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Chapter 301 Story!Eight Bishops 6000 words begging for votes

Listening to Joe Undead telling the story, Mo Ke suddenly felt as if he understood the loneliness he was talking about
He didn't speak. He filled two cups of tea and listened to Joe's nagging.

"Later, I couldn't hide it anymore."

"Whether the family or the villagers, they found out that I wouldn't grow old. Guess what they did to me?"

Mo Ke shook his head, saying that he didn't know that he just didn't want to guess the result, because since the old liar asked, the result must not be very good.

"I was talked about like a monster by them. At first, it was just behind the scenes. Later, this distrust suddenly magnified."

Qiao Bushi's eyes seemed to be able to penetrate the void of time, and while recalling ecstasy, he whispered:
"In those days, people believed in the Iron God. The attribute of immortality was only for the Iron God. But if this phenomenon happened to an ordinary person, he could only be called a heretic."

"I was killed by them because of my belief in the Iron God. They didn't hesitate to shoot me, including my nephew."

"They drained my blood, used my blood to sacrifice to the Iron God, put my body in a sealed iron hall, and buried it underground. In that era, this was how they targeted heretics."

Qiao Bushi lit a bag of cigarettes again, exhaled a puff of smoke and continued:

"I was resurrected, because of the contractor's ability, it's not a surprise, but I couldn't get out after being locked in the iron hall."

"In the dark, in the coffin, I found a lot of copper coins that were used for burial, or used to seal heretics. With these copper coins, the iron hall was ground out bit by bit."

"Don't say it's hard to achieve, hehe, I have an infinite life, and I can't run out of time. Even if I suffocate to death in the coffin, I will be reborn soon. Just like this, again and again, even I don't know the resurrection how many times."

"I finally crawled out of the ground."

Unpredictable nodded and sighed.

But I thought in my heart that Joe has lived for thousands of years, and I don’t know if it was before the federal unified era, and I don’t know if people in that era worshiped the Iron God more strongly than now
It should be, but that's even stranger.What is the iron god has been known a few days ago, and the worship of the iron god is mainly "wisdom and science". Will the belief in "wisdom and science" be so fanatical?

Has it reached the point of targeting "heresy" in this way?

In the normal impression, in the age of ignorance and barbarism, only people who believed in science would be executed as heretics. Unexpectedly, the reverse is true here—people who believe in science executed the contractor with extraordinary abilities and called them heretics.

This is unbelievable, ironic and unpredictable. I shook my head again and again.

Is the so-called belief, no matter what its attributes are, whether it is right or wrong, just bowing its head in front of the judgment seat simply to accept the whipping of the "god". (Note 1)

Unaware that Mi Ke was thinking wildly, Qiao Bushi coughed twice:

"After getting back on the ground, I thought about revenge."

"However, what's the point of that? Living itself is already very hard, unspeakably miserable. Those ordinary ironmen who killed me are just ants in the ocean. It won't take long for them to grow old one by one. If you die, you cannot escape the reincarnation of fate.”

"They're doomed, not even by me."

"I ended up...leaving the village. To find meaning in life."

Unpredictable laughed twice when he heard the words: "Only you are qualified to study this issue. If you don't have the ability to die, I'm afraid I will think you are mentally ill."

Qiao Bushi also smiled: "Yeah, life is limited, how can I have time to explore these things?"

"But I have to figure it out, because... I am immortal. If I don't figure out this question, what is the meaning of eternal life to me. Living is just a walking dead."

"I have traveled all over the Rodinian continent, and I have been to the hot southern province. At that time, it was not called the southern province, because the federal government had not yet been established, and it was just a group of indigenous people. I did it for a while The chiefs who later became the existence of their beliefs.”

"Hahahaha. It's not difficult. I'm a yellow-skinned Tang with a different skin color than theirs. I'm also a contractor with the ability to be immortal. It's easy to become a group of indigenous gods!"

Unpredictable opened his mouth, almost biting his tongue off
The old liar has had enough!

It turned out to be a belief-like existence!

"Hehe, the Hesse people in the south are so foolish. Their belief in Iron God is not as strong as in other places. They believe that elephants and buffalo elephants can become their gods, let alone me!"

If this experience is true, if the old liar is not bragging, he has done something similar to what Klein Moretti did in this world, which is a real version of an alien planet.

It seems that everyone likes to pretend to be a god.

Unpredictable almost wanted to shake his head with a wry smile.

