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Chapter 370 The Last Five Days of Sodom ([-])

In front of Seibu Shinjuku Station.

As soon as Xiao Ai took Hui Ren out of the station, she happened to bump into a Cowherd promotional vehicle slowly passing by on the road in front of her.

This kind of promotional vehicle is usually made from a van that is converted into an oversized advertising light box.The body of the car, that is, the advertising light box, will be simply and crudely piled with stage names of the store's top cowherds, and provocative displays and slogans.Then, the promotional truck will pull such a light box and drive slowly through the bustling areas such as Shinjuku Shibuya to attract as much attention as possible.

For example - "The prince who rules the summer: Hiiragi-sama, the god of tennis: Echizen Rama, the legendary Ryuko: Sho-chan. The super popular new store Devus, the place where happiness gathers in Japan!!"

Therefore, such a scene has long been a daily routine on the streets of Tokyo, and Keito was not surprised at all.

——But this time, Hui Ren looked up inadvertently, but his attention was suddenly attracted by the promotional vehicle slowly passing by, and he stopped involuntarily.

Xiao Ai next to him also reacted immediately, stomped his feet excitedly, pulled Hui Ren and pointed at the advertising painting on the promotional truck and said: "That's him, that's him!! His Highness the Prince!!!"

The billboards this time around are indeed completely different from the past.

On the huge advertising screen, in addition to the ambient light and shadow that expresses the atmosphere, there is only the image of a cowherd - a backlit silhouette that can only see the profile of the face, but no specific facial features.

Matching the gloomy and gorgeous atmosphere of the picture is also a completely different style of copywriting from the past.

"His Royal Highness, the nameless prince who fell into darkness."

"You will be his only light."

"Sharp words, contemptuous accusations, but just because...if he doesn't love you, he will die."

"——He will be at the bottom of the abyss, waiting for your arrival."

At the bottom of the advertisement, there is a line of small characters marking the address of the store.

"Wait for me, Mr. Prince! Wait for me, I will come to hold your hand right away!!" Xiao Ai continued to be crazy, waving desperately at the advertising truck that was going away.

Huiren stood aside. At this moment, she became truly curious about the new chief Cowherd for the first time: she knew that the reason why the previous Cowherd advertisements were so simple and straightforward was actually because of the Cowherd profession... ...Everyone has that kind of virtue.

——Looking at it this way, this Cowherd seems to have a completely different style this time, right?

...Ah, but no matter how different it is, it's just a different way to PUA. The PUA and extraction of female customers is the foundation of a cowherd.The industry insider Huiren thought calmly.

"Let's go to AIR!" Xiao Ai pulled her forward and looked impatient.

Then, the two walked along Seibu Shinjuku Station Main Street towards Kabukicho.

Along the way, Hui Ren's mood became much worse.

Because - how should I put it?It deserves to be Shinjuku, and it deserves to be near Kabukicho.

On this road, almost every short intersection, you will encounter several slutty young men wearing baseball caps and dressing up.

In fact, it's not just a conversation, but——

This group of people just followed closely like hyenas. They took advantage of a short moment such as waiting at a red light and then came up to them and said: "Miss, this little sister, you are so beautiful. You are looking for a job." ?"

"——Are you interested in a public relations club or something like that? Based on your conditions, you will definitely be very popular?"

"Do you want to be an idol? The agency you want to come to is recruiting new people. You will definitely become popular."

"Do you want to make a movie? Anyway, just accept my business card first."

Even if they impatiently reprimanded them and even revealed that they were waiters, they didn't care at all and just continued with a playful smile: "Oh? You are already working in the store in Ginza? So what do you think about the store where you are working now? Are you dissatisfied? Do you want a change of environment?"

"Don't worry, don't worry. You're waiting for the traffic light anyway, right? Just listen to me in the meantime."

In fact, these people don't do any violent behavior on the street. They all have a gentlemanly attitude of "Just listen to me, if you're not interested, forget it."

But Keito knows very well: there is no beauty and dreams behind these people, only the Yakuza and the real so-called "dark side of Kabukicho".

If there is an innocent girl who really listens to their lies and really goes with them... then what she loses in the end is not just her body or money, but her whole life's future.

Keito is not an innocent girl, but she is approached because of the naive girls who are easy to deal with. She finds these people in front of her very annoying.

Finally, they transferred to Jingguotong.

The neon light gate of Kabukicho is also close at hand.

At this time, Hui Ren's attention was attracted by the crowd on the sidewalk on the other side.

