"Both the Griffin Party and the New Party regard Kadu's attitude towards Nali as an arrogant provocation. This arrogance has a long history, and it has already begun to emerge from history and culture, as well as from the belief in the Mother Goddess. I think
, all our citizens have endured these antiques for a long, long time. Even the lowest fishermen in Saint-Nali and the residents of Snake Head Street will be dissatisfied."
"As I have repeatedly emphasized, Kadu's interference in the conflict between us and Shivali is an intolerable provocation! We have had enough of their dictation and their bullying of us!"
"We're going to drive out all the damn Kadu!"
"Boom!"
The sky in Saint-Nali is covered with clouds, and from time to time there is a faint flash of lightning, which is one of the few light spots in the dim sky. The dull sea breeze is like a stone that people are lifting on their bodies, bringing a shock to the whole Saint-Nali.
Here comes the depression of impending rain.
The entire Saint-Nali and even Nali are shrouded in the clouds of the war with Shivali, and even the holiest church is not immune to the uneasy mood.
"Winter! Winter! Winter!"
The clear church bells rang, and many people were busy in a small church that was particularly lively in the wind and rain in Saint-Nali.
"Father, come and see if this place needs to be demolished?"
"Tear them all down. All these on the walls are the original texts of Kadu. They must at least be translated into Nali."
At this moment, many nuns who were originally wearing thick and simple black veils were walking around in this small church. They should have been holding the Creation Sutra in their hands to recite, but now they were holding various chisels and hammers.
They were hammering and hammering in this church, which was not even ranked in Sanneria, as if they were knocking out everything in the church that had anything to do with Kadu.
A priest with short blond hair was anxiously supervising the construction site of the church, and from time to time instructed the nuns who were lying on the ground and banging on the wall what to do.
"Father! Father!"
"Hurry up and change that side too!"
"Father!"
"There is also a statue of the Mother Goddess held in the hands of the Mother Goddess"
Just as the priest anxiously focused his gaze on the merciful statue of the Mother Goddess, which was looking at everyone below without any reason, behind him, a nun who had been calling him finally gasped and stood in front of him.
.The nun opened her hands to stop him from focusing his revised gaze on the statue of the Mother Goddess.
"Father! How could you arbitrarily modify many of the original scriptures next to the content on the statue of the Mother Goddess? Even if it is translated according to the Nali language, it is not accurate. I don't think it should be done."
This nun looks extremely young and still looks green, but the nun's robe that serves the Mother Goddess is not flawless at all. This is enough to show her piety.
The priest was stunned for a moment, then looked her up and down and said,
"You are the new one who was assigned to us a few weeks ago."
"Ah, yes, I was from the Afanna Township Church before."
"Sorry, I don't have time to take care of you now. You go outside first and see if there is anything you can do to help. Windsor, help me knock out the Kadu teaching device on the right hand of the Mother Goddess. Either you don't want it, or you have to
Put on the cup that Na Li only uses here!"
"Okay, Father!"
The young nun in front of her saw that the priest was still trying to knock out all the holy and orthodox things in the church, so she stood in front of the priest again and said to him,
"Father! No matter what, Mother Goddess Statue"
"Okay, do I know that the statue of the Mother Goddess cannot be moved? But what can we do? Is this something that can be explained by orthodoxy and classics? Do you know how chaotic Saint Nari is now? Do you know, above
Many children with only Kadu blood have been killed in the past few weeks. Even when their parents put them at home, someone smashed their doors and windows with objects, not to mention those who were abandoned in orphanages and streets!"
The priest in front of him could no longer stand the repeated obstructions of the nun in front of him. He rubbed his eyebrows and said with a headache,
"Many Kadu people living in Sanali even need to dye the hair of their infant black-haired children into blonde with paint. Even so, they cannot save their children from the hands of those very restless guys.
Young people, you have to know that this is not a matter of faith at all, but a political issue! Now Saint-Nali's hatred of Kadu has completely gotten out of control. There are many non-Mother God extremists who even demand that all Mother God churches be closed down.
Drive Nali out.
"Both the main church and the high-level church were guarded by knights from the Golden Palace, so their outer walls were not spared and were smashed to pieces by many angry guys. What do you want us, a group of devout believers, to do now?
