Chapter 193: The City of Apocalypse (20)
"Burning at the stake, snail gate......
Walking out of the Cathedral of the Ascension, the brilliant and warm glimmer of light fell on Giovanni, and the dust turned into specules of light that undulated in the wind, unaware of it, and was still whispering the name he had heard.
"You can let the Lord send revelations twice, and this time you won't be so lucky to escape."
"Giovanni?" A somewhat unexpected voice came.
"Huh?" Giovanni stopped when he heard the call, and when he looked up, he saw a blonde man with a tall nose and gray-green eyes as deep as a lake greeting him.
Although Giovanni is often compared to the chief knight, he is one level lower in rank than the chief knight in the church, and it is still necessary to salute.
The knight waved his hand and said, "No need to be polite, my brother."
"I'm glad to see you again." After a brief exchange of pleasantries, Giovanni asked, "Are you all right?"
"With the blessing of the Lord, I just died once and returned to the Lord's side temporarily, but the mortal world still needs my cultivation, so soon I left the Lord's side again and came to the mortal world." The chief knight shook his head, and the topic made the beautiful man look a little gloomy, "It's just that those brothers who have a nervous breakdown are not so lucky......
Giovanni said, "Then ...... them."
"One-third of the elite knights witnessed the gods, their minds were polluted and their spirits were alienated, even the Lord could not save them, and most of the remaining people became infinitely divided and out of control flesh, and by the time they were rescued from my Lord's side, their spirits had already been exhausted and fell into eternal sleep......
"How so?" Giovanni was stunned, although he had vaguely heard the relevant news when he was working overtime a while ago, he didn't expect such a heavy loss.
The chief knight shook his head and sighed: "In retrospect, the god may have already understood the Lord's gift to us, she injected the god factor into the knight's body to induce distortion, and used unknown means to analyze the premature technique, reversing the apoptosis effect into a proliferation effect, liberating the physical growth limit, and the cells began to divide and grow without limitation......
"Sounds a bit like ...... Cancer ......"
Giovanni had read some old-world texts that called the disease so.
At that time, people talked about the disease with great discoloration and fear.
Runaway cells will tear and destroy normal cells and tissues, wander around and metastasize to invade other organs and tissues, take nutrients like parasites to strengthen themselves, divide and replicate and grow in the patient's body without restrictions, and grab more nutrients, and finally kill the patient......
"It is said that when cancer reaches an advanced stage, patients are tormented by a severe pain called cancer pain, and many patients are so tormented by this pain that they are exhausted and even ask to stop further treatment...... It's hard to imagine how much it hurts." Giovanni was a little furious and guessed, "So they hurt to the point of having a nervous breakdown?"
"No, their spirits don't crumble in pain......" The knight chief shook his head to deny his guesses, his eyes fixed on him, "they drove themselves insane alive."
Giovanni didn't understand what he meant: "Huh?"
"After the gods liberated the knights' physical growth restrictions, the knights' physical bodies underwent a mutation." The chief knight rubbed the corners of his forehead, his expression gloomy, "Their bodies swelled into balls like balloons, and eyes, noses, mouths, and ears grew out of their bodies and faces one after another......
Giovanni: "Huh? This ......."
The knight chief whispered, and his thoughts drifted back to the tragic battlefield with the description.
A ball of flesh of the same size as a human gradually grows nose, eyes, mouth, and ears, randomly and disorderly, gradually forming a distorted, hateful face on the surface of the flesh.
Thousands of people have different faces, joys, angers, sorrows and fears.
The chief knight was in the middle of countless sarcoma balls.
Some of them laughed loudly and invited him to be one of them.
Some of the faces were furious
, like a madman wielding a flesh whisker to attack his former boss.
Some of them wept and begged his men to be merciful.
Some of them screamed in horror, and they tried to escape from him.
The chief knight in the demon dance had no mercy or the slightest hesitation, and slashed his past companions one by one with his sword in hand.
The mass of flesh is cut open, revealing patches of gray-white brain tissue hidden beneath the flesh.
Behind each face is a separate brain.