"I have married several wives and had many children."

Joe Immortal continued:
"I can't help it, I've been alone for too long, I can't help but have desires"

"Although I am old, I am also a normal man, no, I am an old man."

"This is the easiest thing for me, a god of southern Hesse, to let the believers sacrifice a few beautiful girls every time."

Mo Ke doesn't want to talk anymore. Although you do the work of a fool, you don't have the force of a fool. You pretend to be a god but only for women. You are too low.

Qiao Bushi pouted:
"I was so tired I could barely get out of bed during that time."

"In the end. Gradually, I got tired of it. It turns out that even if there is something you desire, as long as you have it at your fingertips, as long as you do it every day, you will get tired of it."

"It's even more regrettable that everyone will still leave me as they did at the beginning"

"No one can stand the test of time, including my followers, my women, my children."

"I ended up leaving the Southside."

Qiao Bushi was smoking a pipe, with a wretched smile on his face:

"After that, I went to the west, to the Saigon province, then to the Black Sea, to Qinghu, and to the north"

"However, I am no longer interested in men and women, and maybe because I know they won't be with me for a long time, I have always remained single."

"Not only tired, I even feel a little scared, because no matter how many wives I take, they will always leave"

"So, I was single until that year. The federal government was formed, and at the same time. The Order of Wisdom changed its name to Pandora!"

Unprecedented keenly discovered this key point—the old liar was indeed born before the history of the Rodinian continent, or in other words, before the history written by the federal government!
In this case, Qiao Immortal should know a lot of hidden historical information, which is also the information point that Mo Ke felt it necessary to dig out from the beginning.

Seeing that Unpredictable remained silent, Qiao Bushi couldn't guess that he thought of so many things, took a sip of tea, and continued to tell his story:
"Because of the emergence of the Ombudsman, and because the Punisher filed contractors everywhere, although I was not caught, I also learned that there are other contractors, and I know what the contractor is all about, so... I pretended After that, I returned to Hot Spring City."

"My original family, those who killed and buried me have been dead for countless years. Knowing that I can't upgrade this reality, I decided to hide and live a peaceful life"

"I no longer take the initiative to pursue the meaning of life, I only hope that time can give me the answer"

"I am still the same as before. I dare not and don't want to have emotional entanglements with others anymore, because I know that these things exist for a short time, but they are destined to leave me. Moreover, it will make me sad for a long time."

"I lived in Requan City for many years, living a semi-reclusive life, until... Requan City became bigger and bigger, and has turned from a small mountain village into a city. Later, I opened the Shenghua Hotel"

"After that, I met Xiaoya's mother. The wall of abstinence for many years seemed to collapse the moment I met her."

As Qiao Immortal spoke, his tone began to turn sad:
"I have lived for more than 900 years. For the first time, I met true love. It was as unstoppable as a flood, and I had no choice."

"Love. Hehe, this is the most terrifying desire! I can't resist Xiaoya's mother's attraction to me"

"Because of this 60-year-old body, I exhausted all my strength to marry this 27-year-old girl. The resistance is enough to write a book."

"This is indeed enough to write a book." Mi Ke nodded in agreement. From the beginning of this plot, Krisna can definitely write a golden three chapters for a female fan-"How the heroine breaks through the shackles of the world and marries a long-lived woman." The Immortal Husband".

After that, the sadomasochism unfolds. With Joe's immortal golden finger, the heroine's life is extremely exciting and the storyline is quite easy to construct.

Qiao Bushi naturally didn't know about Unpredictable's extravagant thoughts, and continued:

"I was lucky to win her love. The most cherished relationship in my thousand years. I only found the meaning of life at that time. I want to be with her forever!"

Unpredictable quietly listened to Joe Undead's narration.

"I don't want this relationship to be lost as she ages, I want her to be with me forever."

"So, in ten years, I exhausted all the rune source words I could find, and then developed this soul system."

"But Xiaoya's mother refused!"

"She disagrees, or in other words, she has a different opinion from yours." Mo Ke asked softly.

Qiao Bushi nodded: "She said that she didn't want to live like that. She said that the meaning of the Ironborn lies in the final death. Only in this way can she be a real Ironborn, not a monster."

"She said that the ironman's life should be incomplete. Without the end of death, existence would be meaningless. And she, this life is happy enough, she just hopes to follow the laws of nature and grow old."

