Tokyo people don't talk about Wude

Chapter 262 259. The incident at Holy Trinity Cathedral

"Are you Kyushu Makoto? Thank you for coming to help! May the Lord bless you!"

At the door of an old Gothic church, a thin man dressed as a priest pushed up his glasses and bowed to Kyushu Cheng.

Kyushu Makoto's job today is in a church near Ochanomizu, responsible for cleaning, organizing and receiving guests.

This church is called "Holy Trinity Cathedral". It was built by Russian missionaries in the last century. Originally, only Orthodox Christians were allowed to visit. However, as times have changed, the church is now open to Christians of all denominations.

According to Christianity, the "Holy Trinity" means that the main God they believe in is a "Trinity", consisting of the supreme Father, the Son who came to save the world, and the Holy Spirit who spreads the gospel.

The majority of Wano's religious beliefs are Shinto and Buddhism, with Christianity accounting for a small proportion. Because of this, most churches in Wano are relatively deserted except for wedding ceremonies, at least not so lively that they need to hire high school students to help.

But today.
"Is this the church that is linked to "Tokyo/Youkai Order"?"

“Where is the stamping point for offline activities?”

"Quick, quick, quick! I heard on SNS that drawing cards in front of the statue of the Holy Child in the church can increase the probability of drawing SSR cards!"

Early in the morning, the door of the church was already crowded with tourists, mostly young people and homeless people.

"As you can see, this is the situation~" The priest smiled calmly and explained the current situation to Jiuzhou Cheng:
"Our 'Holy Trinity Cathedral' has recently collaborated with a popular mobile game called "Tokyo/Demon Command" and will hold a large-scale offline exchange meeting here."

"There will be so many guests these days that our staff alone will not be able to cope with it, so I have to ask you to help."

"I understand, I will work hard." Kyushu Cheng nodded.

Before coming to work here, Jiuzhou Cheng knew the situation here in advance.

"Tokyo/Ghost Order", also known as "Tokyo/Ghost Order", is a popular mobile game at the moment. Not only in Wano, but also in other countries, it has a large number of fans and discussions, and is deeply loved by mobile game players all over the world.

The game is set in a fictional "Tokyo" where demons are overrun, and the protagonist is an exorcist with a "psychic body" who has the ability to conquer and defeat demons. The theme of the story is for players to survive in this crisis-ridden city, continuously collect monsters to strengthen their team, and finally find a "Fantasy Township" where there is no longer the danger of war and everyone can be happy.

As for the gameplay and operation mode of the game, it is the most classic card collection and development in mobile games. If you want to get a more powerful and beautiful character, you need to spend money to draw cards.

In order to make players more willing to spend money, the card characters in the game are basically all handsome guys and beauties.

Since the theme of this game is "removing spirits and catching ghosts", the game company drew on myths and legends from around the world and adapted the more famous gods, demons and monsters into card characters.

For example, they recently launched a new character "Christ Son Incarnation Yeshua" based on the "Christ Son" in the Bible. It is probably to turn the "Jesus" mother in the Bible into a beautiful girl, so that in addition to the Virgin's moral character of "compassion for the world" in the original work, she is also given such charming attributes as "black-bellied" and "maternal".

Some players were originally worried that this character would cause dissatisfaction among religious people, but the result was beyond everyone's expectations. The popularity of this character has skyrocketed since its launch, and it once triggered a level of popularity among people outside the circle.

Some clergy from the Republic of China even expressed their love for her on social media, saying: "The Lord has no form, but can show mercy to the world with all his forms. This is also an aspect of the world where Dharma flourishes."

Because of this, the game company decided to take advantage of the popularity of this character and find a large church in Tokyo to conduct offline linkages to hype up the topic.

When Kyushu Cheng came to the door of the church today, he saw standing signs and signboards with anime girls on both sides of the road, making the church's supposed solemn atmosphere become comical.

As for why the church agreed to this ridiculous linkage activity, it must be because the game company paid enough.

