Chapter Twenty-Four: Lies

When Tang Shuxing drank the so-called holy water, Herm's face was full of surprise and was about to stop it, but Tang Shuxing raised his hand and signaled him not to come forward, and the priest's face was full of hypocritical smiles, expecting Tang Shuxing to fall, and some of the disciples behind him looked at it with envy, thinking that Tang Shuxing would be the first person here to go to heaven to enjoy the good things.

Time passed minute by minute, Tang Shuxing was still standing there, Hem was surprised at this time, but the priest's face became more and more ugly, he wanted to say something, but he didn't know what to say, he couldn't think of suitable words to explain in his head, and finally had to point at Tang Shuxing and said: "You are a demon!" The devil drank the holy water to reach heaven! ”

Tang Shuxing threw the cross to the priest: "This is holy water, isn't it?" ”

The priest nodded.

Tang Shuxing asked again: "If you drink holy water, you can go to heaven, right?" ”

The priest continued to nod.

Tang Shuxing asked again: "Is holy water also able to subdue demons?" ”

The priest nodded, but immediately realized what was going on and shook his head, then froze, not knowing what to say.

Tang Shuxing smiled: "You said that I am a demon, and I drank the holy water method to ascend to heaven, but the holy water is to subdue the demon, I drank it and didn't do anything, how do you explain it?" Is this holy water expired? ”

The priest's face became more ugly, and he subconsciously turned his head to look at the disciples behind him who were looking at him with suspicious eyes, and could not find a reasonable explanation for a while.

Herm stepped forward and shook his head, "You're a liar, a god, there's no heaven at all." ”

"Yes!" Tang Shuxing refuted Herm's words at this time, and Herm was startled and turned his head to look at him.

Tang Shuxing stepped forward and pushed the priest away, looked at the group of disciples and said: "Heaven is created by yourselves, to live, to change the world for yourself and others is to create heaven, my words are finished, how to choose, you decide." ”

At this moment, the priest suddenly took out a grenade from his pocket, held it high, and glared at Tang Shuxing.

Herm and his men immediately raised their guns and ordered the priest to put down the grenade, while the group was in conflict, not knowing who to trust.

"You are blasphemers! You are demons! It is because of demons like you that people will lose their faith, and without faith, there will be wars! You all deserve to die! Die! Go back to hell! The priest shouted, his face no longer with the hypocritical smile he had before, but with utter rage.

Tang Shuxing stepped forward and grabbed his hand pulling the grenade, the priest was stunned, stared at him, and the hand that held the pull ring trembled slightly.

Tang Shu said: "You are afraid of death, if you really think that death can solve all problems, you would have died a long time ago, I don't even think that you were a clergy before, I am afraid that many years ago, you were just an ordinary little person, struggling to survive, and finally survived, but found that the world has changed, all the efforts you made before were in vain, so you began to be angry, and at the same time remorseful, thinking that the world has become what it is because of people's lack of faith." Yes, I agree, people should have faith, they should have spiritual support, but that shouldn't be all, isn't there a saying that God helps those who help themselves? Don't you think it's ridiculous to attribute everything to the gods, it's the act of a coward, an irresponsible act, whether it's good or bad, to feel like it's up to you, that's what God decides? Don't you think you can? ”

The priest's face was flushed, and he couldn't say a word for a long time, because Tang Shuxing had analyzed most of his background correctly, before the start of the all-out war, he was a salesman, struggling for many years, and finally became a supervisor, although it was also very hard, but he didn't have to do everything himself, he only needed to manage his subordinates, and the more people below sold, the more he earned.

Then he got married, had children, and lived the kind of life he had wanted, but on that Christmas Eve, when he was standing with a bottle of beer and enjoying the rare silence of the year, he heard that the war was mentioned on the radio, and then a full-scale war broke out, and the Shangdu Defense Army began to march all the way north, from China to Mongolia, and from Mongolia to Russia.

His life collapsed in an instant, there was nothing left, and then his house was ransacked by the thugs who broke in, his wife was seriously injured and finally died in the hospital, he led his daughter to flee in all directions, although it was hard, but it was safe. But very, the Resistance began to appear, but her daughter, who was in her early teens, joined the Resistance and got weapons, but unfortunately she didn't officially go to war yet, and she burst her head because of a gun.

The priest had a complete mental breakdown, and in the days after his daughter's death, he stayed in the church every day, listening to the priest's admonitions, and finally believed that all this happened because people had lost their faith, and it was his duty to get people's faith back, but he no longer believed in the Lord he had believed in before, he only believed in God, the God he had made out of himself.