And the god who contributed to all this was watching him slowly move forward in the distance, the green shoots broke through the girl's delicate and fair skin and grew, the white and slender thighs turned into twisted roots and took root in the earth, and the long blue hair flying in the wind turned into a branch covered with green leaves and twisting branches at some point, and the semi-fibrous beautiful face showed a smile, which looked both seductive and weird.
Then she lifted her green bud-covered hand to the knight on the other end, and slowly extended her fingers.
"You'll be next."
Rumble!
Her words struck the chief knight like a projectile, and the latter felt only a sinking in his chest, and then clusters of green shoots burst out of his chest, blood splattered, and the green shoots grew rapidly, while his body shriveled and shrunk at an even faster rate, and in the blink of an eye the green shoots engulfed him under his horrified gaze, turning him into a half-man, half-tree monster.
"Knight's Chief...... Knight!"
The nightmare shattered by the call in his ears, and the chief knight suddenly came back to his senses, and the scene in front of him quickly returned to reality—there was no companion who had turned into a ball of flesh, no god who looked like a tree, and he had not become a monster that was half human and half tree.
The first to catch the eye of the chief knight was the concerned Giovanni, who seemed to sense the anomaly and waved his hand in front of the former's eyes: "Captain, what's wrong with you?"
After a brief moment of confusion, he remembered that he stood in front of the Cathedral of Ascension, and chatted with Giovanni passing by before waiting to meet Pope Shali.
The knight let out a long breath and rubbed the corners of his forehead even harder: "It's okay, I'll be relieved for a little while."
Giovanni had no doubt about him: "It's okay, there's a brain behind every face...... According to you, the power of the gods is more than simply liberating the physical growth limits...... Can God really do this to re-conceive life?"
"After all, they have disobeyed the Lord, and even divided and stole the Lord's authority and power for a time, and it is normal for them to exercise part of the Lord's authority......
"And what are you going to do next?" Giovanni said, "Do you want to be an opponent of a god who can exercise authority?"
As one of the violent organs of the Church, the Knights are now almost completely wiped out, and they have suffered heavy setbacks, and it may not be easy to launch another encirclement and suppression.
"Of course."
Surprisingly, the chief knight seemed to be confident about this.
"The Lord has sent down a revelation, and all things are under His control......
Giovanni smiled as if he understood something.
"All you need to do is follow the revelation of the Lord."
"Well, everything follows the revelation of the Lord............"
The heresy hunt is finally coming to an end.
In just two weeks, the existing 20 neighborhoods and 10 districts of Apocalypse City have been disturbed by this large-scale persecution, and the people are in dire straits.
A few days ago, a group of evangelical monks who participated in the heresy trial smashed the *** point of the Flying Mask God Cult and wiped out the heathen people who gathered there.
And today, with the public execution of the Church, the heresy trial will also be in its final phase.
Considering that it would be difficult to keep their hands alive when dealing with the Axis Order, persecuting the Flying Mask Sect and forcing the gods to appear, the Inquisition finally decided to publicly burn these heretics at this time, on the one hand, to give these heretics an iron fist blow; On the other hand, it is also to strengthen the authority and control of the church, first kill the chickens and monkeys, and use the most brutal execution method to make the sinners in the neighborhood have a long eye, and figure out what it will be like to believe in a different church here
Field. Then perform the Lord's miracle to reward the sinners, so that their faith will be more devout and faithful.
I gave a whip, and I had to give another candy.
So this is not just an execution, but also a performance.
A few days ago, the construction of the stake has been completed, in order to show more people to see, the stake is set up high and large, a row of tall burning pillars are even more eye-catching, no matter from that angle on the square, you can see the flying believers hanging on it, and in order to more people to watch, but also use the church's unique miracle of faith to record and broadcast the scene on the station in real time, the light curtain is projected on the entire sky, not only people in the distance, even people in other blocks can see the situation on the stage when they raise their heads.
The crowd was crowded, and the well-armed knights formed a loose line of defense against the crowd, and the crowd gathered behind this dividing line, and a pair of frightened or numb eyes flickered at the stake, and there was a lot of discussion.
At this time, as Giovanni appeared on the stake, the originally noisy execution square suddenly became quiet.
