Goddess Wanhua Mirror

Under the surprised eyes of the three monks, Aria, the bishop's disciple and assistant, came to the three of them with a tray, on which were placed three groups of small pills and powders of different colors, and a cup of light blue Potion of orchid aroma.

Since the two Lacilato brothers who were in charge of stealing the medicine only obtained the medicine but did not figure out how to use it, the middleman and Evan Ruth thought that these things must be taken orally according to common sense.Especially that cup of blue potion with a pleasant smell, it must be delicious just by smelling it.

"Come on! Try the same thing in the past, start now."

At this time, the three monks finally understood that the bishop of his family did not suddenly realize that he wanted to give them late care for the low-level clergy who were not loved by their grandmothers and uncles, but that they were short of a few medicines for trial. monkey.

However, even though there were endless discussions in their hearts, the three of them did not dare to show the slightest dissatisfaction on their faces.Especially there is Aria, a demon in a nun's skin, who looks sweet, but her inner viciousness is not inferior to her mentor Evan Ruth, and even worse in cruelty .

The three of you look at me and I look at you, knowing that today you can't dodge the knife even if you stretch your head and shrink your head, thinking that no matter how unreliable the medicine is, it can't be a poison that kills people, so they just take it. up.

Since there were more than one type of pills, Evan Ruth asked the three of them to take one each with the blue holy water in the cup, and then sent someone to observe their reactions and determine which drug had the main effect.

After the three of them took the medicine, they didn't feel anything unusual at first, and even felt that the blue holy water was delicious, and the entrance was very soft, but before Evan Ruth asked them to take them down first, one of them suddenly changed his face. Changed, first touched his stomach, then covered his mouth, looking like he was in pain, and the other two also had the same reaction one after another.

"Hey! What's wrong with you? Do you feel something is wrong?"

"Woooo..."

Seeing that the reaction of the three people was getting bigger and bigger, Evan Ruth subconsciously wanted to go up to ask, while Aria suddenly realized something, and just wanted to go forward to hold the bishop who was too close, but saw one of them. With a "wow", a large amount of sticky matter was shot out from his mouth like a fountain, covering Evan Ruth's body all over his head and face.And with him taking the lead, the other two also collapsed their final line of defense under the influence of the pungent smell, followed by spraying out together, and the magnificent hall of the temple suddenly became an alternative "purgatory"...

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Accompanied by the knight's roar and the nun's scream, the "stinky breath" of the three monks made the hall jump for a while.And Evan Ruth, who was spit on his face, stood there with a look of astonishment for a while, before finally realizing what happened.

"You bastards!"

"My lord... vomit... we don't... vomit..."

The three unlucky monks vomited for nearly half a minute, until the "inventory" in their stomachs was completely exhausted, only retching without spraying, and the chaos finally ended.

Evan Ruth wanted to beat and scold the three of them severely, but with a helpless look on his face, he could only try to keep his mouth shut, for fear that the sticky substance exuding a terrible smell would seep into his mouth again.

It took a full hour to bathe and rinse his mouth before he finally cleaned up the filth on his body. During this period, the nuns who served him in the bath had a sullen face the whole time, not daring to show even the slightest disgusted expression, but in their hearts I couldn't help thinking that "this bishop can't be taken anymore".

After the washed Evan Ruth returned to the main hall, the nuns had already cleaned the hall, and the three monks who were vomiting were all lying on the ground and shivering.They couldn't even imagine how His Excellency the Bishop would deal with the three of them after the disrespectful act just now.

But to their surprise, although Evan Ruth was sullen and looked at them with undisguised anger, the other party did not order the knight to cut people directly, but told them to roll down and rest first. , At the same time, you must not tell anything about today's drug test.

The three of them ran out of the hall scrambling as if they had received an amnesty.

At this time, nun Aria came up. The girl was unharmed in the chaos just now, because as soon as she realized that something was wrong, she immediately dodged and hid behind the huge Evan Ruth, so she didn't touch it at all.