Although they have unauthorizedly transformed the religious figures they respect into game characters, and still put up such a sign at the door of the church, this somewhat damages the image of the church. But churches and religious groups also need money to operate and maintain, and even believers who claim to be honest will not struggle with money.

Jiuzhou Cheng didn't comment much on this. Anyway, he was here to work today. He didn't want to get involved in other complicated things, and there was no need to think about it.

At the priest's instruction, Jiuzhou Cheng changed into a priest's black robe uniform and started today's work.

The church is very spacious, and the gentle orange light fills the interior. It is not dazzling, but it can make people feel a bit drowsy and peaceful.

Rows of benches are arranged neatly, and there is a row of cushions in front of each seat. I heard that it is convenient for believers to kneel down and pray.

Compared with the religious reliefs and paintings hanging on the walls, the most eye-catching thing is a tall statue directly behind the church, which depicts a man wearing a crown of thorns hanging on a cross, his eyes hanging down. Look at the person praying.

"This is our savior, the Son of Jesus." The priest looked at the statue and introduced Jiuzhou Cheng:
"I'm sorry, little brother Jiuzhou may not understand, right? I'm talking too much. But if you are interested, I will tell you more."

This priest is obviously quite sensible. Jiuzhou Cheng is just here to work and may not be interested in religion. Rushing to preach at this time will only make Kyushu Cheng feel disgusted and rebellious.

"It's okay. Although I don't believe in religion, I don't mind listening to you for a little bit." Jiuzhou Cheng was more open-minded: "But before that, let's focus on work first."

He doesn't believe in religion, but he doesn't regard it as a savage beast, and he won't reject it in every possible way.

In a sense, religion is also a part of the humanities and a manifestation of human culture. It is also quite academic to only understand religions with the mentality of "learning different cultures" and then to study human development and progress.

"What little brother Jiuzhou said is that I will give you today's work list." The priest narrowed his eyes and smiled, and bowed slightly: "I'm going to leave it to you today."

After a while, Kyushu Cheng got the work list.

The church generally gives people a peaceful and leisurely atmosphere, just like his work today.

Lead the way for tourists participating in the offline activities of the game to prevent them from getting confused with the believers who normally visit the shrine; help maintain the order of the offline activities of the mobile game, provide tea and game-linked gifts to the guests; and finally sort out the things left by the guests Trash
After sorting out the list, all Jiuzhou Cheng has to do is relatively easy work, and the church also hires other temporary workers, so there are not many jobs that really fall into Jiuzhou Cheng's hands.

But the most troublesome situation is that occasionally there are some unruly guests.
"Hey! Morishita, come here quickly! This is the statue of the man hanging on the cross!" For example, at this moment, a young man with yellow hair wearing a white jacket walked up to the statue of the Holy Son and shouted loudly:
"I read on the Internet that if you stand in front of this statue and draw cards, you will be sure to get an SSR in ten consecutive rounds!"

"Come on, come on!" Another fat young man strode over, his footsteps so heavy that the wooden floor creaked, as if it was about to be trampled:
"Hey, this statue looks so funny~ The man being nailed to the cross looks so funny!"

The two people were noisy, which had already made some believers and tourists who were visiting the shrine a little dissatisfied, and they all looked at them in surprise.

However, the two people obviously did not notice the gazes of others. They took out their mobile phones and started to draw cards for the game.

"Out, out, out! Buddha bless! God Izanagi bless!" The yellow-haired man moved his finger across the screen in a way that he thought was very cool, and still said in a loud voice regardless of the eyes of others:
"Damn it! It didn't come out!! Why!! Are the Internet all lies?!!! This is my last ten rounds!!! Ahhhhh!!! It's all lies!!! Go!" His Buddha!"

"Stop arguing! It's all your fault. I don't understand why Xuan Bu saved me!" The fat man pushed up his glasses frame, sneered and started drawing cards:
"Look at me, what is the name of this statue? Oh yes, Holy Son Judas bless me! Holy Son Judas bless me for SSR!"

The next moment, he looked at the colorful lights on his phone and jumped up and screamed excitedly, and the floor creaked loudly again: "Oh oh oh oh ah ah ah! Look, look! I got it!" ! I’m sure you’re lucky! I’m not lying!

