"Let me introduce to you, what is her name? She is one of the first believers of Crow God. I took it with me when I set off. The main task here is what." Lilina pointed at the catwoman who was already at a loss, happily introduced.
The petite girl standing in front of us nervously (only about 1.4 meters tall, and she is still an adult, so to say she is petite is quite a euphemism) immediately bowed to everyone clumsily, and then hurriedly changed her movements, trying to raise her hand. She saluted, looking clumsy, as if she hadn't figured out the common etiquette to communicate with people, and finally I heard a barely audible voice squeezed out of the other party's mouth: "You... Hello, my name is Rabbi , don’t call it that…”
"Oh, so your name is Rabbi, I forgot," Lilina scratched her hair, showing no sincerity, then took out a handful of cheap souvenirs and stuffed them into the other party's hand, "These are for you on the way I bought it, keep it for playing, remember to take it back and share it with other people."
"Thank you... thank you Lilina-sama, um, I need to clean up the room... well, these people are..." The cat girl named Rabbi struggled to grab a lot of messy bits and pieces, and looked at us cautiously, as if not Dare to speak directly to a stranger, then hooked her head to look at Lilina, Lilina immediately jumped up and grabbed my arm, and happily introduced: "This is my boss! I was raised by him, and Crow God was also raised by him." Yes—by the way, he should be the king of the gods..."
"Eh... eh?" The cat girl gave me a dull look. But what surprised me was that she didn't express any more surprises. Then Lilina introduced us all, but her introduction method was really messed up:
"This is sister Qianqian, the queen of God. This is 123, shiny, this is Lin, very strong, this is a doll. It is a doll, this is Saeko, the rice balls are delicious, this is Monina, who can fry more than two thousand dishes, this is Ji Xingshan... "
Lilina talked about it in a circle, some of them said nicknames. Some talk about specialties, some talk about status. The mess completely stunned the cat girl who seemed to be out of her mind. The other party could only keep giggling, showing eight teeth to everyone. I couldn't help but tugged Lilina: "You usually introduce people like this? Is it different from not saying anything?"
Lilina waved her hand: "It's okay, anyway, she definitely can't remember anyone's name, let her feel a little familiar and you're done."
Lilina was right. After some introductions, the cat girl named Rabbi really didn't remember anyone, not even the best and most distinctive Mr. "Bling 123". She looked at us with a flushed face, and called "that and that" for a long time without saying a name. In the end, he scratched his hair in trouble: "I'll go and clean up everyone's room... Ah, Lord Priest. You don't need to come..."
Vanilla wanted to go to help, but the rabbi immediately waved his hands in panic, and almost jumped and ran to the room. I keenly caught a word: just now the rabbi called Vanilla "Master Officiant". I glanced at Lilina and said with a smile: "Have you really started the religious business?"
"Of course, if you're not idle, you should be idle, occasionally helping others, and then in the name of the Crow God. It's much easier to preach in this world than in those worlds where religions are solidified," Lilina said, looking for nuts in her sister's pocket. The little crow glanced at it, and suddenly looked a little depressed, "Ah, it's so contradictory, such a unique environment, it's a pity to let the bird take over first, my lord goddess, your followers are incompetent..."
A group of people invariably looked at this girl with contemptuous eyes. Lilina has been passionately helping other gods to preach for so many days, and it is only now that she pitifully expresses that she has discredited her own god, which is as bad as Jesus holding a rosary and spreading the teachings of Allah everywhere. . If the ethics of throwing away this product can be burned, at least half of Southeast Asia's thermal power generation problem can be solved.
I looked down at the pocket on my chest, but it's a pity that I can't pinch the jingle out so that I can have fun complaining about Lilina. This little thing hasn't reversed the jet lag yet, and fell asleep again in a daze after eating at noon.
We first followed Lilina to the lounge. The lounge is the largest room on this floor. There are soft couches and low tables in the room. It looks like a place for lazy people to relax, chat and fart. Of course This is for us: For experts who really come to the Secret Law Association to do academic research, this should be a place where they gather to discuss issues, but it immediately transformed into a paradise for playing cards and chatting in the hands of our family. After throwing myself on the kind of soft couch that was lower than the bed and higher than the floor, I stretched comfortably, and the mercury lamp tried to bounce on my stomach a few times, but my sister grabbed me aside. I looked at Lilina who was stuffing snacks into her mouth, and felt that it was time to understand their movements for so many days, so I started with the strange girl: "What's the matter with the girl with cat ears?"
Lilina's ears trembled slightly, and she approached with a smirk: "Boss is interested in Beast Ear Girl? Don't you already have a fox dog at home? Lan is already very attached to you, so I don't feel a sense of accomplishment, so I decided to buy it next time." a cat… "
"If you don't want to sleep in a basket tonight, just be obedient!"
"...Actually, we met her on the first day we came here." Lilina immediately calmed down, "When we teleported here, we landed in the barbaric area far to the south—that is, the meaning of the three-way zone, that cat I don’t know where she came from wandering around, her combat power is about 5, of course she can’t get along in the three-way zone, so she intends to steal things for a living, but as you can see, she really doesn’t look like this—let’s go to town When she went online to collect information, she was being beaten so badly that she was almost dying, so I rescued her by the way.