Shall we transform the statue of the Mother Goddess with apology, or should we wait for those lunatics to come in at night and desecrate the statues of the Mother Goddess?"
The young nun stared blankly at the priest in front of her. After a moment of silence, she looked around again, only to find that all the nuns in the small church were looking at her.
Maybe they are not willing to do this, but the current situation dictates that this is a helpless move.
And she, a young believer from the country, finally learned her first lesson in this big city.
She pursed her lips and apologized to the priest in front of her with some sadness.
"Sorry, Father, I didn't think carefully."
"Go outside, we don't have the energy to teach you the teachings of the Mother Goddess right now. First use what you have learned to appease others. If there are believers outside coming to visit, please make arrangements."
In fact, how many believers could visit a small church like theirs?
In fact, their place is not an authentic church, but a prototype of a church school that has not yet been completed. Few people come to visit and pray.
Of course, it doesn’t rule out that believers will come if other churches are smashed?
But the greater possibility is that the priest just wanted to distract himself and calm down.
The young nun certainly knew this, but she still nodded and left the church that was being "renovated."
The sky outside was foggy. She walked from the inner hall to the outside, took a deep breath and prepared to adjust her condition. But at this moment, another young nun who was originally responsible for guarding the outside ran over. She
He glanced at the nun who came out very nervously and said to her,
"Hey, that madman from before is here again! I leave it to you!"
"Hey? Leave it to me again."
The nun pointed at herself in confusion, but when she turned around, her companion had already run away, seeming to be quite afraid of the "madman".
Watching her companions disappear, the nun sighed helplessly. She straightened her clothes and walked to the front hall outside. Soon she saw a man with long black hair and a dress at the end of the neatly arranged chairs.
A lady in gentleman's clothes.
Although her clothes looked very good, the loose aura surrounding her still made her seem so out of place here.
She relaxed her legs on the wooden chair in front of her and put her hands behind her head like pillows. Even though her hair was so long, her eyes that looked very scary instantly caught her and she entered the front hall.
nun.
The woman waved her hand to the nun and said with a smile,
"Hi, beauty, are you getting married?"
"Why"
The young nun sighed, then came directly to the side and raised the cleaning broom, and then hit the lax woman,
"Fuck, die, die, die!"
"Hey, you, you, you, don't mess around, I was wrong, I was wrong!"
Her woman was beaten by the nun holding a broom and she was scurrying around. The nun seemed to be venting her dissatisfaction for the past few days and attacked the mad woman crazily, but the person in front of her was extremely nimble and could not touch her at all.
After fighting for a long time, the nun was panting from exhaustion, but the crazy woman still looked as normal.
She smiled and sat on the chair next to her with her legs crossed, looking extremely embarrassed.
The nun was so tired that she couldn't straighten up. She was leaning on the broom while panting and regretting.
Two weeks ago, she bumped into this madwoman on her way into Saint-Nali by train. At that time, she was staying on the roadside dejectedly. She remembered the teachings of the Mother Goddess and went to help her, and comforted her a lot. As a result,
So I fell in love with this guy.
"What the hell are you doing here?"
"I?"
The crazy woman pointed at herself, and then pointed at the wall behind her with a smile. The nun looked up and saw the words on the wall that had not yet been erased, which read,
"Confess your sins"
The nun was stunned for a moment, and then put down the broom in her hand. Although she was a little angry at the guy in front of her for his messy style, her belief in the Mother Goddess still made her put the other person's needs first.
The Mother Goddess said that no one should be given up.
She sighed, adjusted her mentality, then forced herself to sit next to the woman in front of her, and said,
"Okay, please tell me what sin you have. Following the teachings of the Mother Goddess, I will never leak secrets or engage in selfish desires. I will use my pure kindness to guide you out of your way in the name of the Mother Goddess."
The woman in front of me smiled and said,
"Don't be so serious, just treat it as a normal chat. If you do this, the people who come here to confess will be very stressed."
"Please tell me."
"Actually, I'm a lunatic."
"I know, what next?"
"I was serious"
The smile on the nun's face was a little forced, and she thought the woman in front of her was joking again. But the woman in front of her was silent for a long time, and when she turned her head, the expression the nun saw was just a smile full of cracks.
