In the Azure Star, the portal of the God of War Cathedral in the capital has been opened, and now the Ding Dong five are saying goodbye to the "children". Monina and Eva muttered and chatted for a while, and in the end it seemed that they wanted to leave some parting gift, so they reached into their bosom for a long time and took out a small pendant: "By the way, Eva, here is Keep this as a souvenir, you may not know when you will come back next time.”
Immediately, Eva showed a look of surprise, and carefully took the ordinary-looking pendant, holding it in front of her chest as if holding a rare treasure: "Mr. Goddess, thank you for your gift, I will definitely cherish it..."
Lei's beard trembled with excitement: "Oh, today is such a glorious day, the church has another epic sacred object!"
Undoubtedly, even though the pendant was taken out by Monina at random, Lei had already made up his mind to offer it as a holy object of the church, and sooner or later, the pendant strung with cotton thread would be taken out by Azure Believers of the star respectfully place it in the hall of the church to accept the worship of all peoples, and the four characters "Glass Fifth Factory" on the base of the pendant will shine brightly in the sunshine of the blue star.
I've been with the Protoss Tiaozi Five for a long time, and I'm not surprised by this kind of thing. Religion is such a strange thing. On the time axis, it has an unreasonable amplification effect. Ridiculous beginning, after time and faith magnification, it will always become weird and weird, just like the pile of broken copper and iron dug out from Europe in the past few days when the little crow ate his stomach, and now it has become the town of the Crow God Sect. The Holy Relics of the Church, it is said that only those who are at the level of the Knight Commander of the Church are qualified to use them when exterminating demons, but in reality? Before the little crow used those scraps of copper to grind its beak and shell, those few swords were sold in the market by the catty.
Monina's act of leaving a souvenir for Eva immediately reminded Ilsen and the others. Several unscrupulous gods began to toss about on their bodies. It seemed that they all wanted to leave something, and Ilsen said while digging out He said: "Wait a minute, I have something good here—or Monina is smart, she just thinks carefully, and she has to leave something after she finally came here. By the way, I found it!"
In the end, Ilsen took out a keychain, Lin took off the bracelet on her wrist, and Uncle Kenser took out a blank daily diary from his pocket (probably he was going to keep it for keeping accounts when he was shopping for groceries?) Well, the three gods stuffed all these things to Eva: they knew that no matter who they gave these gifts to, they would definitely be regarded as sacred objects of the church in the end, so it would be more convenient to give them to the saints of the church for safekeeping.
According to my observation, the original source of these sacred objects that will be worshiped by all peoples should be the Yiwu Small Commodity Wholesale Market. That is to say, to a certain extent, the Yiwu Small Commodity Wholesale Market has stepped on the long march of human beings to conquer other worlds. Take a solid first step...
Several religious leaders present hurriedly accepted these "God-given items", all smiling as if they were celebrating a festival. I really want to tell them that these things can be sold in containers in a place called Yiwu, but I want to After thinking about it, I still didn’t say: the people of Azure Star are not fools, they probably can see what these gifts are in essence at a glance, but this does not stop them from worshiping a bunch of glass beads and small books as holy objects, This is religion, Chiguoguo's religion, what they worship is not material, but the idols behind the material. I thought again of Ilson's argument that "an artifact is an artifact because it is used by a god", and said that is indeed an irrefutable truth. Speak with facts: Isn’t Longinus just a wooden stick with an iron point
In the end, all eyes were on my shoulder, where there was a guy who was one of the five main gods of the Azure Star: Ding Dong. This little thing kept blinking curious eyes and looking at everything in front of her. She flicked her little feet back and forth in mid-air until all four of her team members turned their gazes over. Then she belatedly pointed to the tip of her nose: " Ah, Ding Dong also wants to prepare a gift?"
Bingtis snorted next to him: "Nonsense, it's hard to come here, and don't leave anything for the children before leaving? How can you be a god?"
"Oh." Dingdang nodded, and then showed an extremely tangled and painful appearance. It seemed that after making a lot of determination, he picked it up from the portable space, and after a while, he took out a lollipop as everyone expected: This is the best thing for her.
"Well—" Ding Dang held the lollipop and continued to struggle, continue to suffer, and continued to hesitate, and finally withdrew his hand quickly, peeled off the candy wrapper, opened his mouth to bite off a piece, and then handed the lollipop that was missing a piece to Eva, "Here, this is the best thing about Jingle..."
Lei was dumbfounded for the first time, and stayed for a long time: "Goddess... this... this is not easy to let go..."
The gift given by God is to be stored in a holy place as a holy object, how to store a lollipop? If you can't make it through the first summer, it should melt. As soon as I explained it to Ding Dong, the little thing burst into smiles, "crunched" the candy ball in front of everyone, and handed the remaining candy stick to Eva, saying vaguely: "Hey (to) !"
Everyone: "..."
