Chapter 70: The Return and the End (II)
Chapter 70: The Return and the End (II)
In February 1349, nearly a year after descending into this world, the "angels" who had sent down their grace and great mercy to save the world suddenly announced that since mortals had been given a way to save themselves, they had finally completed their merits and were about to return to heaven to serve God.
Suddenly hearing this news, all the medieval European Christians who had just escaped the catastrophe, especially the new teachers and students of Hogwarts House gathered in Oxford and the subjects of the Kingdom of England, were all shocked for a while, and some even knelt down in front of the angels, begging and retaining.
But because of the insistence of these angels, they had no choice but to accept this unfortunate fact after repeated persuasion by the Englishmen to no avail.
ββ¦β¦ Before we leave, we have something to say. Doraemon said solemnly with a straight face, "...... You must remember. β
The Englishmen who were gathered around the angels immediately assumed a posture of listening to each other, and pricked up their ears one by one, for fear of missing a word.
ββ¦β¦ As I have said before, the reason why this great plague has come to the world today is, fundamentally speaking, because mortals have done evil and deviated from the right path...... I remember that at the beginning of the world, there were rats in the barns and fields of man, and God said that there should be cats, so there were cats in the world that suffered from rats. And God said, "You must love the cat as you love me...... The first people were indeed humbly taught to treat cats as if they were important members of their family, thus freeing their house from rat infestation. But as time goes by, more and more fools have completely forgotten God's commands, not only have they forgotten the teachings of the Lord, they have blasphemed His laws, they have stopped caring for the cats that help you catch rats, and they have dared to frame these sacred beings as monsters, and torture and kill them by the most cruel means and without any reason
Even so, the Lord Almighty did not give up on you, but repeatedly issued oracles to warn the world to change their ways, but they were all ignored, and finally the terrible plague was brought from the east by rats...... If you hadn't gone against the grain and killed the cats, then these holy beings would have been able to destroy the plague-spreading rats and keep the shadow of death out of your homes. It is only because of your foolish sins that you have brought about your own death that this plague is so terrible, but it is also the right punishment to harvest the lives of those who have strayed from the right path."
Doraemon wore a pair of cat ear cards, and talked so eloquently with a very godly temperament, and said to everyone: "...... In the distant past, God Almighty destroyed mankind once with a great flood to punish the grave sins of the ancients. To this day, the great plague has come to wash away your sins...... If you want to avoid such a divine punishment coming back to the world, you must follow the teachings of the Lord and never misinterpret it in the slightest. For this reason, I have given to you these texts that record the Righteous Path, and I am here to make a covenant with you to re-circulate these forgotten Righteous Paths. At that time, when you have completed your merits, you will be able to come to Heaven to see God and enjoy His blessings......"
ββI have to say that in order for the cats in this world to no longer suffer the bad luck of being tortured and killed for no reason, Doraemon can be regarded as doing his best.
All the devout Christians of England were recognizable to the above precepts, and respectfully accepted the illustrated booklet of the Ten Commandments of the Cat Worship Society by Doraemon, and did not dare to have any objection. Immediately, while lamenting that "without the guidance of angels, where is our future", he consciously and voluntarily grasped the tension, and took advantage of the last bit of time to offer various parting gifts to the angels like flowing water6.
For those gifts such as gold, silver, jewelry, and woolen fur, Doraemon and Wang Qiu naturally smiled happily - no one would be disgusted with money. Those homespun cloths, live chickens, and small handicrafts can be reluctantly accepted, and the right is to be a native product of the countryside. But the problem is that the gifts given by some ordinary citizens are really unacceptable...... Looking at the large pile of all kinds of "starry sky factions" in front of them, especially the pair of dead fish eyes that were blind to death, all the traversers couldn't help but freeze their minds for a while, and they were silent.
Hey, how much do you English people like to look up at the stars?
