Chapter 301 Story! The Eight Bishops 6000 words please vote
Chapter 301 Story! The Eight Bishops 6000 words please vote
Listening to Qiao Bushi's story, Mo unpredictable suddenly felt as if he understood the loneliness he was talking about.
He didn't say anything, filled up two cups of tea, and listened to Qiao Fudie's continued chatter.
"Later, I couldn't hide it anymore."
"Both my family and the villagers, they all found out that I don't age. Guess how they treated me?"
Mo Cai shook his head and said that he didn't know. He just didn't want to guess the result, because since the old liar asked, the result would not be too good.
"I was talked about like a monster by them. At first, it was just behind my back. Later, the distrust suddenly amplified."
Qiao Fu's eyes seemed to be able to penetrate the void of time, and he whispered in a low voice while recalling in a trance:
"In that era, people had great faith in the Iron God. Immortality is an attribute that only the Iron God possesses. But if this phenomenon occurs in an ordinary person, he can only be called a heretic."
"I was killed by them because of my belief in the Iron God. They did not hesitate to attack me, including my nephew."
"They drained my blood and used my blood to sacrifice to the Iron God. They put my body in a sealed iron hall and buried it underground. In that era, this was how they targeted heretics."
Qiao Bushi lit a bag of cigarettes again, exhaled a puff of smoke and continued:
"I was resurrected because of the contractor's ability. This is not unexpected. It's just that I couldn't get out of the iron hall."
"In the dark, in the coffin, I found a lot of copper coins that were used for burials, or to seal heretics. Using these copper coins, I grinded out the gaps in the iron hall bit by bit."
"Don't say this is difficult to achieve. Haha, I have infinite life and endless time. Even if I suffocate to death in the coffin, I will be reborn soon. Just like this, again and again, even I don't know the resurrection
How many times."
"I finally crawled out of the ground."
Mo Zhi nodded and sighed.
But in his mind, he thought that Qiao had lived for thousands of years, and he didn’t know if that time was before the Federation Era, and he didn’t know if people in that era worshiped the Iron God more strongly than they do now.
It should be, but this is even more strange. What the Iron God is has been known a few days ago, and the worship of the Iron God is mainly about "wisdom and science". Will belief in "wisdom and science" be so fanatical?
To the extent that you want to target "heresies" like this?
In a normal impression, in an era of ignorance and barbarism, only people who believed in science would be executed as heretics. Unexpectedly, it was the opposite here - people who believed in science executed contractors with extraordinary abilities and called them heretics.
This is very unbelievable and ironic. I shake my head in my heart.
Is it possible that the so-called belief, no matter what its attributes are, whether it is correct or wrong, is just to bow before the judgment seat in order to accept the whipping of "gods"? (Note 1)
Unaware that Mu Zhi was thinking wildly, Qiao Bushi coughed twice:
"After returning to the ground, I thought about revenge."
"But what's the point? Living itself is already very hard, unspeakably miserable. The ordinary ironmen who killed me are just ants in the sea. It won't take long for them to grow old one by one.
Death cannot escape the reincarnation of fate."
"They can't escape death, and I don't even need to take action."
"I finally left the village to seek the meaning of life."
Mozhi laughed softly when he heard this: "Only you are qualified to study this problem. If you don't have the ability to die, I'm afraid I will think you are mentally ill."
Qiao Budie also smiled: "Yes, life is limited, how can you have time to explore these things?"
"But I have to figure it out, because I am immortal. If I don't figure this out, what does immortality mean to me? Living is just a walking corpse."
"I traveled throughout the Rodinian continent and to the hot Southern Province. At that time, it was not called the Southern Province because the federal government had not yet been established. There were just a group of indigenous people there. I worked there for a while
The chieftain later became the existence of their faith."
"Hahahaha. It's not difficult. I am a Tang person with a different skin color from theirs. I am a contractor with immortality. It's easy to become the god of a group of indigenous people!"
Unexpectedly, he opened his mouth and almost bit his tongue off.
The old liar has really had enough!
It turned out to be a belief-like existence!
"Hey, the Hesse people in the south are easy to fool. Their belief in the Iron God is not as firm as in other places. They worship elephants and buffaloes. Elephants can become their gods, not to mention me!"
If this experience really happened, if the old liar wasn't just bragging, he would have done something similar to what Klein Moretti did in this world, which is a real version of the alien planet.
It seems that everyone likes to show off.
Unpredictable almost wanted to smile and shake his head.
"I have married several wives and had many children."
