Chapter 495: The Saint Doesn't Die
As if aware, Kiara glanced back in the air. Qiu Xuan couldn't tell the emotion, but the model of the gun she held in her hand could be seen at a glance.
"Feeling embarrassed?"
A demon whispered to her all the time, "It's time for the long-lost choice again, you know, every time we walk on a fork in the road, we always have to face some choices." β
"But, Aph, that's not an option for you, is it? You already have the answer in your heart, and you know that you will do it sooner or later, but you are just giving yourself a comfortable excuse in the hesitation you think at this moment, telling yourself that you are very entangled. β
"I have a question."
Qiu Xuan rolled down her throat to keep her voice from sounding so dry. "You just got the 'glory' so easily, won't the above suspect you?"
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Heckel frowned slightly, "Who is the glory?" β
Qiu Xuan felt tired, "You've already fallen off the horse, why do you still want to play this with me here, Zhao Yigui?" β
After saying that, he grinned twice very quickly like a psychopath, "Okay, I've finished laughing for you, please don't laugh anymore, my brain hurts now." β
Hecker was stunned for a moment, then turned his back and laughed, his shoulders shaking up and down.
Qiu Xuan looked back at Chiara again, most of the combat power in the Central Church was still in the city hospital and had not had time to come back, even if he retreated in time, there was still a certain distance from the hospital to the Central Church.
And Chiara is trapped in the encirclement of the hunters, even if she is a saint, there is nothing she can do at this moment under the absolute number of people.
No one saw it, and Pope Yemo clenched his fist so hard that his nails were digging deep into his flesh, and he didn't even realize it. After being silent for a while, he suddenly pulled Qin Jiuyuan, who was already about to rush out, back to the wheelchair with a tough force that no one expected, the latter locked his brows and wanted to resist to stand up, but when he moved, he forgot that his left leg was temporarily unable to stand up, and he fell back into the wheelchair.
"Jemoth!"
The man's knuckles on the armrest of the wheelchair were so strong that they were white, "I know what I'm doing, don't stop me!" β
"You know what a fart!" Few people's attention was focused on this side, and Yemo scolded Qin Jiuyuan fiercely. After scolding, he suddenly exhaled as if he was desperate, and looked up at the two Central Church cabinet elders next to him.
Those two elders were also one of the few people who did not vote in favor of the deposition of Qin Jiuyuan in the voting meeting just now.
"We don't have a choice, Al."
An elder with gray temples came over and took Yemo's place and lifted the wheelchair. "Not only did Hecker want to split the Hunters Bureau with the Central Church, his goal was to destroy the church from the beginning. Now that Red's gang of wallgrasses are on Hecker's side, we can't afford to sit back and wait any longer while the situation doesn't get any worse. β
The elder, who couldn't see clearly, said.
"We have spent our lives communicating our allegiance to the Father, and now is the time for our Father to 'see' this land as it is."
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It turns out that the director of the hunter bureau, Lidegar, is also a pawn that has been pushed out.
Zhao Yigui is an old bastard, and even Qiara will choose to execute Lidegar by himself. He had already planned everything from the very beginning when he learned of the "Seraphim Plan", starting with the conjoined twin sisters of St. Canaan, and everything was a deliberately set trap to lure.
It can be said that it was precisely because of the death of Lidegar that he and the Hunter Bureau had a chance to carry out the work of planning to the final net. And the people, including Chiara, are the big fish that he carefully induces to introduce traps.
As Zhao Yigui said just now, Qiu Xuan is now standing at a fork in the road of choiceβagain, as countless times before.
Killing Chiara was the only chance for these executioners, after all, the fate of the possessor of this trial ground was now unknown, so that was to say, with only the only Dominator present, there was almost nothing that could hold Zhao Yigui back.
So their only option is to kill Chiara before everything happens, and then complete the main story of "Stop the Crime", and then take advantage of the moment the portal opens to quickly hide back into a desperate situation, and if they are lucky enough, they may still have a chance to survive.
"I've never looked forward to the concept of 'next time' that much." The Heckel-faced man stood there and laughed for a moment, he took the hand that covered his face, the face underneath was still unfamiliar, but what was revealed in the gray eyes was familiar.
"When I went back that day, I wondered, when was the 'next time' we should meet? You know that, Afu...... This name is really not suitable for you, I don't understand why you have to call this, if you really want to cover it up, I think the name Seraphim is very good, what do you think, Qiu Xuan? β
Qiu Xuan felt that she was numb now.
It felt a bit like the tiredness that had relaxed after the initial 100,000 points of vigilance, or some kind of sage time state. Anyway, honestly, she wouldn't be as surprised as she was when she was in federal prison when she saw death in a place where she shouldn't have been.
It is not so much that death is chasing her, but that death has been waiting to see when she will die, and from time to time it appears on the road to add some food, just because of the fear of a wild beast in the process of chasing its prey, happily watching the other party be trapped and lose blood and die little by little.
If a desperate situation selects a torture master competition, Zhao Yigui is definitely the first place, and behind him is Lu Xingzhou.
Two dogs and things are a raccoon dog.
Qiu Xuan wiped the gun in his hand, the gun was also taken from Ya's corpse, it was the light weapon they had obtained from a priest in Weber's spiritual world before.
"But you've also been guiding me to kill Chiara."
Qiu Xuan didn't draw his knife, just quietly rubbed the firearm. "For you, if Chiara dies and we complete the trial and get out, it's definitely not the outcome you want to see. So going back to it, then it's very likely that your previous statement that 'saints don't die, thieves don't die' is just a kind of sophistry, and you want to see me kill the wrong person and fail the trial. β
Zhao Yigui had a smile on the corner of his mouth.
