Chapter 356: Good news: staff found. Bad news
Good news: staff found. Bad news:......
The crowd didn't waste too much time. Driven by the idea of speed-running and a pragmatic style, they soon left the rest hall and went to the church to find news about the staff of the Evil Infant Court.
Originally, to improve efficiency, everyone should disperse to inquire, but for Zhang Jizu, this kind of efficiency was not worth mentioning compared to the purpose of his trial. He only sought stability, so he always followed behind Cheng Shi.
Once Scorpio saw the two big shots huddling together, he naturally wasn't foolish enough to leave on his own, so he followed behind them.
Gao Ya's purpose was not to be alone, so she wouldn't leave the team either.
In short, the four people became conjoined twins.
Cheng Shi felt deeply helpless, but there was nothing he could do, so he had to spend more thought on the means of inquiry to improve efficiency.
Although the court looked abandoned, the people in the church clearly knew about this institution and were very clear about how this institution operated.
So Cheng Shi found a staff member who looked easier to fool, pretended to be his peer, promised him some small benefits, took him to a corner where no one was around, and asked everything about the court from his mouth.
"The court hasn't been banned, but it hasn't been operating normally either.
There are indeed some staff members living inside, but I advise you, even if you are curious, don't go in and disturb them."
"Why?"
"You really haven't heard of it? That shouldn't be. On the first day of joining the church, those old church people who rely on their age to sell their age should have warned you. You... are also here to mix for a salary?"
"Ah?" Cheng Shi was taken aback, hurriedly nodded, "You really have a good eye for people!"
"Observing words and colors is the way to stand in the church. I saw early on that you don't look like a devout believer, but don't worry, I won't expose you, because I'm not either.
Don't look at me like that. To be a person, you have to talk about loyalty. I appreciate all non-devout people. The people behind us have long lost themselves in fanatical faith and abandoned wisdom. People like you and me are the truly independent and free people!
In so many years of church life, I have summarized one point:
Humanity, wisdom, and faith can only take two of the three.
You and I have abandoned faith and chosen wisdom and humanity, so we are both smart people.
Of course, smart people also have to eat. I don't think it's too much to pretend to be devout in order to eat. What do you think?"
Cheng Shi was stunned. He thought he had randomly picked a fool, but he didn't expect the other party to be a thinker who spoke with reason.
Master, what you said is too right, I have realized.
In Cheng Shi's increasingly admiring gaze, this thinker floated. He talked endlessly and leaked secrets:
"That person is a cursed sinner. You ask others about this, and it's impossible for anyone to tell you, because few people know it in the first place.
If it weren't for me... shh, you can't tell on me, if it weren't for me sneaking into the room of the church head, it would be impossible to know.
The establishment of the court actually has nothing to do with the so-called evil infants. That was a decision made by a certain church head a hundred years ago because of his personal pity.
That institution wasn't called this name at first, but was called the Blasphemy Repentance Institute. It's a bit complicated to explain the relationship between these two institutions. There isn't much time to be lazy, so I'll make a long story short."
Cheng Shi nodded secretly, thinking to himself that this person was enthusiastic, but he never expected that this person wasn't enthusiastic at all, but a pure chatterbox.
He hadn't shared the secrets in his heart with others for too long. It wasn't easy to meet someone interested, so he grabbed Cheng Shi and talked for a whole afternoon.
Cheng Shi couldn't interrupt him, because there was indeed material in this person's words, but he added a large amount of nonsense to this history related to Doer Gede, the ratio was probably 10:1, 10 sentences of nonsense, 1 sentence of history.
Cheng Shi was really listening with a headache, but had to listen patiently. Finally, when the sunset was about to fall, he finally figured out everything about the Evil Infant Court.
Speaking of which, it's a coincidence, this matter also has something to do with him.
Remember the female citizen Cheng Shi delivered a baby for using the 【Divine Colonization Technique】? Although Cheng Shi's delivery was just a projection of the history of the Life Era in the game, in true history, this female citizen did give birth to that child, and this child was the church head mentioned by this chatterbox thinker.
In the process of growing up, he gradually realized that he was a Uuda rioter, but he didn't resist this identity at all, and even used the 【Divine Colonization Technique】 to constantly improve his status among 【Birth】 believers, successfully breaking into the interior of the church and becoming the church star at that time.
He used all means to constantly promote his piety and spread offspring in the city. The church felt that he was physically practicing the will of 【Birth】, not knowing that he was just taking the opportunity to expand the bloodline left by the Uuda.
