Chapter 16 [Harsh Government and the Tiger]
After swallowing the small black pill for less than a moment, Gandy clearly noticed that the pain in his body was gradually disappearing, and his mind was becoming clearer. Just when he was secretly happy in his heart and his eyes flickered, he remembered Lin Tao's words in his ears again, "What I give you is a small antidote to my Heart Eater Pill, which can suppress the poison in your body for a day, and if you don't get the remaining antidote after a day, the toxicity will attack again, and it will become more and more violent." ”
Gandy looked at the spirit, and felt that the young man in front of him was really ruthless and sharp-minded. For a moment, he felt as if the Holy See had provoked a great enemy, and in time it would definitely pay for it. Although he knew that the strength of the young man in front of him was nothing to the behemoth of the entire Holy See, but what about ten years from now, twenty years from now? Thinking of this, he sighed softly, who can say for sure what will happen in the future. Whether the Holy See is prosperous or destroyed, it doesn't matter to him, I'm afraid that a lot of grass has grown on his grave at that time.
Knowing this, Gandy completely gave up resistance. Just now, he thought that Lin Tao had given him an antidote, and his mind couldn't help but fluctuate a little. But I didn't expect that this thought just came to my heart, and it was ruthlessly broken. The other party actually used this hand to force him to comply. What can he do now? Under the strict care of the other party, it is impossible to think about suicide, and now that his cultivation has been abolished, and he can't lift the slightest strength in his body, thinking seems to be a rather laborious thing. As for the pain of the heart-devouring pill, he didn't want to taste it again. There's nothing in this world like the pain of tasting the Heart-Eating Pill, the feeling of being eaten by thousands of ants, and the mere thought of it can make people's scalps fried, let alone Gandy, who has been tormented for so long. But whenever there is a glimmer of possibility, he is not willing to repeat the torment just now.
After thinking about all this, he seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, put down a big rock, and became quiet. Perhaps it was not until this moment that he finally let go of his experience of being a cardinal, regarded them as memories, and completely sealed them in the depths of his mind, and now he was just a prisoner.
He licked his somewhat dry lips and said slowly in a deep voice, "As you can see, the power of faith is indeed originally composed of the essence and spirit in the human body, and when absorbed into the golden scepter held by the cardinal. The scepter contains a five-pointed star circle for transformation, taking its essence and removing its dross, and refining it into the ultimate power of faith. This method has been handed down since the creation of the Holy See, but until then it was only in the canon of the Church, and it was not used until twenty years ago. The reason why this is so is that this method is too overbearing and dangerous, and once it is discovered and propagated, it may really cause difficulties in proselytizing. But twenty years ago, His Holiness the Pope could not take care of it so much at the critical juncture, so he moved the collection of the power of faith from the classics. However, since the first time everyone felt the benefits of the power of faith, they became more and more addicted to it, and they became more and more addicted, and finally it became a practice of the Holy See and was preserved. With a large amount of faith, the strength of the Holy See has grown by leaps and bounds in the past 20 years, and there is even a faint tendency to get rid of the third power on the mainland and enter the second. His Majesty the Pope also believes that once he can break through that last hurdle, he will be able to let the light of the Holy See shine on the entire Izumo continent. ”
Lin Tao nodded slowly, now Gandy undoubtedly cooperates a lot, I thought that if he was disobedient, it would be a big deal to put him aside for a day and let him suffer, but I didn't expect that now he doesn't need to. Listening to his words, you know that he is not cheating, he should have wanted to open it or he was deeply afraid of the pain of the poison attack of the Heart Eater Pill and did not want to taste it again.
"Since the gathering of this power of faith has been going on for almost twenty years, has there been no believers discovering it in the past twenty years, or has it been discovered by fighters from other countries?" Lin Tao frowned, wanting to ask the doubts in his heart. Thus mastering the habits of the Holy See is of great benefit to future plans. The so-called knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent is the truth of not being defeated in a hundred battles.
