Mystery: The Returner of the Stars

Chapter 509 Would a world without gods be better?
There were many people sitting in the room, and the discussion between them seemed to be in the middle of the process, because the sudden appearance of Hasta and Audrey made them stop talking and all looked over.

Audrey glanced at Hastur with a guilty conscience. Seeing that there was no unnecessary expression on his face, she knew that the matter was still under Mr. Hastur's control.

She raised her chin slightly and took advantage of her height to look down at the others present with a slightly arrogant attitude.

Now she is not Audrey, but the arrogant lady of the Psychological Alchemy Society, although this identity was only temporarily stolen.

She had no difficulty getting started with this type of role-playing.

Hastur on the other side looked down at everyone present with a high position, and then naturally walked to the empty seat at the top and sat down. No one had any doubts about this.

Even their sitting postures were quietly more upright. I wonder if it was an illusion. The intimidation exuded by Mr. President tonight made people lack the courage to even look at him.

He just sat there casually like that, but it felt like a vast ocean.

"I would like to formally introduce to you a new member who has joined the jury."

"This is the new head of the Backlund region of the Kingdom of Loen, Miss Arrogant."

"She has noble character, profound knowledge, and a heartfelt love for psychology."

Hastur introduced it calmly, and then motioned for Audrey to sit down and participate in tonight's meeting.

When Audrey sat in the empty seat, Hastur's eyes once again swept across everyone attending tonight's meeting.

Then, he looked at Audrey and said, "Maybe you don't know much about the committee members of our Psychological Alchemy Society. Now, let me give you a brief introduction."

"Thank you, Mr. President." Audrey said cooperatively.

"This is Mr. Lust. He is in charge of Trier, the capital of Intis."

"Ms. Greedy is in charge of Saint Milon, the capital of Feysac Empire."

"Miss Lazy is in charge of Feneport City, the capital of the Kingdom of Feneport."

"Mr. Jealousy is in charge of the city of Dilis in the Republic of Intis."

"Mr. Gluttony is responsible for the city of Constant in the Kingdom of Loen..."

After the introduction, Hasta added: "The purpose of our Psychological Alchemy Society is discovery, exploration and research, and we don't care about the scope of influence, the number of members, the possession of resources and other unimportant things, so we are in the Sea of ​​Mist, Furious There are no jury members in Hainan or Nanzhou.”

"Of course, many of our members often go to the sea to explore ruins and pursue history. Haha, I almost forgot that I myself was once the Black Seat King above the Five Seas."

After lamenting his past adventures across the sea, Hastur stopped talking and said, "You guys go ahead."

He leaned back slightly on the chair, and his seemingly casual tone made everyone present feel more serious.

"Mr. President, we thought you wouldn't come to the meeting tonight, but we didn't expect that you would introduce a new member to us as soon as you came." Someone said with a slight smile, "I think this arrogant lady must have something extraordinary. Only with the ability can you introduce me personally.”

"Miss Arrogance is worthy of all the compliments." Hastur always smiled.

Mr. Hastur is so pretending... Audrey couldn't help but sigh in her heart.

If she hadn't known in advance that Mr. Hastur was just pretending to be the same as her to attend this meeting, she would have really thought that Mr. Hastur was the president of the Psychological Alchemy Society.

Mysterious, powerful, and unpredictable in his true identity.

Sometimes, she even wonders whether the identity of Earl Campbell is the least worth mentioning among Mr. Hastur's identities.

"We were just discussing the war between the Feysac Empire and the Loen Kingdom." Ms. Greedy answered. Seeing Hastur's eyes sweeping over, she subconsciously explained: "We don't want to participate or interfere in this war." Regarding the war situation, we are simply discussing the outcome that the Fusac Empire may face in the future."

Hastur nodded and motioned for the greedy lady to continue.

"Although the Feysac Empire, which has lost the protection of the God of War, has the help of many secret organizations, with the cooperation of the Kingdom of Loen and the Republic of Intis, failure is only a matter of time."

"There is a very interesting psychological phenomenon. In terms of faith, the Feysac Empire, which lost the protection of the God of War, should have collapsed directly and was completely defeated. However, the blood feud stemming from generations made them still fearless even without the protection of the gods. Defeat the attacks from the Kingdom of Loen and the Republic of Intis."

"Especially when facing the Kingdom of Loen, the people of Feysac, who have lost the protection of their gods, have gone from fighting for their gods to fighting for their country to fighting for their homeland in a short period of time."

Having said this, Ms. Greedy's eyes were very bright, "Perhaps God is not a necessity for ordinary people, but God, who needs people to believe in Him."

“It is God who cannot live without man, not man who cannot live without God!”

These words were no less than a spiritual shock to Audrey.

It turns out that the relationship between gods and humans can still be interpreted in this way. Weak humans are more self-improving than gods.

