Chapter 1,164 The Dilemma of Exiles

Chapter 1,164 The Dilemma of Exiles

Blue Star, in the Ares Cathedral in the capital, the portal has been opened, and now Dingdang and the five people are saying goodbye to the "children". Monina and Eva chatted for a while, and finally seemed to want to leave some parting gifts, so she reached into her arms for a long time and took out a small pendant: "By the way, Eva, here it is for you. I’ll keep this as a souvenir, maybe when will I come back next time?”

Eva suddenly showed a look of surprise, and carefully took the ordinary-looking pendant, holding it in her chest as if holding a rare treasure: "Goddess, thank you for your gift, I will definitely treasure it... "

Lei's beard trembled with excitement: "Oh, today is such a glorious day. The church once again has an epic holy object!"

There is no doubt that although Monina took out the pendant casually, Lei has already made up his mind to offer that thing as a sacred object of the church, and sooner or later, the pendant strung with cotton thread will be used by the Blue Sky. Believers of the star respectfully place it in the church hall to accept the worship of all people, and the four characters "Glass Factory No. 5" on the base of the pendant will shine under the sunshine of the Blue Star.

I have been hanging out with the five-person group of gods for a long time, and I am no longer surprised by this kind of thing. Religion is such a strange thing. On the timeline, it has an unreasonable amplification effect. An ordinary person can even say that Ridiculous beginnings will always become strange and weird after being amplified by time and belief, just like a pile of scrap metal dug out of Europe in the days when the little crow was eating up its stomach, and now it has become the town of the Crow God Sect. It is said that only those who are at the level of Knight Commander of the Church are qualified to use them when destroying demons, but in reality? Before the little crow used those scraps of copper and iron to sharpen his beak, those swords were sold by the pound in the market.

Monina's act of leaving souvenirs for Eva immediately reminded Ilson and the others, and several unscrupulous gods began to pick them up one after another. It seemed that they all wanted to leave something behind. Ilson said while taking them out. Said: "Wait a minute, I have some good things here - Monina is smart, she only thinks about details, she has to leave something behind after finally coming here. By the way, I found it!"

Finally, Erson took out a keychain, Lin took off the bracelet on her wrist, and Uncle Kenser took out a blank diary from his arms (perhaps he was going to keep it for accounting when buying groceries?) , the three gods stuffed all these things to Eva: they knew that no matter who these gifts were given to, they would eventually be regarded as sacred objects of the church, so it would be more convenient to give them directly to the saint of the church for safekeeping.

According to my observation, the initial source of these sacred objects that will be offered up for worship by all people should be the Yiwu Small Commodity Wholesale Market. In other words, to a certain extent, the Yiwu Small Commodity Wholesale Market has already embarked on the long march of mankind to conquer other worlds. A solid first step...

Several religious leaders present hurriedly accepted these "god-given items", all smiling as if they were celebrating a festival. I really wanted to tell them that these things can be sold in containers in a place called Yiwu, but I wanted to After thinking about it, he still didn’t say it: the people of Azure Star are not fools. They can probably see what these gifts are at a glance, but this does not stop them from worshiping a pile of glass beads and small notebooks as sacred objects. This is religion, a Chiguoguo religion. What they worship is not material things, but the idols behind the materials. I once again thought of Ilson's argument that "artifacts are artifacts because they are used by gods", and said that it was indeed an irrefutable truth. Speak with facts: To put it bluntly, isn't Longinus just a wooden stick with an iron tip?

Finally, all eyes were focused on my shoulder, where there was a guy who was one of the five main gods of Azure Star: Ding Dong. This little thing kept blinking curious eyes and looking at everything in front of her. Her little feet were swinging in the air. It wasn't until all four of her team members turned their attention to her that she pointed to the tip of her nose in hindsight: " Yeah, Dingdang also wants to prepare a gift?"

Bingtis snorted next to him: "Nonsense, it's so hard to come here, why don't you leave something for the children before leaving? How can you be a god?"

"Oh." Dingdang nodded, and then showed an extremely troubled and painful look. He seemed to have made a lot of determination, and then he took out a lollipop from his pocket. After a while, as everyone expected, he took out a lollipop: That's the best thing for her.

"Uh-" Dingdang continued to struggle with the lollipop, continued to suffer, continued to hesitate, and finally quickly retracted his hand, peeled off the candy wrapper, opened his mouth and bit down a piece, and then handed over the missing piece of the lollipop. To Eva, "Here, this is the best thing about Ding Dong..."

Lei was dumbfounded for the first time and stayed for a long time: "Goddess... this... this is hard to let go..."

Gifts from God are to be stored in holy places as holy objects. How to store a lollipop? If you can't survive the first summer, it's time to melt. As soon as I explained to Dingdang, the little thing immediately burst into laughter. He bit off the candy ball in front of everyone, handed the remaining candy stick to Eva, and said vaguely: "Here (here)" !”

Everyone: "..."

After Ilson's tickling, the church's collection of sacred objects once again reached its lower limit!

