Heroes of Invincible Hidden Architect

Chapter 204 The Past of the Angel Family

Dragon Tongue City South City.

Old church of the Church of the Holy Angels.

This place should obviously be a sacred place, but it always makes people feel a little strange.

Today is a pilgrimage day in the old church.

On the square in front of the old church, there are countless pilgrims kneeling.

Some of them knelt in front of the church, clasped their hands, and kept muttering something.

Some lay on the ground, kissing the ground in front of the church constantly.

Some were lying quietly on the ground, skinny, with gray eyes, and mouths opening and closing unconsciously.

A few brown pigeons danced wantonly among the pilgrims all over the ground, making "coo, coo" calls.

"Clang! Clang! Clang!"

Three long bells rang, and two nuns in black robes on a white background came out pushing a cart.

On the car was a large pot of rotten bulgur, the bulgur was steaming, and a few faint scents dilute the fishy smell in the air.

The believers in front of the church got up one after another. They didn't make any noise or dispute, and lined up in two long lines very consciously.

Seven pigeons walking among the pilgrims were bumped by a ragged old man.

The one who was hit was fine, but the one who hit the person fell down.

The old man's skin was thin and wrinkled, wrapped around his bones, as if it had been drained dry, with no flesh and blood, only the skeleton and skin remained.

His eyeballs were sunken, and his eyelids were tightly closed. Even if he fell to the ground, his eyes never opened, so he should probably be blind.

"Old man, are you all right?"

Qige squatted down and helped the old pilgrim up. The nun at the front desk who led the way also stopped and looked back at Qige.

The old pilgrim who was supported by Qige did not respond to Qige. If you observe carefully, you can find that his upper lip and lower lip are slightly opening and closing.

When Qi Ge supported him, she put her head close to his mouth, and only then heard a panting sound from his breathing.

"Holy angel, holy angel."

After being helped up, the old pilgrim walked forward tremblingly.

He clearly couldn't see anything, but he precisely walked to the back of the pilgrim team, and followed the team slowly.

Qi Ge felt that something was blocking her.

He stopped and stood, looking in the direction of the nun.

The nuns of the church took a spoonful from the steaming basin and poured hot bulgur over the hands of the pilgrims.

The hot groats poured over the hands of the pilgrims, as if to inject a little strength into their withered bodies.

The pilgrims couldn't wait to bury their heads in the broken wheat porridge, and the broken wheat turned into shattered rays of light, which were directly absorbed by the pilgrims.

In an instant, the pilgrim's gray body seemed to have a color, and even his actions became a little stronger.

They "eat" the Holy Communion and returned to their original positions. As their mouths opened and closed, the color on their bodies began to fade rapidly again.

Qige is kind-hearted and can't see this.

He sighed, followed the nun at the front desk again, and walked towards the old church.

The food in Heroic Soul World does not need to be eaten, the food itself is just a kind of energy.

As long as you think about it, you can absorb it directly.

But generally no npc will do this.

After all, the process of chewing food itself will make people feel happy.

Unless, that thing is really hard to swallow.

In the teachings of the Church of the Holy Angels, enjoying good food is a sin.

In her previous life, Qi Ge felt that the person who made up this kind of teaching must be a bastard who has lost his conscience, and he should chop it up and feed it to the hell three-headed dog.

It's you, Inheim.

The Holy Angel Church summarizes the normal desires of some creatures into the seven deadly sins.

This teaching suppresses the normal instincts of living beings to the limit, so as to cultivate a bunch of walking dead with only praying angels in their minds.

This kind of walking dead is the so-called pilgrim.

That is, the production machine of npc angels.

They go to sleep and wake up every day, pray to the angels, and eat a so-called "communion" at the end of the day.

After eating, continue to pray to the angels until exhausted and fall asleep.

Their prayers will generate belief values, which are transformed and absorbed by "City in the Clouds" and become the nutrients that form NPC angels.

Erasia does not lack Cloudsdale, nor does it lack resources, what it lacks is faith.

The seven pigeons in the previous life received the task of changing all this from Adela, but before they could succeed, they encountered the invasion of chaos.

During the Chaos invasion, Dove and Adela had to put aside their ongoing plans.

Because in any case, the pilgrim system is the source of the birth of angel npc.

If the pilgrim system is suddenly overthrown, the angel NPCs on the front line will not be able to connect, losing the main force against chaos, and Erasia will die.

No matter how hard those pilgrims live, at least they are still alive.

To be swallowed by chaos is to die without a place to die.

It can only be the lesser of two evils.

Qige walked through the line of pilgrims and followed the nuns into the church step by step.

On both sides of the church, there are all kinds of angel statues. The angels pose in various poses, or charge, or fly, or pray, or read books.

