Two days later, Chen Chen had made all the necessary preparations. He woke up from the cryogenic chamber again.
With a creak, the lid of the cryogenic chamber opened from the inside and Chen Chen found himself in a room with stone walls on all sides.
This room was about thirty square meters. There were no windows around it, only a thick stone door.
In the middle of the room, there was a metal counter. It seemed to be a mobile counter used by street vendors such as pancakes, fruit pancakes, stinky tofu, and so on. It was pushed in a small cart and when it stopped, it was like a small store.
On the counter, there were two large yellow candles that were as thick as a calf.
Apart from that, there were also many tableware made of metal placed on the counter. There were spoons, bowls, chopsticks, and even an olden era porcelain bowl. These items were all placed on the counter one after another, as if they were being displayed to others.
There were also various metal sculptures placed in the corners of the room. These sculptures looked like garden sculptures placed in parks in the 21st century at first glance. There was a woman holding a child by the hand and there was also a man and a woman who looked like a couple sitting on a stool and snuggling together. Chen Chen even saw an angel statue with its arms spread open.
The common feature of these sculptures was that they were all cast in metal, either brass or pig iron. In short, they seemed to have been around for a long time and they were covered with mottled aura.
What was this for?
Chen Chen was a little curious. He continued to look around the room but did not find anything special.
This seemed to be a secret chamber, or rather, a treasure chamber.
Thinking back to when he first woke up and saw a group of laborers digging for steel, this post-modern civilization seemed to value metal as a precious commodity.
At this time, Chen Chen suddenly felt a wave of hunger in his stomach like a landslide and a tsunami. Obviously, this body had not eaten since he woke up and now it could not hold on anymore. He thought about it, stepped out of the cryogenic chamber, and came to the stone door of the room.
There was no mechanism near the stone door, but Chen Chen did not care. His Field energy seeped in through the gap of the door and soon understood the structure of the stone door. As he touched the spring inside the door, there was a loud bang and the stone door opened.
To Chen Chen's surprise, there was a bedroom behind the door. There was simple furniture and coarse curtains. In the middle of the bedroom, there was a bed made of stone.
The bedding on the bed was messy. At this time, as if they heard the movement, the two naked women on the bed immediately screamed and climbed up, covering the bedding in front of their chest.
At the same time, the man sleeping in the middle quickly got up and looked at Chen Chen cautiously.
When he saw Chen Chen's appearance, the man's expression changed from vigilance to obedience. He quickly got up and bowed his head. "Master!"
This man was none other than Shais.
Seeing this scene, Chen Chen could not help frowning.
Shais seemed to have sensed Chen Chen's displeasure. He quickly pulled out a knife from under his pillow and prepared to stab the woman in front of him in the chest.
However, before he could stab in, he felt a resistance coming from the knife, and no matter how hard he tried, he could not stab in.
With a wave of Chen Chen's hand, the two women immediately passed out.
"There's no need to kill."
Chen Chen said casually while sitting on a chair next to him. "How long did I sleep this time?"
"Reporting to Master."
Shais climbed off the bed and bowed. "You've slept for two days and one night."
Chen Chen nodded. He had fallen asleep around this time in the real world as well, which meant that the time in both worlds was the same.
"Don't ask any questions, just find me some food first."
Chen Chen said casually, "Preferably meat."
"Understood, I'll prepare it for you right away!"
Shais was overjoyed. He did not even bother to put on his clothes and ran out of the bedroom.
After Shais left, Chen Chen looked out the window and saw that it was pitch-black outside. It was night time. However, with Chen Chen's eyesight, he could still see clearly in the dark. He could see that he was in a three-story building. The entire building was built with stone bricks.
Outside the small building were several two-story buildings that surrounded the building where Shais was located. The buildings further away from the building had been reduced to low-rise shacks.
These crude buildings stretched far into the distance. Further away, there was a ten-meter tall shadow that seemed to be a city wall.
If that was the case, he should be in Shais's Barony right now.
Then, Chen Chen looked at the bed again. He saw two women with rough skin but beautiful figures and delicate features lying unconscious on the bed. The two women seemed to be only seventeen or eighteen years old, but they were not pure Africans. They were more like mixed-race people of African and North American descent.
Even Shais was not African. He seemed to be a Kurd from the Middle East.
The room was filled with an obscene smell.
Chen Chen opened the window and let in the night breeze of the desert to disperse the smell of the desert. Soon, Shais returned with a servant pushing a cart full of roasted lamb into the room.
The servant looked to be in his sixties or seventies. His hair and beard were white and his eyes were murky. He did not even dare to look at Chen Chen when he entered the room. He pushed the roasted lamb in front of Chen Chen and bowed before leaving the room.
"Master."
Shais approached Chen Chen and said in a low voice.
Chen Chen did not stand on ceremony. He went to the roasted lamb, took out a dagger, and cut a piece of meat for Shais. "You eat first."
After all, Chen Chen had subdued Shais with his strength. There was no basis for trust between them and Chen Chen would not pretend to be magnanimous and let his guard down.
"Yes!"
Shais did not hesitate at all. He swallowed the entire palm-sized piece of mutton and retreated to the side where he waited respectfully for his next meal.
Seeing that there was nothing out of the ordinary, Chen Chen no longer hesitated and ate to his heart's content.
Chen Chen went on eating for several hours.
The sky slowly turned from midnight to dawn. The lamb bones piled up at Chen Chen's feet. Shais was sweating profusely as he watched from the side. He could not imagine how a human could consume a lamb that was half the size of his body.
Chen Chen breathed a sigh of relief after he finished eating the entire lamb. The hunger in his stomach gradually disappeared and was replaced by a lazy sense of fullness. The lamb was immediately corroded by gastric acid after entering his stomach, then it entered his intestines and was absorbed by the hungry cells.
