Chapter 624: Expansion
After the transformation of faith, the girl was extremely religious, and believed wholeheartedly that the gods had given her a strong power, and according to her intuition, she took a deep breath and clenched her fists.
In an instant, wisps of water slowly condensed around her body, first static, then staggered and circled like planets orbiting around a star.
At the same time, a gentle whirlwind drifted silently at Catherine's feet, wrapping around her ankles and lifting the girl into the air.
"You are right, your Majesty, that piety is nothing more than a questioning of one's own heart.
Thank you for your help and for the gift of our Lord. After breaking all the laws of mechanics on the earth with her divine power, Catherine was suspended in the void, savoring the unprecedented peace and joy in her heart, and looked at the black-haired young man in front of her and said calmly.
"I can achieve such perfect control with the first spell, and I have a belief that is extremely thorough after refinement, and I have transformed into a fanatic in one fell swoop, it seems that I have inadvertently grasped the point of spreading faith in a scientific and technological civilization based on science. Zhang Lisheng looked back at the girl and opened her mouth, but there was a surprised expression on her face.
And the next scene made the young man even more stunned, and before he could continue to induce, he saw Catherine fluttering away from his side, flying to the side like a shocked fool, and staring at everything with his eyes straight at everything.
Looking around at the group of companions she had so painstakingly recruited, the girl showed a holy and noble gaze, and said in a boastful demagoguery: "Brothers and sisters, you have seen with your own eyes the gifts that the gods have given me.
Just a few minutes ago. Like you, I am just one of the ordinary human beings, and now I have attained extraordinary strength, an eternally healthy, youthful body, a spirit of peace and joy, and a future path to heaven...
And there is only one condition for obtaining all this, and that is to offer one's devout faith to the god Wuli and strive to spread the glory of the gods.
And now I will ask you, as the Divine Messenger has just asked me, and ask your own hearts, will you believe in the great god Wuli and spread his glory throughout this city that has been shrouded in darkness and become hopeless?
You are willing to trade your humble faith for the power of the supernatural, the eternal youth of your body, and your ascension to heaven. Eternal joy?
Are you willing to give your fellow citizens a chance at true salvation? Tell me, are you willing, willing, willing?"
Catherine asked in a hurry. The room erupted in unison. Hoarse roars. "Yes, we do, may the glory of the god Wuli be with us..."
"That's good. Mike, Alonso, and Jack Verner grab your guns, and while the thugs of the 'Eternal Undead' are dead, we'll go to its territory. Catherine waved her hand resolutely, and roared with a fierce hurricane.
"Yes, yes, Afina was killed by the people of the 'Eternal Undead', and now it's time for them to pay the price, this group of bitches will kill them all if they don't convert to the Wuli God...";
"At last, when the time comes for us to show our might, ha
"After swallowing the 'Eternal Undead' and then going to play the 'Ethereal Pastoral', since the god Wu Li can give the believers such a powerful supernatural power, sooner or later we can turn the whole of New York into our territory..."
Catherine floated back to Zhang Lisheng's side, "Lord Divine Envoy, in order to thank the gods for their gifts, I am going to 'preach' for Wu Li God now, will you go with you?"
"When, of course Catherine. Coming back from his surprise, the young man looked at the girl again as if he didn't know her, "Although I can guess that you are very capable, your performance just now is far beyond my expectations. ”
"I had a master's degree in social administration from Brown University, I was proficient in speech and human resource management, and I spent eight months and seven days in Queens, New York, which had become purgatory, and it was just a little 'show'. Catherine smiled at the dark-haired young man in front of her, turned and floated out of the room.
"Because I was born and raised in a bustling metropolis, do you still maintain your ability to think independently even if you become a fanatic," looking at the girl's disappearing back, Zhang Lisheng shrugged and muttered to himself, "The human heart is really never guessable." It also rose into the air and disappeared without a trace in an instant.
The benefits brought by accumulation are obvious, with the power of faith provided by more than 2 billion believers in the 'Sea Shrimp No. 2 World Realm', in the next ten days, the young man took the lead in conquering with absolute force, and then did not hesitate to give a large number of earth believers the method of casting mana to consolidate the amount, and quickly expanded the territory.
He successively defeated dozens of cults, large and small, and took control of the entire Queens borough of New York, and in the course of the brutal massacres in turn, he found that some cults were actually just tools for some demagogic mentally abnormal people to realize their ambitions;
Behind the other lies a dark powerhouse with an ancient heritage.
