261 The sweetness of temptation
Chongxu said a lot of words like a machine gun, which made Kevin hear it in a fog, and after thinking about it carefully, he felt that what Chongxu said made sense, but he couldn't decide the main thing for a while, and turned his searching eyes to his top boss John.
John nodded at him and said, "There is an old saying in the East that says, 'Give up the small self to become the big me'. Now is the time for you to abandon your ego and become your ego!"
Caving explained that John meant the "ego" that bribed and violated the teachings, and the "ego" meant the salvation of all mankind.
A few minutes later, they came to the outpost, four sentries surrounded the front of the car, and the Moldocan soldier in the lieutenant's military uniform at the head looked fierce, and said angrily: "Take out the documents!"
Because he spoke Turkish, John and Kevin didn't understand, but fortunately, they had seen others pass through the customs before, and they knew the general procedure, so they prepared in advance, and handed over their respective passports.
John and Kevin, the former is from England, the latter was born in the United States, the two passports were handed in, the lieutenant immediately shook his spirits, changed his arrogance when examining his compatriots, and changed his attitude of speaking 180 degrees, and his admiration for foreign flattery was overflowing, politely like a hotel waiter, and his flattering appearance made Kevin feel disgusted, and his heart said: "There is such a group of soldiers, no wonder this country suffers!"
The lieutenant gave Kevin a military salute and asked, "What are you doing at Fort Tofora during the pandemic?"
Kevin followed the lines agreed upon, "We're going to the port to get some stuff and pass by here to refuel some gas." ”
The lieutenant nodded and asked, "What's in the back carriage?"
"It's empty. ”
"Can you open it and take a look?"
Kevin has only told a handful of lies in his life, and he said in a humble heart: "There is no need to read the empty ones, right?"
The sentry saw that Kevin was sweating profusely and looked wrong, and said stubbornly: "We have regulations, please cooperate." ”
Kevin swallowed his saliva, looked left and right, and while no one was paying attention, he trembled and stuffed a wad of euros into the sentry's hand like a thief, "That, we, you see ......"
He wanted to say a few kind words in passing, but he found that his usual eloquence was not needed at all, and he stammered for a long time and couldn't say a complete sentence.
Fortunately, the lieutenant had far more experience in collecting money than he had in bribes, and as if nothing had happened, he stuffed the money into his belt, and immediately made up his intentions, coughed, and said to himself: "Oh! There is no need to check the embassy's car. ”
Kevin asked, "Do you still need to take your temperature?"
The lieutenant smiled slightly, "Didn't you test it all just now?" everything is normal, let's go!"
Kevin was stunned, mixed with joy, happy that he successfully passed the level, and worried about - "No wonder so many people in this world love to bribe...... It's so convenient!"
Pastor Kevin's thoughts were quickly learned by Mitsuko Yamada, who immediately burst into laughter when she relayed what Kevin was thinking to the people in the carriage.
Bai Ling put his arm around Chongxu's shoulders and said, "Ah Xu, are you really bad?"
Chongxu pretended to be stupid, "Where am I broken?"
"You deliberately teased Kevin. ”
Qiu Xiang was puzzled: "Why is he teasing people?"
Bai Ling said: "Do you want to! Just one level, you can easily pass it with the charm technique." It's better for him to instigate other priests to pay bribes. Are you bad or not?"
Li Li pinched Chongxu's arm and said with a smile: "Why are you like this!"
Chongxu smiled: "I don't want Kevin to experience life! Eliminating evil, blocking is not the way, only to know where the evil is tempting, and to reduce the negative impact of evil by channeling it step by step." ”
When Chongxu was talking, Qiu Xiang saw what the little priest Su Dong was drawing quickly in the notebook, and asked, "What are you writing?"
Su Dong said: "His Royal Highness's words are very reasonable, I will write it down." ”
Just now, there is no way to get rid of evil, only to know where evil is tempting, and to reduce the negative impact of evil by channeling it in an orderly manner. ”
Qiu Xiang rolled her eyes, "He's joking, what should he be really!"
Su Dong shook his head, "It's not that simple. In the past, why couldn't we open up the situation in China? It was because the mission was too rigid and detached from reality, and it always preached from the book and reasoned with everyone, saying that we must do this, but we can't do that, and everyone will definitely not want to believe in religion. If you use theory to connect with practice and learn to be flexible as His Highness said, not only let everyone know what it is, but also grasp the origin of things, it will be tantamount to grabbing the public's nose. Missionary work is certainly smoother. ”
Chongxu didn't expect that he would casually say that Su Dong could come up with so many messy things, and he couldn't help laughing.
Qiu Xiang was so confused by him that she didn't understand the meaning of his words at all.
Bai Ling noticed that Su Dong's name for Chongxu had changed, and he no longer called Chongxu Chongzong, but called him His Royal Highness, and said curiously: "By the way, why did you start calling His Highness Axu?"
"That's what the priest called, and I'll do the same!Is there anything wrong?"
Bai Ling probe looked through the glass between the cab and the cargo compartment and glanced at John in the passenger seat. Only then did I remember that when John started talking to Chongxu last night, he was addressed as "His Highness", and he couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth.
From Chongzong to His Royal Highness, the change of title seems to be a trivial matter, but it releases a very important message - as a sacrifice of the Heavenly Father's Sect, although John had a good personal relationship with Chongxu in the past, from a racial point of view, one side represents the gods of the West, and the other side is the demons of the East, so it is inevitable that there will be a gap.
This estrangement is reflected in the real exchange, that is, John does not recognize Chongxu's aristocratic status, so he calls him Chongzong.
At present, changing the name to "Your Highness" means that the estrangement has been eliminated or greatly diluted, and in his mind, the gods of the West and the demons of the East are no longer antagonistic or even hostile.
In fact, Father John's judgment was completely correct, the West God and the East Demon were not the two poles of the world.
If the Eastern gods are compared to pure white, and the Western demons are compared to darkness, then the Western gods and the Eastern demons are the gray area sandwiched between them.
Because of the similarity in tone, he felt cordial, and was supported by biased theories, and he always felt that the Heavenly Father Sect and the Eastern Demon were of the same origin and roots.
Dongfeng box trucks drove past the checkpoint, and the street scene of Fort Tofora showed its true face.
For centuries, the town of Fort Tofora has stood peacefully on the Axon Sea, without much turmoil or war.
But after the outbreak of the pandemic, the tranquility was gone, and the quaint Moldocon-style buildings on both sides of the street were covered with a haze of garbage, broken wine bottles and window glass.
Cars on both sides of the western section of the main road were smashed and burned, the glass of department stores was sprayed with swear words, there were charred shrubs in the flower beds on the side of the street, a tourist shoe hung on the flagpole of the municipal office building, and the national flag did not know where it went!
- There are signs that there has just been a riot here.