Li Qing came to the laboratory's glass window.
The Tower of Babel had grown another layer.
The third layer had appeared.
It looked like it was nurturing some kind of imperial wonder of civilization.
At this moment, with the Tower of Babel reaching the third layer, Li Qing could more or less discern the structural shape.
It was surprisingly in the shape of an ancient tower from Hua Country, an octagonal pavilion-style tower, similar to a Demon Suppression Tower of King Tota, with windows on each level, full of ancient traditional charm.
"Absurd, how could their Tower of Babel have such a structure... is it just a coincidence?" Li Qing pondered, this marvel of an entire civilization's billions of people constructing over centuries, this structure must be the most perfect and fitting blueprint to meet their requirements.
Before long, someone came from afar again, the traitor returned, a group of Holy See knights.
"Great God!" The Pope led a group of cardinals, incredibly fervent, this had likely become a daily pilgrimage, a regular divine audience event organized by the Church.
They began to recount recent happenings.
Since the [Miraculous Battle at the Border by the Divine Descendant Holy Knight Order], the entire kingdom was completely shaken.
The divine blessing of bloodlines.
The divine artifact bestowed upon life.
This is the symbol of divine authority, a chosen mortal, attracting the world's attention. In subsequent battles, the powerful force bestowed by the gods caused fear and awe.
With the added intimidation of Judgment Day, and the mysterious surveillance of cameras at every moment, more common folk began to fear the divine power and secretly aligned themselves with the Holy See forces they established.
Now.
Even the entire Empire had to take notice; Emperor Atabia saw it as a major threat.
Thus.
Internal divisions began to emerge among the populace.
And Li Qing indeed witnessed their achievements now.
This time, they secretly crossed the borders without being widely hunted down, indicating that their power had fully grown, and someone within the Empire was secretly converted to serve as an insider!
And Li Qing merely considered it right and proper.
The great extinction of brute force couldn't make people submit; the spiritual extinction was the most terrifying weapon!
On top of that, their doctrines were infused with the essence of numerous philosophical meanings: righteousness, trust, and sacrifice.
They had no spiritual culture, indulging in it was natural, increasingly acknowledging their "original sin", longing for divine redemption.
At this time, quite a number started to shout: "Welcome the Lord's coming; the Tyrant holds sway, this decaying, depraved world needs salvation!"
The strong-headed Atabians weren't always so stubborn, were they?
Li Qing revealed a slight smile; death couldn't make them yield, but faith could, and that was the most terrifying reaper.
The Pope fervently exclaimed: "Great True God, we have already seized a tenth of the Empire's power, toppling the Tyrant Emperor of Atabia is not far off!"
"However, they seem not to care about our infiltration, knowing that with divine support, winning the hearts of the people is unstoppable and focused all their attention on the Tower of Babel, seemingly convinced of this god-slaying divine artifact's mighty power!"
"But precisely because of their relinquishing of control, we can soon completely overturn their reign!" The Pope grew even more fervent.
Though Li Qing did not think overthrowing the strongest man of that era would be so simple, he merely left a word: "I am always with you."
Then he began to open his eyes again.
One second.
Two seconds.
The Popes once more received the divine baptism.
"What is this!?"
"God's baptism!"
And the newcomers became fanatics this time as well.
He gave them a taste of sweetness, deceiving the ignorant and top intellectual Saints to clash daily, briefly viewing the scene, feeling there was nothing more to watch there.
The entire Atabian population had their heart power concentrated on the Tower of Babel, to these mite-sized humans, building a massive Heaven-Reaching Tower equivalent to Mount Everest.
He didn't leave either, but directly sat by the living room window, seven or eight meters away, undetected, logging into his account from afar.
He found that a day had passed, with over 1.7 million views now, and quite a few comments.
[That's amazing, Cthulhu, R'lyeh, the creatures inside somewhat resemble them.]
[What is that giant white round stake? Piercing into the clouds sanctified, is it the seal of Cthulhu?]
[So exquisite, a mythological epic-style city, water waves, humans, the housing model has no imperfection! This beats all game CG effect teams hands down!]
[Incredible, big boss!]
[Wait, why is the camera not switching angles?]
