"When I opened the black cloth again, it was already in a warehouse, and there were cages covered with black cloth all around. There was a woman with yellow cat-like eyes staring at me with her face against the cage, and she pinched my neck with her hands, rubbed her fingers on my neck repeatedly, and shone a flashlight on me. The light of the flashlight was so bright that I couldn't open my eyes when I was stabbed. Now that I think about it, she must have checked if I had a chip and if I had the mark of sacrifice to the god of the universe. ”

She quickly finished checking it, and the black cloth was covered again. I was in a cage all the time, isolated from the outside world. Wake up when the light is on, and sleep when the light goes out. When you wake up, you can also watch cartoons and play games, and there are a lot of cartoons and games stored in the cage, but the brain can't be connected to Skynet. Sometimes the cage will wobble for a while, or it will be carried or relocated. Every once in a while, someone would lift the cloth and examine me through the cage. But each time, the face attached to the outside of the cage is different. I don't know how much time passed, but after a long jolting and shaking, the cover on the outside of the cage was finally completely removed. It was in a huge warehouse, densely packed with cages as far as the eye could see, and there were more than the stars in the sky. In each cage was a child about the same size as me. A doctor in a COVID suit took blood from my finger and put a numbered tag around my neck. Then a few days later, I was loaded with the rest of the cages and transported to the spaceport. At the spaceport, we were released from cages and lined up to board a huge spaceship as high as a mountain. ”

"I think I can guess what happened, I know the trade, miss, and now I know what the slave trade is all about. I was sold into the black market through illegal trading in a star field from my birthplace or not far from my birthplace, and was sold by various buyers until I was trafficked to the slave market of Lighthouse Star, where I was bought by a large child slave trading company. Then the child slave trading company sold me to a ship of worship to sacrifice to the god of the universe. It is evident that they let us walk through the gates of the gods and have emblazoned the badges on our bodies to represent the worshippers. I can't remember what the badge looked like now, but I knew it was the badge and the ship for the gods. ”

"Enshrine the spaceship?" Gu Hanhan was stunned inexplicably, "Do you call that kind of slave ship an enshrinement spaceship?" and the little slaves on the ship are all offerings to the gods of the universe?"

"Yes, Miss, that's what it's called. Lichun affirmed her statement and then looked at Gu Hanhan carefully, "This, miss, don't you know? I see that you came to the slave market today, you seem to be a chosen person of the gods inspired by the god of the universe, haven't you made sacrifices to the god of the universe before?"

Do you want to be so discerning, Ms. Lichun?!

Gu Hanhan was embarrassed by Lady Lichun's religious fervor, so she had to say perfunctorily: "Didn't I just come to the Lighthouse Star - So, you see that I have superpowers, Lady Lichun?"

"God's Chosen People or something......" Gu Hanhan smiled dryly, "Supernumerary voters, supernumerary!"

Lichun didn't believe it at all, she had never heard of the chosen people blessed by the god of the universe and the supernumerary! But a good slave knows when the time is right, and pretends to be stupid and reckless, and can't let his master not get off the stage in front of him. So she only looked convinced, and said eagerly: "Miss, you just came to Lighthouse Star, and it is indeed too late to know this, please let the slave tell you about it." ”

"Of course, Ms. Lichun," Gu Hanhan really felt better, and said in a loud voice, "Regarding the worship of the spaceship and the little slaves on the spaceship, if you still remember some things at that time, you might as well tell me about it, I can also learn and learn." ”

"The child slave trade was the backbone of the bulk of the slave market, accounting for more than one-eighth of the total trade. All of this is supported by the offerings of God's chosen people, because God loves the world, and loves innocent children even more, and does not want to see the cruelty and suffering of the world inflicted on their delicate bodies. Rescuing children from suffering is the supreme merit of God's apostles and his elect. ”

"The God of the universe loves to bless innocent children, to remove their suffering, to enlighten them to become their chosen people, to protect their homeland, to pray for their lambs. Therefore, God's pious elect, the families of the gods who have guarded the temple for generations to serve the gods of the universe and carry out the will of the gods, and all the guardians of the temple who are under the banner of the gods, should sincerely offer pure and virgin children to sacrifice to the gods of the universe, so that they may receive the revelation of the gods of the universe under the light of the gods. Moreover, these children, who have received God's revelation by the will of the God of the universe, are not allowed to be inflicted on their bodies with whippings and axes* to mutilate them, nor are they allowed to imprison their souls with ropes, shackles, and narcotics, otherwise they will not receive revelation. The sacrificer, if any of them can sense the revelation of God, then he will become God's chosen people, and the provider who sacrifices him will also receive the supreme glory and obligation to be his guide. ”

