Chapter 201 The past of the angels (three in one, thanks to the leader Gudi Mingleimi)
Dragon Tongue City Nancheng.
Old church of Holy Angel Church.
This place should obviously be a sacred place, but it always feels a little strange.
Today is a pilgrimage day to the old church.
In the square in front of the old church, countless pilgrims kneel.
Some of them knelt in front of the church, clasped their hands and kept muttering something.
Some were lying on the ground, kissing the ground in front of the church.
Some were lying quietly on the ground, skinny as a stick, with gray eyes and mouths opening and closing unconsciously.
A few brown pigeons jumped wildly among the pilgrims on the ground, making "coo, coo" sounds.
"Dang! Dang! Dang!"
Three long bells rang, and two nuns wearing white and black robes came out pushing a cart.
On the car is a large pot of mushy broken wheat. The broken wheat is steaming with heat, and a few wisps of faint fragrance dilute the fishy smell in the air.
The believers in front of the church stood up one after another. They did not make any noise or argue, and they lined up in two long lines very consciously.
Seven pigeons walking among pilgrims were bumped by an old man in ragged clothes.
The one who was hit was fine, but the one who hit someone fell down.
The old man's skin was thin and wrinkled, wrapped around his bones, as if it had been drained. There was no flesh and blood left, leaving only the skeleton and skin.
His eyeballs were sunken and his eyelids were tightly closed. Even when he fell to the ground, he never opened his eyes. He was probably blind.
"Old sir, are you okay?"
Qi Ge squatted down and helped the old pilgrim up. The nun at the front desk who was leading the way also stopped and looked back at Qi Ge.
The old pilgrim who was helped up by the seven pigeons did not respond to the seven pigeons. If you look closely, you can see that his upper and lower lips are opening and closing slightly.
When Qige helped him, she put her head close to his mouth and heard a sound like gasping from his breathing.
"Holy angel, holy angel."
After being helped up, the old pilgrim walked forward tremblingly.
He clearly couldn't see anything, but he accurately walked to the back of the pilgrim team and moved slowly with the team.
Qi Ge felt like something was blocking him in his heart.
He stopped and stood, looking in the direction of the nun.
The nun of the church took a spoonful from the steaming large basin and poured the hot broken wheat porridge onto the hands of the pilgrims.
The hot broken wheat poured onto the pilgrims' hands, as if injecting a little strength into their dry bodies.
The pilgrims couldn't wait to bury their heads in the broken wheat porridge. The broken wheat turned into light and shattered, and was directly absorbed by the pilgrims.
For a moment, the pilgrim's gray body seemed to have color, and even his movements became a little stronger.
They "ate" the Holy Communion and returned to their original positions. As their mouths opened and closed, the color on their bodies began to fade quickly again.
The seven pigeons are kind-hearted and cannot see this.
He sighed and followed the nun at the front desk again towards the old church.
The food in the heroic soul world does not need to be eaten, the food itself is just a kind of energy.
As long as you think about it, you can absorb it directly.
But generally no NPC will do this.
After all, the process of chewing delicious food itself makes people feel happy.
Unless, that thing is really hard to swallow.
In the teachings of the Church of Holy Angels, enjoying delicious food is a sin.
"Holy Gospels: Sin"
[Sacrifice is noble, devotion is noble, praying to angels is noble.”
Enjoying delicious food is a sin and is considered gluttony.
Indulgence of the flesh is a sin and belongs to sex.
The pursuit of victory is a sin and a form of arrogance.
The pursuit of money is a sin and belongs to greed.
It is sin to want to rest, it is laziness.
Envying others is a sin and belongs to jealousy.
Sin will become a breeding ground for hell. These sins must be abandoned before you can enter the kingdom of God after death.】
Qi Ge felt in his previous life that the person who made up this doctrine must be a bastard who had lost his conscience and should be chopped into pieces and fed to the three-headed dogs of hell.
I'm talking about you, Inheim.
