As the protagonist of today's special celebration, the newborn was placed in two golden áng, which were carried onto the ceremonial platform by the priests, but when I said the áng, it was only for the height ratio of the Atlanteans, at least in my eyes, those two golden little collapses were already about the same size as Pandora's single chuáng.

The two newborns had just been placed on the rectangular platform where they were baptized, and before the high priest could step forward, Lìlìna was the first to burst out, and this one suddenly became a little excited

The guy ran to the side of the baby, Chuáng, and looked inside, and then ran back with a very abrupt exclamation, crying and mourning.

"What's wrong?"

I looked at Lìlìna in surprise, she was the one who was excited to hold the child just now, how can she look dead after glancing at others?

As a result, lìlìna looked up at me at a forty-five degree angle, with tears in the corners of her eyes, and muttered aggrievedly: "Mother, you were born bigger than me, how can you hug me?"

Everyone spoke in unison, and they were all speechless for a moment.

Only Sandora can calmly analyze: "Because they grow very fast, it is recorded in the database that the new daggers of Atlantis learn to walk independently and accept the tests of the natural environment within a few days, and they grow almost ...... after they are born."

Sandora was doing science for us, but I noticed that there were two little ones next to me who also had strange faces.

Pandora and Viska involuntarily clenched their little fists, their eyes stared blankly at the sky at a forty-five degree angle, looking like they had lost their goals in life, it seemed that it was indeed difficult for these two little guys to accept a baby who was born bigger than themselves, lìlìna is really an excellent thunder soldier, I should be glad that it was not Pandora who ran over just now, these two little madmen who have almost broken through the sky with their resentment about height.

lìlìna also found the depressed expressions of the two one-meter-two soldiers, and hurriedly comforted them: "Don't be sad, I saw it just now, those two little guys are bigger than me, and they seem to be a little lower than you......"

I looked at Lìlìna's height, well, one meter and nine, not even one meter and one, then her statement is really a bit convincing, but this little girl is also a tragedy, and her life for decades before and after finally ended up at one meter and nine, no wonder she can have a common language with the Pandora sisters.

Naturally, Viska was greatly encouraged, and ran over with bright eyes, and I looked behind me with tears in my eyes: Is this poor little fellow reduced to the point of finding superiority in height from the baby?

As a result, before my tears could end, Viska ran back with a sad face, hugged my big tuǐ and rubbed it fiercely, rubbing and sobbing while rubbing, and said: "Woo woo, it's a finger higher, or a little finger put horizontally......"

Me: "......"

Lìlìna was still able to make a double attack at this time: "Oh, then if you take into account the growth rate of these two children I just felt, they will be older than you in another forty-eight hours........."

This girl who doesn't open any pot and which pot deserves to be beaten on the ground by Pandora and Viska together!

The black-robed giant with a silver-white mask looked at this side with particularly innocent eyes for a while, until Sandora reacted and gave them a signal to continue the baptism, the priests were relieved, and the baptism of the newborn officially began.

First of all, the bathing holy water, that is, the kind of high-concentration radiant water that can make half of Washington become a real-life reproduction of Radiant 3 in twenty minutes, several assistant priests put a huge egg-shaped water tank in the center of the baptismal table, I found that this sink was actually transformed with some kind of life-support cabin, and there were still various interfaces and mechanical structures on the surface. They felt that this thing had given new life to the first Atlantean artificial god in ancient times, and that it also had the ability to reinvent newborns.

The trough was filled with radiant water that emitted a faint blue light, and the two priests picked up the newborn (a brother and sister, incidentally, here) from the ornate áng, quickly recited a few prayers in mid-air, and then lowered the two children into the trough.

At this moment, I also saw those two new beings that are very special today: they are indeed bigger than lìlìna.

But apart from being very large, they are otherwise tǐng like normal children, such as fat limbs and wrinkled faces, except that the two smooth newborns show a composure that does not match their infant status. They did not cry, they did not make a fuss, they were only seventy-two hours old, but they were able to open their unusually attentive eyes, and to look at everything around them alertly and challengingly, and when they were caught by the priests, both children made the same surprising gesture, that is, they bent their arms to protect half of their faces, to protect their heads, and at the same time did not interfere with their observation of their surroundings.

It's the fighting instinct written deep into the genes that is awakening.

Are these two bear children still babies? Did the Atlantean childhood end at the third sunrise of his life?!