"I don't understand." Qiao Bushi narrowed his eyes in pain.

Mo Ke sighed: "Xiaoya's mother seems to study philosophy, very thoughtful."

This is also what he saw in Xiaoya's dream. He vaguely knew why Xiaoya's mother refused. After confirming Qiao Immortal's method of "immortal life", he really understood why Xiaoya's mother refused.

This is equivalent to abandoning the body and also abandoning humanity.

Probably!

Joe Immortal shook his head:
"She may be worried about me, thinking that I will extract the soul after her death. She knows that I will not be able to bear it, so...she left. Although she is gone, I know that she has feelings for me .”

"I'm very sad why she refused to be with me forever, why can't what I expect be eternal like me?"

"Fortunately, I still have Xiaoya here."

Joe's undead eyes revealed an indescribably complex look:

"However, Xiaoya awakened, and she became a contractor, and the price was unpayable."

"Perhaps because I miss my mother so much, and want to go back to the carefree childhood, Xiaoya's price turned out to be to turn back the flow of time."

Unpredictable was a little stunned.

"That's right, it's time flowing backwards. If she wants to pay the price, she has to go back to a certain point in the past." Qiao Bushi looked unpredictable, with a gloomy face:
"This is simply impossible! Who can turn back time? There is no language of rune origin that can do this, Xiaoya simply cannot pay the price!"

"She is a poor child. She just woke up and became a puppet because she couldn't pay the price!"

"Her mother left me, and Xiaoya will also leave me. How could I accept that I used that soul system to extract Xiaoya's soul before she collapsed into a puppet?"

It turned out to be like this. This is consistent with Xiaoya's memory. Unpredictable silently nodded.

"...However, because it is the first time to practice on a spirit puppet, I have to do more verification experiments, which delayed a lot of time."

"Xiaoya's consciousness has been sleeping in the soul crystal for more than 30 years!"

Sure enough. This is a story with many twists and turns. Although it is just a small emotional matter of the old liar's family of three, it is thought-provoking.
Seeing that Joe Undead had finished speaking, he stared at the floor in front of him silently, without even cleaning up the ashes from his pipe. It was inconvenient for Unpredictable to interrupt him, and he just kept his sitting posture.

Finally, I roughly understand Xiaoya's meaning to Qiao Bushi—their mother and daughter, to a certain extent, are exactly the meaning of "living" that Qiao Bushi has found after thousands of years.

After being silent for a long time, Qiao Bushi came back to his senses, seemed to look at the starry sky outside the window, and said:

"It's getting late, you should go back."

"Or let Xiaoya's consciousness come back."

Mo Ke nodded and said, "I have one last question."

Qiao Bushi glanced at Mi Ke angrily: "Quickly ask."

Unpredictable thought for a while and said:

"Do you know why the Order of Wisdom became Pandora and the Four Councils?"

Qiao Buxi thought for a while, and said calmly: "I don't know the specific situation, but Changsheng died in the same year."

Mo Ke was reminded immediately, his eyes widened in vain.

This detail has been ignored. Changsheng died in the first year of the Unified Era, the year the federal government was established!
It was also that year that the original Wisdom Order became Pandora. These events happened in the same year, and they were actually linked together.

There must be some connection between these!
Changsheng was a high-level contractor thousands of years ago, and it is said that he has a gold-level cultivation base!

The god who led the Ironborn back to Rodinia!

The person who has been enshrined in various cities in the form of statues is the leader of Pandora at that time.
Seeing the unpredictable, the old liar waved his hand and said very firmly:
"As for Changsheng, you don't have to be so surprised. Because of his death, the Order of Wisdom at that time was renamed Pandora. At the same time, the federal government was also established that year."

Joe Immortal also thinks so.

We talked about this issue in the group today, and Ms. Desire disclosed Pandora's information and analyzed it.

The Wisdom Cult split into Pandora's Four Great Councils because of the emergence of Fuyuan, which led to changes in doctrine.

It was because of a change of faith!

And the old liar Qiao Bushi himself said that the Church of Wisdom changed its name to Pandora because of Changsheng's death, and this... the center point of this change has been found.

——The death of immortality!
Did his death lead to the federal government?It also turned the Order of Wisdom into the four major councils—the death of the leader of Pandora, and the death of the gods praised by the Ironmen in the entire Rodinian continent will inevitably bring about shocks in the entire continent.

As a result, the Wisdom Order at that time was reorganized, and at the same time, the federal government emerged
This seems to make sense.