From the busy traffic, there were voices amplified by loudspeakers.

On the sidewalk in front of me, someone seemed to regard it as a road show sanctuary similar to the Shinjuku JR Station Plaza, and installed speakers and speakers on the sidewalk.

But when I listened carefully, I found that the male voice was not that of a common young singer, nor was he singing.

"Verse 18, paragraph 20." It was a rich male voice belonging to an older middle-aged man, and he was reciting clearly, or it could be said that he was giving a speech, "The Savior said, Sodom and Gomorrah His sins are very serious, and his voice has been heard by me."

Not only the sound, but also the content is incompatible with the neighborhood.

But perhaps precisely because of this, curious crowds gathered instead.

Hui Ren was equally curious.He followed the sound and saw the speaker standing in the center of the crowd.

It was a middle-aged man who was so ordinary that when he turned his eyes away slightly, he couldn't immediately remember his appearance.He was holding a microphone, a speaker at his feet, and a complete set of singer road show equipment beside him.

"18, 21." But what the middle-aged man is preaching is the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, which is the section about the sinful city of Sodom in "Genesis", "I will go down now and see what they have done, Is it really just like the sound that reached my ears? If not, I must know it."

He started with the messenger who heard about the sins of Sodom and became angry and had the idea of ​​destroying the city, and then went on to the apostle who interceded for everyone and obtained the promise that "it only takes ten righteous people to prevent the destruction of Sodom." , and then other angels were sent to Sodom…

In fact, this passage is all teachings that even elementary school students have read, which means that it is actually lacklustre.

But maybe it was because this story was not long, or maybe because although this middle-aged man was not handsome, he had a kind of sincere charm that seemed to make people trust him... so Hui Ren listened patiently.

Because of that inexplicable trust in the strange middle-aged man, Hui Ren also had some expectations for him: after finishing this well-known content in the teachings, this middle-aged man should have other real insights. ?

Hui Ren himself was looking forward to and waiting for this reason. Although he didn't know if the other people watching had the same idea as him, he did feel that the crowd around him had not dispersed, but was getting thicker.

Even the road show singers not far away stopped their singing one by one and gathered curiously.

This paragraph is really not long.Soon, he talked about how the angels met Lot, the last good man in Sodom, and how they were persecuted and hunted by the sinners in the city.

finally--

“… and brimstone and fire came down from heaven on Sodom and Gomorrah, and they destroyed those cities and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and everything that grew on the ground.”

Then, he closed the thin book in his hand.

The surroundings seemed to become quiet all of a sudden, everyone stared at him expectantly.

"Sodom has been destroyed...but Sodom has not been destroyed." "It is here, in Tokyo."

The middle-aged man opened his arms and looked around at everyone, and then said: "—right here, at your feet."

He raised his hand and pointed to the large neon sign of "Kabukicho Ichiban Street" at the intersection ahead.

"The [-]-chome and [-]-chome of Shinjuku's Kabukicho are like Sodom and Gomorrah in Tokyo. The people of the two 'cities' and the surrounding cities also blindly engaged in whoring and followed unnatural lusts... "

Finally, the middle-aged man slowed down his speech and read word by word: "...you should be punished by eternal fire as a warning."

Everyone was silent, but one by one, they began to look at each other in confusion.

At first, I was a little stunned, or unable to react because of this strange turn of the topic.

But soon, one by one, the expressions on their faces became weird.

In the silence, the middle-aged man lowered his arms and placed the book in his hand on top of the stereo.

Then, he placed one hand on the surface of the book, raised the other hand and pointed it to the sky, and said with a solemn face: "Five days - within five days, the messenger will bring down the heavenly fire from the sky."

"Five days later, the messenger will destroy Sodom in Tokyo, the city on the earth, and the inhabitants of the city, and even everything that grows on the ground."

"Let's go. This is our Lord's last mercy." Finally, he looked around at everyone again and said in a calm tone, "Escape for your life, don't look back, and don't stand on the plain. Run for your life."

The crowd was silent for a moment, with unspeakable expressions on their faces, as if they were gradually sobering up.
"Inexplicable. What do you mean?"

"...It's unlikely that a meteorite will fall from the sky and smash Kabukicho into pieces in five days."

"I thought it was a formal mission... From the looks of it, it's probably some kind of new religion?" The crowd began to buzz.

Hui Ren also heard Xiao Ai beside him whispering, "...what a lunatic."

The noise of the crowd resumed and began to disperse at the same time.