"You bastard, stop showing off!" The yellow-haired man suddenly became furious, turned around and yelled: "I told you to stop showing off! Shut up! I'm going to smash this broken statue! This garbage place!!"

The two of them did not care about the feelings of others, and the noise resounded throughout the church, once again destroying the quiet atmosphere here. The regular worshipers could no longer hide the anger in their eyes, and those who came to participate in offline mobile game activities couldn't help but feel embarrassed and ashamed for them.

However, even so, no one was willing to take the initiative to stop these two people.

The so-called "bystander effect" is still playing steadily at this moment.

Anyway, there are many people here, and if you don’t take action, others will take action; if you stand up first, you don’t understand the atmosphere, it may be very embarrassing; if you stop it, you may be retaliated by those two people. A series of thoughts are preventing people from being right. Tolerate vicious incidents and stand by idly by.

"Excuse me, you two." Kyushu Cheng couldn't stand it anymore, walked up to them and said sternly:
"Please respect order when visiting and take care of the feelings of other tourists. You have made many people angry by making so much noise."

"Ah?" The two people were stunned, and then looked at the gunpowder-filled eyes of the people around them. Their momentum suddenly weakened, and they said "I'm sorry" again and again, and fled out of the church in despair.

Seeing the two people leaving, Kyushu Cheng breathed a sigh of relief.

He originally thought that the matter would be more serious. For example, the two people might be unconvinced and fight with him on the spot.
But now it seems that these two tourists themselves are not bad people, they are just of low quality, but they are better at listening to advice.

At the same time, other people around him secretly breathed a sigh of relief, thinking, "Fortunately, someone took action for me," and were thankful, and continued to do their own thing.

"Thank you so much, little brother Jiuzhou." A moment later, the priest who had previously received him also hurried over. He must have been busy with other matters just now and did not have time to come over to mediate the scene.

"It's okay, it's easy." Jiuzhou Cheng said easily: "I just stood up and persuaded him. Anyone can do this kind of thing."

"You are so humble, little brother Jiuzhou." The priest smiled slightly and bowed slightly.

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Until the sunset, the dim orange rays of the setting sun fell in through the skylight of the church, and today's work finally came to an end.

Today's game offline event ended half an hour ago. Kyushu Cheng and others are picking up the garbage left by the guests and cleaning the church.

"Thank you for your hard work, you can change your clothes after work, and then come to my place to collect your salary." The priest said: "In addition, we have prepared dinner for you, just consider it a little bit of our kindness, I hope you don't mind it."

After the final cleaning work was completed, Kyushu Cheng changed back into his clothes and then found the priest.

"Here, please use it slowly." The priest gave Jiuzhou Cheng a wad of bills and handed him a plastic dinner plate.

On the plate lay a hunk of whole-grain bread, a stick of sweet butter, a serving of pasta ready to heat, and a pitcher of purple grape juice.

Although it's not a rich meal, it's given for free anyway, so if you don't eat it, you won't get it for free.

Kyushu Cheng came to eat at the table provided for them by the church. There were four young people with him. After a brief exchange, they found out that they were all recruited to do odd jobs.

Among the four people, two are college students, working part-time to supplement their living expenses. The other two have already entered the society and usually work in places like convenience stores. They happened to see that the hourly wages of part-time workers here are relatively high, so they came here to earn some extra money to support their families.

Kyushu Makoto, a high school student, is actually the youngest among the four.

Everyone chatted while eating, but there was nothing in common with each other, so in the end it turned into everyone eating in silence without saying a word.

This meal was sparse and ordinary. If there was anything special about it, it was probably that after Kyushu Cheng drank the bottle of grape juice, he felt much better. He felt energetic, and his heart beat faster.

Maybe some sports drink ingredients were added? .Jiuzhou Cheng guessed.

In Christianity, purple-red drinks such as grape juice and red wine are drinks with religious significance, symbolizing the "blood of the Holy Son." It is no wonder that the priest will put a bottle of grape juice in their meal.