These stone statues are all dead, without any temperature.

Walking in the church, it is extremely quiet.

Except for the footsteps of the seven pigeons and the nun, there was not a single noise.

With the pilgrims queuing up to receive the "communion" like a bunch of living dead in front of the church, it is an unspeakable underworld.

It was as if Qige had entered a zombie factory.

When you go in, you are a lively seven pigeons, but when you come out, you are a walking dead.

If possible, it was a zombie manufacturing factory anyway, and Qige would rather enter the succubus lair.

Rather than having her soul drained, Qi Ge would rather have her body drained.

After all, Qige has a good physique, can last longer, and the process is happier.

Unfortunately, there is no choice.

Arriving at the prayer hall of the old church, Adela was alone.

She turned her back to Qige, and in front of her was a colossal statue of an angel reaching the top of the church.

The nun who was leading the way for Qige turned around and said to Qige with some guilt: "

Chairman Seven Pigeons, in fact, it is Adela Legend who wants to see you.

For some reason, this meeting cannot be discovered by others.

I'm sorry for deceiving you. "

Seeing her bowing hard, Qige stretched out her hand, wanting to help her, and thought that she might hate the touch of men, so she changed to a common gesture of the Church of the Holy Angels, saying:
"No need to feel sorry, the angels will help you bear all your sins."

Hearing a line that the bishops of the Church of the Holy Angels would often say out of Qige's mouth, the female receptionist froze for a moment.

She raised her head, and saw Qige's eyes that seemed to see through people's hearts again, which made her a little shy, and ran out covering her face.

"You are the president of the Timely Rain Chamber of Commerce, Seven Pigeons?"

Adela turned her back to Qige, her voice was gentle and pleasant, like a virtuous wife who would put the bath water for you every time you came back to the territory.

"Qige, I'm curious. Why did you help that coachman?

Is it the guidance of the angel, or the bewitchment of the devil? "

Adela also has the blessing of "Holy Spirit: Insight", which allows her to see through lies.

According to what Adela said in her previous life, as long as she asked something and the other party answered, a voice would come from behind the answer: truth or lie.

The standard of this judgment is very harsh, even if it is half-truth, half-false, it will be judged as a lie.

Therefore, one must be very careful in answering Adela's question.

Seven pigeons brewed for a while, and slowly said:
"It is my own judgment to help the coachman." (True)

Seemingly getting an unexpected answer, Adela turned around and looked at Seven Pigeons.

She was wearing a brown nun's robe, with a hood attached, hiding her face in the robe.

And Qige, who is wearing a white cloak and also has a hood, looks like a couple outfit.

"Can you tell me why you want to help him?"

It's time to test Qige's skills.

"To save him." (True)

"If I don't help him, soon a member of the Church of the Holy Angels will come to him and transfer the debt he owes to the car dealership to the church." (True)

"Afterwards, under the guidance of the church, he and his family will embark on the path of becoming a pilgrim step by step." (True)

"I'm pretty sure that his distraction was caused by the high priest of the church." (True)

"The jihad is going on at the front, and the legendary hero Sosa's rebellion has appeared in the rear.

The Church of the Holy Angels does not have enough troops and needs more angels. "(reality)

"So incidents like that coachman should have increased recently." (True)

"And I, want to stop this from happening." (True)

How to hide from Adela's insightful eyes, Qige has specially studied it.

The whole paragraph, every sentence is the truth, but together it is a lie.

Listening to the whole passage together, it can be understood that Qi Ge saved the coachman Luo Xiang so that he would not become a pilgrim.

But it's not.

What Adela asked was why Qige helped him.

Qi Ge's answer was: "To save him."

This answer is true, but only half the answer, the full answer should be:

"To save him, to get your attention."

Qi Ge's subsequent words can be regarded as an explanation of the sentence "to save him", but Qi Ge did not add any associated words after the first sentence.

Qige cleverly passed the interval between words, and got stuck in the time when the insight Holy Spirit notified Adela.

With all the true words, weave a lie.

He changed his image in Adela's heart into a pagan who was resisting the church's pilgrim system.

Adela once again heard an answer she didn't expect, which made her even more interested in the person in front of her.

"I am the saint of the church, but you slander the church in front of me?
Do you think I'm going to judge my own high priest because of your words?
You would rather risk being silenced by me than say this in front of me.

Could it be that you have a big problem with the church's pilgrim system? "

This question has to be answered carefully.

The pilgrim system is the core system of the Pope, and the legendary hero Inheim relied on the merits of this system to complete his legendary path and become a legend.

Qige pondered for a while, and said solemnly:
"Actually, I am not totally against the pilgrim system.

