Chapter 39: Everyone Dies
By the time they reached the prisoner van, Roger and Fangs were already in the corner.
The two of them were already very afraid of Lin Yi, and after Lin Yi slaughtered the Amorites' army and returned with the smell of blood, these two guys were suddenly even more afraid.
But Jakun still looked the same strange look, leaning calmly against the prisoner cart, the only difference was that the half-white, half-red hair grew to the length of a shawl.
"The smell of blood on someone's body is getting stronger."
Jia Kun had a smile on his face, looking at Lin Yi in amazement.
"But...... Everyone dies once. β
"Everyone needs to serve."
Lin Yi answered, and then looked at Jia Kun's reaction with interest.
Sure enough, the smile on this guy's face disappeared for a second, but only for a second.
In the next second, the expression on Jia Kun's face regained his composure again.
"Someone is definitely not from Braavos."
Jaqun said, shaking his head.
"Why?"
Lin Yi asked curiously, could it be that there is anything wrong with this sentence?
But Jia Kun didn't respond to Lin Yi immediately, he looked at Lin Yi and asked softly.
"Does anyone know what that means?"
"Which one?" Lin Yi said casually, "Do all mortals die?" β
"Yes, all men need to serve."
Jaqun responded, two fingers touching his eyebrows.
Lin Yi looked at him thoughtfully.
Sure enough, there is a special doorway!
However, Lin Yi remembered that there didn't seem to be strict requirements for this kind of gesture in the play, right?
Lin Yi frowned, he suddenly remembered that the captain who took Arya to Braavos in the play also seemed to have made this gesture.
Don't?
Lin Yi suddenly understood.
In Braavos, everyone believes in the god of a thousand faces, so these two phrases don't need to be embellished.
But if you go out of Braavos, the faces of believers need to add some special ways to identify each other.
To respond to "All Men Need to Serve", you need to touch your eyebrows with two fingers, and to pronounce "All Mortals Have Death", you need the special coin engraved with [Valarmorghulis] that Jaqun gave to Arya in the original book.
Of course, this should be a way of identification that is only needed among strangers and should not be used between familiar people.
But what if someone replaces someone familiar?
Lin Yi's consistent bar thinking subconsciously raised questions, but he still didn't really ask.
"Why are you telling me this?"
Lin Yi looked at him coldly.
"This is the will of the God of a Thousand Faces."
The look on Jia Kun's face did not change in the slightest.
"Everyone needs to serve."
"Oh?"
Lin Yi frowned, there are many gods and goddesses who appear in the play, but the most mysterious one is undoubtedly this so-called god with a thousand faces.
"I have no interest in your god."
Lin Yi shook his head.
"But God is interested in you."
Jaqun said softly.
"You have given so much life to God with your own hands, that the hungry God has drunk the feast of blood."
"Oh?" Lin Yi snorted coldly, "Why don't I sacrifice you to your god too?" β
"Everyone dies."
Jaqun responded again with this sentence.
ββ¦β¦β
Lin Yi was a little depressed, he found that these two sentences were really cold sentences, no matter what the dialogue seemed to be usable.
"Death is a gift from God to mortals." Jaqun smiled, "But God's gifts come in countless forms, and someone is the most special one. β
Ha?
Shall I kill or am I a gift from the God of a Thousand Faces?
Lin Yi felt a little ridiculous.
"All death is a gift from God, and all killing is a sacrifice to God."
Jakun spoke.
"Who the hell are you?"
Lin Yi frowned.
"Someone is just a servant who serves the God of a Thousand Faces."
Jaqun smiled.
"But someone seems to have many identities, Lin Yi, a wizard, a Kazan, an alien wanderer......"
ββ¦β¦ How do you know? β
Lin Yi frowned, but he was only more surprised than flustered in his heart.
Most of the power of the God of Thousand Faces is displayed through these Faceless Beings, and these Faceless Beings do not pose the slightest threat to him.
"Someone's eyes will see, someone's ears will hear, someone's insight into the truth." Jaqun said.
Insight into the truth......
Hearing this, Lin Yi suddenly remembered something that he had been ignoring.
