A common tavern that connects all fantasy worlds

"This body still needs a pious and trustworthy person, even if there is only one... This body must first retrieve the power of 'regeneration' from the person in the coffin and complete the 'recovery' of divine power before it can be called a god; after that, pious Believers can pray for blessings from this body.”

What Sheng Ji said was also very clear and direct. I must kill the king of salamanders to become a complete god and perfect myself in a mystical sense; but after killing him, I have no believers, so you guys put me Human beings who have become like this should take responsibility and find a way for me to continue to exist. Of course, I will return what ordinary gods are best at-blessings.

However, this requirement is not easy to fulfill.

Xue Li, who was a visitor from another world, scratched his head and turned to look at the group on his side.

I, D, and Amelia are all about to leave, and cannot make a contract with God here; Kate, even if she has faith, she must believe in God.

Who is left?

The outlaw brothers Gekko looked at Xue Li and turned their eyes around here, and finally locked on the two of them.

"Uh... are you interested in converting to the Hades sect?"

Seth immediately shook his head, what kind of Hades sect, it sounds like it has no future.And how can this nasty tavern owner see that the two brothers look like believers in God?The two of them can basically do all sorts of crimes, robbing a bank and killing people, and kicking a dog passing by.

Xue Li then coaxed and said: "This is a good opportunity. No matter who you two decide to convert, you will immediately become the only spokesperson for this god on earth. You have all seen the King of Snakes, that guy is just stealing With one-ninth of the power of Shitabai, you can dominate the border for hundreds of years, and the power of mortals can't deal with him. Not to mention your status and influence among believers, how does the title Pope sound? Sample?"

Although the words are nice, this Pope is not that Pope.The one in the Vatican can be said to have power covering more than a billion believers around the world; the "Sheng Ji" here has a total of one believer after signing the contract.

But Seth thought about it seriously... Immortality, regeneration, great strength and speed are too tempting for a man who has struggled in life so far.

Guys who go to college and sit in offices on Wall Street are making money at their fingertips, and they're probably going to get shot and die.

The goddess who needs believers is very generous, and she even promises: no need for predation or blood sacrifices, and today's "Rope Girl" can directly give mortals what they want most.

Even "eternal life" would be fine... as long as he kept believing in it.

Speaking of which, every religion and every god is extraordinarily generous and often more humane in the initial stage of belief.The Israelites have complained about God so many times, but God still focuses on tolerance; this should be replaced by Zeus or something in his heyday, and he didn't just kill them directly!

The more people believe, the more miracles are beyond the realm of human imagination, and the power of God will gradually become metaphysical, and gradually depart from the realm of direct vision and understanding.

Time passed by second by second, Seth didn't know what he was thinking, and finally shook his head with difficulty.

He was getting scared.

A man who has lived for more than 30 years suddenly has a sense of fear for the future world, especially before stepping into the "Milk Whirlwind" bar, he thought he had roughly understood how the world works and how people live.

Even in the face of the temptation of eternal life, he also asked himself in his heart, do he really want to give up his identity as a human being, give up everything he has learned in the past 30 years, and step into the unknown?Is this kind of thing really what humans should do?

However, unlike his hesitation, the eyes of his younger brother Rich immediately lit up. Seeing that his elder brother could not make a decision, he immediately stood up and said, "Let me do it!"

Seth's eyes widened immediately, and he asked in a calm voice, "What, are you crazy? Is this a hasty decision?"

The younger brother didn't feel embarrassed at all, and nodded directly: "Yeah, let me be this believer... Anyway, I haven't believed in any god before, if it can make me stronger, then believe in it It doesn't matter to the Mayan gods."

Seth slapped his head, and he also remembered at this moment that this guy was not a person who was good at thinking.No matter what the situation is, his first reaction is probably "it will be too late if you don't do it now", and then he picks up the gun and does it.

Before he could say anything else, Rich whispered in his ear again: "And... the goddess just seemed to say that she likes me very much..."

"Did you really take your medicine today?"

Seth asked back, but the goddess with long black hair had already come in front of the two of them.

"I see."

As the goddess said, she looked back at Boss Xue, and reached out her hand to press Rich Gekko's sparsely haired forehead.

Xue Li fully understood what she meant: I didn't mean to hurt this human being, please don't overreact.

Regarding this point, several other people also agree... With the power of this goddess, it is easy to wipe out all the people here, and there is no need to talk a lot of nonsense before doing it.

