Meteor Fall Master in the 'Starry Abyss'
Chapter 787 - 393. Humanistic Nuclear Bomb

Chapter 787: 393. Humanistic Nuclear Bomb

Li Aozi fully anticipated Gio Zieou’s astonishment.

"It’s just a normal activity,"

Li Aozi responded perfunctorily.

Although Li Zi’s memories were fake, the various techniques learned from Li Zi’s life as a ’streamer’ were already mastered and further expanded by Li Aozi through his own experience.

The entire plan was very simple: gather a large number of people to form a new force, compelling the remaining four Knights of the High Table to collaborate with the Fermi Research Institute to counter him.

This did not even count as an overt plot; the other side would not only step in gladly but would also try to speed up as much as possible.

[Going door to door looking for them would not only easily alert them but also, given an Iota (9) level, if they really hid, it would be truly hard to find them within several hundred years.]

This was no exaggeration. Many strong individuals at the Iota Rank had basic capabilities of traversing dimensions and spacetime.

One of the simplest manifestations was that they did not age in appearance.

A more advanced one was that their body would not decay, didn’t need energy supplementation, and if injured, their body would slowly reverse time to heal itself...

Gaden of the "Garden," whom Li Aozi had killed, could even directly immunize against spacetime stagnation—well, although this trait was not surprising.

After all, for the cosmos, ’time’ was something that did not truly exist.

You might have heard that matter is made up of fire elements, carbon elements, or quarks, but have you heard what time is made up of?

There were no spacetime elements or time particles in this world.

To avoid spending decades on guerrilla warfare on Dragon Satellite, or potentially failing during the process, Li Aozi chose the most straightforward and most effective method:

Become the villain.

Rather than finding clues one by one to fight the bosses, Li Aozi opted to let them form teams to fight against him and Gio Zieou.

[The essence of the Kingdom Parliament was an alliance of warlord oligarchs. Due to the appearance of the Void, the entire Dragon Satellite highly relied on science students and technocrats to govern, which led them to make no progress in social sciences or systems, resulting in terrible urban-rural connectivity.]

The Blacksmith left Li Aozi not just strength but also a large accumulation of wealth, giving Li Aozi a huge sum of startup capital for planning.

The most crucial thing was, the memories of the Blacksmith and Polina in Valley Peak Village made Li Aozi deeply understand the social situation on Dragon Satellite.

In the Kingdom, although cars and planes were already everywhere, most regions still used outdated tenant farming systems, with some places even retaining serfdom.

In Polina’s memory, there were almost no public schools; nurturing technology talent relied on private schools, and the government had no concept of compulsory education, resulting in the Kingdom’s illiteracy rate being higher than that of the Outer World of Azure Star.

Illiteracy meant ignorance, and ignorance meant they were more susceptible to fall into superstition and the manipulation of religion.

Due to the invasion of the Void, the Kingdom’s Parliament had cleaned out religions early on, which meant they had not developed scholastic philosophy, had no Theological Seminary, and therefore had no tradition of debate.

The result was that the Kingdom had neither the imperial examination (college entrance exam) nor higher education.

The backward humanities and technology tree gave Li Aozi a chance to play his hand.

[Since that’s the case, let them witness the advanced institutional impacts from an interstellar civilization!]

Due to a prior agreement with Zhi Xiang, Li Aozi was prohibited from spreading Pathway on this planet.

However, Zhi Xiang only banned Pathway, not deity worship.

Thus, Li Aozi began to create an indigenous monotheistic belief system.

The first step: elevate Gio Zieou to godhood.

In fact, neither Li Aozi nor Gio Zieou had any experience in running a religious group.

But that did not matter.

Because the essence of faith was concept and order.

All righteous god faiths needed to be built on ’claiming to guide people towards good (life view),’ ’claiming reward in the afterlife (value view),’ and ’claiming the Chief God created the world (worldview).’

As long as these three steps were followed, even a double-layer cheeseburger could establish a religion!

The life view was easy enough; Gio Zieou’s personality was simple and honest, emphasizing sincerity towards others, mutual help and support, and the courage to stand up for others.

The afterlife reward was also simple; because Dragon Satellite’s natives lived in nihilistic soil, to counter it, Li Aozi introduced two heavy hitters:

Reincarnation.

Gratitude education.

[Whoever believes in Gio Zieou and follows His rules: do not steal, do not kill, do not practice usury, do not resent the poor... you will be freed from worldly suffering after death and will be reborn into a more fortunate family the next life. On the other hand, if you commit greed, anger, ignorance, arrogance, or doubt, you will suffer torment in the Void for eternity.]

[It is precisely because of Gio Zieou that you all can live peacefully in the world; therefore, you should

The advanced humanities system directly shocked Dragon Satellite, where the average education level was driving school graduates.

Dragon Satellite had never experienced such an advanced humanities system. Its native culture had already been ravaged almost to nothing by the Void, and with Li Aozi’s afterlife reward theory, it was completely kicked off the stage.

As for nihilism—since Dragon Satellite did not have a ready-made humanities education system or even a single philosopher, nihilism only spread in people’s hearts, turning into a pessimistic awareness but unable to form a true systematic, organized, hierarchical sect.