I complained strongly, although I also knew that there were more ferocious "ripening" than this, such as those Imperial soldiers who could grab the cannon and smash people's yards as soon as they jumped off the production line, but after all, one was a mass-produced Xiling Apostle, and the other was a carbon-based creature born in a normal mother's womb, and the latter's exaggerated growth xìng was too concerning.

Immediately after the newborn was thrown into the holy water, the presiding priest began to read the blessing prayer, which was not long, and seemed to have a lot of freedom to play, for I found many things that were in line with the situation today. The priest first welcomed the two newborns to this world, and then announced that they were the first pair of babies in Atlantis after the beginning of the new century, which was significant, and then the priest announced that under the witness and blessing of the "great gods" and the three chiefs, the two newborns would thrive and that they would become the best warriors in the shortest possible time, and there were basically words around these things, not so much prayers. Rather, it is a very pragmatic birth record and future life plan. After speaking these prayers in less than a minute, which I thought might be spoken for half an hour, the priest who presided over the ceremony paused for the scepter in his hand, and suddenly shouted three words in a high-pitched and strange voice: "Haragon! ”

I suddenly noticed that the atmosphere between the several Atlantean priests who participated in the ceremony changed slightly, and even Ares beside me instantly became serious. Well, even though I could only see his chin slumping, I thought it should be a particularly serious one......

"Haragon!" The two assistant priests came forward from the line behind after the celebrant's voice had fallen, and they repeated the three words of unknown meaning in a loud voice, while one of them held a large rectangular box, made of metal, with some curvy huā patterns on it, and I don't know what it contained, but I could see that the box had been trembling slightly in the assistant priest's hand, as if it contained a living thing.

lìlìna stretched her neck and looked at the two big boxes curiously, I think if it weren't for my sister pulling it, she would have rushed over to taste the saltiness at this time, and even the mercury lamp was not separating, and while twisting on my shoulder, she muttered: "A child is born so seriously, huh"

I felt something, raised my shoulders, and the little puppet immediately hugged my head with a tight nose: "Hey! Do! It's going to fall! ”

"Then I will give you a welcome ceremony like this?" I chuckled and said, "According to the specifications of the imperial princess, why do we have to set up more than 20,000 tables full of Han people to celebrate your birthday, and then go through this process for you by the way?" ”

The mercury lantern said that I was joking, but I was immediately fascinated, and then began to lower my head and bite my scalp.

By this time, the two assistant priests had placed the large box next to the sink containing the holy water and the newborn, which was only about ten centimeters deep, and two sturdy "babies" (I'm embarrassed to say they were babies, bigger than lìlì!). Curiously, he sat up straight from the water and poked his little head out of the sink, when he saw the box in front of his eyes, and he invariably let out a vigilant look.

"There," Lìlìna seemed to sense something, and covered her mouth and exclaimed in a low voice.

The box was suddenly opened, and after two or three seconds of silence, two agile black shadows sprang out from inside!

Before I could react, the two shadows had fallen into the sink, followed by a low hissing and a wrestling in the splash of water.

"Harragon is a venomous python," Ares bent down and explained in a low voice, "This python only lives on Mount Olympus, and we see it as the spirit of the Holy Mountain and the instructor of newborns........."

"I'll go! You're playing with your life! This time even Lìlìna couldn't help but scream, I reacted faster than she did, and was about to rush over the spot, but Sandora grabbed my arm and pointed to the sink that had been quiet for a few seconds.

Yes, it was quiet, the screaming and fighting lasted less than a few seconds in total, so fast that I even thought that the two children who were only three days old had been killed in seconds, but the parents of the newborn had been looking at the sink with a smile, and it didn't seem to be killed in seconds, and when the fight was over, they looked at each other, came to the edge of the tank, and fished out the "Haragon" poisonous python that had been torn into several pieces.

