Chapter 37: Is This Okay?
At Yin Leia's strong request, the guards guarding the gate still opened the city gate and let Li Yu enter the teacup fort.
And Li Yu also took off the head of the monitor lizard on his head after entering the city.
This thing is quite heavy, even if it has been treated, it weighs almost two pounds, and it is worn on the head all the time, and the neck is easily crushed.
Miss Rabbit also ran down from the city wall at this time, in fact, Li Yu's face still has a lot of primitive totems painted by the lizardmen for him, but after taking off the monitor lizard's head, the girl still recognized him at a glance.
So Miss Rabbit couldn't control her emotions anymore, rushed over, hugged Li Yu, and cried, "You fell there last night, I, I thought you were dead......"
"You're not wrong to say that."
Li Yu's emotions rarely fluctuated, and a complicated look flashed on his face, which had always been extremely calm.
Last night was indeed a night of horror for him.
For the first time since he arrived on the continent known as Brattis, he had lost complete control of his situation.
Although in terms of results, he did not lose anything, but received a large amount of money that has never been paid before.
But the process in the meantime...... Li Yu didn't want to think about it anymore.
Jude also leaned over at this time, but unlike Yin Leia, he was still holding his battle axe in his hand, looked Li Yu up and down several times, and asked the black beauty to go up and sniff.
Seeing that the black beauty did not show any hostility, she put away the axe in her hand again and said in surprise, "How did you get mixed up with those lizardmen, and it seems that you have become their king, and you have taken them to rob the Arias family." ”
"I'm not their king, and they're not lizardmen, although the people who live in this land have always called them that, but in fact it's just a disguise for them." Li Yu shook the head of the monitor lizard on his back.
Jude leaned over, only to find that the monitor lizard's head was worn by Li Yu like clothes, but only one layer of skin was real, and the inside was completely hollowed out, and it was stuffed into branches and some small stones to fill in the shape of the monitor lizard before it was born.
"Interesting," Jude exclaimed, "have the Arias family been entangled with the lizardmen for hundreds of years, and have not discovered their little secret?" ”
"These lizardmen attach great importance to their companions, and when they come out to rob, they will snatch back the corpse and carry it back to the swamp unless they die." Fausto explained.
"And they are very poor, living in swamps, they have no money at all, so no one will search them, plus the evil gods they believe in have a legend that they can be reborn, in order to prevent them from coming back to life, we usually burn the corpses as soon as possible."
Alisa was still shocked, "You said those lizard heads are fake, they are human, this ...... How is this possible? Records of the lizardmen date back tens of thousands of years, older than the oldest families in the Red Lion Empire, and there is a lot of evidence for their existence, although they have since disappeared from the continent. ”
"Lizardmen may exist, but they are definitely not the ones who live in the Gegu Swamp." Li Yu said, "Those humans disguised themselves as lizardmen just to intimidate others who wanted to enter the swamp, although it is unfortunate, but you have indeed been deceived by them for hundreds of years. ”
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"Isn't the Gaigu Swamp a dead land, how can so many people come out of it?" Someone asked.
"It's dangerous for outsiders, it's hard to walk, but for those who have lived in it for generations, it's not just a dead place, it's quite rich.
"Of course, their population has been able to multiply to the present size, and it has almost reached the carrying limit of the swamp, so much so that they sometimes have to choose to kill some of the old people and defective children in order to survive."
"Cold, murderous heretic," exclaimed Anton, "what difference does this make with a beast? ”
"Whenever you want to judge someone, it's best to remember that not everyone in this world has the advantages that you have. There was no farming in the swamp, they just did everything they could to keep the race going. ”
Anton was refuted by Li Yu's face was red, but he couldn't refute it, especially Li Yu's previous sentence - whenever you want to evaluate someone, it's best to remember that not everyone in this world has the superior conditions you have.
Anton didn't want to admit it, but this sentence did show that the two sides were in a completely different realm, just like a teacher teaching a student, and Anton even had a sense of empowerment after hearing this sentence, as if he was listening to the teachings of the high priests in the church.
But the problem is that Li Yu is a heretic.
And speaking of the pagan Anton, something quickly came to mind.
"Why, why those lizards, uh...... The people who live in the swamp will worship you, and you have converted to their evil gods in order to survive? ”
"No, they converted to Saturday." "Or more accurately, they realized that the god they worshipped was just an incarnation of Saturday. ”
"The Great Luo of the Worlds"
"Incarnation, what is an incarnation?" Anton was puzzled.
"Well, it's another name, another form, but it's actually the same thing."
"Is that okay?!" The lingua franca teacher was stunned when he heard this, "You harvested those lizardmen into believers?" How, is it just by one of your mouths? ”
The lizardmen in the Everglades have been burning and looting for thousands of years, and both the Arias family and the previous lords have had a headache about it.
Naturally, the Silvermoon Church also considered solving this trouble, after all, over the years, many believers who believed in Picia had been mutilated by those lizardmen, and it was not appropriate for them to pretend not to see it.
Due to the complex terrain of the Swamp, force had proven to be not a suitable solution to the problem, so the Silvermoon Church decided to think of something else.
It was suggested that the lizardmen should be drawn into the arms of the goddess as well, and everyone would become a family that loved each other, and of course the family would not rob the family again.
His proposal was quickly approved by the vast majority of people, believers, no one would be too many, and if this matter was done, it would also make the prestige of the Silvermoon Church in the West even more prestigious, and the believers more religious.
So the Silvermoon Church sent people to the Gaigu Swamp to preach.
As a result, the male priests were murdered, and the female priests, some rumors that they were still alive, were in an even more miserable situation, so that the Church forbade to mention this dark past.
After all attempts to no avail, the Silvermoon Church characterized the lizardmen as fanatics of the gods, whose minds had been completely corrupted by the gods and reduced to puppets of the gods, unable to return to the light of the goddess.
But now they were all accepted as Saturday believers by the man in front of them, who claimed to be a prophet.
The impact of this incident on Anton far exceeded the discovery of the species that "lizardmen themselves are not lizardmen", and even shook his long-standing understanding of the world to a certain extent.