A few years later, this Uuda rioter whose reputation reached its peak was successfully elected as the church head, and it was also at this time that the identity of him and his clansmen was accidentally leaked. But the people who got the news weren't the public, but the Uuma people who were wandering outside the Doer Empire and had no home to return to.
These Uuma people learned that their early kin had gained new power in Doer Gede, so they came to defect one after another.
The church head, who had lost his historical memory and only had bloodline memory, softened his heart and took them in, but he couldn't force the public opinion to support a group of idle people with taxes, so he established the Blasphemy Repentance Institute.
Because of the crime of blasphemy in history, the Uuma sinners were always repenting themselves. In order to make the citizens at that time more devout, the church head began to brainwash all the people with this repentance institute, letting them waste their energy other than reproduction on repentance, in order to ensure the stability of the rule.
But this policy clearly angered all citizens, so under the intervention of the bishop of the Doer Empire, this church head was dismissed.
On the day of his dismissal, he made his identity public, denouncing the decision of the Doer Empire as the greatest blasphemy against Him. However, this move made the citizens of Doer Gede even more annoyed, so they picked up stones on the roadside and beat him to death in front of the church alive.
Once the church head died, those Uuma sinners taken in by the church head should have been executed, but the next church head discovered the stabilizing effect of the repentance institute on society, so he found an excuse to keep them.
The new church head made slight modifications to the Blasphemy Repentance Institute, changing national repentance to personal guilt, using the crime of evil infant blasphemy to sentence all citizens who didn't obey him to capital punishment.
Thus, the prosperous age of the Divine Nurturing Church arrived. Doer Gede experienced an unprecedented period of stability. All citizens respected and loved him, because the rebels had all been sentenced to death for the crime of blasphemy.
Later, this church head was promoted to serve as a bishop in the Doer Empire, and the court of Doer Gede fell into silence again.
This was originally a stain on the bishop, which should have been erased after he left office, but who knew that he died suddenly not long after serving as bishop, so the Evil Infant Court fell into silence after losing the bishop's support. The next church head knew that this thing was dangerous if discovered by the public, but was afraid of the influence of the late bishop and didn't dare to dismantle it, so the court was abandoned like this.
Therefore, Doer Gede never had the concept of evil infants, and there was never any life that shouldn't have been born.
Hearing this, Cheng Shi's teammates behind him were all shocked.
The squinty-eyed man widened his eyes, Gao Ya frowned, Tian Xie was full of bewilderment, and Cheng Shi smiled half-smile.
He looked at this "thinker" in front of him and asked playfully:
"So much historical inside information, just sneaking into the church head's room is probably not enough to see it, right?
Interesting, who are you?
You wouldn't be one of my good teammates, right?"
"Thinker" shook his head, clearly not understanding what the word teammate meant, but he was indeed not an ordinary church staff member. Seeing Cheng Shi suspicious of his identity, he grinned:
"Actually, I rarely see newcomers who don't know me, but even fewer people are willing to talk to me.
My name is Turadin. Hmm, since you didn't recognize me to my face, you must not have heard my name either.
But there is another name you should know.
My father, Berios. Do you recognize it now?"
Cheng Shi gave two dry laughs and shook his head. The "thinker's" face stiffened instantly.
And at this time, Gao Ya behind Cheng Shi sneered:
"Berios, the current church head of the Divine Nurturing Church in Doer Gede.
Really interesting. The person you found to inquire about information is the son of the current church head of the Divine Nurturing Church?"
?
Cheng Shi turned back fiercely, looked at Gao Ya, then turned back to look at Turadin somewhat unbelievably, surprised:
"You talked all afternoon about hating fanatical blasphemy against faith, and now you tell me your father is the church head of the Divine Nurturing Church?"
Turadin didn't feel there was any problem at all. He spread his hands:
"It's precisely because he is the church head that I hate everything here.
His fanaticism for faith has turned Doer Gede into a hell of faith. People here only have gestation in their eyes. From birth to death, there is only one thing in their minds, and that is faith, not knowing that they have long since died, died in spirit.
They lost themselves, lost their freedom, lost everything except fanatical faith.
This kind of life is too oppressive, frightening, and suffocating. If people live just to mechanically offer to the high 【Birth】, then when He bestows new life, why give humans thought and wisdom?
So, it's wrong, everything is wrong.
I can't say where all this is wrong, but I know that if this continues, people will no longer be people.
I have always hoped that someone could destroy everything here, and then create a brand new Doer Gede without Him on the ruins.
Finally, today, I met you guys.
To tell you the truth, all the newcomers in the church were brought in by me, but I have never seen you guys, so you are not church people at all.
Who are you guys?
No, this is not important, what is important is that you guys......
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