However, what happened next was a bit scary.

The goddess's fair and slender fingers seemed to have penetrated into a puddle of water, directly poking into Rich's head from the front of the skull; Know what you're going through.

At the same time, "Sheng Ji" closed her eyes and raised her head slightly, as if she was absorbing something from the air.

Under everyone's gaze, it seemed that time didn't last long; the only one who was in a hurry was Seth, he was like a year, trying to pull out from the back of his waist every moment.

The goddess' hand pulled out from the top of Ricky's head, supported his chest when he was about to lose consciousness and fell forward, and said softly: "Human...you may be the most suitable medium between this body and the world. Truth You know best that there is no clear line between fantasy and illusion."

Seth immediately pricked up his ears, thinking what?Hallucinations and delusions still have a special meaning in theology, don't they?

In fact, this is because he is ignorant... The first use of natural hallucinogens was on religious occasions, otherwise how did those super sensory experiences come about?

The goddess had already turned to this side, her star-like eyes were staring at him as an older brother, and she continued: "...'Ricky' will no longer be troubled by such illusions in your 'reality', this body is already Connect his spiritual perception with divine power, and when his spirit becomes active again, his spirit body will enter the underworld and face my will directly... In this way, he does not need to take any medicine."

The hallucinations caused by mania are not only a psychological problem, but also a clear physical disease; but for the goddess in front of him, it seems to be easy to solve this problem.

According to what she said, she actually used this symptom to complete the establishment of the "ritual", turning Rich's hallucinations into a way of communicating with the gods and talking to the gods... This is also very reasonable, after all, the word "illusion" It has the meaning of breaking away from the material world.

"Hand over the traitors to this body together to complete the covenant between man and God. The covenanter will return to this land tomorrow, at the end of the night. This body will never reappear. Only Richie Gekko will Speech on behalf of this body, spread the belief of the underworld god, and walk on this land."

After saying this, the goddess turned her head to look at the visitor from another world who was frowning.

"Now, do you want to hand over the traitor?"

Xue Li originally arranged everything for this moment, so of course he no longer hesitated and nodded towards Amelia.

The vampire elder raised her eyebrows, stood up and kicked the coffin over. The heavy metal cover fell aside, and a figure that had lost its human form flowed to the ground along with the viscous liquid inside.

"You blasphemer, it's time to return what you owe."

A dangerous smile suddenly appeared on the face of the goddess, and disappeared in front of the eyes of everyone present.

Disappeared together were the so-called "King of the Salamander" and Rich, who had lost consciousness.

Xue Li cast his eyes on D who had been standing aside...Only he could feel her coming, and now only he can confirm whether the other party is really not here.

D put the knife back into the sheath, took a deep breath, and nodded towards Boss Xue.

The goddess has indeed left.

Another male human, Seth Gekko, seems to be not particularly able to accept this result, with a troubled look on his face, and he doesn't know what he should do now, or whether he should ask something, the only thing he can be sure of is that he still has to wait. Here until dawn.

Xue Li could only comfort him: "Don't worry, your brother will be the Pope when he comes back."

"...If he is still him when he comes back. No, after all, is this goddess really trustworthy?" Seth finally sorted out the questions he wanted to ask, and asked Xue Li seriously.

"Well, I have designed her image in the group recognition as closely as possible, which can be regarded as restricting her to a certain extent. Moreover, if she wants to do something to us, she doesn't have to be so troublesome at all. We can do anything she does. I don’t have the ability to resist.” Boss Xue replied, “Besides, it’s not like we’ll have no backs from now on... The email I sent out didn’t just mention ‘Sheng Ji’.”

As he spoke, he stuffed the golden skull he had just received from someone else into Seth's arms.

"Remember to avoid your brother's eyes and ears, and take this thing to the Kukulkan Pyramid on the Yucatan Peninsula. Also, if it's for your brother... would you believe in Feathered Serpent?"

Chapter 39 The Fate of Mortals

Compared with "Sheng Ji" or Shitabai, the Feathered Serpent God Kukulkan can be regarded as a real god.

Even assuming that He was never mentioned in the rumor emails concocted by Xue Li, His divinity can exist independently of the Mayans... Because He has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people as a cultural symbol, even those who have no systematic understanding of Mayan mythology, If you mention this land, you will probably be the first to think of Him.