People who had been gathering from all directions with expressions of anticipation a few minutes ago shook their heads one by one, sighed, talked among themselves, vented their dissatisfaction, and began to leave in all directions in the opposite direction.

Only the middle-aged man who seemed to have failed in his preaching remained the same.He continued to smile and spread his hands, looking at the crowd that was dispersing but no one was looking at him.

Stay calm, love, peace, compassion.

This scene calmed Hui Ren for some reason.

At first, like Xiao Ai, she felt that this middle-aged man was too absurd and strange. She cursed in her heart "I don't know what to say" and planned to turn around and leave.

But seeing this scene, she didn't know why, but she was suddenly touched by something.

For a moment, she only felt an image arise in her heart: the middle-aged man's words seemed to build a towering tower in her heart, the kind of messy building blocks used for playing Stacked Tower.

...And she herself was standing on the edge of the outermost building block at the top of this unstable tower.

——Experience a trembling uneasiness all the time.

At this time, the patrol officer in the distance seemed to have received some instructions from the walkie-talkie, and finally came over.

As they walked, they shouted, "Hey, there!

"We have just confirmed with the district church of Holy Spirit Church, and they said they don't know you at all! They have not arranged any activities in Shinjuku."

"That is to say - you are neither a registered cleric of a registered denomination, nor have you registered any activities at all, so you are not allowed to preach privately here! Go away, go away!!"

Middle-aged people are more straightforward.He put down the pose he was posing just now, turned to the police officer and took off his hat in a weak manner, and responded calmly: "Okay, I'll leave right away."

Then, he actually turned off the speakers and started to pack up the speakers...

Seeing that the middle-aged man was very obedient, the patrolman nodded and left.

"Yuxu, let's go too." Xiao Ai urged from the side.

Hui Ren was stunned and had no choice but to collect his thoughts and prepare to leave.But when she turned around, she looked up and saw a slightly weird figure approaching.

The man walking towards him was wearing a large sweatshirt, with a few strands of red messy hair and some bandages exposed under the hood that covered his face. His appearance and age could not be clearly seen.But one of his trouser legs is empty, and one of his wrists is also empty.The strange steps were precisely because he was using a cane on one side and moved step by step.

……Pitiful.Hui Ren commented instinctively at first, then involuntarily felt sympathy, and finally shook his head in annoyance.

Ever since she was trapped in this body, she found herself becoming softer and softer... Really, it was unnecessary, she was obviously just a perverted killer who only thought about women and Jack.

In the few seconds that Hui Ren was struggling, the man on crutches quickly passed Hui Ren and continued to walk towards the middle-aged man who was giving a speech.

At the same time, a voice came from under the hood: "I have a question."

Although those words were obviously addressed to the middle-aged man, Hui Ren was stunned.Because that voice was very young... exactly like a teenager who had just completed his voice change.

Hui Ren couldn't help but turn around and glance at the young man's lost limbs, and the pity in his heart became even stronger.

Of course the boy was completely unaware of Keito's gaze.He just continued to walk towards the middle-aged man on crutches.

The middle-aged man also stopped cleaning up and showed a solemn expression.

As the boy continued to move, he made a steady sound from under his hood.

He asked: "Why should there be ten righteous people in the city and let other sinners be spared?"

"If they are righteous people, they will naturally be willing to burn themselves for the eradication of sin. If not, how can they be called righteous people?"

"It's better to just call him a mortal."

"...Justice is a matter of burning out."

Hui Ren was stunned for a moment when he heard this question, and couldn't help but start thinking about it. At the same time, he instinctively slowed down the pace of leaving, wanting to hear what the middle-aged man would answer.

It's a pity that Xiao Ai didn't give her this chance.

"These two people are so strange...a bit scary. Yuu, let's go quickly!" She whispered in Hui Ren's ear, and then pulled her away with force.

It was a little regretful, but Hui Ren decided to put away her curiosity and listen to Xiao Ai's words and leave.

Although it seems that the matter of the boy and the middle-aged man may have interesting developments, in the end it has nothing to do with Keito.

——And Hui Ren has not forgotten that she is still an absconder who keeps a low profile, the better, and involves as little as possible with others.

She glanced at the two of them one last time, then quickly left with Xiao Ai, and at the same time quickly pushed the matter to an unimportant place in the back of her mind.

In the last scene, the back of the young boy with mutilated limbs continues to walk towards the middle-aged man.But the middle-aged man still opened his arms and smiled kindly, as if welcoming everyone.

(End of this chapter)