Planetary Museum

There were only two people sitting on the huge dining table in the banquet hall.

King Elis, and his former close comrade-in-arms Antony.

The king sat at the head of the table, and Antony sat next to him.

"Pour me another glass of water, Anthony." Elis ordered the Duke.Anthony complied, and on the table there was good grape wine from the south and mead from the north, but neither of them had had a sip of wine so far.

The king can't drink it, Anthony, he dare not drink it yet, since entering this banquet hall, the Duke knew that a clear mind is the only remaining weapon in his whole body.

The table is full of delicacies, the fresh roast lamb is extravagantly sprinkled with pepper; the cake is covered with thick cream and icing; Baked potatoes with sprinkling of spices can also be seen on top.In terms of food specifications, this dinner has far exceeded Duke Anthony's imagination. When each dish is served, he will subconsciously convert these dishes into gold coins, and finally into knights and mercenaries.

For this meal, the two of him and the king probably spent half a year's fighting power of a cavalry squad.

But so far, the meal has not been eaten by the two of them.

Because the king cannot eat yet.

Because the angel has not returned yet.

Originally, Anthony planned to gradually open up the topic during the meal, but since he didn't know when the envoy would arrive, he could only talk first.

"Your Majesty, I heard that your envoy is preparing to sell the title to you?"

Elis laughed: "Don't worry, the Duke's price is very high, no one can afford it."

"Then it's with your consent."

"Of course." The king's indifferent attitude towards this question made the duke unbelievable, because he still remembered that when the Kingdom of Elis was founded, the king once said something related to this to himself, and at that time, his attitude was in harmony with Quite the opposite now.The duke couldn't help repeating the king's words at the beginning, "If titles can be bought and sold at will like the crimes of the Holy See, then this kingdom must have come to an end."

"Ah, is this what I said when I was young?" The king recalled, "I was so smart and scary at that time..."

Duke Anthony looked at the king's indifferent face, and almost had the urge to punch him directly, maybe this would wake him up.But he still held back the anger, he should have thought of it before coming.If Ellis was still the Ellis in his memory, how could he let his power, his kingdom, degenerate to the present level?

"Do this just because you need money? To let the civilians in the entire Kingdom of Elis eat free pie?"

"I know what you want to ask, and I also know what purpose you came here for," the king said nonchalantly, "why do you have to do such a step-by-step temptation? I admit it, and you will ask again, am I just here to heal myself?" , just abandon the entire kingdom, and then I will admit it, you can stand up, announce the severance of friendship with me, give up your title, and then lead other nobles to oppose me...Is that so, Your Excellency the Duke?"

There was no fluctuation on the Duke's face, and he said indifferently: "Your information is very accurate, Your Majesty, then you should also know that all this is destined to happen since you summoned me to the king's city. You can trust your land god, just Just like your son believes in his great sun god, as long as it has nothing to do with me, I don't care. But now... instead of dying of hunger and war with you on the way south, it's better now, when I still have When you have power, use that power to keep you awake."

The king stared at the duke and laughed: "Your expression now seems to be reading your own will."

"Our will," said the duke, "kill me, and the entire Kingdom of Elis will fall into civil war. I don't know the other consequences, but the plan of you and the god you believe in must be bankrupt."

"What if I let you go back?"

The Duke paused for a moment: "Then I will think that you still have the remaining sanity. If everything is just as it is, I will take my army and wait outside King Elis, either until your treasury is exhausted, or until you God appeared and performed miracles."

"Then you should also know that according to God's plan, it is impossible to maintain the status quo."

"Then I can't promise you more, Your Majesty," the Duke said, "This is not a personal grievance, unless you let your gods come forward, just like convincing you, to convince me."

"If you have been suffering from sweet urine for three years, it's not difficult at all," the king said, pointing to the sumptuous dinner in front of him, "I saw you swallowed several times, how about it, facing a lot of delicacies You can only watch, can you feel a little bit of the taste of not being able to eat it?"

