Shirley walked on the way home, since the last time she strayed into the arena and was rescued, she has been staying in the parish, and she hasn't gone home to see her mother and brother for half a month, because she is a "saint candidate", and the last incident is likely that other saint women candidates used magic illusions to lure themselves to the arena, wanting Shirley to die in the chaos, and I don't know if there were people who killed her in that arena!

If it weren't for the halfway troublemaker named "Cassius" who saved Shirley in disguise, it is estimated that she would have been killed. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info "That person is so weird, it feels like a different person for a moment. Shirley has such doubts whenever she thinks about it.

What's even more strange is that Shirley is still alive when she sees him being pierced by a flying machine, and she feels scared when she thinks about it! The arena is really terrible, but I heard my grandfather say before that the arena is much better than the war, but the war destroys the homeland, and now the competition destroys humanity.

Shirley is a person of this era, born with competition, I feel that this is a very natural thing, after all, the church has also released some war scenes from many years ago, it is too terrifying, a weapon, can make hundreds of thousands of cities scorched earth, every war will kill millions of people!

Now the people of the world have re-established their living quarters, and each country is divided into many regions, and the supreme authority in each region is not the public servant of the country, and the bishop, generally called the "division of the state religion". Since the Great Migration created new living quarters, tens of thousands of abandoned cities have been left behind, which have become arenas for competitors.

Fighting in such a place would make people remember the horrors of war more and embrace the existence of the Church. The largest organization in the world is the church, but it does not mean that all people have faith. Otherwise, something like athletics wouldn't have been so worshipped. And the inside of the church is also full of problems, and everything is not the same as it used to be.

Thinking of this, Shirley was nervous and quickened her pace, because she hadn't seen her mother and brother for too long, and hoped it would be okay.

This street is very dilapidated, Shirley grew up here, compared to the city, this can only be regarded as a place where ordinary people live, slightly better than the slums, speaking of slums makes Shirley's mood even more suffered, 33% of the people in each city are actually in the slums, life there is really bad, she is afraid that her mother and brother will also fall into that place, so she has been working hard in the church to make herself a real saint, now there are many candidates, I really don't know who will be the lucky one in the future.

In the distance, the sound of a few children playing could be heard.

"You're dead! Look at my thunderous blow, beep !!"

"Haha, how can your attack hit me? Fool! My magic armor can block all magic attacks!"

Shirley was much relieved when she heard the voice of one of them, her younger brother, Posey, but then she blushed!

After struggling from Shirley's grasp, Percy saw that his sister was first happy, and then retorted, "I want to be a competitor in the future, and when I am 10 years old, I can go to the 'Fighter Academy' to learn martial arts and magic!"

"You're going to be a scientist!, not a competitor!" Shirley glared at him indignantly, but Percy said with no interest: "What a scientist, it sounds boring, where is the prestige of a competitor!"

"You, I'm going to let my mother teach you a good lesson. Shirley pulled him back with a finished suffrage.

The children around him muttered, "Posey's beautiful sister is so fierce." ”

"His sister will be a saint in the future!

The Holy Maiden is the best unmarried woman selected by the Church to remain chaste and receive the holy power given by God for the benefit of all mankind. And the conditions for becoming a saint are very demanding, and they need to be selected at all levels.

Shirley is now one of the "Holy Maiden Candidates", and the entire Sopotamian Empire will elect 5 Holy Maidens to inherit the power of holiness.

"You're back, let me see, dear!" Shirley's mother was thrilled to see her daughter back, there were only three people in the family, her daughter was the only pillar of the family, the church would pay the teaching staff a certain salary, and the mother would occasionally receive some sewing things.

Shirley is the pride of her mother, and to be a nun, it is better to find a job in the past, but if her daughter is chosen as a saint in the future, she will not be able to marry for the rest of her life, which makes the hearts of mothers tight.

Shirley helped her mother prepare lunch, and after the meal she stood in her small house and looked out the window, there were several abandoned cities in the distance, and occasionally some scavengers came back from there, bringing shoddy things, broken furniture, and a working radio. The world is obviously developing very well, but the poor people still need to work hard every day to make a living.

Even if the Church gains the authority of the world and does not change this situation, what is the meaning of the existence of the Church?

Shirley looked in the direction of her previous death, and remembered the strange man, I wonder what happened to him after being taken away by the "peacemakers" of the church? But why would he save himself? Shirley never understood, maybe she wouldn't have a chance to see her again in her life, she thought.

She could only go out for one day, and the next day Shirley returned to the parish, where it was a holy scene, with pure white walls, beautiful buildings, no garbage on the ground, people had to clean it three times a day, planted with all kinds of vegetation, it would be nice if my brother and mother could have such a living environment, no, it should be everyone, I am a candidate for sainthood, I should have fraternity in my heart.

As soon as she entered the gate, she received a new order to assign her to the parish of the 17th arrondissement, where the clergy were temporarily needed, and the previous ones were sent to the newly established living quarters around her.

Shirley was very reluctant to go back here to see her mother and brother every week, and 17 was too far away from here, and it was difficult to come back once. However, the mission is not negotiable, and considering that it is safer over there, there will be no previous killings.

Before Shirley could inform her family, a group of people were in a hurry to get ready to go on the road, and Shirley had to follow her on the transport, which was a magic energy airship, printed with the pattern of the church all over pure white, and flew directly from Area 14 to Area 17 in the air.

The road passed through several desolate villages, there are some fields around, it seems that the previous farming habits are still retained, since humans began to touch the taboo, research the mixture of magic and technology, the production of food has already broken through the sky, a small area of fields can feed a district of humans, but it requires a lot of people who can magic at the same time to operate, extremely consuming magic power and fertilizer. Why doesn't the church give food to everyone who needs it?

The development of science and technology has also become more diversified, stopping meaningless interstellar research and turning to explore the potential magic of the earth, those neglected "fringe sciences" have now become orthodox disciplines, and the emergence of magic has determined the existence of many gods.

The major fields of study are either the secrets of the human body, spirituality, or Gaia rays collected from the Earth's periphery. In short, the world has become magical and wonderful.

Even so, Shirley always felt that something was missing in her heart, the sun was still warm on her body, the moon was still quiet and beautiful, but she always felt that the world was empty. I have lived so big, I don't have any ideals, and I haven't thought about anything. Since she was recognized as a nun by the district church, she has been busy with teaching affairs in the church, preaching holiness, preaching peace, and preaching charity.

But these are all contradictions, is there peace without war? What is competition? Is it sacredness that shines white light? But there are always some clergy who leak scandals, and when it comes to "benevolence", Shirley herself doesn't know what it is, and she doesn't even know how she became a nun candidate.

The airship flew for 9 hours, and finally landed, and when it arrived at the parish of District 17, everyone greeted each other with a smile, but that smile was a kind of etiquette, not an emotion. This parish is so big that it is comparable to a town, and the buildings are even more majestic, standing at the foot of the main church, the roof cannot be seen at a glance. This is where I work from now on.