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The Pine Grove Villa is less than fifty kilometers from the Pantheon, and the airship is ten minutes away. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info. When she went out, Zheng Wenwen noticed that in addition to her personal valets, there was also a silent middle-aged man who was waiting outside to get on the airship with Gu Hanhan, three or five young people wearing very serious and serious clothes, all of them were led by a man in his thirties who smiled very ironingly. Gu Hanhan skipped the middle-aged people and those well-dressed young people, and specially introduced the person who was the leader to Zheng Wenwen, saying that this was Mr. Gal, a senior deacon of the Deacon Department of the Temple Sect, and came to guide them. Zheng Wenwen looked at the high deacon curiously, and felt in her heart that he didn't look like a religious monk at all. Gu Hanhan greeted him very familiarly.

"Ah, Mr. Garr, you have come in person, such an early morning," she said, "when did you arrive, and had you had breakfast?"

Garr said that he was all right, and had eaten breakfast, and had just arrived at the pine forest villa for a while, because he heard that the young lady was changing clothes, so he did not come to visit.

Gu Hanhan smiled: "I didn't expect to alarm you, Mr. Gal, in the end, I hope it didn't cause you any inconvenience." Originally, we wanted to visit the square of the Pantheon and the pilgrimage platform, and we didn't want to make too much trouble. You know, I've always had a lot of trouble with this religious formality, and it's hard to get through. If we can not work in all directions, we better not work. ”

"No," replied Gal, "there is no inconvenience in accompanying the young lady on the tour, and I also have some matters to negotiate with the temple, so I can do it." Miss, please rest assured, I have already met with the chairman of the Deacons Division just now, and there will be nothing to alarm the Quartet. ”

Zheng Wenwen was amazed when she heard it, and when the airship took off and Gal walked away, she couldn't help but poke Gu Hanhan, and asked quietly: "You are very familiar with these religious monks? I remember that in the past, you hated religion the most on Earth, and we also made fun of that temple sect together......

"If you talk about religious monks, you can't say that you are very familiar," Gu Hanhan thought about it and decided to talk to her good friend more seriously, she was more acceptable. So she said, "I'm actually volunteering at a temple-taught charity order, so that's why I have a little bit of a relationship with them -- you know, there are social activity credits for volunteering in college courses. On Earth, I volunteer in neighborhood committees and service enterprises, and in Beacon Star, I basically have to work with various religious congregations. In the world of religion, there is religion everywhere, everywhere, and it cannot be avoided. ”

Zheng Wenwen didn't understand it, she was a little ignorant, and said while pondering: "Religion, religion still has such a great influence in the alien modern era, it's really incredible, in the universe for 4,000 years. ”

Gu Hanhan understands Zheng Wenwen's ignorance very well, after all, she is also a girl who grew up on the atheistic earth, and now she is also an atheistic temple heretic. So she didn't explain too much, just quoting a temple motto: "I am religion, and religion is me." ”

"I am faith, faith is me, religion is in my heart. "Maybe it's really too barren for humanity." ”

This Zheng Wenwen suddenly understood_ in the way of an earth girl.

"Understood," she said, "the more material scarcity there is, the more abundant the spirit, the more devout the faith, for they have nothing but spirit and faith." ”

Gu Hanhan was silent: Yes, what else can she have besides spirit and faith?

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Although it was outside the mountain gate of the Divine Mountain, the sky above the altar square of the Pantheon was no longer allowed to pass by, but in order to let Gu Hanhan and their sightseeing be able to see the entire Pantheon and the morning festival, the airship still circled along the border from a distance before landing.

On the airship, they saw that the Pantheon was perched on a hill, surrounded by rolling hills, with a cliff rising from the ground behind it, and a ladder leading to the golden sea. A majestic colonnade surrounds the altar, the top of which is a roaring fire, and outside the altar is the jade-paved Pantheon Square, which has eighteen roads leading from the summit square to the bottom of the hill, all of which are wide steps paved with jade. Gal explained to them that it was called all roads leading to the church.

The airship landed near one of the roads, and the road was crowded with pilgrims, who also mixed in with them and climbed the mountain on foot. Gu Hanhan found out that each step of the jade steps of the road was carved with a pattern guide trough, and a ditch was dug along both sides of the steps, and the bottom of the ditch and both sides were also paved with jade. They found that many pilgrims climbed the steps barefoot with their shoes in their hands or hanging them behind their backs. Gal explained that the spring in the ditch was called the Holy Spring in the Temple texts, and that the Holy Spring merged at the foot of the sacred mountain to form the Yugou River, which went all the way east and eventually became the Moro River.

"This is the source and origin of the Moro River. He said, "Initiation with the water of the holy spring allows you to ask for the blessings of the god of the universe, and you can wash away the sins of the world by bathing yourself with the water of the holy spring, which is the origin of the morning bath of the holy spring." ”

Gu Hanhan was very interested when he heard this, and said, "I'll try." Then he took off his shoes and stood barefoot on the steps, the spring water in the guide trough did not pass the steps, Gu Hanhan did not wet his feet, but the steps were chilled by the spring water, and his feet were cold to the heart, and he didn't know if he could wash away the sins of the world, but he was very comfortable in the summer. Zheng Wenwen also took off her shoes and climbed the mountain barefoot like Gu Hanhan, and took pictures all the way, having a great time.