Unpredictable felt that he had discovered the truth of the foggy history.
Qiao Bushi continued to speak slowly:
"Pandora appeared at that time. However, the Pandora we knew at that time was only called the Wisdom Order, and the Wisdom Order no longer exists."

No, the Order of Wisdom still exists, but the stiff expression on Mo Ke's face in the Federal Academy of Natural Sciences has not eased in the slightest.

Qiao Bushi laughed out loud:
"When I was born, everyone believed in the Order of Wisdom. At that time, the entire continent believed in the Iron God, wisdom and science, and the highest authority for believers was the Order of Wisdom."

"It's nothing surprising, right? Because everyone knew at the time that Chang Sheng was the leader of the Wisdom Order, the chief priest of the Wisdom Order, and his status was higher than the eight bishops of the Wisdom Order."

"Changsheng is the supreme leader of the mortal world, Iron God General Rodinia!"

"He has made outstanding achievements. He led the eight bishops and brought the ironmen from Ayerkula Island to the new world with divine power."

Eight bishops?Unpredictable felt a little dizzy, and asked slowly:
"Which eight are the eight bishops?"

"The Eye of Judgment, the Light of Talisman, the Ax of Retribution, the Shield of Order, the Fang of Shadow, the Rod of the King, the Pendant of the Sage, and the Ring of Recovery. Ah, the eight major bishops are located in the provincial capitals of the eight provinces in the mainland. And the head altar of longevity is in Kyushu City, this is the origin of the nine provinces of the federation."

"Eternal life is dead, the federal government was established, and the Wisdom Order was renamed Pandora. After that, the federal and Pandora's inspection offices were established in various places at the same time."

The titles of four of the eight bishops are the four major councils of Pandora at this time. Then, what about the other four?

The eight major bishops have only four major councils, and the death of longevity behind this is not simple.

Perhaps, this is not as simple as Ms. "Desire" speculated, it is just a difference in doctrine.

Mo Ke couldn't help asking: "Pandora only has four major councils, where are the other four bishops?"

When he was dragged into the memory space by Joe Undead, he had heard about the secrets of Pandora and the Guardian Council from Joe Undead, so Joe Undead should know about the Four Great Councils of Pandora.

Joe Immortal shook his head:
"I don't know. I'm just living as an ordinary person. I only know this historical information because I lived for a long time. I don't know what happened in Pandora."

"After Pandora's name was changed, the bishops didn't move much, and no one worshiped them like they worshiped longevity, so... now, thousands of years later, no ordinary ironman remembers them."

"Anyway, Pandora claims to continue the light of wisdom of the Wisdom Order. I really don't know exactly what happened here."

"Because of the establishment of the Ombudsman Office, there are Punishers filing contractors everywhere, so I took the opportunity to know the truth about my contract ability, and guessed that Pandora should be a contractor organization."

The old liar has experienced that period of history, and he does know some forgotten information in that period of history, but he is the perspective of an ordinary ironman, not a person in the game, and the reason is unknown - just like knowing the eight great bishops, but not wisdom The real reason why The Order was adapted into Pandora.

Even so, Mo Ke wanted to dig out more information.

He nodded numbly: "Do you know anything else? About Pandora?"

The old liar thought for a while:

"I've been avoiding the Punisher, so how dare you take the initiative to learn about Pandora?"

"It's just that I've lived for a long time and know more and more information, including meeting many contractors later, so I know what the major councils of Pandora do."

This is troublesome. The old liar really doesn't know much about it. Unpredictable can't help being a little disappointed. After thinking about it, he continued to ask unwillingly:
"Do you know the secrets of Pandora?"

As a Pandora Punisher, he didn't even know the so-called "Pandora's Secret Realm", let alone that the Guardian Council was to protect the Pandora's Secret Realm. How did Joe not die?
Qiao Bushi nodded, "I know, but it's only limited to knowing the name, haha, this was told to me by the smiling assassin."

Unpredictable frowned, but did not continue to struggle.
The old liar doesn't know the real situation, and there's no point in asking.

However, after all, Qiao Immortal has lived for thousands of years, and there are many details hidden in the history he personally experienced. I don't know which ones are valuable to unpredictable.

The time we have been together is still long, and the unpredictability can only be discovered slowly in the future.

Note 1, cited in Osamu Dazai's "No Longer Human".

(End of this chapter)