[Fool! This technique is even harder, what more do you want, a bike? A city's aerial view, with people moving inside, you can even see some knights fighting, the crowd walking, as if it's a real city!]
[I've downloaded the full version, it's over a gig in just ten minutes, ultra-high precision, every frame is a beautiful HD wallpaper, and if you zoom in you can see the every aspect of the people in the streets.]
Li Qing idly started reading them one by one.
They really know their stuff.
But he noticed many comments in his comment section:
"This is bad, someone stole your video," "Someone's robbing your hard work," "You forgot to watermark this video."
"Watermark?" Li Qing paused for a moment and clicked a video link in the comments.
In the marketing account's video, it actually zoomed in the aerial map of the ocean city, cut out a scene of one street, and the image froze on an Atabian.
[Notice this woman named Mei, living in the underwater city of R'lyeh, she's been living here for seventeen years. She walked out of the street and fought with the neighbor Shuai. She's a devoted Cthulhu cultist, always dedicated to secretly awakening the evil god Cthulhu...]
Then the perspective followed along as Shuai and Mei rode their exoskeletons and started fighting on the street.
"..."
Li Qing fell silent for a moment.
But this is just the everyday battles of ordinary Atabia residents, immediately rewritten by him to be fascinating and story-rich.
He clicked another one.
The screenshot is a patrol captain on a street.
[Notice this general, the leader of Alaya City, Qiang. He's leading the army on patrol, just received the news that some cultists are hiding in this city, and encounters will soon start...]
Li Qing watched for a while.
His original video aerial view is very large, zooming in some streets is still very clear.
The marketing account doesn't just copy it directly, because the original version is simply monotonous beautiful dynamic scenes, they find a person from the street to be the protagonist, zoom in and cut out the scenes, create stories, talk based on the picture.
There's even a Xiuxiu marketing account that makes a series of episodes by talking based on pictures of one street, made over a dozen episodes without repeating scenes, and the stories can even connect, which is quite ridiculous.
Li Qing felt speechless at heart, looking at these "R'lyeh City series" marketing accounts, but he wasn't too angry.
If it were really hundreds of hours of his hard work, he would definitely be mad!
But he recorded it casually.
It doesn't stop him from playing the victim to raise attention, he casually posted a pinned comment:
"Boohoo, I'm in so much pain, forgot to add a watermark, my hard work has been stolen, you all must remember, this video is the original source."
Then he ignored it, but found many people privately messaged him, interested in the technology.
Some game companies want to invite him.
Some movie companies want him to make CG.
Li Qing couldn't be bothered, the hassle isn't worth the money.
His focus was only on private messages from some big influencers, they wanted to save face, wanted to make videos with it, and asked for his authorization.
Li Qing replied to each one, saying it's possible, but it'll cost money.
They were quite straightforward on their end too.
An hour later, the video playback money wasn't credited, but Li Qing had already earned more than ten thousand bucks.
"This quick money isn't bad."
Li Qing thought about posting another video to keep the buzz going.
But thinking it over, decided against it, it was just casual fun anyway.
His interest isn't here.
Money is good enough, he'll slack off a while and decide later.
Plus, making one video took hundreds of hours, can't be too fast, being overly flashy might attract attention.
The next morning.
Routine wash face and brush teeth, then opened the surveillance and checked the lab side.
With this look, it felt like everything had changed.
Previously building two to three stories of tower a day, now the technology seems to have been completely conquered, a high-rise eighteen-story tower emerged overnight from the flat ground.
White as jade tower piercing the clouds above the sea, like a sugarcane stuck in the ground.
Meanwhile, on the whole glass crystal wall, the insider from the church left him a small sign.
Indicating the situation is dangerous, it's the mark of decisive battle.
"The Atabians should have noticed something wrong, the mortals on the ground rapidly divided, each having its own belief, the king is about to accelerate the construction of the Tower of Babel, ready to start decisive actions."
Li Qing was surprised in his heart, thinking that now their church was going to fight, he should help them, if he could topple Emperor Atabia, and his follower took over, that would be real comfort.
"Finally seeing some hope." He didn't have time for breakfast, took the prepared world destruction tools and went out.