Chapter 509 Would the world be better without gods?

Chapter 509 Would the world be better without gods?

There were already quite a few people sitting in the room. They seemed to be discussing halfway, but Hasta and Audrey suddenly appeared, causing them to stop talking and look over.

Audrey looked at Hasta with a guilty conscience. Seeing that there was no extra expression on his face, she knew that Mr. Hasta was still in control of the situation.

She raised her chin slightly, and with the advantage of her height when standing, she looked down at the others with a slightly arrogant attitude.

Now she was not Audrey, but Miss Arrogance of the Psychological Alchemy Society, although this identity was only stolen temporarily.

For this kind of role-playing, it was not difficult for her to get started.

On the other side, Hasta looked down at the people present with the attitude of a high-ranking person, and then naturally walked to the empty seat at the top and sat down. No one questioned this.

Even their sitting postures were quietly sitting more upright. I don’t know if it was an illusion. The deterrence exuded by Mr. President tonight made people lack the courage to even look at him straight in the eye.

He just sat casually like that, but the feeling he gave people was comparable to the vast ocean.

"I formally introduce a new member of the jury."

"This is Miss Pride, the new head of the Backlund region of the Kingdom of Loen."

"She has noble character, profound knowledge, and a heartfelt love for psychology."

Hasta introduced calmly, and then signaled Audrey to sit down and participate in tonight's talks.

After Audrey sat in the empty seat, Hasta's eyes once again swept over the people attending tonight.

Then, he looked at Audrey and said, "Perhaps you don't know much about the members of our Psychological Alchemy Association. Now, let me introduce you briefly."

"Thank you, Mr. President." Audrey said very cooperatively.

"This is Mr. Lust, he is in charge of Trier, the capital of Intis."

"Ms. Greed is in charge of Saint Miron, the capital of the Feysac Empire."

"Ms. Laziness is in charge of Feyneter City, the capital of the Feyneter Kingdom."

"Mr. Jealousy is in charge of Dilis City in the Republic of Intis."

"Mr. Glutton is in charge of Conston City in the Kingdom of Loen..."

Hasta finished the introduction and added, "I The purpose of our Psychological Alchemy Society is to discover, explore and research, and we don’t care about irrelevant things such as the scope of influence, the number of members, and the possession of resources. Therefore, we don’t have any members of the jury in the Misty Sea, the Violent Sea, and the Southern Continent. "

"Of course, we also have many members who often go to the sea to explore ruins and pursue history. Haha, I almost forgot that I was once the King of the Black Seat on the Five Seas."

Hasta paused after sighing about the adventures of the past across the sea, "You continue."

He leaned back slightly on the back of the chair, and his seemingly casual tone made the people present more serious.

"Mr. President, we thought you would not come to the meeting tonight, but you came to introduce a new member to us." Someone said with a smile, "I think this arrogant lady must have extraordinary abilities to let you introduce her in person."

"Miss Arrogant is enough to match all the praises." Hasta kept smiling.

Mr. Hasta is really pretending... Audrey couldn't help sighing in her heart.

If she hadn't known in advance that Mr. Hasta, like herself, was just posing an identity to attend this meeting, she would really have thought that Mr. Hasta was the president of the Psychological Alchemy Association.

Mysterious, powerful, and unpredictable true identity.

Sometimes, she even thought that the identity of Earl Campbell might be the least worth mentioning among all the identities of Mr. Hasta.

"We were just discussing the war between the Feysac Empire and the Kingdom of Loen." Ms. Greedy spoke up, and seeing Hasta's eyes sweeping over, she subconsciously explained: "We don't want to participate or interfere in this war, we are just simply discussing the possible outcome of the Feysac Empire in the future."

Hasta nodded, indicating that the greedy lady continued.

"Although the Feysac Empire, which lost the protection of the God of War, has the help of many secret organizations, it is only a matter of time before it fails under the joint efforts of the Kingdom of Loen and the Republic of Intis."

"There is a very interesting psychological phenomenon. The Feysac Empire, which lost the protection of the God of War, should have collapsed directly in terms of faith, but due to the blood feuds of generations, they still fearlessly blocked the attacks from the Kingdom of Loen and the Republic of Intis even without the protection of the gods."

"Especially when facing the Kingdom of Loen, the people of Feysac, who lost the protection of the gods, jumped from fighting for the gods to fighting for the country, and then to fighting for their own homes in a short period of time."

Speaking of this, Ms. Greed's eyes were very bright, "Perhaps gods are not a necessity for ordinary people, but gods need people to believe in them."

"It is the gods who cannot do without people, not people who cannot do without gods!"

These words were no less than a spiritual shock to Audrey.