"Master Tutor, the effect of these medicines does not seem to be used to treat the plague. Could we have been fooled?"

Hearing Aria's words, Evan Ruth fell into thought.After realizing that there was something wrong with the effect of the medicine, the first thing he thought of was whether he could use the adverse reactions caused by taking these medicines to frame and discredit the God of Medicine Sect.But this idea was quickly dismissed by himself, because the evidence they had was not sufficient.

After all, it is an undoubted fact that the death rate of patients in the isolation area has dropped sharply, so it is only possible that they did not understand how to use the medicine, or that the person who stole the medicine took the wrong thing.

To be honest, Evan Ruth was actually a little panicked at the moment. He didn't take Lude and the God of Medicine Cult he represented too seriously at first. He wants to harvest a wave of faith with a large-scale sacrificial activity in Oyster Harbor as his promotion, and also prevent pagan forces from getting involved in his own territory.

Only when the above two points are achieved at the same time, can the achievements he has made make it difficult for those big figures above to be picky.

So after thinking about it, Evan Ruth felt that he had to speed up his progress now, and force the lord to implement the "Salvation Ritual" he admired before the God of Medicine Sect made remarkable achievements.

In the next two days, Evan Ruth visited the lord's mansion every day, repeatedly lobbied the viscount, and at the same time sent people to spread the news in the city, saying that the Four Seasons Goddess Sect has a way to eliminate the plague, but their lord would rather let 10,000+ The people were suffering from the plague, and they were unwilling to pay for them.

These rumors can be fearful, and quickly intensified the dissatisfaction and anger of the civilian class.

Evan Ruth is very clear about the thoughts of the common people at the bottom. Their so-called awe of the noble lords is essentially because they are afraid of death and the power and force controlled by the lords. Incur the disaster of killing oneself.

But if the lord doesn't care about their lives at all, or even deliberately drives them into a desperate situation, then the strong desire to survive will turn these normally docile sheep into mad dogs that kill the lord in an instant.

Therefore, Evan Ruth intentionally created tension, causing the already restless people to further panic, and it is best to make some irrational actions.

And the situation was indeed as Evan Ruth expected. Within a few days after the rumors spread, a group of people spontaneously gathered in front of the Lord's Mansion, knelt on the ground and loudly begged the Viscount to save everyone.

These cries gathered more and more, and their voices became louder, so that the guards guarding the lord's mansion had to strengthen the defense force at the main gate, and prepared for possible riots.

At this moment, a group of green-armored knights in fresh clothes and angry horses came to the square in front of the gate of the Lord's Mansion, followed by a luxurious carriage, and Evan Ruth, who was wearing a gorgeous bishop's robe, came from Walking down from the car slowly, looking at the kneeling people in the square, he said with compassion on his face.

"You don't need to be so desperate, my children, the great goddess will definitely protect the most devout believers, let us call out her supreme and great name three times...Halalea!"

"Halaleiya! Halaleia! Halaleia!"

Driven by Evan Ruth, the scene instantly turned into a religious gathering, and even some guard soldiers who believed in the Goddess of the Four Seasons Sect also shouted, and the atmosphere was extremely enthusiastic.

Seeing that his appearance was very successful, the believers present knelt down one after another, which greatly satisfied Evan Ruth's vanity, as if he was the savior of the city and the incarnation of the gods on the ground.

Surrounded by the guardian knights, Evan Ruth quickly passed through the crowd. He really enjoyed the feeling of being surrounded by stars, but it was a pity that these untouchables were dirty and smelly, and they were scrambling to get together, even if Just wanting to kiss his boots also made Evan Ruth feel a strong disgust in his heart, but it was hard to show it on his face.

After finally arriving at the gate of the Lord's Mansion, the captain of the guard went out and stopped Evan Ruth, and only allowed him and the nun Aria next to him to enter, and the other escorting knights had to stay at the gate.

On the surface, Evan Ruth agreed kindly, but in his heart he cursed the captain of the guard for being a douchebag, and when he got a chance in the future, he must show some color to this ignorant guy.

