Chapter 140: The Archipelago
Is the war over?
Not really! The fists and attitudes of the strong man softened together, which did not mean that the loser who was beaten with a blue nose and swollen face
Even if they were beaten to the ground, starved everywhere, their heads were full of enemy military planes and bombs, the entire island nation's external communication lines were cut off, the allied capitals of the western countries were flattened, and the leaders of the allied countries committed suicide by drinking bullets in bunkers, the old Yamatai Empire still had a huge force that refused to surrender and wanted to live and die with its own dreams......
It's basically sick, and it's not light. But as early as the 226 incident, these "mainstays of the empire" wrote such poems:
"I don't know if my generation is crazy or stupid, only to gallop forward!"
Moreover, the soldiers of the old Yamatai Empire can still have the idea of fighting to the death when they know that their opponents have obvious advantages and strong combat power, and they would rather be broken than destroyed, and how the silly hi in the temple of the Twin Moon Church who feel that they still have a great advantage and will never GG when they rush into the crowd to open a big game will actually react is actually reasonable.
By "not going back and telling in person", Neuesas is not completely informed. During the New Year's holidays, the Elta Military Tribunal specially selected 15 prisoners of war from the prisoner-of-war camps who were still alive and were found not to have committed war crimes, and escorted them to the port of Hirzi and put them on cargo ships bound for Lanka Island.
Along with him was a file box that had been hand-sealed by Neu Esas.
The small sea boat had been floating in the waves for two weeks, and as soon as it docked, before the cable was fastened, the document box was respectfully held in both hands, and the relay was generally sent to the temple......
Then, within ten minutes, the open file box was smashed into sawdust and fragments.
"This, this bastard Noy Esas!" The one who smashed the file box still didn't forget to mend a few feet on the rotten wood on the ground in a frustration, "Who, who allowed him to act arbitrarily, grovel in front of the people of another world, and directly admit the failure of the church?" Not yet, not after our vote! ”
"Isn't that just a top-up?" Hermarita, who was still carefully reading the personal letters written by Neuesas in the file box, replied nonchalantly. "Or is there any of you here who doesn't think the scenes on these 'pictures' are shocking enough? Or is Neuezas's description of Elta's status quo not strong enough? The church has survived this winter, and now that God has blessed it, who of you wants to start a war? ”
"Then wait for the beginning of spring! No, just wait for the monsoon to blow next year, and we will use the strength of all other countries to unite and defeat the ......."
"Quiet!" Once again, Hermarita's wand struck the Noiser in the head with precision—it seemed that after thousands of practices, she had mastered it. "As a solution to the Elta Empire's lack of cooperation, we have been forced to transfer the magic powder plants and cultivation plans to other countries in exchange for the supply and trade rights of other goods. We have not even recovered our vitality, and our ability to control other countries has gradually declined. ”
Seeing that none of the others in the room replied, Hermarita sighed: "I don't want our church to sink here, and I don't want the era of God's world to come to an end from now on. The truth is cruel, but it is what it is, just as Eucrochatia was indeed defeated and captured from the battlefield by the people of another world, the era of human domination of the world will indeed come, and we will be ruled by humans from now on, this is a real and unchangeable fact. ”
"The end of the era of God's rule over the world......" several of you were muttering to themselves, repeating the phrase. Does the end of God's age mean that we are to live in a nation ruled by man? ”
Hermarita nodded: "I guess Neuesas will live like a free man as before." But in my opinion, I'm afraid you can't. Accustomed to being revered by all the people in the temple of God, and willing to accept the fears of mankind, it is only natural that we do not adapt to that. ”
"So are we going to rebel? Hermitta? As soon as several martial arts factions heard the word "uncomfortable", they immediately became covered in blood and blood, and one by one they rubbed their hands, as if the enemy was waiting for them to open at the bottom of the steps of the temple.
"Resist a fart." Hermarita increased her forehead with her hand, "You have a good one, and where there is a fight, you run faster than anyone else." But the place where you really use your head ......"
"Nakh Marita, tell me what's going on." Kyle Noral's face was gloomy, "If we don't fight, we can't fight, so don't we have to do what the people of the other world want?" Isn't that the same as saying it in vain? ”
"What's the hurry?" Hermarita shook her hand, "Even if it takes five days for people from other worlds to arrive here by ships that have completed Elta's traditional shipping route, it will take at least ten days and half a month. And the letter sent by Neuesas also stated that their operation would begin at least in March. We have three months before that. Whether you plan to hand over your authority as stated in the armistice agreement and become a mascot in the hands of people from another world, or you plan to win over your subordinates and prepare for stubborn resistance, there is still plenty of time to prepare. ”
"Hermarita! What do you mean? Before Hermarita's words were finished, a middle-aged male-looking deity behind Kyl Norral heard something wrong on the spot, "Aren't we all a group, one is prosperous, one is lost, and the direction is the same?" Now you say that there are so many paths, are you going to divide us? ”
"The split has begun." Hermarita whistled rarely. "Neuesas has made it very clear in his letter, don't you all look at it? I'm not really stupid enough to scoop water in a sinking boat until the last minute. And as a friend of you who have worked with you for many years, I suggest that you take a good look at this letter from Neaesas. ”
"What do you mean, you're leaving?" The gods looked in amazement at Hermarita, who straightened her back.