After the meal, everyone left the church one after another.

Jiuzhou Cheng carefully collected his salary and walked towards the door of the church.

Before leaving, probably out of curiosity, he took one last look back at the statue of the Son directly behind the church.

The man who was nailed to the cross was still staring ahead with a compassionate expression, his eyes showing no pain at all, and it happened to meet Kyushu Makoto's gaze.

It is said that in the Bible, this man called "Jesus" is hailed as the hero of all mankind. It is probably this story that he saved all mankind with his own life.

However, mythological stories are myths after all, and heroes who can save all mankind will probably not appear in reality.

However, Kyushu Cheng hopes that there will be an existence in this world that can save all mankind and make everyone happy. At least in this case, his martial arts no longer need to have the meaning of existence.

He would rather let the martial arts he has always insisted on lose its meaning than see it become "more and more meaningful."

Just like many literati in ancient times loved to create poems that mocked reality, nostalgic for the past, and satirized the present. They wrote poems to criticize the injustices seen in officialdom, the workplace, and life. But if allowed, they may hope that they will never find inspiration again in this life and never write such a poem again.

"Well, there's no point in thinking so much. I have to work here these days, and I probably won't come back again." Kyushu Cheng smiled with relief, turned around and left.

At this moment, he happened to meet the priest who was lighting candles at the door.

"Are you interested in Him?" the priest asked curiously.

"Are you talking about the 'Holy Son'?" Jiuzhou Cheng shook his head: "Sorry, I really have no interest, but I still want to thank you for providing me with such a high-quality job opportunity. Thank you, Father."

Kyushu Cheng is very satisfied with today's work in this church. The money was more than usual, the work was less than usual, and a dinner was included.

When the church offers this kind of salary, it is obvious that it has a "welfare" mentality. Moreover, the people recruited are also poor people who are not very well-off and need to work part-time to supplement their livelihood.

"No need to thank you, kid. We held a business event with the game company this time and gained a lot of income." The priest smiled peacefully:

"I just thought of taking advantage of the recruitment opportunity to help some poor people in need. I recruit you to work so that you can get some money with dignity to improve your life."

"Then you really took the trouble." Jiuzhou Cheng thanked him: "I will come back to work in the next few days, so please take care of me then."

"Of course." The priest bowed slightly and said, "I want to express my gratitude to you again for stopping the kindness of those two disrespectful tourists this morning. You are a brave child."

"That's a small thing." Jiuzhou Cheng thought for a while and waved his hand insignificantly:
"But this is the first time I've heard of a church cooperating with something as unrelated as a mobile game. It's inevitable that such an accident will happen."

"Yes, I have also been worried about this situation happening. This is the price that must be expected." The priest admitted unequivocally:

"But we also had our own considerations, so we agreed to the deal."

"Yes, I understand you." Jiuzhou Cheng said: "Running a church requires money, and this kind of activity can also attract many people to the church, and some of these people can develop into believers."

"Christianity in Wano is declining. If you want to survive, you must maintain the bottom line of the commandments. Be one with the light, accept the baptism of local culture, and let go of your resistance to money." The priest put down the candle in his hand with some helplessness. , but looked firmly at the statue of the Holy Son:
"Even if this behavior is offensive to God in the eyes of outsiders, we still do it to spread the gospel to the world and benefit the world. As long as we maintain sincerity and original intention, God will not blame us."

"That's right," Kyushu Cheng nodded with half understanding.

This kind of professional magician always talks about his faith. But not all religious believers are bad.

There are many cults in the world that use the name of religion to commit crimes, but there are also religious groups that operate with the idea of ​​"benefiting the world" and regard helping others to do good as a way of practice.

At least this priest should be a believer who loves doing good deeds, so Jiuzhou Cheng is not interested in religion, but he doesn't hate him.

After a few more words with the priest, the two said goodbye.

The next day, Jiuzhou Cheng continued to work in the church.

In fact, he quite likes the working atmosphere here. The priests and sisters here are very easy-going. Even if the temporary workers do something wrong, they will not blame them, but will mostly comfort them with gentle voices.