In this way, Evan Ruth led the nun into the lord's mansion, and followed the maid all the way to the door of the viscount's study.

With the harassment tactics of the previous few days, coupled with the intensified turmoil in the city today, Evan Ruth thinks he has great confidence, and today he said that the lord agreed to his plan.

However, when Evan Ruth knocked on the door and entered the lord's study, he found that there were at least a dozen people sitting in the room, all of whom were leaders of various sects, as well as the dwarf president of the local Golden Ax Chamber of Commerce.Among these people, Lude of the God of Medicine Sect was sitting at the top on the right hand side of the lord.

And that was where he, Evan Ruth, used to sit!

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Evan Ruth did not expect that there would be a room full of people sitting in the study, and all the heads gathered together but did not call himself. This made him almost instinctively smell a conspiracy, and it was obviously aimed at himself of.

"What kind of wind is blowing today, so that everyone can get together? Why didn't anyone notify me?"

"Bishop Evan Ruth, we are going to meet the Viscount, why do we have to notify you in advance? Could it be that we still need your approval? Don't you think you are a little too lenient?"

Facing Evan Ruth's obviously stinging words, Ural, who was present, immediately retorted and dubbed him a big hat of "overstepping".

You must know that although the struggle between military power and theocracy has lasted for thousands of years, this kind of contest has always been carried out under the table. Religious forces and noble groups have always been harmonious on the surface. Regional churches obey the rule of noble lords and help them stabilize people's hearts. , the lord gave the church certain privileges.

Anyone who stretches his hand too far out of the bounds is breaking the rules!

So when such a big hat was buckled, even if he was as arrogant as Evan Ruth, he had to hurry to clarify to the lord present.Looking at Ural again, it was already a bit cold.

"Bishop Ural, your Excellency is a person of status after all, and your words and deeds are related to the face of your church, so you should be more careful."

"Don't worry about it, I've always been strict with my words."

"Humph!"

"Ha ha!"

After a round of verbal confrontation, the two reached the end, but Evan Ruth smelled something unfavorable to him from the atmosphere in the study.

Especially when he discovered that the priests of the Sea God Cult who were supposed to be his allies were among them.Evan Rust looked at the other party intently, but the man turned his head and pretended to look around. This attitude can explain a lot of problems.

Fortunately, Evan Ruth was still calm and didn't lose his temper on the spot.

At this time, Lude, who was sitting on the viscount's right hand, coughed lightly and said.

"Master Viscount, may I continue?"

"Please continue to talk, Master Lude, I am very interested in the plan you proposed."

"Plan, what plan?"

Later, Evan Ruth was at a loss. Seeing this, Lu De smiled and asked the accompanying disciples to take out another booklet and hand it to Evan Ruth.

"Building a public health system...to fight the epidemic for all?"

Looking at the title text on the cover of the booklet, Evan Ruth frowned.He saw that almost everyone had a copy of the same booklet. In order to find out what little tricks these people were deliberately doing behind his back, he hurriedly found an empty seat and sat down to open it, but the more he looked at it, the more horrified he became.

The first is the booklet itself. Evan Ruth, like other local aborigines at the scene, saw the earth’s modern-style planning book for the first time, so he was amazed at the format of the written text, and the words were concise and straightforward , Clearly organized, with various clear data curves for reference and comparison, making the content intuitive and convincing.

But what alarmed Evan Ruth even more was the plan.

What Evan Ruth originally thought was to take advantage of the panic of the local people during the special period and rely on a large-scale sacrificial activity to severely harvest a wave of faith.If you are lucky, maybe you can really attract the attention of the goddess, and send down a miracle to save these poor foolish people.

It doesn't matter if the goddess doesn't come, the mowing is over anyway, and Evan Ruth has already established a good relationship, and he will be transferred to the capital to be the senior assistant next to the current archbishop, so it's not his turn to worry about the mess in Oyster Harbor.

But the appearance of the God of Medicine Sect seriously disrupted his original pace.