"Is it possible, I guessed that you would think this way, so I deliberately told you the correct answer to clear the level, and then saw how you didn't dare to choose because of doubt?"
Qiu Xuan: "Is it possible that I prejudged your prejudgment of mine, so I deliberately said that, in order to know whether that statement was correct or not." β
Zhao Yigui: "It's still possible, I have long guessed that you will guess like this, and I guess your guess, so I deliberately told you the wrong answer, so that you will never be able to go back to a desperate situation." β
Qiu Xuan's face was expressionless: "So it's actually my prediction that you predicted my prediction......"
"What the hell are you doing?" Long Sanyi and his party had been standing silently beside them as a background board for a while, and they finally couldn't hold back. They didn't know who Zhao Yigui was, and they had long been suspicious of Qiu Xuan's abnormal behavior. "Afu, hurry up and kill that holy woman, you should be on the same side as us, right?"
Stand on the same side.
Qiu Xuan hadn't heard this description for a long time, her throat rolled, her eyes swept over Zhao Yigui's face, and stayed on Qiara's body.
The saint convulsed and coughed up a mouthful of bloody phlegm from her mouth, and trembled her fingers to reach for the firearm beside her.
Before the finger could reach it, a foot in a stiff marching boot reached over and stepped on her finger. Qiu Xuan could even hear a clear sound of dislocated joints, and the soles of his shoes were crushing on his fingers, as if he was stepping on an insignificant insect.
"Sa, Laffer......"
As if noticing that the gaze was on her, Kiara lifted her blood-soaked eyelids and laboriously glanced at Qiu Xuan's position. She asked:
"Am I doing everything wrong?"
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Chiara heard what Zhao Yigui said just now.
Qiu Xuan pursed her lips.
Chiara certainly didn't do anything wrong, and the sins themselves may have been wrong, but there was never a definition of what was truly "wrong." Qiu Xuan is not a moral nihilist, and she cannot say that she agrees with the extended statement that "saints do not die, and thieves do not stop", but she is not completely opposed.
Saints are artificially flaunted things, benevolence and righteousness are, etiquette is, loyalty and filial piety are, and all the so-called good virtues that human beings can have in a positive sense are like this. And once the "saints" begin to formulate the definition of "saints" according to their own standards of goodness, and to flaunt benevolence, righteousness, and etiquette, then those who violate these virtues and exist are all "thieves".
Although he said that, Qiu Xuan also knew that there was a strong sophistry and inducement in Zhao Yigui's previous discussion.
The most "correct" understanding of this sentence is that it is intended to tell people not to oppose the morality and behavior of benevolence itself, but to oppose the promotion of the concept of sainthood and benevolence. It is not, as Zhao Yigui said, to completely shift the meaning of "black" and "white" to an opposite position, and then use the inertia of thinking to make everyone think that "saint" is doing wrong.
But she also knew, she herself understood, that it didn't work at all. After all, the main line of the proving ground is not to ask them to write a dialectical question to hand in their homework, the proving ground only admits "right and wrong".
If the conditions for clearing the main story are really to determine that Chiara is "wrong", then no matter how clearly she explains, it is useless.
"I heard you say before that in the presence of God the Father, the Holy Maiden can do what she thinks is right."
Qiu Xuan squatted down suddenly, she tried her best to keep her eyes level with Qi Yala, who was lying on the ground vomiting blood, and there was immediately a hunter next to her who wanted to come up and pull away, but was stopped by Zhao Yigui. The latter had a familiar nervous smile on his lips, as if he was interested in all the struggles that were taking place at the moment.
"I don't mean to comment on your beliefs, but if you still think you're doing the 'right,' go ahead." Qiu Xuan lowered her eyelids, "I heard someone say something before, I forgot the source, and now I will borrow it for the time being." β
"It's called, 'Your viciousness and kindness are not pure enough, so it's painful.'"
Kiara's pupils constricted for a moment.
"I always thought of you when I saw the Ball of Tightrope and all the previous Seraphims." Qiu Xuan said, "But then I found out that it was not, when I heard you say, 'Let's rebuild a faith.'" In my eyes, what you have done has gone beyond the definition of mere viciousness or goodness, but you are still miserable. β
"Chiara, I don't know if your Father is real. But I think it may not matter to you and those people whether or not there is a definition of the God of Light, because you can be reborn with the faith in a destroyed land on your own, whether or not. β
Qiu Xuan licked her back molars, "So, at this moment, you can pray to your Father to your heart's content." β
The hanging fingers shook gently, and the pure black ring at the heel of the finger exuded an amazing heat. Qiu Xuan suddenly got up at a speed that no one could react to, her lips moved imperceptibly, and at the moment when she revealed three bytes, the whole person rushed out like an arrow off the string!
A giant monster with a dead gray skin appeared out of thin air, instantly dispersing the hunters' heavily defended formation.
The church light gun in his hand has long been missing, Qiu Xuan's palm flipped, and two twin knives suddenly appeared in both hands, attacking Zhao Yigui who was standing in place at a speed that was indecipherable to the naked eye.
The latter raised an eyebrow in some surprise, and then the look on his face became even more excited.
"What, do you want to do it with me?"
He also flipped his palm, and the silver-white liquid metal shifted and floated between his hands, and in an instant, it solidified into an identical short knife that imitated the same knife.
Twin knives against twin knives, and the sound of metal grinding in the ears resounded in the empty hall. Zhao Yigui curled the corners of his mouth, and for a while, his eyes were red from excitement.
"Have you really figured it out, Qiu Xuan?" He laughed out loud, "Turning your face on me for an answer with a 90 percent chance of being wrong?" It's not like your style. β