The priest's dull eyes also let Tang Shuxing know that he was right, and he continued: "You instigated these people to commit suicide and go to the so-called heaven, in fact, it is only out of a kind of inner revenge, because you have always been very selfish, you only have your own home in your eyes, you only know that you have lost your wife and daughter, you are silent in pain, and you have completely forgotten that other people have the same experience as you, you are not so that they can go to heaven, but you feel that you have lost your wife and daughter, and they should also accept the same fate." ”

The priest looked at Tang Shuxing, gritted his teeth, and blood flowed out of his teeth and down the corners of his mouth, but he still didn't dare to pull the grenade.

"Herm, take these cultists away, they should understand by now." Tang Shuxing said in a low voice.

Herm stepped forward and asked his men to take away the crosses of the cultists, and none of them resisted, most of them took the initiative to take the cross and throw it on the ground, and then walked out into the fog with a loss.

After everyone left, Tang Shuxing let go of the hand that grabbed the priest, looked into his eyes and said, "Now you can choose to go to your heaven, I can't save you, your heart is dead, but I think you should atone for your sins." ”

Herm drew a gun and pointed it at the priest's head: "The best way for him to atone for his sins is to die!" ”

Tang Shuxing tilted his head slightly and said: "That's your business, it has nothing to do with me, if you want to kill him, kill him, if he wants to commit suicide, he will commit suicide, I just don't want the innocent person to die." ”

After Tang Shuxing finished speaking, he turned around and left, and at the same time said into the intercom: "Let's go, keep moving forward, there are still dozens of kilometers to go from the war zone, and we still have a long way to go." ”

After the three of them left, and after walking away, Herm put the muzzle of the gun on the priest's forehead and asked, "Is there anything else you want to say?" ”

The priest looked at Herm and smiled, "Are you married?" Do you have any children? ”

Hem only shook his head slightly, not answering his words.

The priest glared and said, "If there is, you'd better solve their suffering, because the world is destroyed, and they will die in pain, and they can only accept God's ......."

Herm pulled the trigger, and the priest fell in the head, shattering the entire back of his head with the force of the covers.

After the priest fell, Herm and his men watched, and a few of the disciples in the distance looked back with dull eyes.

Tang Shuxing in the distance also stopped, looking at the disciples who were looking at the door of the church. He could see from the eyes of many people that they were hiding in this church like snails, thinking that they could avoid all the evils that were happening in the world today without listening or looking, and in fact, many people might know that the priest was a liar, but what did it matter? What they need is a place for self-deception, and if one person is not enough, then a group of people. In the end, they will find that everyone is pitiful, and they are not the only ones who want to die, how pitiful is it to die alone? Let's all die together.

Hem stepped forward, holding his gun, and shot a clip at the priest's body, as if he was still angry, and when he was about to use the butt of his gun to smash it, he was pulled by the soldiers beside him. The soldier just shook his head at him and said nothing, because it was useless to say anything now, and even if he smashed the priest into meat sauce and the person he instigated to die, he could not be resurrected.

"The priest is not to blame." Gu Yan, who returned to Tang Shuxing's side, whispered, "The culprit is the damn war." ”

Ji Kefeng slowly walked forward: "Then who started the war?" It's people. ”

"It's Reinhardthy." Gu Yan said lightly.

Tang Shuxing shook his head in the back: "Before the all-out war, there was still war, but there was no war in the environment we were in at that time, this kind of thing emerges endlessly, even if there is no war, the era of peace does not mean that everyone has a good life, and there are many similar cults, in fact, most people are really not for the belief of that cult, but to find a group to talk to, and voluntarily accept brainwashing, because it is too tiring to live." Many literate and knowledgeable people also participate in such organizations, and it does not mean that they really believe it, they just want to find a group to vent their dissatisfaction. ”

Gu Yan said coldly: "But not having faith is also a bad thing. ”

"There are many kinds of beliefs, but the terrible thing is that almost all human wars in history have been caused by one faith." Tang Shuxing felt more and more tired, "Let's not talk about religious wars, let's take World War II as an example, conquering the world is the belief of a madman, he spreads these beliefs, and others follow and kill, the so-called ** is the same, it is also for faith." Then there are the wars of religion, the Huguenot wars in France in the 17th century, the nine crusades of the Crusades, jihad in Arabia, and the so-called holy wars, all of which have to do with faith. But no matter what kind of religion or belief it is, I think that the ultimate goal should actually be good, but unfortunately it has gone astray, just like those doctrines. ”

"Are these things useful?" At this time, Gu Huaiyi's voice came out of the intercom.

Everyone stopped, pressed the intercom, Tang Shuxing was stunned, and asked: "Gu madman, the matter has come to this, don't pretend to hide anymore, come out, tell clearly, what do you want to do." ”

Gu Huaiyi on the other end said lightly: "I'll be waiting for you nearby." ”

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