This doctrine suppresses the normal instincts of living things to the limit, thereby cultivating a bunch of walking zombies with only praying angels in their minds.
This kind of walking dead is the so-called pilgrim.
In other words, the production machine of NPC angels.
They go to bed and wake up every day, pray to the angels, and eat a so-called "Holy Communion" at the same time.
After eating, continue praying to the angels until you fall asleep from exhaustion.
Their prayers will generate faith values, which are transformed and absorbed by "Cloud City" and become the nutrients that constitute NPC angels.
Erathia does not lack Cloud City, nor does it lack resources. What it lacks is faith.
In the previous life, Seven Pigeons received the mission from Adela to change all this, but before they could succeed, they encountered the invasion of Chaos.
During the Chaos invasion, Seven Pigeons and Adela had to suppress their ongoing plans.
Because no matter what, the pilgrim system is the source of the birth of angel NPCs.
If the pilgrim system is suddenly overturned, the Angel NPCs on the front line will be unable to connect, losing the main force against Chaos, and Erathia will die.
No matter how miserable those pilgrims lived, at least they were still alive.
To be swallowed by chaos is to die without a burial place.
One can only choose the lesser of two evils.
The seven pigeons walked through the procession of pilgrims and followed the nuns step by step into the church.
On both sides of the church, there are various angel statues. The angels are in various postures, charging, flying, praying, or reading.
These stone statues are all dead and have no warmth at all.
Walking in the church, it is extremely quiet.
Except for the footsteps of the seven pigeons and the nun, there was no noise at all.
With the pilgrims queuing up in front of the church to receive "Holy Communion" like a bunch of living dead, it's an unspeakable underworld.
It was as if Qi Ge had entered a zombie factory.
When you go in, you'll find seven pigeons jumping around, but when you come out, they'll be like zombies.
If possible, since this is a zombie manufacturing factory, Qi Ge would rather enter the succubus lair.
Rather than having his soul drained dry, Qi Ge would rather have his body drained dry.
After all, Qi Ge has a good physique, can last longer, and the process will be happier.
It's a pity that I don't have a choice.
Arriving at the prayer hall of the old church, Adela was alone.
Her back is to the Seven Doves, and in front of her is a colossal statue of an angel that reaches to the top of the church.
The nun who was leading Qi Ge turned around and said to Qi Ge with some guilt: "
President Qi Ge, in fact, it is Adela Legend who wants to see you.
For some reason, this meeting cannot be discovered by others.
I'm sorry for deceiving you."
Seeing her bowing hard, Qi Ge stretched out his hand to help, but also thought that she might be disgusted by male touch, so he changed it to a gesture commonly used in the Church of Holy Angels and said:
"No need to feel sorry, angels will bear all your sins for you."
The female receptionist was stunned for a moment when she heard a line that was often spoken by the bishops of Holy Angel Church suddenly coming out of Qi Ge's mouth.
She raised her head and saw Qi Ge's eyes that seemed to see through people's hearts. This made her a little shy, and she ran out covering her face.
"Are you the president of the Timely Rain Chamber of Commerce, Qige?"
Adela's back was turned to Qi Ge, and her voice was gentle and pleasant, just like a virtuous wife who would put out the bath water for you every time you returned to the territory.
"Qi Ge, I'm curious. Why did you help the coachman?
Is it the guidance of angels or the temptation of demons?”
Adela also has the blessing of "Holy Spirit: Insight" and can see through lies.
According to Adela herself in her previous life, whenever she asked a question and the other person answered, there would be a voice behind the answer: truth or lie.
This judgment standard is very harsh, and even half-truths will be judged as lies.
Therefore, you must be very careful when answering Adela's questions.
Qi Ge thought for a while and slowly spoke:
"It was my own judgment to help the coachman." (True)
As if getting an unexpected answer, Adela turned around and looked at Qi Ge.
She wore a brown nun's robe with a hood, hiding her face in the robe.