The meaning of Lude's plan is very clear. First, an administrative agency named "Health Bureau" will be established in Oyster Harbor. At the beginning of its establishment, it will be directly led by Lord Viscount. Oyster Harbor builds a so-called "public health system".

It is clearly stated at the beginning of the plan that the purpose of building this system is not to treat patients who have been infected with the plague, but to protect healthy people who have not been infected and reduce the number of new patients.

Halfway through reading the plan, Evan Ruth looked up and looked around. The viscount's expression was obviously a little moved, and the attitudes of other sect members around him were mostly approving, with a gesture of intentional support, because this plan For most of them, it is profitable, and it gives those sects that have been driven out a chance to come back.

You must know that Oyster Harbor is a rich place. Although the total population is less than 20, the density is very high. More than [-]% of the urban area is concentrated, and the surrounding villages and towns are not far away. The people are relatively wealthy, so it is very An ideal missionary place, the fat meat that all religions covet.

Three years ago, Evan Ruth was demoted because of the scandal. He was forced to leave the royal capital and come to the northern branch to serve as the regional bishop from the originally popular candidate for the archbishop.

So in order to prove his ability, Evan Ruth used many visible and invisible means to successfully destroy the basic market of other sects in Oyster Harbor except the Sea God Cult, so that they were forced to Withdrew from Oyster Harbor, and only then did the Goddess of the Four Seasons Sect become the dominant family.

But now Lude wants to use this plan to make all his proudest achievements "too big".Because the newly established Health Bureau is an authority directly under the lord himself. It aims to improve the original poor sanitation situation in Oyster Harbor. At the same time, a large hospital and a dozen community clinics will also be established.

In view of the fact that the local physician group was almost completely wiped out due to infection in the early stage after the outbreak, so the religious forces who mastered divine arts will be invited by the lord to directly participate in the construction of hospitals and community clinics, which is equivalent to giving A chance for each denomination to re-enter Oyster Harbor.

And this opportunity is justifiable, and the lord personally stood on the platform.

In fact, when Lude made this plan, the content was the same as the original intention, and he also made certain compromises.He offered to join forces with other denominations to participate in the construction of hospitals and community clinics, not only because of the real shortage of local doctors, but also to win them over.

For this reason, Lu De visited various sects and local tycoons including the Golden Ax Chamber of Commerce in private one after another, and successfully persuaded them to stand on his side, including the Sea God Sect, which had once allied with the Goddess Sect of the Four Seasons.

Through the information channels of the Golden Ax Chamber of Commerce, Lu De learned that the Goddess of the Four Seasons Sect carried out anti-separation activities in Oyster Harbor three years ago. Except for the Sea God Sect, which could not be driven away due to geographical reasons, all other sects were unable to survive in the local area because of their tricks. .

At that time, Evan Ruth used tactics to win over the Sea God Sect and wrote a lot of bad checks, but they have not cashed until today. This made the Sea God Sect realize that they were fooled, but they have nothing to do with the big Four Seasons Goddess Sect.

It is no exaggeration to say that more than half of the people here have been tricked by Evan Ruth, and now they finally have the opportunity to take revenge, so naturally they have no intention of showing mercy.

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The various sects who came to aid Oyster Harbor from other places came with a purpose. Everyone here is well aware of this, even Lude himself is no exception, so the plan he came up with is exactly what everyone wants. Well, except that the Goddess of the Four Seasons is not happy, everyone else can accept it.

For such a situation, Evan Ruth naturally couldn't just sit back and watch the viscount be persuaded by Lude in front of his eyes, which would ruin his carefully planned sacrifice ceremony.So I didn't care about thinking too much, and started to attack with a sneer.

"It's ridiculous! It's absolutely ridiculous! The plague can be wiped out with just such a so-called plan without any basis? Don't you think it's a joke?"

"Why did Bishop Evan Ruth say that?"

"Why do you say that? Hmph! I have studied with famous teachers in the Holy City Theological Seminary since I was a child. I was promoted to priest at the age of 16 and became a bishop at the age of 28. It has been nearly [-] years, and I have never heard of washing hands too much. Drinking hot water can cure the plague, this is not nonsense, what else could it be? It's a good thing you all believe it!"

