Chapter 574: The Evil of Human Nature (I)
Stone woke up at noon. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Although the sky is still dark.
In this city without light, there seems to be no difference between day and night, time has frozen here, the city has fallen into an eternal slumber, and only a shadow walks through the streets.
Westminster Abbey was also empty.
In the past, this place used to be like a city, with countless carriages and people.
Now even the sparrows don't want to come.
Only the dead leaves fell from the dry branches and were sprinkled on the ground, and no one cleaned them up.
"Don't you even have a handyman here?"
"It's all been evacuated. ”
Mephistopheles said: "Royal Academy, Royal Academy of Music, Prologis Heavy Industries...... The reservists in the important institutions were on the list of the first secret evacuees, and were secretly transferred to Birmingham long before the war began.
I sent the young priests away, and the only ones who remained were old men like me. ”
Speaking of which, he sighed, "Someone has to stay and take those who don't want to go or can't go for vespers, right?"
I inherited this church from the bishops of my predecessors and vowed to protect it for the rest of my life, but now it seems that it will be difficult to fulfill this promise. ”
"It's normal. ”
Stone yawned: "When the opponent is a natural disaster, the war always loses more and wins less. It doesn't matter if the church is destroyed, it can't be beaten and future generations can build a new one.
My father was a stonemason, and at a very young age, he taught me one thing - when an old house is going to collapse, you can't just think about repairing it. ”
Mephistopheles was silent for a long time, and said bluntly:
"Your father's education is problematic. ”
"Who's to say it isn't?"
Stone shrugged, shuddered, lifted his pants, and looked back at him: "Have you finished peeing?"
"It's going to take a while. ”
Mephistopheles said, "Don't look at me, I'm nervous easily. ”
"Aren't you blind? How do you know I'm watching you?"
"I know someone is watching me, and it has nothing to do with whether I'm blind or not!"
"It's good to have an artificial prostate like me. ”
"Aging is one of life's joys. Mephistopheles pouted: "People like you who like to change parts won't understand." ”
“...... That's all for the old man's boring words. ”
Stone sighed and leaned against the wall of the toilet: "Don't rely on the old in front of me, little Mephistopheles, I took care of you back then." ”
Mephistopheles scratched her hair, and suddenly a hung breath appeared in her old appearance, and she took out a pack of cigarettes from the inner pocket of her robe and pulled out of it:
"Do you smoke?"
"Don't dare, you'll damage the artificial lungs. ”
Stone shook his head: "But you actually smoke? This doesn't look like the saint you've been carrying." ”
"Come on, Mr. Stone, only those who die are saints. ”
Mephistopheles lit a cigarette, took a deep breath, exhaled, relaxed, and squeezed out two more drops: "I am so old, I don't molest little boys, I don't embezzle public funds, I don't keep lovers, I abide by the laws of the church, and I have been a virgin for the rest of my life...... Life is pure and sound to the point of abnormality, and people like me, once in a while, indulge occasionally, and God will forgive. ”
“...... Who did you learn from back then?"
"Mr. Qatar. ”
"No wonder. Stone shook his head: "He died the year before last." ”
"It's more than a hundred years old, it's normal, how did you die?"
"Pumped to death by his queen, in bed. ”
“......”
"So, don't talk about following a perverted discipline. ”
Stone glanced at him, "There aren't many common topics between us, let's talk about something that we are all interested in, such as natural disasters, such as wars......"
"What do you want to know?"
"Leviathan. ”
Stone said: "The three seals that were erected at the beginning, how many have they reached?"
Mephistopheles smoked a cigarette and was silent.
In order to seal the Leviathan, the emperors of Anglo have set up three seals, which are aimed at its three stages. Each shattering of the seal represents a stronger step for the Leviathan.
The revival of Leviathan's consciousness represents the breaking of the first seal.
The resurrection of Leviathan's flesh means that the second seal has been opened.
And when the third seal is broken, the Leviathan, one of the 'four living creatures' of the monster at the top of the alien level, will completely descend when it has both physical and mental disasters.
After a long time, Mephistopheles muffled and said:
"As far as I know, the second seal has been broken. ”
Stone was silent for a long time, "I thought you were holding back your energy by not speaking for half a day, and I wanted to cheer you on just now." ”
"Shut up and don't interrupt. ”
Mephistopheles paused, and her voice became lower: "I'm still brewing, it's going to be soon." ”
"It's better not to pee when I mention natural disasters, what a shame. ”
“......”
Mephistopheles stopped talking.
After a long time, the murmuring voice sounded faintly for a while, and then disappeared.
Mephistopheles breathed a sigh of relief, buckled her belt, and finally got rid of the terrible embarrassment.
Aging, it's terrible.
In the open courtyard, two people sat on a bench and exchanged views on what had happened for several days.
Stone groaned for a long time and scratched his bald skull.
"How long are you going to hide it?"