Her helpless expression became dull little by little, and then she became serious, but she heard the other party smiling and continuing,
"People like me are born to face endless torture and are destined to have tragic consequences. I used to think that I was special and detached from others, but in the end I discovered that I was not like that. I was just,
I just have better luck than others."
The nun was stunned for a moment, then said,
"Then, where did this disease come from? There must be a source and cause. Can you tell me?"
The woman in front of her turned her head to look at the nun in front of her, then shook her head and said,
"this"
"Is it a little hard to say it? It doesn't matter. The Mother Goddess will forgive you, but I can still feel what you are distressed about. Can you tell me what is distressing you?"
"Sister, let me tell you a fable."
"Please say."
"Do you know about Titanic?"
"what is that?"
"Ah, forget it, I'm already starting to lose my mind."
The woman with disheveled hair in front of her shook her head helplessly. She didn't know if it was an illusion, but the nun always felt that something was moving on the body of the woman in front of her.
"The current situation is like this. Suppose you are a passenger on a large ship. When the ship is sailing on the boundless sea, the God of Death suddenly appears and jokingly tells the captain, first mate and others of the big ship a prophecy, but
No one can understand what this prophecy specifically says, but they know one thing: this ship is destined to sink. But where and how it will sink is a mystery."
The woman in front of me danced and performed. She played several roles vividly and restored everything on the ship.
"The captain said: 'Ah, since it's so dangerous, let's return quickly and return to where we started!' But the first mate said, 'Wait a minute, captain, it's possible that the place where our ship sank in the prophecy is where we return.
Where is the place? We should drive ahead and find a nearby place to dock!' The second mate said, 'Ha, isn't it possible that we are in the process of finding a place to dock?' The third mate said,'
We should keep driving towards our destination and not deviate from the course!' The helmsman said, 'Why don't we just wait to die like this'"
The next second, her smile stopped abruptly, and suddenly turned into a bony, nervous expressionless face, which seemed to be her original expression at this moment.
She stretched out her finger and pointed at the nun in front of her, and said slowly to her,
"At this moment, you, an ordinary person on this ship, are really smart. Not only did you secretly hear the God of Death telling the captain their prophecy, but you also unintentionally deciphered what the prophecy meant. But when you realized this
When the prophecy really means something, you find that the prophecy is so close that you feel that no matter what you do, you can't change the prophecy of sinking.
"But actually you have another choice, that is to sneak away alone. Throw away everything on the boat, what nonsense prophecies, the friends and devout believers you met on the boat, throw away everything, and then run away, except for those few
Except for the captain and the first mate, no one on the ship knows about the prophecy. They are all still singing and singing in the cabin day and night, and they are happy to be alive."
The nun frowned in confusion. She thought carefully about the other party's words, and then murmured,
"Well, can't you just run away with more people? If you already have a way to escape?"
"Of course not. Think about it, how can a cynical God of Death endure to watch the prey that is about to fall into the bag escape? Maybe there are so many passengers on the ship, and he will not notice if one escapes, but two escapes.
One, three or more, and he discovered it?"
The woman in front of me shook her head again and explained further,
"And, to be honest, most of the people on this ship don't treat you very well. Maybe you shouldn't be alone on the ship, you should be a dirty street rat that everyone shouts and beats.
Yes, the logic is more consistent in this way. Only then can the mouse eavesdrop on the conversations of the big shots, and can it also escape from the hands of death, right?"
The nun was thinking about it, but she did not cling to this prophecy and make fuss about the flaws in this prophecy.
She just looked at the woman in front of her with some concern, and then after a moment of hesitation, she suddenly opened her hands and hugged the woman in front of her.
The nun's selfless, gentle, pious and warm embrace melted the words that the woman was about to say into her mouth. After she was slightly stunned, she opened her hands naturally and did not hug her back.
It wasn't until a second passed that the nun in front of her gently let go of the woman in front of her, and she said,
"Although maybe this prophecy does not refer to you, I can feel your confusion and pain. You are feeling guilty and regretful, but mice and evil people will not feel this way."
The woman in front of me glanced at the nun, then laughed and said,
"If it were before, if a beautiful woman like you fell into my arms, I would have"
The nun expressionlessly turned to get the broom again, but was interrupted by the laughter of the woman behind her.