From this aspect, humans are superior to gods.

"Very good words, it reminds me of a little story I once heard." Hastur affirmed such remarks.

"In a place surrounded by mountains and steep cliffs that are difficult to climb out, there lives a group of isolated villagers. They have believed in a mountain god for generations. They believe that it is the mountain god's protection that allows them to stay here. settled in a dangerous environment."

"Whenever the village is in danger and needs help, they will always place all their hopes on the mountain god. Sometimes the mountain god will answer their prayers, and sometimes he will deliberately turn a deaf ear and let them experience all kinds of pain."

"The villagers did not dislike the mountain god because he stood by and did nothing. Instead, they attributed the reason to someone's insincere belief. For this reason, their faith became more pious, and the food offered to the mountain god was plentiful, and more villagers died of hunger." Until one day, the mountain god disappeared and never answered the villagers’ prayers. Some people thought that without the protection of the mountain god, the end of the village had come.”

"But more than 100 years later, the village is still alive. The villagers there even opened a road along the steep cliff to the outside world, and their lives are getting better and better."

Hastur paused for a moment, then smiled and said: "The man who told me the story said something very interesting. He said that life will find its own way."

This is a story with few twists and turns, but the revelation it contains is particularly alarming.

Life will find its own way out. Such a simple sentence caused everyone present to fall into a brief silence.

Would people really be better off without gods?

Audrey also had the idea in her mind that she was a believer of the goddess. Such an idea was undoubtedly treason and blasphemy.

The gods guide the way forward for all living beings. Without them, all living beings will enter the abyss of death and despair.

But deep down in her heart, she didn't have much confidence to refute Mr. Hastur's words.

Life will find its own way out. Maybe a world without gods will really be a better world.

Until the end of tonight's meeting, Audrey had not recovered from these words. She had been trying to construct a godless world in her mind, imagining what such a world would be like and how people there would live. What kind of life is this.

"Miss Arrogant, wake up, it's time for us to find the treasure house here."

After sending the others away from here, Hasta walked to Audrey, who was obviously in a daze, and shouted twice.

"Dear Mr. President, do you also think that a world without gods would be a better place?"

"This is a direction worth pondering, isn't it?"

Hastur did not discuss this issue too much, so as not to let his own thoughts interfere with Audrey's independent thinking.

"Okay, let's go find the treasure house!"

Audrey recovered quickly and followed Hastur out of here one after another, passing through another corridor nearby.

Not long after they left, they noticed a white-furred rabbit wearing a black top hat and black formal suit, holding a ruby ​​cane inlaid with the size of a pigeon, waiting in front, as if he had stopped here specifically to wait for them.

When Mr. Rabbit saw the two of them approaching, he smiled at Hastur and then took off the top hat on the Rabbit's head and bowed deeply.

Then it raised the ruby ​​cane and pointed in the direction to the left, as if pointing them in the direction of the treasure house.

"Thank you Mr. Rabbit."

Before Audrey could say her words of thanks, the elegant and generous Mr. Rabbit in front of her jumped up and down and walked away without looking back.

"Mr. Hastur, do you know this Mr. Rabbit?"

"You can probably guess who he is."

Facing Audrey's inquiring eyes, Hastur just chuckled and said: "If I can see him again next time, I will tell you about his identity. I believe you will be surprised."

After finishing the conversation, the two people followed the guidance of Mr. Rabbit and successfully arrived at the treasure house door. Hastur, with the authority of the president of the Psychological Alchemy Society, easily opened the treasure house door.

"Here is the complete brain of an adult psychic dragon!"

"Heart of the Dream Catcher!"

"The crystallization of spiritual phantoms!"

When Audrey saw the extraordinary materials collected in the treasure house, her eyes were as bright as gems and she narrowed her eyes. She looked a little obsessed with money, which was particularly cute.

After all, the noble Miss Audrey has never been short of money.

Hastur just glanced at it and showed no interest. This place is more of a material warehouse than a treasure house.

The extraordinary materials stored were only up to Sequence 4 level at most, which had little appeal to him.

"The complete brain of an old psychic dragon, this is an extraordinary material needed to be promoted to a Sequence 4 operator!"

Audrey started busy searching and searching, and asked Hasta to help pack up the things she couldn't take.

Although this is a spiritual world, these are real and can be used normally as long as they are brought back to the real world.

"Okay, Mr. Hastur, let's go!"

Audrey, who packed a bunch of extraordinary materials, came to Hasta's side with satisfaction. In a happy mood, she stood on tiptoes and kissed Hasta's right cheek. Before Hasta could react, she walked quickly Run away.

"Mr. Hastur, hurry up, it will be bad if someone finds out."

Audrey, who was running in front, turned around with a smile and waved to Hasta behind her.

(End of this chapter)