At first, I didn't think about it, but after climbing the 100th step barefoot, the ice of the spring water gradually seeped into the cracks of the bones unconsciously. By the time they realized it, they were already shivering from the cold, and Zheng Wenwen's lips were even a little pale. The valets hurriedly took their shoes and put them on, and took out the shawls they had prepared in advance and wrapped them around them.

Gu Hanhan is a master who has been disrespecting ghosts and gods for a long time, and loves to make fun of the god of the universe at every turn, so he laughed while putting on his shoes: "This god of the universe is also too careful, he must be a black-bellied guy, claiming to wash away the sins of the world, but in fact, he is secretly committing murder, and wants to freeze you to death-"

However, she didn't know that this was on Mount Kinabalu, which immediately attracted the angry eyes of the surrounding pilgrims, and if it weren't for the large number of her followers, maybe she would have to come up and beat her. But Gu Hanhan had no choice but to shut up and laugh at himself: "Probably because my sins are too heavy to wash them off......"

After climbing the mountain for twenty minutes, I finally reached the Pantheon Square at the top of the mountain, out of breath. The square is filled with a holy spring, and from the central altar to the surrounding area there are 36 waterways, with the altar as the center, and nine circular canals from the inside to the outside. The pillars of the sacred flame around the altar are arranged from low to high from the inner spiral to the four sides, the lowest in the center is only about one meter high, and the outermost pillar of the sacred flame stands almost into the sky.

There are more people on the square than on the road, rubbing shoulders and heels, row upon row, there are devout believers who kneel on the side of the holy spring and pray silently, some walk around, and there are travelers like Zheng Wenwen who come for sightseeing, carrying backpacks and pinching finger rings to take pictures everywhere, not as magnificent and solemn as the last time Gu Hanhan saw the scale of 1.5 million people, but it is more rich in the fresh breath of the world. There were many people with severe genetic diseases in the crowd, but they all wrapped their whole bodies in thick cloaks, knelt silently by the spring and prayed, and some lay or lie on their stomachs, showing no ugly appearances, and mingled with the crowd of hundreds of thousands of pilgrims, neither noticeable nor noticed.

Whenever there is a spring where the water meets, there are donation boxes in the shape of stars set up in the middle of the air, and many pilgrims line up to cast gold or silver coins with the crown of thorns into the narrow opening on the surface, and there are also tourists who mingle in the inside, throwing a coin or two to buy the forgiveness and protection of the god of the universe. Gu Hanhan and Zheng Wenwen, as standard tourists, of course, had to put in a coin to get over the addiction of praying to God and worshiping the Buddha -- what if there was a spirit? However, after learning that the donation box of the temple did not accept any cash or coins, and that this kind of gold and silver coins specially used for dedication and prayer needed to be exchanged in advance at the temple or the holy goods department and brought up the mountain, they couldn't help but be very disappointed. But this was not difficult for Mr. Gal, and he stretched out his hand, and the low-ranking attendant who accompanied him immediately presented a heavy money bag, which was opened to a bag full of gold coins, which shimmered with golden light, all of which Tuo Xin had never used. The two girls were happy again, grabbing their money bags and happily going to line up.

Gu Hanhan fiddled with the white suede money bag, the workmanship and decoration were almost artistic, and the bottom was stamped with the water-patterned stamp of the temple deacon, so he asked, "This is made by the deacon?"

Gal nodded and replied, "The exoneration ticket was uniformly minted and issued by the Deacon Division of the Temple. When I passed last night, I thought that Miss might need to use it, so I brought a bag with me. ”

"You say it's called an exoneration coupon?" Gu Hanhan smiled, and then threw the gold coin into the narrow slit.

After throwing in the donation box, the time for the morning festival is almost up. From afar, I saw a group of priests walking to the altar, led by a chief priest dressed in white, kneeling in the center of the altar, pressing his right hand on his chest, while reciting the song of the dawn, while pressing his left hand to the central pillar. With this movement, the fiery red flame on the pillar instantly turned ice blue, and then to the rhythm of the song of dawn, from the inside to the outside, from low to high, the flame at the top of the pillar gradually turned blue, merging with the morning light. As the last note of the Song of Dawn paused, the highest flame disappeared into the sky, and a red sun burst out of the top of the pillar and rose into the sky.

"O God of the universe, give me the dawn, give me the gospel. ”

The priests shouted praises together, and a raging spring of water gushed out from the center of the altar, rushed down the waterway, and then overflowed the trough, spreading the whole square in a vast soup, and down the ankles of the pilgrims, and down the channel and ditch down the mountain. The pilgrims fell to their knees, prayed, and poured a handful of spring water over their heads.

In the cold water vapor, the breath of patients with genetic diseases rushed to their faces, and all kinds of broken, ugly, and evil genes were overwhelming, rushing to Gu Hanhan, endlessly, endlessly, everywhere. Gu Hanhan almost suffocated. She couldn't breathe, her head was dizzy, her eyes were black, her mind was blank, her temples ached suddenly, her energy field churned and agitated, her contraction and expansion alternated and intensified, almost exploding.

"Miss-" The attendants gathered around, and the middle-aged man, who had been silent, picked her up.

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