Chapter 48: Voting with Your Feet
The current Bi-Moon Church not only has to leave its followers from their homes and leave Lancas, but it is also full of lies in its external propaganda. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoThe former represents the decline of hard power, while the latter marks the end of the soft power of the Bilunar Church.
Looking at their communication like ordinary people, Peterson only felt that a certain string that had been taut somewhere in his heart suddenly loosened silently, and he collapsed in the cabin of this submarine like a salted fish.
Of course, all the refugees from the Lancas Islands who hung their lives on the grounds that they could eat a bite of food were of course afraid of the legendary man-eating devil, but they naturally had a trace of doubt in their hearts about the Bilunar Church that could not get food, and after they witnessed the prosperity of Hilzi, this little doubt was instantly torn apart into distrust of the Bilunar Church's regime.
The legitimacy of the regime is ultimately determined by the people themselves. After all, the people on the land ruled by the Church of the Two Moons will not shout "The prince will have a kind of peace" every time they are oppressed to the point that they can no longer bear it, they will only vote with their feet - but such a primitive skill can destroy a regime from the root in the end.
Among the refugees, the more devout believers testify to the truth, the more shocked they are, and the more determined the hatred after emptiness and confusion - the Chinese in this process only play the role of a silent exposer of the truth, but they do not even say a little superfluous, do not add a little oil and vinegar.
Only the truth can move people the most, and it is useless to say anything else. When Peterson was taken to the helicopter deck of the liberation ship by the Chinese soldiers, he saw the scenery on the deck again, and his mood was like the vastness of the sea, and he suddenly opened up at that moment.
Lies, lies, all this is a lie, what can you do if you are deceived? He is no longer the vile priest and bishop. The clergy are all over the land, and then he is left to fate, and all he worries about at the moment is his wife and children's family.
In the helicopter taking off, Peterson, as a passenger on this vehicle for the first time, rarely closed his eyes and began to fall asleep, a scene that surprised the agents and soldiers of the Fifth General Staff of the surrounding guards, but it was reasonable to think about it.
The range of the helicopter on board the Ao Guang was not enough to cross the boundary between the near and far seas, so the group was sent to the Liberation Ship "Military Medic Japimenskin", which was carrying out the review of the blockade of the island trade in the Lancas Islands, and then transferred to the task force by the AW-609 tiltrotor aircraft on board.
(Japimenskin was a heroic military doctor who saved hundreds of wounded in the Battle of Garcia, the imperial capital, in the Liberation War of the Elta Empire, but later died of sudden kidney failure caused by overwork in the northern region of the direct subordinate area. )
It was also on the Japimons Gold that Peterson, the former coastal defense officer of the Bilunar Church, underwent a medical examination necessary to maintain his physical safety under strict control, and ate a highly nutritious liquid diet, during which time an interpreter from the Lancas Islands (a trusted subordinate of Ofe Mondridge) explained to him what the people of the other world were doing around him, which really turned the coast defense officer's understanding upside down.
As for the rest of the Chinese, they did not say a word about Peterson—it was none other than those who approached the refugees on the port of Hirzi to find jobs and families for them, the first refugees to set foot on the continent of Elta, and the officers and soldiers of the Western Expedition who repented of their blood debts. In this place, where the language barrier is not understood and the devil is seen, practice is the best publicity.
Nearly seven hours passed between Peterson boarding the AW-609 tiltrotor and his arrival at the task force. In the course of seven hours, Peterson's wife was terrified and departed with her family to join her relatives on the island, which was far less important to the fate of the stormy church regime in the whole of the Lancas Islands than the decision of a task force commander.
With the assistance of satellites and high-altitude long-endurance unmanned communications airships, the hydrological and geological information of Banba Island from repeated surveying and mapping on the Ao Guang arrived at the task force earlier than Peterson. It was during the time that Peterson was still flying freely above the clouds that the task force command officially issued an operational order, using the "Peterson Beach" on Banba Island (this name was filled in later, at this time it was indicated by a pure numeric code name) as the battlefield where the first shot was fired at the task force landing bridgehead.
