Volume 5, Chapter 21: The Cross and Stigmata II
As Lu Ren had predicted, Jesus' substitution ceremony went smoothly, without any demons or humans coming to disturb him...... I mean, of course, the first half.
Near the end of the crucifixion process, the executioner raised the world-famous Longinus spear and pierced it deeply into Jesus' ribs, and then, with the splattering of holy blood, Lan Xiaoqian's exclamation suddenly came from the formation of the East American team,
"Intix, what's wrong with you?"
Hearing this, everyone hurriedly looked at Intix, and suddenly, one by one, they also involuntarily gasped!
Around Intix's forehead, a circle of tiny holes suddenly appeared, just like Jesus wearing a crown of thorns, and the positions of her palms and ankles also appeared penetrating wounds, gushing blood, as for her ribs, although she was wearing clothes and could not see whether there were similar wounds poked by Longinus's gun, but just looking at the large red blood stains on her white dress, everyone felt that this guess was only eight or nine true.
"I ...... What's wrong? ā
I have to say that although Intix looks cold at first, she is actually a very natural girl at heart, until this time, she can still put on a blank and innocent expression and ask everyone,
"I don't have much......"
She didn't seem to realize the horrible wounds on her body!
"...... you," Lan Xiaoqian asked tentatively, "Aren't you in pain?" ā
"It hurts?"
Intex tilted her head and thought for a moment before asking, "Why should I hurt?" However, the man on the cross must have hurt a lot......"
Lan Xiaoqian turned her head and glanced at Lu Ren, who was silent for a moment before slowly stepping forward. Grabbing the little girl's palm and holding it up in front of her, the two of them looked at each other silently for a few moments through the round wound in the palm of her hand, and then Intex remembered what she should have done at this time......
Then, there was an earth-shattering scream!
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"As for the cause of the stigma, I think I should have a rough guess." Lu Ren rubbed his ears that were almost deafened expressionlessly, and explained lightly, "I should have mentioned before that this Jesus is a very famous religious saint in our world, and his followers are almost all over the world. For more than a thousand years. In the course of the spread of the religion he founded, there have been some very extreme cases of the will affecting the body, that is, some very devout believers will inexplicably experience the same symptoms of injury and bleeding at the location of the wound of Jesus' crucifixion in the process of prayer. This is also known as ...... Stigmata! ā
"But......" Lan Xiaoqian hesitated for a moment, but couldn't help but question. Intix: Before entering this world. Like us, we don't know anything about the existence of Jesus as a person, let alone be very religious, but why does she have stigmata on her? ā
"Two possibilities."
Lu Ren raised two fingers, "First, either Intix belongs to the kind of rotten good person who is rare to see in thousands of years, and when she sees Jesus injured, she empathizes with herself. Extreme compassion has the potential to have a similar effect to extreme piety......"
Everyone looked Intex up and down in unison, and then shook their heads in unison, "It's not like ......."
"Then it can only be the second possibility......
Lu Ren shook his head disappreciatively, as if he didn't take everyone's denial to heart at all. "Because of her vivid memory, when she replays the scene of Jesus' crucifixion over and over again without distinction in her mind, it will create an unforgettable experience, and if she is too impressed, it may cause the same traumatic ......"
Don't look at Lu Ren as an otaku, but before entering the space, he was actually very interested in these strange phenomena, and he also worked hard, so it was also decently explained at this time.
"Not only that, but all extreme feelings should be able to react physically, such as the famous real yĆ n, oh, well, I don't know if you have this real yĆ n in your world, I'll talk about it, that is, while scratching the wrist of a death row prisoner with a fine piece of porcelain, let him listen to the sound of dripping water, make him think that his veins were cut, so that in the end, although his skin actually had no wounds, he still died...... It's the same thing. ā
"Oh......"
Everyone said that they understood, after all, they are also residents of the future world, and this knowledge is not much more esoteric than common sense for them, and they didn't expect it before, but they didn't know about it, thinking of this, it undoubtedly made Lu Ren, who wanted to show off his knowledge, feel very frustrated.
