Chapter 139

The awkward, silent, and subtle atmosphere in the captain's cabin lasted a long time. Finally, Duncan broke the silence. He shifted his gaze from Agou and looked earnestly at old Mr. Morris beside him, "Logically, do you think this is reasonable?"

Morris blinked sluggishly, his face as perplexed and troubled as someone dragged out of bed at 11:30 PM to revise a thesis. He felt that the trials he faced when he was promoted to Saint were much simpler than the current problem. After a long silence, he finally blurted out, "Nothing like this has ever been heard of in history. This is beyond my comprehension."

"It certainly is. Agou is probably the only abyssal demon in history who can read," Duncan said, pinching his brow with a complicated expression. "Does your doctrine say that the God of Wisdom would bless an abyssal demon?"

"How could there be such a thing?"

Morris's expression immediately turned ghostly. "Abyssal demons are the great enemies of civilized society. Not to mention the God of Wisdom, the doctrines of the other three gods couldn't possibly have such conditions..."

Before he finished speaking, Vanna, who had been stunned for a long time, suddenly remembered something and added faintly, "But the doctrine of the God of Wisdom also says that Lhaam equally cherishes every sentient being, bestowing upon them the wisdom to understand the world and protecting them from the mad and terrifying realities with a veil of foolishness... It doesn't explicitly exclude abyssal demons from sentient beings."

"When has an abyssal demon ever been sentient?"

Morris blurted out subconsciously, but then turned his head with a strange expression, looking at Agou, who was lying obediently on the floor.

"At Agou's learning speed, we can probably arrange for him to take the middle school entrance exam around this time next year," Duncan said quietly. "Maybe one day he can even be Nina's classmate. I'm a little confused. I need to calm down."

Morris finally swayed, rubbed his forehead, slowly walked to the chair beside him, held the armrest, and sat down before looking up at the dog in the center of the room with a complex expression. "Besides the images that appeared in your mind, what else did you feel? Did you hear Him speak to you? Or did you suddenly have a new understanding of certain knowledge?"

"No," Agou shook his head. "I just saw those lights twice in a row, and I was startled both times. Other than that, I didn't hear anything, and I didn't feel anything. I just saw Him."

"No revelation?"

"Morris seemed to have calmed down and began to think seriously. "Did you feel any improvement in your calculation or memory abilities? After staring at those 'lights' for a long time, did your vision feel different when you returned to the real world?"

Agou continued to shake his head. "No, nothing. And I didn't stare at those lights for a long time. I just glanced at them, and then I was pulled back to the real world."

Morris was stunned, obviously contradicting his understanding. "That's not right... The God of Wisdom's gaze is accompanied by a long period of mental communication. Even if mortals can't understand this communication, the whole process is definitely not so short... How were you pulled back?"

"It felt like Sherry pulled me back," Agou thought for a moment, then raised his head and rubbed Sherry's arm. "I just felt like I was about to be taken away by those lights, and then I felt a great force coming from the symbiotic chain, and then I woke up. But Sherry doesn't seem to remember it herself."

The eyes of several people in the room immediately fell on Sherry again. The girl, who had become the focus of everyone's attention, subconsciously shrank her neck, but then smiled triumphantly, like a child showing off after doing something amazing. Only Duncan's expression became more and more strange after several changes.

Vanna was still puzzled. "I haven't heard of a symbiotic relationship between an abyssal demon and a human that has the power to block the gaze of a god. Could it be that the symbiotic relationship between Sherry and Agou is closer than that of ordinary annihilation cultists?"

"Ahem, maybe it wasn't the power of the symbiotic contract that pulled Agou back," Duncan coughed twice, raised his finger and pointed at Sherry, who was still foolishly happy. "It might be the power of illiteracy."

Vanna: "?" Sherry...

Several people were dumbfounded, and Sherry's expression visibly brightened. Morris looked at Duncan with a stunned expression. He had always known that the captain's thinking was broader than most people's, but he had never imagined it would be so broad in this direction!

However, after a short period of astonishment, Morris couldn't help but follow this line of thought, and the more he thought about it, the more reasonable it seemed?

"Perhaps at that moment, there was a struggle in the transcendent realm for Agou. On one side was the gaze of the God of Wisdom, and on the other was his illiterate partner, and the ultimate fact proves," Duncan rubbed his forehead, his voice filled with sighs, "that the desperate illiterate defeated the god who wanted to recruit students, logic... logic..."