In the end, Joe, Ray and Eva were all driven away by Ilson. Apart from a group of us, there was only one old man in the church who was too old to look like. He was the Pope, Mu. Ilson was there. The spokesperson of this world. Unlike Lilina, who is a complete upstart and a golden newcomer, this is an old man who has been working for his god for two hundred years. Obviously, Ilson values ​​this old man very much, so he allows him to stay at the end and be responsible. After the portal is closed, I will be cleaning up the altar.

In front of the Statue of the God of War, Ilson patted the shoulder of Mr. Mu, who was more than 200 years old. Although from the outside, the latter looked old and out of shape and could have been Ilson's great-grandfather, in reality, Ilson is really explaining to a child: "Then I will go back first. There are still many devastated worlds waiting for me to save..."

We have endured it by holding it in without causing trouble.

"Lord, will you return to this world?" Mu, a two-hundred-year-old man who can run all the way from the Fourth Ring Road to the city center, lowers his head and shrinks his neck at this moment, as if he has high expectations but is afraid of being disappointed. child. He is the most virtuous and respected pope in Blue Star, but in front of the God of War, he is still the wild boy who fought in the god-welcoming procession in front of the temple two hundred years ago and bumped into the throne of the god. The God of War is eternal, no matter how long the years are. After that, the God of War was still the heroic God of War, but the wild boy who was personally pardoned by the god was old. After two meetings, time turned everything upside down. I couldn't help but have such a strange feeling in my heart, so even though Ilson's unreliable image was deeply ingrained in my mind, I persisted in not complaining about 123 and continued to suffer huge conscience torture.

"Maybe he will come back, but I'm afraid it will be many years later. God will not interfere too much with the secular world, especially in a world like this," Ilson said lightly. The implication was that considering Mu's lifespan as a mortal, I'm afraid it will be... That day was not coming, so the old man lowered his head in disappointment, but Ilson seemed to hesitate again, and decided to tell the old man something, "Do you still remember the words in the dogma?

——Practice teachings, practice them with your own body, and temper your soul, so that you can sublimate your body and transcend the ordinary world. Mu, you have been doing well for two hundred years. In the coming years, you still have to complete the last period of work and do your part. After the mission is completed, come to my country, where you will There is a place for you. "As soon as I finished speaking, I heard Ilson yelling from the public channel of the mental connection: "Hey, I couldn't help but tell this kid in advance. I originally wanted to give him a surprise after he died. ! "

Me: "..." Could you please stop talking about such a sacred thing as being called by the Lord and being promoted to the Kingdom of God as being as vulgar as a second-level salary increase?

He didn't know whether it was because he was too old or because what his master said was too unexpected. Mu Leng was stunned for a full five or six seconds before he realized what he was doing. Then he was so excited that he was filled with chaff. Yilsin was still regretting himself. Why are you so loose-lipped? Seeing this, he waved his hand decisively to interrupt what Mr. Mu was going to say next, and looked directly into the other person's eyes: "Keep in mind the words of the Bible, what you will usher in is not only sublimation, but also greater things." Your burden and responsibility, and you will not only be responsible for one race, you will even be responsible for more worlds and countless lives. You haven't even touched the starting point yet. Do you understand, go back and work hard."

"Yes, yes." Mu nodded repeatedly, and Ilson showed a satisfied smile next to him. This scene reminds me of the way I listened to my sister’s words and decided to study hard on the first day of elementary school. However, I can tell that the old man in front of me is much easier to discipline than I was back then...

After leaving Blue Star, everyone else went home directly, but Sandora and I had to transfer to another place.

The universe where the Fourth Fleet is located, the capital star Kerudak. Sandora and I came to this planet again with several administrative experts and headquarters officers who came from Shadow City.

I really didn’t expect that when I set out from Kerudak, I thought it was just a quick and convenient journey into the void, just like going out to get some soy sauce. The council was expecting us to come back to welcome their old friends, but it turned out Shandora and I actually went there for so many days, and there were so many twists and turns in the process: maybe I really am a man with an aura, and the trouble that plagues me might be a passive skill.

This time I came to Kerudak, there was a very obvious difference from the last time. The most obvious thing was "friendliness". The last time we were here, we were received almost secretly by the Council. The common people of Kerudak didn't even know that the Imperials had arrived on their planet at first, and among the senior officials of the Fourth Fleet, there was little doubt about us. There are many people who are wary. But this time, Shandora and I were officially welcomed: on the one hand, the parliament and the Fourth Fleet's senior executive were fully accepted, and more importantly, now they are no longer worried about the imperial party appearing in their capital. The public unrest that may be caused by the star - at least the good development of the general environment is visible to all.