ββ¦β¦ Ahem...... Don't always look at this British traditional famous dish with colored eyes, this is just the aesthetic difference between the East and the West, the color, flavor and something are put aside first, just from the eyes of the fish that reveal the remembrance of life and the resentment of fate, it can be seen that there is indeed a realm, except for the British chef, who chef can make such a deep feeling into a dish? β
Levi tried to excuse the person who had offered the thing at first, but in the end, even he couldn't help but burst out laughing.
In addition, the teachers and students of Hogwarts House were relatively well-informed, and they had sporadically heard the "angels" complaining about the stargazing faction, thinking that the "angels" might not like to see the fish head, so after brainstorming, they made their own zuΓ² out and dedicated it to the angels to see off the stargazing faction to improve it - changing the fish head upwards to the fish head down, so that the fish tails with different postures poked out of the pie crust
ββSeeing this improved version of the famous dish "Loach Drill Tofu" looking up at the starry sky pie, Wang Qiu was even more speechless for a while.
However, this is not the end of the matter - in addition to the "traditional content" of using whole fish as the stuffing "stargazing pie", the royal chefs of Queen Joan have further brainstormed and presented the angels with a "royal royal stargazing pie" with whole chick stuffing. And very creatively buried the whole chicken body into the cake, only a pair of bifocal black spasmodic chicken paws poked up to the sky, like the hands of the buried alive stretched out to the sky...... Coupled with the gray-brown crust that has been baked for some reason, it looks like a flock of street plague chickens stuck in the swamp in the posture of upside-down onions
ββ¦β¦ Hey, what a bunch of poor creatures who can't be seen, Britain really deserves to be the leader of the dark cuisine world since ancient times."
Looking at this chicken claw that seemed to be still dying, Wang Qiu could only sigh helplessly, "...... What to do with these things? β
When everyone heard this, they all showed disgusted expressions and took a few steps back one after another. In the end, Doraemon stood up, pinched his nose and put these "medieval British delicacies" into his four-dimensional space bag, "...... Forget it, I'll put it away, anyway, there are fish in it, and I can feed the stray cats on the streets of Tokyo, and maybe give it to the homeless people who sleep in cardboard boxes under the bridge......"
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In addition to offering gifts and food, the people gathered in Oxford did their best to give the angels the greatest send-off ceremony possible in the shortest possible time - in the cold wind of early February, still mixed with sporadic light snow, these pious medieval Europeans changed into their best clothes in their homes, gathered on the shores of Lake Yu at Hogwarts House, knelt down on one knee in front of the departing "angels", and at the same time, led by the church choir, sang in unison the "farewell song" that the great writer Boccaccio rushed out overnight:
ββ¦β¦ I beg God to listen at this time, I am not trying to steal your divine power.
At this moment, I beg God to listen, and all life in the world is unique.
Even though I wasn't chosen by fate, I still begged the gods to give me hope.
Even though I know that there is good and evil in the world, I would like to give hope to those who ask for forgiveness......"
-- As ordinary people in the middle and lower classes of society, they do not know the inside story of the transactions between the "black-hearted angels" and the "powerful people of the world", but only know that these holy "messengers of the Lord" have sent boundless divine grace to save themselves from the plague, so their hearts are filled with the purest gratitude.
At the same time, the cats who were brought to this world by Doraemon also gathered around and played a messy meow chorus.
Rao had just been whetted by the dark cuisine of British characteristics, but in the face of such a pure and strong sense of pious gratitude, Mr. Doraemon, who had now recovered all his debts, was still deeply moved.
ββ¦β¦ Hey, in such weather, cats should honestly curl up in the kotatsu, right, and these people are also ......"
Squinting his eyes at the group of cats under him whose fur was blown by the wind and snow, and the crowd of people who were also shivering from the cold and had blue cheeks, Doraemon couldn't help but sigh and said, "...... Anyway, we've made some good changes in the world, right? β
Speaking of this, Doraemon suddenly turned his head, looked into Wang Qiu's eyes, and said with a very tangled and complicated expression.