Qiao Budie continued:
"There is nothing I can do. If a person is alone for too long, he will always have desires."
"Although I am old, I am still a normal man. No, I am an old man."
"This is the easiest thing for me, a southern Hesse god, to do. I just ask the believers to sacrifice a few beautiful girls every time."
Unpredictable doesn't want to talk anymore. Although you are doing the things of a fool, you don't have the character of a fool. You are pretending to be cool just for the sake of women. It's too low.
Qiao Bushid curled his lips:
"I was so tired that I could barely get out of bed during that time."
"Finally. Gradually, I got tired of it. It turns out that no matter how much you want something, as long as it is within easy reach and you do it every day, you will get tired of it."
"What's even more regrettable is that everyone will still leave me just like they did in the beginning."
"No one can stand the test of time, including my followers, my women, and my children."
"I finally left the South Side."
Qiao Busui was holding his pipe in his mouth, with a lewd smile on his face:
"I then went to the west, to Saigon Province, and then to the Black Sea, Qinghu, and the north."
"However, I am no longer interested in things between men and women. Maybe it is because I know that they will not stay with me for a long time, so I have remained single."
"Not only am I tired of it, I even feel a little scared, because no matter how many wives I marry, they will always leave."
"So, I remained single until that year when the federal government was established and at the same time, the Order of Wisdom was renamed Pandora!"
Unpredictable keenly discovered this key point - the old liar was indeed born before the history of the Rodinia continent, or in other words, before the history written by the federal government!
In this case, Qiao Bushi should know a lot of secret historical information, which is also the intelligence point that Mozhi felt the need to dig out from the beginning.
Unpredictable and silent, Qiao Budie didn't expect that he could think of so many things. He took a sip of tea and continued to tell his story:
"Because of the appearance of the Supervisory Office and because the Punisher filed away contractors everywhere, although I was not caught, I also learned that there were other contractors and what happened to the contractors, so I put on a disguise Later, I returned to Hot Springs City."
"My original family members, those who killed and buried me, have been dead for who knows how many years. After knowing that I could not upgrade, I decided to hide and live a peaceful life."
"I no longer take the initiative to pursue the meaning of life. I only hope that time can give me the answer."
"I am still the same as before, I don't dare or don't want to have emotional entanglements with others, because I know that these things exist for a short time, but they are destined to leave me, and it will make me sad for a long time."
"I lived in Hot Spring City for many years, living a semi-reclusive life, until Hot Spring City became bigger and bigger, from a small mountain village to a city, and then I opened the Shenghua Hotel."
"Then I met Xiaoya's mother, and the wall of abstinence that had been built up for many years seemed to collapse the moment I met her."
As Qiao Bushi spoke, his tone began to turn sad:
"I have lived for more than nine hundred years, and I met true love for the first time. It was as unstoppable as a flood, leaving me with no choice."
"Love. Haha, this is the most terrifying desire! I can't resist Xiaoya's mother's attraction to me."
"Because of my sixty-year-old body, I tried my best to marry this girl who was only twenty-seven years old. The resistance was enough to write a book."
"This is indeed enough to write a book." Mozhi nodded in agreement. Starting from this plot, Krisna can definitely write the three golden chapters of a female channel - "How the heroine breaks through the fetters of the world and marries an immortal "The Immortal Old Husband".
Later, the sadomasochism unfolds. With Qiao Immortal's golden finger, the heroine's life is extremely exciting and the storyline is very easy to construct.
Naturally, Qiao Budie didn't know about these fancy thoughts and continued:
"I was lucky enough to win her love. It was the most cherished relationship in my thousand years. It was then that I discovered that I had found the meaning of life. I want to be with her forever!"
Unpredictable listened quietly to Qiao Budie's story.
"I don't want this relationship to be lost as she ages. I hope she can be with me forever."
"So, for ten years, I exhausted all the source words I could find, and then developed this soul system."
"But Xiaoya's mother refused!"
"She doesn't agree, or in other words, she has different views from you." Mo Zhi asked softly.
Qiao Busui nodded: "She said she didn't want to live like that. She said the meaning of the Ironborn lies in the final death. Only in this way can she be a real Ironborn, not a monster."
"She said that the Ironborn's life was meant to be incomplete. Without the end of death, existence would be meaningless. But she is already happy enough in this life, and she just hopes to follow the laws of nature and grow old."
"I don't understand." Qiao Budie narrowed his eyes in pain.