I knew very early on that this world is neither black nor white, but a delicate gray. "

"From Erathia's point of view, far away from the imminent crisis of the realm of chaos, there are powerful enemies from hell around.

There is nothing wrong with the Church of the Holy Angels expanding its military strength and trying to increase the production of the Angel Race.

The faith value that pilgrims can provide is more than ten times that of ordinary believers.

Make an assumption.

Under normal circumstances, it takes about 1 ordinary believers to pray without sleep for a week to awaken an angel.

If you change to pilgrims, you only need 1000.

Then, if 1 of the 1000 believers are converted into pilgrims, the remaining 9000 normal believers will be able to work and live normally.

In this way, a large number of angels can be produced to ensure the strength of Erasia's troops without affecting the overall stability of Erasia. "

Hearing Qige's words, Adela was a little disappointed, but she didn't speak, and waited quietly for Qige to finish.

"From the perspective of the pilgrims themselves.

Most of the pilgrims are the poor people who lost all their relatives in the jihad, or the bottom of Erathia who have been living in misery.

They are either disabled, old or weak, or distraught, and they may not be able to survive normally in Erasia despite their best efforts.

Their own lives are full of pain, and even thinking is already a kind of torture for them.

In this case, after they transform into pilgrims, they give up thinking completely.

They don't need to work, they don't need to think, they don't need to remember, they just need to pray and give themselves to the god in their hearts.

For them who live in pain, this may not be a kind of happiness.

For me, giving up thinking and becoming a puppet who can only pray is something I cannot accept.

That doesn't mean I'm going to put my feelings on them and think they're suffering too.

Therefore, I will not judge the church's pilgrim system. "

Enough is enough, again.

Adela was disappointed. She was about to interrupt Qige when suddenly Qige raised her head slightly and changed the topic.

"But there's a premise to everything.

People who become pilgrims do so voluntarily, not under the design and frame of some conspirators.

Otherwise, I can't turn a blind eye.

When you encounter it, you have to take care of it. "

Adela shivered in her brown nun's robe.

Qige's words are all true.

She stared at Qige carefully, and the blessing of the Holy Spirit's insight allowed her to see Qige's appearance through the pure white night shadow of Qige.

It turned out to be a half-elf!

Adela was even more surprised.

She thought that she would meet a like-minded human companion, but unexpectedly, the other party was actually a half-elf!

He is a half-elf, why should he take care of human affairs?

Had his father or mother become a pilgrim?
After thinking about it, Adela asked:

"This is the Church of the Holy Angel.

The pilgrim system was established by the Church of the Holy Angels, and I am a saint of the Church of the Holy Angels.

Are you not afraid that I will execute you, heretic? "

"Not afraid."

Qige smiled confidently.

"You are not only the saint of the Holy Angel Church, but also the saint of the people of Erathia."

"The reason why Dragon Tongue Port City has not been transformed into pilgrims on a large scale is due to you."

Adela stared at Seven Pigeon in shock.

It's not a guessing tone, but an affirmation, and this sentence is also true.

He seemed to know that I was behind the plan to prevent the expansion of the church's pilgrims.

When did I get exposed?Who exposed it?

How much information does he know?
Will it affect my plan?
In just a short conversation, Adela's attitude towards Qige changed from curiosity, to disappointment, to expectation, and then to questioning, turning repeatedly, just like riding a roller coaster.

Her patience also went up and down, ups and downs, and was repeatedly rubbed by Qige.

Seeing that Adela suddenly didn't ask herself any more, Qi Ge knew that the heat was almost ready and the main course had to be served.

Otherwise, some words can only be said in the dungeon.

"My lord, you want to change the pilgrim system so that the people of Erathia will no longer suffer.

At the same time, there is a best-of-both-worlds solution to ensure the production of angels so that Erasia will not lose the foundation of the country. "

Adela was about to arrest Qige for a careful interrogation, but was shocked by Qige's words and stopped urgently.

Qige's words are exactly the problem she has been unable to solve, and it is the core difficulty in her desire to reform the church.

She asked anxiously, "What way?"

Qi Ge noticed that her speech speed was slightly faster, and smiled knowingly, it was rare to see Adela in a hurry.

He didn't dare to whet Adela's appetite any more, so he said quickly:
"It all starts with the origin of angels."

"The teachings of the Church of the Holy Angels begin.

The world loves God, and God loves the world.

But this teaching is false.

Angels have no love, no emotion, they are not even creatures, but belief life similar to mechanical bodies. "

Adela's pupils were shocked!
How would he know?
This is the core secret of the entire castle power. Even in the Church of the Holy Angels, there are very few high-level officials who know this secret!