Morris opened his mouth, muttered a few times, but could only spread his hands. "Forget it, I don't know how to calculate this logic. If I write a paper on this, it's enough for the scholars of Mocha to fight to the death in the city center. Let's just assume that things are really like this."

An unspeakable and embarrassing atmosphere lingered in the captain's cabin. Sherry stood in the center of the room as if she was about to cry. She looked at Duncan and then at Morris, and finally pointed at Agou with a mournful face! "Then... then am I holding Agou back? He's... he's clearly..."

At this moment, perhaps the only moment in her life, the thought that she should study hard actually appeared in Sherry's mind. However, the next moment, Duncan's voice interrupted her, "Don't rush to conclusions yet. Maybe things aren't as simple as we think?"

Sherry immediately stopped being depressed. "Huh?"

Duncan did not answer her question immediately, but looked at Agou. "Agou, you said that when you were staring at those lights, you had a feeling of being 'taken away'?"

Agou nodded immediately.

Duncan turned to Morris again. "Does a person blessed by the God of Wisdom have this feeling of being taken away?"

"No," Morris seemed to have vaguely reacted at this time, shaking his head as he gradually became serious. "The normal blessing process is a friendly mental exchange and enlightenment. The blessed person's mind is clear and joyful, and there is absolutely no feeling of being out of control."

"If an abyssal demon is really injected with wisdom by the God of Wisdom Lhaam – if they are bestowed with some kind of divine grace, what will happen?" Duncan then asked.

"I don't know. This has never happened before, but logically speaking, this may be a very dangerous process," Morris's mind worked quickly, and he immediately understood what Duncan meant. "The four True Gods and the crazy, out-of-control 'Ancient Gods' have a natural conflict. This conflict is not limited to the literal struggle, but the essential repulsion between the creations or dependents of both sides. As a derivative of the Abyssal Lord, the abyssal demon naturally possesses the characteristics of chaotic corruption, even Agou is no exception. And for the God of Wisdom..." Morris paused, looking at Sherry with a serious expression, "Even if our Lord has no malice, its radiance will naturally destroy Agou's mind."

The result was... Morris didn't finish speaking, and the others in the room fell into their own thoughts for a while. Ai, who was originally resting on the chart table with her eyes closed, suddenly jumped up, as if she was going crazy, flapping her wings and making sharp, strange shouts: "锟斤拷烫烫烫烫烫烫烫!" (This is a Chinese encoding error, often appearing as gibberish.)

After shouting a few times, it suddenly jumped up, then fell on the table with a thud like a stone, then fluttered up, and then walked a few steps as if nothing had happened, came to the goat head and tilted its head: "Bu?"

Everyone was startled by the pigeon's strange and crazy behavior, and no one could understand what it was shouting. However, Duncan's expression changed slightly.

The next second, a sentence inexplicably appeared in his mind: "Two incompatible operating systems, data intercommunication will cause fatal errors." Accompanied by a moment of恍然 (h恍然: sudden realization) and a mind full of messy associations, he slowly turned his head and looked at Agou.

"Is there a possibility of data conflict between the Abyssal Lord and Lh-02?"

"Ah?" Agou didn't react for a moment. "Captain, what are you talking about?"

"No, it's nothing." Duncan knew that it was difficult to explain to others how many things he had associated with just now, so he could only wave his hand and looked at Sherry, who was still looking at him with a confused expression. He reorganized the vocabulary in his mind several times before finally uttering a sentence, "Sherry, it may be beneficial that you pulled Agou back, I mean, just 'maybe', this avoided Agou being polluted or devoured by the will of the God of Wisdom Lhaam."

Sherry's mind instantly turned around, and she seemed to finally understand what Duncan meant, and her eyes immediately regained their brilliance. "Ah, so... it's a good thing for me to keep my distance from that God of Wisdom?"

Duncan... what else could he say? He could only nod.

As a result, as soon as he nodded, the expression on Sherry's face suddenly became happy. "Then I have a reason not to do homework in the future?

I have to pull Agou back!"

Duncan: He never expected that this girl's first thought would be this! However, before he could speak, Morris next to him reacted first. "It's not that simple."

Sherry was stunned. "Huh?"

The old gentleman said seriously, "Our Lord bestows blessings not only based on knowledge level, and vice versa. And from my observations during this period, even if you do homework every day, it won't affect you being rejected by the God of Wisdom."

Sherry: "??"