"Just kidding, you know, I'm not that kind of person. Although I'm a bit bitter, I've changed my ways."
The nun sighed silently, and then looked at the woman next to her with blank eyes. After hesitating for a moment, she suddenly said,
"If there is really no way to avoid it, then leave."
The woman next to her turned to look at her, but the nun kept looking at the text in the Kadu Canon in front of her. She knew that this line of text would soon be chiseled out.
Combined with the current sensitive environment, the nun thought that the black-haired woman next to her was a Kadu who was trying to survive in Nali. Although her face didn’t look much like it, this guy’s face was basically hidden in the dark.
Fali, maybe I didn’t observe carefully?
Just by looking at this guy's black hair, maybe we can tell who she is as Kadu, right?
"The Mother Goddess once taught us to be gentle, to be kind, and to be pious, but when I came here from my hometown, I was greatly disappointed in others. Not only Nali was disappointed, but also Kadu, the sanctuary of many devout believers.
In this way. The believers who should have stayed away from the world, while reciting the oath of the Mother Goddess, killed living beings, deceived and acted violently."
The woman next to her smiled slightly, looked at the nun who was staring blankly at the wall and said,
"disappointed?"
But unexpectedly, the nun shook her head, then turned around and smiled,
"No, I'm not disappointed. Perhaps, I just haven't discovered for a long time that the teachings I believe in are only for myself. I don't want to be a crazy believer, nor do I have any sympathy for the mother goddess I have never seen.
I have unrealistic fantasies. I just believe in the kindness of the Mother Goddess and hope to turn her kindness into my own kindness; I just believe in the wisdom of the Mother Goddess and hope to turn her wisdom into my own.
"As long as I don't feel guilty and do my best, then I won't criticize myself. My friend, the same is true for you. No one will criticize you. The only one who criticizes you is you from beginning to end."
The woman in front of her just looked at the nun in front of her. After two seconds of silence, she stood up with a smile, then stretched out her hand, and a stack of heavy banknotes and a small box suddenly appeared in her hand.
"Thank you, I feel much better. Maybe today is the last day of our fate, so before I leave, I will leave you some gifts to express my gratitude to you."
The woman in front of her smiled, then threw away the stack of banknotes and the box, and the two things flew into the nun's hands as if they were automatically searching for their owner.
The nun was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly stood up to refuse.
“As a believer of the Mother Goddess, how could I?”
"Do you want to open it first and take a look before saying whether you want to refuse?"
""
The nun was stunned for a moment, then opened the small box, and suddenly found an extremely simple book lying inside.
The book had gone through many years of erosion, and even the words recorded on it were not in Kadu, but in ancient humanities. Fortunately, although the nun came from a small place, she had loved learning and hobbies since she was a child.
He studied various classics, so he also dabbled in ancient humanities.
She recognized the title of the book,
"Creation Book"
“The source of the Creation Sutra?!
"
The nun's hands were so frightened that she almost couldn't hold the box steady, but fortunately, her faith in the Mother Goddess allowed her to hold this extremely precious thing steady.
Her little face turned pale, and she stared blankly at the "mad woman" whose whole body was covered in mystery before her, and said tremblingly,
"You are not the kind of thief wanted by all mankind, are you? This source is enshrined at the bottom of the Kadu Holy Church, guarded and enshrined by countless cardinals. Why do you want to do it?"
The woman in front of me smiled slightly and said,
"Don't worry, they didn't lose it, and the one you got is not a fake."
"Then you changed it?"
"No, it's just that nothing in this world is unique to me."
"Why?"
The crazy woman in front of her turned around and was about to leave, but the nun standing there was still shaking like a steel nail. The weight of this thing is really too heavy. Once this thing is stolen, Kadu will even ignore it.
To launch a war against foreign countries, either destroy the entire country or take this thing back, which shows how important this thing is.
And now, these holy objects that all churches believe in are just lying in their hands?
She didn't throw it away or hold it, she didn't even dare to move, she just watched the woman walking towards the door with a relaxed expression without tears.
"Hey! What should I do with this sacred thing like you and me?"
