Casper City.
On the ruins of the original city, a brand new Church of the God of Salvation was built.
Because of the earliest preparations, many of the original ordinary believers survived the big crisis. At this time, with the help of the stored materials, they took the lead in completing the work of coming to the ground.
At this time, a large number of people gathered in the church, led by a priest in white robes, prayed to the statue of the God of Salvation: "God, omnipotent... I am guilty! We are all sinners, that's why Must suffer in the world!"
Wu Ming performed miracles to relocate believers, of course not treating them equally. Basically, fanatics and true believers must migrate to the space of the Lord God, but the largest number of general believers only opened the underground refuge prepared by the Church of Redemption for them. Let them take refuge.
And these general believers have doubts about the God of Salvation. Even if Wu Ming said that he would send them into the kingdom of God, most of them just didn't believe it, and they were punished at this time.
When they first went out to explore and saw the devastated world, they almost collapsed, and immediately there was intense annoyance and remorse.
They regretted that they did not follow in the footsteps of the God of Salvation and went to the legendary kingdom of God, and now they were really going to suffer in the hellish world.
Under this state of mind, their beliefs became strangely more pious, and a priest who failed the assessment and was dismissed was promoted to the position of priest and led them to pray.
Under the whims of a group of people, they even came up with the theory of "original sin". Even Wu Ming couldn't laugh or cry when he saw it.
"O omnipotent God of redemption, you hold the authority of redemption, the kingdom of God is the destination of believers' souls!"
"Believers who follow your footsteps will become holy, follow you to the kingdom of God, and get rid of hunger, disease, pain... and obtain eternal happiness!"
According to the legend, after the supernatural Pope Steven performed a miracle and moved some believers into the Kingdom of God, he and a group of high-level church leaders mysteriously disappeared.
At that time, although several senior priests expressed their willingness to stay and shepherd the "lost lambs" for the God of Salvation, Wu Ming refused without hesitation for their safety.
After all, the power of faith provided by ten general believers is not as good as one true believer.
It's just that in this way, these people who were 'abandoned' naturally developed resentment, and it was very normal for them to want to start anew.
Of course, they did not dare to deviate from their belief in the God of Salvation because of miracles, but the Pope's approach was modified a lot by them.
One of the most important theoretical weapons is the 'theory of original sin'.
In the new doctrine, people are born with sins, so they must suffer in this nuclear wasteland, but if they are extremely devout to the God of Salvation, the soul after death can ascend to the kingdom of God, and the saints He will ride Noah's Ark, sanctify his body, and go to the kingdom of God with his family.
—No way, Wu Ming’s influence on the Church of Redemption is too profound. Later generations can’t overthrow his theory and start again. They can only make supplements to the original teachings and mix in as much sand as possible.
But Wu Ming's attitude towards this is indifferent.
Anyway, the essence of the church has already been moved into the space of the main god by him, so there is no need to worry about how noisy the believers outside are.
Moreover, as long as the belief in the God of Salvation remains unchanged, they will still provide themselves with spiritual power. Perhaps because of the arrival of the end of the world, the quality and quantity have increased far.
"My God, may your way be on earth as it is in heaven!"
At the end, self-proclaimed priest Jay reverently closed the service.
"very good!"
Feeling the power coming from the void, several rune seeds formed in his body. These are regular daily magic spells. As long as the priest prays, they will be obtained immediately. Jay nodded in satisfaction: "I got it The power of my God! Now that the Pope is not here, as the only pastor, I am the regional bishop of Casper!"
Although I have long been prepared to do another set, the technique is still very important.
Jay has huge ambitions, and of course he won't be so stupid as to overthrow all his predecessor's practices and ruin his own foundation.
"My lord is indeed a true god! Such disasters can't affect him at all!"
The people next to him immediately beamed with joy: "Pastor Jay, have you obtained the divine spell?"
"good!"
Jay raised his hand slightly, and a light spell was cast, filling him with a mysterious and majestic aura.
At this time, he even felt that he not only possessed the necessary low-level priest magics such as light spell and holy temperament, but also could cast intermediate magic spells such as healing minor injuries and group heroism.
This kind of charism, even according to the standards of the previous church, has reached the rank of a mid-level pastor, and can be released as a regional bishop.
'If... I had such piety at the time, I'm afraid I wouldn't have lost the priesthood! '
Jay sighed slightly in his heart.
