20. Goddesses, lovers and saints
Nie Yuan and Nancy at this end didn't know that in the depths of this street, there was a church of the three gods, and they were walking around hand in hand.
Nancy walked around, full of curiosity about many things, and her attention was really like that of a seven or eight-year-old child, not too concentrated.
Nie Yuan is actually similar, but at least he is very restrained on the surface, and he is an adult who takes children shopping, what he should look like.
The surrounding buildings are closer to the style of the European Middle Ages, but they are not completely consistent, in the details of some buildings, Nie Yuan can also see the shadow of other classical civilizations, which even has the spire structure of his own homeland, and the special pillars of some magnificent buildings, which vaguely give Nie Yuan a feeling of ancient Greece.
The whole hodgepodge is difficult to talk about, but it is supported by the unique cultural connotation of another world, which is not a random build, but has a unique exotic beauty.
In terms of humanities, the cultural level of the other world is definitely higher than that of the Blue Star Middle Ages.
This can be seen from the various outfits of passers-by, which makes Nie Yuan feel like walking on the streets of the modern nineteenth century.
Not only that, but the various mechanical gadgets sold in the street shops also indicate the level of technology in another world, and they are not as backward as I imagined when I first arrived, and there are already objects such as cameras and phonographs.
Coupled with the existence of all kinds of strange things, it is possible to do many seemingly impossible things through techniques similar to alchemy.
This place can definitely be regarded as a complete world, full of unique otherworldly cultural connotations.
The two walked all the way into the distance, although Nancy was full of energy and seemed to never see the bottom, but she kept holding Nie Yuan's palm and never ran out alone.
At most, he pulled Nie Yuan to the objects he was interested in, and invited him to express his opinions.
Nie Yuan sadly found that under the power of Little Nancy's desolation, he had no ability to resist at all, so he could only be dragged around.
The little girl didn't notice the slightest abnormality at all, because in her opinion, she didn't use her strength in the first place, but Nie Yuan took care of herself and would always go with her.
Fortunately, people are still obedient, as long as Nie Yuan opens his mouth and says, we won't go there, little Nancy will also withdraw his curious gaze and continue to follow him forward.
Suddenly, little Nancy's nose moved, and wrinkled, "Nie Yuan, have you smelled anything strange?" ”
Nie Yuan took a deep breath, tasted it in his nose, and replied, "No." ”
"It should be the reason why you are not fully awake."
Nancy's eyes looked straight ahead, and said, "It's from there, it belongs to the hypocrites, the thieves, and the unique smell is not far away." ”
Nie Yuan looked up, and saw several wooden street signs, and after taking the words on them in his eyes, he instantly reacted and said tentatively: "Are you saying that there is a church in front of you?" ”
Nancy nodded and said, "Yes, shall we take a detour, or shall we go over and have a look?" Now the minions of those thieves can no longer hunt us down through curses, and they can't recognize our true identities by standing in front of them, I just think this smell will make me unlucky. ”
Nie Yuan knew the reason, thought about it, and said, "Let's go over and take a look, anyway, we will meet one day, let's experience it in advance and look at them directly." ”
Anyway, he is full of curiosity about the gods of this world, and he has countless reveries about the existence of the church.
In the description of the book, the Fourteen Churches are the well-deserved minions of the Lord God, who are proud to believe in everything that is divine and dedicate themselves to their faith.
They also wield great power, and they have a presence in all the territories where intelligent beings gather, and their preaching range is all over the world.
According to legend, at the edge of the underworld, in the place of death, where no one can enter, there are fourteen churches that guide the path of reincarnation for devout believers.
This is not a joke, but a story written in some serious book in a declarative sentence.
Of course, Nie Yuan would have a strong interest in such a church.
Even people like Earl Lilian, who stood at the pinnacle of absolute authority in Rui Eucalyptus City, had to care about the local church, and they were also showing that their existence was not just as simple as preaching and solving doubts.
As long as Nie Yuan spoke, Nancy naturally didn't care, she said: "Okay, let's go and have a look, but don't stay long, a weird kid like me can easily attract the attention of those hypocrites, and I have to cooperate with them to behave well-behaved, that's very uncomfortable~"
Nie Yuan bowed slightly, indicating that he knew, and took Nancy all the way forward, and finally stopped at the end of the street.
On the opposite side, there are three majestic and elegant churches, through the exquisite glazed windows, you can vaguely see some people in religious robes, flowing inside, and in the innermost high place, three magnificent and exquisite statues of gods are enshrined.
Three churches, three deities, from left to right, are-
The god of power.
The god of order.
Goddess of the Moonlight.
Nancy asked, "Would you like to go in and have a look?" ”
Nie Yuan shook his head and said, "No need, just take a look here." ”
Suddenly, when Nie Yuan's voice landed, an ethereal and poignant singing voice sounded in a multi-person chorus, like water and light, flowing throughout the street.
People can't help but want to follow the song and find the source of the song, as if in this way, they can find peace of mind.
This is the Moonlight Goddess Church, a daily routine chant chant, which is started by the elders of the church and led by all the believers present to sing together, so as to inspire the lost souls.
On the streets, the people who heard this ethereal song also instinctively followed the tune and hummed softly, without the slightest sluggishness, and it was extremely smooth.
It seems that I have heard it thousands of times, and it is a familiar singing voice from the elderly to the yellow-mouthed children.
