As the protagonist of today's special celebration ceremony, the newborn was placed in two cots made of gold, and the priests carried them to the ceremony platform, but the cots mentioned were only for the Atlanteans In terms of height ratio, at least in my eyes, those two glittering little ones are almost as big as Pandora's single bed no matter how you look at it.
The two newborns had just been placed on the rectangular platform for baptism, before the high priest had time to step forward, Lilina was the first to rush out, this little girl who suddenly became a little excited
The guy rushed to the side of the baby's crib, scratched his head and took a look inside, then let out a very abrupt exclamation, and ran back with a mournful face.
"What's wrong with Lou?"
I looked at Lilina in surprise, she was the one who was excited to hold the baby just now, why did she look so dead after taking a look at her now
As a result, Lilina looked up at me at a 45-degree angle, with tears in her eyes, and muttered aggrievedly: "Damn, you were born bigger than me, how can you hug me?"
Everyone said the same thing, and were suddenly speechless.
Only Sandora can analyze calmly: "Because they grow very fast, it is recorded in the database that the newborns of Atlantis will learn to walk independently and accept the test of the natural environment within a few days. After they were born, they almost grew up at the wind..."
Sandora was doing science popularization for us, but I found that there were two little guys beside me who also had strange faces.
Pandora and Viska clenched their fists involuntarily, and looked at the sky at a forty-five-degree angle with blank eyes, as if they had lost their goals in life. It's really difficult for me to be a big baby, Lilina is really an excellent thunder soldier, I should be glad that the ones who ran over just now were not Pandora, the little lunatic whose resentment towards height has almost broken through the sky.
Lilina also noticed the depressed expressions of the two one-meter-two soldiers, and quickly comforted her: "Don't be sad, I just saw that those two little guys are bigger than me, they seem to be a little lower than you …”
I looked at Lilina's height, well, 1.09 meters, not even 1.1 meters, then her statement is really convincing, but this little girl is also a tragedy. After decades of life, she turned out to be It's only 1.09 meters, no wonder they can share a common language with the Pandora sisters.
Viska was naturally encouraged when he heard the words, and ran over with bright eyes. What I watched behind was tears in my eyes: Has this poor little guy been reduced to finding the superiority of height from the baby
As a result, before the tears filled my eyes, Viska ran back with a sad face, hugged my thigh and rubbed it fiercely, and twitched while rubbing, "Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Or the little finger placed sideways..."
I:"… "
Luckily, Lilina came back with a double attack at this time: "Oh, if you take into account the growth speed of these two children I just felt, they will be bigger than you in another forty-eight hours... "
This girl who doesn't open the pot and lifts the pot deserves to be pinned to the ground by Pandora and Viska and beaten!
The interruption of the three little girls made the priest presiding over the ceremony very at a loss. The black-robed giant with a silver-white mask looked at this side with innocent eyes for a while, until Sandora reacted and sent them a message. After receiving the signal to continue the baptism, the priests breathed a sigh of relief, and at this time the baptism of the newborn officially began.
The first is to bathe in holy water, which is the kind of high-concentration radiation water that can turn half of Washington into a real-life reproduction of Fallout 3 within 20 minutes. Several assistant priests placed a huge egg-shaped sink in the center of the baptismal platform , I found out that this tank was remodeled with some kind of life-support cabin, and there were still various interfaces and mechanical structures on the surface. After asking, I found out that the Atlanteans used the early expedition team of the old empire to use it. The life-support capsules used to manufacture the first generation of transformed humans have been preserved, and they have been regarded as some kind of sacred object with magical power. They feel that this thing gave new life to the first artificial god of Atlantis in ancient times, so it It also has the ability to transform newborn babies.
The water tank was filled with radiant water emitting a faint blue light. The two priests picked up the newborn (by the way, this is a pair of brother and sister) from the gorgeous little breasts, and quickly recited a few prayers in mid-air Wen, then put the two children in the sink.
At this moment, I also saw those two new lives who are very special today: they are indeed bigger than Liliana.
But apart from being extremely big, they are quite similar to normal children in other respects, such as chubby limbs and wrinkled faces. Its incongruous stillness. They didn't cry or make trouble. Even though they were only seventy-two hours old after birth, they could open their unusually energetic eyes and look at everything around them alertly and full of challenges. When they were caught by the priest, both children did They made an astonishing movement, that is, they bent their arms to cover half of their faces, protecting their heads without affecting their observation of the surrounding environment.