"What else can you do? You can keep it. You can sell it and share it, but you may be secretly captured by Kadu's spies at night, and then torture you and force you to tell the truth."
"ah?"
"Haha, just kidding"
At the end of her words, the crazy woman who was about to walk out of the door turned her head again. She smiled slightly, revealing a smiling and meaningful eye from her long black hair.
"Don't worry, no one, no existence will find you here, not even your mother goddess."
"Hey, what are you talking about?"
"That's right, we have known each other for such a long time and you still haven't told me your name, Miss Sister."
"Teresa, just call me Theresa."
"Oh, my name is Qin Shihuang. You can also call me by my nicknames, Hongzhong, Ultraman, and Kamen Rider. Of course, don't call me a nymphomaniac."
"ha?"
Teresa held the banknotes and the ancient Book of Creation in her hands blankly, watching helplessly as the mad woman's back waved her hands and disappeared at the door of the church.
Since then, the woman has never appeared again. Just as she said, the fate between them ended that gloomy afternoon.
Everything seemed like a dream to Teresa. If the Book of Creation, which she had repeatedly confirmed to be authentic, was still lying on her desk, she might have really suspected that she had not woken up that afternoon.
The weather in the next few weeks was very good, sunny and no longer cloudy, and their church school was also very lucky. None of the crazy thugs noticed that there was a fish that slipped through the net. They had originally
All preparations for the coming political shock were in vain.
The priest and other nuns were all shouting "Mother God bless", but Teresa, who studied the Creation Scripture day and night, for some reason, thought of what the woman said before she left.
A few days later, it was a sunny afternoon, and the whole school was enjoying the long-lost tranquility in the somewhat sultry afternoon, as if everything that happened outside in the bustling, commercial-rich Saint-Nali had nothing to do with it.
When Teresa got tired of studying the Creation Scriptures, she would take a broom and clean outside, straightening the accumulated dust and the tables and chairs where believers had come and sat in the outer hall.
On that wall, a line of pure Khadu text that had been spared from being changed by the nuns with chisels and hammers due to "good luck" was still engraved on the wall. It read,
"Confess your sins"
The young nun Teresa holding the broom paused in front of that line of text for a long time, because it was not until she read through the entire Book of Creation that she suddenly discovered that this was not what the Mother Goddess said to the children who were suffering in the mortal world.
, what she really said is,
"Face your heart"
Thinking about this, Teresa couldn't help but smile, but just when she shook her head and was about to sweep the floor, a clear baby cry outside the church school was like thunder that ripped apart the entire church school.
"Wow! Wow! Wow!"
Teresa was stunned for a moment, then ran to the door extremely anxiously, and quickly opened the closed door.
But I saw a small wooden basket placed on the steps outside. I don't know how long it had been there.
In the wooden basket, a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes was crying like that. It looked like it was born not long ago, maybe it had just woken up, and it couldn't help but cry out because of hunger, seeking feeding from its mother.
And the most important thing is that he is born with black hair, as can be seen from the hair that has just grown on his head.
This child has the blood of Kadu!
Thinking of this, Teresa picked up the wooden basket in fear and looked around with great vigilance, fearing that someone would discover the child's ancestry at such a sensitive period.
But just as their church's luck was so good before, this child miraculously caught the good luck of this church. He was left at the door of the church for so long and no one noticed him.
"Mother God bless! Mother God bless! Mother God bless! Mother God bless"
Teresa almost shed tears. She held the wooden basket tightly in her arms, feeling the presence of vigorous life in the wooden basket.
The child in the basket seemed to feel her presence. When the crying gradually stopped, his little hand slowly raised and touched the face of the nun in front of him.
"Hagagulu"
The child in the basket pouted and stared blankly at the nun in front of him with his watery eyes.
It's a boy
Teresa smiled slightly and touched his little hand with her fingers, and then quickly carried the baby back to school.
It was only at this moment that she discovered that there was a note stuck outside the baby's swaddling clothes.
On the note, a line of wild black ink wrote Nali's words.
For some reason, the moment she saw the handwriting, the image of the crazy woman's dissolute body suddenly appeared in Theresa's mind.
Just an illusion, right?
She looked down and saw that it was written on the paper,
"No one knows that the departing mouse will become the nightmare of a god of death."