In the secret room, the candle flames were beating wildly, as if they would be extinguished in the next second.
Joshua was still kneeling on the spot, staring blankly at the figure in black robe slowly rising from the door.
Under the flickering light, the bricks under the shadow's feet turned quietly, and the whole person seemed to have emerged from the ground. The tall and straight body seemed to never bend, and it was as silent as this change.
As the man in black robe came out of the ground, the elongated black shadow gradually stretched towards the door and onto the brick wall of the chimney opposite, finally covering it completely, like a darkness that was so rich that it could not be dissolved, slowly and silently.
Devouring something soundly...
The crow with scarlet eyes that he had seen before also sat quietly on the shoulder of the man in black robe, looking extremely well-behaved.
The brim of the black-robed man's hat is pushed down very low, and his fair, pointed chin can be vaguely seen, which is a feeling only seen by young people.
What made him unable to take his eyes away was the snake head under the brim of the hat spitting snake letters at him.
In the Old Testament, Satan is an ancient snake and has nothing to do with sheep.
In the Book of Genesis, the snake that tempted Adam and Eve to eat from the tree of knowledge of knowledge and evil also represented Satan.
Various versions of the Bible also mention it many times: The dragon is the ancient snake, called the devil, also called Satan, who deceives the whole world...
No, it's his new master!
Joshua came back to his senses, his expression and eyes instantly became fanatical.
Feimo: "..."
Feichi: "..."
Joshua's expression is so twisted...
The middle-aged man didn't notice that there was someone behind him. He was dissatisfied and asked Joshua, "Bellyah? What Belial? I wonder what Belial has to do with me being a follower of Satan? Joshua, don't change the subject!"
Answer me, are you willing to join my church?"
Behind him, a calm, cold and hoarse male voice came.
"Some people say that Belial, Samuel, and Lucifer are all aliases for Satan... However, these three terms appeared much later than Satan. The name Lucifer, which appeared the latest, is taken from the myth of Abraham.
The Roman mythology outside the system, originally, was only Satan."
Chi Feichi really couldn't bear it anymore.
Although Belial is a name that evolved later, as a believer of Satan, he seems to have a church under his control, but he has never heard of Belial. Is this serious?
These days, if you don’t have any knowledge, don’t come out to fool people.
Still using religion as an excuse to deceive a man who has been a priest for more than thirty years.
The middle-aged man was startled by the sudden sound, and turned to look at Chi Feichi in shock.
"Yes," Joshua nodded heavily, his eyes frighteningly bright under the candlelight, "In the beginning, there was only Satan!"
"Which church do you belong to?" the middle-aged man asked with a frown.
He didn't see Chi Feichi emerging from the ground, he just regarded him as a 'companion' to rob people.
Although the facts are similar, they are robbing people, but they are not colleagues.
Chi Feichi hissed, "I'm not from a church..."
"Yes," Joshua nodded again and said seriously, "You are not from any church, and all the churches in the world will be led by you!"
Chi Feichi: "..."
Is the priest still mentally sane?
"Pretend to be a ghost!" The middle-aged man said angrily as he watched the two people sing and sing together, "My church once launched a sixteen-person ceremony, launched punishments, and sacrificed hundreds..."
The sound stopped suddenly.
A hand was placed on the middle-aged man's shoulder, and he felt a few cold sharp blades in front of his throat. The feeling that his life was in control made his skin crawl all over.
"I thought it was Anton's church..." Chi Feichi murmured softly.
According to his understanding in his previous life, there are two types of Satanic sects.
One is the evil church that advocates worshiping devils, defrauding others of their property and money, and performing bloody rituals.
The other is the Church of Satan organized by Anton Slavi, the law-abiding church, which advocates facing reality, living in the present, not hoping for the afterlife or after death, not following the crowd, affirming the value of desires, and learning to regulate desires.
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They don't even seek to worship any god, they regard themselves as gods, and they are not anti-Christ. If they have to talk about conflict, it is probably because they don't like the kind of self-abasement and self-abuse remarks that are inherently sinful.
After he arrived in the United States in his previous life, he met a senior member of the Church of Satan.
He also doesn't like the religious concept of "afterlife and enjoying happiness after death" and the idea of "if someone slaps me on the left cheek, I have to take the initiative to stretch out my right cheek and let him slap me".
Whoever slaps him, he will choose to swell the other person's face...
However, when that friend invited him to join the Church of Satan, he refused. He always felt that joining a certain church was weird, and he was also on guard against the other party trying to trick him.
Religion is very brainwashing and must be guarded against.
If he really wants to be his own master, wouldn't it be okay if he doesn't join any church?
"An...Anton?" The middle-aged man was covered in cold sweat and tried to slow down his voice, "No...friend, put down the knife in your hand. We have the same belief, don't we? You are also here for Joshua, right?"