Not to mention those Mayan survivors, if there is really only one place for primitive beliefs left in their culture, the believer must be the Feathered Serpent God.

However, in the original version of Mayan mythology, Feathered Serpent God was not actually a supreme deity... His current status is the result of the deep integration of Mayan civilization and Aztec civilization.

Because the Feathered Serpent Quetzalcoatl in Aztec mythology is a god of the level of creation and creation of man, Kukulkan in Mayan mythology gradually had similar legends, and later there were written records He also began to open up the world in the fairy tales.

It is said that when the world began, there was nothing but the sky above and the sea below.The Feathered Serpent God, who has another name "Kukumac" and his drifting partner Tepeu, tried to make the world more colorful, so they began to create; other gods such as Thor, Rain God, and Corn God also joined in , The earth appeared in the mist of the ocean, mountains were raised, and various plants began to spread from the valley to the surroundings.

After that, the gods created moving and walking animals, such as pumas, snakes, and birds. They delimited their respective territories and designated their own food for the animals.

Finally, in order to create a race that knows how to appreciate, worship and praise the gods, the Feathered Serpent God finally began to create humans.

He used clay to create man, but the soil quickly collapsed and decayed; He used wood to create man, but the result was no different from the previous animals, without the ability to be grateful, and became a new animal race-monkeys; finally, the Feathered Serpent The use of corn to create humans may have involved the divine power of the corn god, and this time it was a great success.

Of course, this creation myth is actually relatively small in the Mayan civilization. The most widely accepted identity of the Feathered Serpent God is the sun god.

At first, the Mayans believed that celestial bodies such as the sun and the moon moved on the dome because there was a big snake pulling them to crawl on the dome; but snakes could not fly, so the Mayans conceived some kind of snake with feathers, This is where the image of the Feathered Serpent comes from.

A long time, countless times of cultural integration, and the myths passed down by word of mouth are mixed with too many rumors from unknown origins, and finally the Feathered Serpent God is positioned as the god of the sun, the god of the morning star, the god of rainy season and harvest, creator of order.

Although the clergy of the Feathered Serpent God is confusing to the point of confusion in various myths of different periods, the description of his character is surprisingly consistent: Kukulkan is violent and irritable, merciless to evil, and extremely disgusted Human blood sacrifice.

It is because of this that Xue Li suggested Seth to convert to him... His belief has survived to this day, and he has his own place in the consciousness of human groups, so his divine power is many times stronger than that of "Sheng Ji" and, as a god who hates blood sacrifices, if Sheng Ji cannot get rid of the influence of Shitabai's personality and control Rich to do something like ingesting human flesh and blood, He will definitely not sit idly by.

As part of Mayan mythology, Shenghime and Feathered Serpent belong to the same mythology system, and there is no problem that they cannot influence each other.

"...What the hell did we do?"

After listening to Boss Xue's explanation, Seth could only sigh like this.

At the beginning, it was just to save their lives and fulfill Kate's request by the way. How come the two brothers are now going to become the spokespersons of a group of Mayan gods?A few days ago, you were still thinking about robbing a bank, but you just stepped into an epic story these days?

Xue Li smiled at him and said: "Fate is unpredictable, even the gods can't see it clearly. The white colonists destroyed the original culture of this place and eliminated almost all the Mayans, but now 'Sheng Ji' is instead Do you think she wanted to survive hundreds of years ago by relying on the cognition of her descendants from the colonists?"

"I've never thought about such a serious issue." Seth shook his head, "The most I can do is to take care of Rich and let us both live and have enough food in this world. I'm not suitable for such a heavy responsibility. …What kind of illiteracy, the Americans have killed all the Indians and occupied their land, so why don’t they move out of their houses now?”

"Hey, you guys really don't have the so-called 'white guilt' at all."

Xue Li is just giving an example, and doesn't want to delve into the relationship between history and the present... Because as the man in front of him said, the most important thing for human beings is the self that exists in reality. When you don't even know your next meal When I was there, I was not interested in considering grand narratives such as the country, nation, historical context, collective sense of honor, etc.

However, the world is so impermanent. People in real life who are least interested in this aspect are forced to become the spokespersons of the Mayan gods on the ground. No matter how they live their lives from now on, they will never be "ordinary".

So Boss Xue could only pat the man on the shoulder: "What do you think of the world you live in?"