Qige, who is wearing a white cloak and a hood, looks like a couple.
"Can you tell me why you want to help him?"
It's time to put Qi Ge's skills to the test.
"To save him." (True)
"If I don't help him, a member of the Holy Angel Church will soon come to him and transfer his debt to the car dealership to the church." (True)
"Then, he and his family will embark on the road of becoming pilgrims step by step under the guidance of the church." (True)
"I am very convinced that his distraction was caused by the high priest of the church." (True)
"The jihad is ongoing on the frontline, and the rebellion of the legendary hero Sousa has emerged in the rear.
The Holy Angel Church does not have enough troops and needs more angels.” (True)
"So, incidents like that of the coachman should be increasing recently." (True)
"And I want to prevent this from happening." (True)
How to hide the truth from Adela's insightful eyes, Qi Ge has specially studied it.
The whole paragraph, each sentence is true, but together it is indeed a lie.
Listening to the whole passage together, it can be understood that Qige is saving the coachman Luo Xiang from becoming a pilgrim.
But it's not.
What Adela asked was why Qige helped him.
Qige's answer was: "To save him."
This answer is true, but only half the answer. The full answer should be:
"To save him and get your attention."
The words that follow Qi Ge can be seen as the explanation of the sentence "to save him", but Qi Ge did not add any related words after the first sentence.
Seven Doves cleverly used the gaps between words to gain insight into the time when the Holy Spirit informed Adela.
Use all true words to weave lies.
He changed his image in Adela's mind into a pagan who was rebelling against the church's pilgrim system.
Adela once again heard an unexpected answer, which made her even more interested in the person in front of her.
"I am a saint of the church, but you slander the church in front of me?
Do you think I will judge my own high priest because of your words?
You would rather risk being silenced by me than say this in front of me.
Could it be that you have strong opinions on the church’s pilgrim system?”
This question must be answered carefully.
The pilgrim system is the core system of the Papal sect. The legendary hero Inheim relied on the merits of this system to complete his legendary road and become a legend.
Qi Ge thought for a while and said solemnly:
"In fact, I am not completely negative about the pilgrim system.
I have known for a long time that this world is neither black nor white, but a delicate gray."
"From the perspective of Erathia, there is an approaching crisis in the realm of chaos in the distance, and there are powerful enemies from hell nearby.
There is nothing wrong with the Holy Angel Church expanding its military strength and trying to increase the output of the angel race.
The faith value that pilgrims can provide is more than ten times that of ordinary believers.
Make an assumption.
Under normal circumstances, it takes about 10,000 ordinary believers to pray non-stop for a week to awaken an angel.
If replaced by pilgrims, only 1,000 are needed.
Then, if 1,000 of the 10,000 believers are converted into pilgrims, the remaining 9,000 normal believers can work and live normally.
In this way, we can produce a large number of angels and ensure the strength of Erathia's military strength, without affecting the overall stability of Erathia."
Adela was a little disappointed when she heard Qi Ge's words, but she didn't speak and waited quietly for Qi Ge to finish.
"From the perspective of the pilgrims themselves.
The vast majority of pilgrims are miserable people who have lost all their relatives in the holy war, or are at the bottom of Erathia who have been living in misery.
They are either disabled, old, weak, or grieved. Even though they try their best, they may not be able to survive normally in Erathia.
Their own lives are full of pain, and even thinking is a kind of torture for them.
In this case, after they transformed into pilgrims, they completely gave up thinking.
They don't need to work, they don't need to think, they don't need to remember, they just need to pray and give themselves to the God in their hearts.
This may not be a blessing to them who are living in pain.
For me, giving up thinking and becoming a puppet who can only pray is something I cannot accept.
This does not mean that I will put my own feelings on them and think that they are also in pain.
Therefore, I will not criticize the church’s pilgrim system.”
Enough, that's it again.
Adela was greatly disappointed. She was about to interrupt Qi Ge when suddenly Qi Ge raised his head slightly and changed the subject.
