Chapter 16 The Commissioner and Twilight "A murder occurred at the No. 13 coal mine in the Barrier area. Two foremen and the mine manager were killed, and all their property was looted." The branch director, who was carefully studying a pocket watch made by a master craftsman from the Western Region, looked up with an impatient expression at the secretary who had interrupted his lunch break. "If this is the only minor matter, you can prepare to handle the personnel handover." The secretary fidgeted with his head down. "According to the information from the security over there, the murderer is most likely the one who escaped from Miss Feng and the experimental subject from Test Site No. 7." "So! Did the security at the venue catch anyone?" "No, but they suspect that Miss Feng may have fled to the territory of those losers with the experimental subjects." Hearing this, the minister's originally irritable mood calmed down a little, and he put down the precious pocket watch. "That police chief surnamed Tian has deeper ties with those losers, and he will think of this in advance. We pay so much tax to support those police officers, they should do their job."
"Following your instructions, we have also requested locator permissions from the manager." Suddenly, the minister sat up straight, his expression unconsciously became serious, and his waist bent subconsciously. "What did the manager say?" “This is his approval notice.” The secretary took two quick steps forward and handed an envelope to the minister. After opening the envelope and seeing the contents of the notice, the minister's face turned a little ugly, and then a little relieved, but he finally took a deep breath and said in a deep voice. "Call Bai Qiulin over to me." Soon, a thin young man wearing a wrinkled shirt, casual pants, and a somewhat sloppy and lazy temperament came to the minister's private lounge. The minister did not hide his displeasure at all when he looked at the young man. With a cold face, he slammed the other piece of paper in the envelope on the desk. "This is the transfer order from the manager. From now on, you will be fully responsible for Feng Zi's escape." Bai Qiulin scratched his messy hair, picked up the transfer order nonchalantly, and put it into his pocket without even looking at it. "A red shirt with white socks, you have bad taste, Minister." "Shut up! You're just a specialist! Watch how you talk to your superiors!" "I'm sorry, dear Minister, I sincerely suggest that you cultivate your aesthetic taste." He blew a whistle, then left without looking back, leaving the minister, whose face had begun to turn red but had nowhere to vent his anger, so he slammed the table twice in anger! The secretary at the side tactfully poured a cup of tea and placed it in front of the minister. "Manager, aren't you ready to officially take over the branch's affairs?" the secretary asked in a low voice. The minister brought the tea. His anger came and went quickly, or perhaps he was deliberately showing it to the commissioner. "The seat at the top of the Sunlight Council has always been vacant, and the council is planning to formally confirm this seat on this year's Glorious Festival. Originally, when Feng Zi came, the position was reserved for her, but that ignorant girl chose to go against the entire city."
"Since she is stupid and disabled, there are more options for the council. The manager is also very interested in this position. Otherwise, why has he never come to the company since he came to the Sun, but has been in contact with those councillors and big factory owners instead?" The secretary looked a little hesitant, but she still chose to ask. "If the manager becomes a senator, then Commissioner Bai who came with him..." The minister narrowed his eyes and grasped the secretary's white and tender fingers, and began to play with them carefully with the same seriousness as he had just studied the pocket watch. The secretary knelt obediently beside him, allowing the minister to play with her hands that once danced on the black and white piano keys. "Don't worry. I've already asked someone at the headquarters to find out about this Bai. Before he was assigned to the branch, he was an unknown researcher without any connections or background. After the manager came to the Sun with him, he just threw him into the company alone and ignored him, let alone assigned him any specific position." "Now she has specially given him the matter of the experimental product and asked him to do such a thankless task. It is obvious that she is very dissatisfied with him." The minister slowly placed his slender white hands on his lower body, and the foot wearing the ridiculed white socks stepped on the secretary's head. This kind of condescending pleasure and unbridled humiliation made him feel happy. he sneered. "Leave it to him. Leave it all to him. I want to see how he will deal with such a thorny and dire situation!" In the shabby clinic, Levi sat on a small bench bored, listening to the priest he met in the morning, who was wearing a black robe and a star cross pendant around his neck, explaining the church's doctrines to him. "Twilight is not a specific god. In this era where everyone relies on science to survive underground, even the dumbest people would not place their spiritual hopes on something so illusory." "The natural rules have become disordered. Humans paid a heavy price to escape from the surface and built rules underground that seemed similar to the past in order to survive, but this was obviously not sustainable." "No one knows how long we can survive in this kind of human-maintained nature. So in the first year of the New World, the great brain science and psychiatric master, Mr. Chen Pingyi, founded the Twilight Church and became the first pope." "Twilight, the last ray of sunlight in the evening. The purpose of the first pope's founding the religion was to prevent despair and pessimism from taking over the mainstream of the dungeon. He advocated that after a person dies, a part of the brain nerves should be cut off to maintain the most basic biological activity using biological rules." "When the neural network is large enough and there are enough of them, a world that exists in consciousness can be created. When the real world enters its final destruction and the survival of living things is completely plunged into darkness, twilight will be activated and human thinking will be reborn in another form." "In that world, there is no poverty, no hunger, no disparity, and everyone has inexhaustible resources. Human consciousness has entered the Garden of Eden, and in reality, the neural thinking of living things will also be continued." "This is Twilight." The white-haired priest spoke very seriously, but he also did not delay in taking care of the patient in front of him whose arm was burned. Levi glanced at the clouds outside the window that were gradually darkening, and asked casually. "Then what positive impact does your faith have on the world? If everyone expects the human race to perish and enter the illusory Garden of Eden, who would want to live? At most, you can just burn, kill, and plunder for a bit, then die and wait to move to another place to continue enjoying life at no cost, right?" "What you do in this world will affect everyone's life in Twilight." After the priest finished treating the patient's burns, he looked at Levi and pointed to his head. "Good and bad, kindness and evil, these may deceive anyone else, but they can never deceive oneself. The moment a person's nerves are left behind, his memory will basically have a conclusion about his life. Twilight will use this to judge his form and situation in the spiritual world. Good and bad people will have different appearances, jobs and families, and the most evil people will even be reduced to beasts." While saying this, he took out a small card from his pocket and handed it to Levi. "We are not seeking to develop a large number of believers, but if you are interested in the final Twilight, you can come to the church at any time to sign the death and burial treaty. Twilight will not interfere with your life, but is willing to properly preserve your body and nerves." "I've talked to you for so long because I feel that your image and voice are very good. Recently, the church is preparing to build a choir for the Festival of Glory. You can come and try. If you are selected, you can follow the bishop into the White Tower on the day of the festival and spread the twilight to those big shots. That is a rare opportunity that many people dream of." After sending out the cards and treating the last patient of the day, the pastor asked Levi to leave, closed the clinic's door, and walked straight out of the border market.
It can be seen that the residents in the border town respect him very much, even the children who have returned home from school will stick around him. Levi glanced at the card in his hand. There was only an address on it. [Twilight Church, No. 2, Labor District 18, Yuguang District] He shrugged, pressed the card with his finger, and flicked it lightly, and the card swirled and flew away. Not to mention that he would never die, even in reality, he had no interest in such a church. Although the doctrine does encourage people to be positive and kind, more people will be tamed and become beasts of burden who do not know how to resist or question. Levi had no ill will nor interest in this, he just wanted to try this strange priest to see if he could trigger any task. But obviously, the result was nothing. Just when he was about to turn around and find a snack bar to get something to eat, Fengzi found him with a gloomy look on his face. "We have to go soon." (End of this chapter)