Chapter 1164: The Exile's Dilemma

In the Blue Star, the Cathedral of the God of War in the capital, the portal has been opened, and now the Jingle Five are saying goodbye to the "children". Monina and Eva muttered and chatted for a while, and finally seemed to leave some parting gifts, so they reached out and took out a small pendant in their arms for a long time: "By the way, Eva, I'll keep this for you as a souvenir, and I won't know when I come back next time." ”

Eva suddenly showed a look of surprise, and carefully took the ordinary-looking pendant, holding it on her chest as if holding a rare treasure: "Goddess, thank you for your gift, I will definitely treasure it......"

Lei's excited beard trembled: "Oh, today is really a glorious day, the church once again has an epic holy relic!" ”

There is no doubt that although the pendant was taken out by Monina, Ray has already made up his mind to offer it as a sacred relic of the church, and sooner or later, the pendant strung with cotton thread will be respectfully placed in the sanctuary by the devotees of the Blue Star to be worshiped by all the people, and the four large words "Glass Factory No. 5" on the base of the pendant will shine in the sun of the Blue Star.

I've been messing with the five members of the Protoss for a long time, I'm not surprised by this kind of thing, religion is such a strange thing, on the timeline, it has an incomprehensible amplification effect, a mediocre and even ridiculous beginning, after the amplification of time and faith, it will always become strange, just like a pile of broken copper and iron dug out of Europe in the past few days when the little crow ate a bad stomach, and now it has become a holy relic of the Raven God Sect, It is said that only the cattle of the rank of the chief of the Church Knight are qualified to use them when exterminating demons, but in reality? Before the little crow sharpened his beak with those broken copper and iron, those swords were thrown at the market and sold by the pound.

Monina's act of leaving a souvenir for Eva immediately reminded Ilson, and several gods who were not very good at it began to toss on their bodies, as if they wanted to leave something behind, and Ilson said as he took it: "Wait a minute, I have something good here—or Monina is smart, she thinks carefully, and she has to leave something behind when she finally comes over." That's right, I found it! ”

Eventually, Ilson pulled out a keychain, Lynn undid the bracelet on her wrist, and Uncle Kense's bosom pulled out a blank notebook (presumably for the bookkeeping when he was going to keep it for grocery shopping?). The three immortals stuffed all these things into Eva: they knew that no matter who these gifts were given to, they would definitely be regarded as holy relics of the church in the end, so it was better to keep them directly to the saints of the church.

According to my observation, the original source of these holy relics that are about to be offered to the worship of all people should be Yiwu Small Commodity Wholesale Market, that is to say, from a certain level, Yiwu Small Commodity Wholesale Market has taken a solid first step on the long march of human beings to conquer other worlds......

I really want to tell them that these things can be sold in containers in a place called Yiwu, but after thinking about it, I still didn't say: the people of the blue star are not stupid, they can see at a glance what these gifts are in essence, but this does not stop them from worshipping a bunch of glass beads and small books as holy objects, this is religion, the religion of Chiguoguo, they worship not material, but the idol behind the material. I was reminded of Ilson's argument that "an artifact is an artifact because it is used by God", and said that it was indeed an irrefutable truth. Speaking with facts: Isn't Longinus just a wooden stick with an iron tip?

All eyes were on my shoulder, and there, too, was one of the five main gods of the Blue Star: Clank. This little thing kept blinking at everything in front of her with curious eyes, and her little feet were flicking around in the air, until her four team members turned their eyes over, and she pointed to the tip of her nose with hindsight: "Ah, Ding Dong also needs to prepare a gift?" ”

Bing Tis snorted beside him: "Nonsense, it's hard to come here, don't you leave anything for the children before leaving?" How can you be a god? ”

"Oh." Clankle nodded, then looked unusually tangled and painful, and seemed to have made a great deal of determination to pull it out of her pocket, and a moment later, as no one expected, pulled out a lollipop: it was the best thing for her.

"Hmm-" Clank held the lollipop and continued to struggle, continued to suffer, continued to hesitate, and then quickly withdrew his hand, peeled off the candy wrapper, opened his mouth and bit down a piece widely, and then handed the missing piece of the lollipop to Eva, "Here, this is the best thing for Clank......"

Lei was dumbfounded for the first time and stayed for a long time: "Goddess...... This one...... It's hard to put this ......."

God's gift is to be stored in the holy place as a holy relic, how to put a lollipop? If you can't get through the first summer, it's time to melt. I explained to Ding Dong, and the little thing immediately smiled, "crunched" the sugar ball in front of everyone, and handed the remaining sugar stick to Eva, saying vaguely: "Huh (give)!" ”

Everyone: "......"

Following Ilson's tickle, the Church's Reliquary Collection has once again been refreshed!