The royal shuttle Sandora and I took was escorted by several small frigates and arrived directly in front of the parliament building. Due to the special nature of Toberu-style architecture, the temporary parking lot in front of the parliament building was a parking lot parallel to the waist of the building's sphere. The half-moon-shaped platform relies on anti-gravity technology to float in the air. On both sides of the parking lot were the officials of the Fourth Fleet who came to greet them and some people who seemed to be representatives of the people: they did not wear any kind of uniforms, and I can only guess that they were representatives of some civilian organizations. On the periphery of the anti-gravity platform, there are projected subtitles welcoming me and Sandora. These subtitles are facing in all directions and can be seen on the top of any tower ball building around the parliament building. Compared with the events in other worlds that I was dragged to attend, this kind of welcoming scene can be said to be very inconspicuous in terms of scale and pomp, but as long as we think about it, it is the kind response made by those exiles to us, even if it is so low-key The welcome was unavoidably moving.

"It's not easy." As the shuttle slowly approached the platform, I couldn't help but look at Sandora. "Just this line of welcome banners that can be displayed publicly makes me feel better than fighting against the fallen apostles for ten consecutive years. Victory is hard-won.”

"And we still have a long way to go," Sandora smiled slightly. She was in a good mood, but she was not too optimistic because of the situation in front of her. "You see, there is a martial law area outside, and there are sentries on the top of the building in the distance, and The size and composition of the welcoming scene were obviously carefully selected. It can only be said that the Fourth Fleet has officially been able to openly contact the Empire. This can be regarded as the initial stage of normalization of diplomacy, but at the level of their society as a whole, it is far from reaching the end of the iceberg. The level of dissatisfaction. Once the Fifth Fleet completes emergency repairs and comes to this universe, the situation should further improve. Cocokina should work hard to ease the relationship between the exiles and the Empire."

I also understand what Sandora said. It's just a series of things, whether it involves the fallen apostles or the bottom of the abyss. These things have put a lot of psychological pressure on me. A certain sense of urgency has become more and more intense in these days. The feeling is getting stronger and stronger, and it always makes me feel that there is not enough time. I wish I could do everything in one step, but everything I face needs time, a lot of time. Things that can be done in one step are simply not enough. existing.

I looked into the distance and could see many swaying shadows on the tops of the towering towers outside the martial law area. Those should be civilians of the Fourth Fleet, although most of them had never seen them a year ago. I have seen Imperial battleships, but I am a generation who was born and grew up under the shadow of the "Imperial Slayer". They curiously looked across the martial law zone in this direction, looking at what the imperial battleship looked like that had shadowed countless generations.

At this moment, Sandora gently squeezed my hand, signaling that the shuttle had docked.

On the parking platform, a translucent female figure, accompanied by several senior officials, came forward. It was the supreme ruler of the Fourth Fleet, the Yunade Council. She used the peculiar etiquette unique to the Nader people to welcome Sandora and I, as well as the imperial people behind us: "I think now the parliament can call you friends from a personal perspective."

"This is really hard-won," I laughed, told the truth in my heart, and then went straight to the topic, "The Fifth Fleet is undergoing renovations in another military world. Their spaceships are not in good condition, but fortunately I have successfully completed the mission, all the spacecrafts are intact, and everyone has arrived safely."

The council nodded slightly: "We have communicated with Captain Cocokina and learned about his situation. Knowing that our old friend is well is really the best thing that has happened to us in the past tens of thousands of years."

Shandora and I came over. First of all, the two of us encountered an accident on that day. Many previously planned things were put on hold because of this. The preparations for the reception of the Fifth Fleet and the arrangements for the Fourth Fleet were all suspended because of this. Now that we are back, we want to prepare all these things with the parliament as soon as possible; secondly, we want to see the effect of the "public opinion building" we carried out under my sister's suggestion.

Well, it is certain that public opinion building is indeed very effective. Since we set out to save the Fifth Fleet with great fanfare and high-profile propaganda at that time, the biggest gain now is that the empire and the exiles have initially established normal official communication. And the Fifth Fleet will be placed in this world next. We may just take this opportunity to send people to help them build colonial facilities and giant star ports in the name of assistance. Although Sandora and I are not directly in this universe There were plans to keep a permanent garrison, but after the "reconstruction", an unspoken support relationship had been formed between the exiles and the empire.

More importantly, the new citizens of the Fourth Fleet will also get used to the life of Imperial soldiers around them during this process. To change the exiles' impression of the new empire, this habituation process is more important than anything else.

We talked about a lot of things with the management of the Fourth Fleet in the reception hall of the parliament building. Of course, Sandora and the experts from all walks of life were negotiating with each other most of the time. I was basically in the background. , jumping between the two states of "What are you talking about?" and "What are you talking about again?", I can only intervene when it comes to the current situation of the Fifth Fleet: I still know a little bit about this aspect. , after all, the entire fleet was taken all the way in my "belly" at that time, and I almost used my mental power to scan every one of their ships.

According to a more detailed report sent by Cocokina, the situation of the Fifth Fleet is extremely bad. Almost no spacecraft is intact. Even after emergency repairs by the civilized community, it can only barely maintain operation. But now, the Fourth Fleet itself has not yet dealt with the matter at hand, so they have to hand over the heavy responsibility of the Fifth Fleet to the Empire - so the Parliament made a difficult decision:

She hopes to get a batch of colonial stars that can be put into use in a short time.

It played right into Sandora's and mine's hands. To be continued.