"Yes, but I'm not going to go to Elta." Hermarita unexpectedly took the question of besieging her, "In the previous days, I knew too little about places outside of the Lancas Islands. So I decided to go to the other corners of this planet. ”
Before she could finish speaking, Hermita had already begun to step out of the halls of the temple.
"Are you going to stop her?" Kyle Norral turned his head to ask the other living gods.
"Stop?" The other gods of the world still didn't react. It all came too suddenly. Although there are often political disagreements and disputes among the gods in this world, both on and off the table.
The division of the present gods had not been considered by them before. As long as there is a system of the majority over the minority, the stable triangle that constitutes the worldly god-bilunar church-ruled will not collapse.
Although the gods of the present world are revered as gods, or called divine servants, although they are supported by the bilunar canon and the power of immortality, their way of thinking is still the way of thinking of human beings.
Man is a despicable creature, and when he has great power, he naturally monopolizes it. And divide human beings into two kinds: strong and weak. The strong ignore small differences, just so that the strong no longer fight with each other, and share what the weak have to offer with a framework that applies to the strong.
But when more powerful forces appear, the strong are no longer strong, so even if these strong people can live longer and continue to be stronger than the stronger ones, what good can it be? In the face of stronger interests, the group that was once called the strong will surely split, and it will split on the spot in the face of interests.
That's the logic of man. Through the continuous study of Yukrochatia, the SCP and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which assisted in the research, have psychologically determined that the inner thinking form of the gods in the world is the same as that of human beings, so that the whole group of gods in the world can be disintegrated from the inside.
They are not exactly the same individuals, as can be seen in the differences between Neuesas and Yucratia. Even if they are all gods in the world, their intelligence, cognition,
"What allows humans to rule, and what is there to believe in such conditions that violate the canon?"
As expected, not long after Hemarita walked out of the temple, the remaining living gods began to react from the chaos.
The true God will not let this happen! If we resist, we will be able to make the voice of our servants heard by the true God! ”
"Show me the letter from Neuesas!" The cries of some of the present gods were not fully approved by all present. "I suddenly felt that there was some truth in what this little radish head said. At this very moment, we are indeed facing an unprecedented predicament......"
The battle between the living gods was soon known to the first-level officials under the temple. Like the gods of the world, the leaders of the various key organs are also quarreling with each other in their respective positions. Over the course of the next day, the controversy and confusion spread to the middle ranks of the Bi-Monthly Church, and then to the lower levels, the lower levels......
Fortunately, the Bilunar Church itself is a relatively well-organized papal organization. The final opinion was quickly unified from the temple downwards—and the remaining gods unanimously decided to remain silent about the contents of the armistice.
"In other words, all the above matters that should be carried out by the Bimonthly Church will not be carried out?"
"Yes." In a sheltered dock on a small island in the Lancas, the crews of two gangster ships are talking in cloaks.
"So that means that the Bi-Moon Church is still ...... And to continue the war with the people of another world? ”
"Lord Hermarita." The taller woman on one of the ships shook her head, "The adults who are still in the temple want to make the war simply 'end here', and all the punitive measures proposed by the Erta and the people of the other world are completely unacceptable in their eyes. They still insist that the Church of the Two Moons is the agent of the Twin Moons that rule the world on behalf of the true God, and that its actions should not be judged by humanity, even if they are completely wrong. ”
"It's still the same old saying, right?" Hermarita, who wore a cloak and did not show her face in the sun, spoke in a contemptuous tone. "The only one who can judge the gods of this world is the true God?"
