Superficial worship was a classic example of a twisted mind. Even though he believed in atheism, those who believed in God would think that he believed in their own God.
This kind of thing could be used to trick other people, but it's impossible to trick anomalies, it'll depend on who's more absolute.
To test its effect, Kathlyn carved a set of statues of the God of Light and God of Computing.
As a member of the older generation, Kathlyn basically knew everything, so the statues she carved were detailed and exquisite.
However, before that, everyone first tried to hypnotize themselves to believe in these fake Gods.
"Kathlyn, 30 minutes to power up"
"Black Cloud Mo, 47 minutes to power up"
"Mo Qiong, 1 hour to power up …"
Master Gou was in charge of recording everything. Although it wasn't as accurate as the Church's records of anomalies, it was still possible to estimate everyone's faith through the activation time of the God of Computing.
It can be said that even after hypnotizing themselves, the members were much more devout than the brat Andy.
But there was a limit to how devout they could be. After all, it was useless to be stronger than a 5-year-old brat, and it was unrealistic to rely on hypnosis to reach the level of a citizen's devout faith.
Any citizen would be able to reduce their activation time to less than 1 minute, let alone the priests who had a shocking amount of faith.
And no matter how much they tried to deceive themselves, compared to the people here, the statues they used were nothing more than super old grandpa machines.
"I've tried my best, if I want to increase my faith in God, I'll have to seal away all my memories of the Lan Bai Society. But if I do that … I won't be a member anymore "Mo Qiong said.
Sealing away a member's memories was obviously not possible, as they still had to carry out their mission.
And while ensuring that the members' faith remained intact, the greatest faith they could achieve was only comparable to a normal 10-year-old child … or a relatively talented 7-8 year old child.
In the underground city, that would still be the same level as everyone else.
"Let's try 'superficial worship'. Mo Qiong, go to the place in the picture, I've already told them" Ke Long told Che Yun. Che Yun and Mo Qiong were still connected mentally.
Che Yun nodded and put on the earring.
Not too long later, Mo Qiong made several trips to the designated location, took the anomaly, and returned underground.
"This rose is the so-called 'superficial worship'? Ah, I remember now, isn't this the Stigmata Rose? "Mo Qiong asked.
The 'Stigmata Rose' was an Alpha-class anomaly. It had the appearance of a rose with thorns, and it always looked like it had just been plucked.
This was a very ancient anomaly that couldn't leave one's sight, otherwise, it would silently vanish and reappear in another corner of the world.
Therefore, Mo Qiong had to keep an eye on it at all times. At this moment, everyone was also paying attention to it to prevent it from running away.
Wu Yunmo also stared at the rose and said, "Yes, it is the Stigmata Rose. We used different nicknames."
"The way to use it is very simple. You just have to be pricked by the thorns on it, or drink the rose petals with water, or eat the entire rose petals …"
Catherine also said, "Those who have been in contact with the roses will have the Stigmata appear when they don't see the roses and their hearts are full of certain beliefs."
"I've read its information before. It's said that it's the main culprit behind the Divine Mark Disease since ancient times." Mo Qiong blinked.
Catherine nodded and said, "That's right. Except for some people who deliberately made themselves Stigmata, all the Stigmata that actually appeared were because of it."
The Divine Mark Disease was a phenomenon that had occasionally appeared in people since the 13th century.
The specific symptoms were a circular wound on the left or right hand or ankle, followed by varying amounts of bleeding. However, there were also cases where the wound appeared on the knee, forehead, and other parts of the body, or where a large amount of tears of blood flowed from both eyes.
Some people were more relaxed and didn't feel any pain, only bleeding from their palms for some reason.
But there were also people who felt intense pain, even dying from the pain or bleeding to death.
Some religious people believed that this was the result of the crucifixion of Jesus being reflected on the bodies of the believers, but the truth was that there were a large number of cases that weren't caused by Christ at all, and many of them were atheists.
Some doctors believed that it was a rare skin disease that caused these festering wounds to look like they had been nailed to a cross.
However, the exact cause of this disease was unknown, and no related viruses or bacteria had ever been found, so the wounds wouldn't even get infected.
Wounds like the Stigmata would automatically heal and recur at regular intervals, other than that, no medical treatment could actively heal them. Even if they were sutured, the blood would still flow eerily.
This phenomenon had even happened to a few corpses, and the blood that flowed out was still fresh with the smell of roses.
"Generally speaking, it's just an Alpha-level threat. Some people's lives weren't affected by the Stigmata, but some people suffered from decades of severe bleeding, and even died because of it. "
"This is related to the degree of belief. The more firm the belief in something, the more serious the Stigmata Disease will be."
Catherine said. There was no doubt that using this thing could show one's extreme belief in Gaia in front of others, but correspondingly, the members would also have to suffer the pain of blood loss.
And this effect was almost permanent, unless the most firm belief in the heart was abandoned, or the limb where the Stigmata appeared was completely obliterated, otherwise the Stigmata Disease would continue, and there was no cure. It would be the same even if one died, even if the limb was replaced.
Death wouldn't be regarded as abandoning the most firm belief in the heart, it was just the loss of consciousness, not abandonment.
Obviously, the members couldn't abandon their most firm belief in the Path of Containment.
So once they chose to use it, they would have to inexplicably bleed from time to time for the rest of their lives, or their eyes would be filled with tears of blood.
"I'll try it first, if the effect isn't good, you don't have to be infected with this thing." Wu Yunmo smiled, he was a dying man, so naturally he didn't care about this little thing.
He grabbed the rose, and his finger was pricked.
Of course, the rose thorns didn't break his defense, only a little white mark was left on his skin.
But this effect didn't require the skin to be pierced, it was enough.
This was a typical containment infection, not a virus, not a bacterium, but a concept, an imposition of nature.
Wu Yunmo shifted his gaze, and stared at the God statue, 20 years of containment experience, the soaring will in his heart surged.
The most firm belief in the heart, with such a violent fluctuation, immediately triggered the Stigmata!
Stab!
The palm of his left hand cracked, like a nail mark, and blood flowed out. Then the palm of his right hand also had the same injury!
Of course, the number of Stigmata and the location of the Stigmata were random, and had nothing to do with the degree of belief.
The degree of belief was related to the pain.
"Fortunately, for the mission, this degree of pain can be ignored." Wu Yunmo muttered.
"How is it?" Catherine asked.
Wu Yunmo resisted the pain in his palm and said, "It started too fast … less than a second."
Everyone smiled, it actually worked!
This Stigmata effect, even the God of Computing was fooled. It seems that the so-called worship on the surface wasn't just a distortion of the mind, but a real conversion of a person's belief to another belief.
But in the past, things like belief couldn't be collected and recorded, it could only be felt on the surface, so it was thought to be a distortion of the mind.
But now, there was a derivative like the God of Computing, which treated belief as a material resource to be collected, this actually proved that this effect was to 'translate' a belief from the surface into another belief.
"Download speed … 1280 MB/s …" After a while, Wu Yunmo said.
Gou Ye laughed, "This is definitely beyond the level of a citizen's piety!"
The computer projected by the God of Computing had 10G bandwidth, according to Andy's information, there was no such person among the citizens.
Andy's parents only had a download speed of 11 MB/s, and a wealthy citizen family nearby said that they could have a download speed of 50 MB/s.
But compared to Wu Yunmo, it was still a far cry. They weren't even on the same level.
According to their speculations, the God of Computing's standard was to be able to increase the God of Computing's bandwidth to a gigabit, which was 125 MB/s.
But Wu Yunmo actually had 1280!
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