Sighing in his heart, Lu Ren said again, "However, after all, the stigma of Intix appeared after witnessing the crucifixion of Jesus himself, and this world is also a magical world different from mine, and her stigma may have unexpected effects......
Hearing him say this, everyone could only be silent for a while, after all, in this kind of matter, even Lu Ren, an "expert", couldn't say for sure, and others had no room to speak.
After a long while, seeing that Jesus on the cross had completely died, Lan Xiaoqian broke the silence and asked, "What are we going to do next?" It seems like we won't be able to complete our mission until he comes back to life three days later......"
"Let's split up."
Lu Ren stood up, his eyes looked at the grief-stricken Virgin Mary who was holding the body of Jesus not far away, "The newcomers will go back with Maria later, and help us find out information while taking care of them, as for us main combat members, continue to chase demons, or go to the angels to take some tasks, if you really have no choice, you can assassinate some guys who you look like big shots, in short, you must earn reward points that match the side story before returning......"
Lu Ren didn't expect that it was his own words that opened the bloody prelude that made the big figures in the entire Passion world panic, three days after Jesus' death, even ordinary people near Jerusalem were telling stories about a group of demon hunters, saying that these people who didn't know the origin of the story in order to avenge Jesus, took out more than ten strongholds of hell in the human world in one go, and even some people who made deals with demons could not escape their doom - I won't tell you that these people are actually the powerful people who were killed by Lu Ren and them, Some were indeed related to demons, others were purely unpleasant to Lu Ren - but who cared about that at such a sensitive moment?
And just when Lu Ren didn't know that he had become a legend, outside Jerusalem, a group of parties finally blocked Pan Sen's way, in the past ten hours, this cunning demon escaped Lu Ren's tracking again and again, but unfortunately, after fighting with the angel, he was injured too strictly, and he had lost the ability to completely get rid of the mental power scan, so although he tried his best, But in the end, not far from the cliff of the crucifixion, the main players of the East American team made dumplings.
"Demons! Accept your fate! ā
Shui Yunyu brandished the sword of flames that originally belonged to Pan Sen, and said very arrogantly, I don't know why, this broken sword that was originally burning with blood-colored flames, since it fell into her hands, it has gradually turned into the same pale blue as the tooth of the dark fire, and it seems to be a curtain of flame waterfalls between the swings, which is very beautiful.
"Resigned?" Pan Sen sneered, "You're not afraid that I'm dying and fighting back, and I'll pull one or two pads?" Let me live, everyone looks good, otherwise I will inevitably die today! ā
"The fish is dead?"
Lu Ren glanced at him indifferently, "This should be the second time that someone wants to break the net with me, and the net didn't break last time, I don't know if your luck can be better this time?" ā
Pan Sen was furious, but unfortunately, before he could say anything, Lu Ren had already waved his hand lightly,
"Up!"
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
A flood of gunsmoke and flames instantly submerged the entire hillside......
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Three days later, the first rays of morning light penetrated through the cracks in the boulder into a certain tomb outside the city of Jerusalem, and then, in this golden light, a shroud wrapped in the corpse quickly deflated, as if the corpse inside was slowly disappearing, except for the blood stained on the shroud, which still remained as if it were as new as new, constantly flashing with a sacred color, faintly outlining the outline of a man.
Little by little...... Finally, when the shroud was completely spread out on the stone platform where the corpse was placed, a pair of resolute eyes slowly opened next to the stone platform, it was a curly-haired man with dark eyes and a see-through wound in the palm of his hand, he knelt behind the boulder blocking the tomb door with a solemn face, and his whole body seemed to exude a divine radiance.
Jesus!
Jesus, the Risen Son!
However, just as he slowly stood up, ready to push open the stone door to redeem the world, the boulder took the first step to move away by itself, and then, a few lark-like chirping girls ran in like this, looking like a big grin, and immediately destroyed the divine atmosphere on Jesus, and what is even more strange is that they didn't look at the resurrected Jesus, but went straight to the shroud next to him, By the way, he also surrounded this magical shroud.
After a long while, a young man with an indifferent face slowly paced in through the door, and when he saw the petrified Jesus, he asked with a little surprise, "Huh? You're not gone yet......"
Jesus: "......" (To be continued.) )