Under this order, the local information that Peterson had known to him was particularly important to the task force's operations. Of course, the leader of the task force did not hesitate to believe that after being channeled, Peterson would reveal everything he knew, and that he would probably join the Task Force as a liberator with a stronger will than the knights, warriors, and magicians of the Church.
But the development of events was not what they expected. Peterson, who was in the reception room, did not accept the guidance directly, but asked his own question with a cold eye:
"Tell me, what happened to the 300,000 troops of the Western Expeditionary Army?"
"All of them were wiped out, and only a few remnants of the defeated army returned to the Lancas Islands." The officer who received him on the Chinese side shook his head, he and other colleagues had seen too many such devout believers. "In addition, the air ships that marched to the mainland after the Western Expedition were all sunk by our air combat power, and the witnesses of this incident are all by our side. Do you feel the need to ask her to come out and explain it to you? ”
This set of arguments is all prepared - after those "postcards" spread to the land under the rule of the Bimoon Church, many people of insight have begun to put a question mark on the propaganda of the church - the sinking of the empty ship is an indisputable fact, and the church has covered up the reason for its sinking, and has not even been able to make up a reason, but only ordered a complete cover-up, and the ins and outs of this are worth scrutinizing.
Of course, the two living gods in the hands of the Elta Empire and China are also on the liberation ship of the task force, and if Peterson wants to take a look and be sure of the situation, it will not be difficult to call them out. It's just that to the surprise of everyone present, the coastal defense officer shook his head.
"I don't know any of those military masters, bishops, high-ranking magicians, priests, and living gods."
The answer to this question is unexpected, yet plausible. The events attended by the living gods on the Lancas Islands are usually held on the main island, and the Banba Island is not a good place as a "remote area" at all, so it is understandable that Peterson has not seen the living gods in detail.
"Then I'll show you the evidence of the destruction of the empty ships and the Western Expeditionary Army." The officer nodded, and without saying a word, he pressed the remote control of the projector - for many former soldiers who had served in the army of the Bilunar Church, their eyes could tell what was real and what was false, and the images taken from the real battlefield were undoubtedly the most authentic evidence.
The camera camera vibrates and swerves from the white clouds—the swift passing warplanes tear the image apart, and the stark scene is the familiar to many Ertas and Lancas—beneath the clouds, flames continue to fly upwards from the burning empty ships, while the burning wooden frames and planks fall down.
It wasn't anything else, it was the sunken empty ship. As soon as the picture turned, after the battle of Garcia, the imperial capital of the Elta Empire, the captured officers and soldiers of the Western Expedition were under the surveillance of the soldiers of the Elta Army, and the scene of laying down their arms and holding their heads and surrendering was also recorded by the camera, and there was even an Elta Army soldier nearby who made a V-shaped gesture to the camera while the camera camera was aimed at him, and the picture on the projector was frozen at this moment.
"That's enough." It was Peterson's lowered head that made a muffled voice in the silence. "Is it true that the church has deceived us?"
"If I had to be honest, yes." The officer clasped his hands on his chest, realizing that something big was about to happen, and he only needed to push the last hand. "It is clearly stated in the canon, 'Divine servants, clergymen, and believers are all the crystallization of the wisdom of the gods, and they should share their sufferings and blessings under the same star dome, and they should not be arrogant to their parishioners because of their own position', as for whether the church has abandoned you ordinary people who have contributed to the church and shed blood, I think you should be able to think quickly and come to a conclusion with your own mind."
"Why?" Little by little, Peterson's voice turned into a thousand-pound torture, pouring into the ears of the living god Norse Isas and others who were also listening next door, "We abide by the canons and use the canons as rulers to correct ourselves in everything, why do those living gods still abandon us?" Why? Why? ”
His unfettered fist kept slamming into the wooden table in front of him, so strong that it smashed the fireproof wooden table pressed by the plank into a small pit - such venting was also common in the eyes of the relevant Chinese personnel, and because they all knew who the actual target of the venting was, they would not interfere with this extremely violent move, but just watched quietly from the sidelines until all his years of repression were released.
"Okay, then, you 'devils' went to great lengths to bring me here, and gave me food to check my body, don't want me to die, what do you want me to do?" After punching the unfaithful and unrighteous gods to the heavens, Peterson took two deep breaths, looked directly at the other party and asked the question that both sides wanted.