If it weren't for the irritating tone of the clergy here and their frequent preaching, Kyushu Cheng wouldn't mind continuing to work here.

In the evening, the day’s mobile game linkage event came to an end again.

There were no unexpected events worth noting today, everything fell into place smoothly. Mobile game companies have reaped the popularity of offline linkages, and churches have also earned linkage fees. It is said that some young people were attracted by the atmosphere after coming to the church, and believed in their sect under the lobbying of priests and nuns.

I won’t say how many of them are following the trend, but this church did attract a group of believers through this event.

There are still three days after this, and Kyushu Cheng will continue to work here for three days.

He received today's salary and enjoyed the free dinner provided by the church.

"I'm under your care again today." After dinner, Jiuzhou Cheng said goodbye to the priest who received him on the first day:
"Thank you, Father. See you tomorrow."

"It's okay, kid." The priest still smiled peacefully and made a sign of the cross on his chest, looking very professional:
"Please leave. May you have a beautiful and peaceful day. May our Lord continue to take pity on you and protect you."

Jiuzhou Cheng turned around to leave, but his steps stopped at an inappropriate time.

He saw a familiar figure pushing open the door and entering the church.

This is a girl with a side ponytail and a coat. Her face touched by the moonlight shows the coolness of a young lady. She is also a little tired, but she is still unsmiling and extremely serious.

"Police officer Qinggongji Qinggong?" Kyushu Cheng was stunned.

Unexpectedly, the visitor turned out to be a police officer from the Qing Palace whom he had not seen for a long time.

Officer Qinggong obviously noticed him and said hello: "You are indeed working here. It seems that your position has been here for the past two days."

"I didn't expect to meet Police Qinggong here. What a coincidence." Kyushu Cheng subconsciously looked at his watch.

To this day, his whereabouts have been monitored by the public security. Although this made him feel bad, it was also to protect his safety from the KJ organization, and he couldn't refuse.

"By the way, the dessert last time was just okay." Officer Qinggong turned his face slightly and said calmly: "For the sake of the mango, I thank you."

"As long as you are satisfied, I would like to thank you for your help." Jiuzhou Cheng smiled kindly: "By the way, why did Police Officer Qinggong come to a place like this? Are you looking for something to do with me?"

"No, I just happened to come here and have something to do." Officer Qinggong shook his head and urged: "This has nothing to do with you, you can leave first."

"Goodbye then, Police Officer Qinggong." Jiuzhou Cheng naturally understood what was going on and didn't stay any longer.

"." After seeing Jiuzhou Cheng leave, Officer Qinggong sighed softly and whispered: "This guy is still lively and vigorous, which is quite good."

Afterwards, she sat quietly on the prayer bench, closing her eyes and meditating, as if thinking about something.

Seeing this, the priest came forward and said, "Girl, no offense intended. Listening to what you just said, I should call you Miss Qinggong, right?"

At this time, the church was deserted, with only the Qing palace police officer as a guest. No wonder it was noticed by the priest who was about to close his doors.

"You can call me that." Police Officer Qinggong sat up straight in a ladylike manner and looked at the priest.

"I see that you are not a believer." The priest continued to ask: "But you obviously have something on your mind. Is this the reason why you are here?"

"I heard from my colleagues before that a quiet place like a church might help me relieve my mental stress and let me let go of some bad memories." Police Officer Qinggong's eyes looked a little regretful:
"Unfortunately, I don't think it has any effect. I'm sorry if it has caused trouble to your business."

"No, no, no, it's okay!" The priest waved his hand and said kindly: "Even if you are not a believer, as long as you have any unpleasant past, I am willing to listen. If I can provide you with some help, even more It couldn't be better."

"Okay. My mother was killed when I was seven years old, and I spent the next ten years tracking down the murderer." Officer Qinggong blinked and suddenly said slowly:

"It's a pity that the murderers are very cunning. They are a very secretive criminal organization. Killing my mother is just one of their countless crimes. No matter how hard I try, I have never been able to catch them."