Obviously, his body was only eighteen years old, but Jia Kun always called him a certain (male) person, and never called him a boy.
This is a very unusual thing for a Rothra who follows tradition.
Rosethians try to avoid mentioning names or using the first or second pronouns when they speak, and they consider it indescribably vulgar to call themselves directly, so they always use "someone" instead.
This way of talking can become very confusing without using accurate third-person pronouns.
"Skins can't limit the soul." Jia Kun seemed to see Lin Yi's confusion, "Someone has insight into the truth. β
It's kind of scary.
The corners of Lin Yi's mouth twitched slightly, and he pulled out the stainless steel sword on his waist without hesitation.
"Qiangβ"
The clash of steel rang out, and the chains on the prisoner cart were cut in half.
"Come down."
Lin Yi held the stainless steel sword in his right hand and looked at Jia Kun expressionlessly.
ββ¦β¦β
The smile on Jakun's face froze faintly.
"Someone is just a servant who serves the God of a Thousand Faces."
Jia Kun stepped out of the prisoner car and seemed to be explaining to Lin Yi.
Lin Yi was slightly stunned, and then his face was a little strange.
ββ¦β¦ Are you also afraid of death? β
"Death ends longing, death ends pain, and death is the final destination." Jaqun shook his head, "Someone dies too, but not here. β
Thinking of the Faceling in his memory, Lin Yi roughly understood.
In the teachings of the Faceless One, God has a thousand faces, and the God in everyone's heart is different, and the God of a Thousand Faces has different titles in different places.
He is the black goat of Kohor, the stranger of the seven gods is him, and even the red god of the red-robed woman is him.
In their eyes, all the gods in the world are actually the side of the gods of a thousand faces.
Death, on the other hand, is a gift from the god of a thousand faces to mortals, and in the black and white courtyard of Braavos, the most merciful gift and relief is a painless death.
Therefore, the god of a thousand faces, is also the god of death.
In the play, Arya rescues the three Jaquins in the prison car, saving them from being burned to death by the fire.
So Jaquin tells her that she saved three lives from the Red God, so she has to return them.
At that time, he still wondered why the servants of the God of Thousand Faces still believed in the Red God, but now Lin Yi understood.
If it is burned, it is a sacrifice to the Red God, to the Lord of Light, and if it is drowned, it is a sacrifice to the drowning God.
Who is the creditor has nothing to do with faith, but with the law of death.
And he was a swordsman from another world, and he died at his hands...... So who's in charge?
If all death has a corresponding deity, what about the god of a thousand faces itself?
Lin Yi seemed to have figured out something, he looked at Jia Kun with interest, and the steel sword in his hand shook slightly.
The hairs on Jia Kun's neck rose suddenly, and there was a slight wry smile in his expression.
"Someone heard the hourglass murmur."
But in the end, Lin Yi still withdrew the steel sword from his waist.
"Let's go."
Lin Yi said lightly.
Jia Kun was slightly stunned, then frowned, and looked at Lin Yi's expression seriously.
"Don't you have insight into the truth, can't you tell if I'm telling the truth or not?"
Lin Yi had a smile on his face.
Jaqun shook his head.
"It is not a person who sees the truth, but a god of a thousand faces."
"Really?" Lin Yi didn't bother to bother with his inconsistent words, "I know that only death can be exchanged for life, since I spared your life, how can you repay me?" β
Jia Kun bowed slightly when he heard this, and the dirty and tattered prison clothes could not stop the elegant and calm temperament.
"Someone listens to it."
Lin Yi smiled, he looked at Jia Kun and said.
"I don't need you to pay it back now, this name will be stored with you first, and one day in the future, my disciple will come to you, and she will tell you this name, you know hers, right?"
"Lovely girl, very talented girl."
Jaqun let out a long sigh and smiled wryly.
"Looks like someone is going to have another debt on them."
"Don't you have a lot of debt~"
Lin Yi smiled and patted him on the shoulder, and a stainless steel sword appeared from nothing in his right hand.
"Someone is grateful again."
Jia Kun calmly took the steel sword, took two steps back, bowed again, and then turned to leave.