"There seems to be only one way to find a hole in the tight, tightly packed case of documents sent by Lord Neuezas. Compared to you and Lord Noy Isaas, I think they're running out of skills. ”
States are fighting each other, and if the losing party is the first to use force, it is inevitable that it will be required to hand over the planners and the actual executors. But the problem is that the current Bimonthly Church does not want to implement any part of the substance of the armistice agreement at all, but treats this armistice agreement as a notification letter-
"Well, the war is over. Let's stop there. ”
Dream. Wishful thinking. Hermarita understood from the letter of Neuesas who was strong and who was weak in the present situation: for the sake of a city, an egg farm with a daily production of 400,000 eggs was built, and the treatment in other cities was basically the same; Such a description is an understatement in the eyes of ordinary people, or it may be enlarged and braggadocio in the eyes of other living gods, but in the eyes of Hermarita, who is scratching her head about the lack of food in the territory of the Church of the Two Moons, the meaning of this sentence is enough to make her leave the church and call her a free "god" like Neuesas.
"What a pathetic sense of self-esteem." Hermarita mocked her friend wantonly, "That's fine. The Church of the Two Moons is in their hands, and it will soon become a target for people from another world. Aren't you going to get out of here and find a place to take refuge, Naio? ”
"No," Naio sighed, looking down at Hermarita, "I can't go to Elta. The list of the Western Expeditionary Army was already in their possession, and according to that armistice, I was one of the war criminals. Besides, my husband is still trapped in the hinterland of Elta, and may have died in the rebellion, or he may have become the mastermind and been taken to another world......"
At this point, the young single mother's tears flowed down her face again.
"Don't worry." Hermita pulled out the handkerchief from her coat pocket and began to wipe away the tears of the woman in front of her. "I'll ask Neu Isas this question separately in my letter next time, but at least he didn't say it in the first letter, so I don't think there's a definite answer. The killing or execution of the enemy's commander, according to the current atmosphere of the Elta Empire, should be praised and publicized in any case, right?
"Hope...... Hopefully. Naio shook his head, and the jade beads on his face suddenly swayed and scattered everywhere. This negative man doesn't know where to be happy. Now that you're still alive, shout out so that I can hear it! Now that you're innocent, why are you hiding in a corner? ”
Not far behind her, the infant began to cry in response—as if in response to its mother's cries of disappointment.
"Alright, alright. The children are scared to cry by you. Hemarita was not used to dealing with this kind of human coldness, so she pointed to the small wheelbed with the baby's swaddling clothes, and asked Naio to hurry up and coax the child. Today, a month later, this is the same seaport, and I will see you here. May the true God grant you and me good luck. ”
"May God bless you and me with good luck." Naio replied choked up.
Outside the harbor, it soon darkened, and the two sailboats sailed in parallel, one after the other, and soon parted ways in front of a buoy.
Time passed quietly for a month. As Elta expected, satellite images of the daily overhead show that there are significant fluctuations in both imports and the number of ships entering and leaving the port.
The letter of acknowledgment attached to the armistice never reached the Elta from any of the ships. As for the delegation? That's even more outrageous. According to the merchants of the Bi-Moon Church, who arrived at the ports of Elta in early February, it seems that there is a lot of repair work going on all over the Lancas Islands, and a lot of workers have been recruited, including a few boatmen.
"The signs are so obvious that I'm starting to admire your intelligence skills. You don't even need to go out to sea to look around the archipelago to get so much information......"
"It's over, Mr. Neuezas." The officer who had brought him the papers replied. "But our ancestors have a saying, 'Those who are good at attacking dwelling above the nine heavens.'" With such an advantage, if you can't do this kind of thing, then it's a shame. ”
"Then they put on a posture of resistance, and you really want to destroy it?" Neaesas asked tentatively as he put the folder back in his bag. "Please answer truthfully, although I will not hinder your actions, but it is a place where I have been in too long and have some memories, I will still advise you to be lighter."
"The reason why the Lancas Islands are rich is because of the sea." The officer pointed to the conclusion of the analysis on the document and repeated it word for word. "After taking control of the whole world, the Bimoon Church can easily obtain a large amount of supplies by sea. And from the arrival of supplies, that is, the arrival of ships in satellite camera pictures, we can analyze the current domestic situation of the Bimonthly Church. ”
"You're going to do something about shipping?"
The officer nodded, took out another document from his briefcase, and threw it in front of Neuisas: "This is our first phase plan. We will not brutally and directly destroy the Resisters like the Church of the Two Moons, and we will use force when we believe in peace, but we will escalate the conflict with limited conditions. ”
The cover of the document reads "Confidential" in small lines. On the top of the small line of red letters, there is a big machine-typed Chinese character: "Bimonthly Church Maritime Breaking Combat Plan".
"In the first phase, we will randomly block 40 percent of the traffic in the church every two months." The officer flicked the cigarette in his hand and played with it in his hand. "If this doesn't bring the Bi-Lunar Church to its knees, we're going to increase it by 20 percent every month until the entire island nation doesn't get even the slightest supply from outside. But at this stage, we will not be close to within a hundred nautical miles of the archipelago's coastline. ”