Seth looked at the starlight in the sky and the gradually whitening horizon in the east, and shrugged: "It's not bad, although it has never been better for us brothers...but we are used to it."

"Then just remember, don't destroy it, the rest is up to your heart..."

Xue Li nodded, stood up, greeted his staff and Kate and turned to leave... The problem was solved. The Fowler family, who were waiting for news in the tavern, could come back now, and they had to ask the other friends who came to help one by one. thank.

How about some more music and a party in the tavern?

Now the playback equipment in the tavern is only an old-fashioned tape recorder, and the only thing that can play is the cowboy music brought back by Max. There is really no party atmosphere at all...Since I finally came to Mexico, let’s have some enthusiasm. Huo's Spanish songs should be good too, right?

People who do not belong to this world left with Kate, leaving only Seth Gekko in the wilderness, and a metal coffin that Amelia found from no one knows where.

Really bored of waiting, he lit a cigarette, sat on the edge of the coffin and smoked dully, the flame of the cigarette flickered in the dark night.

It didn't seem long, and it seemed like a whole night. When the sun rose from the east and the stones and grass blades on the nearby ground were clearly visible, Rich really came back.

This guy was cleaning his glasses, no matter his expression, movement or demeanor had changed from before, he still looked like he might cause trouble at any time.

"...you... already made it?"

Seth stood up to meet him, and after looking him up and down a few times, he asked questions suddenly.

"If you're talking about becoming the spokesperson of 'Rope Girl'... that's already done, although I don't know what to call myself, the high priest or something else." Rich nodded, "You said I Should I get some traditional Mayan costumes or something, so that it fits my current identity?"

Seeing that his younger brother was still out of tune, Seth couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, and continued following his words: "Where can I get you a jaguar skin and feather headdress now? The appearance doesn't matter, it's just that from now on You have to concentrate on believing in God, and don’t offend Him.”

Richie put the glasses back on, took out the box containing the braces from his pocket, and wanted to put the braces in his mouth, but after thinking about it, he put it back again, curled his lips and said:

"Of course I want to believe it. Besides the goddess, who has governed us since childhood? When I rescued you from the prison van last time, the escorting policeman was still shouting 'God', but until I The gun killed him, and God never showed up. But this goddess is very generous... From then on, I am immortal, and the good days of our brothers are coming!"

"Immortal body? What kind of immortality?"

"I listened to the explanation from the oracle given to me by the goddess, that is, I will not die of old age or get sick. Even if it is smashed to pieces by heavy firepower, it will completely rot and decompose within a day, and then resurrect on the spot with a brand new body. You say we Wouldn’t it be more convenient to rob a bank now? There are also those blind-eyed guys who want to seek revenge. When they think they have killed me, I will suddenly jump out of the grave again and give them a surprise!"

"No... I'm sure the Goddess' powers weren't meant for you to do this," Seth said.

The two brothers talked all kinds of nonsense to each other, and walked towards the road closest to here.

There was also a car parked there that brought them here.

Boss Xue and the others can come to any place in the world by simply opening the door, but these two brothers can't do it, they still have to leave how they got here.

While walking, Rich was still laughing hey hey, which made the brother beside him bewildered, and finally couldn't help asking him: "What are you laughing at?"

"Hey, it's nothing... It's just that the 'ceremony' is really memorable."

Richie laughed.

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Seeing his increasingly obscene expression, Seth already understood what the so-called "ceremony" was all about, so he couldn't help but shook his head and stopped asking.

He didn't know much about Mayan gods, so he didn't know if this was a normal phenomenon...or it was just another kind of "living sacrifice"?Does the contract goddess have to have this kind of relationship with the goddess?

But after walking a few steps, he suddenly recalled it again, stopped, and his face turned pale.

Wait... Did Boss Xue say before that he wanted to find a chance to go to Chichen Itza without telling his brother, and go to Kukulkan with the golden skull?

In mythology... Kukulkan looks like a snake with wings...

Chapter 40 Practical Church

It is unknown when a stone tombstone was erected at the edge of the northern human civilization, at the end of the abnormally long bridge.

There is no name engraved on the tombstone, only an epitaph - "The angel rests here, and warns you and other pedestrians: don't go on."

Looking from the tombstone to the other side of the road, one can see that the once towering blood-red city wall of a certain city collapsed on the side of the mountain. Large and small stones have buried the nearby road. cannot cross this area.

This is not the only strange thing happening nearby.