This is the awakening of the fighting instinct written deep in the genes.
Are these two bears still babies? Did the childhood of the Atlanteans end in the third sunrise of life? !
I complained strongly, although I still know more cruel "ripening" than this, such as those imperial soldiers who can grab cannons and smash people into the field as soon as they jump off the production line, but after all, one is a mass-produced Xiling apostle, one It is a carbon-based organism born in a normal womb, and the exaggerated growth rate of the latter is too much to be concerned about.
After putting the newborn into the holy water, the presiding priest immediately began to read the blessing prayer. The prayer was not long, and there seemed to be a lot of [freedom] to play, because I found a lot of things that were in line with today's situation. The priest first welcomed the two newborn babies into this world, and then announced that they were the first pair of babies in Atlantis after the beginning of the new century. Under the witness and blessing of the two newborns, they will thrive, and they will become the best fighters in the shortest time. There are all kinds of things, and they are basically words around these things, not so much prayers. Rather, it is a very pragmatic birth record and future life planning. After finishing these prayers that I thought might take half an hour in less than a minute, the priest presiding over the ceremony paused the scepter in his hand, and suddenly shouted three words in a high-pitched and weird voice: "Haragon!"
I suddenly noticed a slight change in the atmosphere among the several Atlantean priests who participated in the ceremony, and even Ares beside him suddenly became serious. Well, even though all I could see was his jaw drop, I thought it was a particularly serious jaw drop...
"Haragon!" Two assistant priests came forward from the line behind after the voice of the chief priest. They repeated the three unclear words loudly, and at the same time, each of them was holding a large rectangular box. The box was It was made of metal with some crooked huā patterns on it. I don't know what it contained, but I could see that the box was trembling slightly in the hands of the assistant priest, as if there was a living thing inside.
lìlìna stretched her neck and looked at the two big boxes curiously. I think if it wasn't for my elder sister holding it, she would have rushed over to taste the saltiness at this time. Even the mercury lamp became restless and twisted on my shoulder. Tossing and turning, he muttered: "A child is born to be so serious, huh"
I felt something in my heart, raised my shoulders, and the little puppet immediately hugged my head with its nose tightly: "Hey! What are you doing! It will fall!"
"At that time, I will make up such a welcome ceremony for you?" I said with a low smile, "According to the specifications of the princess of the empire, we have to set up more than 20,000 tables full of Chinese people to celebrate your birthday, and then give this process to you by the way." you walk again? "
Mercury Lamp knew I was joking, but he was still fascinated immediately, and then began to lower his head and bite my scalp.
At this time, the two assistant priests had already placed the large box next to the sink containing the holy water and the newborn. The holy water in the sink was only about ten centimeters deep. Baby, bigger than Lilina!) was sitting up straight out of the water curiously, sticking his little head out of the sink, when he saw the box in front of his eyes, he unexpectedly showed a vigilant look.
"In there" Lilina seemed to sense something, covered her mouth and exclaimed in a low voice.
The box was opened suddenly, and after two or three seconds of silence, two agile black shadows sprang out from inside!
Before I could react, the two black shadows had already fallen into the water tank, followed by a low-pitched neighing and a fight in the splashing water.
"Haragon is a kind of poisonous python." Ares bent down and explained in a low voice, "This kind of python will only live on Mount Olympus. We regard it as the elf of the holy mountain and the instructor who tests newborns... ..."
"I'm going! You are risking your life!" Even Lilina couldn't help shouting this time. I reacted faster than her and was about to rush over on the spot, but Sandora grabbed my arm, and then Pointing to the sink which has been quiet for a few seconds.
Yes, it became quiet, the neighing and fighting lasted less than a few seconds, so fast that I even thought that the two three-day-old children who were full of fights had been killed in seconds, but the parents of the newborns kept bringing Smiling and looking at the sink, it didn't seem like they were killed in seconds. When the fight was over, they looked at each other, came to the edge of the sink, and fished out the "Haragon" poisonous python that had been torn into several pieces.
"Healthy child! Long live the gods!"
The priest presiding over the ceremony held up the heads of two pythons that had almost turned into flocs. A high-pitched voice came from under the silver-white mask, and the blood that was still flowing from the pythons was sprinkled on the black sacrificial robe and his mask. , the other priests also raised their hands high, repeating loudly in a uniform and strange voice: "Healthy child! Long live the gods!"