Then I found that the local situation was really chaotic. That place was a mine a long time ago, producing a kind of crystal sand that can be used to process 'glass', so the town gradually gathered, but later the crystal sand was dug out, and the mine was gone. Just go to waste. Now the only pillar of survival there is a little bit of crystal sand left in the surrounding fields and mines. The only people left there are poor peasants, thieves, bankrupts, and those fleeing famine. Basically, this is the kind of people, and many of them are in the situation. They are all like that cat, without the ability to survive. There is no money to go to other places, and it is difficult to survive locally. We first found a huge tiankeng in the deepest part of the mine that ordinary people dare not approach. The tiankeng was destroyed when the crystal sand was excavated and the mountain structure collapsed. Pack and sell—"
Lilina's way of preaching is actually quite simple. Although she looks like a dark-bellied and curious black loli, deep down she knows how to give the right people the right help. So that the other party will follow his will with all his heart. In her eyes, those who have suffered the most are the best reserve members of the church. These people have become penniless and homeless. A piece of bread can be used as a life-saving grace. As long as they can eat enough, they are willing to follow anyone. Of course, the loyalty of followers in exchange for this kind of food cannot be guaranteed, but as long as they can temporarily listen to themselves, Lilina It is not difficult to turn these people into religious backbones.
She leads Vanilla and the newly rescued catgirl (sister and little crow stay in the mine to look after the house, according to Lilina. God has to keep it mysterious: although I never see her keep Jingle a mystery) When he arrived in the town, he did not reveal any identity of himself. Not to mention the matter of the Crow God, the first thing they did was the simplest: distribute food.
And in an earth-shattering way: summon a giant tree on the large open space in the center of the town (formerly the town's assembly square). The giant tree grew up in thirty minutes, made a thunderous sound, and attracted almost the whole town (almost because there are four deaf people in the town), and the branches of the giant tree were so low that ordinary people stood up. As high as you can reach, the huge canopy covers the entire square, and the low-hanging branches are full of steak-flavored hamburgers, chicken-flavored bread, pineapple-flavored apples, orange-flavored bananas, and ribs-flavored chicken legs— In short, no one cares about the details. This is a mythical and legendary tree that bears bread on its branches and feeds the poor: Lilina stole the idea of Jesus without hesitation.
And the trunk of the giant tree split twelve neat openings, from which mellow cola and sprite poured out...
"Actually, there is another version of the holy tree," Lilina pointed her fingers and introduced to me. "I used it when I was preaching on the planet Ganglanier. Spicy soup and pearl fruit milk tea will flow out of the tree trunk, but That kind of seed is used up, and the races in the World Tree Temple are all the Coke Sprite version. Well, they are all the same in use anyway, and people in this world don’t know Coke and Sprite. I later explained to them that the thing is a god. The wine of the gods, the banquet prepared by the gods for mortals must have the wine of the gods..." I was dumbfounded when I heard it: "... this is okay!?"
I was about to throw this girl into the basket, when I saw the group of five protoss people around me nodding thoughtfully...
What Lilina did was so in her style. She was using the power of the Goddess of Life to act as a miracle for the Crow God, and she did it without any psychological pressure. How much of a stir can a giant tree like this cause? Of course, it goes without saying that even in the 21st century, if there is a tree with a big bowl of beef ramen hanging on it, I think it will cause a global sensation. Of course, the key problem here is that this tree has become However, after doing all this, Lilina and Vanilla, who had attracted great attention, did not explain anything. They pointed to the fruit on the tree and signaled that the hungry people in the square could take it at will , and then turned and disappeared into the air.
The next day, they purified all the water sources and brought fresh water to three long-dried wells.
On the third day, they cured everyone in the town, including the deaf and blind.
On the fourth day, they summoned a miracle of life, which made the originally barren land around the town fertile and fertile in an instant. Every piece of farmland that could barely make ends meet was full of crops and matured within a day. Apart from the giant tree, the town finally had a real food reserve.
On the fifth day, they planted a huge black feather like a banner in front of the giant tree in the center of the square, so the whole town began to be enveloped by a shield with steel-like strength, and the shield began to judge the actions of the people in the town. All the violent incidents came to an abrupt end, and the hungry beasts that used to rush from the direction of the wilderness to attack people and livestock tried to plunder the livestock again that night. They were all killed outside the town by this powerful shield.
On the sixth day, Lilina, Vanilla, and Silly Bird thought about it together, and finally couldn't figure out what else to worry about, so they finally started preaching. That's right, the reason why the "five-day redemption" miracle in "Ten Miracles of the Crow God" took five days is mainly because God failed to move on the sixth day... In fact, Lilina's plan at the beginning was to toss for seven days just like Genesis Yes, but after thinking about it for a long time, she finally gave up the plan of summoning 70 or 80 giant dragons to attack the city and lead the vanilla to slay the dragon by herself: she was afraid that I would beat her up if I found out.