"Healthy kids! Long live the gods! ”

The priest presiding over the ceremony raised two python heads that had almost turned into flocculents, and a high-pitched voice came from under the silver-white sè mask, and the blood that was still flowing from the python sprinkled on the black sè's sacrificial robe and his mask, and the other priests also raised their hands and repeated loudly in a strange tone that was uniform and first suppressed and then raised: "Healthy child! Long live the gods! ”

The cheers began to spread from the priestly procession, until the other Atlanteans who were nearby or onlookers also raised their arms and cheered, the whole scene was as strange as the bloody totem festival in ancient times, and the biggest discordant note at the ceremony scene of me and several other people, my sister had to give me a * from behind, and whispered: "What a big man, it's okay." There is no positive type. ”

By now, this ritual of the Atlanteans seems to be coming to an end, although it is short, but the process just now has been full of blessings, baptism, and tests of three meanings, many onlookers, especially the group of monsters, were stunned to understand the ferocious folk customs of Atlantis, a powerful man-made civilization, especially the last step, they actually used deadly poisonous snakes to test whether the child is healthy In fact, they tested not only the child's health problems at all, but also the offensive and combat instinct of the newborn, These are all things written in their genes, just like newborn babies know how to avoid the flames, they know how to destroy their enemies and how to protect themselves from birth.

So what happens to children who don't have this ability?

"Die on the baptistery, the holy water tank is just the coffin of this failure" Faced with my question, Ares said frankly, "not fighting and killing, it is a genetic defect for the Atlanteans, which means that the genes given to us by the gods have been badly mutated in those failures, but this kind of thing is rare, only three babies in history have had a battle gene with a hidden xìng, and those babies have not been able to get off the baptismal altar." Enemies infect the weak among us, and babies who cannot pass baptism will be more likely to become enemies controlled by the abyss when they grow up, for their good. ”

"Don't do this in the future" I took a breath, still feeling the need to say something on my nose, "I know that this custom was normal in that situation back then, because you would have perished if you weren't so fittest, but now that the empire has your backing, this bloody baptism is better to be avoided." ”

Ares paused for a moment, thinking for a long time, I thought he would stick to his opinion, but in the end. The man nodded anyway, and replied angrily, "Then let's change our customs." ”

It seems that I underestimated the influence of the words of the "gods" on these Atlanteans, and their customs were based on the will of the gods, so when the meaning of the gods changed, they immediately changed their customs, and the whole race was fanatical!

Sandora's gaze still fell on the priests, who had now been wiped clean and put back on their own áng, with the young parents accompanying the two children, and the other priests washing the blood stains from the sink with spices and new holy water. I watched it for a while. Shandora said suddenly: "Children with hidden fighting genes do have the right to survive, but this baptism ritual can be preserved, so that the next generation will not forget how to fight." ”

After saying this, she smiled at me again: "The matter of the Mobrado civilization has made me a little sensitive, but it is not a good idea to be too protective for such a race that is born to fight.

I looked into Sandora's eyes and immediately understood her thoughts, and then nodded: "It's the same, and this baptism method is also considered an intangible cultural heritage, right?" Shall we set up an incineration ,........., uh, the Ministry of Culture will put the relevant things? There are so many worlds under his name, and there are many strange and ancient customs. ”

Sandora rolled her eyes and ignored me, only Lìlìna kindly whispered to me: "Boss, the Ministry of Culture doesn't care about these things." ”

The baptism of the newborn has ended, and we have done nothing but watch, but I still feel that tǐng is satisfied, after all, it is equivalent to seeing the novel and exotic customs, but lìlìna doesn't think so,

She always felt that she didn't mix up one thing and really didn't want to go, she still remembered that before setting off she said that she wanted to bless the newborn with the goddess herself, although now it seems that people don't expect this at all, she still remembers it, so when the two newborns are about to be taken down, this little girl suddenly pops out.

She called Jingle Bell, who was struggling to save the owner's hair from the mercury lamp above my head, and announced that she was going to give the child "a loving blessing full of the gifts of the Goddess."

Several Atlantean priests immediately showed some crampedness to Lìlìna's request, they respected the little girl, who was only one-third of their height, because she was a friend of the "great god", but they did not dare to agree to the other party's request, because the teachings of the Atlanteans did not allow them to accept any of the remaining gods, even if this god usually lived in the pocket of the great god, and more importantly, the great god was watching in front of him, and at this time he let a newborn receive the blessing of a different god, It's a bit unreasonable.

"Let her go, or she'll mess with me for a day."

I saw that even Zeus looked down in embarrassment, and shrugged his shoulders at them.

Lìlìna cheered and led her goddess forward to bless her.

Imya may be the day of religious revival...

I didn't do anything, I just followed the people to dance the gods!

"I'll go, no matter how many times I look at it, this kid is big enough" lìlìna had a jingle on her head, lying on the edge of the "baby chuáng" that could be a single chuáng for herself, looking inside" Ding Dang also glanced inside, and nodded very agreeably:". Ding dang looks at everyone tǐng big ......"

Everyone: """!".