The cheers spread from the priests until other Atlanteans who participated or watched nearby also raised their arms and cheered. The whole scene was as weird as the bloody totem festival in ancient times. I and several other people were the biggest at the scene of the ceremony. The discordant note, the elder sister had to give me a fist from behind, and whispered: "How old is it, it's okay. There is no one."
Now this ritual of the Atlanteans seems to be coming to an end. Although it was short, the process just now has three meanings of blessing, baptism, and test. Many onlookers, especially the monsters, understand it while they are stunned. The ferocious folk customs of Atlantis, a powerful artificial civilization, especially the last step, they even used deadly poisonous snakes to test whether the children are healthy or not. In fact, what they test is not only the health of children, but also the newborns Sexuality and fighting instinct, these are things written in their genes, just like newborn babies know how to avoid flames, they know how to destroy the enemy and how to protect themselves from birth.
So what happens to children who don't have this ability
"Death on the baptismal platform, the holy water sink just serves as the coffin for this failure." Facing my question, Ares said frankly, "It is a genetic defect for the Atlanteans to be unable to fight and kill people." , which means that the genes given to us by the gods have undergone bad mutations in those failed products, but this kind of thing rarely happens. Step down the baptismal platform. The enemy will infect the weak among us, and babies who cannot pass the baptism will be more likely to become enemies controlled by the abyss when they grow up, and this is for their own good."
"Don't do this in the future." I took a breath, and still felt the need to say something on my nose, "I know that this custom was normal in those circumstances, because you would perish if you didn't survive the fittest, but now With the empire as your backing, it is better to avoid this kind of bloody baptism."
Ares froze for a moment, thinking for a long time, I thought he would stick to his opinion, but in the end. The pong man still nodded, and replied in a low voice: "Then let's get rid of our own customs."
It seems that I underestimated the impact of the words of the "God" on these Atlanteans. Their customs are based on the will of God. If God's will changes, they will immediately change the customs of the entire race. They are all fanatics!
Sandora's eyes still fell on those priests. Now the two babies have been wiped clean and put back in their own little breasts. The young parents are accompanying the two children, and the other priests are using spices and Fresh holy water to wash the blood from the sink. Watched for a while. Sandora said suddenly: "Children with recessive fighting genes do have the right to survive, but this baptism can be preserved. Don't let the next generation forget how to fight."
After saying this, she smiled at me again: "I'm a little sensitive about the Mobrado civilization, but it's not a good idea to be too protective for such a race born for fighting.
I looked into Sandora's eyes, and immediately understood her thoughts, then nodded: "It's one, and this method of baptism is also considered an intangible cultural heritage, right? Shall we set up an incineration..., uh, The Ministry of Culture organizes related things? There are so many worlds under my name, and there are many strange and scary customs."
Sandora rolled her eyes and ignored me, only Lilina kindly explained to me in a low voice: "Boss, the Ministry of Culture doesn't care about these things."
The baptism of the newborn is over, and we did nothing but watch, but I still feel quite satisfied, after all, it is equivalent to seeing a novel foreign customs, but Liliana doesn't think so,
She always felt that she didn't get involved in one thing, and she was really sorry. She still remembered that before she set off, she said that she wanted to bless the newborn with the goddess in person, although now it seems that people didn't expect this at all. She She still couldn't forget it, so when the two newborns were about to be taken down, the little girl suddenly jumped out.
She called Jingdong, who was struggling to save the owner's hair from the mercury lamp above my head, and announced that she would give the child "a loving blessing full of the grace of the goddess."
Several Atlantean priests immediately expressed some embarrassment to Lilina's request. They respected this little girl who was only one-third of their height, because she was a friend of the "Great God", but they dared not Hastily agreed to the request of the other party, because the teachings of the Atlanteans did not allow them to accept any other gods, even if this god usually lives in the pocket of the great god, and more importantly, the great god is watching right in front of him, At this time, it is a bit unreasonable to let a newborn receive the blessing of Ability God.
"Let her go, or she can trouble me all day."
I saw that even Zeus looked down with distressed eyes and shrugged at them.
Lilina cheered and led her goddess to bless her.
Imaya may be the day of a religious revival...
I didn't do anything, I just watched other people dance to the gods!
"I'll go, no matter how many times I look at it, this child is big enough" Lilina, with Ding Dong on her head, lay on the edge of the "crib" that can be used as a single bed for herself and looked inside." Ding Dang also looked inside After taking a look, he nodded in agreement: ". Ding Dang looks big to everyone... "
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