"Is that how you sell the silly bird?" I looked at Lilina with a bit of a dumbfounded look, and I knew she was preaching before. But I haven't been in touch with the details of her missionary work. It turns out... So that's how the missionary work came about? It feels like something like that.
"Of course, these are all skills summed up from experience," Lilina said with a smug face, "Actually, I deliberately suppressed the spread of information. If it doesn't cause too much noise, there will still be troubles. Proselytizing is a waste of money. Brain work. If it is too slow, it will easily fall off the list. If it is too hasty, it will easily make people tied to the firewood pile. Although I am not afraid of firewood piles. But it is not good to make the Crow God Sect too aggressive in the early stage. Now the bird Believers... Let’s call them believers for the time being. After all, we don’t even have an organization. We haven’t concluded the first version of the charter yet. This matter needs to be done by Vanilla, so it won’t be soon. Now the believers of Xiaoniao are still concentrated in the southern mining area, It has spread to several small towns, and the missionary work is to lay a good foundation. Then fanatical believers will naturally spread it from ten to ten, and this is the difference between True God Sect and a cult: we have real materials.”
I turned my head and looked at Mai Diwen who was sitting next to me. The little crow, who is still a little clueless about the world, is concentrating on a box of canned dried fruit brought by Qianqian, trying to unscrew the lid on the can with her inflexible hands: until finally, she accidentally crushed the whole can. Noticed that someone was looking at him. The little crow turned his head immediately, looked at me with those red eyes that were floating with a strange light, and said happily: "Gah!"
I pressed the little crow's head and said solemnly: "First, you have to get used to greeting others in human language, and second, even if you are not used to greeting people in human language, remember that you are a crow, not a duck... "
The little crow nodded happily: "Gah!"
I sighed and looked at Lilina: "By the way, how far do you plan to do this work? When the little crows are here with believers all over the world? This is not something that will happen in a short while."
"Of course not." Lilina waved her hand immediately, and then pulled Vanilla, who was wandering away, "First of all, this job will eventually be handed over to Vanilla. Although she is a bit slow, I think she is quite capable." Talented, now she is the chief priest of Crow God, not me. In addition, as long as we leave some miracles in a world, and leave one or two things of the bird to provide contact, we can go back to Shadow City to remotely control the progress here Yes, I'm thinking about whether I can train some assistant officiant or something, but to be honest, it's quite difficult. Although the town in the south can find a few good people, it's a pity that it can't find a few well-informed strong people. They are ordinary people who have been digging sand in the mine all their lives, otherwise they would not have been able to go to other cities when the mine collapsed. Hey, hey, think about the long-term plan... "
"Have you made any progress in your research?" I took out a handful of peanuts to tease the silly bird, and said casually, "As for this guy's divine power, can those believers obtain the power of the silly bird through prayer or other means?" ?”
"Should... yes, according to my observations," Lilina scratched her hair, and seemed a little uncertain, "After all, the Xiling god system is different from the two existing gods, and it is still in its infancy. My experience is a little behind the phenomenon. In short, the followers of the Crow God do have the phenomenon of gaining power or blessings. You have seen the cat named Rabbi, she was the first group of people to follow the Crow God. Not long, about seven or eight days, I have been letting her get in touch with the bird as much as possible, including praying, taking care of the daily life, eating and sleeping together, etc. In other words, in order to let them get in touch earlier, I also let the two of them together After taking a bath, six or seven times a day, the cat has developed a fear of hydrophobia: although cats don’t like water in the first place.”
I gave Lilina a blank look, and thought that this girl would not plan to run the Crow God Sect as a bathhouse...
"Now that cat is much stronger than before. You can't imagine what she looked like at the beginning: thin enough to get out of the window. Now she can kill seven or eight fully armed orc soldiers by herself—if that cat If the cat is not frightened and crying, this change is caused by the power of the Crow God, but I am not sure whether it is because of prayer or because of living together all day, there may be two reasons. In addition, there are two other cats in the town Believers who know a little bit of magic seem to have established a connection with Xiaoniao after devoting themselves to praying. One of them inadvertently touched the doorway of shadow magic: There is no shadow magic in this world, so the power of that believer is definitely borrowed from Xiaoniao. Yes. The other one didn't master the new magic, but his existing strength has been greatly improved. He was just a charlatan who could fool the common people in the fields, but now he went to a nearby big town to get a professional qualification test for a mage. He was confused three days ago. A self-examined second-level mage came back..."
Me: "..." Can someone explain to me what kind of weird self-examination second-level mage is!
"In short, mortals can really gain some power by praying to the Crow God with great concentration and strengthening their relationship with the Crow God in their hearts," Lilina concluded in the end, "but this process is extremely unstable, and some people become Physically strong, some people become more magical, some people simply gain the knowledge of another world, and even some people suddenly master the technique of talking while eating and drinking... Don't laugh, it's true , I'm worrying about this right now - the bird's power endowment is messy, you can't help but say that this is the quality of God, but... have you ever heard of the God of the Grocery Store?" (To be continued) RQ