In the end, Joe, Ray and Eva were all waved away by Ilson, and in addition to a group of us in the church, there was only one old man who was too old to look good, and he was the Pope, Mu, and Ilson's spokesman in this world. Unlike Lilina, who is a down-and-out nouveau riche and a golden newcomer, this is an old man who has been working for his god for two hundred years, and Ilson clearly values this old man, so he allows him to stay at the bottom and tidy up the altar after the portal closes.

In front of the statue of the god of war, Yierson patted the shoulder of the old man Mu, who was more than two hundred years old, although from the outside, the latter was no longer old, and he could be Yiersen's grandfather, but in essence, Yierson was really explaining to a child: "Then I will go back first, there are still many devastated worlds waiting for me to save ...... on the road ahead."

We are holding back on the side and have already endured Mo without demolishing the stage

"Lord, will you ever return to this world?" Mu, a two-hundred-year-old fierce man who can run all the way from the fourth ring road to the city center, is holding his head down and shrinking his neck at the moment, like a child who is looking forward and afraid of being disappointed. He is the most respected pope of the blue star, but in front of the god of war, he is still the wild boy who fought in the procession in front of the temple two hundred years ago and collided with the throne of the gods, the god of war is eternal, even after a long time, the god of war is still the heroic god of war, and the wild boy who was pardoned by the gods himself is dying, and the two meetings, the years have turned everything upside down. I couldn't help but feel such a strange feeling in my heart, so that although Ilson's unreliable image was deeply ingrained in my heart, I insisted on not vomiting 123 groove: while continuing to suffer a great conscience.

"Maybe I will come back, but I'm afraid that after many years, God will not interfere too much in the world, especially in such a world," Yilson said lightly, the implication is that with the lifespan of Mu as a mortal, I am afraid that he will not be able to wait for that day, so the old man lowered his head in disappointment, but Yilson seemed to hesitate again, and decided to tell the old man something, "Do you remember what the dogma says?"

- Bow to the teachings, practice by the body, temper the soul, and then you can sublimate the body and transcend the mundane. Mu, for two hundred years, you have been doing well, in the next few years, you have to complete the work of the last period of time, do your own thing, after the mission is completed, come to my country, there will be your place. As soon as the words fell, I heard Ilson's shouting in the Spiritual Connection public channel: "Eh, I'm rubbing, I can't help but tell this kid in advance, I originally wanted to surprise him after he died!" ”

Me: "......" can I trouble you not to talk about such a sacred thing as being called by the Lord to ascend to the kingdom of God as vulgar as raising your salary by two levels?

I don't know if Lu Dao is too old or if what his lord said is too unexpected, Mu Leng took a full five or six seconds to reflect on it, and then he was really excited, and he was still there regretting why his mouth was so loose, seeing this, he decisively waved his hand to interrupt what Old Man Mu was going to say next, and looked directly into the other party's eyes: "Keep in mind the words of the Bible, what you are going to usher in is not only sublimation, but also greater burdens and responsibilities, and you will not only be responsible for one race, you will even have to be responsible for more worlds." , countless lives are responsible. You haven't even touched the starting point yet, so you know no, go back and work hard. ”

"Yes, yes." Mu Lian nodded repeatedly, and Ilson smiled with satisfaction beside him. This scene reminded me of my decision to study my first day of elementary school, but the old man in front of me was much better disciplined than I was back then......

After leaving the Blue Star, everyone else went straight home, but Sandora and I had to divert to another place.

The universe in which the Fourth Fleet is located, the capital of the star Kairudak. Sandora and I are once again on this planet with a few administrative experts and command officers who have arrived from Shadow City.

I really didn't expect that when I set out from Kerudak, I thought it was just a quick and convenient trip to the void, like going out to get soy sauce, and the council was waiting for us to come back to welcome our old friends, but as a result, Sandora and I went for so many days, and there were so many twists and turns in between: maybe I was really a man with a halo, and the trouble haunted me maybe it was a passive skill.

This time I came to Kairoudak, and there was a very obvious difference from the last time, the most obvious thing was "friendliness". The last time we were here, we were received almost secretly by the Council, and the common people of Kerudak didn't even know that the Empire had come to their planet, and that there were many of the high-ranking officials of the Fourth Fleet who were suspicious of us. This time, however, Sandora and I were officially welcomed: the full acceptance of the Council and the High Consuls of the Fourth Fleet was one thing, and more importantly, they were no longer worried about the popular upheaval that might be caused by the presence of the Emperor on their capital, at least the good development of the environment was obvious to all.

The royal shuttle that Sandora and I were on was escorted directly by several small frigates to the front of the Parliament Building, and due to the special character of the Toberu architecture, the makeshift mooring in front of the Parliament Building was a half-moon platform parallel to the waist of the building's sphere, suspended in the air by anti-gravity techniques. The mooring grounds were lined with officers of the Fourth Fleet who had come to greet them, as well as a crowd that appeared to be representatives of the people: they were not wearing any kind of uniform, and I can only guess that they were representatives of some civil organization. On the periphery of the anti-gravity platform, there are projection subtitles welcoming me and Sandora, which are oriented in all directions and can be seen on top of any of the towers around the council building. Compared with other events in the world that I was dragged to attend, this kind of welcome can be said to be very inconspicuous in terms of the scale of the scene, but as long as you think that it is a kind response to us by those exiles back then, even such a low-key welcome is inevitably moving.