"Angels are reinforcements summoned by Mother Yasha from a world of order that is about to collapse.

In that world of order, there are also human beings, but apart from being similar in appearance, their abilities and civilization development routes are all different from our Yasha world.

It was a world of idealism, where a thought powerful enough could alter reality.

Human beings in that world have been invaded by hell for a long time, suffered a lot, and longed to be saved.

Thus, a genius in their world unified the thinking of mankind through the form of the church.

A powerful collective consciousness distorts reality, and "Castle" and "Angel" materialize from their minds.

Angels gather the most fundamental dreams of humans in that world.

He is powerful in combat, can fly freely, can resurrect human beings, is brave and fearless, is the sworn enemy of hell forces, and kills demons when he sees them.

The mind of a believer is determined by the believer.

Due to the power of belief, the bottom-level action logic of the angel race is to eliminate hell and protect human beings.

When the angel came to the world of Yasha, he happened to see human beings who were on the verge of extinction under the persecution of chaos, and subconsciously fought for human power.

And the human beings in the Yasha world also regard this angel who descended from the void as a god to save themselves. "

"However, be the strongest angel."

Qige said and looked up at the statue behind Adela.

"However, when the strongest angel got Yasha's tears and established a power, everything changed.

The high-level angels gradually began to have thoughts, they were no longer pure, and they could even break away from the shackles of belief to a certain extent, and had wishes different from destroying hell and protecting human beings.

Angels who have just awakened their consciousness have only one object of study.

It is a pity that the subjects of study have both noble qualities and dirty desires, and they are precisely the most complicated creatures in the Yasha world.

It is easy to learn bad and difficult to learn good.

After the end of the first holy war between the castle and hell, the power of the castle gradually stabilized.

In the stable state, the high-level angels quickly became infected with the vices of human beings, and began to have desires.

They pursued enjoyment, and even began to enslave human beings in turn.

The high-ranking angels even wanted to transform the humans in the Yasha world into their former creators—that idealistic human civilization.

And through the belief of human beings in the Yasha world, realize their own evolution and make their own strength stronger.

Thus, with the help of high-ranking angels, the church that believes in angels was established logically.

But soon, the legendary heroes of mankind discovered that something was wrong with the angels. The first batch of legendary heroes who were promoted in the first holy war set up a king who could check and balance the power of the church.

Human forces are on the Yasha continent, and in order to survive, they have to rely on the power of angels.

Angels believe in life, if there are not enough humans to believe in them, they will not be able to give birth to a new generation.

Angels and human forces are interdependent, and the distorted relationship of opposing each other has continued until now. "

Every word!

Adela couldn't control her expression, her thin lips parted slightly.

She never thought that someone could analyze the relationship between humans and angels so thoroughly.

What Qige said not only corresponded one-to-one with what she knew, but also answered some of her long-standing questions.

Adela released her insights with all her strength, trying to see through Qige's real body. She suspected that Qige might be a demon, or a demigod hero who turned into a half-elf.

But no matter how you look at it, Qige is just an ordinary half-elf hero, not even a master.

Adela was shocked.

How did Qige know this? It was as if she had penetrated the fog of history and told the truth in one sentence.

Qige can be sure that Adela should be completely overwhelmed by herself now.

Because these historical truths were told to Qige by Adela, one year after the service was opened in her previous life.

The current conversation between Qige and Adela is equivalent to the conversation between Adela a year later and Adela now.

That must be the softest and most sensitive place in her body, making Adela doubt her life.

Adela took a few steps forward and closed the gap between the seven pigeons.

"How did you know this?"

Qige shook his head and said:

"It was told to me by a beautiful and wise lady whose name I cannot tell you."

Miss?A lady who is so familiar with the church?
Eddie?Saiyan?Caitlin?
A few names flashed through Adela's mind quickly, but she excluded them all.

"who is she?!"

Qige's expression was sad.

"The lady who told me this is no longer in this world."

Qige said that it was "the lady who told him the past history", that is, Adela in the previous life. In this life, Adela did not tell the truth about the angel Qige.

So in Adela's insight, Qi Ge's words were judged to be true.

"Don't put me off, tell me her name. Although I don't like to use force to solve problems, it doesn't mean I can't."

Adela stared at the seven pigeons and issued an ultimatum.

Seeing that she couldn't get away with it, Qi Ge thought quickly.

This question is difficult to answer, and we must find a way to divert Adela's attention.

"Master Saint! It's not good!"

The nun at the front desk ran in with great difficulty. She clutched her heavy conscience and shouted out of breath, "The high priest is here!"

ps: Thanks to the lord Gudi Ming Remy!

The debt was paid off.

But the hamster was so proud that he stuck it in his waist.

(End of this chapter)