Right? We can discuss it. If one party withdraws, it will all be for Satan anyway..."
Joshua looked at the middle-aged man with a sarcastic look. At the same time, he felt frightened and lowered his head.
He could clearly see that what was at the man's throat was not a knife, but a claw.
The claws that grow out of the fingers like fingernails are sharp and sharp, nearly 10 centimeters long, and there is no trace of forgery.
At least when people look at it, they will think it is a sharp claw...
The man was still chattering, "By the way, I have a lot of church funds and beautiful believers. If you like..."
"It's so noisy."
Chi Feichi swiped his hand hard on the man's neck, bringing up a cloud of blood.
The man clearly felt the feeling of his skin being cut. He looked at the blood splashing in front of his eyes in horror. He wanted to scream but couldn't make a sound, so he covered the wound on his neck with both hands.
As he crashed to the ground, he finally saw the sharp claws on the hand protruding from under the black robe, his expression frozen in fear.
Chi Feichi stared at the man who was no longer moving and frowned.
Is your evil spirit a bit strong recently?
After leaving Conan, he seems to have let himself go a little bit, and feels more and more deviated from Guang Weizheng's friends.
Joshua was still kneeling on the ground, looking at the man who fell to the ground. He swallowed nervously and quietly raised his eyes. He saw that the sharp nails on that hand were slowly retracting and became like normal people's nails. He quickly raised his eyebrows.
He lowered his head in cold sweat.
Sure enough, he was right. Those sharp claws were not props, they were not something humans should have in the first place!
However, that hand looked familiar.
He seems to have seen it, just recently...
Slender and strong, with well-defined joints, and very white, like the best work of art. At first glance, people feel that this is the body of an aristocratic gentleman who has been pampered since childhood...
"You..." Joshua suddenly thought of someone and looked up at the figure standing in the middle of the door pattern, "You are Chi... Chi..."
Chi Feichi was silent for a moment, stepped forward, and asked calmly, without covering up his hoarse voice, "How did you find out?"
There was no need to hide it, Joshua did recognize him.
Joshua was nervous. When he noticed Chi Feichi approaching, he felt as if his whole body was shrouded in invisible pressure. However, as Chi Feichi approached, he raised his head and saw clearly the figure under the brim of the black robe.
With his purple eyes hidden in the dim light, he swallowed, "I, I have liked observing other people's hands since I was a child, because I think hands are a symbol of human dexterity and the most perfect tool."
Chi Feichi stretched out his left hand and looked at it. There seemed to be no special traces that could be remembered, "Do you remember everyone's hands?"
"No, it's because it hasn't been long since we met, so I remember," Joshua lowered his head, his expression becoming painful, "It's also because that was my last baptism, and after that, everything became
It’s different, I shouldn’t have done that baptism, I shouldn’t have baptized the devil’s child in the church..."
"Didn't God say that he can redeem everything?" Chi Feichi crouched down and looked at Joshua, word by word, like a tempting and depraved devil, "Noah is my godson, without my blood, if
I am guilty. He should redeem Noah. You are his loyal believer and have kept the commandments throughout your life. You baptized Noah without knowing it and were willing to repent. He should also choose to forgive you. In fact, he
I didn’t redeem Noah, and I gave up on you.”
He is not disgusted with Christianity. Christianity has the idea of "love God, love others, and love yourself." It opposes infanticide and abandoned infants, abolishes slavery, is passionate about charity, and has made many contributions to human civilization.
Many religions teach people to be good and have a lot of good moral guidance. What they hate are just some bad things.
For example, Christianity denies other religions and says that children are sinful when they are born, just because a woman stole an apple many years ago. If you are not baptized, you are sinful. Once you are baptized, your sins are forgiven, and then you have to believe in him for the rest of your life.
For example, Buddhism requires people to cut off everything and devote themselves wholeheartedly, leaving behind their wives, children, and children. He feels that this violates a man's responsibility, and even his responsibility as a human being.
If I have to say, he still prefers Taoism.
Of course, whether you like it or not has nothing to do with it now.
If profit represents the devil, then he now represents the devil, so what?
It seems that Joshua has not completely given up his original beliefs. He wants Joshua to abandon all of them so that he can better...acquire land for Feimo.
Joshua was full of contradictions.
That’s right, shouldn’t God redeem that child?
Why did you do nothing and give up on him?
Or...is this a test from God?
"Even if I don't like your god's teachings, I am still willing to step there for Noah," Chi Feichi stood up, "Father, please tell me the content of the third chapter of Genesis."
Joshua was stunned for a moment and didn’t understand why Chi Feichi told him this. He thought about it and recited without thinking, “Of all the creatures of the Lord God, the snake is more cunning than any living creature in the field…”
Feichi couldn't help but ask, "Who wrote this book? Did the snake provoke him?"