Angel on earth

Sunlight poured down from the center of the dome of the Pantheon, dimly illuminating the hideous and gorgeous sky murals.

Yana was standing under the pyramid, as if looking up at the empty throne of the Pope.She closed her eyes tightly, her long white dress was like a lily of the valley buttoned upside down, her elbow-length gloves sank into her sleeves, and she wore black armbands on her sleeves.

Isabella walked into the door and asked:

"Is Micah not here?"

Yana didn't look back:

"Is Jasmine not here?"

"The old guy from Singer Reef is dead, and her seal has been lifted." Isabella walked to the throne on the steps, "I really envy her, she has a hometown to go back to."

"Isn't this our hometown?" Mikhail said softly.

Tristan Hardy laughed softly, too, and was glared at by Aaron.

None of the saints laughed at Mikhail. Even Jonathan was playing with the bandage on his right hand. Only Priest Gray shrugged: "I don't think I will miss this place."

Mikhail raised his head and looked at the shining sun in the center of the dome.Aaron has been admiring the murals with his arms folded. Seeing that no one is talking at this time, he opened his mouth and said:

"Tristan, do you know who drew this?"

"Leonardo di Siena." The chubby middle-aged man shrugged and said indifferently, "This was completed immediately after the Second Jihad. We are vampires 300 years ago, not 500 years ago." before."

"And do you know who has been taking care of it all these years?" Aaron asked. "Cleaning, repairing, modifying..."

"My family," said Ashley Dubois coldly, "you're annoying, Aaron Edwards. Do you think I don't know about Grandpa Maximilian falling to his death here?"

"Sorry, no offense, miss." Aaron bent over her. "Mr. Dubois was also a victim. I just wanted to ask Tristan—"

"What are you doing here, aren't you?" Tristan patted Ashley on the shoulder and smiled, "Come to you, our father. You have always been a cowardly, indecisive person, no matter how much you pretend to be Harry and the others, You can't live in their place. So, I think if we sit down and talk about it, maybe we don't have to bleed each other."

With a wave of his hand, Priest Gray put the pews in the cathedral on the ground, and asked everyone to sit down:

"The Son of Man did not come to be served by people, but to serve people[1]——Look, anyone who has read the Sun God Canon can say such beautiful words."

Aaron sat down opposite Tristan, as if he was going to have a discussion with the saints, but the saints were also a little curious, standing there watching them.

The green-eyed vampire folded his legs and said:

"Okay, try to convince me, Tristan."

Tristan and Ashley looked at each other, and the former cleared his throat and said:

"First of all, I have to clarify one thing: the Siegfried Federation's 'Canyon of Thousands of People' was not my creation. However, the 'Mummy Forest' was indeed a gift from the two of us to His Royal Highness Kupala. After all, alas, now it seems He might be our other father, isn't he, Aaron? The gang hanging in the woods were the bad guys he'd ordered to be hanged if he saw it himself, and Ashley and I were oppressed out of help the kindness of the people."

Mikhail was about to ask a question, but Ethan, or Azaria, who was standing under the pyramid, said:

"I did it."

Yana turned her head in disbelief and opened those invisible golden eyes.

Ethan folded his arms and looked at Mikhail:

"It is true that you are a genius, Mikhail, but for a god, your growth rate is rather disappointing. Anna is also, if she had let you be born a few years earlier, maybe I wouldn't have to do this kind of thing. stimulate you."

"What's the matter with Anna?" Jonathan protested, "Don't you want to destroy the evidence yourself?"

Ethan tilted his head indifferently: "You say yes. At that time, I thought he had really grown up, and maybe I could tell him some truths after he came back. I didn't expect that he was still deceiving himself and others, and didn't recognize those so-called Most of the vampires transformed by federal civilians have the physical characteristics of Canaanites."

"Authority can blind people's eyes." Mikhail said calmly, sitting next to Aaron, "but I don't think 'trust' itself is wrong. You, Matthew, Rollins, and no one even hinted at me. I did ignore all the violations out of selfishness, but I'm sorry, I can't blame myself for it now, Ethan, because it's all your fault."

"Maybe Matthew is still gloating over what happened to the Canaanites," said Isabella at the top.

"Anyone can say, you don't, Bell?" Jonathan said.

Tristan glanced at Ethan: "Don't always think that you have suffered such a unique torture, Aaron. After Ashley and I were abandoned by you, there was no Micah to save us. We can only rely on doing some dirty things that you despise. Live better. During your 300 years of escapism, thousands of vampires were created, enslaved, and sank into disgrace without reason and self, and we just wanted to find a way to free our brothers and sisters."

"We are not Matthew." Ashley's voice was clear and indifferent, "We will not be deceived. He will not be different from other black people because of his status as a saint, and Isabella will not be different because of his status as a saint." Without being a woman, we will always be vampires. Not Hardy, not Dubois, not Edwards, not even the saints of the church—vampires are our race, our fellow citizens.”

"What do you want?" Aaron asked, crossing his hands.

Tristan took out an irregular blue-purple crystal from his bosom, and tapped it lightly on his chest twice:

"We have always been taught that Cain was the world's first vampire. It was actually you, but being 'Cain' is both a curse and an authority, and we want you to replace Mithra's with this stone. hearts, and deliver our fellow men from madness and slavery."

Ashley looked at him. "We just want to live with dignity, Aaron."