Following Ilson's scratching, the church's relic collection has been refreshed again!
In the end, Joe, Ray, and Eva were all driven away by Ilson. Apart from us, there was only one old man who was too old to look good in the church. He was the Pope. Spokesperson of the world. Different from Lilina, who is a complete upstart and golden rookie king, this is an old man who has been working for his god for two hundred years. Obviously, Ilsen attaches great importance to this old man, so he allows him to stay at the end and is responsible for After the teleportation gate is closed for a while, the altar will be sorted out.
In front of the God of War statue, Ilsen patted the shoulder of Mr. Mu, who was over two hundred years old. Although from the outside, the latter was so old that he could be Ilsen's great-grandfather, but in essence, Ilsen is really explaining to a child: "Then I will go back first, there are still many devastated worlds waiting for me to save..."
We have already endured a great torment of conscience by holding back and not dismantling the stage.
"Lord, will you return to this world?" Mu, a two-hundred-year-old fierce man who can rush all the way from the Fourth Ring Road to the city center, now lowers his head and shrinks his neck, like someone who is looking forward to but is afraid of being disappointed. child. He is the most respected Pope of the Blue Star, but in front of the God of War, he is still the wild boy who fought in the God-welcoming team in front of the temple two hundred years ago and crashed into the throne of the gods. The God of War is eternal, no matter how long the years are After that, the God of War was still the heroic God of War, but the wild boy who was forgiven by the god himself was very old, and the years turned everything upside down after the two meetings. I couldn't help but have such a strange feeling in my heart, so even though Ilson's unreliable image was deeply ingrained in my heart, I still insisted on not complaining about 123: at the same time, I continued to suffer from huge conscience.
"Maybe he will come back, but I'm afraid it will be many years later. God will not interfere too much with the secular world, especially in this world," Irson said lightly, implying that Mu's lifespan as a mortal may be waiting for him. It was not that day, so the old man lowered his head in disappointment, but Ilsen seemed to hesitate again, and decided to tell the old man something, "Do you still remember the words in the dogma
——Practice education, practice with the body, temper the soul, and then the body can be sublimated and surpass the ordinary. Mu, you have been doing well for two hundred years. In the next few years, you have to complete the last period of work and do your own thing well. After the mission is completed, come to my country. There will be There is your place. "As soon as the voice fell, I heard Ilsen's yelling on the spiritual connection public channel: "Oh, I'm sorry, I couldn't help but tell this kid in advance. I originally wanted to surprise him after he died. Go! "
Me: "..." Can I trouble you not to make the sacred thing of being summoned by the Lord to be promoted to the Kingdom of God as vulgar as a second-level salary increase
I don't know if it's because I'm too old or what my master said was too unexpected. Mu was stunned for five or six seconds before he realized it, and then he was so excited that he sifted through the chaff. Ilson was still regretting himself Why is your mouth so loose? Upon seeing this, he decisively waved his hand to interrupt what Mr. Mu was going to say next, and looked directly into the other person's eyes: "Remember the words in the Bible, you will usher in not only sublimation, but also greater And you will not only be responsible for one race, you will even be responsible for more worlds and countless lives. You haven’t even touched the starting point yet, you know, go back and work hard.”
"Yes, yes." Mu Lian nodded repeatedly, and Ilsen showed a satisfied smile beside him. This scene reminded me of how I listened to my sister and decided to study hard on the first day of elementary school, but the old man in front of me is much more disciplined than I was back then...
After leaving the Azure Star, everyone else went home directly, but Sandora and I had to divert to another place.
The universe where the Fourth Fleet is located, the capital star Kerudak. Sandora and I came to this planet again with a few administrative experts and command officers who came from Shadow City.
I really didn't expect that when I set off from Kerudak, I thought it was just a quick and convenient void trip, just like going out to get soy sauce. The council was still waiting for us to come back to welcome our old friends. Sandora and I went there for so many days, and there were so many twists and turns in the middle: Maybe I am really a man with a halo, and it may be a passive skill to be troubled by me.
This time when I came to Kerudak, there was a very obvious difference from the last time, the most notable being "friendliness". The last time we came here, we were interviewed almost secretly by the parliament. The ordinary people of Kerudak didn’t even know that the Imperials had come to their planet at first, and among the senior officials of the Fourth Fleet, they had great feelings for us. There are many people who are vigilant. But this time, Sandora and I received a formal welcome: the full acceptance of the Parliament and the Fourth Fleet Senior Executive Group is one aspect, and more importantly, they are no longer worried about the imperial army appearing in their capital The public turmoil that may be caused on the planet—at least the benign development of the general environment is obvious to all.
