Industrial Cthulhu, starting from the island lord

Chapter 198 Castel Cathedral

Chloe's eyes slowly widened.

"If a cognitive interference of sufficient magnitude were to occur, causing a world shift across the entire island of Castel, wouldn't that explain our current situation? We've found everything we want, our enemies have become weaker, and all the technologies we've developed have been successful?"

Hughes swallowed his saliva. This seemed to be the explanation that could explain everything.

"Look, I launched the war speech earlier. The people on the island all hope to win and are supporting me. Their will penetrates the high wall of reality, and because there are enough of them..."

"Stop, stop, stop!" Chloe stretched out her hand and gestured, "Stop, you almost got me tricked. This is impossible."

"why?"

"First, there aren't enough people. You're underestimating the difficulty of cognitive interference. A few thousand people want to change the entire island? Unless everyone is a saint with a will as strong as steel, you're still an Imperial. With so many people on the battlefield sharing the same hatred and a common enemy, if they could all cognitively interfere, the world would have been in chaos long ago."

Come to think of it, hundreds of workers were absolutely convinced that soap was edible (after all, they made it with olive oil themselves), but cognitive interference only occurred after they had been making soap for a long time, and it only affected a few boxes of soap.

Alexey later checked the inventory and found that only the boxes of soap they had eaten were contaminated, and the rest of the soap in the warehouse was fine.

What kind of existence would be able to cause the entire Castel to shift worldward? Perhaps it could only be cognitive interference caused by the gods themselves.

Chloe continued, "Besides this, as we just mentioned, cognitive interference won't work on the enemy. Don't try to defeat them on the battlefield with illusions."

"Is it because cognitive interference doesn't work on humans?"

"No, cognitive interference works on everything. But you have to know that since cognitive interference has the word 'cognitive' in it, it means it is extremely subjective and determined by your will."

"You have the will, but the other side has no will?"

Hughes showed an expression of sudden enlightenment.

"The wills of the two sides will clash, and what is left will no longer be enough to overcome the high wall of reality."

"So you'd better stop thinking about your Castel shift theory. Why the sea urchins became weaker has nothing to do with our cognition. Besides, you don't think they're that disgusting, do you?"

Thinking of the monster with arms all over it, Zeus couldn't help but reveal a look of disgust. It was obviously a monster from the sea, but its appearance seemed to be specially created to go against human aesthetics. Why did those arms all look like humans? Even fish fins would be more reasonable.

"I'm not sure about that. You can ask Richard. He knows more about anatomy than I do." Chloe yawned and walked away. "I'll leave first. I have to go to the factory later. Why is it that the steel plant that I manage cannot be shut down?" Zeus nodded. Although he had an inexplicable strange feeling in his heart, he didn't think much about it.

More and more people gathered in the church, and the floors were gradually filled.

Several thousand people is not a small number, but the cathedral was designed to be extremely large in order to cover the furnaces and inscriptions in the entire underground part. If the banshees had not been able to turn fossils into mud, this amount of work alone would have taken traditional stonemasons more than ten years to complete.

With the help of the banshees' magic and reinforced concrete, this church was built rapidly under people's eyes at an almost miraculous speed. People standing in the distance can only see its towering figure, and only when they come to its feet can they know how huge this church is.

Everyone who comes to the foot of the church will look up at this huge existence. It does not have the messy decorations like other churches. The exterior walls of the church are just simple gray, rough, cold and hard. The large flat walls are like heavy armor, as if a giant standing on the earth.

Its lines are neither gentle nor ferocious, but simply run from one end to the other, without any decoration, only extreme pragmatism. Unlike other magnificent churches, it has no curved dome and no stained glass. Anyone who sees it will not feel that it is flashy at all. Every stone and every steel bar is thirsting for the blood of the enemy.

The naked industrial aesthetic is not about the visual experience brought by lines and design, but about crushing weak fantasies with powerful and cold rationality.

Hughes designed this fortress according to the requirements of permanent fortifications. All its walls can withstand continuous artillery bombardment. Anyway, the walls are very simple with fossils as mud piles. The thickest part of the wall is as thick as six meters. This thickness is very explosive even on the battlefield of World War II.

Of course, this part is mainly to protect the core furnace. After all, this thing is equivalent to the power source of the entire island. Zeus originally just wanted to use it to charge the guardian inscription, but gradually discovered that the steam power it provides is actually more useful.

Apart from anything else, wherever the steam pipes in this cathedral lead to, there is almost inexhaustible power. Hughes has already placed two arsenal production lines in the church. Although it is a bit cramped after moving everyone in, this is only a temporary measure. After 24 hours, if there is no pollution or other danger on the island, Hughes will still send the workers back to the factory.

When people walked to the door of this huge church, their expressions unconsciously became pious. What they believed in at this moment was not God, but the sense of power brought by industry.

Although Zeus did not arrange any people to preach, the number of believers in the Imperial Truth has increased. It is said that some people have spread the word that the Castel Cathedral is actually a huge stone creature, which is Zeus's weapon of war. When the enemy comes, it will stand up and fight with its huge body, crushing all enemies.

Zeus naturally had someone suppress this outrageous statement immediately, but you have to admit, this scene was really fascinating, so it gradually spread among believers.

The next day came quickly. After people became familiar with the church, they gradually adapted to living there. Under Alexi's arrangement, the steam production lines in several churches also began trial operation.

At this moment, Zeus was in his office on the top floor, listening to Ash's report with a frown. The pollution had not yet landed, but the enemy had arrived first.

"My Lord, a large number of fishmen and sea urchins are pouring in."

(End of this chapter)