Aaron stretched out his hand, Tristan flipped his wrist to put away the crystal, and said with a smile: "I don't trust you, Aaron, is that sincere enough?"

"Then what do you want to do?" Aaron clicked his tongue, pushed his glasses, and said impatiently, "Do you want me to tie myself up and hand it over to you, Tristan? Should I trust you? I met you in the Garden of Nations When I got to you, I knew it was you who betrayed our family. David came on the eve of my and Laura's...wedding, and none of the Hardys came. We were very busy with our affairs, but Laura was 25 years old, and it was very reasonable to ask for a wedding at that time. It’s just that you didn’t come, and our family was all gathered in the Emerald City instead.”

Mikhail took his hand.Tristanha said: "Deceive yourself."

Aaron said: "If I knew about this when I first entered Lieyang City, I would definitely be angry. But when I was in the Garden of Nations, you were the only one left. My only friend who is still alive. I also figured it out , since I don't have the ability to protect Laura, I don't have the right to ask you to be loyal to your friendship."

"Aha, it looks like we're asking for trouble." Tristan sneered and rolled his eyes, "If I died at that time, would you go crazy? Ashley would be the best Die in front of you, then there won't be so many vampires in the world, Aaron!"

"That's true." Aaron shrugged, "But as Lord Black Tulip said, anyone can say such things. I can also say that it would be better if Grandpa Arnold just married Isabella Well, why didn't Azaria die during the Second Jihad?"

"Ah, he was young, and he was not born at that time." Yana interjected, "He replaced Samson. At that time, in order to remove his suspicion of murdering Samson, we shaped him into a hero of World War II. hero."

"Isn't this what you acquiesce to, Yana?" Ethan sneered, "Why, you look down on black people and feel guilty about Samson, so you go to Lava Island to be the high priest of a group of black and white monkeys? It's too funny Yes. Isabella is more sincere to Matthew than you are!"

"Matthew is a good boy." Isabella remained expressionless, "Samson wants too much."

"Compared to the benefits gained by several major kingdoms in the red moon?" Jonathan asked, but she didn't answer.Yana asked in astonishment, "Did you really kill Samson?" No one answered.

Constant reminded kindly: "So, Mr. Hardy, what kind of solution do you want?"

"Kill Ethan, let's talk again."

"No." Isabella was honest this time, "I can stop Mikhail, Jonathan wants the tin whistle in Yana's hand. You two defected, and I let you in because you want Deal with Aaron, then clean up the vampire mess.—and what about Constant?"

"What should I do?" Constant laughed.

Tristan muttered in a low voice, "Defecting? That's a good way to say it." Isabella said coldly, "It's nothing funny. If you want to laugh, I'm laughing at you. You have turned a blind eye to and even participated in all our evil deeds for so many years. Do you think you are any different than us if you hold an opposite view? Joshua, the 'Spirit of Wisdom' of God the Father!"

There was silence in the hall.

Priest Gray's laughter sounded suddenly: "Isabella, you forgot about me."

"You and Ethan together are not enough for him to fight." Isabella sighed and crossed her fingers, "To be honest, I don't like Ethan, he is more crazy than Stanley, but he can do it calmly A very disgusting thing happened, but the fact is that I can't give up on him. Mikhail doesn't know, what are you guys pretending? Is the church really willing to do so many evil things? We can flatten the Galaxy Mountains, but we can't The world is the enemy, not to mention, Ethan’s original intention is to let the majority of people live a good life. Simply put, our confidence and strength are not enough, and adults always have to compromise.”

"You've said that, why do you still think I'm a traitor, Isabella?"

After a while, the strong "Armed Prophet" twisted his neck:

"No matter what my mentality is, I stopped Micah for you. In Rock City in 1225, he pulled the gods down before he recovered from his serious injuries, and was almost killed by me. I admit that I hid him in the monastery so that he There is a chance to destroy the Radiance Dome and steal Mr. Edwards. But before that, I literally broke every bone in his body. For three years, he couldn't climb up, and you saints The research on the 'Philosopher's Stone' has only made so little progress, and it wasn't until a few years later that Hardy and Dubois were caught and a half-finished vampire was produced. Who let you down, Bell?"

Yana's eyes widened.Whether it was the golden irises or the blood-red pupils, they all showed the same uncontrollable panic as her face.

"Did you lie to me, Joshua?" she asked aloud. "Isn't that a stopgap measure? We're not trying to find a way to save God the Father—"

"I didn't lie to you, Yana." Joshua said kindly, "but Micah really wanted to kill me at that time. If it was Mikhail, maybe he could bear it, but Micah was just a mortal after all, and the two of them The interval between the second divine descent was too short, and he couldn’t control himself at all. Fortunately, his body couldn’t hold on anymore, otherwise I would be the one who died. As for the way to save God the Father, you want him to be on the lava island where people tend to be good. Rebirth, isn’t it? But if you can use the sacrifice of tens of thousands of people to purify his true self, why let him suffer this kind of humiliation?”

"But you failed!"

Joshua shrugged, and Isabella, Jonathan, and Gray all laughed.

Azaria said: "Look, you are only against us because of the result, Yana. Standing in our position, without knowing the result, you don't care about the tens of thousands of people. .Don't be silly, Yana, your honorable name "Rite of Spring" is what you traded for so many lives, Micah too, Aaron too, Isabella too, and even—don't forget Mikhail .What I did wasn't even a massacre, so why blame me for human life?"

The author says:

[1] Matthew 20:28