“But there is a premise for all this.
People who become pilgrims do so voluntarily, rather than being voluntary under the design and frame-up of some conspirators.
Otherwise, I can't turn a blind eye.
If you encounter it, you must take care of it. (Because there will be hidden tasks and the rewards are very high.)"
Adela trembled while hiding in her brown nun's robe.
Everything Qige said is true.
She stared at the seven doves carefully, and the blessing of the Holy Spirit's insight allowed her to penetrate the pure white night shadow of the seven doves and see their appearance.
He's actually a half-elf!
Adela was even more surprised.
She thought she had met a like-minded human companion, but she didn't expect that the other person was actually a half-elf!
He is a half-elf, why should he interfere with human affairs?
Did his father or mother become a pilgrim?
As soon as her mind changed, Adela asked:
"This is the Church of Sant'Angelo.
The pilgrim system was established by the Church of Holy Angels, and I am a saint of the Church of Holy Angels.
Aren't you afraid that I will put you to death, heretic?"
"Not afraid."
Qi Ge smiles confidently.
"You are not only a saint of the Holy Angel Church, but also a saint of the people of Erathia."
"You are indispensable to the reason why Longgue Port City has not been converted into pilgrims on a large scale."
Adela stared at the seven pigeons in shock.
The tone was not a guess, but an affirmation, and this sentence was also true.
It was as if he knew for sure that I was behind the plan to stop the church's pilgrim expansion plan.
When was I exposed? Who was exposed?
How much information does he know?
Will it affect my plans?
In just a short conversation, Adela's attitude towards Qi Ge went from curiosity, to disappointment, to expectation, to doubt, turning repeatedly, just like riding a roller coaster.
Her patience was also rising and falling, being rubbed repeatedly by Qi Ge.
Qi Ge saw that Adela suddenly stopped asking him any more questions, and knew that the heat was almost done and the main course had to be served.
Otherwise, some things can only be said in the dungeon.
"Holy Lady, I want to change the pilgrim system so that the people of Erathia will no longer suffer.
At the same time, there is a way to have the best of both worlds to ensure that the output of angels will not cause Erathia to lose the foundation of its country."
Adela was about to arrest Qi Ge and interrogate her carefully, but was so shocked by Qi Ge's words that she stopped urgently.
What Qi Ge said was exactly the problem she had been unable to solve, and it was the core difficulty in her desire to reform the church.
She asked anxiously: "What can I do?"
Qi Ge noticed that her speaking speed had increased slightly and smiled knowingly. It was rare to see Adela in a hurry.
He didn't dare to whet Adela's appetite anymore and said quickly:
"All of this starts with the origin of angels."
“The teachings of the Church of Holy Angels begin with the words.
The world loves God, and God loves the world.
But this doctrine is wrong.
Angels have no love or affection, they are not even living creatures, but life forms of faith similar to machines."
Adela's pupils trembled!
How could he know?
This is the core secret of the entire castle force. Even in the Holy Angel Church, there are only a few senior officials who know this secret!
"Angels are reinforcements summoned by Mother Goddess Asa from a world of order that is about to be destroyed.
In that world of order, there were also human beings, but apart from their similar appearance, their abilities and civilization development routes were different from our Yasha world.
It was an idealistic world, where ideas powerful enough could change reality.
Human beings in that world have been invaded by hell for a long time, suffered a lot, and longed to be saved.
Thus, a genius from their world unified human thought through the form of the Church.
The powerful collective consciousness distorts reality, and "Cloud City" and "Angel" materialize from their thoughts.
Angels brought together the most fundamental dreams of mankind in that world.
It has strong combat power, can fly freely, can resurrect humans, is brave and fearless, and is the mortal enemy of the forces of hell. It will kill demons on sight.
The thoughts of believing creatures are determined by the believer.
Due to the power of faith, the lowest level of action logic of the angel clan is to destroy hell and protect mankind.