Somehow, Nie Yuan was also deeply attracted by this kind of singing, he clearly didn't have a heart, but he felt it weirdly, as if his chest vibrate.
Or rather, it was his soul, and it was also whispering with the song.
He felt the urge to rush into the church and embrace the gentle singing.
The singing continues.
……
……
Lost souls
The song of the moonlight
Traces of entanglements in the past
It should be dispersed in the years
……
……
Oh oh oh oh~
Oh oh oh oh ~
Love roars
Come to my warm embrace
No more backslogging
Eternity to the end
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……
The singing becomes more and more high-pitched, from ethereal and poignant to rapid and passionate.
Nie Yuan felt that his soul was about to leave his body, and there were signs of losing consciousness.
At first, he could still feel the uncontrollable trembling of his body, but finally even the consciousness dissipated, and in his mind, only the melody of this hymn was ringing in a loop.
He wanted to hug something.
But sadly, that thing has become catkins in the wind, and it has dissipated like a fragment, and there is no trace of its existence.
Suddenly, Nie Yuan felt the power coming from his palm, pulling him back from that irrepressible impulse.
It's Nancy.
Nancy pulled Nie Yuan's palm and said, "Don't go any further, they are still singing, if you want to go in and have a look, wait until you finish singing." ”
Suddenly, Nie Yuan looked back and found that he didn't know when, from the other side of the street, he had already walked to the door of the church at this end!
And his right hand was already raised, and it was about to touch the church door!
He was about to push open the door and go in to embrace the singing when Nancy woke him up.
During this period, he was unaware of it, completely manipulated by the so-called chant.
Little Nancy didn't notice anything wrong, just instinctively, and walked forward with herself, all the way here!
Nie Yuan suppressed himself and began to breathe heavily, completely crushing the throbbing in his soul that wanted to go in and embrace the song!
He looked down at Nancy, who had already noticed something boring and cast a puzzled look, and said, "No, Nancy, let's go home." ”
Seeing this, Nancy didn't ask much, and said, "Okay, then go home." ”
One tall and one short, holding hands, turned away from the song and headed in the direction of home.
Nie Yuan's thoughts were diverging, and there were thousands of thoughts in his mind.
He didn't find himself so strange in anyone else.
Everyone just hummed the hymn softly, and it did not affect their consciousness and behavior, at most, they were devout disciples of the Moonlight Church, and in the high-pitched singing, they couldn't help but stand in place, greeting sincerely in the direction of the church.
If passers-by are ordinary, and this kind of singing only works for descendants of ancient gods like him, then what about Nancy?
Nancy wasn't out of the ordinary!
Even at first, she didn't notice the changes in her body, she just followed her obediently and walked towards the Moonlight Church!
Buck knew that the two of them would come in the direction of the church here at this point in time, and he didn't say anything to remind himself!
It proves that the partners also subconsciously feel that they will not have the slightest problem when they come here and hear the chants of the Moonlight Church!
The result was quite the opposite.
I'm all controlled by the song.
If it weren't for Nancy's reminder, she would have walked in and "turned herself in"!
This reminded Nie Yuan that at breakfast, he played with Nancy for a while, and when he was bored, he also found a book about the fourteen main gods from the public bookshelf and read it.
It tells a lot of myths and legends about the past of the gods, who don't know whether it's true or not.
Among them, the clip about the goddess of moonlight, I didn't pay attention to it at the time, and I skipped it at a glance.
Looking back on it now, it feels very strange.
Although he didn't look at it carefully, and his memory was not deep, there were still fragments of the story in his mind, and Nie Yuan remembered it.
Legend has it that the goddess of the moonlight, a quarter of an hour before becoming a god, instructed her lover not to wander around, and she returned after a quarter of an hour.
However, after the Moonlight Goddess left, for some reason, her lover did not heed the admonition and left the place, and then was lured by the monster in the darkness and stepped into the remote depths where the moonlight could not shine.
When the Moonlight Goddess returned, she found that her lover, who had not heeded the warning, had disappeared, and she searched for the depths of darkness, and finally found only the mutilated body of her lover.
He has been devoured by the monsters in the depths of darkness.
Mourning is greater than heart death, he has passed that quarter of an hour, becoming the moonlight of the gods, with magnificent power, pinning his thoughts on the mutilated corpse of his lover, and beating the corpse into the distance of reincarnation that he cannot find.
She looked forward to being reincarnated in an unknown corner of the world in the endless distance of reincarnation, with her own sustenance, when her lover's body was completely eliminated by reincarnation.
In Moonlight's prophecy, her lover will become a saint in the church in a new birth.
And the hymn of the Moonlight Church is specially composed for lovers, and that kind of melody has the effect of guiding lost souls.
His followers will spread this song to all corners of the world, guiding everyone who is confused.
But its original and unchanging purpose has always been to awaken the dusty divinity of the saints.
As long as that day does not come, then the Moonlight Church will live forever and eternally, endlessly, tirelessly, and continue to spread this hymn.
Until.
It reverberates around any corner.
Until.
Saint, return to the day in her arms.
(PS, don't worry about whether to call the gods with him, she, or Him, according to the context, it is definitely impossible for the descendants of the ancient gods to be called Him, and those who spit on the gods, even if they are just mortals, are the same.) )