"It's not easy," I couldn't help but look at Sandora as the shuttle slowly approached the platform, "The welcome banner that can be put up publicly in this line of work gives me the feeling that it is harder to come by than winning ten consecutive battles with the Fallen Apostles." ”

"And we still have a long way to go," Sandora smiled slightly, she was in a good mood, but she wasn't overly optimistic about the situation in front of her, "you see, there's a martial law zone on the periphery, there are sentinels at the top of the buildings in the distance, and the size and composition of the people who greeted the scene were obviously carefully chosen. It can only be said that the Fourth Fleet can now openly contact the Empire, which can be regarded as the initial stage of diplomatic normalization, but at the level of their society as a whole, it is far from reaching the point of releasing their previous suspicions. When the Fifth Fleet completes its emergency refurbishment, the situation should further improve when it comes to this universe. Cocokina should have worked for a thaw between the exiles and the Empire. ”

What Sandora said I also understand, it's just a series of things, whether it involves fallen apostles or the bottom of the abyss, these things have given me a lot of psychological pressure, and a certain sense of urgency is getting stronger and stronger in these riddles, which always makes me feel that I don't have enough time, and I wish everything was in place in one step, but everything I faced took time, a lot of time, and things that could be done in one step did not exist at all.

I looked into the distance, and I could see that outside the martial law zone, there were many shaking shadows on the tops of those towering towers, which were supposed to be civilians of the Fourth Fleet, although most of them had never seen an Imperial warship a year ago, but they were born and raised in the shadow of the "Imperial Slaughterers". They looked in this direction as they crossed the martial law zone with curiosity, looking at what the Imperial warship that had brought shadows to countless generations looked like.

Just then, Sandora gently squeezed my hand and signaled that her shuttle had docked.

On the mooring platform, a translucent female figure, accompanied by several high-ranking officials, greeted her by none other than the Supreme Ruler of the Fourth Fleet, the Council of Yunader. She welcomed me and Sandora, and the Emperors behind us, with the peculiar etiquette she used for the Nads: "I think the council can now call you friends on a personal note. ”

"This is really hard-won," I laughed, told the truth in my heart, and then cut straight to the point, "The Fifth Fleet is undergoing refurbishment in another military world, and their ships are not in good condition, but fortunately I have successfully completed the mission, and all the ships have arrived safely." ”

The council nodded slightly: "We have already communicated with Captain Cocokina and learned about his situation there. Knowing that everything is okay with old friends is really the best thing we have encountered in the past tens of thousands of years. ”

Sandora and I came over, first of all, when the two of us had an accident, and many things that had been planned and planned before were put on hold, and the preparations for the reception of the Fifth Fleet and the arrangements for the Fourth Fleet were put on hold, and now that we are back, we will be ready for these things with the Council as soon as possible; The second is to see how effective the "public opinion building" we are doing at the suggestion of our sister is.

Well, it is certain that the public opinion campaign is indeed very effective, because at that time we set out to save the Fifth Fleet with great fanfare and propaganda, and now the biggest gain is that the Imperial side and the exiles have initially established normal official exchanges. And the Fifth Fleet will be placed in this world realm next, and we may be able to take this opportunity to send people to help them build colonial facilities and giant starports in the name of assistance, although Sandora and I have no intention of directly leaving permanent troops in this universe, but after the "aid", a self-evident support relationship has actually formed between the exiles and the empire.

What's more, the newborn citizens of the Fourth Fleet will also get used to the life of Imperial soldiers around them in the process, and this habit process is more important than anything else to change the impression of the exiles on the new Empire.

We talked a lot about the management of the Fourth Fleet in the reception hall of the parliament building, and of course, most of the time it was Sandora and the experts from all sides of the world who were negotiating with each other, and I was basically in the background, in "What are you talking about?" And "What are you talking about?" "Jumping back and forth between the two states, I can only interject when it comes to the current situation of the Fifth Fleet: I still know a little bit about this, after all, the entire fleet was taken all the way in my "belly" at that time, and I almost scanned every one of their ships with my mental power.

According to a more detailed report from Cocokina, the Fifth Fleet was in an extremely bad situation, with almost none of its ships intact, and even after emergency repairs from the Community of Civilizations, it could barely keep afloat. And now, the Fourth Fleet itself has not taken care of the matter at hand, so they have to hand over the burden of the Fifth Fleet to the Reich - so the Council made a difficult decision:

She wants to get a batch of colonies that can be put into use in a short period of time.

It was right in the hands of Sandora and me. To be continued.

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