Mo Zhi sighed: "Xiaoya's mother seems to be studying philosophy and is very thoughtful."
This was also what he saw in Xiaoya's dream. He vaguely knew why Xiaoya's mother refused. After confirming Qiao Budie's method of "immortality", he really understood why Xiaoya's mother refused.
This is equivalent to abandoning the body and abandoning humanity.
Probably so!
Qiao Budie shook his head
"She might not trust me, thinking that I would extract her soul after her death. She knew that I would not be able to help but do this, so she left. Although she left, I know that she has feelings for me.
."
"I am very sad why she refused to be with me forever, why can't the things I expect be as eternal as me?"
"Fortunately, I still have Xiaoya here."
Qiao’s immortal eyes revealed an unspeakably complex look:
"But Xiaoya woke up and became a contractor, and the price was unpayable."
"Perhaps because she misses her mother so much and wants to go back to her carefree childhood, Xiaoya's price is to turn back the clock."
Unpredictable and a bit stunned.
"That's right, it means going back in time. If she wants to pay the price, she must go back to a certain point in the past." Qiao Bushid looked at the unpredictable, with a gloomy face:
"This is simply impossible to do! Who can turn back time? No words of talisman can do this, and there is no way Xiaoya can pay the price!"
"She is a miserable child. She just woke up and became a spirit doll because she could not pay the price!"
"Her mother left me, and Xiaoya will leave me too. How could I accept that I used that soul system to extract Xiaoya's soul before she turned into a spirit doll."
So that's it. This is consistent with Xiaoya's memory, and Mu Yi nodded silently.
"However, because this is the first time I have practiced it on a spirit puppet, I had to do more verification tests, which delayed a lot of time."
"Xiaoya's consciousness has been sleeping in the soul crystal for more than thirty years!"
It is indeed the case. This is a story that turns over and over again. Although it is just a small emotional incident of an old liar and a family of three, it is thought-provoking.
After Qiao Fusui finished his story, he stared at the floor in front of him in silence, not even cleaning the ashes from his pipe. It was not convenient for him to interrupt him, so he just kept sitting.
Finally, I roughly understand the meaning of Xiaoya to Qiao BuSheng - mother and daughter, to a certain extent, are the meaning of "living" that Qiao BuSheng has found after thousands of years of experience.
After being silent for a long time, Qiao Bushit finally came back to his senses, seemed to look at the starry sky outside the window, and said:
"It's getting late, you should go back."
"In other words, let Xiaoya's consciousness come back."
Mozhi nodded and said, "I have one last question."
Qiao Bushi glanced at Mo Zhi angrily: "Ask me quickly."
Mo Zhi thought for a while and said:
"Do you know why the Wisdom Order became Pandora and became the four major councils?"
Qiao Bushi thought for a while and said calmly: "I don't know the specific circumstances, but Changsheng died in the same year."
Unpredictable was immediately reminded, and his eyes widened in vain.
This detail has been ignored. Changsheng died in the first year of the Unified Era, which was the year the federal government was established!
It was also that year that the original Order of Wisdom became Pandora. These events actually happened in the same year and were actually connected.
There must be some connection between this!
Changsheng is a high-level contractor from thousands of years ago, and it is said that he has a gold-level cultivation!
The god who led the Ironborn back to the continent of Rodinia!
A figure who has been enshrined in the form of statues in various cities, and was the leader of Pandora at that time.
The old liar was lost in thought, waved his hand and said with great certainty:
"You don't have to be so surprised about Chang Sheng. It was because of his death that the Wisdom Order at that time was renamed Pandora. At the same time, the federal government was also established that year."
Qiao Budie also thinks so.
I was still chatting about this issue in the group today. Ms. Desire revealed the information about Pandora and analyzed it.
The reason why the Wisdom Religion split into Pandora's four major councils was because of the emergence of Fuyuan, which led to changes in the doctrinal level.
It’s because of a change of faith!
The old liar Qiao Bushi said personally that the Wisdom Order was renamed Pandora because of the death of Changsheng. This was the central point of this change.
——The death of immortality!
Did his death lead to the emergence of the federal government? It also turned the Wisdom Order into the four major councils. The death of the leader of Pandora, and the death of the god praised by the ironmen of the entire Rodinia continent, will inevitably bring about the death of the entire continent.
of vibration.
As a result, the Wisdom Order at that time was reorganized, and at the same time, the federal government emerged
This seems to make sense.
