry smiled and explained, "In the ’Divine Tune,’ those floating here are the Souls of Unbelievers. In their lives, they were neither lauded nor reviled; it’s as if they never existed in this world. Apart from them, there were some Angels. They were neither loyal to God nor did they rebel against Him. As a result, they were expelled from both Heaven and Hell, wandering in the wilderness, crying and singing with the Unbelievers.
That was certainly true centuries ago, but we’ve made changes since then. The Ghosts weeping on the horizon now are not Unbelievers but masochists."
Faced with the mule’s confusion, Ferry explained, "In the Mortal Realm, people restrain their inner impulses with morality and law. But in the afterlife, when all restraints are lost, there’s no need to hide one’s true nature.
Throughout history, the Underworld has housed countless Souls of masochists. These Souls fear no cruel torture; they even relish it, reveling in the agony.
Some masochists were once Mysterious scholars. They worshiped the false gods of ancient times and secretly taught other masochists certain mysterious rituals, allowing many masochists to bond spiritually while being tormented. They utilized these rituals to share pain and enjoy double the suffering.
This provocative behavior of treating the Underworld like a playground left members of the Underworld Council furious and helpless.
Fortunately, a certain sage came up with a brilliant idea. He placed all the masochistic Spiritual Bodies in tens of thousands of camps. There, they were tormented in a concentrated manner to generate a potent power born from their pleasure and desire. This power connected all the scattered camps throughout the Underworld. Combined with the spiritual bonding rituals, tormenting a single masochist’s Soul could make masochists in other camps empathize with the suffering.
Using more complex methods of torture allowed for the transmission of different signals, thereby achieving long-distance communication.
In the Underworld, space and time do not obey the physical principles of the Mortal Realm. This makes long-distance communication very inconvenient, as messages are often delayed by decades or even centuries.
Now, with a communication network spanning the Underworld, everyone can get online, and the Underworld has once again become united. Pleased with this outcome, the members of the Underworld Council even deified that sage."
The bald black man took out a smartphone from his pocket, showing it to the mule. While making the sign of the cross on his chest, he sincerely exclaimed, "Thank God for 5G base stations,
And for the god of pain and long-distance communication, Steve Torn."
"..."
Expressions of utter astonishment crossed the faces of the mule, Black Trojan, and Forest Cat. However, Li Ang, cloaked in the attire of a Shadow Man, was quite interested. Aspiration is the source of Divine Power. As long as Divine Power is expended, information can be transmitted across great distances without any time lag. I’ve previously used Brain Worms for remote manipulation, which actually utilizes this same principle, just on a smaller scale than these 5G signal towers. The efficiency of Divine Power usage might also not be as high, as these towers can continuously generate that aspiration-born power autonomously, compensating for Divine Power loss.
At that moment, the Witch also descended from the sky. Her gloomy expression indicated that she must have seen something she shouldn’t have.
"Speaking of which," Li Ang thought of something and said to the mule, "Ask him, what is the Underworld Council? Shouldn’t Demon King Lucifer be in charge of Hell?"
The mule repeated Li Ang’s words to Ferry, who let out a chuckle and said, "That’s why myths do more harm than good. Hmm... you should know the overall structure of the Underworld, right?"
"I do," the mule nodded and said, "The Underworld is divided into three layers: Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise Mountain. Hell is shaped like a funnel, wider at the top and narrower at the bottom, with nine layers. Its center is in Jerusalem, and the lowest level is where Demon King Lucifer resides. Connected to Hell is Purgatory, also known as the Pure Realm. It has seven layers, and with Pure Realm Mountain and the earthly paradise, it totals nine. In Purgatory, human Souls that have sinned but repented are punished and purified. After repentance, they ascend Pure Realm Mountain to its summit and then rise into the nine layers of Heaven."
"Wrong!" Ferry shook his head and said, "Those are just myths concocted by humans, who arbitrarily assigned mystical meanings to them. The Underworld indeed has the three-layer structure of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise Mountain, but it was not created by God. In fact, there never was any God. The Underworld is just an ordinary afterlife world. All creatures from Earth come here after they die. You can think of it as a vast tract of land, separated from the Mortal Realm by the sea, like Australia." 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎
What?
The impact of Ferry’s words on the mule was even stronger than when he had first heard about the distant base stations.
"Humans are always so arrogant, considering themselves the center of all things," Ferry shrugged nonchalantly and said, "The former rulers of the Underworld were the five Dinosaur Majesties known as the Five Kings. They were T-Bone the Tyrannosaurus, Spike-back Dragon Stegz, Bullzeye the Pteranodon, Triceratops Spike, and Ankylosaurus Hard Rock.
They were once unintelligent beasts. However, after the great dinosaur extinction, they, along with countless other species, came to the Underworld. Over millions of years there, they developed intelligence, built a civilization, and figured out the soul reincarnation mechanism. As rulers of the Underworld, they diligently oversaw the soul cycle of the myriad creatures of the world.
As humans began to rise, the number of human Souls in the Underworld increased. Since dinosaurs were long extinct, the five Dinosaur Majesties planned to establish a council to share the governance of the Underworld with the newly emerging human race. However, the first contingent of human councilors consisted of individuals who had perished during the era of slave-owning civilizations. These Slavery Councilors, seeking to establish their own power base and consolidate their authority, offered slanderous advice, inducing the Dinosaur Majesties to set up a host of meaningless torture devices. These were specifically designed to punish unmanageable human Souls. Sometimes, they deliberately allowed some human Souls to escape and reincarnate with memories of their torments in Hell. This was done to spread the myths concocted by these Slavery Councilors, promoting their doctrines on the surface—stories about a Hell filled with flames and a God who would punish Unbelievers after death, and so on. The stories that have been passed down took the form we see today."
Ferry spread his hands out and said to the stunned mule, "Although the Dinosaur Majesties soon realized their mistake and eradicated these Slavery Councilors, believable myths had already appeared in the Mortal Realm. As more and more Souls believing in the existence of Hell poured in, the Dinosaur Majesties could only reluctantly accept the situation. They picked out some human councilors with normal intelligence to help them manage the Underworld.
But human civilization developed too rapidly. Over time, all manner of ambitious individuals, military leaders, dictators, idealists, and speculators gathered in Hell. They escaped capture by Underworld officials, each amassed a following, and began an endless, lawless free-for-all in the Underworld."
Ferry shook his head, as if lamenting the world’s injustice and humanity’s moral decline.
"The Underworld is still very chaotic. Just a hundred years ago, the Great Qin Empire swallowed up the Arab Empire, and now it’s standing on its own against the Roman Empire and the Russian Empire. The Old America led by Washington and the New America led by Lincoln and Roosevelt are currently at war over whether to abolish slavery and make the United States great again."