"This is the most welcome religious code in the slave market, mademoiselle, for a large number of children can only come from the slave market. The nobles of the Acropolis and other powerful people who are interested in the temple will choose to buy child slaves as the main form of support, and the richer and more noble the donors, the more child slaves they will buy, and even the most ordinary people will often pick hundreds of pure child slaves from the slave market when they come to Beacon Star, and the price of child slaves will continue to rise to an astonishing number. However, when the worshippers scatter a lot of money vouchers, they will receive only a pitiful revelation—it is clear that God's response is always scarce compared to prayer, and in the end it only fattens the child slave traders. They sold high and bought low, monopolizing the upper reaches of the slave market and devouring most of their profits. The sponsors were forced to sign bills and pay the bills as much as they could, buying child slaves to worship the gods of the universe in order to fulfill their natural religious responsibilities and spiritual merits. ”

"Responsibility, merit, so that's how the nobles bought child slaves! I learned it today, Ms. Lichun, when I grew up in college. About the devotional faith in the temple as well as religious responsibilities and spiritual merits. Gu Hanhan was very sarcastic in his heart, so he asked, "Then what do you think, Ms. Lichun? Do you also think that the child slave traders are fat-bellied villains, and the donors of the temple are pious and pitiful wrongdoers? Not as a slave market practitioner, but as a slave, a 'child slave' who was once offered to the god of the universe as a sacrifice, you said before that you were sold to the child slave ship of the donor. ”

"Why, miss......" Lichun said after thinking hard for a moment, "I was so young that I have little memory of the experience of boarding the worship ship. But I still have the vague impression that I had eaten well at every meal, slept warmly and contentedly, and had never been beaten—no one had ever beaten me with a water-stained whip or a barbed club, nor had anyone raped me. All that was to be done was to read the scriptures of the temple, to listen to the sermons of the missionary priests, and to feel the breath and pulse of the God of the universe in person—I can't remember, Miss, in a word, all of them were rituals and methods of praying for the revelation of the God of the Universe. Memories also seem to have times of fear and helplessness, but they are the tests brought upon us by the God of the universe, and only the tested devout believers can sense God's revelation and receive God's blessings. Yes, Mademoiselle, it is a test of firmness of heart and piety of faith, and beyond that, there is no insult, no hurt, no suffering, the God of the universe is so merciful. It was almost the best and happiest time of my life, miss, and there will never be such beauty and happiness again, bathed in the revelation given by God. That greatness, even though I was ultimately not able to pass the test of the God of the universe and sense God's revelation, it still gave me faith and allowed me to walk through the rest of my life......"

After Lichun finished speaking, she made a prayer gesture. The piety in her demeanor far surpassed that of any noble elect Gu Hanhan had ever seen in the Acropolis who had truly received "divine revelation."

Gu Hanhan's mood can no longer be described with irony, even beyond pity. She looked at Lichun, and her voice couldn't help but become soft: "So, in your heart, you are actually grateful and nostalgic for that time when you were sacrificed, and thank those donors who you brought with you to the sacrificial spaceship?"

"Yes, miss, I just regret that I can't be sacrificed a second time, a third time...... It's a pity that the god of the universe is always fair, and it only reveals it once to everyone. God has given me the opportunity to be saved, but I have not felt its revelation, this is my sin, and I have nothing to regret. ”

"No one is responsible for the misfortunes and fates of others, not even the providers who have saved us in place of the hand of the God of the Universe. They have already paid us once for gold and faith to redeem us, fulfilling their responsibilities and obligations to the world, and no one can ask them to do more. Being a slave, that's my destiny. She said, "And what can you do if you don't be a slave? Of course, the only way to live is to be a slave, to be a good slave." People always have to pay the price for their own food and clothing. Yes, miss, pay the price. ”

"After all the prayer revelations of the sacrifice ceremony, the donor handed me and other child slaves, like me, who did not feel the revelation, to the believers who were waiting there to take over the support of us, which was considered to be the last duty of the sacrifice. The precious kindness contained in this obligation does not require us to freeze to death in the barren universe immediately because of food and clothing, but no matter how precious the kindness is, there will always be a time when it runs out, and in fact, what pious ordinary believer would come to adopt a child who is rejected by the god of the universe? The "believer" who will wait there to give a dry food and a glass of water to a child who has not been favored by the god of the universe after the sacrifice In fact, there were only slave traders, who circled like scavenging vultures, falling down at the first sacrifice and tearing at the blood. As long as we eat a mouthful of their food, drink a mouthful of their water, and breathe a breath of their air, we are their rightful slaves. And rightfully so. ”