In the past, he was just a well-disguised general believer, so he couldn't hide it from the true God in the priest assessment.
But now, he truly believed in the God of Salvation, and his mentality immediately changed.
'My God, I am a sinner and should not question your authority! You are the only true God, the only savior in the world! '
Jay said silently in his heart that if he wants to deceive others, he must deceive himself, and he has almost been brainwashed by his own methods now.
Even so, his idea of usurping the supreme power of the secular church has not changed at all.
After all, the true God is the true God, and the world is the world!
Pope Steven's practice of leaving ordinary believers at a time of world crisis must have been rejected by the gods! The divine grace and divine art that I have obtained are proof of this!
Jay has always believed in this point.
"See Your Excellency Bishop!"
The remaining pan-believers leaders looked at each other and immediately bowed to salute.
After simple exploration, they also know that the current world is not optimistic. Not only is the environment harsh, but it is also full of dangers.
Under such circumstances, without the magic of the priest, nothing can be done.
And Jay has all the abilities and means, and now he has been recognized by the God of Salvation, so he should become the regional bishop.
"Very good! You go out later and inform the believers of this news!"
Jay was slightly excited: "Roland, how is the investigation on the city reserve going?"
"Most of the entire city of Casper has been destroyed, and there are ruins and dead bodies everywhere. It must be cleaned up and buried as soon as possible, otherwise I am worried that it will cause a plague!"
Roland is not a believer in the God of Salvation, but the helm of a large family in Casper City. On the day of the disaster, he brought the whole family with him, and because he donated a lot to the Church of Redemption, he got the chance to enter the refuge. survived.
Of course, he immediately asked Jay to baptize him and converted to the God of Salvation.
"That is to say, most of the buildings are uninhabitable?"
Jay frowned: "How about the food?"
"That's another problem we have to face!"
A bearded man next to him said that his voice was high-pitched, almost like thunder, and the eardrums of the people around him were buzzing.
"The food reserves in the shelter have been exhausted, and I have also seen some supplies in the city, most of them are rotten, some of them are too high in radiation, and the measuring instruments exploded. We dare not use them at will. The only All we found were some wheat and canned food, probably enough to keep the believers in our entire shelter alive for half a year!"
"Half a year?"
Jay frowned even deeper.
Although this period of time is very long, looking at the large areas of dead forest vegetation, one knows that whether the current land can grow food is a huge problem.
Once the follow-up cannot keep up, **** is enough to destroy this small survivor camp.
"Have you searched for all the big warehouses in the city?"
He looked at the bearded man: "I remember that there should be a lot of warehouses and military supplies in the military area outside. After a while, the paladins of the church will be re-established. Let's go there and have a look!"
"A military warehouse?"
Several senior executives looked at each other, and they all discovered each other's greed.
Of course, what they are looking at is not only food and other supplies, but also arms.
Now the whole world has undoubtedly been reshuffled. Although there are still many survivors, those who have power will definitely be able to gain the most right to speak.
They who have never had contact with the outside world naturally do not know the existence of the Hermit Society, and the other party obviously does not have the manpower and material resources to search city by city.
If you stand from the perspective of God, you can see light spots like fireflies flickering on a dark land. Those are where the survivor camps are located, but they are separated from each other and it is difficult to connect.
The probability of Scherfer's encounter in Dole City is actually very small.
…
"Um?"
What happened here can't be concealed from Wu Ming.
If Jay knew that the God of Salvation he was serving wholeheartedly and believed in unreservedly was actually Pope Steven himself, he didn't know what kind of broken expression he would have.
"Unexpectedly... those abandoned people can still have such a performance, but yes, people are fickle. After such a big change, even if they have no faith, they will become devout..."
Through the temple and the statue, Wu Ming's gaze instantly came to Kasper City, the square where the temple was newly built.
"In the name of God, Jay became a pastor and received divine grace. He is the district bishop!"
Under the black box operation of a group of people, Jay put on a white robe and a crown, and accepted the congratulations and cheers of the believers, but in fact, this standard etiquette has far exceeded the duty of the regional bishop.
Secretly, a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy watched this scene and gritted his teeth with hatred: "The teachings and blessings of the gods are definitely not like this. These are a group of hypocrites, devils who have sneaked in!"
This scene naturally fell in Wu Ming's eyes, and he couldn't help saying in an indifferent voice: "Idiots, who want to change the teachings and fight for power, don't know that new seeds of anxiety have been planted..."