Unexpectedly, I feel like I have discovered the truth of that foggy history
Qiao Budie continued to say slowly:
"Pandora appeared at that time. However, the Pandora we knew at that time was just called the Wisdom Order. The Wisdom Order no longer exists."
No, the Wisdom Religion still exists, and the stiff expression on the unpredictable face has not eased at all in the Federal Academy of Natural Sciences.
Qiao Budie chuckled:
"When I was born, everyone believed in the Wisdom Order. At that time, the entire continent believed in the Iron God, wisdom and science, and the highest authority among believers was the Wisdom Order."
"Isn't this surprising? Because at that time, everyone knew that Changsheng was the leader of the Wisdom Religion, the high priest of the Wisdom Religion, and his position was higher than the eight bishops of the Wisdom Religion."
"Changsheng is the supreme leader of the Iron God in the world of Rodinia!"
"He has outstanding achievements. He led eight bishops and used divine power to bring the Ironborn from Ayerkula Island to the New World."
Eight bishops? Mu Zhi felt a little dizzy and asked slowly:
“Who are the eight bishops?”
"The eight bishops of the Eye of Judgment, the Light of Talisman, the Ax of Punishment, the Shield of Order, the Fang of Shadow, the Staff of the King, the Pendant of the Sage, and the Ring of Resurrection are the arms of Lord Changsheng and are the top leaders of the Order of Wisdom.
Ah, the eight archbishops are divided into the provincial capitals of eight provinces in the mainland. And the main altar of Changsheng is in Jiuzhou City. This is the origin of the nine provinces of the federation."
"After Changsheng died, the federal government was established, and the Wisdom Order was renamed Pandora. After that, the federal and Pandora-affiliated inspection agencies were established in various places at the same time."
The titles of four of the eight bishops are exactly the four major councils of Pandora at this time. So, what about the other four?
There are eight major bishops but only four major councils. Adding the death of Changsheng behind this makes it feel not simple.
Perhaps, this is not as simple as Ms. "Desire" speculated, but just a difference in doctrine.
Unpredictable couldn't help but ask: "Pandora only has four councils, where are the other four bishops?"
When he was dragged into the memory space by Qiao Buzi, he had heard Qiao Buzi talk about the secret realm of Pandora and the Guardian Council, so Qiao Budie should know about the four major councils of Pandora.
Qiao Bushi shook his head:
"I don't know. I just live as an ordinary person. I only know this historical information because I have lived a long time. I don't know what happened in Pandora."
"After Pandora was renamed, there was no movement from the bishops, and no one worshiped them like they worshiped the Immortals. Therefore, thousands of years later, no ordinary ironborn remember them."
"Anyway, Pandora claims to continue the light of wisdom of the Wisdom Order. I really don't know what exactly happened here."
"Because of the establishment of the Inspectorate, there were punishers everywhere filing contractors. I took the opportunity to know the truth about my contract ability, and guessed that Pandora should be a contractor organization."
The old liar has experienced that period of history, and he does know some forgotten information in that period of history, but he is from the perspective of an ordinary Ironborn, not a player in the game, and for unknown reasons - it's like knowing the Eight Archbishops, but not the wisdom.
The real reason why the Order was renamed Pandora.
Even so, Mo Zhi still wants to dig out more information.
He nodded numbly: "Do you know anything else? About Pandora?"
The old liar thought for a while:
"I've been hiding from the Punisher, so how dare I take the initiative to learn about Pandora?"
"It's just that after living for a long time and knowing more and more information, including getting to know many contractors later, I know what Pandora's major councils do."
This is troublesome. As expected, the old liar didn’t know much about this. Unpredictable couldn’t help but feel a little disappointed. After thinking about it, he reluctantly continued to ask:
"Do you know the secret realm of Pandora?"
As Pandora's punisher, he didn't even know about the so-called "Pandora's Secret Realm", let alone that the Guardian Council protects Pandora's Secret Realm. How did Qiao Budie know about it?
Qiao Budie nodded: "I know, but I only know the name. Haha, the Smiling Assassin told me about this."
Unpredictable frowned, but he stopped worrying about it.
The old liar doesn't know the real situation, so there's no point in asking.
However, after all, Qiao Bushi has lived for thousands of years, and there are many details hidden in the history that he has personally experienced. It is useless to ask, which is equivalent to the fact that the historical secrets that Qiao Bushi knows are fragmented, and he even himself has no knowledge of them.
I don't know which ones are valuable to me.
We have been together for a long time, so we can only discover it slowly in the future.
Note 1, quoted from Dazai Osamu's "Disqualification in the World".