He said, "You have to let those people die, right?"
"It's a shame after all. Mephistopheles also frowned, and halfway through speaking, he lowered his voice: "Can you help me see if there are people around?"
"No one. ”
Shi Dong was expressionless: "You can smoke it with confidence." ”
"I'm sorry, I finally got this pot out before Avalon destroyed it. After leaving office, I was a little lax. Mephistopheles lit another one: "I'm under a lot of pressure, people are old, and my heart can't stand it, so let's leave it to the young people." ”
"You handed Westminster over to our Grand Inquisitor because of this?"
"Yes, not really. Mephistopheles asked rhetorically, "This is called being ordered in a moment's time, a kind of political wisdom...... By the way, where did we just go?"
Stone looked at him and said, "Shame." ”
"Yes, shame. ”
Mephistopheles didn't seem to hear Stone scolding, and looked indifferent: "After all, it's a shame for the royal family." ”
"Anglo and Leviathan are old enemies, but haven't the royal family explained it? There are so many maritime countries, but why has Leviathan been focusing on Anglo for so many years......
"Explain?
Mephistopheles: "You can't say it's all the work of our ancestors, do you see they went so far as to make up a fairy in the lake in order to explain how wise King Arthur was." ”
"Who's paying attention to this? It stinks home...... Look at the scripts written by third-rate writers. ”
Stone couldn't help but want to spit, "The wise and martial King Arthur was adored by the fairy of the lake, who gave him a sword, a kiss and a blessing, so he became the destined king.
Conquer the Seven Seas, set the capital of Avalon, build the kingdom of heaven on earth, and use this as an appointment to marry the fairy of the lake and become her own queen, so that she gave birth to her own dragon blood descendant.
God knows how that dragon's blood came from, Arthur was nothing more than a fisherman before he met the fairy of the lake...... From beginning to end, you refuse to admit that the so-called royal family is the real son of the sea.
The so-called fairy of the lake, the so-called queen - it is the Leviathan who was killed by King Arthur!"
"I can't admit it. ”
Mephistopheles shook her head: "How can you admit it?"
In silence, Stone leaned back in his chair, closed his eyes, and hummed the hallucinatory ballad:
"The king and his accomplices took the empress captive and imprisoned her in a dream...... We have the power, where should we wander? Roar, thousands of hands, hang the sails high!
La, thieves and beggars, we will receive eternal life......"
"Stop singing, panic. ”
Mephistopheles dropped the cigarette roll on the ground and crushed it.
"It's ridiculous, Mephistopheles, a scourge who fell in love with a human. ”
Stone said lightly: "She loves Arthur so much, loves a human being, and does not hesitate to give him her own strength, and does not hesitate to fulfill any of his wishes...... She uses the power of the Scourge to pay for Arthur's ambitions. ”
Mephistopheles shook her head regretfully, "Unfortunately, this interest is too high for Arthur's descendants. ”
"People have to pay their debts after all, Mephistopheles, Anglo should have gone bankrupt a long time ago. ”
Stone said coldly, "It's like I said - the old house is going to collapse, and you can't just think about repairing it." I now kind of understand why Maxwell rebelled.
Such a kingdom was built on the wrong foundation from the beginning. ”
"In fact, he's always been the one who repairs the house. ”
Mephistopheles smiled bitterly: "If it weren't for him, I'm afraid the weakened royal family wouldn't be able to survive now, although it is still suffering from internal and external troubles." ”
"I've been wondering, is he the embodiment of some old ghost?"
"Probably not, with such ability, why hide behind the scenes? Besides, choosing such a person as your pawn is not difficult to control, but too dangerous. ”
"Do you know what's going on?"
"I almost didn't know anything, so to speak. ”
Mephistopheles shrugged, "He's the one who suddenly appeared in this city, rootless, fatherless, and motherless, like he jumped out of a stone split by a sword in a stone."
In the beginning, when he first appeared, he was the private secretary of the previous emperor, and later he succeeded him as the director of the Royal Academy of Music, and then his power began to swell and became out of control.
In many cases, his style of acting was also unscrupulous, so presumptuous that no emperor would tolerate it, but he was still deeply trusted, and even entrusted him with the sword in the stone, entrusted many powers in the country to him, and even let him form a deformed spy agency like the Fifth Division.
His own abilities can only be said to be supernatural, as long as what happens in this city, he knows everything. For decades, the whole of Avalon was a toy that turned in his hands......"
"Royal blood?" Ston asked.
"No way, there is no record, and no one has been able to match him all these years. If he has royal blood, where will it be someone else's turn to make that chair?"
Mephistopheles sighed, "Unfortunately, he's not the Emperor. ”
"yes. ”
Stone laughed gloatingly, "Fortunately, he is not the emperor." ”
Mephistopheles was silent for a long time, and then her expression became alert:
"What the hell are you up to?" (To be continued.) )