Li Aozi had discovered one thing: although nihilism was lamentably contagious, its weakness was also apparent; once defeated, it was hardly able to make a comeback.

To counter nihilism, one needed either ideals or faith.

Luckily, Dragon Satellite had long been devoid of religion.

Regarding the creation myth—Li Aozi directly copied his [Monolith Church].

Wait, not just copied.

He seriously replaced ’Leoz’ with ’Gio Zieou.’

The entire process took less than three seconds.

Moreover, Li Aozi introduced several concepts from interstellar civilization, political groups, fandom groups, forum chats, and corporate culture into the church-building process.

[Breaking Delusion God View] had its own emblem symbols, self-consistent system, and under Li Aozi’s heavy spending on hiring musicians and writers, it also had its own cultural products.

The believers had a unified title, a unified recognized hymn, a unified uniform, and a uniform gesture, raising their left hand palm-facing each other when meeting.

Thus, the church was established, and [Breaking Delusion God View] had a solid foundation far surpassing the native one.

The second step: expand and strengthen.

As an interstellar citizen with a one-year master’s degree and a career as a streamer, Li Aozi did not understand the details of running a religious group, but he did understand how to generate popularity.

In the early stages, popularity required platform promotion. So, Li Aozi specifically created a platform:

He spent money on various businesses, cooperating with them on joint promotion activities. For example, if a customer bought 3 kilos of apples, they would receive a cute doll with the [Breaking Delusion God View] mark, along with the church’s contact details, address, and slogans.

Moreover, to speed things up, Li Aozi did not hesitate to initiate a notorious model:

Multi-level Marketing.

Initially, he had the original believers recruit new members and asked the new recruits to recruit even more people.

Thus, the recruitment figures were used to calculate and pay compensation.

Then, when the number of recruits reached a certain point, he asked the new recruits to pay fees.

By this stage, Li Aozi had already recovered the money spent on charity, printing religious texts, and making merchandise.

What if new recruits could not afford the membership fees?

No problem. He would accept fees in kind through buying merchandise.

The merchandise, of course, came from the partnered manufacturers, adorned with Gio Zieou’s quotes and religious elements.

With the constant exposure to religious information, even if you did not believe, you would gradually get used to it, and might even find non-religious items strange.

Moreover, Li Aozi’s system required believers and recruiters to form hierarchical relationships, with salaries calculated based on the lower hierarchy’s sales performance.

By this stage, the entire system was patched up.

In this way, no matter how many believers you recruited, you always had to keep working to continue spreading Gio Zieou’s teachings.

The system’s adhesive characteristic ensured that once entangled, coupled with Li Aozi’s occasional personal appearances to capture the high church leaders with his charisma, every member would relentlessly recruit new believers to maintain their ’rank’ within the church.

To accommodate the church’s self-run expenses and control member activities, Li Aozi’s system made the church a self-operating entity, with everyone finding their own tasks to do.

With continual competition to capture recruits from one another, the internal competition pressure in the church became immense, creating rampant intramural strife.

With the right timing, favorable geography, and harmonious will, accompanied by a cultural and technological inferior strike.

And the result was thus.

In just two months, Gio Zieou had amassed 20 million substantive believers.

They were not united by Pathway recognition but by capital, connections, and culture.

But this was just the second step.

In the Starry Abyss, there was a saying about establishing a church: the prophet’s three steps.

First step: recruit people.

Second step: accumulate wealth.

Third step: armament.

"Our numbers are already sufficient, with over 800,000 core members, 20 million believers, and close to 100 million influenced individuals. For the Kingdom Parliament, this is a mass of people they can never organize. Once we launch, they will completely lose control over local municipalities."

Li Aozi slowly stood up.

"Indeed, exactly,"

Gio Zieou said,

"It’s time to launch an armed rebellion—so, Lord Leoz, haven’t you picked a slogan for this rebellion?"

"I’m not good at coming up with names."

"Oh?" Gio Zieou lightly exclaimed, "How could you not be good at—oh, you are the planner after all, it has to be you."

"... I understand. On the other side, the Void and the Kingdom Parliament’s slogan is ’Return to the Great Void,’ roughly meaning embracing nothingness. In that case, our rebellion slogan will be—"

Li Aozi said calmly,

"Breaking the delusion."

"Let’s completely shatter these nihilistic delusional anxieties."

"It’s time to drive these Void beasts back to the Nether Abyss."

At this moment, Li Aozi already deeply understood that he had dropped a religious bomb on Dragon Satellite; the cultural invasion from the Starry Abyss might severely damage Dragon Satellite’s indigenous cultural development.

But it did not matter.

If Dragon Satellite’s native culture was indeed robust, it would only absorb nutrients from these religions and become inclusive and eclectic.

Even if their culture was destroyed... who would care?

After all, this was just a Primitive Civilization that had, in just 80 years because of the Void invasion, stepped into industrial technological civilization.

As long as the external enemies were driven away, they would gradually adjust and restore a normal societal status.

The so-called civilization was the crystallization of the brilliance of humanity and technology working together.