The royal shuttle that Sandora and I took was escorted by several small frigates directly to the front of the parliament building. Due to the special nature of the Toberlu-style architecture, the temporary parking lot in front of the parliament building is a parallel to the waist of the building. The half-moon-shaped platform relies on anti-gravity technology to suspend in the air. On both sides of the berth were officials from the Fourth Fleet who came to greet them and some people who seemed to be representatives of the public: they did not wear any kind of uniform, and I can only guess that they were representatives of some civil organizations. On the outside of the anti-gravity platform, there are projected subtitles welcoming me and Sandora. These subtitles face all directions and can be seen on the top of any tower ball building around the parliament building. Compared with the activities in other worlds that I was dragged to attend, this kind of welcoming scene can be said to be very inconspicuous in terms of scale, but as long as you think about it, it is the kind response made by those exiles to us back then, even if it is so low-key. The welcome is also unavoidably moving.
"It's not easy." As the shuttle slowly approached the platform, I couldn't help but look at Sandora, "The welcome banners that can be publicly displayed in this line of work give me a better feeling than fighting the fallen apostles ten times in a row." Victory is hard to come by.”
"And we still have a long way to go," Sandora smiled slightly. She was in a good mood, but she was not overly optimistic because of the situation in front of her. "Look, there is a martial law area on the periphery, and there are sentries on the top of the building in the distance, and The scale and personnel composition of the reception site have obviously been carefully selected. It can only be said that the officials of the Fourth Fleet can openly contact the Empire. This is the initial stage of diplomatic normalization, but at the level of their society as a whole, it is far from reaching The situation should be improved after the Fifth Fleet completes emergency repairs and comes to this universe. Kokokina should work hard to ease the relationship between the exiles and the empire."
I also understand what Sandora said. It's just a series of things, whether it involves the fallen apostles or the bottom of the abyss. It's getting stronger and stronger, it always makes me feel that time is not enough, and I wish that everything can be done in one step, but every thing I face takes time, a lot of time, and things that can be done in one step are simply not existing.
I looked into the distance, and I could see many swaying shadows on the top of those towering tower ball buildings outside the martial law area. They should be the civilians of the Fourth Fleet, although most of them had never been there a year ago. They have seen imperial battleships, but they were born and raised in the shadow of the "Empire Slayer". They crossed the martial law zone and looked in this direction curiously, seeing what the imperial warship that had cast a shadow over countless generations looked like.
At this moment, Sandora squeezed my hand lightly, indicating that the shuttle had already docked.
On the mooring platform, accompanied by several senior officials, a translucent female figure greeted her. It was the supreme ruler of the Fourth Fleet, the Yunad Council. She used the peculiar etiquette unique to the Naders to welcome me and Sandora and the imperial people behind us: "I think now the parliament can call you friends from a personal point of view."
"This is really hard-won." I laughed, and said the truth in my heart, and then cut to the point, "The Fifth Fleet is undergoing renovations in another military world. Their spaceships are not in good condition, but fortunately It was me who successfully completed the mission, all the spaceships were quite a few, and all the crew arrived safely."
The council nodded slightly: "We have already communicated with Captain Kekekina and learned about his situation. Knowing that our old friend is all right is really the best thing that has happened to us in the past tens of thousands of years."
Sandora and I came over. First of all, the two of us encountered an accident that day, and many things that had been planned before were shelved. The preparations for the reception of the Fifth Fleet and the arrangements for the Fourth Fleet were suspended because of this. Now that we are back, we have to prepare all these things with the parliament as soon as possible that day; secondly, we want to see how effective the "public opinion building" we carried out at the suggestion of my sister that day.
Well, it is certain that public opinion campaigns are indeed very effective. Since we set out to rescue the Fifth Fleet with great fanfare and high-profile propaganda, the biggest gain now is that the empire and the exiles have initially established normal official exchanges. And then the Fifth Fleet will be placed in this world, maybe we can just take this opportunity to send people to help them build colonial facilities and giant starports in the name of aid, even though Sandora and I are not directly in this universe It is planned to leave a permanent garrison, but after the "aid construction", a self-evident support relationship has actually been formed between the exiles and the empire.
More importantly, the newborn citizens of the Fourth Fleet will also get used to the life of imperial soldiers around them during this process. To change the impression of the exiles on the new empire, this habituation process is more important than anything else.
We talked a lot with the management of the Fourth Fleet in the reception hall of the parliament building. Of course, most of the time it was Sandora and those experts from various fields negotiating with each other. I basically belonged to the background , jumping between the two states of "what are you talking about?" , After all, the entire fleet was taken all the way in my "belly" at that time, and I almost used my mental power to scan every one of their spaceships.
According to the more detailed report sent by Ke Kekina, the situation of the Fifth Fleet is extremely bad. Almost none of the spaceships are intact. But now, the Fourth Fleet has not handled the matter at hand, so they have to hand over the burden of the Fifth Fleet to the Empire—so the parliament made a difficult decision:
She hopes to get a batch of colony stars that can be put into use in a short time.
Right in the arms of me and Sandora. (To be continued. RS