Blood Candle Keep Disciple

Chapter 308 The Kingdom of God
If you look at it roughly, this metropolis built around mountains is very clearly divided into three levels.If you compare it with the history of the earth that Zhen Cheng is familiar with, every level is very strange.

The bottom layer occupies most of the mountain area.From the perspective of architectural style, all the houses in this area are built of black stone and mortar, single-storey houses in the medieval pastoral style.

Very dilapidated, even the straw shed roof was used on the roof.

If it were on Earth, it would be difficult to find a city with a population of tens of millions, where more than half of the houses are bungalows.This is a great waste of land utilization.

But the city in front of Zhen Cheng is like this.If it is reasonable, it is because industry and agriculture are completely integrated with residential buildings in the entire bottom area.

The planning and design that separates the industrial area from the residential area in order to prevent noise, exhaust, and drainage from affecting the residence does not exist here.

So there is the unique scenery of the medieval pastoral and modern factories.

With just one glance, Miss Thirteen, who was born in a powerful class, could see that there must be two factors for the current situation.

One is that a large number of people living in the bottom areas have no human rights at all.The second is that this metropolis does not implement a market economic system, at least in most areas.

Otherwise, even if the people living in the bottom area are very poor, it is absolutely impossible to form such a situation where thousands of similar architectural styles come together.

The facts were similar to what Zhen Cheng had imagined.In a place like the unified universe, where gods are everywhere and gods walk everywhere, the idea that water can carry a boat and capsize it simply cannot exist on earth.

The standard of living of mortals born in the land of the gods may not be comparable to that of the lower universe.

How you live has nothing to do with the development level of technology and magic, it only depends on what kind of system the god master of the place you were born in implemented.

After all, belief is a kind of power, and it has either a vital or a small beneficial influence on the high-ranking gods who rule the unified universe.

This difference is mainly related to the different ways of sublimation taken by the gods, but no matter which way the gods choose, there are very few gods who care about the feelings of the mortals they rule.

To make matters worse, in the unified universe, you don't even have the freedom to choose your beliefs.On Earth, if you feel dissatisfied with a country, you can still choose to immigrate. If you really can't get along, there are ways of political asylum or even smuggling.

But the ladders that connect the unified universe to all parts of the world are completely in the hands of the ruler.It is impossible to beat it down, and as for walking on your own without this thing, I am afraid that even your [-]th great-grandson may not be able to see the next kingdom of God or colony.And the place you arrive at may not be better than the environment where you were born.

It can be said that there are basically no pure lands in the unified universe that can get rid of the oppression of gods on mortals.The difference is nothing more than what type of suffering.

A god who pays more attention to believers will often formulate strict rules and regulations, forcing the people of the kingdom of God to believe in his gods.This is the pain of a complete loss of freedom, unable to resist absolute order.

The gods who don't care about the power of faith tend to completely ignore the demands of the people of the kingdom of gods, and let the land outside the court of gods develop freely into a chaotic land of the law of the jungle.This is a kind of pain that is completely lost to safety and cannot dominate fate.

Judging from the chaotic urban structure of workers and peasants, Zhen Cheng felt that the current city of the Kingdom of God should belong to the latter.

And under this absolutely insurmountable power balance, the bargaining chip that mortals can use to threaten to negotiate with the God Lord may only be mass suicide.

Under such circumstances, it is simply a joke to fight for rights and interests other than life and survival through peaceful negotiations or armed struggle.

I have to say that such a big environment is quite desperate in most cases.

Of course, Zi Feiyu, Zhen Cheng also doesn't know whether the natives of the Kingdom of God think that the lower universe, where humans rule humans and is relatively free and equal, is better.

Perhaps in their view, since the birth of civilization, there has been a countdown system for its demise. If it does not fly out of the star system for billions of years, it can only wait for the precarious day of extinction. Maybe it will be worse?
Different from this strange combination of industry and agriculture, primitive and modern, the middle-level urban area of ​​the entire mountain reflects another kind of "abnormal" feeling.

It was the fusion of technology and magic, a balance between innovation and conservatism.

In middle-level urban areas, hundreds of meters tall buildings with dozens of floors can be seen everywhere.They have different shapes and are full of aesthetics of different styles and genres, but they all maintain a uniform red and black tone.

It seems that there is no need to consider the issue of lighting under the long-lasting cloud cover. Although the area of ​​the entire middle-level urban area is far from being comparable to that of the lower-level areas, it has formed a building made of steel, concrete, magic crystals and obsidian. A civilized forest.

Such a towering and compact urban structure without the sun does not make people feel oppressed, but instead presents a scene of prosperity.

That's because the colorful light dimmed the entire underlying cosmic sky covered by dark clouds.

It is the shuttle of mechanical aircraft, the experiment in the towering mage tower, the display and competition of exquisite works of art, and the promotion of beautiful stars.

There was even a floating screen that was the size of a football field, showing movies that Zhen Cheng could vaguely see even at the foot of the mountain.

If the low-level environment allowed Zhen Cheng to judge the political and economic structure of the Divine Kingdom at a glance, then the middle-level environment allowed Zhen Cheng to speculate on the character of the divine lord here.

This is a realm ruled by a rather secular, freewheeling deity.

Drunken, dreaming and dying, extravagant and desperate.

To be honest, Zhen Cheng still has a good impression of such a god-lord from the perspective of a bystander due to his childhood experience of family resistance and struggle.

If one day Zhen Cheng sets foot in immortality by herself, she who used to be a mortal may not be able to completely ignore the life demands of mortals like the divine master here.

After all, she was raised as a ruler since she was a child, and it is impossible for her to be so incompetent that she could bear the reputation of being a faint king.

But regardless of social class, this kind of civilization that does not seek conquest and hegemony, but focuses on culture, art and entertainment is really very satisfactory to her.

At this time, Zhen Cheng could never have imagined that from today on, observing and studying various social forms would also become part of her compulsory courses.

Archeology, imperial strategy, detective reasoning, shooting and fighting, assassination and stealth, magic, business and finance, astronomy and geography, cooking, driving maintenance, pet breeding, physics and mathematics, music programming...

Except for ruins exploration and excavation techniques and history lessons that you can never learn in school, you have to learn a little bit of everything else.

(End of this chapter)