It turns out that the relationship between gods and humans can be interpreted in this way. Weak people are more self-reliant than gods.

In this respect, humans are superior to gods.

"That's a very good remark. It reminds me of a story I once heard." Hastur affirmed the remarks.

"In a place surrounded by mountains and cliffs, which is difficult to climb out, there lives a group of isolated villagers. They have believed in a mountain god for generations. They believe that it is the protection of the mountain god that allows them to settle down in such a dangerous environment."

"Whenever the village is in danger and needs help, they always put all their hopes on the mountain god. Sometimes the mountain god responds to their prayers, and sometimes he deliberately turns a deaf ear to them and lets them experience all kinds of pain."

"The villagers did not dislike the mountain god because of his inaction. Instead, they attributed the reason to someone's insincere faith. For this reason, they are more devout in their faith and offer food to the mountain god. The more food there is, the more villagers die of hunger. "

"Until one day, the mountain god disappeared and never responded to the villagers' prayers. Some people thought that without the protection of the mountain god, the end of the village would come."

"But more than a hundred years have passed, and the village is still alive. The villagers there have even opened up a road leading to the outside world along the steep cliffs, and their lives are getting better and better."

Hasta paused for a moment and smiled again: "The person who told me the story said something very interesting. He said that life will find a way out by itself."

This is a story that is not very tortuous, but the revelation it gives people is particularly alarming.

Life will find a way out by itself. Just this simple sentence made the people present fall into a brief silence.

If there is no god, will people's lives really be better?

Audrey also had such an idea in her mind. She is a believer of the goddess. Such an idea is undoubtedly treasonous and blasphemous.

The gods guide the direction of all living beings. Without them, all living beings will step into the abyss of death and despair.

But deep down in her heart, she didn't have much confidence to refute Mr. Hasta's words.

Life will find its own way out. Perhaps a world without gods would really be a better world.

Until the end of the meeting tonight, Audrey had not recovered from this sentence. She had been trying to build a godless world in her mind, to imagine what such a world would look like and what kind of life people there would live.

"Miss Arrogant, wake up, we should go find the treasure house here."

After sending others away, Hasta walked to Audrey, who was obviously in a trance, and called out twice.

"Dear President, do you also think that a world without gods would be better?"

"This is a direction worth thinking about, isn't it?"

Hasta did not discuss this issue too much, so as not to let his ideas interfere with Audrey's independent thinking.

"Okay, let's go find the treasure house!"

Audrey quickly recovered and followed Hasta out of here one after another, passing through another corridor next to it.

Not long after they walked, they found a white rabbit wearing a black top hat, a black suit, and holding a ruby ​​cane the size of a pigeon waiting in front of them, as if it had stopped here to wait for them.

The rabbit gentleman saw the two of them approaching, smiled and gestured to Hasta, then took off the top hat on his head and bowed deeply.

Then he raised the ruby ​​cane and pointed to the left front, as if to point out the direction of the treasure house for them.

"Thank you, Mr. Rabbit."

Before Audrey could say her thanks, the elegant and generous Mr. Rabbit in front of her jumped away without looking back.

"Mr. Hasta, do you know this Mr. Rabbit?"

"I guessed who he is."

Facing Audrey's inquiring eyes, Hasta just chuckled and said, "If I can see him again next time, I will tell you about his identity. I believe you will be surprised."

After the conversation, the two followed the guidance of the rabbit gentleman and successfully came to the door of the treasure house. Hasta easily opened the door of the treasure house with the authority of the president of the Psychological Alchemy Society.

"Here is the complete brain of an adult psychic dragon!"

"The heart of a dream catcher!"

"The crystal of a psychic phantom!"

When Audrey saw the extraordinary materials collected in the treasure house, her eyes, as bright as gems, narrowed up, and she looked a little money-grubber, which was particularly cute.

After all, the noble Miss Audrey has never been short of money.

Hastur just glanced at it and had no interest. Rather than a treasure house, it was more like a material warehouse.

The extraordinary materials stored here were only up to the Sequence 4 level at most, which had no appeal to him.

"The complete brain of an old psychic dragon, this is the extraordinary material needed to be promoted to a Sequence 4 operator!"

Audrey began to search and plunder, and asked Hastur to help pack up the things she couldn't take.

Although this is a spiritual world, these are real and can be used normally as long as they are brought back to the real world.

"Okay, Mr. Hasta, let's go!"

Audrey, who had packed a bunch of extraordinary materials, came to Hasta contentedly. She was in a good mood and stood on tiptoe to kiss Hasta on the right cheek. Before Hasta could react, she ran away quickly.

"Mr. Hasta, hurry up, it would be bad if someone found out."

Audrey, who was running in front, turned around with a smile and waved to Hasta behind her.