As an elite inquisitor who executed and hunted countless heretics, his sense of existence and oppression were indeed very strong, and just standing on the stake and looking at all beings was enough to make the onlookers tremble and silence.
"Huh." When the audience was completely silent, Giovanni nodded in satisfaction and then spoke, "Sinners, you are born sinful, and you should be born to kneel on the ground and kneel forever......
"But!"
Giovanni shifted gears.
"Some of you have failed the Lord's expectations of you! Tempted by the devil, he turned his back on the Lord and worshipped other idols."
Combined with the miracle of faith, the voice of this elite inquisitor carried a breathtaking magic, even if it was just a threat to vent dissatisfaction, it was enough to concretize the heavy pressure and make people's hearts beat, and his knees were weak and he leaned down and fell to the ground.
"The judgment is about to begin......" In the alley not far from the square, Zhao Xida watched Giovanni perform on stage with cold eyes, and asked, "Hasn't the God you believe in given you instructions yet?"
"Let's wait for the ......opportunity," said Shu Luomen, his face became a little unnatural, and he finally couldn't help but relax under the calm gaze of the puppet girl, "Okay, I admit that I usually don't slip through cooking, but I haven't dropped the chain at the critical moment, don't you see that our efforts during this time have been quite fruitful!"
"Time is running out." Zhao Xida looked into the distance, her prosthetic eyes kept focusing and zooming, sometimes sweeping over the performing Giovanni, sometimes sweeping over the audience, noting down the positions of the armed knights and secret sentinels one by one, and gradually building a diorama in the computing core, "And something is wrong, there are many more enemies than expected......
"Then I'll contact the cooking ...... again."
Zhao Jida nodded, didn't say anything more, just quietly looked at the stake not far away. ……
Giovanni's performance on stage is also coming to an end.
In just a few minutes, he secretly performed many miracles of faith, coercing and intimidating the sinners in the stands, forcing their spirits to the limit, and then performing another miracle with the opposite effect to calm their nervous psychological state, and then oppress their spirits...... After a few ups and downs, the onlookers really began to think that it was all their fault, and that it was because these heretics believed in evil gods that the lords of the city looked down on them, and made them sinners for life, and then fell further into more fanatical repentance and anger, and these people now wanted to become the Knights of Judgment and come forward to burn these heretics to ashes.
He saw that the time was almost up, so he announced loudly.
"Now, then, judge heresy!"
As soon as he shouted, the knights below let out an earth-shattering roar, and the crowd of onlookers who had fallen into a conversion frenzy also let out a hoarse roar.
"Kill them!"
"Judge heretics!"
"Kill those heretics
!」
The audience was excited, and the shouts were shocking, as if the infidels on the stage were their father-killers.
Blazing white flames ignited the stake, and the flame burned.
This flame of faith does not burn or roast the staker to death as quickly as a mortal fire, it does not produce poisonous gases when burned, nor does it produce hot gases to burn the lungs of the tortured, it slowly ignites the soul and body of the infidels, and then burns it out little by little like a candle.
If no one stops it......
The fate of these people will be to be burned alive.
Bang!
A loud gunshot rang out in the distance, attracting everyone's attention at once, and even Giovanni couldn't help but look in the direction where the gunshots came from.
In the moment when everyone was distracted, another figure landed on the stake from the sky, flashed to the nearest inquisitor at lightning speed, and reached out to probe while the other party's attention was attracted and unsuspecting......
He took off the other's head.
Blood gushed like a fountain, and the corpse fell to the ground.
Then he swerved to the next target.
It wasn't until the third Inquisitor's head was removed that the Knights of Judgment on the stage reacted and drew their weapons to guard against it, and the figure stopped, throwing it aside, and its head gurgling and rolling at Giovanni's feet.
"Your coming, the Lord had foreseen it." Giovanni was not surprised, "Soulless puppets."
"As long as there is enough intelligence information, it is not difficult to extrapolate the future in a limited way." Zhao Xiaoda slowly took off her hood, "You still have two minutes to answer my question, where did Elizabeth get me, and ...... How did you find the Order of Axis?"