Chapter 106: Randall's Confession
Todd was also using the confessional room of Twilight Town Church for the first time. This small room, less than three square meters, was dim and somewhat stuffy, with two wooden chairs facing each other, and a wooden louvered screen in the middle.
At twelve o'clock in the night, a man walked into the compartment opposite the confessional.
Todd used the clairvoyant ability to see that the other party was wearing a burlap Orion robe, and his beard had not been taken care of for many years, and his expression looked a little hesitant and confused, not knowing whether he should sit down.
"Sit down, kid. ”
Toddshan's somewhat childish voice startled the man.
The other party knew that he couldn't see the other side, but he still chose to face the screen, and his eyes in the dark were bright: "You are not an assistant priest." ”
Todd was busy with all kinds of things, and he always left the confession to the priest on his behalf, but today was the first time he presided over such a ceremony, and after thinking about it, he said, "There is no point in caring about these things. In the power of God, we are but the tongue of the Father. ”
Seeing the man standing still, Todd asked again, "Lost lamb, why have you come here to repent?"
The other party's tone sounded a little overwhelmed: "Someone told me that when I entered the confessional room at twelve o'clock tonight, someone could answer my confusion." ”
"Sit down. I can only hear your voice, but I can't see your face. And what you confide will only exist in the ears of you, me, and the Holy Father, so come, speak of your confusion. ”
The man sat down in his chair and was silent for a long time.
Just when the priest thought that the other party did not want to speak, the other person spoke: "I am a different species. ”
That's right, the person on the other side should be Randall......
Todd looked at Randall with perspective, his palms clasped together, rubbing back and forth, looking uneasy and frightened, looking like he was about to leave.
"One thing I have always understood is that if everything was created by God, then xenomorphism is no exception. Why are we spurned by the world, hunted down by the Church, excluded from the ordinary world?
Hearing this, Todd thought for a moment and uttered a strange remark: "Everything that is reasonable exists; ”
Randall repeated the phrase, shook his head and said, "I don't understand. ”
Todd organized the language: "Heavenly Father is the origin of the universe and the absolute one. He created everything in his own freedom and externalized nature, society, and spirit, and everything in the world was the result of his externalization. ”
"Sorry, I still don't understand, what does all this have to do with xenomorphs?"
Todd sighed and put it more bluntly: "The existence of xenos is the work of Heavenly Father. The existence of this race is in line with the Heavenly Father's "Reason" - the Principle of the Universe, but it may not be in accordance with the "Reason" of the mortal realm. ”
When it comes to this, even the dullest person can hear the deep meaning of the words.
As the origin of the universe, everything that conforms to the principles of heaven and earth will exist, and the very existence of the aliens, as the works of the Father, proves that they conform to the will of the Father. The so-called "principles" of the mortal realm refer not only to the humanistic principles of the secular kingdom, but also to the vague principles of the church formulated by mortals.
To put it simply, everything in the world was created by the Father, and the alien species are no exception, so their existence is naturally in accordance with the will of the Father. They were killed and persecuted solely because the world and the church had wantonly distorted the Bible.
"Looking" at the man's expression that seemed to be enlightened, Todd said again: "As an alien, you have the responsibility and obligation to maintain the relationship between the alien species and other races, do you understand?"
Seeing the other nod, Todd finally breathed a sigh of relief, and just as he was about to leave, the other party's next sentence pinned him firmly to the chair.
"One more thing...... I want to repent of my past sins...... I killed my mother......"
Todd was stunned by Randall's words.
The introduction says that the other party's mother is his only relative, and he died on the run, so what happened when he was killed?!
Randall held his head in his hands, reminiscing about his past, as if he was suffering greatly mentally.
"After being found to be a xenomorph, I fled from Lone Rock City to the north with my mother. As we climbed the mountains, we were so hungry that we couldn't find any food......"
Hearing this, Todd grabbed his sleeves with both hands, and a terrifying thought came to his mind.
Randall lowered his head, his eyes looked at the ground, and his voice trembled: "I had no choice but to take advantage of the rest to pretend to go hunting, secretly cut off my own flesh with a knife, and deceive my mother and tell him that it was the meat of the prey...... Later, she found out the truth of all this, and during a night camp, my mother ended her life with a cloth belt......"