The situation of war is like the turbulent river after the floodgates are opened, and many of the dregs that have been hidden in the invisible dark side of human society for a long time have been 'washed out', and the government and the Atlanteans may have no spare energy, or maybe they have some kind of unknown calculations, and they have adopted an invisible laissez-faire attitude towards all kinds of chaos...
Queens, New York, is just over 180 square kilometers, and it is ridiculously small as a god's 'grazing land' in terms of area, but from a population point of view, as an international metropolitan area, although migration and war have reduced its population by one-third, Queens is still inhabited by 1.4 million people of all colors.
Such a population is comparable to a medium-sized city in the 'Sea Shrimp II World Realm', which is already considered a 'rich' parish.
In the blink of an eye, it has been two weeks since Zhang Lisheng returned to Earth.
In the evening, as the sky began to rain cold, the food trucks, escorted by armoured vehicles and hovering helicopter gunships, hurried away from the dirty streets of New York's 'Bronx' despite the pleading and cursing of the ragged and depressed refugees who were waiting to receive the food.
Outside a warehouse with an iron gate closed on the side of the street, Zhang Lisheng was wearing a thick rubber raincoat, and after watching the convoy go away, his face showed cold joy, and he said to a short black man standing on the right hand side with a face full of meat, missing front teeth, and thick black and purple lips that were cracked and smiled, revealing an indescribable vicious feeling: "Look, Hubble, the Bronx is about to be abandoned by the government." ”
"Your Excellency," replied the stout black man with a smile and a tone far wiser than his appearance, "in order to prevent the mob from snatching food, it is a rhinoceros armored vehicle and a Black Hawk helicopter gunship, and it is even more wasteful to send a loaf of bread to two loaves of bread than peacetime aid to the African 'Congo', and what can be done if you don't give up."
Of course, there will be no interruption in the delivery of food in disguise, but the convoy must be getting smaller and smaller, and it is smartest to fill the surplus fuel into the crematorium and wait for the starving refugees to be burned to death, and solve the problem once and for all. ”
"Your opinion is always so cruel but practical, Hubble, in fact, I know from the first time I saw you, you are a wise man who sells drugs for a living, and you are more suitable than Catherine to lead the Wuli Divine Cult forward in this chaotic world..."Zhang Lisheng said slowly in an admiring tone.
Hearing his words, the short black man's eyes lit up with a light of unknown meaning, and he interrupted the young man's words with a sigh, "It's a pity that I converted to the god Wuli more than ten months later than the chief priest of Catherine.
She founded the current church, and the gods would not allow me to take her place no matter what. ”
"I'll just say you're a wise man, Hubble," Zhang Lisheng smiled and nodded in the pouring rain, "As the founder of the Wuli Divine Cult, Catherine is indeed irreplaceable, so what you pursue can only be a relatively independent position..."
Hearing this, Hubble sank into deep thought, and the young man waited quietly without saying a word, and only after a few minutes heard the short black man say fiercely: "Do you mean I must leave New York, Lord God?"
As a successful ex-drug dealer who grew up in the black neighborhood of the city, sometimes even faith and death don't necessarily make him want to keep his voice down indefinitely.
"I do plan to find a qualified priest to go to Los Angeles and start a new diocese, but I'm going to find someone to go to Philadelphia, to San Francisco, to Atlanta, even to London, to Paris...
But I'm not going to force any of the Witch priests to leave, Hubble, stay in New York forever if you want, and leave the opportunity to someone else. Zhang Lisheng shrugged and said.
"I didn't say I didn't want to go to Los Angeles to open a new diocese, Your Majesty," Hubble said with a smile after a moment of silence, "I've been there before, and it's a good place with mountains and waters, but how many priests can I take with me, and if you can come with me, we can go right away." ”
"I will soon return to the 'Kingdom of God', Hubble, it is impossible to go to Los Angeles with you," Zhang Lisheng threw out the conditions that he had already thought of, "But if you prove your piety and are willing to leave New York and open up new suburbs, I can raise your priesthood by two levels, although it is still not as good as Catherine, but it is second only to her."
In addition to this, you can take with you two hundred priests of the first rank, seventy of the second rank, and twenty priests of the third rank. ”
As soon as the young man's words fell, Hubble said with unbargaining satisfaction: "I did it, Lord God, and I am willing to go now." (To be continued......)