"I'm really sorry." The priest shook his head and said dejectedly: "May God bless your soul and that poor lady's soul, and may the murderer be caught and brought to justice soon."

"Thank you. But based on my many years of investigation, I learned that one of the businesses of this criminal organization is the development and smuggling of a special banned drug." Officer Qinggong took out his police officer ID and continued:
"This is not a drug in the traditional sense and has no addictive properties, but its harmfulness cannot be underestimated. This criminal organization will release this drug into society and use innocent citizens to test the drug. And their methods are very Gao Ming, even if the police discovered something unusual, they couldn’t find any clues about this organization.”

"What an abominable and devilish act!" The priest clenched his fist angrily, but a drop of sweat inadvertently flowed from his forehead.

"So, Mr. Father." Police Officer Qinggong showed his police ID: "Can you please explain why the ingredient of this medicine was detected in the temporary worker boy who left just now?"

"!!!" The priest's eyes were stunned and he took two steps back.

"Also, today I randomly conducted blood tests on visitors who have visited the church in the past month and drank the "Communion Grape Juice" provided by your church, including visitors who came to participate in the mobile game linkage two days ago. Test results found that some people contained ingredients of this banned drug in their bodies, and some people claimed to have experienced symptoms. "Police officer Qinggong continued:

"Mr. Father, could you please explain this? Oh, no, I think it would be better if you go to the police station and explain."

"You, you, you...!" The priest suddenly panicked and subconsciously retreated to escape.

"Bang!" "Crash--!"

The next moment, a heavily armed police force rushed into the church. The glass windows everywhere shattered, and many soldiers jumped in.

Vaguely, the priest could still hear the whistling sound of helicopters circling, and many large lights shone in, like the coming of the end of judgment.

"I am a criminal police officer from the Special Scientific Countermeasures Division of the Public Security Bureau. We currently suspect that you have transactions with the illegal organization "KJ" and assist them in smuggling and testing illegal drugs. "Police officer Qinggong turned his back to the light behind him and said coldly:
"All members of Holy Trinity Cathedral are subject to arrest, and those who resist have the right to be shot. "

The soldiers and police behind him immediately stepped forward to make arrests, and the church fell into chaos.

"I didn't! I didn't know anything! They just gave me money and they never said what kind of banned drugs it was. They, I was deceived!!!"

The priest's heart-rending roar came from behind, completely losing his solemn and steady demeanor.

Police officer Qinggong paid no attention to him, but turned around and slowly walked out of the church.

In fact, if it weren't for the sudden report of "detected intake of "Sage's Mixture"" from Kyushu Cheng's surveillance watch two days ago, she would not have added extra workload to herself and expedited the application for arrest. plan.

As she said, the KJ organization is cunning.

This church was probably cooperated by the KJ organization in a semi-decoyed manner and became their drug testing site. The person in charge of the church probably thought that this was just an ordinary energy potion, not a banned drug that was put on the wanted list by the police.

The church probably mixed the "holy medicine" into a "religious drink" such as grape juice, and the dose was not large, so Kyushu Makoto didn't notice it, and there was no obvious drug reaction.

But even if everyone in this church is arrested, for the KJ organization, it will just lose some disposable minions.

However, the Qing palace police officer, Elizabeth of the Qing palace temple, would not let go of even such a little minion.

As she said, the KJ organization is her mother-killing enemy.

In order to pull this organization out of the dark world, she will keep moving forward, abandoning unnecessary emotions and kindness, and trampling on all obstacles.

Especially after she suffered a fatal blow in Yokohama and almost died, the hatred in her heart became stronger, making her even more determined to uproot the KJ organization.

Perhaps the incident that nearly cost her her life was the KJ organization's warning to her, telling her that she was definitely no match for this organization. But she would never allow herself to collapse because of this setback, give up her obsession with avenging her mother, and live like a confused walking zombie.

"Wait, KJ." Police Officer Qinggong stood at the door of the church, looking up at the bright summer moon, and hearing the miserable begging for mercy coming from the church:

"One day, you will all pay the price for your mother's death. No matter how capable you are!"

(End of this chapter)