- Although he was once blackened under the weight of loan sharks, in terms of his heart, he is still the innocent and kind cat.
Therefore, after returning from a long-awaited festival, he naturally felt a little guilty about some of the things he had done in this world before.
ββ¦β¦ Yes, Doraemon, our arrival and what we have done have made their lives different from what they used to be, and some places may have suffered some losses (at least half of the gold coins in all of Europe have been lost), but the benefits they have gained will definitely be more
First of all, the modern hygiene concepts we teach them can greatly reduce their chances of contracting all kinds of plagues, improve their quality of life, and prolong their life and healthy time. Secondly, the high-yielding crops of the Americas and the high-tech crops of the future world that you have collected for them will not only enrich the tables of the European aristocracy, but also provide sufficient food rations for the poor who are half-hungry all year round. Then, the [Encyclopedia of Magic] you left behind can not only save them from the threat of almost a qiΔ plague within a few years, and the various attack magic written on it, but also help them to repel the invasion of various foreign enemies in the weakest period after the plague... Even though they had to endure a temporary sacrifice, how could their society not have a bright future after so many good changes? β
Hearing Wang Qiu's words of relief, Doraemon couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and the little guilt in his heart dissipated a lot.
However, what Doraemon didn't expect was that Wang Qiu actually lied on this issue
In fact, according to Wang Qiu's usual pessimism and the so-called Murphy's Law, the answer he came to on this question was actually that the fate of the future Europe, which had been completely derailed by the traversers, was definitely worse than the original situation after the Black Death......
First of all, although the traversers saved many people with compassion and holiness, and selflessly taught them a lot of advanced medical and health knowledge, but because of the compound plague weapons released by Doraemon in retaliation, they only killed more people - the death toll in Europe during the Black Death era rose from the original 25 million to about 60 million in one go, and the total population of the whole of Europe was only 80 million......
It took nearly two centuries for Europeans to multiply and increase their populations after the Black Death, and it took them all to restore the total population of Europe to the level of the eve of the Black Death around the time of the Age of Discovery. And now in the face of such a terrible mortality rate of up to three-quarters, I don't know that it will be relieved until the year of the monkey -- whether it is civilization or society, its foundation is composed of population, if there is no population at all, or the population has plummeted to the point where it is difficult to recover, then no matter how advanced and civilized this society is, what future will it have?
Secondly, the high-yield crops in the Americas collected by [Random Gate], as well as several high-tech crops in the 22nd century that Doraemon took out, can certainly be said to be very good and powerful. However, after the Black Death, the contradiction between man and land in Europe had been greatly alleviated, and in many places there was no such contradiction - with the death of farmers and landlords, the most fertile farms had become wilderness, and even if the farms and pastures were given to the peasants for free, no one could be found to receive them, so where would there be any population pressure? In this case, there is no shortage of food in Europe, and no matter how good the high-yield crops are, in addition to a new variety of tricks on the table, it is also dispensable for them.
Third, the spells recorded by Doraemon in the Encyclopedia of Magic are not user-specific to "European Christians only". Any spell that could be used by the European Christians was also used by the Arab pagans, and only they could recite the words of the incantation fluently.
Although in today's context, the first use of anyone who gets a spell book is to heal and save people, it will soon turn into murder.
In fact, according to information gathered by the Reconnaissance Satellites, it seems that Jewish traders are now quietly smuggling genuine or pirated copies of the Spell Manual, and then selling them at high prices to Arab tribes that occupy North Africa and southern Spain, whose territory also happens to be within the Encyclopedia of Magic's range of validity...... At that time, in the Spanish Peninsula and the Mediterranean, I am afraid that all kinds of magic battles will be staged frequently
Of course, even if there were no black-hearted merchants to teach the secrets of the incantation, just by virtue of the frequent wars of the European noble lords every three days and five days, there would have been a lot of post-apocalyptic scenes in the post-plague European land, in which fireballs and lightning would have been rubbing each other's fireballs, knocking out human brains, and destroying cities and castles - thus further reducing the already scarce European population.