Todd pursed his lips and sighed deeply. Listening to the crying voice on the other side, he drew a holy cross on his chest and said softly: "In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, your sins will be forgiven......"
Fifteen minutes later, Todd returned to the expository hall, sat down at his table, and picked up Randall Quincy's introduction and read it again.
In the flickering candle flame, Rachel did not disturb him, just watched quietly.
"Randall is the guy we're looking for. With that, Todd placed the paper on the table and closed his eyes.
Rachel changed her seat: "Can I ask you what you said to him?"
"I'm afraid not, it's a private thing. But I can assure you that he is a kind man. His fighting style and sense of death are due to some tragedies that have happened to him. Todd leaned his back back and said, "It's time to start training him, and all the pre-mission preparations." ”
Rachel moved his chair closer to Todra, rested his arms on the table, looked at the priest in the faint firelight, and said with a smile, "Randall is not suitable for the knight's combat skills, so I will have some suitable people to train him." There are many things to consider before you go on a mission. First of all, the location of the mission and the contact information, we can't let him run around on the plains to find the villain, right? Then there is the confidentiality of his identity, we need to prepare a set of clothes and a mask for him, considering his abilities, I don't plan to sew too much fabric on his clothes; and then there is the matter of the Inquisition and the Relief Society, as Randall's merits become more and more famous, the church and the relief society will find him one day sooner or later, and we must make some preparations; there are weapons and equipment, secret strongholds, response teams, Aftercare and other things......"
Seeing that Todd was a little stunned by his own series of words, Rachel blinked mischievously: "Now you should know that creating a xenohero is not as simple as imagined, you should really be grateful, fortunately I am ......"
Todd raised his hands and made a gesture of surrender, "Well, Miss Rachel, I really appreciate your help. Don't know what I can do for you?"
"I think in a few days, Karin and I will be opening our hotel, and I hope you can provide more 'recipes'......"
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"Chief, the monks want to see you. ”
Todd looked up from the table, looked at Huggins at the door, and said, "Let them in." ”
The man looked at the size of the room and said in embarrassment, "There may not be room for them here." ”
Hearing this, Todd stood up strangely and followed Huggins to the chapel of the church, startled by the scene before him.
Fifty-five monks filled the hall, and when the priest appeared, the crowd gathered.
The monk at the head, who seemed to be the leader, approached first.
I heard him say, "Master Todd, my name is Joe Humphrey, and we have been here for many days to spread the Father's knowledge, but we have not been assigned any work, and we want to do what we can. ”
Another monk followed, "That's right, we've been walking around the town these days, and we've found the fields near the town barren and uncultivated. ”
Todd's original intention was to hope that these monks, after adjusting to life in Twilight, could gradually take on the administrative work of the Knights. But when he heard the words of these two men, he suddenly remembered that the monks in the medieval monasteries, because of their long-term agricultural labor, did have a relatively advanced level of knowledge in agriculture.
Bringing a chair from the pulpit, Todd put down what he was doing, and talked with the monks for a while, only to realize that they had made a lot of very useful suggestions.
Some monks suggested that the land was relatively fertile considering that the fields in Duxi Town were uncultivated all year round. It is proposed to build a heavy plough instead of a plough, and change the original single-field system to a three-garden system: that is, one field is fallow, one autumn sowing land is mainly planted with wheat, rye and barley, and one spring sowing land is mostly planted with oats and legumes.
Some monks suggested that most of the eastern part of the town was plain, suitable for growing pasture grass and grazing sheep and cows. The virtuous cycle of forage fertility and livestock manure ensures the supply of fertilizer, which can greatly improve livestock feeding and dairy production.
Other monks suggested that a couple in the town had recently opened a shop selling rare goods from the South. They found that there were two types of seeds that they had never seen before, and they had heard that they were called sorghum and mulberry trees, and they might want to plant some to try.
Todd talked with the monks all afternoon, and didn't even bother to eat dinner.
Early the next morning, such a notice was posted on the church billboard.
"The town of Twilight plans to establish a Monks' Society, and the Twilight Mutual Aid Society plans to invest 500 silver months in the Monks' Society for preliminary preparation and personnel expenses, and is now recruiting farmers, herdsmen, and cloth mill workers from the residents of Twilight Town. 』