When the angels came to the world of Yasha, they happened to see humanity on the verge of extinction under the pressure of Chaos, and subconsciously fought for the power of humanity.
And the humans in the world of Yasha also regard this angel who descended from the void as the god who saves them."
"But, be the strongest angel."
Qi Ge said and looked up at the statue behind Adela.
"But, when the strongest angel obtained the Tears of Asa and established a force, everything changed.
High-level angels gradually began to have thoughts. They were no longer pure, and could even break away from the shackles of faith to a certain extent. They had desires different from those of destroying hell and protecting humans.
Angels who have just awakened their consciousness have only one learning object.
It's a pity that the study subjects have both noble qualities and dirty desires. They are the most complex creatures in the world of Yasha.
It is easy to learn bad things but hard to learn well.
After the end of the first holy war between the castle and hell, the power of the castle gradually stabilized.
In the midst of stability, high-level angels quickly became infected with human bad habits and began to have desires.
In their pursuit of enjoyment, they even began to enslave humans.
High-level angels even want to transform the humans in the Yasha world into the idealistic human civilization of their former creators.
And through the faith of humans in the Yasha world, they can realize their own evolution and make themselves stronger.
Therefore, with the help of high-level angels, the church that believes in angels was naturally established.
But soon, the legendary heroes of mankind discovered that something was wrong with the angels. The earliest batch of legendary heroes who were promoted in the first holy war established kings who could check and balance the power of the church.
In order to survive in the Yasha continent, human forces have to rely on the power of angels.
Angels are creatures of faith. If not enough humans believe in them, they will not be able to give birth to a new generation.
Angels and human forces are interdependent and have a twisted relationship that is opposed to each other and continues to this day."
Every word is precious!
Adela couldn't control her expression, her thin lips parted slightly.
She had never thought that someone could analyze the relationship between humans and angels so thoroughly.
What Qi Ge said not only corresponded one-to-one with what she knew, but also answered some questions she had always had.
Adela unleashed all her insight and wanted to see through Qi Ge's true identity. She suspected that Qi Ge might be a demon, or a demigod hero who transformed into a demigod.
But no matter how you look at it, Qi Ge is just an ordinary half-elf hero, not even a master.
Adela was shocked.
How did Qi Ge know this? It was as if he had penetrated the fog of history and told the truth in one sentence.
Qige is certain that Adela should be completely suppressed by him now.
Because these historical truths were told to Qige personally by Adela, one year after the server was launched in her previous life.
The conversation between Qi Ge and Adela now is equivalent to the conversation between Adela one year later and Adela now.
Those words must have touched the softest and most sensitive part of her body, making Adela doubt her life.
Adela took a few steps forward and closed the distance between the seven pigeons.
"Where did you know this?"
Qi Ge shook his head and said:
"A beautiful and intelligent lady told me. Please forgive me for not being able to tell you her name."
Madam? A lady so familiar with the church?
Adrid? Seiya? Caitlin?
Several names flashed through Adela's mind, but she eliminated them one by one.
"who is she?!"
The seven pigeons have a sad expression.
"The lady who told me this is no longer in this world."
Qi Ge is talking about "the lady who told him about the past history", that is, Adela in the previous life. Adela in this life has not told Qi Ge the truth about the angel.
Therefore, in Adela's insight, Qige's words were judged to be true.
"Don't deal with me, tell me her name. Although I never like to use force to solve problems, it doesn't mean I can't."
Adela stared at the seven pigeons and issued an ultimatum.
Seeing that he couldn't be fooled anymore, Qi Ge thought quickly.
This question is difficult to answer, so we must find a way to divert Adela's attention.
"Lady Saint! It's not good!"
The nun at the front desk ran in with great effort. She clutched her heavy conscience and shouted breathlessly: "The high priest is here!"
ps: Thank you to the leader Akira Furuchi!
The debt has been paid off.
But the hamster was so proud that he inserted his waist.