"Whether the envoy can convince you, I don't know, let me try first." The king took out a small pen-like thing from his hand, first handed it to the Duke and said, "I I don’t know if this thing is considered a miracle, you should feel it first.”

His Excellency the King lightly pressed somewhere on the pen, and the Duke heard his own voice in it.

"Don't take me so badly, no one will let them object, I'm a knight!" After hearing these words, the duke's face, which had been immobile for thousands of years, melted rapidly like an ice cube under boiling water, and it was huge. The shock was exposed uncontrollably.

"They are loyal to your father, but they are loyal to God... I'm afraid that's not the case. Bishop, you can speak now. I heard that the Jihad army summoned by the Dayang Sect to rescue the front tooth castle did not go well?"

The words are exactly the same, just at noon, he just said privately to the prince in the Dayang Sect church.He always thought that spoken words were like exhaled air, and when the voice disappeared, it had completely lost its original appearance.So the speaker can deny what he said at any time - even if the king really sent the best spy, and the spy really heard what he said, the duke can deny it completely when necessary.

In this era, it is almost impossible to truly convict a duke.

However, His Excellency the Duke has never imagined that such a thing exists in this world, which can reproduce every word spoken by people so realistically.The Duke has never believed in ghosts and gods, but now, in front of this little machine in front of him, he felt his ignorance for the first time.Based on the audio recording in front of him, the king could even organize a public trial against the duke. In the face of such ironclad evidence, no one would sympathize with a vassal who blatantly betrayed him.

The king appreciated the duke's shock with satisfaction. In fact, when the envoy let himself listen to the recording for the first time, his expression was probably exactly the same as that of the duke now.

"Do you think this is a miracle?" the king asked the Duke with a smile.

Anthony lost his lead in words for the first time, and he subconsciously wanted to refute, but there was no way to refute.If it wasn't a miracle, then Anthony should have explained how the trick was done, and if he couldn't - that was the very definition of a miracle.

"At first I thought it was," said the king, "but soon I saw that this thing was nothing but a trick compared with the many miracles God has performed."

Now that the king has mastered how to use the recorder, he pressed it twice familiarly, and then another conversation came out from the middle, which was what the two had just said: "Your Majesty, I heard that your envoy, Are you preparing to sell your title to someone?"

"Don't worry, the Duke's price is very high, no one can afford it."

While the duke was still in shock, the king said: "In the whole city of Elis, all the important places, the angels have placed such things, they can hear any corner, private conversation, and these The interlocutors themselves are unconscious. The Dayang Sect church is the focus of this kind of listening... This is the first important point I want to tell you, don’t use your common sense to speculate about God, they know everything.”

The Duke was not willing to admit defeat. He retorted: "But they can't produce food, can they? Your envoys are desperately trying to raise money, selling officials and dukes to buy food in the market..."

"I know," said the king, "every action, every decree, was told to me in advance by the angel, and explained to me the reasons. Many reasons I can't even understand, but they sound and feel right."

"Using the output of the kingdom's territory as collateral to borrow money, what reason is needed? Even if it can support the entire second half of this year, will these common people who eat cakes all day long and have nothing to do, turn out food? Dayang teaches Xiaoyang The two major religious sects are threatening each other, and when the jihad army comes to the city, will these people who eat bread for free be willing to take up arms and fight for you?"

"Food and soldiers... are not important," said the king. "Looking at our world through the eyes of God, many things are not important. Territories, honors, kingdoms... If all these end in destruction, What's the point? It's like the fire is burning through the forest, and the ants are still fighting each other."

"The end of the world...is this what your god told you?"

"Yes, they not only told, but also showed," the king stood up, and went out of the room, and after a while, came with a box, which he opened in the presence of the Duke.The surface of the box is completely transparent, and there is an exquisite painting inlaid underneath, and then the king just lightly touched the picture, and suddenly, the whole picture seemed to be given life, and started to move like the real world stand up.