With the support of a ninth-level civilization, do you want me to believe in electronic gods?

Chapter 28 Natural Constants
In the church, the status of God's chosen ones is quite high.

Along the way, Chen and Fan encountered almost no obstruction - for the God's Chosen One, most areas of the main church were undefended.

The biggest unexpected incident was that he was stopped by a passing purple-robed bishop and asked about the progress of the third oracle ceremony.

In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Chen Fan almost said nothing when facing the bishop's questions, leaving all questions to Gao Yuan.

The taciturn Chen Fan did not arouse the bishop's suspicion.

In fact, most of the chosen ones basically have this attitude - as people chosen by God, most of the chosen ones are very arrogant.

The purple-robed bishop did not ask too much, but after briefly understanding the situation, he respectfully made way for the two of them.

This is true for the purple-robed bishop, let alone the lower-status white-robed deacons and black-robed priests.

In fact, according to Chen Fan's observation, in the absence of tasks and high-level instructions, these grassroots clergy of the church would not even think about getting involved with the Chosen One.

They will even try to avoid the Chosen One if possible!
After a little thought, Chen Fan understood the reason:

No employee would take a huge risk to court a parachute leader who only lasts a few months.

Isn’t this purely thankless?

……

In just over ten minutes, Chen Fan followed Gao Yuan to the church's library.

It is obvious that the library is an important place for the church.

Several black-robed priests and dozens of guards wearing bright silver armor, holding shields and swords stood meticulously in front of a closed thick metal door, blocking every gaze that tried to pry into its secrets.

In Chen Fan's opinion, this scene is a bit too magical.

The defense strength of the thick, tightly closed metal door clearly exceeded that of the dozens of guards armed with cold weapons.

What is this called?
Defend the bank vault door with primitive thinking?

It can only be said that the church knows how to defend itself.

As for why so many people are sent to guard a library...

Chen Fan can understand the reason.

For the church, controlling the dissemination of knowledge means controlling the thoughts of ordinary people.

This can greatly strengthen the ruling position of the church, which is undoubtedly a huge benefit to the church.

After seeing Gao Yuan, a black-robed priest who was responsible for guarding the library came forward bravely: "Your Excellency, God's Chosen One."

"We need to go into the library."

Gao Yuan raised his chin indifferently and gestured towards the closed metal door, and ordered in an unquestionable tone: "Open the door."

The black-robed priest did not show any dissatisfaction with Gao Yuan's condescending attitude.

He raised his head slightly and looked carefully at Gao Yuan and Chen Fan behind him with the red-gleaming mechanical eyes under his hood.

In order to allow the chosen ones to learn more theological knowledge, each chosen person has access to the library for study.

The premise is the Chosen One himself.

Therefore, Chen Fan, who had been silent and "hiding" behind Gao Yuan, naturally became the focus of observation.

"how?"

Gao Yuan's face turned cold: "As a church priest, can't you even recognize the Chosen One?"

The black-robed priest did not speak, but bowed slightly to express his apology to Gao Yuan and Chen Fan.

After confirming the identities of the two people, he turned around without hesitation and shouted to the black-robed priests and guards behind him:
"Open the door!"

……

The order was given.

The guards holding shields and swords retreated to both sides, and the extremely thick metal door was fully exposed.

As for the black-robed priest, he quickly walked to a metal shrine next to the gate.

An exquisitely crafted statue of a god was placed on the metal shrine. Under the light of the concealed wall lamp, a fleeting reflection flashed across the eyes of the statue. Under Chen Fan's gaze, all the black-robed priests stood in front of the shrine and sang prayers like chants.

The syllables of the prayer are very vague, and it also adopts a rather strange pronunciation method. This should be to prevent anyone from secretly writing down this "entry password".

but……

Perhaps even the so-called goddess would never have imagined that an alien like Chen Fan would appear among her most devout followers!

And this alien also has a smart terminal from a higher civilization!

As Chen Fan's thoughts moved, Yi had already begun to record this complex prayer, and at the same time, relying on his huge computing power, he began to analyze the specific meaning and rules of this prayer word by word.

【Yes. 】

Before the prayer ended, Yi had already come to the conclusion: [It is a natural constant. 】

Chen Fan was stunned: 'What? '

[So far, there are a total of ten different syllables in this prayer. 】

[This machine tried the exhaustive method and easily found the rule: each syllable corresponds to the corresponding decimal number. 】

[After translation, I got a string of irregular and non-cyclic numbers: 2718281828459045...]

[Very familiar, right? 】

'...'

[Don’t you know the natural constants? It is the base of the natural logarithm function. It plays a very important role in many scientific theories. You didn’t know it? ! 】

'Is this so? ' Chen Fan responded dryly.

[…Forget it, let’s skip this topic for now. 】

Yi's voice was full of helplessness: [In short, if you can use this string of numbers as a password, the other party must have developed a basic mathematical system. 】

[Mathematics is the foundation of all sciences, which is enough to prove that the other party has it...]

'Isn't this nonsense? Chen Fan interrupted Yi's mumbling, "Since the so-called gods are alien civilizations that have mastered higher technology, how could they not master this basic mathematical knowledge?" '

【if……】

A voice sounded faintly: [Did the church design this password? 】

'That……'

Chen Fan suddenly fell into silence.

At this moment, he suddenly realized that he seemed to have fallen into a huge misunderstanding!

From beginning to end, he has not seen any direct evidence of the existence of extraterrestrial civilization.

All the information he had observed previously could only be regarded as indirect evidence.

Under the "double misleading" of these indirect evidences and the database information provided by Yi, he firmly believed that the gods were just alien civilizations that had mastered higher technology!
But if it's really like what Yi said now...

'So……'

Chen Fan suddenly felt his throat tightening: 'God...could it be just a lie used by the church to maintain its rule? '

In other words, the church itself is the technological civilization that has mastered more advanced technologies!

'No, that's not right! '

'This still doesn't explain the problem of the Chosen One. '

Chen Fan retorted from the bottom of his heart: 'If it is to stabilize its own rule, there is no reason for the church to frequently select the chosen ones! '

There was silence for a while.

[You are right, this is indeed a doubtful point. 】

[After all, this is just a possibility calculated by this machine, and the accuracy cannot be guaranteed if there is insufficient evidence. 】

(End of this chapter)