A higher-dimensional incarnation, starting by leveraging the stars.

Chapter 44: The Abyss of Faith

"Damn, the Gauls are demonstrating again. No wonder they're a revolutionary base area. What are they protesting for this time?!"

Early in the morning, Hu Biao was idly scrolling through the news on his phone while drinking soy milk in the cafeteria. He found the news of the looting and vandalism in Gaul, which dominated the headlines, somewhat amusing.

Normally, in Gaul, this wretched place, there are demonstrations every few days; anything can become a reason for them to take to the streets. But this time was different; the demonstrations quickly escalated into riots…

The strangest thing was that even though the Gallic government had sent fully armed police officers to the streets to maintain order, according to the Gallic people's past behavior, even if they vented their dissatisfaction, it would only be within the rules that everyone tacitly agreed on. But this time it was obviously different. This time, the Gallic people became brave, so brave that the Gallic government was caught off guard. The scene of the riot made Hu Biao think that this was another third-world country being humiliated.

It was at this moment that his brow suddenly furrowed, because the Temple System had unexpectedly come online.

[Warning: The intensity of external mental pollution fields has increased abnormally]

[High concentration of negative psychological residues detected]

[Location based on associated coordinates...]

[Leak source characteristic matching: Secondary site - Standard configuration "Faith Dust Sealed Unit" - Damaged state]

[Risk Assessment: Medium to High; the dust of faith has been leaked]

Immediately afterwards, not through words, but through a more coherent stream of information that seemed to be directly imprinted into his consciousness, flowed into Hu Biao's mind.

This was not the fragmented, mechanical voice and protocol snippets that had appeared before. It seemed to be a small, complete record that a damaged data module had managed to piece together after absorbing enough "energy".

"The First Law? What the hell? Did I create this?!"

After receiving the information, Hu Biao was completely distraught. When he looked at the news on his phone again, he felt a strange sense of absurdity.

The so-called first law is actually the same as the law of conservation of mass and energy in modern civilization. In the law of conservation of mass and energy, matter is indestructible, but it will change its state. The first law of the third civilization adds a clause, which is that spiritual power is indestructible. No form of spiritual energy will be annihilated out of thin air, but will only change its form or transfer its carrier.

While producing pure spiritual energy, the faith collection and purification system inevitably generates a corresponding proportion of spiritual dust, which is highly polluted spiritual residue that is peeled off, carrying strong emotional imprints, cognitive biases, and fragments of consciousness. This residue is called faith dust.

These dusts of faith are undoubtedly harmful, and the Third Civilization has a standard procedure for dealing with them, which is to seal these dusts of faith in specific storage units according to the standard procedure, just like modern civilization deals with nuclear waste.

This type of storage unit is also known as a submerged unit.

The multi-dimensional buffer layer and mental entropy reduction rune array built into the Abyss Unit can ensure that the dust remains in an inert and sealed state for at least ten standard cycles, approximately ten thousand years, to prevent it from becoming active again and polluting the real dimension.

Then, a scene appeared before his eyes.

Inside a secluded space, a golden cup emits black mist, surrounded by flashing red alarm lights.

"The activity of dust debris in Abyss Unit 67952 has recovered beyond expectations. Faith Dust is starting to overflow. Please repair..."

The reason for the overflow is quite simple. The Abyss Unit is actually part of the entire faith filtering system. Even if it is separated by a great distance, as long as the temple system is activated and begins to receive faith power, the Abyss Unit will also be activated at the same time. The Abyss Unit he saw should be the only Abyss Unit on Earth at present. Therefore, after the temple system is activated, it automatically connects to it, and the Abyss Unit begins to receive faith dust.

The problem is that this abyss unit was already full, and after the passage of time and violent research, it had been partially damaged. After receiving the newly emerged dust of faith, it inevitably leaked.

This leakage was partly tangible, which is the black mist he sees now, and partly intangible. This intangible dust of faith is something that modern civilization's technology cannot detect or control. It began to emanate from the laboratory and happened to coincide with the people of the old revolutionary area taking to the streets for the first time. When it combined with their intense mental fluctuations, the situation got out of control!

"So, this Abyss Unit is in Gaul?!"

With a slight thought, Hu Biao switched to a higher-dimensional perspective, his gaze instantly traversing thousands of miles to lock onto the coordinates.

Europa, the Republic of Gaul, on the outskirts of the city of Eiffel Tower, thirty meters underground.

This time, he saw not fragmented images, but a real scene.

Silver-gray alloy walls, glaring red alarm lights, fully armed researchers, and in the center of the isolation platform, a rough and ancient golden cup that is constantly oozing eerie black mist.

The black mist churned and rolled, as if it possessed a life of its own.

Occasionally, a wisp of something escaped and touched the edge of the isolation area, causing ripples in the air. The images on the nearby monitoring screens instantly distorted into meaningless blocks of color and noise. A researcher, despite wearing a protective suit, suddenly clutched his head and let out a muffled scream, muffled by his helmet, as his body convulsed violently.

"The Abyss Unit..." Hu Biao squinted.

He could sense that the essence of that black mist was not merely the dust of faith he had recently generated, but rather the accumulated, stripped-down and compressed fear, despair, hatred, madness, and twisted desires of billions of years…

The darkest spiritual impurities that were "filtered out" by the intelligent beings of the third civilization during their prayers.

They are sealed inside the unit and are now trying to break free.

"If this thing really explodes, the entire city of Eiffel Tower, no, the whole of Gaul will go crazy, right?" Hu Biao's lips twitched a few times, and he became somewhat at a loss.

Well, you could say this thing is easy to deal with—just throw it onto an alien planet. But to be honest, he's really reluctant to part with it!

Although this thing is connected to the temple system, if it's really far away and leaves Earth, even the temple system won't be able to contact it. In that case, the faith filtering system in the temple will be useless, and the faith pool will also be useless. From now on, the faith pool will only receive unfiltered spiritual power. He dares not use this recklessly. But if he doesn't throw it on an alien planet, it's a time bomb anywhere on Earth. Who knows, it might even cause a new world war.

"The unit can be repaired, but with my current knowledge and skill level, I can't completely repair it. Moreover, there's a risk of contamination if I act rashly, so I can't do that. But leaving it there isn't a good solution either; if this stuff starts to seep out..."

After thinking for a moment, he reached out and threw the thing directly into the temple of the Third Civilization. This place was located deep underground beneath the uninhabited area of ​​the African continent. Even if it leaked out, it would not have any immediate impact on humans. Most importantly, it could still be used there. As long as the amount of faith power absorbed in a short period of time was not too much, it would not leak out. The underground space was a natural sealing place.

"However, if we put this thing on Proxima Centauri B in a few days, completely empty it, and then retrieve it, there won't be so much pressure!"

In the blink of an eye, he had already come up with a temporary solution.