At this time, the sun was already high up in the sky.
"Well done."
Chen Chen casually offered a few compliments. When he saw a hint of joy on the other party's face, he suddenly said, "I know you have doubts in your heart, so I can tell you now that I'm indeed a human before the Divine Fusion era. Therefore, I need a guide now, a guide who can help me quickly understand everything about this world."
"Master, I'm willing to be your guide!"
Shais shuddered and patted his chest without hesitation. "I, Shais, may only be a lowly baron, but at least I'm stronger than those lowly peasants. Whether it's the history of the empire or the Divine Fusion Vatican, I know them all like the back of my hand!"
"Oh?"
Chen Chen raised an eyebrow. "Then tell me, let's start with the founding of the Divine Fusion Empire."
Upon hearing Chen Chen's request, Shais began to explain in an endless stream.
The so-called Divine Fusion Empire claimed to be the most powerful country in the human world. This country was structured as a city-state with more than three hundred cities scattered across the continent.
However, Chen Chen was a little puzzled by the continent that Shais mentioned. Shais took out a map of the empire.
Chen Chen took the map and looked at it, only to see that the map was like a simple drawing. It only briefly depicted some geographical locations such as mountains, forests, and rivers, and then there was the sea around the continent.
This continent included the African continent, the Middle East, and a part of Europe.
Chen Chen looked at Shais with a dumbfounded expression. "This is the map of the Divine Fusion Empire?"
"Yes!"
Shais replied respectfully, "Further east of the map is a vast uninhabited land. Legend has it that it's a dark land that the God of Creation – Alosorthoth left behind when he created the world. It's said that there's not even a blade of grass growing there. Not even humans or animals can survive there.
"On the west side of the map, which is across the vast sea, is another continent. It's also a land abandoned by the gods and it's precisely that place that became the territory of the Joint Resistance Army."
Chen Chen raised an eyebrow when he heard this.
He could understand that the east side of the map was East Asia and South Asia while the west side across the sea was North America and South America.
"In ancient times, the God of Creation, Alosorthoth, created the world and created his people. He taught his people how to farm and create, allowing them to create a brilliant civilization. Countless years later, his people began to retaliate against him. They used something called 'technology' to fight against his mighty power. In the end, they were punished by the Great Fusion …"
Shais recited the teachings of the Divine Fusion Church while sneaking a few glances at Chen Chen. When he saw that Chen Chen was not angry, he continued, "After that, the glorious civilization of the pre-era was severed and the era of the Divine Fusion Empire began. It has been 378 years since then..."
Chen Chen listened quietly. When he heard the term 'Great Fusion', he immediately realized that this might be the details of the war between the Consciousness Stealer and the humans. He suddenly asked, "What do you mean by 'Great Fusion'?"
"This..."
Shais scratched his head and quickly ran out of the room. When he returned, he was holding a thick tome in his hand.
Chen Chen took the tome and saw that it was a kraft book written in Arabic. The words "Divine Fusion Scripture" were printed on the cover.
Chen Chen flipped it open and saw that the paper inside was very rough. The words written in the book were not small, each font was about the size of a fingernail and there were only about a hundred words on the page.
Based on the ink on the cover, it seemed that the book was made using some kind of engraving and printing technique.
Chen Chen flipped to the page titled "Great Fusion" and quietly finished reading.
According to this tome, the so-called Great Fusion was when Alosorthoth used his divine power to fuse most of the humans in the world who disrespected him into one body. This was to create a new divine body for Alosorthoth and grant new power to his believers.
Thus, the era of the ancient civilization ended and the era of the Divine Fusion began.
Due to the limited number of words in the tome, there was only a brief description of the Great Fusion without any further details.
Still, this was enough for Chen Chen. He was right. Before the infected died, their bodies would fuse with one another. This method of dying was not useless. Not only could the Consciousness Stealer steal the consciousness of humans, but it could also steal the human body!
It was likely that when the consciousness accumulated to a certain extent, a part of the human corpse would automatically transform into a complete Consciousness Stealer...
For some reason, Chen Chen suddenly remembered the phantom that flashed in his mind when he killed the Consciousness Stealer in the Consciousness Battlefield. It was a gigantic shadow that floated above the planet. Half of the shadow's body was completely submerged under the horizon. Tens of thousands of tiny tentacles stretched out from its body like a behemoth made of endless flesh and blood...
Could that shadow be the mature form of the Consciousness Stealer?
However, after the Consciousness Stealer's attack, human civilization suffered a heavy blow. The inheritance of technology and culture was completely severed, leaving only this lost world that worshipped the Consciousness Stealer.
"What about the scars on your face?"
Chen Chen thought for a moment and asked, "I also saw some festering marks on Armas's face. What do these marks represent?"
"They're stigmata, Master."
Shais explained, "Having stigmata means that we're blessed by the gods. The more devout a believer is, the more stigmata they'll receive. I was just the most basic believer before but the deceased Count Armas's stigmata had reached a critical point and gained the ability bestowed by the gods — psionic powers."
"Only believers can receive psionic powers?"
When Chen Chen heard this, he immediately found a loophole in Shais' logic. When he first crawled out of the cryogenic chamber, there was no so-called stigmata on his face. However, Shais still mistook him for a psionicist.
"Of course not!"
Shais shook his head. "Some people are born with psionic powers, including the untouchables and slaves. Some people awaken their psionic powers later on. Even if they don't have psionic powers, they can still receive psionic powers by praying to the churches."
"Praying to the churches?"
Chen Chen narrowed his eyes when he heard this. It seemed that the festering on these people's faces and the way they obtained psionic powers were related to the Divine Fusion Vatican.
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