"In the first few years, no one discovered that gathering the power of faith could cause irreparable damage to the bodies of believers attending prayer services. Later, some believers gradually found that there was something wrong with their bodies and the bodies of the people around them, but they did not think about the prayer ritual. But among the tens of millions of people in the Empire, there were a few people who understood, and when they learned the truth of the matter, they began to encourage other believers to either leave the Church or leave the Empire. But my Holy See has an incomparable influence among the people, and they do not believe even their relatives, let alone their friends. Later, this part of the population was classified as infidels by the clergy law enforcement teams in various places, divided by the death penalty. It was also to cover this secret that the Empire had installed a large number of cleric monitoring teams in each city to monitor the movements of the believers in the city. In addition, the number of the Judicial Enforcement Team has also increased dramatically, in order to deal with emergencies. In this way, the past twenty years have been slowly passed. Moreover, the Holy See has existed for hundreds of years, and the prayer ceremony has always been a tradition, and even the spies of other countries will not think of this layer, let alone discover the existence of the power of faith, after all, the strength of those people is enough to detect it. At the same time, we have also made a move to divert people's attention from the fact that the life expectancy of believers in the empire has decreased and they are frail and sickly. For example, these problems are blamed on the neighboring countries, accusing them of destroying the water of the Murro River, which runs through the borders of several countries, and it only becomes like this when people drink unclean water. For this reason, we have even destroyed one of our neighbors to divert domestic attention. ”
Gandy completely left behind his former identity, and said this without the slightest emotion, as if a third party was objectively stating this fact, without any emotion. There is neither embarrassment nor embarrassment about what he has done in the past, nor is it difficult to talk about it, etc., and he does not want to whitewash the peace and hide people's eyes.
After hearing all this, Lin Tao exhaled deeply, while digesting the information brought by Gandy's words, he also suppressed the deep shock in his heart.
In order to be able to obtain the power of faith and at the same time avoid the danger of extermination, the Holy See really did everything to do it. Any one of these methods can be described as a big deal. Suppressing and killing those believers in the country who discovered the dark side behind the prayer ceremony, although Gandy alone said it lightly, but Lin Tao believes that the number of people will definitely not be less, there are no tens of thousands, thousands of people are indispensable.
Lin Tao can understand the unwillingness, grievance, sorrow and even resentment in the hearts of those believers who have been sentenced to death. What kind of kindness and love is there for the God they believe in day and night, but their faith is betrayed and deceived by them, and they are taken away as cattle in captivity, without the slightest concern for their life and death? Where does the light come from? There is only endless darkness. After believing that they know all this, they must have been helpless for a while, unwilling to believe but having to believe the facts. They have learned from their pains, abandoned their faith, and harbored a deep resentment against the deceiver in their hearts. So they began to tell the truth to their relatives and friends around them, which was also to save them, otherwise he could have walked away. However, what made them deeply helpless and aggrieved was that they could not imagine that their relatives and friends did not trust them, and between the Holy See and their relatives, their friends and relatives chose to believe that the former was not theirs. This is the deep sorrow.
However, this is not the most terrifying, when their relatives, friends and lovers regard them as evil infidels, trying to discredit the evil forces that subvert the Holy See, and report them, their hearts are cold.
Eventually, the clergy law enforcement team took them away and executed them with cruel punishments, believing that their cries before death must have been helpless, angry, remorseful, unwilling, and aggrieved.
Lin Tao felt a chill in his heart just by imagining his place of life as those people, let alone those parties. This is also because everything he has experienced in Fangcai Square makes Lin Tao feel the same way, and those people don't trust him at all, and still regard him as an enemy and an infidel. For this reason, Lin Tao can feel a burst of grievances and helplessness, not to mention those awakened people who have been betrayed by relatives, lovers and friends. The difference between the two is that Lin Tao has the strength to resist, while those people can only leave with unwillingness and grievances......
This kingdom of sorrow, cruel papacy!
According to Gandy, for twenty years every city in the Byzantine Empire has been planted with a large number of priests, inspectors, and law enforcement teams. These clerics were used to spy on ordinary people and to control them. One can imagine what kind of life the people under the papal see's jurisdiction lived, and they were numb to the feeling that all this should have been so. God knows how many innocent lives have been deprived of the lives of the monitoring and law enforcement teams that hold the power of life and death over the years, and how they have exploited these people.
Lin Tao had to sigh, and at the same time he also thought of another point. Even if there are a large number of priest monitoring teams in Ayibagh City, then there is no doubt that the situation in his mansion has been found out by the other party, and he may not know that he is pretending to be Laurivic, but he must be able to detect the fact that these people in the dark group have a lot of strength. If there is such a push from someone with a heart, it is conceivable that it will definitely be accompanied by a big trouble, although it is not a danger to his life, but it will definitely hinder his plan. It's like a bomb, I don't know when it's going to blow up. Lin Tao felt like a fish in his throat, quite uncomfortable, and that uncontrollable feeling was the most disgusting to him.
"It seems that I have to find a chance to meet with the Divine Inspector Supervision Team of Ayibag City for a while!" Lin Tao thought to himself.