Not A God

Chapter 5 - God's Secret

The next day, Zen woke up early, not in the best of himself because of his midnight wake-up call, but his biological clock still kept him awake at 8 am sharp, kicking on his slippers and scruffily going to the bathroom to wash up.

He washed up in a daze and sat down at his computer desk.

The morning light outside the window was faint, and his pale face was reflected in the reflective light of last night's standby computer screen. Because he had stayed up late for so long, there was a faint layer of black under his eyes, which made his skin look sickly white. Although it has been a year since Zen crossed over, the biological clock of this body has long been established, and he has no intention to change it, and his work and rest is not considered regular.

He stretched out and slightly straightened his hair that was covering his vision at the computer screen before turning on the computer.

"I don't know how the game from yesterday had loaded." he thought.

Zen clicked on the game and his black and white eyes instantly locked onto the Believer's World cube he had clicked on last night. The progress bar on this square had now changed colour and there was an additional row of explanatory text.

He clicked on it to check it out and found that the game was quite interesting. The main story was about an insect empire that summoned a god and brought about its destruction for offending it. Zen raised an eyebrow, suddenly feeling a strange familiarity with this story that looked interesting. He moved his mouse over the text and was surprised to find that there was a video version of the story.

Was it such a big deal? A video had been specially made?

He immediately clicked on the video, a bloody circle spun for a while, and soon a high-definition video loaded, reflecting an unbelievably realistic world in his eyes. Every frame was finer than the big production special effects of his previous life, it was almost like a real event that happened in another world.

"This is ......" Ke Su looked at the computer screen without blinking, looking a little surprised.

In the screen, a huge humanoid draped in a veil of nameless fog and chaos woven together stood in the vast expanse of heaven and earth and was raising his head, staring at him.

In the next moment, the camera quickly pulls away, and an exotic and magnificent building, skims in front of the camera, finally stopping at a place where you can just see the entire body of the huge human figure. With his back to the sun, the huge human figure is surrounded by a shimmering light and the infinite and heavy sky as a backdrop, as if he has become the centre of the world, with all the peoples bowing down and his followers as far as the eye can see.

The world trembled.

Radius is an ordinary planet in the Pegasus system and the home of humanity. However, during the war fifty years ago, mushroom clouds spread everywhere and this beautiful green planet was turned into a planet of scars, where the dangerous outside environment forced all humans to live in a protected area. The government explained this by saying that the radiation from the war had mutated the flora and fauna and that the outside world was no longer suitable for human life. The people who survived the war believed this explanation and lived within a wall of protection, with no thought of going outside.

But this does not mean that the human race can live in peace. In fact, the danger was never far from mankind.

The government has deceived its people.

It is true that mankind is no longer fit to live in the outside world, but the reason is not the so-called radiation, but something far more terrifying. Something grotesque, or rather - ghostly, born in the midst of the world war that swept across the planet, spread with a frightening growth and gradually forced mankind to huddle in a narrow living area, like a pack of defeated dogs pushed to the limit, waiting for the final judgment of the end.