Chapter 2471: Collective Resignation
The heavens felt that it was not worthwhile to continue fighting for a world, so they were ready to let go. However, before leaving, they would definitely not let Duran have an easy time. They would let the believers know that it was God who abandoned this world and that this world failed God's expectations, and they would make the faith in the other world collapse completely.
Faith is the social organizational power. Although it is not the most advanced, it is definitely closely related to the humans in the other world. Once the faith collapses, the organizational power of this world will completely disappear. Coupled with the rampant monsters, this world will become hell. Because it is faith that allows adventurers and the people of Dawn to maintain the current social balance.
Organizational power requires an ideological foundation. It is impossible for two strangers to come together and suddenly cooperate for no reason. The most primitive organizational power foundation is undoubtedly blood. Family members or families form a cooperative production unit to face this world together.
But as more and more people, people from different families form tribes. Blood as the basis of organizational power has limitations, so the tribe will have primitive religious beliefs such as totem worship or shamanism, allowing several families without blood ties to unite and believe in the same god to support each other.
Then came the rise of monotheism. The advantage of monotheism over polytheism is that the trust cost can be reduced when believers of the same monotheism meet. Although everyone has never met, they all believe in the same god, so they are family. Although monotheism later developed different doctrines, polytheism had been eliminated at that time.
The reason why monotheism is in large-scale demand is mainly because civilizations that match monotheism often need to travel around for trade and encounter different trade civilizations of strangers. In order for two strangers who are not related by blood to quickly establish trust and contractual spirit after meeting, one god and one belief are the most effective.
Of course, there are also civilizations without monotheism, such as the Central Plains civilization, because the Central Plains civilization is an agricultural civilization that rarely needs to travel around. They have always lived on a piece of land. What maintains them is not faith but pan-clan relations, which is to respect the old and the young, and respect the old and the young. Everyone is a fellow villager, so there is no need to establish any faith to maintain organizational strength. Even if you go to a strange place, you don't need to worship God, because everyone knows that even if you go to a new place, there will still be parents and hometown associations. As long as you are in the Central Plains, you are a big family. This is the civilization of the infinite expansion of primitive blood relations. Blood is no longer just a fact, but a broad social relationship and the foundation of organizational strength.
So the police became uncles, the street vendors became aunts, and strangers were either uncles, aunts, or grandparents. The whole society was united to deal with various natural and man-made disasters.
The other world is obviously united by faith, so once there is a problem with faith, there will be a crisis of trust, and there will be no trust between people.
In a country where almost all people believe in Eris, if there is no faith, then it will not only be monsters that threaten humans, but also humans. After all, human hearts are unpredictable. Once there is no common faith, a chain of suspicion will arise, and human hearts will become more fierce than monsters. This world will definitely enter a long-term dark forest state, and then people harming each other will become the norm.
Why are monotheists afraid of people without faith? It is because their habit is to trust people with the same faith, and they cannot trust people without faith. As for how much faith they have in God, I'm afraid even they don't know, but monotheism is indeed a good tool, especially for those who travel far away all year round.
"These gods are too stingy. Isn't it just not giving them face? Is it necessary to be so extreme?" Duran thought that the people in the other world did not offend the heaven, and it was too rude for them to turn the table directly. Duran has not yet transformed this world into an atheist world.
If you want to replace monotheism, you must have a new organizational foundation and regain trust between people. The simplest way is to learn to set prices for everyone in the capital era, so that everyone will soon find their place in society. This method allows everyone to work hard to improve their value. However, there are also disadvantages, because the pricing power is only in the hands of some people, so they will definitely lower the prices of others, so that the world will become more and more unfair.
However, this pricing method is indeed very simple and crude. It only needs to make the social division of labor more detailed, and it is easy to arrange a position for everyone, regardless of whether it is appropriate or not, but at least it can keep everyone busy in a short period of time. Whether it is an acquaintance or a stranger, you can put a price on it and start to divide the work and cooperate. This kind of quantitative pricing of capital is more efficient and more widespread than monotheism.
Duran thought that the heaven was forcing him, and he didn't think that he really had no other way: "If it doesn't work, all of it will be digitized, and everyone can view each other's data."
Although capital prices people, a person's talent, potential, good and evil cannot be priced, but Duran can digitize them all, and they can view each other, making the whole world gamified.
In this way, even if there is no faith, trust can be established by viewing each other's data. Duran didn't believe that he would really be stuck by the heaven.
The heaven was about to withdraw. At dusk that day, the setting sun was like blood, shining on everyone's panic.
Kazuma and his friends who were helping in the Red Devil Village also saw this tragic sunset: "It's beautiful, but I always feel uncomfortable."
At this moment, a deafening sound came from the sky, and all the statues in the churches, as well as the statues of gods worshipped in people's homes or the statues of goddesses decorated in the city, all cracked and collapsed.
"You have failed the trust of the heavens in you, and you are not worthy of our faith. The gods will abandon you and leave. You will be abandoned in eternal chaos and darkness--"
Everyone stared at the sky in amazement. The believers immediately repented, but it was useless because the gods had abandoned them. This world has become a place abandoned by the gods, and there will never be any miracles again.
"Wait, I haven't gotten on the bus yet." Aqua found that she seemed to have been forgotten. She is also a goddess.
Chaos and zero-dollar shopping are about to begin. The collapse after being abandoned by the gods has caused the believers to start irrational behavior.
Duran is not idle either. He is building a game system to make everything about human beings digitized and transparent, and to digitize their power, so that everyone will restore order as soon as possible and re-establish a trust system. Of course, small-scale chaos will continue, but C.C. has the Giant God Soldiers and Tessa's mercenary group to suppress small chaos and use military control to ensure that humans do not hurt themselves.
The Red Demons were also dumbfounded. Although they did not believe in God, it did not mean that they did not fear God. They did not expect that God would resign collectively. This was not a joke.
Aqua knelt on the ground with a broken expression.