After Evan Ruth finished speaking, he looked around with a sneer on his face. His expression seemed to be laughing at the stupidity of everyone. He was so fooled by such lies to deceive children. Everyone was drunk and I was sober!

However, although these words made everyone present feel uncomfortable, they did express the doubts that everyone had in their hearts, that is, is the plan proposed by Lude useful?

Limited by the limitations of the times, the general public in this world has little medical knowledge, let alone what "public health" is.Some backward areas even today still regard some wrong knowledge as common sense, and finally pin their hopes on the gods they think are omnipotent.

This leads to a very fucking problem in Lude's view, that is, a lot of "common sense of hygiene" in his cognition, he has no way to explain to the public from a scientific point of view, why he does this, he can only use the theory of ghosts and gods To fool people, or even scare them.

However, this method is only suitable for the low-level people who are accustomed to blindly following authority, and it is not so easy to use to deal with priests who are fellow priests.

Fortunately, Evan Ruth was relying on seniority to suppress people. Lu Dexin said that you, Grandpa Lu, and I are now wearing a Gandalf face. People who claim to be nearly [-] years old, if you really want to talk about age, you are [-] Less than a full round is too small!

So in the face of Evan Ruth's provocation, Lude smiled slightly.

"Lord Evan Ruth, although I haven't studied for a few years, I have been fighting all my life, just to protect those kind people from any evil. Therefore, I spent the first half of my life crusade against those tangible enemies , but because of this, his hands were stained with blood, and he fell into confusion in the endless killing. Fortunately, he was instructed by the goddess of my religion, and finally came to his senses, and decided to use the rest of his life to fight against those invisible enemies. Years of fighting made him I understand a very simple truth, there is no invincibility in this world, you will lose not only because you are weak, but also because you don’t know your opponent well enough.”

In front of everyone present, Lu De also posted his "resume", which was half true and half false, but coupled with his external image and wonderful acting skills at his fingertips, he was very convincing and made the audience around Unconsciously, I am in awe, believing that he is indeed an elder who has experienced many battles!

"Everyone, based on my experience in fighting infectious diseases over the years, this is like a purely defensive battle. As the defensive side, it is more important for us to prevent the city from being breached by the enemy than to kill the enemy. Therefore, in addition to strengthening the city wall, it is more important to It is necessary to understand the enemy's offensive routes and formulate targeted defense strategies. The gradual deterioration of the epidemic situation in Oyster Harbor over the past two months is precisely the result of the failure of the above two points."

"Oh! From your tone, are you blaming us for our incompetence?"

"No! On the contrary, I think that without the last line of defense that you all worked hard to support, this city may have fallen under the ravages of the epidemic as early as a month ago. If you really want to say that everyone has not done enough Well, it can only be that there is no unified command and lack of coordination.”

Lu De's words were enough to give the face of the priests present, and at the same time pointed out the real problems, so that the fire that Evan Ruth had just brought to his side could not be ignited.

The knowledge and prevention methods related to infectious diseases have been clearly written by Lude in the plan he provided, and the increasingly stable status quo in the quarantine area is undoubtedly the best proof.

The priests present and representatives from all walks of life in the local area had passed their approval beforehand, so they naturally chose to support the implementation of Lude's epidemic prevention plan. The Golden Ax Chamber of Commerce even donated [-] gold coins as a sponsor.

"Oyster Harbor is where our Golden Ax clan lives and lives. As long as we can save this city, we have a duty to do so!"

The dwarves from the Golden Ax Merchant Guild took the lead, and several other wealthy merchants present joined in one after another. Only Evan Ruth was still there, persuading the Viscount "hard-heartedly", trying to make the other party believe in him. Vinluce really wanted to save Oyster Harbor.

Seeing this, Lu De asked quite lightly.

"Bishop Evan Ruth, are you...are you so obsessed with sacrificing the viscount's sons and daughters?"

"you you……"