In this way, since the destructive power of war has increased many times in an instant, and people's consciousness cannot be changed for a while, it is already very good that poor medieval European civilization can not regress in the midst of such frequent destruction, and where can there be any progress and development?
Fourth, the "healing magic" on the [Encyclopedia of Magic] is indeed very good and powerful, but precisely because these "healing magics" are so good and powerful, they are bound to rob the jobs of doctors and pharmacists, leading to the complete abandonment of European medicine. After the [Encyclopedia of Magic] was damaged and invalidated, and the "healing magic" no longer existed, that scene was really ...... Well, it's only a few years at most, and hopefully the European doctors who have changed their careers or eaten their old ways haven't forgotten their expertise - but their skills stink enough that their patients will die if they can't be cured.
Fifthly, the absolute authority of the Catholic Church, which should have begun to be shaken, has been greatly strengthened - of course, this is only a long-term effect, not very important, and in fact, even in the original history, the ideological confinement of the Church has lasted for a very long time.
Finally, as the saying goes, "the higher you climb, the worse you fall", it is precisely because of the various wonderful spells of the [Encyclopedia of Magic] that every European in this era has brought too many miracles and conveniences, and when one day suddenly they are forced to lose it, the social backlash and madness that leads to it will be unimaginably powerful. Never mind these devout European Christians who now willingly kneel before Doraemon and respectfully "listen to the hadiths", treating these cats, who were still monsters last year, as if they were their own ancestors. But when the "magic power fails", God knows how many unlucky cats will become the target of anger, thrown into the fire by the angry people, or hanged and drowned
In short, in Wang Qiu's eyes, the world has already appeared as terrifying scenes as the collapse of the Mayan civilization and the fall of the Roman Empire - of course, the consequences may not be as severe as the above two, but at least Cheng DΓΉ, like the collapse of the Soviet Union and the drastic changes in Eastern Europe, is certainly inevitable.
And the launch of a new round of cat abuse campaign, as the [Encyclopedia of Magic] gradually reaches the limit of use, I am afraid that it will also enter the countdown.
However, even if the Europeans in this world have such a bleak future (and the future of the cats seems to be just as bleak), for Wang Qiu, an undisciplined reincarnator who "leaves after making money and brushing points", if he wants to be responsible for the future of every plot world that has descended, it is really a burden that life cannot bear. Therefore, what he can do now is to fool his companions with nice words, and at the same time laugh at himself in his heart, "What will the world become after I leave...... It's my business, hahahaha".
So, with these thoughts in mind, Wang Qiu waved his hand to the send-off for the last time, and then calmly opened the "Book of Crossing".
ββ¦β¦ It's finally over...... Pay 50,000 points to return the participant Levi to the real world, and now all are out of the "
Then, in the eyes of many farewellers in Oxford, the angels instantly turned into divine white light and disappeared forever from heaven and earth.
As devout Christians who had personally experienced the "charism" of God, they all remembered this moment and could not forget it long after......
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E: According to the latest statistical survey in Japan, the proportion of underage girls who have had at least one "aid exchange" has risen from a quarter in the nineties to about half of the current level. In addition, the level of fees has also dropped significantly...... I really don't know what to say.
And that's just selling yourself for money...... In the future, I am afraid that I will have to go to elementary school or even kindergarten to find a virgin β.
In addition, the cheating rate of married women in Japan has also reached a new high, reaching about 40 percent, and even as high as 80 percent in some areas
In general, the Kansai region is more conservative, and the folk customs are a little more rustic. The Kanto region and Hokkaido are a bit unsightly.
Hey, it seems that the campus and urban obscene β fantasies depicted in Japanese H comics also have some factual basis.
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